skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the participants who have mountains of capital will use it to price out competitors and new upstarts.

Lufthansa's interest is piqued. They already price out competitors, they've bought many smaller airlines (even the "national" airlines Swiss and Austria) and operate them at slim to negative margins to keep the workers quiet (the threat of bankruptcy prevents them from rebelling too much)..
I can't name the instituition or lab but for the purposes of protecting us from COVID their results showed 100% failure of all masks because of both lack of proper fit and inconsistent manufacturing quality. Especially from KN95 masks made in China.

Essentially mask are useless long term for COVID protection. Short term they may slow some spread but that is it.
Repeatable Execution (2020)
Take-Two to acquire social game developer Zynga in $12.7B deal
> There is so much stuff on the Internet it's easy to start thinking there is guaranteed to be good results for any search, and that just doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that Google (the advertising engine) has destroyed Google (the search engine), by the two step process of making it profitable to produce blogspam then forcing search to remove blogspam - and a lot of the useful content has gone out with that bathwater.

Not to mention the rise of unsearchable platforms. Google can't search inside Discord.
but debt is not
I'm not convinced "white couple" showing interracial couples is a political move, or even on purpose.

I think it simply is because very few people would describe in text a white couple as a "white couple" and not just as a "couple". In a majority white culture there is no reason to specify skin colour when both are white. It's just a couple.

On the contrary, I think it would be very normal to write "black and white couple" for an interracial couple, and because "black and white" also contains "white" thus those images would show up when you search for "white couple".

This is easy to verify by looking for the word "white" around the images Google returns for "white couple", and they are definitely there - often in the image title itself.

However, if you just search for "couple" then you'll find what you are looking for. At least on my google 9 out of 10 results are a white couple.
Boom - all credibility lost - it’s just a scam, another CCP shill.

I actually watched this video the other day, and I remember this interviewee and I remember being surprised at how pro China the people of Taipei are.

Clearly Asian Boss has served its CCP masters well because I was convinced this was real and not fake CCP propaganda.
The GP has a good point - I was about to write a long HN reply about being able to sort or show the “best” masks. Saw the “list doesn’t show scores” on mobile led me to this comment.

As a consumer, when I land on that site, “what’s the best mask I should buy” (protection level, budget, comfort, local/globally made). If it’s not clear on mobile, it’ll be pretty hard to get non-tech people to stay on page for more then 10s or funnel them to the page you want.
Don't attribute to toxins what can be attributed to malice.
Keyboard setup says EN IN
Would have loved to know that before being pressured by the entire school system around me to pick the high school with the best feeder stats and the highest graduation rate. Before spending literally the last two years of high school mostly just working on getting into college.

Does it not once occur to people who play the incredibly tired libertarian lines that in fact we do live in a society that exerts constant coercion on how we lead our lives? As unhelpful as this rhetorical frame is, taxes aren't the only thing that is being stolen... so is agency.
I strongly disagree. Due to institutional closeness I don't think the watchdog is independent enough. It won't be more than a fig leaf and will not be able to resist surveillance ambitions. Could as well be controlled opposition even if this lead to a change.

Sure, better than doing nothing, but if you accept this as is you have been served a bad deal.
IP may not be right choice as VPN are used
I think it is unfair to compare a free product with an expensive one. I have used both by the way, and paid out of my own pocket.

To rate value, anything divided by zero will win, so that gets ignored. But even at a reasonable price VS Code would be fantastic.

Second there is a phenomenon (it probably has a name) where if you pay enough for something you feel a need to promote its value.

Personally I have been happy enough with both.
Interesting question, maybe relative to the tech at the time it was. But in absolute terms I don't think anything comes close to 'hitting 25 micron molten drops of tin that are moving at 70 meters per second with two co-ordinated lasers in a vacuum 50,000 times a second'. And that's just the very first part of what the machine does.
Cool! Living in Oslo reckognize a lot of these places. Many buildings have not changed. Street layout is very similar.

A lot of downtown Oslo got built around that era.

I see Henrik Ibsen is there. He was probably not hard to capture. He walked down to the Grand Hotel every day like clockwork.
Green is the color of the Democratic Progressive Party (currently in power, and the historical anti-KMT (read: anti-authoritarian) party)[0]. Green has thus become the color of the Taiwanese independence movement (i.e. not "Republic of China", but "Republic of Taiwan")

Blue is the color of the KMT (former dictator party)[1], whose logo is still the top-left quadrant of the flag of Taiwan[2]. Historically, this party has claimed to be the politically legitimate government of all of China (as the "Republic of China" rather than the "People's Republic of China"), but lately is effectively an arm of the Communist Party of China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Green_Coalition#History

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Blue_Coalition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China
> 1. The user has a right to free speech

The court has already ruled that the speech is not necessarily legal, and since the user has not responded, to initiate discovery, the user's contact information needs to be provided. Literally no other ordinary physical company could sit on evidence of a criminal and withhold it from a court under privacy concerns.

> 2. The plaintiff is trying to breach the user's privacy, as a way to quash freely made speech

So... fundamentally a privacy argument then? Exactly as I said.

Twitter bans literally hundreds of people a day and "quash[es] freely made speech". Their CEO has said Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” They don't care one bit about "chilling" free speech, and yet, read the bleeding heart defense of speech in this brief. The only pretext they have for keeping the user private is this defense of speech they've gleefully violated thousands of times per year.
If you are unhappy with moderation you can always create your own subreddit with rules that you see fit. It's how reddit works.
Even this level of damage is not nearly enough to warrant more urgent mobilization. As devastating as it is, Coronavirus gave me some hope on how quickly we can rise to the challenge but unfortunately, climate change happens at far slower pace than pandemic.
A conjecture is not a proof, hence not something taken seriously. I'm sure he conjectured that there's no black swans (or similar) at some point, but that's not worth remembering.
Anybody have source recommendations for cheese cultures in Europe? I made cheese for years in North America, but have found it difficult to source ingredients in EU. Perhaps I'm not looking in the right places.
I have a mess of folders with random stuff in it. Don't do that.

However, if you tend towards curation more than me, you have categories, it might work for you.

I have a WikidPad personal wiki, in there are various things I've written over the past few decades, including the always elusive key to my WiFi.

My photos (600 GB) sit in folders D:\masterarchive\yyyy\yyyymmdd\ I never edit the originals, always save to a new file name when opening them in GIMP, etc. I have two short python scripts today.py and yesterday.py that make and open a new folder for me, depending on when I transfer the files from the SD card from my DSLR. You could make a script do it for you by reading the metadata from your smartphone photos.

SQL is a pain in the ass if you don't match the structures you set up initially. It's going to always be running, and will slow down a laptop or notebook boot time considerably. However, they do work well for tightly structured data.
From a revolutionary perspective, the Diggers and the Levellers were the really interesting players to emerge from the civil war.
Yep, I've seen a few people chucking around phrases like "designed by nature" which are both wrong and confusing. "Design" implies intent before the fact, which is not the case.

We, as a species, are not "finished" in any way or "more evolved" than other species. There is no destination evolution as such.

We have plenty of traits that are not useful but also not a hindrance and so they remain.

On the subject of cooperation between species I'm always fascinated by inter-tree species communication. You might think that trees in a forest are all individually fighting each other for resources but it's more complex than that.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/exploring_how_and_why_trees_t...
> We didn't think the benefits of asynchrony would be worth the added complexity to the language server. (For what it's worth, the folks behind Rust Analyzer, the most mature LSP implementation in Rust, seem to agree.)

That is interesting. Is it that much complexity when using async Rust?
I live in Denmark where it's prohibitively expensive to own two cars. This is common for most of Europe. So our one car needs to handle not just daily commuting (where an EVs excel), but also the longer trips we regularly take to other countries. These are easily 1,000+km and an EV would add 2-3+ hours to the already long trip.

EVs make a lot more sense when a family can own 2-3 cars and they can rotate their commute car with their road trip car.
The original photos are in the collection of Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology and can be viewed digitally at https://digitaltmuseum.no/search/?q=Carl%20St%C3%B8rmer&aq=t...
I have worked with several banks as a devops consultant and have helped implement self-hosted proxy repositories for NPM, NuGet, etc. These proxies save a copy of every package downloaded and store it locally for as long as the bank wants. Developers are then blocked from downloading from any other repository than these proxies. This solves the problem of packages being taken offline, but it does very little against malicious code on new versions of the package. However it also provides the ability to reproduce code X years into the past, as can be required of banks by financial regulators in various countries.

As always it is a cost/benefit trade-off: what is the benefit to auditing every package vs. the cost of auditing every package?
Occam's grooming implement suggests that someone using English / Indian keyboards and targeting Pakistan is probably Indian.
> you really don’t want to run your hospitals at 110% all the time

Presumably we would have increased hospital capacity, rather than slightly decreasing it [1][2].

[1] https://www.aha.org/statistics/fast-facts-us-hospitals - total staffed beds 919,559

[2] https://www.aha.org/statistics/2020-01-07-archived-fast-fact... - total staffed beds 931,203
Sounds horrendously unproductive. Did they not measure the productivity?
Yes, I think most of the time this is all you need.

I just like the for loop because I can do filename manipulations in the loop and the input to the loop doesn't always have to be find - it can be "grep <something> -l ./" for example - so I use it even if it's verbose because it's only one thing to remember.

Perhaps that is a problem with bash and the tools - there are so many features that take years to discover. Every few weeks I come across a new one.
You get horseshoes and carts on cobblestones instead, plus the ever present smog of wood and coal fires, the smell of horse dung, etc.

I mean there's plenty of European 'old' city centers that are effectively inaccessible by car, doesn't mean they're quiet.
Yes, the more popular terms you search for, the more muddy the waters get.

If you search for anything related to sexuality and psychology, the results are littered with sites that were squatted for serving ads (i.e. no relevant content, just ads), poor quality articles with very low quality content (e.g. poorly formed Quora questions with no expert answers).

As with anything, you have to know what search terms for a given subject are good. For example, you'll get more objective answers the more academic sounding you are, because the fewer people have tried to occupy those search terms.
IMHO you cannot trust it and you are being sensible.

I would have the attitude of: dont worry as who cares about my stuff.. except that i think our society is not at a place where this is valid. we dont have the means to address it if we are acted againt.

also using the techniques you are forced into by doing this (e.g. face to face chats about things very important to you) is a security measure that humatiy needs.

I fully get the attitude of: i am going to enjoy my life to the fullest while i can and if i get fucked down the road so be it. but i cannot stomach it myself.

the diversity of humanity is a great safety net and the key driver of this is our independand risk/reward calculations.

.. one way or another be at peace with your decision. I just accept lots of people around me get more out of technology (and are probably more productive or efficient as a result).. i kind of err on the side of so long as you are happy for the time that you are blessed with life and you are not screwing anyone else over just do your thing, as know one knows when the ride is going to end.

EDIT: to be clear i am here posting bullshit on HN, so its not like i dont engage etc.. i just pretty much treat everything on a computer with the same level of privacy/security: none.
A little tip, you don't really have to generate the 5-letter word list, as Wordle's client-side script already does this validation over a known list of around 2200~ words. It's unobfuscated, you should be able to pick it up easily.
The perception tells more about the poster than YC for sure, but how will you address this ? I'll be honest, I had the exact same impression and I'm French, living in Hong Kong. For everyone, YC is a sort of Californian techno bubble, and now that I see stats, I wonder why I thought that way.

Maybe move away from California/US completely, change your own capital providers, make documentaries about how you're the top African venture capitalists and are headquartered in Kenya ? Maybe we conflate who you fund with who funds you ? Do you have the same breakdown for representatives of capital providers ?
Actually, most of the community no longer spends their time here, but of course you wouldn't know about that, you are not invited.
Evidence suggests that each paper, project, startup, etc. is a lottery ticket you purchase with your time and effort. The more times you buy these tickets, the more likely, in aggregate, you are to succeed.

Evidence also suggests that careful contemplating (and getting competent feedback) what worked/didn't work, can help your next ticket be slightly more lucky than the last as you build new skills.
It does formally apply do government institutions, but they have exemptions that their security neurosis will be as satisfied as if it would not apply.

The need for data collection is not even questioned and blindly accepted. That warrants a lot of criticism. What is surveillance if not an expression of cynicism?
I remember watching it and thinking the opposite.

The article states that the guy was incredibly pro-KMT, which is about as anti-CCP as you can get. His perspective was interesting, but it is disappointing to find out he's a plant.
In the sense of: People in ancient times were also people with needs, urges, dreams, hopes etc. You are right. Looking at ancient people and describing them like a different species makes no sense at all.

However believe systems make a huge difference as well. As a child I had problems placing myself into the shoes of my grandfather who was a Nazi, went to the eastern front and had values that differed immensely from what my parents told me was good and right. But we shared at least some common cultural knowledge and social practise. Ancient people can feel foreign because their lived cultural practise, believes etc differ from ours hugely. Not being able to put yourself into the shoes of someone who e.g. lived in a feudal system is normal — you need to be very well informed to be able to imagine how life felt to someone like that, nevertheless is still worth to try of course.
Can you restrict some features until the training is finished?
There's likely no space for cars (e.g. parking), since it's an old city center. If there is, it's expensive. People that live in older city centers usually don't have a car, a bicycle and public transit gets them far enough.
The parent comment is not a lie.
Vox Pops, they're awful when the media use it, but at least the vox pop is supposed to highlight the story rather than set the story.

Why anyone listens to it when some random youtube channel does is incomprehendable.

Ask 1000 people a simple question and you'll get 10 crazy answers. Show 9 crazy answers and 1 normal question and claim 90% of people are crazy.
I think the organizations that spend tons of money to run the central repositories we all use are a good candidate for that.
Open Source is Charity; It should not be poison
Nah, they've been at that since at least 2005, when I worked there, and I'm pretty sure it was in their guidelines for years at that point. My guess is that they still have that in their guidelines.

For the most part, when doing a procurement, you'd just check a box that the software supported XML in some form (and many vendors added some stupid XML feature, even if their software didn't have a need for it at all), and it would satisfy that requirement.
Love it how it has a link to itself in Web examples section.
That's bound to be part culture, but I think part circumstance as well - heating and insulation in houses has improved a lot since then.
Google’s last-ditch lobbying attempt to change incoming EU Digital Markets Act
It would help if you can list the good facts, especially when it comes to free access of information by citizens, or their desire to swallow up the independence of Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Serious contender for top accidentally-misleading title for a HN story...

* Asian Boss - Not a boss; actually a YouTube channel.

* deep blue - not the chess engine, not the emotional state, not related to the US democratic party; nor to any of the films of this name; nor the songs of that name.
Except if everybody just uses CSAM instead of "Child Sexual Abuse Material", as they are wont to do because the full words are too cumbersome, you lose all negative connotations whatsoever.

I find the discussion completely ridiculous. I don't think anybody who isn't a pedophile ever thought child porn could have any positive connotations.
Where can I see the annual report/budget?
The "you should be using Crystal" post is mandatory in any ruby thread. If everyone saying "yes, Crystal" were actually using Crystal, then:

a) they would see how far from "better ruby" is Crystal and

b) The Crystal community would be huge.
Enscape and Chaos(Vray) Merge
Here is the silly title I forged for myself: unique first utterer of this impredicative performative statement.
That sounds very risky, don't have all you eggs in one basket.

Remote work is likely to continue to grow, find something your interested in, diversify your skills, take your time (not some hot tech of the week), create more options for your future.

Chin up, things often change for the better don't give up hope.
They also had empty flights: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/ryanair...

This was nearly a year ago. Have they done something since to correct this that you could expand on?
xargs is a fantastic tool - there's another similar one, think called GNU parallel which is worth a look:

https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
I think this is on you. Take a break from the news and from the chatter. I too read Lily's trans explanation for the Matrix. Unlike you, I wasn't triggered by the film. I didn't even think about it too much and, when I did think about it, it wasn't anything negative.
So why I wonder is this video coming up in our feeds?

Could it be because the CCP want westerners to hear the message of how people in Taiwan actually want to unify with China?

Yes I think so. The CCP know how to get things promoted on social media.
You would say that a species advanced enough to throw quantum computing at theoretical math problems would be able to develop and act in ways that are not dictated by the laws of evolution.

After all we manage successfully to abstain from actual reproduction in much of the developed world to a degree that makes our societies shrink. Not exactly fit, from an evolutionary point of view.
This is basically Haskell's Stackage. It works!

Re getting volunteers for packaging: Debian exists, so it must be possible. In fact, not only Debian exists, but Debian has >1000 members. It's a matter of organization.
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> On my face I have a leakage of about 21% or PFE of 79% when worn normally.

> With an ear saver, it jumps to 91%.

> With a mask brace, it jumps to 98%.

I had no idea it could vary so much for surgical masks. I’d be curious what range of leakage people could typically expect for other designs such boat-shaped KF94 or flat-fold KN95 masks.

Fit seems important enough to deserve a mention in the intro paragraph at the top of the home page. A more detailed explanation, including the example you gave of how much it can vary for even one person, could go in the “Click here” link to the full testing methodology.

Thank you for doing this, by the way, rare to see a manufacturer test so far beyond their own masks. It clearly takes resources to do this and is a great service to all of us who have been relying on guesswork.
We don't actually, because it's obvious; people should put trash in the relevant bins, and the local authorities should pay people to clean it up. Online discourse is not action. Look at e.g. Japan that doesn't have a littering problem, because people don't litter and they pay people to clean up the rest.

But as others pointed out, this was before plastics, before the availability of the wide variety of products and services we have today, before chain fast food restaurants. They would have had (waxed) paper and the like, but not to the point where it was so cheap that it would be everywhere.
Minor title editing for clarity and for length. Original title was “Google in last-ditch lobbying attempt to influence incoming EU tech rules”.

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2...
The KMT is not as anti-CCP as you can get, why do you say that?
Image search does not classify image contents. It uses the site text for ranking of the images on that site.
Do a google (not image) search for "white people" and you'll see that this phrase is mostly used in pages that are in fact about racism and therefore likely to contain images of black people.
Most often it's a rip of StackOverflow surrounded by spammy ads