skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2. How would we possibly know? The fact is in the short term, open measures are not working. Can you expand on the immense economic and human costs? Are you accounting for the economic and human impact from the millions of deaths from failed open measures? I agree there is a cost, my view is that the deaths also carry a great cost to those close to the dead, which extend the economic and human costs from the deaths themselves.

3. I noticed that, couldn't figure out how to edit, it may not be possible? But yes, I'm aware it's just this subgroup, I just still think it's very careless to brush them off. Yes, statistics, etc... But there is a human element being lost, imo.

4. I agree, sadly. At this point it seems people agreed that COVID is inevitable. But that made me think of another point these articles/advocates for open measures often gloss over: what are the LONG term effects of COVID? Is it even possible to know?

5. Yet another: what about new variants? Open measures = more people get COVID = more likely to have new variants, obviously not as linearly, but you see my point, I hope.

In any case, I'm not saying there aren't awful costs for strict measures, but the devastation brought from COVID is something I hope does not come to anyone's family/friends. And even more so about this article, just feels like a lot of complaining about wearing a mask, being in a room alone, learning over zoom, all things that are fairly inconsequential
I can't help but be a little sad. JWST will be an incredible tool for scientific discovery, but its sensitivity range means it will never produce the kind of compelling imagery that Hubble did. Those pictures played a role in inspiring many of the people in the field today.
The problem is that during first install you can't configure the system user id range, so they'll start at 100. Later you decide to increase that to 150 for whatever reason. Even later, an apt-get upgrade upgrades a system package that owns a user in the 100-149 range. The upgrades process includes setting up the user again. User setup sees that the user exists but isn't in the system user range, this is presumably interpreted as a security risk and so fails the upgrade.

As a result the minimum system user uid is in practice not able to be increased without breaking upgrades.
Why do you assume I am referring to the US? Maybe for you it's normal for there to be looting and rampant crime in the face of crisis or emergency scenarios but I don't think that speaks for the rest of the world.

> Many countries do not have the health infrastructure the US has and have not undergone societal collapse.

What does this mean? We have universal healthcare and in my city emergency services are so overwhelmed and overworked the wait time for the past day is over an hour. You could probably rob a storefront in open daylight and get away with it right now.

The US is the highly developed country poster child for fucking up handling Covid. Other countries don't need whatever impressive health infrastructure you're alluding to because they responded better in the first place.

Finally, I don't have a horse in this race besides not letting people die, but I'd like to point out that Florida current situation looks like hot garbage to me. You couldn't pay me to go there right now.
“Best practices should be easy” is the corollary which, unfortunately, we are a long ways off from with Haskell itself, lending programmers to continue to use Python, etc. Looking forward to the day we figure out how to make Haskellesque ideas easefully available in future programming language X.
OK Mr. Dramatic. I’ll be careful that my community about DevOps doesn’t make any TF2 bots.
I noticed that people who have the ability to have either everything or very little can be happier having very little. People who don't have the financial means to have anything they want may not get the same joy out of having very little.

Someone once told me that there are some homeless people in Berkeley who actually have trust funds but find the homeless experience liberating. Not sure how true that is.
Did you check Franz/Ferdi? Though its Electron, it does support a lot of protocols.

People here (NL) barely use iMessage. They use WhatsApp mainly. I prefer (and do use mainly) Signal. For group chat, Matrix. Though Discord is (unfortunately) very popular. I dig it only for gaming.
>Setting up a suitable build system. Writing some unit tests for the code. Creating a skeleton of the models that are to be developed. Designing nice mock-ups or logos. Creating animations or graphics for presentations.

I actively advise students against joining labs like this and consider the whole enterprise unethical. I raise concerns whenever I'm reviewing grant proposals by folks who run their labs like this. I've successful nuked funding proposals because the work plan included language like this.

Want a devops engineer? Hire a devops engineer ("systems scientist" or so on). Want a graphic designer? Hire a graphic designer.

But DO NOT lie to impressionable youth by telling them that you are admitting them into a PhD program to be your apprentice on a research project and then proceed to pay them $30K/yr (with marginal benefits) for uninteresting and unexceptional engineering and design work. They are taking a huge financial opportunity cost to work on uniquely high leverage problems. Maintaining your research group's build system is not what they signed up for.

> ‘I’m a researcher, not a(n) X,’ with X∈ {software developer, designer, marketing person, artist, …}

Sure, but here's the rub. What does everything in that set have in common? They make at least 2x+ the average PhD student and have much better benefits.

If you want a "force multiplier" person in your lab, do your job: get a grant and pay a fair price for that sort of labor. PhD students are NOT ∈ {software developer, designer, marketing person, artist, …}. If they were, you'd be paying quite a bit more and/or getting far less exceptional candidates.
I honestly wish Discord deleted messages by default. I really don't want a record of my casual communication.
Thank you and agreed
No one is asking Apple to replace iMessage with RCS.
Is this at least partly due to higher resolution / larger displays? Better quality displays with higher resolution sources will make a difference between out-of-focus and in-focus more apparent.
Yeah same. In Asia, almost every single person uses WhatsApp (or Instagram) for chatting/messaging. I don't know a single person who still uses iMessage or any such thing. It's definitely a very US-centric thing.
Yeah, I agree 100%. The issue is that Apple has used it's market share to force users onto something that isn't better, because iMessage isn't open to everyone. So you have Apple users bouncing back and forth between two shitty systems (in the same app, so folks don't really even know what's going on), and I'm forced to interact with them on Apple's terms.
Someone depending on it does not mean it becomes the contract.

Someone depending on implicit behavior means https://xkcd.com/1172/ and you shrug and break them anyway because the contract never required you to uphold the property. It's called contract after all, there's a mutual relationship, not a one-sided one.
Otherwise specifications would be meaningless and we would just tell people to read the source.
That's what I get for trying to be constructive. The cancer is everywhere. The real rebuttal is just because a project's page tells you to do stupid things, does not mean you should do them (of course advocating that crap at all makes one question their general security competence)

I agree Guix has a much better story on foundational security (cf guix challenge). Nix seems to have more activity. Unfortunately, cancer spreads because it's good at multiplication.

But really my greater point is they're both source distributions revolving around persistent package/system management, which allow one to obtain software while managing the provenance of its code.
yes but this has worked to create uniformly beautiful "netflix original" documentaries
I can totally see the brand harm here. There’s nothing Muzmatch can do to make users not associate them with Match.com, even if they truly want to. It’s what I thought at first.

I don’t blame Match for any of this, as much as I want to root for a startup.
Thanks for taking the time to write this out -- I'm digging into the CALM theorem right now to try and get it to sink in. This explanation is fantastic and it makes me feel like I understand the concepts better than I probably do in reality.
I have tried sleeping earlier on times I'm sleep deprived, the only result is me staying in my bed for hours on end without sleeping. As a kid, as I mentioned in my original post, my parents would put me to bed with lights out around 9. I wasn't able to sleep despite being sleep deprived.

Nowadays, I work in a different time zone and due to work and meetings, I sleep around 3am every day. I fall asleep instantly and get my full 7-8 hours of sleep every day. Having the correct rhythm changes everything. I've never been able to do that earlier in the day and I tend to have extreme difficulty adjusting and sleeping earlier if I travel and have to deal with jetlag.

You're lucky but stop assuming that everyone is the same as you and that everyone can sleep early. If you've never known the feeling of being extremely tired and sleep deprived yet not being able to sleep then, I don't see how you can make generalisations and assume that it's the case for everyone else??

At this point, there's plenty of research that shows that your basic understanding is wrong, that circadian rhythm are not only a function of ambient light.
> T-types are defined as those that increase a team's agility.

That's not how they are defined in the article or the detailed definition it links to. The definitions there define traits of someone who may be able to increase the agility of a team depending on the team and what it is doing but the same could be said for most types of people yet not all are T-shaped and vice versa.
That's not a good comparison because there are multiple bad guys wanting to hack into your computer, and more vulnerabilities mean higher chance that at least one succeeds. For this, we can assume that OEMs/microsoft is on the same side, so the better analogy would be: having 20 NSA root CAs installed on my system isn't worse than only one, at least if my threat model is "NSA hacking my communications".
This concept is not about explaining things in terms a 6 year old can understand.

It's about understanding the subject matter well enough that if necessary you could simplify and elaborate on topics to bring your audience to your level of understanding.

(i.e. - understanding your subject vs. being able to recite facts)

You really come to terms with how well you know a subject when you sit down and try to teach it to someone else.
That explains the animation! I just thought NASA was just adding some more realism into the orbit animation by adding what looked like a wobble. Derp.
The Myth of Decentralization and Lies about Web 2.0
> What do we do if their parents end up unable to work due to long term COVID or worse their parents die?

Indeed. Parents should also be vaccinated. It would be reasonable to delay school until that point. (This is an additional delay over those previously mentioned in parent comments in this thread.)

However, we should also expect that all parents will be exposed to the virus sooner or later, as we have been told from the earliest days of the pandemic, and thus we should limit further delay.

Yes, parents will get COVID from kids who go to school. Yes, unfortunately, there will be children orphaned as a result of that exposure. No, there won't be substantial numbers of net orphans -- certainly not such that crippling public education for years or even decades is the more humane response.
Hello, author here! I agree with your sentiment. I was referring more to wonky edge cases in the post such as "if you're rendering a webpage on Windows with a scrollable div, add 10px to the right padding because the scrollbar is wider in Windows than macOS", not "if age < 21, user cannot buy alcohol". You should try to avoid stating the obvious in comments (obviously). I was trying to convey that sometimes it's OK to include information in comments that might rot, if it helps you remember why you did it in the first place. I've found that most of these edge cases are "set it and forget it", so it's more likely that your memory would rot before the comment did.

I'm in the same boat when it comes to knowing when to leave a comment. I might suck at it, but I subscribe to the belief that it's better to look like an idiot than an a$$hole. I might look dumb by stating the obvious in a comment, but it beats being someone who didn't bother explaining themselves because "good code is self-documenting" [eye roll].
I would not be so sure about that. Many (most) astronomy photos are false color photos from quite different wavelength regions (often several different overlayed ones). So I do expect some fascinating images to come out of jwb as well.
Hubble can't see the Apollo descent stage on the moon either, and that is a LOT closer than L2.
I think the poster's point was about general data reporting, not specific to the situation. If you're going to use data to argue something, you need to be careful not to overstate what the data says. And the worst misuses of stats are when they fit intuition or anecdotal experience. The vaccine-autism argument that won't die is not the result of a bad study, but of autism symptoms typically arising right at vaccination age. Then people did a study looking for this commonly-believed "causation" and misused the data they got to make a case they wanted.
Not a game or rust dev, but going thru the quickstart tutorial - Bevvt looks pretty nice. Good job and thanks
I think this was what I referring to. Thank you!
20 Things I learned in my 20s
You just described what's unfair. Prop 13 means new owners pay for their neighbors disproportionately. That's wealth transfer.
And eating persimmons alongside dairy (milk or yogurt) carries health risks too.
It's a transfer from those who have a high fraction of their net worth in cash equivalents to those whose cash fraction is low or even negative. Nobody actually has a million dollars (well, maybe except for some who have a lot of laundering ahead of them?), but plenty of smallish "emergency funds" or "future downpayments" in deprecating savings accounts.
I see the value in a lot of these, but I also have to say one common thread across almost all tooling is bad interfaces clearly designed by backend/generalist engineers doing their own ad-hoc form of design. Having worked with an org that transitioned from bitbucket -> gitlab I also found the development/issues at Amazon to have some big headscratchers on missing features like crux diffs following some unintuitive ruleset, and countless smaller inconveniences.
This provides examples of phenomena that are very similar to other phenomena known to possess particular properties, and argues you don't need new evidence to deduce that there is a significant chance that the example phenomena share the same properties as the similar phenomena.

This is not congruent with the gift card example. There is no comparable product that is known to be used in the majority of cases for money laundering.
There are remedies for that while still keeping the advantages of UUIDs.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/sequential-uuid-generato...
>That's antithetical to software freedom. Regular users who want to use un-Notarized software are left frightened and without having their needs met.

It's easy to argue "give me software freedom or give me death!" if you're a technically competent user that probably won't fall for a trojan, but what about everyone else? Don't you think there's a reasonable argument to locking down systems to improve security? To be clear, I'm not arguing for sacrificing software freedom wholesale for security, only in default configurations.
FWIW, I use Artix as a desktop distro and am not missing anything. I use s6 init and it is extremely stable.
That's what "unloading" the reaction wheels refers to in some comments here, in case others were wondering.
Core problem is you generally will fail a PhD if all you are is the middle author of lots of papers. Even worse if you are looking for an academic job afterwards.
Well, yeah. If the purpose of your biomedical device is to measure x or y or z so the patient can make a certain decision, you need to be able to prove that your device can provide accurate enough data for the patient to make that decision.

If the purpose of your device is to provide alerts, you need to prove that it your device actually alerts the patient at the right time. To do this you need accurate continuous measurements, and a proven system that alerts the user based on that data. This is extremely difficult.

I work for Dexcom, the only company that makes an FDA approved glucose monitor that can both fire alerts, and is approved for use by children under 12. We started with a very small team and it took a solid decade before we got FDA approval, but FDA approval is basically the highest bar for a medical device. So much so that many nations automatically greenlight any device with FDA approval.

If you've built something, and you can't prove with documentation that the specific device you're selling a customer will work exactly as advertised, before they take it out of the box, you can always sell your probably-works device to another nation (or nations) first until you get your ducks in a row for the FDA.
It's very unfortunate but the reality is these kind of things happen often. I don't think match group is high on ethics, nor would I expect any
$30bn+ group to be. The top layer in an organization like that thinks only in finance and legal.

Hopefully the courts in the UK side with you (they are quite fair) and that you can get back to business.
So we are just trademarking basic vocab now? Lovely.
>Another distinction is that most people will trade the average price of power over a given area called a "zone." But there are thousands of physical busses that people connect to, each of which has its own power price, and you can trade those via nodal trading (with instruments like FTRs and ARRs, again not worth going into).

This is really an interesting concept. It looks like nodal trading is available in the northeast - is it dependent on the RTO and how it is run? I'm passively familiar with some utility policies in Iowa but hadn't heard that brought up on the consumption side.

To the extent you can discuss, I'm curious what your saw during the Texas energy crisis about a year ago?

I spent a couple years on the buying and forecasting side for a very large manufacturing facility mostly on natural gas but heard some of the electricity discussions. Force Majeure conditions could lead to very large penalties if we exceeded our forecasted demand. I also sat in on some meetings discussing the massive electricity consumption and strategies to minimize total cost.

The biggest thing most consumers don't realize is how variable the production costs are. On the hottest days when everyone is using their air conditioners, special power plants come online to cover the added load. These peaker power plants may only run a handful of days per year, are cheap to build, but are very expensive to operate. Residential consumers often pay the same electricity cost per kWh despite the utility paying a highly variable cost.
That plural possessive apostrophe is damn impressive. Haven't seen one of those in an internet comment in years.
Ask HN: How did you break in into the tech industry?
As the title says, curious of the path you all took into the industry
Yet another case study that shows how IP[1] laws are used by incumbent players to stifle innovators. Even trademark laws, which in principle are the least onerous type of IP, lead to million dollar lawsuits in practice (and apparently that's in a less expensive jurisdiction). Also, this story seems to agree with other anecdotes I've heard about the dangers of rejecting acquisition offers from large competitors; there is a high risk of them cloning your product/strategy or using the legal system as a weapon (in this case, it appears both tactics were used).

[1] I read this as "intellectual protectionism".
Cool, just curious...why do you want them to be the same everywhere?
I got the math wrong, more like 400, but still: yes, the group is at significantly lower risk of death. What would you say is a valid explanation of "let's make things more open" to the people close to those young adults who died? Personally I'm lost for words, but maybe I'm alone? It just feels very easy to say "the risk is low", but what about if YOU were a high risk? What if YOU had HIV or other immune system issues? What if you're allergic to the vaccine and have respiratory problems? Yes, it's a TINY group. But can you honestly say you'd be OK with reading things that imply you literally don't matter to those around you. I'm not even talking about some vague BS "my fellow man" type s**, just imagine your dorm neighbor has HIV which he got from his mom at birth, would you be cool with open measures? That's not a non-existent person, these people are real.

The rationale is that the CDC measures have proven ineffective and they've shown to not have health as their priority, to say the least. The shift to 5 days quarantine came a few days after an urge from the Delta CEO, I believe. Fauci's own justification did not involve much health, it was all about the economy. The CDC was also ignored by the very same people saying that we should listen to the CDC now, just like vice versa. Yet, you can look at the data and see that the US had 1mm cases in a single day and ICUs are starting to get overwhelmed again. Not days after the CDC's measures.

And yes, the colleges might be doing this to cover their ass, but if the end result is lessening the spread of a brand new disease that has already killed a lot and severely damaged many others, I'm OK with that.

TLDR: people are still brushing off the death of a large number of young adults because they don't want to be inconvenienced. Now might even be too late, but I'm personally not a fan of "ay man, we tried, let's just run it and see how it goes" when it comes to this.
That's a Saturated Pattern instead of a Dark Pattern.
RCS is the infrastructure to allow larger attachments. Apple is the only one at fault here for not implementing it.
on kondo I always had the impression that "remove that which doesn't spark joy" is similar but still different from minimalism

both say there is more meaning from less stuff, but the latter is less of everything while the former is more of "less stuff you don't care about"
> 3. Covid is not a one and done. You get it, and it can have long term lasting effects even if it doesn't kill you. That applies to children as well.

> 3. Please present evidence of long term effect in a non-negligible percentage of children

> There is no long term data either way anywhere because we have to live through it first.

If we don’t have long term data one way or the other, why is the starting assumption that children will experience long Covid to the same extent and same severity as adults (especially given that they have much lower rates of getting a serious case of covid compared to adults)?
I'm connected to OFTC, Libera, and Hackint right now, plus a semi-private one run by some friends.
this is complete elitism. languages do not “
requires an above-average level of competence” it might just have a longer learning curve. projects that are maintainable such as “huge codebase across decades, with dozens or hundreds of programmers coming and going” aren’t a special kind of program. these are just the successful ones

the distinction is between “hobby/academia” and “industry”