skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps. But we had a pandemic during the Obama/Biden admin, but no stockpile of appropriate PPE, masks, etc. This was, we were told, the pro-science administration.

Pandemics are such a common trope that Hollywood has made multiple (bad) movies revolving around them. Yet it appears we were unprepared for the basics.

What Fauci said or why isn't important. The question we should be asking is: Why were in that position to begin with? We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored.
It most certainly does not originate from the black community, but leftist liberal white academics. Blacks have certainly adopted the cause but they are not the ones stirring most of the ridiculousness we are seeing.
Don’t blame the player… The reason this happens is not the salaries but bc it is rewarded by hiring and management practices.
Honestly, we haven’t even considered allowing a test drive without an account but the community here has given us some really great opinions in why that is so important. We’re going to discuss this and see if there’s some way we can do that. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this!
Web is a terrible app platform.

Unfortunately it's the best one available.
In Asia, it's a mixture of whatsapp, LINE (Japan/Thailand/Korea), Alichat, Wechat. Australia is a mixture of FB messenger and Whatsapp for families. Kids use different services depending on how old, snapchat, tiktok, instagram, discord (very much so for kids in the "fortnite years").

LINE and Ali/We chat are now more like platforms, for example, LINE has a wallet called LINE Pay that you can use in retail stores that grew out of selling virtual stickers for their chat client. They integrate to transit services and other things too.
I was reading Russian political Telrgram earlier today, and one of the better channels ("Толкователь") had a post about a scientific study on why people prefer conspiracy theories over scientific information.

The study's summary says that this is because conspiracy theories are communicated in a language that is understandable, while scientific communication uses language that is opaque for most people.

Which leads me to the conclusion that any effort towards making scientific communication more understandable to general public -- including the annotated equations -- is a good thing.
The UK open banking regulations are a good model to follow.

The problem is the intersection of extreme profits at stake and the public's lack of understanding of the underlying causes. That's not a recipe for good political outcomes.

In the case of the UK open banking regulations I suspect tech lobbying (powerful) might have trumped high street bank lobbying (not as powerful).
I'd say forget about getting "a job" and write your own apps, or do consultancy work where clients engage your company - not you.

Though I'd check about you being able to be a company director.
No kidding: the best (and only?) argument against the lab leak theory is that the communist dictatorship is just acting like a dictatorship.
It's also strange that we don't recognize human reproduction as a factor of production. Even if the universe created the physical laws that allow us to exist, we are still reliant on a previous human to give birth to us.
So if a stranger comes up to you on the street to ask you the time, do you immediately insult them for being an inferior human not deserving of your respect?

In my opinion, not giving respect to fellow humans by default is the terrible choice.
GitHub actions bug: 'some' of your jobs will run, but build successful
Yes, and the main source of lies called RT exist absolutely officially, spreading Goebbels-style national hatred and crazy anti-vax disinformation.
So once you have an app up and running, with millions of satisfied users you would hire another team of more expensive developers to build a native app.. for each platform? so make that 2 more teams or rather 4 more teams? (iOS, Mac, Android, Windows)
of course. Somehow same companies dont see all the get rich quick scheme ads on their platforms.
And if everyone in the world setup TOR gateways and used TOR for everything then the survailiance and ad instry would collapse overnight.

Back in the real world it would be frightingly effective.
This chart is just bullshit, there's absolutely no way a 15 week old baby sleeps from 11pm to 7am, then from 8am to 12pm, and then _another_ 4 hour nap from 2-6pm??, that's absolutely insane. Like, a doctor would be extremely worried about this baby
Well people are rooting for the parties as if they were football teams. Especially if there are only few political parties.
Another point on top of yours, at least in the EU, was that there was a plain shortage of masks and every single functioning FFP2+ mask was needed for hospitals and ICUs.

I have often observed discussion on how this might have been a convenient political move in the beginning when the EU had no way to get masks except for waiting on Chinese orders. But that's the realm of conspiracy again.
I'm probably missing something but why would the industry back this? This makes it easier to combine and switch between manufacturers while they probably prefer vendor lock-in. Once a factory starts using your PLC it will continue buying replacements and upgrades forever.

I only had brief exposure to this domain years ago, working on a single Siemens PLC control project. The whole software stack was utter garbage (GUI only tooling, binary blobs that don't work well with version control, weird custom subset of VB for the computer UI scripting, ...) that made me wish for some interface like PLC4X so I could just bypass all of it.
The Western megadrought is revealing America’s ‘lost national park’
The article talks about hunter-gatherers. I'm not sure the word "work" applies in the same way.

Maybe they only hunted for 3 hours on average in the good time. ... But they had other more existential threats. There is a reason they all switched to agricultural societies.

Seeing your babies die of starvation will do that.
I think I've heard that underneath, async/await gets desugared into a Task "monad" anyway.
The main page does say "C (not ready for usage)", though.
there's something wrong with that baby

They're sleeping _way_ too much for 15 weeks. two 3-4 hour naps?? 8 hours overnight is definitely possible but rare
There was a point in time (10 to 15 years ago) in which HN was actually a good forum to check out, you could learn a lot from the discussions here.

But then it grew massively. Nowadays, it is no better than classic Facebook comments or r/technology on Reddit.
a politician doing what they can to counteract that effect, even by deceipt, isn't fundamentally wrong

A politician manipulating the public is an attack on democracy, since democracy relies on having an informed demos. Condoning such behaviour shows how much faith a person has in (true) democracy.
Thanks for this, it showed me that I seem to have also flagged a submission by mistake a couple of weeks ago.
Which Li-fi people? AFAICT there are several groups, and li-fi.co (which I'll assume you're talking about) is less advertising for one specific group, and more advocating for the technology as a whole.

> They claim visible light travels faster than radio waves

I wasn't able to find it on the lifi website but seems like some poor copywriter got something wrong

> their thousand dollar router can only do 100Mb/s

Who's they? In any case, since lifi.co is advocating Li-Fi as a whole so it makes sense they talk about theoretical speeds, whereas a specific router from some manufacturer might not be able to reach those speeds, considering how new the technology is

In the end, I imagine Li-Fi doesn't have much of a future outside of niche markets because it has to compete with wifi which is everywhere (and it can't supplant wifi because e.g. it doesn't work in your pocket)
Well, if said book is the de facto textbook for their foreign policy students, then yes I would say at least the intent was there to influence things the way they occurred. How much did that effectively take place, now that's a conspiracy theory.
For roads specifically, it's not necessarily suppressed demand. Commute times are a significant element in peoples' calculations about where to live. Increase road capacity and living further away (with cheaper land, bigger houses and so on) becomes more attractive, which adds to traffic on the road. The road capacity attracts the demand through second order effects.
> The article doesn't really claim that this kind of sleep is better or more natural, just that it was incredibly common. (Emphasis mine.)

For a start, the article suggests that it wasn't just common but actually the dominant pattern of sleep, but the evidence seems a bit thin on that. Moreover, it says that "Ekirch began to suspect that the method had been ... an ancient default that we inherited from our prehistoric ancestors". But I seem to remember an anthropologist on a TV programme (many years ago so I forget which one sadly) saying this isn't obvserved in isolated tribal cultures today, so we can reasonable expect that our pre-agriculture anscestors wouldn't have slept this way.

Edit: A reply to a sibling comment found a good citation: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many... Interestingly, like the BBC article it mentions Ekirch as the proponent of the two sleeps theory. So I wonder if the whole idea is the pet theory of this one person.
No, I am neutral to them. Respect is earned. But it is a spectrum, not a binary choice.

>In my opinion, not giving respect to fellow humans by default is the terrible choice.

Not every walking person deserves to be called a "fellow human".
> It will have delays, they may be small, but there is know way to know when they will come.

It was my understanding that C4 doesn't do pauses.
I do blame the player. "Dont blame the player" is a bullshit copout. Players are all there is. If no one builds evil shit, it simply doesn't get built. People who either learn to sometimes put their self-interest below something bigger or robots who are easily bought. Concretely, candidates can choose not to enter a field they are uninterested in or make an effort to develop an interest, and managers can design hiring pipelines that test for these things.
I am sure the invisible hand of the market will make sure it's put to best possible use :)
That's not fair. But excesses like that are related to the same underlying problem, which is lack of nuance, trust, and honesty in public debate.

Additionally, I think you should consider the fact that facebook simply is not a great venue for discussing such things. They cannot tell fraud from fact, don't have a process for doing so, and instead have social dynamics that encourage irrational conspiracies. What exactly should have been done? I get that they certainly ban the wrong things at time, but the real problem here is the platform, which kind of makes it inevitable that either that happens, or that misinformation spreads like wildfire.

But really: the moment to allow a public discussion like that to come to it's own (unguided) conclusions is not in the initial chaos of uncertainty. The consequences of uninformed, unmoderated speculation running wild are still visible everywhere. On the one hand, mostly everybody accepts that healthy debate is a useful social tool, but on the other hand the current zeitgeist is one in which we've not socially learned to distinguish between the right to shout whatever we feel is truthy from the wisdom of relying on that to form public opinion.

Clearly, mistakes were made - but we need to consider the alternative to partially incorrect guidance by experts, which is sometimes extremely dangerous widely and deeply held beliefs formed by social media echo chambers.

Hopefully future generations will have better habits when it comes to dealing with this kind of information overload, and a greater ability to put one's own suspicions in perspective relative to experts, but that's clearly not an easy task. We don't know who to trust, why to trust them; we do our own research, but poorly and with terribly limited resources; we trust others that appear to be like us without having a way to really judge how great their interpretations are nor to recognize which are flawed, and all this is spiced up by the fact that some of these beliefs about facts blur into deeply held moral axioms - which we as a society don't universally share, leading to easily exploitable deep divisions.

...so, while it's deeply unfortunate that your potentially valid observations were silenced, I'm not sure I really believe the alternative would have been better, on facebook.
I think the strict moderation helps a lot here. Just as it does on some of the better subreddits and forums.

As for non-expertise; I have tried to explain several basic biostatistics concepts on here in relation to COVID threads. Generally this was because of an understandable fallacy or mistake being made. When the mistake was genuine the response to my comments is usually good. When there is an agenda the response is usual hostile or asinine. Anyway, it’s much nicer to argue with a bunch of people who value argument on HN than it is to try the same thing on r/news.
Yep, I (in the UK - no asian heritage) was also aware of this by around February/March 2020 due to posts here on HN. But even otherwise smart and well informed people that I know seemed clueless about these things until many months later.
> Hangouts was just a terrible marketing name

I still have a soft spot for Google Talk, that was such a simple name.
Oh, so it's not just me. I've always interpreted it as the first sleep (hah) being my body being busy trying to sober up and the second sleep being the actual normal sleep now that the body can focus on something other than getting rid of all that poison.

Of course actual blood alcohol takes longer to go down than that but no matter how much I had, I'd invariably feel significantly more sober after the initial sleep than if I just stayed awake and stopped drinking.

Given that alcoholic drinks (especially various concoctions we'd hardly recognize as "beer" today) were fairly widespread especially when pure water was not always potable, I wouldn't be surprised if this didn't at least factor in for some of the reports. Then again this doesn't explain the observation of polyphasic sleep developing under experimental conditions.
I don't know anyone who uses it anymore, do you? :D
What the hell? Our understanding of COVID was literally changing day by day. It would be dishonest to NOT change based on the updated science.

I’m so surprised and disappointed this absolute bullshit shows up on HN.
You're in the minority. Companies don't need to appeal to every potential customer, just a large portion of them.
Who is "we"? Projects such as VLC tried the consulting approach, but didn't get the outcomes that they'd hoped for.
Nice work on omnistreams!

The WebSocketStream API is a small improvement, because it can leave backed-up messages in the socket buffer, but it still means you're depending on socket buffers for backpressure, which i think is not enough. There's still no way to actually set the receive socket buffer size in the browser, is there?
> If the computer is powered off, moved or confiscated, there is no data to retrieve.

Don't forget to add insta-shutdown when any USB device is connected to the system!
> there was a type mismatch, but the error the compiler reported was quite far from the original error made by me. It's not a compiler's fault, the fault was purely mine.

No. No it's not. It's the compiler's fault.
It seems well written, and well argued to me.

The completionist in me notices you didn't mention NeuroLink - his wiring of brains to computers. It's not often in the news.
That's a good idea: the tool that processes the data can just run your function and if the file doesn't match the result then it's rejected.

But in the real world people are going to want to annotate the PDFs, there will be open-and-save cycles that add metadata and break the checksum, etc and so on, even without considering malicious actors. Restricting all that is maybe easy -- just reject anything that doesn't match the checksum, done -- but communicating that restriction to the users without making a mess of it is probably hard.

Long ago I wrote some PDF generating programs and it was a lot of fun, but the spec has evolved in ways I imagine would make it less fun today. Still, could be a cool thing, and I'd be surprised if someone hasn't already done a version of it somewhere.

[Edit: plus, whoever creates the one-way function is deciding what all the PDFs are going to look like, which means you will end up with many such functions to accommodate the different rendering goals, and then each validator needs to know each one and someone decides which ones to trust, and so on...]
Not trying to be provocative, but how is this any worse than existing cameras or motion sensors?
I think this is more nuanced.

In the beginning, testing was very sparse and unavailable so it's hard to blame anyone for just looking at the obvious infections. It took a while until we even understood that the majority of cases are asymptomatic and very mild.

The 1% IFR is trueish across all age groups but not so much when you look at specific age groups. You can clearly see it in current German data: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1105512/coronavirus-covi...

You might have an asysmptomatic child with a 0.003% IFR and hand them to your grandparents for caretaking, with a quite high chance of putting them into the ICU if infected. So it's not so easy to deal with like a cold.

Also, variants might change the distribution and death isn't the only negative outcome of a COVID infection. It's a systemic disease affecting all organs which will put a strain on the health systems for a long time to come, especially if it becomes endemic and people will just keep reinfecting themselves year after year. It's too shortsighted to just dismiss it as a cold just because cases are often very mild.
Typescript is a gateway drug for Javascript programmers. It's backwards compatible. So, it's easy to get started. However, it comes with a lot of compromises to enable that backwards compatibility.

If you think of javascript as a compilation target rather than a language, typescript is just one of many languages that can target that. And I'd argue that even javascript these days is transpiled to what runs in the browser. It might be the same javascript dialect. But minified/obfuscated etc. But more commonly, it's more than just that. In short, modern javascript development involves transpilation/compilation. It just does. The whole scripted/interpreted vs. compiled distinction that people used to make is less relevant these days. It pretty much always involves some kind of compiler.

And if you are going to use a compiler, you might as well use a proper one that does some useful stuff like prevent bugs, check types, optimize, etc. Typesystems have come a long way in the last 20 years. In short, there is no technical reason to be using Javascript exclusively in 2022. Whether it's Clojure, Elm, Kotlin, or other languages; they each have in common that they have js transpilers that work quite nicely and type systems that are definitely a level up from the unholy mess that is Javascript's "it could be a string or some object or undefined, but who the hell knows". Some people actually prefer that. Other people want no part of that kind of sloppy typing. And the good news is that there is no technical need to have any of that.

I've been using Kotlin-js for the last year for a web application. The tool chain has some rough edges but the language is a joy to work with generally also for browser development. Definitely an upgrade over typescript, which I've also used in the past. And we have quite a bit of multi platform kotlin code that we also use server side. A lot of what we do is increasingly multiplatform and not explicitly dependent on the JVM. We could choose to use that code also on Android or IOS (via the native compiler). With compose web and other emerging Kotin web frameworks and the upcoming WASM compiler for Kotlin, I suspect it's going to become a lot more popular to use for web applications. With WASM, transpiling to Javascript will ultimately become a thing of the past. If you are compiling, you might as well produce WASM. Short term there are some open interoperability issues with browser APIs of course. However, nothing that can't be solved long term.
Developments like this one and the faker.js and colors.js fiasco from last week have made me rethink my position about licensing.

Now it seems to me that releasing code you wrote for free under a permissive open-source license is somewhere between ill-advised and unethical. On one hand it will not benefit you in any way, on the other, it will be incorporated in a company's proprietary project thus lowering the expenses necessary to develop it. In the end, you've contributed to closed source and on top of that you got nothing in return... And that is the best case, as we saw with log4j, you can be held responsible in the court of public opinion in case the project you developed and maintain for free (with no warranty or liability as per license) causes an issue...
Is finding work for ex-convicts with coding skills a startup opportunity? Perhaps doing coding jobs for small businesses?
Lack of other people's abstractions is a feature too :)
If you loved them so much what made you rid of them?
The specs behind the specs – a deep-dive on ASN.1
The irony is that Java removed its old Go-like collector (CMS = Concurrent Mark & Sweep) a couple of years ago, and its next-gen (G1) and next-next-gen (ZGC) collectors have improved so much in recent JDK versions (15 and up) that they require little if any tuning at all anymore.
Control Mute State in Google Meet from Home Assistant
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I remember those days. It was never acceptable. We just didn’t have any other choice.
I'm not sure if this one org making a mess is good evidence that there is groupthink occurring in the entire industry. There are places that are using these frameworks well, and it really does improve productivity.
This is exactly the problem. No matter what it is not ok for someone to lie for what they perceive is the greater good, but scientists who we thought we could trust show that's exactly what they do and keep doing.

Trust is what our entire society is built upon and the foundation of science.
"Induced demand" usually happens when the product you are supplying is free, like roads.

What you are talking is more like latent demand.
No? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_floating_tunnel
I've been coding for 20 years (UK) and done mainly contracting primarily in the private sector and never once had to go through any checks. Also in 99% of gigs i've taken, the number 1 factor in getting hired is "can you do the job", thats it. While obviously the industry skews very young, i've worked with plenty techies over 50 that have been hired because they have experience, and quite simply, they can do the job.

If you stick to the private sector, the convictions wont even come up unless you bring them up and i think it would be rare to come up against ageism, and if you do, then simply, you dont want to work for those companies anyway.

Talk to some recruiters, tell them your skillset and see what they've got, I wouldnt bother mentioning the convictions because i personally dont see them as relevant (because whats relevant is, can you do the job), and they'll come back with options. If they talk about government or bank work, just say you'll pass on those and would rather work for a private company. I have the same preference purely due to my distaste for paperwork and beaurocracy, private companies are easier to deal with.

I suggest trying to reframe your mindset to evidence based, rather than assumption based. Right now you're making a lot of assumptions that you wont be successful without having any evidence of such. You have a lot of valuable skills, go and assess the marketplace, in my opinion, you can be successful.