skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Humans are - in general - thrifty and entrepreneurial and creative; given that they don't have to put their and their families' livelihoods at risk. That risk-taking ability seems to me to be one of the deciding factors why wealthy people get wealthier: Even the most ingenious business idea might fail. For a rich family at worst a good business lesson. For a poor family at worst a catastrophe.

Well said. That's why UBI looks like a promising idea. Everyone has their basic needs taken care of, but if they want something more, they have to show at least minimum of care. Maybe there would be too many people at start who would sit all day and do nothing, but from what I've seen in many social circles, it's just that what they would like to do/create is not valued enough to make a living and/or has too much barrier to start. I would be perfectly happy to be one of those pulling humanity forward when many sit around just consuming if my hard work would not just be used by someone else just because he had more money and can dictate the rules. The problem is that in democracy, too many people in such a system will just vote for those who will increase their UBI allocation which will collapse whole system rather fast.
No, this didn’t happen.
I used to be an adventurer like you, then I got kids.
Agree that banning individuals from expressing ideas (more like completely plausible theories) has done great harm.

> this is a propaganda instrument

What exactly is this "propaganda instrument"? Just trying to latch on to what you're trying to suggest.

There might have been lies, distortions of the truth, misunderstandings, assumptions, ignorance, but "propaganda" implies some kind of motive and objective by a particular actor or set of actors.

With perhaps the exception of parties responsible hiding any remnants of the truth in order to avoid blame (aka a cover up), what was the motive/objective and by whom?

For me, the purpose of the lab in China and the possibility of a contagion leak makes complete sense with no conspiracy theories needed. Even the Chinese Government/CCPs response makes sense (not defending it, just obvious based on their track record).

I can imagine multiple ways in which the resulting pandemic could be used as an instrument to cause and inflict political harm in order benefit rivals or perhaps entire states and regimes. But the only way I can describe what has actually resulted is an all out frenzy and turmoil.
Solar engineering is interesting because we've already observed it, for periods of a year or two after major volcanic eruptions. Those have put enough sulfur dioxide in the stratosphere to block about one percent of sunlight, and disaster did not ensue.

Since the sulfur dioxide goes away after a year or two, if it does start to cause a problem then you can simply stop emitting it. However, if you absolutely want to avoid potential impact on crops, another proposed method is to use a fleet of wind-driven ships, seeding low-lying clouds over the oceans.

As for storing CO2 underground, there is one method that might work: pumping it into basalt formations, where it turns into rock in about a year. There are several pilot projects doing this.
It's not just suppressed demand, though. E.g. most people in big cities tends to measure commutes in unit of time rather than distance. Reduce congestion and the region considered commutable by people increases, and as a result the region becomes more desirable as a place to conduct business because you have access to a larger Labour pool.

It certainly is possible to outpace the increase, but the point remains that you need to consider that there likely will be an increase beyond any measurable suppressed demand.

It also matters because sometimes it points to alternative strategies: for roads it may turn out it is better to seek to induce demand elsewhere to alleviate congestion, for example.

One of my pet peeves, living in London, is that instead of alleviating congestion in the centre it'd be better to improve commutability between the town around the edge of London to draw demand out of the centre, for example. Another way of putting that is that to take advantage of induced demand, when capacity issues you should look for options to leverage it to spread the load whenever that is cheaper than increasing the capacity to the core of the system, and often spreading the load can be a lot cheaper.
JavaScript because you want to focus on web. As a UX designer I imagine you'll want to work on front end at least to some extent even if you learn backend too. The other languages are fine but they're only for backend work and at some point you'll have to learn JS for the front end anyway. So you might as well start with JavaScript which can do both.

It really seems like a no-brainer for your requirements; don't worry too much about other people complaining about stuff - you can find complaints about every programming language out there.
I would have made that same mistake if I was making decisions for Mozilla at the time. It's such an elegant, logical and tempting ideal to turn the browser into the OS. Too bad it didn't work out.
Must be really frustrating to be completely wrong about masks.
I understand what you are saying. In my case, I was a disastrous student and put forth as little effort as possible and spent all of my time on my old PC.
"The whole analytic lens of white people against minorities is purely made up in my opinion and I have seen no evidence to the contrary."

There are hundreds of interviews with Trump supporters or Brexiteers that say exactly what I have said. So how you arrive at "have seen no evidence" is astonishing to me. There are election posters for Brexit that are racist. There are books about the topic of people in the UK wantig the Empire back for its racism.

"Back to reality: People never cared much about race."

Ah yes, Ruanda never happened. Or thousands of pogroms. Or the thousands of public hangings in the South of the US. "People do not care about race."
Buying Skype for billions and then killing MSN to force people on to it is easily the worst decision I can think of by consumer-oriented big tech company after 2005. If anyone involved in the decision still works at Microsoft they're doing something wrong. People make mistakes but this was one that has ended up costing tens of billions in value (possibly 100+) and that even a child could've told you was an awful idea - I was pretty young and I sure could've! Maybe the failure to make Windows phones big is a bigger failure but that's more of a failure to produce a good product than one decision. You could name Yahoo "not buying" Facebook/Google but deciding not to do something is more understandable than throwing away a golden egg.
The responses confuse "machine learning" with neural networks so far as I can see. I do lots of statsy things: good luck with that outside of R.
It’s interesting to think about this from a Bayesian perspective. What is the posterior probability we expect the virus to have originated from a Wuhan lab, given the outbreak happened in Wuhan?
You've got a Switch, why would you want to do anything else? You should play more switch games instead, duh!
I find that behaviour more dangerous than any other anti-science or anti-vax movements. That behaviour degrades the public trust in institutions, in science and in scientists. It will breed even more anti-science and anti-vax people for years to come.
They can’t because the articles all mentioned how few people refused. I don’t know what it is about this shit that drives people to become absolute morons.
What we do know about pre-modern warfare though is that people generally didn't want to die, didn't want to kill each other and many times battles ended with one of the two armies losing morale and fleeing or surrendering. Individual battles could also last for days with very little time actually being spent physically clashing.

Two phalanxes meeting face-to-face with neither side drastically outnumbering the other was likely the worst case scenario because it meant a war of attrition rather than a quick and decisive victory.
I live in a place without the soda tax. I'm noticing that kids aren't into sodas as much as they used to. My kid and his friends all dislike sodas. There could be other cultural trends alongside the tax.
It’s not reasonable to assume all firefighters were involved in a cat rescue.

But if one says “Firefighters think cats are cute”, it certainly appears that it implies most firefighters share this opinion.
Feel free to add together the set of a set of an empty set and a set of a set of a set of an empty set, but I prefer calling it 2+3.

Or feel free to manipulate the voltage in some wire, and make sure that it is reliably understood at the other side as the same bit pattern you sent, but I prefer issuing an HTTP packet. These are all abstractions, hell, there is no field building as much on abstractions as IT does. We have to be on like 8-9 levels of abstraction to even do anything non-trivial.
The ZUGFeRD standard in Germany does this, though the embedded data is XML.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZUGFeRD

My CodeDraw app also puts the source code in PDFs or PNGs that it generates.
Indeed, but being homeless(*) or living in a country with ongoing war, disease or hunger is much less likely today than at any point in history. Not only that, but if you were to be suffering those circumstances, is there any period in the past in which you would be better off than you would be today?

(*) for a modern understanding as to what constitutes homelessness
I’m on the spectrum you fool
Let's skip omicron for now.

While the original strain was evolving in patient zero it was acquirng various random mutations.

The ones that were not beneficial for infecting human cells and thriving in humans didn't survive.

Threre were few possibilities.

I don't think it could evolve some mutation that would trigger immune system of that person into overdrive causing it to kill all variants of the virus. Very unlikely.

Other option is that this virus might have evolve lethal mutation and kill patient zero without infecting anone else.

And the third option is that eventually virus did stumble upon mutation that increased viral load that this person was shedding to levels sufficient to infect another person.

And since it managed to break out of a person that was fighting with it for months or years it's no surprise that it did well in the next and next billion that followed.

The above is most likely scenario for me.

I think we'll eventually find closest relatives of that virus in some civet somewhere. But that will prove exactly nothing to anybody who believes in lab leak origin.
That's a bit of an oversimplification, it's not like they had a choice between adequately funding R&D projects or Doing Political Correctness and chose the latter. Besides, remember that Eich was appointed in 2014 and had only a short stint at CEO, so I don't think you can attribute the 2013 figures to him

I think all of us on HN are a bit saddened about Mozilla cutting back on the Rust and Servo teams, but political-correctness isn't the reason behind that. Let's not turn this into one of those discussions.
> > I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism

> I wouldn't assume that.

I can't add a lot to this discussion, but my colleague, who is in his 50s, got hired around the same time as me here in the UK.
To get the 1% figure you have to include an unstated assumption, which is that a novel virus is just as likely to emerge from this lab as from all top 100 cities put together.

If we try to make a rough calculation from an unknowledgeable starting position, it might be more reasonable to say "just as likely to come from each 1M+ city as to come from each lab [of which there is one]". Then, if we didn't know the geographic origin, the lab probability is ~1% ( = 1/(100 cities + 1 lab)), but knowing the geographic start point you'd get 50%

P(this lab given Wuhan) = P(Wuhan given this lab) * P(lab) / P(Wuhan)

P(this lab given Wuhan) = 1 [this lab is in Wuhan!] * (1/101) / (2/101)
I've removed apps from mobile, deactivated FB and IG accounts.

Beyond that point it is all about self-control. Can you shift your focus to some more productive task? What ever you consider to be more productive, i.e. reading, walking, etc.
It’s not unscientific to change your mind when presented with new evidence, quite the opposite. It is, unfortunately, unpalatable as a politician to be uncertain, even when the facts demand it. I blame our culture of “leaders always know”.
There’s a reason why the majority of costs in running a tech business are often in the non-technical parts.

Don’t open source unless you can afford to. Invest in non-technical bits of your organisation. Avoid making choices and then hating the consequences.
Needs cost-based querying paid for with lightning network to be viable at scale.
IIRC the github client (by default) uses HTTP auth, not SSH auth. It works for using the client, but not if you use other tooling that needs repo access (like pushing from your IDE).

At least that was the case with github for windows last I used it a few years ago.
That's one aspect to consider, sure. But with all due respect - people have publically tried to analyze this question from all kinds of angles, and there are lots and lots of equally valid extremely indirect bits of evidence, and people that have looked at this with a lot more time than me and (I'm guessing here) you to invest in the question, and they haven't been able to really conclude on this matter either way.

But when you take specific bits of evidence out of the great soup surrounding this and highlight them, it's really easy to draw the wrong conclusions, or to get the feeling that this bit of evidence simply due to familiarity is more trustworthy than some other evidence. And we also have biases towards evidence we understand, which kind of makes sense, but is also a problem, as non-experts...
I find the article extremely dishonest as it goes from using a "yellow to blue gradient" (let's call that the initial requirement) and turns it into a supposedly better "yellow to orange to red to pink to purple to blue" gradient.

I think anybody that has to choose between the "gray dead zone" and the "rainbow" will ALWAYS settle for the "gray dead zone" if the initial requirement is to make a "yellow to blue gradient".

Does it contain valuable information? Yes. Does it avoid the "gray dead zone" problem? Not at all, unless you claim that bringing another problem magnitudes larger is "avoiding the problem".
I don’t think that ZGC is next-gen over G1, they just choose different tradeoffs. G1 is very good at throughput, and is very good at upholding its target pause times even under loads. But it doesn’t promise that low latencies as ZGC does, but latency is fundamentally one end of the spectrum, where the other end is throughput.

But otherwise agree with you.
Well, you could hot-wire some of these designs. Much harder to fixup a PCB in general, without throwing it away with all the components.
'invisible man in the sky'

It's useful because it's an abstract term that can apply to the majority of religions.

No need to label God or Allah or Shiva or Jehova or Zeus or whatever.

Saying 'higher power' or 'cosmic force' is not descriptive as there's also include things people don't worship like astronomy.

Almost all monotheistic organized religions have worshipped an invisible man in the sky and most poly theistic as well.
I agree with you. I just moved from working with Go (which I think is quite intuitive to learn and is loved by many, OP, so I suggest you take a look at it) to JavaScript. After years of working with statically typed languages it was a fun but...messy...transition. TypeScript has been a breath of fresh air!
This sounds like me a bit. I'm 40. I've worked as a programmer for 15 years, but I've always known my lack of maths is holding me back abd adds to my imposter syndrome. I've decided the new programming language I'm learning is, well maths. I'm just working through khan academy. I'll give myself this year's free(ish) time. I've got a family and a job, but I need to feel some sense of progression. I ll see what happens.
But will this also delay important security fixes and patches?
See, this is interesting to me, because I come from a different engineering background and was taught that the constraints were safety first, then cost. Time to build was a part but not as important as those other two.

Obviously safety is a bit less important in the software world, but hearing time be a key part of an engineer’s focus makes me uneasy for some reason, even though it makes a lot of sense from a business perspective.
I'm probably missing something but why would the industry back this?

The device manufacturer side of the industry probably wouldn't back it. The people who do the integration work would though. They're the ones who actually benefit from it.
"It's an absurd analogy only if" <ad-hominem>
It is, at most companies it is just Systems Engineer rebranded.
What is insane is that the dog is left out to bark all day and you can't do anything about it. If it's such a member of a family, why let him bark outside all day?
On first read this article made little sense to me.

Ok, go has GOGC env. Ok, you can tune it based on stuff. Do they tune it live as part of process life or is it pre-comoputed at start? Is gogctuner a library?

> As we mentioned above, manual GOGC is not deterministic

What?

More importantly, why the engineering effort is spent on that tool as opposed to just trying to reduce allocations. I've spent countless hours trying to reduce allocations of the hot path. This is a good strategy - Go GC cost becomes negligible if it doesn't have anything to do!

But then it hit me. The missing context is probably other services/tenants interacting with system resources.

Am I wrong in reading it as: In time of the low load, they want to burn less CPU at the cost of more memory. At peak time, they do business as usual. Reducing GC frequency at low load, is generally meaningless. In most systems most operators care about performance/cpu/latency on peak.

Unless....

Unless you have other tenants. They probably run batch jobs at low times, and if that is the case, then indeed, burning CPU for low utilization GO jobs is a waste of CPU.
If it is a bad abstraction, sure. But a good abstraction is much much easier to understand then God knows how many lines of code with God knows what program flow.
Consider funding work to make Gecko better suited to embedding.

Well, with that said, Mozilla is the wrong shepherd for Firefox given that they laid off 25% of their workforce last year.
> We were warned - time and again - and each time that warning was ignored.

And at least in the US, their are 1000s of people receiving good money to take that warning seriously. And they still failed.
as usual when it's about free software licenses, https://www.reddit.com/r/stallmanwasright

> In the end, you've contributed to closed source

yes, that's exactly what using the GPL is supposed to prevent
Even professors doing trendy "AI" research conflate the two terms.
This is nonsense. You can't do comparisons like that.

For example, mask mandates tend to get imposed when cases are rising, and removed when they fall. To say they have no effect on cases is to confuse cause and effect.

The conspiracy site you link to has no interest in looking at the data dispassionately. There's a reason why we have data science and peer review to investigate these things.
Hello, sorry i don't mean to be rude, i'm only judging by reputation. I heard from various hearsay that the codebase is in shambles and full of security holes, and i know for sure despite being one of the top3 most popular XMPP client OMEMO encryption is still not fully supported more than 5 years after the first spec was published (2015).

This is why some security-oriented distros such as Tails are looking for Pidgin replacements (Pidgin is arguably the widest attack surface for Tails RCE), and why in most public channels i hang around in people recommend to stay away from Pidgin if you're looking for an XMPP client that supports "modern" extensions.

Personally, i have a lot of admiration for Pidgin as a concept but i can only imagine how hard it is to interoperate with so many networks in a memory-unsafe language. I wish the situation keeps on improving thanks to devoted people like you and i'm interested if you have some more detailed reads (blogposts, issues) about the future of Pidgin or other such multi-network clients.

Thanks for your hard work and take care!
They're a $24 billion company. Hiring 4 small teams probably shouldnt be too much for them.
It's 2*4 hours, so the total is the same.
Once again fact checkers state the obvious.
Great answer, can only confirm this, even for employment, not only contracting. Go for it!
So what makes it so difficult to prove that a virus is not naturally occurring? Because that would be the starting point to all this and without proof this would continue to be theory without any actually basis and point.
Ask HN: New Programming Language?
If you were not constrained by material considerations and were to commission the design of a new mainstream general-purpose programming language what new technical feature would it have and what important problem would that feature solve?

I hope you can humour me and not challenge the assumptions baked into the question. That's a separate, if interesting, exercise.
Parser combinators are great, we're using parser combinators in production, they are great ie. if somebody wants to play from typescript [0] – they create very readable code that is easy to compose/extend.

[0] https://github.com/preludejs/parser
Really? Abundance of capital is impossible? Scarcity is impossible to solve?

Honestly, this is really weird. Especially the zombie company myth. Peace does not make a profit, building weapons is highly profitable. Meanwhile taking care of the elderly or renewable energies have relatively low yields. If you insist that returns must always be positive then expect your society to turn to corruption and war because those are the bastions of eternal profit.

From my perspective, it's the market that is forcing the Fed, not the other way around. In fact, the Fed is so toothless, I don't know why anyone cares about it. The only thing people are justified to be angry about is that land has its own liquidity preference but hey, that problem is how homeowners and real estate investors got rich at the expense of the future generation so it won't be solved.
Why is that uniquely the case here?
I am interested in that, but my approach is more of a modchip on top of the existing board. It's not that difficult to intercept SPI and I2C in-circuit and thus enable IoT capability for legacy appliances.
https://signal.org/android/apk/ and it appears to work without Google Play Services (though push notifications drain more battery iirc because they can't use the google push notification service)
Thanks for the information, however that isn't really relevant to the points I'm making.
Do you have those at home?
RF is far less hindered by stuff like walls.
Caveats:

This may be required if:

* your router does not support upnp

* One of the players is behind cgnat
Looks nice, well done.

I'd also like to add that it seems like a missed opportunity here. It could have been named OBoy.
Recently Mozilla decided it does not want donations :)

Great for woke bs, not so great for actually funding and developing browser.
Right? Like our product isn’t Uber scale, but our Go microservices each get about 10,000 active users per core before the autoscaler adds a new instance. I’m curious their numbers.
Given that two of the original team members also ignored the state of art of systems programming and just got lucky with way UNIX licensing was managed in the early years, Go's approach to language design isn't a surprise.
Seconded. Very occasionally I'll have to swap servers in a location but that's super infrequent and it's not exactly a primary tier location that I'm using.
One of those things I can generally just setup and leave working.