skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great number of politicians still don't understand the difference between cases and infections. So you see for instance travel from rich countries in Europe being banned, and rich European countries banning each other, purely because they do enough testing to quantify the number of infections. And when Omicron arrived it was the countries with the highest sequencing capacities that were in the firing line.
If you’ve never done it before I’d suggest understanding html and css first (or maybe you know them) and I’d follow it with javascript and either node or php (lamp stack) on the back end. I think this is the easiest way to begin.

There are many coding boot camp style websites - I’d probably get into a beginner one or just beginner JavaScript tutorials on the web.

There’s tons of options and unless you start with one you will not be able to compare when you try the next. Good luck!!
Except that according to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect the spell is never broken for most people. They turn the page and resume reading as if the source was still trust worthy.
I don't know about Germany specifically, but France has a way to obtain what they call a "vaccine equivalency health pass":

https://www.sante.fr/how-to-obtain-a-french-health-pass

I know there's a similar scheme in Switzerland, so this sort of thing is definitely not unique to France.
There is no technological workaround to training your mind not to seek these things. So I guess effort is the answer.
Show HN: Stylify.dev: Dynamic Utility-First CSS Generator
I still somewhat prefer the readability of promises vs. await. I like the expressiveness of a then/catch as functions as opposed to try/catch blocks, which I‘ve always disliked. But I agree that await is more suitable for more complex scenarios.
Glad he gave up. This is the kind of project industries should be funding. It seems like a bunch of factories got his labor for free. I love open source but its better if its something that scratches you own itch, or someone funds it.
Hi all,

after a year of work I have finally released https://stylify.dev. .It is an open source library that generates utility-first CSS dynamically based on what you write.I will be very glad for every feedback, question or an idea .

This library is similar like Tailwinds JIT but there is a lot of differences.
One of them is that it uses Native Preset that allows to use CSS property:value as selectors. Therefore there is no need to remember and search for selectors as they are the same like in the pure CSS. Bearing in mind that somebody may not be a fan of longer selectors, there is possibiltiy to define custom macros like m:20px for margin.

Some features:

- Small chunks: it can generate CSS for each file, component, layout separately

- No pregenerated CSS: the CSS is generated only if a component or selector is found in the content

- Internaly combines and reuses selectors as much as possible to keep the CSS small

- Macros: can be used to define custom selectors like m:20pxor mt:48px for margin

- Components: so you don't have to copy all selectors all over again

- Logical operands for screens: like && and || operands for screens combination like sm&&tolg:font-size:24px

- Variables

- Selectors mangling: from long font-weight:bold to short _ab

- No preprocessor, postprocessor or bundler is required

- On demand generated CSS: the CSS can be bundled on demand, for example during a request

- Because it can generates CSS separately and doesn't bring any CSS by default, it can be easily integrated into an existing project without increasing its size globally
> If you think of it, the only reason why getting vaccinated is not yet mandatory

The vaccine is close to mandatory since June 2021, and is now becoming even more so, that with the negative tests not even counting any more.

I don't really by the election arguments: people who aren't vaccinated already don't vote Macron for the most part, they're already alienated. I'm pretty sure Macron doesn't want their vote, he wants scapegoats.

I also heard there are constitutional hurdles in making the vaccine mandatory (because it's not officially out of test phase yet), as well as that pesky thing about not compensating people who suffer side effects (aside from having regular health care like everyone else).

Your predictions still make sense, though. I'm not sure they're probable, but they're definitely plausible.
Still better than living in a post-truth society.
This "natural" origin theories kind of sound like conspiracy. Bats, mice, lemurs.. Somehow wildly different DNA parts combine, and virus perfectly adapted for human population emerges from cave with zero prior human contact...

If Omicron evolved in mice, we should be able to find it in wild mice population. Or maybe partially replicate its evolution in lab on mice population.

We know virus synthesis is possible, it is accessible even to small national governments, universities and research centers. But mainstream agrees there is ZERO chance of that happening. Nobody would invest couple of million dollars, to end pandemic once for all.
The saying about optimization goes, "Time, Cost, Quality: Choose two." You've chosen the two that most profit-minded entities choose, but they are not the only choices.

Optimizing for quality and time can be a winning solution, particularly if you can achieve novelty as well. Countless corporations and founders have had success with the strategy (Apple under Jobs comes to mind.) Optimizing for quality and cost is also viable: Deming preached it, and e.g., Japanese car manufacturers have showed it to be a highly successful strategy.
> It lead to some number of deaths, probably 10s of thousands in the UK

Is there solid evidence anywhere that masks are important one way or the other? While it is plausible that a mask could prevent an infection in an encounter, I've not yet seen anyone waving something conclusive around that masks prevent infections over the course of a pandemic.

I've managed to avoid the coronavirus for 2 years now and as far as I can tell the future still has me getting COVID in it. I'm still not clear what role the mask is meant to play in that forecast.
Have you been time travelling recently?

(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(film))
The problem often is that some people assume that scientists are priests in a religion called science.
Such a pity they've become two projects. To have on lang for both BE and FE is really nice.
Its realism not defeatism, thats how global politics work.

The fact it was a leak or not doesn't change the fact the virus is out. Thats the bottom line.

There is no recourse, no fallout, no repercussions to going after china without solid evidence. "Shrug and deny" is all you will acheive.

There are photos and evidence of china trying to wipe Uighur culture via violence, slave labour and 're-education' camps at nazi scale.

Worldwide reaction - oh its terrible you should stop, please - nothing changes.

Besides, how are you going to go about proving it was leaked/engineered? The officials probably already disappeared all witnesses/evidence anyway.

The reality is we will never know for sure.

Its very suspicious, that the virus started pretty much next to the lab. I myself 70% on side it was actually a leak (wouldn't be surprised a tested animal was smuggled out to be sold for meat - sounds very chinese thing to do). But it doesnt matter, virus is out and thats my main problem.
We are told that spacetime undergoes metric expansion. Can it undergo metric contraction too?
Assuming that you could have landed the job at Google without studying part-time (could you?), I’m a bit baffled by your experience. Unless your degree really propels you in your career (read: your employer values academic degrees over experience), couldn’t you have learned those skills without putting up with the cost and timely investment of formally enrolling for a master’s degree? I’d even go as far as to say: in your late 20s/early 30s, it pays off more to put in the hours at work and to start a family in what’s left of your days. Companies like Google ought to offer great ways to learn “on the job”.
Move fast and break your own things, not my things. I don't have equity.
He is clearly refering to the link color. Partially because that was the question and partially because his other comments, like "embossed out the words of the link with a square apparently raised area" are also clearly referring to link styles.

That said, I find his answer very unsatisfying, though that should perhaps be expected of color arguments.
Types != compilation. PHP provides types but is not compiled.
Sorry, looking through the forks, they are all in sync with master, and most your contributions are small. It is great, nothing against it. The only thing that I wanted to say is that as soon as you start to work in a real project with Crystal you realize that it is not just a better ruby and it comes with it's own set of problems, patterns and etc. So I don't see a point to cite Crystal as option to ruby in every thread about ruby. That's my point.
Let go.
Watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrxWiU_v9Qs
Maybe I missed something, but I had to search for the repo : https://github.com/apache/plc4x
GitHub Takes Down “Widevine Dump” Forks Following MPA Complaint
I stopped pirating music a while ago when spotify became better than what the trackers i was on delivered. That being said, i have recently started looking into it again since spotify is dragging their asses on high quality streaming and their app support on linux started to annoy me. The alternative streaming services barely support linux at all so they aren't really an alternative for me. But you are right it's mostly tv-shows and movies, a few books here and there. It seems I've basically missed the golden age of netflix (or there never was one in germany with their shitty catalog) and stayed on private trackers until now. I suspect it won't change any time soon either with all the fragmentation going on and i absolutely refuse to deal with their stupid DRM measures.
Still, they could have explicitly said two weeks later that they lied for our own good because of the shortage. We know they lied, so they could at least admit it and rebuild some good will.
> The error messages can be confusing though

I mean TS has that problem too anyway. They're terrible.
If you blend values in linear space, you'll linearly interpolate from the starting physical intensity to the ending physical intensity. This is a very reasonable default, corresponding to an objective physical measure. Also it makes your gradient appear roughly the same to people with reduced colour perception.
Other modes would be useful too, maybe something that goes through HSB colour space, but I suspect designers would find it easier to design their desired gradient in a program of their choosing that then outputs a piecewise linear approximation.
Ask HN: In-Person Multiday Trainings 2022?
Hi, I want to learn new things in 2022. Anything goes, but the format is important for me:

- multiday - up to 1 week - workshops
- in person (not ZOOM, not online)
- group-workshops / sessions / training
- sometime in 2022
- englisch language

What do you want to learn this year? What workshops are available? Anywhere in the world goes.
Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, that's possible; I think Google actually does this internally?
French teacher. Not that it makes any difference, though.
https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/14811938000728350...
... I didn't say you did?

Do you really not see the connection?
Or just close all inbound ports so that log4shell cannot be compromised. This can be done by embedding opensource zero trust connectivity into your app with an SDK.
With different constraints...

"The perfect race car crosses the finish line first and then completely disintegrates"

- Ferdinand Porsche

(I took some liberty with the translation - the idea is that everything breaks at the same time.)
Plus it's simply ineffective. Enough people saw through the lies such that all the masks sold out anyway. I reckon an honest approach and appeal to morality would have seen more masks donated to hospitals than simply telling people that they don't work.
Guess which one is better in 2022, Firefox or Brave? (except maybe containers)

Firefox was born in 2002 (under Eich management) as Phoenix, it's kinda obvious that 16 years later (57 is from 2018, Eich left in 2014) it needed a technological upgrade.

In ~2009-2010 Firefox was used by 33% of the web users.

Today it's at ~6%.

I blame management, the alternative is believing Firefox just had bad luck or that developers at Firefox suck (which they do not)
Would it have been different for you if he had elaborated on the reason for the changed policy, and apologized for what he said earlier?

Also, in the first case, did he express it very categorically, or did he say something like "to the best of our knowledge, the virus..."?
Next question. When did Microsoft Word start using green for grammar? Does it even still do that?
I don't believe this article but I give it more lenience at this point since this is what I see with articles of other publications.

I do think it still holds valuable information though and that the subject that it criticizes in in dire need of more criticism. And I don't mean the lab or China of course.

Let us not pretend these topics are discussed with only the scientific quality in mind.
Same thing happened in the US. It made no sense to everyone and degraded public trust at a critical juncture.
I regularly sleep in 4 hour blocks, and it's definitely the most productive and energetic ive felt. I encourage anyone who is curious to try it for at least 2 weeks, though i find it doesn't take long to get used to. The challenge is mapping sleeping times around the rest of society.

In my experience the easiest way to transition from sleeping 8 is to wake up early on a weekend day and do a bunch of tiring activity, then take the longest nap possible in the afternoon in a blacked out room. That evening, go to bed as early as you can fall asleep and get up after 4 hours. Then enjoy the watch for a few hours before going back to sleep.

I find i'm also less dependent on alarms sleeping that way.
Whether people "like" or "hate" a programming language is completely irrelevant. To quote Bjarne Stroustrup:

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about
and the ones nobody uses."

Just a few examples;

C++ gets tons of bad words. It's still one of the most important languages.

Java is not exactly everyones darling either (eg. I hate Java with a passion), and is still among the top3 of highest in-demand languages in the World, and will likely remain so for the forseeable future.

Python (a language I love) is critizized a lot for its flaws (rightfully so) and is currently the top language in the TIOBE index.

Golang never hears the end of it for valueing simplicity and readability over complex features and "cleverness", and yet more and more big Software is written in it every day, the ecosystem is thriving, the positions are well paid, and there is no sign of slowing down.
That article doesn't say much to me. They've found... buildings? And how do they know what goes on in them?
I don't read the news, don't use Amazon, and all I use Google for are searching and email. I don't watch streams, listen to few podcasts if any, and generally don't bother with social media.

So the answer is that you just stop caring, stop paying attention to it all. Stop feeding garbage onto your mind. It will eventually fade from your life, and you realised you are better off without them.

I'm content now. I build things my way, and don't care how others do it, how the new tech looks, nor of the state of the world, the web, the narratives. It's just noise, and I have earplugs now.
Correct, noted on the top of the doc page I sent with links to it .... but yes, 3.0.
Then the title of the article is highly misleading.
Using "Scientists" instead of "Some scientists" implies that the great majority of the scientists believed in this hypothesis, and there is no evidence for that.
Btw, it’s funny how the failed “semantic” web is now labelled Web 3.0
Best of both worlds: a JS bookmarklet injecting chrismorgan's CSS
As far as I know, the advice that wearing a mask doesn't protect you very well from getting Covid has held up pretty good; they're a lot better at protecting everyone else from the mask wearer.

The logical flaw then was that telling people to just wear masks if they're infected doesn't work very well if highly contagious people don't know they're infected, which turned out to be the case. I can see where it might have taken awhile to figure that out, but still the lack of transparency about how these decisions were made and the resulting credibility deficit is a problem.
Well it was a bad example.
TBH, I don't think the annotations add anything. You can simply write

"
Lap(x | mu, b) = ...

where b>0, a scalar parameter.
"

What is needed is some better way to motivate the concepts behind any maths that is confusing for people who might be confused.
The world tends to respect the anglo press more than the rest, because they work in the world's current lingua franca, they are historically less subject to governmental influence, and effectively report (and affect) the state of the biggest superpower on the planet. In some cases (covid, Judith Miller, etc), it becomes evident that such high respect is often unwarranted. I say this from a place of sadness, not anger. It's not a criticism of anglo countries per se, but of cultural attitudes around certain sectors, inside and outside such countries.

> in particular, New Zealand, which is in the Anglo world that you malign

NZ and Australia largely benefited from their geographical and economic periphery to achieve the level of safety that they did. By the time the virus got there in critical numbers, it had already been taken seriously in the anglosphere as a whole because of the UK debacle. I'm not saying their lockdowns didn't help (they very much did), but it's easier to enforce controls on entrance in far-flung corners of the world rather than around the backbone of the world economy.
PCI Express 6.0 Specification
>Everybody has my respect by default

That's terrible, and doubly so when you apply it to politicians.
> There seemed to be genuine uncertainty early on in the pandemic

Among the civilian population, perhaps. Not among politicians and health officials. At least Fauci, WHO, and Finnish health authorities HAVE come out afterwards and admitted that they lied about masks to conserve them for health personnel.
You know, I hear this argument a lot for e.g. why Slack is a dog slow electron beast.

The thing is, slack has not been short of time OR money for at least the last 5 years. They could have easily built leaner, faster native apps and customers would have appreciated it.

This "ivory tower" stuff smacks of just world/just market fallacy.

I suspect there are deeper issues here. For example, vendor lock-in inhibiting competition paired with the "electron app team" being a powerful fiefdom within the company.

IME the concealed undercurrent of politics tends to provide a better explanation for many hard to understand decisions at large companies than unexpected technical prudence. Why does Uber's app require 150 developers? Why is Facebook's app such a beast? Why did they create a whole new "lite" app rather than slimming it? Why does Google have 13 messengers?

Reaching for a calm, rational engineering decision to explain each case is tempting, but wrong.
That is not how science works. There is no authoritative panel of experts. There are scientists all over the world working on different problems. Some of them state they are careful because what they believe to be true could have political consequences. These ideas got suppressed. It is not much more complicated than that.

Science has been shut down for political reasons. Your "panel" would just make sure that exactly that would happen.

> Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”

The position is understandable, is it not? But it still doesn't have to do with science.
I also feel like it may be a bit of a stretch to call division by 2 tedious, but I also do math on a regular basis so I may be biased
I've had lice before, both head and body types, and they were so benign and not bothersome that I allowed them to stay voluntarily out of kindness and generosity.

They are really amazing little creatures.
In this particular case, the evidence would simply be the existence of the emails from scientists expressing their opinion, which are very different from public utterance. Strictly speaking, the article is about politicisation of scientists, rather than what really happened in Wuhan.

But I take your point, the Telegraph is bilge. But then, so are all British broadsheets.
The error that the experts and politicians made was that they only considered N95 or surgeon's masks and didn't have the insight to realize that any face covering would reduce transmission if everyone was wearing them.

Plenty of people own scarves and handkerchiefs, and for a while people were making their own masks at home. So the initial message could have been that any face covering helps and that N95 masks need to be reserved for healthcare workers and responders.
> b!(c.d)(a)

The template parameter after a ! without parentheses is always 1 token, so it's never one of the first two interpretations.

Furthermore, the point is that often when writing generic code, you're not supposed to care what the `.d` means specifically. For example, an `InputRange` is defined to have `.front`, `.empty` and `.popFront` properties. Is `.empty` a member variable, function, or constant? Doesn't matter, as long as it results in a boolean.

This does require some getting used to. A common question from newcomers is how to explicitly spell out the type in a situation like this:

import std.algorithm;
void main()
{
auto x = [10, 20, 30].map!(x => x*2);
}

The answer is: you cannot! You know it's an `InputRange`, so you can access `.front`, `.empty`, `.popFront`, and pass it to range functions, but it's not a simple type like `int[]`.

While it's flexible, generic code is also complex. Many D standard library functions don't take a simple `string`, but a 'generic input range of a code unit'. (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32). The resulting template machinery that this spawns is not pleasant to work with, so I understand your concern.

In my own D code, I often use regular arrays, foreach loops and if-statements instead of ranges, map and filter etc.
Not all mice, some mice, somewhere.

This virus in the form we encountered, spreads among humans best, but it also can spread between a ton of other animals. Most probable explanation is that it originated from civets (second best) and infected a single person with immunity sufficient to suppress it but insufficient to eradicate it. In this person it multiplied and mutated learning how to infect human cells best and finally one mutation allowed it to skip to another person. And then it spread like wildfire because it was already adapted to humans because it mutated in one human for months or years already and just learned how to overcome immune suppression enough to break through.
Is it open source, and can you post a link? I have never seen this type of project even link in 1 second.
If my kid slept like that when she was a baby, maybe we'd have two children now...

I've heard of sleep patterns like that but always thought it's just marketing.
SN raised $300k in a pre-seed round
If you had to tune the JVM, you hadn’t tried it in the last 8 years at least.

Other than possibly max heap size, G1 should only ever be tuned by the target pause time value, which chooses between latency and throughput.
From the article:

- In 6 months after just building something for myself, we went from 0 to 1000+ registered users, users earning 350k+ sats, 9k+ monthly visitors, and 40k+ page views per month.
Another question:
Are all results displayed in green color, also the positiv ones?