skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't toss around naive insults like "not arguing in good faith". I am arguing in excellent faith. Claims like I'm believing what I want to believe are especially stupid because they're so easy to turn around - you're clearly desperate to believe COVID is not a mild disease.

OK, you really don't like that South African doctor and think she's some sort of outlier. Today we find this story reported by the BBC of all places:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-60039138

South African scientists - praised internationally for first detecting the Omicron variant - have accused Western nations of ignoring early evidence that the new Covid variant was "dramatically" milder than those which drove previous waves of the pandemic.

Two of South Africa's most prominent coronavirus experts told the BBC that Western scepticism about their work could be construed as "racist," or, at least, a refusal "to believe the science because it came from Africa".

"It seems like high-income countries are much more able to absorb bad news that comes from countries like South Africa," said Prof Shabir Madhi, a vaccine expert at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand.

"When we're providing good news, all of a sudden there's a whole lot of scepticism. I would call that racism."

Prof Salim Karim, former head of the South African government's Covid advisory committee and vice-president of the International Science Council agrees.

"We need to learn from each other. Our research is rigorous. Everyone was expecting the worst [about Omicron] and when they weren't seeing it, they were questioning whether our observations were sufficiently scientifically rigorous," he said, while acknowledging that the sheer number of new mutations in Omicron may have contributed to an abundance of scientific caution.

And it goes on like that. Omicron is "less severe, dramatically" etc.

Hospitals have never been overwhelmed by Omicron, and arguably not for COVID at any point, but the word "overwhelmed" is so vague and so heavily abused that it's not worth arguing over that.
Those cookie banners are often times illegal, i.e. consent has to be freely given and it should not be as easy not to give, instead of click and select multiple choices.

The explanations have to be layman ones and what not. It's a very dark pattern, and at some point it should be addressed.
Seems to me that there is an inherent contradiction at the heart of SAAS. A service either:

- Has a big enough moat that its immune to competition - in which case you get rent seeking behaviour; or

- It's vulnerable and could disappear / become economically unviable so you wouldn't want to have your business rely on it.

So you essentially have to choose between two unpalatable choices.
vulkan runs everywhere except on apple shit, and that is on nobody but apple. they are actively working against open standards. the world is better off if you ignore them and their users.
>before people start turning to WINE and a saner Linux distro, just to run their Windows applications

I jumped to Linux when Windows 11 was announced. I tried it (W11) in a VM and it convinced me that things are only going to get worse.

Must say that I couldn't be happier for the move. I still get to run the vast majority of software via WINE (Affinity products need to up their game though) to boot. Games are much better supported nowadays as well, so it's all good, and no Windows 11.
Catalan is derived from Latin not Spanish, and Basque roots are not even Latin. So, it seems to me, that to say they are not dialects because they have been politicized is a politic statement in itself.
Broadly, because there are multiple tiers of status at play.

1) "I was rich enough to buy a Bored Ape NFT". This is for status relative to people outside the club.

2) "I was rich enough to buy a super-expensive Bored Ape NFT". This is for status within the club, it lets them all know how rich you are.

It's all yuck to me, but people have different motivations.
Investigate better protocols than 9p
What basic things are convoluted or impossible on iPhone/ iphone OS?
35 yrld swdev here.

I've dealt with this for as long as I recall, I can focus on the task at hand (if I don't randomly forget what I'm doing in the middle of it) but anything that came before or is coming in the future.. Very slight chance..

I'm not really coping with it though..

My "system" for getting things done in a not idiotic way is very slow, and very verbose and only works if I'm alone and undistracted.

1. List all the things I can remember I need to do (literally, open vim and type them in).
2. Prioritize the list (things that should be done first goes to top)

3. Group the list by things that can be done near each other (in space and time)

4. For each group, I try to imagine myself doing them, seeing if one should come before the next.

5. Get distracted by squirrel and forget about list for a while.

6. Try to imagine carrying objects to and from the tasks, can I carry it all, should I go twice? Do I need the same object for multiple tasks ? Can those tasks be done one after the other before putting away object?

7. Create checklist on my phone with the order.

8. Do the first thing on the list.

9. Forget I have the checklist, do something else

10. Suddenly remember I have the checklist and try doing the first thing again.. oh it was done, check it off and do the next.. Forget objects. It's a mess. Leave keys hanging in door for half the day.

The "simulation" part of my brain works pretty well on code, but it's terrible in almost all other areas, my "plans" are often to literally "go there, and look around until the idea of what to do next pops into my head".
Ask HN: Does AI works for sports? Do you have examples?
Hello, I was just reading an article on an italian newspapers about American football clubs owners using AI for their clubs in Italy, unsuccessfully, and I was wondering if you have example of AI working,

The article starts outside clubs with the example of Euro2020 final, where the penalty takers were calculated by an AI, and 3 of them failed their shot

Then there is like Parma that went from serie D to A in 3 years but now since it has been bought by AI-using ameericans is on the bottom of Serie B, then Genoa that was bought by these AI-using americans and got DS and 4 couch in a season one one which got 9 loss in 9 matches, and Tiago Pinto and Rome who are worse this year than last, but yeah seems like AI doesn't do sport well.. or do you have examples that proves its effectiveness?
No-nonsense server architecture for group based SaaS
It is just that I am accustomed to be able to personalize almost every aspect of Windows/Android. But MacOS or iOS just does not allow that. I have developed iOS apps. At work I facilitate research for many Mac users. Around last Christmas I daily drove an iPhone because I broke my main Android phone. But I never feel at ease using an Apple device for the above reason.
This article is pretty heavy on nasty accusations and pretty light on evidence. Besides, even if all that stuff about norm-farm tournaments is true, it sounds in the same ballpark as the stuff that bigshots like Firouzja do to get their records
It does not need to be true to provide a good model. This happens in most concrete sciences so why not in humanistics?

Actually when contrasted with the noble savage of Rousseau, the human as a bestial savage provides a great ground level from human behavior. From that model you can then have a model for the worst case scenarios of behavior and form governance from that. Probably not the optimum or most efficient but probably the model with the broadest applicability. This is what captivated me in Hobbes. Lot's of unanswered needs, but a very stable base for survival and improvements. I think it is also the model most people could understand at a basic level: Do not do that otherwise <the sovereign> will punish you. Even a child understand this with the parents being the sovereign.
Type Exercise in Rust
C++: the new jquery?

What a nonsense title.

K8s is about far more than simply running containers. WebAssembly only, at best, solves the problem of running a distributable.

This article focuses on one of the smallest aspects of k8s.
Interesting, my dictionary says:

> chas·tise

> /ˈCHasˌtīz,ˌCHaˈstīz/

> verb

> rebuke or reprimand severely.

> "he chastised his colleagues for their laziness"

I disagree with what you said about "judging" as it pertains to how you interpret what I said, but I don't have anything to further clarify for you.

In any case, I hope you can now agree these claims weren't inventions.
Sorry have to disagree. GDPR, cookie banners and now this new ad-ban are just putting plasters over a problem, rather actually solving the root-cause of the problem.

Now I'm not saying that solving the root causes of these problems is easy, but these solutions are just so lame. Just a couple of concrete examples:

* I see and hear of GDPR violations everywhere (here in the UK, pre and post Brexit). Despite the threat of legal action, companies still ignore (too small to care) or are ignorant of the rules. At the end of the day, Big Tech still owns all the personal data in some way or another getting around EU restrictions.

* The annoying cookie banners where everyone just clicks "accept all" because no one wants to go through a list of checkboxes. This is classic EU strategy to problems: just throw more bureaucracy and administration at a problem.

The solution should be that the EU creates its own Big Tech, under the rules and regulations that it itself creates. Instead all of our politicians are using WhatsApp to perform Official communications (frankly this is horrific to me).
> The absolute vast majority of us don't deal with "scale" and most of the things we do can be done with a single beefy server

Most simply fail to understand exactly what modern servers are capable of. We continue to read article after article about "scaling out", but you're right, the vast majority will never have the need to scale beyond just a few servers.
I cannot begin to tell you how proficient I am in Microsoft Word
> edge first database

Sqlite was successfully ported to wasm, maybe something can grow out of that?
ara ara
i would choose self hosted for almost everything is it was an option. privacy and security are only a small part of it for me. i like how reliable/efficient it is not having to worry about whether someone else's servers are working or not. or the same with the crap ton of infrastructure in between the server and my computer. or whether i have a good internet connection. i only buy data for my phone maybe once or twice a year as well so any apps on my phone that don't work offline are a no go for me
"not" yet then
The issue is your mind is a terrible place to keep context because it’s unreliable and untrustworthy. Things get in the wrong order, warp into different things and sometimes even completely disappear. Any level of complexity to handle and you need to offload some of the load somewhere else lest you screw up. I’m known to be incredibly reliable and organised and that’s only because of the knowledge of above.

It’s not about frantically googling stuff. Last weekend the trains here went to hell here in the UK and the information at hand by the staff on how to get home was completely wrong. I managed to source information from elsewhere and that made the difference between me getting home at 21:00 or 23:30. Similarly when plan A fails (oh crap the restaurant we were going to is gone) then you can adapt to a plan B quickly with a good outcome.
It’s about the data collection incentives. If you can’t use the data you collect to advertise, there’s no point in collecting the data in the first place.

Except in this case, where it makes no difference at all, because only certain groups are protected.
weird, I wonder what distro you were using. Even 5-6 years ago, multi monitors just worked for me - hell, I had a retina screen at that time and it pretty much just worked too.
don't forget rust
Imagine!
>You think lack of thermal protection is a feature?

Where in my comment did I say that?
> /wp-content/uploads/2021/11/3-perf-report.png

It's perf.
So you like listening to adverts ;)
> Hobbes identified this trap, and found an ingenious way out of it: redirect the fear to a third party. If I am less afraid of my neighbor than what the government will do to me if I kill my neighbor, then I won't kill my neighbor. And if the government is vastly stronger than individuals, it will fear neither my neighbor nor I, so doesn't need to constantly terrorize everyone going about their daily lives.

There are certain fundamental freedoms in a democracy, such as individuality, choice and movement. Democracies, of course, are weak to challenge those, as that is the point of a democracy to protect such fundamental freedoms.

However, this pandemic has made it so that some of those fundamental freedoms are now perceived as a serious threat. The virus spreads individually and thus to control the virus individuals must be controlled, by themselves or by the government.

Are we seeing constant terror in our daily lives because governments now fear the individual, their choices and their movements?

Is this why we see a reduction in democratic values? So governments can regain power to control the pandemic and thus inevitably also control individuals?

States of emergency were such temporary mechanisms used and still in use in some cases.
I recently started working with Windows 11 on my work laptop and am at the verge of asking to switch back to Windows 10. I don't see any user interface improvements, only regressions.

Shades of old man shouts at cloud I know, but that's my opinion. For context, I've been using Windows since Windows 95 and MacOS since 10.0.
As someone who was physically dependent on benzos, heroin, and speed, you 100% can get addicted to cannabis. I wouldn't say it was any easier to quit for me than any other drug. The experience was different but the effects on my life were broadly similar.

If not addiction, what would you call spending money, time and health you can't afford on something? I only managed to quit about five months ago and I've already lost 18 kg in body weight and saved over £2,000. If that's not addiction I don't know what is.
Sure, let's target you with non-working medicine when you are sick and desperate to try everything or, even worse, stop the treating you get that works but takes longer than the one from the ad. Yes, this happens right now.

Sure, let's target you with our extreme Church that thinks being gay is an illness, and you too should help to get rid of them. Yes, this happens too right now.

It's about this kind of ad's not your Raid Legends or I don't know become a rich person with 2 hours of work ad's.
> A well targeted ad can be a net positive to my life

I think key word here is `can be`

> We’re not going to ever live in a world without ads and I would far rather they be an actual service to me, presenting me things I actually think are cool and might like to buy.

This is not how ads work. If you have 2 products: one you have 1% chance to buy, another lets say 10%. If 1% one has 20x more profit, thats the ad you will see.
When you run 5 nines that’s a risk.
It would be good if we could discuss the real problem - that of overpopulation. The elephant in the room is that there's too many of us for the planet to support.

But then, I know that's one of those forbidden topics.
I don't know where these numbers came from. There is NO 700k house in my imaginary scenario. In fact the entire cost to BUILD this house is 100k, so the only way for damage to reach 100k would be for the house to literally burn down - which is covered by insurance. The most you would expect "junking up" a house that costs 100k would probably be about 10 - 20k of damage - depending on the finishes. This whole thread spawned from this comment makes no sense. And again, since this world has no renting, these people want to TAKE CARE of their house, not ruin it. Even if these people decide to "junk it up" on purpose because they are about to default - again burning causes insurance payout to the bank and other than that it's just up to 20k. The other goal here though is that because it's 100k there's a much higher chance that this person can work a normal / non coding job and make ends meet and live in this 100k house just fine with little chance of defaulting.
There's some hope maybe with

>Microorganisms found in dirt have yielded antibiotics that can kill pathogens resistant to multiple drugs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01931-4

and similar stuff? We could do with some government action to develop some and ban using them in farming.
Valencian is another name for the same language as Catalan. Those who disagree do so for political reasons, not actual linguistic reasons.

Some sentences in both "languages" and English.
Catalan/Valencian/English

Bon dia/Bon dia/Good morning

Avui fa bon temps/Hui fa bon temps/The weather is good today

Volem acabar amb la COVID19/Volem acabar amb la COVID19/We want to end COVID19

Sembla que plourà/Pareix que plourà/Looks like it's going to rain.

There are two difrent words in 4 sentences. I can't really see how that makes them separate languages.
The 2017 blogpost that explains unrest in Xinjiang, Kazachstan, and Belarus
> It’s designed to be efficiently implemented on top of the vendor APIs, so platform vendors can’t block it.

Their choice of inventing their own shading language instead of using the ONE standard that the industry finally could agree on (SPIRV) makes me very pessimistic.

Apple is purposefully crippling stuff to retain their App dominance yes, but Apple IS a major part of WebGPU. So it never had a chance and was doomed to fail from the very begining.

Google even had a presentation titled "regaining developer trust" on this topic, but WebGPU continued to push WGSL nevertheless.
Caffeine withdrawal is very very unpleasant. If it's a daily habit and you abruptly cease consumption (aka "cold turkey") you're going to be in hell for at least a day. Usually more.

Occasionally you'll hear people talk about quitting this way with zero withdrawal. They may or may not be telling the truth. But I suppose outliers always exist. Definitely not the norm though.

I know a lot of people who say they that can't function with caffeine

Yeah, because of the withdrawal. They could function fine without it, once they got past the withdrawal.

Of course, there's really no need to suffer painful withdrawal. It's pretty easy (at least physically) to just taper it down to 0mg per day over the course of ~5-7 days.
> People in the cold need some heating, so no matter how high the price is there's going to be a floor of how much energy will be consumed.

Not really... If the price were too high, people could decide to move in with a friend for a bit, or live from their car.

This is far better than rolling blackouts, because each individual person can decide if they want to spend $$$$$'s on heating, or to make big quality of life sacrifices. In the rolling blackout case, there is the same amount of electricity distributed, yet users don't get the choice anymore.
That doesn't make Zig higher level than Rust. It doesn't have lifetimes because it's low level, on a par with C ... all memory management is manual and you can abuse pointers to your heart's content.
He had a hell of a voice, and, I am told, his concerts were out of this world (never saw him, myself).

He was in a few movies. Nothing to really write home about, but I did enjoy him in Formula 51[0] (sorry about the Facebook link, but this was the only variant of this particular scene that I found).

[0] https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=155347254532277&_rdr

[Edited To Add] I didn’t mean that the movies weren’t special. I just feel that he was a fairly “middlin’” actor. In Formula 51 and Fight Club, he was with some rather heavyweight actors, and Tim Curry was a fairly hard act to follow.

No comment on Spice World.
Metro Simulator
Your second link is catalan to me... I could understand 100% and I don't know any Gascon language...
> as I predicted, you've now presented an amendment to what was already purported to be definitional.

Please read the post you’re replying to, which specifically addressed this point.

> let's not turn this into personal attacks

You have not been personally attacked. I insisted you were an intelligent person and understood the logical conclusion that terrorism has to be targeted at civilians, and your actions are in bad faith. Criticising your actions is not a personal attack.
Really, why though? Is there something inherently wrong with satisfying user expectations?

If you want innovation, how about performance, accessibility, compatibility,...
Thank you for the information. Much appreciated!
Google most certainly doesn't share user's search history with Facebook. There may be some tracking on the sites themselves, that allows Facebook to detect user's interests. However I don't think it's supposed to use one persons web history to show ads to another user. What might be happening is that they are using some common accounts or a shared browser that leaks the data between them.
I'm currently on my third week of waiting for a current-gen Pixel device to arrive.

Linux on the primary desktop is still mostly a nonstarter for me due to the lack of decent email apps (call me old fashioned but I won't do webmail) and, of course, no Word/Excel. Open/LibreOffice are unusable for professional work. Anyone who claims otherwise hasn't tried.
I decided to uninstall all social media apps and even the browser from my phone. It's working great. Sometimes I really need the browser and I temporarily reinstall it. But it's awesome not to have this constant distraction in my pocket, and I can still use whatsapp and listen to podcasts in my commute without any doomscrolling. I also have the wikipedia app.
Yeah, that's the important part for me. The "fun" part about the sandwich app is nice, but the part that differentiate it from other content is stuff like:

> The free VMs themselves are just a bit of memory and some idling CPU, but the state is obnoxious for us to manage.

> But here's what happens if you give people freemium full access to a hosting platform: lots and lots of free VMs mining for cryptocurrencies.

If I had to put words on it, I would call it "transparency" and "treating their public as adults/with respect". I know that free storage is hard to find because disk space is harder than CPU and RAM to manage for them. I know that I need to put my credit card because people will abuse the free tiers for crypto if they don't ask for a credit card (sourcehut had the same problem with their free CI). I don't feel like they're trying to hide something from me, even if they still wrap it in some fun. This is the behavior I would expect from a good collegue.
GDPR is one of the worst pieces of legislation in the past decade.

It’s deliberately ambiguous, oftentimes nonsensical, was a nightmare to implement, there’s enormous amounts of noncompliance, and now plenty of sites that can’t be accessed from the EU, because the company behind it did the math and it was cheaper and easier to not care about the EU customer base at all.

Not to mention all the potential avenues for abuse. I have a couple of friends who have used GDPR to actively abuse a relatively small company that they didn’t like (because they probably didn’t have the resources to understand all the implications of GDPR), and they spammed them with personal data and removal requests and threatened legal action.

GDPR is bullshit. Your data is a commodity irrespective of GDPR. De-anonymising is trivial.

GDPR also double-victimizes businesses that were a part of a hack, i.e. the British Airways hack. On top of the damage inflicted on them by the hack, they also got hit with an 8 figure fine for a data breach. Which is insane, because everyone can get hacked.

The only thing GDPR has achieved is that you have a legal right to access the data that somebody holds on you, and to request the deletion of it. Everything else should be scrapped.
That's just canned vodka soda.