skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ... but won't actually share the data despite the incredible high number of cases (ie, should be able to do some analysis by now) they are probably hiding something.

I don't know about that but the paper we had to sign to decide if we wanted to give our kid the vaccine or not was a "beautiful" example of a dark pattern:

"Do you want your kid to get the vaccine? YES / NO. Pick one. Example reason for saying "NO": your kid has some rare medical condition (see with your doctor)"

This was carefully crafted and nasty. Vaccine for kids ain't mandatory yet (at least not in the country where my kid goes to school). I'm 100% sure several parents got tricked into thinking you needed a valid medical reason to answer "NO".

In addition to that, it was made in a hurry: kid came back with the paper in their backpack and you had 48 hours to answer, leaving many parents without any time to think / talk about it.

FWIW I know several doctor friends who are fully vaccinated, who fought in ICUs during the previous waves, including one who got three shots already (he showed me his "covid pass", which contains a counter with the number of shots), and who totally refuse to give their kids the vaccine.

I really don't see the point if you have an healthy kid, knowing that vaccinated people do still catch and transmit the virus. The interests of whom are served by vaccinating an healthy kid?
I genuinely love that today I can see every single order I've made since 1998, with links to the same product pages.

This feels really unusual. I'm sure countless internal systems and storage changed since then but all the orders are accurate with working links and start to provide amazing historical insight into what I used to consider important enough to buy.

I can't tell you anything I bought in a physical store in 1998, 1999, etc.
If NATO doesn't do some posturing, yeah, Russia might not stop in Ukraine.

Ar-least I recall that being the analysis in 2014. Since then NATO has been posturing, by rotating troops through it's eastern member countries.

I'm guessing posturing is a lot cheaper than war. So I don't mind if smart people say that's a good idea.
Wouldn't the KAM theorem apply to the stable orbits?

But for the chaotic orbits there was some good work a few years back by Boekholt & Portegies Zwart. They built an arbitrary-precision N-body integrator and found that the results of ordinary N-body simulations are statistically identical to arbitrary precision integrations: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6671
Wow yeah, seeing this as well

wget cloudflare.com
--2022-01-24 23:21:32-- http://cloudflare.com/
Resolving cloudflare.com... 104.16.132.229, 104.16.133.229, 2606:4700::6810:85e5, ...
Connecting to cloudflare.com|104.16.132.229|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://www.cloudflare.com/ [following]
--2022-01-24 23:21:32-- https://www.cloudflare.com/
Resolving www.cloudflare.com... 104.16.123.96, 104.16.124.96, 2606:4700::6810:7b60, ...
Connecting to www.cloudflare.com|104.16.123.96|:443... HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.clickfunnels.com?aff_sub=domain_redirect&utm_cam... [following]
--2022-01-24 23:21:33-- https://www.clickfunnels.com/?aff_sub=domain_redirect&utm_ca...
Resolving www.clickfunnels.com... 104.16.16.194, 104.16.14.194, 104.16.15.194, ...
Connecting to www.clickfunnels.com|104.16.16.194|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> I can tell from your parallel ongoing thread you're having trouble differentiating between the public and private aspects of a politician's life, and how the two can often be at odds.

I don't think you're fully comprehending either thread: whether or not the public and private aspects of a politician's life may be at odds isn't the controversy — whether it matters is. The only way to determine that is by comprehensively evaluating the individual based on both the public and private aspects (as well as possible justifications) of a politician's life, weighted by the net impact of each.

My argument, across all threads, has been that the net impact of the public writings and deeds of Jefferson (Declaration of Independence proclaiming equality/Enlightenment values, US Constitution that's endured to this day sans slavery, public writings that lent authority to, and legitimized the abolition of slavery) outweigh the negative impacts of his private life, in my opinion, and in the opinion of many others. Ditto LBJ. Further, there are several circumstances I've cited that, at the very least, make the justifiability of the private aspects of Jefferson's life (idk about LBJ) plausibly debatable.

> I find myself spending way too much time trying to get twenty-something strangers on the internet to acknowledge their confusion. I've not yet succeeded, and I don't think I'll get a win here either.

If you've not yet succeeded and haven't been able to "get a win", it could also conceivably be the case that you're wrong, or missing context. All I'm to acknowledge here is that you seem to not think very highly of Jefferson (or LBJ). You're entitled to that opinion, but you also have to acknowledge that it's neither objective nor obvious.

I'm also in my 30s, for what it's worth.
Looks like nginx vhosts or load balancing got screwed up? DNS is still all pointing to the normal CF hosts.
I heard it was written in perl
I never understood this argument. Yeah they have different departments, but wouldn’t it be better (for us, Firefox users) to fire the virtue signaling marketing types and funnel the money into developing their dying browser?

Oh wait, that’s exactly the opposite of what Mozilla is doing - they fired a hundred of engineering people some time ago. I guess the activist talking heads stayed though.
Context? I have no idea what this quote is trying to say.
I kind of do - I have caps lock remapped to lcontrol and lcontrol remapped to lwin, so the leftmost column of my keyboard looks like ~, tab, lcontrol, lshift, lwin from top to bottom. If I need control+shift I just hit control with the flat of my pinky instead of the tip so it also catches shift, and if I need shift+command I hit shift with the flat of my pinky instead of the tip so it catches command too. It's not perfect, but it a lot easier on my wrist than other configurations I've attempted.
My work in the past consisted mostly of dissecting and refactoring large legacy codebases. Usually after anybody who actually understood it already left and where the codebase is too large and rotten for anybody new to be able or willing to learn it.

I have my own process I apply for any change to code. The basic goal is to introduce zero defects to the code that I do not control/know. Which is crucial when I want to make thousands of changes to a huge application where if I make a mistake it can be very costly to the client, can cost me a huge amount of effort to fix and can completely undermine my effort.

Usually there is no good way to test the changes. I make hundreds or thousands of individual refactors, bundle them up and kind of hope I haven't broken anything in the process.

Some of these applications are just too large for one person to be able to comprehend. They either have vast user interfaces or vast network of integrations. That and no ability to test it in automated way.

This is the reasons why these applications usually aren't taken good care of -- new developers (new, not necessarily junior) are just too scared and unprepared to do anything than smallest changes and that with huge amount of effort.

From my experience, the programming language and environment plays enormous role in making this possible.

The most basic questions I may have when analysing the code I want to change are:

1) What is the thing I am looking at? For example, the exact type of variable, parameter, code for method, etc.

2) Where is the thing I am looking at referenced from? Usually when I want to modify a piece of badly written code, I have to be able to find and analyse every single usage of it.

3) When is the thing I am looking at being executed?

It is not just the ability to answer these questions -- I need to be able to answer them with absolute precision.

Since I program mostly Java, all that information is usually available to me. #3 is sometimes a little bit more tricky but if you can hunt all usages you can typically get to it with some effort.

But that is not the case for most programming languages these days. For example, I tried this with a large Python application and I have utterly failed and had to tell my client I can't help them. Which tells me that most programming languages are not suited to building large, complicated systems that somebody might want to be able to analyse and refactor in the future.
It could be part of the point but it does not sound like it.

It could say - Google is bad in that and that BUT it has Go.
Or it could say - Google designed Go and is interested in its adoption BUT its own managers don't think that Google developers want to learn Go.

But instead it says that Google documentation "does not teach you how to fish" and "you're not sure how to proceed" and at the same time Go somehow gets away with it - "At least with the Go libraries it's feasible to read the entire source code and flesh out things on the edge of documentation".
nice, but the article is the opposite of "too long"
As a cranky (but not old) embedded C developer, I'm with you. Rust has a lot of great ideas, and it's a hell of a lot more readable than modern C++, but it's still like reading hieroglyphics sometimes.

1) Really short keywords and basic type names - pub, mut, fn, impl, i8/i16/i32, etc. They're not hard to understand on their own, but in practice they make the language visually choppy.

2) Maybe it's because I learned Kotlin and Typescript shortly before taking on Rust, but "->" feels inconsistent with the rest of the language. It should be a colon.

3) Rust's if statements follow the normal "if <condition> { <result> }" syntax. Yet, for some reason, each branch of a match statement goes "<condition> => <result>." What would have been wrong with "case <condition> { <result> }"? I know it's more characters, but putting a keyword at the beginning of the block would help to visually separate each branch.

4) Rust's closure syntax looks strange (and I've used Ruby before). Maybe that's just me, though.

Rust isn't perfect, but I don't want to discourage other embedded C programmers from giving it an honest shot. The embedded library support isn't really there yet, but the language itself is a huge upgrade over C and C++.

(edit: I, for one, like the 'lifetimes.)
After the big measles outbreak at Disneyland in 2014, California tightened school vaccination requirements: Senate Bill 277, passed in 2015, removed personal belief exemptions for mandated vaccinations. Senate Bill 276, passed in 2019, further tightened up what counts as a valid medical exemption.

Above details from this overview: https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/07/24/no-california-d...

I, for one, am glad to live in a state with strong and consistent vaccination requirements for school children.
Developers Unhappy with Bug Causing iCloud Unreliability
> If I tell you that I want less flying superheroes and alien monsters

You didn't say, "I want", you said, "it's a saccharine, deeply unrealistic fantasy bordering on self-parody" and "it's objectively unrealistic".

If you'd said "the level of naturalism Ted Lasso chooses doesn't do anything for me", there'd be no argument. But you clearly claimed that there were intrinsic properties of the show itself that were "objectively" unrealistic.
I'm sure someone is about to bring up logind.
ClickFunnels tweeted this one hour ago... https://twitter.com/clickfunnels/status/1485738682346876938
> if the call occurs in the function signature, it doesn't really make sense that the call would somehow happen again and again. You're not defining a function in the signature; you're specifying a value right there.

There are things besides functions and values! They're called "expressions" or "code blocks", and in an impure language like Python they can produce a different value each time you evaluate them. In my second example, "Person()" is neither a value nor a function -- it's an expression that would be evaluated each time the function is run. This isn't that weird; in `while condition: body`, `body` is a block that's evaluated multiple times. It would need to capture variables from the local environment though, which makes it more complicated to implement.

> The current PEP proposal is to enable the "evaluate at function call time" ability with new syntax, which I think makes the most sense semantically and also doesn't break existing code.

Oh yeah I wasn't suggesting breaking existing code. Just that if I was designing a language from scratch, it would probably avoid the Python foot-gun and have default arguments evaluated each time.
The service being used here is Azure Monitor, which charges $0.10/month for each metric you monitor with alert rules: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/

They do charge by the MB for ingesting custom metric data, but storage outbound bandwidth is one of the free "standard metrics" built into the platform. So the alert's full cost is $0.10 per month. Since they charge by the "time series," I think that means the OP could configure different alerting thresholds on storage outbound bandwidth, and they'd still only be on the hook for $0.10/month.
> Remember this also protects the teachers.

Does it? Isn't it well established now that getting the vaccine does not protect infection, only the severity of the disease. If teachers want to protect themselves, then they should get the vaccine.
CDC Admits the Obvious: Natural Covid Immunity Is Powerful
Sorted by now it seems
Conclusion: Natural immunity with or without the vaccine provides strong protection against hospitalization. There wasn't much difference between the two.

This study took place during Delta (May–November 2021).
metadata match on an album track number?
Hundreds of Y Combinator alumni join crypto collective to back Web3 startups
You think the Russians nuking Ukraine would give them a "win" of some sorts?

That's not even the equivalent of an angry child shutting down a ball game and taking the ball home. Instead it's the equivalent of blowing up everyone in the game to achieve, what, victory?!

That's a completely different discussion, but before branching into that, I would seriously question your sanity.
Plan9 is different in many core concepts. I didn't notice that systemd creates new file systems or allows to mount resources over the network.

(Yes, I do regret that Linux was a hyper-succesful project that replicated Unix, not Plan9. But Plan9 is more complex, maybe it was just infeasible.)
> There’s no reason to assume current situation is the same as in 1939

A better example is that it's just like what lots of Americans were saying about Russia and Ukraine immediately before the invasions and occupations that are still ongoing began, but with “beyond Ukraine” replacing “Ukraine” now that facts on the ground have made the latter more obviously indefensible as a claim.
Some Thoughts on the Elizabeth Holmes Verdict
Obviously I dont, and I think it would be boring to get into the pros and cons, but what I'd suggest thinking about if we go down this road is a constitutional amendment, one way or the other, to either say "here is an enumeration of the powers government has to impose vaccines/treatments on people", or "people have a specific right not to be subjected to mandates" in order to get a greater clarity and settle the discussion from a government powers perspective. We can argue all we like about what's constitutional now, but it would be much better to actually clarify it, for better or worse. I don't see much chance of this happening in the current environment, but I think it would elevate the debate
I've never understood why Nix cannot simply rewrite those paths to "look like" the canonical ones when calculating hashes. Surely a pre-processing rule could transform "/home/me/nix" to "/nix", based on my Nix configuration.
If you keep the fine technical points from the general public, everyone will remain uninformed and will correctly suspect a conspiracy to suppress information. Having contempt for them (calling everyone who disagrees an "anti-vaxers") is not doing your position any good.

In a few years the other political party will be elected and make decisions on your behalf. Will you be as keen on their mission to fight misinformation from this perspective of "people are sheep"?

I'm personally delighted whenever "the general public" is interested in participating in my field of expertise. I love describing how we scientifically approach the unknown with models and attempts at falsification. And how we make engineering decisions and for what reasons. You've never talked with non-technical people about browser standards and programming language design? If you can't present good counterpoints to uninformed statements then you don't understand your own field.
I am not the author of the previous comment so my view could be different. But I have thought about it. With tags, you could have got one note in multiple directories. Imagine I have found an interesting blog post on HN about SQLite in python. It could be problematic to decide is it more about python of Sqlite? Tags could look like this:

python, databases, SQL, SQLite, $date, FromHN, beautiful_site (I liked the look of this blog)

or in proposed system

/IT/Databases/SQL/Sqlite
/IT/Python/libraries/SQLite
/IntrestingHNposts/2022/July
/beutiful_site

the difference between "just folders" and the proposed system is that you could have one note in multiple folders. Which gives you more flexibility in assigning notes to its topics. But it is still more structural than tags which could easily turn into an unpenetrable list of random words.

To be fair you could also achieve it with symlinks.
This is a valid concern. Most likely meditation doesn't do anything at all. If you trust "Western Research", e.g. reading "Altered Traits", it either did nothing, or changes were noticeable after years. Concrete example - the author (or one of) practice meditation for 2 years to reduce his blood pressure and then ended up just taking some pills for it.

So it does nothing (likely), it's good for you, or it's bad for you. There is nothing saying that single-point focus doesn't just kill lateral thinking. It's not like it's working memory training or anything of the sort.

Before you downvote me - ask yourself if you really know of any PROVEN benefit of meditation.
I dunno about you, but all my training in writing and rhetoric was based on the idea that the author is right, and should, above all, have the goal of convincing the reader, that not all readers can be convinced without the use of cherrypicked data or illogical reasoning, and that it's acceptable to do so (this is the "all effective writing is propaganda" school of thought).

We were also taught how to identify this and counteract it. In high school we spent a lot of time analyzing William F Buckley's article https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/07/16/s... which uses rhetoric to make a utilitarian argument.
Yes.. by regularly shutting down payment systems due to ” computer errors”.
Banks have never had any data loss or hacks.. but online banking systems are offline regularly.
Also, it’s kind of fun that certain banks have “data recovery” people who go out and try to gather 20+ year old info which was already present.

Organizing a bank run is illegal.. but not with crypto
Secretly monitoring unaware people to see how they behave based on the UI design is absolutely experimenting on people, and deeply problematic. It doesn't matter if other people are doing it. It's wrong. People aren't for experimenting on.
Eventually the politicization will die down and this will be the norm everywhere.
I googled a bit more and found these links -

- https://duckduckgo.com/bang

- For the Instant Answer API: https://duckduckgo.com/api

An example of the API request with !bang: https://api.duckduckgo.com/?q=!imdb+rushmore&format=json&pre...

This returns a redirect key of `"Redirect" : "https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=rushmore"`

For wikipedia query, the returned redirect URL is: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=tom%20ha..." which redirects to => "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_hanks"
If this is how you interact with people in the real world, I feel sorry for them. Grow up and interact with humanity better.
Do we leave vulnerable teachers out of this equation? (Yes, many teachers are vaccinated, but still can be vulnerable, and some might be unable to take the vaccine.)

I have a relative (not a teacher) who can no longer have vaccines due to Guillain-Barré and another friend's relative currently intubated in the hospital with a single J&J shot (no booster unfortunately.)

Kids while not very vulnerable seem to be a carrier into the home.
TaskRoller: Open-Source Issue Tracking App
Looks like it's back to normal now. I wonder what happened.
Start your own. It's easier than ever to gain an audience for a new brand thanks to social media, take advantage of it.
I'd encourage you to do some cursory risk benefit analysis before spreading baseless fear like this.

The flu is more dangerous to kids (see slide #17 here https://www.fda.gov/media/153508/download) and it has "long" symptoms too. It's not unusual.

Driving them to and from school is 10x more dangerous.

An unvaccinated kid has risks lower than a vaccinated adult. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/briefing/covid-age-risk-i...

Besides, many (most?) kids have already had Covid anyway.

I'm tired of the fear mongering and acting as though Covid is the only risk in the real world. Or as though you're going to hide from it forever. It's endemic and we have the vaccines for those at risk. Go back to normal and quit pushing your neurosis on kids. Please. We've disrupted their lives far too much already.
I am operating from an assumption that COVID-19 is bad and kills people. Unlike the other mandated vaccines, though, vaccinated individuals still catch and spread COVID at high rates. But the reactions to me very much sound like, "We must do something, and this is something."

I'm only asking for models here. Is the CA legislation based on scientific models showing that mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for all school-aged children will meaningfully impact health outcomes at the society level? Or is it motivated by a desire to overcome COVID by all means necessary, even ineffective ones?
Seems more nuanced than that. Herd immunity is a function of how contagious you are, which with COVID is a function of how symptomatic you are, right? I think someone who's having coughing fits will more likely spread it. If the vaccine decreases symptoms, then it strengthens herd immunity.

Also, even if herd immunity is impossible, some reduced spread is a good thing by itself
> Having no beliefs is more laudable than people who act on only the convenient beliefs.

what? laudable by whom? sure it’s lazy to only act on convenient beliefs, but it’s certainly more interesting than doing literally nothing

if my one belief is to cut those little six-pack pop rings before putting them in the trash to benefit sea turtles… how is not doing that laudable? because someone told you it’s cool to not care about anything?