skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean that is generally referred to as "safetyism" and while I guess its a fine personal choice it is not something that should be applied in public policy.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that someone who seems to think of politics in black and white terms would glob on to a single quote of mine from a couple of weeks ago, quote only half of it completely out of context to the discussion it was in and then use it to make assumptions about the rest of my political leanings.

For what it’s worth here is the quote in its entirety. If you read the parent thread it was speaking to cloth vs N95 efficacy:

“Personally I think cloth masks are worthless for anything but the most casual exposure to the virus, and then for it to maintain any reasonable protective effect, you would need to remove and dispose of the mask as those luckily trapped virus particles can dislodge and infect. Continuing to wear a cloth mask that has accumulated virus particles in it just turns a chance casual exposure into a long term one.”

Now, explain how that opinion is in conflict with this CDC mask guidance which is less than one week old:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-si...

Here’s the NYT reporting on the change in CDC masking guidance:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/health/cloth-masks-covid-...

Here is WebMD making the argument against against cloth masks due to their lack of efficacy:

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20211229/cloth-masks-vs-surg...

Or this lovely gem from the CDC which basically tells me that, because of my choice of facial hair, pretty much all masks short of a space suit are worthless:

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/facialhairwmask11282017...

If you are going to assume my quote about the worthlessness of cloth masks makes me a conservative trumpie, then you better stop listening to the CDC, stop reading the NYT, maybe boycott WebMD for good measure too. Damn right wing organizations, them.

Also not that it matters, but in terms of public figures, my politics are probably closest to Bill Maher. If you think he is conservative or a Trumpie, well…I suspect anyone short of Bernie Sanders or AOC fails your acid test.
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities to apply for loans
As with most OMB memos it is complete fantasy and agencies won't comply by the date, any date close to it or really ever. The answer to the question "who's going to be paying for it?" is nobody which is why it will never actually get done.
Portability?
I wonder if their long lifespan is an adaptation to take advantage of some extremely rare event that benefits their reproduction.

For example, perhaps their eggs are usually eaten by a kind of crab. But once every 50 years there is a a massive hurricane that decimates the crab population. In the following spawning season, nearly all of the eggs hatch. The 150 year lifespan allows them to participate in 2-3 of these rare spawning seasons.

Since the event is rare, scientists get few chances to notice it.
A Tennessee school board removed the graphic novel 'Maus,' about the Holocaust
> A somewhat popular opinion is that the country is very corrupt but you can live with it if you earn in dollars.

That was the exact same mentality that a lot of people in venezuela(me included) used to have at the beginning of the crisis "The inflation doesn't affect me, I earn in dollars" was a very common attitude for people with remote jobs, but then even the price in dollars started to increase due to the corruption on every level of the supply chain, companies leaving or closing, terrible mismanagement of public services like electricity, water and transportation, and many other terrible decisions. We were too naive...
If it were "87% of teens own Samsung phones", wouldn't this still be true?
This is cool and definitely something I'm going to look into!

But I have a question for the frontend people.

Is server-side rendering + ~Bootstrap + ~jQuery really getting you into that much trouble? Even with peppering in some HTMX [0]?

I do all my projects with Django + Bootstrap + jQuery + (maybe HTMX if needed) and I've never heard any kind of feedback from anyone that suggests I should be doing anything else.

[0] https://htmx.org/
Because, again, IANAL, and I don't really understand what that means. If the law is vague, so is this paragraph, at least to my unknowlegeable self. I am also not from the USA and have very little experience or awareness of their laws.

I assure you there was no malice.
SALTY URINE
The problem is -- everything that I write is FOSS! So I can neither use your current license, nor a proprietary license I purchase from you!

I am happy to pay for a FOSS license, but obviously that will then allow other people to use the code without paying for it, because of the nature of FOSS.
Er all your transactions are tracked. They want to get rid of cash and they need people to want the technology that enables that. A couple of mining operators control the network and they just need to operate as one to do whatever they want with it. The lizards in charge of fiat probably own those mining companies. All transactions are tracked did I
Mention. So everything you do is tracked. Read that again and think about how cash == freedom ... and crypto == total enslavement
I'm hoping for a pro desktop with something more advanced than the current M1s - e.g not just an M1 with more cores. I want a Nvidia/amd class gpu, etc.
There is a related thread on the problems Argentina is currently facing. It is worth reading through to see just how wrong you are. The problems Argentina is facing are well known and obvious and no one is doing anything about it, those problems have existed for decades. The newspeak is so strong in Argentina that even in that thread no one will say the real reasons out loud.

Even when I was there 20 years ago, people had to hush whisper and look around to see who was listening when talking about the problems they were facing.
It’s not that what you’ve written here is incorrect, but that this doesn’t say anything about what the remedy should be.

Simply letting the economy crash isn’t a good solution as it doesn’t address the fundamental reforms that are needed and doesn’t get you any closer to solving the structural issues. All it does is create unnecessary pain for people.

Again, if an entire society is engaging in rampant tax evasion, that is going to need to be addressed in order to turn things around.
That's something MMT gets right. Public deficits = net private savings. So as long as there are people willing to save in USD (and not only US residents, people all over the world save in USD, including Argentinians), you can have a persistent deficit. In case the 7% becomes persistent inflation, make sure you have a plan B, you don't want to lose reserve currency status.
How the Dutch Delivered a Traffic Safety Revolution
That seems possible with compression? Most serial ports maxed out at 115,200 bps back in those days.
I do believe we should rebuild global society to prevent death from hunger. I don't know how to do that, but it's a thing we need to prioritize more.

When I see people minimizing COVID, I wonder if they've somehow avoided seeing an excess death graph even once for the past year-and-a-half.
https://archive.fo/mNxuL
> WTF business do emojis have in Unicode?

Unicode didn't invent emoji, they incorporated it because they were already popular in Japan, and if they didn't incorporate it, it would greatly reduce Japanese adoption.

Keep in mind that Unicode was intended to unify all the disparate encodings that had been brewed up to support different languages and which made exchanging documents between non-English speaking countries a nightmare. The term "mojibake" comes to mind [0] - Japan alone had so many encodings that a slang term for text encoded with something different than what your device expected (and subsequently got rendered as nonsensical/garbled text) came about. And they weren't alone, of course [1].

> What we need now is a standardized, sane subset of Unicode that implementations can support while rejecting the insane scope creep that got added on top of that.

Unicode wasn't intended to be pretty. It was intended to be the one system that everyone used, and a way to increase adoption was to do some less than ideal things, like duplicate characters (so it would be easier to convert to Unicode).

You may never need anything outside the BMP, but that doesn't make the rest of the planes worthless. Ignoring the value of including dead and nearing-extinct languages for preservation purposes (not being able to type a language will basically guarantee its extinction, with inventing a new encoding and storing text as jpgs being the only real alternatives), there are a lot of people speaking languages found in the SMP [2][3] ([2] has 83 million native speakers, for example).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

[1]: https://segfault.kiev.ua/cyrillic-encodings/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modi_(Unicode_block)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakma_(Unicode_block)
Well, 900ms now that we have to start up a process to scan it before it's sent off.
What we're talking about is probably not a secondary but at least tertiary or... Eh, fourth-level dialogue, buried at least three clicks deeper after that right-click. (Except in versions after Windows 7 it's nowhere to be found at all any more.)
I mean, if the politician is the one feeding you through food and cash handouts, since there are no private sector jobs, only public ones, and your education is shit, would you vote against them?

Basically, the majority is poor, can't get out of poverty (we are talking 2/3 generations of being poor at least), so they don't bite the hand that feeds them.

Hate has nothing to do with it, just raw pragmatism.
Maybe insurance companies should drop them (or raise their premium, just like what they do with smokers).
Ask HN: Which language/IDE you use to make binaries (.exe) for Windows?
I remember when I was a kid it was easy to make standalone .exe files with Turbo Pascal for example but somehow I don't see this is the case anymore. Like people just share the Python .py file for example. Is there a modern IDE to make simple standalone .exe files? (maybe GUI too)
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ukraine._Memorandum_on_Securi...
Does your hope have any foundation in reality?
> If the property isn't important, why are you stealing it?

Because I'm starving so I'm stealing a sandwich ?

Because I don't have the money to buy something that would save my life (Medical treatment for instance) ?
In case anyone missed the response to a similar comment on the blog:

> Terence Tao on 27 January, 2022 at 10:31 am
The production values of the lecture series given by Masterclass would not be possible for me to replicate by myself. (For instance, the film shoot alone involved well over a dozen people, including makeup, prop design, camera and lighting crew, director, editing, etc., in a custom studio with professional-quality recording equipment. The professional scriptwriting services were also very valuable, improving the selection and arrangement of material in ways I would not have thought of.)
Sure, but not this class and maybe they enjoy this one more. People still pay for movies even if there are free movies.
I actually know a lot of PiP used. It's not the bottom 10% but it's almost always personal from mgmt to whoever they want out wo getting sued for wrongful termination. The so called get rid of the bottom "10%" is more through natural attrition via retasked to do demoralizing work. Yeah when you work for some bad blood. They will make your life a living hell.

Also not so much long hours bc you do that elsewhere too but it's more of high pressure to get things done even when things that don't work isn't your area to deal it. That's one of their most coveted principles: bias for action.
Okay, I'll definitely consider that -- didn't mean to be misleading. I really intended that the license should not be encumbering for 99% of use cases. I'm actually happy if SaaS companies use the product for dashboards, configuration screens, or admin tools, etc. I just don't want them offering a service that allows 3rd parties to write and host Hibiki code.

The intent was that if you're at a company and write Hibiki code, you're all good, no problem. If you're at a company and you're offering a service which lets your customers write Hibiki code that you then host, then that's no good.
> They’re already scanned on iCloud

They are not. Other file and photo hosting platforms do not encrypt the data, so they are able to scan server-side. The content is encrypted for iCloud, and the encryption keys are not known by the hosting infrastructure.

This means as an example that shared iCloud albums could be used as a distribution mechanism for child pornography, operating silently until one of the members' accounts gets subpoenaed or they confess and share the list.
I find exactly one house (a 1BR house ?) under 100 million JPY (866k USD) in the outskirts of Tokyo.

Is there a better website to search for these reasonably priced houses?

[0] https://housingjapan.com/buy/search/#c={%22p[h]%22:%22100000...
Steam has never used WebKit. They use CEF (Chromium).
Ask HN: Which front-end framework for progressive enhancements?
Last time I worked on a public front-end more than 10 years ago, I used progressive enhancement, which meant that my whole website would work with JS disabled which was great for users with JS disabled, search engines, accessibility, etc.. Only those users with JS enabled would benefit from an enhanced UX (eg. Ajax). I used jQuery at the time.
In 2022, is there anything else than plain old HTML and jQuery? Are there any frameworks to help?
Why would it be the fault of hospitals? They have no incentive to construct more ICUs. A large percentage of covid patients entering the ICU for ventilation will die, and you can't collect on a dead patient. ICUs are a money hole -- they require specialized equipment, isolation construction, experienced medical team, etc. If a hospital is motivated by profit, they would construct as few ICUs as legally possible.
GPUs that don't happen to share the silicon with the CPU like on most mobile SoCs are a lot more independent. In the case of NVidia that means integral parts like clocks are locked behind signed firmware and open source drivers are forever stuck running them in their "just enough to show a boot logo" mode.
The gist of the comment was - much of the mainstream media has been wrong about inflation playing it down initially with all the transitory rhetoric. But now instead of saying they were wrong, they instead are trying to preach inflation as new normal and making baseline comparison with hyperinflationary countries.
Yeah this is the way.

@headlessvictim2 search for "Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern" if you want more information about this kind of architecture. You will remove any bottleneck from the API server and can easily scale out from the task queue.
> I mean what is an index ? Merge join vs hash join ? These are basic algorithmic ideas that you should know if you're doing any sort of optimization on a database at all.

I have faith that I can read documentation, relevant theory and implement a suitable solution. Whether I score highly on a hackerrank/ leetcode test won't enlighten either of us if I am capable of implementing a suitable solution.

What I certainly don't need to do is prove that I can memorise and implement the some algorithm in some arbitrary timed test that isn't relevant 99% of the time for the tasks that I will be performing day to day while creating software. It isn't a test of whether I can perform the job or not. It is a waste of my time.

I don't really understand how you cannot fathom the difference.

> I don't mean to be rude but I hate working with people who have no interest in their craft. They tend to make work harder for everybody else. I'd rather hire people who are actually interested in learning.

I (and many others) have plenty of interest in my craft and work to improve myself all the time. Just because you cannot comprehend that people can get stuff done without knowledge that you happen to think is important and doesn't mean they are lazy or uninterested.

Scott Hanselman had this analogy of a tap and a sink. Many people's mental models of it is that you open the tap water comes out and water goes into the sink and out the plug hole. They do not know (and most of the time do not need to know) anymore about how the water arrives or leaves.

However knowing a little about what happens before and afterwards might be useful if you need to fix a clog. That doesn't mean I need to be a plumber, nor do I need to know how how the sewage system works. I can fix the clog and get on with my life. That is how most people manage and results are normally sufficient.
Macroeconomics is very far from perfect but we do know how to stop, or manage inflation. You can stop it by keeping the money supply stable (don’t print any more money than necessary to account for notes and coins wearing out it being lost). You can have constant low inflation by targeting the growth rate of the money supply (like the EU’s near but not at 2% target).

That’s it. Plenty of countries don’t do that but it’s a matter of political will/popular support for ending inflation, not a technically difficult problem. At worst you can just adopt another country’s currency like Kosovo has the Euro or Costa Rica has the dollar.
Go Elon!!!
The toys are one dimension of perceived and artificially created desires for the hoi polloi.

Please take into account that most of us humans are bound by various obligations. Be it the financial type, i.e. paying off your house for 30+ years or, even more captivating, creating substitutes for natural needs. Compare with the fact that most of us live isolated, especially in these times, without real world communication beyond chats, mail, telephone and, well, Hacker News. The lack of face to face opportunities to speak and do nonverbal communication is one of the causes for rising psychological diseases, drug abuse and antisocial behaviours in the last decade.

Our post Neolithic Revolution society is based on the concept of the ruler and the ruled. Why? Because having power is also a desire which may be the most destructive one for humanity in general.

We may be living on a punishment planet or simulation.
Mapped: The most and least corrupt countries in 2021
That source does not show all the accounts (says in the details popup).

If you use the information from the argentine tax collection agency statistics page [0] and divide that result by the GDP you get a wildly different result (e.g. 23% vs 10% for 2019 using the official data vs your source)

[0] https://www.afip.gob.ar/institucional/estudios/

And either way, the data you show does not support your claim, they are not very correlated. You have a mostly flat tax collection rate on an economy with a yearly rising inflation rate since 2002.
I love Rubular and use it often. The "Regex Quick Reference" block is so incredibly useful too when you don't completely remember that one thing.

However it is closed source, and it sends your info to the server for processing. This is of course not (likely) nefarious, but it does give me a little pause, and means that you should never use it if the data you are putting into it is sensitive!. For example, don't test your API key parsing regex on it with real/active keys! Also for corporate dev you are (probably) violating company policy by using it.

Rubulex[1] is a neat open source clone that I use a lot. The only downside is I have to start it locally. One of these days I'll stand up a permanent instance, though I don't want to do that without auditing the code and I simply haven't had time to do that. If anyone has done so I'd love to hear about it. Scriptular[2] is an open source clone that uses javascript:

Side note: If anyone knows of or wants to build an Elixir regex tool in Phoenix/LiveView, I'd be willing to collaborate a bit and willing to host/maintain (and I'll pay for the VM/domain). I've already got some Phoenix apps running in prod so if you get it to work with `mix phx.server` I can take it from there (I know that operationalizing and devops isn't what usually interests most people). A non LiveView version would be cool too, but it seems like such a cool project to build with LiveView to be super responsive and show off what you can do (and also learn Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView with a simple app). Would be really neat to release an elixir-desktop[3] version too! My email is in my profile if you are interested.

[1]: https://github.com/ofeldt/rubulex

[2]: https://github.com/jonmagic/scriptular

[3]: https://github.com/elixir-desktop/desktop
> apple not doing much to help in providing support for it (M1)

marcan (lead dev of Asahi Linux) seems to disagree:

Looks like Apple changed the requirements for Mach-O kernel files in 12.1, breaking our existing installation process... and they *also* added a raw image mode that will never break again and doesn't require Mach-Os.

And people said they wouldn't help. This is intended for us.

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994
> I have dedicated a lot of time to researching this and as an expert in the field of internet culture having been active within it for 25 years, a B.A. in Media Studies, with many credentials, I, and many others, feel very confident these accusations are founded.

Is this satire? Something about the whole article seemed off, but this final paragraph takes it over the top.
Root Cause Analysis is the term most used for this kind of exercise in many (non-software) engineering disciplines.

The article even mentions root cause so not sure how they didn't find that term in their searching.

When doing a root cause analysis where one or more of the identified causes is a person failed to perform an action adequately, the "blameless" bit is supposed to be about digging further to understand why they didn't.

Was it lack of training or experience? or maybe they were overloaded with work (fatigued, distracted)? or was it due to pressure to get the thing done by a deadline and therefore steps were skipped? etc

A retrospective, to me is more about continual improvement. Looking at what worked and what didn't in the last project/sprint. A root cause analysis is a different thing that you do when something has gone wrong that shouldn't have that had major consequences.
I won the local election, but my township ignored the results and state law
Nice website, bookmarked
Well, yeah, you're probably not going to sell many Lamborghinis there (other than to the elites you mention).

On the other hand, Coca-Cola has a presence in Bolivia, and apparently controls about 60% of the Bolivian market.

With 11 million people, that's gotta be a nice piece of change.

If what you're selling is closer in price to a Coke than a Lambo, you probably shouldn't write Bolivia off.
That SLA in the title is like on the order of 3 minutes per year. Who has made such guarantees in the past?
Monero, Dash, Zcash, Beam Grin, are all completely private and anonymous. Nobody can see you using those blockchains.
> you never blame yourself for buying Apple

How quickly we forget that Apple just had 2 generations of complete dogshit laptops.
On the flip side, your chances of dying if you don't go paragliding are about 99%, which is awfully close to your chances of dying if you do go paragliding. It's terrible and traumatic when your friends die (or your children, Jesus), and enormous caution is worthwhile, but not in order to survive. You're guaranteed not to survive.

Is paramotoring safer (i.e., longer life expectancy) than paragliding?