skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fly mostly unpowered paragliders (AMA), but I do have a silly little electric paramotor that I've flown with a couple of times.

It's also worth distinguishing paramotoring (using a relatively-high-performance paraglider wing) from powered parachutes (using higher-internal-pressure, lower performance wings).
I remember watching there install video, always wondered how it performed in real world conditions. A bit sad to hear there were no follow up videos.
I was a junior engineer - it was 25+ years ago. The spec started with a proposal from Microsoft. I happen to agree with The critique.

I also recall trying to implement some of the nebulous things and it was painful. The code for encoding/deciding der/BEr was hand rolled.
Many respiratory viruses have “long” symptoms. Covid is not even close to unique in that regard. Should we shut down everything and force little kids to wear masks for 8 hours a day for the annual flu?
We are all getting coronavirus
>> $500 and $1500 for the simplest tunic, or between $7000 and $21000 for the finest quality.

Go look at the price for a nice suit, or a designer dress. Those numbers are not terribly high.
Or…grandpa can get vaccinated.

I'd be more than happy to test and vaccinate in schools. In particular vaccinate. But having kids wear masks…which they don't do well, because they're kids…not like adults do it well either…is a fig leaf. It's not going to work. And you can see that from the massive infection rates in schools that have masks.
Yubikeys aren't the serious long-term alternative to TOTP; software keys embedded in phones are what we're going to end up with.
To put it more directly, the same document states (on page 36):

In the last week from 08 January 2022 to 14 January 2022, in an age-standardised
population, the COVID-19 related death rate in individuals that received a booster or
third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine was between 3.2 to 9.4 times lower than
individuals who are unvaccinated or have only received one or two doses of a
COVID-19 vaccine
Why would anything change? There is a dozen apps/bank analogues and fintechs that deal with crypto. They are all subject by and large to argentine banking law.
> Objects in the driving lane are obstacles, objects not in the driving lane are not. Signs, trees and fire hydrants are typically not in the driving lane, therefore they are not typically problems.

> Obstacles in the driving lane should trigger the car to slow down and approach more cautiously, regardless of what they are. This isn't complicated and doesn't require any impossible scenarios.

A human can in one moment be next to the driving lane and in the next moment on the driving lane so the speed should be adjusted when an obstacle in the form of a human being isn't on the driving lane.
Way earlier than that, even.

> Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (mixtures of different character types, for example) on memorized secrets

Earliest draft in Wayback Machine, dated June 2016. Lots of other good stuff from 800-63 dates back this early too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160624033024/https://pages.nis...
'For just pennies a day you can buy an NFT of this starving child in an underdeveloped country.'
The Web Components Community Group is developing such a format to describe the types of components here: https://github.com/webcomponents/custom-elements-manifest

People have already built tools that generate wrappers based on it.
That is interesting. Is it open-source or intended to be?
I think the part that's missing (besides the knowledge and understanding of the operation in the airspace) is enough (automatic) assistance that its manipulation can be done by someone with the sake skills that any GA pilot could have.
Given the situation we are in I start with VIRUS, PEACH always
> restaurant employees generally need to wash their hands after going to the bathroom

I struggle to grasp a society where that has to be mandated
It's not clear to me that a VPN endpoint is a meaningfully smaller attack surface than an authenticating proxy? The VPN approach has a couple of downsides:

* You don't have a central location to perform more granular access control. Per-service context aware access restrictions (device state, host location, that sort of thing) need to be punted down to the services rather than being centrally managed.

* Device state validation is either a one-shot event or, again, needs to be incorporated into the services rather than just living in one place.

I love Wireguard and there's a whole bunch of problems it solves, but I really don't see a need for a VPN for access to most corporate resources.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...

"rates among unvaccinated persons with a previous COVID-19 diagnosis were 29-fold lower (95% CI = 25.0–33.1) than rates among unvaccinated persons without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis in California and 14.7-fold lower (95% CI = 12.6–16.9) in New York. Rates among vaccinated persons who had had COVID-19 were 32.5-fold lower (95% CI = 27.5–37.6) than rates among unvaccinated persons without a previous COVID-19 diagnosis in California and 19.8-fold lower (95% CI = 16.2–23.5) in New York."

Asking for a "significant" difference is just using weasel words to note that each individual post-Delta study is not powered to detect a difference with those very small slices and no metanalysis having been completed yet. Every single study has shown a point estimate difference that is consistent with vaccination conferring additional protection on those who have previously recovered.
I wonder how the longevity compares. Would a tunic last much longer than a modern pair of jeans?
I both love this (it's very well done!) and hate this, because I feel it misses the forest for the trees.

It's like that meme "Nobody says 'I want to be an Excel guru when I grow up.'"

SQL is just the means to an end - to alter or retrieve data in a system.

We shouldn't be coming up with nicer ways to handle autocompletion, or recursive semantics, or windowing functions.

SQL was created to be declarative and human-friendly, to be read aloud.

The next evolution of SQL should be natural language.

It should be bounded at the schema and enriched with as much context as it can, both about the domain of the data, the data itself, and its relationships within itself and to other schemas.

I just want to see all the people in my organization who haven't submitted their timesheet this week; all the orders in my ERP that are waiting for parts from a specific vendor; how much lift I'm getting from my targeted marketing campaign. I just want to delete any contact from CRM who hasn't responded to an email in the last 45 days!

I don't want SQL; I want something that translates natural language into a logical plan, and a physical plan; and a separate tool that allows me to express many, many natural language concepts for my bounded schema ... perhaps in a SQL-like way.

Like a metrics / definition store on steroids, or just a sea of rich aliases and computed columns and subqueries that can be composed without stressing over syntax or newlines or ordering or complex join conditions.
>This process benefits individuals who have the luxury of time to spend preping. Something minorities, working parents, etc. don’t have.

How is that different from learning any skill/profession?

Everywhere you gotta put time / effort.

The difference is that LC questions allow you to get highest paid jobs.

Average software shop probably does not require them.
The more I think on this, the more I change my position.

I rebutted the comment you're responding to, but when considering the same scenario but with different specifics I came to their conclusion. Specifically, let's take out the car and make it an airplane flying over a populated area. Does the plane eject the pilot and crash in someone's house? I'd say no, the pilot knew the risk hopping in the plane, the guy at his breakfast table had no say.

But then, what about if there is no crosswalk? Does the pedestrian still get to claim "I had no say in the street being there so I can cross wherever I want"? Does the passenger get to say "I assessed the risk taking into account nobody could cross here"? At what point do we say that the pedestrian also took a calculated risk? Fundamentally if we say " always protect the pedestrian" we don't care if there's a crosswalk or not.

So at this point, I don't think there's a fundamental ethical axiom to be followed here, it is entirely situational. As long as we all know the rules beforehand and all calculate our own risks, any set of rules is OK. If we say "protect pedestrians at crosswalks, protect passengers otherwise" as long as the pedestrian knows this rule clearly, they're the one taking the risk. If we say "pedestrians can cross wherever they want whenever they want" we end up with the same scenario, everyone taking their own calculated risks. We just have to agree on the set of rules, whatever they are, which makes it an optimization problem, not an ethical one.
No, for example in IT they are connected to the "commerce union" but it doesn't include an agreement to adjust by inflation. Obviously IT has strong market forces in favor of the employee but this is an example.

Also many unions lost against inflation.
You are vaccinated and boosted. That is what protects you. Not somebody else wearing a mask.

It isn’t societies job to cater to fully vaccinated individuals who remain terrified of Covid. Such an expectation is what is truly selfish.
The thing is that over-focus on perimeter security is still a huge problem, and one reason that e.g. ransomware owns orgs with depressing regularity. There's nothing wrong with perimeter controls in and of themselves. But they become a substitute for actually security what's on the internal network, so once you've bypassed the perimeter, it's all too easy to roam at will.

The people over-relying on perimeter security are the folks buying a big sixties car and assuming that seatbelts and traction control are no substitute for chrome bumpers.
Sure, and I am not saying that some of them aren't covered under current law, just that the set of them that are is narrower than the set that people seem to think (and I would agree) are problematic, and that even for the ones that are covered dealing with them is far less straightforward than with identity standards.
This section on the linked Wikipedia article(1) is quite amazing on how the family emoji is rendered using a zero-width joiner

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji#Joining

edit: forgot HN doesn't render emojis. Better read it directly on Wikipedia i guess.
In other words, a declarative system has the capability to do a diff with the current system and apply changes to eliminate those differences.
If we have a vaccines, why do we need masks? Do vaccines not work or something?
You don't have to be an academic for that. The world is full of imperfections. Marketing and luck are bigger factors than merit.
W3C User Agent Client Hints
There's another problem with the article's argument. It contends that the many studies on mask effectiveness have various shortcomings such as not being specific to kids, or having vaccination rates as a confounding variable. And therefore, we should not have mask mandates (despite the evidence that they work, however non-specific to school children they may be).

But its reason for concluding that children should not wear masks is because of all of these issues that themselves aren't well studied or understood by the article's own admission:

> Despite how widespread all-day masking of children in school is, the short-term and long-term consequences of this practice are not well understood, in part because no one has successfully collected large-scale systematic data and few researchers have tried.

Why in this case should the serious lack of evidence for the risks of masking children outweigh the greater-but-imperfect evidence for the risks of increased transmission of Covid by not masking children? It seems like a double-standard allowing the author to arrive at their desired conclusion.
Ah well, you can use (allmost) all the web technologies completely offline and even interfacing with low level hardware.

So you could have javascript and html to power your devices, but you probably do not want to.
You don't mean The Expanse, do you?
https://archive.ph/iPNsh
Nothing was threatened by Linux as better technology didn't really exist. It was past Symbolics or Xerox Alto times.
If I sell Awesome Oil and then under the name, i put in "made from 100% extra virgin avocado oil" and put avocado oil in my ingredients list but it's really soybean oil, that's different than selling Awesome Oil but putting in actual ingredients in the ingredients list.

15 USC § 1125 gives civil liability to anyone "who in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person's goods, services, or commercial activities". I've seen state laws that cover this as well.
> but none were as big as the official retirement of Internet Explorer (IE)

How many years does Firefox have left?
Also, what about the paper bag on the driving lane? Would you wait in the care until a gust of wind takes it of the road or would you go out and remove it yourself?
The statement is completely false. People typically do not need to buy a new charger every time they buy a new phone.

And as far as USB-C is concerned - it’s a complete mess that will not solve the problem, See the link. Of course this will force most people to buy a new charger since most phones are not yet USB-C.

If anyone can provide a quantitative analysis of the cost of imposing this vs the cost of allowing the market to continue as it currently is, then this can be taken seriously.

Otherwise it’s just political sloganeering turned into a dishonest piece of legislation.
I never said only communist states could own/owned telecoms. A lot of these changes - even in the west - came to be after communism in Europe has fallen.
okay okay, I'll stop being so negative and try to guide discourse for the better here :)
> But the lack of absolute proof isn't an argument against masks in school. That's dumb.

How so? It seems more ignorant to assume that masks would help more when the data we do have doesn’t show that.

> Can children be swayed/educated/convinced to wear a quality mask often enough to make a difference in the transmission of covid among their teachers or their families? IDK. Good question. We aren't completely sure, but probably.

You call the authors ideas dumb, but then yourself make unfounded inferences as an argument for continuing to require masks in schools.
Soap (dry, no water) rubbed and spread with a paper towel until "apparently clean" also works - the thin layer of soap prevents fogging. You might have to try several brands of soap.
> number of web standards only Safari hasn’t implemented is many times bigger than those of Firefox and Chrome

Is that actual web standards, or just what is listed on caniuse.com? The reason I ask is that a lot of "standards" aren't actually standards:

Service workers are not yet a standard: "This is a living document. Readers need to be aware that this specification may include unimplemented features, and details that may change. Service Workers 1 is a version that is advancing toward a W3C Recommendation." (https://w3c.github.io/ServiceWorker/)

Web Application Manifest is not yet a standard: "This document was published by the Web Applications Working Group as a Working Draft using the Recommendation track.

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members." (https://www.w3.org/TR/appmanifest/)

Background sync is not a standard: "This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track." (https://wicg.github.io/background-sync/spec/)

Cookie store is not a standard: "This specification was published by the Web Platform Incubator Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track." (https://wicg.github.io/cookie-store/)

Streams is not a standard, it's just a specification: "This specification provides APIs for creating, composing, and consuming streams of data that map efficiently to low-level I/O primitives." (https://streams.spec.whatwg.org)

So does Safari suck because it's not supporting actual standards, or does it only suck in comparison to Chrome because Chrome is willing to implement technologies that aren't finalized standards and technologies that aren't even on a standards track?
It seems like the best way to conceptualize Remix is that it translates your JavaScript components into it's equivalent Web primitives, instead the equivalent JavaScript Webpack monster interlaced with the endless NPM dependencies we know and love. Wherever the browser has native support for some functionality, Remix uses it so that you don't reinvent the browser as a thin JavaScript layer over every one of your projects. The result is that you get the snappiness and simplicity of a Web1.0 website on the user end, but you can still develop your applications with the all the frontend advancements made in the last 15 years.
My aunt and uncle did this. My uncle worked for uncle sam as an engineer of some sort, spent the last few years before retirement building a sailboat, and then retired at 55. They lived on their boat about 10 months out of the year for the next 15 years. They stuck to the east coast of the US. They loved it.
> Can you give an example of this for k8s?

Deployment.spec.strategy is a common purely "how" configuration switch.

Explicit PodDisruptionBudget is less common but exists only to configure a "how". A smarter (e.g. layer 6+ aware) system should be able to derive this for me.

You might respond "well, that's what an operator is for" and in some sense you're correct, but every operator I've read is a mess of the most imperative code I've ever seen; and then that leaks out as soon as the operator's defaults don't work well for your case.
Good point I’m not sure they ever actually admitted to lying about masks.
Remix is looking super cool. A breath of fresh air really in the JS ecosystem.

Rich Harris (creator of Svelte) has actually been introducing new features to SvelteKit inspired by Remix.

https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3533

https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3532

A lot of people in this thread are having weird opinions because they don't really understand the context of Remix. The point of Remix is that it facilitates SSR + hydration + progressive enhancement full stack dev in the most efficient way possible regarding DX. Network wise it's also much more efficient than Next, which is the predominant framework in this space.

Of course if you just want to spit out HTML from your server, Remix would be a pretty stupid choice. In part because React's render to string is very slow, but also because there are already very mature options to do that (Rails, Django, Laravel, etc).
I do and it's perfectly sensible as a human person. It's just not a sensible design your business around people like me to make a profit, usually. That said, businesses that actually want to take your money and aren't just selling you do tend to support very old browsers. For example, I can use my browser from 2016 to browse and buy things from Amazon.com very easily. Even with JS disabled.
Unless he can demonstrate a highly specific and direct harm caused by Rogan (rather than just chaos monkey), no.
Finland, Sweden and Canada have areas of very stable granite that is 3 billion years old with few cracks.
The granite is older than multicellular life, atmospheric oxygen event, or multicellular life.

Those are good places to store nuclear waste.
"I came up with a parametric formula..."

Parametric forumae and equations can be incredibly useful. I remember learning about them at school but we never applied them to any realworld examples. Even at the time I recognized that without practical examples our understanding of them would be problematic.

Unfortunately, the problem with most mathematics training - especially so at high school - is the overly theoretical approach used in teaching it. It seems to me that at least in high school we should place much more emphasis on the practical application of mathematics.

The theoretical approach is all very well for the 'gifted' and those with a mathematical bent but it's often of little help to many other students. I blame this mainly on those who write the textbooks and set the syllabuses. After all, they're the ones who are good at math so they project their theoretical worldview of mathematics onto everyone else.

A classic example of the problem is the dozens of trigonometrical identities that we had to learn at school many of which were of no known practical use to us students at that stage of our training. Sure, at university they came into their own but by then one's already more adept at mathematics so they then start to make sense.

The same can happen at university too, I recall the tedium of learning vector algebra and matrixes without them being of any seeming use. At the time, no one bothered to explain how incredibly useful they are when it comes to manipulating Maxwell's equations, etc.

It's occurred to me it would be very useful if we had a website (and perhaps also in reference book form) devoted to providing mathematical solutions to thousands of realworld problems of a practical nature.

For instance, problems could be grouped alphabetically so they're easy to find. Once located, one would find various solutions to the problems (each solution using a different mathematical technique, etc.). For instance typical entries could be:

Interest, Compound

Interest, Simple

Moreover, the website could be made interesting if we also included additional mathematical information such as short biographies on famous mathematicians together with how they arrived at their discoveries, etc.

Of course, the site would be graded so as not to scare off the mathematically timid, that way it would also useful to those who are more advanced in mathematics. I envision it as a short of Wiki for math solutions.

This may not be the ideal solution to the problem and it'd be a great deal of work to set up (but like Wiki it could come together with the help of thousands of volunteers).

Unless we tackle the problem in a tangential manner - in a different and hopefully more successful approach from the past then I don't think we'll ever solve the problem.

BTW, I found parametric equations very interesting from the outset. It was obvious to me how they could overcome an impasse and thus solve some otherwise awkward problems - although I can't say I had such insight uniformly across other branches of mathematics.
[dupe] from yesterday

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30093502
!remindme 99y
I'm telling you it's an inferior way to do it not that you cannot do it. You're running around worrying about DRM when that's not even something you need to worry about on physical copy like a record.
Without access to credit, the only way to run a budget deficit is to print money. It is false to assert that having access to reasonably priced credit would have no effect on inflation.
NYTimes has a pretty good source on this.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...

I'll tell you that here in Chicago, based off data, and anecdotes: really depends on the neighborhood. Vaccinated areas? Doing fine. Undervaccinated areas? Not doing so well.

Gosh, it's like vaccines work and that's the way out of this.
Given that large businesses are taxed and impeded to hell and employees are taxed to the bone, is there any leg up for those running a single man sole proprietorship running business informally? As a total outsider I feel like there's a special niche area left for 1 man run-his-own-business opportunities to make a living here by exploiting the structural problems that weaken the marketability of larger business.
Discussion happening over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30105932