skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's major for impact. This bridge carries a significant thoroughfare between two of the neighborhoods on the edge of town. It's a primary avenue for several bus routes.

Traffic is going to be an absolute nightmare until they restore it.
> I remove the apps after my trip

So maybe it's not just the apps that make a difference, it could also be your location.
Your battery can drain faster when your phone is searching more frequently for a cell signal.

And this can happen on trips because of the different local cellular operators and the different frequency bands used.

This is of course only a hypothesis.
Check out the 311 report from 2018: https://twitter.com/gpk320/status/1078885655634157569?s=21
> Then don't have children gather unmasked for lunch indoors?

That's going to go over really well when it is snowing and windy, just really cold, etc.

> You're just bringing up other things schools should do...

You're just proving you don't have a clue what problems other areas face.
It blows my mind that the richest country in the world can't afford better infrastructure. I know that's not how economies and capitalism works, but it really shouldn't be like that.
What’s exploitative about offering a free account?
Only Safari can have extensions, only Safari can have iOS Content Blockers, only Safari supports Screen Time limits on websites and iOS parental controls, and only Safari is allowed to launch apps (so when you open a Twitter link in Safari, it launches the Twitter app without even asking; but open it in iOS Chrome, it doesn't do anything, and they can't even offer a "Open in Twitter app" button). I'm sure there's a bunch more restrictions that only iOS browser developers would know about. It's ridiculous and means many people who use Chrome as their main desktop browser still use Safari on iOS.
No, there are drugs that are injected intrathecally either into the subarachnoid space or spinal column.
The Most Powerful Exercise You Are Probably Not Doing?
McCarthy's problem was being a daft c_nt on a power trip, with no idea how to actually deal with spies, and heavily based on violating supposed american freedom of thought and association. It was absolutely a witch hunt.

There's in fact no record he ever disrupted any actual spy work, as far as I know, and his legacy is that even in Warsaw Pact he became famous - famous enough to require redefining in popular vernacular "useful idiot" to include him and his supporters.
You mean countries that started off much poorer than the US, yet the standard of living drastically improved during the socialist period? Then drastically dropped after 89, when the imperialists won the Cold War?

Just because poor countries become socialist doesn't mean socialism makes them poor. Consider that they were kept poor and socialism is the way out.
We (as in a company i have worked for) have caught employed chinese nationals try to install malware / provided internal account credentials to chinese ip addresses in simple retail big box industries. (I saw this happen personally and was shown what he was trying to install, and how a service account assigned to our group was trying to slurp up and probe the data from an IP address backtraced from China)

If that can happen in something relatively trivial you dont think a high stakes industry has it worse?
Maybe not major for Pittsburgh, land of bridges, but sure would be major elsewhere. The thing is huge!
Flutter on the web uses the DOM?

I seem to recall discussing here on HN with people from the Flutter team how they didn't use the DOM on purpose.
Unfortunately, the downside of the steel boom is that nothing about the ability to create all of that infrastructure implied anyone put investment into maintaining that infrastructure.
Apple, Atari, and Commodore had all suffered under bad management for years by then. I don't know if they could have stayed relevant, but management not being the best harmed them. Apple had just enough with the mac to not die.
The evolution of the surgical mask (1997)
I could care about them if they were people I knew. For the most part I’m happy to leave the running of my city to the people interested in doing the job (with all the perks and mind numbing boringness it brings).
Class struggle is the engine of history. Whether that fact is healthy for myself personally or not has no bearing on its truth.

The company I work for keeps more of the value I create than they pay me. Whether I like it or not, I'm working class and in direct opposition to capitalists.
Broken on Chrome on Android for me, too. A weird mix of forced-desktop and mobile weirdness going on.
What was the design error?
These are the points that I've come to despise from Clean Code. After I read that book I wrote code that tried to follow all those rules. It didn't seem bad at the time, but returning to code written that way has always sucked hard. You have to jump around far too much with the 7 line function rule. And over-DRY code can actually be harder to change since repetition is often incidental. In that case a change in one place will actually affect more than its supposed to.
I have emotional reaction when I see such comment.

Most unproductive and time wasting people I encountered were "clean code" and "we have to be professional" proponents.

Problem is that it was only "clean code" if it was their way and they refused to read and understand why someone else wrote something differently.

It is not bad code if you don't like it, yes it is pain to understand someone else code, yes it is pain to understand someone else article.
Same. It allowed me to create an account with just an e-mail address, but soon after the account was suspended for "unusual activity" and the only way to unlock it was with a phone number. At this point I gave up.
YouTube already does, you have to "Tell YouTube" (Its basically a checkbox when you upload a video - https://i.imgur.com/mPZAKTX.png) if your content has paid promotion in it. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/154235?hl=en

One of the reasons YT requires it is so they can replace an ad that conflicts with the contents paid promotion with something else (Another reason being FCC Regs).
> Why didn't God just make the universe classical and be done with it? What would've been wrong with that choice?

I hear it over and over and still don't understand the premise.
Classical mechanics is not something sacred. It is our first serious model of physics. Our first approximation is based on the scales at which we operate and our senses as humans. Furthermore, even "regular" quantum mechanics is a non-relativistic, low-energy approximation of Quantum Field Theory.

It is like asking why God created clouds, not just "waters above the filament"?

That said, Q2 minus Q1 is an interesting question.
Somewhat ironically, President Biden is scheduled to be about 3-4 miles away this afternoon to discuss the infrastructure plan focused on repairing America's infrastructure. With over 400+ bridges in the City of Pittsburgh, it feels like it's only a matter of time.

This particular bridge is known as the Fern Hollow Bridge, I've driven over it probably hundreds of times and walked under it hundreds more. It always felt... temporary.

Here's Google Street view of underneath the bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4394129,-79.9003702,3a,75y,2...

Here's the bracing underneath the Fern Hollow Bridge: https://bridgehunter.com/photos/40/56/405643-M.jpg
And here's another similar bridge in a nearby Schenley Park: http://pghbridges.com/pittsburghE/0589-4477/schenley0695.jpg
Wow, I never thought of this. I usually write a bash script.
The Lancet study involved a company called Surgisphere claiming to have used ML techniques on massive datasets. Medical professionals questioned the findings and the startup founder responsible for the data refused to release it, citing confidentiality agreements, and is generally presumed to have fabricated it to generate publicity for his company. The coauthors requested its retraction. Needless to say, this study does not represent the basis for the medical profession concluding that HCQ does not work; large scale trials did that.

Ironically, it proves the exact opposite of what antivaxxers and alternate cure hypers claim it does: the medical profession was decisive about pulling apart bad studies opposing off label treatments even though it supported their supposition HCQ didn't work and was just hype; just like they've rushed to highlight the indications of likely falsified data in the preprint of this Invermectin study which of course the authors haven't retracted...
It's delightful. All these trash sites are under pressure to deliver more profits (presumably) and they're going to find out how little we all need them.

Shame that that heroin needle is behind a sign-up/paywall barrier...
Twitter sells eyeballs. Do they pay me to visit their site? To tweet?

Is Twitter entitled to my attention? In only narrowly proscribed ways that maximize their own benefit?

Quid pro quo.
Properly maintained bridges of any size shouldn’t randomly collapse. It’s always major.
Streaming data vs. real-time data – what's the difference?
The terms ‘real-time’ and ‘streaming’ are often used interchangeably in discussions and conversations, whether it being Medium articles, LinkedIn posts, Hacker News or Reddit threads. Is this a topic that needs clarification or should it be a given?
> As in, “I’m 100% fine with living inside a Matrix … I just want to understand why it’s a _unitary_ matrix!”

Best quote from the article right there. I love Scott's writing style... highly recommend his book "Quantum Computing Since Democritus" if you're into his blog.
There are some very interesting approaches to Cochlea-Implants[0]. In Göttingen (Germany) a research group tries to stimulate the Cochlea via Light. That would allow for a lot better frequenzy bandwith and therefore better hearing quality.

[0] https://goettingen-campus.de/news/view?tx_news_pi1%5Baction%...
Ask HN: Calendar Management for Macs and iPhones
I‘ve been using fantastical but i’m getting disappointed by its natural language engine which half the time misses what i‘m trying to set as an appointment. Can you recommend alternatives which have native apps for iOS and macOS?
what other kind is there?
The correct way to write more than 5 lines of bash is to delete the file and write it in python. You will thank yourself when you have to modify it later.
And it started! The collapse of the US infrastructures.
They need to reinvest continually, not every 20 years with big trillion dollars programs.
It strikes me as extraordinary that we dump so much metal - isn't it easier to reprocess, than to extract new iron ore?
OpenAI Embeddings: 8K–600k times more expensive than open models
Because I don't want to give a phone number to facebook or twitter just to have an account to read some content.
Twitter also requires you to a have a cell phone to sign up for an account. I have a work cell and a land line, neither of which can be used for creating a personal twitter account. This barrier to entry is good for me too.
Most articles on surgical masks cite Spooner[1] and sometimes Rockwood[2] for historical background, but this lesser known article by Belkin gives a better overview.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/5333967/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14438122/

By the way, in the literature on surgical masks, I was surprised by the total absence of references to research in France and the USSR. I would appreciate if anyone could point to surveys of mask research in those countries (in French or Russian are fine).
Really obnoxious web design there; why would I want an auto playing video of unrelated celebrity dribble that you can't close and sticks in place as you scroll covering 1/3rd of the screen?
Well, statistically then, this all makes sense.

As these things come it could have been a lot worse. I immediately thought back to the bridge collapse in Italy not all that long ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi
That makes sense a lot of sense. I guess the thing is that golang and their are stdlib testing lends itself to unit testing and not so much to integration testing.

Our system also talks to a bunch of hardware via multiple protocols, for which we’d need to write simulators (so I’ve written but mostly for development and not for testing)

And apart from that, it being an async user facing gui app… well, automated testing is kind of a challenge :)

But you are right, I can think of a few things that can be tested, bigger than methods but smaller than end-to-end testing
It’s called an IPO :-)
How many of these artists had seen an elephant in real life. How many were drawing it from descriptions (e.g. fan like ears. ribbed long arm like nose, large feet could describe some early drawings)
I would echo the part about continually making content. Releasing videos at consistent intervals and at the same time, say every Monday at 8:00am, is suppose to make you “look good” to YouTube and can boost your reach.
The old internet never went away.

I can, to this day, setup a server and host mail, webpages, etc. by myself if I want to.
one of my favorite patterns is to put a makefile in the top level directory

the first target is 'help', so when you enter the directory, you run make and it spits out a list of possible targets.. The help target is just a bunch of #comments.

Each target does some sort of useful thing, like regenerating swagger, cleaning up temporary crap, starting in dev mode, etc.

Coupled with a readme it's the best, simplest approach.
This sounds kind of like a modern update to those old stories where someone uses a magic monkey paw or a genie to grant a wish and learns to their regret that monkey paws and genies like to grant wishes in a way that is literally exactly what you asked for but is as far from what you actually wanted as ancient mystical artifacts or beings can make it.

He wished for a never ending relationship with TeamViewer. He got one that included all aspects of the relationship of a typical TeamViewer customer with the company--including a perpetual relationship with their marketing department.

All that's missing at this point is narration by Rod Serling.
> To me it sounds more like he gets paid a passive income and a lump sum to make infotainment.

Whether or not something's infotainment and whether or not it could be done more cheaply are orthogonal. There's no reason for him to make this on Youtube, any more than there's a reason for plumbers to do plumbing for nothing in their spare time.
I've got about a decade more of coding over you and I can confirm the same. The only time you see "clean code" is trivial examples. Get a project that needs to do something complex, and suddenly it becomes not so clean. That's because the real world is messy and complex and solutions are almost always the same.

I love your priority list, although I'm scratching my head over the order - not that it is wrong, but I don't know if it is exactly what I would do. There are cases where I will take more state to be (a lot) less complex, for instance. Big surprise that even that priority list is a bit messy ;)

I think the most damning thing about Clean Code is that the author has barely written any software for decades. I mean, I like the guy well enough, and he has some ok stuff to say, but he is far from someone people should listen to like a messiah. Go listen to Carmack or watch Jonathan Blow's code stuff. Far more interesting things there.
Midterm elections maybe
Correction: By "West" you meant the developed nations, we from the West developing nations have nothing to do with it.

They are the ones who started the "climate issue" and the ones preaching & pressuring everyone(specifically the poor countries) to slow down on burning fuel. They keep blaming everyone but themselves.

It's just unfair, we need fuel to power our factories and reach the same level as the developed nations, we are burning the same amount(or less than) them used to reach their current state.

The developed nations are the one who need to slow down on their fuel burning, they don't need that much as we need, they hide their carbon footprint whilst hypocritically pointing finger at us developing countries, leave us developing whilst you do your part.
I've been using make to do this for ages, but its syntax really shows its age in a bad way. A while ago I switched to just (https://github.com/casey/just), which is a simple command runner with less unnecessary cruft (for my use case as a command runner) and a much saner syntax, and I've been pretty happy with it so far, I hardly ever need to look up anything.

There's also task (https://taskfile.dev/), which is YAML-based and might work well in an environment where everything else is YAML anyway, and makesure (https://github.com/xonixx/makesure), which is pretty similar to just, but didn't really click with me.
NeoCov: Wuhan scientists warn of deadlier Covid variant
"John L. Campbell is a British YouTuber, retired nurse educator and author of nursing textbooks who has posted a number of widely-viewed YouTube videos on his Dr. John Campbell channel commenting on the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, Campbell's channel was referred to by UNICEF's regional office for Europe and Central Asia as good example of expert engagement with social media. By January 2022, his videos had been viewed more than 429 million times."

"Campbell worked as a nursing educator at the University of Cumbria, and has experience as an A&E nurse. He has also taught health workers in India and Cambodia. He is the author of Campbell's Physiology Notes and Campbell's Pathophysiology Notes nursing-related biosciences text books. A 2011 book review in Emergency Nurse magazine said Campbell's Physiology Notes was "excellent, inexpensive notes on the causes, pathophysiological changes and clinical features seen in disease processes"."[1]

To be fair, a good chunk of his Wikipedia article mention his videos about Ivermectin and how they're false claims based on some articles people have posted in response to his video, which is to be expected since anything positive said about Ivermectin is bound to have people counter it.

Dr. Campbell has posted almost 2000 videos, pretty much every day since the pandemic started (although if you sort by oldest on his channel you can see 14 year old low-res, poor audio/lighting videos[2] of him going over various medical concepts, btw, pretty interesting), where he reviews and explains probably 20+ charts and graphs and statistics and quotes and studies to the best of his understanding.

He's also human and may very well have been led down a wrong rabbit hole by his interpretation of some studies (or perhaps not, Ivermectin seems to have become one of the things that everyone decided they'll believe in its efficacy based pretty much exclusively on political party alignment).

You should always take in information with a critical eye, including Dr. Campbell. I've watched probably a hundred of his videos and I don't always agree with his conclusions 100% either, but I can't say that about anyone ever, so I don't expect that of him either. What I have seen is, especially on his more general update videos, the most comprehensive compilation of data (as digestible to a layperson as possible) for complicated medical concepts.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

[2]: https://youtu.be/tmkH87YPN4g
Unicode and utf-8 are fine. The one at fault is the one who thought that Unicode was a good place to put things like "GIANT POOP WITH FLIES".
Fuel use: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

Materials landfilled in MSW:

https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1231960/municipal-solid-...

The point is not necessarily to suggest that landfilled material be what is used to make jet fuel, but to point out the volumes are not enormous compared to what's already flowing through the economy. The US produces even more agricultural waste -- over 200 million tonnes of corn stover each year, for example.

The other fuel uses may in many cases be replaced by non-fuels, for example by electrification. Aviation is a special case where the high energy density of chemical fuels, and particularly hydrocarbons, will often be unavoidably attractive.
Ask HN: Why force Apple to make changes when you can just use something else?
If you don’t like Apple’s payment processing system/ App Store 30% cut, why don’t you just use a different platform? Why should Apple have to be forced by government interference to change its systems to accommodate your demands when numerous competing platforms exist? If you don’t like something, use something else. No one one this planet is being forced to use Apple products or operating system when many alternatives exist.
OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman ridicules startup fundraising process
Too bad it's so far outpaced by inflation.
Absolutely this. When cuda was first making headway it was the only thing even remotely close to a "developer environment" and made things significantly easier than any of the alternatives.

It might be different now, but at that time, many of the users were not computer scientists, they were scientists with computers. Having an easier to use programming model and decent debugging tools means publishing more results, more quickly.
We recently sent out an email correcting this. The prices for Auction servers will not increase in Finland. --Katie, Hetzner Online
> Instead they were user-friendly at first,

Twitter’s experience for users today is the same as it was at the start.

The word “user” is key, though. The experience has only changed for people who aren’t yet users (with logged in user accounts) of Twitter.

> A bait and switch, tricking people into relying on them,

This doesn’t really make sense. If you rely on Twitter, you make an account. You can’t really rely on Twitter or even be a user without having an account.

I don’t really expect community platforms to cater to non-users of the community.
Chicago trains drive over flaming tracks
I love "ergonomic code" expression and after years of coding I see it as much better term to strive for than "clean code".
The US is having a hard time making a cultural transition from a boom mindset to a sustaining mindset. We are about one generation out, maybe one and a half, since there was significant value in tooling our manufacturing and development process for territorial conquest. That tooling got a shot in the arm during World War II and a second shot in the arm during the space race that kept it going longer than it would have otherwise, but America is a coast to coast country with no more frontier, and Americans need to learn how to sustain what exists and find value in sustaining what exists rather than rewarding primarily those who create new.

... Or just be comfortable with the idea that we're going to always have shiny things that wear out faster than they should and fail when we're relying on them.
The US is the richest country because it has quite a few of the richest individuals. But the enormous amounts of money spent on armaments has reduced the amount of money available for infrastructure maintenance and other necessities.
It went exactly as planned for MTA. They got rid of their problem dirt cheap!
Resolving a workplace dilemma using game theory
TL;DR: Work comes with a cost, whether you do the work or not.
Bridges have been collapsing in the United States for decades. Life just goes on.

You almost sound happy at the prospect that one day, thousands of bridges are going to collapse all at once.
There are two issues that should be separated. The first is that there were (and probably are) foreign spies in industry and government. That's damaging and they should be removed. The second issue is that those given the power to find and remove spies can abuse it. That's also damaging and should be prevented.

However, that fact that people abuse their power doesn't mean we should stop looking for spies, or that all spy hunting is a form of Mcarthyism.