skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if its anything like American colleges, the draconian restrictions don't actually stop the students from crowding into over-packed apartment and house parties over the weekends.
I am sensitive to claims that we know more than we do, it is true. A lot of this is pandemic-related; I see a lot of claims about what we know about the virus that seem totally uncalibrated to the strength of the evidence, and in that context, sloppy/overconfident thinking/expression has actual consequences.
The Charismatic Developer and the Ponzi Scheme That Suckered San Diego
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Motor Admin uses PG instead of Supabase API for better performance, ease of use and enhanced features.

It has several advantages comparing to Retool like simple self-hosting option, CRUD UI out of the box, periodical data reports (aka alerts), unified UI optimized on mobile (instead of retool's more complex UI builder).
For the child born into it.. it becomes the norm, and getting off the boat becomes the exciting thing.
Agree. Compare the process for renewing your passport with the experience of logging into My eBay. Gov.uk is something the UK can be really proud of.
I think this complexity is part of the business model. You either pay the cloud vendor to solve this issue, or you pay enterprise vendors for storage/network licenses, etc.

J2EE was similar, from what I saw. In theory, you could run the open source stuff. In practice, IBM and Oracle made $$$ selling and supporting a proprietary version that supposedly worked out of the box.
> the government brought in TSA checkpoints,

The government brought in the TSA to take over checkpoints and relieve the air transport industry for liability for failures of and abuses at the checkpoints as part of the post-9/11 air transport industry bailout; the checkpoints had existed for a long time.
Alternative history.
There’s so many optimization passes that happen in a compiler that I doubt such a flag is feasible. The CT types work is probably a better avenue.
We’re not, people are pretending that we are or still have the opportunity.

Most of the US is at or past the omicron peak, it stopped growing because it’s running out of people to infect. The more cautious people will make up a long fat tail, but it really seems doubtful that anything can be done.

We’ve had 72 million detected cases in the US, if you assume a certain number didn’t test and a big number never knew they had it at all… we are really running out of people to “save” from covid infections. During the national peak, there were something like a million infections a day.
Only if the regular support team was involved to begin with.
This is actually a thing I had my mind changed almost immediately upon hearing argument for primary and early secondary schools.

Children need facial expressions to read the emotions of teachers/peers and are important part of their development. So forcing them to wear mask impede that part of development. Now its up to you to decide whats more important.

Just to support the point. There are videos of mother interacting with a very toddler everything normal, then she is told to hold steady and neural face all the time. The baby quickly notices and becomes increasingly distressed.
Just like an octopus, hands all over the place!
> You're never going to guarantee some kind of range on an e-bike. What's the temperature of the battery? Is it mostly uphill or down hill? How much are you going to brake?

Yeah but testing the e-bike on a track and telling the public it has 30 miles of range based on that is disingenuous.

Instead, go to a city with an average amount of hills, stop lights, and cold weather and give in a go, and tell that number to the public. If it beats that, in their actual city they'll only be pleasantly surprised. Right now you strand a shitton of people because they think they have 30 miles.
As a father of two little ones, my thoughts go out to you and your baby :)
one thing to emphasize is that the quoted LTO capacity numbers are usually including transparent device compression - if your data is not compressible, such as ZIP/RAR files or compressed audio/video, that's not the number you will get!

Home users will really want to think in terms of the "raw capacity" imo. This is normally half of the advertised capacity for the older standards (I believe the newer ones have stronger compression that squeezes a bit more). LTO-5 tapes are 1.5tb raw, for example.

Maybe you'll get a little bit out of it, but a lot of the things you'd want to back up (and especially the bulkier stuff that really eats space) are already compressed. Family photo library, audio/video storage? JPGs are compressed, H264/H265 or MP3/FLAC/etc are already compressed. System images? A lot of application files are already compressed. Home user scenarios are not outlook mailboxes and database backups like the "official" scenarios.
None of my bluetooth 4 things do a good job with that. Even the nice Sony and Samsung stuff. I don't doubt that some others work well, though.
WhatsApp quizzed over consumer protection concerns in EU
Sure, I wasn't doubting that you can prove anything in Idris or Coq or ... – same as you can write every program in any Turing complete language (not 100% strictly true because of non-functional requirements, but you get what I mean).

But in terms of practical developments, these "restrictions" can matter. Especially when you have specific maintenance concerns. And I'm talking more about programming than theorem proving (Idris is, after all, more geared towards the former than the latter unlike e.g. Coq or Lean).

I've had a problem in the back of my head for a while and I knew it would probably be a bit cumbersome to do in Haskell (although maybe with some advanced extensions it's possible?). I thought that dependent types might solve that problem but I yet don't see a way how I could do that, at least in Idris (possibly I'm missing out on some very obvious way). I think I'd really need subtyping to make it work in a non-cumbersome way. (Or else, possibly some code generation for the boilerplate part.)
Sure, did I mention, that I like wintercamping and just done so recently?

And people usually look at me strangely when I wear just a light jacket, when they look like Inuit.

But I would never intentionally wear shoes that do not fit right.
There is no benefit in that - but it rather can mess up your whole body.
What are you talking about? As far as we can determine, HCoV-OC43 did cause a global, multi-year long pandemic starting in 1889.
Or how about not trying to read intentions into peoples actions (or reading their minds for that matter) and just providing a non-biased service?

The hubris in
"That's the kind of filters I started this project for!
I would not accept this template in the project though"

is just breathtaking. At least I now know not to waste my time with a project that can have such arbitrary and capricious restrictions based on the founders whims and personal biases. Maybe I don't like Facebook/Meta either but have something that requires their use - wouldn't being able to filter out the worst aspects of them still have significant value? Even more value?

Pretending things will cease to exist just because you don't like them is beyond juvenile levels of reasoning.
Just imagine the things he's lived through. I hope you talked to him a long time
I would've said it was more a case of Goodhart's law:

> When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric

The public health equivalent of the broken window fallacy would be maximising the spread of disease in order to boost the medical industry.
The article is right that generic "masks" don't work well enough to see the effect. But N95 respirator masks do and we should all be wearing them if indoors in public for long periods.

Well fit N95 (or better) respirators are needed in schools. Not just "masks". Unfortunately this does imply that very young children cannot be effectively masked because they will seriously degrade the protection by not maintining fit and seal. That is if the N95 respirator masks fit their small faces well enough to seal at all. This isn't an all or nothing issue though. Even a badly or intermittently fit N95 on a young childs face will protect more than a strap of cloth.

The CDC (and other institutions) not only failed on mask messaging, they actively told people the wrong things for months and then years. But it's pretty obvious from first principles. It's aerosol spread so you need to actually filter the air, not just block spittle.
Oh just an example. Hammer it at 100% CPU usage and report battery life based on that.

Or a (min,max) based on idle and 100% CPU.
We have exploited our way into climate change, which entails more suffering.
Some gems in here (and my comments):

> I want to fight for equality in full view of reality, please.

Yeah, whatever you want to fight for, first look reality squarely in the face. If whatever your thing is can't hold up to that, don't bother fighting for it, because you're wasting your time fighting for something that won't work in reality. And we all, sooner or later, have to live in reality. If what you want does stand up, then continue to hold on to reality as you fight for it. Don't pretend that reality doesn't exist as you fight for your thing, because if you do, you won't ever get to your thing being implemented in the real world.

> My old field, writing studies, is filled with academics who believe there is no such thing as being better or worse at writing, which makes you wonder why anyone is paying their salaries.

Stronger: If nobody is better or worse, then why are they the one entitled to make pronouncements? Pronouncements such as "nobody is better or worse"? And why should we believe their pronouncements? Their statements are somewhat self-refuting - their philosophy destroys the credentials by which they expect us to listen to what they say.

> We are already asking the impossible of our education system, expecting it to reward excellence and create equality at the same time. Let’s not burden it even further by pretending we don’t know some people are better and some at worse at school.

Let's ask the possible instead: ask it to take each person as far as they can go. For those who are gifted, help them to soar with their gifts. For those who are ordinary, make the most of their ordinary talents. For those who are below that, still maximize their ability to use what they have.
I have barely any kubernetes experience but what struck me is that it seemed like a lot of interfaces that need to be implemented for different environments. So you need to know a lot about those specific implementations.
Ask HN: Where can I ask questions like "which API has feature X?"
My first idea is Hacker News, unfortunately with the flow in /new it tends to be dropped fast if it's a niche question.

In this case, I'm looking for a scraping API that can give me structured data from a comment thread that's unstructured (like HN, for those who haven't looked, comment's aren't nested in the source). Maybe something that uses computer vision to determine structure?

Anyway, while an answer to that question would be great, this question is to ask about where would you go for such questions (subreddits, somewhere on StackExchange, other forums?)

Thank you all very much
If you're asking whether we could image the actual magnetar (assuming that's what they observed) with JWST, the answer is no. If it's a magnetar, the object itself is less than 100 km in diameter. JWST has an angular resolution of about .1 arc seconds, which at 4000 light years distance means it can resolve things that are billions, not tens, of kilometers (think the size of Pluto's orbit) in extent. The magnetar is probably also dark in the infrared spectrum JWST can see well.
When people talk about “inflation” they are talking about the CPI, which represents “cost of living” (food, energy, shelter, etc.) Is there a better “cost of living” metric out there? Would love to know if so.
The unbanked Americans are people who either are unable to open an account, or have been denied opening accounts. To cash their checks, keep their income, etc..., they have to pay much more in fees.

Historically (in the U.S.) it was rooted in racism post-U.S. civil war. Now, less so. The history is still there, and the inability of poor people to obtain an account still exist. It excludes people from getting mortgages, loans, investing, etc. Cash App has become a digital bank for many of the unbanked. Before Cash App, decades ago, we had the U.S. Postal Service providing some banking services to Americans. (No, the USPS attempting to help Americans in this manner is not new, we've done it before)
Most projects targeting binaries provide coarse escape hatches that work well enough (in the form of asm volatile). This is a new space where we now need to persist the optimization to work correctly through one AOT pass and then a totally separate JIT which is a new thing and I’m not surprised there’s work to be done.
Ah, yes, I agree.

My eyes tend to glaze over whenever I hear "because covid" now, it's devoid of meaning and simply means "I don't want to" most of the time.
sometimes I wonder how many on HN would opt to be a brain in a jar for a 10% productivity boost.
The CDC is not so much asleep at the wheel, we just don't have any kind of coherent public health system in the USA. There's basically an independent public health officer for practically every county, and there's very little coordination between them and the CDC.

Michael Lewis' book "The Premonition" is eye-opening to how dysfunctional public health is in the US.

And it's not like he's alone, even the head of the CDC this week called for a reform of the public health system in the US (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/21/rochelle-walensky-c...). The only picture I'm getting is that the CDC doesn't really feel like they can do anything.
"Improbable Matter" posted a reply to Sabine video

"In defense of "Q-plasma" - a response to Sabine Hossenfelder"
https://youtu.be/KtqC8W0_Ups
Maybe Github's "code vault" would be interesting for you:
https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/GUIDE....
https://archiveprogram.github.com/
This is hyperbole that really goes against the spirit of this website.

Trump was overwhelmingly popular in Israel, and notorious literal white nationalist Richard Spencer endorsed Biden in 2020.
This bsrender.io thing looks really neat. Looks like it can render the Milky Way purely from individual stars? Wow.
Plucking sheep.

You shear sheep, not pluck them. If you're experienced you can sheer about 100 sheep per day. You can skirt and wash the fleece of those same 100 sheep on day two. How are you spending the remaining 598 days?

While I'm not an expert at spinning (although my spouse may be), I would venture that 12 or 15 village women carding and spinning 10 to 12 hours a day would be able to go from sheep to sail in about 3 months. Spindle spinning is very portable and something a woman would do during pretty much every spare moment when her hands were not busy doing something else. Making sails would have been a drop in the bucket when it came to yarn consumption since she also had to make all the clothes and cloth for other uses like sacking, ticking, blankets, etc.
There are a bunch of similar articles describing costs in the Middle Ages. Here's one example (there's another on the bookandsword.com site, too):

https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2013/06/the-3500-shirt-history-...
If someone like this individual is your ideal of a leader, more power to you. And one _can_ really be a leader while doing something menial (look at Buddha for example), but there has to be something more to a person than walking dogs. And that is what reporter tried hard to uncover, but of course it was interpreted as him trolling. But he was really onto something. You might want to work something minimal, but that's not the end goal. Remember the guy who was promoting the "4 hour work week"? He was not advocating to just sit and do nothing, he was saying - work less so that you can do things you like. And that is what reporter tried to uncover - ok, so one works 20 hours a week - why? what's the purpose? Have any hobbies? Do something exciting remaining time? Raising children, boating, hiking, playing sports, meditating, flying a kite, partying, travelling - WHAT is it that you do now that you have so much extra time? And it turned out that this individual has no answer, which likely means that the answer is "wasting". And that's the most damaging revelation in the whole interview - you cheat your employer, you are a parasite on society, and is that for some higher purpose? Nope, not at all. People working 90 hours a week have more exciting and fulfilling lives
Seriously? You have infinite time? Please share your time lord secrets.
Is anyone who has tried both this and Forest Admin able to give a comparison of feature sets?
Is this what being good at writing is - stringing together paragraphs and paragraphs of words that don't end up saying anything?
I don't think its hyperbole nearly at all. Maybe the term "far" is a bit hyperbolic. Would it be more accurate to say, "Only those on the right believe this"? To be clear, I'm not saying everyone on the right believes this, but rather of the group that does believe it -- they sit in the right.
This uses ~2-3k tweets per day for most days, which seems to be more than enough. According to https://twitter.com/WordleStats/status/1486021209015963649 there's about 250k daily tweets per Wordle right now, so this is about a 1% sample coming from whatever the Twitter search API returned when I ran that query.

The simulated distributions it's comparing to are based on 1000 runs per 5-letter word.

Anecdotally, 250 was enough to get it working for those simulated distributions, 100 and below it became increasingly noisier. A higher N would be nice, but I didn't spend more time optimizing the performance for the simulation code beyond what was needed to get this working.
It’s why I was so unconcerned with the school shutdowns early in the pandemic. Even an entire semester lost wouldn’t noticeably impede the nonexistent learning of US students. However, now that’s it’s been two years of on and off online school, that’s well past the point when detrimental effects would show, even in the US education system.
Looks good! Hasn't aged a bit since 1886. Same sized shell still fits.
That's true with marginal costs, but it doesn't consider fixed costs. My range is the only thing that uses gas in my unit. The connection fee is $18/month. The actual charge for gas was $0.73 last month. Sure, the marginal economics look better, but I'd save close to $200/year if I could switch over to all electric.
You can, of course, deviate from my recommendations as you see fit. As you note, you’ll have a higher incidence of breakages (due to inverted-Postel), and that means a higher incidence of debugging/support issues as a result. As long as you make that choice consciously, I see no reason to object.
This argument is poorly constructed. I think there could be better ones, but here’s my problem. It goes through the three CDC studies and correctly observes that they fail to separate regions that have high vaccination rates from schools without a mask mandate. Indeed, the ideal experiment would involve two schools that are otherwise identical in the same geographical area with high vaccination rates: one that has no mask policy, and one that has mandatory masking. The article essentially complains that such an experiment has yet to be done, so therefore, the universal masking recommendation is unfounded.

It is empirical fact that vaccination rates on a county by county is strongly predicted by the overall political alignment of a county (not implying anything further). It is also empirical fact that mask mandates are also correlated in a similar way. It is also fact that COVID-19 is an airborne disease.

The first two facts determine that the ideal experiment cannot accidentally occur in the United States. The last fact precludes an intentional experiment ethically. But the last fact at least makes the masking recommendation reasonable.

I think the political correlation with these two variables (masking and vaccination) is a confounding variable. It would be very preferable for it be otherwise, but complaining that it is so while not seriously engaging with the real situation is a poor argument.
The Block Protocol
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"looking for mates" is nautical language; when first or second mates are unavailable, they will eat the usually older captains, too.
Walking Through the Authorization Code Grant [video]
Having taught at a coding bootcamp, I can tell you that some people will never in their lives be capable of writing functional software. People exist, with college degrees, who cannot in months of lessons, understand the idea of a variable.

Not every person in the world needs to or is capable of writing software. Probably a majority are given the right exposure but there's a big difference between being able to write any piece of code and creating business value with code.
Streets are relatively easy to clean. I'm imagining the crows cleaning up the dirt under bushes, half-open drainpipes, etc.
> He’s making false claims about the vaccines’ safety

Like what? From your Atlantic piece this seems to be the closest to a false claim and its pretty underwhelming. These pieces read more like I should be upset because he appears is in the same sentence as Steve Bannon or the Proud Boys than the actual content of what he has said.

"Malone may keep company with vaccine skeptics, but he insists he is not one himself. His objections to the Pfizer and Moderna shots have to do mostly with their expedited approval process and with the government’s system for tracking adverse reactions. Speaking as a doctor, he would probably recommend their use only for those at highest risk from COVID-19. Everyone else should be wary" [1]

> and speaking at antivax events.

The one linked in your second article is an Anti-Vaccine Mandate event, which is not the same thing as being anti vaccine. It's possible to appreciate the benefits of vaccines and simultaneous think the government shouldn't force everyone to take one.

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...
Could then NSA crack any LUKS encrypted container held on cloud storage such as Dropbox or GDrive (opened with a key on client side, never entered on server)?
The built in assumption is that you can stop it. Yup, masking usually slows down infection rates but when you roll those dice every day with a very infectious variant it doesn’t matter. If the hospitals aren’t full what difference have you made if everybody gets it over the course of two months instead of two weeks? (And hospitals aren’t full of children, the peak is past, so we’re definitely solidly entering “what’s the point” territory)
you google it and understand it or re-understand it in 5 minutes after trying 20 iterations in the IDE.

thats representative of the job, so it should be represented in the interview. open book interviews test for resource finding and implementation skills.
My experience is that most office workers are perfectly capable of writing software, especially if they have access to some basic training material and documentation.

However, most office workers would rather not write software and think that the whole pay-someone-else-to-do-it paradigm is great.