skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an Indian, it's depressing to see how long it takes to get something like a green card, and even more depressing when I realize that I probably can't even pull this off due to my country of origin.

I gave up on a top CS university in the US when I realized that even doing everything right could mean that I could be kicked out of the country after the elections or another 9/11. I'm still happy where I'm at, and I know I'm in an incredibly privileged position... but it just sucks.
I know what you're saying, but, in plain English, you're acknowledging that the far right get a pass.
They should use a phone call for urgent things.
Assuming the size estimates are accurate in the article, the Draken is smaller than the mystery aircraft...

Draken: 15.35 metres long, 9.42 metres wide.
Mystery aircraft: 19.8 metres long, 15.2 metres wide.
Notifications can be used for more than an interrupting news feed.
Since the first outbreaks, sure. COVID was not a 2 week event.

A complicated car probably has 10k parts. Imagine if parts suppliers randomly have enough worker shortages to reduce their productivity so the assembly plants start running out of parts. You can’t finish building cars with only 99% of the parts, so the line stops.

Same with ports. When longshoremen bring COVID into the workplace, it spreads and the port slows. Consumer behavior still hasn’t returned to pre-Covid, so demand for goods is still high while production isn’t quite 100% restored.
Are you really puzzled why acute changes to people's lives get attention and response, in some cases more than arguably deeper problems that they've lived with for much longer and are harder to notice the impact of?

I see this kind of alleged puzzlement a lot here and on the internet in general. I'm not puzzled by it though, I think it's usually insincere and simply used as a cheap rhetorical device to dismiss people's feelings and reactions without actually making an argument.

For the very few people who genuinely don't understand: this is part of the human condition. People aren't "rational" according to a text book. People's happiness and feelings depend hugely on contrasting situations. Whether it is your situation now compared to your situation before, or your situation compared to your neighbor's situation. In many cases this has a bigger impact than the "absolute" situation. And the misunderstanding or disregarding of other people's feelings does not invalidate them.
Could be a rug under someone's fireplace
Remember there is also a supply-chain inefficiency that is eating away at your margins.
Missed opportunity to portray something disk-shaped, if so.
530 USD is less than 1/20th of 10208 EUR.
I agree with this. Most software doesn't need to be "opinionated" and would be made better with more options and carefully chosen defaults.

I think it's sometimes appropriate to reduce options, mainly in cryptography libraries. There the library should provide all the secure options and none of the wildly insecure options, maybe with some "secure if used correctly" options behind some heavy warnings. Likewise for anything else that might similarly be used in safety-critical situations: it MUST be easy to use, and hard to misuse. That tends to mean having fewer options, and making very careful choices about defaults.
Nobody is preventing you from owning AMZN and be rich yourself.
Neography: Constructed Writing Systems
> The stated goal of the programs he was opposing here is to increase diversity at universities. You can reasonably disagree that it will do that (and he does in the remainder of the article, some of the points are very good) without invoking Nazi Germany.

Actually he disagrees with the goal itself (diversity, or rather what kind of diversity is desiderable to pursue).

> And if the consequence of this is that you can't give a lecture one time, well, I'm having a difficult time finding the Zylkon B cans nearby.

Yep. That's no Nazi Germany. But it's disingenuous to say that the only consequence is he won't give a lecture one time. And canceling a lecture is a very worrying thing to do, especially for such a mild "offense". The quote attributed to Voltaire is very relevant in this context.
You can run a real ad blocker with FF mobile, which saves battery.
That was exactly the case here, I was asked for the switch description so the documentation folks could complete the user manual. It was just lucky that the switches weren't controlling the hardware directly.
I'm pretty sure there are similar projects for ARM-based microcontrollers, which is probably a bit more interesting as a hobby project.
Sure, I can agree with that.
The pickit guy was giving the other dev tools people at Microchip a run for their money for a long time, implementing the features of the fancier debuggers and more, like a simple logic analyzer.

My impression was it was basically one engineer or a very small team implementing the pickit who took the opportunity to make it a tour de force.

Recommended, if it will do what you need.
Eh, I don't think your claim about stable and unstable environments works in general. Things are just too diverse in this universe.

For example, just for humans a big, big driver of instability in the last few millennia has been other human brains.

Also keep in mind that (in-)stability and harshness of environment are too almost independent dimensions; if you see instability as something like the variance of outcomes.

Eg if some new opportunities open up, everything is strictly better (so the environment is less harsh), but variance might shoot up dramatically, perhaps because only the clever and resourceful can make use of the new opportunity.
Are these considered regulations or do those only count when they impact businesses?
Civil disobedience is perfectly fine IMO as long as you exactly follow all the rules, get the proper permits, etc.
I thought of snopes as an urban legend checker. It's sad how they, like so many, have shifted gears to join some kind of partisan crusade. I don't care if it's true or false, I don't see why every organization now needs to fall over each other to try and show how every covid measure is justified and for our own good. This kind of thing destroys the credibility of people who might actually be in a position to give an informed comment, because it makes the whole thing look like a religion.
> Modern windows (especially high end) can be both energy efficient

Yes, compared to other windows. Compared to a well-insulated wall with external insulation and 6" of interior insulation, they're not great.

Good windows are an R5. A well-insulated wall cavity can easily be an R30.
Thanks! I thought that just included the iso when I looked at it since I didnt see the source tarball embedded in it, its releases/v7x86-0.8a.tar.bz2 btw!
Western social norms are the product of a very peculiar historical pattern. Much of the world still views homosexuality as something along the lines of incest.
I have the same problem with the anti-lockdown and anti-vax-mandate protesters here in Canada. You might have a valid point here and there, but as soon as you bring up how the Covid measures are "oppression" just like in Nazi Germany, you instantaneously turn yourself into an ignorant clown. What the hell is wrong with people comparing every policy or social trend they don't like to gassing millions of people to death? Get a grip and pick up a history book.
I don’t think that’s a fair portrayal of it. Rather, it’s a matter of observing that people are using the digital more because of certain advantages it has, and trying to think up ways of mitigating its disadvantages.

For a similar sort of thing, take the example of paper versus digital Bibles. For the last couple of hundred years until recently, almost everyone who cared about the Bible would have what I call a primary Bible; this helps immensely with memory and comprehension, especially spatial. Recently, many people have shifted to digital Bibles. I think this is terrible; very little software even pretends to be designed for reading (study is the typical focus, not that they do that well either), and none of it is; so I say no Bible software is suitable for use as a primary Bible. So I’ve been planning Bible software for the last few years, to answer the situation by seeking to get the best of both worlds, in significant part so that people that insist on eschewing the paper can have a less harmful option—though I think that it’s possible to reach a stage where I personally would switch from my increasingly-decrepit paper RSV.

The fact of the matter is that we have a habit of turning analogue experiences into half-hearted digital experiences, implementing the simple parts but ignoring the hard parts. Don’t complain because people are seeking to digitise more of the analogue experience, but rejoice when people contemplate the hard parts.
There's the other alternative which is similar to this App Store Bill: get the government involved. In California if you signed up with a button, you've got to be able to cancel with a button too. I like that way more than paying 20% to Apple just because they offer the same thing.
Mentally I'm great. I'm bulking up and now my tummy needs antacids 24/7, so I need help in that department.
Let them grief. All you can do is assist them on their daily chores as much as possible: cleaning, groceries, taking care of pets.
Looks very open. Would you get bears like wandering into the house?
Don't laugh, but I've landed some consulting/side gigs (most recently an I.T. project review with a recommendations report deliverable), based on people that I've met while out socially, and also intro's from people that I know that I run into socially. However, when out socially, I never start off by selling my services, but by having regular conversations, asking them what they do, et cetera.

I also blog about interesting topics in the Caribbean (which MSM rarely touches, at least in my neck of the Caribbean woods), and I use that as a convo starter when people ask me what I do (citizen journalism personally, CTO professionally), and what background I'm from (I.T. and business/commercial roles).

Hope that helps.
You just replied to him
I wrote that it doesn't need VR, not that it wouldn't benefit from it. My 2 cents is that currently and for the foreseeable future VR is not a big asset, I think it's clunky and ridden with fundamental problems we don't know how to solve even in the realms of academic research, much less in products we can actually make and sell for reasonable prices and so on. That said, it's orthogonal to the point I really wanted to talk about, that's why I didn't elaborate further :)
If you happen to compare what are (argued as) early weak signals, with the morality of the nazi holocaust in its last stage, then sure it's disrespectful. But this a kind of a strawman argument.

Alerting the possible bad outcome much later down the line, is not comparing the morality of these present-time signals to the bad future-time outcome that one could fear.

It's only with historical hindsight, that you're able to say that _of course_ these weak signals in Germany were early signs of a fatal spiral, and people should have known better. From the point of view of someone living at that time, it would have been much harder not to view these opinions as exaggeration.
Interesting, I didn't know about Web Bluetooth. Mobile browsers seem to have the most complete implementations [0].

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...
> But making it profitable to be the one with stock on hand in an emergency would encourage holding bigger buffers during the good times.

This isn’t always true. It is only the case if the long term incentives outweigh the short term incentives.

If the good has a long shelf life and it is a good use of the retailer’s capital, sure. Those are not certain conditions. Also, goods can go obsolete. Would it have been a good investment for CircuitCity to keep an extra 1000 units of Microsoft Zune in stock in case there was a pandemic?
When playing an 8-bit GB game on a GBA that is indeed what happens. It even uses the Z80 chip for sound in GBA titles.

That said, there is a homebrew GB emulator for GBA (Goomba), and at least one reason to use it: neither the Game Boy Micro nor the Nintendo DS can natively play 8-bit Game Boy games. As far as I understand it, the only reason why they can’t is because 8-bit Game Boy carts use 5V power and logic, but GBA carts use 3.3V power and logic, and there’s only so much power and switching circuitry you can fit into a pocket-sized gadget.
"Racial cleansing" in German universities took part in 1935, the "Final solution" (started in 1942) was unthinkable at the time, and the immediate consequences of the "cleansing" was that "just" "some people were not being able to give lectures", but that policy alone had indeed been detrimental for science in Germany. We have payed the price for those lessons, and have the right to learn from them.
Oh, it looks like a bunch of binaries now that I look at it....
> I think we can all sleep easy that the terrifyingly smart rich people made the right call on how to handle their own exposure.

My personal Venn diagram of "terrifyingly smart people" and "people involved with cryptocurrency" is a null set.
> A surprising finding here - that doesn’t match what I would have expected - is how Engineering is compensated 90% in cash. I would have assumed equity is pretty heavy for software engineers, especially in senior and above positions.

FAANG and similar jobs are equity heavy, but standard engineering employment is often more cash-heavy.

Working outside of FAANG, my base comp was significantly higher than FAANG base comp, but of course the total comp at FAANG would edge out my total non-FAANG comp.
That's what the BATNA is right now, but it's disastrous from the perspective of public welfare because it requires you to dedicate most of your mental energy to the job.
To those who say that if I don't sideload then this change won't affect me, I don't think this is true. Just because there aren't many alternative app stores on Android doesn't mean it won't happen on iOS. Developers will do this if there is a financial incentive. This is a forced fragmentation of the App store and will do absolutely nothing to improve the experience of a normal, non-HN-reading end user. This will in fact weaken the security for a normal user because they now can be tricked into installing malware without jailbreaking their phones.
> After you’ve had a bunch of excess deaths (of the oldest and most vulnerable) wouldn’t you expect it to go below normal after that?

This argument also works against vaccine efficacy.
It's coming soon! https://firt.dev/ios-15.4b
The whole concept of basic research is that it is inherently wasteful, as the vast majority of decent (as far as anyone can tell before funding) projects will not yield anything with practical short-term benefits. The projects with large returns can't be seen as rare and special before they are done, it's kind of ordinary and natural for projects which have actual scientific ambition and the potential to yield very large returns to be risky and uncertain; and it's also overwhelmingly common (if we look at historical examples) for the major benefits of the basic research to be impossible to know or describe before that research was done or funded.

If you want non-wasteful research, doing only "safe" projects with a clear path to expected results then you are simply committing to never fund any of the research that has the potential to yield very large returns, and not getting those returns. That is the key point - that attempting to eliminate wasteful research is counterproductive and results in throwing out the baby with the bathwater, so to say. It has a lot of parallels with VC funding, as with basic research just as with startups you can't tell which projects will "strike gold" before the work is done; you can and should do some basic diligence but if you throw out uncertain projects, then you throw out all of the really good ones as well; all the projects where you are quite sure about the results and can know that they won't be bad are the same projects where you can also know beforehand that they definitely won't be groundbreaking.
No amount of vaccination will avoid everyone getting infected sooner or later. The vaccinated who die will have died with vaccination mandates or without them. The unvaccinated who die fall into two groups. Those who would also have died vaccinated and those who do so as a consequence of their own choice. That's neither my business nor yours, it's theirs alone. We may argue with them, but we can't force them and claim to be more moral for it, quite the opposite in fact.
You do realize that law is using force. Law enforcement will uses physical force if the person they are arresting is violent or physically resisting.

This delegation is still force/violence is some form. Now unlike a private individual we hope... law enforcement does not go overboard with it.
>> Basically, war (or the threat of war) is what keeps militaries honest.

> It really does not.

I meant 'honest' in the sense of suffering if they bullshit themselves too hard. Not 'honest' in the sense of dealing with third-parties honestly.

Could you expand on your point?

>> Competition and the threat of bankruptcy keeps companies on their toes.

> Only some companies and some of the time.

Maybe. And that suggests that one goal of public policy should be to subject more companies more of the time to these pressures. Eg by abolishing tariffs, lowering barriers of foreign companies entering local markets or buying subsidiaries; allowing WalMart to become a bank, and banks to sell coffee etc.

>> One defense of free markets notes the inability of non-market mechanisms to solve planning & optimization problems.

> s/notes/falsely claims/

Not sure what you are complaining about here? If you read the rest of the introduction, it's rather clear from context that the author agrees with you here. (You don't even need to read the whole article for that insight.)
I like nautil.us also
The way you spin this topic to somehow still have Biden (aka "liberals") as the enemy is fascinating to watch.
Why not fund the solar panels directly if the goal is to have solar panels?

Net metering is a terrible deal for the utility, there's not really anyone that gets a terrible deal if you directly subsidize panels.
I believe computing (or even knowing about) the Wilson score is beyond the capabilities of your typical full-stack developer, but one could at least have the common sense to hide ratings until an item has a sufficient number of them (say, 10).
This article mis-represents criticisms of Angewandte Chemie publishing Tomáš Hudlický's essay (opposing efforts to increase diversity in organic synthesis) by attributing them to a "Twitter firestorm" while other publications note this event caused members of Angewandte Chemie's international advisory board to resign in protest, and other Chemists criticized the essay [1].

There may be a way to thoughtfully discuss this issue, but this article is a poor attempt at it.

1: https://cen.acs.org/research-integrity/ethics/Essay-criticiz...
I’d suggest you’ve also overstepped re “health care systems have collapsed”, especially as it pertains to the pandemic.

Health care systems run close to capacity with wait times under even normal conditions. Western Australia has had almost negligible covid-related illness and yet it’s healthcare system is still in a precarious state re load. Victoria only announced a code brown and cancelling/rescheduling of elective surgeries a month ago. Meanwhile over the larger two year time horizon our system has apparently collapsed I’ve had a shoulder reconstruction and my wife has two separate surgeries on each of her hands.

Our healthcare system is just a mess with unfortunate incentives around what is given priority. The pandemic is just a convenient cover for what is an extended period of under investment and a lack of resources. The same stories about delays in elective surgeries and people waiting years for hip replacements have themselves been central to the narrative even before the pandemic.
Please show me one grocery store where you can buy imitation human meat. Or ten strangers on the street who'd be OK with it compared to those who'd be OK with imitation animal meat. It is absolutely not acceptable.
I actually forgot that Xcode could install wirelessly! To me, unlocking the device and connecting it to the computer (which could be a mac mini next to my bed) is completely trivial. It really doesn't get much easier.
I mean they are and we should be concerned about both. Saying "why are we talking about X when Y is happening?" is just whataboutism, I think we can discuss more than one problem at a time.
What's actually horrible is committing acts of extrajudicial violence.
> a bunch of extra work

I'm having trouble believing that having a bit of extra food and water available is considered some large burden. It's universally suggested by all entities that deal with emergencies: https://www.fema.gov/pdf/library/f&web.pdf

> If I were in that situation I'd just move.

It's great that you have the freedom and resources to move around the country so easily, but I think that's a fairly rare privilege.

> is no replacement for solving the problem

I don't think I suggested it was. But it's not feasible that the problem will be solved in the next few weeks. For those next few weeks, fear and risk can be minimized with some "extra work".
This doesn’t actually help, because ending payment for a subscription doesn’t absolve you of legal responsibility, and you might at some point end up getting sent to collections over something stupid. Importantly, Apple can force companies as part of their terms of service to recognize an App Store subscription cancellation as an actual cancellation of obligation to pay.
There are many more checks in place to deal with law enforcement abuse of power. It's far from perfect, but vastly superior to individual vigilante behavior.
Quite different, but with a similar sense of discovery: Listening/watching to Harold Bloom or some other literary pundit or author, I scribble the mentioned titles down to look up and download later.
xkcd standards!
I think the issue is the tendency to group "X" and "Americans with X ancestry" together. I can't speak for Hungarians, but someone born to Finnish parents in the US is culturally not Finnish, if they have lived their entire life in the US. Their ancestry may be Finnish, but they have missed all the shared experiences and key events that have shaped recent Finnish culture.
USA's land area is smaller than Europe, but not by much, so I think it's fair to treat it as a non-factor. But the story changes if you also include Mexico and Canada...
Why wouldn't I know that? You don't know how to measure your own productivity? I don't work weekends because I'm not allowed to. If my company allows me to work 5 days and yours allows you to work 4, I will outproduce you. It's pretty simple.

This magical optimal rest-to-productivity gradient is dumb. That's why no sane college student is studying 4 days a week. In sheer production I will demolish you while you wishfully think your Friday of grazing about will magically make you 20% more productive than me the other 4 days.
Where is this data coming from? What is the dataset? Just curious
As somebody who works with immuno-compromised patients, where wearing masks was already common before the pandemic; This reminds me a whole lot about original resistance against hand washing [0]

Some measures are simply common sense practices and don't need an overwhelming amount of scientific studies to justify them. Particularly when the drawbacks to them are so minor, while the potential advantages are huge.

[0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashi...
It's already being sold by other companies. The cat has been out of the bag for years, you're just being notified. Don't attack the messenger.