skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So many "assholes" in this thread!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNB8IHfHdU
I've interviewed at places where the hiring manager would give your name to the front desk, and the front desk would ask for ID when you showed up and signed in. This never struck me as weird, maybe because the front desk checking your ID was standard practice in NYC by that point.
> Mandating people get vaccinated for diseases they already had is the height of dumb.

Why do you believe this? Do you assume there is no benefit to doing so? Or do you assume that the harms outweigh the benefits?

You'd be wrong on both counts. [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01676-0
I think the problem is not with compute itself but supposedly with higher level languages like GLSL and usability / expressiveness of their abstractions. You don't write your logic in pure SPIR-V.
Maybe a bit pedantic, but nerdfont adds icons, not ligatures.
>Why are so many Americans obsessed about Canadian politics all of a sudden? The comments here are mostly non-Canadian, and are not representative of the current general sentiment in Canada.

I'm in the US. I follow 2 Canadians (that I know of), AvE, who seems to strongly support the Truckers, but he seems to lean right. The other is Julie Nolke, who is unlikely to ever mention it.

Getting a clear picture of it was something I would have counted on the media to do in my youth, 40 years ago, but they have proven themselves unreliable and quite deceitful when they have motive to be. (Iraq invasion anyone?)

The Canadian government seems to be over-playing its hand, and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. This will not do anything but erode the trust in the government, which is bad for everyone.

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Here in the US, I've had my shots, and wear a mask in public. I've been dealing with Long Covid, so I take this stuff more seriously than the average person.

Our government here in the US has failed to manage its message in a coherent manner. We're told to wear masks, but far to many people here, when they do wear masks, use them as chin straps, or have their nose hanging out. People have given up, and now are just going through the motions.

Covid is endemic now, and even this failure won't push through the single payer system the US so desperately needs for its own National Security.

As for "vaccine passports"... I've heard the term, but have never had cause to deal with them.

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I miss Canada... we were there a few times before Bush got stupid and required passports. 8( Almost $600 just to get 3 passports is absurd.
Shame this is such an expensive paid font. Flagging for the shameless promotion.
> A death resulting from a clinically compatible illness, in a probable or confirmed COVID-19 case, unless there is a clear alternative cause of death identified…

notice the probable or confirmed case and know that hospitals (US) are eligible for additional reimbursement with covid “case” patient from a $100 Billion CARES act fund (at minimum)

>Individuals who received at least one dose was calculated as (# of individuals who received at least one dose) / (population estimate).

Deaths are also only attributed to Vaccinated category after 14 days from the second dose, else it’s a “unvaccinated” death.

This is the first vaccine ever where you can die 13 days after a vaccine, and be classified unvaccinated. It’s just magical how “science” to advance “public health” works.

https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm... — the source data for the site in the parent post
I don't have a horse in this race, but being able to specify a generic target and then having a documented manifest format sounds nice to me?

Then you'd be able to do the ol' "specify base url" and as long as that host answers appropriately it should Just Work ( also doesn't stop you from then having npm configured as the default ); source freedom without blowing up configuration complexity

Publishing on the other hand I don't have easy recs for that don't eventually result in a lot of special-casing; That said, npm, git-compatible, s3-compatible, and ftp-compatible would cover most use cases, I think? Beyond those deployment types, custom deployment needs may well be better suited to pay you for a support contract anyway? )
Low-Flying RAM Missile (Rolling Airframe Missile) USS Green Bay in 2016 [video]
You’re arguing that the deprivations suffered by the victims of one civil disturbance are not lessened in any way by the deprivations of a different disturbance.

That BLM, the Night of Broken Glass, and Selma do not make the lives of those affected by the “truckers” any better.

Those events create neither a defense nor condemnation of the “truckers.”

This is true, certainly.

But it does allow third parties (most people on this forum) to create a figure out how bad the situation is.

Likewise, it allows Canadians to assess the actions of their leaders decided if they are appropriate.
> - I ruthlessly pared down requirements.

This, I'm starting to think, is one of the most important parts of the job. When people have their heads down in technicalities, every requirement becomes a challenge they gladly accept.

But in practise, you have to match the workload to the workers. That's the only way to ever do things on time.

(Though I am useful when I reject requirements, I do try to teach my team to stop every now and then and consider the actual value of requirements for themselves. I don't want them to depend on me for workload adjustments.)
jDeploy can be configured to produce an app like this, where everything is bundled together. It will even automate the codesign and notarize process. However, to do this requires a Mac, and you still need to jump through all Apple's crap for certificates etc... I haven't documented this process officially because I didn't want to confuse the primary message.

For app store builds, jpackage is probably the way to go.
Good for exploratory programming but trying to make a single binary for any re-distributable app is a nightmare. PackageCompiler will always beat you up. And frankly, why can't Julia have a simple, single CLI command to create a binary like any other PL.
A while back, I wanted to try MonoLisa out for a bit before spending all of the money on it. I ended up finding the .zip on a shady website after some creative searching and used it for about a month.

I tried to switch back to another font and found that I was actually really enjoying MonoLisa... I ended up just spending the money since I felt a bit guilty staring at it for 8+ hours a day without paying the creators. Now, installing it is one of my first steps when setting up a new environment.
Cortex a7 is whats used on some raspberry pi boards, kind of overpowered for IoT I would think. Maybe as a hub device. Unless you go Juicero kind of cracy.
The Dutch kept records of peoples' religions. Their Jewish population fared remarkably worse than the rest of Western Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Net...
Okay, I dont know how to feel about this but.
This seems to be a literally rehashing of an article from 2011.
It even begins with the same damn text intro.
Attaching links for reference.
this article:
```
Rounded corners — they’re everywhere. From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner. In fact, designers have been using them so much that they became an industry standard rather than a design trend. But why are rounded corners so popular?
```

The article from 2011
```
Designers use rounded corners so much today that they’re more of an industry standard than a design trend. Not only are they found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as well. So what is it about rounded corners that make them so popular? Indeed they look appealing, but there’s more to it than that.
```

What do you think about this, HN?

Link for ref:
https://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-rounded-corners-are-easi...
> The fraud is only a problem because of an ancient model where snooping on a bunch of numbers printed on a card can be used to verify any random transaction.

No, there are plenty of fraud models that affect all payment methods, such as "hand over a box that's full of bricks instead of the product". Settling the payment exactly when the goods are delivered is often not practical.
> The TL;DR is that it's totally normal to have regulations, including for worker protection, that kick in only at a certain scale (say, employee head count) and that could probably work here.

OK, then that's at least a substantial comment on why you feel that HN is different, rather than the evasive ones you've been giving throughout the thread; you could have just led with that instead.
I share the sentiment of busymom0 and can relate how bad the healthcare is here in Quebec.

The hospitals have been overloaded and badly managed for a long time, way before the pandemic.

Most hospitals here have been operating above 100% capacity for many years. Waiting time to see a doctor have been reported to take in average 15 hours and up to 20 hours (pre-covid data in 2019) [1]. God forbid if you need to be hospitalized, as it can reach 24-48 hours sometimes.

Firing nurses over COVID measures before Christmas certainly didn't help, which is worth pointing out.

The politicians are trying to shift the blame of the bad healthcare systems happening under their watch to COVID.

[1]: https://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/2fe607e4-1054-4f10-9f56-703...
That's another expensive hobby to get into
You nicely ignored the 1 in 5 who do support the convoy.

Like I said, millions of Canadians.
Why do you think it’s (eventually) too expensive? Do you think distribution is too expensive?
These are all good points but unfortunately I can't decide where the state spends their money. It should be spent on educating people instead of trying to heal them after they get sick. The health insurance system should be revamped and the cost of healthcare should be lower too. I just can't do much about these issues right now.

All I'm saying is that we can't just say "well, then don't ask me to pay for your medical bills" to a human being just because they are being ignorant, negligent, or plain assholes, whether or not they pay a tax to compensate their choices.
I’d’ve gone the other way — the rounding makes clear that there is no direct link between b & c, where the orthogonal lines are suggestive of one.

The orthogonal straight line diagrams create a phantom b-c connection whenever you connect a-b and a-c.

Rounded diagrams can still have that b-c connection if it’s intended.
Totally concur with the other comments here - you were a great leader. The problem with “leadership” as a concept is that many people think it’s an active thing - pushing people to work harder and forcing your opinions into them. But that doesn’t work. Get out of their way and they’ll work out the most efficient way to get there.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, “If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea“
1. When we started to specialize in a vertical and created the narrative and the product for that vertical. This is esp. true in domains with many legacy players.

2. For some reason or the other, we have always had delays in announcing our fundraising rounds: both Seed and Series A announcements were delayed by 3-6 months. The moment we announced, we got a step magnitude more inbound customers. Lesson here is to not be a perfectionist and be willing to share the company/product publicly earlier, so you can incorporate customer feedback early.

PS: If it helps provide context for (1) above, our domain is fraud prevention; and we focused on payment fraud for Fintechs/Crypto instead of going after generalized fraud prevention across all categories like ecommerce.
The advice here seems to correspond fairly strongly with those of statistical process control, the method championed by Walter Shewart and W. Edwards Demming.

Processes are modeled as having "normal" and "special" causes of variance. In managing processes, there are risks involved in overmanagement of either, though the Wikipedia article linked below doesn't seem to mention these.

For special causes, building too many special-case checks can create an ossified process. For normal causes, a problem may arise that in attempting to manage what is essentially normal random variation, additional variance is added to the system, or management processes themselves inject further variation or failure modes.

For an example I only just ran across, the Fermi 1 nuclear reactor meltdown incident near Detroit in 1966, and event which gave rise to a book We Almost Lost Detroit, and a Gil Scott-Heron song of the same title. The cause of the meltdown was determined to be "zirconium metal plate that was installed in the reactor as a safety measure", according to a Detroit Free Press article on the incident. Not the first or last time safety equipment has contributed to an accident --- think of the 737 Max and its MCAS system failures, or the thermal insulation cladding of the Grenfall Tower which precipitated a disasterous fire.

I may be mis-recalling or mis-understanding Demming's points on process control, and if anyone could help nudge this the right way I'd appreciate it. I'm pretty certain there is a connection however.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_process_control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi_Nuclear_Generatin...

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/10/09/d...
"Also, it's possible to make college/university admissions very much anti-discriminatory simply by making them exam-based, and preventing those who check the exams from knowging who did the exam. This is how the system should work."

This is assumes you want to treat each individual as an individual. But, to progressives, an individual is just an anonymous 'representative' of an ethnic group.

If you had a system as you described, progressives would calculate the acceptance rate for each ethnic group. If the rate for each group were not equal, they'd consider that prima facie evidence that exam-based admissions are structurally racist.
Author here. I'm curious - what did you think of the chapter?
> While I'm here: Victor Mono has been my programming font of choice for a while now: https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/

This is an aside but it makes it really difficult to me to enjoy when the site requires javascript to show me a typeface.
>Union Pacific laid off an unspecified number of employees across the railroad system. Including members of its railroad-only police force. Despite record profits in the billions in the last quarter of 2021.

>According to the source, the number of patrolling officers has been cut from 50 to 60 agents to eight, which the worker thinks has led to an increase in train robberies.

It's possible because Union Pacific thinks they can get taxpayers to pay for their security, and they can funnel more profits to their shareholders.

https://www.lataco.com/union-pacific-theft-police-laid-off/
This 100%!

My experience here: https://twitter.com/paulstovell/status/1389881033470869504

This talk by Paul Kenny is a really good talk here about the value of the sales function even if you don't want the revenue:

Paul Kenny: Selling Sales to Techies (2010):
https://vimeo.com/96703844
Perhaps not coincidentally, today WebKit also blogged about availability of the API in Safari as well.

https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...
Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy and American History
I've worked on a huge space science project that was scattered across multiple countries in order to get the funding scale that the proposal seemed to require. We got the impression that in order to get the thing built, if we had relied upon a single organization to fund the project, it would have been far more easy to kill during development.

Most of us were new to this way of thinking. At the time, the engineers with the most experience in building these things had endured decades of minimal funding, and had learned to keep things as simple as possible. There was a lot of pushback against what was perceived as unnecessary complexity.

What is the quote, that organizations will expand towards supporting the organization, rather than the goals of the organization... Well.

Science is hard, rocket science more so. All of the other commercial launch programs have (as yet) failed to achieve anything close to sustainable orbital operations, unless they are also traditional aerospace defense contractors. ULA is Boeing/Northrop Grumman, and I can't recall but I think ArianneSpace is technically a commercial company rather than a national space agency. Both are very, very good at orbital launch. But comparing their funding structure to that of SpaceX seems a bit weird.
> Similar to GP I wouldn't be trusting NPM with this kind of thing

Have there been some events that cast doubt on the trustworthiness of NPM? vs, say Github?
Awesome response, thanks (glad you’re willing to be that guy). I’ll give ‘em a shake (and likely a tighten) next time. I didn’t have high hopes for the longevity of them; the parents are in school still. “Run these suckers into the ground and give ‘em away when you move” I told them. It was my first pocket screw build(s), so it was fun just for the learn of it.
This is what apps like photoshop.adobe.com and vscode.dev use to let you edit local files - with a fallback of single file access with input/type="file".

I hope Firefox and Safari support this API soon. The alternative of installing native executables isn't any more secure.
it's generalizing rather than looking at the individual characteristics.

If someone cant learn fast and that's an in important requirement to a position don't hire them.

But if the idea is statistically speaking old people don't learn fast so I am going to generalize and conclude I can't hire "old" people，that's bad and also is missing out.

This is the same idea behind racism, sexism, ... Assuming that because on average something is true so an individual coming to you will be judged first on an average of the group you see them in, above their Individual characteristics
JavaScript requirement for Markdown? Page views boost through terminal-unreadable documentation? Yeah... no.

I prefer ASCII drawing characters/boxes, similar to mentioned in this[1] and following comments.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275327
Agree, I bought some merch from the author as thanks :)
From the Ipsos poll:”A sizeable minority of Canadians (37%) agree (16% strongly/21% somewhat) that while they might not say it publicly, they agree with a lot of what the truck protestors are fighting for”
This is true. Getting datasets with the necessary quality and scale for molecular ML is hard and uncommon. Experimental design is also a huge value add, especially given the enormous search space (estimates suggest there are more possible drug-like structures than there are stars in the universe). The challenge is figuring out how to do computational work in a tight marriage with the lab work to support and rapidly explore the hypotheses generated by the computational predictions. Getting compute and lab to mesh productively is hard. Teams and projects have to be designed to do so from the start to derive maximum benefit.

Also shameless plug: I started a company to do just that, anchored to generating custom million-to-billion point datasets and using ML to interpret and design new experiments at scale.
For some reason they sent emails to some customers and not to others. A friend of mine got an email last month and we talked about it back then. I didn't get an email but recently got the pop-up notification. If I didn't have advance notice via my friend, I'd be pretty surprised/upset.

I've also noticed recently that the FPS of the cloud recordings seems to be dropping. My V2 in particular has very jaggy looking 'video' clips in the cloud.

My biggest issue with Wyze is that the SD recording isn't reliable. I have two V3s and they will just decide to stop recording locally for no apparent reason, and with no warning. When I go back to look at footage, it will just say there's no SD card installed. Super frustrating.
Example of how military objects are mistaken as UFOs or birds [video]
Those disagreeing with your comment might want to consider that it's very close in spirit and meaning to what JKM wrote in TFA:

Computers don’t have emotions; I don’t need to worry insulting the vast majority of S3 objects when I defensively check integrity every time. But humans are different; when we design a human system around uncommon cases, we do need to consider the ramifications on the majority.
This looks very impressive.

"You must have a Mac to make a Mac binary" has always been an annoying shortcoming of jpackage, especially for smaller or independent developers.

Congrats, and thanks. This is going to be very useful for many developers.
Not every protest is the same just because they call it that. The one going on in ottowa is a nonsensical, made up, cult based brainwashing that got spilled into the open. Don’t equate it to other genuine forms of protest.
It is annoying how badly the author does not understand the context of that function.

Specifically, this function is a part of Windows API, and that needs to support multiple languages, even the ones not designed by Microsoft. This, in turn, means you get the least common denominator -- so "using a proper type system" is simply not possible.

I think James Mickens described this very well in his "Night Watch" essay:

> You might ask, “[...] Why not use a modern language with garbage collection and functional programming and free massages after lunch?” Here’s the answer: Pointers are real. They’re what the hardware understands. Somebody has to deal with them. You can’t just place a LISP book on top of an x86 chip and hope that the hardware
learns about lambda calculus by osmosis.

In other words, there are already languages with proper type systems, sealed classes, and nice resource management -- but they need a low-level interface and that's what Brent glanced at.
From the description:

To demonstrate how the US Military can create UFO/alien propaganda using small video clips from their taxpayer-funded footage of military equipment/crafts/drones/airplanes/spaceplanes/rockets/missiles, we previously posted a short clip, showing only this submarine originating missile when it was the black object flying through the sky.

It looks like a cigar-shaped UFO.

Experts and critics called this object a bird. It was a rocket-propelled missile launched from a submarine. Others said it was fake.

But this is what the military internally labels as a UAP.

It's a military object, that has yet to be identified (the model number, country of origin, & manufacturer of the object).

The military uses the term "UAP" so as not to stigmatize sightings reported by military personnel. Such as what we've created here. UAP has been exploited by Hollywood and internet UFO Celebrities as meaning UFO. Unfortunately, UAP refers to military objects that are unidentified, before they are identified.
> the case I'm making is explicitly against socializing its services simply because it is big

So what is that case? If we gradually socialize organisations that get too big (based on judgements that will ultimately be somewhat vague, sure), what's the actual downside? The 3 dudes in a basement will still have the promise of literally more money than they can consume in their lifetimes. Maybe the amount of VC money sloshing around the system would drop a bit from current levels, but that might be no bad thing.
There's no causal relationship between the extra 3-6 months per round and the revenue increase?
With a name like 'Polaris' you'd think they would try a polar orbit. AFAIK no crewed missions have ever done that. Would be cool to see.
Yes—sorry. I changed the code that handles that the other day, and introduced a bug. And I thought I tested that part! but it should be fixed now, anyhow.