skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could engineer new sub-races of human beings, starting from ethnic templates that are already healthier and more Life-Safe, and edit them responsibly to optimize them for performance, health and safety in their specific work environments, phasing out all but a small helpful "stock" of the "heirloom races" to copy-paste from as needed like a genetic palette. All disease could be completely eliminated, with Life-Safe Code and a healthy, well-maintained walled-garden of people-platforms. "Terroristic" enemies of the state-corp agglomeration who politically threaten our health and safety with their enclaves of unedited harmful genomes could all be converted into slug-things (a form fitting of their pathetic, childish tantrums) with a totally sound-proof membrane over their mouth; after all they have a right to speak, but there's nothing about a right to be heard.
Ask HN: Public access to CDXs (or their indecies)? (Part 2)
See part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29518891

Long story short, after talking with them, two months later they redirect https://cds.ihsmarkit.com/markit.jsp -> https://ihsmarkit.com/products/pricing-data-cds.html

So my worries because of their aquisition by S&P Global have came true again… lol

And people wonder why i'm so bullish for on-chain derivatives… it's because of shit like this…
Well, yes, that was the point of the round rects in Macintosh 1984 design: change the perception of what a "computer" feels like.

The rich, Corinthian leather in later Mac design... sigh.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_leather

https://www.cultofmac.com/189707/steve-jobs-himself-is-respo...
To be fair if your target segment is not privacy focussed HN crowd, think of an alternative option instead of npm release, dont try to replace it tho.
In real world very less people want to go thru the hurdle of seeing things up. HN crowd has been wrong in some huge projects. Take the feedback and implement if it makes sense to your target segment.
Ultimately you must ask if you would prefer tyranny of the majority or tyranny of the minority.
In Ontario, today, around 80% of the population are vaccinated, so those 20% are making up half the ICU load. You would then expect something like a 40% drop in ICU occupancy from covid if they were vaccinated.

> The case for vaccine mandates or vaccine passes make absolutely no sense when you look at the actual data, actual reality.

Except it does.
Honest question: why is it sad? There’s another thread[0] going on here right now about how human processes shouldn’t manage pathological cases with policy and procedure. Moderation is all about pathological and edge cases. Mod actions that work on some users every time may not work at all on others. I don’t believe treating us all the same is the best way to get quality discussion, and transparency is not an end in itself outside of government.

So how… how would a moderation log and strict policies make HN a better place?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30340588
> It's intended to restore equity by giving greater opportunity to those historically disadvantaged,

No, it literally isn't. Bakke in 1978 said that affirmative action is justified because diversity benefits everyone. It is not supposed to be used to favor historically disadvantaged people, and of course, after Bakke, universities don't claim to be using it for that purpose.

Of course, you may say that the universities are lying through their teeth when they claim that. You'll probably even be right. But taking them at their word, affirmative action is not "intended to restore equity by giving greater opportunity to those historically disadvantaged".
So, you are not even a native English speaker then? Oof. You have my respect.
Neat! Hadn’t used Mermaid before today, and it was easy enough to pick up to do a same-day turnaround for a client-facing PR with an embedded flow diagram to support a needed discussion. I’ll be interested to see if/how visual diffs work out for this.
I want Firefox to succeed. But that doesn't mean I will use an inferior browser, especially when I feel the decision makers at Mozilla are out of sync.
For those interested in the problems, and solutions, that increasingly complex businesses and operations provided and created, I can't recommend James Beniger, The Control Revolution (1984) highly enough.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/control-revolution-technologi...

https://archive.org/details/controlrevolutio0000unse

https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=01E624258AF1B44F6649B02...
For people who don’t speak German, what is this?
Given we're talking about Canada's democracy, constitutional democracy is implied. Thanks anyway for performing the tedium of explaining the differences for our fellow readers.

And respectfully, no I'm unable to take sides because I don't have skin in the game.
Depends on your audience. M4 is decidedly midrange to me. Modern low power would probably be an M0, to others it still means 8 bit AVR.
I'm not sure how much this answers your question, but Congress put out a "EARN IT Act Myths and Facts" documents that contains the following text:

> MYTH: The EARN IT Act is simply an attempt to ban encryption.
> FACT: The EARN IT Act does not target, limit, or create liability for encryption or privacy services. In fact, in order to ensure the EARN IT Act would not be misconstrued as limiting encryption, specific protections were included in the bill to explicitly state that a court should not consider offering encryption or privacy services as an independent basis for legal liability.
Vision Fund's minimum term is 12 years, and it will likely go on for a lot longer than that. Comparing its very early years to a stock market bull run is pointless. Like 40 out of 400-500 total investments have even seen an exit yet.
That’s kind of exactly how it works. Why do you think people are dropping out of law school for coding boot camp?

Why do you think our hospitals are understaffed? It’s not because of the great pay of the Canadian system
This is obviously a gross oversimplification, but it's exactly the kind of napkin maths that people need to make before they pass judgment based on no more than gut-feeling and misguided suggestions from the internet.

Add to that that the true cost of Covid-19 in survivors (including asymptomatic and mild cases) remains to be seen in terms of DALYs/QALYs, and is known to be significantly greater than zero. [1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00403-0
I love how this game is addictive but impossible to spend that much time because you're restricted to one puzzle a day. This means I don't feel guilty getting sucked into it.

I enjoyed reading the story behind the creation.

https://every.to/news/introducing-wordie-bird

Congrats, Nathan — your grandma would have loved this!
We generally tell people we're banning them and why, but there are two major exceptions: spammers and serial trolls. By serial troll I mean someone who we banned at least once already and who shows up again and again with new accounts to break the site guidelines, knowing perfectly well what they're doing. When people do that, it no longer makes sense to post a "we're banning you" comment every time—they've already made quite clear that they don't want to use HN as intended. Your account, if I'm not mistaken, is very much in the latter category. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, you've done it dozens of times by now. That's why we shadowban the new ones.

None of this is new (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), and you guys aren't likely to get very far with the community about this.
Going Big with TCP Packets
My take -- curious to know counter points or alternate thoughts:

1. Novelty drives some preferences and trends - so there will be cycles of round corners followed by squarish corners and back to round corners.

2. Whatever is DIFFICULT to achieve with current commonly available tools and technology is considered classy and EASY is considered cheap. In early Web days, HTML tables and DIVs only supported square corners. iPhone/iOS with it's rounded buttons and text boxes was all novel and engineered UX. Now it is easily supported by simple CSS -- I see rounded corners overused in even government websites with horrible UX so rounded corners do not automatically invoke a premium feel anymore unless there are other elements of careful UX design.

Same argument about "hand-drawn" illustrations feeling special when hard geometric lines and clean curves are more common/easy.

Similar reason why use of Times New Roman and now Calibri font (default in MS Word) feels lazy.
There is so much wrong in this post.

> People keep telling me this, but I keep beating the market.

"Humans keep telling me it's hard to predict football games, but if you just squeeze your tentacles up and down enough you will get it right as I did"

-- Paul the Octopus, who predicted all world game results

There are millions of people trying to predict the market. Of course there will be people that did good, and these people (such as yourself) will all be convinced that they got it right for a reason.

But individual experiences mean nothing against the law of large numbers. You yourself have no way to know whether you're good or lucky, unless you show us an algorithm that consistently achieves the results you claim to enjoy.

Remember these simple facts:

- the less you trade, the further away you are from your real average predictive power. If the game is a coin toss and you play 2 times, there is a 25% chance that you get a 100% success rate, and go to HN to boast about how guessing a coin flip is easy. Try to keep that performance after 5000 games and it's an other story.

- Are you able to compute your idiosyncratic returns correctly? Can you show us that your portfolio returns, once residualized on sector, country and beta, are actually any better than a random pick?

- You pretty much only talk about good old common sense fundamental quality / value, which is far from being a major part of equity returns. You reasoning will work for one stock, and not for an other one. A sime value based strategy as you describe is vastly negative on a 20 year period - in absolute terms (not even compared to the market).

- You seem to have no understanding of diversification, and idiosyncratic risk. Companies can fail for an infinite amount of reasons. The less positions you have, the more sensible to "single company failure risk" you are exposed to. Very good companies, with solid earning and projections, did fail on the past, for reasons such as "top management scandal", "defective line of product", "banned from operations in a country", etc etc.

To anyone reading this comment, just remember that 90% of stocks returns do NOT come from the company itself. It comes from the drive of the market or sector as a whole. By investing in broad index funds you lower your specific risk, and get overall exposure to what drives the vast majority of the stock returns.
All of these have some exceptions, but are for the most part true:

high energy physics

lots of computational bio

fluid dynamics

rendering

In general, python and matlab really struggle in problems where you want maximum performance, but the most efficient algorithms aren't vectorized. In some cases, this is solvable by writing python libraries in C/C++, but especially in scientific fields, the end users are often the same people writing the algorithms, so they don't gain much from a python library if they have to do all the hard work in C++ anyway. Julia gives them a way more productive dev experience while still having a good user experience.
A lot of states ban nunchucks (sometimes as "ninja weapons") and butterfly knives. It's highly variable throughout the US.
The pandemic killed a lot of good bets at Soft Bank. The rogue wave was not kind to anyone.
Take with a grain of alt b/c I'm not blind and my accessibility training is not formal, just learned from a job.

The built in mobile screen readers are not hard to setup. Enable in the settings and you can play around with it to grok how it works and how to navigate the UI tree with it.

Lowest hanging fruit always seemed to be making sure all the controls you wanted on your page were reachable with accessibility navigation (ie tabindex/focusable) and that the spoken labels were sufficient without sighted context.
A common misconception is that anyone who terrorises someone is a terrorist. It's an understandable mistake but it's wrong. Terrorism has quite a specific definition.
Reverse intelligent search is sweet
The funny thing about the occupation of Ottawa is that it is very small! There have been many protests on parliment hill itself with ten times the headcount without incident.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/photos-climate-strike-...
The arson seems to be a hoax:
https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1490741074066825225

There's also another supposed hate hoax:
https://twitter.com/jonkay/status/1490439304224686082

The fact that such a "violent" protest requires so many hoaxes to justify the characterization should help you triangulate the truth.
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.

While invocation of the Emergencies Act is always concerning, it's pretty clearly warranted here. There's always chance for abuse, but Trudeau's minority government is on thin ice and if they cross any lines they're as good as gone.

I can only imagine the chaos that would unfold if this was happening in Washington, D.C., but it's not. I know some outraged Canadians who support the protests/blockades, but most of them are either extreme right wing (a comically small population compared to USA) or heavily biased through being directly impacted by restrictions (like the travel industry).

The vast majority of my friends, family, colleagues, strangers on the street, business owners I interact with, lawyers, CEOs, investors, healthcare workers, waiters, bartenders, bus drivers, teachers... are all in strong support of putting an end to the disruption, and in favour of vaccine passports, mask mandates, gathering restrictions, etc. to protect public health.

Compared to the USA, Canadians care much more about what's best for the collective whole than about personal freedoms. This is simply a case of a small minority causing problems for the majority, amplified by the fact that the USA leans towards supporting the protestors.
Full screen desktops before smartphones were also in the 15"-19" range. The idea of a 27" monitor being close to normal is far more modern than smartphones.
He said he uses Voip. Presumably, he opens up his laptop and makes a call from a cafe if he needs to.
I imagine that the tests done routinely at childbirth are not a full genome sequencing. The samples can be kept for full sequencing later in the event of a sale or research project.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is still the case. Rule of thumb is that sqrt is on the order of 10x as expensive as integer addition, though this obviously depends on a lot of factors.
Well, heel striking sends shocks through your spine, unless buffered via sufficiently springy shoes.

If you have strong earmuffs, consider trying them while running, and you'll hear the shock if it travels up to your neck. Switching rapidly will probably cause injury, but I haven't heard about any sizable subset of the population being unable to adapt.

Another helpful effect is that you don't need shoes to run if you're toe-striking on a clean&smooth surface.
WebRTC-HTTP ingestion protocol (WHIP)
Everything after the first 1-2 paragraphs in the readme is in English.
I said $40k per person was enough to build an ICU bed for everyone in Canada. My assertion is honest. And you’ve provided no data / argument to refute it.

Not sure what province you are in but using the Canadian average and a 40% increase in beds, that’s roughly $50 million per bed. That is quite frankly a colossal waste of money. Do you feel that this is money well spent?
Using Device Tree Overlays, Example on BeagleBone Boards
sp500 has both better returns and better diversification so less overall risks. And I am sure Vision Fund has higher expenses ratio than most of sp500 indexes. The only ones winning here is the execs of the fund.
> Neighborhoods were burned to the ground

This is the first I'm hearing of this. Which neighborhoods were burned to the ground?
Norway is the only country with immense oil wealth.
Photo-ID cards are reasonably common at many organisations, and are part of the on-boarding process.

Less so in smaller start-ups, but part of the process.

If you don't have ID cards, they could be part of, say, a company directory, wiki, or other system.

This isn't inherently adversarial and can be integrated into proceedures reasonably smoothly.
I was commenting for the Americans. In the US you get a "meagre" state pension (social security) and people believe that Europeans have so much more...well that US state pension is on average $1500. But Americans have in general much better private funds, because they have lower taxes.

Before you ask, healthcare is free for retirees.
The brain is incredibly good at pattern matching while not necessarily being able to articulate why they came to that decision. Organic chemistry has these types of relations in spades. Say for example crystallization. You can kinda brute force it; there's only a few dozen realistic solvents to try, but that's a single solvent system. Then there's binary and ternary solvent systems. Then there's heat/cooling profiles, antisolvent addition, all kinds of things. Hundreds or thousands of possible experiments.

You might just decide that a compound "needs" isopropanol/acetone, plus a bit of water, cause something vaguely similar you encountered years ago crystallized well. You often start with some educated guesses and refine based on what you see.

But there's often no clear hypothesis, no single physical law the system obeys.
More formal investigation into what? That sounds tyrannical to me.
I, for one, lament the new ecological direction of MacBook packing materials; there's damn little bisphenyl to get high on these days.

More seriously: I found the examples in the article quite interesting. "Which of these is easier to look at?" The high frequency of the starlike shape (spiky circle?) and the fork tines induce a bit of fatigue versus the given example alternatives. But I found the curved lines and the grid of rounded rectangles to be of a similar noise: added visual complexity that required more effort.
I haven't seemed to be running into any problems ... yet ... with JavaFX maven dependencies. It pretty much Just Works(tm).

A single main dependency (org.openjfx/javafx-control) and a plugin (org.openjfx/javafx-maven-plugin) and you're off to the races. I don't install JFX into the JDK at all (not even sure, honestly, if that's still a thing).

I have more problems with JDK 9 modules (which modern JavaFX seems to support, but good luck with much of anything else of size).

Since I am pretty much awful at GUI programming, I've made a lot more progress with FX on my home projects than Swing. It's no panacea, but it's been working for me.
Ask HN: Interview with Potential Team
I have an upcoming interview with the team I would be working with. This is the first time I have an interview with a team.

I will only get 15mins for it and not sure what kind of questions to ask so I can know this is the team I would want to work with.
How much refactoring do you tend to do at the start of a project and do your tests help refactoring?
It’s not a small minority, it’s more people than voted for Trudeau’s govt.

In Canada we call that a plurality. As for wether it’s warranted and 8 of 10 premiers are against its invocation in their provinces.
Have you tried telling them you are moving from the incorrect address to the correct address?

I can see someone overlooking the need to support address corrections because that is probably a rare case, but customers moving within the company's service area and wanting to have service at the new address surely is common enough that they cannot have overlooked supporting that.
Ask NDP voters what they think! Bloc too! It is a minority parliament, if the position of the government was not well supported the government would have fallen..

This is not some pre-covid majority exploiting an old mandate like the Ford or Kenney provincial governments, yours is a very weak argument.
What a wonderful app. Thanks for sharing, I'm going to sign up to volunteer.
Pretty sure Apple/Safari and Microsoft/Edge have the monopoly shield taken care of at this point. Firefox on its current trajectory will bleed to death slow enough for nobody to notice. Mozilla stopped innovating in the one product of theirs anybody cares about. I sort of wish Mozilla would die faster so the current executives bleeding it dry would move on, and hopefully someone who actually cares about more than the money could revive it.
Going by OP's description, Flex and Bison appear to be well suited for what he/she intends to do. There is a bit of a learning curve, but I think it's well worth it. I have been working with both for a few years now and find them very flexible.

FYI, Bison supports parsers using either LALR(1) (Look-Ahead Left-to-Right with 1 token lookahead) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser] or GLR (generalized Left-To-Right) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLR_parser].

O'Reilly's book "flex & bison" by John Levine is a helpful reference. [https://www.amazon.com/flex-bison-Text-Processing-Tools/dp/0...]
>You're discounting the effects of long-covid. ... You discount the hospital burden and the fact that saturated hospitales mean triaging and people dying of easily treatable causes.

vaccinating low risk people has no effect on all of this. The close to 0 risk of hospitalization becoming 20 times closer to 0 doesn't affect the total hospitalization numbers, at best it is a noise.

> if the standard vaccination schedule for children doesn't have dozens of vaccines

i have said nothing about the well proven working vaccines. You're advancing anti-vax movement position by mixing together the working vaccines with the zero effect for the most people covid vaccines.

>century-years of experience on these topics

the covid is 2 years old. The mRNA covid vaccines is even less than that.

> is worth treating with extreme measures

wasting resources on the measures that don't work makes things naturally worse.
> Just the time you have to communicate what's on the screen (much less being able to quickly communicate what's on screen) is so tight on a shooter for example.

There's an episode of Person of Interest that provides at least a possibility here: "Let's try an ascending tone cue for right, descending for left.". The tone then switches to beeps when on target.

Feels odd sharing a youtube link in the context of this post, but if anyone wants to see/hear the scene I'm talking about it starts at 1:21 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHIo96yBf70

(Just for a bit of context the character doing this isn't blind, but these cues are helping her shoot people through walls. The episode is the second season finale, titled "God Mode".)
Please don't spam by repeating the same comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30342032
This is the dark side / failure mode of checklist-based processes.

Yes, checklists and process standardisation will avoid numerous types of errors and issues. However one of your checklist processes must be to assess the checklist itself, weeding and refactoring the checklist itself from time to time. This includes recognising that the refactored checklist will itself have further issues and shakedown bugs.

Ultimately process is a compromise between what can be kept in working or near-at-hand memory, and what's both sufficient and required for the particular problem domain.