skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Abortion is far more serious. Abortion always directly ends a human life. Not getting vaccinated creates at most an indirect increase in the probability of other people getting sick and dying—probably a minuscule fraction of one life. Many decisions we make every day have similar statistical effects—taking an international flight which kills people through pollution, or buying products the production of which creates heavy metal poisoning in third world countries.

What is the incremental increase in covid deaths attributable to one person choosing not to get vaccinated, accounting for the fact that vaccination decreases but doesn’t eliminate the chances of passing on covid? What’s that compared to the incremental deaths caused by other activities?
Pretty much a bunch of tech-illiterate people buying the latest buzzword without due diligence. Lighting money on fire. Even the successes were bought at the all time high prices (Bytedance) or mismanaged (Arm) and brought negative returns.

Take a look at these comical slides from Softbank back when they took over WeWork after it collapsed: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/the-best-slides-from-softba...
This (designing processes for rare edge cases) is endemic not only in people processes, but in technology-enabled business processes. I've had numerous clients fall into the trap of trying to over-engineer their process flow with validations for every conceivable parameter and variation.

This sort of implementation inevitably becomes a mountain of technical debt that overfits to the current process and reduces operational agility when the current process changes. At some point with business applications you have to trust your people to do the work and view the technology as something that enables that rather than necessarily constrains every dimension of it.
That's soooo wrong. Projects like Servo were exactly the sort of things they should have been working on.
In the US, lawful search is limited to reasonable suspicion and warrants. This means that yes, some crimes do go unsolved that might be solved otherwise if police, or the state in general, had unlimited powers of search. It is a trade-off.
If you always assume you are right any opposition is an excuse to expand your power.
The clever part here is the 'private' account. The usual defense against a Sybil attack bruteforcing a predictive track record is simply that people can keep records or notice that whole swathes have been deleted. The private account here ensures Twitter will vouch for the timestamp, but no one can see them until after, and the privating is itself hidden/secret - you can't tell when an account was private (at least, not without access to fancy proprietary datasets).
"Replacement for X" is a vague phrase - will Julia take over every usecase of Python? Unlikely. Will projects with established Python codebases, that work well for them, suddenly switch to Julia? Nah.

Will new projects that need a flexible performant language, that would have otherwise been shoehorned into Python as the closest available option, choose Julia instead? Quite likely, and that happens a lot.

Python has its place, and is good at a lot of things. But there have always been a lot of projects that have straddled the line between numeric computing and general purpose computing, needing both, where Python was chosen for lack of choice, just because it was the best among the bad options. That's the pain point Julia addresses, and the people who have experience being stuck in that situation understand what its place is and why it has the success it has. (And being a well designed language that's a pleasure to use helps too.)
Maybe there is a better place to reply to this sentiment (which I find very difficult to believe is genuine) but threatening people with their livelihoods and their participation in society is just as much "forcing" as threatening with violence. We're a first world country, don't pretend forcing someone means holding a physical gun to their head
Someones choice to get an abortion doesn't give someone a potentially fatal disease.

Someones choice to not get vaccinated HAS led to significant deaths at this point. Via overloaded health systems, spreading the disease and of course, the much higher likelihood of death for those who are unvaccinated.

Drawing a parallel to abortion is absurd.
The stakes are clearly different. Pregnancy doesn't endanger others. There's very good arguments for mandating vaccines against infectious diseases. I think debating mandated vaccinations with regards to the realistic likelihood of eradicating a disease is a debate that can be had, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The common good must be weighed against individual liberty. Even here in America, the land of the free, we do it all the time. There are countless things I can not do because it would not be in the best interest of society as a whole. In all Western societies, and many others as well, individual liberties are commonly curtailed for the common good.

I, for one, am honored to give up some liberties so that I may help others.
The CCLA denounces invocation of Emergencies Act
Sure. As with every kind of insurance, it will be priced based on your risk; if your risk of being disabled is 100%, the price to cover you would be equal to your actual cost, and so not worth even offering.
> Can't you already do this with jpackage or graalvm to create native bundles?

With jpackage or graalvm you need a Windows machine to build your windows installer because it relies on 3rd party Windows tools for the installer. Likewise on Mac and Linux. Even worse, on Mac you need to Codesign and Notarize the app, which is painful every time.

> At least with jpackage you already get an installer, versioning and upgradeability.

With jDeploy, it will check for updates when the app launches, and will download them automatically, so your users are always on the latest version.
https://archive.is/QXprt
The issue is that to move 80x24 dots independently you need 80*24 physical actuators (or an enormous mechanical multiplexer), which is very expensive. Industrial looms and knitting machines have that but nothing much else does. However, the technology to solve computer braille without needing width*height mechanical actuators actually exists - the fluidistor, or liquid transistor - but is only just now getting serious development, and it's mostly in haptic feedback labs.
As a Canadian who used to love their country I now realize that the US is better.
Can you back what you say with specific examples and how it represents the general consensus of the movement?
It is very rare to encounter the word "plasma", at all, in any astro article, and vanishingly rare to encounter any mention of any plasma fluid dynamics phenomenon, as such, except in solar physics. Usually we read "hot gas". There has been some progress: x-radiation is not militantly insisted to be blackbody radiation from stuff at absurdly high temperatures, anymore.

MHD is the trivial, sanitized subset of plasma fluid dynamics that rarely occurs in nature, and is hard enough to maintain even artificially. But MHD maths are easier.

I am saying that astronomers seem, from any remove, to try hard to avoid discussing things that seem to require treatment with PFD. Polar jets are embarrassing because they cannot be ignored. So, how they work is just never mentioned in the popular press.
This looks extremely scary to me, they say you can avoid having to noterize your apps with apple and microsoft because their installers are already approved. What happens when someone publishes some malware application using their wrapped and noterized installer? Apple and microsoft will then flag all other applications that used jdeploy as malware as well since they are all relying on the same noterized installer application.

Super risky and definitely not a good approach from a security perspective.
Even more tangential than thou:

Why Does ‘Mother’ Sound The Same In So Many Languages?
The concept of “Mom” is universal — and, for the most part, so is the name we’ve given her. The reason is probably a lot simpler than you think.

https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/why-does-mother-sound-the...
Is heel striking bad? I am not a runner, but I've practiced heel striking while backpacking to give myself more foot-stamina. Maybe there's a better way?
If someone doesn't want to get vaccinated, they're very welcome to go work in a job that doesn't require it; I know people that are happily earning a living while unvaccinated. There is no right to be able to work exactly the job you want on your own terms.
If your programming language wants to use an ⇒ symbol there's a perfectly good codepoint for that already. I don't want complexity to be hiding in my font where I would never even think to look for it. (For example imagine searching the documentation to understand a use of ⇒ and finding it doesn't exist in your programming language)
the article uses science to come to arbitrary conclusions. some of their claims have no scientific evidence, but , for example, something being perceived as brighter is a good thing , it highlights it, it's not seen as a threat. corners are attractors for the visual system, and gradients give the perception of depth. Those are useful properties for UI design as they reduce the latency of our visual system by hundreds of milliseconds. I don't know if round corners have any real use
The corner in that picture looks absolutely disgusting, you can see the discontinuity. I would rather have a square corner if you are not going to bother to round them properly.

The way to actually produce rounded squares is to fix the curvature, and then solve for a corresponding curve. You want at least a differentiable function for the curvature. Something with a bit of a spike (think of a Gaussian, but make it level off to flat after the spikes). From the curvature you can use something like the Frenet–Serret formula, integrate and find a formula for a curve. You then approximate it with a bunch of bezier curves. Should get something nice and smooth.
Technically we have both and Canada's constitution is so messy the latter might also be in it.
Been using it in Gitlab for a while, was rather surprised Github didn't support it when I pushed a repo there.

There was an outstanding feature request on their forum for quite some while so didn't hold my breath for this to be added but glad it has.
Indeed, when the government can take away your ability to earn a living, it is communism.
>1. On the contrary, this is about giving everyone a fair chance. In no universe are protections for marginalized groups "racism".

this is exactly my point. back in the day "racism" really did mean "treating people differently based on race". https://web.archive.org/web/20071014174747/https://www.merri.... under that definition, "giving everybody a fair chance" or "protections for marginalized groups" could count as racism in certain cases. eg. "this scholarship is for black students only", or "you can't apply for this scholarship if you're asian or jewish".

>2. Pretty much 1:1 correspondence with the social determinants of health.[1]

So going off that list:

1. if you're a rich person protesting then that's bad because you're not marginalized

2. if you're employed and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

3. if you're well educated and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

4. if you haven't suffered childhood trauma and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

5. if you didn't grow up on the wrong side of the tracks and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

6. if you have social support and coping skills and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

7. if you have a healthy diet and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

8. if you have "access to health services" (live near a hospital and can easily take time off work?) and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

9. if you have better than average genes and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized.

10, 11, 12. if you're [redacted] and you're protesting, that's bad because you're not marginalized

If we're talking about truckers, we can definitely check off #3, and probably check off 1, 5, 7, and 8 as well. Does that check enough boxes to earn them "marginalized" status?
No one won a majority. It's a minority parliment. He represents less than a 1/3 of Canadians who decided to vote.
You understand that you can't just throw money and magically create doctors, ICU nurses, pharmacists, etc?
The other logical step in your line of thought is to query what is a problem and what is a success. Finding the right problem to solve to bring success most painlessly is another way to define great leadership.
Sophisticated design; new ideas to me. I suspect that the genetic component of ascertainment bias of “participating” vs “not participating” would be swamped by other genetic factors.

But I could well be wrong. Love to read opinions on the HN from members of the statistical genetics crowd ;-)
It's ok when we do it!!!
For VS Code see (1) and to selectively disable them (2).

For Atom see (3).

There does not appear to be a way to disable them in Visual Studio.

(1) https://stacksjar.com/post/use-of-font-ligatures-in-vs-code

(2) https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Coenraad...

(3) https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/issues/633
I really like julia. For certain problems matlab and python are unworkable. People complain about time to first plot, but that doesn't matter too much to me. The problem is that plotting in general is just not as robust or user friendly as Matlab or matplotlib in python. You can call matplotlib, But it feels like a second class citizen. Plotting just needs to be better with a clear preferred method. There are tons of options.
The insurance limit for a safe deposit box is surprisingly low. There just isn't a way to protect them well enough for really valuable things.
I'm not in faang :(
You round corners because that's what other designers started doing since Windows xp/vista times. The rest just seem like rationalizations.

Just go to any website and run:

document.querySelectorAll('*').forEach(_ => _.style.borderRadius = 0);

You'll barely even notice the change. I just tried it on all my most favorite websites. No change in "feelings".

The reason probably being the other UI fad, which is to make everything so lacking in contrast, that it's hard to discern the difference between round/sharp corners, even if you focus on it.
When I buy PC cases, I prefer the ones whose sheetmetal edges are rounded and not sharp. The sharp edged ones are knuckle cutters.
>Are they actually catching the truckers and injecting them vaccines against their will

Nobody said that. You're making a straw man argument.

There ware other ways to force than a physical strength and threats of violence. In Canada if you lose your job because of a vaccine mandates you can't claim unemployment benefits or welfare. I can't believe I have to explain this to an adult.
They lost those rights when they became the dominant player in the marketplace and started using that dominant position to unfairly limit competition.
I.e., not just heating.
I only do things I'm either interested in or that I have to do. A fake commute will just never be a thing for me.
Interesting that Canada has exceptions to their charter rights. Quite different from "inalienable rights" guaranteed by the US Constitution.
It’d be much cheaper for the government to ban cheeseburgers than pay for all those heart surgeries too.
I did look at the data. $4,311,287 listed their country as Canada, and $4,110,520 were from other countries. [1]

You're just wrong. Number of individual donors is irrelevant, the majority of cash is from Canada.

[1] https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODI3Y2UzMWQtMjE4MS00N...
I guess you could (or I could) divide A.I. into roughly two categories, "cool thing that uses things like Machine Learning" and then "appears to be sentient/likely to be more intelligent than humans" etc.

I'm old enough to have seen the goalposts on the first one move all the time, and that's not what I'm referring to, I'm more referring to the latter.
> The blackout caused major disruption to aid efforts following the disaster.

Speaking to a friend, apparently they currently use expensive international calls to coordinate efforts, limiting them to audio only.

In terms of immediate issues, they have been struggling to get enough drinking water to the islands as they usually get it from collection systems on the roofs, which are now contaminated.

An internet connection is just one part of the puzzle.
> And I have to add, if there was ever a vaccine to disbelieve in, it is this one, I mean honestly, it "prevents severe infection" - sure, is that justification for state compelled vaccination?

Yes it is.
So they are not trying to vaccinate them against their will but it’s more like the driver’s license thingy, i.e. you can’t drive on public roads if you don’t have a license?

If that’s the case why isn’t worded like that?
I've found that designing a programming language is a veritable mountain of compromises and exceptions. A language that rigidly follows rules tends to be intractable for users.
I'd wager that the vast majority of the time, you just don't notice them.

About the only time they are easily visible is in large type, when they really shouldn't be used.

It's kind of like right justified text. Done well, it shouldn't be noticed how it was done.
The differences very much matter.

You being pregnant does not increase the risk of my pregnancy.
No its not. This is pointing out hypocrisy.
Oh, ThoughtSpot. I spent a couple of months testing that out. At the time, it was hard to deploy amd didn't "scale down". That is, the smallest size we could deploy was something like 750 Gigs.

Also, the UI looked half baked, but I'm sure they have fixed that by now
There are a surprising number of internet-drafts that died before reaching RFC status but nevertheless were implemented, even became widely implemented standards. The sftp protocol ("filexfer" over ssh) is one example.

Does anyone know why this is? I've never been closely involved in the RFC process; is there some hard-to-clear hurdle at the end of it?
Or do away with performance reviews entirely. In my entire career I've never once seen a review cycle that was a net positive, and more often than not they cause the best performers who normally don't care about such things to become disgruntled and leave.

As a manager they create perverse incentives especially if you have a high performing team (which you want to have) that all deserves a promotion but a limited budget. The incentive is to keep that low performer around so you have the budget to promote the others.

It's a systematized way for management to shoot itself in the foot. But for whatever reason we think something must be wrong if we're not giving and getting report cards at the end of the year. Waste of time and counter-productive.
For my feeling, I find bevels provide me with the greatest relief.
The corners of their papers were all docked[1]. Recycling paper is certainly possible, just not terribly efficient. Throughout the story, they're extremely resource constrained. My question isn't generic, it's "how the hell does this aesthetic choice survive in that environment".

[1] https://www.famefocus.com/tv/33-things-didnt-know-battlestar...
> This is pretty severe by Canadian standards (we don’t have the same kind of protest culture the US does), but more importantly,

Fair enough. Prior to BLM the US protest culture was much milder as well. :/

> However, I think what’s happening now has moved somewhat beyond what we should tolerate.

I can empathize with the frustration of traffic and noise disruption, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to set the precedent of giving the PM the power to suppress his own critics peacefully protesting.
During the pandemic a huge number of businesses recurred to phone-first scheduling software where you have to show some kind of QR code. Bars offer QR menus by default. Contactless payments have become the default. A lot of banks require 2FA to log into their systems. They're about as essential as they can be.

And for the record, governments have laws to step in when gasoline or food supplies become unavailable. And in the US, at least, being able to drive is seen as a right in the eyes of the public.
> So are you saying that my parents and grandparents, who went on strike and participated in worker unions, were wrong, and that they should have accepted labour laws as they were back then, since those laws were conceived in a democratic society hence they were fair by definition?

No, I'm saying that democracies choose the laws to benefit the people who live in them, as opposed to dictatorships. Sometimes, the people in the democracies aren't smart enough to choose laws that benefit them (like the US states that made laws against vaccine mandates and had predictable healthcare rationing as a result), but that doesn't change the purpose of the democracy or its laws.

> we already have that, in many advanced economies

And those advanced economies are free to open up. Denmark already has. Canada, whether by having too low a vaccination rate or too little healthcare, is not among them. Hence, the need for mandates to get there.

> preventing someone from having a barbie on a certain day vs. firing someone from their job - not exactly two comparable situations

You're comparing a law with a punishment for breaking a law, which is a nonsensical comparison, as you apparently agree, but why make it? The key comparison is whether both laws are beneficial, and they are.
> Here's a CEO job offer: take on a nearly impossible task, for a salary that is far below the market rate. If you fail (and you probably will!) it might damage your career and make it harder for you to find another job. If you succeed, you will get prestige, but you still won't get a lot of money.

Keeping in mind that "below market rate" is still "retirement within a few years at the Mozilla CEO's rate.

So even if your career were damaged, and it's easy to not have it damaged, you can retire after like 3 years. That's a fine insurance policy.

> If you succeed, you will get prestige, but you still won't get a lot of money.

Of course you'll get a lot of money.

1. You can give yourself a raise. If the Moz CEO had come in and we saw market share increasing do you think anyone would give a shit about increasing their pay? The issue is it's tanking and they laid off a ton of people at the same time they took a huge pay raise.

2. Executives are compensated with stock. Company does well, your stock goes up.
That is such a great idea. Thank you for sharing that.
My knowledge of quantum computing is very basic but the claims by Geordie Rose were so fantastic that I still have a hard time believing his explanation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlRVMNVXm3Q

Essentially he claims that quantum computers can make calculations across parallel universes, the number of which is dictated by the number of qubits are available for processing. If it's true, seems to me that quantum computers can do lots of things like for example, take every possible private bitcoin wallet address and calculate the public address and return that private address value only if it matches a public address with X number of bitcoin.