skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> convenience always wins

Until people discover that the next place they wave their watch has customized the transaction based on the previous place they waved their watch. It's all fun and games until a voice speaks behind the one-way mirror, shattering illusions of payment neutrality, e.g. the incident in Canada which prompted the original article.
Two additional remarks:

> 1) About half of those people in hospitals were vaccinated.

Considering Ontario is 90% 12+ fully vaccinated and 85% 5+ fully vaccinated[1], this means somewhere in the neighbourhood of say 15-18% of the population represents 50% of our hospitalizations, likely a lower percentage, since as you note this tends to hospitalize people in older cohorts.

> 2) Vaccine mandates do not considerably improve vaccination update, especially among elderly who benefit the most from vaccination.

Firstly, Ontario's elderly are massively vaccinated. 80+ is 99.99%, 70-79 is 99.99%, 60-69 (which I wouldn't consider elderly these days) is 97.37%.[4] This isn't due to anything very recent either, the rates have been 90%+ two doses for the 70+ crowd since August of last year.

Secondly, if this were true, you would not expect to see upticks in vaccinations coinciding with mandate implementations. Yet in [1], in November of 2021 you see a clear uptake in vaccination doses administered. This coincides roughly when 5+ were authorized for vaccination[2], as well as when federally regulated industries began requiring it.[3]

You can see from the raw data in [4] first doses between Nov 1 2021 and Jan 1 2022 was 468,443 for 5-11s, 28,257 for 12-17s, and 220,641 for 18+. Nearly a third of all first doses during the time period when 5-11 just became newly able to be vaccinated came from Ontario's adults. There was an 88.5% vaccination rate among 18+ at the start of that time period and there was a noticeable dip in vaccinations due to the holidays (you can see this in the booster #s too). You can question the motivations of those people but I think the numbers at least suggest that the mandates do have a part to play in driving people to get vaccinated.

[1]: https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data

[2]: https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-e...

[3]: https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-canada/news/2021/10/manda...

[4]: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=171000...
Ask HN: Why don't more software projects use BitTorrent for downloads?
It seems like it would be great for open source projects with limited funding to use BitTorrent for downloads. However I only see a handful of projects using this model, e.g. LibreOffice and GIMP. Whereas a lot of Linux-based OSes just host their disk images over HTTP, which I imagine could incur substantial hosting costs over time.

Why don't more software projects do this? Are there any big downsides to distributing torrents as opposed to traditional FTP/HTTP downloads?
Since all the local TV stations and newspapers were bought out by conglomerates, they have been ruined. Local TV news is just random crimes and feel-good stories

I'm older enough to remember local news before all the stations were bought up, and it was exactly the same. Nonstop horrible garbage.

Classic "kid stuck in the well" stories, a local news staple, go back to at least the 1940s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Fiscus
They did change the audio chip due to supply chain issues. My laptop was right around the time they changed so I'm not sure which I've got. But there's an audible tone and then static and then an audible tone when there's no sound. So it's obvious that it's switching on and then off.

This is with a pair of akg K371.
Cash is only legal tender for debts. I can run a business that refuses cash as long as services or products are not rendered before payment. I can say that if you want to eat at my restaurant, you need to use credit or debit cards only.
For your first points, why not just use RSS feeds? Otherwise many blogging platforms support multiple authors for a single blog and categories/tagging which can also achieve something similar
My theory is that it's not something caused by 'adversaries' but is, in fact, a 'workplace injury'. The common denominator is that the victims are all 'Government officials', in countries all over the world.

Those officials are doing something in the course of their job, or are having something done to them as part of their jobs, that the cause comes down to 'workplace injury', and the Government is trying hard not to have to accept that it may be liable for millions/billions of dollars in Workers' Compensation claims.
The Metaverse Is Coming; We May Already Be in It
Love the no tracking mojo, but it would be great if I could be able to "collapse" (equivalent to HN [-]) a site (hide all that site's stories) and have that setting remembered when I come back.

Putting it another way, I'm fine with manually parsing the long list, as long as I can manually exclude whole sites from hitting my eyeballs and have that work remembered next time I visit from the same device.
Nah, we're just not talking about the same thing.

He's saying that using cash is inconvenient because no-one uses cash where he is.

I'm saying that it's not because at its' core it's fundamentally just handing over a bit of paper.

It's not a statement about how many people accept cash where I am. I can't easily pay my mortgage with cash directly either. The point is that it's not an insurmountably difficult thing.

There also seems to be this bonkers strawman thing going on whereby loads of people seem to think I'm saying "don't ever make a non-cash transaction" which is bloody stupid. It's like, _a priori obvious_ that it's stupid. I hate this aspect of online discourse - if the thing you think I'm saying logically makes no sense, then I probably am not actually saying that thing.
The code design is also very elegant in its simplicity.

You have two static lists of words in the JS code - known words, and a smaller, random pre-shuffled list of words the game will select from.

The selection is done on the client, by date, from the second list - every day at midnight (your local time!) the next word in the pre-shuffled list is selected - no hashing or randomizing or anything. No cookies are involved in making you play one game per day, no server side calls are involved in gameplay at all. And yes, this means that changing your time zone will let you play tomorrow's game, and that you can just view source to know tomorrow's word - it appears right after today's word in the code.

This is so counter to how we usually design software in so many ways, it's just delightful.
The Reserve Bank Of New Zealand recently said that it's going to cost about NZ$100/per person, per year to continue maintaining NZ's cash 'system'.

It's beginning to research how that cost should be minimised, and how it should be recouped, because if vendors start charging cash-handling fees, it's likely to be unfairly distributed.
Nginx would benefit from a simpler higher level instruction set or an official 2-5 recipes as I'm sure 99% of the implementations doing a few basic things and dont need the ability to screw it up.
It's totally disingenuous to use phrases like logging in detail when there are no details to log.

> if my guess was wrong...

As I have previously said, you're totally wrong and your misunderstanding is so far from what I said that it's hard to understand how you got there. You asked if CDNs that don't track user data needed to worry, I gave an example of one which doesn't track user data and still got into trouble.
>the MVRDV philosophy concerning the densification and greening of cities

Could have planted 6 million worth of trees. But no their philosophy of "greening" involves fake, ugly & temporary structures?

They can blame "loveless execution" all they want, but no amount of love could have saved that concept.
Maybe a Black Mirror episode.
I mean, isn't that just a demonstration of how there's interconnection between it all?
What does representation theory and Fourier transforms have to do with neural networks (I've not properly studied ML)?
Governments have a nearly perfect record of moving towards tyranny. Who could have anticipated Canada's move? I would have guessed Donald Trump would have attempted such a move against BLM protestors, but the move came from the Left. The media, is almost completely silent, and not one western government condemned Canada's actions.
Not to mention that the protests were against vaccine measures to fight COVID while millions of people are dying from it. Context is important here.
Interesting, Im not sure why that question was picked though.

You are given choices of “identifying” as Rep/Dem/Ind. Only two of them are real parties.

What does it mean to be independent then? Is it more like undecided?

Im not sure you can call that a political party.
Because it kills without consulting the people who put it there.

AI is also programmed; it attacks when the score returned by the threat function exceeds a threshold.

Unless we're talking about AGI, in which case I misunderstood and assumed we were talking about AI that we can currently make.
Decades ago, someone's reputation was in a large part based on their ethics. Nowadays, with globalization, money and rank act as substitutes for a reputation; ethics and morals are seen as hurdles to achieving a desirable reputation, not as its foundation. This is a radical shift.

Humans were not meant to compete on the world stage. This level of competition is too intense. On the world stage, there will always be someone willing to compromise all principles and ethics to achieve their goals; such a person is much more likely to win.

If you break it up by industry, you will get the same result across all industries. All industries will end up being headed by people who aren't impeded by moral hurdles. It's terrible for society.
>Fetal lambs were transferred to EUDs at gestational ages (age of the pregnancy measured from the date of last menstruation as opposed to the date of conception) of 104 to 125 days (term is ∼145 days). At 100-115 days of gestation, lamb fetuses are biologically equivalent to 22-24 week premature human infants from the perspective of lung development
My opinion: first versions of an app is often written as PoC, without any test. It requires real data (file, db, working external API) and only "works".
Because at that time, we (developers) know what should be done and how.
Then come users who will define their own stories, where TDD is the best but... it is now hard to test.
The Truth About “MEH-Trics”
For phone OSes? Seriously? 50% or more of my interactions with my phone are:

"Get directions to X"

"Set timer for 20 minutes"

"search for local banks"

"Call X"

"<name of restaurant> hours"

If Open Source phone OSs can't do that, they won't compete with the spyware OSs.
It doesn't matter. It still feels weird to pay in cash even if some countries are starting to relax COVID measures.
Just wanted to say it's interesting to see that this thread never took off, but two days later, it did!
> Terminology: in the tax preparation industry, "pre-tax" and "post-tax" usually only refer to contributions (not account types) that are or are not (respectively) excluded from current income. Earnings in the account over time are either tax-free or tax-deferred (depends on account type and what the distributions of said earnings are eventually used for), and distributions are either taxable (possibly with penalty), or tax-free.

This is all true as far as it goes. However, if you've ever had to do any work for one of the trust custodians, you'd be keenly aware that DOL regulations require that all the different types of contributions be segregated into different accounts - or if you physically commingle the funds, you have to account for them separately on your own books.

So there are in fact different accounts for pre-tax & post-tax... except it's actually more like pre-tax employee contribution, pre-tax employer match, pre-tax employer profit-sharing, post-tax employee contribution, post-tax excess contribution, etc. etc.

These different account types are used to track the tax character of the eventual distributions. If you didn't have different pre- and post-tax accounts, it would be a frickin' nightmare to prepare forms 1099-R
“un-teaming” increases team fragility and kills delivery of value
I don't know... on one hand... it will probably just be used to sell ads... but what if it actually worked? like, maybe some small dent in the rate of suicide?
Monero was blackballed in the US, and same with Monero conversion services like xmr.to. Coinbase refuses to support Monero.

Turns out that governments do not like anonymous cryptocurrency at all.
I wish unfortunately that's not my experience at work one developer used exception as a control flow with the excuse that it was on a non performance critical part of the code..
Annoyed me very much as it made gdb's 'catch throw' useless.
So I reimplemented this code and the result was easier to read IMHO but of course I'm biased..
It has a less clear future with the company behind it.
> do you have any classic examples of bridges or buildings in continuous use for thousands of years? of course not

The Pond du Gard aqueduct is quite famous in fact.
I think it becomes increasingly true for projects that are stable and long-lived. Maybe it's even an indicator for such projects!

If your project appears to be converging towards "no problems except those entirely outside my control" then it's a sign that your project is stable and possibly nearing feature-completion. Maybe convergence is truly asymptotic and you never fully get there, but the bugs and feature changes get smaller and smaller over time.

Not all projects can or should be "stable" in this sense, but it is an interesting indicator.
Here's some of my "longform" stuff: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/
> If anything, it seems like the trucking protest was a case of American dollars and influence trying to tilt Canada towards right-wing populism

Why? Canada already has a strong conservative movement, and NAFTA makes it damn easy for US-based companies to do as they please.

This reeks of the same forces that got Trump elected. Which would be a mix of billionaires, Russian money, and anyone who has an axe to grind against Canada, e.g. China (for the Huawei, et al, conflicts).
Show HN: I Have Built a Blog Platform, Orb – (Open React Blog)
> It was immediately into the writing documents (...)

More or less the path I took after finishing my Masters. Thankfully, at the time, I thought "leetcode-style" problems were cool. After a few months I got a remote interview from an online contest and got a "building stuff" position in SV. Can't say I've achieved happiness but financially it was so much better.
WSJ opinion pages actually have a good opinion piece on this yesterday. The general take I got is that all money police or judiciary collect should go into the state's overall general fund, rather than going to the local government.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/policing-for-profit-speed-trap-...

Mirror: https://archive.fo/T4tgR
Zettelkasten Is Not a Note-Storage System
Canada hasn't had a "red vs blue" system for ages. Even during Mulroney's heyday there were at least five parties holding seats federally.
Bears repeating, because it got a sibling comment flagged to death:

Or, to others, a nightmare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
#1 is why it's so successful. It's just challenging enough to make you think, but still solvable by most people. So we all get that nice dopamine rush of solving a puzzle with a reasonable perceived effort.

How many people don't play the NYT Sunday Crossword b/c they never get more than a few words? There is a very devoted fan base for crossword, but it's not as universal as Wordl's adoption.

To me, that's the genius - just hard enough, but not too hard. It's not a Scrabble competition, it's a fun diversion and shared challenge to experience with your friends.
> GitBOM is NOT (contrary to the name’s appearance): - Git

but fully capitalizing on git branding (in a way that violates the git trademark rules) to try look "official", even including using the logo. Icky.
There was a fantastic interview with the author of a book on the history of the English language and how / why it’s so messed up. I bought the author’s book based on the ep, but haven’t got to it yet as I’ve acquired many more books throughout the pan.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/corpse-corps-horse-an...
Well, yes, but the GP comment was specifically saying that they had "never heard of any bank" offering the service of taking cash and depositing it into a provided account, which is weird because that is very much a standard service that brick-and-mortar banks provide.

Either the other user was uninformed or my sarcasm detector is broken today.
Sweet.

I'm sorry about this — it's difficult to strike a balance between preventing abuse and respecting user privacy. If anyone here is facing attacks, we're available to hop in a call any time.
I'm 100% in favour of carbon removal through whatever sustainable means by which we can achieve it, but if we succeed, and carbon levels start to fall, I've got this nagging concern.

What happens in (say) 200 years, when our entire industrial base might be dependent on products created from atmospheric CO2? Is it possible that there won't be enough CO2 left for plants to grow? (I know there would be other very serious consequences as well, if atmospheric CO2 gets too low)

If there ends up being money in CO2 removal then how do we ensure CO2 levels remain in the habitable range, and that we don't just keep removing CO2 because doing so is valuable?

There appears to be a fundamental economic driver for climate change, which we are probably going to address using the very same economic driver that got us here in the first place.

(Admittedly, worrying about the world in 200 years seems a bit of a stretch at this moment in time).
I would also strongly argue you can’t draw useful inferences from do_fib.

To rephrase it another way. In how many contexts is std::expect insufficient? It’s easy to find places where nothing short of hand rolled SIMD is fast enough. You cannot draw useful inferences from those cases.
Back in ~2012 or so I worked for framesdirect, at the time owned by Luxottica, and was asked by one of their executives from France to work on a feature that would, when someone tried to leave the site, bring up a popup to offer them a deal or otherwise encourage them not to leave.

Since I hated working there anyway, and had the financial freedom and job prospects to find other work I didn't hesitate to say "no, I will not do that", and he looked at me like I was a total asshole. But if I had been in a worse economy for programmers at the time, or hard up for money, I wouldn't have been able to make that choice so easily.

It is something that makes me very sad, especially since 99% of websites now have dark patterns similar to this. Most notable the modal popups that come up moments after a page loads and you have started to read it. I back out immediately whenever I can but obviously I am in the minority, this bullshit must "work" on some level to have become so ubiquitous.

Anyway if you should ever be asked to do a modal popup, and get fired for saying no, apply at Olo, we so far have never asked developers to do a dark pattern.
That's just an argument that news is biased and flawed. It's hardly a justification for quitting the news. Evidently, you haven't quit the news because you know about the current situation in Europe, you're just skeptical that the news is giving the whole picture.
That was an amusing ending in that way. It is presented as a terrible outcome but ... really Forbin seems upset he isn't in control.
This is the thing Australians hate. We don't get a straight $ for $ conversion. As a general rule we get charged more for the same digital download because of regional pricing.

A reasonable price has to be found by buying steam keys from [HumbleBundle/GreenManGaming/etc].

I don't play the latest anymore. I will wait a year or two and get it on sale. I get a patched, solid game with well known reviews and the community wiki already filled out(so valuable in many modern games!), for much cheaper AND with that much cheaper price I don't have to worry so much about being gouged because my digital download has to travel further...
It's not an intellectually honest argument to try and claim that scientific debate should or could be conducted on public social media, and once you accept the fact that public social media is violently harmful for that kind of discussion, you can see much more readily how non-partisan it is to remove all of it, with a prejudice towards the more proactively dangerous content (e.g. anti-vaxx promotion).

Classifying misinformation is not a partisan activity, just because one of the two US political parties engages more freely in lies and deceit.

The GOP does not hold a monopoly on conservative views and values, it's just one group of people making collective decisions that are objectively bad for everyone.
I see, it was ignorant of me to dismiss that harm, edited my reply to reflect my understanding.

Thanks for the perspective.
There are probably a dozen or two starting words that are probably good choices depending on your strategy but not sure I'd call it automatic at that point.
just click https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/

so a bit perfection in your question above on all technical faults
https://archive.fo/tpcGl
> Maybe those businesses saved 0.006¢ on the transaction by not accepting cash.

I'm not sure where you are but in the US the banks will charge a few percent + 10c, its adds up to a lot of money. Plus you dont need to pay people to count/store cash, or get robbed which adds big savings.
The Economist is usually pretty clear about which side it supports.

They generally try to outline both sides of a discussion but are often a little weak in championing a cause that they're not for.

But it's rarely ambiguous where they stand, or why.
While I agree with you that we shouldn't think in 'red vs. blue' terms, the Emergencies Act was actually written because Justin Trudeau's father had undertaken even more extreme measures in the 1970s, while leader of the same party that Trudeau currently leads. This is a situation where the Liberal party has consistently taken extreme anti-civil liberties positions.
A few seconds isn’t bad to boot an OS, no? ;-)
200 devs during a year, wow
One takeaway from feedback I've seen is I'll be implementing support for filtering by keyword at the URL level.

I'm inclined to keep this completely javascript-free.

This should be able to get you close to what you're asking for once implemented.
"We are complicit in our employer's deeds"

https://drewdevault.com/2020/05/05/We-are-complicit-in-our-e...