skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over time, the effects of covid19 on heart, brain, lungs, vascular system, sensory system, kidneys & more will become better understood.

Until then, any reassurance that massive levels of infection are ‘ok’ for society is a gamble—a gamble with unknown long-term costs.

(quote from stanford infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan)
E.g. disabling SWIFT was mentioned every now and then since 2014, and this was taken quite seriously in Russia at the time - enough so to consider options. I remember a discussion I had with my family about how to wire money across the border if it happens.
I see. For laymen it's hard to understand: there are many price levels of DPs and even the most expensive ones don't have big enough samples.

My recent trip to a big piano store probably resonates with you. They had all the DPs I wanted to try out, fantastic.

Before I went there: convinced the most expensive are the best but trying to find my compromise point.

When I was there, it was hard to differentiate between all the DPs. I'll need more time. At the end, the store people encouraged me to look at their multiple storeys of acoustics before I'd leave. I'm not used to acoustics and the ones I encounter are sometimes sluggish or hard to play for me, but now I found a Kawai K300 Aures which was amazing, a whole other beast.

My conclusion was that no DP is close to the acoustics, and this is probably going to lower the price point I'm willing to pay. Why pay for a CA99 when it's digital, going obsolete at some point, and still not even halfway there? :)

I'll find a compromise DP for convenience I think. The plan is to get access to acoustics maybe through a music school or friends, and look forward to an acoustic if/when I move to a house.
Dioxus: React-like library for building cross-platform user interfaces in Rust
In these conditions, it makes sense to pump as much money as possible into an early Amazon, Google or Facebook.

However this seemingly happy story has a few important downsides. First, to a large extent these technologies do not create new markets as much as they disrupt or displace old ones, which is one reason why productivity gains are so meager.

No. They displace old industries by introducing technologies and processes that made them more productive. People use them because they provide a higher quality service at a lower price.

And all three of the examples he provided: Amazon, Google and Facebook, have been enormously innovative, and created entirely new markets. I could write a long essay on the markets that had their emergence faciliated by any one of the three companies listed.

What's worrying is that such an obviously misinformed article could be held in such high esteem by so many on HN.
> meta-level argument on inconsistency

If you think that a regional scale conflict and a country yelling nuclear annihilation at every turn are at the same level and needs the same, consistent, response you have no place discussing meta arguments.
It is worth considering that the problem is too much debt and that people are missing the forest for the trees. Gambits like Uber still aren't profitable or sustainable, and we have no idea what sort of market it'll be working in once it tries to make money. By the books, it appears that Uber's "investors" have been burned quite badly. Putting in the hard work to build a profitable business is less rewarding by comparison to making a high-growth low-value-add play and trying to get money off people with access to big lines of credit.

And, ranting, it is still quite possible that Amazon/Google/Facebook are going to lose the super profits in the long term. Which to me means 2030+, 2040+ as the market matures. Google is probably a bit more secure in that they have to commit suicide to lose money (which they will eventually, every company gets bad managers sooner or later). AWS on the other hand faces a risk of being chipped at from all angles by specialised providers. They do not have a magical spell that can resist the market moving towards the marginal cost of production. Facebook lives in a world where staying power is the exception not the norm, they came after numerous other competitors that fell apart under the complexity of managing social networks. They are all but guaranteed to fall in time too, they are in a delicate position where it takes one bad CEO/Director of Misinformation or some Chinese upstart that won't sell out and the whole thing could fall apart.
Gas is the worst for air quality, in particular with certain types of cooking and the self cleaning cycle some have.

But people with electric cooking devices can still have high pollutant levels without proper ventilation.

https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/resources/documents/residential-cooki...
>omicron when it is not dangerous

Not true. There are cardiac complications long after you have had any version of COVID.
Passbolt is open source and can be self hosted if you don't want (or can) run their cloud version.

https://www.passbolt.com/

It's gully open source, with a AGPL license.

https://github.com/passbolt/
Excellent addition to the discussion there. My point of view still stands. I just don’t see how it’s better than the existing taxi systems I used in my country pre Uber. One even had an app showing where their taxis were and you could hail one with a tap of a button.
Neither of these points are quite correct - mRNA vaccines were extensively used for both initial vaccinations and boosters in the UK. IIRC the AZ vaccine was quite quickly withdrawn for everyone under 40.
Wars are one of many ways to organize the world. To pretend they are any one thing is naieve, just look at the Opium Wars and try to explain it in the context of todays players. It surely involved aggression, it surely affected change in much of the world, but was there mass scale violence? How does that violence compare to the war in Iraq, which clearly was a war of aggression to the indidviduals who conceived of it, even if they misled the vast majority of those they represent? I am incredibly concerned by the number of people speaking about what is and isnt right now as if they have any idea of what the facts are or who is making decisions on either side right now. Please keep in mind the stakes are nuclear war;
> Now it is told to any other countries that if you plan to go with aggression to threaten the core interests of the west, better be prepared to the consequences of a complete cut from Western economy as whole.

Can you see how that can't be very good for the West? Being seen as a bully who will force its way on others will just cause everyone else to stay the hell away from you if they can help it (admitedly, most can't help it - but China is already a viable alternative to parts of the world, and will just continue to grow its influence and it may seem like a more attractive partner who, at least so far, never tries to impose its ideology on anyone else).
Mostly the demand pricing model which is up to 5x the cost of other local services, the absolutely abhorrent non-existent customer service, the 25% of the time when you order an Uber and it gets cancelled, the transaction processing problems which seem to go in waves of plague and the buggy as hell app.

And don't even get me started on Uber Eats which universally delivers cold, damaged food which is twice the price of going in the store and their customer support is so bad that it's nearly impossible to get a refund from them now even though it was 2 hours late and looked like it'd been delivered in a washing machine on a spin cycle.
Yeh either I got lucky here in the UK or they have been unlucky.
The interesting thing here is you can still get the error and display the message! Just that you _might_ be able to catch issues beforehand as well, and avoid even getting to that kind of code.

Typescript's practicality here does let you walk and chew bubblegum. This sort of stuff is super practical for UI development, because ultimately at the interfaces with servers you're likely to make some assumptions about incoming data, and so you'll have that fundamental cast in your code from any to Foo, and this sort of error will be reportable.
> Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel

I can't take this talk seriously. it's just a bunch of history bits used to explain and reinforce stereotypes about Russians. "Russians like strong leaders" because Russia was once invaded by mongols who also had strong leaders. Russians always think the leader is infallible because he gets his power from God. Then almost in the next sentence he says Russians hate Gorbachev because he ruined the Soviet Union. It's all just a bunch of shower thoughts. All it does it reinforces stereotypes and hate.
Yes, induction cooking is in par with a typical open fire in terms of electric efficiency.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/06/thermal-efficiency-c...
I regularly use non Uber taxis and have found them to actually be reliable.

I'm in London and I'm not talking about black cabs for ref.
We've seen similar scandals for EPRs in Flamanville and Okiluoto, forged document to fake certification of vital components of the plants, unqualified workers, lack of planning, lot of outsourcing,…
it should be documented on the relevant wikipedia pages.
++ taxi companies were corrupt due to the taxi medallion system.
> And Brady Seals is not a scientist. Note the lack of PhD.

Why do you think you need a PhD to be a scientist? Many famous scientists, even some distinguished professors, don’t have a PhD. A PhD isn’t even the only type of doctorate!
Like so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartakiad
Secret Chats cannot be MITM'ed and MTProto2 has never had serious security problems despite multiple audits.

That's in contrast to WhatsApp, which backs up your private key to the cloud by default. And in contrast to Signal, which has inexcusable software bugs such as sending private photos to random contacts in your list (is it really E2E encrypted if you can't be sure who the recipient was?).
They produced a ton of taxi rides, surely that's worth something?
I already had access to this exact experience with a taxi firm in Newcastle where I used to live pre Uber - so yeh, I don’t see what benefit Uber brought. Also, the firm that had that app had clean cars, with driver in clean clothes and they knew the roads well.
No, that does not work. IP you create is currently governed by a contract with Company A. Signing a different contract with Company B will only make you more liable as both contracts must be adhered to, and if they both claim all IP then the only valid move is to never create any IP.

Get your current employer to approve your project through an addendum or find other employment, and in the future do not sign contracts you do not want to follow by the letter.
I think I was unclear.

If A then B true

was my meaning, not

If and only If A then B true

Hence highlighting that we have seen some of this already!

Side note. The high end ones move first as they discover something better. See the proliferation of technological machines in modern professional kitchens. But the trend gets set and the upper mid range starts to follow and then it will be what chefs want to use because it is best.
Chinese are able to express negative opinions without any retribution (beyond their posts being deleted/moderated). What China doesn't accept is challenges to its power structures. Meaning protests, boycotts, unions, organising, public lobbying. Every large business or voluntary organisation has Party members appointed to ensure they don't interfere with the Party's power or strategy.* Sharing a VPN or negative opinion to one friend is fine, sharing to everybody you know on a stage is not.

* https://madeinchinajournal.com/2021/07/15/will-there-be-a-ci...
Poor people in Rome were just a little fraction of poor. At that time Rome itself was what we call a small city today, vast majority of people living outside and poor people inside are mostly slaves of the rich inside, no "ordinary free Citizens". Beside that "apartments" never exists in Rome, there were various size of Domus (houses) with "apartments" for servant, surveillance etc but they were nothing like what we call apartments these days. The most similar thing conceptually can probably be named "colonial homes".
Tempora (GCHQ)
Not so sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30657725

Also we already have a similar level of wrongdoings with the French EPRs.
On the west coast there are frequently power outages from downed trees. Gas doesn't go out if you have a tank, so anyone even a little bit rural uses gas if they can.
I think summary here is that if you are storing an exact moment in time then UTC does the job. If however you are storing a future date and time in a certain location, due to the uncertainty about future daylight saving time changes you have to save it with time zone information in order to adjust for future changes to that system.

I suppose it’s the difference between exact time and social/political time (there is probably a better term for that).
The types of ear plugs for music are high-fidelity and barely distort the sounds you actually want to hear, like dialogue.
New Zealand is an island, i think in many cases China is too ( not geographically )

In Europe, a lot of travel remained possible although it wasn't advised. People work with work permits could relatively easy cross countries too during lockdowns.

The worst that happened was at the start, that people had to stay within their neighborhood for a while, but that changed pretty quickly.

Currently, Omicron is no threat anymore for vaccinated people. So I'm not sure why china would go into lockdown. Vaccine underperforming?

( Belgium)
Ask HN: What is a good configuration format now a days?
first some background:
I created an alert definition generator script in bash, that has a variable defined like:

## TEAM DEV_threhold STAGING_threshold DEMO_threshold PROD_threshold ALERT_TYPE DB_USER

## ALERT_TYPE=< warning | alert | custom> (based on team notification routing configuration)

read -r -d '' ALERT_PARAMS << EOM

team-1 1 2 3 4 warning db-user1

team-2 1 2 3 4 warning db-user2

# comment lines

EOM

which I then use in same script to populate a yml file (for alertmanager)

echo "$ALERT_PARAMS" \

| grep -v '^#' \

| while read -r vars... ; do generate_definition; done > alerts.yml

Development teams are expected to add, update or delete lines for ALERT_PARAMS, and nothing else.

I chose "team-1 1 2 3 4 warning db-user1" format since this structure seems easy to understand and update by (multi year experienced) java, go and python developers in vim, atom, git{hub,lab} or whichever fancy editors developers use now a days. This format also means I can perform validations and sanity checks before/ inside/ after generate_definition step with only the bash shell inside a CI pipeline, without adding any more tool dependency or write relatively complex program. I value simplicity.

One engineer, with whom I checked first, believes (rather strongly) this format is not easy to understand and should be replaced with JSON or YAML because:

- developers don't use editors like Vim.

- developers don't have more than 5 seconds to understand the format, and high chances are devs wont understand or make mistakes in updates.

This seemed to me a bit odd feedback, though felt very genuine, so here I am seeking your input on:

- If and how, JSON and YAML (or similar formats) are better suited for simple use-cases like this?

- What might want a developer to not spend more than 5 seconds to understand how application's database related alerts are generated?

To be clear I dont mind using what ever format majority uses, as long as we have everyone using the same format, I just want to understand what makes the above format harder to comprehend than YAML or JSON, and why spending more than 5 seconds, learning about databases, is such a big ask (co-incidentally after a two week long database related incident)?

How would you move forward if you were in my shoes?
That's not very fun. You're supposed to tell me a convincing story about why the lockdown is happening. Someone quickly replied to me about how the present lockdown is specifically intended to cause inflation in the U.S. Unfortunately they were too embarrassed or didn't want to face the next logical question (because conspiracy theories are never finished), so they quickly deleted the comment. But at least they tried instead of gesturing vaguely to the CCP and letting ideological obviousnesses do the heavy lifting.
You're absolutely right. I don't know what OP is going on about but no there were 0 taxis with apps at least in Birmingham.

I just checked with my friends too and not one person remembers using an app to call a cab before uber. It is possible that some company possibly offered it but it certainly wasn't a popular option before Uber and it was just awful using the taxis here.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
Supposing that the dating of those African iron metallurgy sites is truly so early as claimed, that would be an independent discovery of the process, which does not seem to have had any influence upon the later discovery in Caucasus or Anatolia, of how to extract iron from iron ore, which spread during the 2nd millennium BC to the Mediterranean countries.
Judging by my extended family, it seems to depend on the proportion of news obtained from the TV versus the Internet. Many older people basically don't trust the Net, but have an ingrained habit of religiously following the news on TV - and right now it's basically non-stop propaganda, from what I hear.
Related:

“Why are US gas prices soaring when America barely uses Russian oil?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30653419
I think most people complaining about this on real sites are trying to use a passphrase of thirty-ish letters and spaces, and finding they can't.
>condescending western rhetoric.

>Ucrain

I don't know. Just a smell.
One problem with induction cooking is that the magnetic fields can prevent the correct operation of certain implanted medical devices such as Implanted Cardioverter Defibrillators and pacemakers.

I had an induction hob unit fitted in my kitchen ten years ago (replacing gas) and loved it for the instant controllability (although not the controls themselves, as covered elsewhere here). But last year I had an ICD implanted after an episode of cardiac fibrillation, and was advised by the NHS arrhythmia nurses not to use the hob (or at least to keep an arms length away from active hobs). So because I love cooking I had it replaced with a ceramic unit, which is much less satisfactory. It's made by the same company (NEF) that made the old induction hob and in fact has identical controls and physical footprint. But it's less responsive than induction (or gas) because of the residual heat and harder to clean than induction because the surface gets scorchingly hot which can burn spills on.

So having used gas, induction and ceramic, I'd definitely pick induction as my favourite, except for the one small problem that can stop my ICD sensing imminent sudden cardiac death or (unlikely) reset my ICD which would trigger an annoying warning buzzer inside my chest (but that's a whole different topic)
Which is, store the original intent, and re-intrepret the cached-unified-value any time there is knowledge-context change. Might become bitemporal.
It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub repo.
I found most times being offered a staff engineer position feels more like companies just massaging our egos to either hire or increase eng. retention. Title means nothing if everyone gets it. That, or impostor syndrome.
Yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30647783

Submitted at least 10 times, some with more discussion than yesterday: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Oh, you had exact experience with one taxi firm in Newcastle. Superb. I had this exact same experience with Uber in different countries and different cities. "I’ve never seen the need for Uber.". Well, you are one of very few, pal. I can tell you that for sure.
It's a very straightforward argument, actually. Did Russia pass laws criminalizing speech that goes against its war propaganda? Yes, verifiably so - you can find it posted prominently on government websites. Are you seriously claiming that a poll taken in such an environment should be considered accurate?
It sounds more like a banking problem than an innovation problem.
Yes the fakest of news of things that are literally happening. I wish they would ready block all Russian traffic from the Internet, you guys are getting out of hand.
Who is to say the NSA or other agency didn't load a compromised firmware from the factory. With OnlyKey, I can build and load the firmware myself so I wouldn't need to trust it.
You don't need to invade Russia to enforce peace. You just need to start targeting anything that crosses into Ukraine.
> Try stir-frying with a wok, lift the pan to shake it without losing all heat

In a home context its irrelevant. You're not doing true wok cooking at home anyway, your piddly little small bore home gas feed won't be providing anywhere near the required intensity.
I have to try that, the official server wants to spin up a few containers, a MSSQL and needs 2-4GB RAM and 25GB disk space. lol...
So not all of them were effective, and the second link specifically mentions bombings of Dresden and Hamburg as controversial.

And it’s very easy to be effective at bombing oil installations as they are not a part of the city.
I haven't experienced any real issues with GPU availability on Colab, I suggest that you just go ahead and use it and wait with the premature optimization until you actually hit a wall and need it.

For general advice focused on beginners and ESPECIALLY practical, cheap and efficient methods and hacks to do DL, I recommend searching in https://www.fast.ai/
and their forums
https://forums.fast.ai/

I'll try to search inside fast.ai if there is a more specific link to give.
I know that one of their chief pieces of advice has been to use Colab and take advantage of the 300$ free credit you get (per credit card) when signing up to Google Cloud, which you can use for DL.

Disclaimer - I'm one of the creators of DagsHub, we created the platform especially to help people like you with the difficulties of managing things like data and model versioning, experiment tracking, labeling, etc. we'd love to have you onboard, and thanks for reading until the end :)
Boohoo, the social media companies decided what they wanted published on their platform. I am so oppressed.

No, not such as that, because there are other places you can talk about it and reporters are free to report it in their own publications.

Meanwhile in Russia, mentioning things that go against the official line gets you actually imprisoned for years.

Get a grip. You are not being oppressed. You may need to spend less time consuming social media though, and realise that what facebook or twitter allow is not the whole world, just a noisy subset. You are allowed to post your hunter biden conspiracy theories elsewhere, you can even stand up your own website and post it all there, and the worst that will happen is people will laugh at you. In Russia you are not.