skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Presentational logic is hard, and while each ecosystem has settled into an all-rightish presentational UI (i.e. React, UI kit) - we still haven't figured out how to pair it with state in a way that doesn't require a massive amount of duplicative effort.

I'm really hoping for some kind of Rust/WebAssembly kit for write-once manage-state everywhere bundles that you can deploy to native presentational applications on every platform. Kind of like grpc but also tying in authentication and intuitive hooks into component logic.
else throw "this should never happen";
What if it was caused by both?

I'm in your shoes, and pondering this very question.
IMO, the problem is not centralization. There were a few centralized/cooperative entities in the 80s/90s. Much of the backbone of the formative internet was funded and supported by universities and other government organizations that largely subsidized the operation of the internet.

What changed/evolved was the profit motive to operate and control the internet.

I think mastodon and the other reimplement-just-not-centralized projects struggle because they don’t have a low/non profit central patron. But no one really does software platform as a public service much anymore. Even something like GitHub, which starts out feeling that way, gets bought, and then starts to drift towards profit feedback motives.
Translation: back when it was just nerds on the internet things were better. I mean this is largely true but irrelevant nostalgia now.
Thanks for the tip. I'd never come across this channel before, but I now love it!
Yours is a point that bears repeating: Twitter is fine (not that I use it).

What's not fine is people: they prefer to be in a place in which they can yell at each other about how much more virtuous they are than their villains.

It feels good to vilify somebody. It feels good to verbally punch a nazi.

I don't know what we can replace Twitter with that will make people less interested in public displays of virtue as they stand up to their ideological enemies.
Then you'd have to use Svelte which not many organizations will, as React is more mature and Svelte is newer. Perhaps in a few years that will change but IMO moving to SvelteKit is orthogonal, most who are currently using React will want to continue using React based frameworks.
Notes on implementing C++ support in Caffeine
i know more people with chromebooks and ipads they never use who went back to pc and enjoy windows 11..
I used to think the same way as you until I got it pre-vaccine. When you get it and there’s no treatment available, you glue yourself into the current events for hope. Yes all of this begets more anxiety because of all of the misinformation and disinformation out in the world. I had to shut up the world and do my own thing to recover.

For what it’s worth I had antibodies doing a blood test multiple months after suspected infection.
I do hope they have a more detailed RCA at some point, right now this is the only helpful paragraph in the article about what happened:

> The IT failure occurred at the end of the morning. It affected the system that generates up-to-date schedules for trains and staff. This system is important for safe and scheduled operations: if there is an incident somewhere, the system adjusts itself accordingly. This was not possible due to the failure.
One feeds you and drowns your sorrows for free on the way down, the other does your laundry and walks your dog as long as you keep the shackles on just a little longer.
Of course. But dealing with that is why we get paid the big bucks.

I've dealt with concurrency issues. grep is a handy tool to find related synchronization code, then I try to replace it with an encapsulation. In general, I look for things I can replace with algorithms, and things I can encapsulate. And so on.
It seems like a read replica would have helped out in this instance.

I agree if somebody decides to keep doing the same actions after being told not do to them, because their actions would bring down production, and their actions do bring down production, then they should be held accountable.
What a load of crock. My elderly father, terminal illness, was hit by the lockdown days before coming to visit us. He DOES NOT CARE about covid. He is dying anyways.

Then they wouldn't let our young son go play with friends or play on beach. This is lifetime impact stuff at 2-3.

When I wore an N95 mask I was told over and over it didn't help. Hello, it's an airborne disease, why wouldn't my mask help?

So we can't wear an N95, we CAN go to crowded grocery stores, we CAN'T go outside to the beach (huge volume of onshore fresh air and sunshine) and school is remote only (for a 2 year old this is TERRIBLE).

Worst of all, despite the talk of being "science driven" they have not been releasing age banded fatality rates by variant and a timely basis so folks can make informed decisions.

We got fed so much BS that the hit is going to be very long lasting in terms of credibility of the "establishment".

My father has a phd in a hard science. My wife has a phd in a hard science. If you are losing these folks, you are losing LOTS of folks.

That makes me wonder, what IS the fatality rate for 5 year olds. Seriously give me a table. Is it lower than just random accidents per 100?

Finally, why can't I wear a mask (N95 with ventilator) that is comfortable so easier to wear and protects me. ANd others can make their own decisions. Instead we spent huge amounts of effort trying to force people who may not have believed in mask wearing to wear masks, but these masks (cloth / surgical) were I suspect largely ineffective.
A lot of it seemed like a pretty bad idea at the time. Capitalists built it anyway. "We" had little say in the matter aside from the ability to quit in protest to likely be replaced.
Do you have a link to any research papers demonstrating "direct infection of brain tissues by SARS-CoV-2"? The last and most compelling evidence I saw on this was a study where about 50 cadavers from people who had recently died from aggressive COVID infections (with symptoms of anosmia) were examined, and they found no evidence of the virus infecting neurological tissues.

There is at least some evidence that spike protein may circulate in exosomes for up to four months after vaccination, although whether any of this would be likely to cross the blood-brain barrier, I don't know: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34654691/
What do you have against WPF? They were really onto something with trying to remake HTML into an extensible language of their own.

Hacking together HTML today with React, Angular, and VueJS just seems like no one wants to admit that HTML needs to be rebuilt and JS deserves to be replaced.
The title refers to the spike protein
Two that I'm comfortable sharing are:

Cerebral (cerebral.com): first, their whole business model is about being a pill farm for controlled substances. So, out of the gate that's pretty concerning (but, yes, you can make a lot of money by providing easy access to adderall and ativan). Beyond that, they're having a hell of time recruiting providers and so their lead time for appointments is pretty high. They're still taking customers on a subscription basis, but can't provide appointments. I think it's just a matter of time before that whole mess collapses.

One Medical (onemedical.com): in early 2021, they were caught letting people skip the line for covid vaccines. The house select committee on coronavirus investigated them and released a pretty damning report back in December, and their SEC filings have indicated that they're under further investigations by some various organizations. Based on this information and other chatter I've heard, I don't think that's the only questionable thing they've done.
I worked on a project like this once. If I remember correctly, it was even larger than 11,000 lines. ASP classic project with VB-script. We tried to get the company to do an overhaul, but it was more cost effective to try building it into the existing system.

After the better part of a week becoming acquainted with the code, I found a suitable integration point. Luckily for me, the new feature being requested didn't depend too much on the existing code so I didn't have to make too many modifications to the existing code. I added the entry point to the new section along with some comments describing how things worked and some ascii art of a dragon. In the end, the new feature worked great and the customer was very happy with the results.

Some years later, I was working for a different consulting firm and that project surfaced again. This time it was being re-written in ASP .NET after being passed around to a couple of different off-shore development teams. My coworker was working on it and asked me if I had written a specific piece of code in index.asp. I took a look and we both had a laugh, because my ascii survived after all those years!
If your team is that busy it’s grossly mismanaged. Get a new job.

I’ve never worked at a company where the programmers were so “busy” they had no time for at least ok documentation and time to train.

It’s simple. You assign an onboarding mentor, and it it one of his deliverables that you get onboarded and proficient in say three to four months.
Having read Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy I am not sure I would ever be against mice.
Pro-war propaganda by condemning the aggressor? That is quite the "interesting" definition. Saying others have no right to condemn naked aggression and crimes against humanity and whataboutism is a far better fit for pro-war propaganda.
something like 80%+ covid deaths were co-morbid with obesity. this idea that everyone is susceptible to long covid or permanent outcomes is garbage
https://www.scribus.net/category/about/
Don’t have strong opinions on this, but not sure why the above got downvoted. Seems like an informed comment.
Nearly all of it ends up in the lymph nodes near your armpit

Source needed.
Zines An old underground culture quietly thrives
Thank you for such a clear and succinct explanation!
Simple concepts like this can enable a lot of possibilities and functionality that wasn't thought of by the people that created it. I've got one of these packs and for the laptop/document use case it's basically perfect. If you need extra pockets or water bottle holders, it's easy. Pens clip to it easy too, so do flashlights, multi tools, etc.
Napp-It ZFS NAS/San Appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Solaris
> Your own data says teachers aren’t the largest risk group.

Of course they aren't, because the largest risk group is likely retired already. What's your point here, then?

Frankly, it seems that you are arguing that playing Russian roulette is fine with up to three bullets, and that we should be only slightly careful when going over that. For the children, that's it.
This seems a bit confused. Some sort of bibliography would help me understand where all of these pronouncements are coming from.

People are usually considered "resources" in this kind of management speak. (As in "human resources.") I have no idea what is meant here by "resources and contributors." Much of this needs clear definition to make any sense.

I can't make any sense of the whole war and peace business. Is it peace time if there are no unknown unknowns? I'm sure Rumsfeld would disagree.

What the hell are we paying managers for if not to be responsible? Why is risk something the lackeys deal with "from the bottom up?"
Richard Feynman might disagree.

https://youtu.be/IIDLcaQVMqw
A large portion of that auditing is fraud/error involved in earned income tax credits, where you get paid special credits to make less money. Also for various reasons, being poor can often go hand in hand with being both unable to file a return in a way that looks correct and being unable to hire a professional to do it on your behalf.

There is an incentive to look poor even if you are not so poor, when filing taxes. It's those who file as poor who aren't so poor, not those who are as poor as they say, that are the more likely culprit of these audits.
That's true, but what does that have to do with automatically passing every student during the pandemic? It's just one cynical take after another with you.

It's tragic to see someone so intelligent being so bitter about a thankless job like working in public education.
>which isn't that old (Skylake

To be fair, Skylake is pretty old. 2015 was 7 years ago which is quite significant in consumer tech years.
Like an MLB player telling you if you want to get better at baseball to throw the ball faster . thanks.
We all know the conclusions are constantly evolving. That's why all "health authorities" are useless. Being an authority in general doesn't help in a novel situation that they're unable to understand correctly.
I understand this now.

And believe me, if we had known how people would have reacted - even with the one single e-mail about us changing completely the name of org and repo - we would have not done it.

It's midnight here and am still apologising to everyone for this. It's frustrating, but it's the only thing we can do now.
Resistive heating is terribly wasteful. If you're going to heat a building electrically, far better to do it with a heat pump. The fact that some perverse quirk of economics makes it more economically viable to mine bitcoins than run a heat pump makes it bad for the environment, not good.

No matter how creative you get with the accounting, in the final analysis you're burning a lot of electricity with nothing tangible to show for it.
> I also had some chest... things... but I chalked it up to the anxiety since calming down tended to make it subside.

I started having this three weeks after I tested positive for COVID this past January. During the first month after it started, I had several nights where I woke up from chest pain. One night started with my left arm being very numb, followed by my chest feeling tight, then my entire chest feeling probably the most adrenaline I've ever felt, and then the worst panic attack of my life.

I've been to the ER several times, had multiple ECGs done, multiple rounds of blood work, a sonogram, and a CT scan. Because no one can find anything wrong, it's just been diagnosed as anxiety. I've basically been unable to work for over two months now while I seek treatment and the right medication combination from a psychiatrist. Calming down and taking medication for anxiety does help, but I still wake up at night sometimes with what feels like rapid/irregular heart beating.

I'm twenty-four years old. I got my third shot of Moderna's vaccine in November, 2021.

https://www.news18.com/news/lifestyle/runny-nose-to-chest-pa...

According to the study referenced in this article, 19% of people who catch Omicron have chest pain as a symptom.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/health/covid-cardiovascular-c....

A Veteran's Affairs study of 153,000 veterans shows that people who got (Wild strain, which is pre-Alpha, pre-Delta, and pre-Omicron) COVID are 60% more likely to develop cardiac complications.
The spacebar is huge and under both thumbs, because you use it a lot. - is far away under one fourth finger or pinky, it's bad to type. Shifted letters are common.

Seems like it should be shift+space inserts a variable-split-token and different editors can display it as a - _ or caps of the next character as desired. Like tab characters being configurable as a number of spaces.
In the paper it says:

> Our behavioral study showed that administration of SARS‑CoV‑2 spike protein S1 subunit (S1 protein) to mouse hippocampus induced cognitive deficit and anxiety‑like behavior in vivo.

About the BioNTech/Pfizer mRNA vaccine Wikipedia says:

> It is composed of nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) encoding a mutated form of the full-length spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, which is encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles. [1]

So it seems it's at least the other way around. To me it doesn't sound too far fetched to consider that vaccines might have similar effects. But I am not a doctor either so this is just speculation.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
At the risk of crushing your dream role, re-implementations can be long slogs. I'm in the middle of one right now. The Product owners don't know what the thing does. The engineers who originally wrote it are gone, and their replacements are relatively new to the codebase. The bright side is customers are hugely interested in our progress to date and we've received positive feedback. The business wishes we could move faster.
Windows defender is better than almost evrything out there. Edge is as annoying as chrome or safari is on their respective os’s and no basic ui stuff has really been removed that tons of freeware and addons didn’t allow one to customize and they’re releasing a new update to continue to refine the UX/UI
You can easily estimate precautions from first principles, knowing that the Covid virus is ~100nm in size, a human cell is ~100um in size - so Covid is 1000x smaller. These things are expelled in water vapor from breath (masks), and water as spit (surfaces). They "gum up the works" of other cells, because they are so small.

The first advice to avoid masks was purely to avoid impacting the PPE needs of frontline workers. So you could have ignored that. As for surfaces, it seems dumb to wash your groceries, but it seems smart to, I don't know, not eat from a salad bar that lets all the customers exhale on the food (this is gross pre-covid).

People taking precautions outside was always dumb. The concentration of virus scales as r^3, in general. Plus, UV destroys them.

Playgrounds are a mixed bag, because kids are adorable, but gross. They are constantly touching each other and their own nose, mouth and so on. OTOH they have good resistance AND its really really important to socialize young kids, or they don't get socialized. I respect going either way (I picked "allow").

Its tough to see so much angst about Covid, and the messaging has been terrible. Hardly anyone explains the why of any guideline, so you can't really decide for yourself. So, like any good physicist, I applied first-principles and so far have only caught it once! (It was post Pfizer vaccine, and quite mild).
To what degree is the Big Brother Freakout valid?

We all love our shiny objects and the convenience they bring.

Yet, even if we stipulate Noble Intent on the part of the FANG companies, there is no way to halt nefarious usage by some future actor.

Do we invent some sort of agent layer that tries to let us use the internet while restoring a level of information control to the user?

I can envision some cloud proxy that degunks the traffic for me, but that seems like:

A) a lot of yak shaving that will never be smooth, and,

B) a solution that would never scale or generalize, even if workable for the individual.

Even if such an agent were turned into a business to support subscribers, the basic problem of leaky information still exists.

However, some of the "monolitic" nature of Google could be mitigated.
> the code, not so much

Exactly. And what's nice about that approach is that it sidesteps that ludicrous license.

As many people point out, you shouldn't roll-your-own numeric code. Unless you are solely responsible for knowing it's what you want and are cognizant of all the tricky edge cases and can make informed engineering decisions of course.

As the article says "Numerical Recipes is a good book for learning about numerical methods." I agree. If I need a quick algorithm in my language of choice, I might refer to NR in Fortran or C as a guide, but the actual implementation must be cleaned up and integrated correctly. Probably extended and specialized and combined with whatever tricks are required for the purpose. The books are (were) useful as books, but the code was never more than executable pseudo-code. I find it helpful to understand the algorithm, and once I do, I immediately begin seeing where I need to adjust it too.

And you can't copyright algorithms. So as long as I don't make a NR.py lib (which no-one needs) that contains the entire Structure, sequence and organization (SSO) of the book, the publishers can stick their crappy license where they like. I don't have to boycott the book.
his humbleness is why he's so popular. But you don't win Putnam by studying. you got to be really brilliant too.
> deep in the woods

Then the deer with Covid will get you!
I know people who still use Windows 7 and hate 10. It gets the job done, and modern browsers still run on it because there were no serious API changes between 7 and 10.
Total suicides went down, but child and teen suicides are way up, and "deaths of despair", i.e. people drinking or drugging themselves to death are up considerably. So while it's true that total suicides went down, it's masking the reality of the situation.
>The test case for this was 4chan incubating incel/redpill culture and Reddit later amplifying it among late-millennials.

4chan did not incubate redpill. Reddit was the primary spot for redpill to congregate, until Reddit started cracking down on TRP and related subs. Cherry on top, Reddit has not acted against the highly similar FDS and many other subs.

Incel culture is also skeptical at best. Yes, 4chan did have the famous Elliot case, and several boards were famous among them. However, Reddit also banned several subreddits related to them which made them flock towards 4chan.

This doesn't change the issue (rampant media exposure is bad for the human psyche). It just puts into perspective things have been going downhill since the masses got access to social media and unlike 4chan, the darker corners of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and whatever else aren't nearly as taboo and may even sneak onto the homepage feed randomly. 4chan was mostly the place where the extremists would congregate, but extreme cases don't explain why the number of moderate or higher cases would increase.

To put things further in perspective: 4chan started in 2005. Twitter founded in 2006. Reddit, 2007. Smartphones took off somewhere late 2000s/early 2010s. The "average" kid did not have access to these platforms 24/7 before 2010. Those that would likely didn't spend the little PC time just browsing the darkest corners of the net on a single monitor.
Why would a mistake only affect 4M users and not 400M?
My wife has never owned a windows laptop; she's been on Chromebooks exclusively since 2017.

I don't know how far apart the ratio is, but now you know one more ;)
I hope this works for me too. Thank you for sharing.
I'm actually glad that they had the modern hardware requirement. It means that Microsoft can't suddenly surprise update me into Windows 11.
Rather a shame, as Win2k was a reasonably stable, low-bullshit release.
Same problem occurs when it comes to socialized healthcare, or just healthcare in general.
In short, we can have short term meaning, without long term meaning.
It's worth an honorable mention toward the 47,000 line file containing the entire garbage collector for the C# runtime. It was originally written in lisp, then automatically translated to C++ by a script before .net was released. It's been hand maintained since and the folks at Microsoft have rejected attempts to refactor the code.