skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except having been downgraded from OpenGL 4.1 to OpenGL 3.3, because the GPU wasn't interesting enough, well done AMD open source drivers.
It would be suspicious if China never behaved this way, but China always behaves this way. Always. It also would go miles if we could identify any other significant outbreak caused by a lab leak, because regardless of the hedging on that page, it is not at all clear it is possible a lab leak could cause a pandemic. We take it for granted as obvious, but it simply is not, because it has never occurred before. Also, if that wet market didn't exist, entertaining the lab leak hypothesis might be rational, but even without the wet market, if it never existed, it is more likely the first human infection was caused by a wild animal rather than a lab leak. Except the wet market did exist with astoundingly unsanitary conditions along with many species of wild animals for sale and in close contact with people, and the location includes a bat infestation to boot, and someone got bit by a bat there.

I think it is just crazy and crazier to even remotely consider the Wuhan Institute of Virology over the wet market. The wet market is a tight and reasonable explanation. For it to have been WIV, we need a whole string of unlikely events.
Composing Better Emails (2019)
That's definitely a part of it, yeah. My place that currently costs 950 is increasing to 1230 in a few months, and I swear nothing about the unit has appreciated in value. My carpets, appliances, etc. have certainly not become more useful or cleaner in the past year. And the area around me which was once quiet and crime free now suffers from weekly gun violence and constant theft, thanks to... cultural changes that I'm not really allowed to talk about. I don't know that building more affordable housing would change things, and they definitely won't change them as fast as prices rise.
Eight guests milling around in the stairwell as they decide where to go next or whether to stay is obnoxiously loud.
Reminds me of this story: https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-why-a...

Basically it is possible to make much more affordable glasses but people like Luxxotica keep it from happening because it cuts into their margins.

That said, making complex lenses this way would make building things like microscope pretty straightforward. There is a lot of optical equipment that needs lenses that this technique could satisfy.
> Flutter's performance issues, on the other hand, is a separate story.

Can you expand on that? I know react native has performance issues but does Flutter have it too? Why?
That's basically the argument for gentrification. i.e. "If you're too poor, why are you here?"
EOS Was the World’s Most-Hyped Blockchain. Its Fans Want It Back
But shouldn't work have a minimum value? I mean without one, what's to the wage gap from getting smaller and smaller?
I did in the early days when the web sucked, then dhtml and web2.0 started and I completely swapped. Now I'm starting to again. I like them more the web apps. But no one is making them anymore
How? Plastic trash takes a miniscule area on the world map - even if a rainforest would pop up on every trash place, it would not offset the emissions from the bacteria that eat it.

Also, the optimistic scenario would be that such bacteria would release co2. If instead they released methane, we would be doomed.
Nice work as usual, Will. How do you plan to convince users that this is not just a research prototype that will be abandoned after being published, and won't suffer from bit-rot 5 to 10 years from now? You talk about this a bit at the end of the longer paper on Nota, but I'd be curious if you have additional thoughts. Seems like we need something like Talos/immutable infrastructure but for the web (does that exist already?).
Who's still using Alexa? The quality of data is only as good as the people using the service. I haven't seen a single person who uses Alexa as a plugin or as a service in ages so I don't know how to treat this data. The only companies with a legit data would be search engines and browsers.
as an early and aggressive adopter of Google tech it was completely infuriating to watch them announce Flutter + Firebase integration as if it was new or interesting.

that should have been working day 1. maybe day 2. flutter has been out for years, and the fact that you can’t successfully use Google software with Google’s other software is starting to be a wart they can’t excuse because of internal build chain differences.
Where? I can't find it.
Transient neutrophil-driven up-regulation of inflammatory responses was protective against the transition to chronic pain.

Could someone kindly translate this to layman's terms?

Neutrophils are white blood cells. The rest is gibberish to me.

Edit: To be clear, I am trying to understand this piece of the statement:

Transient neutrophil-driven up-regulation of inflammatory responses...

Edit: I'm wondering if that means "Temporary white blood cell driven increase in inflammation was protective..."
I'm well aware of hybrid apps and Ionic. I wouldn't call those solutions properly "web" though. They're basically only using web tech as a presentation layer, and deferring to native plugins to do the heavy lifting when required. Very similar to how Flutter does it.

So if your claim is simply that CSS/HTML/JS is capable of creating good user interfaces, I'm not arguing against it.
> Mutual, consenting sexting between two teenagers can't possibly be illegal, can it?

If those teenagers are minors and are sending sexual pictures of themselves, they are sending sexual pictures of minors. Without an exception in the law to specifically allow this, that can be and is illegal by the laws that criminalise possession or distribution of sexual pictures of minors. There should be an exception in the law for it, but until there is, there isn't.
Lots of scams have blown up and temporarily been there. I’m sure bitconnect did too.
It has much less impact as EU and Russia has much more trade than USA and Russia. Just due to proximity.
> And Google Docs is already using Canvas based rendering so seems like Flutter canvas based apps might have hope.

Well, isn’t it the Java applets model as you call it as well? But is a colored div that much better of a button?

Though I don’t disagree with you, indeed most apps can be web-based.
Canvas has accessibility issues for screen readers as well as for SEO purposes.
Clovis, Ripon, Madera, Modesto
Well context helps determine impact.

What percentage of compute time is python?

What percent of Py compute time would be cut?

Who's using python?(banks, stem researchers, everyone else)
My brother did his masters in operations research at Stanford after doing his undergraduate degree in our home country that is ranked in the 200-300 range. His full undergrad cost 20kish, his masters cost (at least on paper as he got various fee reductions etc) over 100k.

He said there was no discernible difference in quality of the lectures, lecturers, content etc between the two. I'm sure it would be a very different situation if he wanted to go into research but that is a much much smaller portion of all people who go to university.

I also have a friend who went to Riverside college in Austin TX for the first 2 years before transferring to UT Austin for the last 2 years. She said that many of the lecturers from UT Austin also taught courses at Riverside college. Her years at Riverside cost her around 8k a year, her years at UT cost her something like 40-50k. She was on the GI bill so didn't have to pay for most of it anyway but still pretty amazing when you think about.
Canary testing: What is it and why is it used?
Not exchanges. The reason is that, as GP indicated - oftentimes execution is spread across venues.

This is typically a role of a dedicated broker house or there is a special area in many investment banks that takes care of that as part of customer flow handling.
worker threads don't share the parent's heap though, right? They can only share state through a binary channel. It's something, but pretty different from traditional pthreads.
Also, as the article points out, they're huge contributors to Web standards like Webassembly. HTTP/2, QUIC, and HTTP/3 are also huge.
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
Summary

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes

--------

Considering semver and that this is a COMPATIBLE API change, it does not warrant an increment to 4.x
The symbols are just decorative; it’s not being parsed by anything so there’s no reason for it to be any kind of valid syntax
Tether does not allow direct redemption, but rumour is they run bots on a few big exchanges to peg the price and perform effectively the same service while not having KYC and customer service costs.
> I expect at some point the EU digital ID will be required to use when accessing the internet or perhaps when signing up for email, creating a Twitter account and such.

I'm not going into the debate about whether there's an ulterior motive, but current eID solutions in various EU countries are considerably less draconian than what you're describing. The current solutions are going to tie into the new one, after all.

In Finland, as an example, we simply have a chip with a cert/key on ID cards. People without card readers or who don't want to use them are free to use their netbanking logins instead. Being able to use the same solution in other EU countries is of rather limited value to most, but it will ease up paperwork submission when travelling, moving to another member state, and so on.
Rust -> Slint? https://github.com/slint-ui/slint/
s/the/a/ anti-grammatical editorialization in the title?
This kind of rhymes with John Sarno’s work on back pain. The prescription for many pain ailments is to square away your mental health and work through the pain.
Type of vacation might require qualifiers. But I think it should be reasonable level. Home(protection, water and heat), food and basic healthcare with some time off should entirely be afforded to everyone in any country that calls itself western or first world(economic sense).
https://flutter.dev/showcase
In other words it's too expensive, yes
Here's an interesting "explain it like i'm five" that you might find interesting.

ELi5: What happens in your brain when you forget something? and then how does the brain recall forgotten information?

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/uneyo3/e...
The joke that is Lavrov accusing the UK of having fabricated evidence of atrocities in Bucha, then blocking any UN resolution that would investigate said atrocities... How much more evidence of guilt and depravity do you need. I agree the Russians are friendly good people, and this is why they need to be liberated from the thugs that run their beautiful country.
I just want to call out my great appreciation for Simen. He has been trying to maintain the fort of Jest for years. He is not even a Meta employee. Releases would always be complicated and blocked as Meta needed to sign off. I'm glad this is moving and hopefully more velocity can happen within Jest now.
I wasn't advocating no penalties; I was saying that increasing the penalties doesn't work (unless you are a politician trying to get re-elected).

And I wasn't saying 'no clinics'; I was griping about the term "mental illness". Not all bad behaviour is the result of a psychiatric disorder.
... except gold. Which Bitcoin does not remotely resemble
Choco is IMO the best way to install apps on windows right now.

`choco install microsoft-windows-terminal`
I prefer the whole middle region of America as truly the best part of America. Weather can be an issue in WY, SD, ND but overall the region is fantastic from what I have heard.

I have been thinking about the idea of social benefits. For the middle class what is even good social benefit? Affordable housing, affordable medical, maybe some kind of financial support for the elders, good public education, enough social benefits which lowers crime rate. Like if that is the things that are essential, America is doing a fantastic job.

But over emphasising social benefits aspects at the cost of the middle class is a bad idea. Canadian middle class from what I heard is somewhere between too rich to not get access to subsidized housing and too poor to buy a 600k house.
Java was already open-source at the time so the court fight’s outcome was meaningless from the view of what language to choose.

And Android would have been much better off if they didn’t fork the whole ecosystem and just used OpenJDK, perhaps with an added low-memory GC.
You can buy glasses from online sites owned by the world's largest lens manufacturer who sells the identical lenses to B&M stores. Requires some work to find the right fit between frame and face, but this can be learned. Online price includes one free lens remake, if adjustments are needed.
I think that sounds a bit more voluntary than it actually is.
Some argue its to early to decide after elementary school to decide who will likely study and who won't.
Does the wordpress commercial offering not solve this issue ? Maybe I am wrong, but I understood it also as setup and forget. Any users of wordpress.com could provide more information..
Bounties do actually work to secure things.

I understand why most people wouldn't want to be earlier adopters of smart contracts. A lot of people are going to lose a lot of money to a lot of contract bugs for a lot of years.

But eventually that will stop, and the contracts will be stable, and the lessons will be learned.

At some point along the bounty x time curve, there's a threshold where you'll have a greater confidence trusting contracts than centrally managed institutions.

There was a time when banking over the internet was laughably insecure, but it saved so much time that people did it anyway. It took about 15 years before 2FA became standard practice and we're still weening people off of SMS.

Securing contracts may take 10 years to happen, but posts like this show me that it's going to happen.
This looks great, I’m going to check it out tomorrow at work!
React native has less performance issues, since it uses native toolkit.

Flutter draws whole ui by itself: welcome to blinking cursor that consumes 5-15% CPU in idle.
Well, all credit to Sam the author, but he "bought" that no degraded performance by adding performance optimizations! Unfortunately, Python 3.11+faster-cpython work has already superseded some of it, i.e negating the trade-in he's trying to accomplish! However, I still hope everyone helps out and that the nogil work can land as default in CPython.
> The fact he knew phonetics just makes me believe he served or at the very least, was heavily exposed in another function.

This is just one data point, but I'm a random software engineer with no military or aviation background or interests, and I know NATO phonetics. I think it's not that uncommon.

(My main use case is spelling things over the phone.)
Ask HN: Does it matter if development team members have the camera off?
Do you think it matters in software development if certain team members have their camera almost always off?

What difference does it make?

Are you camera on or off?
They did. Gtk# hasn't seen updates in ages.
Happens when things get ubiquitous. Color TV anyone? Self-serve gas station? Smart-phone on its way.
Oh damn, totally forgot about safety. That's probably telling.
Consider the $200k is effectively amortized over the individual's lifetime of learning and research
What ever happened to that natural language thing they demoed a few years ago that could call up a restaurant and get you reservations and stuff? That was so cool.
There's a Finnish stand-up comedian who also pondered on the many possibilities of the English word "ass". This is him on Conan's talk show:
https://youtu.be/RAGcDi0DRtU

Funny enough, he mentions the same things the article does, especially the end of it.
Right, the people don't vote for the president. If the people are allowed to vote, people vote for change - Brexit, Trump.

The people have little influence in what is being forced on them. I suspect this will end with some EU member States going their own way, after the people demand it.
Just as I predicted in the 2022 predictions thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=29746942

It sucks as a Europoor. Visiting NY/WA for work when our salary as a senior engineer is like $70k, and the Americans are still complain about paying less than 20% of what we pay for gasoline.
> Russia has no respect for basic human rights and democracy. Deep economic/social integration with Russia is very dangerous for western liberal democracies until Russia makes major reforms

Is it? We have deep ties with Saudi Arabia. Should those be severed too?
Sure, but HR departments and recruiters can be (it seems to me) irrationally rigid about job titles. But you can get around that by moving between teams within the same company, or so I’ve heard.

I’ve mostly enjoyed my career and can’t complain about the money, so take my half-hearted regrets with a grain of salt. I’d probably be questioning my career choices no matter what path I had taken! And with your CS degree, you can probably avoid some of the imposter syndrome that I have experienced.
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So writing markup but not actually converting it to look hip? I don't understand the point.
Yeah. Just like they do now: those are the certs. Install them.
Very good for security.
This goes into CAP theorem. Do you want async/inconsistent read replicas or consistent replicas with guaranteed “read new info after write everywhere” semantics.

To get consistent reads, every write needs to wait to ensure every node has acknowledged the write and then return.

So yes, you can have single digit ms sql queries, but you’d pay the price of writes being bottlenecked by speed of all nodes acknowledging the writes.
expression-centric constructs. I.e `if` as an expression, match as an expression, multiline lambdas etc.
If you to sell closed-source software be a good boy/girl and give part of the money pile to Qt developers, so that they keep working on Qt.
How’s the startup time?
19,783 to 27,000 is much less than 400-500%.
My experience is interdental toothpicks (the wooden triangular ones) made the biggest difference of all:

- no flossing -> gums bleed regularly, getting worse as time since last dental hygienist visit approach six months.

- semi-regular flossing -> gum bleeding mostly stops, still need to visit hygienist every six months.

- daily flossing plus wooden interdental toothpicks -> no gum bleeding, even though my last dental hygienist visit was now 18 months ago.

What prompted the behaviour change to adding toothpicks:- switching to a dental practice whose hygienist was (a) very expensive; and (b) charged by the minute. There was a direct correlation between how I cared for my teeth and the cost!

What sustains the behaviour change:- Each time I use the toothpicks, I can feel the food particles they dislodge, even if I have just cleaned my teeth.
Python doesn't follow semver anyway (and it's fine IMO).
I think it's time to ignore climate concerns for now. Otherwise autocracies and selfish governments have a massive advantage - e.g. the US pulling out of the Paris accord, Russia, etc.

At this rate the economy might collapse this time next year when gas shortages really bite combined with the rising interest rates, inflation and unemployment.
Here's one meta-analysis of RCTs showing benefit for pain in fibromyalgia patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6365227/

That's in comparison to a sham acupuncture placebo. And the placebo effect is already pretty powerful. Even in the "no benefit" studies, that's usually in comparison to a sham acupuncture placebo that has a real effect compared to waiting. In terms of pain treatment, I'd say even a safe non-addictive placebo treatment is pretty good, better than getting hooked on opioids at least.

I wouldn't get acupuncture hoping for a cure to cancer. But it's not exactly a stretch to think that manipulating nerves with needles will help with pain.
How about this example:

For r=1

A two-dimensional n-ball is a circle. If you extend it into 3 dimensions, by default it is a cylinder, of h=1 and r=1. That’s not a 3-dimensional n-ball however.

If you increase the dimensions of that 2-dimensional n-ball into 3 dimensions, it becomes a 3-dimensional n-ball—-a sphere of r=1.

And now you have a sphere that is smaller than the circle that was extended into 3 dimensions as a cylinder. The ball-ness of the n-ball formula chopped off the corners of the cylinder.

And that chopping off continues in higher dimensions.
This has been my experience with RN too (admittedly, a few years back). So much time wasted on troubleshooting random glitches that occur for seemingly unrelated reason. Some minor library version update? Boom, your breakpoints no longer work. Why? Noone knows. The "turn it off, turn it on" approach seems to be the go-to fix in this environment. And there's always another surprise around the corner.
I can't really contrast it with Flutter, because I only toyed with it a little bit, but at least the docs were of much better quality - and this being a few years back as I said, the fact that Flutter was the newer framework (and still provided better quality at least in this area) was even more pronounced.
I can remember what the Eurozone, as the Commission, Central Bank and IMF did to countries after the European sovereign debt crisis.

There was a complete lack of solidarity, which precipitated a humanitarian crisis in countries like Greece.

The idea of the Eurozone as something akin to a nation state is a myth.
The ecological field is in high need of people with coding skills, so to some extend you can do both! I also believe there are unicorn apps waiting to happen in the field of agriculture as the current approach is just horrible outdated and continues to fight a uphill battle.
As a Pole I really do not want to relay on EU members only in helping us defend against Russians. USA and UK have proven to be a lot better partners for Ukraine than France or Germany.

5000 helmets from Germany with a month of delay were really more of an insult than help to Ukraine.

France is still going around with "do not humiliate Putin". Well, I want to see him on a trial in Hague.

And the idea that Poland will grant Putin any say over our politics is ridiculous.
That's like arguing the Supreme Court or the Federal Reserve is elected, since eventually their appointing bodies are - somewhere down the line.
I believe the Sonos mobile app is Flutter.
That view no longer makes sense. In the past few months, we've learned that Russia did the same as every other European country. It didn't bother maintaining a serious military force. All the real military threats are somewhere far away, and they don't concern the EU.
This is nice way to think of the problem. Although I think for unit hyper sphere , I think of the sphere centred at the origin, so the distance from point to origin is always less than 0.5
The US will make money from it - with the lend lease and LNG exports.

The EU only stands to lose money with a new refugee crisis and increased defence spending.
You don’t have to like the aesthetic, but there's no need to disparage it either. I think it looks nice.
> ...Gen Z+1...

I think we should call this generation the ampersands.
Just like a normal root CA. Who should i trust better ? Microsoft ? Google ? Facebook ? Nederland's root CA or Ghana's root CA ?
I'm really sure Google only collects data to make better products for _me_.
Royal Mail reveals plans for 50 new postal drone routes
How much do they charge?
The point is to use the injected root CA cert for TLS handshakes, then use the VPN to make sure that all traffic goes through a node that can mitm the TLS connections (and I guess they just get the unencrypted traffic for free).