skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where do I argue that?

when you argued with this:

> If you made a trade-off that folks of a certain political persuasion believe was the wrong trade-off, but most people and most qualified experts believe was a reasonable trade-off? That's the job.

If you believe that it's not for a majority of experts to decide, or for a majority of laymen to decide, or for a majority of americans to decide, then who do you think should make the decision?

>It's going to be years until we understand if the effects were net positive or negative.

sure, and as soon as a majority of experts, maybe even of Americans, believe that the trade-off showed poor judgment, then we can talk about it as if it did

>This is how leadership has worked for four thousand years.

this is not how people believe leadership works in the US at least, where people (not you personally, clearly) judge based on the circumstances present at the time of the action being judged, not at the time of judgement

most people understand that the CDC is a normal org like any other, or indeed, like any normal person, which tries its best to do what it can with what it has, and aren't expected to be able to predict the future
You have a niece who didn't know how to turn her ThinkPad off.

Unless she has one of those boutique gender identities.
Building an in-browser IDE the hard way
Hm, thanks, I'll give it a look. I have "regular" Firefox, but it didn't seem to play nicely with the ad blocker Safari extension I have installed, so I stopped using it.
Ask HN: Is data on an encrypted file-system harder to recover when corrupted?
I would like to use the encryption feature of my file systems (APFS, HFS+, ZFS) but have this irrational (perhaps ignorant?) fear that in case of some minor software or HDD / SSD hardware failure (e.g. bad sectors), more data loss may occur because of the encryption and it would also be harder to recover data from an encrypted file system. Is this fear rational? (All my file systems are currently unencrypted, and I do take regular backups.)
Rethinking Admission Criteria
>All the various plastics we’ve all been exposed to and other various chemicals are also likely doing something too.

Is this based on a study or something, or is it more of a reaction to all the news stories about that lately? (news peddles fear without anything to back it up typically)
How about 1.4 Gigapixel image of the galaxy? The new photos are stunning. Let's Enhance's AI made them super high res for you to enjoy the clearest view of the Universe.

Download:
80MP/140MB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/150VhXVEfYXmr70LrrZxQ50pU0u5...

1.4GP/2.5GB (note: not every image viewer can handle a file this big)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14x__QDUmrIvLnlxoSOksu3mgpeX...
If you run hotter, wouldn't you feel less hot? Since your normal temperature would be that much higher than the ambient temperature. At least, when I have a fever I feel cold, even though I'm hot.
Introduction to Rust generics [2/2]: Trait Objects – Static vs. Dynamic dispatch
This keep this very on point. This is about whether or not losing access to a domain name means you lose ownership.

> abiding to domestic laws in my country.

Just to confirm, you country is Sweden, right? The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that a domain name is property. All member states of the EU must implement and have laws that follow EU laws. This means that the Court Of Justice of the European Union's decision must be upheld in all EU countries of they face penalties. This is echod by the Swedish Supreme court's deicision that domains are property that can be seized in The Pirate Bay case. Sweden like every other country has written laws and case law on the ownership of property. This stuff was solved and settled so many years ago it's hard to even guess when.

So let's put a line under this. In the country of Sweden your domain name is property of you, by law. Ownership of property doesn't change hands because you registered an gmail address. Just like ownership of property doesn't change hands because you move into an address that someone was previously there. I'm sure Sweden has laws about mail. Just because it arrived at your address does not make it yours.
How about 1.4 Gigapixel image of the galaxy? The new photos by @NASAWebb are stunning. Let's Enhance's AI made them super high res for you to enjoy the clearest view of the Universe.

Download:
80MP/140MB
https://drive.google.com/file/d/150VhXVEfYXmr70LrrZxQ50pU0u5...

1.4GP/2.5GB (note: not every image viewer can handle a file this big)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14x__QDUmrIvLnlxoSOksu3mgpeX...
> We won't know the answer to this challenge for a very long time.

This is essentially the "halting problem", or the "principle of computational irreducibility", or whatever equivalent formulation you want to pick. We'll never know the answer -- for most computations there are no shortcuts to predict their outcomes.
I would have chosen video chat, but otherwise it sounds likes we have a very similar perspective on this. Good point about using that moment as a team fit thing. Cheers
Not always. As academia becomes increasingly autocratic and contaminated by power, peer reviews become a marker for group-think, and placing relevance into peer review is a mechanism to empower the oligarchy and suppress technical dissidence, therefore anti-scientific.
The compiler would enforce Number-ness every time I try and run a function that takes a number, right?

Wouldn’t I still have to check for NoScore?

> a sum type with units of Score(Int) and NoScore won't allow assignments of any other "null" instances.

I get this part - I wouldn’t be able to assign ‘NewBornBaby’ (my name null) to ‘NoScore’ (my score null)
Building a Practical Quantum Computer – July 2022 – Communications of the ACM
What Google has is marketing and momentum... its the ubiquitous search engine.
well it's awfully slow maybe its getting a ton of traffic?
Trend on Marijuana Legalization, Among National Adults
Ahh. It's changed a lot. You should give it another try if you find a minute.
In the final play of the Orestia trilogy by Aeschylus, the goddess Athena convenes a jury of twelve citizens to decide the guilt of Orestes in the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra.

The jury is evenly split, and Athena adds a final vote for innocence, calling it her precedent.

It is unfortunate that the United States did not follow this ancient judicial custom EDIT: to acquit if half the jury refuses to convict.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresteia#The_Eumenides

(I live in a midsize U.S. town that happens to have the oldest community theater that performs Greek plays in mask every year.)
Does this breakdown when you gain weight? Like when I was 20 I weighed 180lbs of solid muscle and was always like a furnace. Then I slipped a disk and now at 28 I'm lucky if I hover around 240 (I've actually been back lifting for the last 2.5 months and feel pretty good) but I definitely feel like I run colder in general now that I'm overweight.
The true story of the day Pink Floyd tried to sink Venice
Yes to "consider the well-being of one's own nation before the well-being of all of the other things on Earth" is bad in my opinion.

It is bad because you could end up exterminating everyone (or polluting everything) for the sake of a few lucky ones. Happened a couple of times already.

Anyway it's bound to fail, as on this planet we share the same atmosphere, oceans, and almost all living species have no borders (including viruses).

PS: you should tone down your prejudice that I didn't think a lot about what I'm writing, it's... wrong and hurtful.
> The main motivation for me was to make something that works just the way I want, and secondarily, to write something fun

Those two reasons are all the reasons needed for any personal project. I've created so many tools based around those two reasons alone :D
> designs got better for it.

What is better about them?
You're right. There will probably be another price spike due stock buybacks paid for by another injection of helicopter money from the Fed.
Quite passive aggressive if you ask me. Boo-boo someone shared your project before you were “ready”.

If you don’t want something disclosed , don’t disclose it.

Only way for three people to keep a secret is if two of them are dead.

A thing is in the world. Let it be in the world. Harness the collective power and focus it into a force multiplier.

Or don’t.
I take your point but to me this seems like a feature rather than a bug. Many of the plastic parts in most cars (not just Teslas) are degraded by oxidation in the greenhouse heat of the car being parked in the sun for a long time. Some of that oxidation is caused by UV, but to the extent that it's caused by heat, keeping the interior of the car somewhat cooler should prolong the life of its interior plastics.

This is not really an option in an ICE car because it would require running the engine. In an EV, it's easy.
"More integrated earth" sounds like there are no options, no alternatives, superficial diversity, no escape if you don't fit. I will resist that to the end.
Germany, writeup of a leaked draft 'expert' report: https://www.eugyppius.com/p/bundestag-expert-committee-draft

Lockdowns. A study of stringency index vs all US states outcomes:

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/07/05/stringency-index-is-not-...

Another, but for Europe:

https://academic.oup.com/cesifo/article/67/3/318/6199605?log...

It's old but not much changed:

https://thefatemperor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1.-LANC...

Examples of obvious failures (note that any example is enough to invalidate lockdown as a working theory of disease control, because it doesn't have any complications that could explain exceptions where it doesn't work):

1. Netherlands, end of 2021. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/the-netherlands-omicron-loc...

2. Sweden. Has some of the best results in Europe despite lockdown/COVID theory saying it should have had by far the worst. https://dailysceptic.org/archive/sweden-ranked-third-in-pand...

3. Shanghai. No study needed for this one, just look at the reported case numbers and how the world's most nightmarish lockdown had no visible effect whatsoever.

But really, please, just start reading and researching stuff yourself. This stuff is all like lockdowns 101. People on HN aggressively flag and downvote people who point out true things about COVID or the response to it (see how this post was voted down within seconds and the one you replied to is now flagged). It's tiring to always be asked to cite sources for things that are well known now for years amongst those who care enough to ask the questions and go looking for answers.
A couple of those could be considered "inspired by" if you (a) squint and (b) ignore all the examples that are clearly the same ;)

I played the duke nukem 1 & 2 shareware _back in the day_ but I missed out on Turrican thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole.
Yes I saw that... I released mine first but I'm publishing it a chapter at a time and mine is about half done. I haven't read the O'Reilly one because I don't want to inadvertently copy anything or be influenced by it. I think the main difference between my book and this one is that I go through the original BSD source and translate it into idiomatic Rust. I also teach how to work with the borrow checker without resorting to copy/clone or reference counting which I think is unique. And I don't use lifetimes anywhere in the book - they're an advanced topic that really puts off new Rust programmers and aren't needed in most cases.
Alcohol and ice cream before bed will help you gain weight. Doesn't even have to be a lot - like one drink and 1/2-1 cup of ice cream.
My favorite thing that I lucked on for part storage as some of the other commenters here have been discussing, was the local TrueValue signed a new contract with Hillman and had all of their screw and bolt cabinets replaced so they could fit in some actual quantity of metric stuff. I bought a hardware store wall worth of bins for like $250. It was and is glorious. I'm in the process of building a proper workshop after moving for more space and the rebuilding of that wall is very exciting for me.
What did you eat for the rest of the day? Even if that meal was 2k calories, if you walked around campus a bit and ate moderate breakfasts and dinners then it’s not that crazy.

It’s hard to get fat from one bad meal a day. What typically gets people is eating their daily needs via meals and then having high calorie snacks on top of that.
Ask HN: Advice for considering proposals for outsourced software development
I have been asked to review a set of 10 software proposals to create a product for a founder. This is my first time doing such a task, what questions should I be asking of the proposals in order to identify the better ones out of the bunch?

Obviously I can differentiate based on the size of the teams offered and the time frames they propose, some also clearly have more consideration for the UX design of the product than others. Any advice or experiences offered would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Others have already suggested this, but I'm going to re-mention that Proton on Linux has gotten very very good, so you might be able to get away with just installing a hyper-minimalist distro (e.g. Arch, Gentoo, Linux From Scratch, in order of necessary masochism), and just install Steam and Firefox. You could even use a hyper-minimal GUI, e.g. OpenBox or i3 or XMonad.
Emacs also has risks. It has access to the internet. A solution for both (Nyxt and Emacs) could be sandboxing.

But... are you worried about sandboxing when use your regular browser (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari...) or Emacs?
>queue

...aeons ago, mixing up cue and queue would have been considered an eggcorn. [0] Nowadays, however, "queue" is perfectly cromulent to use in this idiom: the first Opium War has been added to the end of the playlist, and will soon commence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
Or 31 basic structural elements? Identified in Russian folk tales by folklorist Vladimir Propp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp#Narrative_struc...
Artosis, a well known SC2 commentator recently departed from South Korea to move to PEI, Canada. What's in PEI, you ask? I have no idea. Probably the real estate price is still somewhat reasonable (but even that is a big question mark right now). My guess is, he saw the writing on the wall and got out of there before it all comes crashing down.

If anything, the people situated over there are far more "in tune" with what is happening, and by the time we find out in the Western hemisphere, it has already occurred.

https://twitter.com/Artosis/status/1539757584600952833
It would be interesting to see if there's a way this dependency graph could be captured and saved for future generations in the event of civilisation collapsing. I suspect something like that would rapidly reduce the time it takes for society to rebuild because it wouldn't have to spend energy figuring out what doesn't work all over again as much.
To save some searching, the three referenced articles seem to be:

- Oxidising Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/oxidizing-source-maps-with...

- Maybe you don’t need Rust and WASM to speed up JS: https://mrale.ph/blog/2018/02/03/maybe-you-dont-need-rust-to...

- Speed Without Wizardry: https://fitzgeraldnick.com/2018/02/26/speed-without-wizardry...
Yes, like the people wearing double-masks outside walking their dogs still (Seattle). The CDC _never_ said wearing a mask outside is useful, and never said that people are catching it outdoors. So I don't know where the "idea" came that wearing a mask outside is "better" than not. It's just probably paranoia at this point (and looking like a "good person") and has nothing to do with infection control.
This article seems to use quotes and then provide no context for them which makes for confusing reading:

>Assistant US Attorney Michael D. Lockard asserted that on April 20, 2016, Schulte “stole the entirety of the CIA’s highly sensitive cyber intelligence capabilities.” This occurred just days after the CIA “locked the defendant out of the secure restricted vault-like location on the network.”

So is the prosecution asserting that he hacked into the network after having his access revoked? In the next article the article states:

>“Shortly after stealing this extraordinarily sensitive intelligence information, the defendant transmitted those backups to WikiLeaks, knowing full well that WikiLeaks would put it up on the internet,” Lockard argued.

Is the assertion here that the dump obtained via a local backup this the defendant made? This is really kind of a poorly written article.
Do you run cold or feel cold? Because those are opposite. If you run hot, temperatures should feel relatively chilly. Like when you run a fever you feel cold.
I remember my skinny, somewhat pinched in-her-late 50’s calculus teacher drawing perfect huge circles on the blackboard in less than a second, using her double-jointed shoulder as the pivot. I had been warned about this by my buddy who hah had her for trig.
Mexico's President urges Biden to normalize migrant workforce during visit
I'm not sure what homogeneous means in this context?

Arenas allow you to not worry about freeing memory, since it will all be freed in a single chunk. It also allows using allocators which are less concerned with fragmentation, since it is known that the arena memory will eventually be dropped.

The amount you are concerned with fragmentation ranges from zero concern (bump allocator) to moderate concern (maybe buddy allocator) to larger concern depends on the application and its tradeoffs, like most things in software engineering.
Well if it’s not 100% we should carefully balance the actual benefits it provides vs the freedoms we are asking people to give up and the associated inconveniences.

And before you tell me “oh it’s just a minor inconvenience”, no it’s not. It may be for you, but I hate that I have to breathe my stale exhalation, hate that I can’t hear people wearing masks clearly, hate that I can’t see peoples facial expressions when they speak, hate that I get out of breath wearing them. Added to this sometimes is a self-righteous attitude from some mask wearers who can’t tell a virus from a bacteria. These are the questions that should be asked and answered, but asking such questions suddenly labels you as an anti-science moron which is very ironic.

Edit: oh and forgot to mention that I hate how much masks (reusable cloth masks are a placebo) add to an already horrible trash situation. Funny no one cares much about this.
Have been down that rabbit hole during Covid lockdown. It's a deep one.
> it appears to be nothing more than a kernel and a command prompt, yet the download is nearly 340MB

That's honestly not that bad for a base system. FWIW, Arch's minimal install is ~600mb, and that's with a kernel + coreutils + drivers + userland utilities. This must be a really minimal tool.
Needs a (2004).
Shameless plug: I built pip-chill to help me generate less stringent (and shorter) requirements.txt files. Its main use is to remove "noise" - packages required by other packages that you don't care about - but it can also remove version numbers (which is useful for testing against the latest and greatest).
Interestingly, we don't seem to understand each other. It could be me.
No matter, have a nice day.
Airflow is a successful open source low code system in my opinion. And it is a pleasure to use.
There’s a clone on the iOS marketplace, but it has ads - I’d easy pay $7.99.

There’s probably quite a few retro games that could be rebooted from this era - it has inter generational appeal among older players who grew up in that era. Might work well on the Apple Arcade ecosystem.
If I were playing a game of trying to extrapolate HN titles by the comment sections, my guess for this one would be "Ask HN: What's your BMI and what does that say about you"
Yeah it took me a while to realize why I could eat huge servings of the worst fatty, carb filled, sugary, etc. foods available and not gain weight.

Then I noticed, that despite looking like a large meal, the calories weren't that high.
I'm still self hosting after more than 15 years and I think what matters most is the reputation of your IP address, so it can be hit and miss depending on where you host your mail server...
Feeling cold and having a low body temperature are not equivalent. Take your temperature as soon as you wake up for a week to know your normal resting temperature.
README.md was interesting to read. I enjoyed learning about the history of the effort and I appreciate how much work got it to this point.

I enjoy both benchmarking and benchmarketing. Although benchmarketing is more fun when it isn't about the DBMS I am working on.
People still do this stuff for fun too. So it's not some lost knowledge.

I wouldn't be surprised if some colleges taught this as part of a history of computers course.
Fun fact: There is already one such 'network state': Sovereign military order of Malta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Ma...
It gives too much power to one person. It only takes one hold out to hang a jury.
Curious if there is a difference between those who are lean and wiry, and those who are just skinny.
Where did you read aggression?
Karateka didn't use any of the C64's advanced features (hardware scrolling, sprites) as far as I know, being a game that originated on the Apple II. It was still very impressive. I wonder which C64 game was the first to have smooth parallax scrolling (at 50/60Hz).

The technique of pre-shifting was used very widely, even on consoles with some form of hardware assistance (Sonic 3 uses pre-shifted images to gain an extra parallax layer in some places, like the Launch Base Zone background, in addition to the two hardware tile layers and single sprite layer, which could be combined in interesting ways via priority bits). Many Amiga games would also dedicate two sprites to generating a parallax layer (as the Agnus chip's "copper" could rewrite sprite registers mid-scanline, two sprites would be sufficient to cover the whole width of the screen via updating the image pointers on the fly, which was really the endgame of the idea of "racing the beam", dedicating a piece of compute logic towards updating registers at extremely high speed)
> It is unfortunate that the United States did not follow this ancient judicial custom.

Requiring a simple majority of the jury for a serious criminal conviction, but splitting ties for the defense, rather than the US practice of requiring a unanimous verdict for conviction?
EA perpetuates practices that hurt customers, too.

I used to unapologetically pirate video games and only within the past two years have I finally come full circle and begun purchasing games, both new titles and older ones I had played in the past but never paid for until now. Steam has been the tool of choice for this reconciliation process.

As a result, some of the hardships that paying customers encounter have become apparent to me only recently. I was aware, in a peripheral sense, that some singleplayer games required an Internet connection to run. But this never mattered to me because the pirates patch that stuff out.

Lo and behold, I'm sitting in a hotel last night trying to play Mass Effect Legendary Edition, and the thing refuses to function because I'm not connected to the Internet. I was astounded. This has never happened to me before. Why am I subject to this as a customer? If I steal the game, I receive a product without this glaring defect (I believe the defect has a name: "Origin").

Missteps and antipatterns like this are rife within the games publishing industry so it's no surprise that employees are treated even worse than customers.

I must admit I do not understand the industry, but I don't see why competent studios like Blizzard/BioWare/Id could not simply self-publish their games. What exactly does EA add to the equation? Seems like it would not be a particularly monumental task to cut them out.
PavlovVR has TF2 maps

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=21251...