skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wondered this too. Like yeah you’re going to be cognitively drained after being in a crowded closed meeting room for a long time. Is it because you were talking and working or because of the CO2.
Late reply, but why the heck are you assuming that I'm trying to force anyone to do anything? Where in my comment did I say that?

I was only talking about my own opinion here, dude. Perhaps a little less assumption next time.
But it’s all a giant conspiracy dude!

The vaccines which nobody is taking and cost under $20 are worth pharma companies engaging in secret underhanded methods to hurt other vaccines (even though all their FDA filings and research are mostly public).
Sure, that's what matters to you. If you live in the Sahel you are probably more directly worried about your backyard becoming a desert.
Aren’t the new elites just the party elites? The ones who are not seen publicly and elect the party leader? It seems to me like they get full reign on economic development projects - which they loot to enrich their families. And once the country goes post-communist these same elites remain in control of the institutions and industries they helped set up.
Because that's a hard problem to solve
““You’re late,” Erica told her. There was no malice in her voice, only confusion that someone might risk missing her cooking. She’d poured blood and sweat and tears into building our little community, but the secret ingredient had turned out to be soup. She was a really good cook, and what her magazine and occasional impassioned speeches couldn’t do, an invitation to one of her dinner parties might. It was weird, the way little things like that turned the wheels of destiny. I’ve always wondered if history is missing some story like how the Founding Fathers only declared independence because Martha Washington served amazing stew every time there was a Continental Congress.”

-- https://unsongbook.com/chapter-5-never-seek-to-tell-thy-love...
One of the best protocol family is email protocols! It says - call back later, the line is down, give me an hour. Eventual consistency is better than failed calls.

When my email went down last week, I wasn't worried. Eventually all messages would arrive.

I like that system.
If something is down by 20-40% it should be up by 25-67% to return to it's initial value.
You’d be surprised how small the human population was. Estimates for 1 AD are somewhere between 150 and 300 million people in the entire world. Our historical impact on the surface of the earth is tiny compared to what we do now but even our modern efforts are often lost within the sheer vastness of the earth. The world 5000 years ago was mostly devoid of human life.
In a new language, I'd like to see exceptions being allowed in pure code, but prohibited in non-pure code. (Non-pure here meaning code with side effects.)

In pure code, an exception could essentially be passed up, and transformed into an error return value at the point where it's called by non-pure code.
That depends on your employer and whether you consider losing your job 'forcing' you
Your % for kids under 5 isn't indicative of much. We signed up for a vaccine for my almost-3yo the day they were released and we're scheduled for next week. I know lots of parents who are also scheduled and most are after us.

Just because they were made available a month ago doesn't mean anyone actually had access a month ago.
Making a tool that retains it's use in isolation from Google and the cloud is antithetical to the SaaS philosophy.
Thank you for the thoughtful comment. I certainly didn't mean to make a false equivalence, only to mention that most people in either land didn't want this war.

Of course as you point out, once forced into it, the Vietnamese people really had little choice but to defend their home.

It reminds me a bit of another war going on right now.
Look I was teaching myself Z80 machine code on a ZX-Spectrum when I was 11. No internet to help me out and nobody I knew could help me. Just one book. And yet I learned how to hand compile Z80 assembler to machine code and make fun little games. So don’t underestimate the capabilities of kids to solve hard problems :)
It is/was simpler and cheaper to just stick nukes in big holes in the ground all over the midwest.

Some are probably still "hot".
No one needs to know the raw numbers. That may be a little more helpful than no numbers but that could also be internal data they’re not comfortable sharing, and that’s fine. There are numerous other ways to write this that would have communicated the scale of the impact more rigorously, but not deal in absolute, raw numbers.

For example, by using percentages: This outage impacted 1.5% of customer requests vs. a “small” amount.
I think the rhetoric was “taking away your livelihood isn’t forcing you, you always have the choice to comply and rejoin society.”
Germany says no good alternatives to Russian energy – not everyone is convinced
Any planned support for gRPC or OpenAPI?
We are doing this at $work, everyone says "zero trust" but means something different, high level goals set but hard to translate those to implementation.

Someone argued with me that trusting a byod mobile phone for a 2fa app that phones home with checkmarks is zero trust because of the check alone, never mind a user's crappy android that isn't corporate managed/monitored is being used for both first and second factor auth. The fact that they do a lot of auth all over the place yet all that depends on the security of a random user's random personal phone being trusted does not prevent it from being called "the zero-trust way".
Which is great, until someone writes the "Can any headline that ends in a question mark be answered by the word no?" article.
Boosters have been available for nearly a year; vaccines for 5-11's for ~6 months.

I think the booster rate is a reasonable sign that trust in "the science" has been lost - why do you think such a large % of people who initially "followed the science" (and got 2 doses) chose not to "follow the science" and get a booster? (Again, keeping in mind boosters have been widely available since late 2021)
Wasn't there also a controversy regarding alleged theft/embezzlement by officers of the organization? According to their filings with the California government, over $350k in "unauthorized purchases" were made [0] (page 2, the all-caps is verbatim):

> UPON DISCOVERY OF UNAUTHORIZED PURCHASES TOTALING $353,703 BY TWO
OFFICERS OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT OCCURRED IN 2017, ON OR AROUND
JANUARY 21, 2018, TRANS LIFELINE REMOVED THESE OFFICERS FROM HAVING
ACCESS TO THE ORGANIZATION'S BANK ACCOUNTS AND ASSETS AND TERMINATED
THEIR EMPLOYMENT AND THEIR POSITIONS AS OFFICERS AFTER COMPLETING ITS
INITIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DIVERSION. ...

It goes on to say that they didn't file a lawsuit, and criminal charges don't appear to have been pursued. What the heck happened?

[0] - PDF: http://web.archive.org/web/20190221114026/http://rct.doj.ca....
Social media is no longer a side technology, it is the main method of communication for a generate or more of adults.

Demanding workers adhere to a restriction on their inalienable right to free speech cannot continue.
In this discussion and in SMPY study political power is besides the point. It's the amount of quantifiable social contributions: patents and PhD theses that's interesting, and the association is obvious.

Some of the societal outcomes could be explained with elite IQ distribution as per "Smart fraction theory" though.
https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database

Look at stuff here

If you wanna be simple use a Mitchell filter upscale. Mitchell filtering has a minimal amount of ringing when doing an upscale. But sometimes you want ringing because that could increase the perceptual sharpness of the image...

But since your end is to print this then you also need to see how upscaling the image works along with the DPI of the image file...

But it really matters on the content what method you should use. It's subjective. Get tons of programs and try different things. Xnview, irfanview, Photoshop, illustrator... Read about the different filtering methods. See what other people do. See if converting the image to a vector with illustrator is a good idea... Do you have a decent GPU try different upscalers using cupscale. Or try this https://rasterbator.net/
Back around the time of OS/2 2.0, I was told you absolutely COULD NOT write OS/2 programs in assembler... so I wrote Forth/2 as a result.[1] Direct threaded native code. Brian Matthewson wrote a great manual for it, and it had more than 50 users at one point in time. It requires OS/2 2.0, but it can run on the text mode boot floppy.

I've recently picked up a different Forth variant, and with some help for the HN community, got it to compile... then my retina detached and I've got to wait until I can see properly again to work on it. (It's really hard to program when you can't see more than a line or two at a time!)

It's called mStoical,[2] and is a variant of the STOIC language, which is Forth, with type checking, strings, hash tables, dictionaries, and even regex.

[1] - https://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/forth/forth040.zip
[2] - https://github.com/mikewarot/mstoical
Why we need to dive deeper into AI
You didn't justify anything logically, you're expressing a great deal of emotions, particularly anger and frustration because you can't accept that people might have a different opinion from yours.

Disagreements are not a personal attack on you, no one knows you or is going to use any of this against you. Remain civilized and respectful with those you engage in discussion without presuming bad intentions and prejudicing them.

If you can't do that then so be it, but this advice is for your own personal well being. I don't really care at the end of the day what kind of unempathic outraged psychopath you've decided to construct in your mind about me, all I'm trying to let you know is that having those kinds of thoughts about people who disagree with you is inherently unhealthy and only results in you becoming a jaded and cynical person.

Choose what you wish to do with this advice and all the best to you buddy.
For me, it's as simple as my audiences are different, hence what I choose to put in them will often be different.
> In reality you will most definitely not write everything under an explicit supervisor.

That's the point of the supervisor _tree_. Certainly not every process will have its own supervisor, but all processes should be linked to other processes, which are linked to other processors, and at some point you have a process that is quite fundamental to the application and has a supervisor.

As long as there's a supervisor somewhere on that tree, the whole subtree will be restarted, hopefully in a non-erroneous state, and the application will continue on its merry way.
You're certainly entitled to that opinion. I can see a counterpoint to it being that there could be value in having an option to ensure they don't have a failed attempt, only to suffer more after.

It's probably better to avoid telling someone they don't really want to do it, and erring on the side of believing they do, even if you think you happen to have evidence to the contrary.
With significantly more constrained supply, demand for 1st doses was materially higher for every other age group

For instance, 5-11 year olds were up to 15% at about the same period of time after the vaccines were made available to that age group - https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/an-upda...

15% vs. 2% is a pretty substantial drop in just ~6 months, no?
Don't listen to other people and second guess yourself.
Amen. I just posted something similar.
I search for anything I can to figure out what is happening with the Scratch community because my daughter, who has been a scratch user for 6 years has, over the last two been on there almost exclusively for the "community."

It's super cool to see other kids remix her works and she to do the same.

The one complaint I have is that we have run into one creep who was soliciting kids' info, however it was only one time and he disappeared pretty quickly.
Can you guess what this code does?

class foo:
pass

obj = foo()
obj.bar = "I thought Python was strongly typed?"
print(obj.bar)

And even better:

class foo:
a = 42
obj = foo()
print(obj.a)
del foo.a
print(obj.a)

Whatever your opinion on what the imprecise sentence "strongly typed language" should mean, these are definitely not features of one.
Simple Simon vs. Ed Matthews: British TikTok’s Fight of the Century
No official body has ever said "you will not get covid if you get the vaccine". Even the earliest trial results said "you will not be hospitalized or die if you get the vaccine", not that you won't get covid.

And at the time, that was true because we were dealing with the original strain.

Nothing else you said is untrue either. The vaccine drastically reduced the spread of the virus. I'm not sure what you're getting at besides spreading more disinformation.

edit: i've replied several times below but everyone needs to keep in mind WHEN things were said. When the CDC said you wouldn't catch the virus in early 2021 - they were basically fully accurate because we were dealing with the original strain. Delta did not exist yet. The original vaccines were INCREDIBLY effective against the original strain - beyond anyone's wildest expectations. 100% effectiveness against death and severe hospitalization. 95% effectiveness against symptoms entirely. These levels of protection were amazing. Yes, things changed when Delta arrived, and even moreso with omicron and future subvariants, but you can't go back with hindsight and discredit what was said _at the time_.
> a vaccine can't make you yawn uncontrollably

Please don’t rudely deny someone else’s experience. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It won’t be in mid-flight for much longer.
Right, of course. I guess I mean for a given individual (who can’t change their immune system), the poster seemed to imply that the choice to be vaccinated was neutral or negative.
No, it's probably that the public was lead to believe the vaccines eliminated or materially & permanently reduced transmission of the virus.
> All of these vaccines are cheap.

Not if you have to take them several times a year until the end of your life
Almost certainly illegal. Every jurisdiction has its own idiosyncratic building code to better stifle competition. Having separate licensing and subtly different requirements is a jobs programme for locals.
What would you consider to be "taking an insane risk WRT Covid" ?
The idea that people need patrons is patronizing at best. If you're really a genius you'll have an employer...until you don't need one any more.

There are plenty of private endowments that recognize genius if you really feel too good to have a job. The idea that these should I stead be funded by taxpayers misses rhe forest for the trees.
I think he's suggesting that the Ethereum devs keep pushing back the date for when the Merge is due to occur.

That's a little unfair, though, as there has been solid progress for a while now in terms of deploying the change to the various testnets.
I set tabwidth to 3 in my editor. I like the way it looks. But of course the whole point of tabs is that nobody else has to suffer for my esoteric choice.

It also helped when tutoring new python students -- when they mixed space-indented code they copied from the internet with tab-indented code they copied from the internet, they'd get all sorts of fun errors. Setting the tabwidth to an even number sometimes allows them to hide. 3, though, really makes them stick out.
The funny thing is that because you didn't say which 50% 100% of people will nod along and think the other side is evil.
Ask HN: Good implementations of query profiles in distributed databases?
Folks who build/use distributed databases, what are some good examples of query profiling infra/UI for understanding where time was spent in query execution?
Lots of people I know parrot “safe and effective” whenever testing positive. Turning an FDA-regulated phrase into a joke doesn’t bode well for future trust in government scientists.
I put it on a webpage.
Okay, when I’ve used Rails, it’s with React on the front end, so I haven’t explored that part of the framework.
More likely hit on her in a creepy fashion at a restaurant near the gate. That seems to be where it usually happens.
The majority of prevailing attitudes and behaviors in Utah and Texas are good examples of what I consider to be a total disregard for public health.

Again, this is just me, some individual on HN who doesn't matter at all in the grand scheme of things.
It can be more efficient but the question remains if it's more likely to kill than otherwise (not all travel miles are equal).

In one state 34% of traffic fatalities involved alcohol. So Uber may do more for that than grocery delivery.

Grocery delivery drivers may also be better drivers because drive more often. Or, they may be overworked and rushing to complete deliveries.
Well, it's not very strongly typed if you use dicts with default values for everything.
Why do you think Jeff Ericksons book is not hood for that?
Direct knowledge of the lens distortion model and complete control of the image generation, with perfect knowledge and use of the associated metadata tags, can certainly give an engine a leg up in some cases. One example I can think of is the Parrot Sequoia which is a camera that works OK-ish in ODM, but works flawlessly with Pix4D (which is owned by Parrot).
Great resource for learning Forth:

https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/1-forth-stacks-dictiona...

I've always loved the illustrations.
Engage the backup. Everything flight critical is dual.
I think the idea is to get these people into the support/psych system by dangling the carrot of assisted suicide in front of them. The goal being that nobody ever makes it to their goal but get "fixed" somewhere on the way, by getting in touch with help they would never have seeked if they thought their only path was ending it on their own.

Lots of people kill themselves without seeking professional help for various reasons, the hope is that luring them into the system will help them not actually kill themselves.

And for the people who are truly suffering and for whom there is no helping, maybe it really is more humane to let them be free.
Or this (iPod nano, instead of iPhone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwv82l3Gsd0

From the same author as the OP - me :)
could be, isn't though.
The president of the United States literally said "You're not going to get Covid if you've had these vaccinations" - https://youtu.be/VArXfQU--LA?t=21

It's likely the vaccines reduced the spread of the virus temporarily, but it certainly wasn't very long-lasting. The efficacy waned quickly, even against the original strains/Alpha/Delta - take a look at case rates in Israel (first heavily vaccinated country) through mid-late 2021 (before Omicron).
Wrong on all accounts. The early communication about the vaccine was all about preventing infections. You are trying to rewrite History.

Back in 2020, press release from Pfizer:

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

> "Primary efficacy analysis demonstrates BNT162b2 to be 95% effective against COVID-19 beginning 28 days after the first dose;170 confirmed cases of COVID-19 were evaluated, with 162 observed in the placebo group versus 8 in the vaccine group. Efficacy was consistent across age, gender, race and ethnicity demographics; observed efficacy in adults over 65 years of age was over 94%"
Certainly they are more extensive than your sample set of 1.
why tho. you got about a zero percent chance of being drone bomb assassinated by either. both are definitely going to drone bomb assassinate people they shouldn't. what do you even see as the moral difference seriously.
> People are less interested in the currently available vaccines because they don't protect against the current dominant strain (BA.5).

That's not what the CDC is saying at all.
Paying for healthcare with a national health plan doesn’t drive up costs in other nations. In fact the Us has the highest healthcare costs and worst outcomes of any developed nation.
> FWIW I got the third booster, because I didn't want to risk unnecessarily transmitting a disease to my family last Thanksgiving.

The booster does not prevent transmissions. You have been lied to.
Thanks for your detailed answer. I think it's a little unkind, though, to link my idea (having the parliament vote to give narrowly defined powers to an existing politician for the short period until the next election) to the ideology of fascism.
If you want to make claims regulated by the FDA, you have to hire all these FDA consultants, many of whom are former FDA employees. They don’t seem to do much IME. So there’s a serious revolving door problem worth investigating in the case of these vaccines, though I’m not sure that’s secret, underhanded, or necessarily hurting other vaccines.
> It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C

That's the beauty of it. The more exposure you get to these kinds of different paradigms, the further you advance your craft. It all transitions to whatever you're working on and helps you better speak the fundamental computer language.
Dark matter: Our review suggests it's time to ditch it in favor of a new theory
Was actually just talking about this paper with my wife. She's an MD at the ER here and one of her peers is a Wound and Hyperbaric Fellow.

Really hope this lives up to what it seems it might.My wife's biggest COVID19 fear is 10 to 20 years from now and a lot of people are seeking medical help because what they called a cold back in the day deposited so many blood clots throughout their bodies that they have organs and muscle tissue all looking like swiss cheese from those clots suffocating tissue areas and have probably had a few strokes between today and their future visit.
U.S. successfully tests pair of Lockheed hypersonic missiles
Have there been any news about this one after December?
That's why Erlang is cool, to me.
> What, with respect to vaccines, specifically, would you say has undermined trust?

The constant lies about the so-called efficacy of the vaccines, and the fact that they are perfectly safe, when they aren't? And let's not forget the complete propaganda from the CDC/WHO as if they were the only ones allowed to talk about vaccines.
I’d take a look at the terminate callback for Elixir GenServers.

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/GenServer.html#c:terminate/2
thank you for explaining. it's so unfortunate that our community doesn't seem to organize effectively to take care of ourselves. I've seen similar issues in the spaces I've volunteered for as well. infighting, flakiness and a lack of effective organization. :/
One of the pieces of software I'm most proud of is a service to manage the dynamic part of our infrastructure. It uses control theory and let it fail to great effect.

The service reads the state of the system, and applies change to converge to a configured policy. If it encounter an error, it doesn't try to handle or fix it, it just fails and logs a fine grained metric, plus a general error metric.

The system fails all the time at this scale, but heals itself pretty quickly. In over 1 year of operation it hasn't caused a single incident, and it has survived all outages.
How does a “small manufacturing business” get notified of this CVE popping up? I don’t think they would even know what a CVE is…
I guess you haven’t heard about what happened to Jack Ma recently
While mental health and addiction contribute to homelessness these conditions are wildly exacerbated by homelessness. Housing first has shown startling success rates. The only reason it stopped working was that cities that piloted the programs stopped funding it.

Why did we stop funding it? Dunno, ideological weirdness?
Researchers show effectiveness of migraine drug in weight loss, frovatriptan