skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like the decline in eastern europe is largely due to economic reasons and people migrate torwards the west? The economic decline in eastern europe after the end of the cold war and the neoliberal privatisation as well as corruption and mismanaged in each economy is something that's not often discussed. Beeing in eastern europe feels sometimes like being in a western colony because most corporations / supermarkets / products are just western products. Also more often than not it's not the place for innovation but rather cheap labor workbenches for western corporations. Not sure if that was a given in the 90ies or wether it was the result of the politics at this time. If anyone can recommend some literature I'd be interested. For the former GDR (also big population loss due to economic reasons) one could argue that at least some industries were killed to avoid competition from western corporations but of course it's difficult to reliable connect cause and effect. Is in the EU eastern nations also this oligarch problem that ukraine/russia inflicted on themselves?
FCC ordered mobile carriers to explain geolocation data they use and collect
> Proper style? Formatting. Imperative voice. Capitalization. Hard wraps.

Correct, those don't matter much. On the other hand, describing what the change is about matters a lot.

It is 10x easier to review a merge request when you can see discrete steps that make sense (ex: update method X, update route Y that calls X, update all code paths that use route Y, update client to handle new data) vs one big jumble of "stuff", "fix it", "update getCustomers" that touches 27 places at once.
An acquaintance who likes to party a lot, and have a job related to medicine, have small bottles of some B vitamins to inject themselves when they are pretty bad. AFAIK those are the medicine ER gives you when you have a really bad alcohol intoxication, so I believe this works.
I looked at FAB[1] to support this in the past, it would be great if it supported more platforms.

[1] https://fab.dev/
"The system essentially gets a bonus symmetry from a nonexistent extra time dimension."
Just don’t. We will find you when we need you.
Always find Italy the interesting one. Nice place to live but they stopped having kids. Notice a lot of single middle-aged+ women when visiting too.
I was looking for long term stays in an Airbnb while waiting for my apartment to be ready in a cross state move. I was baffled at the amount of listing that looked like duplicates - until I realized that they were massive houses carved up into multiple “rent a room” offers. I can’t imagine traveling and renting just a room and finding a bunch of travelers living there too.

Renting out just a room in your house seems ok. My cousin did this when she bought a house to help cover the expenses after she lost a job, but to book out the whole house as some sort of crappy hostel seems unbearable.
I wonder how hotels could do this effectively and safely.

Include a mini-kitchen with 2 burners and a small counter. Burners are disabled but could be enabled by request, or some keypad on the wall (child proofed). You can pick up a box of kitchen supplies (pots, knives, etc) from the front desk or request room service to cart them up.

Put the supplies back in the box before you leave (box is lined with a rubbermaid dish bin).

This would offset the cost of furnishing each room with supplies, while also killing one of airbnb's value props.
USB drive, or if someone questions me, I might say thumb drive.
This is an infection with VDPV2 - VDPV2 is not used in Rockland County, but it is used Pakistan. This infection came from Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Hm, so it seems like that milkweed does have a distribution in California, but is not one of the native ones. https://www.calflora.org/app/taxon?crn=9705 says it's not native, and Calscape doesn't list it at all.
If you're in California, I'd highly recommend getting the narrow-leaf instead, if you don't mind spending a little more money.
Also, if you can, plant some native Salvia nearby for them to pupate on. Salvia Clevandii does quite well. They'll also pupate on arbors, trellises, fences, etc.
Based upon username will assume author shared it here:

You've neglected to state what commit messages do matter, unless you think none do.

In my experience, commit messages only don't matter if the code is never used beyond the first creation.

Once you have to maintain the code, commit messages absolutely matter.

Does it need to include the granular details mentioned in the article? No. But commit messages help determine what commits should be reviewed during maintenance (including adding new functionality).

(I also experienced a touch of cosmic fear while reading the article, thinking about someone who might rebase or squash every commit, leaving only one commit for an entire repo.)
How to tell if artificial intelligence is working the way we want it to
Oh, come on. Atom competed directly with VS Code, a Microsoft product. Microsoft owns GitHub, so they can direct that Atom be sunsetted.

I expect we'll see more and more changes in this vein, because like Hotmail, Microsoft can't keep from making things bend towards Windows.
Doesn't make sense. We already had non-herd immunity producing vaccines for flu. That covid vaccines produce the same outcome isn't a particularly special case. It's not even that complex to understand the WHY they don't produce herd immunity.

I can understand being frustrated because herd immunity was touted as a possible benefit of mass covid vaccination, but that has nothing to do with whether it exists in general.
Russia, Iran discuss tech manufacturing, infosec and e-governance collaboration
bulldozing houses and buying land for cheap maybe?
The swashbuckling sounds very wholesome. Does Eve have suicide bombers or any other kinds of asymmetric warfare?
Airbnb is such a joke now. I had a host steal from me with no repercussions in November. The host said the room wasn't ready through text, and then, when they said it was ready, someone (not the host) walked up to us on the street outside the building the room was supposedly in and said it still wasn't ready- there were men working inside it.

He would take our bags up but under no circumstances would he let us actually see the room or have the keys until it was "ready". Obviously it was either a scam, or an illegal sublet that he didn't want to level with us about.

Airbnb refused to refund a room that for all intents and purposes, didn't exist. Their rationale was that they hadn't been informed the same day, which is ridiculous considering how much of a timesink finding a last-minute hotel is. It should be open and shut, but they simply bought the lies the host told them, despite the fact they were never even there.
> People have no living memory of polio.

My grandmother tells the story of the big US polio outbreak when she was a child. Her parents were scared to death, so put her on a train in Indianapolis out to Iowa to live on her grandparent’s farm . She talked about multiple towns that the train stopped in and let people disembark, but refused to allow boarding, and looking out the windows at the signs and evidence of widespread fear.

It’s not something you would forget, and she is definitely still alive ;)
Also Pink's Drive has a lot more on the research around motivation. Highly recommended for anyone working with people, or having children.
It wholely depends on what you are hoping to get out of the commit messages.

I don't want to see the local commit history of individual developers in the commit history of any shared branches (be it mainline branches or shared development branches).

What I do want to see is a history of pull request merges. I don't care how they are formatted (and this is often done automatically) but it matters that if I want to check out a historical changeset that I can. This is particularly useful when there are regression bugs that managed to slip through the QA and automated testing processes and it is unclear what caused them and when. It is nice to be able to go through the commit log and identify suspect work items, check out the commits during that time and see what they changed.

How you format the commit messages isn't that import as long as your pull-requests are squashed-merged (to suppress local dev workflow commits that aren't relevant to the team) and the commit messages facilitate doing that with something that links back to a work item.
Ah, I never even attempted the tropical since it's not native, so I don't know how ravenous they'd be for it. I just contrast narrow-leaf to showy since those are the two commonly sold native CA milkweeds, and my caterpillars are just so incredibly not into the showy, it might as well not be milkweed.
Ok well I respect it but at the same time he's no Albert Hofmann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann#Discovery_of_LS...
"Three days later, on 19 April 1943, Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 micrograms of LSD."
> You can't really get an insight into other people's mind, so it's impossible for either of us to say how our theory of mind stacks up against anyone else's.

The idea of finding a way to test our various theories of mind
is both amusing and fascinating. There should be a way to do scientific tests. :D
That's the attitude that drove me off airbnb. At a hotel, you are a paying client, entitled to a service. At an airbnb, you are a poor relative. Host graciously agrees to let you spend a night at their precious property.
>There's no form of marketing that I "like" or actively reward, at most there's marketing that I fell for.

For very high value software licensing agreements there's huge financial rewards for performing the marketing dance with the vendor. Paying list for enterprise software doesn't happen. Customers who even know what Oracle RAS is , or SQL SERVER Parallel, are numbered in the hundreds. The expenditure on manpower to design and commission a new major database installation is two to three orders of magnitude greater than the license costs. That's per database not enterprise wide. You embark upon a courtship from the outset.

This isn't what the article nor what most everyone's discussing, but I thought it worthwhile to offer a real illustration of a very viable means of sales and marketing that can be made to work if you have a high value application or service and can identify a small finite number of customers.

Edit: I probably should have said the number of customers who know what they're doing with the most sophisticated databases is very likely in the hundreds. Arguably the market is rather larger but if the behaviour F500 generally is any indication, there's a lot of nameplate and marquee buying driven by C suite egos. If you're selling a unique and expensive application this is where your margins are. And where tales of sales excess and bad reputation / hubris attaching to your product originate.
More importantly, the concept of speed itself is confusing when you try treating time as just another dimension. Traditionally, speed means how many units of space do you move in a unit of time. Asking about your speed through the x dimension is as simple as asking for dx/dt. Asking about your speed in the time dimension is even simpler, it is just dt/dt, which probably isn't what you where actually interested in.

You can ask for your overall speed in all spatial dimensions with dX/dt where dZ^2 = dy^2 + dx^2 + dz^2.

By analogy, you could say that your speed through all of spacetime is dS/dt, where dS = dx^2 + dy^2 + dz^2 - dt^2. You could then say that your speed through time us dT/dt, where dT=1-dS. Although this quanity is really measuring the difference between proper time and coordinate time, which is just time dilation. An equivalent derivation works for length contraction as well.

Importantly, all of these qualities are dependent on your choice of reference frames. Only dS and dT are frame independent, so (in some sense) they are the only true quantities. Both of them also rely on merging time and space to a single quantity.

Of course all of what I wrote applies to special relativity (flat spacetime). Once you get to curved spacetime, your metric gets more complicated, but the general ideas still apply.

Really, I don't see how you can make sense of general relativity as anything other than a 4 dimensional geometry with a really weird metric.
Raimondo warns of ‘deep and immediate recession’ if US cut off from Taiwan chips
Same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle
My grandfather was paralyzed from polio, and ultimately died from complications of post-polio syndrome. It's a nasty virus. I have living memory.
Sorry, I should have been more clear that I was speaking as the devil's advocate, in hopes that it would shine some light on the mindset of people like that.

I played Rust for a while and I still keenly remember the feeling of outrage and betrayal that the fort that I had spent nearly an hour on getting raided while I was logged out. It was a lark for the people to pop in and pillage my supplies but for me it was just as frustrating as if my real property had been stolen.
I don't want to put works in cies's mouth, but it possible to read the comment in a reasonable way. It is not necessarily a claim that polio isn't real, but rather that patient's signs and symptoms can overlap with other medical issues. Stefan Lanka doesn't pass my sniff test, but reference to him and to test contamination can be read as examples that these sorts of tests are not always clear.
AirBnB makes sense from my experience for a very select set of experiences which require considerable research. In these situations, I wasn't optimizing for lower costs which most travelers are probably doing. Examples:

1. Several nights on a houseboat in Amsterdam.

2. Two weeks in Cape May, NJ in a walkable location to the beach with enough space to bring kids, laundry facilities, and a garden to entertain friends joining us.

3. Long weekend with extended family in the middle of Harper's Ferry, WV.

Finding and organizing these experiences would be harder without AirBnB. There is no way I'd use AirBnB for a regular trip though.
Let's be clear on the limits of the study you're quoting -- the total effect size was a tiny, tiny fraction a percent for the surgical mask arm (.09%), and barely reached a reasonable level of statistical significance (p=0.043). There was no statistically significant effect size for cloth masks.

No matter how you look at this study -- if you actually read it [1], and don't just read press releases -- it was not a strong result. Moreover, after the raw data for the study was released, there were a number of legitimate critiques that call into question the primary result. For example, this one [2]:

> In this short note we re-analyze the data from this trial using standard non-parametric paired statistics tests on treatment/village pairs. With this approach, we find that behavioral outcomes like physical distancing are highly significant, while the primary outcome of the study is not. Importantly, we find that the behavior of unblinded staff when enrolling study participants is one of the most highly significant differences between treatment and control groups, contributing to a significant imbalance in denominators between treatment and control groups.

Even if we accept the claims of the original paper at face value, the fact that you're citing this study as some kind of definitive rebuttal is, deeply ironically, a perfect example of the OP's critique: the highest quality evidence for mask mandates is simply and objectively weak, but most casual observers believe the opposite to be true.

Public health has exaggerated (or outright lied about) evidence quality throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Is that the reason for this Polio event? Likely not, but if we're casting about for secondary or tertiary reasons, a drop in trust in public health due to their own trivially falsified propaganda wouldn't be the worst place to start.

[1] https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01296
The polio vaccine is a sterilizing vaccine that completely protects against infection

The SARS2 mRNA vaccines don’t even protect against infection, especially for Omicron variants.

You may want to reconsider your opinion.
The inactivated virus variant of the polio vaccine is still in the standard childhood immunization schedule in the US:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolesc...
Vue JS, if Evan's hit by a bus we're done here
Indeed. As someone with experience of extreme manic psychosis, it is the pattern recognition/dot connection algorithm kicked into absolute overdrive. Spurious correlation abounds when afflicted with such a condition.

Thankfully my experience was acute and triggered by drugs, so a few years of anti-psychotics and refraining from anything other than cannabis and alcohol in moderation have let me stop taking the anti-psychotics and at worst I experience cyclothymia, which I've decided to just live with and not medicate.
Now I usually stay in Sonders and hotels. Better prices and similar locations and more stable outcomes. Hotels and Sonders won't cancel you last minute.
I remain unconvinced, given that we continue to explore the meaning and possibility of cardinalities beyond aleph 0. See, e.g., [1], and its implications for CH.

It strikes me that since we are still learning about cardinalities above aleph 0, we may have made mistakes at 0 itself and that there may be an “aleph -1”, an infinite cardinality less than aleph 0, which could apply, e.g., to the set of primes.

This would require proving that the bijection technique is not properly constructivist. That is considered constructivist has long bothered me, but I lack the detailed background in the field to articulate the objection.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-numbers-exist-infini...
Does the invoice say 1 month? The last time I used the public cloud GPU instance there was a very explicit setting to bill hourly or to get a discount by getting a month in advance.
> And I realized it as soon as I started experimenting that mind blowing results are mostly cherry picking

Me and you must have very different definitions of "cherry picking". For prompts that fall within it's scope (i.e not something unusually complex or obscure) I get usable results probably 90% of the time.

Can you give me some examples of prompts that you tried where you found good results difficult to obtain?
Yeah BMI is a very crude metric. Half the guys I was in the Army with would be “overweight” if you only used BMI (these guys were not overweight, they were yoked).
> Commit messages are probably one of the worst places for documentation

They're a bad place for documenting the repository for users. They're about the sole place to document what's in the _commit_...

> and a common source of bikeshedding.

You can bikeshed anything if you like. But I'll grant the author's claim that bikeshedding the exact format convention of commit messages is excessive. If someone wrote "Added feature X" as opposed to "Add feature X" - yeah, that doesn't really matter.

On the other hand, if the first line of a commit message is extremely broad and vague, this makes it difficult for the developer browsing the commit history in a one-line-per-commit view.

> Adding in information about what files have changed doesn't make sense

It can makes sense if it's essential to the commit, e.g. "Moved `foo` from `file1.h` to `file2.h`". But TBH - this is bikeshedding.

> this information is more easily stored by looking at the diff

Ah, but the whole point is that you want to _avoid_ looking at the diffs of many commits.

> Information about why and how often have better homes.

Nope.

> There's the code review history, the bug tracker

These are not part of the VCS commit history, and may not even exist at all.

> the code comments

So, we want to put commit comments as actual comments now? No.

> and the actual documentation.

No. The actual documentation is:

1. Intended for users of the repository rather than developers/maintainers of the repository.

2. Documents all commits up some release (or up to some commit).

> Your commit message essays will probably be lost or munged anyway – squashed, merge committed, or rebased.

So will our code... but the point is that, after such squashes etc., there is still a commit history for which it is important and useful to have commit messages.
Remember shortly after their IPO how people were fawning over them around here? Spectacles, and how they're 'more than just a messaging company' and all of that.

It might be a good time to buy, maybe someone will purchase them above the current trading amount. That's the only way the stock is not going to zero, IMO.
My kid has autism, and exhibits a similar behavior. What he really likes is the running water, and when we introduced him to showering, oh my god, he's in love. Showers are a lot more efficient than letting the tub run full blast, and we set a timer so we're not the ones telling him when to get out -- sometimes he rages at the timer, but it subsides quickly because he knows he can't bargain with the timer.
I don't see any correlation between spies as agents and spying on your own people. If Washington would have spied on his own people he probably would've been worse off by wasting those resources and sowing discord.

Further, we already spy on our own people and we can't even stop low-tech orchestrated attacks that involved men who trained to fly, but skipped landing lessons and hijacked planes with box cutters.
This story is also available as an audio story on Apple News app on iPhone (not on Mac) https://apple.news/ACilDauuAS4-iFt7JPBGkZg
this happened to me. Part of an order wasn't sent as described. The merchant wouldn't accept a return. I opened a claim with evidence and they basically submitted a blank form for me. It was rejected. I called them again and explained that the evidence I attached wasn't considered. They resubmitted with a detail writeup on paypal's side and I was sided with.
Almost 90 million PS3s have been sold, so it seems entirely plausible that they could have directly bought 2000 of them through some distributor. Doesn't the military industrial complex prefer to go through its inner circle of buddies anyway?
> Generating too much for the grid isn't an actual problem

Yeah, tell that to people who's devices and houses you have burnt down because voltage in the outlet was not 230V but 300V.
The worst commit message bureaucracy is the requirement to link to a story / feat|bug|etc classification and perfect message formatting or it gets rejected.

My firm went through 3 different ticket systems in 5 years, including a round trip to Jira. Teams/apps migrated to different Jira projects, repos got split apart/merged, tickets were archived, etc.

So the commit blocking requirement of having a link to the story ends up pointing to dead ends or stuff you may not have access to quite often.

This is the kind of stuff that causes senior devs to commit less often, or to have an always-open "misc" ticket to book everything to, with a copy-paste ready commit message in the proper format to pass checks.
The hard facts are literally in the last few paragraphs of this long article:

"Tzi, the father [...] told Reuters he regrets that his children had gone to work. The family needed any income it could get at the time, he added, but is now trying to move on."

The father knew.

"After the disappearance generated local news coverage, SMART dismissed a number of underage workers"

Hyundai (SMART) knew.

12 year olds.
Nice list. It would be great to make it from text in a repo so suggestions could be made as pull requests.
Commit messages are so that I can figure out why I added that particular line of code a year later.
To counter, any merge request with more than 2-3 commits is probably too big anyway
Ask HN: Is Elon Musk's concern on declining population rate valid?