skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were starting to get concerned about this strange new disease in China, the WHO announced there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" and no need to restrict international travel to Wuhan. In reality, there was nothing but evidence of human-to-human transmission and plenty of Chinese doctors knew this, but the WHO repeated the Chinese government's lies.

Instead of trying to contain the pandemic in it's earliest stages, the WHO told the world there was nothing to worry about. They screwed up about as bad as they possibly could, and helped enable the spread of a disease.
I wrote mine in Word and it's SO UGLY. I wish I'd procrastinated more by fiddling with different rendering methods!
It’s amazing to me how we underpay those who will be helping our future generations learn and grow. If you’re intelligent it’s a hard sell to enter education when you can make so much more in tech or business.
This line of thinking has never made sense to me. We spend billions worldwide combatting diseases that mostly impact people over the median age of death and with other co-morbidities. Heart disease mostly kills old and obese people, but no one ever has a problem with tax dollars going to this. If we don't care about people with co-morbidities, doesn't it make sense to shut down heart institutes and cancer wards?
Exactly right.

But extremely serious scientists, very smart people, are still drawing epicycles on blackboards studying “consciousness”.
What if I don’t want to work remotely? What if I’m not in the US, or what if I’m in Colorado? What if all the jobs are in an industry I would prefer not to work in or am morally opposed to? If there are 2 zillion positions available, there’s a much larger chance to find something in my area and meeting all my requirements/wishes. But if there are just 100 jobs, I might end up without a job, or with a job I’m not very happy about.
There are some packages that slow LaTeX down, I think... Tikz is one I think.

My masters thesis was written on an old netbook with an Atom processor, plenty of graphics, the compile times got pretty ugly. But I did different files for each section, and set it up so the latex process would automatically kick off and run in the background after writing to the file in vim. Working within constraints like that is sort of fun, it forces you to get the slow operations off the critical path.

Currently I use a script like:

inotifywait -e close_write,moved_to,create -m . |
while read -r directory events filename; do
if [ "$filename" = "$1" ]; then
latexmk -interaction=nonstopmode -f -pdf $1 2> $1.errlog
fi
done

to just re-compile the .tex whenever it changes. I'm not really a bash programmer though so I guess this will probably be ripped apart by somebody here, haha (the top couple lines were probably taken from some post on the internet somewhere).
> So what’s the “emergency” in that context?

You've named it: "tens of thousands of cases outside of Africa". It entered the white world (disclaimer: I'm white myself).

On top of that we've just lived through (hopefully) the worst if the COVID pandemic, so WHO is additionally spooked.
Try harder, look other uses cases of NFTs other than "broken link". You speak with so much confidence without knowing what you are talking about.
There are two groups where I noticed this to be true:

- Ordinary, non-tech people. Pretty much every college-aged student that I know of opts for a MacBook Air/Pro if they can afford it. Another segment are older people. My parents are in this group. 99% of what they used their computers for (Checking bank balances, paying bills, printing stuff) can be done with an iPhone now. Nowadays, I suggest they just buy an iPad if they want a “computer”.

- Businesses that aren’t heavily relying on Microsoft Office. A lot of SMBs use SaaS apps for their line of business and most businesses like using Apple products because long term, they seem to last longer.

There is still a place for Windows, especially in specialized fields like finance or in gaming.
> but it’s still just maximizing P(this-sentence-was-on-the-internet).

But are we doing any different?
It can do a lot more than answer questions, it can generate original content which google can not do at all.
> Though my perception is they're getting rarer and shorter.

This does not match my anecdotal experience. I did a lot of camping as a kid in during the summers in Kansas and had the "pleasure" of riding out many a thunderstorm huddled in a tent (or in a concrete latrine if there was hail/tornados). Several years ago, I once again found myself camping in a raging prairie thunderstorm (thanks to being more focused on the girl I was with than on the forecast) and the experience was surprising familiar... Oh well, she ended up marrying me, so worked out in the end!
I think you have this reversed - it's application (game) level backwards compatibility leading to large market sizes of people who have gaming PCs, which leads to a cycle of dependency which Windows just happens to be a required part. SteamOS, Wine, and similar are attempts to break Windows out of this cycle.

Hardware support is similar - vendors go after the biggest market. Also PC gamers are used to installing kernel drivers from random third parties, whereas other OS vendors usually want drivers to be integrated in the main release.
More like forums were fragmented. Topics, geographically etc. And politics was either sophisticated forums or just a byproduct of those fragmented topics.

More users, many of them lurkers, would just result in more fragmentation and niches in that old world.

The old forums was safe from feeling of censorship too. If you didn’t like mods too much, you could not easily go to another forum or start your own.
I actually work in the field (networking) and FPGAs are very common in professional telecommunication equipments, hence my suspicion/guess that DPI are the same, especially since I'm also guessing that this is the sort of thing that may be updated often. So I think my 'suspicion' is at least as good as yours.
What's the threat of not loving up to their regulation when not being located there? Isn't the worst scenario that they just block your website on their end?
My grandma called it "part and pick."
That’s what they’re implying.
It may be helpful for folks to help you with reviewing your resume. Are you getting interviews and not moving to the next level, or are you have difficulty landing interviews?
Any tooling in particular? The only thing I’ve run into is CockroachDB, who seem uniformly uninterested in ARM binaries for anything including Linux.
For Rust and ML, are the tooling libraries available to any quantity in Rust that are present in Python? I was under the impression Python has such an advance runaway any other languages will be hard to catchup (eg: Go has been trying, R <ugh>, etc)
The author was a senior council in the Clinton investigation which involved issues of SS protective immunity & records release. So yeah he may be someone with personal expertise.

There’s nothing here related to policing presidential behavior or decisions about who gets to be president. There’s executive & congressional branch oversight over the secret service. They received a lawful order to preserve data and then blasted it away. There’s a ton of moral hazard in that kind of brazen rule-breaking and you’ll likely see it reflected in the coming months/years.
IMO draft seems like a crutch: Because TeX has to reprocess the whole document and the sty-files of each imported package every time, you do not have a huge budget for your document content. Instead, you are given the option to sacrifice image decoding, plot drawing, and output fidelity to keep TeX humming along.

Sure, that's better than nothing but I cannot help but wonder whether there could be an architecture where you cut down on repeating work and get faster recompiles that way!
The Steam Deck and other developments (Proton/DXVK, Nvidia kernel drivers, EAC/Battleye AC support) have weakened that position, though.

Linux is still only 1.2% of PC gaming, but the idea of that increasing isn't as bananas as it was in 2015 before any of these developments were announced/released.
Steam Machines/SteamOS, and especially Steam Deck has gained a big following from gamers which is arguably a bigger "home market" than Apple's creative professional home turf. Also I suspect ChromeOS might be losing steam as apple pushes back in education and windows 2-in-1s take back the low end market.
Haha well played. I’ll counter your non-sequitor with an appeal to authority ;)

I used to do this for a living.
I don't watch videos from such guys.

The over enthusiaatic reactions feel cringe and fake.

The thumbnails are dumb at best.

It's a person that is in this for money or has no self respect that would do such things, and I don't value their opinion.

There is better content, it's not needed to put up with this disrespect for the viewer.
But a true web3 is possible: not through blockchain and things like that, but through things like WebRTC, Bittorrent and protocols of that sort. Peertube is one example of something of that sort.

A revival of a noncommercial, and uncommercializable web.
This is completely accurate. I’ve been on the board of a very small makerspace for about a decade now, and our energy has slowly declined. I don’t know what the solution is.
UK to build second-largest magnet refinery outside of China
Real Question: I see posts like this often on HN. Why not tear down these houses and rebuild with energy efficient ones? I know... blah. blah. blah. historical this and that... but do you want to suffer from 40+C summers? This is the price of history! Think about it. Really really! Please start tearing down these horribly inefficient houses that are "historical". We already do it for office buildings!
> Your "solution" would filter the vast minority of the abusers at the cost of banning an entire TLD, not much different than turning off the internet connection entirely.

Again, we’re talking about client-side filtering. The original comment about blocking .it domains was talking about a uBlock Origin rule. No one’s talking about blocking .it domains from the web.

Yes, as an American, I could block all .it domains on my end and my web experience likely wouldn’t change at all. I rarely, if ever, need to visit .it domains. So maybe I will.
Not even a little!
I agree with your last paragraph. I think there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom. I understand wisdom as knowledge gained through experience. Sometimes experience can't be distilled into simple fact and is only really understood through repeated application.
I think in our reality the prerequisite for holding all the cards is the lack of competence in knowing how to improve the world. We've gotten where we are now through sheer force of will of those that are empty handed.
But excel doesn't run macros by default right?
>spiked-online.com

I immediately thought there will surely be some hand-wringing about covid denial and climate change denial in this piece, and indeed:

>This became especially clear during the pandemic, when online platforms engaged in the censorship of those voices, no matter how well-credentialed, who dared to question the official policy on Covid. Tech firms have been engaged in attempts this year to create a ‘disinformation board’ that would work to limit dissent from federally supported orthodoxy.

>But this is just the beginning. Last year, Google announced a ‘crackdown’ on climate-change sceptics – including well-known scientists.
Sure, but to add binary data to any executable on any platform is more involved.

As an example, see [1]. That will turn any file into a C file with a C array, and I use it to embed a math library ([2]) into the executable so that the executable does not have to depend on an external file.

[1]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/strgen....

[2]: https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/branch/master/gen/lib.bc
The numbers in the article are very close to statcounter desktop OS market share numbers.
Are those two things in the same field?
Big Fat Problems
Show HN: Interactive meeting demo with WebRTC and WebSockets
Just a little no sign-up demo I threw together of my product. WebRTC is just incredibly powerful.
Well lots of things can be spread by sexual contact. Most respiratory viruses, for example, are quite easily spread through the implied close proximity. The CDC does have a page titled "Monkeypox Facts for People Who are Sexually Active"[1] but I don't know how many cases are spread that way versus other ways of coming into contact with sores or things that touched sores.

1: https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/sexualhealth/index.ht...
Mike Stonebraker and others are working on an OS that is based on a database.

Take a look at https://vldb.org/pvldb/vol15/p21-skiadopoulos.pdf
My critique is that this could create a “boy who cried wolf” scenario.

And apparently this decision was actually an overrule by the director - a panel actually voted against it.
I'm so sorry that this happened to you. It legitimately sounds like you were either pranked or offered a product that contained something humans are not intended to drink.

There's absolutely nothing about cold brew coffee that is anything like unsweetened lemonade. I'm cringing just reading this.

What it does taste like is super-strong coffee, with none of the burnt note that comes with heated coffee. It could very easily be considered "too strong" by supertasters... but unsweetened lemonade sounds like dishwater.
* In your personal bubble

* Which is made of software engineers and tech companies

* Which are all very wealthy relative to the rest of the population

* Which most likely have it paid for by their company.

15% feels like an overstatement if anything.
Business Card-Sized SBC Ships with Intel Core Tiger Lake or AMD Ryzen V2000
I won't buy another Windows laptop. It's no longer possible to disable some "features" so I've given up. Windows Defender is impossible to deactivate, it always gets auto-reactivated. External disks that are only connected for archival purposes (and never updated) get scanned again and again, no matter if I exclude them from scanning. Some graphical popups are also impossible to disable.

There are only a few appliances that I needed Windows for, I will deal with them with other means.
WHO has some huge fails.

They didn’t declare it a pandemic until March 11 - extremely late.

They were extremely critical of travel restrictions, while the countries they did the best in the first year defied that advice and had the most extreme restrictions, like New Zealand.

They failed to actually investigate the Wuhan Lab that may have been the source.

They didn’t acknowledge airborne spread for two years - allowing people to live in fear of packages.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7

What did they do right?
Sorry. I don't trust alt-right publishers.
Fauci:

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/553773-fauci-...
It is the first poxvirus to spread across the globe since the eradication of smallpox. Vaccines exist, unlike at the outset of Covid, but not at the scale necessary to vaccinate the world and move on.

Even if monkeypox is only an annoyance (which I doubt), if 7 billion people all have to get sick for a week, that deprives humanity of ~134 million people-years of life that they'd rather spend doing something else -- even if there are no longer-lasting impacts.
Spain will introduce free train travel
Anti-cheat is improving though [0]. EAC and Battleye both have Linux/Proton support and so just need for developers to enable within their apps (Battleye only needs for the Devs to send an email for BE to activate it their end).

[0] https://areweanticheatyet.com
And the only way to fix it is regulation — with teeth — of privately-owned public communications platforms. Does anyone see another way that could work?
I'd largely agree with your sentiments.

FWIW though, I think it's unfair to compare community-organized makerspaces to TechShop. While they have similar look and feel, no community-run makerspaces open their doors with $1M in equipment on the floor, it's a different business model. TechShop was propping up numerous unprofitable locations with a very small number of profitable locations. Those money sink locations sunk the entire enterprise in time.

My understanding is that the Makerfaire brand was also propping up TechShop. Early on we went with our own branding rather than use the Makerfaire name for one simple reason: at that time it cost ~$700 to use the name for our event and we got nothing in return other than getting to use the name. Our own maker fair event has been extremely successful, and the cost to use the name has only gone up. The Make brand certainly was a boost to the Makerspace/Hackerspace movement, but it also had drawbacks of its own.
I was thinking something that could be fixed with the right drugs and therapy, but I’m no doctor.
The article doesn't even mention C++/Java.
It's just another example of underinvestment in infrastructure that's required to maintain society. In this case obviously it's human beings rather than roads and bridges.
When you use Google, you expect it to help you to find something tangible that already exists. When you prompt GPT-3, it feels more like synthesising something that didn’t exist, even though all of the words and phrases in the response have been used before.

The line is blurry, though. Google uses machine learning too, so it’s possible that nobody on the planet has ever seen your particular search results for a given query, which feels a bit like synthesis, although the building blocks are bigger. And GPT-3 isn’t really synthesising at all, of course, but it’s a convincing enough illusion that synthesis is a helpful mental model.
This article[1] shows how you can use GCC toolchain along with objcopy to create an object file from a binary blob, link it, and use the data within in your own code.

[1] https://balau82.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/linking-a-binary-bl...
I'm no epidemiologist, but I think "as much an STD as herpes" would mean that it's popularly stereotyped as an STD despite most infections not having anything to do with sexual activity (HSV-1, which is mainly transmitted via oral contact, is much more prevalent than HSV-2, which is mainly transmitted via genital contact [1]).

[1] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/herpes-simp...
Artificial Creativity?
I'd hazard the WHO discomfort with "wait and see" is (1) lingering institutional shame at failing to warn about SARS-CoV-2 in a timely manner, (2) unexpectedly high transmissibility and geographic spread, (3) it's an orthopoxvirus, and while distant from smallpox... it's not that distant, (4) largely unvaccinated world population, and (5) history of diseases which are circulating in men-who-have-sex-with-men being ignored (read: HIV).

Honestly, IMHO, this is what the WHO should be doing: looking at the potential for pandemics and making moves ahead of time. (2) & (4) should be enough to scare the crap out of anyone who accepts the possibility of mutations once it's more widely circulating.

Smallpox is objectively horrific, and its eradication was one of public health's greatest modern triumphs. So anything close should be taken seriously.

Not panic. But pragmatic seriousness.

(WARNING: Not for the faint of heart) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox
I have worked for a company that reused order-tracking identifiers. The reason was mechanical: The more digits in the identifier the bigger the barcode on the shipping label. A non-issue with 2D barcodes but back then it was an issue.
>How did Tesla succeed is GM and the oil companies were supposedly going to use politics to keep the electric car from succeeding?

Maybe a different way to ask the same sort of question is: What would the auto industry look like now if the political climate had been more favorable towards electric vehicles?
Best way to reach dang (or other HN mods) is by email at hn@ycombinator.com

There are a few variants of Twitter front-ends. Threadreader is specifically aimed at presenting longer threads. Nitter removes the annoyances of viewing a specific post and discussion (it includes replies, Threadreader does not).

I've suggested that given the increased dark patterns / hostile attitude that HN might run its own Nitter instance and proxy Twitter submissions through that.

That suggestion might also be made of YouTube (via either Invidious or Piped), and Reddit (Teddit), and Medium (Scribe). There's also Bibliogram (for Instagram), though that site gets very few successful submissions.

HN does presently rewrite all Reddit submissions (and possibly comments) to "old.reddit.com" from "www.reddit.com" to provide the old desktop interface. I increasingly view threads only through Teddit to avoid numerous Reddit annoyances --- Teddit will rewrite further links so that you're rarely if ever redirected to the broken nominal site. (I can't recall an "if ever", other workarounds such as i.reddit.com or old.reddit.com frequently land back at the new broken-by-design site.)
> ...and Western Europe...

Lol what? Macs are still pretty much non-existant in Europe except in some 'hipster hotspots' like Berlin (typing this on a Mac and far away from Berlin, but still...)

E.g. for a reality check, click on the 'OS Version' line in the table at the bottom to unfold and see detailed OS stats, among gamers macOS sits at 2.45% across all Steam regions (at least it's growing though): https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
… which would imply public companies need to be evil, at least some of the time?
In the Abstract part of the paper, they highlight some distinct chemical differences to validate that their process works more like cold brew vs hot brew:

>> "Furthermore, the liquid phase’s alkaloid content, analyzed by reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry, is dominated by caffeine and trigonelline and is comparable to traditional cold-brewed coffee rather than hot-brewed coffee. Furthermore, analyzing the head-space of the prepared coffee variants, using in-tube extraction dynamic head-space followed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, gives evidence that the lack of heating leads to the preservation of more (semi-)volatile substances like pyridine, which provide cold-brew coffee its unique taste. "
I think both Gnome and KDE are pretty nice... Powerful is probably not the right word. KDE has a lot more features, and a lot more of those features are user configurable. Gnome has taken the path of a well executed, smaller feature set with fewer places the user can customize. KDE has taken the path of more features, but at the cost of more code, and more things that could have bugs. Personally, I love customizing everything, so I prefer KDE. But both Gnome and KDE are fantastic and give OSX a run for its money on usability, and both are superior to Windows 11 (which by the way is the best Windows UI since about XP).
Mobile global market share is Android 72% iOS 27%, but in the United States it's Android 43% iOS 57%.

According to statcounter, Mac has ~25% market share in the US. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-st...
That's .. about 75% of the world population?
How to Use Sshfs on OpenBSD
My read of the materials presented is that this process is legitimately faster (three minutes vs 8-20 hours) and makes no claim about easier.

Sure, you can just make some that will be ready tomorrow. But if you want some right now, it seems legitimate that being able to press a button and get cold brew is novel.

If that doesn't sound like you, don't buy it.
This doesn't answer the question.

More specifically, it's probably not useful advice.

I'm a generalist in a few languages, and I'm painfully aware of my lack of 'depth' of insight into the languages I use when I'm not 'knees deep'.

For some niche languages, you can't just 'read a book' and 'check stack exchange'.

I think we should all be 'multilingual' but it really helps to have depth of expertise.