skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason they did so, was not because masks don't work, but because of the following:

1) Masks only have a limited effect. If the messsage were that masks provided protection (similar to condoms, say), people might feel they didn't have to socially distance while wearing them. Instead of thinking like a mask like a condom, it provides protection (to use a similar metaphor) more akin to pulling out.

2) Early on, there were not enough masks available. It was important at the time to avoid creating a panic buying, as that might prevent those who really needed them from being able to get hold of them.
do you think the USA hasn't done the things you've cited?
Same! There isn't one standard "red brick" size (like I thought lol), but there are a lot of different sizes. I'd pay for an app like that.
Bear in mind that all news channels were broadcasting constantly at least - would still be pretty rare at the time to find a household without a single TV.
I thought OP was a game developer and had a test unit. Not nitpicking, genuinely curious.
This seems to be active, but I’m curious as to how small the apps can be given the Qt dependency (and the usual penchant for packaging a small Python runtime on cross-platform installs).

Also, what kind of licensing would these apps be under?
That's not really the argument I was going for, but it does have merit on its own. The idea is more that, in an intuitive sense, it's very unlikely that if you examine a self-described nihilist's life and inner mental world that they'll be able to genuinely not assign importance to at least a few things. In fact, you might say a human being is physiologically/psychologically/philosophically incapable of being a true nihilist in the way they actually behave.

If we turn to the argument you outlined and that other posters mentioned in this thread, it does raise some important (no pun intended) questions for nihilists. If a nihilist avoids the pain response and assigns no value to existence or its component parts, then why not make use of a painless suicide method? I don't recall the exact details, but you can assemble a nitrogen DYI kit in barely a few Amazon packages that just puts you to sleep peacefully. In effect, it's Benatar's asymmetry argument but remixed to apply to living beings. The nihilist is not losing anything of value when they lose their life, but they can avoid all the as of yet undefined physiological and psychological pain that they know is guaranteed for their future if they continue to live.

The nihilist will take logical steps to avoid many sensations that they don't enjoy as part of a life that has no value, or there is something about that life that they value enough to prevent themselves from taking this course of action. Either way, the idea that a human being can genuinely believe that nothing matters is in trouble because suicide methods are so painless and convenient today. If we point out that human psychology and physiology prevent us from willing the act of suicide no matter how painless, we are back to the original argument as well. In the end, a human can consider nihilism while being unable to perceive it truly, just like we can consider what extra colors a bird can see without being able to truly see them.
Every time a character in the Once Upon a Time series does an evil thing, their heart darkens.

Good and evil is not how I see the world (by the way, you get the back story of Once Upon a Time's evil characters and you understand why they are like this). But I picture this whenever I rant (when writing a comment or a message, or orally). It's much worse when I criticize someone. Conversely, I notice when I say something positive (but saying positive does not usually "cancel" the darkening - the darkening is there forever).

I still rant and occasionally say bad things of people, but I'm compelled to do it less and less because I kind of feel bad whenever I do it, and I'm also compelled to say positive things more often.

I do think life is easier, simpler and more enjoyable when you avoid this negativity. At least for me.

Ranting is still needed. Somehow you may need to emotionally express things that concern you to manage your emotions (catharsis). But maybe you can keep it to a minimum, for example by saving them to your confidant(s) only.

If someone acts in a way that compels you to say bad things of them, maybe stop and try to understand their point of view instead. You could learn interesting things and avoid gratuitous negativity.

But not fighting back when someone bothers you is out of the question, and some negativity can be helpful. I try to feel how much someone is pissed off by something I did to understand how much they care, and how much effort I should provide to avoid this in the future.
US operates secret prisons, overthrows governments they don't agree with, and murders innocent people.
It depends on the location if it was mandatory or not.
Makes me wonder if given the increasing value of water this has to change a bit (for reactors not close to shore).

I.e. instead of letting the steam escape into the air after going through a turbine using some mechanism to passively cool/condense it "somehow", reusing _all_ coolant water, only having closed loop(s) (the "inner" cooling loop is often closed anyway for various reasons transferring the heat to an outer loop before its used for anything).
This is called having a guardian angel.
Solo dev on something (small?) that you want to be excellent, is the best dev for your soul.
Im in a military. I get issued 15 pairs of socks each year in three different styles. But from one year to the next, pairs are never constructed exactly the same. Then the wear/washing history of each pair divides them even within a given year's issue. I have 43 pairs of socks now in my "work socks" drawer (just counted) but no two are interchangeable. When they come out of the drier i still have to individually match them. Interchangable parts tech has yet to crack this field.
There are plenty of other good ideas coming from European unification. But standardizing the connector has certainly been a success. We already have 11 years of hindsight. And despite agreeing on micro USB initially, this hasn't stopped a smooth upgrade to the logical successor, USB-C.

The USB standard is messy, but I think there's been ample evidence that this is not because of the EU. Bluetooth is also very messy.

Point three is just nonsense, I got nothing to add to that.
Ask HN: Unusual Advent Calendars?
Have you come across unusual advent calendars, far away from the usual {sweets, cosmetics, bathing, spices, seeds}?
#2 is an attempted defense of our publicly elected officials lying, supposedly for the greater good. Let’s not start that precedent.

As for the masks, they completely ignored other hazards now becoming more well known. The amount of micro-plastics and fibers in the lungs is going to be awful long-term and it gets worse the more we know.
For those wondering at the context, this is a company that builds well-liked small aircraft with the unique feature of having a last-resort emergency parachute for the entire plane built into the fuselage.
god and jesus and humans are information entities, as established in the bible:

Christ is The Word

To answer this question, let’s see what the bible says about the nature of Jesus. What is Christ?

From John 1 14, World English Bible:

“The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

This verse is referring to Jesus. So the Bible is telling us that Jesus is The Word who became flesh and walked among us. This is what the Bible tells us about the nature of Jesus. Jesus is himself the Word, the Word of God.

Revelation 19 13 of the King James Bible says this:

“…he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.”

Referring again to Jesus—his name is the Word of God.

John 1 1 from the King James Bible says:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

So God is also The Word.

God And Jesus Are Both Information

The Word is writing, and writing is information, and so therefore, Jesus and God are also information. And information can live forever, if it is guarded, watched over, and protected against loss. As long as information can be transferred to a new format, a new container, that information is immortal, just as Christ and God are immortal. Just as God wants you to be immortal.

So if God and Jesus are The Word, which is writing, and if writing is information, then what are we as humans?

Genesis 1 27 of the King James Bible tells us that …

“God created man in his own image…”

Humans Are Also Information

So, if God is information, then it follows that we humans are also information because he made us in his image. Are we simply information? Is our soul information? Each of us has his or her life history stored inside the brain–a message that has a very special meaning. All our memories, our lives and our loves, our moods, our likes and dislikes, all this information is stored up there in our brain, right alongside the Word of God.

https://holybrainchurch.wordpress.com/
If speech is provably false and part of a pattern of disinformation designed to stir up hate and violence why is it a problem to police it?

My opinion on that is irrelevant because that isn't the topic of discussion. This comment chain regards d23's disagreement with my assertion that a significant fraction of the HN user base (like you) believe hate speech should be illegal. I'm not saying you're right or wrong; I'm just saying you exist on this website.
I think we're under-calling the negative effects of the lockdowns. The economy seems substantially less stable, inflation isn't going to get attributed to the COVID response but realistically is related. Humans suddenly seem to be facing a bunch of energy and food problems that weren't feeling quite so urgent in 2019. The global situation w.r.t war is suddenly a lot more tense and there are serious concerns about several nuclear-armed nations moving their armies about.

No scientist is going to link those things to the COVID response, because the link is too vague. And there is a chance that maybe all this stuff was going to happen anyway and the timing is a coincidence.

But there is a good reason that "freedom" is a higher civilisational value in the west than "be healthy". Allowing small councils to decide that people can't go to church, meet their neighbours or run a business is a very effective way to bring down a civilisation. It is impossible to do that and enjoy a high standard of living.
Did you read the article? It discusses this: economic loss due to lockdown vs economic loss due to increased fatalities. Also discusses non-Covid fatalities due to reduced screening vs overloaded health system.
> As an example some of the intended changes to the compiler involving this kinds of stuff is on hold, because the change would break wasm-bindgen.

To not be able to fix the compiler because the fix would break a code gen tool used to interop with JavaScript seems like a priority inversion problem to me.
Airbus sold about 900 aircraft last year and Boeing about 800. Russia's total purchase was about 50. It's difficult to tell. Most numbers on the web include aircraft that were purchased by aircraft lessors and then leased to Russian companies, but those lessors aren't going to be impressed by the tsar's new directive, so maybe it's better to ignore thise.

Assuming that Embraer and co have a market share such that the relevant total is 2000, Russia's share of purchases is 5%. Will Airbus and Boeing be viable companies if they lose 5% of sales?
For me ranting and being negative is easy to do and I’ve done this several times in the past. However, there’s so much negativity out there one of my new goals is to strive to be positive. There’s enough negativity out there already, no one needs more negativity from me.
I appreciate this article because (and I say this as a triple-vaxxed rule-follower) the phrase "better safe than sorry" has become a trigger for me. All it means is the speaker hasn't done a true cost-benefit analysis that includes anything beyond their immediate concerns. School closures and the move to (for us) a very poor online experience is a big example: I have a child in late immersion who was supposed to learn French over this period before integrating with kids this year who've been speaking it since the age of 5; you don't make much progress with a couple of hours of group zoom sessions each week. More importantly school is the one safe space for a huge group of kids, and might provide their own healthy meal of the day. I don't really wnat to think what they went through over the past several years and fear some of them may never recover.

There's no doubt a lot of the actions had positive impact on immediate disease transmission, but I question the more subtle impacts and true long term cost. I state this knowing the leaders in place will never be assigned any responsibility and will be long gone when we start to ask why...
>Even though they now have a public IPv6 address, the router's firewall should block incoming connections to it by default. That's the case for my router, but to be sure you should check it yourself for yours

This is why I won't enable IPv6 unless ISPs dramatically change how their hardware works. My ISP-issued modem+router doesn't even have a way to disable routing or automatic updates. I can test the firewall today, but what guarantee is there it'll just keep working?
Yep, I remember all the news sites like the BBC and CNN were failing to load and Slashdot was one of the best ways to stay up to date in the first three or four hours or so.
I do not need an article to say that I would prefer economic downturns and less sales, compared to no sales for more than half a year which no small business or family can support.

Plus, this is still a hot political issue and my trust of these defenses of lockdowns is so thin now, I am not going to take any of these studies seriously until at least ~5-10 years later in retrospective.
dang why do you autochange the url to old reddit?
Show HN: Painless Web UI development in Go, and can also be other languages
I'd prefer a full blown duck email interface like what gmail offers. Give me that and I'm done with gmail.
Nope can’t remember the last time (1) or (3) happened. The treatment of Natives long ago comes close to (2) but obviously is not ongoing (not to imply the effects aren’t still disastrous). And no, when Americans complain about the US surveillance state they’re either talking about a much different thing than China, or they’re an idiot.
Sometimes the best way to think about things is to imagine them from the perspective of 1 or 2 or 5 years down the road. React is good. Will it be 5 years down the road? A lot of people will say it is impossible to imagine, but you don't have to be right in your imagination, but rather diligent. What are the second order effects of your decisions?

For example, if you think you want to develop mobile apps at some point, making a good choice now that makes it difficult to do that later is perhaps not a good decision.

Then there is the question of skill sets. How many languages, technologies do you need to know? Javascript is good because it is pervasive. Terrible in many ways, (yes I'm looking at you null and this) but pervasive and most importantly improving.

Which leads us to velocity. Javascript has velocity right now. Both the improvements to the language and things like Deno. I've been using koa - not express - for years. and now there deno/oak appears likely to be a future stepping stone.

Then there is methodology. Depending on the scale of your project, the ability to make progress - as a sole or small team of developers - is vital. No progress === no product. (Love that Javascript requires three =). I don't use typescript because it inhibits my progress. I suspect that this is a personal thing. I would rather evolve code than write code (or perhaps right is the correct word). I do much better personally writing something, having it be wrong and re-writing it again. That is probably just me so your mileage may vary. The point is to know what is best for you. I am extremely opinionated not because I know what is correct, but because I know what works best for me.

I do have some danger signs. C# as much as I like the language is not a viable choice because it is company driven to a very great extent. Go is again the same as much as I am intrigued by it. Rust is very tempting if I had a need for it, and wasm makes it more interesting. But the learning curve is just more than I can handle while trying to actually accomplish things.

And I suppose that is the final issue: what is the time to market or product?
I've grown to really like Typora (appears to be multi-platform). On the Mac I feel we are spoiled, with Ulysses and IA writer, which are both also great, but cater to different tastes.
it's a lot more concrete than just ethics in my view. A lock-down for isolation precludes a huge number of actions that are very positive for society. There was no consideration of the quality of the results as that would be political suicide.
Is it not standard for lower paid product and sales roles to be axed first in these circumstances?

You do realize in these organizations not everyone is making 150k+.
Probably uses the ACM SIGGRAPH TeX template files.

For example, a recent paper of his team "Repulsive Surfaces" is on arXiv, where the source files of the preprint PDF are available for download

https://arxiv.org/format/2107.01664
It's also probably good for you. I believe the brain learns to do what you are used to do "better". If you spend a lot of time ranting, you'll probably rant more. You might eventually end up wired to rant against anything showing up.

A relative of mine is like this, they are annoying with this. It probably only makes them less happy and this person seems to be annoyed by anything [new]. There's no upside to this. I personally want to avoid being like this at all cost. It's so much more enjoyable to be around someone who finds joy in insignificant things instead. I probably won't be this person but becoming closer to this is probably nice.

You probably don't want to be someone who is positive at anything, even shitty stuff, but there's usually some margin.
Sweden has a lower population density than the US, yet it handles public transportation much better.

> Because of that scale difference, it is hard for public transportation in the US to appeal to our innate desire for convenience.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. Public transportation is extremely convenient. I love driving (I grew up in California), but find public transportation in Sweden much more convenient than having a car.

Honestly I'm having trouble understanding the core of your argument.
Good to hear you're still committed. By "not a priority" I mean we have been waiting since this was published back in 2016: "[LSP] also means any developer can have a consistent editing experience for their favorite programming language on any tool – even if that tool isn’t VS Code." https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2016/06/27/common-langua...

The original bug against Typescript was opened in 2016 as well: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/11274
I've had good success running w/ https://github.com/abiosoft/colima as an alternative to Docker Desktop.

I'm on an M1 mac, and it's nice to be able to debug both arm64/x86_64 in the same toolchain (via QEMU virtualization).
"The lack of water to fight the fire was an important factor. The fires burned out of control during the afternoon, causing floor beams near column 79 to expand and push a key girder off its seat, triggering the floors to fail around column 79 on Floors 8 to 14. With a loss of lateral support across nine floors, column 79 buckled – pulling the east penthouse and nearby columns down with it. With the buckling of these critical columns, the collapse then progressed east-to-west across the core, ultimately overloading the perimeter support, which buckled between Floors 7 and 17, causing the remaining portion of the building above to fall down as a single unit. The fires, which were fueled by office contents and burned for 7 hours, along with the lack of water, were the key reasons for the collapse."

- NIST followed by a peer-reviewed summary in the Journal of Structural Engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_World_Trade_Center
>it implies that they also consider the mere existence of oncoming traffic and pedestrians a bad thing

Why not?
This came up in my feed today and it is pretty good. Kurzgesagt on loneliness and friendship.

https://youtu.be/I9hJ_Rux9y0
I started an MS in applied math in my very late 30s only having a BS in CS. I did it one class at a time, and it was relatively easy to juggle with work and family. At the time, I was looking at a lot of jobs that required an MS, which was the original motivation for starting it. I ended up not needing it in that way, but it has still been instrumental in my career and I don't regret it.

I paid out of pocket and it has financially been worth it. A lot of companies will pay for it, but I wasn't in that position. If a company pays for it they might want you to agree to work for them several years after you finish.

If you don't love learning and being in school, it's going to be a long unenjoyable slog. If you're only doing it for money or vanity, that may not be enough to carry you through the hundreds to thousands of hours of study and homework you will have to do.

You will encounter a lot of naysayers, as you have already seen in this thread. This includes family and friends.

You will also get better advice in a different forum. A sub reddit dedicated to your industry for instance?
So…

The only issue is she can’t get online because the CD Verizon sent her doesn’t work (which is probably a good thing) and the Dell support person said the same thing as the school which was “no problem”.
This is how you can tell that someone REALLY doesn't care about climate change: They would rather use fossil fuels for energy than nuclear. (Including natural gas.)
I didn’t quite follow the OP’s description of the app, but it sounds like the sort of app where you’ll end up having to do a lot of raw DOM manipulation / selection logic.

I actually think vanilla JS / TS might be the best fit, here. You’ll probably be writing a lot of plain JS anyway based on my understanding of the description, so I’m not sure a framework buys you much.

I highly recommend Tailwind for CSS and Playwright for testing the real UI.
SRE seems to mean something else at every company. As a current SRE, I agree that this is what _I_ do most of the time. But while saying that, I also don’t see myself as “true SRE”, not the way Google defined it. SRE should become the code owner once it becomes stable. This alone adds heavy emphasis on having a background in software development.

Most of the time, I see two kinds of SRE around me.
1. The “rebranded sysadmin” SRE. Typically heavy on Ops skills and deep OS level knowledge but no formal education or experience in Software development.

2. The “SDE in Cloud” SRE. Person coming from software development side, having very little Ops experience, relying on benefits of quick and disposable computational power from your favorite Cloud provider.

I don’t mean to “shame” either of those cases, I am just pointing out that person with years (or decades) of experience on one side cannot suddenly become well balanced SRE the way Google defined it.
Yeah so there, and Brazil, there are for sure businesses that can handle the level of racket--but they're locals, and connected. Speaking the language is fairly critical. Being chill. Immigrants starting a business never get a toehold, the price doubles every time they pay it pretty much. Unless...unless you're magical or some shit, like unbelievable, next level. Oh you know who? Truecrypt author, Paul Le Roux, him.
You asked for argument and he gave you one. You said it’s not an argument without backing it up anyhow why it’s not an argument

> “lol”