skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The COVID-19 pandemic has produced high morbidity and mortality rates within the global population,39 as well as risk factors for healthy growth and development among children. The increase in parental stress, the suspension of classroom activities, social isolation measures, nutritional risks, children’s exposure to toxic stress, especially in previously unstructured homes, and a lack of physical activities are some of the factors found in the literature.

Yup, this seems pretty obvious anecdotally so its good to see it being backed up in the literature.

Was it worth it to save the lives of 100's of 1000's to millions of elderly people? Probably.

Did it negatively impact the younger generation, who had no say at all in the decision? Absolutely.
ddrescue trying to read a scratched DVD from a public library comes close. Horrifying sounds as you contemplate your drive wearing itself down, copy progress ETA 47:32:13
It's strange to me how so often you will see people bemoaning Reddit for some opinion that goes against the grain, when in reality Reddit is composed of a sampling of millions of humans and therefore is fully aligned with mainstream thought. Some people see a few comments or threads that disagree with them and they use that to say "All of Reddit has lost its mind", always forgetting the vast numbers of comments and threads where people generally agree with them. Funny how people do that..
Two big things about this that really grate me:

1) After Snowden, after Experian, after Pegasus, after decades of screaming about these issues and getting shushed and laughed at - that lefties might take over your twitter account is the straw that’ll break the camel’s back? Are you freaking kidding me?

2) Elon is going to get away with it. And he really shouldn’t - he already waived his right to back out based on any of this. Just because you like someone shouldn’t make them above the law, and basically the takeaway here will be that like Trump he’s above the law because a large enough section of the public likes him.

Setting all of this aside, maybe it’s worth actually trying to do something about the real problem - that too many members of society (including the leaders) are dangerously under-informed for living in it, let alone governing. None of this should be news to anyone here.
I think the pandemic proved this was a pipedream. Did people pursue their passions once they had government disbursements? No. They just moped around and became malaised and disinterested.

Sure, we got tik-tokers, and YT personalities (all 'bourgeois-capitalist schmaltz'), but if that is what we get from that "investment" I don't want to invest any more. Previously hardworking people more or less got comfortable being freeloaders --taking but not giving back.
Grafana Labs launches free incident management tool in Grafana Cloud
Simple solution: He can hit Caps Lock.
But they didn't tell them that its not allowed, they just encouraged people to subscribe to this excellent publication.
Agreed. Maybe the situation has changed now, but it also didn't help that sbt's DSL is so inconsistent.

Back 2 years ago, when I still used Scala, sbt had two ways to write build files, the "old" and "new" ways, both non-trivial except for the simplest cases, and when you were troubleshooting/debugging problems with your build, all the answers you found googling were for the other style (facepalm).
This seems like a good place to start: https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-why-really-are-so-...

It references multiple studies which show evidence that this discrepancy in disciplinary action is not due to a difference in offenses committed by black students.

It's probably not a coincidence that we see these same sort of harsher penalty in the justice system for sentencing of black folks for committing the same crimes committed by white folk. It's the same systemic issues at play.
https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/1998/10/21
The Verge Launches a Site Redesign and a New Comment System
There are large crowds that took 2 doses in pandemic period (getting vaccinated properly back at the time) but not receiving boosters.

It would be easy to track:

- 2 dose, no other booster

- all boosters

- no vaccine

and readjust results considering age and other bias etc.

If all booster people have excess deaths, than "not from Covid" ?
If 2 dose people excess deaths < all boosted people, than something about vaccine?
No vaccine could be control.
> We've been through this before any number of times in JAVA, give up it's an awful choice no one will thank you for.

Is it? Google uses it quite extensively, though they mostly have their shared business code in the form of a java library that is compiled to each target platform.
Terrific answer!

No idea which way you're arguing though! ;)
AFAIK the reason why Ukraine wasn’t invited to join back then were objections from France and Germany. The US were courting them and lobbying for them to join.

This is a classic escalation spiral, where flirtations between Ukraine and NATO triggered Russian aggression which in turn intensified the collaboration of NATO and Ukraine. And so on and so forth.
An interesting take from The New Yorkers' movie critic Richard Brody from twenty years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/profiles/2000/11/20/exile...
Why Not Oberon?
> This catches issues all the time where the api response or something has changed unexpectedly and the UI gets stuck half way on an error.

We've found that Typescript and a bit of boilerplate has almost entirely eliminated these types of concerns for us.
Why OAuth2 is not allowing to contain fragment identifier in redirect URI?
It's a front end. The backend implemented generates C code.
I hope to have other backends in the future.
Yeah, I would suspect it's correct, depending on how you define "settlement".

For me an acre with trees on it isn't quite a forest (but I'd call it forested I guess) - somewhere between that and 40 acres is the boundary imo.
I miss the physicality of floppy disks. Picking up a caddy of disks, thumbing through reading the labels, sliding them into the drive and hearing the motor whirr.

Nowadays, my caddy has been replaced with a small plastic bag full of chips and thumbdrives. Even though my small bag can easily hold millions of times more data, the little chips aren't a joy to use. None of them have labels telling their contents. All of them are fiddly. They are obnoxiously easy to loose.
Katie Nickels helped transform how we talk about cyber defense
That only makes sense if people were wearing masks to combat the flu before covid started and then Republicans stopped wearing them to spite covid mitigation efforts but that's not the case.

From my understanding the flu is less contagious than covid so any efforts we were taking to stamp out covid that were holding covid in check would have stamped out the flu.
> Part of the reason it was in studies for so long is because it kept failing.

"How could ten years of development possibly generate a working product?" is a take, I suppose.
That and unvaxxed blood donations.

Makes me wonder if there will be a market for frozen sperm/blood to bank to avoid downstream impact from this kind of thing.
Given that CPI was flat last month, I’m curious what you mean by 27th straight month?
> Duplicating disks in the 1980s and early 1990s was as good as printing money. It was unbelievably profitable.

I remember a little operation run out of Topeka, Kansas in the 80's called "Budget Bytes" that sold floppies with Macintosh shareware on them. I mean I could have downloaded some of the stuff over FTP from the university but you still needed a floppy to copy them on to.

So fun, poring over the news-print catalog of disks they had available, deciding which ones to order.

I assumed it was a Real Business™ at the time but in hindsight it was no doubt some entrepreneur copying floppies in his garage. I wish I had been as entrepreneurial at the time.
It goes fine.

Look up Tiger Meat.

Raw steak ground with onions Worcestershire sauce etc.

We are it every Saturday at bars /restaurants.

See also steak tartare, sushi etc.

As a child I remember some old dudes eating fresh smelt right out of the river on smelting runs (catching large numbers of the small fish for freezing for bait etc)
I'm pretty sure that smoking regularly (say 10-20 cigs per day) for 6 months will lead to noticeably worse health measures
Error handling and Go doesn’t mix well.
Home cooked apps FTW! It’s honestly such a joy to program stuff for you and the people you love and remove the expectation of it doing well in some arbitrary market
Murphy's Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
This entire thing is so bizarre to me. There is a room full of non-technical senators effectively testifying the unproven and one-sided statements of a single person (Zatko), who was let go from Twitter, with no ability for Twitter (or anyone at the company) to defend themselves or refute these statements.
I know 1 person who got SARS-CoV-2 twice, unvaccinated. And another who had it thrice, also unvaxxed.
It would be neat if filesystems like btrfs or ZFS could expose their internal checksum of the file data to userspace, to quickly see if two files are having identical content (eg. think of rsync). (Assuming the hashes computed internally the filesystem are actually purely based on the file data, and not for example metadata like block pointers. But, dedup-capable filesystems should surely have such checksum internally...).
Or Bombadil (Bombadill? Bomb-a-dill?)
I think the scope and scale makes it different.

Social media has become extremely important to the free and open exchange of ideas between people.
In the end, having a 'more expressive' language isn't the key competitive advantage. At least, I can't recall when a company seems to have significantly outperformed a competitor because they used a 'fancier' programming language. Yes, of course, the blogposts by PaulG and how reddit started, but I'm not sure that reddit is succesful because they programmed it in lisp at first.

Twitter specifically was designed in a time when RoR was really popular, but I'm not sure it worked _because_ it was built in RoR, and we all remember how twitter still exists simply by the grace that they managed to rewrite themselves away from the fail whale before competitors woke up to match their feature set.

Now it's written in scala and, to me anyway, I see hundreds of developers and I'm not _at all_ impressed by their development momentum, even though it's written in scala.

So, if that isn't the competitive advantage, why go for it in the first place? At least blue collar languages have much, much larger pools of competent programmers to select from, which is an objective, convenient upside any manager can understand.
> But there was a time when I found Python and Js to be very fun languages. But the ecosystem has been becoming a mess. Build breakages on dependency upgrades are the biggest fun-killer IMHO.

It's not the way I remember. At the beginning you got Python with the batteries - and it was awesome - but for everything else you were on your own, and sometimes it was nightmarish. There was no pip, not even setuptools. Today I can install anything I want with one command on any of the 3 major platforms. Granted, there are glitches and we're accustomed to rapid progress now, but it's easy to forget how far we got.
By chance, I happened to stumble across this fringe programming language recently: https://www.unison-lang.org/

The way that it deals with dependencies seems to fix a lot of the problems that the author has mentioned.
> in this market and low unemployment rate

Unemployment will have to rise in order to reduce inflation. That will create more distressed sellers in a market where high interest rates and falling prices have dried up the motivated buyers.
Please show any evidence of this claim.

In trials the vaccines were tested in tens of thousands of people where adverse reactions were meticulously recorded and there just isn’t any evidence that the vaccines caused immediate death in anybody.

Then beyond that there isn’t any evidence that there also is a government conspiracy following the first dubious claim.
Not true! Floppies had viruses too. Even back in the 80's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo_(computer_virus)
Maybe someone who remembers reading this story at the time and remembers how absolutely absurd it was? And maybe thought people (like myself) might be interested to read it? The person who tweeted this is Canadian and of the right age to have read it at the time.

I think you're imagining conspiracies here. It's an interesting and kind of funny historical artifact, that's all. And what definition of "slander" are you working with here? Nothing posted is untrue.
I didn't say absolute power. But for example, in the comment immediately below this one, I currently read

> it's not like the king of england has any real power

This is a widely-held belief.
In 1998 I was on a contract at a telco and ended up getting drafted to help with their COBOL Y2k issues. I spent my days checking and documenting whether dates were being handled properly and my documentation was sent to India where it was fixed overnight while I slept. When I arrived the next morning, the fixed code was awaiting me to check and document again. Half the time the code still wasn't correct but the cost of Indian labor was low enough that it was still less expensive if they had to fix it two or three times.
What AI and how is it relevant to this discussion? The point is that you shouldn't be able to open the file in Photoshop, not that a random AI shouldn't be able to view it.
Rust foundation establishes new security team
HN headline tomorrow: Senior engineers are literally gods
I think Twitter(and other social media) genuinely makes people's mental health worse. We have coined terms like "doomscrolling" and have studies to evidence that Instagram has a negative effect on the psychological wellbeing of teenage girls. I think that this can arguably fall into the category of "damage".
or clickhouse!
I'd hope congress pays some attention to anything which 80 million Americans use or interact with.
The Math Evangelist Who Preaches Problem-Solving
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom [video]
Neon Branching Use Cases
Meta Announces Discord-Like ‘Community Chats’ on Messenger
Time will tell who is right. I find it weird that they are pushing back on this. There's plenty of poor quality paper publishing with shoddy peer-review. We need more peer reviewers who are openly critical, not less.
What is the story regarding the integration as part of the front-end collection?

It seemed to have been targeted to GCC 12, then no more updates happened.
Someone made a good log scale representation on how effective the vaccines are:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/pjmeqh/oc_...
I think the 'was it worth it' has to be answered by the our community over the next 10-20 years.

We made a choice, right or wrong, to sacrifice some of our children to save our elders. Culturally, this is not something we do. I wonder how this will be interpreted as more of these studies come to light and the children start to age and we can see the damage.
If I recall correctly, Uber literally did an entire post series about how they do all testing in production using feature flags and request routing, because it was "technically infeasible" at their scale to do anything differently.
I volunteered for a while on vandalism watch.

You would not believe the onslaught of vandalism that is occurring continuously, around the clock. It is only through its dedicated volunteers, armed with ever more sophisticated tools that this sea of trouble is kept at bay.

It was an eye opener to me. Nevertheless, surprisingly even, most vandalism is actually very quickly found and corrected. Even those devious small changes are not so easy to slip in, as some think.
Vagus nerve stimulation increases stomach-brain coupling via vagal pathway
Recent and related:

Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32663995 - Aug 2022 (130 comments)

Less recent and related:

Ask HN: Why is there still a market for floppy disks? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658880 - June 2022 (12 comments)

Tokyo says long goodbye to beloved floppy disks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29064316 - Nov 2021 (12 comments)
‘Exclusionary zoning’ is opportunity hoarding by upper middle class
Exclusionary zoning is bad for the economy: Enrico Moretti and Chang-Tai Hsieh estimate that the U.S. economy would be 10 percent bigger if three cities (San Francisco, San Jose, and New York) had the zoning regulations of the median American city.
> Journalists and academics can’t use it as a reference. Nor can students, though they can use Britannica.

Lots of journalists do use it. That is why there is a bunch of BBC articles claiming that the electric toaster was invented by a Scot called "Alan MacMasters" ... they used Wikipedia without checking its information. It was completely made up:

https://wikipediocracy.com/2022/08/11/wikipedias-credibility...

A book published by Cambridge University Press says that coatis are also called "Brazilian aardvarks" – because the writer copied from Wikipedia. Completely made up.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/01/16/wikipedia_16_birthday...

Wikipedia simply has different flaws than older reference works, and it's important to be aware of them.

Another thing not to trust blindly is the Wikipedia fundraising banners. In 2015, the Washington Post published a piece titled, "Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...

In that piece, the Washington Post reported that the Wikimedia Foundation had "net assets in excess of $77 million". Today, the Foundation's assets (including its $115 million endowment with the Tides Foundation) stand at around five times as much:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

Yet the fundraising banners and emails sound as desperate and guilt-tripping as ever. "Donate to keep Wikipedia online ...", "Donate to protect Wikipedia's independence ..."

Many Wikipedians are disgusted with that:

https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@list...

Seriously, I love Wikipedia. I have been contributing to it for more than fifteen years. But I would say most volunteers who contribute to Wikipedia would NEVER advise anyone – say, a family member who is starting out as a doctor or journalist – to trust anything said in Wikipedia blindly. They'd ALWAYS tell you to check the references, and in a case of "Who invented X" to seek corroboration in a 20th-century source.
If you’re making $25mil in revenue why is it out of the question to pay for licenses?
Nothing NATO related happened in 2013/2014 which would trigger the invasion. People keep ignoring the fact that from the Russian side this is not (just) about security/NATO, but about the larger goal of keeping CEE (and specifically Ukraine) within its sphere of control.
> I think the scope and scale makes it different.

Then what is the threshold wherein the natural inability to avoid bias becomes propaganda? Why is Twitter propaganda but not HN or my blog? When does it cross the line?
Aren't you comparing block storage (mountable as an efficient file system) and object storage?
There's also an effort to get generators into the stable language, but it is currently gated on multiple open questions on the async iteration story, including what traits are to be involved (will it be `trait AsyncIteratorItem`? will it wait until GATs and/or async fn in traits and "keyword generics"/"maybe async" functions?), but you can see some explorations of the syntax aspect at https://github.com/estebank/iterator_item/

The proc-macro is written in such a way that it tries to parse as much as possible, so that you can try things out mixing and matching from the different alternatives that I've thought of: https://github.com/estebank/iterator_item/tree/master/tests

Like for example:

fn foo() => i32 {
for n in 0..10 {
yield n;
}
}
fn* foo() -> i32 {
for n in 0..10 {
yield n;
}
}
gen foo() -> i32 {
for n in 0..10 {
yield n;
}
}
fn* foo() yield i32 {
for n in 0..10 {
yield n;
}
}

One thing I love about these is how trivially easy it is to turn an Iterator<Item = Future<Output = T>> into an AsyncIterator<Item = T>: https://github.com/estebank/iterator_item/blob/b79d7b496687b...

async fn* into_stream(input: impl Iterator<Item = Interval>)
yields Interval
{
for i in input {
yield i;
}
}
The monarchy never tried to help me save face, why build entire government processes which do nothing but that for them?
It’s really not that bizarre, not conspiratorial, and not “public passivity and capitulation”.

The government has been a constitutional monarchy for centuries, this has happened dozens of times before (with more & less bloodshed), and is well known, expected, it is completely legal, and the operation was well publicized.

You’re welcome to not like it, but acting incredulous shows how little you know about the UK.
It's strange how his more recent work isn't known so much, it remained daring and innovative. Goodbye to Language (2014) is well worth a watch.
And no pesky scope implied by the name! Now, each of the components can grow in a truly unconstrained manner, enveloping whatever random features were slightly more convenient to add there instead of in a new component. Amazing!
Well, our values seem to differ, then. I don't mind Russian expansion unless there are dead people in its wake. I think saving the lives should always trump the national pride.
In the article he says he has all
manor of disks available if you contact them.
Just abject nonsense.
I opened it with a Tor Germany node and got
> Our European visitors are important to us.
> This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws.

Are they kidding?
Yeah, that, "Any second it will give up and shoot the disk back out" thought.
If you control the application/backend then I don't see why you would need HTTP(S) URLs to get the right content.

Android actually allows registering HTTP(S) URLs with certain domains and wildcards (https://developer.android.com/training/app-links). Not a big fan of this "validate a token through Google to skip the app choice dialogue" approach but luckily Firefox always prompts before opening a registered app link anyway. iOS supports a similar feature. It's up to browsers on other platforms to implement their own support if this is something one would want to add to the browser.
Anti-vax? You have no clue what my beliefs are on this, I'm not anti-vaccine. I remember just last year the Biden administration forced through the booster shots (after a propaganda campaign predicated one & done, that then extended into mandates, which Biden, Pelosi & others said were never on the table or illegal, later to be proven unconstitutional by the supreme court).

Senior officials at the FDA resigned over the insufficient evidence of efficacy. Not only was it unclear that they should be approved for seniors, they just opened it up to everyone. It's only gotten worse now. It's not even remotely clear to me that the average healthy person (not on the standard American diet, chronically ill with the typical stuff like diabetes & obesity) needs upwards of 4 vaccines, and counting, for a virus that's much more attenuated & practically everyone has some form of immunity at this point.

Also: to answer your question, from what I can tell the studies haven't shown efficacy. They only show that antibodies rose, which we know isn't absolute proof of efficacy with regards to infection or disease.
If everything doesn't work out the founders probably get $2M-10M for selling off the company for parts and everyone else would have been WAY better off leetcoding to get a FAANG job.