skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that this time will be keeping public policy academics and epidemiologists busy for decades to come, and that it's a very interesting question what the right calls were in retrospect.

However, I want to point out that you've moved the goalposts in your arguments. You started with

> everybody seems to have finally agreed that « live with it » was the most sensible response

But you're now saying that because of the mutation to Omicron and the prior exposure of "almost 100% of the population", just living with it is the appropriate policy move. Neither of these were true throughout 2020 or most of 2021, so cannot be useful in determining what the correct course was in the early pandemic.

Furthermore, I think you are vastly discounting the value of a single vaccination. Just because few people have taken the bivalent shot does not negate the value that their original shots in 2021 still provide against serious/spreading cases today.

For the record, my own low-confidence prediction is that future historians will bear out the early (first two months, say) phase of lockdown, and will agree with the utility of many of the later policies but take issue with the hubris of states thinking they could impose them on an unwilling population with no blowback. There will also be an endless list of easy-to-condemn overreactions to the virus or silly policies continuing way too late (e.g. a large park near where I used to live was shut down until late 2021, well after vaccination and after we were very confident that it basically didn't spread outdoors)
QC is already a practical computing system that is solving “practically unsolvable” problems. It’s just not highly publicized because much of the work is relevant to state security. The field is a bit farther along than one would infer from contemporary information and publicly published papers.

If you think about it even a little, it is almost axiomatic to the intelligence/security world that a machine that could break much known encryption in human relevant timeframes would obviously be being developed under a shroud of secrecy at the bleeding edge. It is far too important to be able to manage the implications of any significant breakthroughs potentially years before public release.

QC is not magic and there are effective counter strategies. But standards take time to implement and the well being of society demands a that the impacts of QC be mitigated through control of the tech and the information around it. Fortunately, the tech required so far keeps access to the computing resource somewhat restricted, and organizations that cooperate with governments control it so far.

For most people, the important thing to keep in mind is that everything now shielded by many forms of encryption will be trivially readable in the foreseeable future. Truly sensitive data stored long term should be moved to Q hard algorithms and old versions destroyed as possible (easier said than done in many cases)
Reddit oozes with ideas like this
IMHO off-by-one errors only deserve to be there for the irony. In reality, they are orders of magnitude easier then the other two.
Excellently integrated pun!
The average age of a car reached a record 8.4 years. You'd have have a car nearly twice the age of the average car to be affected by this.
> The real generation-proof measure of wealth and power is the number of people who are at your beck and call.

No need to be as rich as Rockefeller (or Warren Buffett): just make enough to qualify for having an AmEx with concierge service.
This is the million dollar question. I think the goal of "anonymity for most intents and purposes" is worthy, it's been how I've enjoyed HN and Reddit, but I also know that it was just a matter of time before stylometry and other meta-analysis of post history become 10 second tools for everyone. Now the cat is out of the box.

I've been thinking about this a bit, and I've landed in that having a stable identifier across ALL comments & posts is a poor default. We still probably want some coherence, at minimum within a thread, eg to follow a back-and-forth. The site itself may also use stable identifier for abuse prevention. But there's no reason one should have the same username externally traceable for posts about completely different topics.

In practice, this could be done with low friction pseudonym creation, which all ties to the same account privately.
Cycling rates actually increase as people get older in Netherlands: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Bicycling-share-of-trips...

Another thing that quickly disproves this idea that cycling is only for young people...

It has little to do with age - and more to do with viability.

If you live an American lifestyle, and you live 5+ miles from a grocery store - cycling is not a great option.

If you live in a city like Chicago or New York or... Amsterdam - there's really no reason it can't be viable - except in the US case a lot of places that could be cycling utopias are severely lacking infrastructure.

In Netherlands, commute rates drop to their lowest for people in late 20s and early 30s because this is usually when they have jobs / living situations that require commutes too far for a bike - though how much of this is due to choice vs lack of adequate housing in cities (global problem) is unclear.

60s are not "old" in Netherlands. At 60, people aren't old and frail - they're not much different from people in mid to late 40s.

The average person doesn't start to get frail until late 70s - and at this point - you probably shouldn't be driving either...
If you want to help debug the build of UE5 on native elf/linux, on steam, get the demo of "vein", play it and report back the bugs to help the devs pushing them upstream.
Adding an email to your bio might help :-)
There is a neat connection between a rolling hyperbola and an elastica though: https://twitter.com/KangarooPhysics/status/14337538508177858...
Was zero-downtime just a dream?
Anyone in the SEO Industry Talking about Google's Decline?
This is a strange question I know, but given so many people consider Google's results to have gone downhill, and their rankings are seen as being gamed by dodgy actors putting out copy and paste content or things stolen from Stackoverflow and what not, I'm curious if anyone in the SEO world has commented on it. Like, the 'white hat folks at likes like Moz or Search Engine Land or various subreddits. Are there any of them struggling to rank sites against a flood of low quality content? Do any of them even notice a change in the results at all?

I'm curious because while we saw a lot of hacker/techie opinions on Google posted here, and a lot of more mainstream ones on Reddit and Twitter, we don't see much from the marketing folks supposedly responsible for the current situation.
I've joined a startup with no PM and CEO assigning tasks to devs. I've spent two weeks chasing my tail and working on stuff other people were already working on as a part of some huge block of work dumped after a month of development or stuff made irrelevant by features being worked on. I quit after ~3 weeks.
Not perfect but a small step in a better direction. I just loathe the amazon site.
Here is the explanation why: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-bud... .

"... When the DoD submits its annual budget requests to Congress, it sends along the prior year’s financial reports, which contain fabricated numbers. The fabricated numbers disguise the fact that the DoD does not always spend all of the money Congress allocates in a given year. However, instead of returning such unspent funds to the US Treasury, as the law requires, the Pentagon sometimes launders and shifts such moneys ..."
And it seems to be back now. Also visible in the charts.
Modern vehicles which in my experience most tradespeople drive aren't affected either.
It seems like somebody got too easy access to the Google Github repo. Usually only higher quality projects get approved to the central repo.
A lot of professional programmers, including myself, did not study computer science at a university.
Common APIs in OpenResty
> protect free and open-source software as publicly funded works

> The hideous other side of the coin is that countries could establish ownership rights

The first does not lead automatically to the second. The state can help better protect the open-source arrangement (as in the government being able to sue). But it does not mean the States will necessary "own" it.

States fund a lot of research papers. They do not "own" that research, but this does not mean they won't disallow greedy publishers from cashing in on it.

All the above does not answer your question: Can you argue OSS is publicly funded ? Definity Yes.
I pay extra attention to such articles because even the worst smear piece has to hinge on something.

The fact of the matter is that CATL hit some kind of yet unidentified roadblock and LFP made amazing progress in parallel and may sweep the market as a generally worse, but immediate solution.

It will be still CATL manufacturing it, so they win regardless though.

I'm especially cautious after almost a decade ago zinc-air was showing promise as a low-cost battery, but that never really went anywhere.
Yeah, most (some?) suppliers and vendors will take the deal. It does show two things so, first those vendors of a bankcrupt start-up are actually much more sustainable, and grown up, businesses than the start-up. And two, one has to negotiate those deals with suppliers, good simply defaulting on a couple of invoices without as much as shrugg emoji in the lead up to an actual bankcruptcy proceeding.
Modern x86 CPUs typically have three layers of caching, where L1 and L2 are per-core, and only L3 is shared across all cores. You still have to solve all the cache coherency issues, and everything in the article still applies, even with just one socket.
Wow what a great list!

Things like this increasingly make me think we need to go back to having web directories, like Yahoo and dmoz. There is so much great content out there that having good curated lists is very high value.
Is the daily mail even trying to look like a legitimate publication or they're fine coming off as a drunk truck driver Friday night telling everyone his plan to own the libs?
I have a certain nerdy penchant for the "stationary" objects we used
to pack in our school bags; slide rules, protractors, set squares,
compasses, stencils sets for things like chemistry and flow charts,
hard pencils and sharpeners. They still feel like instruments of
ritual and magic.
No one asked, bootlicker. I know the rules here, and find your days-late reply creepy and unhelpful. Go away.
You're right about them being dirty. I've probably seen a clean one but I can't remember it, the overwhelming impression I have of them is that they are the dirtiest scruffiest birds that I know. I wonder how clean they are when living in a natural nonhuman environment.

One thing is certain, they're bold, smart, calculating and cunning (you've no doubt noticed how they'll steal food the split second you cease paying immediate attention to it).

Can't say I like them much but I admire their survival tactics.
The well paying companies have no trouble hiring someone good, but I wouldn't say they have "their pick" of employees. There are a lot of people out there who politely decline or ignore every approach from FAANG recruiters, for example, because the mission or company are unattractive and high pay doesn't make up for it.

So from a statistical perspective you can say that paying well means they have a lot of people to choose from. But some types of mission are greatly affected by the few particular people who are really specialised or inspired in some area or another, and those people aren't always willing to give up their personal dreams to work for an unattractive company just for a larger pay packet.
The article is about a discrete implementation of the LM386 op amp, not an 80386 processor :).
You don’t seem to get it, these aren’t schools in central London. The residential neighborhoods and schools are both in the boonies. But sure, people should all cram into a congested and extremely overpriced housing market that is run by foreign money and immediately change all habits…
> Still seems to be working fine.

Tell me you didn't read the article, without telling me you didn't read the article.

> Alot less pedophiles on the platform though so I can see how some people are disappointed. These advertisers lost their core demographic.

Tell me your entire background without telling me your entire background. 50% of the large companies are selling to pedophiles only, is that your best conclusion. Well I guess they moved their ads to the pedophiles on the other social networks now.
I wish that popular science would not label scientific phenomenon after unrelated science fiction phenomenon to gain public interest. The research is interesting in its own right. I Also wish that popular science websites had an automated mechanism to link follow up articles so that late readers can easily follow the story from its origin to the most current publication -- this can be automated now.
Why do they call it "Python-inspired" if it looks like C++?

From https://github.com/google/rune/blob/main/benchmarks/mandelbr...

for k = 0u32, k < 8u32, k += 1 {
cr0[k] = 2.0 * <f64>(8 * x + k) / <f64>width - 1.5;
}
Agreed but not feasible overnight , and the time frame for this new tax is much closer to a sudden change than the required infrastructure overhaul.

Adding a new train line cost $2bn over budget and about 5 years longer than planned.
These things are much easier for the average person when a course provides motivation, deadlines, requirements, and office hours.

I would expect any Western student at a top school who self-selects into taking OS to be capable of this with the right course structure.
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Giant Wind Farms Arise Off Scotland, Easing the Pain of Oil’s Decline
It's a touch of "I'm rich so I can do whatever I want" with a pinch of "Apple you better be careful what you do, or imma ruin your whole career".

But in effect it's just Elon being desperate with no way out. No alternative phone will save Twitter if it gets banned from the 2 major mobile platforms.
How and When to Use Money Rails Gem
Tell HN: Give your computer a “hacker” look by turning on high contrast
This is a trick I just discovered on my Windows 10 computer. I use Windows' default dark theme and have a dark mode add-on for my Chrome browser, but some websites don't react well to the add-on, and there are some websites like HN that refuse to go dark unless you switch a flag in Chrome. So I just made a discovery for Windows.

Go to settings, then Ease of Access, High contrast, and turn on high contrast. A waiting screen will appear for a few seconds.

Here's what HN normally looks like for me: https://i.imgur.com/orTRml1.png

And here's what it looks like after (on the high contrast menu, I changed the color of text to be the same as the color of disabled text): https://i.imgur.com/yCKq0wc.png

Another example. Here is cnn.com before: https://i.imgur.com/ycMs0ME.png

And here it is after: https://i.imgur.com/9oNDxeH.png
https://archive.ph/3w9Sk
wouldn't agree on that it's inflicted by others. it's rather inflicted by oneself or by circumstances due to various reasons.
It's a very good time to drop your car altogheter though.

You'll save lots of money, have an healthier and more active lifestyle, plus there are plenty of cheap last-mile vehicles available to supplement lacking public transportation.
My dad used to have a set of French curves - he was a sign writer and used them for cutting the templates for silk screen printing, probably in the 60's or there abouts.
Good to hear
Cash flow is differwnt from overall profit and loss. Stretchibg payment terms doesn't help you with the latter, it certainly does with the former. Assume you get your money from clients faster than you pay your suppliers, something quite common in retail.

One can be profitable and cash positive (best place to be in), cash positive and unprofitable (acceptable, especially for growth-focused businesses), cash negative and profitable (kind of ok-ish assuming some reliable backing by banks to cover any cash constraints) or cash negative and unprofitable (the by default dead category, excluding VC money I have the feelong a lot start and scale ups fall in this category at the moment).
Yeah seems fine now.
Thank you for the follow-up link.
Complicated and complex are different categories in certain areas of study. Nerdiness aside, basically both are messy risky endeavors, but messy and risky in a different way.
If I remember correctly we were supposed to have our personal projects there.

Since Google owns the copyright it almost makes sense.

Also, being in the Google organization doesn't mean that Google is involved in it. I'm maintaining a project there (`google/double-conversion`), despite not having worked for Google for years. Nobody at Google has any influence or reviews on that project.
Most builders still can't find investors and can't get reasonably in front of investors. I don't think the issue is too few builders..
I don’t know about big tech, but on medium-sized startups, I never saw a PM that does not talk with customers regularly.

On small ones too, except that the “PM” is usually one person with a title like “Head of Product”.
Oğuz Atay: Tutunamayanlar (The Disconnected)
Are short sentences better for anonymity?
But why would the cooperative have survive and why is it less prone to antagonistic work?
Product Hunt Launch Plan
Best* comment I saw on this, admittedly from someone who appears to have built their entire personality around worshipping Space Karen[1], was:

> Elon Musk’s New Smartphone is going to Put Apple Out Of Business!

And, just, like, what. How does a brain get that broken?

[1] Dogecoin all over their profile, crypto dripping off every corner, grifting crypto courses for sale, etc.
In any war, you can find someone who is making money somehow, and then blame them for starting the conflict. If you're cynical enough, you can come up with an "economic explanation" for pretty much anything.

The issue is that such claims are typically made with no actual, direct evidence. I don't doubt, for instance, that "the domestic weapons manufacturing complex" is making money off of aid to Ukraine. But there's no actual evidence that this profit motive is what caused the US to support Ukraine.
I see this claim a lot in different contexts, and personally have never quite understood who it really talks about.

It cannot talk about everyone, because there are many different kinds of people and work sectors. I'd expect the motivational priorities to exist on a continuum, on which some people are more motivated by money than others. Also, the "adequate compensation" varies from person to person; some are happy with some level, some are never happy.

I mean, I find it extremely hard to believe that things like, say, "respect from co-workers" and "interesting work tasks" would factor in as the primary source of motivation for e.g. anyone working a low-paying job and living from paycheck to paycheck, regardless of who exactly (worker, employer, state, someone else) thinks the compensation is adequate. In contrast, for someone who already possesses a hefty surplus of money, obtaining more money probably plays a smaller role in the overall motivation.

However, none of this means that it's generalizeable to say all working people are not primarily motivated by money (or are primarily motivated, for that matter). One could just as well argue the opposite: (for some people) money turns out to be really high on the list of things which motivates them. Whichever way, it still is weird to claim this as an absolute, applying to everyone.

To put this into a more concrete context: a C-suite executive of a Fortune 500 company might say "money is not my primary motivation, energizing coffee machine discussions, personal fulfillment, yada yada" -- they already are on a level with plenty of material wealth and opportunities for recreation. In contrast, a single parent sanitary worker is unlikely to claim motivation comes from "I'm energized by the interesting work tasks" or something else than money; certainly they are motivated by being able to pay rent and buy food for their children and would rather have more money than less.
I didn't say immediately change all habits. I literally wrote long term. Don't straw man me, please.

Over time, changes like these will make people reconsider, and perhaps not move to places without public transit or where schools are far away. Or municipalities will have to change, offer these things or people will abandon them. Either way, it slowly fixes things.
In AWS, Lambda
I think it's a big deal because of efficient micropolygons. I know for myself a custom sub-pixel shaded micropolygon renderer running natively on vulkan is what I am looking forward to most for xmas holiday hacking ;)

https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2021/Karis_Nanite_SI...

Building a micropolygon rendering pipeline

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15418-s12/www/l...
It would be great to add query techniques that are assistive such as Semmle [1] and Semgrep [2]. Machine learning should also be addressed nowadays.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semmle?wprov=sfla1

[2] https://semgrep.dev/
Show HN: MyNixOS – Create and share Nix and NixOS configurations
Hello HN!

I want to show you MyNixOS.com - a website I've been working on this year to make it easy to create and share Nix and NixOS configurations. Nix is a powerful tool to deploy software in a reproducible way, and with NixOS you can control your whole operating system through a declarative configuration.

Starting out with Nix was exciting, but it definitely had a challenging learning curve. This made me start building a website focused on making it easier to create and share Nix flakes, which are the core unit of software deployment in Nix.

Using the website, you can create flakes without knowing the Nix configuration language, as the necessary Nix files are generated for you. A few examples of what you can do right now:

1: Create and build a Docker image with Redis and OpenSSH running NixOS: https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-docker / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fuCGXHw7qM

2: Create a Nix development shell with Neovim and Zig and run it on Windows 11: https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-windows-devshell / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4q72mGjYXA

3: Create a reproducible macOS environment using nix-darwin and Home Manager: https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-macos / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Y7s1sRSUY

4: Create a Linode server image using NixOS running Nginx with Let's Encrypt: https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-linode-nginx / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy4X0fjD0-Y

5: Create a Raspberry Pi NixOS image running Transmission and OpenSSH: https://mynixos.com/mynixos/demo-raspberry-transmission / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L0H92-JdHA

The site works directly with the Nix command line tool, and generates pure Nix flakes without any custom formats. The website is currently in alpha and is developed as a closed source project. Some interesting upcoming features include support for language environments such as Python, and the ability to install arbitrary versions of packages.

By posting on HN, I'm especially looking to get in contact with early commercial users of Nix to learn more about the most important use-cases to solve. Hoping that you will find the site useful, and I'll happily try to answer any questions you might have!
Even worse would be the media not convering the protests at all, and actively suppressing any mentions.
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