skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of the measures in most of the European countries were ruled as unconstitutional

> In Bavaria, Germany the first strict lockdown was considered unlawful and extreme compared to the results and the severity of the situation

These are somewhat different, no? A bit of a different scope from the original claim. One region in Germany made a ruling, not sure that means most European countries ruled most measures unconstitutional.

> Resist what? What contrarianism?

Resist public health measures, refuse to close their non-essential businesses, refuse to wear masks, spread nonsense about the vaccines containing microchips so Bill Gates can track you, hold rallies where the message was "covid is a hoax", that sort of thing. You know, the stuff we've had endless news stories about in all sorts of countries.

> Do you think I want to go and kill people to prove I am smart?

You? I have no idea, but clearly there were a lot of people for whom their own self-satisfaction, self aggrandisement, notoriety and even just profit-making was indeed more important than public health. From the short-sighted "masks only stop ill people spreading the diseas and I'm not ill!" to the full on "vaccines kill unborn babies! Buy my supplements!" hucksters.

> Do you think it was fair to lock people in their houses, was it fair not to allow people to go outside and have a walk in the park? Was it normal that the police was out on the streets hunting for people or groups of people?

Of course it wasn't normal. There was a global pandemic in progress. That's the point, these were extraordinary measures because of an unusual threat. Maybe some (perhaps like in Bavaria) were over the top, but in general the idea was to stop the spread of a deadly disease that's now killed about 7 million. I think the question of whether it was 'fair' to keep people inside is more or less irrelevant. Was it justified, is more interesting.

> yeah, that’s not possible, I’m just here spreading misinformation, no one died because cancer was mostly ingnored

Lots of people died and will still die because cancer screenings were delayed. In many places this was simply because the healthcare systems were completely overwhelmed with the numbers of covid patients they had to deal with on top of their normal caseloads. I'm really not sure of your point here - are you saying that your mother wouldn't have died , or wouldn't have been waiting so long for diagnosis if there were no anti-covid measures? Because to me it seems that without the anti-covid measures then European healthcare systems would have been even more screwed for longer than they already were, as even higher covid caseloads dominated.

Unfortunately this is a known consequence in the UK as well, many routine tests and operations postponed as the NHS struggled to keep up.

I'm sorry your mother passed away, that must have been a painful thing to go through, especially with the state of the world at that time. FWIW I would likely have disregarded rules that tried to stop me being with my mother at such a time as well.
> Is there a clipboard I can use without installing X or Wayland yet?

You're looking at it right now.
Well, alright, but then you still need to parse C to be able to divine the shape of the data structures, as they're defined in C (or you have to make some assumptions).
I find it interesting that coders seemingly are fascinated by no-code tools. I mean these things have been around forever, iterating in development.

I've recently had the idea that the real problem isn't ease of use and effectivity of these tools, but rather that people who don't code just aren't too interested in developing things. After all, if they were, they'd probably also be interested in learning to code. So I'm not too sold on the idea that these kind of tools will one day make developers go out of business.
I know Pyspark but not that much. I could try to be an advanced developer in Pyspark.

And yes the lead stuff, I agree. But I am not currently in a Lead position yet
BP criticised over plan to spend billions more on fossil fuels than green energy
> > I have a Ryzen desktop with ECC, and it registers about one bit-flip per week.

> This isn’t normal. You have a bad memory module.

> Having a bit flip per week is so far away from normal that it’s definitely a bad memory part.

It's hard to know what's normal. If you're somewhere in the world like northern Sweden the chance of cosmic rays goes up from being less protected from the suns rays (Hey, but northern lights!) and if you're at higher altitude; along with less interesting things such as how shielded the ram is (server chassis, if you removed the rack doors or not).

Memory density has a lot to go with it too, the chances of bitflips increases a lot.

Anyway; regardless of the theory behind it: I've run global operations with multiple-thousands of physical machines with high density ram (and 16-32 DIMMS in each server) and noticed at least 1 bit flip a week on average for each machine. But some locations were worse impacted than others.

Annoyingly, ECC is not created equal, there are some correctable bit-flips that are hidden from the iDRAC/iLO: this is the same type of ECC that the rPI is using (referred to as on-die): https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rpi4/raspberry-pi-4-produ...

As with all things like this YMMV, but ECC is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
> Even if safari had the greatest date picker ever conceived, don't use date pickers for date of births. They will never be better or faster than typing your DOB. Pickers are best for choosing dates that aren't known ahead of time, or where you need to know how a date relates to week days / week numbers etc.

Interestingly the old iOS datepicker was actually pretty good for DOBs: the old picker just gave you three scrollwheels with the year, month, and day (possibly in your locale order), scrolling through the years was a very quick thing: just flick the years wheel and off it goes. A touch finnicky to adjust, and maybe not great for close picks because of the lack of context.

The issue here is the "new" (iOS14) calendar-based pickers, which give you, well, a calendar, and hides the quick month/year direct selection behind a dropdown (and as the essay notes without a day wheel, so now you have to open the year/month selector, jump to the right one, confirm that, then select the actual right day on the calendar view).

Especially given the flat design language as it's really not obvious the month/year and their arrow is an active dropdown.
They aren't necessary to the survival or thriving of humanity. It is not like you have been born from the womb of the queen.
C++ absolutely has standardised ABIs, like the Itanium C++ ABI implemented by clang and gcc.

The situation is not any better or worse than for C.
See other posts here about OSC 52
Oof. At the very least, any employer requiring a doctor’s note should pay for it. Getting in to see a doctor on short notice can be difficult and expensive.
I would love to have a range of appliances that were all analogue

My clothes dryer has one knob, no lights and it's fantastic
This is not true. I've encountered Google Shopping offering to checkout right on Google Shopping, where underneath they wrap the third-party transaction for you. They had some questionable sellers on there, were selling used goods, and they were even promoting it with discounts. It was probably a minor feature being trialed but the point is the line is not so clear.
I subscribe to 4 different platforms (Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+ and Crunchyroll) and every fucking time I want to watch a specific movie it’s not on any of these. Last week I wanted to watch Harry Potter which I know was on Netflix and/or Prime Video at some point, now it’s not available anywhere. So I went back to piracy. 2023 will be the year of Plex+NAS for me because I can’t justify paying for so many subscriptions if there’s not even the things I want to watch when I want it. I’ll just keep Crunchyroll as it’s giving me the best value so far.
Check out "self-sovereign identity" as a starting point. Sometimes those others are used to cut down on spam or as age verification, but if you just need to identify someone, it's more flexible.
I mean, in mathematics a lot of problems are solved by realizing they can be turned into another tupe of problem that we already know how to solve.

If you know a text editor like the back of your hand, why would you learn another tool when you can take a different approach and be even more effective?
"I can't believe these fucking leaks

Also here's a link for it that will never expire"

uuuh ok
Aurora Editor: Native Mac IDE for multi code environment development
Yes. My current employer is using Elixir for data engineering related work.
Talking about dates and Safari, be aware of this in JavaScript.

new Date('12-27-2022'); works in Chrome but returns an invalid date in Safari & FireFox.

new Date('12/27/2022'); works for all browsers.
I always thought theregister was written by UK staff. The new jersey reference in that article sounds like it's not. Did it change hands?
How many billions does Google pay Apple to be the default search? How about email?

Search > email, though I think they're both pillars.
Aren't most flowers we find beautiful actually the effect of human selective breeding?

I don't find most wild flowers in the forest or flowers of strawberries or apple trees particularly beautiful.
I'm sure it is! But I got used to everything following vim logic, so when I use an IDE that doesn't, I miss it/get annoyed.

My comment wasn't meant to dissuade anyone from trying the vim plugins. I was just trying to explain why someone would consider the vim emulation plugins not as good as the real thing.
Memetic evolution of arguments about genetic evolution. Very meta.
Hah, look forward to the answer if one comes up!

Я популярно объясняю для невежд
Я к болгарам уезжаю, в Будапешт!
Если темы там возникнут — сразу снять
Бить не нужно. А не вникнут — разъяснять
It changes because what was sold as "buying" need to fulfill the promises too. It is not only long term.

Did you bought a game on Steam? Now they have to give you a lot of rights they were not allowed to give you. And still are not.
I use IPython in a terminal and keep a Firefox tab open in a split screen to look at plots. When the IPython script is working, I write it out to a Python file. The only times I use Jupyter notebooks are:

1. If there's a really visually intensive workflow, like some sort of data exploration step where I need to be generating and inspecting multiple plots at the same time over and over.

2. If my goal is to make an instructional artifact and interleaving Python and explanatory HTML is helpful.
Why fall into conspiracies when the pragmatic answer is the more logical one?
I know we like to "ship it" earlier than later - but imho that's not usable at all
I had to do a double take. The Rust implementation is slower and harder to maintain. I recommend adding a cythonized function and a numba jitted function to the benchmark for completeness.
You've become one with the machine.
I'd second the notion that the question is far too open.

I'd add that dbt, databricks and snowflake are pretty strong bets still, but you have to acknowledge that they're becoming mainstream with an ever accelerating pace as the companies behind them churn out upskilling courses, meetups and acquire an ever larger share of the market.

If you like to be a specialist, going deep into either of those still holds career value.

If you're taking a more generalist view of where things are headed, the best prediction I heard someone say to set themselves apart is for Data Engineers to optimize for operationalizing data. Focusing much more on reverse ETL, becoming knowledgeable in building data web apps. The no-code or low-code movement around data apps will make the barrier of entry to set something up nonexistent, and I see how that will drive demand.

Pairing (big) data query/ frontend performance and web apps is another beast though.

For all my initial scepticism, I see the Data Mesh concept picking up pace in the years to come. It's vendor independent, couples well with Team Topologies and effective, decoupled, functional SWE teams. There still will be a big need for standards and conventions set by a small enabling core DE team, as of now, the knowledge gap between the baseline DE and your average SWE or Product Owner is just way too big in my experience.

Last but not least, I'd throw data lake out there.
Apache Iceberg is getting a lot of attention and rightfully so.
TCO of a query engine on top of files is so much better than any DWH and any org being able to optimize compute on data for it's current need will be able to save massively while the "convenience" gap steadily closes. Again, pretty generic but there's much to learn around Athena, Trino and the like.

I'm personally not a fan of learning a new language except maybe for Rust.
There is an ever increasing stack of standard "low-code" tools for the typical ETL schlick, and Python won't go anywhere. Again, potential to differentiate will be low and ever lower in many contexts outside of proper big data.
This is only me though and this view is highly context dependent, so YMMV of course.
I think you massively misunderstand the impact of money on law.
Yeah, the decentralized streams. Would have been nice if they centrally organized something.
Given it's synthetic, there may not be a specific location the information came from.

Ask yourself, who told you Russia has invaded Ukraine? Maybe someone did at first, but even then, the notion of a war in Ukraine has been reinforced by thousands of sources since then. It doesn't come from any one of them, but the common picture they all paint.

What they'd end up having to do is the very human act of "googling" for sources that agree with what they already believe. Which is not the same.
Hindsight is 20/20. We didn’t know anything about Covid in the early months and the CDC was following plans designed to counter something closer to the 1917 Spanish Flu.

We should all be grateful they scared the crap out of us. What if a variant started killing kids? What if a variant started killing 25-35 year olds?

Read history. That’s what happened when the Spanish Flu came around for a second swing.

It wasn’t about being accurate. It was intentionally about over-reacting because we just didn’t know enough.
This is truly a fantastic combination -- implement the logic in Rust and use it in Python. GreptimeDB also implements a similar functionality that allows writing Python script to do post-process of SQL query results, with the help of RustPython and Arrow. Maybe this combination can bring a sweet point between performance and efficiency.

docs: https://docs.greptime.com/user-guide/coprocessor-and-scripti...

code: https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb/tree/develop/src/...
Deprecated since version 1.20: The native libraries on macOS, provided by Accelerate, are not fit for use in NumPy since they have bugs that cause wrong output under easily reproducible conditions. If the vendor fixes those bugs, the library could be reinstated, but until then users compiling for themselves should use another linear algebra library or use the built-in (but slower) default, see the next section.

Source: https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/building.html
They released an updated version, and I snapped it up as soon as I learned about it. It’s not only updated but has a lot of new things as well: https://amzn.to/3VnjtKF

I miss books like this and the Klutz Press books. They explore things in way that still instills wonder and excitement.
Taleb split systems into 3 types those that get weaker from stressors, don't whose don't budge, and those that get better from stressors (at the right amounts).

example of systems that get better, from the book if my memory is not failing me:

- biological muscles, each time you stress it more than its current capacity micro-tears makethem heal better than before.

- the aircraft industry, each airplane crash make the next airplane less likely to crash.

so if you have an antifragile system you're better off seeking some of these stressors at the right doses (don't go crashing planes in real life, do it in a simulation please)

this is the only thing I remember from reading the book when it came out, if I forgot somethings feel free to mention them.
Why does this need to be an API? Why not just provide a file with the relevant information?
Absolutely. I would suggest another kind of job for this kind of "designers".
I find that this is more of an npm problem - thanks to the lack of a standard library and a cultural affectation towards small packages with a narrow focus.

A high level python package is more likely to depend upon 3-30 well known packages.
Interesting article, and I suggest looking into bill Bryson if this kind of stuff interests you. I’m an anglophone, but I assume many on HN are not - I thought that English was a language that was (very?) difficult to speak well but easy to learn “enough to communicate”. Is that the case? Is the lack of rigour re endings and word order helpful in sufficient clear communication?

The article also doesn’t point out that English is spoken by way more people than most languages so the related language (Dutch/German) is not realized. Compare, say, Australian and West Virginian. Both are “English” but the speakers might not recognize what they’re saying. Mongrel dogs is a set of dogs, but they don’t really look or act the same.
You’re buying a license that can be revoked at the seller’s discretion without refund though. Imagine buying a blu-ray and suddenly you can’t play it anymore because your Google account got banned for whatever reason. I started reading Kafka and it sound like one of his stories.
Fact Check-Boston University hybrid Covid virus kills 80% of mice, not people
Is the API aiming to be a high quality source of dog related facts? Or is the focus mostly on exposing an API for testing code and the content is not a priority?

Also: is the data open source? Can we contribute to that too, e.g. send a PR?
Python 3 can be executed server side by Postgres as well

CREATE FUNCTION pymax (a integer, b integer)
RETURNS integer
AS $$
if a > b:
return a
return b
$$ LANGUAGE plpython3u;

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpython.html
According to the forum discussion [1] you can find the explanations (when they're not included in the app description) in the MaintainerNotes part of the metadata file, which is linked from the page that lists all vulnerable apps [2] and as "Build Metadata" on the page you linked. Not very obvious, but at least the info is available somewhere.

[1] https://forum.f-droid.org/t/vulnerability-warnings-in-f-droi...

[2] https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-feature/KnownVuln
I didn't mind not being able to eat out at restaurants.

I did mind redditors wishing death on people who expressed healthy skepticism about the government.
>Microsoft dropped the phone support but kept the price

If you do the inflation adjustment from Win 95, you'd see that a modern Windows license is far cheaper today than it was back then.
I included more than enough information for anyone with basic reading comprehension to be able to generate their own Google search terms. Laws are public record.
They are turning on the microchips Bill Gates implanted in everyone any day now. Even Trump has had 3+ vaccines. I don’t really understand what we are debating as two equivalent sides here.
I find that some people really care about the work and that the tools are just a means to an end.

Other people love certain tools so much that "the work" is actually just an excuse to use their favorite tool in more elaborate and challenging ways. Their attitude is something like "and now for my next trick..."

The funny part, to me is that I've never been able to see one method as producing better results than another. I've seen work focused folks produce bad output and I've seen tool focused folks get caught up in their tools and never produce anything at all.

But I've also seen both types produce masterpieces.

Just different approaches and personalities I think.
> This lawsuit is very important, and I hope it leads to positive change.

I'm not sure it's very important, how many does it affect? I still do hope for a positive outcome that gives people access to these public lands though.
I just won a large contract to maintain a legacy bit of code and bring it up to scratch. Our client's effort to migrate away to no-code/low-code never got off the ground. The party that was supposed to do it lacked the tools and know-how to make the switch.

I donnow, but if you're a manager that's dreaming getting rid of expensive developers, my impression so far is that all you're doing is replacing developers with less competent and more expensive "consultants" that need to build solutions with one hand tied behind their backs.

No-code/low-code is useful for shopping lists but complexity skyrockets as soon as you try to step out of its comfort zone.

I'll probably end up eating my words, but so far I'm not worried about no-code/low-code in 2023.
QEMU will let you emulate a particular cpu family, but you can't really tell it that you want a "486dx2 66 with 256kb of l2 cache". While 86box/pcem can't get 100% accurate, it's a lot closer than QEMU emulating the cpu family at your host cpu's full speed (or as close as QEMU can get with a single thread of opcode translation in the case of running other arches like ppc/hppa/sparc on a x64 host).
People forget about those days. We used to get daily news about % of ICU capacity left. Videos of people on respirators. We didn’t knew what this virus was. How bad things can go? Streets in China getting piled up with bodies in bags. People complaining that US govt is not as effective as Chinese. People worried about covid deniers, mask opposition. Entire Twitter population updating their profiles with masks. Fear of long covid. News of unknown impact on kids. No one knew how things would turn out. Most believed that that wasn’t time for debate because there was simply no data. People can argue either way and there will be always groups latching on other side. We needed unity and caution until we figured things out. That’s how efforts against covid misinformation started. In retrospect, it looks like suppression of freedom of speech. It wasn’t until vaccines came out and multiple dosages freed us. Now we look back and worry about that suppression of speech issue and packaging it up politically. I am not on either side but I think based on data we had, lack of vaccines and possibly safety issue for entire populations, people had to do what they had to. I don’t think their actions were politically motivated or ill-intended.
I wanted to build this as an API. What are the advantages - learning wise - of using a file with the relevant information?
>it will be written so that it first defines everything as functions and then at the very end makes a single function call. This ensures that the script will only do anything if it has been completely downloaded.

This is not sufficient. More care is required.

lsp_init() {
...
}

lsp_init

If the last line gets truncated between the `s` and the `p`, then `ls` gets executed. Of course `ls` is harmless, but I'm sure you can imagine how it could be worse.

In other words, not only do you have to wrap your script in functions, but you have to ensure that any top-level function / command invocations are named such that they do not become different commands if truncated.

This is unsolvable in general, because the user can have any arbitrary names in their $PATH , such as custom personal utils in ~/.local/bin which can have any unforeseeable name.

It's much easier to just wrap the script in `()` to make it run in a subshell. bash will not run anything until it sees the closing `)` so truncated scripts are not a problem, and it also doesn't have the name collision problem.
Go developed by google. Any time it can be canceled. So google can not rely on a google language. (Carbon dev team left the chat)