skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a legitimate alternative to peer reviewed research

I'm not sure that peer-reviewed research deserves to be put on a pedestal. I've worked in a research lab, I have a couple of [tedious and uninteresting] published papers. It's not a holy grail. We still employ humans to do this stuff, and they come with flaws. We also need funding for this stuff, and with it comes with warped incentives.

> the first article you cite starts with the below disclaimer, which seems to refute your claim

Why would it refute the claim?

If you double a very tiny risk, to all intents and purposes it may still be "very tiny", and irrelevant compared to other more significant risks (such as the increased risk of dying due to not having been able to attend your screening appointment because all non-critical healthcare in your area has been cancelled to "save lives", while achieving the opposite).

We can and should trust doctors at an individual level, but at planet scale we need to listen to statisticians too. That didn't happen during the pandemic.

It's pretty unfortunate if a "cure" ends up killing more people than the disease... and yes, there were people mentioning this concern already in early 2020, but apparently no-one was listening:

"A fierce debate is under way between those who believe that the current lockdowns in place across much of the world are an overreaction, and those who believe it would be barbaric to do anything other than try to avoid as many coronavirus deaths as possible. Those in the first camp [..] point out things like [..] the collateral damage from the lockdowns will end up causing more harm than coronavirus itself; and that the amount of money we are effectively spending on saving each life is completely out of whack with what we would normally consider reasonable."

https://archive.is/Cf6W9
When I was in high school (graduated almost 20 years ago now), our lunch period had 30 minutes for lunch, and that included the time it took to cross campus to eat (from one side of campus to the other took 10 minutes to walk if you could cut through the fields, but if it were raining and the campus flooded, you were stuck on the sidewalks and it would take 15-20 minutes to cross campus).

If you were "lucky" you got either first or third lunch, because that butted up against the 10 minute inter-period "travel" time, giving you 40 minutes for you lunch/play.

But each lunch had around 1000 students competing for the lunch line, and there were many days where the lunch line did not complete before the lunch bell rang, and lunch was over.

And if you did not make it to your class on time
I think it's not just about the long break, but also this mean you end the school day at a more reasonable time. I think school would end at 3PM.. when all normal people are still at work. I remember my school had some afterschool playground area where we're run around and kill time till our parents could arrive. Having the same break during the day would have probably been nicer mentally (and I'm guessing the teachers would move lesson planning and grading to that extra hour after lunch)
> a pre-judgment

In the case of Milo, this is a fair pre-judgement. Are we expected to ignore a person's entire corpus of work and treat them as an untouched field of snow every time they present themselves? We're to "rehash" their position every time they speak? That seems silly.

People like Milo form their careers on rage-bait. Shouting him down is the same as simply banning a troll or banning flame-bait on forums.

For the others, for the most part it's the same - reactionary speakers, especially in the USA, are mostly uninterested in good faith debate. They leverage rhetorical fallacy and outright disinformation to muddy the waters. See: the Trump election conspiracies, the antivax movement, the rewriting of the cultural history of gender fluidity to attack trans people's existence, etc etc etc.
10 minutes for a child size lunch isn't a short time for the average child. But some kids are fussier eaters. The meals are portion controlled, so kids aren't loading up to avoid going back for seconds.
The critics of this project seem to be outright racist. I don’t think that’s an overstatement.

They’re basically saying that Indigenous people aren’t allowed to participate in the modern world. You’re not allowed to be urbanist if you were “less advanced than the white people” three hundred years ago.

And they’re butthurt about the development not having the need to comply with Vancouver development rules. Yeah, well, sorry not sorry you weren’t able to steal all the land. Nothing is stopping y’all from changing the rules in Vancouver and building something similar.
.NET is the language that has put food on the table in my near 20 years as a software engineer.

I have a love/hate relationship with .NET -- However, it has gotten a lot better as time passed.

If I was to look for a job today in my areas.. I am certain there will be a lot of .NET positions going.
TIL Primary school schedule in the Netherlands is the same as a 90’ caribbean island.
>France has retained a food and dining culture that is luckily still quite distinct from the work-dominated hectic culture in most other places and I'd say it's one reason why obesity rates and other health markers are much better in the country.

Most of the south of Europe is the same. Business interests and temporarily-embarrassed-CEOs are somewhat successfully pushing to abolish this culture in favor of the prison-lunch culture. I hope they ultimately fail, but...
What I meant was that the general population can't use those vaccines anyway, unless they do the synthesis on their own or get into a clinical trial, so it's disingenuous to talk about them in the context of public safety.

Making a claim about the safety of pre-approval vaccines is misleading because it's claiming one uncontroversial true thing ("some vaccines in development are found to be net negative in trials and do not progress further") that sounds superficially similar to a scary untrue thing ("getting vaccinated by your doctor with an approved vaccine may be net negative across the population") and hoping everyone else will confuse the two.

In this case "some vaccines are bad" was clearly intended to be an ambiguous statement, otherwise it would have been more detailed about which exact vaccines were bad.
Releasing is the process of making something available to the general public. If something is available, it's released.
Yes. She says "I was sorry I had to steal to stop fantasizing about violence" - it seems there is something else going on here, not just being a sociopath.
According to the article he's still able to post his show on x, so it doesn't really seem like a free speech issue. I don't know the details of their deal, but I would guess x intended to pay for exclusivity.
Working from home made UK air traffic control chaos worse
I've had some luck with (1) recording an "essay" via the VoiceMemos app, (2) transcribing with whisper.cpp, then (3) editing with GPT or by-hand.

Warning: I've found that vocal dictation uses a TOTALLY different part of my brain. It's not necessarily worse -- just different.
If anyone finds this relatable - I recomment watching "The Expert" on youtube.
Discernment is an earned virtue. Knowing when to build and when to borrow is akin to a great filter in builder culture, congrats on making it through
In China even tech workers take a post lunch nap.
Sorry, what were your credentials on the subject, again? Why the hostile tone?
https://archive.ph/dCXw9

Certainly around here, and probably across the UK, if you want drugs of any sort, then Telegram is the place to get them, maybe even delivered.
Correct. The power structure and its "rights" exist exclusively to protect themselves.
Geee... I thought it was crystal clear that when I stated 'a sociopath would never admit to being a sociopath' it was about a confession where you genuinely admit you are behaving badly out of your sense of remorse. Any kind of 'tactical' admissions simply don't count. It's like with pathological liars, they too, can sometimes admit to some lies but still maintain that they are 'generally' honest.
Sure; but do you disagree with the method or the conclusions?
> There are now hundreds, if not thousands, of decent editors who have stopped contributing due to toxic, non-productive people.

While this is likely true (though not quantifiable), I would add there is also a pattern I've seen play out where somebody gets really into Wikipedia, starts stablishing turf on some subject, goes a little power mad, then gets knocked back by rules designed to keep such people out of power. Said editor then leaves Wikipedia in a huff, and a prolific contributor is lost -- but it's broadly a good thing.
I figured with these new election security measures, that lead to the most secure election in history here in the US, they could securely hold an election. Just mail out ballots to registered voters addresses and have drop boxes.
That’s up to the parents? Or children, if they make their own bread. You can get a whole lot more creative with bread than sliced ham.
Starship's Third Flight Test
I can't recommend a book, but I watched this video a while ago, and I found it riveting: "Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer" [0]

> Robert Wills introduces the amazing hardware and software that made up the Apollo Guidance Computer, walks you through the landing procedure step-by-step, and talks about the pioneering design principles that were used to make the landing software robust against any failure.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1J2RMorJXM
Perhaps "schooling outcomes" is not the single metric one should use when it comes to children. Or adults. Human beings in general.

Also, French schooling? Yeah, it's better than most systems with remarkable results to go with it.
Hey, I'm just trying to help here. I don't think anyone wants to be feeling comatose after a meal. Reduce the sugar and you'll feel good!
Wow, I've never seen someone three years off the turnip truck called senior. I would say it's usually more like 5-10, basically everyone left after those with management ambitions have flown in that direction. I'm in a relatively sleepy part of the industry though.
Very cool! Good job guys. Is it possible to quantify the accuracy in any way?
Regression to the mean is a real thing though. The reason why is this: every gene in your body is also in the bodies of millions of other people. Your genes are not unique. It’s the combination that’s unique. And the combination is diluted 50% with each generation. So Einstein was a prodigy and a genius, but his great grandchildren are pretty ordinary. That’s just the way it goes.
"...had me rolling on the floor laughing..."

Same here, I was in tears I was laughing that much. I found it funny because I recognized those silly maddening situations from my own life. We all experience them but it takes a master like Hašek to remind us about how absurd they really are.
This may be true, but I would expect Boeing, a titan of the industry and up until recently assumed leader of aviation safety, to retain footage for much, much longer for training and QA purposes.

Yes, I'm aware this opens them up to all kinds of liability, but corporate liability is worth so much less than data that could save human lives. I'm of the opinion that corporate retention policies are specifically encouraging companies to cover up mistakes rather than fixing them. It feels to me like, if we required companies to retain data for years rather than days, and then rewarded companies that use that data to fully cooperate with investigators, swiftly admit fault, and take corrective action when the screw up, with lower fines and penalties, that that would trump the perceived "danger" of retaining data for too long.

The fact that companies are actively encouraged to delete evidence of wrongdoing so that when a situation emerges where that data would be useful, the company can just shift blame on an asinine written policy is completely nuts to me, and shows that we've totally lost the f**ing plot when it comes to actually encouraging better safety practices.
FWIW, this seems to be the m3u8 link of that stream:
https://prod-ec-us-west-2.video.pscp.tv/Transcoding/v1/hls/g...
In other words, it's yet another way to shift the "job creators"'s burden onto their workers. One of the silent ways they make you pay to work for them.
Recess followed lunch, and if you finished lunch early you could go out early. I want to say they mandated fifteen minutes at lunch, with fifty minutes combined between the two, but my memories of decades ago aren't that good.
That is one way to save on county food expenses?
Tangential but I've been thinking about building a real-estate calculator after my first homebuying experience, something that will provide you with a total cost of ownership, points bydowns and other useful metrics about a home purchase. Rather than jumping into a web app to start building, I've been prototyping it in Excel. I found it really cool for prototyping this type of app, I built my entire "MVP" in about an hour and now just evaluating all the "features" I've added before committing to transplanting this into a webapp.
You might have a long lunch break, where people go home, eat and come back, making the end of the work day pretty late. But siesta is easy to understand as a southern thing when one notices summer temperatures, and imagines physical labor outside, or a world with no AC. Trying to get anything done at 1:30 PM in, say, Jaen sounds unpleasant. Santander, Oviedo or Coruña are not going to face the same problem.
For video (especially with proper 3-2-1 backup) it is somehow expensive.

5 years of our sales and finance data from 10+ countries takes less than a petabyte

Our 2 years backup of hundreds CCTV for only a single factory compressed, reduced to 15 fps takes around 4 PB. This data only used when we have a complaint case. Most of the times it just overwritten with new data without a single person ever see the video.
No, that’s just how the company makes (made…) money.
CricLang: A fun dynamically typed language written in Go for cricket enthusiasts
But humans have already trained on an incredible number of games (including reality) when they play No Man's Sky for the first time. What they say here is that training on N-1 games makes you better at the Nth game. So you just continue to scale this up.
Editorializing really should be a bannable offense on this site. I've seen too many instances of this lately.
Because they understand that being a sociopath is considered to be 'bad' by the society. What's so difficult to understand? Liars and pretty everybody also think that being good at lying is an advantage but admitting to being a liar is simply a bad tactic
I'd be curious how much performance this might bring vs, say, a Linux kernel with an application loaded direct from initramfs. It's not terribly complicated to build a single-purpose initramfs.

There's a lot that an operating system brings to the table, that casual users may not be aware of. They tend to have a bunch in them not because "why not" but because it's providing value.
Call it dividends then. Same thing but different tax treatment.
How should a great K8s distro feel? Try new Canonical Kubernetes 1.30 beta
Maybe that's what it actually is, but this is the story they're selling to enterprise customers:

"simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration"

So I guess there's a bunch of API design platform stuff around the client app that they hope will lock in enterprise developers somehow.
Lemon now appears to be on the "correct" side again in mainstream media
Fascinating that even though those videos don't have sound, I hear the bashing noise in my mind's ears. This is referred to as vEAR, or “visually evoked auditory response.”[1]

[1]https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/5/3/17304470/syn...
The URL on the „VLC“-links look a lot like „Periscope“ which was acquired by Twitter long ago. Maybe this is actually the official Twitter stream itself?
Weird. I have more of an external monologue, I have to speak to consolidate my thoughts. I can't read a book silently and retain any information. I have to read each page out loud, but the volume doesn't matter. It's more the act of translating thoughts to words.
What metrics would you prefer? Feelings?

Regarding France, my understanding is that their scores are some of the lowest in Europe and below the OCED average on the PISA exam (comparatively, the United States is above the OCED average), though there might be demographic considerations.
I'm currently taking class for the EMT, and it is _brutal_ to sit through lectures for just 4 hours. That's even with a 10 minute break every hour. For a subject I'm intensely interested in.

Lectures are scientifically proven by educators to be the worst method of learning, yet our schools do it anyway.

I'd honestly assume conspiracy if all the teachers I know didn't just shrug and say "who cares, it's what everyone expects, and it's easy, so..."
I'm just giving them the benefit of the doubt, I don't assume anything.
This statement in React passes `npm start` and `npm run test`, but fails at runtime when loading the app in browser:

const [a,] = useState(false);

With web stuff, have (headless) browser testing in your continuous integration (CI).
It's just that poster's personality. Check their history.
The NTSB after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 since the pilots forgot to pull the circuit breaker:

> The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) was overwritten after the accident. The CVR on the aircraft records a two-hour loop, and the circuit breaker in the cockpit was not pulled to stop the recording after the aircraft landed.[20] NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy subsequently called for extending capacity to 25 hours, rather than the currently mandated two hours, on all new and existing aircraft. If implemented, the new rule will align with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and European Union Aviation Safety Agency's (EASA) current regulations.[42]
Right, that is step 6.

If you go over the research, you realize that they all assume the premise "everyone is born with an identical blank slate". Which leads to conclusions (either said outright or implied) like; "If you give enough resources to any given child, they can grow up to be anything."

So we end up with schools that serve low income areas getting enormous amounts of funding to teach admin assistants and tile layers to be heart surgeons. And the data on that end shows unequivocally that it is not working.
Well, there are spreadsheet backends using Apache Arrow for storage. You could use something like pola.rs or Arrow DataFusion + Arrow Ballista for distributed processing of the dataset.
Again, what does Intuit have to do with it? Intuit is late to the game. It's simply another *symptom*. I don't want to talk about symptoms. Let's talk about root problems, otherwise symptoms are a distraction.
That's probably a cultural thing. Being French, raised next to the German border, married to a Belgian, I must say that our tradition of cooking twice a day (even in the evening, when time is more limited) is quite French.
I work in Luxembourg and most German and Belgian people I know will eat a "cooked" meal once a day, and eat bread with something for the other meal. It's very frequent to see them bring a "tartine" for lunch, or the opposite. My wife works in a German company where people could come all over from the headquarters in Austria and bring bread and ham for lunch.
Meanwhile the French go eating in restaurants nearly every day even if they know they will cook something elaborated in the evening.
My dad, 100% pure French, always needs to cook something, and finish the meal with some mandatory cheese.
Whatever the infrastructure spacex is using for the stream, the twitter front end doesn't load for me. That's what I meant.

edit: now it loads but it has 10s delay so I'm sticking to VLC
I also read this a while ago [1]:

"The Voyager’s computer system was very impressive as well. Knowing the craft would be on its own much of the time, with the lag between command and response from Earth growing longer the farther the craft went into space, engineers developed a self-repairing computer system. The computer has multiple modules that compare the data they receive and the output instructions they decide on. If one module differs from the others, it's assumed to be faulty and is eliminated from the system, replaced by one of the backup modules. It was tested shortly after launch, when a delay in boom deployment was misread as a malfunction. The problem was corrected successfully."

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/voyager.htm
Cracking a Locked Apple Note
IMO, at least however long the statute of limitations in that jurisdiction is for things like sexual harassment, physical/sexual assault, etc. Way too many of those types of cases go totally unpunished because there's no camera evidence, and it seems quite reasonable to me to retain that footage so that if an issue arises, the relevant evidence is available. I don't think you should have any reasonable expectation of privacy for committing crimes at work, and while yes that means that there would be a camera overhead recording my every move, I'm not the kind of person that necessarily sees that as a bad thing; that footage would both protect and bind all of us to a clear social contract, and that seems better than just throwing our hands in the air and saying "oopsies, the footage was overwritten! So sorry!"
Facebook removes two bits of entropy on login: it tries the entire passphrase with case reversed and just the first letter with case reversed. There's also some fanciness with username correction if you have old cookies.
Has all of software forgotten about Gantt charts?
> Hašek ran for office as a member of his own newly founded Party of Moderate and Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of the Law

From wikipedia
> The platform of the candidate for the Vinorhady election district, Jaroslav Hašek, consisted of seven points:[16]

The reintroduction of slavery.
The nationalization of janitors ("similar to how it is in Russia [...], where every janitor is simultaneously a police informer").
The rehabilitation of animals.
The institutionalization of feeble-minded MPs.
The reintroduction of the Inquisition.
Judicial immunity for priests and the Church ("In cases where a schoolgirl is deflowered by a priest").
The mandatory introduction of alcoholism.
Our priors are different.

We need to not cover all decently accessible land on the planet with either sprawl or agriculture. That's bad for the environment.

People need to have affordable access to medium-to-high density housing for reasons of physical and mental and cultural health.

Concentrating people in medium-to-high density housing makes it easier to achieve our decarbonization goals.

We need to work backwards from there. If the market doesn't cooperate, the problem is the market and how it's set up, not the goals.
Yep this law is just a giant handout to the industry.

I wouldn't be surprised if they use this law to now sue "uncertified" repair shops.
"The Linux Programming Interface" by Michael Kerrisk is one of the best technical resources I have found and used to understand Linux:

https://man7.org/tlpi/

Description from the book's website:

"The Linux Programming Interface (TLPI) describes system programming on Linux and UNIX.

TLPI is both a guide and reference book for system programming:

If you are new to system programming, you can read TLPI linearly as an introductory guide: each chapter builds on concepts presented in earlier chapters, with forward references kept to a minimum. Most chapters conclude with a set of exercises intended to consolidate the reader's understanding of the topics covered in the chapter.

If you are an experienced system programmer, TLPI provides a comprehensive reference that you can consult for details of nearly the entire Linux and UNIX (i.e., POSIX) system programming interface. To support this use, the book is thoroughly cross referenced and has an extensive index."