jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The title seems to suggest that the reason many people haven't been infected yet is because they are immune, and that we are therefore approaching herd immunity. I'd caution against drawing that conclusion until case numbers and R0 start declining. In some places where vaccination campaigns have been aggressive, like Israel, we are starting to see what looks like herd immunity. What this study appears to show is that some of the antibodies against coronaviruses that people already have from the common cold may also fight against SARS-CoV-2. But that may have been the case from day 0 of this pandemic.
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The search portal is in Vue but there was an additional Wordpress site mostly for marketing.
does it? we're simply considering input -> output. society does not own your brain, do with it whatever pleases you. how you feel about your responsibility, if any, to your species is entirely your business, not mine. that's basically belief system (secular or spiritual) territory. do i have rights in respect to society? does society have rights in respect to me? these are interesting questions, but not what i had intended.

to be verbose: since smart people are a limited resource it is imho correct to note that an intellectually, emotionally, and life-focus demanding activity, such as chess, that has not (and can not) ever transfer knowledge gains in that closed system to other domains of concern to our species, is in fact, as a matter of simple math, sapping a precious resource.

(but i'm open to the suggestion that maybe chess is keeping society safe from otherwise unoccupied mad geniuses -- calling B.F. .. :)
> "I store all dates in spreadsheets in ISO format"

As in SQL, the application’s native date format (which is usually a number with appropriate format) would be the natural choice and a YYYY-MM-DD string would be a distant second. ISO (presumably, 8601) format is too broad, and admits of a mix of formats that are not simply sortable (quick, which is first 2021-W14-2 or 2021-04-07?).
>These speech attributes, also called features, are extracted in chunks of 40ms, then compressed and sent over the network.

So while Encoding doesn't take 40ms, the latency + encoding will indeed be 40ms+.

150ms is the End to End Latency, which is basically everything from Encoding + Network + Decoding. We cant beat the speed of light on our fibre network. We can certainly do something with Encoding and Decoding. And Lyra doesn't seems to help with that case here. Something I pointed out last time Lyra was on HN.

I think Opus default to 20ms with option of 10ms slot ( excluding Encoding speed ) at the expense of quality. What we really need is higher bitrate, lower latency and higher quality codec. Which is sort of the exact opposite of what Lyra is offering.
How is there more time for 1-1 mentorship, pairing, etc?
We use something similar to this for a team of 5. We can coordinate about 30 repos, manage issues, have deployment from source mechanisms and so on. It's definitely got a use.

Personally I would be much too cool to actually socialize on GitHub.
> all those things I need to google because I don't remember whether an if statement in bash needs single [ ] or double [[ ]] or '' or "" or ; or spaces or all those weird gotchas.

This made me chuckle. A few years ago, I went on a learning spree to finally memorize all of these sparse semantics so I could write bash scripts fluently. I ended up having a really good grasp, could write scripts with no flailing.

Six months later, I was back to searching "bash double quotes vs single". Unless you use them every day, for years, these semantics just fall right out of your head.
> Big Short style doesn't always end in a lionizing outcome.

That movie was the worse thing that ever happened for a generation of traders. It reinforces all the worse biases traders tend to have. The moral of the story was to make a single concentrated bet, to throw risk management to the wind, to double down as you lost money, and to completely ignore any expert that disagreed with your investment thesis.

In reality for every Michael Burry, there's 100 stubborn overconfident idiots who YOLO everything into a bet that blows up in their face. First off, it's much better to make as many small independent bets than to have one big trade. It's also better to make trades with a fixed, ideally short, time horizon. Even if you're ultimately right, without a catalyst, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

Finally the best traders tend to be extremely open minded and willing to change their views on a dime. The human mind is heavily biased towards overconfidence. Good traders should be flipping their views as evidence comes in. This has been empirically verified by Philip Tetlock. The best forecasters are those who are quickest to change their mind. If they hear some expert with an opposing opinion, they don't dig in their heels like the heroes of The Big Short.

The problem is the qualities that make a great narrative hero are almost exactly the opposite of those that make a great trader or forecaster. We love a story about a bold contrarian, who goes all in on a single bet, and sticks to his guns no matter what obstacles come his way. The story practically writes itself.

But it's precisely this mythologizing that causes this style of trading to be the least rewarded in the market. Everybody wants to be the hero of their own story. There's way too many Michael Burry wannabes, and not nearly enough George Soroses.
There used to be talk of Microsoft buying Garmin back in 2007. Maybe this is related?
"What is clear is that some students gained access to a bank of tests that was maintained by the publisher of the textbook that Quinn used. They distributed the test to hundreds of their fellow students, some of whom say they thought they were receiving a study guide like any other -- not a copy of the actual test."

Using a pre-fab test is the teacher's fault. I am very concerned that the content of the class must have been pre-fab too.

Story: In my early years during my epically ill-advised attempt at an MS degree, I was a TA for an intro to programming course. The class had previously been taught by the same person for a number of years. The new class used an updated version of the language (think MS-BASIC to QuickBasic) and the other TA and I changed pretty much everything.

First day of class, I hand out the standard stuff with the class schedule and when the tests are going to happen. About 5 students are not seen again until the first test. I hand out the test, and see massive confusion in their faces. One (a freshman) actually says to me "This isn't the right test!". I am confused. I walk over, check the test, and say "yes, this is the first test for the chapters we covered". I am still confused, and while they are taking their tests I check the grade book and the 5 haven't turned in their 2 programs. I ask and he didn't know about them. All 5 failed and dropped the course.

After talking to my fellow TA, I found out the old teacher had given the same test for a number of years and every Greek / Club on campus had copies. Oops.
I just did it for the challenge, took me about 30 minutes, primarily because I didn't look at the cookies first and spend about 15 minutes wiring up greasemonkey to add an input field into the form. Turns out I needed this for the _csrf and cookie stuffing so it wasn't entirely a waste.
I'm really in no position to argue with you but still, isn't onion-layer security better than single layer, and isn't this one more layer?
A guy that has been using 4chan and other anonymous messageboards since he was 12 acts and thinks like a 4chan user. What a shock.

I know it's not the same to you, but if you look at the top 15 boards on 8chan, that list includes a board that Fredrick likely has no interest in (gay porn), boards full of users that he probably disagrees strongly with (/leftypol/, a left wing version of /pol/, and /christian/, iirc he is an athiest), and a community full of people that he personally cannot stand (/furry/). Maybe you wouldn't pay to provide a home for "gamergate jerks", but he doesn't seem to have a problem providing a home for a lot of people he dislikes or disagrees with.

What is the difference between "enabling" and "not stopping" something? Is he "enabling" GamerGate because he supports it on his personal twitter account, or is he "enabling" it just for refusing to censor it on his site? Is he "enabling" /baphomet/ because he made some improvements to the site software that happened to fix a spam/flooding problem they had? Then is he not also "enabling" the /furry/ board that he developed a CAPTCHA option specifically for, due to the constant attacks of one dedicated spammer that board received? Or does "enabling" just mean "allowing something I dislike"?
MS Surface Hub could be fantastic in education.
wouldn't they be Klingon phrases written with normal letters? i mean, nobody has a Klingon keyboard, do they?
Caffeine is very soluble. You can quickly decaffenate tea by "rinsing" it, or more accurately, throwing away the first, short, steeping.

In other words, if you want to remove the caffeine, leave your teabag in 1/2 a cup of water for 30-60 seconds, dump out the water and then you are good to go.
Everything crashed at one point so we had to restart everything. Everyone lost their queue. :(
I don't understand what difference it makes being in Klingon? usually Captchas are just jibberish anyway. Recognizing individual letters remains the challenge.
We don't know how much valuable personal data was on that phone, but it could have held e-mails, photographs, etc. They could have been important

Then they should have a backup.

In any case, this is clear cut negligence

?! Unless you want a world where every employee's every mouse click is monitored by another employee and everything takes two people, three times as long and costs four times as much in auditing you have to accept that accidents are not the same as negligence.

Remote wipe is a web interface. Assuming the IT staff was supposed to wipe a different device, they either misread or misremembered the ID or misclicked (or were misinformed). One click.

If you put your life on the line where one click can destroy it and you have no backup, and you still connect your device to systems you don't understand, you're running a huge risk and no amount of legislation will ever help you.

Does that sound like the employee was properly informed to you?

It sounds like someone who doesn't know how something works. They could well be someone who had it explained, agreed, then forgot. Or wasn't listening, or didn't care. Lots of people do that. Like the executives in your other comment who sat through a security presentation and then moments later showed they hadn't understood it at all on a conference call.
Am I the only one that takes issue with the whole "democratic municipal governments can't work" stance? Corporations shouldn't be run as democracies (with their employees as voters) because the goal of a company is to profit, not to make its employees happy. But cities should have a primary goal of furthering the wellbeing of its residents, and without democratic checks, the city government can create policies that serve only its own coffers.

Imagine you're running the corporation that governs the city. Your aim is to maximize profits. You do this by under-serving and over-taxing your residents, but not so much that they're pushed to move away. Because moving, buying property, and changing jobs or schools is time-consuming, expensive, and stressful, once you've got residents, the amount of tax-hikes or service cuts people are willing to tolerate before leaving your city might actually be quite high. This sounds like a terrible place to live.
Why are these programmers not hired? The answer to that question matters a lot for the viability of this idea.

And if the Delphi programmer is in fact incredibly talented and able to switch technologies - why hasn't he done so? Why is he still marketing himself as a Delphi programmer if he can teach himself JavaScript, do a couple webpages, and market himself as a JavaScript programmer?
This last caveat leads to an interesting economic question. As noted above, retail prices for CAPTCHA-
solving vary over a wide range, from about $1 per thousand to $20 per thousand. This price spread, and
the fact that it’s technically feasible to route a CAPTCHA through the system more than once, suggests a
major arbitrage opportunity. We can set up a high-price CAPTCHA service and farm out all the actual work to
low-price competitors. In a free economy—and what economy could be freer of regulation than a criminal
one?—that situation is not supposed to endure.

Well, at least until they add CAPTCHAs.
They were trying to measure the worker's native language by assuming error rates would go down. One provider had low error rates across the board - the easiest explanation for this is a different incentive system that promoted low error rates, likely at the expense of speed. I'd guess this was one of the expensive service providers, and is how they try to differentiate themselves in the market.
Yes, Daala is doing exactly that:

http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/update1.shtml
Towards the end he talks about how the crack works. The crackers simply cracked the copy protection which runs at the beginning of the game. After the cracked copy protection had run, the crack restored the original code, making all the checksums correct, and thus bypassing them.
Yes, some sort of deblocking in the decoder could go a long way, e.g.

http://johncostella.com/unblock/

This isn't something that can be done on the encoding side, so it's out of scope of MozJPEG.

I do think it may be worthwhile to spec a backwards-compatible extension for decoders that adds deblocking.
Org-mode with mobile app, and a grimoire file. It holds all snippets, captured thoughts, bookmarks, to-read, etc...

It's also responsible for my spaced repetition system, my work agenda, my personal agenda, blog post ideas, project ideas, grocery lists, todo lists, etc...

It's extremely powerful and my life is forever changed because of that software.
I don't think the author makes a convincing point as to why standardization is bad for students but somehow beneficial to teachers.

I felt the author's case was clearly presented, so I'll try to summarize...

Standardized tests for students are bad because they encourage bogus metrics like "teacher effectiveness".

Requiring high qualifications for teachers is good because it improves public perception of the profession and reduces churn. (Initiatives like "fast track" teacher training increase churn, and this is bad because it can lead administrators to believe that churn is part of the solution: all they need to do is somehow weed out the bad teachers and replace them with good ones.)
"Oh, my mistake. You're right. Thanks for pointing that out!"

That is, if you're humble enough to put your ego aside.
Django is a pure pleasure. You get all the power of python. The documentation is great and the google user group is even better. Django gives you a bunch of stuff for free ORM, admin interface, and authentication. Of course freedom comes with a cost but their built in tools cover 90% of the common use cases. Syntax in my opinion is much better in python.
I've only been a member for a few weeks but I'm beginning to notice a positive influence on my work as a result of Forrst.

Most of my jobs lean towards the role of a developer and not a designer anymore, but since I joined Forrst I've gone into my few design tasks with more focus on quality and detail. I'm experiencing a new found motivation to put extra time and effort into details knowing I intend to post something for others to see (and critique or praise) now.
That's awful! I hate HR, too, but to report what you perceive as harassment directly to the police seems so over the top as to be ridiculous.
> If you work in Java, the "easy" way is to use threads, and you have to think about it if you want non-blocking IO.

Or you use Play/Akka and don't think about threads. Or Scala streams and don't think about threads. There's not much thinking about threads going on here. (A major reason why Go just makes me shrug is that I already have its good bits within easy reach on the JVM if I want them, and I don't have its bad bits.)

> If you work in C++, there is no "easy" way, and you have to think about it if you want non-blocking IO.

YMMV, but I don't find boost::thread_group and Boost.Asio terribly hard.

Also, you omitted C#, which has some pretty fantastic asynchronous tools that you don't have to think about at all.
It's South Korea, not North Korea.
For an introduction to pkgsrc on Mac OS X, please check : http://www.cambus.net/using-pkgsrc-on-mac-os-x/
Arguably when there was a inter-network link, not inter-host was when the internet was born. But really, like horses, there's no real implications one way or the other.

Make it the start of the Unix epoch.
It’s probably sarcasm but I don’t think it matters. A glib throw-away comment adds nothing to the discussion.
I think it's incredibly arrogant to talk with such certainty about biological immortality. It's not something we can fathom at this time.
Look for teams that have no business being as big as they are. On a over-staffed team, the devs take one piece of work and divide it up (sometimes it’s laughable even to us, but we have to fill up Jira with stories). So long as no one on the team is pretentious, you guys should be able to have very piecemeal amounts of work and a dependable squad to pick up slack as needed.

It sounds like I’m describing a normal company with healthy redundancy, but apparently in tech you can end up on unhealthy lean teams. Your boss also needs to be a long timer who ‘gets’ that all of you divided up the simplest task evenly, and that ‘this is the way’. If he/she scrutinizes it, then it’s no good because the lie must be believed by all (with the underlying acceptance that this is better for everyone versus having heroes and rockstars).

Wait for the pandemic to die down and the froth to return in hiring, where companies will define ‘growth’ by building out more teams. No reason not to stay a developer since you already invested the time to do the work in your sleep.

The hard part is you will have to find a company that is successful enough that they can afford it.

Places like this can actually bring back some sanity if you have a life outside of work. You’ll die if work is your identity though, as others have mentioned (super unfulfilling, no one will be allowed to architect or go nuts, since predictability is paramount).

Last thing I’ll say is, absolutely under no circumstance should you lower your salary expectations. The companies that pay developers lower expect more. They seem to not believe the cost is worth it, and that you are lucky to even be getting as much as you are getting. You’ll be pushed much much harder at those places. The 10k luxury purse only gets taken out on special nights. The $200 one gets taken everywhere.

Become the luxury item and find wealthier buyers.
From the transcript:

> It’s true that the case fatality rate for COVID at this time was about 3.4%. [ ... ] Five months later, the World Health Organization had no option but to publish his paper, which demonstrated the extent to which he was right, showing that the infection fatality rate for coronavirus was not 3.4%, but 0.23%.

So, the author cannot even distinguish between the case fatality rate (CFR) and the infection fatality rate (IFR), which is in serious publications often estimated to be around 0.7% .

I don't think this is worth reading further.
> I'm afraid I don't follow. Your bit numbers confuse me

They’re bits of entropy (not counting the password itself) (I think). SHA-512(M): 512 bits; SHA-512(SHA-256(M)): 256 bits, for example.

> I don't see how this results in an algorithm that is weaker than either sha512 or bcrypt.

That’s my point. It’s not easy to get this kind of thing right, so just don’t bother with pepper.
Another interesting possibility is that rather than pointing your sound at where the fire is now, point it at where it is about to go. What may not be able to put out an active fire may be able to suppress its spread, which would also be an enormous win in many circumstances. Even if it could just significantly retard the fire while conventional techniques are deployed in combination, it could be a potent addition to the arsenal.

To be honest, I'm sort of skeptical, especially of the "glorified speaker" approach, but as it happens there are ways to produce some very loud noises at 30-60 Hz which is very well-established off-the-shelf tech: http://epb.apogee.net/res/rehpuls.asp This used to be a standard furnace technology in American homes. Much like cars, it would be tuned to be as quiet as possible (which I've heard could still be annoyingly loud), but just as I'm sure you've all heard a car without its muffler and marveled at the difference, I'm sure something based around this technology, only meant to be as loud as possible, could achieve some serious decibalage, quite efficiently. Probably a great deal more efficiently than converting something to electricity and then converting that to sound.
This is a lie, there were over thirty court cases.
To be fair, it's only the second most delusional thing in that particular post after "the statistical probability of Biden getting more votes than Obama, but only in the 5 states that mattered being one to quadrillions...". It's almost as if believing this was so important it wasn't worth checking which states Biden did actually better and worse in
It's a big leap to go from <Trump gets banned for inviting violence through deliberate misinformation> to <while we're at it, let's ban all politicians because they're similar>. Most politicians have nothing in common with what Trump is being banned for.

Politicians are some of the people most engaged with politics, and I don't think such a large chilling effect fully across the subject of politics would be good for people. There are policies and changes from the status quo that I think are very important to improve society (healthcare for all, addressing climate change) and I don't think removing the most influential voices discussing and pushing these would be good for these kinds of goals, or improve sites like Twitter.
You would think it’d be obvious to “hackers” that consolidation of power over information channels is the real coup.

Sad no one seems alarmed by that or understands how that can go wrong.
Was/is there that much of seasonal variety in the African regions, where humans evolved mostly? And why should we stop at humans and not go back even further?
I agree in some respects but comparing the nature of the internet today compared to the internet we remembered back in the 90s, it’s abundantly clear that consolidation and centralization are significant forces.

We’re not really making the same progress on decentralizing the web that we thought we would. Is it really that difficult to see further consolidation as the most likely outcome?
I would take this benchmark with a huge grain of salt: https://64.github.io/actix/#blazingly-fast-or-not
Then it isn't destructor-free (and not passed by reference if it's on the stack).
I saw the tweet as acknowledgement that Biden will be president. I have never once thought the Trump would attend Biden's inauguration as that doesn't seem in character for him. I think that Twitter does themself a disfavor by using such weak evidence of Trump's violations of the terms of service.
Perhaps I should rephrase, what are the specific policy goals you would like to see that could be pursued to help restore faith in the electoral process?