skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it must really suck.

He doesn't seem to realise however that he's making this far worse.

Literally a core part of the Gates/COVID conspiracy theories goes like this:

"Bill Gates want to track everyone and is using a COVID vaccine as a trojan horse to do it"

Then he goes and says, gee, maybe it shouldn't be possible to say things Bill Gates doesn't like and the way to implement this is to ensure tech firms can monitor and track everything everyone is saying.

He's basically giving his critics an intellectual ammo dump with this interview. Dude doesn't seem self-aware, at all.
I found induction lacking in one specific aspect: wokking.

Can't toss a wok, and the lack of convection heating means the sides of the wok get pretty cold.
For sure, I am one of these people you mention. I feel very little to no loyalty to any company I have ever worked for. The reason is that they can and would fire me at any time if the conditions where right.

Hence, I am ready to move to another position at any time if the conditions are right (pay, benefits etc). If they want me to take an oath I would probably not take the job today but if they would pay me a ridiculous amount for example, I would most likely take the job and just say the oath or whatever you have to do and just never care about it again.

Just because I am forced to say something doesn't mean I believe it. Maybe it's because I am a natural rebel that hates to be told things, despises "mission statements" or "company values" but I feel like there is a lot of people like me.
1. The drive to work is a known risk. Much is still unknown about Covid-19 plus it is novel and (legitimately) scary.

2. It's not just you, you could infect your friends and family and children.

3. If someone actually compared the actual odds (i.e. real numbers) of getting in a card accident with getting Covid-19 working in one of these public-facing jobs we are discussing, under current conditions, then we'd be able to tell if the comparison you're proposing is reasonable or not.
Why Microsoft wants to take on burden of social media and user generated content
It's almost certainly not junk when it makes it to Nature Photonics. This is the top journal in the field along with Science. The usability might not be there, but the science is almost guaranteed to be interesting. The news release spins are what they always are, and unrelated to the actual merits of the paper.
There is a reason I used "median."
Between your handset and the base station, when your handset is active the vast majority of RF power going through you is from your own handset.

I'm not sure if it's still the majority on average when your handset is idling, but I suspect it still is on the whole. I also suspect when walking around a dense urban centre that the handsets of other people nearby (in combination) also provide more RF than the base station.

In locations where there is a poorer signal, personal RF exposure is likely to be higher, as the handset transmits at a higher power level to be "heard" by the base station far away.

Counter-intuitively, this means where people successfully campaign to remove a mobile mast in order to reduce RF exposure, people's RF exposure can actually increase in a halo region around where the mast was, though decrease closer to where the mast was.

For people who really want to reduce ambient mobile RF exposure, they need to campaign for all people in their neighbourhood to turn off their handsets (and for the remaining people who don't to not use all the freed up bandwidth). That's a tough thing to achieve though.
What If the Big Bang Was a Big Bounce?
Household power prices are not the same as the wholesale rate. Indeed sometimes the wholesale rate is negative.
South Australia is $73.25/MWh
Nope. It's "Fast key-value stores: An idea whose time has come and gone":

https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/06/24/fast-key-value-stores/
Power users aren't where the money is.
> So, whenever Google is mentioned in more tech-savvy communities like those that support Linux and FOSS, its name usually makes people shudder. Even so, it is impossible to deny the work that Google has done on making open-source software a standard today. With massive open source projects like Kubernetes, TensorFlow, Go, and Flutter, many other once-FOSS-allergic companies have realized the importance of the open-source model and have followed in Google’s footsteps, including other tech powerhouses like Facebook, Amazon, and even Microsoft.

Forgot Android and Chromium. Also, people shudder at Canonical too these days.

Also, I don't think kernel contributions using GitHub or GitLab would be a good thing. See SourceHut if you want things done properly:

https://sourcehut.org

Also, his site here:

https://git-send-email.io/
Learning How to Learn (Book Notes)
Virtualization in the Car
I donct want to be overly pessimistic but took years for Ebola. It was first discovered in the ’76 and we only have an approved vaccine for it since last year. That's 44 years.
Also a great deal of money to shape what's legal.
What is to be gained by reducing Amazon's profits? Less stuff able to be bought online?
Yes, if you've never worked a scheduled service sector job you don't understand. 6am to 2pm on day, 8pm to 4pm the next and 3 days of 3p to 10pm in a row. That makes Uber look good, especially when that schedule is not known until the day before it starts for many workers.
What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found
As a neutral observer, I have to smile over Americans complaining about the Chinese influencing US culture.

Americans are used to others having to tiptoe around their sensibilities, and now they're finding out what adhering to a foreign culture's value system is like.
Not only is streetwear missing, but so are preppy styles. I really can't think of many women's "genres" which lack a male counterpart.
How to Do Competitive Analysis
When I moved a couple of years ago I started banking with Fidelity which has 17-digit account numbers. Using those for ACH with ConEd resulted in them failing to bill me at the end of the month. I thought it was a typo and put the ACH numbers in again, only to fail and get disconnected and flagged at the end of next month plus some late fees.

The whole problem was that the account number was too long. No error messages anywhere. Fidelity also has a 13-digit account number version that I've been using ever since.

What a mess.
Those transactions always make me nervous - is there a reason they don't have a step of showing the account name when you input the number? Like, I type 31-45-76 0452768934 and it says "Mr & Mrs Y O Mama" or "Notafraud & Co. Ltd." or whatever, as a confirmation?
We're lucky though, that they didn't go with "Scientists are baffled by a new laser that breaks the laws of the universe"
Yeah Jeff Snider of Alhambra Investments knows his stuff. If you prefer text you can read all the same stuff at his “Eurodollar University”: https://alhambrapartners.com/2019/04/22/eurodollar-universit...
which, let loose, can infect virtually everyone

No virus in history has infected virtually everyone, and there are lots of experts calling foul on that particular assumption right now. It's baked into epidemiological models but those models are always wrong, and the assumption of very high susceptible populations is being floated in several papers as one of the possible reasons.
Ask HN: Any Tips for Downloading Petabytes from Cloud to Local
One of my colleagues request to download a petabytes from multiple cloud locations to in-house server room. (what?)

At first, we consider to use the AWS Snowball. but requester's team are using multiple cloud providers and regions. Because of growing data every day, we can't afford to call the AWS Snowball/Snowmobile every months/quarters.

Next idea is using AWS Direct Connect (and other providers') and syncing to local object storage. (maybe ceph?)

Is there any suggestion/idea/solution for solving this wisely?
Very neat I wonder how many applications this will create. I was just yesterday wondering if there was such a thing as an underwater telescope which I obviously assumed this was not possible due to distortion but wondered if laser technology could be used to give a computer image of what is in the distance. Perhaps with this laser it would be possible to do distance imagining like a fish finder but with much higher details.
It won't work. There will always be an engineer willing to sell out humans for money or knowledge. Money obviously being the root of all evil.

The surveillance apparatus wouldn't exist without these types of engineers.
What if it was a big twerk?
When you have a location you can also use the gyroscope to track where the device is going after the starting point.

Almost like a video stream. Once in a while a keyframe and a stream of changes in between.
That's why parent comment uses the median rather than the mean, it isn't affected by enormous outliers.

Unless more than half of Amazon's employees are highly paid developers and executives, that number represents a normal employee.
This is my favorite Uber messaging revision:

https://twitter.com/neilanalien/status/627873374505562112?la...

Maybe some business models aren't economically viable. Maybe Uber is one of those businesses.
I think (/ hope) that the later was picked up by being homed on GitHub - https://github.com/rust-lang/book
That doesn't mean that there aren't LGBT bans in certain countries, which is what the article was talking about.

And also, what prevents authoritarian CCP from ordering TikTok to ban LGBT contents overnight? They've done it with Uighur concentration camp/slave labor mentions, hong kong protests, massive flooding, etc.
> it benefited the US and US companies the most. Or exclusively...excluding the main competitor in 5G from the US market.

If I believe what I read on HN, the alternatives to Huawei are all European.
The Go WASM Playground
I hope no one wonders why it's been so easy to tie a person's health insurance to their employment in "capitalist US" (as opposed to "communist Russia"), and how frustratingly difficult it has been to affect substantive change now that it's been shown to be exactly as constrictive as it sounds.
This comes across as kind of dismissive, as if the innovation here is just a realization that a well-known electrocatalytic reaction can be used for carbon sequestration. Am I reading your tone wrong?

The really hard bit in this kind of research is designing a catalyst that can mediate the reaction efficiently, doesn’t degrade rapidly, and isn’t prohibitively expensive to deploy at scale.
Not only that, the warehouse workers in the US are part of the same group health insurance policy as their software engineers and executives. It's one of the most generous health insurance plans available in an entry-level job that requires no college education, and the dollar-amount value of the total compensation (even for the median Amazon worker) is way above $36,640.
That's one thing that's annoying in the current crop of EVs. Almost none of them support drawing power from the cars even though they have those huge batteries just standing there. I understand not wanting to add the cost of the inverter to every car but it seems it should be relatively straightforward to support external inverters that plug into the DC part of the CCS connector.
It’s not a that discriminative in terms of reproductive rights if you consider the one child policy that applied for a long time to a lot of people (mostly of Han ethnicity).

While the policy doesn’t exist anymore, it’s not about the policy, but who has the right to decide whether you’re allowed to have children.
> The author of this article was paid $42 million last year. Uber's top 7 executives received: "$11.4 million in salary and cash bonus, plus $71 million worth of equity awards."

it's misleading to call equity compensation "getting paid". there's a strong argument that executives are being over-payed, but say the CEO receiving a salary of ~1.6M (11.4/7) is a lot less egregious than them being paid $42M. surely the equity conferred to the execs gets them some cash availability in various ways, but it isn't exactly the same as just giving them money (eg what would happen if the CEO uber sold off all of his stock?).

maybe the cash portion of exec salaries ought to be much lower or maybe their equity compensation ought to be much lower, but i don't think either of these things by itself or in combination is going to solve the structural problems of the american economy such as healthcare being tied to employment.
An Update on Fitbit
Ask HN: Does any part of your LOB web app still require IE11?
For example, you might have clients with tons of legacy HTML/XML templates which are only rendered correctly in IE11 (with all its quirks)?

And so these clients insist they will continue using IE11 for your web app, because they rightfully want their documents to look 100% the same as they did 10yrs ago.

If this sounds familiar, how do you plan to eventually retire IE11 support?
The problem is that it doesn't reflect how the C language really works. More specifically, it is misleading in multiple declarations, see the sibling reply at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109267
Even traveling on a plane has a transponder to piggy back on IIRC. Remote area implies a spotty network at best. The best that could be done is noting when and where contact with a network of some sort is lost or regained.
>Plus there are a lot of other major open source projects that come out of Google. Way more than Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

Is it even true? MS does a lot of open source
C is a knife. You expect knives to cut you, so you handle them carefully.

Except that C is sometimes a knife with another knife hidden in the grip and it you don't handle it just right, the hidden knife will also cut you. (Thinking of libraries/other people's code)
That UPS you bought for your home server may not be as useful as you think
> 30% for matching buy/sell orders? Do you have any idea how insane that is relative to what NYSE charges?

I imagine the pricing is relative to the scarcity and difficult of matching buy/sell orders. Given that NYSE is a national network, that can meet supply and demand instantly between any two individuals in the world, it's substantially different than the much scarcer order-matching reality that a service like Uber would operate in.

TO fulfill an Uber order for a particular interested buyer involves a much smaller set of potential sellers than the NYSE. Thus, it would stand to reason that Uber gets a larger cut than the NYSE. If all Uber did was find a car for your somewhere in the world, that would make it much cheaper. Of course, an uber user is paying to find a car a few minutes away. If NYSE had the additional burden of having to find a physical person near you to exchange stock certificates, you'd expect a higher premium, and indeed, when this paper exchange of certificates was any kind of reality, the NYSE's prices were higher.
Problems of Conceiving Human Origins
> There is the problem that everything can be subdivided in a bunch of menial task so every cog in the system isn't aware of their impact. It already happens a lot in software.

Precisely the issue with the original proposal. Would it have mattered whatsoever if PhD's took a Hippocratic oath when developing the Manhattan project?

I feel like this MSFT executive may already know that swearing engineer to "do no harm" is fruitless after reading the article, but it's still unfortunate that statements like his diverts attention from more meaningful proposals.
Vitamin D deficiency as a predictor of poor prognosis in patients with Covid-19
I don't understand your argument. Do you think people who follow unethical behaviour are quickly fired? That is not usually the case if the unethical behaviour was profitable. Do you think that the legal system is quick to move so people won't be deported in 60 days?

>At any rate ethics is a hard sell to an industry whose professionals are completely unaware of what ethics are or how they apply.

This is simply not true. Most everyone with a CS related degree in Europe or the US has taken a course on ethics and knows plenty about it.
You're saying they were awful in the mid 90s, or they became awful later? Because the machines I had in '96 or so were solid.
I would be careful with statements like this. New compilers do NOT make this a warning/error, see for example

https://godbolt.org/z/5zzz33

Note that there are parentheses around the assignment which the compiler takes as an indication that this is intentional. Also note that the parentheses are required because without them the precedence would be wrong.
So. Why do you need someone at Apple to replace a harddisc/memory module ? Why does it matter if someone at Apple installs your OS or someone at Best Buy does ?

People seem to be making an issue out of nothing. I'm sure he would have screamed a lot louder if he hadn't bought AppleCare. At least Apple FIXED his iMac rather than just demanding he bought a new one...

You can't win against some people.
Eighty one percent of patients had hypovitaminosis D. Based on vitamin D levels, the population was stratified into four groups: no hypovitaminosis D, insufficiency, moderate deficiency, and severe deficiency. No differences regarding demographic and clinical characteristics were found. A survival analysis highlighted that, after 10 days of hospitalization, severe vitamin D deficiency patients had a 50% mortality probability, while those with vitamin D ≥ 10 ng/mL had a 5% mortality risk (p = 0.019).
High prevalence of hypovitaminosis D was found in COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure, treated in a RICU. Patients with severe vitamin D deficiency had a significantly higher mortality risk. Severe vitamin D deficiency may be a marker of poor prognosis in these patients, suggesting that adjunctive treatment might improve disease outcomes.
The US and Hussein's Iraq were not military adversaries until Iraq invaded Kuwait.

China absolutely is a geopolitical rival with militaristic and global hegemonic ambitions, and they have already committed to actions that we have gone to war over in the past. And they are on the cusp of a handful of actions that would have triggered a world war if they were done in the past. But nothing will happen to China for the same reason that nothing happened to Russia during the cold war. Because they have nukes.
Good. The fashion industry is toxic and wasteful. I hope it does not survive, but of course I am sorry for the people who's livelihood is impacted.
Yes, that's how welfare works.

When you pay taxes for a single payer healthcare system, you're absolving the company the responsibility to provide health insurance to their employees (read: "underpay their workers"). Many societies are okay with this because the end result is actually better/more efficient for everyone.
Nothing about the word "national" implies "mandatory". There are other countries with national IDs which are not mandatory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card...

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_identity_card_(France...
React, hooks and JSX are amazing.
That's a good recommendation, which I would second. The other books are also worth reading, but I found less interesting. (I have English translations of The Wanderer, and The Explorer.)
Well, I like to think of myself as an engineer (on a good day), and I think 100% successful launches with "old tired designs" is bragworthy.
> They don't make mistakes and they are fast, almost naming the pitch as soon as they hear it. It's effortless, precise, and accurate.

To give an example. I was playing board games with an acquaintance with AP. Someone tinked a glass or something (brief, very high pitch / edge of musical range). She named the pitch without hesitation, and noted that it was slightly sharp. (I of course couldn't confirm, but had no reason to doubt her.)

I have very good relative pitch and pitch recall. E.g. I can tune a guitar quickly by ear without relying on beat notes, and can do so without a prior absolute reference (I have memorized E, A, and Bb), though I may be ~30 cents off the reference. I can reliably identify the key of a song I heard months or years ago by comparing it to memorized references.

But I have to think about it, imagining and computing pitches and intervals in my head. And hearing other pitches in the interim throws off my recall.

To do these things instantly, with precision of cents, is magic to me. It's the difference between a savant producing the product of two large numbers instantly, and me working through the multiplication algorithm in my head.
New York and San Francisco May Not Bounce Back
> 50-69 hour days to get a decent living.

Wow you've seen a lot to see a 50 hour day.
There you go. There's no amount of spin that makes this platform any better than the other social networks; if not worse. At least anyone can freely criticize the US president or administration on any social network without getting banned.

Try this at home: Criticize the CCP or just post some content that they don't like on TikTok.* If you're in Hong Kong, you'd wish that it didn't go viral.

*If you dare: [0][1]

[0] https://time.com/5863350/tiktok-black-creators/

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tiktok-says-it-doesnt-censor...
> Why are there fewer non-tech personal blogs? (athletes', architects')

Tech is unique in a couple of ways:

1. It's a very young industry, so there are no set ways to do many things yet, which invites people to experiment and then write about it.

2. Unlike many other industries, in tech you can experiment using just your at-home equipment.

3. Older industries arguably expect their practitioners to be more mature, so you're less likely to see a structural engineer writing about his weird ideas on how to build support beams... Whereas in tech if you blog, even if it's BS, it is still welcomed.

4. There's plenty of money in tech and the blog can help you get to the highest paying roles. (whereas in for example architecture it's much more about just seniority and years on the job).
I removed this feature for compatibility reasons.

I think there are ways to do it but I couldn't get it to work. I believe chrome makes exception to this rule for big trusted websites like YouTube
Kind of funny to hear this from a company known for harvesting tons and tons of telemetry from customers, with no true way to fully opt-out which is pretty damn unethical and probably feeds their AI.
The "pointless" cast is required for libraries that are written in the common subset of C and C++ so that they can be compiled both in a C or C++ compiler.

Some people prefer to compile C code through a C++ compiler for various reasons, Microsoft has even been recommending this because their C++ compiler isn't quite as terribly outdated as their C compiler:

https://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-an...

(not that I agree with the reasons, but for a library it makes sense to not lock out people who prefer to compile C libraries as C++ when integrated into a C++ project).
They probably don't want their funding being eaten up with fighting lawsuits.
How about we start with a Hippocratic oath for public company executive management.
“Remote work does not include working in the office.”
Furtive fallacy in action
Many European countries implement that baseline quality of life at the country/government level.

What you are hinting at has a name, and it's called socialism.

Some people in those European countries do complain about high taxes. But in general, as a country, most are happy with our "social safety net" which includes universal healthcare, "almost free" education system (including University), reasonable minimal wages and "liveable" unemployment benefits.

Socialism seem like a dirty word in the US. It isn't one where I'm from (Belgium).
Was expecting more pictures of 60s tech rather than ladies in tight dresses.
> when I look back 10 years ago Uber/Lyft are probably top 3 things that have made the world better

Really? A car service in your opinion is in the top 3 of what made the world measurably better in the last 10 years?