skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How an AI tool for fighting hospital deaths worked in the real world
Covid-19 vaccine BNT162b1 elicits human antibody and TH1 T-cell responses
It's also marked "Unlikely to influence anything in the future, due to remarkably poor design", yet there's still a line drawn from it.... to Erlang?? but not Perl.

I can't extract any value at all from this chart.
The Illusion of Technology
Thanks for your input and sharing some useful info, I already read similar things here on HN and other sites where people describe similar hiring processes. To be honest with you I don't like them, but I understand the need of having one in a bigger company.

I understand your point, however this resume isn't intended to be the first contact with a future employer. It will be contained in my pdf resume once I update it, but I hope the employer will notice it. I'll probably mention it in a cover letter or similar.

But as quadrifoliate already stated, this resume is a reverse filtering against standard hiring processes.
I'm actually looking for a smaller sized team which I hope will be full of hackers that like to fiddle on the low level side of technology etc.
Our Friday stand-up is pretty much an opportunity to share a song from a year and why it's meaningful to you personally.
The idea was suggested by our scrum master last June and it has gone down well.
It's been good for maintaining the bonds while remote working and also learn a bit more about colleagues.

That and having an understanding that everyone has ups and downs especially as we will face into winter and the uncertainty around what that means. In an odd way I've learned more about the team than I would have if we were in the office.
It only looks like failure of market regulation in retrospect for companies like Facebook and Google (Microsoft is a bit different) because these companies grew businesses that simply hadn't existed before.

How do you regulate Google buying something like youtube when youtube was a loss maker at the time, they grew it into a titan. Same with android, smartphones in the form of the iphone were brand new, who was to say at the time that Google would win with all the other companies building smartphones at that time.
Do You Judge a Stranger
We all have countless interactions with strangers every day. Sometimes, these conversations can have a big impact on people. People decide whether to give a stranger a job, put them in prison, or let them be your kids babysitter. These exchanges are fundamental to society – but are we any good at them?

What’s there to understand.

We believe that we can get inside the heart of others based on very limited information. This causes us to jump at the chance to judge strangers. Yet, we would never do that to ourselves as we understand we are complex and enigmatic.

Truth makes the world go round.

We hold the assumption that people are being honest with us. We default to truth. Society needs this to function though, imagine if we lived our lives without believing anyone. When someone defaults to truth, but is wrong, we shouldn’t punish them.

Transparency.

Because we usually have limited communication, we don’t take the time to understand the stranger properly. This causes us to make sense of them through their behaviour and demeanour.

When we confront a stranger, we have a substitute idea or stereotype of them; and that stereotype is wrong far too often.

They are complicated.

Strangers are fragile. If we are careless then what we are trying to find out, will crumple under our feet. We need to accept that the search to understand a stranger has real limits and that we can never know the whole truth.

Context.

The idea of coupling is that ideas and situations are tied to specific places. When talking to strangers we need to understand the importance of the context in which the stranger is operating. Don’t look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger’s world.

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> US is a great place if you are born to a very affluent family. But not so great otherwise.

This is the common trope, and I used to believe this too. However, data shows otherwise. Comparing swedes in Sweden vs swedes in the US, the latter are doing better. US actually has a higher social mobility!

Healthcare is a problem, agreed. I’m not convinced EU style giant-med-bureaucracy is the best solution to this issue, and I hope the US finds a better way.

Look at youth unemployment across the EU, this is most certainly not the utopia you think it is.
And we should not forget that prescribed fires kill the new sapplings, so the forest can't regenerate from this point and start decaying. We don't see it because they decay very slow, but this does not change the fact that a forest can not grow anymore in this places. Is just a logging reserve.
That is my hope too. So far ARM on the desktop/laptop lagged both because of the lack of suitable hardware and software. There are a few interesting Windows on ARM laptops around, I had been eyeing the Galacy Book S, but they lag behind as there is very few native software for them. Which is a chicken and an egg problem. As long as the number of ARM machines is low, software companies are saving money by ignoring them. And this means, the numbers will stay low.

With Apple Silicon, the game changes a bit. Not only is there the prospect of the AS being really fast, as Apple is going to make a complete transition, software companies have to support AS, if they want to continue to sell to Mac users. And suddenly, any Linux user also has a great ARM platform to work on, via a VM running on the Mac.

This might even have a direct impact on the Windows software offerings. So far, they could sell to Mac users running a x86-VM. This will be no longer possible. As much as Mac users contributed to Windows verndors revenue, they have to either give up the Mac market, make a native Mac application or hope that Windows on ARM becomes available in a VM on the Mac. But then, they at least need to fully support Windows on ARM.
> The way we do it in my project, and the standard practice for Apache (where we copied it from), is tohave a CLA that gives full rights to the original owner for any patches people want to PR.

How do you handle that in practice with the many different law systems around the world, do you just not accept contributions from countries where authors legally cannot transfer all rights?
Paul Stamets on the interrelationship among mushrooms, consciousness, and nature
Facebook, at least, did dirty stuff on the way up. I'm sure there are many more examples I'm unaware of.

Facebook pays teens to download VPN to measure app usage on a users device: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Facebook backdoor testing after their VPN was removed from the app store: https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/30/facebook-research/
"rubbing a foamy mixture of saliva and leaf onto specific parts of the body. Interestingly, the local indigenous human population also use a poultice of these leaves for the relief of body pains."

Or:

"Herbal medicine doesn't work"...

I bet you all $25,000 of my own money and two decades of my life that it does work.

How do you think we got where we are?
ooh interesting. are we talking weeks, end of year or sometime next year?
We never had those where I work anyways.
That's what an ERV or HRV is for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_recovery_ventilation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_recovery_ventilation

Et voilà, now it's no longer terrible for efficiency since you're recovering 70-90% of the energy. For fixed-plate exchangers there's no cross-contamination, either.
What operating systems keep things running in space?
I feel like you are fundamentally misunderstanding their entire business model here. The fact that they happened to have popular products is somewhat secondary.

They both got to the size that they got by data mining PII and selling it to the highest bidder in various forms.
Every product requires that people want it. Genuine is a definition up for debate.

Yes, they were better than the competition. Especially Google Search (I remember Altavista et al). However the major innovation is that the user is is the product. (sidenote: ever had to contact Google customer support while being the product?)

If Zuckerberg started Facebook on Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TUE) today he would need to abide by GDPR. Means he can't just start a student DB without consent.
We sold our 'nhs' (ziekenfonds) in the 80s, everything went downhill from there. Rich elderly have no problems like this.
Wouldn’t viruses fly away so your 0.1 electrons is only true for the first batch of viruses to depart?
Egypt reveals 59 ancient coffins found near Saqqara pyramids
or ppl uses lynx2 also. Personally web site for informational purposes should always work on lynx2. JS is not needed for web page. Now if you are making SPA or an application on the web then that is something else.
Doesn't almost everyone in Europe speak pretty good English in practice? Couldn't English become the language of business and tech?
> US economy works best at extremes.

I agree with you, but going on a tangent, I question if it really "works best".

I'm not an economist nor sociologist, but I know there's some evidence/argument that inequality also hurts the obscenely wealthy. As two examples, inequality is linked to crime and terror and lower rates of innovation (e.g., not having a vaccine for Ebola) - both of which can be blind to someone's AMEX limit.

There's also the fact that all people in countries with high inequality are less happy (1), which could be linked with the fact that they are less compassionate (2).

(1) https://hbr.org/2016/01/income-inequality-makes-whole-countr...

(2) https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_inequality...
He also missed PHP...
Of course it works. Otherwise there would be no ARM on the servers. But it is second class to a setup, where the development and deployment happens on the same platform. Having good ARM machines available on the desktop will give ARM on the server a boost. As I wrote, don't take my word for it, listen to what Linus hat to say on that topic.
They created monopolies by buying up potential competitors. They are case studies in the success of M&A. American regulators and politicians turned a blind eye (and continue to beyond lip service) because of their international dominance.
I'll condede though, herbs will never be as powerful as pharmacologically extracted and concentrate and modified / enhanced molecules.

Both have their place.
I'm not even sure I'd call this a security flaw or bug... It seems like the design was wrong or it just wasn't done right for some reason. A post-mortem on how this ended up in production would be interesting.
If they tapped into this population they wouldn't be able to make any valid conclusion because they are intrinsically different.
It is, when you're accepting data from users, instead of data from other programs.

An end user with no programming experience could reasonably understand a file written in this format. This can't be said about json or yaml, not when they don't know what "true" and "false" mean.
I also support dual licensing the projects. It allows companies to release reasonably good part of their product in public domain, while still catering the needs of enterprise clients. Mostly they also release some part of awesome enterprise features in gradual timeframes. we can fork and release community versions according to our needs(respecting IP and trademarks of company). We can also contribute upstream changes by dual licensing our contributed code with GPL and to their proprietary contributor license.

My favorite projects following this route are Redhat/CentOS, MySql/MariaDB and Virtualbox.
Your reading was selective and not comprehensive. "Viewing humans and nature as entwined doesn’t mean that we should shrug our shoulders at current climatic trends, unchecked deforestation, accelerating extinction rates or widespread industrial waste. Indeed, archaeology supplies numerous examples of societal and ecosystem collapse: a warning of what happens if we ignore the consequences of human-caused environmental change."
It does not reset the clock on the old version (which people might prefer), the changed version is technically a new work. However, the copyright terms are so long that the clock won't run out even for the old versions during my lifetime, so that's probably not the main reason.
There are huge variations in the number of tech unicorns across Europe, uncorrelated to population size. See Sweden or Netherlands. Not saying it isn’t an advantage, but other factors are much more important.

Unicorns per capita[0], top three:

Estonia

Sweden

Denmark

[0] https://medium.com/quack-ventures/european-startup-ranking-p...
I am not that old, but have vivid memories of the 80s ( all of them ).

I told a friend : there would have been a revolt and mass strikes.
Trees will pop out a new batch of seeds the next year. trees will plant themselves more trees. The idea for controlled burns is to do them once a decade or so.
NASA's Hubble Telescope saw a gigantic, exploding star disappear into the void
But you need large number of plants to make it in equilibrium. Currently rate if deforestation is in par with global population growth
I am one who has no problem with it.

"no one" is blatantly false.
> However, data shows otherwise.

Citation needed.

> [Sweden] US actually has a higher social mobility!

Data says otherwise, Sweden is #4, US is #27.

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

> EU, this is most certainly not the utopia you think it is.

Citation needed. Who has ever claimed it is a utopia?
> Since 2016

Facebook won already in like 2012 or something. What was before that - MySpace? - it just sucked compared to Facebook. Terrible UI. Completely useless, siloed without the "real name" policy.

Facebook was a genuine innovation, both in terms of UI, and in terms of marketing (targeting elite schools first was genius, but hardly non-competitive, anyone could have done it).
Well Godot and Unity are GUI game engines, and my project is a code game framework, which is quite different.

A game framework usually does not provide specific "game logic" but only some tools and functionalities that can be used in any type of game.
Frameworks are also more lightweight and flexible than engines (again, usually)

As a hobbyist, I always find game engines overkill for 2D games, and I like to do things by code, rather than using a user interface.
To show what the USA can learn from rest of the world, director Michael Moore playfully visits various nations in Europe and Africa https://yts.mx/movies/where-to-invade-next-2015
Come on, that's a bit much. They're not Norway, but they're pretty far from Russia.

And for what it's worth, I'd call America's money-driven system pretty far from the world's best democracy as well.
I understand the dual license idea.

But why does it need to be GPL?

Why not dual license MIT/BSD plus a commercial version with more features?
unless you're only building web apps i don't know how you can build systems in elixir without touching otp
How about making your own contributions GPL, and the contributions of others either under a CLA, or under MIT license otherwise?
Like which countries?
Most of the spammers target well known engines such as WordPress. If you use a static website with an external comment engine, most of them simply won't find your website.
No, it won't ... maybe you meant this as a joke?
I came back home from a 2-week summer camp, at 13 years old, to an IBM PCjr. Was told "We spent a lot of money on this setup, it better not be collecting dust in a few months".

From there I learned DOS, Basic, general "administration". Got a job in late high school at the small company where my Mom worked, helping out with various office tasks (filing, running the postage meter, counting inventory). They had a few PCs, and a "main" computer system (some sort of Data General "mini" I believe). They had a PC consultant that would come in for various tasks, for $350 an hour. They quickly found out they could get the same work from me for $3.50 an hour.

Eventually, the company that supplied their central computer (with a bunch of ASCII terminals hooked up) migrated over to a Unix system (AIX on an IBM RT), I saw that the interface was somewhat similar to DOS but different, and went to town. Learned the vendor's app export functions, started producing custom reports using grep/sed/join/awk in shell scripts, became a "local hero", realized I have a hero complex, so I kept pursuing tasks that would help feed my ego -- further learned C programming, and the rest is history.

Today I'm a Linux systems/network engineer that does a lot of programming on the job (now they call it devops), and also filling in as a pinch hitter for some of the development teams whenever they need someone that knows system level programming and C. Also put out a few full-stack apps using node.js on the back end with plain html5/javascript on the front end (not really into modern frameworks, that is a hole I need to fill in).
Whilst I've worked with older PHP which was indeed awful. The modern stuff is quite OK. PHP has drifted into a decent design recently. I hope that any future language designer will take PHP as a case study of incremental improvement.
The meta study does not "[show] medical masks had no effect", it shows that we have limited evidence for it:

"Most studies were underpowered because of limited sample size, and some studies also reported suboptimal adherence in the face mask group"

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article

And indeed you can sympathise with them that it would be hard to perform such an experiment.

But the whole point of science is that it allows us to make predictions based on theories. And the current scientific consensus is that wearing masks is beneficial.
Not true for NVidia. Companies ultimately sell stories, not products. Tesla could be as much as manufacturing company as Ford but they are not. Stories are very different.
Yes, this is a hole in the GPL. Use AGPL as appropriate to solve this.
It's actually embarrassing. I used to be a full on Win/Mac user in various phases.

I had a coworker who was a contributor and we'd have healthy debates (promise!) about our choice of OS. I decided I'd one-up him, by learning all the finer points about the 3rd remaining OS well, I'd be able to render him speechless! So I installed Linux on a computer and started using it, settings up my dev environment, applications etc. It didn't take long for me to forgot about the original reason for doing it. I only remembered years later and I didn't forget to thank him sincerely for sending me down this path.

I never thought about OSS, freedom, etc, mainly because a premise of being in those closed ecosystems is to be brand loyal. But now it's become very important to me.
Open Source Factory Building Game
If it's this random it might be worth stepping back and trying to figure out how to get the portion of the results that are desired using a more effective mechanism.

Sometimes the source data structure is just a bad fit for the expressed data. I've seen this often in combinatorial expansions of data stored in hierarchal structure to a 2d table.

Sometimes all, or a majority, of the data is going to be touched anyway so it's more costly to avoid a full read and instead more optimal to make the results of that read parallel; either by sorting to a more suitable structure or by working on streams / permutations / parallel processes from a dispatch design.
I am very much in favour of vital infrastructure being state-owned; klm, state banks, roads, trains, trams, hospitals, cemeteries/crematoria, pensions, vital insurance, schools/universities, police, phone/internet, army, firedeps should, in my opinion, all be state owned and free or dirt cheap (aka for every citizen) (tax money). Outside roads (? maybe now that changed too) and army (do we still have an army? I turned 18 in the last year it was mandatory; I was in uni so I did not have to go) & police, everything is private now while in the 80s most was public... Which obviously brings the perverse incentive of wanting to make as much money as you can which gives you; if you are not rich, you can't have anything.
I think covid-19 is not a case of how Europe won but rather how US,India failed at many levels, With high point being the president getting it.

What are state of affairs if the greatest country on earth cannot keep their leader safe six months after the pandemic started. They ought to have some control over the spread at-least in their upper ring.
I think universities have a sort of impossible position.

One direction, heavily pushed by industry and government, is that they should be a sorting mechanism, identifying the best and most capable students so they can be discovered by industry.

Another direction, pushed by government, is that they should be centers of learning and scholarship, capable of producing high quality research and researchers.

These two goals are not mutually exclusive, but they are not particularly compatible, either. Exams are essentially a giant distraction and stressor on the whole learning process, but they are also essential for the first objective. Deep, foundational course material is basically mandatory for the second objective, but the first objective prefers material closer to vocational training.

For the first objective, parents and students know that the best institution is the most prestigious one. For the second one, the best institution is the one with the best researchers and teachers.

For the first objective, it's better (if you can afford it) if the course is incredibly expensive. The biggest predictor of success is the wealth of your parents, so when your peers all have wealthy parents, you are likely to be connected to a large number of successful people.

For the second objective, it's best if school is free, so the truly interested and talented are not excluded.
Which is kind of why the GPL should probably be obsoleted by the AGPL (or even something much stronger, that makes the situation with services being constructed out of libraries and then used two levels indirect more clear).
> So here's a smaller community where the majority is fine with high taxation

The higher taxation not come about because "people were fine with it". It was the consequence of a political and social
momentum caused by the cold-war era where workers were able to extract concessions from the haves under the threat of a socialist revolution if they did not agree, in turn the result of historical proximity to the revolutionary movements in Europe in the 19th century as well as the geographical proximity to a powerful socialist state for the most part of the 20th century. This momentum is now slowly being eroded by the whole political spectrum on the right, paradoxically including what is left of the Scandinavian social democracies.

The welfare state will likely be a historical parenthesis between the laissez faire economy of the mid 18 hundreds and the new economy where the billionaires once again dictate the whole playing field. Unless a new situation arises where the haves once again willingly will agree to contribute towards funding a welfare state for some reason. I don't see it happening anytime soon however.
Brexit was a response to the nonsense propaganda against migrations.

Turns out Brexit has been far worse than any problem immigration might have caused and UK without EU has lost much of its appeal
Thanks for this very detailed article. One of my own videos on GSoC from 3 years back is featured there, and looking back (hindsight is 2020, they say) I see how I was a part of the problem back then. I was naive to think I was just making people more aware and getting people into open source more.

Sadly the very people who need to understand this, care to watch spicy Youtube videos more than they care to read a nuanced article. Nevertheless, I'll share this with as many people I can.