skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are trying so hard with lockdowns to save the one demographic that is quite opposed to the lockdowns. Kind of ironic. Pretty sure those people would rather die than live in the sort of world liberals and politicians are making for them. How many old people died alone (regardless of whether it was from covid or not) because of lockdowns purported to save them... had the last months of their lives ruined because people were trying to save them.
> to realize a DSL one must have an AST

Not necessarily. I think a parser combinator library counts as a DSL. Yet, the result from using that DSL is normally a function that you run to parse from sources. IOW, the DSL functions take functions and return functions built from them. You can't introspect that.
Consensus and Truth
I wasn't going to get the vaccine but Bill Gates said he would take it publicly, so now I will! Lol, not.
I'm sure police departments and associations will object. But as Upton Sinclair wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
"before social media"? You mean like about 4000 years ago ;)
I was in Pompeii a couple years ago, and saw lots of 2000 year old social media.
Give the OPSEC snide comment to the job postings publicly advertised.

Don't hate on marines, they do hard work.

Using a throwaway account to be trite seems par for the course tho for opinions that can be disregarded.
Hi jawzz, if you don't mind someone would like to ask you these questions:

>I have a question for this user, since he/she chose a good section to quote (it means he/she really looked into it).

>I'd be really interested in his/her opinion or thoughts, and or any other kind of feedback:

>Yesterday there was a widely reported leak of 2 million embedded agents of a foreign government (you can see it in dozens of places).

>I'd ask this user, does he/she think that this FTC order could be by one of these embedded agents in order to gather private information about citizens, for the purposes of censorship?

>I noticed that a few days ago [5 days ago], YouTube has a controversial censorship policy, [it generated 3055 comments when discussed on Hacker News]. Videos discussing political opinion on a certain topic without calling for violence are removed.

>I'd like to just keep it to the facts of whether this FTC action could, in this user's opinion, be part of such a thing. [Gathering information on users for the purposes of censorship]

Thanks for any opinion or feedback.
In American English when something "doesn't pass the sniff test" it means that it is quite obviously bullshit. As in, something that might look nice but obviously smells of shit. Less crudely, you might describe milk that way: spoiled milk looks like good milk but it definitely does not smell like good milk. It doesn't really have anything to do with a person in particular, unless historic usage was different from modern usage.

I don't know about other languages, but I don't think there's any connection in English.
Really?

I think the resistance to reparations comes from folks like me who don't see a reason we should pay anything. Most of my ancestors are German immigrants to the northeast US who arrived after slavery was abolished. The remainder were poor Scotts Irish who continued to live in poverty in northern Appalachia.

I understand, but do not agree with, the logical hoops many jump through to justify indebtedness to all current Americans. I also do not think direct reparations are the best approach to resolving the continuing racism in America.
Isn’t that just their opinion? I know many developers using Emacs because it’s insanely powerful and lightning fast, unlike modern IDEs.
SpaceX won “rural” FCC funding in surprising places, like major airports
Ask HN: Did your latest Chrome update make view-source: slow?
Since myself and a co-worker updated Chrome to 87.0.4280.88, we've noticed the view-source: pane freezes up regularly and is quite slow. Didn't find this mentioned elsewhere, so I am wondering if others have noticed this problem.
What do you mean by "the war"? That could be interpreted in a lot of different ways.
everything there applies as well to components frameworks like angular. most of the angular apps I have seen have more abstraction levels than Russian dolls. Components in Components in Components. It's like the dll hell remade for the browser
Also, this is over the holidays during a pandemic.
Potentially. But the surface attack on UNIX-like systems is not the same as on Windows anyway.
Adding this to my book of spells
It’s almost too good to be true isn’t it?
Subsidized home ownership? Don't tell Thomas Sowell that idea.

How would that work?

You make it easier for people to own, then the prices increase. Do you subsidize more? If so, then it's just 2008 again.
> Was it worth it?

It was - having gone through both extremes you have gained understanding of both and discretion in using either.
This is why working on motorcycles such a breath of fresh air. The bike I own has the most advance compute ton it as the trip meter. It’s carbureted and thoroughly mechanical. But even better is the fact that on a motorcycle you can get at everything relatively easily. I went from barely knowing where the coolant goes in to rebuilding an engine in about 3 years and that’s a really empowering feeling.
unattended-upgrades in a cron-job isn't a terrible situation, particularly if you setup livepatch so you ~never have to reboot.
As Alan Kay said, "A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
Overwatch and Fortnite don't really work :D
I understand your misgivings, and I'll admit that I don't literally have enough carbon paper to make a suit out of warnings.

But I do have a lot of them, and no actual tickets from those areas. I have had multiple K-9 searches with a clean car, and I did regularly get pulled over for doing less than the posted speed limit.

I can't prove that civil asset forfeiture is the reason, but my vehicle would have been a juicy target because of the things attached to it.
Thank you for this! I’m curious if there are products (or interest in products) where people can mirror portfolio of these etf/famous investors at a much smaller expense ratio. This can be done with a combination of data aggregation + alpaca api.
Why would Facebook NDA paying a researcher? Shouldn't they be shouting it at the top of their lungs?
I, for one, am hoping Microsoft inverts WSL and releases their own Linux distro based on Debian, maybe with a proprietary Windows compatibility layer called "LSW" with a virtualized NT kernel hosted in KVM. How about call it "Windows X"?

If something like that were available on ARM (even without the baked-in NT support), I'd probably switch from macOS, or at least buy another computer to use MS Linux for my development work. MacOS is less and less appealing for web development these days, but I'm not switching to any NT-based Windows.
Exactly. It's one thing to aggressively push necessary security fixes (though they should always be optional if the user really wants, because nothing is perfectly reliable). But Microsoft hasn't done that with Windows 10. Instead, it's been systematically bundling functionality updates in with essential ones, and some of those functionality updates are unwanted or even actively not wanted by some users.
The war on freedom.
XML and many other things related to it (including Java, SOAP, CORBA, etc.) are an example of what could be called "Enterprise mindset" taken to an extreme. Insanely high levels of abstraction and indirection, absurd amounts of needless flexibility and generality, and essentially zero thought given to efficiency or simplicity. It's as if the people responsible for these spent all their time thinking "what's the most complicated way to do something?"
> (via that stealth socio-economic test that is your FICO score).

Fun fact: First thing you learn from when moving to USA is to get a credit card immediately. Start working on that score. Even if you don't intend to stay, just in case you change your mind.

My first credit card 5 years ago had a $1000 limit. And only if I kept my bank balance above $1000.
I had the opposite experience, my flight from Bordeaux to London was cancelled. By the time we’d realised the next available flight was 2 days later and €500. The train next day was €300. It took 2hrs for Bordeaux-Paris we decided to hang out in Paris for a few hours then 2hrs to London.
I'm curious about this as well, I work at some feature factory and have been desensitized to people not really grasping iterative development of anything or just the words migrate, migration or gradually, but I find it hard to believe this would be the case at Google. Perhaps there's data we don't have that points out the impedance.
Have you reported your issues to Resolve?
ANother thing, did you try on other distros, and did you get the exact same problems?
Nicotine itself is highly addictive. How else would one explain the business model of JUUL and the other ecig companies and all the anecdotes of users who never smoked before they started vaping? Vaping is nicotine only with some supposedly safe fillers that also might cause popcorn lung.
Had some difficulty with toy os gdt too! I think what you are looking for is the packed union bug.

I would suggest doing it "the hard way", one thought would be treating it as an array (comptime known length) of u8
This, but even then: I also need an audio stack that (a) just works, you plug in the audio interfaces, the end, and (b) supports VST/AAX/AU plugins because fairlight without external plugins is a hard no.
Two things:

All the other tools are more approachable and show the user more value quicker.

This is similar to all the Dropbox naysayers “I can just use (rsync|ftp|etc)”
> GPUs only started tackling more general workloads long after they were a standard, and even today GPGPU is a bit of a mess.

yes, because other workloads are niche and until very recently didn't warrant investing on dedicated architectures for them.
Rec Room passes 10K in peak CCUs and leapfrogs Fortnite on Xbox's leaderboard
You'll have to forgive me if I don't find a guy from white rural Christian America's claim that white rural Christians don't have a problem with racism very compelling. In addition to ranting about welfare queens, my mom is quite happy to assert that she "doesn't see color" and she "doesn't have a racist bone in her body". Racists will never admit to being racist. You also completely fail to address the actual data showing the correlation between conservative beliefs and racism. I guess all the scientists who study race and politics, and all of the people of color I interact with are in the same bubble as me. Meanwhile in centrist land, you're both bubble and data free.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281664414_The_Relat...

> Numerous studies suggest that political conservatism significantly correlates with modern racist attitudes. The current findings are consistent with previous studies.
Please explain. What do you mean by that?
Overwatch is supposed to work with Lutris - or maybe it does not anymore?
The Economist has an interesting map of the world colored by predicted vaccination ability: https://i.redd.it/2fuq0qge0y461.jpg

TL;DR: Large parts of the world won't have vaccines available to the general population until 2023.
Facebook Might Pose Dangers. But It Isn’t a Monopoly
I think it means skinny.
Some corrupt politicians like to refer to the health crisis as a war, as it makes it easier to steal public money.
Either way, the MBS thing happened a decade after the Gawker incident so either way it still isn't relevant to what was being discussed, which is why Gawker made the decision to breach his privacy like that.
They will keep doing it if they keep getting positive results. Eventually it's up to you and your team to set boundaries.
Moderna finalized the "code" for the vaccine on January 13th, 2020, had synthesized the first clinical batch on February 7th, shipped it to the NIH on the 24th, and it was first administered to a human (in phase 1 trial) on March 16th.

https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag...
Ive personally taken dozens of reports where people were 100% sure and disgusted, even from some moderators who were supposed to know more about this - and it turned out the people were all over 18.

anecdotal indeed.
For me (also mid 40s) things got better after I diagnosed with Vitamin D3 deficiency - unrelated to the foot pain I had somewhat similar problems - vacuuming would blow my back out, game of tennis similar thing with shoulders. It got much better over the years and I like to think becoming D3 sufficient was part of it.
So I don't know if he is saying that lockdowns will "generally" continue on a global stage remain until 2022, or if he saying that there will be lockdowns "somewhere" in the world into 2022. Initially I take this to mean the former because of this statement in the article: "BILL Gates predicts global Covid-19 restrictions could last until 2022".

If this is the case could someone explain the reasoning here? The UK is expected to complete its vaccination program by April 2021 [1]. I can't imagine other Western countries will be very far behind them. I imagine the isolated nations such as AUS and NZ will allow travel with the necessary vaccination certificates [2].

I feel like I'm missing the link as to why lockdowns dragging on to 2022 is likely?

1: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/coronavirus-vaccin...

2: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/qantas-coronavirus-va...
>50% of Americans are apparently not willing to be vaccinated to begin with and rollout to significant parts of the population is going to take months.

COVID-19, which is now endemic, will be here for the remainder of my lifetime. The vaccines have unknowns. I see less risk for both myself and family with avoiding the vaccines until there is strong data about their efficacy and safety.

>While I'm obviously glad that vaccine development happened quickly, I really wish rather than being so focussed on vaccinations exclusively we paid more attention to the fact that some countries, Taiwan, China, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia have managed to quell the disease through correct social policy and appropriate levels of social coordination.

They're either islands, took authoritarian measures, or both. And again, an endemic virus that will only come back as soon as international travel comes back and lockdowns go away.
I get what you’re saying but 1) as shocking as the past year may be it hasn’t really been all that revolutionary. Some portion of people got shifted to working from home, but just about nothing else changed. And 2) there isn’t all that much about moving away from fossil fuels that’s going to look revolutionary. It will look pretty boring to most people. The idea that it’ll take a revolution is IMO a bit of fear mongering by vested interests.

Things like decarbonizing an electricity grid have been done before, France did it in the 80s. It wasn’t revolutionary. You wouldn’t have noticed except the air was cleaner.

Things like converting transport to non fossil fuels are already in progress and there’s nothing revolutionary looking about it. An electric car isn’t revolutionary it looks and (mostly) drives like a regular car. An electric train isn’t revolutionary, it’s already the norm for decades in most places.

Planting trees or restoring wetlands isn’t revolutionary. It’s just trees and wetlands.

Even carbon extraction is going to look pretty uninteresting to most people if it happens.

The only thing that will be revolutionary is what will happen if we don’t do these things soon enough.
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Developer Heuristics: Reflections from Ten Years in Software Development
You haven't proved it's possible to do any of that on Intel hardware - sleep and display config are both very HW driven. Software can't do everything.
His main point seems to have been that the upcoming period will likely be worse than we've seen and that preventative measures like wearing masks, washing hands, and distancing will save lives.

I didn't see the context of the 2022 comment quoted in the article.
The Sun? Really HN? You're better than this.
You honestly believe the new generation of tools provides 0 value over their predecessors?
At what point does this whole charade end?
Exactly. The zero-pont of scent perception is not fixed. One never smells one's own halitosis... If one is lucky they have a good friend that will alert them. I would guess that every perception of how the "past" smells is biased by by zero-point of ones own ... biochemical cloak ... ]?]
I wish that misinformation would stop spreading. The United States had a very generous unemployment benefit of $600/week. A huge number of people came out of the pandemic financially much better off in July (when the stimulus ended) than before.
I'm predicting a bit longer until laws start passing that mandate a legal requirement for all to get vaccinated for covid-19. I'm still unsure how long that will take, for it to come into law but I assume the vaccine will be pointless for stopping the virus spread and until everyone is being vaccinated. Basically, the ones that firstly get vaccinated will have to continue doing so until everyone if forced to follow. I could be wrong but I assume people not getting vaccinated will keep the virus going host to host and until the vaccination wears off; requiring another one and repeat.
Who suggested hiring low productivity people?
You can add Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos to the list, none of which are surrounded by ocean.

As for China, I don't think anybody trusts their figures, but it's also quite clear that they do have the outbreak well under control. If their ICUs were full, we'd know about it.
I agree with the assertion that the core "hard tech" in K8S, docker, Ansible, etc has been with us a long time, and some of us did indeed use it.

That said, knowing what to mix and match to create a "pattern that you can learn and everyone uses and learns too" does contribute value, its essentially parallel to the value provided by linux distros.

I can "docker pull" from many different distros, with lots of premade apps.

I think the lesson for the "hard technology" folks is when you solve a hard technical problem DO think about setting up and promoting high-level standards with sane defaults. You are the most knowledgable person(s) for your "hard tech problem", and thereby often in the best position to standardize the default pattern by which it can be used.

That can contribute as much or more value than the hard technical work itself.

EDIT: also, don't forget to publish and promote STANDARDS giving a well documented "if you don't have a reason not to, do it this way" path for integrating useful tools together. That's essentially what docker is/did, and even though it can be recreated in a 100 lines of bash (https://github.com/p8952/bocker) the branding led to ~100,000 developers publishing containers that are fairly easy for anyone else to understand and build from.
Thanks for posting. I am the author of this post and I am happy to answer any more questions around this.
> In LLVM this might just be a weird side-effect we don't care about, but actually having an integer overflow is a big deal in C that introduces UB. Given the introduction, LLVM (incorrectly) introduces (C) UB at times.

This doesn't matter. LLVM IR is not C, and it is not convertible to C, as it implements a superset of C semantics, which includes some cases where behavior that is undefined in C is well-defined in LLVM IR. Once C is lowered to LLVM IR, it doesn't matter what C says is or isn't undefined behavior, because there is no longer any C code being considered.
To summarise it roughly: A software company (SolarWinds) whose software (Orion) is used by thousands of companies and government agencies worldwide, was hacked and a backdoor inserted into an update. An update which was subsequently installed by 16000 customers including the US Treasury and Commerce departments.

This happened months ago and there is no telling how much data the attackers have exfiltrated from these companies.
It's inconceivable to me that one could write an article on this topic without mentioning Spring and Spring Boot. In many cases, it serves as a pre-built set of over-abstractions, and a great way to burden oneself by forcing all solutions to fit into an abstraction somebody else made. Like most major frameworks, it is undoubtedly convenient for throwing something together, but not conducive to making something well-crafted and maintainable. In my view, it is fine if you keep your code independent of it, but in my experience that rarely happens, and the code inevitably ends up as "a mess that works", and that can't easily be cleaned up.
> That's often considered one of the worst ways to commit suicide.

I came close to seeing that first-hand some years ago: My (widowed) dad suffered a long, agonizing death from a form of leukemia. I was with him, at his house, for his final week, with a hospice nurse checking in periodically. He refused morphine and instead took a fair amount of acetaminophen; for calories, he drank a lot of beer and V-8 juice mixed together. I warned him about the danger of mixing alcohol and acetaminophen; he immediately perked up, thinking that would be a way for him to end things. He was disappointed when I explained that it wouldn't be a quick death: he'd just wreck his liver and be in even more agony. (He died a few hours later.)
The issue must be something hideously subtle, like the white space or UTF-8 encoding being subtly different that is upsetting the Microsoft SAML implementations, but not any others.

That is almost certainly the case, as another comment here indirectly references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25422734
> Then they don’t sell them because they know other people will want them in the future.

This artificially inflating demand for the item, with a very long delay or even obfuscated feedback.

I agree that the value store is a (the only) viable use case for BTC. Although commodities in general check the same boxes without the awkwardness of Bitcoin.

BTW when you say "better money" you mean for this specific use case right? Obviously BTC and cryptocurrency in general are not as good as regular money in general.
Cyberattack on 40 Israeli Firms May Be Iran's Revenge for Assassination
I was an early user... the spam was so insane that I had to block their number.

Be aware.
What "charade"?
Me neither, but I also know people who do experience that. The difference is that I'm a white guy and they are not.
Getting mugged by the police reduces crime? Ha, good one. How much of a pathologic liar do you have to be to make a public statement like that with a straight face?
Disclaimer: my parents are immigrants, and I have absolutely no genealogical connection to American slavery.

> having a well founded number for what the cost of reparations should be

I just don't understand how someone can talk about a "well-founded number" for reparations in a serious way.

How can you calculate a dollar amount, even within 5 orders of magnitude, for something that happened to millions of people for hundreds of years, affects millions of people today, and we don't have details about any of it?

There are many people who:

- had African ancestors who sold other Africans to slavers

- have a mixture of heritage

- immigrated from Africa long after slavery ended

It's nonsensical to come up with a dollar amount for even a single person, so how can we possibly do it at scale? Should African Americans descended from slave traders be paying reparations to African Americans descended from slaves? Should African Americans pay reparations to Native Americans for living on land that was stolen from them?

There are so few records for any of this, it just seems absolutely insane to me. I am a huge history nerd, and there aren't concrete answers for a lot of things that happened this decade, even with impeccable records.