skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TFA is extremely light on actual details of who is and who is not taking the vaccine.

Most importantly is that it’s perfectly valid for someone to be hesitant to take a newly released medical treatment. You won’t convince anyone to take the vaccine without first admitting their concerns are valid and trying to address them.

I would say there are two major groups who would most reasonably decline a vaccine. First, is anyone who has already had COVID. Natural immunity is more effective than the vaccine at preventing COVID, and I don’t know of a single case of someone spreading COVID after recovering. The vaccine on the other hand is not proven to prevent spread, and is not proven to provide longer duration immunity than natural infection. The article makes no mention at all of what percentage of health care workers declined a vaccine because they are already naturally immune.

Second, is anyone who is pregnant, as the vaccine is completely untested in that scenario. Curiously, TFA’s only specific example of someone who declined is someone who was pregnant.

Given the efficacy of the vaccine, anyone who hasn’t already had COVID who doesn’t want to get COVID should take the vaccine. Anyone who hasn’t already had COVID who doesn’t mind taking the risk of getting COVID can pass on it. We should give doses to those who want it, as fast as possible. Doses sitting on shelves are the biggest problem, because we are overly concerned with micromanaging the queue.

It’s like loading passengers on a plane. Going from front to back in strict order is the slowest possible way to do it. As I recall, a purely random ordering will load the plane at nearly the optimal rate, and if you include the time outside the plane spent on ordering, random is by far the fastest. COVID vaccination rate probably works about the same way.
No, because a philosophical conversation generally doesn't accomplish much.

Especially on HN where its basically a either tedious restating of opinions or a way for the idle to trade barbs instead of do anything.
Case in point, the old adult theatre the parent is talking about was flush with pimps, prostitutes, and drugs along with the rest of south Congress street.

It was not somewhere you would walk during the day, much less at night. Yet people are remembering it fondly.
Their ISA extension is an ML-specific one, and macOS runs fine with it disabled. Their public compilers do not support it either.

You are supposed to use it through Accelerate.framework, which exposes a more traditional interface to that capability.
I think that's a good idea. Adding an extra step would give people pause before downvoting and perhaps make them think about the OPs perspective for a second.

In theory it should reduce the number of knee-jerk reactionary downvotes.
Exactly. Computers having infinite capacity is sometimes harmful. One of the things I like best about kanban approaches, especially with physical cards is that they discourage putting in too much. When I look back on previous boards (e.g., [1]), my main thought is we still had too much room. We wrote up and carried along so many cards we never got to. But even so, that's way better than something like Jira, because the limited board meant limited opportunity to distract ourselves with meta-work.

[1] https://williampietri.com/writing/2015/the-big-board/
Welp... fun fact, every team (even the non-tech teams) uses Jira so I'll happily send over my venmo account :p
Charlie Kaufman is a perfect writer for the age. We live in a very self-absorbed time. An antidote might be The Overstory by Richard Powers. Humans are only one piece of the puzzle of life.
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I don't.
Yup, this has been a good year for me on HN. Not just that most of my posts have been featured, but also that there's been some really substantive discussion and I've learned a lot. Thanks to dang for doing the hard work of moderating the place.
Thanks. That’s useful information.
> Developers don't like having to have their work parceled out so specifically. But it's not for them. It's for managers and stakeholders who have to report progress and who are responsible for budgets.

So much for Agile!
Internal builds barely work with millions of dollars and man power invested. I can’t imagine anyone else outside of Msft being able to build Windows lol
By the time we're in planning, only things to discuss is estimation and priority, it takes virtually no time. We have a whole hour booked and spend half of it to just hang out, pretty much the only time where the whole team is present in one meeting.
If you don't see a lot of overlap between Greek and Turkish culture ... not sure what to say.

Over a million "Greeks" were deported to Greece in the 1920s, despite many speaking only Turkish and many "Turks" were sent back the other way. Not to mention that most of those inhabiting Turkey today - and identifying as Turks - have an awful lot of non-Turkish ancestry. It's not only Greek of course (plenty of Armenian, Kurdish, Arab, Albanian, Circassian, Bulgarian, etc), but Greeks and Greek culture has had a massive imprint on modern Turkey - and Turks have also had an impact on modern Greek culture.

Of course neither side is particularly happy to admit it, but it's very much there.
How are Docker images built? A look into overlay file-systems
This is why I started using Conda recently. It works quite well to create isolated python environments, having many prebuilt packages, and most importantly, system level dependencies. So, you can install some of those, and for anything that is not in conda-forge, pip install works and builds.
FWIW, Microsoft has been slowly shifting some components to OSS (Command Prompt, Windows Terminal, Calculator, WinUI).

Disclaimer: work at Microsoft but in Azure
The Read-Only Memory Lane: From Sawnwood to Software
https://media.tenor.com/images/af0610f778ecdc1b7ab5a750c2d98...
I haven't used GitHub for this, so I'll take your word for it.

The fact that there are a lot of ways to track these issues well was exactly my point.

You need some way of tracking these things. I've used JIRA and it got the job done. I've also used other tools which worked as well. What doesn't scale is not tracking issues.
> There is no one migrating from Texas to Ohio to enjoy the winters there.

(N=1:) Friends here in Houston do that to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan every summer.

A few years back, relatives were visiting from the Northeast in July. When planning the visit, they said we should make sure to find some things for them to do that Houstonians do in the summer. I said no problem, we'll take you to Colorado for a month ....
Open design is basically a generalization of Kerckhoffs's principle.

Kerckhoffs's principle is usually stated as "A cryptosystem should be secure even if everything about the system, except the key, is public knowledge." Note that Kerckhoffs's principle only refers to cryptosystems. The open design principle is a generalization that applies to all systems, whether or not they are cryptosystems.
Somnolence
It's quite a stretch to say that a CSS demo referencing Swiss watches is an example of nationalism
The amount of hydrogen you need for hydrogen DRI is quite small. From this source: https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2018/08/f54/fcto-h2-...

You need about 54kg of hydrogen per ton of iron. Assuming it takes 50 kWh of energy to make 1 kg of hydrogen, you get something like 2.7 kWh per kg of iron. This is significantly more energy efficient than the idea you're proposing.
I also sat in a conversation with my team about not hiring the most qualified intern candidate because he was a white guy. Affirmative action is a double edged sword and it sucks that more left leaning people in places of power can't admit that.
I enjoyed reading 'A Promised Land' by Barack Obama. Learned so much about American politics and America's international policies. Learned more about life at White House and around DC.
"among the left" is a really wide net to throw and I don't think it really does any favors to your statement to be so overly general.

I think it's pretty much the mirror image of the Benghazi investigations. Some investigating needed to happen, but politics got involved and turned the whole thing into a circus. This isn't particularly surprising since the US's two party system usually leads to extremely incompatible "truths" now that social media bubbles exist.
Right. You make a pretty plain statement, I disagree, and I'm a troll. Ridiculous. Whatever you have to tell yourself bud.

Edit: Seems you edited that bit out huh? Now I'm just angry. Ok.
The update literally says that "found no evidence of access to production services or customer data."
Im not sure I follow the logic here. Healthcare workers are essential and in short supply, and the risk of catching covid is that they won't be able to perform their job while they recover. It seems that removing them from the job is just ensuring the downside.

I think a reasonable approach to the vaccine should at least include an optional roll out period. Some jobs require some vaccines, but these vaccines are well studied and have been used for decades. With a new vaccine, there are a number of factors that still need to be determined. The pregnant healthcare worker in the article is a great example of why flexibility is needed. Many existing vaccines are not recommended for pregnant women, and we don't have data on how this plays out for the new mRNA vaccines.
This is just a list of things the author has googled recently. Might be a good read if you happen to share the same questions and don't know how to google them yourself.
Yeah! I feel very similarly.

You might get a kick out of this post by a man who works adjacent to Sante Fe Institute folks. This guy takes it to the next level and makes you almost start to think of "non-living" things as "participating" in this dance of living with us as non-passive structural actors.

https://knowm.org/thermodynamic-computing/

> For example, the [mud hut] structure’s inhabitant (also a volatile structure), may use the structure as a residence. If the structure succeeds in protecting the inhabitant from the degrading effects of the environment then the inhabitant will be better able to conserve energy, which may be directed toward the repair of the structure. On the other hand, if the structure fails to increase the inhabitant’s ability to dissipate energy, for example by requiring the inhabitant to spend more time on its repair than on obtaining food and resources (free energy), then the structure can be seen as participating in its own destruction (2nd Law). In the event of death or sickness of the inhabitant, the structure will decay back into the homogeneous state from where it came.
>life is basically information that is trying to "survive"

I've often had a similar thought. What if the panspermia hypothesis were true, what if it were the result of a deliberate action by some ancient alien civilization, and what if their objective was nothing more than to preserve some sort of "message" via the genetic code embedded within all living organism? Someday life evolves to the point where it is able to decrypt the message hidden within those base pairs and it's simply "Orgloxon was here! Stardate 173.4". The answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?" turns out to be that we're all just interstellar graffiti.
I was telling my wife exactly this yesterday. We love California and now we might be able to afford it :)
I used to play this game but realized pyenv / nvm / etc. are all just anti-patterns nowadays. Use docker ( or some other containerized solution ) to run code in your local directory in a specific environment.

I think the author is doing the best they can considering all of these tools and resources aren't updated to this pattern yet, but I'd hate to see this become the new normal for any developer entering into the field. What a way to scare off new dev friends!
I like it. This is a well written argumentation on why not all webpages need to be Webapps. I'll save this for later.

One little nitpick or question, the page isn't very readable on my mobile (iOS), it's too wide and tiny text.

A quick check tells me you have not set a meta-viewport. I've found adding <Pre><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"></Pre> makes things work better for mobile most of the time.
That particular change to the iPhone Developer License Agreement happened in April 2010. It was relaxed, or rather reverted, in September 2010. The latter version of the agreement actually allowed limited support for running scripts on-device.

> There was certainly more pettines there than "Steve didn't think Flash was performant enough."

It's important to distinguish between Apple not wishing for Adobe to create a meta-platform atop UIKit (which started just prior to the release iOS 4, roughly the start of 2010) and not bundling or allowing the Flash plugin (since day one, mid-2007). Thoughts on Flash reflected criticism received against Apple for that three year run.

It wasn't performant in 2007. It wasn't performant in 2008. It wasn't performant in 2009. It wasn't performant in 2010. It certainly wasn't performant in 2011 when Adobe killed it for Android.

It's not that anybody, let alone Steve Jobs, thought it wasn't performant enough; it wasn't performant enough. Anywhere. On anything. Full stop.

And to say Adobe's technologies made for a lesser experience when used on iOS wasn't entirely unjustified. Reviews for Adobe AIR games released in 2010 and 2011 all centred around one major point: they were CPU hogs that chewed up battery life noticeably worse than other games at the time.
Your Miami example is a very politically charged statement that the left makes in this country while the right makes an opposite statement that there is no global warming at all.

Both lies are used to gain political power by Politicians.

Both lies cause real harm. Saying the lie about Miami while simultaneously saying you can lie about it due to your faith is as wrong as the right saying there is no chance global warming is real.
They take oaths and break them. Oaths dont help.

We need: less dark budgets, less people/positions "above the law", whistle blower protection programs for these heroes, and put people in jail who thought to be above the law (this never happened yet).

You can go to jail for some weed, but executing evil-yet-state-sponsored atrocities is a serious career. Topsy turvy all the way.
Liberals tripped over themselves to push a story about Russian bounties that can't be corroborated[0] and that was criticized by people like Glenn Greenwald, hardly a right-winger. It's fine to hate Trump I guess and if you think the ends justify the means, that's your right, but it's demonstrably true that people who in normal years would be highly skeptical of anything coming out of the intelligence agencies are eager to promote anything that makes the Trump administration look bad.

Edit: Another aspect of this story is that it was pushed after bipartisan support for exiting Afghanistan was emerging. So basically this "information" was put out there to keep us in a war no one likes and the putatively anti-war party eagerly promoted it because Trump is bad.

Edit 2: I fully expected this comment to be downvoted, but I hope some of you downvoters will engage with my argument in the replies, since most of you have no argument against my claims, which are factually true.

[0]: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/top-pentagon-officials-russi...
With a large and sophisticated Corp like Microsoft, wouldn’t they have a Zero Trust kind of security model which means certs and MFA regardless of location, behavior, etc.

Obviously a lot we can only speculate about.
Some awful shit humans do
Honestly, I'm a beginner writer. I made a website to share my ideas with the world.
I hope you like it, if you have anything interesting to say, please say it.
this blog I made is essentially just to put myself out there and get to know people who'll share their ideas and insights with me.
thanks
> James Comey and Robert Mueller were popular among the left (of which I consider myself a part) because of their resistance to Trump

Because of their resistance to Trump. That doesn't translate to the left, in general, suddenly being in favor of and trusting the three letter agencies or the military industrial complex. You know, the side of the political spectrum with all of the anti-war protestors and socialists.

The narrative is bizarre.

Edit: never mind, I see this is about discrediting Russiagate for whatever reason, I get it now.
I can still right click > view page source?
I predict a rash of eventual FireEye, Cisco, and other vendor zero days in the near to mid future. If you are a nation state actor what better way to find zero days then to get the source code and find the bugs to exploit. This is the only thing that makes sense that would be worth the risk of attacking companies such as FireEye and Microsoft.
Um did anyone look at the OP's submissions? Clearly they are linked with Zepel.io:
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=svikashk

I sense a lawsuit from Atlassian poised at Zepel incoming.
The usual stuff with C and C++.

WebAssembly doesn't do bounds checking, besides being in bounds of a linear memory segment.

Basically the access is still in bounds of the allocated memory, but not the cells that one actually wanted to access.

From security point of view, while the WebAssembly module is sandboxes, such corruptions can be triggered from the outside, changing the behaviour of the public API.
You act as if you're making a valid counter-point, but all of these actions would indeed be punishable by their respective law or regulation.
And that was before the FBI had NSA's data on US citizens. The FBI's version of X-Keyscore has a different name.
The ordering of bytes within UUID/GUID types is one of the differences between the two, and also causes no end to grief when importing data across systems (or from hex representation to binary).

I wrote about some of the pitfalls and how to properly convert MS guid types to hex for interop with, eg, SQLite here: https://neosmart.net/blog/2018/converting-a-binary-blob-guid...

The difference in big vs little endian can cause huge problems in practice aside from just not having identical values - as you note, the order of the random part and the timestamp part is switched around, which will actually cause guids to lose their randomness and cluster around not just the time but the inverted time - the last part of which may often even be null.
> A contemporary one would be cutting down on CO2 emissions. It's everyone's duty to cut back on that

You have just illustrated why the concept of duty has lost a lot of power: it got misused.

I don't agree with you that it is my duty to cut back on CO2 emissions, because I don't agree with the underlying factual belief that leads you to make that claim. Every claim of duty rests on some underlying factual belief like that: but if we're talking about, say, the duty to pick up litter in a public park because it's a shared space, the underlying factual belief--that the public park is a shared space with shared responsibility for maintenance, and that littering decreases the value of that space--is much easier for everyone, or at least a majority, to agree on.

Of course, that still doesn't guarantee that everyone will agree; someone else upthread described kids in a public park telling him to mind his own business when he pointed out that they were littering. They obviously didn't share his factual belief about what kind of shared space the public park was or the impact of littering on it. But it took quite some time for society to reach the point where that concept of duty was no longer felt. And a major reason why that happened was that people with certain policy agendas tried to manipulate other people's sense of duty based on factual beliefs that weren't as widely accepted or easily supported as the belief about public parks and littering.
Both of these guys have been involved in really shady stuff in America's past, they are career company men and never represented or mounted any real threat to Trump. Comey may even be a big part of how Trump even became POTUS in the first place.
A clone of Chrome's dino game in 2020 bytes of hand-written WASM
Blwyddyn newydd dda HN, 2020 required an awful lot of "well let's see what the hn comments say about -this-" in response to oh so many fear mongering headlines and half stories. Glad to be here, thanks to dang and the community for keeping it what it is.
+ instant nag popover. Bye.

(To those who always downvote comments about the presentation rather than the content, my hope is that some of the creators of these websites will notice when viewers complain about bad practices and hopefully rectify them, leading to an overall better experience in the long run.)
The problem is that those apps are often Electron because they can't be done as a pure browser app. If the browser doesn't expose some system API then what do you want to do?
Nothing particularly super about me. I haven't regularly commuted for a long time and almost certainly never will again. But even when I went into an office regularly, I mostly left at 5-6pm. Never felt it was useful to put in more hours than that. (Travel, well, not these days, but you know what I mean is a different matter.)

That said, when I was commuting, I did have a lot of meals I could throw together quickly (or had made ahead)--probably faster than going out for takeout to be honest.
Yes, but some of them are, and some are even worse.
Surely spoofed calls can be detected and infringements penalised i.e. you can’t lock the front door so instead of prevention you identify who walks through the door and punish thieves.

Detection seems like it is doable - either technically (detect spoofing which implies something impossible like a home phone in Nigeria) or consumer feedback (e.g. a short number to call which marks previously received call as a robocall). And some detection can be done with existing equipment and fails gracefully (it doesn’t need to be 100% reliable) unlike changes to core protocols/equipment.
They didn't stop shipping _GPLv2_ software. They just never shipped GPLv3 software.
Yes, currently working through the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. Highly recommended. Bernie is a Berlin PI who ends up in the SS. It is pretty grim in spots but full of tremendous black humour as well. If you enjoy detective stories and/or historical fiction, please take a look at this series.
I think this is why technology and science is the new religion we all live by. Technology has the potential to perpetuate information indefinitely. Organic life bootstrapped the path to inorganic life and beyond. Religion served its purpose and no longer feels relevant in light of technology and science.
Ulid doesn’t have a “machine id” or “node id” component. I think you are mixing it up with one of the uuid variants.
I think I am gonna buy the Hamming book just for the awesome cover design. (granted they content looks interesting, too).

What is it with Stripe that they are also great publishers? (see also Increment, their software engineering printed magazine).
> working from home

I think that a lot of people worked from home for the first time, but without the required preparations. Which left a bad taste and probably turned a lot of people off.

Working from home is not a universal experience, the experience varies if you live in villa or a one room apartment. Varies, if you're sharing the space. Varies, if you have had to take care of kids at the same time, etc...

I see a lot of people who couldn't wait to get back to the office even if it meant they had to wear a mask all day.
this is one of those agree to disagree situations.
It's not just the intelligence agencies. Gallup polling shows liberals' trust in the media skyrocketed after Trump's election and has remained persistently high despite the whole Russiagate farce.
The Goldfinch is on my list. I’m a big Murakami fan as well so I approve of your excellent taste.