skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, the whole thing feels oppressive to me. I'd rather pay $30 on Amazon than explain to my "community" why I should be chosen to get X or Y.

It reminds me Charlie Sheen's quip about prostitutes: "I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave." Likewise, one of the primary benefits of ordinary money/stuff transactions is that it's not all tangled up with obligation or any other social baggage.
i agree with you. not necessarily the pronouns but it's a very fast drop. and i believe it is hinting at what happened at GitHub. fundamentally, it is not telling us anything most of us don't already know.

but go figure...
Yes we are. We are hired by a company to use ours skills and time to complete a task or set of tasks. Depending on when they want a project done and what skills are required, they must hire/buy accordingly.

I personally find this a very comfortable arrangement. I am a merchant of my own labour. I can upgrade the value of my labour by adding skills (in the same way that a merchant of stone could get a better price by reducing defects). I can seek a better price. I am free to terminate the arrangement when it suits me.
Are we talking about work or life? Sure, private companies aren't democracies, but why should they be? Democracies are extremely inefficient. Imagine if Linux or Python projects were run as democracies and not lead by BDFLs? I can't imagine them being nearly as effective because democratic processes to get new features would always be gridlocked. Benevolent dictators are 10x, maybe even 100x more efficient than democracies.

Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. I can walk up to a rich person ("a lord") and insult him to his face and nothing will happen.
Your defensiveness is really unwarranted. GP is critiquing the way you’ve positioned your theme; in return, you’re teetering on the cusp of directly insulting them.
> Their stated aim

Stated by whom? This is the aim imputed to them by low-tier media.

> went looking for legislators, who had to be evacuated.

There's zero evidence that they intended to do anything to legislators. This was basically a run-of-the-mill polite occupation protest that did substantially less damage of any kind than, say, the average BLM protest.
* The highway program
* The national parks program
* Army Corps of Engineers' projects
* FEMA

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Anytime, old sport
Allow Parler to exist. If what you say is true, then people won't go to Paler (for quality reasons). But watch at why the left must deny moderate Republicans from escaping Facebook & Twitter.

This is about trapping people in Facebook & Twitter.
Yeah usually for hard problems I need to talk myself through it. Talking while listening to music just overloads me.
I actually like the name "human resources" because it very honestly describes the way humans are seen by large corporations: not much more than interchangeable resource units. Changing to a more comforting name while keeping everything else constant is awfully typical of superficial modern day activism.
Uh, is it just me, or does that sound like a hell of a lot of hardware for a site with only 15,000,000 registered users and an average of 2,300,000 active ones?
Do you use any signals from people who opt out of Web and App activity to feed into models that are used not just for measurement but for targeting?

What if someone is identified by a model as being in market for a TV and then opts out? Would they still be classified as in market at that point?

I work in digital media, feel free to get technical with your response.
I have perfect pitch and find it impossible to "turn off" the analysis of music - what key is it in, what's the chord progression, and so on. Whether it has lyrics or not doesn't matter, it completely kills any productivity in any other cognitive activity. Only "noise" type sounds work for me when I'm trying to concentrate, like recordings of gentle rain or a babbling brook.
One state's poor performance in handling vaccine distribution proves [none of the vaccination efforts are] about saving lives?
You must harvest more Software Engineers.
Yeah but there's nothing that says the Xcode experience has to be so painful[1] or that people have to pay Apple or that software has to be approved by Apple in order to preserve this flexibility. Purchasers should have options, including the option to write software (for themselves) that works on the computer they paid for but might not work if Apple introduces computers based on a new architecture, which the existing Apple customer may or may not choose to buy in the future.

1. Painful for the parent commenter. It is painful for me, too. It might, or might not, be painful for others.
The missteps suck, but I really dont think it is on the local health departments very much. The federal government shouldve really been taking a lot of the load themselves. My local health department has a dozen workers and has had to handle the pandemic basically on their own the whole way through. The outbreak was so bad in October/November that they literally couldnt finish counting all the cases in a day multiple times. Now, in addition to trying to handle the outbreak, theyre also being tasked with distributing a vaccine in record times. And through all this, theyve been underpaid and harassed by a significant portion of the population
> how come I can trivially change brightness on a laptop monitor but none of my desktop screens?

If DDC/CI support was more consistent and universal, this would be really easy to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel#OS_suppor...
Isn't all human-to-human interaction in groups of more than a few people basically the same as described here? That's basically what the politics are all about, as soon as group grows to more than 3-4 closely tied people hierarchies and clans are formed - and they each have their agendas that are sort of in line with the community goals just enough to fit in, but really are mainly about the personal gains... humans do that at every possible level of social existence
Medicaid seems successful.
>”They have extremely rigid standards for people of one viewpoint and very loose standards for people of another.”

It only seems that way to you because you’re seeing only one side getting arbitrarily suspended.

My left-leaning Twitter feed has for years been regularly full of people complaining about how Twitter censors black women, activists, feminists and sex workers, while not doing enough against white supremacists, etc.

Probably the truth is that the standards are just unevenly rigid one day, loose the other, depending on who catches their attention. Policing hundreds of millions of active users is nearly impossible, and adding automated systems increases the risk of false positives.
A Republican (who later went independent) who was able to win a mayoral election in a city that leans 75%+ Democratic in presidential elections.
Analysing Algorithms Efficiently: Simple Stupid Method
https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download

They had a placebo arm and a vaccine arm. Look at figure 2 on page 30. You can see that new COVID cases in the vaccine group virtually stop on day 12 while the placebo arm continues to grow.
Show HN: Let's build this app together
I'm looking for a technical co-founder to build this app with me. The idea is to create a free platform to help people make new friends and play sports at the same time.
If you dont want to go to the Pfizer/Moderna/etc papers, go to your local county health department website and they will probably have links.
Unlike the serf, I can go find another Lord. I can pit the lords against each other for a better deal. I can try and become my own lord. HR has a lot fewer tools than the inquisition. Fear of lawsuits reduces their toolkit even further.
Why don't you say exactly what you are trying to imply.
Live in NY and have been tracking the slow jab rate with disappointment to now find we are running up against inventory&deliveries now. Though our daily jabs have gone from appallingly low to only embarrassingly low, we are actually going to go backwards now that it turns out the “strategic reserve” Trump promised to release last week is a phantom.

Being under-40 with no kids or seniors in my home, easily working from home, I expect to get vax sometime this summer. This is fine, I’m happy to let seniors, medical and frontline workers get it first. This of course includes teachers so they can open schools for good come August.

Glad to see it’s been opened to most of these prioritized people now, and it is intelligent to have a mix of appointments & walk-ins to take out the excess inventory daily.

That said, the whole distribution is a shitshow. And this started even before it moved beyond initial phase of medical workers getting it at work from their employers. I know a lot of non-patient facing people in medical or medical-adjacent jobs who got it well before most nurses, EMTs, etc got it. It seems if you are in management or have a PHD you could jump all the way to the front.. of course.
> Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. I can walk up to a rich person ("a lord") and insult him to his face and nothing will happen.

If you really think that’s true, do it on camera. Upload it to YouTube. Let it go viral. See something happens.
We take a lot of Vespian Gas
I heard it was so bill gates could install 5G in my brain?
OTOH, look at how successful Rust has been with its extremely democratic RFC system for new features.
> This basically put all the secular parties (both left and right) in a bind.

Which is the solution. Bind themselves and everybody else.

Have a constitution that enshrines the right to things like fair elections and free speech. Have an amendment process that requires two thirds of the Senate, in a Senate that only has one third of the seats up for election in any given year. And three quarters of the states, which rarely agree on anything. Things like that.

Then even if the populists get in once, they don't have the power to end elections or free speech. And once the people see their true nature, they lose the next one.

Obviously you do have to be very careful not to allow any end runs around that process.
It's not clear that it's really about anything. Nearly everyone in charge seems to just be going through the motions, filling their assigned role, without stepping back to think about what the goals are or how they can best be achieved. CDPH says that they authorized these clinics to begin setting up on December 28, which means with the standard 2 week lead time they could open on January 11 - the obvious question of why there should be a 2 week lead time, why vaccinations can't begin the very next day, does not appear to have been acknowledged or addressed.
>Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. I can walk up to a rich person ("a lord") and insult him to his face and nothing will happen.

They could cough on you while unmasked.
I don't know that percentage of received vaccine administered is quite the right metric: I tend to think doses administered per capita is the key number.

But whatever number you look at, California is a disgrace. We've fucked this colossally. The only states that are worse than we are are poor, rural, and low education.
Tracking down a segfault that suddenly started happening
Facebook & Twitter & Google Search are turning into MSNBC-full left skew.

Watch this test:
Google Search = MSNBC. Gab.com and Parler.com banned in search results in Google Search when you search "Gab" and "Parler".

Support DuckDuckGo.com and Bing.com for your search engine. They aren't MSNBC of internet search engines.
Hi, I’m David. I’m building Oliver, a better way to make introductions.

Meeting people is still hard, and meeting interesting people is even harder. I’ve learned how to do it and I’ve created an app that helps other people do the same.

Oliver is an iOS application in the consumer social space that helps people find each other, and make genuine connections.

I am based in the Bay Area, and currently in TestFlight. However, I am looking for a remote partnership. I am currently in the market for someone who’s worked at high-growth startups, particularly on iOS applications written in Swift. Oliver is written entirely in SwiftUI.

I can bring technical chops and the hired talent to help us build an interesting social experience. You can bring knowledge of GTM, viral loops, product, and technical talent, if you’ve got it!

I don’t believe feeds and followers are the future. I believe 1:1 connections are.

Feel free to reach out at david@readyforoliver.com
I’m not sure where you’re starting from, but this seems like a reasonable progression to start with:

(1) A video about how the immune system works: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc

(2) An infographic from FDA explaining the EUA process: https://www.fda.gov/media/143890/download

(3) Reports from the Advisory Committee on Immunization describing evidence of effectiveness for the various vaccines. For example, Moderna’s: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm695152e1.htm

(Important caveats: I have family and friends who work in healthcare and drug discovery, so I’ve got a tiny bit of layperson background on this, but this is far from my field and I’m far from an expert)
I don't deny that. I was just explaining the connection.
In this particular case there's pretty good evidence that Parler's moderation is/was anything but even handed. Parler may be a lot of things but a neutral platform provider doesn't seem to be one of them.
The same people that would be dismissive of your experience here are the same people that would be dismissive of the concept of getting specific groceries delivered while the world changes before their eyes.

Basically everyone just stopped talking to them and chose the more convenient solution.
Yes I agreed that for my experience and ability I get paid badly. It is one of the reasons I am a rather bitter and angry person.

On the other hand, I still make a lot of money compared to the majority of people. This is little consolation though after devoting so much time and effort in my life to what I do.

Hence I hate pretty much every engineer I come into contact with these days. A huge number of them make as much or more than I do, and have 1/3 the experience and knowledge.
Faking the user agent gets me past 99% of those 'unsupported browser' warnings.
CS 498MC • Martian Computing
You admitted yourself you've never really used them in practice.

I would never having simply read some docs on Rust's borrow checker having never used it, go to some discussion of experts online and nerdsnipe with a pithy "It's a bad interface" comment without having ever seriously tried it.

You're not being a jerk, just a jerk-off. You're talking out of your ass for fun and you admit you've never actually used it, and your poor example show it clearly.

I mean really, think about it. I was honestly interested in seeing if you had some unique insight but your example has no relation at all to hooks, it would only solve useState but has nothing to do with useEffect which is equally if not more important. You replaced the old React `this.setState` basically and not at all hooks, it's a syntax many have done before, that I had personally invented ~7 years ago well before hooks and used it on a small app, and which solves none of the problems they solve.

And now you want me to personally educate you?

At first I was going to just leave it at this conversation, but you know what, fine, here's your example:

function Component(props: { isActive: boolean }) {
const [query, setQuery] = useState('')
const queryDebounced = useDebouncedValue(query, 200)
const searchResults = useSearch(queryDebounced)
const results = useLastValueWhen(searchResults, !props.isActive)

return <>
<input onChange={e => setQuery(e.target.value)} />
{results.map(result => <ResultItem {...result} />)}
</>
}

// these two are easy to write out so leaving out
const useDebouncedValue = () => // debounce hook
const useLastValueWhen = (a, b) => // hook that retains last a when b == true

const useSearch = (query: string) => { // can be used elsewhere
return useFetch(`http://localhost/search?query=${query}`)
}
const useFetch = (url: string, args?: any) => {
const [state, setState] = useState([])

useEffect(() => {
let alive = true
fetch(url, args).then(res => {
if (alive) setState(res)
})
return () => {
alive = false
}
}, [url, args])

return state
}

Please do show your example of this.
Lots of cities where people dont own cars, so the car is actually less convenient (most of the world where high speed rail is even a consideration).

Planes are only cheaper and faster when you don't care about land usage, greenhouse gas emissions, and maximum ridership. Additionally, the maglev trains that this article is about have a top speed even more comparable with flight - Tokyo to Osaka will be 67 minutes, same as a flight - but without needing to arrive early, go through security, or commute an hour at each end to get to/from the airport.
I’ve thought about this but I assumed it would be too hard to get Synergy installed on employer or client-provided computers. It sounds like you’ve used this setup with multiple clients – is it normal in your field of work to get local admin rights on corporate devices?
> freedom of speech does not exist for certain types of speech

No country has total freedom of speech, not even the US. Try telling people you will kill the president, even as a joke, and the FBI will come knocking.
Reminds me of this one (the final gear is embedded in concrete):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg
Well, over the same time period, but gold has been mined for thousands of years, and for a long time much less efficiently. And bitcoin mining will decelerate as halving occurs, until the last coin is mined in a bit over 100 years' time.
Well once the authentication token expires, they would need to phish you again to get another 2FA token, so there is that. But that is probably plenty of time to do some harm, and depending on the service, possibly even disable 2fa (although a good site will require another 2fa authentication in order to do so).
I didn't realize there was any other way to interpret it besides "getting green (successful) results for all of the tests" (there are 8 test stages planned). I think we're both wrong though:

"The term “green” refers to the new hardware that will work together to power the stage, and “run” refers to operating all the components together simultaneously for the first time." --https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/green-run-test-...

I still think these tests should be run more than once though, the RS-25's were originally reusable anyway.
It may be a valid use of the word resource, but it's still dehumanizing to think of people as resources.
I'm interested what dishes you're specifically talking about here? Japanese cooking is not complicated, just different.

Me and a lot of my friends here can all meal prep <500yen per meal and that ranges from Japanese food to Indian/Italian/Mexican. You just need to make smart adjustments and substitutions.
> In fact it's actually illegal for the state to create such a list.

To elaborate on this a little bit, NO state in the US has such a list - not one worth a damn, that is. For instance, NY recently mandated the registration of all "assault weapons" in the state, but compliance there is estimated to be in the single-digit percent range. (1m+ applicable weapons, ~45,000 registrations - the definition is really broad and includes essentially everything semiautomatic with a detachable magazine) These weapons were previously legal to own/buy/sell/transfer, and would continue to be legal to own if registered - and registration still didn't crack 10%.

Extrapolate to people that the police are likely to deal with in an adversarial manner, and you can see that a DB entry showing "no guns at 123 Main Street" is absolutely worthless.
Okay, but then you're going to have to be content with the fact that extension developers are largely going to just ignore Safari.

There's a little bit of mutual blindness that happens here both with anti-Apple commenters and pro-Apple commenters. It's absolutely true that Apple's tight integration and control over how developers work allows them to do things with their platform that no one else can do. It is also true that Apple is playing a very dangerous game with the MacOS ecosystem, and a lot of developers are looking at it and saying, "this is not a healthy relationship, there's zero reason for me to ever support this platform."

To a certain extent, Mac users don't care -- many of them are happy to be part of a diverging software ecosystem and to use apps that only work on their computers. Apple critics sometimes underestimate just how OK Mac users are with the idea of living in an isolated software world. To many Mac users, being in their own isolated, incompatible world of software is the point. But, it is also true that browsers like Safari are tangibly suffering for this, that Open Source developers and tool authors are starting to look at Mac as a losing battle, and that ultimately, if things continue in the same direction, this is going to mean that there is a lot more pivotal indie software/games/tools that decide not to support Mac -- and some of those will be programs that people on Mac actually want.

As an Apple critic or at least an Apple skeptic (even though I do some development on Mac hardware), I am curious what the future of Mac as a development platform is going to be. There was a period where I recommended Macs as a next-best alternative to Linux because of that Unix base. Now it is a very cautious recommendation, if it is a recommendation at all. I've run into more than a few really weird dev problems on Mac over the past year that have been kind of disruptive, and I haven't even updated to Big Sur yet -- which, from what I can tell introduces even more problems. In contrast, developing software (especially web-based software) on my Linux machines is pretty painless. And when I need to test in Windows, I can spin up free, official VMs. I don't have to have a special secondary computer to run tests on. So unless I'm building software specifically for Mac, it just kind of doesn't make sense to support anymore.

And frankly, if you're a solo developer who's into Open Source development or tools development or game development, you're very probably not going to be building software specifically for Mac, and you're probably willing to drop Mac if it means you can easily target Linux/Windows -- given the choice between MacOS and Windows, most devs are not going to choose to drop Windows. I mean, we can debate OpenGL and Vulkan, but I'm sure as heck not going to write a game that targets Metal, that would just be a colossal waste of time for realistically a rounding error in market share. This is something that Mac users are currently able to just shrug off (in no small part because of 'lazy' cross-platform apps/games that use Electron, QT, and Unity), but it might be a harder problem to ignore in the future.
> This just makes me choose my employers more carefully as while they certainly have this data to abuse, fortunately few do not.

I think the issue with this approach, which is one that I completely agree with, applaud, and also adhere to is that many people are not as fortunate to be in such a position to turn down employment opportunities.

Those are the people who need protection from "features" such as these, because those are the people who's employers WILL take advantage of them using features.

Here's an example:
"'I monitor my staff with software that takes screenshots'"
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54289152