skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't aware that we thought any of the vaccines provide sterilising immunity. Has this changed? The Pfizer trial was regarded with some scepticism a while back as they didn't test everyone, so we don't really know how good it was at preventing infection, for example.
It's like a routing system for audio based on use case. You could say for example: "Play notifications on this device", "Play media on that other device at this volume", "Mute anything that's VOIP", etc.. Kind of like what you have on mobile operating systems. As far as I could see, this isn't used by anything major. PipeWire is planning on making use of this in the future.
Journalists don't provide sources because sources would face retaliation if journalists provided their names. Sometimes this is appropriate if the source is providing information in the public interest and sometimes it's corruption if the source is providing misleading information to benefit themselves. Journalism overall has a long tradition of sometimes benefiting the public and sometimes benefiting those in power - both these help maintain the institution (for good and ill, naturally).

Linking to document on the Internet is a different issue, I think, one I wouldn't comment on.
Clockwise is excellent and pretty much purpose-built for this problem.
This article insight is GPL 'virality' forces commercial developers to modify and maintain
Linux components as open-source which results in Linux being developed for the commercial developers benefit, vs BSD license allowing commercial developers to keep their modifications to themselves. The latter prevents companies from directing/pressuring OS development and removes incentives to meddle in design - while it does lose 'progress' it retains more freedom in choosing the direction of progress.
Good summary, thanks for adding it. One does feel obliged to mention one's "race", as it seems like it's the first thing that someone will assume (wrongly or not) in any conversation in SA. And saying that one shouldn't mention some amount of background really is along the lines of "all lives matter".

So, anyway, agreed with your arguments and thanks for the additional ones I didn't know about. It's important for all South Africans to understand the difference between background and your own future. Many other countries do have this kind of unity, but at historical price of a lot of wars. In SA we essentially avoided war at the cost of multiple identities, and this is something we should draw on for the better.
Can't speak for everyone but I really dislike that negative feedback is perceived as somehow "unkind".

People have no issue saying to others about all the reasons they dislike a person, from it being "too energetic" to "always makes it about themselves". But nobody will correct this behaviour, nobody will even point it out to the person exhibiting the behaviour until it's _extreme_.

Part of my psychologists examination of me before (when I burned out) was to collect anonymous feedback from colleagues and friends on how they perceive me- because I had a growing anxiety that I was always somehow the bad guy in most situations. And the feedback- even when anonymous; was surprisingly neutral in tone.

Open feedback is a hard problem, we're socially constructed to make people like us, and for that reason we don't want to be the person identifying a flaw or making someone feel bad. But honestly, without some kind of social mirror, how do we even know who we are?
Ask HN: Engineering Manager back to Software Engineer in another field
Hey everyone! I currently have 4+ years of web development experience and roughly 2 years of management experience in a leadership role. Recently I have been getting into mobile development and it has been a blast. As the title states, I am starting to flirt with the idea of going back to a full time software engineering role but as a mobile software engineer since I do not have professional experience in this space.

I am wondering if others have made this type of change in their development career. My fear is that I would take a severe compensation hit since I could be viewed as a “junior” engineer again. Is this true? I would hope that my years of experience would count for something and I would be able to show how quickly I could learn new technologies if I interviewed well but I am unsure.

To compound thing, I am beginning to ask myself if the free time I spend on mobile technologies is "enough" to scratch the itch. I believe time will tell.

I would appreciate any insight. Thank you!
(Disclaimer I wrote the article)
My first ever computer was a Pentium 4 and I've started my software career around the middle of the open source era (not the free software era). I have missed the beginning and the history of open source, but I'm very interested in what is coming next. There is so much written about the history and various definitions on Wikipedia, that wasn't the focus of the article (hint: the future was). I've included just enough selective facts about the history, to make a point. The focus has been to predict what comes in the next 20 years.

Today, when I chat with kids that are starting their careers, they are hardly excited about what happened 20 years ago, not to mention 40 years ago. They don't give a sh*t about the ideological differences between free & open source, and what the early internet connection speed was. But they are defining the next 20 years through some Javascript and Web3 technologies.
Add Rome!
[1]https://youtu.be/YJ8ugBiqaf0
[1]https://youtu.be/VRcfv2fWNwE

These are related to above point.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the only way to wake the masses up to the corruption.
I hope we can find a way to fix this government before the next dictator steps in.
Of course. Plus, you have to do the exact right kind of sport cause wrong sport selection cause change of body.
I would say that on hn it very much is treated as such.
I think the parental control app Circle does something similar (faux-vpn proxy). When I tried using Circle, it seemed a bit convoluted to me, so we ended up uninstalling it. So, I’m not sure how unique this method is. But, I’m not sure I can think of another way for a network blocking/security app to work on iOS.
Honestly, what do we need POSIX for in 2020? As discussed in the talk, it traces to the age of the Unix wars, when there was a panoply of processors and Unix variants. POSIX is great if you’re concerned with recompiling some C so it works on SPARC and Alpha and POWER, on Solaris, Tru64, and AIX. That world is gone.

Yes, I’m for abandoning pointless standards. There are concrete benefits to systemd - faster boot, comprehensive service management, power savings, memory savings, a consistent interface to changing system state. What is the benefit to sticking with an rc script architecture designed to run a handful of processes on a pdp?
You failed to understand that we're not a colony of the US, you simply do not have that kind of jurisdiction over China.

You claim we're hiding something and then we must accept whatever investigation you ALONE deemed appropriate, I really can't tell if you're stupid or expecting us to be that stupid or both.
I’ve been in software for more than 40 years (STILL can’t qualify for the senior menu at IHOP) and I’m sure you can imagine how I feel. We had “public domain” back in the day (I contributed to it..exchanged on mag tapes at conventions, later via BBS like Fred FishNet) and it was great. Then some f’n OG communist with MIT “tenure” and a beard down to his navel (was once a sign of hacker cred), at that point known mainly for TRYING (and failing) at knocking off RSX and AOS but settling on an EDT (written in Teco) clone, “inspired” one of the teens who grew up in the backwater shadow of the then respected Soviet Union carrying around Andy Tannenbaum’s book (on MINIX) to grab free stuff for his doomed OS and, in turn, release it open source to others. (If you have any doubt about the perp’s evilness, check https://m.slashdot.org/story/83675) I could have used any OS I wanted (or write my own as I did in EARLY ‘80s for companies we sold for ~$100M) was running Yggdrasil and the OG RedHat (had the kids who “assembled” RedHat in my sports car with my 65+ yo Chairman heading down the 10 from DTLA pondering where we could take drinking-minors to chill and talk shop..decided on, a coffee shop, of course, in those pre-Sbux on err-corner days). Can I blame the young peeps for that biz model? No. “The Cathedral and the Bizzar” guy for trying to make a career out of that sheet? No. I blame the older than dirt SOB with guaranteed tenure/income for spreading his diseased politics that many of my elders dedicated their lives to ending. I was too young (but fully aware, emancipated and working the traditional biz, not plotting to takeover the world. That dot-com crash in 2000 cost more than anyone realizes —it removed our “protectors” (my mentors/elders) permanently (once you crack open your 401K boy…) and left the handful of peeps like me looking mighty Quixotic until we learned to STFU and watch all of America’s Crown Jewels being published on the Net, “training” the unwashed masses and our sworn enemies. The rise of China was horrific —have vivid memories of former clients interrogating me for refusing their all expenses paid trips to visit the “manufacturer.” I kept thinking, “someday I might need to work on something super secret like the Old Man and his posse when I was growin’ up —and a trip to COMMUNIST China is probably a Bad idea.” I’m not exactly a Trump nut case, but I can tell you watching Mornings with Maria over the past 4 years has brought me to tears. Biden’s statement to CBS on China policy scares me, but whatever. Point being we turned those (literal) cave dwellers into a superpower that wants to kill all non-Chinese as soon as they get done recapturing Formosa using “open source.” Russia would do us wrong if we were unworthy, but China is an alien monster and the guy who enabled it (along with his cousin who is now a Google Fellow talking interplanetary IP addressing) need to be memorialized for what they are and what they f’n did. —ooh betta downvote raw experience/emotion, it’s so inappropriate…
Click the three dots on the thumbnail and select “not interested”. The algorithm will stop showing similar stuff.
Yeah, it seems like it. The only real issue the AZ vaccine seems to have is the South African mutation. The other so called "issues", efficiency for elderly, is just fake. Intentionally leaked by the German ministry of health by the looks of it. That claim was debunked, and it still got a hold on things. The press is still pushing it to some degree. Would be interesting to see the motive behind all that.

Also funny, the AZ contract is the only one that leaked. And they are by no means the only one to face production ramp up issues.

Biontech is getting the opposite reporting in Germany. That is somewhat puzzling.

EDIT: The South African strain seems to be a challenge, the Novavax and J&J vaccines are also less effective (source:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/30/two-new-covid-...).
Other than desktops, laptops, embedded systems, phones, and tablets, who cares about boot time......... /s
https://archive.is/sVHxS
No, all applications of ML currently are image recognition. The rest are just statistics labelled as ML.
There is, on Android point the camera at a QR code and it will scan/read it.
> It's not reasonable to expect 4+ hours of uninterrupted time per day

I can deal with interruptions, but I’m also able to setup work blocks? People wouldn’t dream of interrupting me during a four hour meeting, and they don’t need to know my work blocks are that, rather than meetings.
I worked for a government agency that had flex days and that meant 1/4 of people were out of the office every Monday or Friday. While likely not intended, that had the benefit of essentially keeping those days free for work as a key stakeholder could easily be out of the office, making any meeting potentially useless.

I think companies could benefit from that as a lot got done on those two end days.
I would even say it's not rational, but cult like. Rationality is based on logical skepticism. More often than not, it's swimming against the tide questioning generally accepted axioms.
I think back when he posted it, it might have been possible for sufficiently motivated and talented individuals to do such vetting, albeit even then it would have been a stretch. Nowadays the amount of code running on various devices in a single home has increased so dramatically...

Think of TV remotes. They used to work with infrared. Nowadays, there are bluetooth remotes (not sure how widely deployed they are, but at least some vendors offer them instead of IR remotes). An infrared device can be send only. No way to hack it even if you have an infrared sender in range. The pattern transmitted was quite simple. The bluetooth protocol however requires both sending and receiving ability. Bluetooth stack is in the tens of thousands of lines range. There will be a security bug somewhere...
IdentiFlight Bird Detection System
Source?

If you exempt the necessities of living (food, etc) I’d suggest the rich would be tax on a far bigger percentage of income than the poor.

And even if they didn’t spend it, any capital gains or interest income would still be taxed too.

And you’re ignoring the fact that a consumption tax would capture spending from black market income as well. Expanding the pool of income taxes.
Discussed a bit back in 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468110
coughiOScough

There's also the part where writing about it is not super interesting, because it mostly just works like it should.
And then we wont call it ML, since ML is tainted by the current flawed methods that were promised to bring intelligence but just allowed us to generate metadata about images.
> give you my bank account or driver's license info as part of a "free" or "trial" plan.

Re: bank accounts, nobody was suggesting that, that's not how KYC systems work. Re: driver's license info, that's not quite how (well-implemented, modern) KYC flows work, either.

For "signing up using your bank", I wasn't talking about giving the service a photo of a void cheque or anything; I was talking about doing Single Sign-On into the service, with your bank acting as the SSO (usually SAML) provider, through a SAML broker.

I don't know if this is common anywhere else, but in Canada we have a pretty popular SAML SSO broker doing this (https://securekey.com/) ; it allows you to use all our major banks as SSO authentication agents (works with both web and mobile-app flows); and this SSO method is in use for many government sites (e.g. it's how you log in to file your taxes, pay federal student loans, etc.) Any (Canadian) business can actually add SSO to their site/app through this broker. And, just like with any other (good) SSO method, the app being signed into through the SSO broker doesn't receive your credentials.

Re: driver's license info, with regular KYC flows, you don't upload your driver's license info to the first party. Instead, you're directed to a trusted neutral third party (the KYC/AML provider), who has their own app; you give your credentials to that service, through its own app, which is essentially the account-creation flow for your account with that service; and then the first-party service you were interacting with SSOs you through the KYC service as an OAuth/OIDC flow.
I generally don't care what people think of my appearance, but I'll still shave and comb my hair before meeting people -- not because I want to impress them, but because it says "I value you enough to make at least a little bit of effort if we're going to be seen together in public".
Perhaps but surely you understand that such a dismissive comment without any reference or substantiation for your perspective won’t be well received.
I would love to have a search engine for feeds, let's say I search for 'Stuart Russel podcast' and it returns among others the after-on.com feed url. So the output is always a feed url.

As I pointed out before, it feels like you haven't found your niche yet, but you are close. I don't recommend building a search engine, cause For an end user it does not matter how a search engine retrieves its data, only the results matter. And here you will always loose. This place is too crowded.
One-Stop-Shop for Singleton Pattern Creation in Java
Same with Android
Negatory - the sets being compared aren't independent.

That is, the overall population is (roughly) half red and half blue. If you divide that population into groups - on whatever basis - and the largest group is 93% red, then it follows that some of the other groups are going to be mostly blue.
> they get up to what speed

That looks like a Freudian typo. They get up to their top speed faster, but that top speed is lower. Their high thrust comes from spewing out lots of mass at relatively low exhaust velocity, i.e. low specific impulse. And delta-v is directly proportional to specific impulse:

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

The lady's quote may have been a reference to gravitational assist, which must currently be used to get planetary probes to destination with puny chemical rockets:

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

It gets the job done... eventually, after long detours around another planet or two than the one you actually want to reach.
My university required registration of MAC addresses for whitelisting & bandwidth metering. My enterprising roommate and I worked out that we could bypass all bandwidth limitations by spoofing the MAC addresses of machines in the computer labs as long as the machine was turned off. We eventually got caught for using something like 90% of the university's total bandwidth - the security admin was thrown for quite a loop when he tracked down the machines that were supposedly using all of the bandwidth and found that they were turned off at the time. Apparently it took some creative techniques to figure out where the traffic was actually coming from.

Our punishment was something like two weeks with all internet access revoked (except for the use of lab machines for classwork), plus a written apology, plus a signed agreement not to violate the acceptable use policies again or else face the real punishment for what we did.

The school administrator in charge of the punishment asked the security admin what we were downloading (this was when the MPAA/RIAA were cracking down hard on people uploading files on sharing networks), but the security admin had mercy on us and told her he didn't think it was relevant, thank god!
Most of what you mention is filed automatically for me, here in Denmark. I think the only thing normal employees regularly file manually here is kms driven to and from work, which gives a tax deduction (kørselsgodtgørelse).
Autonomous driving isn't even ML, it uses ML to parse image feeds but the driving is human coded.
> Certainly there's propaganda that goes into recruiting naive young people in the US, but it's quite a stretch to equate that with child soldiers.

The US has signed The Convention on the Protection of Children. This agreement defines a child solder as one below the age of 18.

You may not feel conned but it’s not just about you - it’s the places they go, the decisions they make and the population they supposedly protect that should also matter.
Very interesting. I was watching skinwalker ranch scifi doc program, and they found a signal with the same oscillations from 25MHz to the "GHz". They had a rocket scientist, Travis Taylor, (PhDs in Optical Engineering and Aerospace System Engineering, MS/E in in Physics and Astronomy) state that it was impossible to have such a huge range in frequencies from HAM band (all the way down to RC car bands) to microwave bands. I would assume if someone need to do this, they would need a huge array of transmitters or something like this to transmit such a broad spectrum.
One thing that will be interesting, and rather unusual, is we have different approaches to vaccines being deployed within months of each other.
Noted. I apologize. I will remove the personal remarks.
Thanks. After the first release on AppStore, I will implement this feature.
Its Easy Money:Nigerian Scammer Laughs about Sums Stolen from Covid Welfare
but also means even more precise structure and setup
Yes, but younger kids get recruited. The voting age in the US is 18 as far as I can tell, and the US military recruits 17 year olds.

https://www.usa.gov/voter-registration-age-requirements
Long Hundred
That's a good point. Trucks would be a great use case. They have the space on the roof, they have plenty of power and are less cost sensitive.

Real time logistics is a big deal. I've driven across the US and even on major highways cellular coverage is spotty. There might be a self-driving or emergency response angle too.

As for costs, I suspect it will all get cost-reduced like their self-driving computer (or cellular or wifi, ...)
What’s the reason for using Aurora?
Sure. It's also an excellent way of digging yourself into falsehood or untenable positions you believe so deeply you cannot escape without completely breaking down.
Reality is the check and balance on thinking.
>We have come to value: A culture of finding and fixing design issues over checkbox compliance.

Design issue: Widespread failure to teach and implement the principle of least privilege.

Effect: Widespread belief that computer security can't be solved.
warning alarm
The UK and South African variants are actually not all that similar. Only the South African variant has large changes to the spike protein. This is why the UK is putting so much effort into stopping the spread of the SA variant right now.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-03/uk-begins-testing-tho...

Also in a scary development a large portion of trial participants in South Africa were actually reinfected with the new strain because it's so different.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/02/05/virus-varia...
If you’re in the US, or any country with comparable speech/press protection: the same rights that give them protection to publish. I know it’s unpopular here but social consequences punishing bad press behavior are effective, just like punishing bad politician or famous people behavior. This is sometimes paraphrased as “vote with your feet” or “vote with your wallet”, but lately it’s been maligned as “cancel culture”. Either way, you’re allowed to just call bullshit on a publication. You’re especially allowed to not consume it.
Yeah it's a really bad idea that they just called the app "Barcode Crossing" instead of "Zebra Crossing" or whatever. Completely generic and impossible to defend the brand.
I run a business that competes with those companies you mentioned, it's called Portabella (https://portabella.io), an end-to-end encrypted and privacy friendly alternative.

We have a free plan that basically locks you down collaboration wise (limits inviting anyone to your projects).

We haven't had many people convert yet (https://portabella.io/open) but I'm starting to think it'd be better to offer no free plan but a 7 day free trial
In case you are really interested what it means, but not only picking on the nirvana word, here it is:
The Bazaar, and open source in general cover the development model through open collaboration. That is awesome, but not enough. You need to think about open funding and open governance elements.

- Ex. DeFi (that is a word now people seems to be familiarizing with) is an extension of open source where monetization is also backed in the project. It is open source + monetization in a decentralized form.

- There are also MANY blockchain projects that incorporate governance by voting of token holders, etc. That is better than a bunch of folks with commit (or some other lifetime) rights taking all the project decisions, at least it is more transparent. That is open source + decentralized governance.

So the conclusion is:
Open/free source (cool but not enough) + decentralized governance + open monetization = nirvana. To get there, that will take the next 20 years.

HTH