skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, according to the law (Gesetz über das Bundesinstitut für Impfstoffe und biomedizinische Arzneimittel) a "selbstständige Bundesbehörde" and true, it is not independent as a judge and not independent as public broadcasters, but its not a mere department of the ministry directly tied to the political will of the minister, but bound to its task by law.
>nor does it add anything constructive.

This is false. The difference between 20 people speaking up versus 200 or 2,000 is huge, especially if they are saying the same thing. If they don't want that thread being spammed then they should reverse the decision to remove the feature .
How is 1/350,000 a LOWER risk than 1/567,000? I don't get it.
> Why are there so many software engineers who are not successful CEOs?

Because there are many more software engineering jobs in the world than CEO jobs.

> Almost none of them could get a job as a software engineer at their own company, if they had to, because they would be completely unqualified.

Which probably reflects more that the hiring process is broken, than that these people couldn't contribute to a business writing code.

The real problem is that, in addition to writing code, they would also start identifying business opportunities and new ways to improve processes and increase revenues and cut costs, threatening the perceived job security of the people in management above them.
We've taken a lot of inspiration from Eatsa, actually! We've chatted with probably of half-dozen ex-Eatsa folks. I'll shoot you a note if you're up for a conversation.
When I was in college I had a job working for a physics professor who was studying cellular computation. The hope was that by studying examples in nature of cellular systems that solved particular problems (e.g. a leaf trying to maximize sunlight absorption while minimizing water loss) we would be able to solve similar problems in the artificial realm. Using his equations I created a cellular automata simulation in Excel with VBA, my first real programming outside of CS classes. Good times.
you need to keep reading. author moves onto other neet-related topics
My problem isn't that the spec is unclear, it's that the spec is silly. The task makes no sense, and selects for misusing tools. This makes it a bad interview question as given.
"It's not a political decision"

It likely is, though.

From the perspective of the regulators, there are asymmetric personal consequences.

If they make a decision that leads to 50 clotting deaths but saves 5000 people from COVID as a counterfactual, their head is on a chopping block because those 5000 foregone deaths are invisible but the 50 deaths are visible.

If they make a decision to halt the vaccine distribution and this kills an extra 5000 people - well that's no problem because they were just being careful.

Society has set up a political situation where there is literally only one choice that absolves the bureaucrats from a negative personal outcome. Of course they're going to go that route.

Personal incentives are incredibly powerful drivers of behavior, whatever the publicly stated reasons for an action may happen to be.

It may be the case that they've made the right decision, but we can't assume that it was for the right reasons.
> And they are properly tested, approved and on the market.

And there would probably be an investigation into that the moment people using them showed up growing a third arm instead of getting a trombose.
IBM doesn't fab its own chips, right? I thought they used GF.
"Technically possible" that they do it, sure. But I would disagree it is possible that it is S3's "secret sauce".
I'm not sure why it's so surprising that tech companies are more successful when the CEO is tech aware. Understanding the challenges of software engineering and development and knowing the range of feasibilities for what software can and cannot solve with an intuition into the effort and cost of each is for sure an advantage as a CEO when running a software driven company.

I'd say if you don't have that perspective and are CEO of a software driven company, I'd make sure that you have a very close group of constant SE advisers to help you out.
For the case of multiple else if’s using the below case would you need to start nesting them to get the same functionality as #elif?
Just curious: when you say "make bank" do you mean more than the $200-400k total compensation that people are pulling in at FANG companies? This is the thing that was never clear to me, or most salaried employees: how long would it take to get to that point as self-employed?

The risk and opportunity cost seem way to high. Then again I don't know how to measure that risk...
Yup. Binding arbitration clauses should be taken out with a RKEW as nuke from orbit means you're way too close.

// RKEW - Relativistic kinetic energy weapon
You underestimate the ability of Mozilla's leadership team to piss away money.
"Not licensed" is the default. Its similar to what the IP industry calls "stealing".
My only complaint is the dollar sign. Same with PHP. It take time to build the muscle memory for that.
If doing 100% programing isn't working out in the real world for you, then you may want to look into a "super sysadmin / devops" role in which your main job is one thing, but gets greatly enhanced if you can program. These aren't positions that are actually advertised for, but happens to be the role that I've always fell into. That is, on paper I'm a Unix/Linux systems engineer, but I put my C programming (and other languages) to use in areas that cause me to get ahead of my peers.

Typically this involves creating ad-hoc monitoring scripts, doing devops type of work, or backporting security patches to unsupported OS versions (that we are required to keep around for various reasons). Or coming up with tooling (full-stack web apps) that enhance my department's efficiency. Things like that. So people think I'm a super coder, but I probably wouldn't be successful doing it full time.
I think probably most astrophysicists did and realized GR does not matter that much at galactic scales. See my top level comment to this article for an explanation (disclaimer: not a professional physicist, I could very well be wrong).
Is there any correlation with ABO blood type? Usually non-O blood types are more prone to clotting disorders.
Gab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Right Extremists
Show HN: Animation maker with automatic inbetweening (Now it works with Firefox)
In the U.S., the Supreme Court would strike down almost any imaginable mechanism you legislate to achieve this, and if it's done voluntarily, Congress itself would act to prohibit outside payment to legislators
What in the world are you going on about? Drugs can make your immune system's response less severe--this is straight medical fact, look up diphenhydramine (benadryl) or anti-histamines in general.

No where did I say any of these vaccines are 'live' or even attenuated coronavirus. It is 100% impossible to get infected with covid-19 from any of the vaccines. However it is possible to take a drug which lowers your immune system response and you fail to build a strong response to the vaccine and the spike protein RNA or other bits in the vaccine. Hence why I said _talk to your doctor before doing anything like taking aspirin right before the vaccine_.

This site is full of pure lunacy when it comes to any COVID-19 or medical issues. The comments in this thread and many others over the past weeks are just unbelievable low quality. Folks, stay in your lanes with software and startups...
Quality of acting is a pretty subjective matter. We do see increases in "quality of output" over the same time scale on more objective metrics, like e.g. physical achievements. High schoolers today routinely accomplish the same feats reserved for the world-record holders of 100 years ago in almost any sport.

It can't be all the nutrition and equipment and training...the results seem to match a model where each generation grows to meet and just barely surpass the expectations of the previous one. And while we can pretty easily verify that in some areas (like track and field), it's less clear in others. But arguably that's applicable to acting.

Counterpoint: some areas seem to regress? Or maybe that's our mind playing tricks on us? Do you all remember how, recently, someone dredged up the Harvard undergraduate entrance exam from 1870 or whatever and its math and history problems were ones that would stump even today's graduate students?
> Boyd outlined OODA in the 1970s

Every source I find says sometime in the mid-1950s. (The vagueness seems to be because he published very little, and the OODA loop was presented predominantly in oral brieifings; most of his writings that have been published or mined by other writers weren't intended for publication, but are briefing notes.)
Work smart, not hard. Understanding of this principle can change your life for good. The rat race is for racers. The journey of life is for explorers.
Simplify things? No way! The next fad will be SQL over GraphQL.
> The quality is not good, and the performance is not even mentioned.

I notice that your renderer doesn't even attempt to render text on the GPU and instead just blits glyphs from an atlas texture rendered with Freetype on the CPU: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/blob/master/Vrmac/Draw/Sha...

In contrast, piet-gpu (the subject of the original blog post) has high enough path rendering quality (and performance) to render glyphs purely on the GPU. This makes it clear you didn't even perform a cursory investigation of the project before making a comment to dump on it and promote your own library.
For many it was the prospect of metadata being sent to WA's big brother Facebook.
Personally I don't want anything to do with the FB ecosystem so I deleted my WA account. I didn't have anything against WA per se, I really like the app , just the connection to FB is unacceptable.
It's not normally "being caught up in their own bullshit" though. Design + development + user research + user testing of software is expensive (in time, in thought, in arranging coordination, in cash). In this case, the thing in question is a product whose funding has been drastically -- why are you making the assumption a. this is a change driven by designers and b. isn't completely practical from a software design PoV (with the trade-off being that a few users don't like the change -- I don't for example, but it's no biggie)
Are you saying the NHS is complicit in hiding deaths due to vaccines?
Here's the World Nuclear Association on some of Schneider's most recent FUD: https://www.world-nuclear.org/press/press-statements/combatt....
The trial were delayed. I read just today that the results are being reviewed to see if sufficient for submittal to the FDA.
I’m a non-resident fellow at the Krulak Center for Creativity & Innovative, Marine Corps University.

It wasn’t just fighter pilots, the United States Marine Corps were deeply influenced by John Boyd’s work and his body of work is held by MCU.

Major Ian Brown has written a great book on John Boyd that is available free on PDF that is really quite good:

https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/ANewConceptionOfWar.pdf?ve...
The Rise of the Journalist-Influencer
Good luck to you!

One huge frustration I've had as a customer is the unavailability of healthy fast food. I spent five months in Berkeley and ate at Sweetgreen all the time.

Now, I'm back in Columbia, SC where I work at a large university. If there was a Sweetgreen, or something similar, near campus then I would eat there 1-2x a week.

So I'm hoping that your efforts will lead to healthy and fast restaurants opening in places where they aren't currently viable.
Tinder will soon let you run a background check on a potential date
Absolute fucking stupidity.

Thirty cases of blood clotting out of five million. More people will die because they're not vaccinated.

And that's ignoring the fact that this may just be a statistical blip. There's a lot of diseases humans could catch, and sometimes there's going to be clusters.

German politicians said they're suspending vaccinations "out of an abundance of caution".

Given these numbers, we should continue to vaccinate out of an abundance of caution.

These people would refuse to board a rescue vessel because "it seems kind of unstable" and prefer to keep treading water.
No, map[string]int doesn't allocate ints. Why the map[string]*int version is faster is because it avoids a "write" to the map when you're not adding new words -- it can just look up the pointer and increment what it points to. The Go compiler is not smart enough (yet) to optimize the former to avoid a map write. (That's my understanding, anyway.)
I've taught a few dozen ropes course leaders over the years. Knots fall out of people's minds surprisingly quickly. It isn't like riding a bike.
I also came to say it reminds me of Spyce (in a good way!). I was I think pretty close to their number one customer for a while before I changed jobs / locations.

The business model and approach does look pretty different, but the types of meals look vaguely similar. I'm curious if that's just because when you start thinking about what types of meals can be automated (partially or fully) it pushes you in that general direction. If you don't mind sharing, what was the process like for figuring out what types of meals could be cooked by robots?
I had switched to Brave a few months ago once I saw the writing on the wall (the writing being that Mozilla clearly want to "diversify" from their browser).

Despite being unable to have certain extensions, I have not been missing Firefox much at all. Really, the only thing that I really miss is the containers functionality but that can be sort of emulated through profiles (though that's not a perfect match admittedly).
Paul Graham only comments on HN to talk about Bel, his sequel to Lisp
Hey guys, I am undergrad who just published his first paper in [Science](https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/582/eabd6299), and I wrote a layman's explanation of what its about! Let me know what y'all think.
Agreed — and especially so if you could see how common it is that CPython performance tanks but PyPy (or Jython?) does not after the JIT kicks in.
Albert Einstein's most iconic photo
Ask HN: Is HN Being DDoS'ed?
An hypothesis: I'm not sure about Germany but in France, Spain and several other European countries 40% of the population do not want to get vaccinated. I believe the countries that have suspended AZ have done so so that those who generally doubt the safety of vaccination don't have a reason to further doubt this one. Even if a small percentage of those 40% is convinced by this act it's a large number of people.
The brain doesn’t view computer languages as linguistic
> I think the customers should also be fined as they benefit just as Facebook benefits.

This is legal matter, not a witch hunt.
> Only the Chinese virus is a 'watered down' version of the virus. All the others (including the Russian) is an RNA-type-thingie.

This is not true. There are 11 current vaccines in use around the world, of 4 different types. Even the vaccine mentioned in this article is an adenovirus-vector vaccine.

The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are the only mRNA vaccines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Vaccine_types
America’s Coronavirus Catastrophe Began with Data
Exploring My Doorbell
I’m a ‘Software engineer’ in Canada. Have been at multiple companies. Do not have an engineering degree...

Professional Engineer is a protected title in Canada. Is that what you’re thinking of?
Bodyport (YC S15) is hiring a senior front-end engineer
Hacker News is hosted at M5 and they are having a network outage:

http://status.m5hosting.com/pages/incident/5407b8e2b00244251...

edit: Unrelated to the Azure outage.
Ask HN: How am I supposed to post on HN that HN is down when HN is down?
> maybe you'd have better results switching to FXAA or SMAA there

I’ve thought about that, but decided I want to prioritize the quality. 16x MSAA was almost perfect in my tests, 8x MSAA was still good. With levels lower than that, the output quality was noticeably worse than Direct2D, which was my baseline.

And another thing. I have found out stroked lines much thinner than 1px after transforms need special handling, otherwise they don’t look good: too aliased, too thick, and/or causing temporal artifacts while zooming continuously. Some real-world vector art, like that ghostscript’s tiger from Wikipedia, has quite a lot of such lines.
Privacy of Google’s Privacy Sandbox – FloC leaking incognito information
Azure Experiencing an Outage
Here’s a good post by a kernel hacker that suggests how a tool like this can aid in debugging subtle corruption: https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2008/02/17/howto-debug-silent...
Well there's a ton of Americans, and those numbers are growing, of people who may not survive this one.

It's a real mess.
Experimental Archaeology
The Magic of JavaScript
Use SQL to query Hacker News with Steampipe - https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/hackernews

It's an open source Postgres FDW using Go - https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-plugin-hackernews
Microsoft Servers Down (2021-03-15)
Yup. I'm using Firefox in Compact mode already, but the Proton tabs look even taller than the current Normal size. Not looking forward to this redesign.

I'll try it, but decent odds that this is the straw that pushes me to switch browsers. One of my computers I've done the jumping through hoops of browser customization to set up Tree Style Tabs with no tab bar up top, and I'm just not interested in going through more of that to figure out if there's a way to hack the Proton UI down to a size I like. Hell, I don't even know if Proton still lets you do apply custom CSS to the UI at all, it seems like the kind of feature that they'd want to drop to keep it "simple to maintain."

What's even sadder is they're keeping Normal and Touch, so it's not like this lets them take out the system for changing the sizes of all these UI elements. They're just taking away the small size. "People have vertical pixels, and damn it we're going to use as many of them as we can!"

As if I wasn't using that space for displaying webpages in my web browser or anything.
https://lucky225.medium.com/its-time-to-stop-using-sms-for-a...
Silvio Micali: Blockchain, Algorand, Bitcoin and Ethereum – Lex Fridman Podcast
FirePlace: Placing FireCracker virtual machines with hindsight imitation
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The Future of Ecommerce
> Lots of reasons: familiarity

Not when they constantly change the general way it's used. I am personally tired of having to relearn how to use a tool. Address bar, lockwise, shared passwords, to start.
Go outside and take in the fresh air. (w/ a mask)
Swift-evolution SE-0306: Actors
Seems to have been going on for at least an hour:

https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1371546946263916545...

Apparently they are rolling back an update.

There are a number of people on twitter saying that onedrive is deleting files as it says they no longer have access. Obviously everything should be fine once it all comes back, but might be something to bear in mind if you don’t want to have to download a lot of data once it all comes back.

Edit - mitigation is now being rolled out https://twitter.com/msft365status/status/1371571383004590081...
Azure Active Directory down
It's basically IBM fabs that were "sold" to GlobalFoundries. AFAIK IBM processors use a customized process that isn't used by any other GF customers.
Currently raining. Afraid of water. If it rained Diet Coke, then I'd be happy to step outside.
The EU needs to go further, and adopt a formal 'EU English', providing a framework for schools across the bloc to offer public education in English at all levels, at least in major cities.

Adults can already move across the continent and work and speak English - why not children?

Right now, its basically impossible to move across the continent with a family - you will need to send your children to expensive international schools.

This is definitely one of the factors why the fertility rate in Europe is so low.

For example in Bulgaria, international schooling in English in high school is about $12,000/year/child - more than the average annual salary!

This is one of the major reasons the Anglosphere countries are such major migrant destinations - completely free Government education in English.
Thank you I no longer need to be a pure pessimist anymore. I also think though that there will still be a time where they need to get more $$ and will raise prices or introduce ads at lower price tiers. However I would happily pay to not have ads.
That's true for most cheap things, unfortunately. Externalities are not accounted for.
Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability
That's a terrible projection to be judging distances with...
He would've been 23 in 1950, so that seems unlikely.

Nothing from the 50s listed here: https://www.colonelboyd.com/boydswork

AFAIK you first see the core concerns driven home here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58a3add7e3df28d9fbff4...
The Design of the Celera 500L
This is what I see as a huge misconception of GraphQL, and unfortunately proliferates due to lots of simple "Just expose your whole DB as a GraphQL API!" type tools.

It's quite simple (easier in my opinion than in REST) to build a targeted set of GraphQL endpoints that fit end-user needs while being secure and performant. Also, as the other user posted, "edges" and "nodes" has nothing to do with the core GraphQL spec itself.
Is HN fully back? Looks like this was a little less than 3 hours total, is that right?
I was getting:

DX10501:+Signature+validation+failed.+Unable+to+match+keys:+
kid:+'[PII+is+hidden]',+
token:+'[PII+is+hidden]'.

so some key/signature update went sideways
I never thought to wonder if HN was running on Azure until this afternoon. I thought it was GCP because I think the database is Firebase... but is it on Azure and connecting to Firebase?
I've stood in defense of Firefox for a really long time, it remains my primary browser. And my hope is that in light of the publicity about this travesty of an attempt, Mozilla will backtrack. But I'm sick of Firefox being absolutely unwilling to support the needs of their already niche userbase.
So strange that this coincided with Azure authentication eating it.
Great idea! If I have a "smart" oven, how would I be able to connect it?
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Judge Rules Images of Enslaved Are Property of Harvard, Not Descendant
Ask HN: What are the best exercises for gathering input from a large group?
What exercises do you use for offsites, team brainstorming sessions, and roadmap planning? Are there particular software tools that help make these sessions easier to run?
It's seems an odd coincidence of this and the Azure AD outage -- I was trying to get to HN to see what people were saying about it!
Yikes. I've been meaning to do a survey & look at NFT rot, including number of pins on IPFS. Just because something is on IPFS doesn't mean it'll stick around
Behind the Scenes at a Five-Star Hotel
https://support.google.com/a/answer/172541?hl=en

> Google Drive scans a file for viruses before the file is downloaded or shared. If a virus is detected, users cannot convert the infected file to a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide, and they'll receive a warning if they attempt these operations.

So at least some degree of automated moderation is going on. Frankly, I'd be astounded if some amount of scanning isn't being done for illegal content and/or phishing stuff.
Japanese input begs to differ
Good to see posting purely for karma isn't just a Reddit thing.