skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just spent 6 hours volunteering as an usher at a pharmacy doing about 1k vaccinations in a day. The number of people over 60 who didn't understand the difference between a text message and an email was around 30% (out of a sample size of 600 during my shift).

About 10% of the people who showed didn't have smartphones or text, 4 people did everything only with phone calls. I wonder how many people who only did phone calls were NOT able to get vaccine slots?

Working with my aging mother, modern UIs are very complicated. Ever changing gestures, hidden menus, differences between machines, passwords, multi-accounts, etc. Heck my mom can't figure out the volume buttons on her iphone so she holds face time to her ear to hear. Heck even the default apps are hard on her. iMessage keeps getting moved to the home page and SMS to the 2nd page. So she sees the blue bubble and uses that to message us, even tho we are sending SMS. She needs to use the green bubble from the second page.

This is not to mention how bad all of these apps or websites are and the loss of a person to call to get clarification for anything not written on a website.

95% of my time yesterday was spent just answering nuances to the basic questions. For instance we were giving Moderna to the first dose people. Every time I announced that to the line, half of the 2nd dose people panicked and said "I need Pfizer".

For me as a programmer, keeping it all in my head was easy, it's just a 8 branch 3 level deep if/else statement.

For aging people with phones the information became inaccessible.

Those with paper printouts of everything were able to just breeze through and paper doesn't reboot, loose battery, or forget, and you can easily hand paper to other people.

The rate of vaccinations actually crushed the brand new system in place (which was there because the old system melted at 300 people a day). So paper was great. They just did all the data in put at the end of the day.

I'm actually quite worried with our current hodgepodge of low quality software we're greatly isolating older people, or people who are not using tech heavily every day.

And this is not just for crappy government software. I saw as many people unable to use their iphone and android basic software. With my mom, netflix, why does it even have a password she has to remember? Device authorization between her roku and a laptop is confounding, they're 2 totally different devices. It's basically impossible.
Because of this unsubstantiated and baseless claim:

> Support a stable kernel API probably wouldn't be that expensive
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I'm spoiled with Transmit :)
It must be your bubble/country, because in France it has been said and recommended by the Health Ministry that it probably helps, and doctors prescribe supplements with Vitamin D en masse.
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A professor of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies! When you need to append 'studies' to the name of your department, it is one that will only attract the dregs of the academy. Victimhood is the currency these people transact in and a white male will, more than others, be willing to exchange a lot of US dollars for some victimhood.
I guess the best thing would be the lightweight and simple concurrency model of go when it comes to data science applications. But other than that, I can't really think of a good reason why go should have so much potential.
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Cannot answer for everyone in India, of course, even broadly, because I have never checked this out before. But for home use, based on my own approach and that of relatives and friends, I can say: just in a place in the kitchen away from direct sunlight, and in a slightly cooler place, if possible. Open, not covered, so air can circulate. Also, my guess is that many households buy only a small amount at a time, and use it up before it has a chance to go bad. For restaurants and other bigger users, don't know how they do it. Interesting point, I will see if I can find out.

In homes, they do spoil, sometimes, if you don't use them soon.

This made me think of another point: I wonder if there is any home-based small-scale way of preserving potatoes for a long period? You can do that in multiple ways for many vegetables (fermenting, pickling, drying, etc.).

>And what kind of potatoes do you produce?

If you mean varieties, like I've read about in the US, such as Yukon Gold, russet potatoes, etc., I don't know the answer, sorry. My guess is that most of us here may not be aware of potato varieties, or there could be only one or a few mainstream ones, possibly due to India's green revolution having the side-effect of knocking out many earlier-existing varieties. But that may be more true of natively Indian plant species, not so much for the potato, which only came to India, I guess, a few hundred years ago, via the Portuguese, probably.
I meant the Seagates and WD's from this world. Around 2014 they also had HDDs with an extra core, where I suspect they just got that for free from they supplier with the message "look, we stopped making these single core CPUs anymore, here's a dual core for the same price".
https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/49-409.ht...

Read the law. Now that we have the law here, I ask you who the commander and chief of the DC National Guard is.
Within a single compilation unit, and only in this most trivial case.
Which state do you use?
I don't want to sound like I am looking for pity here, but at what point, is it OK to give up? My first fail was back at 2009, a full interview cycle with Microsoft. After I was rejected by AWS a few weeks ago (also a full cycle interview, no offer), I realize that I have spent a decade, on and off, trying to get employed by big tech. Since I am not getting any younger, spent countless hours preparing, reading and re-reading Cracking The Code Interview, and I don't feel like I am getting any better or closer, I am looking for some closure. I believe perseverance is an important quality, but also, I don't want to spend another decade through all this. I have been always employed, in not so sexy corporations, but I have earned a living, raised my son, and supported my family, that still lives in a third world country, and without my support they would had been homeless years ago. Sometimes I feel like my efforts were more of an ego trip, just to show off how smart I am, that I was hired by Google. And that's where I am right now. I am unsure how to feel.
Bad medical device is easy to determine?

Are masks effective or ineffective against covid? Are fats good or bad for you? Are carbs bad for you? How many times a day should you eat? How much cholesterol in your food matters? What's the perfect amount of water to drink? Is veganism healthy? is paleo healthy?
> What we should be doing is trying to raise everyone's critical thinking game

How do you propose we do that, and what do you propose while waiting for the day where that's the case? The proliferation of Q lunatics and anti-vaxxers shows that we're not really there and there are real-world deadly consequences to "letting people decide for themselves". When it comes to public health, most people can't decide for themselves because they lack the medical background needed to understand the science and decide.
WD and Seagate are their chip vendors. They design their own custom SoCs.
> Not a big deal, because fully functional and 100% correct program wasn't the goal here

Wasn't it? It reminds me about the old article by Strostrup on c/c++ for beginners (I seem to link to this quite often, apologies if it gets repetitive):

https://www.drdobbs.com/learning-standard-c-as-a-new-languag...

One point of using c++ over c is that it should be easier to get a program that is in fact correct - regarding things like closing files etc. (that said conciously leaking some recources ("do and die") could be considered idiomatic c i suppose).
Vitamin D has been recommended forever for general health and is available over the counter. Nothing is stopping people from taking and giving vitamin D in huge doses.
Maintenance is a really good point, but we haven’t found a way to monetize it.

If I gave my software as OSS to paid customers, I’d immediately lose most of my other sales and give my little implementation secrets to my competitors.

I’d like to be able to say “And for +15%, get the source and ability to compile and fix forever”. And not lose my business in the process.
It's a little tricky to infer the specifics, but adware that collects personal data would be non-sensical if it doesn't phone home. In fact the whole idea of "collecting data" implies it is being sent to storage under control of the collecting entity. I think this is pretty clear cut under GDPR and there's no bypassing it based on the technicality of web app vs native app—I believe regulators learned their lesson about tight coupling to specific technical implementions with the earlier cookie laws.

On the other hand, you could be write that OP is just talking about data portability in which case there is "data collection", just lack of an export feature.
Honk! I represent Google on the OpenSSF, and help lead our Google Open Source Security Team. We've kicked off several projects inside the OpenSSF, and contribute to several other related efforts.

Here's a non-exhaustive list:
Security Scorecards (https://github.com/ossf/scorecard): auto-generated security checks for OSS, Criticality Score (https://github.com/ossf/criticality_score): auto-generated criticality score for OSS, Package Feeds (https://github.com/ossf/package-feeds): watches package registries for updates, malware analysis tools, SLSA (https://github.com/slsa-framework/slsa): proposal for a supply chain integrity framework, Sigstore/Cosign (https://sigstore.dev/): code signing made easy!

We are also investing and exploring different efforts for improving security of critical OSS projects, and making it sustainable! If any of these projects sound interesting, come join us in the OpenSSF Working Groups!

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"alternative facts"

As someone said, we're living in the post-truth era.
My "challenging problem" is that I use CSRF tokens, which is a minimal requirement of any non-toy project.
"Hunter Biden's drug issues" were never blocked.
One issue is that it’s asymmetrical. Made up statements have more resonance and shocking value than well thought rebuffs or ridicule.

If you accuse your opponent of eating babies at breakfast, other parties will have a hard time to find something as punchy, and some minority of people will swallow your statement. Throw around enough of these and you’ll have a large base covered, with your opponents left scrambling for boring or after the fact retorts that won’t have the same reach.
That's the point of protocols. It doesn't matter if it's a duck or not, what matters is that it can quack. Like in case of iterable, it doesn't matter what it is, what matters is that you can iterate over it. You can as well rely inheritance if you want.
There's a surprising number of MAJOR CHANGES done at big name companies (changing programming language is a common one) because a senior engineer or other high ranking person didn't understand the existing one.
Not surprising at all. Here's a detailed post on how Amazon treats its Software engineers:
https://www.teamblind.com/post/PIP-culture-at-Amazon-BUdioYM...

I expect this comment to be downvoted to oblivion as well, by the PR team.
I personally believe Java wouldn’t have been successful 5 years earlier, during the time when everyone was encrypting their code. It was an inacceptable trade-off before Internet. After internet, most software is partly online anyway.
> The team looked at 28 sharks, most of which had died after being caught in fishing nets as by-catch.

Nice job- the shark had done just fine for ~400 years.
The companies that pay for access can use it in their marketing. “You can feel good about ordering from our food delivery service, our drivers don’t have to pee in bottles.”
If you have a problem with an Oracle database you can have a support person on your place in a very short time, willing to share all the kinds of knowledge that Postgres developers publish on their site from the start (and nothing more, but they will answer your specific technical questions, what is good because with Oracle, you will have a lot of them).

I still don't know what is the fuzz with SQL Server support. AFAIK, no Microsoft support will ever help you in any way.
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Trump is so incoherent and self-contradictory that any characterization is necessarily a mischaracterization. He's "not even wrong" in human form.
Interesting, I always thought it was the other way around.

It would authenticate who you are, but you have authorize the people yourself later.
Why can't you just build libraries to make Go a better language for data science? There's already Go support for a Jupyter Notebooks kernel: https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes
Since I didn't specify earlier when I wrote this post, if you're wondering the video he made it in - he and his wife have been live streaming on Youtube for the last year. They always make food (and mixed drinks), but its much more of an unstructured glimpse of their personal lives than a cooking show.

This is the episode where they make his mac and cheese recipe:

https://youtu.be/2aRzkIZna20
yes... takes too long to get there. Also I played way before those existed.
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This entire new line of tactic from Amazon feels especially slimy, even for them.

From the minor "Naming their PR account 'Amazon News'", through the intentionally misleading post you caked it, to the outright gas-lighting / lying about drivers having to urinate and defecate in bags and bottles in their cars in order to meet their monitored times.

This is an bad direction they are looking to take us down. It's staring to smell like the 1800s.
Linux kernel has a lot of these compile time optional struct members.

I think they avoid this issue by using a config header file that contains the defines, so the compilation unit either compiles with the config header, or if it's not included and config macro is used, compilation fails altogether.

It's still possible to include different config header than you're expecting, though. But that's easier to defend against. (you can just include a config header directly via cmd line without using #include <...> in each compilation unit)

It's also better to use #if MACRO = 1 instead of #ifdef MACRO, because the first one will fail if MACRO is not defined.
I used to be a mechanic and owned a shop and was knee deep in car culture, but motorcycles really stole the spotlight as I've aged.

They're less fun to work on imo but so much more rewarding to own and drive. I get so much pleasure out of my bikes that other automotive types can't provide.

The dollar to smile ratio is also way better.
You know what they also all of in common? Zero innovation since decades.

And German car engineering is mostly known for being overly complicated, I say that as a German.
Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python/Django.
It's a made up lie.
Actors are in a union and they get profit-sharing and individual performance-based pay.
https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
Are there plans for donating funds and engineering talent to open source projects that may not be equipped to handle staying abreast of the latest security practices?
Companies can get away with serving 90% of the market or less, but places like the DMV and other government divisions have to serve 100% of the people - including those who even when presented with a library computer are unable to utilize it effectively.

Foisting support costs off to libraries is another example of the tragedy of the commons.
Thanks, that explains it. Been searching the Divine Box site for a minute now and no sign of that cheese.
Yea. This page isn't about Designing a Programming Language. The page is about Implementing an Interpreter of a Programming Language without any actual design, just implementation.
I thought the register article was written in a clickbait way.

Reuters actually had the scoop over 24 hours before the register.
/e/ is easily, EASILY the worst name for a product I have ever seen. I don't know how to pronounce it, I can't Google it, I can't make a guess what it's domain might be. Just awful in every possible way.
Observation: This describes the current state at a 12 year old, ~400 employee (probably 120+ engineers) company. They have evolved a process that works for them at this stage.

I feel like something like this should have been the preface to this post.

(I'm imagining someone from a ~10-25 engineer company reading this and figuring that if you don't have devops runbooks you're doing it wrong.)
No, but they’re probably not from male “dairy cows.”
No, beef cows make calves. The heifers are kept to make more calves. The males are castrated and get turned into beef.
I would still need N sites to ultimately resolve the specific room the keys are located it, and it would complicated my RSS feed because more than one would resolve to "yes". No, each room in my house must have its own sue & domain.

Actually I would need more sites under that method: an 8 room house would need a site for each side of the 4/4 split, then another for each 2/2 split, then 1 for each room.
Please substantiate the claim about how "cmake fights that at every possible step." There's so much hyperbole in your statement that it really does seem like you've spent "years of experience with cmake" futzing around.
That's a pretty cheeky comment: You've got one karma and just created the account; GP has been around for awhile.
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This is a reasonable assessment, with the most relevant portions quoted directly.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/19/how-the-new-york-tim...

A current example of such bad journalism is the May 15, 2020
edition of the New York Times. On the front page of the
Times (and “above the fold” to boot) is Peter Baker’s article
on Trump’s latest campaign against President Barack
Obama, now given the politically charged catchphrase of
“Obamagate.” The charge is a typical Trumpian diversionary
tactic that has no substantive or evidentiary basis in fact.
Meanwhile, on the inside pages of the Times, we find the
testimony of a courageous whistleblower, Dr. Rick Bright, the
former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and
Development Authority, who documented the Trump
administration’s dereliction of duty in responding to the
Covid-19 crisis. Bright’s testimony was definitely front
page news.

The “Obamagate” charge is disinformation, a total fraud. It
should be confined to the echo chambers of Fox News and
right-wing social media. But Baker’s article gives the story
greater legs, and it is a perfect example of the false
equivalence that has dominated the Times’ coverage of Trump
since his campaign in 2015. Half the article was devoted
to Trump’s grievances with his predecessor, and Senator
Lindsay Graham’s immediate willingness to investigate the
phony charges. And half was devoted to the fact that the
accusations involved “undefined and unspecified crimes.”
The following day, an article in the Times concluded that it
was Trump’s “unbending…belief” that Obama was “personally
involved in a plot against him.” It is impossible to know
what Trump actually believes so why would the Times give
him the benefit of the doubt?
I've been doing this for years too. I also learned instead of one big file, halving several files is also useful so you can release space in "chunks". If you need everything at once you can wildcard the delete.

Such flexibility has been invaluable over the years. Thankfully with block storage and modern operating systems/file systems growing volumes can be significantly easier for most servers.
As someone who is happy to pay for good software, I can't ever see myself buying a paid version of something (no matter how good it might be) if the author has a history of using dark patterns and showing their apparent contempt for their users with the "free" edition. I'd be constantly wondering what other traps might be lurking in there.
Long expressions with matrix operations is a pretty standard example. When people talk about operator overloading in data science, they usually mean “standard operations on various arrays of numbers,” which are defined in common libraries or the programming language. Not “I need to define my own ad hoc equalities.”
Assuming you bothered to look at any tech site or remotely reputable news sight, it was quite easy. There were literally hundreds of thousands of people watching video simultaneously and posting the important stuff to twitter, reddit, HERE, cnn, fox, pick your major network of choice that wasn't RT or OANN or insert far-right "news" network.

I'm not sure what country you're from, but here in America there was no amount of "stitching together" that would make me believe storming the capital in order to prevent the peaceful transition of power was anything other than sedition. By definition.
yes, security and malicious updates on hacked repos is another concern
Though I agree with your points, and do not like CMake either (I tend to much prefer autotools or plain make) there has been a time when I saw the use of it: maintaining a software with developers both on Windows using VS and Linux using make.
Perhaps there is space for monthly "Who's raising?" and/or "Who's investing?" threads.
Ding Ding Ding! They aren't misaligned, they are flat-out perverse incentives.
The middle class is also much, much poorer.
I can vouch for this toothpaste (it's called Repair & Protect). After about a week of use, no more pain when eating or drinking cold things. It had gotten so bad that I could hardly swirl even lukewarm water (do see a dentist too though if you have problems).

There are independent studies confirming the efficacy. The active ingredient binds to dentite and forms a protective layer, which lasts about a day.

It's OTC in Europe but afaik on prescription in the US. Maybe buy it from an EU web shop, it's no more expensive than a regular toothpaste.
It's a tale as old as time - and it's not just "old people" either. The number of young brilliant people who seem to have a mental block around computers is larger than you might think. I've had people call and ask why they can't login and when they share screen the webpage has a huge graphic telling them to approve the notification on their phone (TFA). They don't even read it.

And it's not their fault! People have only a limited capacity for things. Imagine if your car changed how it worked every week or so when you sat down to drive - driving would be nearly impossible.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/12/12
The article-title-rewriting thing has actually made this sound _more_ clickbaity. The original title prepends the word "how" which is much better.
It’s worth noting that esperanto predates the era of English as an international language. Back when Zamenhof designed esperanto, French was the closest thing to an international language that unlocked the vast world of literature, media, culture, etc.
What about people who don't know how to read? Are they served by all government services?

No idea how you think this is a tragedy of the commons situation. It is definitely better to digitize everything and serve the 0.1% (certainly not anywhere close to 10%) with additional support that helps them use the digital service, rather than having non-digital fallbacks for significantly more expense.
I really don't understand what Amazon is trying to do here, but this was so baffling that some employees thought the account was hacked and they cut tickets to the security team.