skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is not true i have a default for £40 for a phone sim that they charged me for for 6 months after i cancelled.

I do not owe them the money yet they sold the debt. Nobody cares ... I now have a default on my credit reference.

The whole industry is crooked
yup!

A really affordable entry into this that I've found is Epomaker keyboards. I struggled to find the exact layout I wanted in an affordable QMK keyboard. Their software sucks but it works and profiles are stored to the keyboard so it can come with you wherever. They also have split space-bar and 3 space-bar options which is really nice for adding modifier keys beyond Caps-lock or rebinding backspace or escape into a more comfortable position.

I realize this is starting to sound like an ad, but my biggest challenge getting into fully reprogrammable keyboards was the huge price tag once you start narrowing features. In my case, a 60% keyboard that retained arrow keys would have been $200+ for a QMK supported model. The Epomaker I picked up was $65 or so.
how did Nintendo save the video game market?
Deontology is the worst thing that ever happened to ethical philosophy. Kant can rot in hell where he belongs for it.
Adderall is amphetamine salts not methamphetamine. While methamphetamine can be prescribed for ADHD/occasionally weight loss, it's pretty rare in the US. That said, the mechanism of action is very similar
Half a million Americans are dead. This is wartime. We don't have time to coddle bureaucrats who make awful decisions.
Sounds similar to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santayana

Looks like Burke lived a century+ earlier.
It took me a long time to gain speed on Dvorak and I'm not much faster than on Qwerty but the amount of effort required to type is significantly less - absolutely worth it.
Machine learning powers Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm
all names are bad. geez this is the most trivial thing in tech.
What about the Verizon Math incident? Verizon charging 100x over a math mistake and refusing to update or refund. What criminal charges were made there?
I am not familiar with the Tivoization issue, but v3 solves one showstopper problem with v2: v2 has no real patent release. To me this puts v2 in the same category as MIT/X11 and BSD: archaic licenses that no one should ever use except for the most trivial of projects.

Linux is chock full of potential patent release deathtraps: that it is still using v2 is kinda scary.
> You presume management has the capability to judge the quality of the work.

I presume there was a job which needed doing, which is why management hired someone to do it. Management may have difficulty evaluating the quality or extent of the work done on any given day, but they should at least be able to evaluate whether it was done at all.

My point is location tracking doesn't provide management any assurances that the employee has done their job at all, much less how well they did it. It's a breach of the employee's privacy which doesn't even further management's goals any more than my privacy-respecting scanner solution.
You seem certain that given a political foundation of “service capitalism” another player will be “better”.

I’m not buying apps from wannabes who can vanish or buying into an app market that could go tits up the next week.

The market as a whole is basically Google; here today, gone tomorrow.
fair point. actually, i think i may have misunderstood the problem. ssh can tunnel anything, so whatever new protocol is devised, it should actually work though ssh.

also i am not disputing that a new system could not be decoupled. i am just concerned that it should not be required to work with ssh if that becomes a limiting factor.

architecture astronautitis is certainly bad, but maybe it's possible to create an implementation with a limited subset of features that are actually practical.
There's a similar ugly dynamic at work with H1Bs, particularly in tech.
Hard choices as link between AZ vaccine and rare clotting becomes clearer
A real guard needs to run a somewhat random schedule, otherwise attackers will figure out the pattern. I don't need to know how long you spend in the bathroom (unless it is excessive), that is just data that I happen to get by tracking to ensure there is enough randomness in your patterns. It should go without saying that guards need sufficient time to handle biology needs, and this varies a bit.
Unless the cops were told they absconded with the truck.

An abusive trucking company can accuse their drivers of steeling trucks or cargo when they're behind schedule. I've never heard of that happening, but I don't doubt the poster who said it does. It's too bad we don't come down harder on those who make such bad faith accusations of steeling.
>My mindset wasn't that they really cared that I could do these obscure programming exercises that I hadn't used once in 20+ years of real-world programming, but rather that I could prove that I could learn and adapt.

This is how bad interviewers always justify asking nonsensical questions.

It's like that old joke:

An interviewer picks up a stack of 50 resumes, takes a glance at them and drops the bottom half into a wastebasket. A coworker asks:

'Why did you discard those candidates?'

The interviewer replies:

'Because I hate losers.'
No Code (of conduct) for old men
It took me two years before I could switch between Dvorak an Qwerty without much difficulty. Four years later, I can now rapidly switch between the two. The only problem is remembering which layout I have turned on, but once that's clear, there's not a problem anymore. I haven't practiced since the first year, but all that time I frequently switch because I work with multiple computers and RDP sessions where the layout doesn't carry over. Touch typing with Dvorak came after learning the muscle memory for typing characters, and afterwards with Qwerty, it was muscle memory for words/phrases that got me typing well again.
That’s incredibly wasteful of him and unscientific.
I wasn't familiar with "Tivoization" either but I found that there's a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization
> mystery behind ant locomotion: https://i.imgur.com/7Zh6Im5.gif

This is awesome. They walk like us, but instead of two legs they use two tripods.
> Actually, modern vehicle manufacturing is mostly bottle-necked on software and much of the added value comes via software powered by hardware accelerated machine learning.

Really? My major concern with any car I have used ever has never been software.
It should be possible, but for many people, another person's opinion on these vaccines is a binary value. It's either right or wrong, and if it's wrong the person is summarily dismissed as having any relevant input to the conversation. Worrisome is correct.
This is a fair position to have, but maybe a follow-up question:

If you're able to share your thoughts without giving away private info from your time there: Based on this particular scam - with so many bad reviews AND the extremely high revenue being generated, should this not have tripped some kind of alarm for closer review?

How has this been going on for so long without anyone at Apple noticing? It's not like it's lost in a sea of minor apps generating middling income, it's literally in the top tenth-of-a-percent by gross revenue.

And I would bet a LOT of money that there are plenty of people at Apple who are well paid to closely watch their top performing apps. So how does this get missed, unless "is this a scam?" just isn't high on the list of priorities for those teams.

I think it's absolutely fair to question Apple's commitment to catching this stuff based on that.

Perhaps they are great at catching all the low-hanging fruit and the obvious stuff, but what if something gets through that first net? Is anyone paying attention then? Or are they just watching the money roll in?
Having done it myself, I don't find that I lose the knowledge or experience as you described.

I approach it more as learning different techniques to solve different problems, rather than learning how to identify the trick and recall the solution to specific cues.

Trying to memorize solutions isn't really effective for interview problems, in my experience, unless you really can dedicate time to cramming as many solutions as possible right before an interview and hoping that they ask you one you've seen before.
> Mexico is good at street food, France just isn't.

Do pancakes (Breton galettes and crêpes) count as street food ?
To be honest, I always thought the IE issue was stupid, and surely from a modern perspective it even more bonkers. Google has an OS that is literally a browser engine, they're not the only one, and web technologies are commonly built into OSes nowadays at a low level.

The other anti-trust claims against MS were I think largely credible and reasonable, but that one really has not aged well.
> It is that it is an unknown side effect that did not come up in the original studies.

Well, obviously it didn't. Exactly because it is so rare

A clinical study with (I think) 30k people can't detect something that's 1 in a million case
I'd agree, with the caveat that cool only ever means powerful, and that's the dynamic I think the article indicates is changing.
> but it would be unwise to not give people an educated choice between vaccines if there are known risks

They are not giving people an educated choice, they are taking that choice away until they deem it okay to give it back. Education is knowing that 7/7,000,000 had a blood clot + the other tests that were done leading up to its release. We know that now. We're educated.
I guess people who want to avoid paying will start packing more frames into a file now? I wonder if there's a limit to how many things you can put into one file...

(EDIT: Someone mentioned it below - you're limited to 3 "pages" per file now. I guess that means 3 frames.)

Also, I am using the starter and created a Team to work on stuff with my friend. Will the limitations affect our team project which already has more than 3 files?

Oh, I see it in the article now:

> These changes don't apply to files created before April 21, 2021, only files you create after this date.

Looks like we're going to have to start paying :)
The problem with this line of thinking is that a brain by itself is not intelligent, it has to be inside a live person who has sensory access to the outside world. Hawkins suggests the neocortex is the center of language and music, but those skills require a counter party to communicate with and the hearing sense, as well as a mountain of historical sensations that put music in context. A brain in a vat doesn’t have any of these, even though it has the exact same neural structure.
And on the flip side, the middle class and working poor are forced to use tons of financial systems with zero forgiveness or margin for error. "Come on guys, can't you see that was a honest mistake? Can't you cut me a little slack?" is always met with an look of disgust and an insinuation that no, you're an adult and must always do everything perfectly or get brutally penalized for it. In a fair world, this insanely rigid standard would apply both ways, but of course, life is unfair.
I've been designing UIs for 15 years, from Photoshop 6.0 to Sketch to Figma. I LOVE Figma. It makes it easy to do things that will be easier to develop, and makes it much harder to do things that "break" layout rules. End result is more consistent UIs, clearer component structure in code, and much happier developers.
"So the six reported cases in 6.8 million vaccinations seems low."

No, because those 6 cases are something more like "1 per day" rather than "per year". Or maybe "per week". But either way, you need to multiply the "per year" base rate by a large number to get the base rate for "coincidentally happened immediately after a particular event", for some definition of "immediately".
This seems strange, aren't the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines built using the exact same mRNA sequence?
Are you referring to AGPL? Or RSAL/SSPL?
I am not aware of any published recommendations backed by evidence for this. Give that, this seems highly irresponsible and a waste of two doses of Moderna vaccine that would be far effective in the fight against COVID if given to someone who actually has not been vaccinated.
I'm not defending Apple, and I dislike the walled garden model too, but you can't just blindly claim that this is a failure and a non-walled method would do a better job without any evidence.
As prescribed, it's at a much lower dosage. Adderall is tuned in 10mg increments, and meth is sold by the gram. Moreover, you absolutely can get addicted to and have serious health problems from prescribed medication -- it's a balance of risk versus reward. A handful of people prescribed stimulants have suffered sudden cardiac death.

The main difference here is modality of use -- taking something, once per day, in controlled doses, is very very different from taking something until you feel good. With a prescription, you also have a steady supply and no need to commit crimes to keep up your supply. So the societal problems from drug abuse, like overdose, increased criminality, and breakdown of relations don't happen with prescription drugs to the same extent, even if it's the same substance. Look at when the opoid crisis became a crisis -- it was when cheap, easy opioids stopped being available.
If this were the case it would be odd that this is happening a.) in a consistent subset of women 18-38
b.) that it would emerge in a 1-shot regimen rather than a 2-shot regimen, because it would seem more likely that any one individual would experience this more frequently with 2 chances for human error rather than 1
Java Snippets You Should Always Carry with You
These are not really good examples. India, Mexico, etc. were different cultures with thousands of years of history as independent entities. Novorossiya and indeed large parts of the current political state of Ukraine were a part of "Russia" for hundreds of years. Ukraine itself didn't really exist as a unified state from the end of the Kievan Rus (13th century) until the 20th century and was mostly a battleground between Poland, Russia, and the Ottoman Empire.

Like I said, it's complicated. Does that justify Russia's actions? I don't know and I am deliberately explaining this in a neutral way.
> It does not seem completely impossible to me that a superintelligence might analyze all of the experiments performed in the particle colliders of the world and generate a "theory of everything" based on the data we have so far. It's possible that we have all of the pieces and just haven't put them together yet.

I would note that, while not completely impossible, it is very unlikely, given all estimates of how small the effect of quantum gravity would be, requiring much higher energies than currently possible to measure.
Another classic focusing on the 18-year aspect: Soldier Excited To Take Over Father’s Old Afghanistan Patrol Route

https://local.theonion.com/soldier-excited-to-take-over-fath...
This is not something programmers and other wild HN dwellers are accustomed to hearing, but there is a very strong case to suggest that intelligence, the universal kind, is not possible without empathy. Worry about alignment in machines, not in human-likes.
I've never been asked to install any apps (nor would I) but we did have the option of giving the company a MAC address for automatic clockin when arriving at the office (this was prior to Covid - we're mostly all remote now). I would've also refused that but I never had anyone pressure me to do it.
did you mean your wife's boyfriend?
Both vaccines are mRNA based, not sure what your daughter’s boyfriend is trying to achieve here. Really wasteful.
Illustrator is an illustration tool. Even Adobe is pushing XD. Figma has thoroughly taken over the web design space. Every company and agency I've worked with in the past 5 years are on the bandwagon. And before that it was Sketch and before that it was mostly Photoshop which was also a very mismatched tool.
What makes you say he's bad at finishing things? He stuck with his startup for 5+ years. That shows a good amount of perseverance.

What makes you say he never dug into the technology he's using? He clearly dug into it enough to release a couple finished products - that's more than most engineers can say.

My guess is that your lack of sympathy is an indicator of having not faced this degree of failure in your own life, else you wouldn't take such a cynical perspective.
By not stopping it will forever by 7 out of 7 million.

By stopping they can at least find out if it's 5000 out of 7 million (and more deaths).
I think you've got a lot more ideology than facts going on in this post.

> started laser focusing on making sure that everybody gets exactly the same amount of everything all the time

This doesn't sound at all like the America in which I've lived my whole life. Just in my life alone there's been Reagan's legacy, Clinton's welfare reforms, Bush's tax cuts, the 2008 financial crisis and the fallout, and that's when I started to stop paying attention because it was getting too depressing.

Looking at China, they're at least trying to eliminate poverty whereas here it seems like our goal is to make it worse, and help a few billionaires get richer along the way.
Wasteful of his employer, not him.
To be fair, Afghanistan was a huge drug producer before the US/NATO invaded. Have they become a giant consumer as well?
This is an excellent way of putting it.

Also please understand that as employers we make people do this silly dance because it's the best way we, and frankly anyone, knows to reduce the risk of hiring high quality candidates.

I can understand the frustration of doing the silly dance for companies that don't pay competitively and think they are at the same level as Google minus the pay... but for companies paying among the top 5%, we get flooded and flooded with resumes and while you may be a good person, present yourself nicely (and those are all good things to do), and even impress with a resume, it's simply too risky to hire you on that basis without seeing a demonstration of your technical abilities.

When I started out I really was dead-set against hiring people based on the silly dance... after making a lot of bad hires and seeing people who looked impressive on paper but couldn't apply some basic algorithmic knowledge to solve some problems I succumbed to using the silly dance and honestly the quality of candidates I hired improved substantially.
100% agreed that sharing styles with @apply is exactly how to solve this.

However Tailwind tells users they shouldn't be doing this, encouraging them to paste the same mixins on every element they want them.
If you complete all four lines on the vaccination card do you get a free sub sandwich or something?
Yes. And that is why when something like this pops up we stop giving out the treatment while we look at the new data and make the decision.
Not specifically. But when I got vaccinated the nurse told me she expected booster shots to come out later for the major vaccines.
I like Linus's generalization of (in my words):

- If you like the idea of sharing code and want people to share code back. Use GPL

- If you like the idea of sharing code, and merely want credit for it. Use BSD.

Your point about patent is an import part of his generalization that is not addressed.

GPLv3 solves the first bucket WRT patents. Is there a license that falls under Linus's SECOND bucket, that solves the patent issue?

EDIT: formatting and clarifying words.
US troops 'to leave Afghanistan by 11 September'
if you hold the view that all jobs are more or less useless in the grand scheme of things, learning that dance is not even something to think about.

for most people not getting a job is not an option, because they need food and probably a roof to sleep in.

if you take these two things into account, the name of the game then is how fast can you get away from needing a job.

the higher you earn the more of your expected lifetime you can get to be your fully.

that free time you bought for yourself and the money you can spend doing research, sitting in a sunny beach, on non profits, on a giant room full of candy or whatever you deem to be worth it for you.
There's an imbalance with information here, just like there was with the USSR back in the day. The U.S. is an open book that anyone can peer into; China is the opposite. Complicating matters is that the main lens into the U.S. is through 24 hr news orgs that long ago abandoned objectivity for sensationalism. It's easy to conclude something is in decline if all you ever see is perpetual chaos. The reality is, mostly, a lot more chill and nuanced.
The CDC has been horrible on this topic. They’ve been incredibly reluctant to say that vaccinated people can act any differently than non-vaccinated people...
I've been out of high school for several years and out of "traditional" public school for several years longer so my anecdata might not be the most accurate, but from what I hear and from those I know, this sort of curriculum is rapidly becoming the norm in most schools and has already become engrained in many.

There was a pair of articles [0][1] published in The Atlantic earlier this year that offer another account in another district. I found them very well-written and I think they went into more depth and from a different perspective than TFA here.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/03/should-bla...
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/black-live...
ADHD meds are definitely not methamphetamines. They are amphetamine salts. Methamphetamine can be prescribed in rare cases but that isn’t the typical treatment at all.
Ask HN: Will Rust become a good career choice?
I’d love to be a full time rust developer.

Rust is very hard to learn and time consuming too.

And there’s very few rust jobs out there.

So I wonder if investing my time in learning rust will eventually lead to a career in a world in which rust is commonplace.

Or is learning rust just a difficult to learn hobby?
Madness. The main people who get screwed by this are
Canadian citizens/residents. Everyone else would do fine without visiting Canada. (I know such rules are precisely for preventing people from visiting Canada, and I'm sure it's working...). I hope countries will change such policies for vaccinated people soon.
The principle of the issue is requiring personal property for the job when there are well-known, safer alternatives such as the RSA SecureID. What happens if your phone freezes or completely dies? What if an attacker who can access the first factor of authentication can remotely access your phone?

Why risk it?
This vaccine is similar to the AZ one which seems to have an elevated rate over a much larger sample size. Thus a pattern here that matches patterns we expect of the AZ vaccine suggests this has the same problem even though if we take the data alone it is still within the range of normal.

As such 1 is no longer correct, if we didn't have a compare these numbers are high but within expected chance. However these numbers are looking like within the range of the compare even more than normal.
We’re still learning how vaccines will affect the spread of COVID-19. After you’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking precautions—like wearing a mask, staying 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces—in public places until we know more.

This requires more justification. If we took the cautious choice every time we didn’t have all the facts, civilization would collapse.

We may not have gold standard scientific studies but what is our best guess of the distribution of possible consequences of fully vaccinated people attending medium or large gatherings? How do those balance against our best guess of the distribution of costs of continuing to bar such attendance?

Where’s the analysis?