skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's extra frustrating because organizations like the CDC get held to lower standards than anyone else. They can make a pronouncement recommending the use of face masks for SARS-CoV-2 community transmission when the body of the research confirms that (a) such intervention has never been tried in an RCT and indeed the whole "my mask protects you" hypothesis is intentionally unfalsifiable, (b) the research literature documents numerous negative impacts whereas the positive impact on transmission is completely unproven at best, and yet their evidence-less pronouncement is considered evidence in its own right and such a pronouncement is used as a citation in Wikipedia articles, etc.

(Just using masking as an example, if any onlookers strongly believe that masking is efficacious for the stated purpose just imagine I gave a different example, although I don't see how anyone could reach that conclusion about masking specifically based on the research literature out there which is neutral at best)

Or as another example, the CDC loves to try to encourage people to take the flu vaccine, and yet I was shocked to discover that it takes 71 flu shots to prevent a single flu case, 29 flu shots to prevent one ILI (this is a better number than the flu case number since really we care about ILI in general, but even so 29 is an abysmal number), AND that regardless of the mediocre reduction in cases/ILI, it makes essentially no difference in hospitalizations.

Citation on the flu vaccine stuff: https://www.cochrane.org/CD001269/ARI_vaccines-prevent-influ...

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I didn't realize until this year how much of "public health" involves (a) actively and intentionally lying to the public (for example, if you read about the AIDS crisis you learn about the "noble lies" told about who was vulnerable as well as the not-even-noble lies like when Fauci told people you could get AIDS from close contact with someone with AIDS when the scientific evidence showed that to be false), and (b) is really a giant marketing campaign for various big pharma interests (I say that as someone who is an unashamed free-market capitalist, not that the US is actually a true free market when it comes to the pharma/medical industry)
You get peanut butter, Dakatine brand, and it’s actually quite good, not overly oily or sweetened, just honest roasted and ground peanuts. It’s mostly bought by African immigrants, however, not locals.
In year 2000 and until 2003-2005 no one cared about wireless.
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Wasn't aware that the printing press could instantaneously distribute material to a majority of the people on Earth within seconds, at virtually no cost.

The parallels between the Internet and the printing press may be many, but the differences are IMO vastly greater.
Many people seem to think there must be something wrong with OP's skills or interview style.

I'd just like to point out that it's possible they're a perfectly competent hire and just got unlucky.

If a competent engineer has a 20% chance of passing an interview, the probability that they fail 10 interviews in a row due to pure bad luck is 10.7% (.8^10).

The chance that the same competent engineer gets an offer in 3 or less interviews is 50% (.2+.8.2+.8^2.2).

So, it makes sense that most competent engineers will believe it's easy to get a job offer (after all, most will get an offer after 3 or fewer tries). However, a small but significant portion of competent engineers will believe it's exceedingly difficult and become disillusioned. The truth is somewhere in between.
It seems you skipped preliminary hearing in September 2020.
Judge already asked why Epic thinks Apple walled garden (closed platform) is illegal while such types of businesses were legal for decades.

Also judge rejected comparison of open and closed platforms. So she asked Epic lawyers what's the difference between Apple's closed platform and Xbox/PlayStation and Nintendo.

Epic lawyers failed badly without answering. Also failed to answer question when did Apple become monopoly.
Thanks for feedback!

Mousewheel should pan! You can hold down spacebar to pan anywhere (also dragging). Clicking the 100% in the toolbar lets you zoom. Some more shortcuts here https://twitter.com/_paulshen/status/1381744260945379331

Which example isn't working for you? and I plan to add more examples (maybe community?) and interactive tutorial in the future!
The Department of Education had ruled that this violated civil rights laws at the end of Trump's term due to a case going on in Illinois.

Biden's very first EO caused the DOE to reverse course and suspend their previous decision that it violated civil rights laws and now creating racial affinity groups in schools is ok according to the DOE.

https://nypost.com/2021/03/07/education-dept-curbs-decision-...
Well, you may not be (or see yourself) an anti-vaxxer, and your right that it's not necessarily wise to label everyone as such who have concerns with these vaccines, but it also doesn't mean that your excuses make sense.

The batch is not "rushed" more than it's needed: there IS an emergency. It's also not experimental. The experiments have all been done (up to phase 3). It's perfectly normal to only see 1 in a million (or even 1:100 000) side effects after starting the vaccination of the general public. Simply because the phase 3 will never contain millions of people. I've checked, and the 30-40k studies we had with these seem to be indeed large. I.e. safe.

What you think about your immune system is kind of irrelevant for a few reasons, but talking up their immune system seems to be a general self-convincing strategy for a lot of people. First of all, it's not apparent that you have contracted the virus. Unless you have an antibody test showing that you are seropositive, you simply don't know, but the chances aren't very high. What you can be sure about is that you have not contracted "all" variants. If you live in the UK then you had the chance to meet the UK variant (B117, IIRC) and the base variant (D6.... whatever). Very likely not both. And the immunity for the base variant seems to work pretty well for the UK variant, so it doesn't even matter if you met both.

But even if you know you are already immune, the natural immunity doesn't last that long. The vaccines give you higher antibody levels (at least the mRNA ones do, again IIRC) and better immunity especially due to the second dose. (Which you can't really simulate with a second infection within a few weeks.)

And at last: you can't generalize from your own experience. Looking at the numbers, which we do have a lot of, people who haven't met the virus and don't have immunity should by all means get the vaccine. Because the virus is a lot more dangerous (several orders of magnitude more dangerous) than even the J&J or the AZ vaccine. Though the exact risk profile will depend on individual factors, of course, but since you've talked about all vaccines...
IV injection of adenovirus gene therapy vectors is well known to cause thrombocytopenia.
I'm genuinely curious, what are you all guys doing? Why are you not using CS in your jobs?

I've never worked in a large company, never had a salary that is even close to US engineer level, and yet I regularly write code that traverses complex graph structures (often with recursive CTEs in SQL), just because that's how a lot of real-life data is structured. I spent this weekend debugging this traversal, in fact. And that's only the 'trees and graphs' example from the top of my head, as I've found myself constantly using all the different CS stuff throughout my career.

This is not an attempt to attack anyone or an attempt to appear superior. If anything, I'm constantly reminded by how stupid and uneducated I am when I'm reading HN comments. I'm just trying to understand: are you guys really spending your whole days changing button colours?
Not far higher, the population-based average is roughly 99.0%, but varies depending on gender and age [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2918-0/figures/2
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False. Truck drivers are not tracked. Trucks are tracked.

Truck drivers are often in their trucks but they are not personally tracked. There is a difference. If the sanitation workers mop and bucket were tracked it would still be silly but much less offensive than asking someone to download a tracking app on their personal device that much be with them at all times.
I’m sure there has to be a better way to introduce the audience to FLoC. I’m over five paragraphs in and the article hasn’t properly articulated what is FLoC and _why_ it is bad. Just that it is bad.
True, but as far as I know we don't have any official documents, mandates, about this turn inward.

While for Qing we have a ton of proof about this policy.

I'd definitely use Qing as the archetypal example of isolationism. Especially since Qing was the absolute peak of China in terms of territorial expansion, global influence, share of the world economy. Qing China in 1650 - 1700 truly had no rival.
I'm not insisting that a claim is true just because an authority says it is. You can't just bring up "appeal to authority" and call it a day.

I'm insisting that the average unqualified individual should not think they have a better chance of being correct over the authorities in question.

There's no other rational option for unqualified individuals than to listen to medical authorities unless you have a medical degree yourself and have read and analyzed the research yourself.
Well, yeah, it's a centralized stablecoin. The advantage is that it can be used in Ethereum contracts in DeFi. If you want a stablecoin with no trust assumptions (other than the protocol and governance), there's MakerDAO's DAI.
SW industry lacks clear terms for proficiency levels and different skills. Programmer, developer, SW engineer, etc. are all interchangeable.

In other professions, you can distinguish between, say mechanic/technician and mechanical engineer.

The author of this piece seems like a very experienced good "software mechanic". He can work independently and build stuff, but he is not a "software engineer". "always used ORM", not skilled in SQL is an indicator of narrow knowledge based on just completing tasks and learning by doing. That's fine but it also sets some limits.

He could find a well-paying job and interesting work if he would not have to apply for every vaguely defined SW job there is.
The article links to FLoC[0] but the site gives me a 404. I used Google, a popular web search engine, to discover what FLoC stands for[1].

> Federated Learning of Cohorts

> a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves: in this case, boiling down your recent browsing activity into a behavioral label, and then sharing it with websites and advertisers

[0] https://blog.google/products/ad

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-...
Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power
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You've got several questions in here, so I'll just answer my take on one.

Google "Israel Covid Cases."

One March 14, the seven-day average was 2,486.
As of April 12, the seven-day average is 222.

Israel surpassed 50 percent of its population with at least one dose on Feb. 24, 2021. Shortly after that, its cases dropped like a rock.

So, do vaccines work? While correlation does not equal causation, it's some pretty strong evidence that yes, the vaccines are working.

I have no idea if Israel is doing other things like masks, social distancing, and more in addition to vaccines.
Speaking as a payments industry insider, it's surprising to me, but PayPal payments represent a huge proportion of online payments, and they're on an uptick. I'm not sure why.

I mostly use PayPal when there's some kind of promotion that gives me an incentive, such as extra credit card rewards, or a cash back offer. I think a lot of people find it convenient to use PayPal for ecommerce because they don't have to get their credit card out, just enter their PayPal password.
A company that is independent from advertisers like Google and Facebook.
Simpler example of the issue:

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I actually believe that if they allowed side-loading it would be one of the best ways to guarantee that they continue capturing 30% of revenue in perpetuity. This is because they could actually for the first time make developers feel like they're getting something for that 30%, as opposed to it being an "existence tax". Apple could actually with a straight face say "hey, you don't HAVE to be on the store, try doing it on your own". This is much different than the current Hobson's Choice of "you don't have to be on the store, you could just not have an app" which feels increasingly shallow in a duopoly, which gets to another important point: they'd actually have a fantastic argument for regulators: competitors really do have choices other than Apple! It would be very hard to argue that Apple should cater to your app that they don't like when there is another way to deliver that app to all the same customers (that doesn't involve first convincing them to switch platforms).

I honestly believe that some sort of side-loading option would be best for any cynical Apple interests long-term and for developers and for users.

The current course of action just leads to developer frustration (which is fine until a disruptive player enters the market), a super shitty store that leaves customers pissed (with scams, etc.), constant churn in rules to try to appease everyone and kick the can another 2 years (like the 15% reduction), and worst of all, unwanted attention from regulators that could have chaotic effects.
You left out the part which contradicts your claim.

> Don't send the Referer header to less secure destinations (HTTPS→HTTP).

The referer header is still sent from HTTPS to HTTPS.
You seem to be treating a generalization as an absolute. I don't think that's what the original author meant and if it were, I don't know that I'd agree. Did you have a point beyond picking a very small nit?
KeyVault is ideal when combined with Managed Identities. I would not leverage any service that required a connection string to access a secret.
I agree. GPLv2 was about keeping the software free. The tivoization issue addresses a (relatively) newer issue, to protect full control over hardware and software. Which is, IMO, not within the scope of a software license -- it took many of us by surprise that the "or later" clause was used to change the fundamental meaning of the license in that manner.

Some of us were always suspicious before the change -- "what if RMS sells out and v(n+1) grants non-reciprocity to his employer" type of crap -- but we went with v2+ because it was popular at the time. I don't think I've seen "v3 or later", probably because we've been burned already.
Great. I have no idea what "global await" means, but anyway, what's Node?

[shows them Node]

Oh, It's a calculator. Wow. I mean, wow. That's emm, really impressive.

[No, it's a runtime environment for JavaScript]

It's a what? So how does that help me move things around on the screen?

[It doesn't]

So explain what the point of Node is?

[etc]
No one wants this booty.
Then Microsoft would just take over?

You can't just point fingers at a specific company and say, yes that giant monopoly out of the other 50 monopolies is the bad one. The others are perfectly fine.
You're going to get torn to shreds for linking the NYP here, but this is accurate.
The borders are closed for vacation travel and most employment related travel.

The hotel costs are the best example of a good idea implemented poorly. Asking for a negative test good idea. Having to wait upto 3 days to get results a bad idea. Limiting the number of hotels or places they can stay to a handful and allowing them to charge top rates plus covid surcharges while providing a budget experience a really bad idea. Forcing a 3 day hotel package when your test might be available in 24 hours is the icing in the cake.
I agree that, unless you have specific concrete reasons to think a public health agency is distorting the facts or making decisions based on politics and ass-covering instead of optimizing for health, you should trust that agency. However, once you have concrete reasons to think that the public health agency is acting on politics and not science, you should not continue to blindly trust them.

There are other sources of information besides the public health agency of your particular country, for example public health agencies in other countries, or directly looking at the stats and research papers. In this case, looking at the stats makes it blatantly obvious that your risk from the J&J vaccine is much, much lower than your risk from getting COVID, so if your choice is "J&J" or "no vaccine for another month or two", you should probably pick J&J.
I think "they" is better because it also works even when referring to a specific person whose gender may be known, such as the Finnish author mentioned earlier. Minimal cognitive processing.
Hi Dave. I understand that subscription is your future no matter what, but please don't cut off options for stand alone licenses and local syncing.
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Thanks! I just checked, and it seems that ADS were introduced in NTFS in order to support Mac resource forks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_stream_(AD...
No doctor or expert. But I did follow the AZ story. I understood, that Covid can cause blood cloths. A vaccine triggers an immune reaction, in that case Covid, so a particularly strong immune reaction, maybe together with a preposition of developing blood clots, can be a reason. Not sure if we know already what causes these side effects with AZ an JJ.

From a risk perspective, I wouldn't restrict either vaccine. But since we can easily use Moderna and BiontechPfizer instead for the most at risk groups it doesn't really change things, does it?
If you already know the algorithms, sure. The thing about reversing a binary tree is that no one already knows the algorithm. It's not something you'll find in any textbook. It has no intrinsic meaning, so why would it be there?

That makes it far better for an interview question. It's just a test of how you handle the sort of nonsense task that makes up so much day to day work. "Why do I have to frobnicate these doodads?" "Because the doodad processor requires it. That's just how it works, so we need to do it."
So if you create something interesting enough, the government shouldn't let you keep it? What kind of incentive is that to create interesting things?
The main culprit is Matthew Trout(aka mst). He is basically the Perl communities RMS. He’s toxic but has his fans that will defend him and his “quirks”. Whenever he gets in trouble he of course immediately wraps himself in the flag of being neurosivergent or polyamorous or whatever else he feels might best absolve him this time around.

Perl has an MST problem it needs to solve.
I don't see how Voyager II is not going to last longer than 16 millions years - what exists to change it?
It's because of this issue I've learned to never search for a manufacturer or company app in the app store. I go to the company's website and see if I can find an app store link to it there.

It's nearly impossible for anyone--even the most savvy user--to identify which app is the real one and which one is a deceptive one.
> Such adverts may be seen as a way to make money but can be used to influence user behaviour and control people in large numbers

FLoC & ad-tracking sucks but can we dial back the hysteria?
I don't think anyone considers, let's say the UK or Canada as a "micro-dictatorship". The UK and other parliamentary systems have fewer checks and balances with a deliberate orientation to producing a government with a mandate to rule, for example the leader of the executive branch is always of the same party as the legislature. I think the US system is probably a de-optimization from that approach.

This is just fetishism of the US system as taught in 3rd grade social studies. Everyone with a different system is not a "micro-dictatorship". The US system is actually not particularly good compared to other western liberal nations, due to the aforementioned frequent inability to form a government with a mandate to lead. The founders had lots of ideas, some of them were good, some of them didn't work, and some were harmful from the get-go, and any critical analysis of any system needs to be able to acknowledge the existence of flaws in the execution or even design of a system.

The US system was a fairly early example of a democracy and most other governments saw the mistakes and chose not to repeat them. The US also chose not to repeat them for those countries whose constitutions we wrote (eg Germany or Japan).

Everyone realizes it's a bad system, but reform is too difficult, and decline and collapse is the alternative. So that's what's going to happen. It's quite likely that voting rights will be reduced over the next 2 years, cementing minority control of the government for an indefinite period of time, and we already saw what happened over the last 4 years with that minority rule.
That's even better. It was Benadryl that I was thinking of.
You've made the case that what you call "social suffering" exists, but you haven't made the case that we should care about it. There are people struggling to survive, even in a country like the US. We have people dying in hospitals at differential rates based on their poverty level.

One sweet day when everyone is guaranteed the most basic of human necessities, maybe then we'll start caring about the anxiety a (small-minded) percentage of us feel when our neighbor has two Teslas and we only have a Leaf.
Very astute.

Even if you have 99% millionaires and 1% billionaires, the billionaires still have 91% of the wealth.
I lived in Lyon (France) for a long time, where the french tacos is born.
Mister Tacos is one of the famous place to try it.
I don't know why people get mad about it, because guys, trust me it's only fat, french fries with sugar .
You can mix 4 kind of meat, 4 kind of sauces in one piece of tortilla full of french fries.
I'm so sad because Lyon is one of the most important french city for gastronomy
The NYTimes bestseller list is sort of an indicator what you shouldn't bother reading. Extrapolate as appropriate.
Agree with the author that moderating every interaction on a social network is a fool's errand. I'd go a step further and say that the future isn't simply restricting some features like links and replies, but rather more closed networks where entry is guarded (think PC software downloads -> app stores) and only a very limited set of specialized actions and interactions is allowed (think app sandboxing).
You have plenty of peanut butter, e.g. Whole Earth brand at Waitrose, and it’s quite a bit better than Calvé pindakaas IMO.

Now if I could find a good source for bokkenpootjes, bitterkoekjes, weespermoppen or mosterdsoep, that would be a major step forward.
You don't become millionaire by knowing data structures and algorithms.
why post this over and over?

Here's some previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18251844
You mean the SDO [0]? It's still in geostationary orbit. Which, of course, is much farther out than LEO, and orders of magnitude less affected by the Earth's atmo, but still interacts with it. Heck, even the Moon is probably affected by it [1].

Perhaps a solar orbit—I didn't consider that when I wrote my first comment. But the plates described in the article aren't going there, they're going to GEO.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory

[1] https://phys.org/news/2020-09-earth-oxygen-rusted-moon-billi...