skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN! First, a call-out that this only works in the U.S., and it's built on top of GetMyVaccine.org [0].

I've been volunteering with Vaccine Fairy [1] to help people find & book covid vaccine appointments. (As an aside, I've had a phenomenal time volunteering with them and would encourage anyone with the time to sign up as well!) I didn't want to keep refreshing appointment trackers, so I put together a python script that saves data to Airtable and emails me whenever a new appointment becomes available. I hope folks find this helpful--would appreciate any and all feedback!

[0] https://www.getmyvaccine.org/

[1] https://vaccinefairy.org/
They wouldn’t need to compile Rust code, because said compiler would be implemented in C++. It would produce a Rust compiler, but would not require one to exist in order to do so.
Wikipedia often lets smears stay on their site - even if false and then locks down the page so the person isn't allowed to present their own side of story to defend themselves.

As for YouTube, similar example - There's a current trending HN thread on:

> YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26804977
Oh dear the hours we've dumped on the same mistakes again and again and again.

We had an internal doc with templates for product to use.

Worked well till it didn't.
You'd need enough wealth to both drop out of college and have a garage. I'd say there's no longer enough people who can afford to do that, and Silicon Valley is too expensive for this.

Dropping out of college also made sense when there was a fast growing new technology. That was true with PCs and the Internet, and it might be the case with AI, but there's nothing currently urgent.
Quoted from the post

> "Please note that the Rust support is intended to enable writing drivers and similar "leaf" modules in Rust, at least for the foreseeable future. In particular, we do not intend to rewrite the kernel core nor the major kernel subsystems (e.g. `kernel/`, `mm/`, `sched/`...). Instead, the Rust support is built on top of those."
The blood clots have already caused deaths, unless I'm mistaken. At any rate it's not "virtually certain absence of any deaths". I agree with your conclusion, but the premise has some issues.
IMO that seems like a comment that hasn't aged too well. HN remains effective more than 10 years after that, and although he may have studied HN while building Stack Overflow, I don't think it's safe to say that SO has done as well.
All that the valuation suggests is that Coinbase is a company with 1 bn in revenue last year, and 1.8 bn just last quarter. By virtue of upsides being unbounded while downsides are bounded by the money you invest, the downside case really doesn't matter with a good enough upside case. Coinbase going down in flames may be the most likely outcome. That doesn't matter as long as you're not YOLOing your entire portfolio into Coinbase. What matters is the average outcome. And the average outcome is pretty good despite Coinbase failing in 9 out of 10 scenarios.
Well, &String is ALSO a valid Rust type, it's a reference to a (heap-allocated) String.

Really, there's no single, good option that covers all use cases. Which is why Rust ended up with multiple string types, along with ways to convert between them.
Surely it will be a Romance/Germanic split? So Spanish is easier for speakers of French, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian, and English for speakers of Dutch, German, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish?
In case you didn’t know, this media group was started by Sofia Schmidt, Daughter of Eric Schmidt. It focuses on tech stories from other countries besides the USA.
Odd way to put the amount.

FT title is "Ever Given seized as Egyptian authorities seek $900m compensation"

http://archive.is/6u4d7
If these brown dwarfs spun much faster they'd tear themselves apart
Laughs in chilean or andalucian rap god dialect
Yeah, if you own the air space no one can build there without your permission, that's basically the point. It allows people who want to protect their ocean views to do it in a way that doesn't require spending years pushing silly environmental impact studies.
I just don't see how this perspective lives in the real world.

It's basically, "get off the shoulders of giants. If you aren't expert enough to detect exploits in <lang> then you're not worthy enough."

How would you ever begin a career, let alone become a desirable team member?
> The issue is really, how do we motivate the distribution of food (and other goods and services) to those who need it but can't justify to the producers and distributors and provide for it?

People shouldn't have to justify their existence based on some other group's favorite economic model. That seems weird and needlessly cruel.
In my experience the problem is that when written as you describe them - user stories represent features and are rarely, if ever, granular enough that they represent a "thin vertical slice" of functionality - as scrum likes to call it. I've always felt this was something scrum did a poor job of addressing.

I have found that using user story format for epics or for features, and then further breaking those down into tasks seems to work quite well. Although as far as I'm aware there is no concept of a "task" in scrum. Task seems to be a Jira concept.
That optimistic of you. Now you have a robot that can't be reasoned with pushing it's way into people's homes, and police with guns defending the robot against the populace.
Couldn't find anything on docker-mailman regarding analytics, integration with shopify (and other e-commerce alternatives). You know, things that are important when you run a newsletter, which the service that he uses offers him.

Also, time. When there's a problem, it's still on you to fix things, instead of having customer support.

You and the author seems to value their own time in different ways, and have different expectations on features a newsletter needs, and how much involvement with the service you are willing to have.
I cannot recommend Bountysource - my first time using it, excited to contribute to some open source projects, I made a deposit and it was never credited. Reached out to Bountysource and they claimed they had no record of the fund transfer. Never received my money back despite proof of the transaction.

In 2018, Bountysource was acquired by "CanYa", a company known for their CanYaCoin ICO. As far as I can tell since the acquisition they have only gotten shadier (fair or not, I now associate them with sketchy cryptocurrency operations). Would not recommend.

I wanted to find a platform to fund open source development through bounties, but Bountysource isn't it - fortunately there are new alternatives popping up, hopefully more trustworthy.
What exactly is the lie?
> Madoff’s big-name investors included ... Kevin Bacon ...

Of course. Ponzi scheme. Wow.
So You Want to Compile Crystal on ARM64 (Apple M1)
Three mRNA vaccines researchers are working on (that aren’t Covid)
I would probably start by reading a book.
kinda ironic how in his post he's trying to compete on fees
I wasted a week trying to replace the scorer component with a NN-based language model. Every time I made a change the whole codebase, including Tensorflow recompiled, so the turnaround time was about an hour per change. It was awful. I mean I get reproducible builds etc. and probably if you're running stuff at Google scale it has all kinds of useful features. But for development on a personal laptop it was torture. Eventually I gave up.
Not only that, but I remember when this was on HN not long ago, the list is made up of random things. Some are full pieces of software, many of the 'alternatives' are actually just front ends with limited functionality or wrappers around websites or APIs.

The list never really makes it clear. I also remember some of the links were broken and overall it was pretty pointless.
Nope. I believe that's why ANSI SQL doesn't specify a boolean column type.
Probably because it's a proprietary service.
Could someone post an amp link as well? Thanks.
mypy will complain that x is type Any when checking assignments.

To silence the warning one has to do:

x: int
for x in range(1):
...
Has anyone checked this against the Gold Standard of para-science from 1982?

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/859/illuminati
He mentions in the article that the like button on his page is a lambda function.
Bitcoin provides shelter for your wealth. Most people need that more than shelter for their person.
I hope this succeeds and grows large enough that we can see the serious effects of some of these experiments. Medical reciprocity and pick your own regulatory framework are such very, very interesting ideas and I want to see what happens when they are applied to millions of people
the global reserve currency just owned by a few guys, can you image the future world will be?
We certainly see things very differently if you think "screw you" and "here, let me fix your out of warranty phone" are even remotely the same thing.
That may not be so, they may gamble it all away or use it for whatever else that you would call "throwing money out the window".
Maybe $70K can be better spent on fixing the officers' failure-prone bodycams than a robot.
Why is the burden of proof on the rightly wary populace and not the police with their centuries long history of brutality?
I think to truly live up to the name "foundations" of databases, there would have to be some information as to how databases are implemented. For instance, how do you guarantee durability if someone trips over the power cable?
Surely they made the decision to IPO back when BTC was half of what it is now.
Yeah, this is an absurd argument. How do I know I can trust Linux unless I personally audit the whole kernel? How do I know if I can trust my processor without an x-ray machine?
Only if you have 1,000 apps being messed with by a monkey
Brian Armstrong seeking cofounder on HN (2012)
I get the need for the absolute risk reduction number but it would seem to me the only way to find that is to know how many who've been vaccinated have been exposed to the virus afterwards, or to purposely expose them.

It would seem that could take some time to get accurate results for the general population. And then we also have the variants of the virus to deal with too.

Finally, I don't have any real perspective on the "absolute risk reduction, 0.7%" number in relation to other vaccines. It sounds very low, but the article doesn't offer comparisons to other vaccines.
Jaja, I see that you like Andrés Bello, dont you?
Did it? That's interesting because plenty of other cases of Muslims killing people for blasphemy didn't seem to weaken the popular opinion that blasphemy against Islam is "hate". It could certainly be judged as "stirring up hatred". The victim of that killing might even have been guilty under this law for proselytizing a minority sect that tends to stir up hatred from the majority sect's members.
Nigerian scammer gets 40 months in prison, ordered to pay back $2.7m to victims
<sarcasm>

For God'sake, read the fucking manual before asking
redundant questions on HN!

</sarcasm>
if you were paid equity compensation, the gov't currently does not accept the actual share as tax payment, but cash only. Therefore, you have to sell a portion to realize the capital of said share compensation.

I think the people should not ask, nor accept equity payment as taxation.

I also think that taxation should only be on income. Wealth tax doesn't work well, and only hurts those who would use that wealth to produce more wealth (to the detriment of all). Taxing consumption is the best, but that's a little regressive, so taxing income is the next best thing.
That's what trickle down economics is, definitionally: money being poured on wealthy people to spend.
I'm glad they don't have it. Many "programming" identifiers, filenames, and whatnot already support Unicode. You'd be setting yourself up for failure because you forgot to update the type you used somewhere.
So we’re good? A record of a record (of a record of a record of a...) that doesn’t tell you who the money went to, doesn’t fill in that blank. It’s useful to ascertain fault at the bank (which in HSBC’s case didn’t result in much of consequence ).

So yes records (of sometimes dubious quality) are kept from a pedantic standpoint, but I understood GP to mean that this would prevent someone from laundering large sums through (large respectable) banks which is demonstrably not always the case.

Not only may these logs be questionable, but apparently the penalties, using the HSBC example, don’t seem to be a deterrent.

TLDR; banks having records doesn’t mean shit when you want to launder large sums of money.
Rich with ragrets rather than filthy rich.
> learn SQL or C.

And Lisp. Any Lisp. Clojure, Racket, Fennel, Janet, CL, Elisp.
Just remember that rabbits kill themselves through starvation long before they invent boats to get to the next island full of resources to consume.

Controlling population growth is a far preferable option to mass murder either by actively killing people Thanos-style, or passively killing people Malthus-denier style.
This. Both Coinbase and Stripe are were they are today almost entirely because they have mastered UX/UI.
Not sure about those others but the Germans that I know struggle with English just like everybody else. (Despite common roots German and English are very different, and, in fact, I find the written Spanish and even French to be quite close to English, and rather easy to understand if you know English and learn a few words that are different or spelled differently; not so with German.)
Can you translate for someone who has zero knowledge in this area?
Downvotes should be weighted by the voter history, e.g. someone who just downvotes should have vote weight say than someone who is more balanced.
Also - it seems worth following up on this:

>> Are you saying you weren’t familiar with Epic’s case?

> Epic's case is irrelevant to the larger debate at hand. They are not the only ones who want Apple to open up their platform, and not everyone who wants them to cares for third party stores to be "first-class App Store alternatives." You are arguing against a strawman if you insist that Epic's demands be the only metric for debate. Go take it up with Sweeney.

Ok, but this indicates you knew about the case and intentionally lied - it wasn’t just a ‘mistake’ as you claimed earlier.
Macro factors can propel Bitcoin to $1T market cap – Strategic investor explains
You're misunderstanding what airborne means. It means you can get through the HVAC on your cruise ship, or at choir practice, or in any poorly ventilated space no matter how far apart people stand.
To start, “idiomatic” is an adjective while “term of art” is a noun. The word “idiom” in the sense you are quoting refers to the whole language/dialect/way of speaking, not one word. The sense of “idiom” meaning one phrase (maybe shortened from “idiomatic expression” or something?) does not mean the same thing as “term of art”, but is more like a common expression in a particular language / dialect. It does not have the sense of a specific technical meaning for a word, distinct from the ordinary definition.

These words are not synonyms, and should not be substituted.
What Happens When You Have a Heart Attack on the Way to Mars?
The thing is that, owning an airspace has no value unless you own all the air and ground space under it. To prevent a construction, you won't have to spend ludicrous amounts of money to buy all the air space, just a small amount to buy one level's worth. NIMBYs can continue NYMBYing.
I'm not an expert in USA culture, but looking from a distance it looks to me that this is cartesianism (as in pattern-matching) applied to social sciences, which as it turns out, is a legacy of the 19th century which lead to it's most extremist version represented in fascism.

I say this because here we have this too, as in any other part in the world, the only difference is that the targets are others.

Remember the obsession of those folks to measure and document people turning this into some sort of science where you could classify people objectively giving some properties drawing hard lines that would not be crossed. Once they defined what was the superior type it would be a matter of marginalize and eliminate the weaker to achieve the super race.

We all still do this here and there, but is much more organic, subtle and disguised as something else.

Anyway is funny to think that in US (and Brazil), the last wave of immigrants arriving were considered the low people and only with subsequent waves of immigrants the old "dirty ones" got some sort of social upgrade.

As irish in the US were marginalized and later the jews, polish and italians replace them as people with less value.

Here for instance, japaneses and italians were treated pretty badly in the beginning of the 20th century. (It was even worse for black people).

Its funny to see how people don't learn with history. There's no nobility by birth, at most it was the parents passing education and culture to their children. Leave a human alone in the forest and if he manage to survive it will behave like an animal.
To accomplish his stated goal in the MCU (as opposed to the goal of impressing his girlfriend), he should have gone for maximum grief, along with preserving those islands of isolation since those islands are more likely to be the cultures that don’t engage in the fantasy of unlimited exponential growth.
ClojuRust – Clojure in Rust
I'm beginner, but if both ExchangeA and ExchangeB is investigated by law enforcement, ExA knows sent address and ExB knows received address. So it's not perfect unless you add intermediate private XMR wallet between A and B, isn't it?
I suppose it would not be such a bad thing to educate people to do their own research sometimes and not believe everything they are being fed. Were it the majority of cases, we would probably not be talking about this to begin with. What makes things worse is quantity of people making the same claim, or claims coming from authority figures.
Because that's an unrealistic threat model for most users.
So you don't care about security or reactions... How about group chat? That is a very useful feature that SMS doesn't provide.
But why celebrate it? So is graduating college or buying a house, but I am not celebrating those accomplishments of random strangers. Unless I am personally invested in Coinbase, why should I celebrate their “accomplishment”?
There's also wrapped bitcoins as an etf on etherum. Would they be able to detect or reject stolen bitcoins. Would you be able to trade the ETF coins instead without knowing?
> Not all will - like my pork and shellfish example.

Depends on context. If for example eating shellfish/pork caused harm once or twice, people could extrapolate it's evil or something. People are good at finding pattern where none exist.

> Yeast could mutate and literally turn us into brain munching zombies

Riiight. But if it did, it would wipe itself out too fast. Like we already have Zombie like disease. It's called rabies.

> And regarding adaptation you're playing a game of "what if"

It's less of what if, and more of a game, let's make our next STD <insert measure> resistant.
Whether it's antibiotics or viral or admittedly far fetched example of latex evasion. As long as there is fertile soil for STD there will be STDs.
Ah I didn't realize that. I've contacted you through the contact form in one of your company websites.
It's only become a status symbol because it's a really well designed, useful product.

I don't think the company has been around enough to fully pivot to actually intentionally just building a status symbol like say Apple or Nike have.
if you don't mind my asking, why isn't it an easy thing for you to be on here?
I obviously can't share it here, but my primary codebase at my job needs a few dozen changes every time we change mypy versions. There's a few places of false positives where I've had to comment `# shut up, mypy` and a `type: ignore`. Usually when I'm being clever with the subprocess module.
Unfortunately, this isn’t always an option if you need to use a library that’s only available in Python.
> consuming their unrealized gains.

they are getting loans using their unrealized capital gains as collateral. And these loans are not interest free, and would have to be paid back at some point in the future. And in order to pay the interest on the loan, they will have to realize _some_ gains as income. So that gets taxed.

Is it better that these billionaires don't obtain their mansions and yachts, or that they do and don't get taxed?
> You need mechanisms for helping people learn "This is not welcome on HN. This is not how we do things here."

Can we use flags for this purpose?

Problem is even though a comment does not violate any rule, it gets down-voted as hell if you say something that majority of people would not like. e.g there are posts about hyped programming languages, go check out down-voted comments, most of them does not deserve to be down voted.

There some topics, these topics have “fan-boys”, so even a comment is constructive, it gets down-voted.

You already show disagreement with comments. If a comment violates a rule, we can flag it. If a comment does not get up-votes, it moves to bottom of the page. So, I think down-votes don’t add any value to HN.
Something analogous happened to me where my role was changed to something that had nothing to do with what I was doing before and was for a much different (and bluntly a lesser) skillset. To me it was a sign that management had no understanding of what my skills and job were (there are lots of laypeople that see "developer" as html, assembly, and everything between). The options in my view were to try and move to a position that is aligned with my experience and career goals, or leave and do that at another company. It sucks because its basically the same as being fired and having to find a new job whether internal or external. But unless you're interested, it is much worse for your career to stay doing something that doesnt make sense for you and is, if I understand your characterization, a move down the career ladder.
It seems like, initially at least, you are buying the land and air from HPI, and they don't have to sell you it at all if they think it is an area that ought to be developed
Probably better to compare to other financials. PNC Bank has market cap of $76 billion. 50,000 employees, $16 bil revenue.
This is probably the most underrated comment. Very few people think twice about e.g. driving a car, but a lot of people are scared of flying. It can also be as simple as being afraid of needles; when I get vaccinated I barely feel it but even knowing that I'm still apprehensive beforehand.

Hopefully, as more people get vaccinated, it will become somewhat normalised (in communities that aren't actively against it). If all your mates did it, it's probably fine. (no sarcasm)
What Americans think of as “the” British accent is known as “Received Pronunciation”. An accent that arose in London in the latter 19th century.
> Investors aren't stupid

I think it's pretty clear by now that they are.

We just hope that the stupidity on the buy and sell sides more or less balances out, and what's left to determine the price is people with some real insight.
I am a hacker by trade. My job is to literally exploit your weakness. If you can't be bothered to read a "shell script (!)" that you are running... good luck.
What I had in mind was money being given to the masses through covid related benefits and then quickly concentrating into the hands of a few.
Isn't this more a problem that backlog items have become to-do lists of tasks rather than a list if desired features? Or another way of saying that the article assumes coherent features should be moved away from developers, and developers are just task executors. You could keep user stories on the backlog as product features and then give developers the job of organizing their tasks to achieve those features.
Python is strongly typed. It's also dynamically typed. They are not contradictory between each other.