skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because 'professionals' have no more clue than the rest of us.

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. When someone says ‘science teaches such and such’, he is using the word incorrectly. Science doesn’t teach it; experience teaches it" - Feynman.

What you have here is the European "precautionary principle" in action. Whatever you do, don't get blamed for anything - whether you make any forward progress or not.

At 60 you have a 1 in 100 chance of being dead in the next year anyway. A 1 in a million extra risk on top of that is a rounding error.

The zero extra risk option is no longer available.

I've had the AZ jab. It's perfectly fine and does the job. And those downvoting this post are saying that I should be dead instead.
> The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube?

Or they could just stop doing that and go back to how it used to be. Let people upload videos and review them only after it was flagged. Novel idea, I know.
WhatsApp had far smaller competition that nowadays.

Bar of what is acceptable was raised.

Windows 3.1 was extremely impressive when released and got popular.

Releasing equivalent of Windows 3.1 in 2021 will not be impressive or popular.
TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS but got a rebrand). Built around ZFS and FreeBSD, it's a really solid and more focused NAS product. DSM has more general features like their whole surveillance software and such, but with a touch of irony NAS for important data is the main thing I didn't ever trust Synology for given the lack of ZFS. TrueNAS can do some other stuff but primarily it's about doing NAS right and fast, and if you want something dedicated to that role and more turnkey (obviously you could just set up any system with Linux and ZoL or FreeBSD naked and NFS yourself) it's well worth a look.

It's BSD license, and iXsystems is the primary developer behind it. They do offer some of their own hardware, so you can get a similar "commercially supported buy and turn on" experience to Synology if you'd like, though I don't think the value proposition from them right now is the best for home users or certain SMB. But it's there. And unlike DSM there's no workarounds needed to run it wherever which is another huge tick in its favor IMO. With something as critical as a NAS I don't mind paying a company for support or hardware, but lack of official easy exit options makes me nervous. For reasons like, well, this?
I have but admiration for the guy. I’m just questioning the offensive definition of “broke” according to Forbes.
Here is an official statement from the Danish Health Authorities about why AstraZeneca has been removed from the rollout:

https://www.sst.dk/en/English/news/2021/Denmark-continues-it...

The main takeaway is:

"In the midst of an epidemic, it has been a difficult decision to continue our vaccination programme without an effective and readily available vaccine against COVID-19. However, we have other vaccines at our disposal, and the epidemic is currently under control. Furthermore, we have come a long way towards vaccinating the older age groups where vaccination has a tremendous potential impact on preventing infection. Age is the main risk factor for becoming severely ill from COVID-19. The upcoming target groups for vaccination are less likely to become severely ill from COVID-19. We must weigh this against the fact that we now have a known risk of severe adverse effects from vaccination with AstraZeneca, even if the risk in absolute terms is slight,"
Well, they do get to do stuff like that, and are almost certainly not going to face any consequences, because they're Facebook.
Zoho CRM client? Bybrand now has an integration with Zoho CRM
IoT project of the year 2021 from Gurtam
A Gearhead Giving Great Advise
It doesn’t really matter. As a purchaser of x it doesn’t matter to me what it costs to make x so long as I know clearly what x is.

A Stanford grad doesn’t know what the marginal cost of their enrollment is.
> Croats have zero confidence in their government or anyone else for that matter

The zero trust in state and banks syndrome, I have it too. I'm from a different Eastern European country though. Since I don't trust the pensions, I save up individually.
Folders Language
I disagree. Switching between two images in the same space is one of the best ways to perceive differences. Another good way is with a spider, which is used at https://www.fovotec.com/architectural
I read that if you root your phone, then usage of any banking apps would be problematic, so that seems like a no go.

On the Boldbeast forum there are some phones listed that work, but it seems like this depends on the region the phone comes from.
I think I will have to buy a phone, see if it works and if not return. Rinse and repeat... What a nightmare.
> There are groups of people (political association) and vested interests (lobbyists) who want to make tax harder to pay than it needs to be so they can profit from it, either politically or financially.

NOPE! That's the misinformation. They don't want to make it harder to tax, they want to make it harder for the gov to add taxes. That's it.

> In addition you need to manually calculate the sales tax for every different county in the USA on top of the sticker price. It has been suggested that this is enshrined in law and/or done by the stores themselves, but the net effect is that this sales tax is at the forefront of people's minds when going shopping.

It is enshrined in law in some states, not all. And again the reasoning is so that tax cannot be hidden. Not to make it more difficult.

> Nearly all other countries have tax systems where the VAT/GST/Sales tax is already included in the sticker price, so you don't need to know which country has how much sales tax and manually add it on. Additionally lots of other countries have income tax systems where the authority already has all your information and can easily provide you a pre-filled tax return.

I'll need some evidence of this, as this is not my experience having traveled to many different countries. Some do, not most.

> Given that the USA does not do these things and people actively block them, then my opinion is that the country as a whole has a hatred of making tax easier to pay. Most people may not want that, but they are either unwilling or unable to change it.

Again NOPE. It's a hatred of ever increasing taxes. The gov must prove it needs the money, not just have their hands in our checkbooks whenever they're dry.

So ultimately you have a different view on taxation, and that's fine. What's not fine is lying about why the other side is doing it. This is where that divide is coming from.
I got my parents to install Signal a while ago, now in the recent 2-3 months their Signal contact lists have at least doubled when Signal got an unexpected boost by WhatsApp's privacy PR nightmare. I don't expect things to change much, though.

Because in the end normal users think about the functionality and price first, everything else second. Privacy? Just a neat-sounding bonus you can feel good about if your favorite app includes it and don't care about if it doesn't.
Become an iOS Developer in 2021: The Ultimate Guide
INTRO. As a 'construct' the UFO, AAV, UAP is well met in our current media culture. You're lucky to get one image, of low quality, for only a few seconds/frames, and it begs of us to believe the most outlandish claim.

BACKGROUND. Artists who are real craftsmen (craftspeople) develop techniques which are extensions of their repetitive work and practice. Like a master baker who rolls the squishy dough into a croissant shape before baking. For the artist, mistakes are an expression of the form. The measure of the artist is their ability to "speak" to others through the language of their medium.

In contrast the scientists among us apply rigor, repetition, and skepticism over the foundations of the scientific method--ideas are true and remain true only so long as they are not demonstrated false.

SIDEBAR. Recall the recent historical/procedural flick Grayhound (2020) depicting US Navy confronting German U-Boats during the Battle of The Atlantic (1939-1945). More than once we are reminded visually, viscerally, to 'remember your training'.

SCENE. Lacking the focus of life or death, I imagine a young Navy crewman all of 18 repetitively performing their duties, and quite unexpectedly "discovering" the "bokeh balls" effect on their own. Now a master artist needs to recreate the image again and again, but a bored seaman? He only needs to capture lightening in a bottle once. A-HA. And put this footage in the hands of a social media savvy youtuber, and you have a conspiracy theory or internet-meme. haha.

EPILOGUE. And in the hands of the artists and scientists again, you have debunking videos. And finally, after all this explication, a you-th might be inspired to create new forms of entertainment special effects. True memetics.

HAHA!
Given how electricity has pretty much become synonymous with labor. I would say Bitcoin is backed by electricity given how Iran and Venezuela are doing oil/gas etc trade with bitcoin seems like you actually can get commodities out of it.
> Not sure for you, but what makes WhatsApp the stickiest for me out of the chat apps is the statuses (stories).

For me it's the other way around.

I've stopped using all platforms which offers that "feature", because I find it distracting and annoying.
Caveat: some established crypto (not BTC) have lower transaction fees and entry requirements in some countries than the stock markets.
That argument doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

It assumes that the numbers caused by the lock-downs are bigger than the numbers caused by Covid.

It assumes that there is not positives to the lock-downs (maybe some people is less depressed at home than at their work, not deaths by flu, etc..) and, most important, it assumes that not lock-downs would not increase deaths by other causes (intensive care overworked).
It takes a lot longer to make a video than to watch it. It therefore stands to reason that if humanity is capable of making all that content, humanity is capable of watching it - if it decided that were a priority.
And those things are paid for. It would be perfectly reasonable if you had to pay per minute for uploading video and people had to pay for a subscription to watch it. That's just not what is expected for a mass platform today.
It is about picking a safer and possibly better alternative costing a few weeks delay.

In Denmark, at least among the people I talk to, there isn't much confidence in AZ. The feeling is that Moderna or Pfizer are safer with higher protection (also against mutations).

So the common feeling here is really that the government would fail the population by using AZ instead of the (possibly better) alternatives.
What does "in this room: 25" mean? The number remains the same when I change the station. Is there only a single room and I changed the station for everybody? Or are there 25 people in every room (=station)? :-)
As far as I know most EU countries are on a similar trajectory and only differ by a few percent (I.e. they use all the vaccines they get and most have only the common procurement).

What can differ is which groups are vaccinated, e.g. Sweden has 19% vaccinated with at least 1 dose but the coverage by age group is e.g 85% in 80-89 and just 35% in 70-79 and 60-69 is only 10%.
I’ll tell you one thing that’s even worse than elections - no elections
> the same vertical space as 1080p 16:9 just with sharper text

I work with text all day. I want it as sharp as I can get it.
> but still well worth optimizing

are we still talking about criminals?

I don't think something that make it worth optimizing for but is intended to optimize criminals activities is really desirable.

Anyway, there's no advantage with crypto, the smuggler didn't smuggle 1 million dollar worth of cocaine from Mexico, cocaine is moved in much larger volumes, if a few pounds are lost, it's part of the business risks, criminals understand it and sometimes facilitate it, so that police can make big splash announcements and everybody is happy.

money is another thing entirely.

that million dollar worth of cocaine has been cut in hundreds of smaller doses, that are being paid mostly in cash.

so now every corner dealer has a pile of cash that use to pay the bigger dealer and so on.

first of all, you can't buy crypto with cash.
You should go through another person who already owns enough to sell them to you, which means another breadcrumb that could lead back to you in case that other person is caught.

also, cash has some disadvantages over a usb pendrive, but one big advantage is that it's harder to lose a briefcase than a usb drive and they don't break as easily.

so the smaller dealers have no incentive to do it.

the average dealer has no incentive on buying crypto to pay the larger dealer, because he gets rid of the cash pretty fast and keeps his cut that invests into criminal but legal activities so that the facade is clean.

the larger dealers have now a pile of cash that need to handle anyway, they can't ignore it and make it disappear just because it takes too much space.

let's go back to the smuggler (probably a cartel man) that moved cocaine from Mexico to Chicago

they have bank accounts in Panama and don't care about moving large sum of money anonymously or through perfectly clean American front men.

The system already works, there was an article the other day on front page titled "The war against money laundering is being lost" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26786810), so why change it for an asset that has not even a stable value?

I guess they tried at one point, but there's too much attention on them now, so criminals with capital C dropped them and let only their kids play with it so they can pay for their college expenses.
Very shocking that the pro-US dictatorship installed by US efforts to overthrow the democratically elected government in Iran was friendly with Israel. And that the inevitable blowback that replaced the dictator left the region with a county distrusting and hostile to the West and Israel. It’s almost like actions have consequences.

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Unfortunately, imperial hubris blinds people to their own state and its actions.
This is actually a big thing we invest in at my current company: candidate experience and consequently a high Glassdoor rating. After focusing on it for years the company has one of the top ratings on Glassdoor (top 100 or 200 I forget). It’s a big differentiator when you’re not a big company and not a recognized brand. I think for FAANG companies they can get away with it because despite a poor experience, the actual job and pay/perks they offer are extremely desirable. Sad because, like you say, it’s not hard to see and make an impact on improving.
For Germany, the latest AZ decision is not data based. recommending Biontech as a second shot after AZ, without trials and sudies for that, is the opposite of data driven. That's all I can comment on that, because I now nohing about clinical trials.

I do know one or two things about supply chains. And that knowledge tells me, that German authorities have zero idea what they are doing. If there is a vaccination schedule, I doubt there is one, it is not taken into account during these decisions. Because after ever such decision, nobody talks about the impact on the schedule. Seems to be different for Denmark so.
I met Ajit shortly after he started in his role. I specifically told him how we can track and trace back these robocalls via SS7 (at least once they hit the PSTN - SIP ingress even easier to track back to the trunks they originate), and I even had proof of concept code and examples. He seemed really excited, then did nothing. No follow-up, etc. It would only work if mandated by the FCC because there is no financial incentive for the telcos to do it.
The tone of this article is bitter and arrogant. That might be the reason why the author feels unemployable.

I and millions of others understand the author’s frustration with the technical interview process. Yeah, it’s annoying, but that’s the process. There are a lot of resources to help with interviews.

There’s a trove of rich lessons to be drawn from these experiences.
The >65 population in Scandinavia is largely vaccinated already, and incidence of new cases is low. So it's a decision that might be questioned, but which would have small real-world consequences even if it turned out to be incorrect in isolation.

That part of the decision might just be the combination of uncertainty combined with the public's skepticism towards this particular vaccine. Giving an impression of listening to the public might have been considered a better overall choice than making a big communication effort for little real-world benefit. Other vaccines will be available very shortly for the few >65 people not yet vaccinated.
> 0xfor can never be a name

But to know if a token is a name, it has to check, and that check never happens because the tokenizer yields when the number case hits. You can attach a debugger and see for yourself.

> It doesn't matter in which order the rules are checked.

Nowhere did I claim otherwise. The rules _do_ happen in a deterministic order, which I posted the source code for.
It hogs my latest Firefox into being almost totally unresponsive. It takes minutes after closing a tab to recover.
Here in India, the telecom authority (TRAI) has prescribed various measures to curb unwanted calls and messages[1], with mixed success. They also have an app released[2], which essentially uses a template to send SMS to the number denoted for complaining about spam.

After a lot of action for around nine months, I got junk SMS and spam calls (both automated and otherwise) to a bare minimum. It did take some time and there were a lot of frustrations along the way, but was completely worth it.

Some good practices I figured from all this:

1. For spam calls where there is an actual human speaking to you, try and get them to reveal the name and location of their call center. Most of the time, the culprits are the same for different types of calls. Requesting to speak to their manager and having a friendly chat about the TRAI penalty system helped a lot in reducing the calls. Having a log of when they had called you in the past is also helpful; at least it conveys that you aren't some buffoon shouting at the clouds.

2. For SMS spam where the sender is a bunch of letters (eg. ZZ-ABCDEF), iPhone isn't able to add that contact to the block list. Using T9 to figure out those numbers and adding them[3] to the blocklist that way works. This is mostly for your telecom service provider who feels free to send you spam with no way for you to complain to TRAI, because you're using their service, and they don't care about do-not-disturb for such cases.

3. Naming and shaming on Twitter and email helps, especially for companies depending on their brand name. Funded startups in particular are abusers of spam calling and SMSes, but are also fearful of complaints on social media going viral.

4. This might be anecdotal, but I found I actually received fewer spam calls after removing my number from TrueCaller[4]. Ironically the service is used to figure out who's calling you, but I found that I don't need it at all, and not having my number in there has somehow proved beneficial.

5. Certain mobile service providers are more serious about acting on spam complaints than others. If you find that your provider is not heeding complaints about spam, definitely switch to another service if possible.

6. Some services do provide a DNC (Do Not Call) registry on their website. Do use those and keep a record of you having added your name to it.

[1] https://www.trai.gov.in/sites/default/files/RegulationUcc190...
[2] https://apps.apple.com/in/app/trai-dnd-do-not-disturb/id1443...
[3] https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/features/iphone-how-to-bloc...
[4] https://support.truecaller.com/hc/en-us/articles/212063089-H...
> "I say "the sky is blue", and people frown (?) upon me for stating the obvious fact of life.."

Yes; exactly this. If you were out in a crowd and called everyone's attention to you - thousands of people quietened to pay attention to what you were going to say for a moment, and you announced the thing you yourself say is an "obvious fact", that the sky is blue, the crowd would be annoyed at you for wasting their time with obvious low-quality trivia.

"company seeks profit" is the same low-value annoying thing to say. You're not being downvoted because it's untrue, you're being downvoted because it's like a toddler going "hey, hey, hey, hey, look, look at this, watch this" "okay?" "throws ball at ground". Great, thanks for that, good contribution.
And someone has already updated the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem#Example_with_C...
Livebook, Collaborative Notebooks in Elixir
When I bought a linux laptop 4 years ago I was between System76 and Dell Developer Edition. I ended up going with Dell and I’m very happy with it but I’ve kept an eye on these guys ever since.

Really like what I see from PopOS and I will probably buy from them next time.
I actually don't know that much about Japan. It's the one place I didn't talk about in East Asia as you can see.

That's not entirely true, I guess there's other countries in East Asia: let's not forget Mongolia, and Tibet and Northern Korea.

I bet there'd be lots of startups in Mongolia tho I have no idea. Tibet have no idea, tho would love to go. NK I guess there would not be so much because I assume the government would control them, but honestly, I have zero idea right now about startups there.

Interesting to know more about startups in Japan. Apart from LINE/Naver (which I guess is in fact Korean), that Japanese clothing startup (the guy is Elon's friend and will go to space), the older one like Softbank, and many cafes and small (for lack of better word, not sure it applies in Japan), but, "hipster" businesses (things like fashion boutiques, designer household goods and design agencies) I have no idea about startups in Japan, as you can probably tell. Would love to know more.
Nice to see some new initiatives in this domain (or old ideas resurface), but there is a long way towards mainstream adoption IMHO:

* My business clients and I speak SQL together. I don't see them learning a new language. I don't have the authority nor any will to force them to.

* I can spin up a container for testing business rules logic (and often share the results back to the client: here is what the impact of updating rule A is, rows of type W will be affected in this way).

Even though SQL has ceremony/verbosity, I'd rather see the standard be evolved. My clients and I could pick it up more easily.

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That's great for BigQuery though. You can't spin up a BigQuery docker container anyway, and testing with another schema/project is risky while you have interns around.
Have you stopped using cash? Think of all the drugs and organized crime that rely on it.

You are being incredibly close-minded and only listing the cons of cryptocurrencies.
It reads like it was generated by GPT3 or something. Words without meaning, entire paragraphs that don't really convey information.
back in 1991 I took an assembly language course where we where given boilerplate code on how to draw a point on the screen with a two week assignment to do anything graphical ... for the first 5 days I battled to implement Bresenham's Algorithm so I could draw a line segment ... once working the sky's the limit ... I handed in assembly lang code which drew a stick figure which held up a banner of the university ... it then drew same figure with arms and legs at a half step apart which I animated so it appeared to walk across the screen ... to give it some pizazz I had the stick figure walk around a circle and implemented perspective projection so it become shorter when walking toward the back side of the circle and larger as it approached the front ... with ability to draw a line one can unleash unbounded potential