skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this is a firmware patch that can be applied to the cheap/evil version.

It is also interesting in that it places a dollar amount on privacy.
The Kindle browser is designed to encourage you to give up on the Web and read more books.
Holy sh*t I just clicked on a phone number `tel:` link in my browser on my laptop and the phone number was instantly typed into my phone, one-press away to be called. I wasn't expecting that!
You seem to have linked a different article.
Kind of weird seeing this after following Austen on Twitter for so long, he is always bragging on there about how well they’re doing. I guess things aren’t always as great as they seem!
Prions are proteins, so that's not much of a risk with the mRNA vaccines. But I do get your general point. As to why J&J seems to have more side-effects, its hard to tell. More than the peer-review step (which is attacked all the time), my sense is that the clot risk is so rare that the number of participants needed to observe enough clots was much much larger than the number of Phase 3 trial participants.

As for the Sputnik vaccine (and the Sinovac one in China), sampling rare events such as these and reporting them is a function of how many people have been given the vaccine + the amount of transparency of the authorities in the countries administering these vaccines.
KDE 4 frequently failed in weird ways for me, but KDE 5 has been stable and much more pleasant than Gnome. It's not only that I learned to avoid the weirdness, it definitely improved significantly.

If only it didn't assume my external screens are part of the same touch surface of my laptop, because that makes touch unusable... maybe KDE 6.
Possibly related to the submission here from a few days ago: "Lambda School agrees to end deceptive educational financing practices."[1]

Additionally, I found another story from a few months back with a lot of comments: "Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year."[2]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26946972

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415017
"The box that changed Britain" is a good BBC documentary on the subject as well if you can find it online.
Extremely unlikely.

Crickets are still the best theory for Havana.
I wasn't sure what you were referring to at first since I didn't see a mention of it on the Reaper homepage, but I looked it up. One of the Reaper developers, Justin Frankel, also created WinAmp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Frankel

I love both applications, so I think this common thread explains a lot
So insurance companies are losing money and raising premiums accordingly?

Perhaps nobody is losing enough money to really care about the problem. The graph in the linked article suggests that 11 out of the last 13 years, losses have amounted to around $80 million or less. A lot of money, but perhaps not a lot of money to the shipping industry and/or their insurers?
No mention of Twitch. Curious how much money they make now that it's slowly turning into a softcore camgirl site
The basis of the modern liberal world order.
Are you asking specifically about things that nobody is paying me to do? (Not at a job, not as a contractor)?
This is the reason why I like Telegram so much more than WhatsApp. The fact theres an API and the possibility to write bots makes all the difference.
That's too bad. I'm rooting for Lambda School, they are trying hard to innovate in the area of education. Maybe ISAs are the future, maybe not, but the traditional university track of spending out $100K+ is clearly not the future.

They should have been really excelling during the 2020 year of covid, I wonder where things went wrong. Anyone know?
To be fair, while I'm no "corporate simp", it is entirely possible that a company has hired too many people and needs to fire them to return to the "right size" for profitability to be sustained.
I'd like to hear what HN folks would most comfortably put as that router (device/software).
Anesthesia changes brain rhythms
It's definitely not a new euphemism. Here's a HN comment from 2008 discussing it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=403637
Wanted to chime in with my $0.02 regarding barbershops. My family owned a salon growing up. I’m sure you’re right and abuses exist. But in my experience, the shop is a landlord. The independent contractor rents a chair. They can come/go at will. Having a schedule is useful so not everyone is there the same time fighting over walk in traffic. People regularly no show and that’s ok too.
No reason to believe a random offf the shelf router is any more secure than any other device
Try using lightning payments with the lightning network https://lightning.network/
In my experience, the signal to noise ratio for bootcamp is very low.

You might get a diamond in the rough sometimes but it's so inefficient compared to a hiring pipeline from real schools. Lambda now has a program where you can "try" one of their graduates for a few weeks free of charge. Contrast that with the signing bonuses you see negotiated at serious career fairs... That should give you an idea how much people trust Lambda's grads.
macOS quality has been declining for years. It can't all be due to the M1 transition.
Most doctors I have heard from note that side effects for vaccines (if they occur) almost always pop up shortly after the vaccine is administered. There are rarely, if ever, side effects that have occurred years after vaccine administration. Thus, we have no reason to believe these vaccines will have any significant long term side effects.
https://twitter.com/ianmSC/status/1387864442386325504
What amazes me even more is how this doublespeak has any effect at all anymore. Are there still people who don't see through this? Or are the execs in such a bubble they believe it themselves?
I think it is an industry moving away from boot camp grads. Almost all these boot camps focused on JavaScript and HTML/CSS.

None of them were really teaching Linux sysadmin, clustering, scaling, etc. The real world needs developers that understand more than just frontend development.
It just depends on one's use cases. If you're primarily traveling to large conferences such that airports are especially packed, just Priority Pass is probably a poor match. But that's not everyone's scenario.
Anjuna (YC W18) is hiring an SDR
they wanted to show / remind about a way which could allow apt to do some very bad stuff
I think the acquisition of the Intel modem group is too recent to have been integrated into the Apple watch
Brazil rejects Sputnik vaccine for presence of live Adenovirus
This is extraordinarily common language to use in this scenario. Dates back to 1989 according to MW:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rightsize
The Dilbert Principle book from 1998 or whatever has a joke about it.
Sounds like conspiratorial nonsense not confirmed by any actual data whatsoever.
Several weeks ago I poked around Github's CI workflow references. It seems that there's a clear path for crafting a workflow that simply grabs the text of a each issue (as it's submitted) and appends it to the documentation before closing the issue, perhaps marking it as "expected behavior". In short, an evening of tinkering could automatically turn all of a project's bugs into features for the foreseeable future.

This would represent a quantum leap in software quality assurance.
Yeah I have exactly this. I tolerate small amounts but I avoid it on a daily basis. And I do love cheese but ain’t worth it. Lactose-free (aka adding lactase) helps sligthly but it seems it’s not the only thing causing trouble to me. All in all, we’re lucky we have alternatives.
In your opinion what is the percentage of the questionable test results in your opinion?

What other method would you suggest in replacement to verify if a person is possibly infectious?
Epic is taking a loss at 12% by spending a whole bunch on exclusivity agreements to try and get gamers into a store nobody wants.

It’s honestly a perfect example showing that Apple has little to fear - users have preferred marketplaces and are hesitant to shop outside them.
Agree. I used to be against the technical interview process, but now I wholeheartedly believe in every facet of it (Leetcode, book knowledge, project based behavioral questions, system design).

The quicker everyone learns these important concepts, non of which are taught in school or in bootcamps, the quicker one gets to be productive in programming.
So if in 50 years the top 1% owns 99% of the economy, will we call folks with zero debt and zero assets the middle class or will it be more fair to say that the middle class is gone? My definition of middle class is it "those who have to work, but are financially secure and can afford their own place, cars, kids and some vacation", while the rich are those who live off capital gains and don't need to work at all, and underclass are the paycheck to paycheck crowd (half the nation).
There are plenty of bootcamp grad alumni from the ~2013 era that are now senior and staff level engineers. Any company that wants to be stuck up about university degrees is missing out on a lot of potentially strong contributors. The bootcampers I know haven't had any trouble getting hired.
Actually, I wanted to say something very similar. And when you said it was for his very specific _96_ year old grandma, I went back and checked if I missed the obvious. But a quick 2nd scan (and a search on the string 96) didn't bring it up. I'm not saying you're wrong, indeed I'm pretty sure you're right, but it's very-very far from obvious.

Also, the initial tweet itself talks about the issue in pretty generic terms: "a machine that helps our beloved elders to keep communicating with their grandchildren ."

My parents are around 80, and granted my father was an engineer and my mother a programmer they did have exposure to computers from their 40's and 50's. (Actually, my mother started around the age of 30, but my father only when he was 50.) Sure, another 15-20 years make a lot of difference.

However, plugging cables is more 1900's technology (reminds me of the manual switchboards). I doubt too many people alive today remember having to make a call like that as opposed to dialling. They did use radios that had push buttons and most of them for sure used ones with digital tuning. So while it looks very retro, a simple turning knob would have been a lot more sane. (Unless grandma used to be a switchboard operator :) and still has good hand coordination.)

The other thing I don't get is the thermal printer. I mean it's nice as a (very short term) archival device but an LCD screen (or even and e-ink display) would make a lot more sense. Of course, then you have to add scrolling (that could be a tuning wheel-like thing or just up/down buttons). Or well, maybe they would like to hear their grandchildren :).

But I digress: the point is that it was phrased pretty generally and I also think it's very patronizing. (My parents use skype, viber, email, fb chat as they did use SMS and their mobiles.) While sure, there is value in completely tailoring it to the needs of specific person. Just don't think it's in general a good approach.
I didn't "omit it", it's irrelevant. It obviously would not be natural since it was incorrect, and a natural response would not be to throw blind, incorrect allegations and ridiculous insults due to a suspicion.

Greg overreacted. Linus agrees, other kernel maintainers agree. The only person who won't come out and admit it is Greg himself, and his overreaction has cost the kernel a valuable asset as well as the reputation of an innocent researcher, who now gets comments like "they're disgusting" from people who took Greg's accusations at face value.
It’s worth mentioning that, people found that Synology also has a default encryption password (same password for all devices):

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2019/11/synology-nas-encryption-f...

The OpenVPN also had a hidden password:

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-2264/

The funny thing is that, they didn’t even bother to choose a longer password (the password is synopass). Even if people haven’t found them, an attacker brute forcing these passwords would easily find them.
> Lambda now has a program where you can "try" one of their graduates for a few weeks free of charge.

Any idea how this works? It seems like it would be difficult to have such a program without running afoul of labor laws. Does Lambda have the equivalent of a temp staffing agency subsidiary to facilitate this program?
We needed to reduce headcount to maintain profitability.
You can keep some marketing speak without being absolutely full of it.
Hurd/Hird you mean :)

In December 1991 the primary architect of the Hurd described the name as a mutually recursive acronym:

It's time [to] explain the meaning of "Hurd". "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons". And, then, "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth". We have here, to my knowledge, the first software to be named by a pair of mutually recursive acronyms.

- Thomas (then Michael) Bushnell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#Name_and_logo
I am a recent LS graduate. The program is a total shit show. I was able to get a job but I would never recommend it to anyone. They are just very good at marketing. Great idea, terrible execution.
I mean maybe they just like the taste?

I don't really understand it either because I'd usually rather have tasty veggies than imitation meat, but what someone finds tasty is what they find tasty and they don't need to justify it.
"Rightsizing" is a weird one, because it's occasionally used for benign stuff like reducing the rate of hiring. Much like "enhanced interrogation techniques," the broader meaning provides shelter for what it's really used for most of the time.
Ableton Live is huge in the electronic music space. It really works well for live experimentation and feels a lot more like an instrument you can play and experiment with as you go.
Again, sadly, unless you find new land to settle, ideally with some very committed peers to help against risk, you will be living with people, many who will express the same sentiments, pretty much anywhere you go in this world.

Rough state of affairs, I would imagine.
It's a common business term, specifically referring to an optimal size rather than just downsizing to reduce cost and overhead.
My bad. Have fixed the link. Thanks!
> The fork+exec has many unobvious advantages over CreateProcess,

What are the advantages you see, that are not rooted in the fact that it's very difficult to create any remotely sane declarative API in a language as imperative and primitive as C? In other words which of these advantages would still apply if you wrote your OS in, say, Ocaml?

Splitting fork and exec allows you to roughly hew the process environment of a clone of the parent into shape, process state-wise, before you sacrifice it to birth the child-process which will inherit many of these desired (and generally a few undesired) traits. So one big advantage is that it allows you to re-use an existing (and growing!) set of imperative commands to modify aspects of a running process to specify the same aspects for a child process,and that piecemeal mutation is basically the only way to express anything of any complexity in C, particularly if you don't want to break API compatibility all the time.

The downside is that you generally end up inheriting a bunch of cruft that you really didn't want to, that the imperative and piecemeal nature opens up problems with race conditions, and that there is a lot of overhead only partially mitigated by various complex hacks (COW, various more "leightweight" fork alternatives, special flags to general purpose system calls that are only there to control behavior upon forking, ...).
The AP and the Latest Style
My container (used for land-based storage) has obviously seen travel, and has nothing beyond a couple corner air vents. None of the other containers I'm familiar without here (they're quite popular for storage) have anything of the sort. That valve is a nice idea, but doesn't really exist in most of the fleet of containers on the ocean.

They are, indeed, a hazard for other boats, though they generally won't "lurk below the surface." Either they're floating from buoyancy of what's in them, or they sink. The increasing water pressure as you descend makes "floating below the surface" a particularly unstable place.
Aligning educational incentives is hard because no one wants to take the risks (a student who could be a 1x-10x developer or just wash out) and the costs (quality engineering talent that could be making serious money in industry) on.

Traditionally, you’d expect technology companies to have a pipeline to identify and cultivate junior talent (an apprenticeship). Instead, they rather pass the buck to leetcode and bootcamps. Quality engineers are expensive, so you have to operate your bootcamp similar to the traditional higher education TA model (low paid teaching the paying). Are ISAs predatory? Hard to say, depending on what you think of equity, free will, determinism, and “someone has to take the chance and pay for this.”
Ask HN: Favorite strategy to monetize open source?
Curious about successful experiences. Sell support, sell as a package, sell as a SaaS, sell hardware (where it applies). Sponsorships. Ads (?)...
I don’t appreciate being told what I can and cannot say in this manner. As for attacking people, you’re doing a whole lot more than me, which unlike you, wasn’t my intent.
After seeing him on HN a few times it's really no surprise. He always seems to spin things positively. He even does it in this post.
Removing those people removes, relatively, an extremely small portion of the population. You are removing roughly 10% of the population in the U.S., or 2% worldwide. This does not explain the magnitude of the decrease observed for the flu.

Is it that hard to believe that not being around other people limits the chance of getting sick from other people?
Earnings per share: $15.79 vs. $9.69 expected. Wtf? It's a blow out.
Gramagram would be another good name for this device
Two parts to this:
- You are highlighting the negative consequences of a ban. There are of course negative consequences to a ban, the black market issue is far from the most important one. But as inidicated in the press release, smoking is a huge health problem causing untold suffering, loss of income, loss of productivity, unnecessary healthcare costs etc etc. These pros and cons of a ban need to be compared in a sane manner.

- The 'Whatabout' argument, whatabout alcohol, marijuana, gambling etc. This is not an argument which can guide us on what to do with tobacco. If the question is, why are we doing something about tobacco but not any other X problems, the basic answer is because tobacco causes a huge burden of problems, and there are only very small upsides to smoking for an individual, and very large downsides for the individual and almost everyone else.

I think there is a lot of research showing that 'putting out health information and reasonable restrictions' doesn't achieve much. If you are agreeing that something rather than nothing should be done, why do something that doesn't really work?
May I ask where you work? Leslie Lamport has been asking around for examples of companies using TLA+ internally; he'd be interested in hearing your story.
It is not meant for you, it is done that way by design for calibre's database. If you use the export feature, then you can set how the way you want it.
I wonder to what extent it has simply become a term of art. In biology, a specimen that is killed in the course of an experiment is described as "sacrificed" and has been for over a hundred years.

We expect certain words in a layoff press release, and so the writers of those press releases use those words.
The Box is way more fascinating than it has any right to be. It touches on basically every aspect of post-1950 world economy, history, urban planning, social changes, migration, etc.
What about it makes you say that?
That's a fair point, and I don't have an answer. Presumably there would be enough TLDs to ensure a unique name is not as important, as it's just a short label anyway. Maybe there could be an expiration or some kind of override mechanism built into the protocol, though I'm not familiar with NFTs to know if this is feasible.

I'm not saying there wouldn't be challenges with this approach, but it seems worth a try if it means replacing an outdated and vulnerable system.
Can someone explain how you can train Data Scientists in 6 months? What jobs do these grads walk into?

The tech prerequisite is: "You should feel extremely comfortable with how a computer works including: touch-typing, web browsers, search engines, and basic computer programs."

The Curriculum:

Stats, Linear Algebra AND Data Wrangling: 4 Weeks

Modeling: 3 Weeks

Data Engineering, Databases, SQL, Productionisation: 3 Weeks

Machine Learning, NLP, Neural Networks: 3 Weeks

Python, OOP, Algorithms & General CS: 3 Weeks

Project work: 3 Weeks

At that pace over so many subject is anyone walking out able to remember what a dot product or a t-test is from week 1?
My last memory of Lambda School was Austin blocking me on Twitter after asking him why every dev bootcamp grad I’ve ever hired is now on my product team.
> We needed to reduce headcount to maintain profitability.

Is Lambda School profitable? They’re still pretty new. And in an entrenched/moderately regulated space. I’d be surprised.
> I don't consider blood clots as genuine worry. The risk of getting a blood clot from covid is much higher. The risk of suffering a serious adverse medical event from covid is much higher.

This is simply not true. COVID does not have a higher risk of inducing this specific kind of blood clots, the risk of death from which seems to be around 20% based on the available data.

Furthermore, the risk of suffering such an event from the AZN vaccine seems to increase with lower age while the risk of serious medical events from COVID appear to rise exponential with age, i.e. the risk to a young person is almost negligible. Obviously, there must exist an equilibrium at which the risk of taking this vaccine equals the risk from COVID.

But given that other vaccines are available that a) have higher efficacy, and b) have a substantially lower risk of causing blood clots than the AZN vaccine, we need to assume that the age of equilibrium lies relatively high. This means that if you life in a country with access to mRNA vaccines in the foreseeable future, and if you are healthy and below the age bracket of 60-70 where the risk of serious complications from COVID starts ramping up substantially, you are better off waiting if only the AZN vaccine is available.

The real problem isn't people pointing out these issues with the AZN vaccine, but people like you who insist that they are perfectly safe even though that is objectively untrue, and better alternatives exist.
You can just have a CI job generate a CI config file and have GitLab CI load that into a child pipeline. Look up dynamic pipelines.
> Traditionally, you’d expect technology companies to have a pipeline to identify and cultivate junior talent. Instead, they rather pass the buck to leetcode and bootcamps.

They do. It's called internships.