skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats a good point.

We'd need to compare the number of confirmed reinfections divided by confirmed infections with the number of breakthrough cases divided by the number of fully vaccinated people.

Its also worth noting the confirmed reinfection count is on a much longer time scale than breakthrough infections. So we currently have more data about the long term natural immunity than we do for vaccinated immunity.
> Surprise, you live in a society - and I don't say that sentence ironically.

You should. Majority of Muricans is not even willing to pay into a communal health insurance. So much for the level of society.

> That's why the fact that the vaccine is a sure shot

That take is not scientific at all. There have been several issues reported with the vaccines.
While not talking about men mathematically excludes them, or logically excludes sets of men, in everyday life this is merely an incidence where men, or famous men, are just not the subject.

When I talk about auto racing I'm not excluding martial artists. I'm just not talking about them because the subject is auto racing.
Not necessary.
I know folks who came here studied and worked (got tired of the green card waiting game), went back home and started companies.
Very cool! Bug: sometimes my ostrich would stop walking. I could even press the arrow key pointing the opposite direction. The sprite would change to face the new direction but keep moving in the old direction.
This was probably already common fraud in Finland before Klarna if that’s what the law says - but Klarna would be a crazy force multiplier for the fraudsters and no help for the defrauded, so it becomes a much more pressing issue.

(No knowledge of the details, just speculation based on the discussion here)
The only FAANG company products that I am willing to pay any money for are Amazon's AWS and Google's Search. There is no way that Twitter can produce anything that is mildly interesting and their behaviour in the last 5 years was just pure trash. Some people argue that social media in this form is just damaging to society and should not exist. I am not going that far but paying for it would be really over the edge.
Governments do not stop or ban something just because they can. They need a good reason to prompt them to act.

So far crypto is mostly irrelevant so there is no reason to bother. A country that actually has a practical reason to perhaps put a stop to it is China because they have currency and capital controls and crypto allows to bypass that.
Hmm, I guess that's possible, but it seems a little strange given this website is attached to a GitHub repo for what seems to be a real (albeit also weird) programming language. The langauge pitch page was posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287989
This is ridiculous. They use more space. Well windfarms over water are using space we cannot otherwise use. Solar plants in the dessert likewise use land that is otherwise unused. And in some cases it means there is now shaded area in which plants can thrive, making the land therefore useful again. Now I am generally a proponent of nuclear energy. But the land around Chernobyl and Fukushima is certainly not useable and wont be for a while.

Even if a windfarms could destroy itself the worst it could do is tear itself apart.
They might be shunning you due to your non-fact based opinions and consequent risky behavior:
* I've had COVID and recovered
* also don't get a flu shot each year
* have continuously been near or around folks that have come down with Covid

And you think your family are the ones with the emotional arguments (!) Sorry this happened to you, but you're the one in the wrong here.
What? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
Oh yes, sorry, misread that. Never mind then!
HN has decently big scale. Somehow it works because of heavy handed moderation, manual, crowdsourced and automated.

I think twitter really needs a downvote button. But they prefer relying more on their AIs instead of crowdsourced moderation. Probably so they can sell more ads.
That probably helps here, but I don't think moderation works once you get beyond the point where one moderator can handle everything.
Actual synopsis: An example of a narrative that didn't align with MSM's agenda, so it was baselessly labelled a "fringe conspiracy theory". When evidence was provided it was swept under the rug, and that person was labeled a "fringe conspiracy theorist liar".

A year of evidence gathering by the "conspiracy theorists" found more and more credible evidence, and it reached the point the media could no longer cover it up. Now the media acts like they never labeled it a "fringe conspiracy theory" in the first place.
The people that even HSBC won't do business with.
Nothing in the history or current path of AI would suggest that human communication can be represented by an algorithm. Every attempt to program human communication results in stilted, unnatural prose that must be carefully curated and edited. Even those tools only work in limited contexts with huge training sets of data.

There is nothing about a brute-force machine learning algorithm that describes human language. It's like saying that a monkey could build a brick building because he was able to accidentally stack two bricks on each other by flinging bricks around. That does not show any understanding of the process of building anymore than ML algorithms show any understanding of the meaning of speech.
Show HN: A Python package that generates an animation of a 1D conduction problem
Over-the-antenna maybe, easier than a JTAG cable.
The C interoperability of Ada is very good, you can import/export functions and specify whether records (structs) and arrays must have a C convention. I use it often to access libc and Linux kernel functions/syscalls [1][2].

[1] https://github.com/onox/inotify-ada
[2] https://github.com/onox/evdev-ada
This has some interesting ideas but is too opinionated. I usually finish a book before starting a new one and usually only read one at a time. There are exceptions but none of it speaks to how much I love reading.
> What is the definition of the language compiled with CFI enabled (it's not C but some close relative)?

I think I saw mentioned, in the comments of a recent HN post about undefined behavior in C, that OS kernels aren't using "standard C", as they use a bunch of compiler flags to constrain what the compiler does in the face of UB, contrary to what the standard says the compiler is allowed to do. As such, OS kernels have always kind of been using a "close relative of C." (Same syntax, slightly different semantics.)
100/-0 < 1/-0 ?
I think you're partially right.

HN started niche and attracted a narrow audience intent on productive communication; mostly college grads and/or positive attitude people (successful attributes, even if a bit rowdy and troublemaking at times), and not many lottery ticket buyers [1]. It is very open, so it could be overwhelmed by less signal crowds over time should it hit mainstream visibility.

Do some platforms need to limit the number of participants and do stack-ranking dismissals? IIRC, the ASW platform culled a bunch of accounts.

There have been studies on social media interactions (I can't recall the links atm, and am almost done posting from the loo :) and "captological" aspects that influence people's online perception, behaviors, and reactions. I think the problems are the people, the power they're given, the presence/lack of fairness they perceive, what they're presented with, and whether or not the community defends itself and its values strongly (I think dang does a Herculean job with this).

[1] Best characterizes the lottery ticket phenomenon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23393875
Power users use Tweetdeck, and there are no ads I'm just realizing
onchain, correct, it is indistinguishable.

the reality offchain can be very different, I was trying to make clear just in case you or others that didn't catch that. but I think we're agreeing on everything.
Precisely.

And there’s another dimension: what if the source country didn’t welcome the emigré? Should someone be forced to contribute to a society if they are not wanted?

I was surplus to requirements in my birth country so I left. Others I know left their birth nations for the new world because they are gay or atheist or a minority and didn’t feel welcome.

Talented or not, these people should be able to apply to move where they want to go.
Here's one... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.115832v1....
Ask HN: Do we need password confirmation input?
I'm writing stuff about UX/UI.

I made a card that says that we do not need password confirmation fields in sign up forms.

My arguments:

- If the user typed it wrong, you should have password recovery page

- You also have show/hide password icon

- Often users have password managers

- If the user types password first time, he will probably copy-paste in in the second field? Well, some percent of users do that

- And we also have social sign up

So, basically, I think the less fields we have - the better.

But I met some critique regarding this approach.

So I'm gathering pros / cons that I'll put in an article later.

Thoughts?
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182982
> highly toxic and mostly just produces shitstorms, lynchmobs, perpetually enraged morally superior idiots and professional victims.

This is self inflicted. My Twitter feed feels like a really big friend group talking/joking about anime, tech, finance, etc. You are quite literally the company you keep on Twitter.

> Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.

You won't get far taking the website this serious.

(I should add that I'm black and so are most of the people I follow so it's possible I'm basing this off a group of people that already have some larger sense of community off the bat)
What is unclaimed clothing?
w.r.t. fake universities, doesn't the accreditation process already handle that?
It's also very very funny to me the general tone of self-congratulatory nonparticipation all over this comment section about how superior we all are for not using social media or twitter or whatever.

HN is social media too! I've heard the arguments why it's not but they aren't compelling to me; it is one. The main difference between here and twitter is the tone.

On here there is a cultural expectation that you will perform dispassionate erudition but if you read beyond that at all very few comments are any more intellectually stimulating than an average tweet. Less, honestly, at least people on twitter still seem to value joy and humor and whimsy.
> Every app has to implement it itself rather than calling a syscall and letting the OS deal with its complexities

I think for almost all developers, library support for features is much more relevant than OS support anyway. How many of you are directly writing winsock code? Implementing it on UDP just means that you don't need to update a lot of ancient routers and firmware.

I don't see "ossification" being a problem. Things haven't changed much at the transport layer because largely it just works.
Same description for awesome-go.

Not sure if it's something to do with awesome-go's description mentioning it was inspired be awesome-python
They guidelines also recommend not discussing downvotes. "Don't feed egregious comments by replying"

Downvote and move on - comments like this feel like mob-mentality karma farming.
Why is that so important?
It's important to realize that attribution - knowing which human got which money when - is actually very important in many contexts, particularly when a lot of money is involved. This allows for an un-do button in the case of mistakes, fraud, etc. If I'm wiring my down payment for a house for $200k, it's nice to know that if I fat-finger the receiving account I can get the money back. How would you feel paying your down-payment in cash or BTC? How about when Citi accidentally paid an extra $900M (or something like that). Normally they'd be able to get all the money back (actually in that case they couldn't, but that was a weird anomaly).

I'm all for privacy, anonymity, etc - which is one of the reasons I'm very excited about crypto - but you always have to look at things from multiple angles.
> I suggest you consult your legal advisor.

So do I.

> Adacore holds at least the copyright of their own contributions and therefore can decide whether they want to release their version of GNAT with or without the runtime library exception.

Indeed.

> the FSF version eventually inherits also the contributions of Adacore, but the Adacore version is more current.

AdaCore contributes to GCC, with some contributions copyright FSF, some copyright AdaCore.

AdaCore retains full rights on the later, limited by whatever private agreement they have with the FSF.

Whether it is more current or not is not relevant to the discussion, and given that GNAT CE has release cycles of 1 year it stands to reason that FSF GNAT gets bugfixes that GNAT CE will only get in 2022.

> This doesn't have anything to do with source or binary version.

I'm now pretty convinced you're reading things that I didn't write.

You seem to be under the impression that dual licensing only works because AdaCore GNAT contains newer files.

However, AdaCore can download stock upstream gcc, remove the linking exception from files they hold copyright over, and distribute this result in source and binary form on their website.

This is due to their unique status with the FSF, something that other companies and private contributors can not do.

Finally, I have never suggested recompiling AdaCore GNAT CE sources will result in a GNAT compiler with runtime exception.

Instead I've pointed out the mechanism of how they achieve this dual licensing: A) unique status as copyright holders alongside the FSF B) strategic inclusion or removal of the runtime exception in each and every file they hold copyright over.
My experience is largely the same, but I have to concede with the haters on the point that Twitter has been doing what they can to make drama from the rest of the site leak into my feed. First the algorithmic timeline (and the dark pattern where if you switch to chronological it automatically switches back after time), then automatically suggesting tweets from topics outside my network with no way to turn it off.

The whole blue check Stanford Prison Experiment of giving verified people/accounts additional privileges and boosted rankings also doesn’t help matters. What was supposed to be a security feature became a status symbol.
I'm not a published app developer, but even if I don't trust Apple hundreds of millions of users do. If I wanted to market to those users, or if I worked for a company that wanted to, I would have to suck it up and deal with Apple and their platform in order to reach the users.
Oh the honesty, it burns, it burns ...

Hey give server side blazor a try if you want to restore your faith in modern but productive and simple solutions.
>tries to

Maybe “offers to” is a better way of saying this? The way this is being treated makes one thing that it goes ahead and fills in a user name without interaction. Instead it seems that login / password fields are being detected by the browser, which is expected behavior.
And the damage of a security issue can be much larger than less-performing code.
Also the travelers are essentially in an inertial frame, so it acts kind of like "inertial dampeners" in Star Trek.
most people with complex tax situations pay a accountant $500-2000 per year to do their taxes and move on with their life.
Dr. Green has financial interest. I wouldn't rely on him for unbiased advice.
The Union-Busting Birth of the Academy Awards
If you want to see a real implemention of arbitrary sized integer math, mbedTLS is a great example:

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/blob/development/library/...

All of the ECC code in that library relies on this code, which can be accelerated by dedicated hardware.

Here is multi-precision multiplication:

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/blob/f1eb4257823ae4c3b3ac...
One of the issues with moving to NV is you get trapped by the cheap pricing — it’s really hard to argue that you’re willing to move to CA for 2.5x the price for the same house... far worse when you look at the north.

But from San Francisco, you can basically move anywhere — am I willing to put up with Virginia’s remoteness for 700k? Probably.
HN is not social media. Social media has friends/followers, chats, inboxes, timelines... stuff like that. Social media involves some insularity. This is how so-called fake news spreads, because insular networks do not get outside feedback. .
As it was told since the dawn of humanity! If I could 1k++ pts your post, I would!!!
The modern way to implement this is with <canvas>, which lets you do that sort of thing pretty easily-- and is more performant to render.
In some individual cases, that is certainly true; so that's more of a non sequitur.

I'm trying to divine the origins of this "right" that highly talented individuals have, to move where they whilst to best avail themselves of opportunities, and what sort of strength and dominance they can contribute to the place they move to...that, if these qualities do emerge from highly talented individuals, why did they do them no good in the place they're moving _from_?
As many say, open source is about choice. There are no choices if there’s only one of each thing.
It's true that things are difficult if you don't have primary residency somewhere, but I'm unaware of any obligation to actually stay at the primary residence, so long as you're not de facto residing somewhere else and avoiding legal residency there for tax evasion purposes. Like, you can have a primary residence in NY state, and travel all year long, and so long as you're not actually spending >6 months at a specific residence in another state, and are still paying your NY and federal taxes, I don't think there's any problem. Where things get sketchy is if you're trying to claim NY is your primary residence while living in CA for 9 months of the year. I'm not a lawyer though.

What I'm more familiar with is overseas residency and federal taxes. There are benefits to establishing legal residency outside the US, if you really do live and work outside the US. But then you have to be able to prove it to the IRS. If you can establish a bona fide overseas residency, you get substantial federal tax discounts (like ~$100k tax-free income), and don't have to pay state tax anywhere. But if you spend more than 33 days per year in the US, the burden of proof for establishing a bona fide foreign residency are higher[1].

Edit: update since I can't nest any more replies (to @dragonwriter) below: I sorta changed topics; my paragraph above about foreign residency is only relevant if you're earning foreign income. If you're a US citizen working for a US company, you're not getting away from taxes that way. But you can still save yourself from some personal obligation by setting up a company.

[1]: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
I absolutely hate ads on Twitter and there's no way to block them on mobile. So I developed this obsession to block every ad account I see (which is about 4,300 accounts so far https://github.com/ahmetb/twitter-audit-log/blob/master/bloc...). I am willing to pay $2 more and get ads blocked as well. Once you start blocking ads, the relevance goes down and it drives you crazier.
In my experience summer in Minneapolis is fine.

Comparing it to where I have lived I think for heat and humidity, it is milder than central Texas / comparable to Rhode Island

Just comparing heat, it is milder than summer in the Central Valley/SoCal. SoCal heatwaves are oppressive.

Air quality in Minneapolis goes down when there are fires in the West, but it is obviously worse for us folks in the West.
No it isn't, that's basic stateful firewalling. NAT in no way provides security. At all.
Yes, there is dramatically increase probability of obsolescence for anyone after 50, but from my experience, the office workers tend to have a much better network to fall back on.

Either way, one should definitely be investing in passive income sources for their 50s and up.
Apple could publish a builder binary with which you could verify that your submitted code gets compiled+linked+thinned into the same thing you get from the App Store (minus the signature.)

They haven't — which is bad — but they could, and that would be a guarantee. Same as you get with reproducible binary packages in Debian.
For a better-written, funny account of the habit of reading many books at once, there is Joe Queenan's One for the Books. It was published in 2012 but is still in print.
And if you are spending in the tens of millions, any cloud provider is going to negotiate discounts with you to keep you on board.

You’re not getting retail price.

So you’re still spending more trying to maintain “cloud agnosticism” by hosting everything on VMs instead of using managed services.
Step aside burnout, it's toxic productivity's time to shine
It seems like an ideal way to use excess energy in grid-tied solar setups where the energy company is not incentivized to buy excess power. Or for non-grid tied solar when your batteries are full.
I expected this to be a project with a few developers on it. But it looks like a serious company.

What I don't understand is why an electron app? Why not a SaaS app?

I see the plan to make money via premium features on the phone apps but I am even more confused to why I would want to run this on my phone.
I had a Twitter account since late 2010 until a few months ago. I'm not much of a social media guy, but I felt that I had some sort of addiction during those years, an addiction that made me go back every few weeks and "leave" after feeling Twitter's toxicity.

Their system is smart at appealing to very specific personalities that just can't help being toxic. These people produce tons of controversial content and generate a lot of traffic.

However, the system also operates at a collective level by forming closed groups of users, that fall somewhere between gossipy cliques and low key cults. This is by far the scariest side of Twitter.
10 years of research and advising on high impact career planning – 7 key points
For me, this is a textbook consequence of a "free market" based system.

If you don't like this but believe in free markets, maybe think a bit more.

If you see nothing wrong with this and believe in free markets, then you are probably consistent.
Yeah, thats the reason I wont move from the west coast, unless it becomes unbearable. Most people here would downvote you, just for suggesting human interactions are necessary, but yes, in places like SV, Seattle, NY, you get to meet smart and interesting people, learn a lot about the industry, life in general, I also get how some folks would love to make 300K in the middle of nowhere, paying none to little rent, and enjoy being the richest person in a small town, but I think there is a reason why most of the population is concentrated in a few cities.
No he is not
> About 10.9 million Americans last year described themselves as digital nomads — people who work remotely and tend to travel from place to place

If I read the report right that includes those staying within US borders while the NYT article is mostly about those traveling abroad https://www.mbopartners.com/state-of-independence/2020-digit...