skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding (1)... I would feel better, but I would still not get the vaccine having had COVID myself, and I would still be completely against any form of restriction of those without the vaccine.

I believe my views will be contrarian as long as I live under a large government. The biggest issue for me though is being told to obey without being convinced. The more persecuted I feel, the more I have a desire to backlash. When Alex Jones was de-platformed I was like, huh, guy's crazy, so why would they want to remove him. He's a joke, not a real threat right? Then suddenly Youtube included a CDC banner on its home page and started removing content that was at all critical of the CDC's authority. I then started finding more and more evidence of control that frankly scares me.

So, yeah I would maybe be a bit more measured if it was FDA approved, but at this point the degree of cooperation between tech/media/government on this messaging has me actually terrified.

Regarding (2), yes I would like proof of absence of harm--which is what I believe you're asking. Unfortunately, I do want that over the long term. I see the point you're making, but for my age group, I'm just as safe to get COVID itself and self isolate while I have it (which I did inadvertently). From all evidence, having had COVID is better than the vaccines themselves, but that's not at all considered when people are requiring a card to eat at a restaurant or go to a gym.

@helen___keller IDK if there's a thread depth limit or something, but it's been 15mins and I still can't reply, so I'm writing here.

In my area, there are limitations at gyms such that you cannot workout without a mask unless you've got a vaccine card. Restaurants just require a mask unless you've been vaccinated--thought I've not seen them check. I personally don't try to skate around the requirement (lie). I just wear the mask. I admit, that's not the same as not allowing admission, but I've only seen these sort of restrictions pick up, but not back down. As such, I am afraid further restrictions for un-vaccinated are coming.

I'm jealous that you don't have the restrictions in your area, and we are looking at moving.
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1. Find another while still working.

2. Give the customary notice because you're a professional.

3. If it keeps happening, it might not be the jobs or it might be working for other people.
I remember back in the 90's that there was talk about building out a business focused Internet.

I'm now starting to think that it's necessary.

I know a lot of people will just say that these companies just need to pay attention to security, but the problem is asymmetrical.

Focusing on security is like being a pacifist when dealing with a hostile bully. You get your butt kicked a lot.
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Wish there was an explorable explanation for this concept that's not as verbose for the layman like me.

It's still unclear to me about how the mathematical explanation (approximating a continuous function with finite series) explain the physically observable "ringing artifacts" and square wave jitters.
I for one am enjoying the new world of random ads I am getting. It feels like being let out of a bubble. I get to see all sorts of products I had never thought about. Not relevant ones, but the personalized ads never worked anyway.

Personalized ads were always about showing you ads for diapers just after your child had outgrown them, or ads for a crappy car just after you had bought a good car. Meh.
Wow if getting a group banned is that easy, then it's more like a vulnerability because the same can be scaled up and get almost any group banned (as the banning is also automatic as I see in another comment below).
>everyone's wondering why clang is so behind in C++20 support

This is wrong.
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support
> Critical to this essay is Joseph and Buchenau’s interpretation of the post-1940 period vis-à-vis the other works under review. Using a term coined by Mario Vargas Llosa in 1990, they describe a “perfect dictatorship” between 1940 and 1968: a one-party system with the appearance of democracy that sustained regular elections and avoided military coups and social upheavals. In the reorganization that became the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in 1946, the party removed the army from formal political power. The state/party emphasized securing dominance with loyalty, order, and representation of PRI sectors in local elections. The latter required central government reliance on local strongmen and their minions, effective political and cultural brokers. [0]

> The public split encouraged voices from the right and left. Add to this political contention the increasingly visible contradictions: uneven benefits of economic growth, population explosion creating pressure on the land and migration to cities, growing unemployment and inflation. For Buchenau and Joseph, the students rebelling in Mexico City in 1968 represent a coming-together of these critical contradictions: they demanded the rule of law, freedom from repression, and social justice. [0]

I’m definitely not an expert in Mexican history. But that to me sounds an awful lot like a typical dictatorship, and a bad one at that. Otherwise, people wouldn’t push back.

[0] https://larrlasa.org/articles/10.25222/larr.294/
> NO, the law does NOT require your implementation to suck,

This is kind of an excuse though, because I have never seen an implementation of an age gate online that isn't kind of awful. You either make something that is trivial for kids to bypass, or you make something that is invasive, like Youtube's system.

So we get these laws that say, "solve the problem", and there isn't a way to solve the problem. But criticism of the law or criticism of the law's outcomes aren't allowed because the law doesn't technically require that your solution to be terrible. It just asks you to do something that's impossible to do well without violating someone's privacy.

In the US (at least for a while) this was solved by pretending that self-reported ages are an effective way to protect kids. And we pretended that would at least reduce exposure to this kind of content, even though in practice it has basically no impact at all. But if the law doesn't care about effectiveness, then why have the law in the first place? So we raise the standards a bit so that the law has some teeth. But again, nobody has ever in any context demonstrated a working age gate to me online that doesn't involve violating someone's privacy or collecting identifying information about them like a credit card or ID.

So it doesn't actually matter whether or not the law says the solution has to be terrible. The only outcomes that are possible from these laws are either ineffective solutions or invasive solutions. If there is only one method to accomplish an outcome, then requiring the outcome is effectively the same as requiring the method.
If Belarus does not have a tight control over international money transfers.

Moving will be easier if citizens will be able to carry some savings.

E.g.: people moving from HK to the UK are usually converting their HK$ to a cashier of foreign and crypto currencies.. Belarus and Hong Kong do not have the economy of North Korea
Great blog post. Just want to post in favor of this:

"Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, which I know you know well. Although climate change / the Anthropocene has been widely recognized for more than ten years, I think the combination of, not solutions, but at least ameliorations, presented in the book couldn’t have been written more recently. I think it’s a remarkable book."

Read this book in a couple months ago, outstanding book.
Looks great. It probably doesn't matter for something like this, but what algorithm are you using for card shuffling? Note that if you use a 32-bit random seed, you only reach about 4 x 10^9 of the 8 x 10^67 different ways a pack of cards can be shuffled - a tiny tiny tiny fraction.

http://www.lauradhamilton.com/random-lessons-online-poker-ex...

The other interesting aspect about card shuffling is how more shuffling than necessary might make the end result worse

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-danger-of-naivete/

edit: changed to 'seed' as mentioned below, reframed blog post
So how exactly will the auth request be impossible log/trace? And is it really going to be implemented that way?
> COMPUTATIONAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING (CCU)

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[0] https://beta.sam.gov/opp/a6d0788057414e2c8fd6bdf45e3fd21d/vi...

[PDF¹] https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/CCUProposersDayFAQ%20v15.p...

[PDF²] https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/CCUProposersDayBriefv7.pdf

[PDF³] https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/HR001121S0024-Amendment-01...
"I work on ads at Google"

why?
A big advantage for Linux in the early 90s was better support for cheap hardware.

FreeBSD back then did not want to install on my PC. First problem was that I had an IDE CD-ROM and they only supported SCSI CD-ROM.

Second problem was that it would not install in the unpartitioned space on my DOS/Windows SCSI hard disk.

Linux supported IDE CD-ROM and could install on the same disk as DOS/Windows.

Result: I installed Linux, and have used Linux ever since then when I need a free Unix-like system.

According to their forums, there was no IDE support because nobody would seriously have IDE on a server. At the time you could make a reasonable case for that for hard disks, but not for CD-ROM (especially since IDE CD-ROMs were around $100 and SCSI CD-ROMs were around $400).

The disk sharing limit was because they didn't think you could reliable infer the cylinder/head/sector (CHS) to logical black address (LBA) mapping that the other operating system(s) on the disk used. (The standard PC partition map at the time specified everything using CHS addressing, but disk interfaced had moved on the LBA addressing. Someone had to make up a pretend geometry for the disk, and then everyone had to consistently use that mapping to convert between CHS and LBA).

In theory, you probably could find a legal partition setup with free space that was unsafe for another OS to use due to ambiguity of the mapping, but in practice that did not happen.
This feels a bit overdramatic. You can remove videos from your watch history and, in my experience, YouTube will cease to give you recommendations based on them. You could also create a separate account used solely for watching videos with YouTube-dl instead of using your main one if you're worried about recommendations. I agree that it sucks that a workaround is necessary, but I don't think this particular one is worth getting too worked up about.
240 volt split phase land, thank you.

We can have 240V 3 phase, but that's not common in homes, and the standard J1772 plug doesn't support more than a single phase.

I mean, yeah, cost cutting manuever, but it's a sensible one. The rectifier for high power is expensive and hot. Better to move it to somewhere fixed that is potentially higher use, and easier to cool. I wouldn't be terribly surprised to find 80A EVSEs becoming more common for home use, but those will likely be either weird dual cord things, or large vehicles, or have something else special going on (like the F-150 Lightning's V2H charger), or more than one of the above. But I suspect there's a reason why Tesla stopped selling the 80A wallboxes.
LOL. I feel for you. It's the same way in a lot of places.

Your seniors should definitely be thought leaders, but when they get "too senior" or "too important" to write code, the company is done innovating. That's a major organizational smell.
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Was in adtech.
The money involved is obscene. Lots of high paying positions will go away if work arounds are not found.

Some level of targeting is fine. Pushing denture cream to 5 year olds makes no one happy.

Otherwise yea, creepiness is off the charts, wouldn’t mind most of it going away.
We could be worse off putting too many eggs in the ESG basket.
Blame Government not Google and Apple.

I hate both, but this is purely a function of terrible regulations
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Yes, but I want it to be guaranteed, not statistically.

E.g. I want to run Quake1 right from the L3 cache.

E.g. with filesystem I'm sure when I read or write it, if I use regular IO operations, no mmap-ing (of course there's a lot of quirks with drive caches not respecting fsync, etc, but let's skip that for sake of this comment).
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I've recently found myself finding it very difficult to answer the question of "What do you do?", even among technical folk.

A bit of background, I was not fortunate to come from the right environment to have a formal CS type education.

I started my "real" career in tech as an entry level implementation specialist at a medical software company.

I ended up working for a bit as a "Systems Engineer" at a MSP, but found that that life was just not for me.

I ended up re-joining the medical software company in my old position, moving to the Eng. team as a "DevOps Engineer". I did a ton of automation around Windows/Azure there.

About two years ago I was approached by a local recruiter with an opportunity to connect with another local startup, my current employer.

I was hired on again as "DevOps". The SW team manager actually had a really good definition of what that meant, but the org as a whole had really latched on to the term "DevOps" to mean basically "Ops, but an engineer does it".

Over the past few years I've worked on everything from our AWS infra, K8s, Cellular LTE connectivity, Device/IoT fleet management, internal and external service management, and I'm sure 100 other things that aren't coming to mind.

In short, I've found myself with an incredibly wide breadth of experience.

At the same time, I feel like I'm siloed into a specific type of company, namely IoT or IoT tangential companies big enough to be able to hire a generalist, but small enough to not hire for a rigid set of duties.

So, my question is: What have I become? What sort of engineer am I? If in the future I need to find employment elsewhere, how do I market myself when the best description I can come up with is "other duties as assigned, but that's my whole job"?

Thanks for (possibly) taking the time to read this, I am looking forward to any thoughts, commiserations, or advice you might have.
Agree, and something similar happened with the Forester

I guess they try to sell what folks want to buy - at least the WRX and STI still exist (parallels to the Porsche SUVs keeping the 911 alive)
And even that will continue to change.

Kubernetes is overused right now, it has its place but it's not nearly universally the right tool for the job.

Snowflake will eventually fall to something else due it's poor economics.

S3 and Spark though I anticipate to be around for a good few years and if they lose out it will be to imitators or evolutionary equivalents.
currency? lots and lots of currency?
Your argument doesn't make sense. There are a huge number of sites that host adult content that are easily accessible by a simple Google search. What can you do?

> What should I do? Not allowing my kids access to the internet at all is a non-answer in 2020. Hell it was a non-answer in 1995.

A non-answer is not allowing everyone else to surf the web without giving their credit card or ID to every website that hosts adult content. It would have a huge impact on privacy of the users and the freedom of the whole internet in general.

A parent should educate their children, but I know that is simpler to set a bunch of restriction, give to the children a computer, and let him sit hours in front of YouTube while you do something else.
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Good summary. That kind of simple explanation would be useful in many Wikipedia articles.

As a programmer, I have learned the importance of simple, explanatory variables, comments, and abstraction to communicate what is going on without losing the reader in the details.
My point is that advertisers aren't interested in groups of people as they are whole people, but just fragments of individuals that happen to match very specific characteristics they are advertising at.

Under most circumstances this would be a distinction without a difference, but in this specific case it turns out to be important. If advertisers are interested in "groups" than they may still think of themselves as needing identity, and demographic breakdowns, and wanting addresses for those groups, etc... but if you conceive of all they care about as being "in the market for baby wipes" there is no reason to give advertisers anything more than "here is an advertising opportunity for baby wipes", and no other information. Not an aggregation of "individuals", with all the extraneous baggage that comes with, but aggregations of fine slices of attributes that they have no need to correlate to anything else. (Only residual desire because they're probably still used to thinking about "individuals".)
I read Benedict's statement "inferring from the context" (which is quoted) to mean that simply a magazine about camping (which is the context) "inferred" that the people reading it were people who liked camping. And while that would be a fine and benign thing, it wasn't the "inferring" the advertisers were doing back in the day.

Back when I did freelance writing for magazines there was a book that was published annually called "The Writers Guide" which published the demographic information for the readers of various periodicals. That was developed from surveys, not from context. It helped writers like me to understand what the editor would consider appropriate for their readership.
Please feel free to ask any clarifying questions, had to cut out about half of what I wrote to keep within the 2k char limit.
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Even if Apple had basd their watchOS toolchain on GCC, and had published the source code for it, it is quite likely that their fork would have remained separate to upstream: upstream might not care about watchOS support, and Apple's fork might be based on an old version of GCC. In that case, Rust would still have to support two versions.
My uncles were 2 bottles of rye a day guys.
10 drinks seems low honestly.
I am thankful for having a dulled sense of taste because I like cheap coffee and have found my satisfactory level of flavor from a very basic level of effort. This amount of concern over all the factors of brewing a cup of a hot flavored beverage feels to be on the level of sound quality goals for audiophiles, purchasing ever-increasingly expensive accessories.
> Wait, do people assume YCombinator has any standard to their funding

That is basically the whole point of YC, that their investment gives you a stamp of approval.
Is there an example where centralized planning has led to favorable results? The centralized planning in the face of this pandemic has resulted in widespread economic destruction, not to mention rioting, looting, arson, and portions of American cities being taken over by "anti-fascist" warlords.

Okay, that's just my opinion, right? Fine. Call me crazy for believing that prolonged isolation, idleness, and political repression leads to egregious economic dislocation and social unrest, but I'm going with that until I hear a better explanation.
I've been 99% MySQL user, project reasons.. everytime I see a release announcement I'm amazed and have feature envy. This isn't a troll comment, but what does mysql do better than postgres? Is it just syntax-favour. I actually Googleéd and ask colleague 10-15 days ago if postgres had json support for indexing root attributes...
Is this surprising? I wouldn't be surprised if the value in cloud accretes almost exclusively to the big cloud companies. Exit strategies for these kind of enterprises should primarily be "get acquired by X cloud provider".
To avoid exactly that confusion is what made Rikkes talk a bit challenging... :)
Business-focused? How should that do anything about security? Do you want to charge an entry fee that evil people cannot afford? Or just label it "serious business only"? Have things audited somehow? I don't think any of that would do any good.
It is exactly this. It just takes one idiot in the neighborhood to now defeat my "don't connect them to the network" approach to not sharing my data.
Interesting, I just saw an ad for this last night.
"and Apple has deliberately framed the question such that almost no-one will say yes"

Translation: Apple worded the question plainly and without deception.
I feel that the solution to the pay for content problem is micropayments.

Why do I have to pay subscription to 10 news papers if i only read 2 articles per month from each? Why can’t I have a button at the bottom that says pay 10 cents to read the whole article where payment happens instantly without redirects and filling credit card info.

Why does paypal/stripe have a fixed minimum fee of $0.30 for doing a database update?

Here is an example of what I am talking about that is implemented via the lightning network: https://yalls.org/
Oops forgot to mention the name, it was Apprentice.