skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be a letter of the law vs. spirit of the law sort of a situation.

AFAIK, the FEMA mobile clinics were meant to boost vaccinations in underserved communities. So they go to one of those communities, set up shop and then jam the needle in as many arms as they can find.

I don't know but it's completely possible that as long as you are there and you are 18+, you will be eligible for it. However, since it's meant to vaccinate underserved communities, you were probably not supposed to be there if you live somewhere else.
This is the part that I don't understand. CircleCI is alive and well last time I checked.
The information is there (sometimes... it's amazing how many times you have to make a "reasonable" guess when decoding images/video because metadata is missing). Passing it along is feasible. But it does complicate things (especially the implementation) pretty quickly.

A lot of Y'CbCr -> RGB converters actually disagree with each other. They're all close enough that casual users don't notice or care about the small discrepancies.
US citizen here, curious. I read both posts. Is this normal, paying $20/hr for even a junior web developer because they live in South Asia? That’s a laughably low rate for someone based in the US, where people who can barely write Javascript are getting $100k+ offers. I pay more than $20/hr over Upwork — if I see someone asking for such a low rate I assume they are kids or hobbyists, not serious developers.

I’m not asking you to justify your salary. I’m asking if this is normal — this kind of large disparity based on location and nationality.

I freelance for a living and have lived overseas while working for US companies and none have ever suggested paying me less because I lived in a low cost-of-living country. Other freelancers I know, including many who are not US citizens, are getting good rates too when working for US companies.

Ideally you get paid according to the value you bring to the company. Period. Where you live or what passport you have shouldn’t make any difference. An offer like this communicates either exploitation or that the company doesn’t see you as very valuable. Why even take the time to interview someone at this rate? Just hire and see what happens, the stakes are so low.
>think of what happens to everything else when bitcoin crashes or even dips significantly.

No idea about the rest, but I'm buying.

Conceptually I think this has gained critical mass. i.e. There are enough people with enough belief to make crash to zero unlikely
newsworthy, but the hint that it's a dupe (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27374840 ) is correct. The suggestion that it being posted again has to do with their post is of course laughable.
In 1627 they got on Thomas Morten's case for a whole bunch of nothing that basically amounted to being too friendly with the natives.

There's a reason "puritanical" has a derogatory connotation. I'm gonna stop short of calling them the Christian Taliban but only because the Taliban haven't yet gotten onboard with female literacy. It suffices to say that there were good reasons the Puritans were unwelcome in Europe. Rhode Island basically popped up overnight because there were just that many people that wanted out and were willing to throw in their lot with the first guy to flip everyone the bird on his way out. These weren't good people. The OG Pilgrims were a tiny bit better but not much.

The early history of New England is a good read. Amazing how quickly the cultural differences between the various regions developed and how little things have changed since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Morton_(colonist)#Mount...
I personally like scale as I work in ml and that helps in making datasets large. You can do a lot of ml on small datasets but life is much easier when you get to work with what feels like infinite data. It was nice having models train on trillionish data points at a prior company. The opposite end I worked at a startup that had a couple thousand data points and dataset size was quite annoying especially in not having enough variety.
Eligibility was determined by zipcode in those areas, even for mobile clinics, that's the "letter" of the law.
Your point is well taken, but ephemeral nyms aren't new. I actually like knowing they are out there. You need to evaluate what you read on its own merits. And there's an aspect of rebelling against the logic of accumulation.
That wouldn't surprise me. Don't worry about the downvotes, it's not unusual for votes on a post to oscillate wildly in any sort of hot topic because people often revert to tribalism as they first scan the thread.
Well, unlike what the downvote brigade thought, I wasn't trying to point fingers. Now I don't need to.
I'm pretty sure it'd be easy to at least fingerprint/classify your "driving style" given enough of even crappy accelerometer data.
Sure, but the exact same is true if there's a crash due to Tether's demise.
The exact text of the linked tweet is "lol just got kicked out of @ycombinator"
Nothing of what you stated supports the theory that it works, you've only shown that people are willing to pay for the ability.

In the end I guess it boils down to whether you trust advertising companies to only help their customers sell stuff that nobody needs.
It’s really unfortunate that Bill Gates has the capital for such large scale projects that have a huge impact on society. He made that money unethically, his “charity” has upsides but mostly results in Bill Gates having more control over things and yes, Epstein.

I’m pro-nuclear but anti Gates+nuclear. Or Gates+ anything really.
I could both have preferred a harder lockdown, and also be cognizant of the hypocrisy of banning travel from one country, but not from another region, when the other region is worse off by nearly every metric.

Was accusing him of racism for that particular thing on February 1st a bit early? Maybe.

Did history prove the critics right? Yeah. It did. It only took six weeks.

Addendum: I appreciate that you have gone to some length to research the context of my character and my previous posts, in order to best form a context in which to interpret my current ones. I suggest that perhaps Trump's critics on this subject may have done something similar. The man has given them a few years of material to work with by that point, after all.
Your account may very well be biased but it astonishes me how many HN commenters are willing to chime in while knowing next to nothing about what actually took place.

I know next to nothing and as such would typically hesitate to comment. Others appear to know next to nothing and appear very interested in sharing their opinions here, and I don’t quite understand why...
You probably don’t need a debugger in elixir, based on my experience. You can drop into a process with iex.pry() or use the repl and get a lot of insight that way. You’re generally not dealing with state outside or GenServers which you can inspect if needed.
I appreciate the work you do for the tech community.

I think social media (sorry for calling this site that) vote manipulation detection will be one of the defining problems of the decade.
Wait... so what cloud dit they end up with?
The vast majority of time F-15 flies at subsonic speed. Converting it to propeller-driven design will save a lot of fuel and production and maintenance costs.

YUV format is lossy. The one that is twice as bandwidth-efficient as RGB records four times less color difference than full bandwidth YUV or RGB. Add to that that RGB often used with alpha channel and for half the bandwidth you will get twice the artifacts.

The subsampling scheme that is half of RGB is called 4:1:1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroma_subsampling#4:1:1

It is not broadcast quality. 4:2:0 is also not good for today's standards.
Did the church site have to turn away elderly people, or other people who cleared CA guidelines, at the end of each day?
NASA chief says Russia leaving ISS could kick off a space race
“Oh no no, not the Y Combinator Founderinos.”

These things happen when you don’t practice what you preach, inconsistencies create drama.
Bingo. He uses the announcement of vaccines opening up to all in May as "proof" that it was allowed, but I can't see anything in the announcement that indicates that.
Every other time Warren Buffett has tried to dip his hands into energy it is solely to profit-monger on the backs of state and local governments. Shouldn't expect this project to be any different
It’s not a bad moral though.
Very glad that Scala offers this!

Do you have any insight on the underlying thread pool? Can you control the size? Is it automatically determined?

Erlang/Elixir default to CPU threads but the number of parallel thread schedulers can be manually changed as well.
Sure I'm not particularly worried about cookies, where I control where the data is stored, what's in it, for how long, and who gets access.

Now if I had the same degree of control over all of my personal data we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Just on a side tangent. A lot of great art, comes out in part from the restriction of materials being used. A portrait from Jello and steel would be awesome.
I don't agree with this comment, but we should probably upvote it for credible argument's sake.
This comment is written for rats.
I have very limited Btrfs experience, now or then; I've heard a lot of people complaining about it, but A) I hang out in ZFS circles, so the people I hear there talking about Btrfs are a self-selecting group, and B) the plural of anecdote is not data (unless very large numbers are involved).

One notable caveat is that in 2009, ZFS was basically available on FreeBSD and Solaris - zfs-fuse existed (and I even used it sometimes), but I would be astonished if you could boot from it, for example, sometimes it just broke, and FUSE is going to have at least some overhead by dint of being FUSE, which may be a nonstarter for performance applications. If Oracle had wanted to throw all their weight into ZFS on Linux (not the FOSS project that was spawned later, their own project), it'd have taken a bunch of engineering time for the initial port, plus ongoing maintenance on multiple OSes (unless they just decided to throw Solaris out, which, with support contracts, would have taken some years to do anyway), and they _still_ would have run into some of the fundamental limitations which make some of Btrfs's features infeasible on ZFS (though IIRC closed ZFS worked around one of them somehow, and I'm kind of curious how, but you know, closed source).
This is one of those cases where it seems like everyone made bad choices.
I view most of the outrage over skipping the vaccine line as misplaced. The (American) system was very clearly made easy to game in the first place. The government criteria was unnecessarily complicated and had many vague carveouts that were easily gamed. For example, smokers were eligible early on as having a pre-existing condition - this is trivial to game without technically lying!

Indeed, many people early on advocated doing the criteria strictly by age (after healthcare workers), but the government decided to create carveouts largely for social equity reasons (https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...).

It got to the point where, in February/March, the only people I knew were vaccinated were a bunch of young people who got vaccinated because they were in med school (or other medical affiliated school), even though they were studying remotely. And in many cases you didn't even need to "lie" to skip the line because nobody even checked for proof you were eligible.
>jQuery is not a “stack.”

I guess we all know that already

>Using jQuery or any other tool or language cannot “damage you technically.”

Well i think it does, jquery saw its heyday, now the frontend jobs ask for skills in react, vue or angular.
Yeah, those are some of the problems I was thinking of.
Microsoft blocks Bing from showing image results for Tiananmen ‘tank man’
What are the pros and cons of C++20 coroutines compared to this old proposal? [pdf]
DNs?
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Read the Paul Graham essay on “What You Can’t Say” and realize that YC culture has things you can’t say.

YC culture allows you to say ‘here is how to marginally undermine a public health effort for your own benefit”, but YC culture does not allow you to publicly say “people at YC teach each other how to undermine a public health effort for their own benefit”.

Anything that is critical of YC or Paul is heresy. Anything that prioritizes society over a YC participant is heresy. These things can’t be done publicly, or you’ll be cast out of YC.

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
ETC1/PVRTC are lossy. If your source material is 4:2:0 then it's best to just stay with it. If you convert to RGB and then compress you don't really gain anything except a slight reduction in quality.
Apparently it was a startup wayyyyy back in 2010, before CircleCI: https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/ycs-newstilt-aims-to-help-...
Could anyone, please, share some light on the "low-key" introduction issue mentioned in the article?

I work quite a few years in IT and never, during any interview or meeting, I've been introduced as anything more than just an engineer. This must be cultural gap, no doubt, but I'd feel weird if someone would detailed my career in front of other participants. Of course I have nothing against filling some details in by myself but only if applicable in given situation. Truth to be told I've never worked in Australia or US, but I did some job in two EU countries and in Japan and, as said, never encountered detailed introduction.

Is this still a thing?
value is in aggregation across the board, not at an individual level. a single signal is hardly a reliable metric
Before anyone comes in to make a strawman argument, I'm gonna say myself why people like me are not fans of nuclear energy (fission).

I have absolutely no concern about nuclear waste or a chernobyl. There is a chance of those, but it will be small harm compared to other fuels.

Here are the big problems:

1. *Timeline:* Carbon reduction is like life savings. Start in the 20s and you will be way ahead. This state of the art demonstration which could not have happened in a better environment, will come online in the 30s. Mass adoption is so far away.

2. *Hesitancy:* Related to 1, some conservation and reduction effort may be halted now because people would think nuclear will fix it.

3. *Proliferation:* This technology cannot go to most places it is needed because there is a risk of atomic bomb making. It can mostly be deployed in China, India, and the US, which is huge, but won't address energy poverty.

These are the top 3 for me. Still a welcome news and a good _Plan D_ to get us from 2°C closer to 1.5°C.
There does seem to be strong market pressure to have no more than 2 major platforms to support, and understandably so due to the amount of work.

Linux never became mainstream because of how poor the user experience was, not necessarily because there’s only room for 2 at the top. Even technically experienced people don’t want to muck around with drivers and deep-dive into configuration. Since few used linux, few apps were written for it.

I think there is usually room for new players, whether they have to usurp an existing one or have compatibility with others to do it.
> and shaders are involved, doesn't everyone use texture compression formats like ETC1 and PVRTC?

Yes, when they can pay the computational price for compression beforehand. Not going to work, if you had to compress in realtime.
>YC founder came with his aunt, uncle, and mom all over 65 to get jabbed who didn't know about the vaccine site.

Did this YC founder and his aunt, uncle and mom also live in the neighbourhood?

Also, I'm curious about those "issues" if you were just intending to help out people in your neighbourhood? What issues were there with your post?
I think you're treating popularity as synonymous with goodness. I'm suggesting to you that actually there are a lot of assholes in the world who approve of authoritarian behavior and even genocide, and even derive enjoyment from deceiving and antagonizing people. Observing the existence of such attitudes isn't an endorsement of them.
Appreciate the thoughtful response, I see you’ve been spending a good portion of your day dealing with it. It aligns with what I expected but I think the explanation will be a good reference for the future when this inevitably comes up again.
> A person commits the offense of criminal trespass when he or she knowingly and without authority

Note emphasis.

Going in my house without my permission (without authority) to do something illegal is criminal trespass, based on what you quoted. If you have permission to be in my house and do something illegal while in my house then that is not criminal trespass, based on what you quoted. Whatever illegal thing you did is still illegal, but you weren't trespassing.

Exactly the same as what GP and the parent of that said about CFAA. The CFAA, as the Supreme Court clarified with this ruling, makes it illegal to break into a computer system. But if you have permission to be in a computer system and do something illegal with that access, whatever you did is still illegal, but you didn't break into the computer system so you didn't violate the CFAA. Making it an exact digital equivalent of your trespassing law.
> how easily this could be extended to 64 bit integers?

It's effectively:

size_t logx = int_log2(x);
uint32_t carry = ((uint64_t)x + tablo[logx]) >> 32;
return tabhi[logx] + carry;

Assembly can do (from a equivalent start):

mov rdx rax # save x
xor eax eax
add rdx [8*rcx+tablo] # set carry (would cmp be better?)
adc al [1*rcx+tabhi] # result never exceeds 64/log(10) < 20
That might be where it usually comes from, but that hasn't been my experience. My Python subcommunity groupthink was against type annotations for years, despite the groupthink also saying that statically typed are better all things equal and most of the loudest folks having worked for some FAANG company.

Thinking that typing is good and buying that a pasted-on-after-the-fact typing system is good are different matters.
If only he knew there would be so much productivity spent on destroying others'.

And it would be so successful.
Well look, I didn't bring up Trump. I just said the WH because there were a lot of people within the admin and in their circles who were trying to offer up China as the "enemy" in the COVID situation with a bunch of BS supposedly backed by secret evidence that has yet to be seen in order to deflect blame for the situation in the USA away from.. Areas they didn't want the blame to fall. Probably related to the 2020 run-up.

I wasn't posting that article as the word of god. It contains information about conspiracies and BS that was being spread around at the time. To add context to what was being pushed back against at the time. Interviewers will also setup questions like this:

> Last night so-and-so indicated he has seen evidence that China is responsible for the coronavirus outbreak and may have manufactured it in a lab and released it on purpose. Let me ask you this: What do you think of the lab leak theory?

> Sigh Let me be clear, there is NO EVIDENCE THAT THIS yada yada yada.

So now a year later, with all the context apparently down the memory hole, this is being shortened to:

> Let me ask you this: What do you think of the lab leak theory?

> Sigh Let me be clear, there is NO EVIDENCE THAT THIS yada yada yada.

"OMG, this was so-and-so then and look at him now:"

> I have never ruled out the possibility of a lab leak. I just thought then and now that the highest likelihood is a jump between species.

"Why so strong of a pushback then but not now?!"

#SomethingIsRotten #ThisStinks #iDidntWantToBelieveItBeforeButThisIsIncredibleReadItYourself #YouDecide
Not obvious to me that it would be catastrophic. There are other stablecoins even if Tether is a 75%-funded scam (and honestly, who in crypto _hasn't_ taken a 25% haircut at some point?)

Some people holding cash* would get hit, but there's no real magic to starting a 1-1 backed stablecoin. Someone will fill the space, since it's obviously needed.
dang says elsethread, paraphrased, 'we evaluated that flagged post and figured it was probably legitimately flagged, but after users contacted us^ to say it should be unflagged, so we listened to them and unflagged it'.

Good intentions often lead to bad outcomes. The mods have the best possible (and still imperfect) judgement of all of us, and they misread the circumstances, same as those users who flagged it. So they'd have to ban themselves right along with everyone else, which would be the end of HN.

That the actions of other users ended up being reversed is no excuse to demand that they be banned, especially on topics where agreement will never be reached^^ by the community — such as Apple, China, or Firefox. Please be more cautious about demanding bans of those whose actions result in disagreeable outcomes, even if you doubt their intentions.

^ Using a post or comment is a terribly inefficient way to go about doing this, but it certainly does tend to produce maximum-drama results. I don't think anyone should be banned for taking that approach — maybe they didn't realize the Contact link exists or reaches the mods! — but I'm exhausted of otherwise good-standing and high-karma users using posts and comments to bring things to their attention. I'm also glad to see the thread and discussion here, which contradicts my own viewpoint. I have no easy resolution for that cognitive dissonance.

^^ Please don't call for me to be banned if you disagree with my reply. However, if you feel I've violated the guidelines in some way, I do of course encourage you to let the mods know using the footer Contact link.
Why would alleged poor behavior among a handful of YC founders damage its reputation, unless it’s either endorsed by YC leadership or widespread enough that it’s unfortunately representative?

If anything, criticism of poor behavior within the cohort would reflect well on a culture that values sharp contrarian takes and productive disruption.

Or at least, it could...
Because it's not true?
the blog post is not inflammatory; it's saying pretty much the same thing your comment did, which is that people are getting unnecessarily angry over the relicensing without taking a step back to think about the ecosystem and sustainability.
I don't think going back to Google because DDG is not large enough to have its own fully independent index is really the right play. Given their reputation and usually lax attitude towards censoring, I'd say this akin to a supply chain attack, not active censoring.
honestly, anyone with half a brain do not see that cryptocurrencies are re-hashing (heh) every single scam from the unregulated investment market times?

every single one of them. Many times over.

I think everyone knows, because, c'mon. But everyone thinks they are the smarter one and will be the ones fooling others and making money. Which makes this article, and yours, pointless, because, everyone already knows that.
Thank them for their time, decline their offer, and look for a position that is in line with your expectations. Your "future self" will thank you for making this choice.
Here’s a list of existing such islands:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_islands