skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wrote a thing about this 12 years ago: http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners (hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545565 )
On the other hand, a row of 15 or so identical toggle switches isn't the right answer either.
Right, that was implied.

You'd need to rate-limit the shortened URL endpoint as well or increase the number of characters. Without it, you could reset a user's password and brute force all shortened possibilities while entering their username. There'd be enough red flags to identify and stop this type of behavior, I think.
Right, but you've got to look at the absolute rate, which in this case is 283 out of 12 million, which is roughly 24 people per million.

You can look at the risk of what it's preventing (covid has already killed ~1700 people per million in the US), or compare to other activities and risk levels.

Relative risk comparisons between different activities are often not useful. For example, the risk of shark-death at the beach might look alarming when compared to my risk of shark-death-at-home, but actually it's vanishingly unlikely.
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Why We Hate HR
I am in love with Elixir but am still on like a 1 out of 10 on the mastery scale. Love seeing posts like this!

(I bit off more than I can chew by trying to write a full-featured API for an embedded GPS device that speaks a proprietary binary protocol - it's been a slow project)
ribosomes don't transcribe genes.
>The injection is intramuscular, not into the bloodstream.

Recent research (per No Agenda shownotes) showed that unlike traditional vaccines, Moderna mRNA spread through the bloodstream producing and distributing spike protein in the entire body.
If the dang pipeline operator will ever actually get to Stage 2/3, it should be straightforward to invent a lot of arbitrary operator-like behavior using composition and pipelines.
>>Do employees hold firm on these demands or just return to the office grumbling?

Many such employees from this vocal minority will be cajoled back by employers allowing 1 WFH day. Perhaps more senior employees will be offered 2 WFH days, which to be fair would cut long commutes down by 40% per week.

In most such scenarios it seems companies will still require enough capacity for "peak" usage and instead of sharply reducing footprints will perhaps only delay their office expansion plans as they grow their staff.
Marp has moved on to Marp Next
I don’t have the exact figures to hand but a rough googling seems to suggest a 1 in 100k risk for clotting in the AZ vaccine for young adults which of course, in many countries has been withdrawn for such rates in those groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/commentisfree/2021/a...
> High earners pay more for ad-funded sites than low earners.

I'm not certain this is true. And targeted advertising certainly makes it less true, not more. Advertisers are not excluding low-income users from advertising, instead they're targeting more products at them that those users are more likely to buy.

Untargeted ads for higher-cost luxury products might make the Internet cheaper for low-income users, but that's not what is happening in the ad industry right now. Ads exist to get you to spend money, and they are just as targeted at poor people as they are at rich people.

I wouldn't be that surprised if the effect is the opposite, since poor people have less access to research resources, comparison shops, and trials that would allow them to combat the psychological effects of advertising. They're also generally under a lot more stress and time-pressure when they shop than rich people are, which is likely to make them even more vulnerable to manipulation during a difficult purchase decision.
If you don’t have enough bandwidth to do incremental ZFS snapshot backups, you don’t have enough bandwidth to do any kind of backups. ZFS incremental snapshots are more efficient than anything else I’ve used, e.g. rsync.
What was the failure mode of your tile roof that meant it needed replacing? Coming from the UK where most roofs are tile I don’t think I ever saw one need replacing there, maybe a few tiles need realigning. Most tile roofs were the same as the house itself, so over a century for large swaths of the country. The weather is less extreme than in the US though.
It's interesting to see the bump in the 1930s. That's what a deflation looks like - money gets more valuable.

And the curve flattened around 1980 when Volcker broke the back of inflation (at the price of two recessions).
I really don't understand why people dislike this. As long as the domain and input/ouputs are clear.. having a Δ is not worse than a `delta` or `computeDeltaOfPair` (actually the shorter the better to me..
I think in general percentages less than 0.1% should be reported as "1-in-XXX". Certainly when I create pages to measure packet loss I put 1 in 50,000 rather than 0.002%
No fucking clue. Some people like to leave jokey memo lines but I'm glad none of my friends have done something like that outside of the "friends only" option. I just say what it's for or give it a generic name like "money" or "here you go".
People enjoy going to concerts, restaurants, seeing their family, etc.
IMO, the only true part in your comparison is that .NET is faster than nodejs.
Because Colorado has the most garbage sales tax regime in probably the world.
I don't think I'm willing to go that far. What constitutes 'the HN crowd'? The folks who come here and read the stories, but do not read the comments? Or just the ones who read the comments? Or only the subset of those who read the comments who actually bother to vote. Or participate with their own commentary?

It's pretty easy for a small subset of individuals to appear as if they accurately represent the wider group.
> Something else is going on,

Large groups have broken into smaller groups because people are less required to be a part of a large group to be accepted.
There are some rumblings of Rust in automotive, but nothing I can publicly point you to definitively.
Per the article. The age group of concern "accounted for less than 9% of doses administered."

Also, underreporting is a factor - not everyone knows about VAERS, not everyone goes to the Dr. for chest pain etc.

I agree it's favorable, but it's important to understand the effects of any medicine on subgroups of a treatment population.
I have a 2016 Outback and love nearly everything about the car, except the stupid console. Just horrible in the ways you describe. Laggy, unintuitive, and just irritating to use. I only ever use the actual buttons on the steering wheel. Not only is the console touch screen bad, but the actual buttons for the HVAC system are weird and unintuitive. 4 years of owning it and I still push the wrong buttons.
“Should”

Has it been tested?
This sounds a lot like the Chinese idea of unrestricted warfare [1] but conducted by AI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
Glad you were able to keep it moderate.

I think it would be a very interesting (and horribly unethical) hypothetical test to lock individuals in a their own rooms with sustenance, entertainment, and a baggies of moreish substances, force them to dose a few times, and then leave them for several days and see how much remains at a the end. Maybe offer a cash prize based on weight remaining.

I think this could likely measure executive control, long-term thinking and willpower pretty effectively. That you were able to dabble without sliding down the slippery slope probably indicates something positive about your mental fortitude.
I'd wager it's approximately the same fraction of myocarditis cases that are reported in the unvaccinated group. There may even be a bias toward over-reporting myocarditis in the wake of a vaccine, as people are primed to look for side effects.
The funny thing with insurance is that if they ever become too good at estimating risks, they will destroy themselves. You don't need insurance if you can perfectly predict the future.
Though I don't think we particularly close to this point, so I doubt they care too much.
https://archive.is/oKSDs
EA source code stolen by hacker claiming to sell it online
The US Government is Great at Keeping Secrets
Big Secrets Kept for Decades:

National Security Agency (NSA) and Widespread Domestic Spying
NSA is established in 1955 but domestic spying had already begun in 1945. 1st made public in congressional hearings on Domestic Spying 1975.Recent Snowden revelations regarding widespread domestic spying via internet traffic capture - 2013.

Kept secret 30 years

Area 51 Experimental Airforce Testing Ground - EST. 1955
Bob Lazar story of working on back engineering captured E.T. Craft at S4 - 1989. 1st Official US disclosure of Groom lake base - 1994

Kept Secret 34 years

National Reconnaissance Office - EST. 1961
Operators of space based radar and surveillance
1st made public - 1992

Kept Secret 31 years

Amnesty for Japanese Biological and Chemical Warfare Unit 731 - EST. in 1932 Human experimentation program using civilian and POW’s running until 1947. The date that a single US official acknowledges that amnesty was granted to Japanese war criminals in exchange for data on this brutal experimentation - 1998.

Kept Secret 51 years

Operation Paperclip - EST 1945

US Military imports 1600 German nationals and Nazi Scientists (Many who were proven war criminals) & grants them amnesty in the US leading to the creation of NASA and US Missile Weapon operations. Finally officially acknowledged in 1998.

Kept Secret for 53 years
Ongoing related thread:
Ad tech firms test ways to connect Google’s FLoC to other data - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27459247 - June 2021 (183 comments)
If the infrastructure is available, it had to be built, and someone paid for it. If there wasn't a hookup before, then it seems reasonable to pay the full share to recoup the investment, even if the line is right there. Otherwise the infrastructure investment would have to be paid by someone else, or from other taxes.

These days, septic should be disallowed, if a reasonable sewer is available, as these days the effluents contain all kinds of toxic and non-degradable stuff that poisons the land and ground water. Over here, lossy septic tanks are illegal. You can either hookup to a sewer, treat your wastewater in situ via certified processes or, under some conditions, use a non-draining septic tank and have the wastewater treated.
Given that my first proper programming job is going to be remote, I feel like I'll not only be less productive since I can get distracted but also unable to really meet the clever and interesting people that I'll be working with (I.e. a Jitsi call is not a proper conversation in my books at least).

As far as problems go it's a fairly "first world" one (as the saying goes), but it is something I think about.
Ongoing related thread:

Privacy Analysis of FLoC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27463794 - June 2021 (2 comments)
I had this as a side effect of covid last year. You are correct, no medication was given and they won't actually do a biopsy of your heart due to the risk so the will simply wait and see.

It feels like a big deal. I had never had heart issues and it felt like my whole system was unstable. Hard to describe really. I don't know how serious it is, however. The cardiologists just tested my heart, saw that there was no blockage and the blood flow was strong and told me to rest.

edit to add: On the second dose of Pfizer, I felt a minor version of this for about an hour in the middle of the night after a morning shot. No other symptoms beyond a strong immune response.
Right! This is the notion of incentive compatibility I'm trying to draw upon. One problem here is that not all of the incentives and objective functions are visible. That said, Google I'm certain has approved FLoC for launch based upon a mechanism, and so far I really see no evidence that that mechanism can actually be favorable to the wider public (not just "privacy geeks"). Would love to see Google's actual research that was provided to the launch committee, but I might as well ask for access to Area 51.

For the majority of users, I do believe tracking has some upshot, at least for reducing ad spam and ad fraud. It's really hard to prove this without a counterfactual study, but if you compare Facebook ads with the crap on news sites today, I think that situation is illustrative of a place where Facebook's improved targeting saves the user from a lot of spam / fraud. And I'd argue that outcome is a result of Facebook having a monopoly over their own targeting and identifiers.
You understand, that company goal is not to "build a good product", even less to "write a good code", it's to increase a company value (in the sense that "good code" is orthogonal to the goal)? It might be unfortunate for developers, but quite often (almost always from what I've seen) developers' role _is_ minor here. Not in derogatory sense, just money don't come from writing code, they come from sales. Also no, not everybody can be a good manager, and not everybody can be a good developer, as those two roles require different mindsets and different training, so very few people can effectively do either (and not at the same time). So a good developer normally can't do "whatever needs to be done". You don't want a developer to do your surgery, do you?
Well so the basic idea is this:

Either we can
A) evaluate/measure engineers' output (e.g. commits/tickets), and promote/hire/fire based on whether they do enough of it per/day ("meritocratic"?)

B) Just plop engineers in chairs, and peer over their shoulder to make sure they aren't on reddit all day, and then trust that however long it took them to build the thing was reasonable.

A is really hard, it was the false-promise of agile. But in a remote culture, you either have to do A or install screen-monitoring software on your engineers to do B (or just hope/pray).

Of course perhaps there's another option, like a technical manager who reviews the volume/quantity of PRs and assesses based on that, but seems rare.
If a shift to hourly happens, I suspect we're going to see reluctance from a lot of businesses to pay actually-equivalent hourly rates, which will give them sticker shock ("$200/hr!? I was only paying about $100/hr before with salaries!" Right, but your workers were only spending an average of half their time on stuff that will count as hourly-billable work—numbers exaggerated for ease of calculation, but that's the reaction I expect, in general), coupled with a lot of newbies willing to take those too-low rates because they haven't done the math, and think the rates look high, especially if we're talking (as we most likely are) contract-type work without any kind of benefits. IOW I expect a reduction in total effective comp for the sector, at least for the first few years, if that shift is widespread.
To be clear, I wasn't maligning your article! That phrase has always been a bit grating to me, maybe that isn't a universally held view.
Yeah, how many people actually bother to report their symptoms if they’re not serious enough to warrant a trip to the doctor (who might report on their behalf)?

Mild myo can go undetected quite easily. In fact, it’s known well as being a cause of death in young athletes who only learn of the condition when their heart gives out during intense physical exertion.
The US dollar for a long period of time was backed by gold and was therefore pretty stable for that period so calculating inflation over 400 years is disingenuous at best. It would be interesting to see how much value it's lost since the gold standard started to be compromised and eventually discontinued in 1971.
This post was interesting to me and would mean that if the shot got into your bloodstream, it could've been mis-administered?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464226
This sounds more scary then covid. At least from the people who told me how was it when they had the infection, four of my friends to be precise. Did you doctor said about any long term issues or it is too early?
Damn it, I already have heart problems and still in queue for mRNA thinking it was safer than AstraZeneca clots risk. Guess not. Crap.
VAERS is a clearinghouse. It's a vital tool for finding evidence of possible unexpected interactions that should be investigated, but it's basically textbook "correlations that do not imply causation" data.

The most a correlation in VAERS, by itself, should ever generate is a "huh, that's interesting" reaction and possibly a controlled follow-up study. HHS has a very large disclaimer on the dataset's description (https://vaers.hhs.gov/data.html).

The data is also, at this phase of collection, unfiltered and unverified. Self-reporting biases and simple mistakes are a known concern. There's a relatively famous story of someone, as a sanity-check on the process, reporting that a flu vaccine had turned them into the Incredible Hulk. https://web.archive.org/web/20130419004549/http://neurodiver...
One of our cars is a 2004 Toyota Tacoma with everything analog except the radio, and I vastly prefer it. If it just had a usb plug so I could play music from my phone, it would be ideal. Oh, and oddly, the radio doesn't have a clock. Bizarre.

It I can 100% everything better than our 2016 Subaru Outback with it's annoying touch screen console.

Plus my nieces and nephews are amused by the actual manual window openers.
> Is this a straw man or a red herring? Try to avoid your logical fallacies on HN, regardless.

Neither, I was pointing out that just because we used to do things a certain way doesn't meant they were inherently better. In fact, "for much of human history" things were much worse, and we were approaching them in ways that are by and large inferior.

This is a kind of declinism bias or rosy retrospection bias. [1]

> There is a reason. Normal, hard-working people can thrive under that simple system, and wealth inequality does not systematically increase to the betterment of the financially savvy.

You're once again missing the forest for the trees. The unit itself doesn't matter. How much of it you have matters and what you put it to work doing matters.

> Where have you been? I don't know metric you are using to define stability, but keep in mind bear markets are the only periods in American history where wealth inequality reliably decreases as capital is reallocated.

Boom and bust cycles under the gold standard were dramatically exaggerated, in part because no entity could stabilize the medium of exchange. As bad as 2008 was, I guarantee you the Great Depression was worse.

> Betterment, which you linked, is a free market solution to a policy problem, but it's about 50 years too late, and unless they capture 100% market share, they aren't going to solve the problem going forward (and of course they will scoop some nice fees off your savings).

It's not a public policy problem, it's a public policy solution. Your job in a capitalist economy is to allocate capital to the most productive investment. If you choose to abdicate that responsibility you can pay a fee to Wealthfront of Betterment to do it for you, or you can pay a 2% per annum fee and keep it at home.

However, money only has value when it changes hands, not when its jammed under your gramma's mattress. Inflation encourages investment to keep capital flow moving. GDP is in fact money supply times velocity. This is how the economy functions.

> All of your points hinge on CPI being a correct measure of inflation. It isn't.

> The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure that examines the weighted average of prices of a basket of consumer goods and services, such as transportation, food, and medical care. It is calculated by taking price changes for each item in the predetermined basket of goods and averaging them. Changes in the CPI are used to assess price changes associated with the cost of living. The CPI is one of the most frequently used statistics for identifying periods of inflation or deflation. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declinism

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/consumerpriceindex.asp
It’s neither. Unless you’re 1099/hourly or in sales you get paid to be available to work during a set period of time (generally not specific hours), regardless of how much you accomplish during that time. Keep in mind this works both ways - if you finish your work in 5 hours and spend the next 3 messing around on Reddit or whatever you still get paid for 8. Getting paid for actual hours worked isn’t as much fun as you probably think.
Not eating and not sleeping absolutely wrecks your body. Pair that with a general increase in risky behavior (for example, sexually) and you’ve got a recipe for a bad time, eventually.

I’m not aware of meth (or its metabolites) being particularly toxic to the cells in the human body (as opposed to cocaine for example, which is directly cardiotoxic if I remember correctly), my understanding is that the bad stuff tends to be the result of behavior that it induces.
The RIDE interface (https://github.com/dyalog/ride) allows you to type double-backtick and then a search word. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/kagYC73.png
I think it's interesting that your entire comment history is defending China, and the CPC: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=xtian

And it's full of laughable statement that anyone living in a free democratic country can only shake their head at.

Classic Soviet style propaganda that is TECHNICALLY TRUE while entirely missing the point:

> Xi never declared himself president for life, the National People's Congress simply passed a law removing term limits. Angela Merkel has been chancellor of Germany for twice as long as Xi has been president of China.
If one insurance company tries to profit off exaggerated risk, a competing insurance company can offer the same protection at a lower premium and steal their customers. You don't make it in the insurance business by making short term decisions that hurt you in the long run.
> Oxygen deprivation at high altitudes

This is actually three examples in one. Tibetans, Andeans, and Ethiopians each have their own unique version of this adaptation.
The tablet can only be controlled by the knob (which is honestly kind of annoying) and is only used for infotainment purposes. Most things are controlled by a knob, switch, or button.
I think that hinges so heavily on healthcare that it’s hard to predict whether gig employment will suffice for more people.
COVID induced myocarditis has been thoroughly disproven:

https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/14/setting-the-record-strai...
Somebody even made a copypasta about it in Italian. My translation is the following:

"I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Pfizer vaccine, is in fact, the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, BioNTech plus Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer did not develop the vaccine by itself, but rather another company called BioNTech created the original formula, which went through Pfizer's clinical trials and became the vaccine we use these days.

Many people who got the vaccine refer to it as the Pfizer vaccine, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine which is widely used today is often called "Pfizer", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the vaccine initially developed by BioNTech.

There really is a Pfizer contribute to the vaccine, and these people should partly thank that corporation, but it is just a part of what allowed them to be vaccinated. Pfizer is the distributor and responsible for clinical trials. Clinical trials are an essential part of a vaccine, but useless by itself; they can only be done once somebody developed the vaccine in the first place. So, the Pfizer vaccine can only be used because it was developed in the first place by BioNTech: the whole system is basically BioNTech with Pfizer contributions, or BioNTech/Pfizer. The so-called Pfizer vaccine should really be called BioNTech/Pfizer!"
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