skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness, it is an opinion piece. I strongly suspect that - on this topic more than most others - "truth" is a Rorschach test, and different people will come away with different conclusions. That said, Zeynep Tufecki has an excellent track record of being right (she was way ahead of the curve on airborne), and if you're going to read one thing on Covid origins, this is probably the one.

Another really fascinating piece of background, Jon Cohen's 2000 piece on the origins of AIDS: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/10/the-hun...

The tl;dr is that there was a popular book (The River) that pushed contaminated oral polio vaccine as an origin story, a lot of people believed it at the time, but that story pretty much fell apart as more detail (slowly) came in on transmission from primates.
>Banks give practically cash loans against your stock.

This is how taxes are not paid. No income, no tax. No realized capital gains, no tax.

Propublica recently went into detail on this.
You'll find a lot of success if you take the time to hear them out and don't treat them like their thoughts on the matter are ridiculous from the start. I've convinced a half dozen people to get vaccinated and was unable to convince a half dozen more.

The ones who I was unable to convince had something in common - bad experiences with people berating them online for their opinions on the matter. The people who shared their opinions were naturally much nicer, which caused them to double-down. Social media is full of people treating each other with smug contempt, but very few people are driven to change by that kind of behavior.
No of course not. Do you agree that the Palestinians who were expelled from what is now Israel should have a right to return?
> A power company vehicle drives around the neighbourhood, collecting the values, storing them and moves on.

What the fuck
What sort of ethics do you have that need to be comprised to work in tech?
I think you should stop trying to derate people who you think know less than you. It's very unattractive. Be aware there are folks with extensive public health experience (that would be me) watching you insist you're right. While I totally appreciate what you're trying to do (help software engineers understand why medicine is complex), please do understand that GRAIL is tightly integrated with the PH community, did their work from a good-faith perspective, and came up with a product that does "do" something. Now it's up to the medical community to evaluate whether it truly provides something that doesn't just end up costing us more money and not helping people.
As a tech-crazed wanna-be hipster gardener, the value is pretending to do it "better" than the backyard raised bed hipsters.

Observe: "Using the manual controls, you can move FarmBot and operate its tools and peripherals in real-time. Scare birds away while at work, take photos of your veggies, turn the lights on for a night time harvest, or simply impress your friends and neighbors with a quick demo."
I was doing my taxes on taxact a year or two ago, when I noticed a small lag every time I switched fields. Every time I went to the next field, a network request was being made to some third party analytics thing with the data I entered.

Somewhere, in the back of my mind I know that all data I enter online is inevitably being hovered up and used for god knows what, but when you're suddenly made aware of it, it's really unnerving.

Something about this makes me want to have a 'falling down' moment. Let me get this straight, not only is our tax system so complex and error prone i have to pay money to a third party to figure out how much I should be paying to our government, but the software company I pay then turns around and sells my data? The government does nothing to remedy this? It really goes to show who our government serves, and it sure as hell isn't 'the people'.
Agreeing with some of the comments here: I feel like I'm stuck in my current high paying job; we have a mortgage, nice car, lots of "stuff".

Through conversations with therapist and my spouse I've been slowly realizing how much this stuff owns me, rather than me owning stuff. I never have time to play with my synths or flight-sim setup or even photography anymore. The only time I'm truly relaxed is when we go somewhere far and without connectivity - I don't have a 1000-item household todolist, I don't get work emails, I don't have 100 entertainment options that paralyze me. I'm trying to convince myself and make the step and actually start getting rid of stuff and considering a less stressful/paying job... I may not be as "stuck with mortgage" as I feel -- we'll see how it goes :|
I hate my job.

I see what you mean about resistance to change. I've encountered it, although usually from a process/system/logic perspective rather than straight technology. Stuff like my prior tech lead wanting to build out a complicated screen to rerun jobs/items in the system. The reason for this is the support team needs help with this. The reason they need help with it, is because we don't have documentation on how to handle each issue. So instead of simply creating the documentation and having knowledge transfer, he wants to build out a new screen... which would require additional documentation, maintenance, and knowledge transfer.

I've also seen the other way, where they are too accepting of new technology. It's a constant parade of new stuff on my current team. We have integrations for cloudwatch, splunk, opentelemetry/honeycomb, servicenow, pagerduty, a data lake, tableau, etc. I get that some of these enable specific features, but a lot of them seem are redundant (especially the way we use them) . Can we just pick one alerting system, one logging system, and one reporting system? And maybe we can stick with that system for a few years instead of refactoring to integrate the newest thing into our 5-10 apps almost as soon as we finished the integration of the prior thing. All that churn could be better spent delivering value and just integrate the new service when it's truly compelling. Maybe we could get rid of the prior services that are essentially being replaced to increase the maintainability too and streamline the process.

In my company, the resistence to or over adoption of new tech is really just a facade concealing a bigger issue with the underlying processes of the system itself, the bureaucracy, or the business processes.
> but doctors can't always predict this and aren't perfect decision making machines

So mass screen healthy people, collect the data, run models, and get better at it. People like you would rather not try, and this is the same reaction I get from doctors. Applying the same tech that we use to improve ad targeting to disease prediction is a no brainer to anyone whose cushy job doesn't depend on the current medieval state of medical technology.
Honestly I feel like, "good jobs" are very undervalued. I've had high paying jobs that I enjoyed but I never heard good job. It was always okay now what's next? I didn't love those jobs.

I've had lower paying objectively worse jobs where I got more regular positive feedback and I stayed at those jobs longer. I might be an outlier and learned this behavior from sports but it cost nothing tell someone they did a good job and it can go a long way.
> I wouldn't consider it my responsibility to apply the fix to anyone else's branch

I guess my situation is a bit unusual. We have two production branches because we're running our code in two different environments. So we have two branches that are effectively origin/masters.

> git merge absolutely does treat a byte-for-byte identical change as not a conflict

That's news to me. I guess I'll have to try that again because I have a very clear memory of seeing this happen and thinking WTF? But that could have been a long time ago.
> that horrible 'other people search' popup in Google that I always end clicking because it appears after the exact milliseconds it takes me to move the cursor to the next entry

god I hate that thing so much!
In my mind, with no evidence to back this up, I like to imagine they A/B tested various versions of their code and the system automatically decided that version xyz made people use the feature more, so that's the one it went with. But the only reason that was the case was version xyz took a little longer to answer queries or load the client side JS, and the result is exactly what you described.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" and all that. It's not that I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here but I just really like to imagine that they're not even aware of how frustrating this is.
> barely anybody does it.

I suspect this varies by location and demographics. Being an older guy living in rural areas, almost everyone I know grows at least some veggies and fruit. Not everyone makes it a major part of their lives, but I'd be hard-pressed to find almost anyone I know who doesn't have at least a couple tomato plants, or some berry bushes.
This is a little side project of mine, very much inspired by “robotgame.org” that I played many years ago, which unfortunately no longer exists.

In essence it is a remarkably similar game, however the sandboxing allows for players to use several programming languages, and not just Python.

It is still basic, only a hobby and under development, however happy to hear any feedback and thoughts.
Well, how can we get the benefit of wars without the obvious downsides?

Fast feedback loops, obvious win / lose results (a battle takes a few hours, you are dead or not).

Randomly fire members of upper management (equivalent of organisational change by enemy sniper action)?
The fellow who is being named in this particular PR has been _quite_ busy lately, submitting mostly typo fixes and whitespace fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/?q=f%3Athunder.leizhen

Sometimes their patches aren't even valid - they tried to fix "borken" to "broken" and the maintainer was not happy: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YK3wOkX6I78j73zD@gmail.com/ (this does come down to not being familiar with this particular bit of slang - but they push back and argue a bit which doesn't help)

Sometimes the maintainers are not happy just getting a patch that fixes one line of whitespace: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210608105943.2376328c@oasis.l...
> increasingly irrelevant military cult

This was a relevant line about ten years ago. I stopped hearing it in D.C. after Russia invaded Crimea and Xi tore up Hong Kong.
It's not the be-all-end-all but it's also not a knee-jerk thought. Legislation (and government) is how we solve the collective action problem. That's what it's there for.

Sure, individual developers should stop deploying dark patterns. Many many developers do, though, and saying they shouldn't isn't going to change things. Change requires collective action, rather than expecting a huge number of developers to magically reorder their priorities. And unless you think a nationwide ad campaign is more feasible, that means legislation.
No thanks. This smells like a new way to do more work I don’t want to do and at the same time gain a reputation for working for carrots.
Former nuclear fusion startup founder here. I ended up evicted and living in my car after it didn't work out. But I still wish the current set of researchers all the luck in the world, because successful fusion power production could do so much for the world.

So I'm really feeling this comment.

I'm not sure if I ever want to get back up on that horse, and I'm uncertain if it's more because of the immense frustration of banging my head against the wall for years on end, or the pain from losing it all. That particular challenge (fusion) just feels too risky for me right now, and I don't know if that's going to change.

One thing I see that is missing from the VC-funded startup world, is a good way for founders to share their risk. VCs do a great job of distributing the risk for investors among a bunch of startups, so not all the eggs are in one basket. However, for a founder all their eggs are in that one basket. I know that Founderpool is helping in this space, but they are fairly new and it remains to be seen whether their approach or a different approach will be successful. But I think that there is definitely a need there (as well as money to be made), and hopefully addressing that risk for founders would result in a more entrepreneurial society.
In the end, having done what you love will make all the difference. Doing it only for the money will not.

It's a worthwhile fight.

Your passion will fuel your work and make you through all challenges. Follow your blisters.
Poorer areas are going to have poorer infrastructure in place more susceptible to natural disaster. If you fix the infrastructure, it stops being as poor of a region and then the poor leave due to higher property taxes.

Also “over [N] times higher” is usually a marker that you’re being misled. Four times 0.00001 is still an extremely small number, not even statistically significant.
It was a rebranding of the 2008 pyinstall as the same Wikipedia article states in the first section.

Like other things in Go, the antiquated feel is actually the pursuit of retro more than the product of age.
> or did he deserve to think that was his only way out?

Hm, "deserve to think"... We're all totally responsible for our own thoughts, aren't we? I mean, who else could be; how could anyone else be?[1]

If McAfee had addled his brain with drugs so as to suffer paranoid-delusional fantasies; or even without drugs, if he had pondered weird conspiracy theories to the extent that he self-induced a persecution complex... Who's to blame for that but he himself; how could one claim that he didn't "deserve" it?

___

[1 -- EDIT]: Besides "long-term brainwash" scenarios, that is. James Bond in a North Korean prison cell, a cowed and battered spouse / child(ren), members of an oppressive cult, shit like that. McAfee was none of those.
Yeah I came back today hoping this was going to be answered. I like the vision and concept of LTSE, but have yet to be convinced there are any substantial mechanisms in place that make this any different than the other exchanges.
"Hey, put this backdoor in your product and don't tell anyone." Worse, forcing them to turn some product into a weapon.
I was curios and read about it, and you are correct. But just like I said, there are many pitfalls. for example - I assumed you can change your paid plan freely but:

"...After I upgrade my account, can I downgrade?

There is no option to downgrade your account"

https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq.html
But India/China are not the only places where you can outsource to.

What about France? Minimal cultural differences, and you still get massive savings when it comes to paying salaries.
Hey, give this maintainer a break! Can't trumpists work in the kernel?
To give you a sense of security and freedom. Once you have experienced the stress of worrying about paying rent or health insurance it’s nice to have some money.
They didn't shut down areas with hospitals or other important facilities. Likely there aren't many such facilities in minority areas.
very interesting! Thanks for sharing :) That really answers the question
Those projects that start easy, and then suffer from:
hmm, let's try that,
then let's try these add ons, etc.
And everything works, for years, and then you need to return to them, but can't remember anything!
And then, it turns out, that you don't have the time you used to have.
And even though you loved tinkering late into the night, 10 years later, hight has become precious.
For sleeping. Or trying to sleep!
Not a euphemism, just a standard term! See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_detailing
wikipedia is wrong

https://pypi.org/project/pip/0.2/

Released: Oct 28, 2008
Has anyone had a positive experience with Code Guru? All I've seen so far is that it's _very_ expensive, and provides the sort of feedback I expect from open-source linters and static-analyzers, and without any understanding of how appropriate those recommendations might be in context. I've only really seen it for Python though, maybe it's better for other languages?
> During the pandemic we’ve removed 18 million pieces of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and worked with 80 fact-checking organizations to label over 167m posts as false.

Almost certainly this count includes people referencing actual treatments of the Covid-19 disease like ivermectin, going so far as to ban links to congressional testimony by the likes of Dr. Cory, an MD actually treating covid patients, and references to NIH connections to the Wuhan lab, lab leak allegations, etc.

We know now there was insider incentive to much of the censorship. See the Fauci email dump, specifically emails from Jan 31,2020 to about Feb 4. Also recent news report in the Daily Mail, et al. that Google provided funding to the Eco Health Alliance.

Lastly I will say lumping concerns about the various SARS-cov2 vaccines with the usual suspects in the traditional anti-vax crowd is disingenuous.
If you want to go with the "clever mic drop without elaboration" it works better if there's no errors. You're spelling "bubbling" wrong.
This is great progress. Can you get this done privately in the UK? I see only for 50+ on the NHS
Again though... this needn't be attributed to racism. It's not like power companies are like "hmm, grid is under strain, guess we better cut black people and latino people's power first"

Re-frame the problem in terms of rich vs. poor. Now it makes sense because power companies (which are privatized in Texas) will prioritize fixing infrastructure for their reliable, paying customers over fixing infrastructure for more unreliable customers (which poor people tend to be). And it happens that some minorities have a higher probability of being poor (because of inter-generational poverty, or just being an immigrant coming from a poor country).
Im interested to hear how that goal worked out
Bad Universal Priors and Notions of Optimality (2015)
Also at the end! Which is useful for mobile (discovered it from another comment here in HN, thanks!).

On desktop I prefer the bookmarklet, it is just one click away (as I said I'm a mouse user)
Yes, exactly. "Detailing cars" involves carefully cleaning them, polishing them, etc.
I'll admit I bought in to Star Citizen - I am/was in a good place financially and the money spent isn't something I fondly miss.

I remember the early days where Chris Roberts would say anything to folks asking for things like "can my guy be left handed to shoot but right handed to right?" or "can my character have a tattoo that isn't visible to anyone?" - these aren't really examples but they were the level of questions I remember folks asking. He'd answer "yes" to anything and everything.

I quickly realized that the game would become a chore when folks were euphoric that you'd have to manually load cargo on your ships. It felt like folks didn't want a space game but a second life and there was already a great space game that didn't waste my time doing stupid loops that I didn't want (Elite Dangerous, though they did add stupid loops with Engineering).

After that I kept following the project's development and having a giggle as the madness increased over time.
> This is everything wrong with modern languages/toolsets

Go can hardly be called a modern language. The usual argument we hear on HN is that it has an absolutely stellar backwards compatibility story. Are we losing that too?
That’s a well reasoned counter argument, but the tone is overly hostile.
I could see that. These folks should: Join a club, volunteer for a charity, play a sport, add a hobby, visit nature.
Keep in mind this community is probably censored:

https://qz.com/1063073/in-china-you-now-have-to-provide-your...

From the online translation, the mention by one the commentators that the Kernel Maintainer is
also Chinese...give me a bit of a chill...

To make it clear ...Not that I would not
trust the maintainer, instead, my concern is that
depending where he is based a window could be
open to unpleasant pressure...
Same here. I currently work four days a week, I'm off every Wednesday. This one day in between to recharge really helps me 'survive' the week. On any given workday I can always look forward to just working one more day until I have some time for myself. Often I simply sleep a lot, or spend some time in the sun whenever possible.
Can't say that I blame anyone. If it wasn't profitable there isn't much to do. Perhaps communication could have been better? Don't know.
The new behavior could easily have been `go mod get`. There are many ways to design things to not break people. When it comes to the tools, the Go team isn't concerned with breaking people. Their docs even note that.
kind of cool how they just "Created" a market place out of nowhere with their huge aws offerings.

I can see this as a future repository challenging stack overflow, and with automation, challenging other CI pipelines, and then as someone else mentioned these magic carrots could be used as hackerrank/linkedin/hiring.
Stock buybacks aren’t capital gains, until the stock is eventually sold to trigger the capital gains event. More recently, we have seen that wealthy people just never sell the stock and take out low interest loans against it, effectively paying a tax ratr of just a few %.
Agreed regarding deprecation schedule. It’s hard to break old habits.

However I do totally understand why, as a person who has more than once become ridiculously confused because I accidentally ran go get in a directory that was a Go module. Somehow I even managed to make my home directory a Go module, leading to a lot more confusion.

Needless to say, they do need to fix that somehow. They probably should’ve gone the other direction and made a new go get command that was specific to modules. It’s a bit too late to do that now.

Go modules overall have been reasonably smooth but I’m a bit disappointed since this particular break will cause a lot of confusion. I think most likely in the long term it will pay off, but it’s probably unnecessarily abrupt. Maybe this is being done to lead into Go 2?

Honestly, I do have another wish: I wish there was a version of “go run” that could fetch, compile and run directly from the Internet. Now I realize that’s not particularly safe, but it’s not much unsafer than doing it in two steps, and man would it be slick for small demos.
> You'll find a lot of success if you take the time to hear them out and don't treat them like their thoughts on the matter are ridiculous from the start. I've convinced a half dozen people to get vaccinated and was unable to convince a half dozen more.

The problem is: de-programming all the propaganda takes an immense amount of time - months, sometimes years of effort. This is a waste of time that could have been avoided from the start if governments worldwide had done their job and cracked down on conspiracy bullshit and Russian propaganda warfare before thousands of people stormed the Congress and half a million people in the US died from Covid.

Democracy, similar to a human body, will only survive if it fights against threats. Democracy is nothing one should ever taken for granted, just look at Hungary how quick a democracy can fall under the attack of "populists" and "illiberal democrats" (this is actually how Fidesz see themselves).
Go is really bad at this. They claim to care strongly about backwards compatibility, but have repeatedly changed and broken how tooling works.
Sorry I don't recall. I don't think I ever knew actually. It was just something I came across.
I really dig https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG

It lets you encrypt/decrypt files or regions of a text file and is pretty easy to use.