skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://archive.is/Yc7ae
>The other escape hatch is electron; which looks "web", but is even _more_ bloated, but at least it doesn't set off the scanners. Instead it just gobbles CPU cycles, memory, and is slow and horrid.

I keep wondering if something like Godot could win out in GUI-land. https://medium.com/swlh/what-makes-godot-engine-great-for-ad...
Not only that, but undoubtedly they also support the modern neo-liberal Globalist system....so they want to offshore all jobs to slave factories in China, allow millions of 'undocumented' workers to depress salaries, AND bemoan that we can't have multi-decade retirement systems fully funded.

Its astounding how the democrats have gone along with these ideas for so long...
Not quite. As far as the terminology goes, I don't think they're the same, since to me having disease implies feeling ill—note "disease" = "not at ease" = "COVID-19"—whereas infection implies merely carrying the SARS-CoV-2 virus in your body regardless of any visible effects. (Having SARS-CoV-2 does not imply you have COVID-19!) But in any case, let me clarify this.

What I agree with (and in my initial comment I said nothing about) is that it matters if people can spread the virus to others.

What I don't with is that it matters if you're "infected" if you can't spread it to others (and don't have severe symptoms).

The important thing here is that, from what I recall Dr. Fauci said a month or so ago, there have been promising indications that vaccinated people who get infected with the virus are both significantly less likely to get the disease (COVID-19) and to transmit the virus (SARS-CoV-2) to others (independently of the disease, COVID-19). You can read about this on the CDC website [1]. (And my assumption was that was a big factor in why they lifted the mask mandate... because fewer people are capable of spreading it even if they get the virus.)

So no, it doesn't matter if you merely get infected. What really matters is how many people can become severely sick as a result of your infection, whether that's you or others. Which is important because these vaccines seem to limit transmission itself.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
Makes sense, I was genuinely 50/50 about it being sarcastic, but I probably should have been more confident of it, and at the very least should have given more credence to that interpretation than "not sure if...".
Read SPIN Selling and The Challenger Sale. Only 2 good sales books, takes a reasonably sophisticated approach of interviewing salespeople and then doing PCA on their responses to generate clusters of sales behavior and then noting "the challengers" are most successful.
> “If authority figures for youth say constant surveillance is OK, what happens when a romantic partner wants access to every message on their phone? Or an employer wants your social media password? Invasive monitoring isn’t acceptable, no matter who tries to do it, and personal privacy matters.”

I think that it is even worse than that. In a decade or two, we are going to learn the many cases of sexual abuse that this surveillance facilitated. To give such an absolute power to adults over other people's children never ends well. And the kind of person that wants to spy on kids and teenagers 24/7 is the kind of person that should not be allowed to work with them.
On the contrary, I’d say the details of TCP/IP are inseparable from the design, implementation, and practical understanding/configuration of these elements.
That's pretty wild! Wow. Seems like one of those setups that's one 401k-mockumentary away from imploding.
That seems to have less to do with what Despegar actually wrote - which is the focus of your criticism - and more to do with the increasingly conspiratorial "conservative" (i.e. memetic-right) portion of its audience HN's moderation has tolerated over the years. (The shift is not specific to HN, but different moderation policies could have provided better outcomes, and have in other fora.)
The smell sizes are great for traveling.
The original 777 had an option for folding wingtips. ISTR American Airlines asked for it so that they could operate out of some space constrained airports on domestic routes. The engineering was done, the avionics have options for folding wingtips, and then nobody ever ordered the plane with them.
> Why have our body make the protein instead?

Not so easy to make enough, and handle it just like every isolated biological molecule?
Thanks. I read it this morning, as I am interested, and my opinion hasn't really changed to be honest. It appears to be a reaction to covid response/the capitol riot and they have identified the dissemination of information online as the problem and some form of "stewardship" is the solution. I disagree with this assessment as I believe the actual problem is people's material conditions and information flow online is just a conduit, not a cause. The whole thing strikes me as good-intentioned authoritarianism
> Apart from being mathematically completely unlikely we're alone in the Universe,

I agree that the is probably life in other star systems. The difficult part to believe is that they made an interstellar trip to here. Anyway, pics or it didn't happen. But good pics, not bad pics at the border of the resolution where objects are difficult to identify.

> if you go and read dozens of reports and accounts about alien encounters, most of them match with one another.

Wikipedia has a list of like 9 classes of aliens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alleged_extraterrestri... and subclases that cover all the range of the human imagination. The reports are not consistent at all.
How does that work? Do the creators now just chose whether or not to receive money? Or is the option to be paid from ads just completely gone? For channels that were receiving money for the ads prior to the change, did Google just decide to not pay them anymore?
Or on a train. Or is that just guns?
I'm just as much of a novice as you, but one of the use cases the creators had in mind are distributed computing systems. For example, if you have to crunch a bunch of data in the cloud, you would write your data crunch function/algorithm (which is represented by some hash '#asdjh238ad') then spin up nodes to crunch data using '#asdjh238ad'. When a new node in a cluster comes up it can say "I don't have '#asdjh238ad'" and the orchestrator or one of the node's peers can send over a copy of it.

With a traditional programming language you couldn't do this because "send me a copy of sort()" would be met with "which sort()?". Whereas with unison every different sorting implementation would have different hash, so there would be no confusion.
You don't need to buy a GPU for machine learning work
I didn't notice, thanks for pointing this out
So they had to ask and pay.
No problem if MS does the same.
Currently they do neither.
Given that the current government bailed out private pension plans to the tune of $86 billion dollars as part of the latest COVID-19 relief bill [1], I am not concerned that they will soon tackle the government pension funds which have also have shortfalls.

According to the article, the private pension bailout was "paid for" by ending the enhanced unemployment program in August instead of September. Of course, you don't pay for new spending by "cutting" other new spending.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ebauer/2021/03/10/the-covid-rel...
The flamewar it predictably produced is off topic. There are other ways of posting about this that don't lead to flamewars.
Because Microsoft would be stupid to provide a barebones OS. What would an average user do with that? They install an OS and then spend days with hunting down different apps and configure them so that they can actually start using their device? MS (and honestly, any software company) has all the reasons and ability to provide a (more) complete solution. The only complaint one may have is to have ability to remove/disable the things you don't need - which you, as an experienced user, can do (eg. WSL is optional).

I'm not saying this results in a healthy industry (monopolies using their monopoly to get into a much wider field) but if you see the world from an average user on one end, and a profit oriented company on the other, it's rather obvious how things happen.
Everyone wants a bailout. The multiemployer pensions got one in the third Great Covid Helicopter Drop. But what confidence do we have that we won’t be exactly in the same spot a couple of decades?

Mayor Kilpatrick signed a terrible deal and separately (?) was corrupt and went to prison. Have the voters learned anything? Have their voting patterns notably changed since then?

What about the union representatives elected by the Detroit municipal workers? Don’t they bear some culpability? Have there been a seismic shift there, or are the same old cronies still passing off power one to another?
I don't understand the question. By what definition of native are native Americans native to America? Jews lived in Israel prior to expulsion by the Romans
I would start with Cisco CCNA it never gets old
This assumes the USD stays dominant indefinitely, right?
They complain about it in the same way they complain about computers in general. Sometimes it doesn't work right. That doesn't mean that 99.5% of the time it doesn't get the job done.
I disagree. Hiding data from the public in the name of public good has been the basis of every censorship throughout history.
I'm pretty sure it's common knowledge that the lumber from the big (blue and orange) box stores is incredibly lacking in quality.
Sure you can hold any position or opinion.

John Lennon sang:

"Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace"

Nobody has banned John Lennon from the radio last time I checked.

Until a position is backed up with some rational arguments it's sort of just your opinion. Why should we care? If you are going public with a certain position and advocating for action the burden of proof is on you. Especially if there are consequences. There's plenty of nonsense going around that doesn't stand the slightest scrutiny. But you can "hold" any of those positions wrt/ Israel or any other topic.
If the GP had posted that sentence instead, it would of course have been fine. The problem is when it comes in the form of ideological boilerplate.
Vanguard ETF recommendations, the last-ditch concealed weapon of every contingency-focused investor in online discourse for like the last 20 years. :-) Funny to see that here.
How Apple Might Die
When? Where? I suppose it could depend on definitions of 'advanced' democracies, but it ain't happening in the modern US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, S. Korea, Canada, Australia, etc. etc.
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants." -Newton

All science is based on the work of others, and it always has been.
Buying software without a trial makes me disinterested. I still want to learn using vim every day, but won't commit to this text editor/vsx-powered IDE, unless I find out that I have the guts to use it every day.
Also, there is VIM mode for VS Code, I guess.
Anyone still following along here may be interested in Marcy Wheeler’s close examination of the article under discussion, and how it relates to the Assange indictment:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/06/27/wikileaks-and-edward-s...
I think most of the people underestimate the Reddit crowd.

If you scroll through the reddit posts, 9 out of 10 are shit posts. But that other one is actually really good DD, by retail traders with 9-5 jobs that go a long way to understand what's going on under the hood. Not conspiracy theories, but actually backing up by data.

There's a reason why HF are closing down due to shorting GME (https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/london-based-hedge-fund-tha...).

However, I agree with you guys that if we want to become more "legitimate" we need to consider a change in the name. Although our intention remains the same, to combine our efforts and leverage data to the average retail trader that can't afford a Bloomberg terminal, or even a paid subscription to another SW.
You can just specify the scope as you like.
It's about Windows mot about Android.
Just because APK is an Android format doesn't change the context to Android.
Yes, I thought about something like that. Being able to map it to the filesystem and back to the Unison database.

But then, what is the point of this content addressed code again? What do we gain from it that we don't already have now? With current file based version control you already have an append only repository, code is never deleted from the .git directory, it's just not always mapped to a file in the source code directory (until you check out an old revision, that is).

Edit: I guess Unison still has the unique feature that dependencies are referred to by identity and not name.
Note that the bailout came with absolutely no strings attached. Apparently nothing went wrong that caused an $86 billion shortfall so no changes need to be made going forward.
No it's not. They've been doing Mickey Mouse engineering and are rightfully getting slapped the fuck down
Will we ever fly supersonically over land?
They also attacked French, and South Africans in Angola, btw, fyi

And then the apartheid croaked everywhere south of 17th parallel
It would be very nice to compare the solutions with a html approach like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Usually the ship's owners are not the ones paying for the fuel, that's on the charterer's account.
As always it depends. If you're exceptional, in an in-demand niche, or low-level or CS-oriented development, it's not an issue of course.

But what if you're a smart, run of the mill Python and Javascript CRUD/Pipeline dev who appreciates quality and security? Doesn't have a fancy/name-brand degree? I found nothing in reach for someone pushing 50, at least in California. You'll be competing with a hundred 28yos with beards for each position, haha, the judge often from the same cohort.

A few years ago I was laid off from a declining company and for the first time every was not able to find a job for an extended period (see above). Devs are supposedly in high demand, right? But no one was actually interested in hiring, only playing gotcha! games.

At random, a few weeks before our family becoming homeless I was offered a remote contract for Uncle Sam on the east coast. (Side note: the team is actually diverse as well, not merely the incessant talk of it as in the west.)

Though the subject domain is not extremely exciting, it is useful and occasionally interesting, and I get satisfaction from modernizing their literal garbage code with higher quality versions. They gave me a chance and now fawn over my work... such as when I replace thousands of lines of crap with a few lines of battle-tested library from PyPI, fix flake8 errors, upgrade to fstrings and walrus, and help them move from Oracle to Postgres.

Differentiate yourself, is my advice. Note degree inflation. Don't let your network dwindle. Wish I could send a message in a bottle to myself in the 90s, don't we all.
I am a career software engineer who successfully learned how to sell. Specifically, high-ticket ($3k-5k) B2C sales. Starting from having absolutely no sales skills in December 2019, I managed to reach a close rate of close to near 50% for well-qualified leads by early this year.

There is a great deal of advice already in this thread. If you have any specific questions, ask and I will answer if I can.
Providing retirees with cash, which they then use to independently procure good and services across millions of individuals, is fundamentally inefficient.

Instead, we should treat each retiree as a ward of the state, and provide them with Government housing, cell phone and plan, food (cooked or ingredients), and a limited amount of electricity/water - plus a small stipend for private purchases.

The other fault of the current system is that we link retirement to age - instead, it should be linked to health: if you can continue working, you should be expected to do so.

With the savings, we can eliminate regressive taxes like sales taxes (or just enable the currently totally unsustainable system to keep functioning.)
When a comment contains flamebait, which the GP obviously did, it bears responsibility for the knee-jerk responses that it triggers.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

> you may as well ban this vaccin from being discussed on HN entirely

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense to me. The situation seems rather simple: non-flamebait, non-flamewar discussion of the vaccine story is welcome. Flamebait and flamewar, about this story or any other story, is not.
Because even a Paramount Leader needs a little programming side-project on slow weekend.
Reads like this is about some highly guarded prison in a dystopian future.
*How Apple Might Die

Title seems to have been auto-editorialized.

edit: fixed. Had no idea you could edit HN posts on the web. I've always used a third-party mobile client.
Israel is a state. Not some refugees accepted in another state. The fact that the State of Israel was forced to unwilling Arabs is what causing all the distress and what I call an "invasion". Effectively some land that was part of a state has been subtracted to that state and declared to be part of a different state by force.

You questioning my facts shows you are a rude person. I shared my opinion and you insult me. Wanna come invade my house and claim it yours maybe?
Avoid that person.

If you want to tell others about the bluff, make certain that you have evidence to back it up.
Indeed. We would surely be living in fantastical, glorious times if the US median income were to rise to ~$180,000.
(In real figures, of course, not just hyperinflation.) I believe this would require us to triple GNP, if not more.

I am almost entirely in favor of this proposal, except that it would probably be preferable in such a case to admit immigrants from less prosperous parts of the world who would go on to earn substantially less than that. This would bring the overall income figure down, but would still be a major win for the world's overall prosperity.
Yeah it's a spectrum and there will be many exceptions but I still think it is useful categorize political groups by their political beliefs in a discussion
Inside the Subreddit Where Men Encourage Each Other Not to Cum
It's not really a binding. It doesn't link to anything in systemd, it's just aware of the convention used by systemd to pass the file descriptors into the process. The actual code being executed from that repository is around 60 lines, I guess:

https://github.com/coreos/go-systemd/blob/main/activation/li...

I just used that rather than writing it myself because it felt like it didn't add much to the story. Also the code was actually written on macOS, it still runs fine without systemd.

Edit: I'd be quite interested to see if passing file descriptors in this way would be a goal in, for example, the proposed Alpine service manager. A quick scan of the proposal didn't show me anything obvious, but I'll go and read it in more detail.
That sounds good in a vacuum, but it is logic that necessitates that everything they do publish is therefore worth publishing. How many of the tens of thousands of emails they leaked from Democrats were worthy of publishing? How many of them had information that had public value in exposing? If the answer is not “all of them” then why would the standard be different for Republicans?
In the US there is a "fund" that is suppose to be paid into by Private Companies, Unions and others that is like a Pension Insurance. That fund is Extremely underfunded. If your Company goes bust or the Union implodes, last I heard (many years ago), that fund could only cover a bit less than 50% of your benefits, so you will get a massive cut. Also in the past, if you worked for the Federal or State Gov, you did not get Social Security because you paid into a pension. I do not know if that is still true.

But the Federal Gov through cuts (we all know who pushed those cuts) and Union Busting, is causing the whole pension system to go bust since pensions work only if the Company or Union is growing and people are there to pay into it. Now that union membership is optional in many states, money is not flowing into the fund.
Yup. My kids are on Windows machines primarily because of Roblox
The title of the article is “Challenges in the Diagnosis of Magnesium Status”
Except for the word "great" the entirety of that comment is factual, and as many pointed out, the embargo is the main reason why this piece of news is so remarkable. I fail to see the "invitation" to flame honestly. It's more about how the moderator interpreted the comment rather than what it's actually there.
> Storing the AST on the disk in a million files is not necessarily the best use of the filesystem

A new codebase format just uses a sqlite database instead of a million files

> Since the language is append only, all edits look like additions in version control

Traditional methods of showing change in verson control, that is text diffs, don't make sense here anyway

> Detecting that 2 things are the same through hashing is nontrivial, can it detect that 1 + x + 1 is the same as x + 2? The ASTs are differen

It can't detect that. It if could it would be pretty cool, but I don't think it would improve the usability too much
I honestly find the UX, clients, and echo cancelation to be great with Mumble and Mumla on mobile. I guess YMMV.
Disclaimer: layman here, just repeating what I heard and read the past months/years.

> How much care is given to ensure the jab group's demographics reflect the "control" (i.e., the broader population).

This is mostly done through sampling all ages. In general, older people have a weaker immune system than younger, so older people can serve as a model for younger, immune-suppressed people. That's not ideal, but generally preferable to testing new drugs in chemo patients.

In cases where people have an elevated risk (chemo, pregnancy, other immune suppression situations like after transplants), the best you can do is vaccinate as many of the contact persons around them.

(Regarding pregnancies, I don't know how much of that is actual risk regarding vaccination, and how much is related to the difficulty of testing drugs on pregnant women. For example in Germany, drug tests are on pregnant women are a very delicate topic and mostly avoided by pharma companies, mostly due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal )
You imply that the bulk of the costs are labour costs, but medical invoices in the US suggest otherwise.
The most basic formal chef education in Norway is two years mostly of theory (yes, books) and then two years working in a kitchen. If you have ambitions you are now barely above the busboy on the pecking order.

You can get the same accreditation if you are able to document 5 years of relevant experience and are able to pass the written exams.
well it would be nice to have a way to update old code
I'm sure the Chinese and Russians don't just sit on their hands, and have a comparable campaign. And I'm sure they are not less successful than the CIA.

While it might be preferable they both fail, that might eventually happen as security mitigations tightens, so long as the CIA succeeds, so do others.
If you think our police are brutal, I would love to see you hold a political rally in Cuba. You are so precious. Might want to reflect on that nasty little caste system you have benefitted from before throwing stones.
Easily explained by most people being unreliable witnesses, even professionals. Especially if all their instruments are telling them one thing.