skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory this is true but in reality half of the US population just isn't smart enough to evaluate such a question and those who are hesitant are virtually exclusively drawn from this portion. This is well highlighted by the fact that the societal and individual risks of avoiding vaccination are so insanely high while the risk of vaccination is virtually insignificant.

If I offered you a chance to skip rope or play Russian roulette with revolver with a bullet in one chamber and you opined about the danger of breaking your hip while skipping rope I would strong suspect you didn't understand the question.
I sometimes have the same thought, but it may be more charitable to phrase it this way instead (which is more accurate):

"Traveling the world seems like a life goal for extroverts. It is an experience I don't understand the benefits of, personally."
> It also means that you can't use computers running Windows 11 inside secure areas.

It means you can't use computers running retail editions of Windows 11 inside secure areas.

These kinds of requirements will absolutely not be mandatory under enterprise / volume licensing.
I don't think you're unprofessional. In fact, your sentiment is a belief that was strongly held by early UNIX programmers. Two quotes I particularly like:

"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code." -- Douglas McIllroy

"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." -- Ken Thompson

But unfortunately, we've come to a situation where SLOC and innovation for the sake of innovation is more important than code quality.
I live right next to this tree. Interestingly, the city of Palo alto also has some electrical plumbing attached to this tree. Not sure if it's for the tree's health or just some connections for the nextdoor train tracks.
Second this. They're genuinely amazing, with IIT professors teaching their subjects (for engineering).

It's basically Indian OCW.
I work on Witful. We spend a lot of time and effort keeping the UI clean and refined; to the point that we have accidentally over-simplified in a few key spots. The result is that we've got a ton of hidden functionality. Things like collated notes by domain or capturing "questions" (simply add `??` to a sentence to mark it as a question) are tricky to find. I think MS has just optimized for making everything "obvious" by adding a button for everything to their menu bars.
> hell

My Canadian friends seem to think that's what their country has turned into, and on just about every front, not just vaccines.
Looks like it's a $5 a month search engine. This is something I've kind of wanted for ages, so I guess I'll sign up and see how it works. I secretly wish Mozilla the corporation would of made their own search engine with a subscription model ages ago.

Mozilla corp / non-profit has a history somewhat similar to Google's where they seem to build things they phase out, and not do things to make themselve sustainable enough to not have to mass fire people who do a net good for the greater internet community that relies on them (thinking of MDN).
Eyeball scans? What the actual fuck?
I'm beginning to think that when I have children, if the current trajectory continues, exit from this procrustean bed is going to be the ethical thing to do with them.
>"Port scan crashes machine" is not exactly "reliable software". [...] So you agree that it's a bad idea? [...] But that means that the default is bad, and unsuitable for resource constrained machines.

I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from here? I explained how it could be made suitable, it could be done in a way that was crash resistant. I don't know if it's a bad idea or not, it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. The default here is configured by the distro, so you could expect to see a different default on an embedded distro.

>In fact my Ubuntu default install doesn't even have inetd installed.

I believe this is mostly because systemd has replaced its functionality.

>netstat has supported this for (maybe) decades on Linux. It's the -p option.

Good call, I forgot about that, I always use lsof. But that's exactly what I mean, it will show you which pid has the port open, so it will make it obvious if it's systemd or sshd. You won't be sure if there is actually an sshd running unless you check that. This really seems like a non-issue, you have all the tools you need to troubleshoot it.

>systemd broke this functionality. [...] Port is closed means service not running. [...] Pre systemd it was essentially never anything other than inetd that held ports for others.

I don't really want to discuss this anymore if I have to repeat myself, but this is not correct. There are multiple other reasons why you would have another service holding the fd open, such as load balancers, filtering proxies, userspace firewalls, etc, etc. The ability to pass an fd to a child process is an intentional feature of every Unix-like operating system that I've used. Systemd is only using the feature as the OS intended it, which is also supported on OpenBSD.
A programmer who commits untested sloppy code of their own writing, will do it regardless of having access to such a service. Nothing will make me commit the generated code without testing it. I think this tool could take care of the boilerplate and the rest will still be on the programmer. At least in the near future.
Yup, this isn't a theoretical concern, but a major practical one. GPT models are known for memorizing their training data: https://towardsdatascience.com/openai-gpt-leaking-your-data-...

Edit: Github mentions the issue here: https://docs.github.com/en/github/copilot/research-recitatio...
and here: https://copilot.github.com/#faq-does-github-copilot-recite-c... though they neatly ignore the issue of licensing :)
There are example projects in a bunch of different back ends available here:

https://htmx.org/server-examples/
Northern Lights wake-up alarm in Iceland hotel room
You can get by without cell phone service in the USA. On all my business trips back to the USA while living in China, I didn't have much a problem (free open wifi is pretty common, you can even use Uber pretty easily without a phone number).

In China...if someone else can get you a SIM, you'll be OK, or maybe you can get one at the airport in customs (that used to be possible), though they have been cracking down on SIMs without ID numbers or resident visas associated with them.
I misinterpreted your post as some kind of “herd immunity” scheme where we all get infected and that is somehow better. That doesn’t seem to be the argument you were making so I am sorry.

It seems like we should be optimizing for vaccinating as much of the (non-antibody) population up to a level where the spread of the virus is contained rather than maximizing resistance in the population with antibodies. There must be a threshold at which the low hanging fruit becomes “people without antibodies” rather than “people with fewer antibodies”. I’m not sure it matters if the antibodies are from the vaccine or infection.
No, we're talking about what I'm talking about. I've started the whole thread and participated all the way down to here. I also find myself wondering if you understand what we're talking about. I know what I'm saying about terminology is a bit controversial, but the nature of what existing run time systems are doing is not. They've been doing it for decades.

But I guess we'll just have to leave it there.
Your original argument is flawed. You actually have no way of knowing if most people are “envious” of the US. That’s pure speculation on your part. We can look at numbers, if we do we see some where the US looks really good and some where it looks really bad. That’s not even touching less tangible things like culture, community and family values (all of which are extremely subjective). The US is definitely a harsh place to live in many ways. And yes, I’ve lived in other countries and traveled extensively. I’ve seen plenty of poor (by American standards) families living happily together in ways that would make many Americans envious.

In short, your claim is too subjective to be useful and is directly contradicted by multiple metrics.
I now think it's actually this part of the standard that prevents it: http://eel.is/c++draft/intro.multithread#intro.progress-7

Basically a compiler can not optimize a non-deadlocking program into a potentially deadlocking one.
Bingo. 30kb doesn't seem like much, but its easy to think it doesn't matter when viewing one dependency in isolation. But if you say "it's just x kb" to all dependencies, then you have a problem when they're all aggregated.

This is why I appreciate Svelte's take: with a compiler-heavy approach, you can have a great dev experience without saddling your users with extra dependencies.
I think the thought process is from the perspective of the employer, if you assume these two statements are true:

1) AI tools increase developer productivity, allowing projects to get completed faster; and

2) AI tools offset a nonzero amount of skill prerequisites, allowing developers to write "better" code, regardless of their skill level

With those in mind, it seems reasonable to conclude that the price to e.g. build an app or website will decrease, because it'll require either fewer man-hours 'til completion and/or less skill from the hired developers doing said work.

You do make a good point that "building an app" or "building a website" will likely shift in meaning to something more complex, wherein we get "better" outputs for the same amount of work/price though.
> Maybe by 2030.

I think you're being optimistic.
Well, I have to support a family on it. I dont get time to do anything enjoyable. I don't have any upward mobility. All with no end in sight for when I'll be able to quit this job I hate.
It's hard to determine that as a laymen when you have the CEO of Pfizer (who is likely being advised by Pfizer's own researchers) saying, "A likely scenario is that there will be likely a need for a third dose, somewhere between six and 12 months and then from there, there will be an annual revaccination, but all of that needs to be confirmed. And again, the variants will play a key role"
This is something I struggle with, as someone who worked really hard in school but has become less productive as a professional. In school there are well-defined deadlines and discrete tasks with extrinsic rewards in the form of grades. Even though the rewards were "fake" in a sense, people cared about them so I was motivated to earn those rewards, partially due to competitive drive.

In my professional life, that motivation has all but disappeared for me. I already have the comfortable salary I hoped for, and individual achievements aren't directly rewarded with more money in the short. So what else is left as an extrinsic reward that can provide that drive on a daily basis?

I haven't found the answer to that yet myself. Sometimes I feel like I've been given too much too soon and that's removed my hunger to work. That plus existing in a collaborative environment instead of a competitive one.
No, they are all entirely reasonable questions. Yeah, they might require lawyers to answer - tough shit. Understanding the legal landscape that ones' product lives in is part of a company's responsibility.
It's about affordances. As presented, this tool streamlines copy-pasting random snippets. The easier something is, the more people do it.

Testing doesn't even enter the picture here, we're at the level of automating the stereotypical StackOverflow-driven development - except with SO, you at least get some context, there's a discussion, competing solutions, code gets some corrections. Here? You get a black-box oracle divining code snippets from function names and comments.

> the solution to that is reading all the code you commit, even though it's generated by AI

Relying on programmer discipline doesn't scale. Also, in my experience, copy-pasting a snippet and then checking it for subtle bugs is harder than just reading it, getting the gist of it, and writing it yourself.
I'm afraid that if you can't accept this, then you may have a hard time accepting the existence of any kind of "plain" text at all. After all, what text does not include format? This does. How?

Well, a paragraph is separated by a new line. Sentences are separated by periods and the first word of sentence of capitalized. White space is used to delimit words within sentences--with some exceptions, as just shown.

Dammit, I guess this isn't plain text either.
I came here to rip apart this post and PG for propping up hustle culture bullshit, but am actually pleasantly surprised at his takes. I would reword most of his post to be more about "being engaged" instead of "working hard", because "work" has so many flavors and misconceptions.

> My limit for the harder types of writing or programming is about five hours a day. Whereas when I was running a startup, I could work all the time. At least for the three years I did it; if I'd kept going much longer, I'd probably have needed to take occasional vacations. [5]

Most programmers don't have the ability or scope to be engaged in the way that he's talking about wrt his startup, so most programmers should stop working as soon as they're at their "productivity threshold" throughout the day and have fulfilled their remaining busywork duties. I really wish tech "influencers" like PG would post more about that - when to put the mouse down and go for a walk or watch a movie.

I actually think the "best" take would be "Every individual should work exactly as hard as they believe they should". I think it's a reality, in that most people are unwilling to work any harder than they want to, but also I think context is probably the most important factor in terms of "work", "output" and "success". If you don't feel like you should work hard, or don't need to, you're either working on something that isn't worth your time, or you don't feel engaged at all. Both are fine, but both also signal you should move on.

This post turned into kind of a ramble. Apologies.
why not post this answer to physics.stackexchange.com?
Oh god please don't do this indiscriminately. If you're typing out boilerplate, document it and add a generator for it. I've been bitten probably hundreds of times by bad abstractions created to save some keystrokes that turned 50 lines of boring easily readable code into an ungrokable dense mess.
I'd take this over BAT.
Many of you may not know, But most recently, even Domino's Pizza (India) had a breach and they kept denying it ever happened until the hackers finally made a search engine where anyone could search through the entire database. And Domino's finally released some statement in some obscure part of their website. NONE of the users who were affected were notified directly. Many even don't know that this happened. What's worse is the data contained your precise house location and location data in general with co-ordinates. So, the hackers know your phone, your address, where you live, where you go to, been to and how much you're actually worth. It has been claimed financial data (credit cards) were stolen as well, but Domino's denies it till date and of course no one should trust them, given their history.

So, in essence, this LinkedIn breach is also the same to me. Companies literally make you an attack target for hackers and don't even bother telling you. I don't know about you guys, I haven't received a single email from LinkedIn about this yet. How can we combat this dangerous behaviour of companies hiding their incompetencies from their customers? I thought of litigation and I almost sued Domino's, but who am I kidding? These cases could go on for years while they keep making people attack targets of hackers. And add to that corruption, and other variables. I don't know of what could be done to such companies. Boycotting helps, but imagine, more than half your customers don't know why the rest are boycotting and that's in your favor.
in Italy you would say: "ma va in miniera!"
Ads aren't the only problem. All the SEO clickbait is worse than the ads in my opinion. I can ignore the ads, but anymore a lot of the time the first page or two of results are just clickbait junk. Look at their example results. #3 looks like an SEO clickbait site to me.

edit: Looks like you can customize results somewhat, so maybe that will help? A quick way to silence those kinds of hits would be nice.
> This misreads the room so badly on where people are at in 2021 when it comes to the idea of tech companies and consumer privacy.

(Some) Tech people, politicians, and politicos, sure.

The average person still uses Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, Twitter, Google services, and/or believes Apple's marketing on respecting user privacy.

Also, this is 2 years out. Either there will be major changes between now and then which will result in a change to this decision, or there wont. I wouldn't put my money on the former.
Maybe libertarians like the idea, I don't know, but it's one of the core properties of idealized communism. From Wikipedia (emph added):

> Communism ... is a philosophical, social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is ... a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of ... money.
> reaches for a complicated library way to do it

This is neither here nor there. Some people write awful React code too.

> having the level of understanding TO write surgical DOM manip code should be a basic floor of ability for any web developer

I mean, knowing how to do it is good and all, but knowing how to do it well is a rare skill. There's a ton of random performance gotchas to be aware of (like, reading a property in the middle of a bunch of writes causing double repaints) and frameworks do consistently apply optimizations that you as a regular dev would probably not ever think of (sorting optimizations being some of the least trivial ones).
That is interesting information and I will look further into that as you raised my curiosity. I watched the video of his presentation and could not see signs of dementia.

If that is as you say then the math community exponentially embarrassed themselves by discussing the mathematical details of his proofs. Did they also do that out of respect for him ?
Orwell says something along the lines of never use outdated idioms in his Politics and the English Language. I'm withholding judgement on the extinctioness of this one until we see how the whole debt bubble plays out though :)
> Is 12 to 15 weeks (3-4 months) really "long lasting" antibody mediated immunity?

It's perfectly normal for an antibody response to decay over time. We don't keep making antibodies in perpetuity for every antigen we've ever seen, or our blood would turn into peanut butter.

The B-cell and T-cell mediated responses to previous infection are also proving to be robust, and the B-cell response, in particular, primes the immune system for a rapid increase in antibody levels if the virus is encountered again.
The article gives reasons why it is an imperfect solution.
Yes, SATs may to some extent discriminate based on income (even though the effect is pretty small), but does the left they believe a more 'holistic' admissions system won't be gamed by rich parents, and thus is even more influenced by socioeconomic status? I think many on the left never wanted a meritocracy. They just want institutions that will give them and their children status that does not have to be earned.
> The problem in this case is a chicken-and-egg problem: it's hard to get money without an education, and it's hard to get an education without money.
> For-profit education cannot solve the problem, because for-profit education is the problem.

Have you seen school that only gets paid after you start working (and based on a percentage of your salary), for example: https://www.holbertonschool.com
I like the concept in that these school are somehow "investing" in the student: they only get as successful as the student is.
Yes. We used Mysql setups, Percona Xtradb cluster and Clickhouse servers and it's ok to run it by myself cuz we work on bare metal servers.
Equivalent headline: Company ends contract with customer at their own discretion, which he agreed to when he signed the terms of service. Big news story.
On the content of Andy Ngo:

> I’m working on getting my podcast back online. In the meantime, you can still listen to it on YouTube. Topics include hate crime hoaxes, the militant ‘social justice’ left, extremist Islam & more.
What the heck kind of article is this? I read the first few paragraphs and then quit. Why would people not getting arrested in chicago last summer be blamed on other people saying “defund the police.”? No police were defunded in chicago last summer as far as I know. Shouldn’t that actually be evidence that the CPD aren’t very good, especially at that funding level?
> There are options for non-rusting rebar, and non-rusting coatings, but I believe they're expensive.

Galvanised rebar is omnipresent around the world. I believe even mandatory in some countries.

> Otherwise the bidder with the lowest cost of materials is most competitive. Anyone know what it's like in China?

Just as you said. Construction companies save on everything. GFRP rebar got adopted in China not so much because of advantages, but because of code allowing for lower concrete cover with it, as I heard.
The extra complexity (best practice is to run a separate vlan/subnet where clients have an extra NIC with high MTU) isn't worth it as the only real drawback is on the wire header overhead (NICs have LRO/LSO and other offload mechanisms).
>That's not what this says

I admit I'm not medically trained, but the graph [1] seems pretty clear to me, and the authors said:

> In contrast, participants with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies at baseline before the first vaccine injection rapidly developed uniform, high antibody titers within days after vaccination (median AUC before vaccination, 90 [43 participants];

>at 0 to 4 days, 133 [7 participants];

>at 5 to 8 days, 14,208 [15 participants];

>at 9 to 12 days, 20,783 [8 participants];

>at 13 to 16 days, 25,927 [20 participants];

>at 17 to 20 days, 11,755 [4 participants];

>at 21 to 27 days, 19,534 [14 participants]; and

>after the second dose, 22,509 [19 participants])

[1] https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...
Are you sure?

What about the blank line between these two paragraphs? Andwhydontiwritesentenceslikethis?
In the tradition of "considered harmful" papers, I think this is one of the less convincing. Or rather, it doesn't meaningfully answer the question: if the rainbow colormap is so awful, why is it still so common? Is it really "due to inertia", as the authors suggest? Or is there some other virtue?

How about: I want to maximize the number of distinctions between values that are possible via comparisons of colors. Something that takes a long path through colorspace is best for this. Short simple paths do better enable making ordinal judgements between values (which the authors care a lot about), but they're not as good for maximizing distinctions.

Were data vis a more conceptually mature discipline, we wouldn't rely on this kind of simple prescriptive guidance.
Would be interesting to get some stats on how common it is to put Docker on a public facing server. I never met anybody in real life that trusts Docker that much.
I don't feel it was a lie or exaggeration. Many people do not feel like their life is worth living when they work a job they hate just to pay the bills, get no time to enjoy life, etc. It shouldn't be a surprise when the general trend is for highly industrialized countries to experience higher suicide rates.
Hah, I was just logging into linkedin again after some months, looking at the landing page for a bit (before login). Wasn't aware they let you create accounts with passwords as short as six (!) characters.