skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t had a job in nine months now and between waking up whenever I want to and finally trying the things I’ve always had in my head to make a little money here and there, I don’t know how I would go back to a regular job. Sure on paper I make about half of what I used to make, But damn my stress level is low and days are nice
The focus on GBS is clearly cherry-picking one of the rarer and more transient adverse side effects, observed in a by now barely used vaccine, in order to take up oxygen in the vaccine risks discussion and present the appearance of being on top of it. Says a lot that it is getting as much FDA attention as myocarditis, which is much more common (Israel estimated between 1 in 3000 and 1 in 6000 in men 16 to 24, far higher than the deceptive "few per million" presented in the article) and potentially more lasting.
> The Mac app still doesn't autoupdate gracefully

It does: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665068-How-d...
Should become extensions then. That’s why they were invented, no?
> Famously Prince, became "The artist formerly known as Prince"

Famously he did become, in public media, yes. To his frustration, as he kept telling everyone to stop calling him "artist formerly known..." until he gave up and went back to Prince.

Though in public media's defense, it's very hard to reference someone who literally had no name for a period of time.
A lot of it depends on your yearly spend. My spend is in the range of 20 to 30K. Its been in that range for years. I'm just not very material-goods oriented (my car is 24 years old). I've done some calculations and I would be OK with a 2000->2008 style downturn, though, a 2000->2013 downturn would be more problematic.

Its not the lifestyle for everyone though, I agree. Though, I do think its prudent for younger people to plan _as if_ they might need to retire early, since the market may decide that they are no longer needed or desirable as workers. Perhaps especially so for tech workers, who already face ageism-based discrimination.
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Wow, thanks for the details in your feedback.

We'll rework the wording & landing page based on all the feedback, it's awesome, thanks again!
The Untold History of the National Spelling Bee’s Big Faint
I second the Syntorial recommendation. You can get a number of lessons as a free introduction and it’s a very hands on approach that allows you to “get your hands dirty” as others have suggested.
There's probably information on dairy quota distribution out there. Might be interesting to investigate.

My understanding is it's very hard to get quota.
I’m not sure what Apple and Netflix are doing there. I have a 2012 iPad that has the Netflix app already installed and it works fine.
The rare times I've needed FTP on Windows, I've found Cyberduck sufficient to do the job.
- This was not a poll.

- Being common doesn't mean it's good or acceptable. In this case, it doesn't account for the effects of day of the week, or what sort of issues the person was having on that day specifically.

- n=258 is enough if it was sampled properly, and they provide no details to show that it was, so it wasn't. They provided nothing more than the engineers they surveyed were in the UK. Nothing on experience, age group distribution, family-size, years of work, company size, work change.

- As it stands, this provides 0 valuable information, and I can only assume it's intended for buzz.
What about all the people who are on fixed income? Their buying power is diminished with inflation.
The issues here are playing out in California as well:

- removal of merit-based admissions for Lowell High School

- removal of SAT for admissions to University of California

- restriction of advanced math in the California Math Framework 2021

These will all reduce the link between ability/effort and measures of achievement.

So they will tend to reduce inequality of outcomes, by making outcomes more random. If you see university degrees as a scarce good (e.g. mainly a signalling device), to be allocated evenly among the population, then this may seem like a win.

For those who care about improved academic achievement, or more/better learning, these changes are a step back.
Safari is only available on one platform (that internationally has a small market share) and isn't all that great about implementing web standards in a timely manner. To me, Firefox is the far better alternative. But really, why should there be only one?
Is sea level rising at 1-3mm a year really a problem?
> OTOH Firefox is vastly fatter than it was in its early versions, which supported FTP (and Gopher!), so it doesn't seem like FTP or other minor protocols are an actual cause of complexity- and bloat-creep.

I’m sure someone will correct me, but without looking at the source code, I suspect the following will have played a role in increasing code size since the earliest days of Phoenix:

* support for newer media formats, from MP4 through AVIF

* DRM maybe?

* WebGL

* SVG?

* The complexity of modern CSS
Oh, dear. There's a glaring style error in line 2 of this document.

It has quotation marks around "Print this Document". For no reason. That's not what quotation marks are for. That's not how anything works.

The rest of the document looks useful, though.
When I was in undergrad, my psychology professor gave me a list of books[0] to read; “if you read these books, you’ll be one of the smartest people in the world.” I actually noticed one of the books on that list!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100527123450/http://www.gbc.ed...
Your belief in the accuracy and thoroughness of the CDC investigations is touching.

Please provide a link for your claim that “all the other deaths were unrelated to vaccination”. Thanks!
Yes, I agree. But that’s to the same point. The p-value is still a measure of whether your sample size is large enough to capture a small probability event in the context of assessing the null hypothesis
Yes, Log Parser was the inspiration for that feature in lnav. That's why the column names are basically same between the two (e.g. c_ip, cs_uri_stem).
Stop the Medium
How would being on Linux help with that?
Can we provide the data necessary for young men to take one of the mRNA vaccines for Covid-19?

The question. What percentage of men under 40 have had a cardiovascular event, specifically myocarditis, after taking the Phizer or Moderns shot?

Primary reason I haven't been vaccinated yet.
This is also a good source of enjoyable online synths :
https://synth.playtronica.com/
> The short explanation is that the viruses that tend to win do so because they reproduce faster. Such a virus will grow faster inside a person, and will make that person more infectious, faster. It will also kill that person faster.

There is not a single part of this sentence that is actually true:

1) the Delta variant does not "reproduce faster", except perhaps in the broad sense that it (may) be more successful in a population than other strains.

2) the variant does not "grow faster inside a person". This is nonsense.

3) "will make that person more infectious, faster." Also nonsense. There's no evidence of this, nor any bioplausibility for the statement. There's limited evidence that viral loads are higher, but that isn't the same thing.

4) "it will also kill a person faster". There's no evidence of this, either.

This paragraph is exactly what's wrong with Pueyo, in a nutshell: he takes a tenable fact ("Delta is more fit in the population") and twists it in ways that sound plausible and scary to laymen, but that are absolutely not supported by science or evidence.
Yes, I got that from your post. It's just that for Google, proposing it again with harmless content is very easy, but for anybody else to filter the bad content once the Google proposal gets accepted is almost impossible. (Although, if I was working on Firefox, I would just copy the most common data from Chrome, adjusting for those 2 fields that matter. That would create problems, but it's the less problematic choice.)

So, no, it should be rejected. Entirely and severely. It doesn't mean that contextual headers are a bad practice, it's just that this one proposal is bad.
I don't doubt that the vaccines come with risk. Every vaccine created to date has a small chance of side effects. But even as someone youngish, healthy, and with a strong immune system, any risk from the vaccine seems orders of magnitude less likely than comparable risks from the coronavirus.

That 6,000 figure you use is 0.0018% percent of people that got the vaccine, and that's only people that died after getting it, not people whose death was caused by the vaccine. [0]

Vaccination seems sensible from any concern for personal health (again, unless you have access to some data I've not seen). Even for very healthy individuals at low rist of death from COVID-19, you're taking on not only higher personal risk but also exposing other people to much larger risk, as well.

Also, I've gotten the flu shot every year I could since age 16 primarily to avoid infecting others. (There was no family or peer pressure to get the flu shot, at least where I'm from.) I'll grant that I'm a bit more invested in public health / disease spread than the average individual, but I doubt my motivations are that uncommon.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
Show HN: Build a nocode SaaS using Airtable and SaaSBox
Oh, I might try watching a sleepy animals compilation while in bed. Never tried it, but seeing cute animals yawn also makes me sleepy.
The Dark Side of Chess: Payoffs, Points and 12-Year-Old Grandmasters
Improved my comment to better communicate the thought. I believe my point still stands that if an update is available when you "check for updates", you have to download a zip file, open the disk image, and perform the install manually. Contrast to something like Bitwarden, where checking for an update performs the install and restarts the app automatically.

It's a minor quibble, but demonstrates a lack of polish imho.
Ahh FTP. The original “cloud storage”.
> who do you list in the artist field?

All of them, according to section 11 of Apple's style guide.

But yeah, most music library software sucks and was developed by people with a non-professional understanding of music, and thus is missing important information they don't know/care about, and/or contains bad assumptions about the cardinality of the data. ID3 was a hobby project that somehow became a defacto standard.
I am not sure why they use the word 'analog'. If it is in a browser it definitely isn't, it is digital, though the one you saw in 1970 probably was analog. In operation though the difference is subtle, like a real piano vs a digital one.

There is a lot of science behind audio and if you are that way inclined, learning about it is really worthwhile. All those effects create the sound they do for a reason.
I'd love to see a workflow comparison between emacs, vim (with remote work via neovim's tcp support + neovide) and vscode. I'm currently using Emacs and have a pretty decent setup for remote work with jupyter-emacs and tramp, and it's pretty much 0 overhead to run the same code on multiple remotes, or have the same remote run code stored in multiple places. With that said, all abstractions end if my SSH connection breaks, since remote stuff dies on disconnect. With neovim the remote can run inside of a tmux pane, so disconnections are not really a problem, but my vim skills are as of yet not as great.

I haven't used VS code yet, simply because of lack of time in relearning another editor. In which particular way do you feel like VS code remote plugin is superior to the alternatives? And is there anything lacking in your VS code experience as of today?
> who will gladly put in effort to take your place.

That sounds completely alien to my experience. I go on vacation around 2 months a year. I work only the stipulated hours. And I have a great job, with great conditions, working with amazing people, learning things and having fun.

This kind of mindset and approach to life gives me a peace of mind that allows me to have meaningful discussions, to mediate in disagreements and to not be too invested so I can easily adapt to new circumstances. Working "harder" just creates a tunnel vision, maybe is ok if your job is to sit in a chair and do nothing. But for any job that requires mind or body to be in shape, you need vacations and take it easy to perform at top capacity.

On the other side if it really as you say and everything is about competition, then investing so much in just your job is going to make you lose at the rest of non-work competitions in live. But, I do not think that this is true.
Farm – an experiment in distributed peer-to-peer computing
> So the fact that we as world do a really bad job at vaccinating in countries with lower income will ultimately assure that new strains show up that are even more resistant against the vaccine?

Exactly what would be the feasible logistical plan to put a shot in the arm of every single person on the entire planet at nearly the same time in order to (supposedly) forestall the evolution of new variants? Is there any historical precedent for this having been accomplished in the past with a virus as endemic as SARS-CoV-2? One which can also hide out and mutate in animal reservoirs?
Correct. I've been going deep into this looking for a unicorn implementation friendly to distributed environments:

* Mutable - streaming applications

* Mergable - so you can avoid querying N filters all the time or share slices.

* Scalable - so you don't have to pre-size

* Performant

* Serialize to bytes

* Language - Implemented in multiple languages. Many are in C only which is suboptimal (and often too complicated to easily port).

* Bonus: Thread safe implementation

Typically you can get some of these, but not all. Sometimes its not just possible with the structure (e.g. mutability in xor filter), sometimes its an implementation gap (serialization, etc.)

In my case finding the magical combination in Java has been quite difficult. The only way was to do custom, and relax some requirements (like auto scalable structures).

After doing a lot of testing I ended up with pre-sized bloom filters behind an MPSC model. The tradeoff of having to monitor/pre-size filters is one I'm not happy with but weighed against other tradeoffs it made sense.

Cuckoo was far too slow (and merging was iffy), and I can get a huge speed increase switching and customizing implementations (Guava -> spark -> fastfilter), and also big boost using xx3 (or xxh) rather then murmur which is pretty popular in off the shelf implementations.

Porting CQF, and much of the latest research was just too much (and many implementations lack merging, etc so you have to really understand the structure to do it right).
I don't see this trend in the US at all. Most folks we're hiring now expect $20-30k more than they did pre-COVID. We've had multiple team members leave to make more money and ended up giving a blanket raise to the development staff to try to make sure we're paying market rates.

This is in the midwest US but we're now recruiting nationally since everyone is remote.
class foo {
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Finally.
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There is a term for this kind of work: cottage industry.

My understanding is that it isn't captured by most standard economic measures, like GDP.
I will say this, if there is one thing I can do for my child (other than learning proper money management), when the time is right I will help them with the down payment on a home. Holy crap it's so much more important than renting. It seems like a hassle, I know, but building generational equity gives you such a leg up in the world.
Ah, I got confused, that was the one from 6 days ago.
> What source do you have to say Tesla deleted the date?

Elon himself?

Autopilot v9 itself does not use radar data at all[1], additionally cars manufactured from earlier this year on do not even have the radar modules[2].

Note, that I didn't say "threw out the data" in a silo, I said "without having a comparable reliability in place with the vision only."

[1]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1397347380874203136

[2]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/25/22453518/tesla-vision-rad...
I'm currently going through pretty bad insomnia and sleeping medication withdrawal, so my sleep is absolute garbage (usually < 4 hours). However, every morning I wake up and run 20 to 30 minutes on a treadmill, and at night I go for long walks at a fast pace. Just had a checkup a couple weeks ago and my vitals are all good. My blood work is good as well.
I like the process the author walked through. I'll paste one of the paragraphs.

"So as the CDC link shows, the choice is clear: mass vaccination does indeed have rare side effects, but mass infection with the coronavirus (which is the only other choice) is absolutely worse. And to reiterate a point that’s been made many times, the faster we can vaccinate people, the lower the chances we have of encountering a new variant form that will make everything even worse. We have to get as many doses out to the world as we possibly can, as quickly as we can."
I reply to messages or check out what's going on in the group chats.
I've found the opposite effect: on the days when I've exercised minimally, I tend to sleep poorer, not to mention feeling more stress when awake. On the days that I do exercise, my sleep is much better: falling asleep faster, not as easily awaken, etc.
>The IFR (Infected Fatality Rate4) for the original variant was about 0.01% for those in their 20s and 0.2% for those in their 40

Thanks, so 2x of that is 0.02% and 0.4%, that was my point: 2x of a low rate is still low
Next episode "Cuban gets taken ill in America, without having health insurance"
Buy the hardcover books. They are often available 2nd hand and are not expensive.
> Is it that "link previews" are generally worse than a screenshot of the page?

Something like 90% of sites don't have proper meta tags that can be scraped for previews, and the ones that do you get blocked by Cloudflare if you try.

Usability is non-existent.
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/231668907-Encry...
I could maybe agree if the restrictions were put in the winter, but not in the summer.

People have already booked their vacation, and now they need to do a PCR every 2 days to take a train, enjoy restaurants ? That's insane !

To get the "pass sanitaire" you need: first shot -> wait 3 weeks -> second shot -> wait 2 weeks. That's more than a month !
All the sanctimonious tech types making more than all the lower classes they sneer at - they think it’s their right to “waste” energy on their unimpeachable luxury good: their Tesla.

Whereas using it to hash for an unconfiscatable store of value is wrong /s
People often get frustrated that the famous and the rich are treated differently, but it's literally logistics at some point.

This happens for everything, for example Tesla for years had the domain TeslaMotors.com, and look at Musk describing him getting Tesla.com:

> "That took us 10 years to buy that Tesla.com domain," Musk said on the podcast. "That cost us like, $10 million."

> Musk said in 2018 on Twitter that it actually cost $11 million, and took an "amazing amount of effort," to get the domain name off Grossman.

So my overall conclusion from situations like that is, yes, we have to accept that while we're small, or even while we're "medium" we need to play by the rules for everyone else. If you grow up you don't have to.

Daft Punk also had to put up with lots of bullshit in their first years, you gotta presume. They've earned this little victory of having no face on the Apple Music account... :)

Creative artists tend to thrive on limitations. They use limitations to come up with inventive ways of expressing themselves despite and even through the limitations. So think about it like that, IMHO
They're looking at a century's worth of other vaccines and noting that the side effects present early on, not years later.

The stuff in vaccines gets broken down or excreted by the body; it doesn't linger in your system for years. mRNA, for example, breaks down in minutes/hours.
Is there a discussion as to the decision to dump clojure --> java for "performance reasons"?

I'm not even a clojure user, but my impression was that it was pretty performant. I remember a discussion that they didn't even really need the JVM invokedynamic because they were doing pretty well without it, so that made me think it was close to pure JVM speed.
That's what the landfill transitioned to. I believe it now powers all the buildings onsite.
As pointed out by oneplane in a separate comment, it's because the link points to the print version. An interactive version exists at https://help.apple.com/itc/musicstyleguide/ where the text is actually a link to the print version.

I'll give you, it's a little odd that it even appears on the print version, but not the worst thing in the world.
Like any other pro athlete at that level he has to keep the anti-doping authorities informed of his whereabouts, and they probably randomly test him a couple times per year. But this particular event wasn't a sanctioned race so there wouldn't have been any official testing as part of it.
thanks. that's helpful.
You are correct. Mutations are random. The only even remotely valid point made by those fearing vaccination effects is that vaccines may cause selective pressure where the random mutatations that escape vaccine-induced immunity become more dominant. But even that point doesn't mean vaccines shouldn't be employed because

1. The same selective pressure exists for natural immunity
2. The implication is that we shouldn't get vaccines, because we may get variants that get around our vaccines. This is like asking the fire department not to put our a raging house fire because it might cause water damage to the home.

Its also worth noting that none of the major variants observed so far came about after vaccines began being used on the population at large, and the above point about selective pressure at vaccine immunity is only an issue when large swaths of people aren't getting vaccinated, allowing the virus a large number of "shots on goal" to mutate in a way that eventually provides escape capabilities.

There is absolutely no logic to these arguments about vaccines causing mutations.
Not a book, but I found the Underdog Electronic Music School to be pretty helpful [0] [1], though I have yet to feel comfortable enough to design any sound "with intention".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfJ9Dbjz6cs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNk-lIFq7ms&t=1301s
My Kids' iPad is on iOS 9, and I was able to download Netflix for it. I remember there was a "older version" button I needed to press when I downloaded it, so you might still be able to get at least Netflix on that one.
You cited the CDC, but now that the figure you used has been cleared up, you no longer like the CDC as a source?

> Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused a health problem. A review of available clinical information, including death certificates, autopsy, and medical records, has not established a causal link to COVID-19 vaccines. However, recent reports indicate a plausible causal relationship between the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine and TTS, a rare and serious adverse event—blood clots with low platelets—which has caused deaths.[0][emphasis mine]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
I don’t know if someone already posted this : https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets
I worked for a government agency funded by clients as my last job. Same issues.

A big issue with understaffing is knowledge. Like in my prior job and you in your current one, you are spread across so much tech. I know that even in my current job I have certain work that is little more than Google and assume the tutorial does the job.