skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can't compare getting vaccinated with getting bad COVID in this way. Getting vaccine is like a Russian roulette, because you do not know whether you are in the group of poor people who get maimed or killed by it. But not getting a vaccine is not like going to meet all people in town and hoping for the best. There are alternative strategies that reduce your risk of getting COVID and risk of severe health results from COVID immensely, for some people even below that of vaccine.

In other words, I have lots of information to help me efficiently avoid bad COVID impact; but I have no information to help me efficiently prevent bad vaccine impact.
"Breakthrough: AI Research Proves Once And For All That Humans Are Birds, Not Plants!"
Keep Your Internet Off My Things
Ask HN: Give two weeks notice? (I've only been here 2 months)
I don't know, but I don't find it hard to furnish ideas. Colleges used to try to ensure they didn't produce more professionally qualified graduates than there were entry-level positions for. Perhaps colleges only graduated fewer black students than there were openings in black-owned enterprises?
Hey it might be a really tall screen :D
Currently reading Ministry for the Future, which in some ways is a very optimistic book, but is still quite grim. Also, I'm thinking perhaps next time I'm tempted to read a book with climate change as the subject, I'll wait until winter to do it, rather than in the summer when the described scenes are a bit too easy to imagine by simply stepping outside.

Read the mars trilogy and Rice and Salt as well. I like his optimism in humans' ability to actually make radical political change. I suppose this is what I mean by his being both optimistic and grim -- severe outcomes aren't avoided in his books, but in the end societies do change before the absolute worst comes to pass. A "hard optimism" I suppose, which I find valuable.
Representation theory by virtue I feel has more angles than most branches of mathematics, but your definition isn't off at all. I tend to focus in particular in terms of information theory which is where the combinatorial and symmetric groups, to name a few sides of representation theory, are of particular interest, but isn't the entire picture by a long shot.
Right, and then even if you can upgrade the RAM, the machine may not even be compatible with the best RAM down the line anyway. It's hard to imagine another drop-in upgrade that will be as big as putting SSDs in old machines was.
> I would personally rather be cancelled on social media, than having my breathing cancelled.

Yes, I think all agree with your preference and share it.

But they are both bad, undesirable things.

If I had to choose between assault and murder, I’d rather be assaulted. But I work to reduce assaults AND murders in society.

Drawing parallels between similarly negative things is appropriate to reduce negative things.
Gain of function research is a lot cheaper than nuclear weapons. It also doesn't radiologically pollute the world, can, theoretically, be genetically tailored, and can even be denied. These factors will make it the preferred means of waging world war scale war in the future if it's not already being used for that presently.
> because the iPhone ha to run anything usefull in an interpreter.

What do you mean? Unlike Android, most apps on iPhone are native code.
I think I'm okay ending the back-and-forth here. I'll post the link to the book and you can check it out. It's a fun way to be exposed to modern (last 75 years) research in linguistics. Talks a lot about language acquisition research, which you have some opinions about. Come at it with an open mind and you'll learn something, I'm sure.

https://stevenpinker.com/publications/language-instinct-1994...

> Everyone has questions about language. Some are from everyday experience: Why do immigrants struggle with a new language, only to have their fluent children ridicule their grammatical errors? Why can't computers converse with us? Why is the hockey team in Toronto called the Maple Leafs, not the Maple Leaves? Some are from popular science: Have scientists really reconstructed the first language spoken on earth? Are there genes for grammar? Can chimpanzees learn sign language? And some are from our deepest ponderings about the human condition: Does our language control our thoughts? How could language have evolved? Is language deteriorating? Today laypeople can chitchat about black holes and dinosaur extinctions, but their curiosity about their own speech has been left unsatisfied—until now. In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading scientists of language and the mind, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved. But The Language Instinct is no encyclopedia. With wit, erudition, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling theory: that language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web-spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. The theory not only challenges convention wisdom about language itself (especially from the self-appointed "experts" who claim to be safeguarding the language but who understand it less well than a typical teenager). It is part of a whole new vision of the human mind: not a general-purpose computer, but a collection of instincts adapted to solving evolutionarily significant problems—the mind as a Swiss Army knife. Entertaining, insightful, provocative, The Language Instinct will change the way you talk about talking and think about thinking. New in 2007: The new “PS” edition contains an update on the science of language since the book was first published, an autobiography, an account of how the book was written, frequently asked questions, and suggestions for further reading.
Alexia is this in reverse
Operationalize Vector Search with Pinecone and Feast
Love the title! Can never go wrong adding “in the bedroom” to liven up a title.

There’s a math book that also has a catchy title: Mathematics and Sex, by Clio Cresswell
You are the one who asked what value the guy who owned a roofing business provided! Talk about sneer
It is an absurd claim. Just because reported rate of infections went down for a while, it does not mean that virus was eradicated.
Given that Raku's design originally stems from the "strict" subset of Perl 5, this would never work. This only works when Perl runs in non-strict pre-5 mode (which is the default before 7.0).
Influencing dreams was one theme I read about that they are trying to pursue. But not only TikTok. Do you also feel like TikTok is making over-night buzz for relatively silly topics, vs Instagram and Facebook.
This article will get flagged, of course, but it is an instance of an interesting phenomenon: the number of (often crypto) vaccine-skeptical articles being posted and upvoted on HN indicates there is a significant contingent here that is vaccine-skeptical. However, despite that, you rarely see vaccine-skeptical comments.

An interesting dynamic.
We have detonated 2000 bombs in testing. So "just a few small nukes" is not enough to start any atomic winter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_testing
> I don’t think it’s about convenience, they just don’t care about the same things you care about.

Some people do. The c. 1 million people who use mastodon or other fediverse services care.

> For a lot of people “buy a raspberry pi” will always be too complex, too expensive (you’re competing against free), and too much long term hassle.

This is true; it is also irrelevant. I'm immagining a world where maybe 1 internet user in 100 will have a Pi on their home internet connection, and maybe half the people on the internet will have accounts on other people's Pi servers.
Sometimes novel analogies lead to novel solutions.
I'm a biker by heart, I do not own a car anymore. It is delusional to think, that our bikes are better than any other globalized production cycle product. Even if you buy from a local store, you sadly don't know, if they used unethical source materials. We need full insight into this cycle, where the source material came from, who got their hands dirty etc.

Otherwise it all can be sold to much higher prices, being fair and all, but in reality you are just buying the same dubious materials as before. I will never feel like a customer that is treated fair, until I can be sure about the origins of the materials.
"Sorry how is that regime any different from the US?" - is that an honest question? Do you really not know how western democracy is different from dictatorial and oppressive regimes in Russia, China, or North Korea?
>phone and phone number

My ISP still provides (very low quality) landline service for a fraction of my monthly phone bill. The UI on that phone is awesome: just a speaker and dialpad, no display at all.
Unions in top level SWE will literally never happen, at least within our lifetimes. There's simply too large of a worldwide talent pool that would drop everything to come work in the US for even 50% of what current salary/benefits are.

SWE's sold their soul/morals/values for money & built evils that there's no way back from. Just have to deal with the consequences of their actions now.
Recruiters read so many CVs in a day that at some point they all become irrelevant. Has anyone here tried TikTok's new resume feature where people apply to jobs recording a video of themselves on TikTok?
On of my favorite program, and it keeps getting better.

You can even set an encryption key per share, and if you want to use an untrusted device in your nodes, you can simply not provide it with the encryption key and it will simply synchronize the encrypted payload across nodes.

So if you have a shady/cheapo VPS, you can use its storage without worrying about the plaintext data being stored there.
Chill out people, let someone give his subjective views on something.
If it does not follow semantic versions, it is just a third-level version number. It's like Linux's 2.6.x series.
I'm not exactly young, but I gave the site temporary access without thinking much about it; I know the tech and I'm confident my browser will revoke access as soon as I close the tab.

I realize now, that I did not consider what the site might do while it has access. Maybe a video or pictures of me blinking are uploaded to some shady server somewhere now.
Summer camp has worked really well for us this year. The 6 y/o comes home absolutely filthy with knowledge of ground bees.
Been there... I try really hard to keep the cables hidden so she can't see them, and my office is a no fly zone for her. So far so good. But she's ruined something like $300-400 worth of cables. Worse is the risk of fire or electrocution that bothers me.
That is what many people do with their computers. It fits what they do.

I personally was very excited about the iPad right up until the point I found out it had been 'downgraded' to use the iPhone interface. It went from 'shut up take my money' to 'meh, i will get something else' pretty much instantly.

I have bought a few for family members. They use it for gaming, watching videos, and some light web surfing. I personally just use a nice light laptop.

You can extend it like you have. But many people do not.

If I had to 'do over' I might go down the route you have. But as is I am pretty sunk into my work flow.
You said you wrote some code, and the memory of it makes you still wake up screaming. What’s the alleged insult, exactly?
In some universe there's an internal combustion shower powered entirely by an operator ripping out pull rings with their teeth and throwing armed grenades into a heating chamber.

Preferably yelling 'fire in the hole!' each time.
I place the taskbar on the right of the screen so hope this doesn't cause confusion for users who customize.
If my understanding is correct, IPFS provides a way to only store files. Wayback Machine archives entire webpages, along with any CSS or JS (?) included. So building a webpage archival service over IPFS needs significantly more development effort.
Most apps I use don't get approved by Apple and have to run in eg iSH.
I doubt it. I looked them up (because I care about people, and don't actually want to hurt them), and it seems that Perl is a big part of their repertoire. Perl means a lot to them, and my flippant comment was probably taken as "calling their baby ugly."

So, @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable CGI code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good at it.

Since then, I have found my muse in other languages, but I sincerely did not want to give offense. I doubt that deleting the comment would help.
> _wildly_ different to everything else

Linux?
Perfect, there are weird birds making a racket every night I needed to identify, timely!
- Is the lamp still on while blinking?
- Is the sun still shining during a nap?
- Is the fridge's light still on while it's closed?
- Does God exist?

Some fundamental questions, but we'll never be able to find an answer.
>>> entropy behaves a little like "d of something" for some suitable (co)boundary-like operator d

Even if a coincidence, this is an engaging interactive presentation of "functional" Shannon Entropy. Reminds me of Loop Quantum Cosmology. What happens when we quantize spacetime? Does entropy emerge from quantum probability operads? And is it predictive? Can we determine the ultimate fate of the universe from the current state?
Why do people post nasty things like this?
Could you give an example of what you mean by a "bad address" in this context?
This is great. I've become interested in birds over the past few years but it's an intimidating subject.
The more efficiently a resource is used, the more of it will be used. This is known as Jevon's Paradox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
I have kids of my own, and I think it's absolutely possible to do both. My daughter is 4 now, and loves to splash in mud and do all of that stuff. At the same time, she loves doing puzzles and art, which is still normal kid stuff.

I think the problem is that the original tweet seems to think that "coding" is only a vocational skill, and it's definitely not. When you're that age, coding is just another form of expression and exploration. It can make something useful, but it's just puzzles and fingerpaint.
In Europe, SMS 2fa is getting deprecated in favor of apps, you can still get a device generating tokens sent by post in most banks but who knows for how long they will keep that running.
Once I asked my manager if he would be ok with me putting him down as reference. He panicked a little bit. Then I got a bumper bonus.
it was payments of 1400 every few months and then 300 a week on top of unemployment which you already don't get unless you were working and lost your job without being fired for cause. That was calculated based off of federal minimum wage at 40 hours a week(1160) and then rounded up to a cool 1200 a month.

the 2800 total from stimulus payments at most helps defer 1-2 months of living expenses. The unemployment payments you cannot get if you are "are unemployed by choice" since by definition you had to lose your job for other reasons.

Why do you act like giving even the barest of bones to people is an assault on businesses?
Tilting your head to look at opposite edges of the screen can irritate the neck.
BackgroundRemover
no, & is not short-circuiting
Create Your Own Personal Expenses Tracker with Google Sheets and Google Forms
https://web.archive.org/web/20210723122729/https://www.nytim...
I think the parent comment was more about the "fake" than about the "passion" - as in, don't fake something for the sake of getting a job, whatever that something is.
I've been using this app for a few weeks now and it is awesome, it really makes you aware of the amount of plumage in the area. Highly recommended!
A tour through an AI generated world
Yes, it tended to be branded FastText
That's C, in C++ booleans have their own type, too (called bool).
It's hard to even find a good feature phone these days.

At least I'm looking for one now because my Nokia E5-03 died yesterday so now I have to figure out what to get.

I want something small, that I can stick in my pocket and not worry about the screen, with days of standby battery life, and where I don't have to read and "agree" to pages of legalese.

In the heyday of feature phones, I could pick one up for $20. Nowadays, those phones are designed for old people, and are more expensive than a cheap smart phone.
I'm about to start the renovation of my kitchen, but I would like to ask for some advice on internet pages or websites specialized in the sale of products to fix the kitchen and a few days ago a friend recommended the page of https://kitchensearch.com / and he told me that it was very good to ask for spare parts or things that I need, I want to know if someone has already heard of this page.
Unlikely. His fate is a no 2 terms president based on astrology and some of the predictions. Surprisingly similar fate predictions with Kamala as well. So how this play out in reality gonna be interesting. He also isn't as persuasive as Obama plus a lot of people in the administrations are staff with Trump people. Just look at him unable to normalize relationship with China. Check his son investment relationship with China. It is in his best interest to do so. Yet can't.
Another day, another "Error establishing a database connection."

Could someone tell me why Caching is not on by default for blogging platform?
We’d rather have the iceberg than the ship
Stringlifier: ML Library for detecting random strings in raw text
There were zip floppies with 120MiB which was glorious back in those days.
Title should include “(2020)”
I don't keep a blog to impress you. Nor to "try to teach other people"; if anything I use it to teach myself (ie to organize my own thoughts and to document my learning).

Blogs are simple media to share one's thoughts, because one likes to write and... to share---that is it. If you don't care for my writing and my sharing then you're free to move on.

The beautiful thing about knowledge is that it's free and open to anyone, implying that junior engineers shouldn't have blogs is next level elitism and conceit. That is what I find worrying.

I feel sorry for the people having to interview with you or working under you, that need to code themselves "out of a paper bag" to impress you.
About Linux it's to have Docker with good performances, and a development environment more similar than the production environment. I'm almost not a fan of compilation to install standard tools, its a bit slow and it feels unnecessary.

About the touchscreen support, it's simply that I like touchscreens. It think it's more convenient for some usages and I think Apple acknowledged that with their ridiculously small touch bar. I hope they will allow real professional usage on the iPad pro or bring touch screen support to the MacBook eventually. I could live without it but I still touch my MacBook screen by mistake once in a while.
There is certainly no hard and fast rule. In the JDK case, in terms of language design, my observation is that with Brian Goetz in charge, it doesn't matter too much whether it was the slow release cycle back in the pre-9 days, or the shorter one from JDK 9 onward -- whenever a new feature is introduced, all kinds of compatibilities are being maintained at all costs.

(Except Project Jigsaw of course, but I'd like to think that he got overruled by his boss)

As for bugs, I will just quote Gil Tene from https://www.theserverside.com/opinion/Dont-ever-put-a-non-Ja...

> Play with them on your laptop, but don't use a single feature, and wait for the LTS.

Personally I think the LTS model is great. Features get rolled out as soon as they are ready, and then get stabilized after being used by early adopters. Meanwhile, production can stay on LTS and continue to get just the necessary fixes.
>> The author is missing an obvious point that computing was way too different at the time the format was designed.

I think the author is aware, at the time that PkZIP was created he was writing NES games and using data compression to fit more content into the games.

https://games.greggman.com/game/programming_m_c__kids/
Fun fact: cPanel[0] is still written in Perl

[0]: https://www.cpanel.com/
> They are a great example of the limits of multi-threading

These are examples of lazy programmers and PC-only games. Consoles have many cores for decades and these cores are slower than PCs, developers of cross-platform titles have embraced multithreading for quite some time now.

Multithreading does have limits. Some things are borderline impossible to parallelize, examples include gzip, streaming encryption algorithms, or parsing long streams of HTML and JavaScript. However, vast majority of the CPU-bound stuff found in videogames scales just fine with CPU cores.
And the interface makes it easy to isolate the bird noise you want to identify. It's such a great app.
> Prices for rockets similar to Starship are in the $150-200M range, so that is more the ballpark I expect from Starship

Why would they even develop this new vehicle if it turns out more expensive than Falcon 9, or Falcon 9 Heavy? That would not make any sense. Plus those rockets are not reusable.

They have already achieved a reduction in price/kg by at least 10x with Falcon, see page 11 here: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170009968/downloads/20...

> $10M is fantasy

$2M is the fantasy, I already added 400% to account for skepticism. Starship is not a conventional launch vehicle, it's designed for full reusability with a turnaround time measured in hours (vs the current 14-50 days for a Falcon 9 refurb), like an airplane. Land, refuel, safety checks, fly again.
The Kingdom of Loathing (free online game)
Well maybe it’s meh if you already had it, but as a Go shop this is the first time we’ve been able to access these features so now I’m in party mode!
> Akin to writing them yourself

But...people don't write Dropbox for themselves? That's an existing product that someone else made (unless "you" refers to a Dropbox employee of course).
Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant
That's not very clear anymore, by adopting foreign ideas you make tradeoff between domestic interests and foreign interests. Being a vassal and a suzerain, the interests are linked, but at a cost.
It's not only Europe. I live in Uruguay and I got an SMS to check if my auto-filed taxes were correct, if I do I have the option to make changes right in the government website.

And the local IRS has the best paying software development jobs in the government, so they actually have decent software (although they could do with some more UX people).
Women and girls aren’t objects to be generated by an algorithm on a whim to fulfill “whatever wish” a man may have. Women and girls are people.
Even if you think the complaints are petty, asking users about telemetry should become the norm again. I don't care how useful it can be, if you want or require the data, you should just ask. Same is true for operating systems for that matter.

If you do not ask, you should not exfiltrate data. Asking isn't too hard, it is a manageable technical problem.

A bit unjust that Muse gets all the outrage since a lot of software is misbehaving. But I hope we get back not having every application phoning home.
Why are TikTok and YouTube excluded from "kids being kids" activities?

If that's what all the kids are doing then it seems that's what a kids activity has become.

I used to play with neighborhood kids quite a bit when I was younger. Now my nephew plays Fortnite almost every day with 5ish different friends. He gets way more experience socializing than I ever did.

Ultimately (I think) kids need to learn to socialize with their peers. That means they need to participate with their peers doing what their peers are doing.