skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Breakthrough infections are rare, right?

And a second unvaccinated coworker is also someone that has chosen not to be vaccinated, right? (Obviously there may be some individuals who can't get the vaccine, but that should be a relatively rare circumstance, and could have policies around dealing with it.)
> Just as incorrect as when a beaver dams a river and creates a flooded meadow. The beaver, and people, are doing what they do, changing the ecosystem to create a habitat in which they can thrive.

I don't think this analogy holds, there is a difference between beaver and people: the beaver has evolved and performs services in an ecosystem, and that system has evolved around the beaver within some suitable geological timeframe. Humans are destroying the environment far faster than anything can evolve to.

If Timothy Morton is correct, humans have already destroyed the earth but we don't know it yet because it is a hyperobject.
"Linear Algebra Done Right"
https://linear.axler.net/

There's a compact and free form on the book on that page.
I agree. Tons of sites employ the bounce-back avoidance tactics, and these don’t particularly help their ranking (in fact, lots on non-ranking sites do it — presumably just to keep you on the page)
What is the right level of specialization? For data teams and anyone else
> I agree with you that there are people who cavalierly dismiss the dangers of covid.

Don't call it the flu. It's not the flu. It's killed 20x more people than the flu even in the fact of pervasive society-changing mitigation strategies (all while the flu itself has all but gone extinct, remember! All that masking and distance learning actually worked!). It's not the flu.

Beyond that, nitpick with my phrasing all you like. This is HN, after all.

It's not the flu.
I don't like the "dark ages" metaphor in the article.

The defining characteristic of the dark ages is a lack of historical records, and a general idea of stagnation. A period we could nearly seamlessly cut out of history.

It is certainly not the case today, a lot is being recorded, we do a lot of things, so if we have to define a software dark age, when would it be?

I'd go with 2000 (dot com bubble burst) to 2007 (first iPhone). For the end date, the iPhone is not that important, but it marks the rise of "big data", smartphones, and mobile internet.
Walkouts are an easy way to get more attention to an issue and it costs an employer real money. A single action doesn't need to solve everything.
I have never had a problem sending to gmail or Microsoft addresses that didn’t involve at least making it to the spam box. I can’t speak with absolute certainty how every email admin handles things, but I have run into issues sending mail to some domains where I got a bounce and was able to reach out to the admins and get it corrected. Accepting mail for delivery but failing to deliver must be a violation of some RFC or email standard as it makes it impossible to send mail as a non-megacorp.

What I would like to get across is that self hosting is not impossible or unacceptably unreliable. If Google and Microsoft have policies that make it difficult to send messages to gmail or hotmail users, that isn’t a reason in and of itself that we should not self host. It’s a reason that we should work with Google/Microsoft to have better policies - but accepting things as they are and writing off self hosting as impossible is eventually accepting control of email by a limited handful of corporations, which I don’t think is a good thing.
I have some sincere questions. Can you elaborate on what you mean by polarization as a service? Is this unique to NYT or can the same be said of other media? Does that include social media (where people like to say polarizing echo chambers form)? Are you referring to the article's argument that ad tech promotes click bait which is polarizing? Where do you get your news?
Also, your comparison is bad.

It's more like a mother giving her son a winter hat, and he refuses it because he knows he doesn't need it, and his mother does not give him dinner. Because that is where we seem to be headed: refusing to let people work so that they can have the basic necessities, just like dinner is for a child.
Also the existence of z/OS contributes diversity of computer platform.
I mean, I experience several negative emotions (frustration, anger, etc.) reading the average comment thread on the internet, but to say that I am “hurt” by them would be a grotesque exaggeration …
Ah, sorry. Then a bare 4000 with a 68030, ok.

Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga...
And doing it in a genuine way as well. Just living out the values, instead of beating it over everyone's head, and shouting "We're inclusive! Look at us! We're inclusive! Hey everyone check us out! Inclusivity!"
How does skill at deep-diving into complex unknown technical problems hurt the ability to design large systems?
The expert. Sam Harris is not an expert on the topic as he mentions on that podcast
There's still uncertainty about whether or not CJD can be spread through blood transfusions, but if it is spread through blood, and the sneezer also has a bloody nose, well there's the aerosol transmission.
also the name of a freakish bird

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo
Legal immigration to the US has been at around 1.1 million/year for the last 20 years [1]. What are we to make of the fact that after 4 years of a notoriously anti-immigrant presidency, "one of the largest cuts in legal immigration in history" is a temporary, barely 10% reduction? It seems like immigration stays high no matter who you vote for.

[1] https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/tab...
It’s all a bit simple to present it that way.

Both art and science influence culture in general. And culture infuses everything.

So it’s all a lot more nebulous and fluid than “you can’t have science without art”, or “you can’t have art without science”.

practicing both art and science are activities that humans are interested in. It’s just a fact.

Whether or not science can exist without art is a non question. Now you could ask the question as a thought experiment. “If humans didn’t do art, would they do science”? I personally find these questions entirely fruitless...

Some silly scientists will try and convince you that science exists outside of culture and that the scientific method is entirely objective. That’s just bullshit. Science is done by people. People evolve within a culture and that will inevitably taint everything with some subjectivity.
Several of those are essentially required to get a university degree already... so for many people I'm not sure an additional requirement would significantly help things, but it also couldn't hurt.

Less transmission of disease in the office would be a good thing as we return.
With bleeding inflation, and an ongoing pandemic seemingly forever? I'm not sure.

My estimate was that 50% inflation as a one-time is about what it would take to:

- Take drastic actions to bring the pandemic under control

- Not drive debt-loaded businesses under

- Not drive people out of mortgages

This was at the very start of the pandemic. It's harmful, but I still haven't figured out a lower-harm alternative. The longer we delay, the more costs wrack up. I suspect at some point, the above will be too expensive too.

Also: Inflation means everything goes up, including wages. We're seeing that right now. Both savings and debts get wiped out.
I'm probably not in disagreement with you about any facts regarding mental illness and tolerance thereof in the workplace. It's more about definitions of words.

I think it's useful to define mental illness as those conditions where you can't take advantage of your rights on paper; where the proof that you are coping adequately is always and forever that you are not sharing much if anything - mostly coping with symptoms while at work is not enough.

Schizophrenia, bipolar, etc.

It's very clearly shown in this thread why these are different from conditions people are free to talk about. Most people can't imagine that someone with the above conditions can be employable, especially as a knowledge worker, whereas Aspergers/autism has become a cliche used to stereotype programmers in general.

There is no way to enforce a law that says people shall trust others regardless of their personal judgement. So there is no equalizing the privileges that some "neurodiverse" people have and others do not.
I know it possible but I've never tried it.
This contradicts the latest science from the CDC:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/experts-back-cd...

"The CDC has found, however, that in rare breakthrough infections — instances where a fully vaccinated person tests positive for the virus — the amount of virus in that vaccinated person's system is similar to the viral load in an infected individual who is unvaccinated."

One could be forgiven though for not being up to date on the latest oscillation.
They wont let you work on the interesting projects because they can get much more value out of you doing other work.

Write down everything you've accomplished, including the stuff others have got credit for, and also the things you got blamed for, and word it like "was responsible for" and "learned".

And be a bit "humble" about others stealing the credit, instead of "I did not get the credit I deserve", say "It was Joes idea, I just wrote the prototype, evaluated the market, launched the MVP, talked to customers, iterated on and improved the product, helped it grow to 2 million recurring monthly revenue, and helped it expand into five continents, and I trained the staff that is now working on it. But all credit goes to Joe for coming up with the idea and inspiring me to work hard, and the new staff for doing such a good job"...

Make sure everyone know what you can do. Then find another job. People will talk, and they will say - yeh he did all those things, wow.

The only way to make everyone around you change is to change to another company, with a new picture of what you can accomplish.
I only hire 10x and 100x babies, they're just so much more productive, well worth the extra candy.
Fascinating!

Great link, thanks very much!!!
There's Serge Lang's Basic Mathematics which discusses algebra and geometry, including a bit of linear algebra. Introduction to Linear Algebra, by the same author is a bit deeper. Those are the textbooks I would pair with Calculus Made Easy.

For slightly less mature students, there's Algebra by Gelfand.
TFA talks about Google testing with "unknown IP", but doesn't mention any testing done by the author with cookies cleared or in incognito mode. This seems basic.
most organisations I have worked with on AWS is still predominately IPv4.

Because AWS initially had poor IPv6 support and they didn't include it as "cloud native". Customers build things the way AWS encourages them to.
I’m all for getting everyone vaccinated as well, but I’d be really concerned about the precedent this sets.

The reasons governments are reluctant to do this is they it sets a precedent for them to dictate what a person can do with their bodies.

Saying someone must have an injection, regardless of how well intentioned it is, requires you to be able to dictate what goes into their body. Pretty much the same set of powers that would dictate the old pro-life vs pro-choice debate.

I’m greatly conflicted. I want people vaccinated, but I personally do not like the idea of giving up bodily autonomy to do so.
Who knows? It's a black box after all.

...but, you know. Can you see anything else they're doing that would give them that kind of ranking? These pages are just piles of crap, and google is pretty good at filtering that sort of stuff out.

If it was that easy, google would be filled with spam everywhere.

The chance that someone did something random thats very uncommon (block back) and it happened to be a super effective signal to google seems:

a) like an edge case they didn't think of

b) like it'll get fixed pretty fast

c) not that unlikely.

Compared to, say, the idea that some random spammers have built a network of incredibly sophisticated ML-generated pages that can subvert googles algorithms which seems:

a) not substantiated by any obvious content on the pages

b) requires a very high level of sophistication which seems totally lacking

c) very unlikely

...but I mean, who knows right?

We're all just speculating. I guess it'll get fixed soon, and we'll never know.
As mentioned in the article, this date is being pushed back to (at least) mid-October.
Any idea why it hasn't been attempted yet by one of these vendors?
I'm trying to think how this could be even close to the same situation.

I realize it's hard to believe I'm not being snarky, but I'm legitimately asking. How is this similar to segregation based on skin color?
> Not every value is divided by 2. Only the K.E. term is divided by 2. The P.E. term is not.

I'm not sure what that means.

> If you ever find where Young worked out the equivalency to P.E. then you'll find he had m v² = 2 m g h.

I don't get it. mv² is not equal to 2mgh. That makes no sense.
Though very few religions oppose vaccines:

https://slate.com/technology/2015/02/religious-exemption-for...
It will be abused, but hopefully at least some people might feel ashamed at such abuse and not go through with it when they have to do so on an individual basis.
What's better (and more flexible) than Object Oriented is Polymorphism.

The pipe operator |> that you mention is great example because it does something in OO that is typically done using a 'fluent interface'[0] often used in 'Builder' classes (i.e., the class methods return the object so that it can be chained together). The great thing about the pipe operator is that it's much more simple and flexible, it simply passes the result of the prior function as the first argument to the second. This means, unlike with a fluent API, you can pipe together functions from completely different modules:

:crypto.hash(:md5, some_binary)
|> :base64.encode_to_string()

Elixir also has protocols[1], which allow a function to be used across a variety of types (similar to obj-c/Swift). Which again is more flexible, as the functionality can extend a 'class' that you don't control.

Elixir also has behaviors[2], which just guarantee that a module contains a number of functions, something akin to interfaces Java.

Dialyzer can take advantage of behaviors and protocols to enforce typing constraints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface
[1] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Protocol.html
[2] https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/Behaviour.html
Still doesn't have specs I can see!
I am vaccinated -- no. Even if one were not vaccinated, I wonder how big the risk is of spreading or catching covid if you are sitting at a separate table and not talking to people (except briefly to order). I think bargoers who are socializing up close have much higher risks.
the title is misleading. Should be "longest running American Animated series"

Sazae-san, a Japanese anime, has been running since 1974, with over 7,500 episodes
@ignoramous, How do you keep yourself so up to date on everything
F-Droid volunteers have their work cut out with open source apps hiding tracking in plain-sight. Under-funded, but the volunteers are indeed working towards auditing most of the 3K+ apps F-Droid hosts.

Ex A (issue I personally reported to F-Droid): https://www.reddit.com/r/fossdroid/comments/oayfeo/el15_why_...
What do you expect incognito to change? That would presumably show the same content the author is seeing. Only Google sees the content that drives the ranking.

It is Google that needs "incognito" mode, not the author.
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I quit my job to focus 100% in my side projects
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Even the worst of mankind are much better than the subhuman, subrational, worthless animal you are.

Subhuman animals like you are going to pay for this bs.
I agree with you, though sadly HN doesn't. Some days you're just beating your skull against a brick wall recompiling 3rd party libraries till 5pm, some days you get to write the big exciting part. That's life. That's the job. Accept it or move on.
At which point you will be dismissed if you have not found and secured a remote position within the company. That part of the policy has not changed. Until they announce it has we should assume they are intending to follow though.
You should, it's 100% fine (and the main reason I prefer stainless to cast iron).
See my earlier response to @sokoloff, who helpfully posted an article debunking the myth of sweet paint chips.

Lead acetate is sweet, no doubt, and it is possible that it was used in small quantities as a drier in old oil-based finishes, however I've seen no actual evidence of this, and even if it was, the quantities are unlikely to be sufficient to be detectable at all, especially years later.

When we talk about lead paint, the lead is in the form of pigments such as lead oxides, carbonate, or chromate. These pigments constituted a large propertion of the paint, and it's these pigments that present the lead poisoning hazard.

Lead acetate is not a pigment-- it was only ever used as a drier-- and it would make absolutely no sense to add it in any significant quantity to pigmented paint, because the pigments are themselves very effective driers. And indeed, I've never seen evidence that lead acetate was ever used in any significant quantities in paint.

The legend about the Romans using it to sweeten drinks and sauces is historically verifiable.
Is there more than one Philz now?
I can't blame Google for not wanting disease spreaders in their campus. It's their prerogative as a private company.

Remains to be seen how companies that won't enforce this will perform. In my guess, poorly
What if there are many unvaccinated in between the vaccinated?
The CDC says it's airborn and subsequently if you are 6ft or 70 ft from an infected person your likelyhood of getting infected is high, indoors.
Showing you have an infectious agent in a vial is not showing what that agent is.
Unions do this, they negotiate agreements that are fair and equitable for the members. I grew up with unions and have seen them go out of favour, and the practices that caused the unions in the first place are rising again. The part I find surprising/despicable is how much money is put towards denigrating unions so that the workers think they're bad - the recent amazon vote comes to mind.
this isn't blame. you broke it, you fix it. this is how people learn from mistakes.
do you ridicule the person? absolutely not.
does it belong to the team? absolutely.
But, you broke it, you fix it.
See also, "Pottery Barn Rule"
Another thing is that spike protein from the vaccine in the arm has a much tougher time getting to the brain than viruses in the nose/olfactory bulb. That's on top of less spike to begin with.
I provided examples of high-level resignations with detailed explanations as to their reasons. A famed founder of the paper leaves it because he's stopped from publishing a major election story. A decidedly left-wing opinion writer is attacked by peers as if she's some sort of right-wing extremist and decides to resign. Both say this sort of thing couldn't happen just a few years ago. If you claim that this was commonplace since 1996, where are your examples of such occurrences?
I doubt it's some crazy sophisticated SEO hijacking operation. Probably a result of a small data set (Norwegian language web pages), specific search terms (Norwegian brands, companies), and lots of keyword stuffing. Most of the examples the author pointed out were from pages 5-10 of Google results, which are probably worthless for ad revenue anyways.
They are required if you want to immigrate to the US [1], so I sure hope citizens-by-birth also have to follow similar rules. Maybe you don't need to prove anything because by default people would already either be vaccinated, or had to obtain an exemption?

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-b-chapter-...
There are many stories of muslim women who are pregnant and fast during Ramadan (during their pregnancy). We’re in complicated territory.
Religious convictions, lack of trust, fear of getting an experimental vaccine (which it is under the laws they were authorized and developed). To answer to your question, those things are very hard to change although not at hard as race.
I'm not sure what you mean. Biology is incredibly complex. It would be hard/impossible to compress the "differences" into simple statements, I imagine.
It's honestly fascinating to me that this is going to be the way we meet Privacy vs Security face to face more broadly. Intrapersonally, they might go hand in hand, but in the group setting, they seem almost at direct odds.

Security (or safety) requires some social contracts to be fulfilled. When these social contracts aren't enough we start to see polices and law take up the slack. Our existing privacy laws and regulations (e.g. HIPPA compliance) could be argued to be too strict, whereas at the same time, we're in an age of spyware / ad-tracking which is in dire need of curtailment.
I almost drowned this way when I was a child. Parents were less than a meter away, thought I was 'playing', since I was right next to the stairs.

It's chilling that this response is still fairly specialist knowledge. I would be dead if it wasn't for a random woman walking by who happened to know about it at the right second.
Seems like the default assumption would be that the employer is that bad. I can't think of any reason why an employer like Activision would somehow have a concentration of overly sensitive employees.
You don't live in a major city I guess? Most providers in Germany do offer 200-1000mbit downstream.

IPv6 is also common. In case of DS-Lite you don't even get your own IPv4 anymore.
Yes. I wouldn't want to be the one dipping my thumb in 2x household bleach though.
It is up here: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app and discussed on hn a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26133661
“Condemn us all to death”? COVID has like a 1% fatality rate concentrated entirely in the elderly and the unhealthy (damaged immune system, obese, …) you are overreacting.
They’re not.

Most of these price increases (e.g. semiconductors, lumber, consumer perishables) are supply-chain related. It’s reasonable to expect them to subside as the most acute phase of the pandemic recedes. Only one I’m not sure about is the price of a meal at a restaurant …
I think it's a common misconception that Psychopathy refers to antisocial personality disorder. It's a related but distinct concept.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_Checklist
I thought there will be a downloadable desktop app....
Image Hacks for Faster, Responsive Landing Pages
That's generally advertising money...
StarTrekker also had 8 channels: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=13415
They use the word "cannot". What is the point of a mandate if not to compel the "will not" crowd?
Interesting that Latvians picked a danish domain for norwegian content. Especially since you can't just hide behind domain privacy protection.
Why acquire the lock first, then check the cache? Instead of check the cache first, and only acquire lock on cache miss? Seems like a lot of unnecessary locking
Unclear how different this is from the draft.