skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know that aerosoled brains of animals can cause disease in humans.

Take a look at this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_inflammatory_neu...

This disease was discovered due to an alert translator (most likely translating from Spanish to English) recalling that he had seen patients’ records before that had the nearly the same exact history.

After investigation, it was discovered the patients worked in a slaughterhouse near the pig brain section, where the brains were being aerosolized. Many ended up developing a progressive inflammatory neuropathy.
Wouldn't that more likely apply in the case where we have significant vaccination rates, but NOT yet at the level of herd immunity? IE, if we're vaccinated to the point of herd immunity, this ceases to be a problem? To be otherwise would tend to imply smallpox and other vaccines should already have evolved, no?
> The address space is huge — zero probability of a duplicate address.

Not necessarily, there could be a flawed SLAAC implementation where the programmer just hard coded the default address after getting the PD. Or other some such silliness.

Yes it breaks spec. But there's enough devices out there that break the link local configuration spec that I would not be surprised one but if someone pushed out a broken implementation of SLAAC on a commercial product.
They haven't left NZ. Every couple of years they go "we're super serious guys, this time we're REALLY going to leave for realz", then Meridian or the government offers them some sweetener to stick around with a new termination date (in this case, "ok well we will hang around but only until 2024 when we really will leave, mark my words").
Sorry, got it now. As I am a customer I will get an account an have a look. Thanks!
I'd love to see a survey of what developers do as they age, how many leave the industry, why, and to do what. I'm 43 and I'm the oldest person on my team by around 5-15 years. My manager is younger, my coworkers are younger, even my manager's manager is younger.

Earlier in my career, most people I worked with were older than me, which makes sense, but what happened to all those people? Did the industry just expand so much that I can't find them? Or did I just join a company that attracts younger devs?

I know for me, I'd like to still be programming when I'm 50, but I'm already souring on the "working in a medium to large company" aspect. The coding is still fun, and the money is great, but the process of making software in the context of a corporation isn't.
This. So much this.

I mean, netcat as a tool still isn't as known as it deserves to be (at least in the circles I frequent), but socat deserves it even more. Along with a few other unix-y tools (sponge, for example), I really cannot understand why it isn't pre-installed everywhere.
Yes. Downvotes are vectors and amendable to cluster analysis. I've been proposing this on HN for a long long time but the answer has always been 'data explosion, arc is meant to be small and fast and this will break it.'
In what way is hydrogen cheaper?
Unfortunately the mantra of "ain't broke, don't fix" is law at some companies. Pushing IPv6 will be met with immediate resistance because it brings no benefits but does add the risk of something not supporting it yet.
So what is the court order for then?
Comments was this religious topic when blogging was getting popular along with other things associated with "real" blogs. Generally I think they're positive but if a given blog tends to attract a lot of low quality drive by comments, it's absolutely reasonable to turn them off.
> everybody resisted it until somebody mentioned that there was a plausible physical mechanism

This is a good instinct IMO. Experiments by one person can easily be nonsense, especially if you don't already know and trust that person. Without a physical mechanism, given extraordinary results, I would certainly remain skeptical.
> Both have been ruled as acceptable and not covered by the 5th.

As the article states, and some quick research would reveal, this is largely dependent upon which state, and which federal jurisdiction, the court is in. A final word has not been given on the matter and each court is allowed to interpret it as it chooses. As such, it has been ruled both for and against.
> Remediation requires completely replacing the top several feet of soil.

I think the normal recommendation for backyards is several inches, not feet, of soil.

But there's also an alternative: fish bones. They bind the lead so it can't be absorbed well even if ingested. You can buy them by the ton from PIMS NW, Inc: http://www.pimsnw.com/ But you need to spread quite alot of fish bones. As cheap as they are, it's still not very cost effective, especially considering that, excepting extreme industrial contamination, lead-contaminated soil usually goes to a non-hazardous dump site or used for backfill, and rarely to a much more expensive hazardous dump. It's cheaper to haul the dirt away than to haul in tons of fish bones.
I'm a middle-aged programmer. I read only the beginning of this article and I didn't want to continue.

"- little or no required education": maybe, but only for the rare prodigy. "Software engineers" without an understanding of math and some amount of formal computer science are necessary evils rather than assets. Or are doing low-level, low-thought work.

"- No health or legal risks": a software engineering career will mess your body up bad if you don't intentionally work against that. For those of you who are young and don't believe me (and are programmers, sysadmins, devops, or otherwise spend all day on a computer), come back to me in a decade or so.
OpenMP 4.5+ looks very promising to me (particularly the "simd" keyword associated with for-loops). But open-source implementations of OpenMP are somewhat lackluster... at least last time I checked it out.

Maybe its time I revisit it. I've always thought the OpenMP spec was being written by highly competent programmers. They seem to "get" what is needed. But the question is if I can get my hands on any OpenMP implementation to actually play with.

Not all of us can afford IBM's compiler suite!
That's what Dropbear is supposed to do, it can be included in the initramfs of a server: https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html

Disclaimer: I still didn't try it myself yet, but it's on my (too long) list of things to do.
Funnily enough, Yandex has links at the bottom of its results pages to the same query in Bing and Google.
Deploy Databases and Services Easily for Development and Testing Pipelines
Peanut provides a REST API, Admin Dashboard and a command line tool to deploy and configure the commonly used services like databases, message brokers, graphing, tracing, caching tools ... etc. It perfectly suited for development, manual testing, automated testing pipelines where mocking is not possible and test drives.

Under the hood, it works with the containerization runtime like docker to deploy and configure the service. Destroy the service if it is a temporary one.
As long as it's trying to trigger on idle, I don't see how it would ever cause me a problem. If the CPU load is sufficiently low for cores to park, then let them.

If you want to disable core parking when not idle, that's fine, but it wouldn't even affect the measurements taken by this law.
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Pfizer shouldn't be allowed to state publicly their opinion on this. Huge conflict of interests
That monthly dose has nothing to do with preventing covid infections. It's an attempt at curing the long-term side effects of a covid infection.
It seems to be an American attitude where its just normal to relentlessly imprison people who fall out of line.
> The world is not going to get safer. The only reasonable option is to adjust our expectations to be alright with a less safe world. You will get sick. I can say with certainty;

You cannot say these things with certainty. The evidence so far is overwhelming that a significant percentage of people who become infected with SARS-COV-2 do not become symptomatic. If the numbers in the recent study from UWashington are correct, the percentage of Americans who have been infected but remain asymptomatic has been massively under-estimated. The evidence so far is overwhelming that fully vaccinated people are extremely unlikely to become notably sick (though of course some will).

The influenza virus remains a potent killer of human beings, occasionally (as in 1918) developing a variant that kills millions of us world-wide. SARS-COV-2 (especially Delta) is more transmittable than influenza, and has a higher death rate, but that's really the best model we have for how this plays out. And how is that? Most people do not become sick with influenza each year, most variants of influenza are not particularly worse than the others, there is a vaccine that dramatically reduces the likelihood of severe symptoms (but does not guarantee immunity), and tens of thousands of Americans die from it each year anyway.

That's the likely end-game with SARS-COV-2 based on everything I've read. So not "you will get sick", but "you might get sick, but you're much less likely to do so if you're vaccinated, and either way, next year could be different". The world does indeed get safer sometimes, but then it also gets less safe at other times (and sometimes both at the same time, for different reasons).
To clarify my own comment, clearly Stripe doesn't offer hosting, but I don't see that as the main offering here. Today, hosting a landing page is trivial and linking that to Stripe's portal is just as easy.

I do wish the project success and hope they're able to find their market.
I'm not a good swimmer, but curiously I was never afraid to jump in the water. With some friends on the beach, I went out for a swim, until I had the feeling the sea was getting rougher and me getting tired. At some point, anxiety kicked in and the feeling I was loosing strength and not reaching the beach fast enough. I tried the position several times in the hope to rest a bit, but everytime I got so much water in the face that gave me the feeling to get waterboarded, I could only stay a few moments. Close to what felt as the end, I had the last strength to lift my shoulders out the water and call my friends, who saved me.
> users' modem/router combos, and those are pretty fast and reliable

What? No, most of the infrastructure you see deployed at users home is trash. Majority of people don't buy their own network gear to replace the ISP gear they receive when signing up and ISP skimps on the costs of hardware for customers.
This looks like a good initiative. May I suggest also providing a mechanism for the site owner to specify, on a per-page basis, the topic/category/etc for the ads. The site owner will know what their viewers are interested in more than any automated system.

Also, some "negative" requirements, like "no batman, no toys, no games, no movies".
so what if keep seeing anti-safari stuff on HN? If it's in the news.... and the audience here happens to align with observations etc. But also, for every 1 Safari post there's 10 other ones hating on Google on the regular, so whatever
LA is a big place. There are so many other authors that he might've interacted with such as Ray Bradbury, Larry Niven, and Philip K. Dick. That said, it just so happens that the apartment building he lived in on Crescent Heights just south of Sunset Blvd. also housed many other famous writers including Earnest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Raymond Chandler. I lived directly across the street from it for two years.
Perhaps the model simply isn't rich enough. Right now, we model posts as either belonging to the good bucket or the bad bucket, and do various things (upvoting, downvoting, AI, ...) to guess the "right" bucket. Maybe it shouldn't be surprising that a system based on polarization results in polarization?

Which is not to say that just adding complexity is the right fix. Sure, you can add dislike + disagree + ijusthateyourguts buttons, or force votes to be justified (funny/incorrect/disagree/...), or whatever. But it's not obvious what's worth the overhead (UX-wise), and if it ends up boiling down to just finding more nuanced reasons to toss things into one bucket or another (or even a single score), I'm not sure if we're any further ahead.

Perhaps clustering is a better model than polarized buckets? As in, this comment belongs to the set of things that left-leaning people seem to support. This other comment belongs to the conspiracy theory #1 cluster. (The system would likely not know or care what the clusters mean.) If you choose to engage with the idiots who love cluster A, you can do so, and if you want their noise out of your feed then you can do that too.

You'd still need to decide what input signals will enable this -- you could do it with just upvotes and correlating users' activity across a site, but you would need to evaluate that in terms of what best supports the model (clusters instead of buckets).

And clusters aren't the end-all be-all either. A racist, misogynistic comment that also says something that group X strongly agrees with isn't going to be fully described by being in the "jerk comment" cluster. But we have to deal with a low-dimensional approximation in order for any mechanism to be worthwhile.
Don't you think it odd that you are not aware of concerns from the very person who created the technology?

In case you get curious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2wm5nhTXY

UPDATE: Whatever you do, don't look for yourself or question the narrative. If you believe the parent update, then it is the safest vaccine ever made and the VAERS data would have to be nearly 100% wrong. What are the statistical odds of that?
I don't think you'd deploy aerosols from planes... you'd do it in AC systems and such...

but this is insanity in part because of Snowden and Assange. If they had some magic reprogramming tech, those (or other similar cases) would be perfect examples for testing it.

Or hell, we could've started to reprogram Trump while he was in the hospital and saved everyone a lot of trouble.
Speculation might make it harder to get fixed IPv4 addresses for hobby projects, but in the long run it means there are IPv4 addresses available on the market for situations that actually need them rather than having them all tied up in lower-value services or ones which could have been done just as well over IPv6.
They choose it though, it's their decision. They tell us over and over how important their work is. Yet you go to their site the first thing you're harassed by a cookies banner, then it's the begging banner "Please give us money blah blah our work is important, honest", then the autoplay video with an ad, then if you're lucky you can read it if they don't block it because they detected an ad blocker or whatever.

Yet most journos post the actually meat of the article to a Twitter thread anyway. Why try so hard and give me so many reasons to avoid your actual platform you control?

All the ad tracking in the world isn't going to save your company when the generation who grew up thinking your websites are just a bunch of cookie and begging banners don't have the act of going to your site inbuilt in their habits.
Frontier is going to be an AMD-GPU for sure. Whether its MI100 or the next generation MI200 is still not really known and subject to rumors. I'm currently under the assumption that its MI100 however, but now that you press me on that detail I admit that I'm somewhat assuming. Frontier will be using ROCm in any case.

El Capitan (Lawrence Rivermore National Labs) is MI100 and specified as such. So I'll "retreat" my argument to that more easily verified position. Still a top supercomputer in the world, and more is known about El Capitan than Frontier.
I'm a bit confused. If you had a job, why were you interviewing? Or did you resent giving them?
Downvoting is like saying people disliked what you posted. Flagging is like saying you shouldn't even have posted it (because it's spam or severely violates the guidelines). There's even less transparency around flagging and vouching and it's just as easily abused.
Google to require Covid vaccines for workers returning to office
Thanks for letting me know what I should do.
Well, you can get two of them
Also, PCR is not one test, one method, one process. There are hundreds of distinct PCR-type molecular nucleic amplification tests. CDC guidance would only apply to the one process they provide/support. For a survey of the ecosystem and the difficulties in standardizing Ct values, see e.g.

https://www.aacc.org/science-and-research/covid-19-resources...
> chances that your hardware was going to suddenly start doing something surprising were lower

Spoken like someone who has never had to debug (for instance) why a serial port is not connecting properly. All abstractions are leaky¹.

1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
Deliberate would mean, if you suspect or know you have COVID. In that situation you should definitely just stay home; this much is seemingly obvious, though apparently needs to be stated.

Most people don't have COVID. Hard to believe, but its the truth. Most people are perfectly healthy, at least in terms of communicable diseases.

Returning to work does mean that mistakes will happen, and someone presymptomatic or idiotic or whatever will spread it. Its inevitable. You can't control everything. It happened to me, and I don't blame the person who spread it in the slightest. They didn't do it maliciously or deliberately. It just happened.

That's life. Things will happen to you that you can't control. One of these things, at some point, will kill you; its a virtual guarantee. Maybe its COVID, maybe its getting hit by a bus, maybe its cancer. Living your life in an attempt to control everything, safely living in a bubble, is just another way to destroy your life. We've seen mental illness explode during the pandemic; people, overwhelmingly, aren't built for isolation and fear. There's a reason our society was the way it was in 2019, and its mostly human nature.
is £75m even really that much money anymore? Why sacrifice a historic site for some rocks in the ground worth only £75m???
I definitely want to keep making this kind of money, and if anything problems like stress have actually become less of an issue as my pay increases. Jobs that value programmers tend to understand how best to extract value from them (and death marches generally aren't it).

I also agree that the lack of older programmers has more to do with the growing number of new programmers than with attrition of older programmers (though certainly that does happen as well).

The main problem I think programmers face as they approach 50 is the "half-life" of their knowledge and skills. So much of the frameworks, platforms, etc. that we use will become obsolete in 5 years. Very little of what we have learned now will still be relevant in 20-30 years. Other professions have this problem as well, but I think few have it as bad as programmers.

It is possible to stay on top of the latest trends, but that requires some degree of fluid intelligence, and that begins to decline after your mid-twenties (though you can delay that decline somewhat by staying physically active). Crystallized intelligence, on the other hand, lasts well into your 60's. It's therefore in our best interests to make sure we learn knowledge and skills that have a longer half-life.
> anti-same-sex-marriage (which has since become legal without the world collapsing).

It doesn't happen overnight: https://www.kirkdurston.com/blog/unwin

I'm not a Christian either.
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> Why aren't people allowed to take risks anymore?

Because we're going to run out of room in the hospitals and we all carry the cost of treating the problem. And the doctors and nurses that we have are going to be pushed to the breaking point.

In other words because "we live in a society".

Your right to do whatever the hell you want with your life, no matter how stupid, ends once the health care system starts to fall over (again).
That just means the government would rather see you die than help you.
Airplane engines are overwhelmingly air-cooled, fixed timing (after starting), pilot-controlled fueling, and expected to produce 100% of rated power for 5 minutes and then 65-75% of rated power for hours on end.

Automotive engines are overwhelmingly water-cooled [providing a far more stable and lower cylinder head temperature], variable/computer-controlled timing often with knock sensing [providing the means to adjust timing dynamically when anything beyond light pinging is detected], closed-loop fuel control, and rarely producing more than 20% of their rated power.

Aircraft engines need to stay together with a cylinder head temperature of 460ºF, fixed timing, and fuel mixtures that are set by the pilot. It's a far more demanding (and less controlled) environment.

Some additional refs that might be interesting:

https://www.avweb.com/features/pelicans-perch-43detonation-m...

https://www.avweb.com/features/pelicans-perch-55lead-in-the-...

https://www.avweb.com/features_old/pelicans-perch-31those-fi...
I'm not. This argument is not reasonable and looks suspiciously like working backwards from a desired outcome to something that sounds like a scientific justification.

Firstly, the vaccines seem "effective" against variants, using the current definition of effectiveness of just reducing symptoms.

Secondly, no vaccine in history has come with a disclaimer that it doesn't work unless 100% of the population is vaccinated. That's not the definition of what vaccines do. Vaccines give individual protection. If these vaccines had been advertised as requiring that, would they have been approved? It is hard to see how because believing this raises fundamental questions, questions like: given that people cannot all be vaccinated simultaneously, how quickly is it required to get to 100% vaccination before the vaccine becomes useless? This variable would seem to be critical for any such "vaccine" yet no such time dimension is available, probably because no study would have ever been created to try and discover that - because there's no scientific basis for determining it.

Thirdly, governments were saying very clearly that estimates of herd immunity were in the 60-70% range - very far from everyone. Why are people now claiming that this was wrong? On what basis? And if it was wrong, why should anyone believe any claims about vaccines at all?
I think both Sprint and T-Mobile have been assigning handing out IPv6 to end devices for a couple of years now. A much smaller NAT64 pool of IPv4 addresses is used for customers trying to reach v4 resources. Of course this would break self hosted things on v4 but that's still a better state than what CGNAT from various carriers is giving people at home (i.e. broken inbound v4 and no v6 at all).
The money is addictive. But so is the “working on cool new shit” aspect of it. I know quite a few engineers that bounce around from place to place to scratch that itch.
The pandemic will never end, no matter how many ppl we vaccinate in the West.

We'll never vaccinate Central Asia and Africa. Even if we could, COVID bifurcates quicker than we can vaccinate the world. Ergo COVID will never go extinct.
Honestly, this is a useful thing that should be republished at the start of every summer when people start to go swimming again.
There is a strong economic incentive to press for recurring boosters.
What makes you think lead acetate was ever used in paint?
My concern is that it could give lifeguards a false sense of security, make them complacent unless they get an alarm. A fair amount of research has been done on that sort of thing, for example commercial airlines when autopilots started to become more sophisticated: It took a while and a lot of training of pilots to avoid a false sense of security.
Prison is the only thing that deters millionaires and billionaires from purposefully destroying priceless treasures to humanity to get at the commonplace resources that lay underneath.

Financial disincentives have NEVER worked because our system isn't designed to punish these things, by design.