skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking forward to grabbing a physical copy of this book. As a beginner, CI and Alex Aiken’s course at Stanford were a great place to start.

Bob also gave me a lot of insight on what it’s like working on programming languages in the industry when I reached out to him as an undergrad.
From what I've read this is a red herring to get you to ignore the fact that global warming and neglect are the root causes of the wild fire issues.
“I regret that people found out about my time spent with Jeffrey Epstein”
Just writing DoS + virus software is illegal.
DoS is no less illegal because its Facebook.
There seems to be a strong hazing culture in the medical industry.
I can tell you what my cat is doing when I’m not looking: peeing in the bed. We’re trying to figure out what she’s trying to tell us — it’s a deliberate and abnormal signal from an aging cat.*

My experience with this cat is quite different from the article’s author’s. She is very sweet and meek and cuddly. But she has free access to the outdoors and until she was about 14 yo it was quite common to wake up to a cat asleep next to me but with half a rat or such in the bed.

Now she doesn’t go outside I’ve discovered that there are other cats in the neighborhood.

The good news is we have fresh bed linens every night. But I don’t think all that washing is good for the environment.
Sorry, w.r.t my second thought, how would this differ from something like Ory Keto[0] or Oath Keeper[1]?

[0] https://github.com/ory/keto

[1] https://github.com/ory/oathkeeper
Very clever, but my tax agency does not allow for donations.
> I don't understand why people are so obsessed over potential long term effects of vaccines while completely ignoring the potential long term effects of covid.

I don't know anyone obsessed but: the issue is present. The rollout was quick and we don't have 10 years of data and the pharma got their immunity. If pharma isn't confident in safety of their product, it's safe to assume they know or are afraid that some significant percentage of nasty cases will happen.

> There are no examples of vaccines with long term side effects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillain%E2%80%93Barr%C3%A9_sy...

If there can be bad effects like GB syndrome as far as in 6 weeks, there can be longer term effects as well.

With COVID vaccines it hasn't been very long yet. Standard studies of vaccines take 10 or more years. I like that cautious approach.

> Sars-cov-2 is a new virus. Nobody knows its long term effects.

Yes, the same as for vaccines. Hopefully we will know in the future.

> Even asymptomatic covid cases may have damage to their lungs. Given how contagious covid is, the choice really is between covid and the vaccine, and the vaccine definitely looks like the safer choice.

COVID is very contagious if you believe that positive PCR test means you have COVID. Of course, that's not how disease in general is diagnosed; symptoms are the telltale of sickness, and based on those, COVID is not that bad. Of course, there is the possibility that prolonged presence of virus in these OK persons will wreak havoc with their health in the coming years. But this is hypothetical now and not enough to scare major part of the population.
For what it's worth, in insurance controlled businesses that's easier said than done. I'm not dismissing your point, just saying that there are a lot of complexities.
This seems to be done voluntarily by NVIDIA, at least partially. While in Seattle I set up geo-blocking on my LAN as an experiment. Later when I tried to create an NVIDIA account I couldn't because it was attempting to store my PII at nvidia.cn. When I changed the url to nvidia.com everything worked just fine. I've always wondered what non-evil reasons one could use to explain that choice by NVIDIA. Ping was at least 2x longer to .cn.
You can still get caught out. Taxes in the UK are generally higher than in the US, but Boris Johnson still got hit with a US tax bill when he inherited a flat in London.
They should add a check for comparing an error value to a string [1]. I've seen lots of mission critical software written in Go now that does this. Just today I came across a bunch of if string.Contains(err.Error(), "problem X") {...}.

1. https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%BB/src/1612397614615.jpg https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%BB/src/1612397701473.jpg https://www.lainchan.org/%CE%BB/src/1612398029019.jpg
The key distinction is that PoW is permissionless, whereas PoS is permissioned.

Bitcoin is secured by hashpower, which is produced by physical capital outside the network. Nobody needs to ask for permission to start hashing and trade kilowatts for sats.

PoS networks are secured by on-chain assets. This means you can't "mine" it without first buying tokens from someone who already owns them. You need permission from an existing player in order to start participating.

Another aspect of this is 51% attacks are recoverable for PoW, but are a permanent takeover condition for PoS networks. If a single entity ever accumulates more than half the tokens on a PoS network, they are unassailable.
I didn't know what CSAM stood for so I first though this would be the reaction to the security issues iPhones faced. Oh, silly me.

Additionally, by calculating hashes of media on peoples devices, you can quickly determine networks. A private image you shared with your friends? Unique hash and everyone that has it is probably in your network. That is aside from the issue that they would also just read your contacts.
There were several issues with the Franken case; a number of claims don't really pan out on closer examination for example.[1]

As for "lots of clamoring for removal", things are moving in the right direction; why make a lot of noise if things are going well? Plus in recent years at least, the Democratic party generally has a history of usually doing the right thing with these kind of issues as far as I know. The Republican party on the other hand has lost the trust that they will just do the right thing, and events from the last several years don't really make that lack of trust all that unreasonable to be honest.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/the-case-of-al...
I think unless one keep claiming US exceptionalism everytime discussion like these comes up. This behavior is standard almost anywhere in the world. I would expect the same here.

> Maintaining a connection to powerful politicians might well have been in her job description.

Well not doing that will be just resorting to banal technicalities to hire one for an important job. To me it would be as stupid and irritating as companies asking me SpringBoot 2.3.1 experience for a Sr Engineer job instead of problem solving skills.
Weirdly judgemental.

Esperanto was designed to be easy to learn. It isn't an elite pursuit in the way you suggest, because its community isn't gatekept. I personally have met people of all social classes who have been interested in it.

It was also never meant to be a first language, it is an auxiliary language. It is possible for an English speaker to have a conversation with a Mandarin speaker with no intermediary if both know the (comparatively easy to learn) Esperanto. Its original purpose wasn't trivial either: it was created to stop groups without a common language in the same city (Warsaw, I think?) fighting, created on the basis that they'd stop doing so if only they could speak a common language.

Think of it as JVM bytecode for people.
It has of course nothing to do with ever mounting pressure on Health Care workers to vaccinate…
Most people generally use one variable for one purpose.

Of the all the constraints I've faced while developing software, reusing variables for many purposes in one code block isn't one of them.
> Eric Schmidt, the former Alphabet CEO, has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus.

Is he going to pay an exit tax, or has he found a way around this too?
I'm sure having a nation-state is a major factor, but I bet it also has to do with the average wealth, geographic location, historical alliances. However, I'd put my money on skin color as the biggest factor.
>it's much more optimal to leave before you become mega rich.

It is almost as if the US provides some kind of useful, taxpayer funded, environment for becoming mega rich....
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According to another post you do not owe tax on income below $108k so that’s probably not going to affect most filers, though I’m sure an anomalously high number of HN users are earning six-figure salaries.
I work in consumer, not SaaS. Also globally so there’s a rough peak but no true off hours.
at least those megafires will decrease the likelihood of fires in the comming years. Lets just hope that people learn from this... Its even worth it setting smaller, local and controlled fires in less severe weather settings to prevent things like this.
The severity is. In a plane crash you die instantly quite often. In fatal car accident it can still take a lot of time.

Even worse in my eyes is a car accident is far less fatal... leaving huge numbers of people with a lifetime of crippling injuries.
Some quit because they didn’t want to be forced to get the vaccine.

Some quit because they’re forced to wear masks all day.

Some quit because inflation is here, yet their wages are not going up. And they’re getting stimulus checks.

EDIT: Why the downvotes?
Yeah, the signed case needs some care (and in fact has special shift operators in instruction sets).
Tesla has over promised and under delivered so far. Comma has done the opposite. The Tesla beta software seems to be rapidly improving, so I've got my fingers crossed that Tesla pulls through in the end and manages to deliver something that lives up to the hype they have created themselves, but they have really dug their own hole at this point in time.
Don't we have support for most of this in language plugins for Python in vscode et al, already?
This is super cool, well done!
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Lots of macOS applications need to drop to a few Darwin related features from time to time, if only to work around bugs in the frameworks. In addition, lots of applications run on macOS that use POSIX APIs, which are (typically) implemented in Darwin and not in the user-space frameworks.

But yet, I misunderstood the GP comment, and what I said was not really appropriate in that context.
There is an endless amount of hideous behavior from the folks over at Facebook that we all inevitably hear about.

I was always puzzled why so few FB employees whistleblow (RSUs aside). That was until I read An Ugly Truth and read about Sonya Ahuja's internal policing tactics. Scary stuff!

I feel sorry for you all being keylogged and monitored so closely by your employer!
What about the parent's statement provides critical thinking? Would you invest billions in building out ER facilities now? I am curious what is the less-wrong solution to help citizens. Is to increase care for the sick or decrease the likelihood of sickness?
"highly vocal", "influential to public opinion". I am sorry, these are just words. Prove that it's influential.

Is there an effort by these "loud" individuals to drive a focused disinformation campaign targeted at nullifying legitimate votes? One third of the United States is entirely sold on it. That is quite "influential", I would say, and presents clear and present danger.
There is a fundamental difference in that you can drop in a new datatype without any program like ffmpeg or gstreamer having to learn new formats.

More importantly, how many applications actually use these as their primary means of accessing file types?

Chrome doesn't learn a new image type if I drop in a file. LibreOffice doesn't. Certainly not from the same one. Gimp doesn't. There's no reason why all of those should not be able to load a new image type without updating the applications themselves, just by dropping in a datatype/codec.

The concept isn't anything magical - or new -, but it's still largely forgotten and ignored outside of small islands of use.

We have all kinds of little API's to do this for specific types of files, like e.g. ImageMagick's "convert" for images, ffmpeg for video etc. as you mention, but what we lack is a unified API, the ability to drop plugins in for new file types, and for applications to actually unify around using a specific standard.

Heck, we even have a workaround to avoid needing application support: A FUSE filesystem to trigger conversion to suitable target filetypes.

This is the same issue with a lot of the things we're missing from AmigaOS. They're not hard to do. E.g. "assigns" are conceptually largely a OS-provided way of creating PATH's for everything you'd like, for example - it can also easily be provided via a FUSE filesystem. Dbus "almost" gets us to what AREXX provided, but is just not supported as widely or as simple for regular users to get started with.

What was special with the Amiga in that respect was that these things were embraced fully across the board, and integrated into the culture surrounding the Amiga.
That sound gave me some heavy nostalgia.
I had a similar thought while reading this. X is not looking for all kinds of creative and critical thinkers, they’re looking for people with an entrepreneurial, individualist mindset.

It’s an important distinction that typically goes unmentioned in tech.
That’s a hassle but it seems hyperbolic to call it absurdly cruel and the other things people here are saying.
Interesting how different perspectives are on such topics.

When we got married, our goal was to have a great party for everyone we invited.

Which included thinking about were our wedding is, making sure our Guests have a great time and that the photographer would make sure to also take pictures of and for them as you normally dress for the event.

I would personally not care about a wedding without guests and i wouldn't care about random guests. Therefore my mental conclusion is, that its the guests who are a critical part of our wedding and therefore they do serve being accounted for.

Of course if i would marry somewhere totally different, i would make it much smaller to put less pressure on my guests but i was really happy to have nearly my whole family taking part in our wedding.

But it probably depends on your expectation. If you don't mind your guests not coming due to costs and effort, its probably valid as well.
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I have worked for places with amazing culture and benefits. I still left and went somewhere else for a 50% pay increase. At the end of the day I look at the extra amount I am saving and what it does to my retirement account. The place I left to was by no means horrible but was not at the same level in terms of culture/vacation.

Also I did end up returning to that company after 4 years and was able to get an even bigger raise upon my return. As always the best way to increase your pay is by leaving, so sad to be honest.
In Canada, when entering the country via airplane, there's a mandatory regulated 3-day stay at a hotel as part of the 14-day quarantine. This costs 1000-2000$ (for three nights!), And is absolutely an impediment for normal ppl to return to home. The measure was meant to discourage tourism, but ppl working abroad returning, immigrants and students were all treated the same.

(The measure is in effect late Feb to early Aug 2021)
It’ll work for as long as there’s AM radio stations at least, they’re a bit of a dying breed in Europe although there’s still a few remaining networks of powerful national transmitters. The BBC just finished shutting down mediumwave local radio citing high costs per listener, though there’s a few hobbyist pirates popping up here and there along with noncommercial broadcasters like former offshore pirates Radio Caroline (if you haven’t read about those guys seriously give it a look, it’s a ridiculously cool story and very much in the hacker spirit if you’re into electronics).
The longwave transmitter for Radio 4 will probably hang on a while yet I imagine though, hell hath no fury like English cricket fans deprived of Test Match Special.
I got the vax eventually. Given that I was a foreigner and under 40, I was at the back of the line to get my shots. My family back stateside were fully vaxxed a good 4 to 5 months ahead of me.
The Federal reserve has been purchasing (among other things) mortgage backed securities to about $40 billion per month since July 2020 [0].

That would be $160.000 USD per nurse in the USA in one year. Total asset purchases count in tens of thousands per US citizen, and this is plainly visible in asset prices. If it was a priority, subsidizing nurses and "front-line workers" would be a non-issue.

(The "housing market" is more a plan economy and "hope to god the wealth effect/trickle down finally works this time".)

[0] Google.
It's like you have to wait for a scheduled fight to go back to your country. You can't run towards the ocean and flap your arms and go by yourself. So if there are no flight during convid you are waiting and not going home. They have to wait for practical reasons which isn't a ban
Is there a number that will let you sacrifice your family life but also give you enough money to provide really good life for them? I am not saying it can make up for missing parents from ones life but I have seen kids who grew up with workaholic parents and are thankful for them. They had Better schools, professional nannies and tutors, and now they don’t have to work as hard.
Near-Atomic Look at Three Ways to Thwart SARS-CoV-2 Variants
I try to avoid giving reasons when I decline an invitation. Just a simple, “thanks for the invitation, but I regretfully must decline”
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Interesting read on the application of DIMM-PC's. http://www.pwt.et.put.poznan.pl/srv08/papers/PWT%202008_1892...
This change burns the "base fee" instead of giving it to miners, which means it goes to nobody and is gone forever
Indeed. Social media is a hell of a drug.
This is awesome walk down memory lane thanks for sharing
That’s a reasonable estimate, however the Edict on Maximum Prices was issued in 301 AD so it’s quite outdated by this time period. Also it’s important to separate navigating rivers upstream vs down, long journeys generally involved both and possibly loading cargo multiple times.

Rome and the Middle Ages both had a systems of canals which are neutral to navigate. They always require something to pull, but there isn’t any current.
It's a complicated problem. Tired healthcare providers make more errors. But the majority of harmful errors happen in handing over patient care from one provider to another. Shorter shifts mean more care transitions. A patient in the ICU isn't like a truck that you can park and leave alone for 8 hours.
Citizens are not assets of the state
Why is this remotely surprising? Google already showed in its digital retinopathy project they could determine the gender of a patient from an image of the eye. Clearly there are a lot of correlates of ethnicity (or genetic history, but likely not race, which is a proxy measure for ethnicity that also includes social effects) in the pixels of any image of the body.
Just like having "Democratic" or "People's"/"Popular" in its official name makes a country less democratic.
Dreaming about getting my own Macintosh plus and be productive on it, too. Wonder anyone doing the same? It's also a good way to learn low level programming on a 68000 chip.
There is a well-studied phenomena where money is a very strong motivator until a individual-specific level, than quickly tapers off in perceived value. The challenge is the floor $ value is different for everyone and changes over time and circumstances.
Ah, sorry I misinterpreted what you wrote then. Hopefully the commenter will see this and reply, although I assume enough time has passed that they've forgotten about it!
The laws recently changed last month. If you spend more than 45 days in the country or tick two of the following dot points you are now considered a tax resident and need to pay income tax:

* the right to reside permanently in Australia

* Australian accommodation

* Australian family

* Australian economic interests.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a9c5000f-bde6...
The author could have been unaware that it's possible to program computers without knowledge of binary arithmetic and bit level operations.
They haven't done anything illegal or immoral. Giant company tries to use nonsense lawsuits to illegally destroy competition doesn't make for great PR.
The rate for traveling nurses is indeed ridiculously high as compared to full-time on the ground nurses working their butt off.
I'd say CNN is fine here, the narrative of overworked healthcare workers is common throughout NPR, NYT, etc. Wouldn't you be fed up if you got no extra monetary comp for putting your life on the line early-on while others stayed home with generous unemployment?

Anyway, the link you posted shows NY, NJ, MA, and RI had the worst deaths per 100k. We already knew they got hit hard with the more fatal variant early on, when we didn't know about dexamethasone or turning patients on their front side, nevermind using vaccines to greatly halt severe cases. Furthermore, these are dense and urbanized areas, demographically more susceptible. So your call to check this site isn't that helpful in the current fourth delta wave.

Now we're seeing 98% of deaths in the unvaccinated, according to NPRs recent article. This is a fourth wave, and it is categorically different than the other three because it's mostly hitting the unvaccinated. This is obviously a self-induced injury that our culture has inflicted.
Ya I wonder if we’ll start seeing attempts to corner the market in PoS.
The answer is that it isn't, and none of these systems ever were.

They're distributed, not decentralized. And this distinction, and the refusal to acknowledge it is what put me off crypto entirely.
Yeah the fact that companies spend money (lots of money) on advertising dollars instead of handing that money to the workers they supposedly support in hazard pay is wild.
The PS5 worked fine with the slowest compatible SSD we could find
There’s an advocate for everything these days.
> I’m sure Larry has many of the same daily frustrations and anxieties that you and I do.

This is the comment I was responding to. Sick children are not a daily frustration and, even then, Page can pay for the best health care available anywhere in the world for his child, many others have to decide between keeping their house to medical treatment.
There doesn't need to be regulation to force construction - they need to remove the regulation that prohibits construction.
If you are in EU (as myself), you can use Google's DNS or another non EU DNS provider.
Oh well, that's alright then. As long as it's only successful people getting screwed I suppose we're good.
What an odd article. The whole point is long-term maintenance. A 30,000 mile car is barely broken in these days.

It's great that a new ICE car can legitimately be expected to break 250,000 miles. They're much, much less of a hassle than they used to be. My 1992 Honda was recommended for oil changes every 3,000 miles; the 2007 upped that to 5,000. These days I gather it's often 10,000.

I can't imagine why they're spending $150 apiece on brake caliper lubrication. It's a ten minute job, and it doesn't require a specialized Tesla mechanic.

They also seem to be getting some cheap service for their ICE vehicles. Most cars get recommended more serious service at 15k and 30k -- services that can easily run $500.

I'm especially impressed that they managed to spend so little on BMW service. Do they not recommend 15k and 30k service? Because they should have spent at least that much on oil changes, much less the air filters and brake service and whatever other stuff is recommended.
Don't look at modern bows used by olympic archers.
But he didn't have an urgent medical need his kid had. Why let him get in as well?
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