skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compulsory injection with compounds that are not medically approved because they haven’t been tested to accepted standards is a good thing?

For what it’s worth, I’m vaccinated and wear a mask in every public encounter until I’ve discussed the risks with whoever I am dealing with whether required to or not.

However I strongly disagree with mandatory medical treatment of any kind.

I could imagine a law for emergency vaccinations that I would find acceptable, but it would need to have a lot of safeguards.
It's no trick to make something so hard that it's impossible. It's riding the line that is interesting.

Clearly, in the direction that Malbolge is hard, it is very nearly maximally hard. A LISP interpreter of this kind is, in general, not that hard. There are some conceptual challenges to implementation, but once your brain has absorbed those, it's not hard to implement. It's generally considered to be a good student project. Many people use it as a "hello world" program when learning a new language. Yet it took a decade+ to pop up. Much harder and you're not going to get anything, ever.

Presumably, there are other directions that you could make programming hard in.
The populists, even though they induce a gag reflex from our years of aspirational cultural conditioning, are the only option at the moment.
I think you could probably do this in a single formula with SUMPRODUCT, but right now I just have a table that uses MIN(0, X) and MAX(0, Y) tricks to calculate it.
We actually don't vote for the chair of the Federal Reserve (currently Jerome Powell) and that's a problem. These people have an outsized influence in our lives and they're not publicly elected.
Maybe a good use case for a union?
Why would he be looking out for you? How much lobbing money did you spend on him? Did you pay millions for his speeches?
The settlers.did this AFAIK
Yearssss back when I was still on Tinder they did the same thing in the app with the "Delete my profile" button.

There was first a "log me out" option then a lot of whitespace followed by the "Delete my profile" option which was not in the viewport by default.

I wonder how many people who set out to delete their profile didn't actually do so. It's definitely a dark-pattern.
It's because schools teach to the market. How many schools teach COBOL? There are still companies that want to hire COBOL resources, but most schools aren't going to teaching because the market is too small. It's the same for query optimizers and compilers, only even more pronounced by their very nature - these are things that a very small number of people create because you want a standard or consistent experience with this level of tool. It's like my cryptography course - I'll never use it because the best practice is to use the industry standards.

Another reason you don't find many people with this experience is that there aren't many jobs for it. Going back to my cryptography class example, if I don't have the need to use the info after taking the class, then I'm not going to remember it.

That said, there should be plenty of candidates who are willing and capable to learn this stuff if companies would actually train people.
> When paired with the "hedonistic treadmill" of spending, early retirement takes a lot more investment than many suspect. Even at a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, $2M is "only" $80k a year.

Right, which is why people should save 10-15% starting from a young age.

> Even at a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, $2M is "only" $80k a year.

That's quite a lot more than the median household income and by the time you're withdrawing your retirement that $80K is purely spending money--your house should be paid off and you're not setting 15% of that $80K aside for retirement any more. $80K/year is a lot of spending money to most people.

> You're not driving around in Ferrari's and eating caviar on that (parodying a rich lifestyle here). Of course there are levels, and one could live modestly in a LCOL area on that, but that's not what most people have in mind. Particularly for a "millionaire".

The meme of a millionaire driving Ferrari's and eating caviar is dated due to inflation. Most people with any real-world experience with money (including my no-higher-education, blue-collar family) understand that millionaires don't live like that these days due to inflation.
This is exactly what Foundation [1] (which was also shown in a screenshot in the article) does.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/690830/Foundation/
Civilization 6 does this a bit, where roads are constructed by running trade routes, not built manually.
> They weren't. They were second class teams because they were outsourced.

This is it. The quality of the work was just really bad, very consistently. It had nothing to do with being remote.
Actually some historic IBM computers were like that. You leased them and could pay more to enable some instructions on the processor.
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> have so many friends from college who graduated with computer science degrees and ended up in non-engineering roles -- because of a total mis-match between SWE pay and housing costs, especially in the Bay Area where the jobs used to be.

What did they do instead?
The LSAT isn't nearly as saturated at the top. As the article mentions, in normal years there are only about 700 applicants in the 175-180 range (roughly the top .5%). Compare this with the SAT, where there are over 50,000 students annually in the 1500+ range.

Even at Harvard and Yale Law, the median score is outside this range (173), and all other schools have a lower median.
According to TFA however, one flaw in medieval city builders is that they are too organic, when actual villages were centrally planned. The more major one however is that growth was apparently near hopeless, which would really make them play like a different genre entirely.
Why it's not a real name?
My guess would be that the main reason is that in the event of the earthquake you would survive in the second and die in the first.
I’m glad I don’t live in NYC. Impfung macht frei
Your comment re: water bottles made me want to look this up. Apparently, it's quite easy to reseal a bottle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abosduPhns4

So, I suppose if TSA let people bring in a bottle of "water" from a store just outside, this could easily be faked where you bring in a couple of bottles of bleach and ammonia (although, I don't know how those chemicals would do with the plastic from some water bottles).

It kind of makes sense to take a hard-line on water bottles, even if they're sealed, even if it matches the kind of water they're selling just behind you at the airport, and even if you have a receipt, because all of those things are trivial to surmount.
I'm pretty sure I was asked to provide an additional password to save my messages. Are you sure Apple has a key to decrypt?
Those premiums look the same as those for employer sponsored health insurance:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/632151/premiums-for-empl...

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/sites/default/files/2020-11...

https://files.kff.org/attachment/Summary-of-Findings-Employe...
Actually Typescript is it.
Good article. The difficulty with simulating these plots and new settlements is that the player’s interests aren’t the same as any individual freeman’s. Letting the player map out fields could certainly be done, but it wouldn’t meaningfully change the game as conventional city-builder players of any skill also have a layout in mind before they begin the game.

Players also value a high quantity of content and replayability, again at odds with the interest of a medieval freeman, churchman or lord who preferred consistency to novelty for the reasons mentioned in the preface.
Well, it's a relatively recent invention, historically speaking, so I'm optimistic. And we already have some emerging polities that recognize its problems, e.g.:

"We the people of Rojava in Northern Syria: Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, Turkmens, Armenians, Chechens, Circassians, among them Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and various other creeds and sects, declare that the nationalist State has placed Kurdistan, Mesopotamia and Syria at the heart of the chaos that is afflicting the Middle East and has brought acute crises and suffering upon the people. ... The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria is founded on a geographical concept"

(https://www.scribd.com/document/441234886/Social-Contract-of...)

And yes, trust doesn't really scale well, which is why centralized governance in general is a big problem. But there are known techniques to decentralize it in ways that can still scale, e.g. council democracy.
LINQ is a much nicer SQL IME, at least for CRUD operations — but I generally don’t use the “objects” part of it except for very rudimentary insert/deletes.

However group by specifically seems to be a hack, and it falls on its face in weird ways almost every time I use it. I’m not sure how much I like it’s “AST rewriting” model, but it works great when it works. Just the LET command alone justifies it
This reminds me of a part I didn't mention in the article - they initially actually set up a second company called "Shady Apps" with a separate Developer account from which they upload the "people will buy anything for 99p" apps, on the basis that they would keep the "App Start" one clean for just the better quality ones.

One day Alex showed me a bunch of such apps they'd made - the "orgasm button" was one I can recall...
An alternative, market-powered fix: lift the regulatory statues that prevent insurance companies from raising the cost of coverage of their unvaccinated customers.
It's beyond US focused even, it's only really New York and Silicon Valley that are compensated at the insanely high levels I hear about.
It isn't promulgated primarily by historians studying the Middle Ages. It's promulgated primarily by classicists, and in truth held by the majority of academic historians, and I'm willing to believe widely by medievalists.

The author shouldn't have made such a pat assignation of blame. But, erm, I was supposed to subsume his (in my view flawed) sorting argument into my thinking, and not having done so shows I didn't read the piece? How odd.
Super cool!

1. I know there are a few other startups/companies working on similar technology. What differentiates y'all? I think Turion is the only one I've seen come out of YC though.

2. Don't see a careers page on your website. Are you hiring?
It's neat to see channels getting some love here! They were the main reason I started Phoenix seven or so years ago, and they were the first major feature to land in the framework. I'm happy to answer any questions here about channels or Phoenix in general.
> We live in a new world; the old norms no longer apply

This feels a bit defeatist, like accepting a new dictator because the “old norms no longer apply”. Big tech companies are that dictator. They have garnered a critical mass of power due to a lack of regulation and anti-trust enforcement, and are using it to support their predominant ideologies. Members of our federal government recognize this and have regularly started applying pressure to these companies to perform censorship on their behalf. Is that really a new norm that we must accept or a blatant abuse of power and a runaround on the first amendment?

I think what we have really, is a new product landscape where network effects create natural barriers to competition that we need to deal with. Our laws and enforcement of laws haven’t caught up to this reality. This has allowed a powerful tyranny of the technologically powerful to manifest, outside the scope of current law. The rationalizations such as radicalization and so on don’t convince me - those seem like the socially acceptable virtuous justifications that cloak a simple abuse of power.
If you count indiscriminate censorship and bias a good thing then I suppose
I don't feel attacked. I also don't blame him for being inflamed about the problem he's been inflamed at because I am inflamed about it too!
do you think your productivity or output or skill level increased 60% alongside the 60% raise or do you think your skill level increase / change in 'worth' was less?

Or in other words once you got in, did things get way more difficult / stressful?
You're also granting the extension access to your friends' data, given that it can see everything that you can. Your friends consented to show that data to you, but not to the extension developer. Your friends' consent is not transitive.
By the time you're withdrawing, your house should be paid off and you no longer need to save anything for retirement so that $80K is all spending money. Further, you're collecting social security and a good chunk of your healthcare is covered by medicare.
https://publicemails.com

I believe AngelList also started out an email list originally (hence the name).
If you want to "apply", then have a friend who works at a FAANG, and they'll connect you.

Otherwise, you don't apply, you just have a resume online that looks like that of someone who would have that experience, and FAANG recruiters will already be reaching out and shepherd you through the process till you get to an interview.

But while the recruiter sets a relatively low bar for what you should look like, the interview will then set a relatively high bar for what you should look like (and probably overly specific bar). So you need to make sure you have the ability to pass such interviews with flying colors, which itself requires a different skillset/training (maybe 50% overlap with your day-to-day skills).

Again, remember during this whole process, what is most important is "do i look like someone who has these skills", which is slightly different from "i am someone who has these skills" or "i am someone who could develop these skills if needed". The latter only matters once you start at your new job.
Apparently the virus has never been even isolated in a lab. Here is an interview with a guy that challenged his $1k fine, and won in court, because the Canadian government failed to prove that the virus exists.

https://rumble.com/vkorz0-freedom-fighter-court-victory-ends...

The alternative is that they have a sample, just won't provide it because there's something about the virus they don't want us to know.

Alberta has lifted restrictions.
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Yeah, I thought Firebase was only for mobile apps and simple projects, but a few months back I decided to give it a shot and I've been able to use it on some very complex products without a problem, I was so surprised. It just makes things so much easier honestly.

Glad you like it! :)
Depends on how you write your code.

If your functions have lots of hidden dependencies and side-effects, it’s hard to test.

If you split concerns properly and keep your glue/IO code separated from the decision-making/business-rules/logic, mocking is quite trivial, and there are advantages other than just testability.

Check out this talk to see examples of that in action: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
It's a good article, but he doesn't mention TBMs which use robotic arms to lay the concrete semi-circular blocks that line the tunnel, and I believe that's mostly or completely automated. Of course that is a more narrowly scoped problem than general wall building.
This is the crux here: whatever Assange did, he did it out of US jurisdiction. Unless we accept that US jurisdiction span well beyond their borders, and we don't even care about the illusion of sovereignty outside superpowers.

And that's if we can establish that Assange did anything more than normal investigative journalism.
Ask HN: Is it wrong not to allow users to unsubscribe themselves?
I work for an online subscription service, and we don't expose a way for users to delete their accounts in the UI, nor end their paid subscription.

The amount of requests for these are low enough to be manageable. In return, we get the opportunity to maybe convince them to stay, or at least get some valuable feedback of why they choose to leave.

Of course, users are always unsubscribed when they ask, no funny business here. The company is European.
You can choose to be Christian or not, you can not choose to be gay or not, and someone asking you to use their preferred pronouns is not nonsense, and getting fired for showing rampant disrespect towards your peers based on them simply existing seems fair to me.

What happened to hckrnews in the last few years, I'm seeing more and more of this kind of BS.
The guys at Ultimate Hacking Keyboard have a trackball module[1] for their split keyboard that uses the same idea.

[1] https://ultimatehackingkeyboard.com/product/trackball
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If you follow anything vaguely resembling PEP8 (i.e. max line length of 79 characters), then your Python code probably has 2x to 3x or more the number of lines that it should.

To then turn around, and claim that type declarations inappropriately inflate the line count, is absurd.
Yep, just checked, you're right, that's gotten a fair bit better, matching your numbers.
You know everybody will be working overtime up until then. Extra storage purchased, and possibly discounts to customers for accepting early delivery.
Ask HN: Health Insurance?
I'm self employed in the US and COBRA just ended.
Yes, I have even been an instructor for some of these classes. No, knowing how to take a limit / apply steepest descent does not tell you whether your model of reality is correct, it just lets you convert your model (quantum) to a more restricted model (classical). But you do not know if your intial model is not itself the limit of another model.
Funny, I just found that link myself. I guess it makes sense, there was data and there was a need to comb through it. Seems like little to do with graphics directly, and more to do with being able to manage large amounts of data.
Looks like it's windows only..
To preface: I got the vaccine months ago (as soon as I had access), I'm a big believer in vaccines.

With that being said, this policy doesn't sit well with me. None of the currently available vaccines in the US are FDA approved. Of course, a lot of people have received those vaccines, but I also don't necessarily fault individuals for feeling hesitant (the nuance here is that I think people ought to get the vaccine). mRNA is a new, unknown technology, and the vaccine was rushed faster to public access than any other vaccine before. We have absolutely no idea if there are any long term side effects of these vaccines.

Both candidates Biden and Harris expressed the need for full trials and transparency in regard to the vaccine before they were in office, then changed their tune after (see: https://twitter.com/pbhushan1/status/1416969060890210305). Biden says:

> When we finally do, God willing, get a vaccine, Who’s going to take the shot? Who’s going to take the shot? You going to be the first one to say, “Put me — sign me up, they now say it’s OK”?

If the vaccine is as effective as it seems, then this decision feels positively nanny state to me. It takes away an individual's agency to inform themselves of the risks on both sides and make an informed decision.
Avast should be avoided completely.
They have truly lost their way and have become more of a privacy/security risk than anything.

Did you know that Avast has a “confidential collaborator” known as Psafe that has an antivirus/cleaner app on Google Play called DFNDR that has been tricking users into installing their bogus app through scareware popunder fake virus warnings for over 8 years straight.

The DFNDR app was funded by the Chinese Qihoo and early versions of the app used to harvest users social media data and send data to Chinese servers.
DFNDR also was not forthcoming with AV-test about it’s antivirus detectction engine.

It uses Avast’s detection engine and when AV-test found out the DFNDR app was no longer included in its testing.

The app itself is filled with trackers and several advertising SDK’s which take over the users device.

I have communicated with Psafe in private emails to show them the source of the fake virus warnings so that they could be stopped.
Psafe requested I not go public with my findings for 30 days which I granted.

The fake virus warnings never stopped, not even on the sites I gave Psafe as examples.

Avast for it’s part banned me for life from their forums without warning.

Look at the user reviews of the DFNDR app on the Play Store to see for yourself.

Avast is nothing bat data harvesting ad agency at this point.
Agreed. Furthermore there is no limit to free speech here. You can still, in all cases i'm aware of, host your own site, and post your own thoughts.

What extremists are upset about is that private institutions are no longer willing to help them. The same folks who previous applauded private institutions are now impacted by this same decision.

There is a line where, imo - these people should not be limited. We don't prevent some dude from yelling stuff on the corner of the intersection. I believe access to the internet to be the virtual parallel there, "some dude" should also be allowed access to the internet. Which is to say i don't think we should block their freedoms from accessing/posting information online in the same way that we don't prevent them from spreading it in person.

However there's a far line between yelling on the street corner and yelling inside starbucks.

I applaud community/content hosts for recognizing their involvement in whatever data they host.
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> Nobody codes things too complex on-purpose, at least not normal people. So it's not the difference in types of complexity, it's the difference in our ability to understand accidental and essential complexity.

It's not so simple — I've seen people create over-architected monsters because they thought everyone coded like some consultant's magazine article/talk/book claimed, because they were trying to be taken seriously and didn't think they could push back, because they had talked their way into a job they weren't qualified for and tossing around buzzwords was a way to obscure the fact that they had no idea what they were doing, because the client insisted that all real projects must run in the way the consultants in expensive suits assured them everyone serious runs them (ignoring massive differences in scope and resources or long term success), or because the institutional incentives made it easier to say their project would handle everything anyone had ever thought might be useful into one application rather than working with the actual users to build multiple smaller, simpler tools.

One way to think about that is that it's neither accidental nor essential complexity but environmental. Fixing that can be quite hard but it's often work the political capital if you have it because the alternatives might not be survivable.
What do you mean the HD version of Seinfeld is 16:9? That is a complete distortion of the intention of EVERYONE involved with making the show.

I hate when they do that. I can’t watch the HBO HD copy of The Wire for the same reason. The whole point of cinema is you choose what the f** is within the frame. That’s literally PART of the art form, and an integral one at that.
Mmm, yes, lovely. I love it when my overlords fatten their stores, so they can buy fancier boots for me to slobber on.
Precisely.

What not to say might include "If you are NOT sick: You do not need to wear a facemask" followed by an about-face a few months later. It's well-established that the CDC knowingly provided bad advice about the need for masks in spring 2020 to avoid a run on masks: https://web.archive.org/web/20200329005833/https://www.cdc.g...

Someone in a position of medical authority knowingly giving harmful advice is incredibly damaging and unethical.