skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm assuming they mean that the Pentagon buys trash regularly.

The most expensive trash on the planet.

I'd agree with 1) -- 'Sucking up to the US'.

Just an extension of the Pentagon system - a way to subsidize the US war industry, with all the lovely benefits (for at least a few Americans, like me/us) that brings.
And it only guesses that I'll enjoy clearly commercial content and not any of the community stuff related to things I actually interact with? Really? That seems oddly suspicious.

I gotta say, I don't believe you. I've never once seen a Suggested link that wasn't to some kind of obvious click farm. Never once. If you want to make a technical argument that Facebook drives revenue via other means than direct payments, then that seems reasonably likely (if deliberately misleading).

If you want to argue that these folks aren't spending money that ends up in Facebook's pocket in order for Facebook to put their content in front of my eyeballs... then I'm just going to laugh at you, sorry.

I mean, just on first principles your argument is ridiculous. If Facebook didn't see benefit from putting this garbage in front of me that I never click on, then why would it be putting garbage in front of me that I never click on? Clearly Facebook wants me to click on it!
Same here. I'd also like to read the following:

- Resilience of unvaccinated, "naturally" immunized individuals to new infections.

- (relatively) Larger scale studies on the prominence of brain swelling in unvaccinated, infected individuals.

- Meta analysis on social significance of published mortality rates concerning unvaccinated individuals who survived one or more COVID infections among various political factions.

- Meta analysis on sentiment of published headlines that contained one or more statistics among, a variety of news publications.
Reminds me of a classic story about Bill Atkinson back in the 80's: TLDR; Management was counting lines of code as their metric of productivity. Which was great until someone actually cleaned up the code base and added -2000 lines of code.
https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Fair enough. They are two different construction. That being said, F150L has V2V/V2H charging, so that might be useful for a lot of folks who live in areas where infrastructure isn't amazing.
I am more open to this than getting a vaccine, as my wife and I were infected before the COVID mania had set in (doctors couldn't tell us what it was). If I get a vaccine with a variant, how well will I fare as I'm in stage 3 heart failure? Check me for antibodies. That seems fair.
From https://www.lupus.org/resources/covid19-vaccine-and-lupus:

"The American College of Rheumatology COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Guidance recommends that people with autoimmune and inflammatory rheumatic disease (which includes lupus) get the vaccine unless they have an allergy to an ingredient in the vaccine."

and

"In general, you should get the vaccine even if you have already had COVID-19."
Iirc the welding was of secondary entrances, forcing all buildings to have a single entrance for easier monitoring. Still extreme, but not quite what was reported.
The article would be more useful if, along with the table of black vaccination rates vs educational level, it had the tables for other racial groups.
This is the truth. People here are overwhelmingly advocating what I think is probably the most dangerous argument I've ever seen seriously advanced, that some medical procedures are not eligible to be decided by the individual, because they're matters of public health.

If we go down that road, what government injection proffered in the name of public health could ever be refused? It's not as if you won't still be labelled a selfish anti-science anti-vaxxer if you refuse, say, the tenth injection rather than the first one.
> Stop. Using. Apple.

But is there a realistically better alternative? Pinephone with a personally audited Linux distro? A jailbroken Android device with a non-stock firmware that you built yourself? A homebuilt RaspberryPi based device? A paper notepad and a film camera and an out of print street map?
At the time sqlite was written, the author of sqlite was heavily involved with tcl, a dynamicly typed programming language. Sqlite also started out as a tcl extension. Having the database match the typing philosophy of the language it was supposed to be thightly integrated with probably seemed like a good idea.

One nice thing that sqlite being dynamicly typed allows for, is having a key-value table for storing singleton objects, like project config (as opposed to having a well defined table with a single row).
Wow, this explains so much on why the Indian Government "withdrew" a letter seeking Apple's compliance with new IT surveillance rules - https://thewire.in/government/centre-withdrew-letter-seeking... ...

The indian government has recently introduced new laws that give them power to dictate terms over many online platforms and broaden their surveillance powers over online social media and messenger platforms. One of the laws dealing with messenger platforms requires the platform to track shared content, especially "origin of content" (first originator) of any content that is shared through their network. (Facebook / WhatsApp has already gone to the court to challenge this, as it claims that they would need to break end-to-end encryption for this and it thus violates indian privacy laws).

Apple's iMessage platform has more than 25 million users, and thus should come under the ambit of this law. But strangely, the indian government seems to have given them an "exception" .... and now we know why.
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There should be a trigger mechanism that recognizes the type of spam seen, for example, following Twosetviolin posts. There is a specific person who can only barely play piano that posts his songs in every comment thread, even though his links are clearly attempting to derail every conversation in these threads.

It should be super easy for YouTube to notice this link over and over and over again in the comments for a single video. There isn't a case where this would be acceptable behaviour, so why not sense it and end it? It is the definition of spam.
To destroy Facebook.
And then you probably don't need a whole lot of drone deliveries to outnumber the kids playing neighborhood baseball.

Kids around here are barely playing catch in their yards.
No big explanation is needed there -- many posters including myself get shadowbanned within hours of account creation, for nothing more than having the wrong opinion.
I’ve been mulling a system that would allow that but also address what I’d consider to be a somewhat unfair benefit we give parents. Of course parents need maternity/paternity time off but this seems to perversely incentivize having kids for no real reason. Another issue on the opposite side is the unfair career progression slowdown women face for taking a maternity leave.

One possible solution is that we expect mandatory 3 month sabbaticals for every employee every two years (which can also be a maternity leave but that’s your choice). This is on top of regular vacations (which probably should be modest if this option exists). We can give the option of breaking it in two but no further. Such sabbaticals would also make everyone think about processes that they do that are not sustainable during such breaks and work properly around it from the beginning. definitely still a hypothesis that I’m continuing to think through, but would love to know where this can go wrong!
Actually we are the weak point. The phone stuff is just unregulated capitalism.
it isn't really hard to understand. The Chinese want to protect themselves and their loved ones so they expect themselves and others to self quarantine. Similar culture can be found across Taiwan, Korea and South East Asia so as you can see the pandemic is controlled in similar fashion. What the government does is to enforce what the public think is right to prevent the public from executing the offender themselves.

This is a different culture from the West where people are expected only to protect themselves but there is no expectation for others to protect you.
This argument falls on it's head when confronted by reality. Either you have a trustworthy government already that will respect your rights in a slow-rolling fashion that shifts as the dialogue within the courts evolves or you already have a government that doesn't care about you and your laws/desires at all and which will do what it wants anyway. Unless you're in the ladder there's no reason to be so hostile to empowering technologies, especially when they're being used to fight some of the most heinous types of crime.
Just in case you think if you have gasoline in your car the risk is 0

"If you own one of these cars, vans or SUVs, don’t park them in a garage, automaker says
Kia, Hyundai recall more than 700,000 vehicles for potential fire risk in anti-lock brake system"

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/investigators/2020/03/02/i...
If you're going to use VAERS data to support your argument, you really must take extra care to demonstrate that you understand what those data actually are, and explain why your conclusions should be taken seriously.

Otherwise, you risk being lumped in with the multitude of bad takes made by people who misunderstand what VAERS is, and don't understand statistics.

> US Covid deaths peaked in early January, three months before US daily vaccines peaked in mid-April, and VAERS deaths peaked in March-April.

I find an April peak in VAERS deaths entirely unsurprising, since that's exactly when the rate of vaccination was highest.
Facebook is very heavy into user login authentication and if they don’t think the person logging into your account is you they will verify with typical 2FA, pictures of your friends, and requesting photo ID (I could be getting the ID request confused with account recovery). I don’t know what the roadmap would look like with a coordinated leak of Facebook accounts but FB’s login security would prevent a lot of shenanigans.
>Nadia and her care team partnered with seven leading HR agencies, as we will help you find a good place, where you will earn more and work even less.

Earn more and work less?

That's weird.

Those poor folks who still work for him will be working more and earning less than those he fired.
To quote another tweet from Matthew Green, the author of the Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/14231103447303495...):

> Regardless of what Apple’s long term plans are, they’ve sent a very clear signal. In their (very influential) opinion, it is safe to build systems that scan users’ phones for prohibited content.

> That’s the message they’re sending to governments, competing services, China, you.
One of the dumbest things I see is the idea that adding security can't be done for consumer items, as it will make it too hard for the consumer.

Case in point, HP home printers that have for years (and still?) have an integrated web interface with no password by default. You can hit up one of the nicer home office printers and read or modify someone's contact list. For example, if they do a "Scan document and send to contact "Accountant", you very well may have modified it to be your email or phone. Or ask them to scan whatever's on the scanner bed. Guarunteed some of them will have some drivers license, legal document, etc. left on them. Or just pump a ton of printouts of 99% gray sheets to them for a "denial of paper and ink" attack. There are so many of them on Shodan it's not funny.

I suppose the designers thought that it would be too much pain for users if this wasn't allowed. Or they didn't even think of it as an issue.

The thing is it's just trivial to say have it so the first time you connect to the server, it makes you set a password. And you limit it to just the local network for connections by default.
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You could write a program that would sign in to a Facebook account, trash the user's profile and post garbage to their timeline. Or, instead of garbage it could be posters that explain the protest and how to join. Hopefully it would go viral and recruit more participants. The program could also change your email address to something you don't know and change your password too - committing to giving up your Facebook account.

For even more fun you could organize a day of protest, where everyone turned this program on, on Facebook. Though of course you'd need a backup page, Twitter, and/or Discord. Hopefully Facebook would ban the protest group and that could drive news articles covering it and get more attention and members.

Not sure how many accounts you'd need to participate - but it could go viral if other people saw posters (or maybe DMs to all your friends?) and joined the protest.
I don't know an example of that sadly.

O_DIRECT is definitely doing things the hard way for sure. There's a very real risk you won't be as smart as the kernel, even knowing your app's patterns well. Linus famously has ranted against this for a long time. But like mentioned above, with databases, taking on the complexity is often warranted.

I've been tinkering off and on with a database design, and one of the things I want to explore is a hybrid approach where I still have an on heap buffer cache, but misses to that cache get filled out of mmap. The buffer cache is a lock free hash table, greatly simplified by using Copy on Write pages as a fundamental part of the design (don't have to worry about racing updates or duplication races during resizing other than as performance degradations). It's still not finished and totally untested, but the way I imagine it working is the buffer cache is smaller than what you'd typically reserve for a database, and the OS can manage its page cache as a sort of L2 cache.
Funny, I can draw a pretty substantial parallel between “getting stuff done” and “hours of time to work on a problem uninterrupted by pointless chat and E-mail”.
Checkout https://github.com/theonedev/onedev for a serious self-hosted git server, with CI/CD baked in.

From a user of OneDev:

>> As an open source project, it is too good to be true
Something that I have not heard talked about much is that this deposit mentally buys the truck so another car/truck purchase is put on hold while the wait happens.
Also the early versions (first 50k) is going to be strong demand on the secondary market. My guess is that the premium over sticker in the aftermarket is going to be huge
They sell software designed to break into people's phones to oppressive regimes all over the planet. They definitely have the capability and requisite lack of ethics to compromise their own politicians; there's no probably about it.
There is zero chance I would ever work with someone like Jobs. That shit is just unacceptable.
Reminds me of someone.

Long ago, he joined a company fresh out of college that pretty much measured dev productivity with number of lines written. He quickly realized that it was a red-flag, but jumping ship so soon was going to be hard to explain on a resume.

So he basically started writing code in two stages using a codegen tool: something high level not under source control that would generate extremely verbose code that would be checked-in.

Inheritance? Polymorphism? Interfaces? Not in the generated code for sure. Duplicated code all over. Other engineers were furious but management kept defending him "he's just a junior and his metrics are off the charts, you guys just can't keep up with him".

Three promotions in 18 months and jumped to a FAANG not long after.
>When the government makes a bad call I want the option of leaving and going somewhere less dumb.

This is only an option for the most privileged among us. What are the options for someone who is gay and doesn't have the means to move to a less bigoted state?
"0.2.2 is the first build of Airyx based on the helloSystem components and FuryBSD LiveCD installer. It can be run or installed from the ISO and should have better hardware support, in addition to the slick helloSystem desktop and applications."

via https://github.com/mszoek/airyx/releases
Appreciate the detail. It's quite helpful. Thanks very much!
On the other hand, it's a single guy challenging the conventional wisdom we hear pervasively from the prestige media with some very simple, obvious reasoning and basic data. He deserves some credit for that.
Can I compile iOS apps on this? That's honestly the only thing holding me to macOS, I really wish Apple didn't force every iOS developer to use macOS to do so.
Sure, but that still leaves the question of why mobile banking and not mobile games w/ pc banking.
Is that new? I’ve been involved with teams like that going back 20 years but when it gets hard to hire USA based devs it trickles down to those contractors too.

I’m not in a position to hire Eastern European contractors currently but do see how tight the market is otherwise and my experience would suggest increased contractor billing rates and/or more constraints on when you can dip into the contractor pool?
Over a long period of time anything is possible.
you’re a dumbass. all the “mutations” are occurring in other countries that won’t be vaccinated for a long time. mine are traced to america. stop posting on covid, you don’t know anything.
To show that awareness of Tuskegee is, if anything, negatively correlated with vaccination rate, and therefore unlikely to be the driver of lower vaccination rates among Blacks.

Edit: Correction: As crackercrews pointed out, I wrote "negatively correlated", when I should have written "positively correlated".
Whatever the exact form, I wish sabbaticals in industry were more common—probably at longer intervals than job-hopping folks would find interesting though.
There’s a large, large difference between your friend taking a screenshot and your friend authorizing a third party to any content they themselves can see. Scale and automation matters a lot.
Honestly, I would just prefer everyone mask up and everything be locked down again. The amount of bickering is maddening.
you’re right, we should let mass shooters go free eventually so they can try and top their high score
Acknowledging that this is the best time to be alive in no way implies it can’t be better.

You don’t get bonus points for spreading a miserable worldview.
Khushe
Sure, I guess all else being equal I'd rather have an extra 40+ days of PTO. However there is something to be said for shared time off where no one is working. That way you don't have to worry about landmine you're going to step on when you get back. As I get older, 4-day work week is extremely appealing.
Accounts? There's plenty of videos from Chinese people receiving food deliveries in apartments with bigass levers welded to the door that only allowed it to open about five inches.
Math Ability Can Be Predicted by Neurotransmitter Levels in the Brain
Spoken from the man himself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHI7RTKhlz0
Not really, and I'm not going to sway anyone deeply into the ecosystem.

My hope is that those of you that share my viewpoint will call your legislators and demand regulations or a break up. There are forces of good within the DOJ that are putting together an antitrust case against Apple, and the more of us that lend our voices, the louder and more compelling the argument.

The DOJ is really the last lever we have, and that's pretty good measure for the power Apple wields.
Or we don't do any of these extreme, totalitarian measures because it doesn't matter anyway?

Because doing so is a one way road to more extreme, totalitarian measures next time there's a disagreement about public policy (and next time, perhaps you find yourself on the "wrong side").

Because covid won't be a thing forever, and sacrificing core values of your nation for temporary gain is foolhardy.

Because, again, the people you're trying to protect with these extreme, totalitarian measures don't want your protection and statistically will turn out just fine anyway.
60% of African Americans will be excluded from these business due to vaccination rates among African Americans in New York State.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/latest-...
I first saw this c. 1989 at a local theatre. There must have been about four other people there. It leaves a mark, that’s for sure. The dance of the imprisoned musicians remains a favorite scene.
The EU-style vaccination certificates can be locally verified. No data goes to the cloud, and the software is, for many countries, open source.
Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum computer
The developer of Hello would disagree with you: https://medium.com/@probonopd/hellosystem-three-layer-ux-des...
They know they can just raise more money right?
I think that's an excellent practice - not as a way of gaming the system, but for maintaining useful documentation about what happened and why.

A bug fix without an associated ticket is missing context: who spotted the bug? When? What were the steps to reproduce?

Even a ticket with no content is valuable - it gives me somewhere I can post additional comments and screenshots later, or link to other related tickets.
I'm curious, do you have kids? I do, and I think that anyone who had kids in order to get the "free vacation" is in for a nasty surprise.
This is the same company who made fake vpn software by abusing apple enterprise certificates to suck up usage data on children.... cool cool cool
Thanks for this. The traffic broke my site, oops
Correct Level of Abstraction for Distributed Deep Learning Frameworks
Compared to the usability of the relevant parallel techniques in different frameworks (mainly in PyTorch and OneFlow).
If you know of non-VAERS public sources of vaccine adverse event data, references would be appreciated. A link was provided to one pathologist autopsy study, more are needed. CDC VSD (Vaccine Safety Datalink) is not public, sometimes we get data snapshots when CDC is investigating specific adverse events, like blood clots, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27464528
Agreed. Although the article does state that it is the same for other racial groups.

It would also be helpful if he didn't limit it to people aged 30-50. What do the rates look like outside of this band?
Vaccine use is accelerating the evolution of the virus because these vaccines don’t stop you from catching COVID, they just provide a different kind of host to adapt to.

Add that variable into your calculation and reimagine the future with a more accurate understanding of what’s to come and what you think about these new variants.
Ubuntu's Unity was a lot more macOS-like with the default global menu bar, then they gave up on it :(
Gnome doesn't even have a menu bar anymore, preferring apps use a single hamburger menu.
Just to clarify for those worried about what looks like legitimate numbers. The 6000 (unverified though there are legitimate reports) deaths on VAERS (down from the 11,000 when those that were posted from overseas sources were removed) means that the death rate for the vaccine using this number is 0.0018%.

To put that number into context, you are 944 times more likely to die if you catch covid than if you get a vacine in the US. That's right the anti-vaxer take on the VAERS numbers say getting a vaccine is 1000 times better than not getting a covid vaccine. Even in the country with the lowest reported (0.1% which is not necessarily the actual) death rate per covid case you are 100x better off getting the vaccine.
Doesn't it show a positive correlation?
Far greater than the options of someone who is gay and would have to move to a different country instead of just a different state. For example, the existence of sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants is entirely dependent on a lack of federal power to override the will of the states.
Good eye. Probably should be made more clear in the readme, because it’s the obvious question that came up for me.
This was addressed upthread by timr

There are no actual double blind, controlled, replicable studies that conclusively demonstrate "long covid"

Long covid may be a thing. Right now, its like any anecdata on any virus.