skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk my tin-hat theory is a bit different. I agree with some of it - I think TDD, reactive programming and to some extent Rust is about job security, but I think Agile and code review is all about taking code ownership away from developers and commodifying programming.
> people who are vaccinated can still transmit the virus

Just FYI, a vaccinated person, like anyone else, can only transmit the virus if they have a symptomatic breakthrough case.
I like how people change Alex to Aleksandr when they’re trying to make a point about the big scary Russians, despite Alex being a fully American citizen.

Of course it’s much easier to blame muh Russia than it is to blame Facebook, who created the platform and by definition set its boundaries. They literally gave all the information to Aleksandr. All he did was read their documentation and query their API endpoints as designed and officially documented.

He literally followed Facebook’s instructions to get the data they offered to him. And yet here you are using weirdly ethnic overtones to denigrate him as some evil hacker that victimized Facebook by pilfering some nebulous “private” information that Facebook worked so hard to protect.
Yup. The sheer volume of single-use waste our society generates - especially in the US - is ridiculous.

For literally seconds and minutes of use! While leaving pollution behind best measured in decades!
Oh please. If every gun and manufacturer disappeared overnight in the US the cartels would find another method for violence.
If you are buying an upscale commuter car to park beside your spouse's 4Runner what you are saying is absolutely true. A Leaf or Bolt is cheaper than the Civics and Camrys that typically adorn the driveways of good school districts.

If you are mucking about lower in the market ICE is still cheaper. A Mitsubishi Mirage MSRP's for less than the used Leaf costs. ~5-8yo Kia Rios and Souls (and plenty of sedans) are everywhere for a little more or less than the Spark (which is a unicorn) depending on age/miles.

The spark EV is a great deal if you need a stripped down urban runabout. It's an outlier and they aren't exactly readily available used since they were a compliance car with a set of attributes that make the high class consumers that typically buy EVs turn and run. Go sit in any spark. It will be clear why that one is $6k. There is a reason the dealer is advertising it as something that you buy for a teenager. There is a reason someone only put 50k on it in 6yr. If you need transportation and have that much money there are better ways to spend it unless you are very hung up on miles.
Every time your elderly father gets sick are you going take the plane? Take him to the doctor? Wash him, prepare dinner.
Not everyone can afford retirement facility.
> My problem is that the whole thing is based on old data and a false premise that life is safe when vaccinated people are only around vaccinated people. We know this is slightly more true than among the unvaccinated, but only by about 40%. This is real data.

This is not "real data", it's not even clear what your number refers to. "Life is safe"?
The rest of her blog posts on V

https://christine.website/blog/series/v
Launching New Google Identity Services APIs
> And literally anyone who wants a vaccine can get one.

Literally not true. Kids under 12 are not able to be vaccinated, which puts a limit on the activities they and their families can do. If they're able to know that everyone inside a restaurant is vaccinated they'll be more likely to visit.

> It might well lead to anger and violence (as similar moves have across Europe).

Not really. There were some minor protests and then an untick in vaccination rate. As someone living in NYC right now I really can't see this being met with violence.
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Marketing is a con job.
> Super easy to get from a city/state website after entering a few details (think name, when your last vaccine was, which vaccine etc).

Only available to those who got vaccinated in New York. And given that the NYC border is all of a couple hundred yards from New Jersey and 10 miles from Connecticut, there are tons of people who either live in the city and got vaccinated elsewhere, or else who live elsewhere but are in the city on a daily basis.
Interesting, up to this day I thought that browser search is Cmd/Ctrl+F and webapp search is typically “/”. I got used to that to the point that I find it convenient.
The cost of the monthly subscription is the full cost. All creators would be receiving their earnings directly from their subscribers to their own accounts. Not only that, at the moment we are scouting for suitable content creators who are willing to endorse our platform and use it entirely for free as well as earn a commission on the income we generate as a result of their active referral. Could you be one of them?
this blog uses webp as image format without a fallback option. Had to switch to Firefox because Safari wouldn't display the pictures.
Not compared to Citrix/VMWare/Amazon Workspaces, which is that + Windows licensing. Those prices include licenses (and license management, their portal keeps track of who has Windows licenses and therefore can have a cloud desktop). It's competitive, especially if you can leave the VM turned on all the time.
Homelessness is like prison reform: Everyone talks a good game about making things better, but when it comes time to vote, they always vote against improvement. I think this is because politicians are afraid of being seen as “soft” - on crime, homeless encampments, you name it. Soft on crime is a fast ticket out of office.
Have you considered lnurl-auth?

https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-lnurl#lnurl-auth
Yes, that's a fair point. I should have written BEAM/OTP because they're separate things. BEAM enables the process model, but the implementation of things like networking is in OTP. I'm not sure how far deep the actual process implementation goes, (is it in BEAM or OTP?) I think it's BEAM but I could be wrong. I'm not really going that low in the stack.
My mind went to the A.F.R. from Infinite Jest, surely the most sinister Canadians ever imagined.
Correct, Pixar is notorious for using fairly low detail SubD surface control cages for almost everything.
Where by "ultra fast" it is meant that it is much slower than a directly-attached SSD that occupies the same port.
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Install Chrome and start a Teams meeting and see all that extra speed disappear! /s

Seriously, I think people have been running games on their M1 to show how insane the SoC is.

My usual go-to is reporting how much battery I lave left after a long Zoom or Google Meet

Today, I did a two-hour Google Meet. No video, but it was in-browser (Safari) so the tab was still GPU-accelerated. 55% battery left. Started at 80%.
Requiring me to consume a novel virus in order to live my life is morally wrong. You're making me into a test subject for the bats.

The whole point of civil society is to solve coordination problems and deliver public goods like sanitation and health. If it can't accomplish something as basic as vaccination then it is blatantly unfit for purpose. Absolutely, jettison it! The truly crazy idea here is that we would retain and bear the costs of a civil society which is so incompetent at its bread and butter job.

We don't leave the water mains to gush into the street, we don't leave the sewers to back up into the toilets, and we don't leave the viruses to circulate in the bars.
plusIshRoundCeiling() forces the reader to look at the javadocs to understand the edge cases, and in fact it serves as a reminder that there even are any edge cases.
Sliced more realistically, the data at best demonstrates that poverty is stagnant in total numbers. At worst, it's tracking population growth.

what i heard was that china greatly skews the results... does anyone have poverty numbers regionally instead of globaly i wonder? that would probably clear up alot of confusion....
I think this is a pretty strange announcement. Google's Chrome team has pledged to break this functionality in 2023 (pushed back from 2022) as part of their "privacy sandbox" initiative, and it already doesn't work in Safari and Brave. Any Googlers or Xooglers able to explain? Seems like a major case of poor inter-company planning.
even makes a location appearance in The Sopranos
This is definitely not the case where I live. Existing units were shifted, capacity was reserved, some makeshift isolation units built on containers were purchased. At any rate, that is a substantial cost to build out and maintain.
I worked at one place where the running joke was if central IT pushed for a solution, it was time to seriously consider the competitors to that solution.
This is the point where we have to stop making trade offs of choice and liberty in the name of "security". Give the public open data about the effectiveness of the vaccine and then let people make their own decisions about what to do. The moralization and judgement about the vaccine has become ludicrous.

If you're scared to do things around others even if you're vaccinated, then that's fine. We cannot accept a societal change towards mandating choices for people. It will be very, very hard for us to walk that back.
I agree entirely. But the sterotype undoubtedly exists (or at least existed).
If by Europe you mean only the super expensive cities like Paris, Amsterdam or Munich, then yeah salaries maybe have increased, but to what good when property price increases have far outpaces whatever salary increases the industry may have seen.

And most who stayed at one job haven't gotten any significant salary increases unless they job hopped often which brings it's own problems later in ones career.

Edit: Had a quick look at jobs in Munich and curious where those high salaries are as 80k for senior positions on 40+h/week seem like a joke to me considering how expensive it is to live there and how high taxes are.
I don’t need it, but I can understand why this gets traction. Enterprises can essentially give out a tightly controlled windows client to anybody that needs it, even if they are running a Mac.

Severely restrict Windows without taking away liberties of the computer that the employee has.

An employee can simply login to their Windows workspace and continue work regardless of their their thin client(s).

Update windows without annoying your employee…

Prevent employees from installing that random chat program that is almost definitely a spyware right alongside their work programs..

Oh and prep a golden image Windows workspace and onboard any employee within seconds..

I can see how this product makes its argument to enterprise IT.
> "just drop it in and it just works" for self hosted websocket systems

I was also been underwhelmed by options in this area, so I've been working on a Rust library called Jamsocket[1]. The idea is that all you need to do is implement a trait, overload the functions for the events you want to handle (new connection, message, etc.) and deploy it.

I still need to work on production aspects of it, but it's in a state where you can play with it for local development, so I figured I'd share it here in case any Rust developers want to tinker with it.

[1] https://github.com/jamsocket/jamsocket
Sounds like an interesting approach. I'm actually working on a language as a hobby, I've been experimenting with implicit generics and it takes you pretty far.

Do you have type constraints for generic arguments in Julia? I.e. when you're looking at the signature, does it ensure that the operations performed on values inside are going to work?
I don’t know about quite 90% (though maybe that was meant as hyperbole), but yes, it does seem a common occurrence to defend bannings and such on similar grounds, often by conflating “legally permissible” with “appropriate”.

That being said, while I certainly agree that decisions about how to run a platform can be such that they should be legal, but also shouldn’t be done,

I also feel that the range of what can be appropriate for a platform to require/do can be fairly large, so long as they produce the appropriate expectations among users and others who interact with the platform (and not just by drastically expectations as immediate preparations for changing policies in big ways either)

So, my view on the “ ‘just make your own platform’ “ complaint, is a bit mixed?

Obviously the neutrality of the base-layers is highly important..

but if they weren’t, would the solution be to make a replacement that was, or to somehow get those in control of the base layers to behave neutrally?

Well, the degree of lock-in at base layers would presumably be basically just as high as it is now (though, I would expect a typical world with less neutral base layers would also have more centralization of the base layers? Not sure how that would influence this.)

Well, at least if the base layers were govt controlled, then I guess there would probably be an obligation for it to be neutral, not just something desirable. Perhaps if it were privately owned by a single org, due to being so critical, it would be justified for govt to (with appropriate compensation) ,

Ok nvm idk what I’m talking about
I grew up in a family without a lot of money, in a community where there weren't people with a lot of money (or they hid it well) so I was totally unprepared for this as an adult but it turns out -- there are a surprising number of young adults that are just handed a ridiculous stack of money and just need to figure out something productive to do with it. There are some famous examples of it working out well but I'm sure the average is more like these stories.
Meh, every state has crap curriculum. They all just skip different chapters of history or science depending on the way the local political winds blow.
I've laid a little block and brick for myself. I found it kind of fun and pretty rewarding work. As soon as I saw the headline and started pre-thinking about the content, I immediately thought, "well, the mortar for one thing..." The bricks aren't all that uniform either. My big takeaway from doing myself was that it's easy to obsess over each brick (like a machine might) but when people look at a brick wall, they see the forest, not the trees: it's not necessary for each brick to be laid perfectly.

I also heartily second volunteering for Habitat for Humanity. It's rewarding work, fun if you're with a good crew, and a great way to learn new skills.
> But mainly, companies aren't doing what you're doing: looking at the five-year cost. They don't care what it costs over five years, or often even over one year. This quarter, the cost for that beast is $474. Can you deliver an 8-CPU PC with 32GB of RAM for $474? Today? Then the MS offering is better.

If you're willing to pay $10k over 5 years for a $2k PC, wouldn't there be a ton of financing companies willing to convert the capital expenditure to an operating expenditure for that? Where else can you make 80% annual returns on a capital investment?
I agree with you that they have the right to deny service, and scraping at scale is not same as regular queries. Suggesting FB's react was meant to protect (not theirs) data is what I feel not about right, though.
"To answer your last question (presumably non-rhetorical) I worry about unvaccinated people allowing for mutations via community spread..."

Then you also should worry about Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE).

"...as well as getting sick when they didn't have to, hurting themselves while taking up healthcare resources in the process."

Like obese people?
The general crypto scheme (auth based on signed requests) is the same as SQRL. Differences:
(1) SQRL employs one identity that users use across multiple SQRL-enabled services. Keyri-enabled accounts are not portable/natively-shareable across different services like that - they are specific to the services users registered with
(2) Users don't need to download an SQRL client on their desktop device. I see that independent developers have made iOS and Android clients, but Steve notes they currently lack certain important features (though I haven't investigated enough to know their deficiencies)
(3) Our main product is an SDK that developers can embed in their own mobile apps
Are you going to actually respond or just downvote and move on?
PREACH. AGAIN.
https://attractivenesstest.com ( Test your attractiveness )

On the main website, I tried with a picture of Halle Berry and got a score of 6/10.
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> I would only catch bits and pieces of conversations here and there but I pieced together that the muscle relaxers that he had recently been prescribed for his back pain seemed to trigger a sort of manic state that was fueling all this craziness.

I'd read the whole rest of the post thinking "yep, cocaine is a hell of a drug", but yeah, there we go.
How could a family under 12 possibly know that everyone inside a restaurant is vaccinated unless the restaurant only allows a single party to have a member under 12?
Very interesting read, we're facing similar regulatory capture issues here in my country.
amedvednikov only sounds heroic if this is first time you've heard about him or the criticisms towards him over the years.

To those who've heard of him before, he's just a conman.

Make no mistake, this is just one of his many "ambitious" projects that he creates for publicity and then abandons after a while. Again, this isn't the first time he does this. He promises the world and under-delivers.
4) You oppose tyranny. People should be free to make their own choices. By going out unvaccinated, I'm not putting anyone in danger, except those who choose to be endangered (not isolating / sheltering at home, unmasked, unvaccinated).

5) You oppose discrimination. I'm immune but not vaccinated. Where's my immunity certificate?
Read again what the extension does. You're so far off base.
If you are on a desktop, you might as well get a second desktop and gigabit ethernet between your machines.
The Easy Way to Grow Your Mailing List
Or you could use VirtualBox for free.
You're reaching a bit. His Wikipedia page lists his name as "Aleksandr Kogan". The OP didn't mention Russia at all, nor did he mention anything about him being evil. It's true that Facebook instructions to get the data - that was the whole point. The app users were installing never said that the data would be used in the way it ended up being used.
Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again
Isn't that because the people in that area are pre-screened? There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that would not be obvious to a visitor, including the security infra to get to that place.
Pretty much this. Businesses that are known to be problematic, like restaurants and bars, should expect that their choice to stay open and continue serving people comes with responsibilities. They don't operate free of consequences, and they shouldn't expect to externalize those consequences.

However, it really sucks that the people who mostly end up trying to enforce the mandate are the staff who already have, in most countries, jobs that most of us would not consider fun. The people most likely to insist on going out to eat and entertain are, generally, the sorts of unpleasant folk that already treat waitstaff poorly.
No. That's incorrect. The data they were gathering was advertiser data, not your friend's data.
Odd. Displays fine on my Safari 14.1.2. Checked and the images do appear to be web for me as well.

Current Big Sur release, not a Beta.
Anywhere where an ICU bed is taken by an unvaxxed COVID patient is a bed that was available for anyone else for any other reason.

Anwhere where unvaxxed people have to take time out because they're sick is time they could have spent working, contributing towards their families or communities, and someone is going to have to take up the work.

So not, at a collective level, unvaccinated people are _very much_ preventing others from enjoying themselves.
"Many people use it as a "hello world" program when learning a new language. Yet it took a decade+ to pop up."

I'm sure this was largely due to not many people even bothering to try to write such a program.

If Malbolge had as many users as, say, Java, I'm sure a hello world would have been written pretty quickly -- especially if these users were as motivated to write Malbolge programs as they are to write Java programs now.

Not to say that programming in Malbolge is not insanely hard, but I'm not convinced that a more difficult language would be impossible to program in.

Have any legendary programmers like John Carmack, Fabrice Bellard, Ken Thompson, Peter Norvig, Xavier Leroy, or Simon Peyton Jones spent much time trying to come up with Malbolge programs? I doubt it. If they did, would we have had a Malbolge hello world a lot sooner? Almost certainly.

One of the main difficulties of esoteric programming languages is getting people to actually spend any significant amount of time trying to program in them. Most people just don't care. Get them to care and there'll be a lot more programs written in them.
deprecation is totally fine, log a warning in the console, discourage people from using it, but don't throw the existing web under a bus because your UX team can't think of a nice way to visually distinguish it from the browser's chrome!
Imagine how rigorous nutritional science can be when state-of-the-art double-blind scientific tests are pretty much impossible or extremely expensive to do, and when there is a lot of $$$ interest and lobbying in presenting one outcome or the other.

Nutrition is not rocket science, we are all expert in eating and especially in how our body reacts to certain food types, yet we take studies of abysmal quality for granted and preach them to our fellow human as if they were the ultimate truth.

I can say I'm going to run a marathon naked in Antarctica and everyone would cheer me, but if I mention I'm going vegan, carnivore or adding some butter or tofu to my cheeseburger, everyone, from both camps, is ready to point out why I am killing myself and on the way to premature death. Yet they are not speaking from experience, but mostly from hearsay from their favourite echo chamber.

I've stopped caring what common wisdom around nutrition is, and since I've started listening to how my body reacts I feel much better, healthier, and I roll my eyes every time I read the latest "nutrition" article or comment thread posted on here or anywhere else.

We're still in the middle ages of nutritional sciences.
I understand that ai training is done without injecting race bias in the model, since radiologists don't know about it.

Since the nn is supposed to generalize the training set, I don't understand how it can suddenly become racist - in other words, it may learn race, but I don't understand why it would be biased towards one ethnic group or another.

Is my understanding correct?

Edit: do you assume that the ai output, inferred through a deep neural network, can be interpreted?
The one created by the illegal drug demands of Americans?
> You have an 8core laptop with 32gig RAM for $700?

Like I said, it's used, so yes. I think the new cost is right in your $2500-$3000 range for a new version.
I worked at a company built on hardware products that was compelled to add some SaaS offerings because many large enterprise accounts have much simpler processes for subscriptions and AWS spend vs. capital expenditures. Sometimes a $500 machine is more expensive than $2,500 worth of services, it seems.
> Why is it so popular? I can't understand the economics of it. Can someone explain?

CapEx vs OpEx.

Also, your iPad is now a Windows machine with eight vCPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage for $158 per month.