skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is a waste of time, if you want to spend time doing other things in your life.
"Do you think Australia needs more people?

Graduates: 58% yes

Non-Graduates: 24% yes"

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2020/10/72-of-aussies-do-no...

Not overwhelming.

Also there are some people who are happy with immigration, but only from other culturally-compatible regions, and as long as diversity (eg. max 10% from any one country) and equality (eg. max 49% males from any one country) is part of the intake.
US Senate puts $40k cap on price of electric cars that qualify for EV tax credit
>if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error.

Except that doesn't happen. As the saying goes, a lie can travel around the world before the truth laces up its boots. Where is the "clearer perception and livelier impression of truth" being produced by all of the disinformation being spread? Surely, since disinformation is spreading so rapidly and colliding so furiously against truth in the marketplace of ideas, truth should be prevailing everywhere.

No, of course it isn't. Why would it? Both you and John Stuart Mills skipped over the part where embracing free speech actually leads to discernment. It's like people just expect truth to win for reasons.

What's happening is that people don't know what to think, or who to believe, and are being bombarded with far more claims and counterclaims than they have time or ability to thoroughly test. Absent trust in any institution, person or group in which to truest, people are left only with their own uninformed intuition and emotion, which disinformation and propaganda far more effectively feed upon.
I was really hopeful for Novavax. But recent news about manufacturing woes and US pulling funding is disappointing.

The preliminary results looked great. Combined with low rate of side-effects and higher storage temp (2-8 C), it could have been a good 2nd (or 3rd) choice for the developing world.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/us-clinical-tr...
Microsoft Outlook/Office 365 costs money, but they still analyze your activity and report so called "productivity score". Maybe not sell, but I have no doubt they will analyze the data if they can.
I'm in the same exact boat, generalist to the extreme, lots of technical role models, big company, hard to find a value there.

But more and more I get that I m put in places where nobody cares what I ll code but that instead I ll enthusiastically push everyone around, make them try new fun ideas, and have a general blindness to boredom - I guess being an idiot means everything sounds fascinating and I unblocked more than a few dead end just trying or proposing stupid ideas.
https://www.levels.fyi/2020/ is a decent resource. The numbers are fairly accurate, IME. You can also lurk around Blind if you want to get a sense of salaries in tech (warning though: Blind is completely obsessed with salaries, to the point where its unhealthy).

You'll actually notice that none of the FAANG are on the top 10 of that list. FAANGs definitely pay well, but these days "FAANG" is outdated, IMO. I've seen it "FAANGMULA" sometimes (FAANG + Microsoft, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb) but even that still leaves out other high payers like Stripe, Box, Bytedance, etc.
No. Cause in that case you're only expressing your own beliefs. But! If you have a position of authority in some Government agency and then broadcast loudly and frequently that seat belts to not work at all then yes, you should be temp-banned.
counter counter point:

Don't you think that is something apple should have thought of before doing what they did to cause the outcry that lead to this?

Apple wanted to be the gatekeeper blocking out harmful apps, fine by me.

Apple then wanting to use that gatekeeper status to steal money from app developers, block apps that compete with apple internal apps, and enforce moral choices on what kinds of apps you can install on your phone, evil by me.

They could have done the former without doing the latter, but they fucked it up, and have to pay the piper.
This other study from August 12 found 88% effectiveness against Delta: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2108891
Micorosft has alwyas been the hyper diversified tech company, they could lose an entire segments of their market and still truck along
> But only Apple and Google are big enough to fight the other bad actors. Sure, their interests may not always be aligned with mine, but we are much more likely to be aligned than mine with the bad actors.

So, I pay my money, and I get Apple to be my Big Brother who protects me from the bad actors. And if I decide that I no longer want Apple to play that role, then I can go buy an Andoproid device, or whatever.

That's quite a Stockholm syndrome-y view. What protects users, first and foremost, are users themselves.

Take the imaginary scenario of "WhatsApp requiring constant location data".

On an open platform, other users will provide you tools to defeat these requirements, either by modifying the app code itself, adding code around it to provide it fake data, or simply not allow these APIs in the first place.

If WhatsApp is really clever about it and detects all attempts at thwarting the surveillance, then users will develop and distribute an alternative messaging service (see Signal gaining serious traction after a way milder anti-user update by WhatsApp a few months ago).

It's only in the context of a lack of competition that such bad behavior is tolerated by users.
1. Open 1Password Mac app
2. Go to Preferences > Security > Apple Watch (there's also option to enable Touch ID) and enable it

Make sure you have your browser 1Password plugin updated to the latest version.

When you click on the locked 1Password icon in the browser, you get the "Double click to approve" alert on your Apple Watch. You double click the side button on your watch and 1Password in your browser is now unlocked. This also works the same way with Touch ID. Hope that helps. Cheers.

edit: Provided clarity regarding the Mac App
COBOL code is surprisingly readable when compared to "modern" JavaScript-like languages. The site linked above shows a very good example of this.
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Yep. We're looking into this because Githubs org wide security controls are less than ideal.

This lets us enforce a default and track exceptions.
The text portion is tiptap.dev!
Manual review by our team rn :)
> USPS has its own law enforcement agency

The United States Postal Inspection Service is actually the oldest of all federal law enforcement agencies. It's as old as this country is.
Some Canadian provinces treated mRNA vaccines as interchangeable. In Ontario a lot of people got a first dose of Pfizer and a second of Moderna.

There's currently a study underway in the UK (I forget the name, but it run by the University of Oxford) to assess the efficacy of mixed-dose vaccination.
Not gp, but I'm also a Canadian with the covid-cocktail. I got my Pfizer back in May, and then my Moderna at the beginning of July.

Some of the older (55+) crowd got a different mixture, with AstraZeneca shots in the early spring and Pfizer early summer.

Say what you will about our weird combos, but we have a very high number of people immunized now, so it seems to be working...
UK judge backs US appeal in Assange extradition case
> if I am permanently disfigured or mentally damaged I hope that If I'm unable to on my own that my wife would help me put a swift and terminal end to my misery

What about her misery? That will be permanent. Did that ever occur to you?

> You cannot possibly legislate the risk out of life.

You can sure as hell hedge against it. Does waiting at red lights and following traffic signals infringe your freedom to get from point A to point B faster? According to your infallible view of the rules and regulations of society we should just have four way free-for-alls and accept the risks of piloting tons of steel at unregulated speeds hurling towards each other and accept the inevitable consequences of mass death on a daily basis. I cannot prescribe to your worldview. I believe in road signs, traffic lights, and people being punished for breaking these rules with my tax dollars. I believe i am entitled by the government to a right to travel to point A to point B without legitimately fearing for my life on a daily basis.

"Well some accidents happen so that means that traffic lights and road signs are completely useless. It's just the government infringing on my ability to hit an accelerator whenever i damn well please." Give me a break. You are narrow headed, selfish, foolish, and wrong.
> I recall surprise upon learning for the first time that the USPS has its own law enforcement agency

As someone put it to me a while ago, "the US military is so big that not only does its navy have its own army, but its navy's army's air force is the 8th largest in the world."[1]

[1] US Navy's army = US Marine corps; navy's army's air force = USMC Aviation, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Avi... .
It’s not gross.

It’s an approach to effectively price human capital in disparate markets.

By example, it’s unfair to expect workers in New York to work at the wages of workers in Des Moines.
Providing an alternative interface is exactly why it sounds like cheating.
Looks like theft to me, can't one file a police report ?
YouTube maintains an official playlist of these movies: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHPTxTxtC0ibVZrT2_WKWUl2S...
Many Canadian provinces did a Moderna/Pfizer combo (one shot of each) to address shortages and get more people fully vaccinated faster.
Meaningless, eh? An American news source puts up the title “Europe’s all-time heat record […] at nearly 120 degrees” What’s unclear about this? All of the context needed to properly interpret “120 degrees” comes right before it.

It’s only, as you say, “shit”, if you don’t like that America uses Fahrenheit. Or if you’re looking for a reason to “shit” on American press for using the Fahrenheit scale.
Amazon is lower than Google, FB, and Netflix, but still quite a bit higher than MS. According to levels.fyi for engineers all at the same level (~5ish YOE):

- MS: $185k

- Amazon: $230k

- Google: $267k
> fewer side effects

From my vantage point, Pfizer had far fewer side effects. One acquaintance who had Moderna got walloped so bad on the first shot that they didn't get their second shot.

Of course, all anecdotes. I'd love to read some better numbers.
Don't you think that is something apple should have thought of before doing what they did to cause the outcry that lead to this?

Apple wanted to be the gatekeeper blocking out harmful apps, fine by me.

Apple then wanting to use that gatekeeper status to steal money from app developers, block apps that compete with apple internal apps, and enforce moral choices on what kinds of apps you can install on your phone, evil by me.

They could have done the former without doing the latter, but they fucked it up, and have to pay the piper.
Even with the monopoly Facebook behaved pathologically, often escaping Apple's sandbox through technical exploits and their analytics/auth "SDK" that almost all iOS apps include. They're social influence extends to Apple, not just your friend group.

Apple is also significantly more careless than I would like, there's no source code audit and no instrumentation beyond a network proxy. Just a 15 minute or so inspection of the app UI. If I wanted to run an authoritarian computer regime I would require full source submissions and clear explanations that looked even moderately obscure. Preferably your assigned app reviewer would be present during internal code reviews.
...which is not to say that Oblivion Arms of the Vampire Squid do not exist. But arson is no way to stop Them.

Education and voting are all that have been found ever to help much. Public libraries do their share.
Visa and Mastercard aren't currencies, they are payment systems. Furthermore, max TPS and day to day average utilized TPS are very different, that is a weird comparison. The confusion is that USD can change "hands" in so many different ways, it does not have a set transaction latency or bandwidth, if we did a best case analysis the latency would be me handing a tenner to the guy at the grocery store, with the bandwidth of 3.5B people handing a tenner to the other 3.5, that is a lot better than 50K TPS. Obviously not a serious suggestion, just trying to explain why the question of speed needs to be nuanced.
The problem is the lack of transparency around the hashing algorithm and bytes of the images used.
individualism is not selfishness.
Origin of dinosaur-ending asteroid possibly found. And it's dark
> Conversely, if your manager tells you that there's a problem and you're not meeting their expectations, they are definitely correct that there's a problem. They might not be correct in their diagnosis, but you can't simply ignore the issue.

But there may also be nothing you can do about it either. I think a huge part of the problem is that I suspect the typical experience of hearing "there's a problem" is that by the time anyone is saying that, things are already in motion you may not be able to fix anyway.
I remember Nagravision on Canal+, a paid TV channel in Europe.
Most people pirated it on TV cards because:

- Nagravision on a Pentium 2 was trivial to decode

- Soccer

- Porn

- Blockbusters
Netflix, like countless other online services, is not built for global citizens - people that work in different countries to their own.

I am a British born expat, living in Qatar, so of course I want to watch the UK orientated Netflix programming and not the Arabic or Hindi. I have a UK TV license but of course, I can't watch UK TV from Qatar. Trying to pay for things online is frequently a nightmare as many companies won't take payment from a UK card unless it's from a UK IP. Same trying to pay tax on my US houses, also some websites don't even let you connect to them unless you use a US IP address! Google rightly defaults to Arabic if you're not logged in, that's fine, but even they don't provide a simple way to change the language to English! Similar with Spotify, same with Apple music. Whatsapp voice calls are blocked in Qatar.

All of these problems and many more are bypassed with a good VPN. It amazes me how few services ever take into consideration that people don't always live and work in their country of origin. If VPN's are clamped down on it's going to make life difficult for tens of millions of people. VPN's are actually VITAL in many situations.
Time did tell. It was called safety and efficacy trials. They passed.
I’m Canadian and had one shot of AZ as a first dose. Followed by one shot of Moderna maybe 10 or 11 weeks after the first does of AZ.
> it's not unreasonable to expect it to work for some period of time after the purchase.

"it works" and "the developer gives me support" are two different things. In this case, I'm sure the shareware he wrote still "worked," but clearly they thought they were entitled to perpetual updates or the ability to chat to the developer any time they like.

As far as I'm concerned, the SLA of $10 shareware I volunteered to pay for is "whatever the developer is willing and able to provide." It's $10. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fwiw, 1Password isn't nuking 1P7 or existing local vaults. Those users are free to keep using v7 for as long as Apple or Microsoft allow the app to be installed on the OS. (And I do agree, macOS and iOS are both quite abrupt about cutting off support and I commend Windows for going to great lengths to avoid it)
It is unnecessary for you to draw this false dichotomy and its substance is rhetorical nonsense. There's plenty of non-Libertarianism in the world, just as there are plenty of ways to trample on liberties that aren't Stalinism.

And it really shouldn't take someone editorializing the spectre of an overbearing government pressuring service providers for unlimited power to spy on your communications for illicit material, because — as you might have noticed — that's already happening; these pages have of late been covered with news of Apple's fingerprinting schemes, and of the potential consequences to freedom. Our author wants the same sort of laws brought to bear, to stamp out what he sees as moral evil, and perhaps he's right it's evil, just as it is certainly true that child porn is evil.

In either case, though, he wants the authority to stop it, and shrugs off the idea that this would bring unfortunate consequences. This isn't Stalinism, this is just cranky authoritarianism, and if you go for this sort of thing then hating on the libertarians is fun, thus none of what he says is likely to be a joke. It is sufficient for him to be a cranky authoritarian, and nothing further is claimed.

Next time you rag on someone for not drawing any distinctions, maybe try actually drawing the distinctions yourself??
Solution in search of a problem. Let’s stop this nonsense.
The side effects have been higher overall with Moderna, but the dose of mRNA you get is also more than 3x that of the Pfizer.
> Moderna and Pfizer both have comparable (low) risk of hospitalization and death.

You mean if you then get the delta variant? Or low risk of hospitalization and death by simply getting the shot?
> nobody gives a crap about anti-user features which everyone has had to deal with for literally decades

The one thing that used to set Microsoft apart from the likes of Google and Facebook was that their main product, Windows, was not anti-user. No matter what you thought about the OS or Microsoft's business practices, it was a paid piece of software that worked for the user. Windows now is filled with user-hostile features and it works for MS instead. And they don't even grant us the courtesy of giving it away for free.

Market share or the fact that the public at large isn't punishing them for it doesn't mean anything. It was already clear that most people are willing to walk headfirst into a dystopia.
There are companies who sell lists of suspected VPN IPs. If Disney+ and Netflix used the same list, you could get blocked from both.
So to replicate a Rust enum, C tagged union, or C++ std::variant containing one byte for the type and the rest of the object inline, JavaScript needs a boxed object wrapping a string and the actual object contained inside? And the engine can't optimize away the boxed object into an inline value type because it could have multiple aliasing references in multiple locations? Boxing-based languages make me sad.
Ask HN: Is there any future for low-code/no-code development?
I don't think it's a hilarious bug in their logic, just collateral damage in the war between VPN providers and Disney/Netflix/etc. The VPN providers try to get IP ranges that look like residential IPs. Ideally they rent them from the same ISPs who really do provide residential service. By the nature of the traffic, Disney can't tell for sure that it's coming from a VPN - just something like "a suspiciously large number of users connected from this range, especially users who currently seem to be travelling internationally".

Perhaps the user had a dynamic IP address and kept getting one in the same range that was also used for VPNs. Perhaps he had a static one but Disney banned ranges by the /28 instead of individual addresses.
Related factoid; the US Navy is the world's second largest air force.. second only to the US Air Force itself. And if you split Alaska in two, Texas would be the third largest state.
I've been buying licenses since version 3 (2013) even after they started to hide the option.

Sad to see 1Password use dark patterns to push people towards subscriptions then twisting that into that people don't want licenses, at least be honest about it.

+1 customer lost.
All governments already have this power, and always have. You can argue that public health measures should not be the province of government, but that would be a pretty fringe position. You are essentially arguing that there is never a good reason for governments to infringe individual liberties. This is the religious libertarian I am talking about. I recognize it. I used to be one.

If you say instead that it is a legit function of government, but shouldn't be used in this case because on balance the risk is too small to sacrifice liberty for, that's certainly a discussion that could be had.
Yeah it's literally just a short list of companies that people see as being the big kahunas of the tech industry. In the '80s it would've been Intel, Microsoft, IBM, and maybe even companies like Lotus or WordPerfect. In the '90s it would've been more like, Intel, Microsoft, AOL, Sun, maybe Oracle, maybe still IBM? Hell maybe even Ebay. Lots of those companies are still around but the ones that are tend to be more mature, less volatile, and less influential on the rest of the industry now, and get correspondingly less press.

But yeah, that's all FAANG is and I'm amazed anyone thinks it's anything more standardized or meaningful or precisely defined. It's shorthand for the biggest and most influential companies in the tech industry at the moment, at least from the perspective of people on the outside looking in. If someone wants to the throw an M into FAANG I totally get it.
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> That combined with sources of uncertainty not covered by that intervale (Listed in their limitations: missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and of course inconclusive results) definitely make it sound pretty inconclusive.

The study is not inconclusive. The study failed to reject the null hypothesis. That much is definitive.

Whether or not there might be some smaller difference that the study wasn't powered to detect...we don't know. It's still a definitive rebuttal of any claim that "masks reduce personal risk of infection by 50%", and the fact that it's not in the "personal protection" section of the CDC webpage is simply editorial bias. At the very least, this paper is the best study ever performed on masks and SARS-CoV2, and it severely limits any real-world claim of protectiveness.

> There is also the limitation that there was "no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others."

The study wasn't designed to do that. It should still be in the "personal protection" section of the CDC webpage, and is not.
Seth Godin reminds us that the organization is part of the system that builds systems: "We need to put care into our systems. We need to build checklists and peer review and resilience into the way we express our carefulness.[...] If it matters enough to be careful, it matters enough to build a system around it."
This was the best passage for me:

> Early on, the McIlvaines spoke to a therapist who warned them that each member of their family would grieve differently. Imagine that you’re all at the top of a mountain, she told them, but you all have broken bones, so you can’t help each other. You each have to find your own way down.

> It was a helpful metaphor, one that may have saved the McIlvaines’ marriage. But when I mentioned it to Roxane Cohen Silver, a psychology professor at UC Irvine who’s spent a lifetime studying the effects of sudden, traumatic loss, she immediately spotted a problem with it: “That suggests everyone will make it down,” she told me. “Some people never get down the mountain at all.”

It's not clear if all the family members in the story made it down.
More importantly, our financial system needs protection from runs, and it seems like tether has not been doing a good job of handling that, they should at least be regulated like banks in terms of cash on hand requirements and the necessary auditability to verify that regularly.