skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently watched a lot of Lean Manufacturing/Agile videos recently[0] (physical factories, not software), and was looking to translate some of the methods to the SDLC process. What's interesting is related to this. The endgoal of Lean process is to take out all the decision making out of building/repeatable process, and only spend struggle/decision making on improving the process. The Kanban Cards tell everyone what to do. See card? Do x and move card to y. Repeat. In the current state, doesn't really apply to software.

The goal of software is to automate/codify everything, so we _should_ not repeatedly doing things. Even implementing a function takes a few decisions. What's the name? What's the input? Input validation? What's the output? What's the name of the variables inside the function? Should you use .map or for in? Not to mention thinking about interactions between parts of the larger infrastructure/system (browser for FE, network stack for full stack, DB for BE). Every change we're making is an "improvement" to the understanding of the business process/problem to solve. To reduce code LoC means to decide on the framework/approach/DB/limitations. More decision making. And the abstractions can go on and on.

From my Front End point of view, I'm handling a lot of intertwined concerns. On the actual app side, there's UI Layout, copy (and dynamic copy for pluralisation or otherwise), data correctness, user input/output validation, handling errors (from BE or network) (and displaying the correct error and do the correct action after that). On the tooling and deployment side, I have to be aware of domain/subdomain, URLs, mobile/desktop interaction (back button on mobile on modal), deploying, preload/precache, compiling the code with bundlers, optimising size, knowing the browser limitation, security concerns, etc. I'm sure I missed a lot still.

I know there's also this much nuance and complexity to any part of the stack (BE, IoT, DevOps, QA) even non-tech in Design and Product. The computer is so abstract that I feel we as an industry haven't (or can't) converge into something that is easier to work with (org, process, or tooling wise), even across organisations.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqtKKkastWk
> Given the low infection fatality rate, if everyone under 50 in the US caught it, we would have around 30,000 deaths.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

If everyone under 50 caught it, we'd have had way more than 30,000 deaths at this point because we've already had at least 30,000 deaths.

You also assume that Covid doesn't have serious long term complications arising from infections that are still being discovered. So you're basically suggesting that we yolo it during a pandemic and ignore the consequences of such.

Contrary to your myopic understanding of the topic... total exposure during a pandemic is actually not the way to manage it. 'the rest of society would be well protected' but instead we likely would have had a total collapse if everyone were to be infected at the same time by allowing the 'virus to 'run its course'.
Your filter didn't work for me with uBlock Origin, also I'm not sure that many people still use Twitter over unencrypted HTTP.

This filter seems to work (tested with uBlock Origin 1.37.2):

||abs.twimg.com/fonts/chirp-*.woff$font
I’m always amazed when I see my two-year-old eat breakfast. Having two eggs and toast etc. per his weight would be like eating like Michael Phelps!
It depends on what other measures they take. A big part of the problem is everyone said "We're vaccinated, so we're done." That put enormous evolutionary pressure for the virus to learn to hop the vaccine.
Massachusetts is reporting 1% CFR for vaccinated individuals.

106/9,969, as of August 7th.

https://www.mass.gov/doc/daily-covid-19-vaccine-report-augus...
There was that incident a while back where a bunch of government leaks were outed as fake because they were printed with a (default MS Word) font that was not available or in use when the document was purportedly created
Star diaries are also fun. Here is humorous German TV adaptation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO9ppicjlFg
NFT is so May 2021
The Myths of the Digital Native (2015)
Yes, sorry, I should have specified, that is what my lender said for banking operations. I presume you can buy a house with cash from crypto.
From a mental health stand point I find this post-vaccine phase worse since there is no clear end. A new culture war among the vaccinated may also be starting.

For example, I have family members with children who are highly opinionated about what is safe to do now. My outdoor beach volleyball match without masks was "reckless" but their masked dinner party at a restaurant was "responsible". It's truly draining as you said and I no longer share photos of when I am having fun.
Seems like a great way to give every site a multiple MB dependency.
This assumes the base software and its updates are both secure. Considering the velocity of development and complexity of modern software I don't think that's ever true of general purpose devices.
They sell for a super premium in countries like Dominican Republic. These vehicles are so much better than pretty much any brand. Take any SUV and compare it with an equivalent Toyota—you’ll get a giant markup—5-20K. The Hilux and the Land Cruiser are bulletproof. (Land Cruiser tops out at like 160-180K USD I think)
> and they all but stop the original COVID

Would love a citation on that. I think masks definitely help reduce transmission but they are hardly a magic bullet.

Anyway we can reduce R0 to zero in the short term and it wouldn't matter to my thesis. COVID circulates in animals so as soon as we would take our foot off of the brakes it would again start spreading in an unbounded fashion. And the world can't undergo a complete global lockdown while we wait years for vaccine availability. It's just impossible from any point of view: political, economic, social, etc.
That’s assuming the characteristics of the virus were known upfront but they weren’t. The conflicting, even suppressed, information early on didn’t help.
and pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Plan to get one as my next phone, although it should be said that both of these offerings are still a bit rough around the edges currently, but getting there
One would hope for them that it's so they can fix ads to monetize adequately.
That is the goal of digital marketing.
> There's a reason why Apple 0 day exploits sell for way more on the black market than Android exploits.

FWIW, every article I see is about iOS exploits being cheaper than android because there are so many of them. Those articles all seem to be from around 2019, though. It seems like before 2019 what you said was true. I'm sure sure what prices are like within the last two years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android+vs+ios+exploit+cost
Of course. Embrace, engulf, devour.
Not sure why you're being downvoted but yes I am speaking about SD.

As for the LA cali burrito heads: don't step dudes. Y'all got plenty of great food that kicks our asses. But we have the best calimex, hands down. "Don't ever argue with a San Diegan about Mexican food"
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>>You can print any sum of money and if the person you give it to decides not to spend it, it doesn't affect demand and thus doesn't cause inflation.

In short this is the equivalent of not printing money.

The very reason why you print money is to spend it. If you didn't want to spend money. Why print it?
The census could totally be real time with daily satellite flyovers that take high-resolution pictures of everyone from above.
I mean the delta variant took a plane trip here. The US could’ve stopped that.
> didn't quite realize that their plan to protect end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that much if one "end" is now forced to run tech that can be abused by governments

Not just one end, but specifically the end that their users thought they had control over.
No, smarty pants. I'm telling you that "smart contract" is a bad term for those things because it is unclear and confusing.

A contract is a legally binding statement describing a promise or promises among parties to execute one or more actions. But they are NOT the actions themselves, again, they are a document relating to the actions.

"Smart contracts" are THE ACTIONS THEMSELVES. They're deliverables, they're payments, they're executions of code, but they're NOT CONTRACTS, by any sense of how we've always traditionally used the word.
IMHO electric cars are more like "horseless carriages"--an attempt to shoehorn a new power source into an outdated form factor, rather than creating a new form of electrically-powered vehicle. E-bikes and e-scooters seem much more promising in that regard.
You may be misremembering the initial releases from last November. The goal of the first round of studies was to establish whether the vaccines were effective in protecting people who received the vaccine. The studies were not designed to determine whether it still spread, and so the statements were very precisely worded as "has not been verified to prevent transmission", or things to that effect.

Unfortunately, the English language doesn't make any distinction between "has not been observed" because it hadn't been studied yet, and "has not been observed" because it doesn't exist. Later studies have determined that vaccination greatly decreased the transmission, but by then the idea that they only protect the individual had taken root.
Ha! Is this news to them? Of course they would not honor a contract they can ignore. You can put as many contracts and multiple factors and audit trails as you want, if they want your trade secrets and you do a venture with them, I guess be happy for the short term money, but your IP will be gone.
Thus, my guess is, at least at the beginning, they saw this as a strong win for privacy. As the project progressed, however, it's like they missed "the forest for the trees" and didn't quite realize that their plan to protect end-to-end encryption doesn't mean that much if one "end" is now forced to run tech that can be abused by governments.

Sincere or not, the "the only way we could do true X is by making X utterly useless and meaningless" thing certainly seems like bureaucracy speaking. It's a testament to "the reality distortion field" or "drinking the Koolaid" but it shows that the "fall-off" of such fields can be steep.
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I don't disagree that the existing non-MathML approaches have merit. I think I even alluded to that already above. My comment was meant mainly to address the specific case of the people screaming "Why not just implement LateX in the browser, instead of MathML in the browser" or whatever. To which I say, again, "go ahead, and let us know when it's ready."

As it stands, every approach that we have for putting math on the web has short-comings - including MathML. Nonetheless, I think having a well known, widely supported, standardized way of natively rendering math in the browser - without needing extra Javascript libraries or extra server-side processing, is a Good Thing. Note what I'm very explicitly not saying: "MathML is the be all end all" or "MathML is the very best way to put math on the web now and forever", or "MathML is better than TeX / LaTex", etc.

I just think this is Good News, and I'm excited to see tis move forward. I also hope MathJax continues to develop (there was some noise at one time about MathJax interoperating with native browser MathML rendering, but I'm not sure where that stands), as well as whatever other ideas people find appealing. More clean/elegant ways to put math content on the web is always good, IMO.
Firefox's "Don't allow websites to use custom fonts" option makes the Web feel much more cohesive and polished.
In vaccinated people who become infected.

Since the vaccines cause fewer people to be infected, the unconditional viral load is lower.
Yeah, for now this is what is stated. It should be alarming how much they pivoted and changed with out any background statment. Something more is at play.
I would refer you to the demoscene. (I'm surprised to be the first one to mention the word in this discussion.)

This guy has a lot of interesting stuff on his site: https://iquilezles.org/
Any chance to keep the disease under control was lost the moment a carrier got on an international flight on Wuhan. After that uncontrolled worldwide spread was inevitable. Those who think containment was possible are engaging in magical thinking and fail to understand the mathematics of exponential spread.
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What author fails to, or pretends not to, understand is that the responsibility clearly lies with the driver. If you "cheat" or ignore the system and there is any type of negative outcome, it is the driver's fault. That's all the incentive you need, and it's the same incentive we have for people driving today.

Level 2 is not intended to be autopilot. It's intended to be safer than driver unassisted.
I hear you, 100%, but as a longtime Apple and iCloud user I have been through the absolute ringer when it comes to iCloud and have little faith in it operating correctly.

1. About 3 years ago, there were empty files taking up storage on my iCloud account, and they weren't visible on the website so I couldn't delete them. All it showed was that an excessive amount of storage was taken up. Apple advisors had no idea what was going on and my entire account had to be sent to iCloud engineers to resolve the issue. They never followed up, but it took months for these random ghost files to stop taking up my iCloud storage.

2. Sometimes flipping them on and off a lot causes delays in the OS and then you have to kill the Settings app and re open it to see if they're actually enabled.
Back when ATT was just being implemented, I noticed it was grayed out on my phone every time I was signed in to iCloud, but was completely operational when I was signed out. Many others had this issue and there was literally no setting to change within iCloud; it was a bug that engineering literally acknowledged to me in an email (they acknowledged that it happened for some users and fixed it in a software update).

Screwups happen in an increasingly complex OS and I just feel that there will be a day when this type of bug surfaces in addition to everything that already happens to us end users.
The 30% of the population in the country is qanon and has gone off the deep end. They will not take it no matter what proof you show them. They will cherry-pick these kind of reports to further reinforce their group stance.
The US was (and to a lesser extent still is) exporting harmful Covid-19 mis-information.

Your point about helping other countries to help all countries stands.
“Tower” is quite good. Highly recommended.
> It misidentified the competition as tech-savvy users, but ultimately it turned out to be MS/Apple/Google.

How is this "somewhat" correct? The competition turned out to be trillion dollar companies implementing the exact same thing, not linux sysadmins.
Yes but that's two-thirds of the total number of transactions, since no transaction is final until two-thirds of validators have signed it.
If they were going to implement a government scanning tool it could be done much more simply. And they would if legally required, or turn down some of their largest markets.

This is a step too far (on-device vs in cloud) but all of the “but what if the govt…” is ridiculous because that happens anyway if the govt wants it.

Maybe we should change the government.
1) I wont argue this point with you beyond this post, but I honestly think you're mischaracterizing the maturity of the technology and vaccine.

2) if you think a 4 year old is at no or little risk from the Delta Variant you're not paying enough attention. Alpha Variant I would agree. Delta is wrecking the children when it hits them and its hitting them a lot more often as well.
Long influenza absolutely does exist. At least to the same standard of self reported evidence that is being used to report long Covid.

[1]https://time.com/5915616/long-flu-1918-pandemic/
iMessage isnt true E2E encryption. Apple could easily decode messages for a 3rd party if they wanted to. This has been widely discussed on HN previously. All they have to do is insert an additional private key in the two party chat, as the connection is ultimately handled centrally.

There's a very good reason Signal (and previously Whatsapp) were recommended over iMessage.

Not to mention the inability to swap iMessage off for SMS which has made it a favourite exploit target for hacking firms like NSO.
Probably only a matter of time before it's a thing here too...
In spite of my Node snark above...

Owasp is a really great resource, just don't concentrate only on a quick Node-related cheat sheet (even if you are using node for your backend). The more generic information handout web application security is very good, and will benefit your knowledge across all languages and frameworks, if you care to consume it.

(There may be genuinely good current resources to learn web app and platform security from, but I cut my teeth there in the late 90s - including fucking up and needing to clean ups after myself, which sadly is the most powerful learning tool, while also being a very very poor way to achieve that learning...)
It's the legal risk that is the biggest problem here. Now that every politician out there knows that this can be done for child porn, there'll be plenty demanding the same for other stuff. And this puts Apple in a rather difficult position, since, with every such demand, they have to either accede, or explain why it's not "important enough" - which then is easily weaponized to bash them.

And not just Apple. Once technical feasibility is proven, I can easily see governments mandating this scheme for all devices sold. At that point, it can get even more ugly, since e.g. custom ROMs and such could be seen as a loophole, and cracked down upon.
I think Porsche also has an 800V car.
Induction is fantastic for boiling water, so if I were to get my dream range it'd be a 36" with a convection electric oven and two induction burners at high wattage (3600W) and 4 gas hobs w/ at least one gas hob being a tri-ring style burner.

I think having 4 gas and 2 induction would be better. You can use the induction with a disc-bottom stock pot for making pasta or other things that require boiling large quantities of liquid. Induction is bar-none the fastest way to boil lots of water. Gas can be used for most everything else. Induction is really good with disc-bottom cookware generally since disc-bottom cookware tends to be very even and counter-acts the induction unevenness, but it also retains a lot of heat and doesn't run heat up the walls like typical clad cookware.
yes. genomic surveillance makes it possible to measure the presence of various strains in various areas and their ongoing mutations.
> I just filled up a propane tank, 3lbs of fuel was almost $10 whereas a year ago it was $5-$6

Great. And what was it 2 years ago? 3 years ago? In fact propane is still cheaper now than it was in 2018:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU05320104

So yes, perhaps propane has gone up since last year. But last year it was the cheapest it's been since 1999. So of course the YoY change is going to go up.

Further, in regards to CPI, what percentage of propane purchases make up of your expenses, either on a monthly or annual basis? In the US, "Propane, kerosene, firewood" make up .076% of the CPI:

* https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/household-fuels.htm

In general, household energy makes up 3.605%, with electricity being 2.628%. So while you may feel like it's a big deal, how much of your budget is it really impacting?

What were your expenses in all the various categories of spending last year, and what are they this year? Cherry picking one data point that you just happen to notice does not necessarily mean your expenses are much different in total.

In Canada, StatCan has a personal inflation calculator where you can enter your own expenses for a personal basket of goods:

* https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2020015...

I think if the BLS had a similar tool a lot of the "I think/feel inflation is more than x%" comments would be reduced, as people wouldn't be trying to extrapolate the average CPI to themselves.
This seems almost unbelievable to me. Almost everyone I know, with a handful of exceptions I can think of, had a dramatic change in what I can only say was metabolism at 30 declining steeply to 40. I can tell you personally my ability to lose weight when exercising daily has decreased significantly since 30. If it’s not metabolism, then what? Diet and exercise are almost identical.
I’m telling you what is going to happen in the future. What they write today is meaningless. In 2016 they fought the fbi in terms of unencrypting data. Then they decided to not encrypt iCloud backups. They didn’t mention in 2016 they wouldn’t encrypt iCloud backups just like they won’t say today that they won’t bend to the Chinese government tweaking their algorithm or their hash list in a few yearsnn
> "this is the only way we can prevent CSAM from being stored on our servers."

Why is that supposed to be their responsibility?

Given the scale of their business, there is effectively a certainty that people are transmitting CSAM via Comcast's network. That's no excuse for them to ban end to end encryption or start pushing out code to scan client devices.

When you hail a taxi, they don't search you for drugs before letting you inside.

Because they're not the police. It isn't their role to enforce the law.
Even if in the US we had achieved 100% immunization for the covered ages, there are parts of the world which are way behind and it would have happened there if not India, Brazil or the UK.

So it's a false proposition to say if we in the US had achieved 100% immunization it would have stopped any mutations. It would not have.
> they are slow when not thrown

I thought the not-thrown case was pretty much zero-cost, at least in newer versions of Clang... How much of a slow down are we talking here?
That would have only delayed arrival of the delta variant by a few weeks at most. The US has always had de facto open borders with no real effective security.
Thanks for the corrections, I haven't lived in Canada for a few years now and it's a bit hard to keep track of it all in my head anymore :)
Kids and their Q-beams shining down from freeway overpasses —- at some point they will hit YouTube.
>Pretty sure quality of life is up by pretty much every measure for "low wage workers" both locally and globally.

Wages are stagnant and certainly haven't kept pace with productivity. They can buy more TVs because electronics are cheaper, but costs for basics are going up. Metrics don't capture "having to pee in a bottle" because of work demands.

>You could have made this statement at any point in history, and people might agree with you. If this is the only way it ever has been, why do you think it doesn't have to be this way?

Was it true in 2500 BC that they had the resources to feed everyone on the planet consistently? 1500 AD? We can feed everyone now, yet people go hungry in the wealthiest nation in the world. Has it been true at any point in history since the industrial revolution where we could provide healthcare and advanced education for everyone in an industrialized nation? It works for many of them, but not the wealthiest one. Are we doing everything we can to solve these problems? I understand life is about prioritizing and understanding tradeoffs, but food and healthcare are among the most basic needs for a healthy individual and education is one of the basic needs for a healthy society.

>There is no known solution to ingroup/outgroup tendency, sociopathy or naked self-interest.

So why do we structure society to encourage and reward these behaviors instead of trying to mitigate their effects?
Half of the U.S. refusing to get a vaccine was not inevitable.