skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that these demands should require the built-in app store to support an interoperable feed to other sources. I think that they do but not clearly enough.

I doubt Google would interpret it that way, but that would be the fair way to do it. Make it so that the information is interoperable rather than just not actively disallowing it. Then it can stop being a monopoly.
Particular because the licence is functionally based upon where the eyeballs are physically located at the time the content enters them.
>So far, all evidence points to the vaccines working exactly as well as anticipated.

show me where that meager "49% lower risk" was anticipated
- not only it wasn't anticipated, it is even not being paid attention to right now judging by all those vaccine mandates which are completely pointless giving such a low vaccine efficacy:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/10/delta-variant-...

"Reaching herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current Delta variant, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said.

Giving evidence to MPs on Tuesday, Prof Sir Andrew Pollard said the fact that vaccines did not stop the spread of Covid meant reaching the threshold for overall immunity in the population was “mythical”.

“The problem with this virus is [it is] not measles. If 95% of people were vaccinated against measles, the virus cannot transmit in the population,” he told the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on coronavirus.

“The Delta variant will still infect people who have been vaccinated. And that does mean that anyone who’s still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus … and we don’t have anything that will [completely] stop that transmission.”

...

Data from a recent React study conducted by Imperial College London suggests that fully vaccinated people aged 18 to 64 have about a 49% lower risk of being infected compared with unvaccinated people. The findings also indicated that fully vaccinated people were about half as likely to test positive after coming into contact with someone who had Covid (3.84%, down from 7.23%)."

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The data and studies from Israel, Singapore, UK as well as my own DIY arithmetic on public MA data (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068532) point to the same - third to half chances for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated. CDC data on Provincetown outbreak is also pretty clear, though not for everybody :)

And once infected vaccinated people are spreading the same way as unvaccinated https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

"The higher the amount of coronavirus in the nose and throat, the more likely the patient will infect others. In one Wisconsin county, after Delta became predominant, researchers analyzed viral loads on nose-and-throat swab samples obtained when patients were first diagnosed. They found similar viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated patients, with levels often high enough to allow shedding of infectious virus. "
"Virus Scanner" is optional, many ways to disable it, you won't be arrested if you are infected, and government doesn't get to decide what virus is.

Apple scanning is NOT optional, if they have false match or mess up you will be charged/investigated for one of THE most hated crimes in human history, even if you win the case the damage will be irreparable.

You lost your mind if you think governments are not going to setup their own CSAM database hashes with their own "manual review" centers. Apple will not be able to jack shit on what each country considers CSAM.
In that the specifications are formally specified, and thus can be objectively and automatically verified.
I should have added:

I really do think I have ADHD and I do become obsessive about things,

my job is my hobby, so I probably put more time in to things than what i realise,

but I still do feel like an imposter occasionally (less so with getting older)
I think this a lot about our politics now, we seem to want to tear down all the institutions and values that got us here.
why do they keep using captchas when they so obviously discriminate against visually handicapped but people who can still easily use computers? Don't programmers know there are laws against that? I know they don't care but to choose as it as a means of proof of humanity - something that's illegal in many countries - seems so backward of technology.
It sounded unfair and summer opportunistic to me at first too, since like you say, employers could be saving a lot of money by having you use your house as an office.

The rationale that Google is citing is that they pay based on location. They say remote workers will make the same as office workers in the same city, which sounds reasonable.
People in the trades are some of the most likely group of people to go into business for themselves. Doing a few years of work and then going out on your own is the norm.
Ah, that's easy.

The negotiating power of a company, which is practically a group of people, is much higher than that of employees, which are just 1 person. A big company loses what? 0.00001% of its revenue if it doesn't hire the right person for a specific position? An employee loses 100% of their revenue if they don't get hired or get fired.

So companies can pretty much do what they want (up to a point where they cause uproar and those individuals to bunch up into a group fighting the company).
Incident with Codespaces
Such interesting food for thought. You are deceiving people for your own gains but then you're not breaking any rules (i guess since i don't know much about runescape), and it would really matter if it was an NPC who did that to them.
Indeed I don't want to sound like a 'get out of my lawn' kind of person but I am increasingly noticing an overlap between submissions on HN and posts on r/worldnews.

Again I think for the most part the moderators are doing an amazing work but there is definitely a risk of just becoming another frontpage of the internet instead of sticking to the original ethos of submissions about 'anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity'.
Gross to force me to go to Reddit just to go here
https://dev.to/vasilievserg/optimization-of-net-applications...
Laws need to hit the right amount of vague in order to be practical.

Courts and legal traditions will fill in the gaps (especially in a precedence heavy system like the US one).

It wouldn't surprise me if there isn't already a standard interpretation for "general computing device".
“More pay” and “less pay” are relative. Once things equalize, jobs that require people to commute will have to pay more. Just like jobs that required you to be on a plane every week paid more in 2018.
Plugin developers don't bother testing on the betas. They wait until an update breaks things and then work based on user complaints.

And who can blame them really, no one pays them to work on these plugins. If you wanted to make sure your plugins worked before an update than you should go test them on a beta yourself.

Unfortunately delaying an update doesn't really solve the problem as developers still wait for the "its broken" reports before fixing things.
Mosh has been working great for me for the last two years or so, I don't feel the need for new features, so I don't see a problem there.
Local outbreaks here among vaccinated family members and extended family members supports the emerging data that Delta spreads easily via vaccinated folks. The CDC recommendation for indoor mask wearing is motivated by data from Israel that was derived from testing vaccinated people without symptoms.

Delta is damn good at spreading, it seems. This sucks.
It takes a pretty extreme level of fine tuning to hit that window - Java memory usage is generally about 2x equivalent Rust. (It's completely possible your rewrite saved much more than that - but in that case, doing the same rewrite in Java would probably have brought you similar gains).

And unless your user number is very static, you're not going to be in that window for long - maybe you push back the point at which you have to implement autoscaling / do some serious profiling work / start shopping around cloud vendors / ... by six months, or a year, which is helpful but not a huge return on rewriting your whole system. A factor of 10x or 100x is maybe worth letting it determine your choice of language. But given that most performance differences come from algorithm selection rather than the low-level details of your runtime, a language that makes it easy to understand what your code is doing is definitely worth giving up a factor of 2x or even 5x for.

For a mature codebase where your userbase is not really growing any more, that kind of marginal performance work can be worthwhile - maybe rather than putting off the point at which you have to scale out, it lets you avoid having to scale out at all and saves you 50% on your running costs forever. But that kind of environment is the same kind of environment where it makes sense to put the codebase into maintenance mode and get rid of most of the expensive programmers (perhaps replacing them with outsourcing).
> Google rightly defaults to Arabic if you're not logged in

How about Google uses the user agent's language setting sent in the header? This frustrates me to no end living in Germany using an English language browser.
Thanks for making me laugh out loud, appreciated.
Havent you heard? If you want www devs to use it you have to graft on some hideous typesystem along with jsx.

Would be hilarious if someone read this and thought “you know I should add static types to python”
Not the person you're asking, but I run the same thing. Here's my setup:

Plex/Jellyfin for watching content.

Sonarr(TV)/Radarr(Movies)/Lidarr(Music)/Readarr(Audio/Books) - For searching/organizing/starting downloads, monitoring for new releases and so on

nzbget/qbittorrent - for doing the actual downloads

prowlarr - to handle various indexers/search providers between *arr apps and downloaders

overseerr - to make everything foolproof for people who are not tech savvy. They can see what's downloaded, and request new stuff and they get an email once its been downloaded.

On top of that I have watchtower which does automatic updates, as everything is running as docker containers.

Honestly it seems like complicated setup, but it's really not, and once set up it runs without any issues. I've had this for a few years now, and there's been maaaybe a handful of times where I needed to fix something.
What hypothetical? The comment clearly thinks that the study should be read in the light they present. They even wonder if the narrative will change based on the new science - not whetheriit would change.
> Now web development doesn't pay that well, so the natural path was cybersecurity. Still learning, and I feel like this will be my last career change because it takes years to stop feeling dumb and start feeling like an impostor again.

Does cybersecurity pay better, at least in certain markets/contexts I was under the impression that doing web dev would land you several thousands more salary wise, though I'd certainly settle to work on the parts of security I'm not smart enough to lmao.
Worked in Paris for a year. Much lower pay, but much better overall quality of life. 35 days PTO, could afford an apartment within walking distance of the office. No one eating lunch at their desks. People cared about the product as much as they do in the USA but there was a clear separation between work and non work life. Came back to the USA to earn more and will relocate when we have kids.
Why do they keep using captchas when this test of humanity has such a major flaw and there are so many people with this degree of visual disability who can still easily use computers? Don't programmers know there are laws against that? I know they don't care but to choose it as a means of proof of humanity - a test considered illegal in many countries - seems truly backward of technology.
Netflix can’t even get parity for licensing on content they’ve helped produce/took over.

I stopped paying for Netflix for a lot of reasons, but the straw that broke the camels back for me was when I wanted to watch something with my Fiancé who lives in the UK and despite the series in question being branded a Netflix series, they didn’t have it on their service in the UK.

I don’t lay this all at Netflix’s feet. This stuff has always been fucked and Netflix has less leverage then ever since every other rights holders wants toss their hat into the ring and hope they reach at least a break even point while their competitors fail and then consolidation happens as the losers make deals with the winners.

I don’t mind paying for services but the incredible fragmentation of the market right now has pushed me back over the line where it is so much easier and more convenient with less bullshit (You still can’t get more than 720p unless you’re using Edge on PC) involved to torrent the limited selection of media I’m interested in again.
Windows Defender a) tells you exactly what file/which virus triggered it and b) does not report you to the police. And AV that uploads files by itself is not OK either.

Then, either the DB or the algorithms will result in false positives, and you have to trust the reviewers 100% – with your life – to sort them out correctly. From the article at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28110159:

(The false-positive was a fully clothed man holding a monkey -- I think it's a rhesus macaque. No children, no nudity.) Based just on the 5 matches, I am able to theorize that 20% of the cryptographic hashes were likely incorrectly classified.
Roofing is maybe the weakest link in that list of four and also the most punishing of those trades on the body. Congrats, you found it. It's also the one I put last.

Commercial properties also have roofs that need replacing and residential & commercial construction often don't boom at the same time. More importantly, storms are always a thing and one of the most common places trees go is into buildings & from the top.

I have never met a roofer that wasn't insanely overbooked.
>Maybe perhaps, it might have occurred to you that your response to mbesto is perhaps the best example of "unprovoked hostility" in this thread

>And yes, pretty please, can you please get off my lawn? I didn't come here to witness mental derangement

I can't love this enough. Thank you.

>Stop trying to police other people's thoughts, responses, beliefs and predictions about Tiktok.

I didn't know it could get better, but it did!
Revelation: all soda is bad
Ask HN: Are web developers still overlooking accessibility
Context: I'm responsible for a web development team, and have been hiring again recently.

When interviewing junior (0-2 years experience) or mid (2-5 years experience) developers, I've been surprised about how little accessibility is understood or prioritised.

Despite being taught in education, bootcamps and training; despite laws, penalties and improved resources.

My own background has had it drummed into me that accessibility is a primary requirement and a professional obligation, however after speaking to dozens of "front end" and "full stack" candidates it appears it's not even on developers radars any more.

I wondered what the HN community thought of whether this is globally true, or I've just been talking to people who are not representative of the norm in the profession.
Don’t forget welding. I’m colorblind so that’s been my dream if I were to start over. Most of those require a good amount of color coded wiring. I did try to become a cop and passed all the exams, but they also check for colorblindness.

I’m a fan of trades over office jobs. They’re paid fairly, you either have a union or at least paid for your hours you actually work. And I’ve always dreamed about overtime pay. Instead I’m pitted against overseas labor which instead of fighting, I’d prefer to unionize with them against our employer. Anyone that hires overseas deserves it. Certainly didn’t care about jobs here so we shouldn’t care about their well-being either.
Go to any GitHub repo and press “.”
>This is effectively a virus scanner. Files are hashed (in a fancy way), compared against known hashes, and matches are reported. Your Windows desktop has Windows Defender.

The analogy isn't great. Anti-virus/malware software provides a benefit to the owner of the device; Apple's software does not.
Cars/bikes offer unprecedented freedom of movement. A lot of people would still own cars even if they didn't need them for driving to work. You could say the same thing about Netflix subscription, dishwasher, holidays, sports, coffee, cigarettes,..., they are all expensive and unnecessary and yet they make life nicer.
That is not an accurate generalization. Many in the crypto community do not advocate breaking laws. Instead they look for ways to interact that do not legally require complying with onerous regulatory burdens, like peer-to-peer monetary transfers, that do not as of yet have the same amount of totalitarian restriction placed upon them as monetary transfers that are intermediated by a trusted third party middle-man.

As for the legitimacy of the law itself, and the opinion of the 'crypto community' on it: the distinction you're missing is that some laws prohibit victimless crimes, by infringing upon the freedom of contract, and always in the name of some supposed greater good, whether that's 'limiting systemic risk', 'protecting retail investors' or 'preventing money laundering', while others prohibit genuinely victimful crimes, where one party violates the rights of another. It can be entirely morally consistent to oppose the former while supporting the latter.
Imagine a world in which everyone has exactly the same income and the same expenses, saves up the same amount of money for retirement, and lives exactly the same amount of time.

In that world, someone just about to retire would in one sense be somewhere in the top 1-2% of wealth holders and in another sense be exactly average (and median, and mode), as regards their consumption patterns.

The point being, lifecycle effects matter a _lot_. In the US, ~17% of the population is 65+ (not all of them retired, of course, but many retired and living partially off their savings) and ~6% of the population are college students. Let's assume that "individual income" does not include children (though it might, depending on how it's measured. It certainly includes various people who only work part-time, but let's ignore that. If we assume that college students and retirees are all below-median (not entirely true, but no worse than the other assumptions we just made), 70th percentile of individual income is something like 60th percentile of "income of non-students and non-retirees".

> That being reasonable doesn't change the fact that it's still more than what 70% of other situations get

The point is, if you look at actual consumption (as in, how people actually live), not everyone's consumption comes entirely from income. So it's extremely misleading to look at incomes and say anything about what people "get".
Here's a related graph [1] supporting this conclusion, that remote work has recently increased. This graph shows the frequency of "remote" in HN Who's Hiring posts over time.

[1] https://iblaine.github.io/assets/images/projects/graph-remot...
This annoys me to no end. It's like, I'm paying with a US debit card, you have my physical address in the States (my parents'), so why the hell should it matter where I am at this moment? I think if there is any geofencing, it should be based on where you registered your account, or by method of payment. Maybe we need to pester Congress to change contract law.

In lieu of that, does anyone know of a desktop/gui tcp proxy? I was thinking of making one and having it run on my Mom's computer, seeing as how she leaves it on 24/7 :)
Don’t Call Yellowstone a Supervolcano
In games we usually separate between exploits and hacks. Exploits are vague but typically things allowed by the game, but not intended (or have for more impact than expected).

I believe if you lied in the game that would constitute a written/verbal contract and what you did is fraud. Some games enforce written agreements, others say it's the wild west so too bad, this is role playing by a character, not the person. I'm not sure if either has ever been tested in court.

For the hacking thing I don't really agree that all hacking is 'allowed', phishing is of course a type of fraud, your access is unauthorised even with the correct credentials - authority to enter a building does not derive from stealing a key from someone. Likewise a buffer overflow is 'allowed' much the same way a window allows itself to be broken by a brick.
I gave Stingle a cursory try, but I was immediately put off by the fact that it was not even able to retrieve EXIF data from images and use that a basis for sorting. The handful of images I uploaded as a test we're all dated to the date I uploaded them as opposed to when they were actually taken, and there was no way to change that either. There was also no way to view the EXIF data as well.
I don't necessarily disagree with anything you say but we are coming from different perspectives of FTE vs "staff aug". My company uses contractors as an FTE pipeline or funnel and by nature they have far less leverage (if they are good they will eventually be offered FTE spots and get more of the "leverage" I mentioned).

There's also probably some nuance between the US job market and French job market of which I have no business speaking to.

My overall point is, that in the US at least, for middle of the bell curve type talent to solve middle of the bell curve type problems, there is far less talent than there is problems.
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Just have separate prepaid cards per country? You're already paying the price for that country's content selection, so Netflix should have no issue giving you access to that content either.
Netcat, for instance.
That's interesting - I've always found Australia to be more welcoming to remote work than other countries like the US. Both my wife and I have lived in Christchurch, NZ, for the past 6 years now and worked 100% remotely for multiple companies based out of Sydney.
been expecting for a native windows of the tool for some while, pity that there is none. apart from that - it works like charm indeed.
I built mirrorspace.net (beta up at https://app.mirrorspace.net/) which is a "mirror space" i.e. a virtual layer ontop of our normal physical space. Users can browse nearby landmarks (currently based on geolookup wikipedia entries) and also upload their own media. But the catch is, for anyone else to view your media and interact with it, they need to be within 50m of the upload location. This mechanic is meant to drive a dual virtual/physical interaction that gives a more holistic and potentially a more meaningful social media experience.

My idea was to add search filters, commenting, voting etc. and allow people to "feel" how people currently interact with any location - so if I fly to SF from Berlin, I can immediately browse the mirrorspace and see what people are doing specifically where I am now, and also get a handle on the social fabric of that place. I wanted to have a platform that records significant events in a temporal way, maybe protests or similar - things that define each city/place uniquely. The monetisation strategy was to allow people to pay the platform to increase the visibility radius of their posts, and/or allow people to pay to view media items from outside the normal radius - where a share of this payment goes to the uploader.

I was fucking around for a few years on this, and now I have another major project to work on so no longer have time or motivation to "finish" it. I might open source it in the future, if anyone is interested. (I haven't looked at the code in months)