skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much more productive is an software engineer that uses Rust compared to one that uses, say, C/C++? That is to say, do I need fewer software engineers to deliver the same product if they use Rust rather than another language?

Anyone who's used both in production for any length of time can tell you that you will not deliver the same product in C++ unless you're willing to put in JPL levels of investment. So yes, it's far more productive for "the same product." The question is what you mean by "the same product." Do you consider a project implementing a feature set with loads of memory errors to be functionally the same thing as one without? If you do, then Rust probably won't be that much more productive than C++ (IME still more productive, but within the realm of subjectivity). If you do not, then it's not even close. This is the calculation companies like Microsoft and Google have been doing when they invested in Rust for new OS development.
I read a litrpg book that the main character got a power that was basically programming. He could modify objects to do certain things based on triggers.

It was quite entertaining. But most of what he did was either off-the-cuff, or the book hid the hours and hours of testing and research so that it wouldn't bore the reader.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find the name of the book in my reading history.
Add up all the businesses that have failed and you'll find plenty that disrespected some of their customers.

Walmart is a much higher bar geopolitically, but bet they have to jump too when word gets out of malfeasance. But it is a prisoner's dilemma when they are the main one-stop value shop.
My grandma just got Lyme with pretty high certainty in her own garden. In suburbia in a million people city. With a deer:people ratio of about 0.00.

From my understanding, ticks can be in any type of grass. If you somehow touch grass of any type, be it walking, sitting or hand-mowing, there is a chance of picking one up. Sure, there are few ticks in very populated areas, but I would rather guess that more people equates to more likelyness that someone else already picked up the ticks in that area. And obviously: there is less grass were many people go.
This is a very bad comment.

Delta is one of the most transmissive and dangerous viruses in history. Many times worse than previous strains of COVID. Delta has the capability of burning through communities even with relatively high vaccine coverage. We are dealing with a historically dangerous strain!

And despite this, daily deaths are significantly lower per capita than previous outbreaks in Isreal despite daily case loads being already as high as previous outbreaks.

If anything, what's happening in Isreal is an indicator that not only are vaccines working, but they are working well. Even as efficacy has reduced over time.

And lastly, efficacy of a COVID vaccine feels kinda orthogonal to efficacy of an HIV vaccine, no?
> Then again, with all the massive outpouring of Bitwarden support in every single one of these threads ever, I am pretty sure the real solution is just to bite the bullet and jump ship to Bitwarden/vaultwarden like everyone else seems to be doing

To follow myself up, I seem to have found another "those people don't know what they're missing" situation because I actually did try Bitwarden (Premium) this weekend and what a dumpster fire compared to 1P

I thought about writing up all the shitshow, but ultimately it just boils down to them not caring about their product or users

For some of the platforms, I would actually be on-board with jumping in to fix the innumerable bugs, but with them being a mixed setup (open and "premium" features), the fact that so much fundamental behavior has been broken for so long with no obvious mitigation strategy makes me question whether this is something I would want to invest in
Fiduciary duty > civil duty

Welcome to capitalism.
I think the parent is talking about the fact Dick Cheney is on the advisory board among other former US government officials as seen on the linked page.
I've read all the individual statements by the authors and they don't even try to explain how this happened, they just vaguely bemoan their own trusting nature and deflect.

I don't see how it would be plausible for the insurance company collecting the data to independently tamper with it in that specific way (and getting the typeface wrong) before passing it to the unsuspecting researchers.

Oh, and of course they immediately taught the result to MBAs and executives. I wonder how long it'll take to filter out of the system.
There are multiple ways actually. This is not a tit for tat kind of thing.

No one I know, who are gay or otherwise just not a normie in these things, would want, or have expressed HIV something needing to be preserved, continuing to exist and do the great harm in this world that it does.

Maybe you do. That just has not been my experience.
As someone who runs Zoom via the browser (they do deploy a dark pattern to discourage this behavior but there is no good reason to trust them) I find that Hangouts and Teams are both solid alternatives in terms of AV quality. Would be happy to see some actual data on this claim.

People prefer the interface they are used to. I personally find Zoom to be really frustrating from an interface angle but that is probably just familiarity. Of course Zoom could have avoided such issues had they been more conscious of ethics.
Minor nitpick - kamma and karma are the same thing, but different languages. Kamma is Pali and karma is Sanskrit.

To be even more detailed, karma is the action rather than the effect, which is called karma vipaka. The English word karma means something more fluid - depending on context.
> You also see this when people put greasy paper take-out food containers in the recycling. No, it's not recyclable, and worse, it might further contaminate other things and render them non-recyclable as well. But, when I ask houseguests not to put them in our recycle bin, they seem to be honestly startled by the request. Oftentimes they assume it's because I'm a lax recycler and would rather throw things away than sully my pristine recycle bin with uneaten curry.

It happens here because recycling volume is unlimited, while regular trash has a fairly low limit.

However.

You do not have to sort the recycling. They do not reject it for being entirely take-out containers. And it's collected in open-top containers that result in a mass littering event every time trash day happens to be windy.

I suspect they're just picking out the metal and putting everything else in the landfill, anyway.
How is HIV sophisticated? What makes it effective?
Mastodon is an ActivityPub implementation, right? So does that mean Mastodon can interact with other AP implementations? Or do they add some additional stuff that doesn’t interop?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I invite you to watch one of our dialect coaches, Ron Carlos, share a bit about both the values and process that he brings to the table at BoldVoice (1:43 mins) - https://vimeo.com/572809188

As our name implies, we want to help non-native English speakers feel bolder and more confident when speaking English. To feel more confident, indeed, one may need to more deeply learn the rules of English grammar, and more varied vocabulary.

However, in the pursuit of more confident and clear speech, one may also want to learn how to adapt their pronunciation, how they place stress, how they use intonation and they way they use pacing and rhythm. All of these are the component parts of an accent.

A note from Ron (who just Slacked me while I was writing this): Clarity of speech and pronunciation are big parts of an accent. You can’t change those without changing an accent. We are dialect coaches. We love peoples’ native accents, which is why we use sounds and samples from each speaker’s familiar language to teach sounds in American English. We want to empower our users to be able to control their speech so they can choose when sound more American in situations where it may benefit them. We truly hope that one day accents won’t matter, but until then, we have folks who feel embarrassed about their accent which keeps them from showing up with their full selves. We’re here to help those folks feel more confident with their speech.
Have any startup founders worked with Altura Ventures?
I'm looking for references from any startup founders who have partnered with Altura Ventures and learn about your experience. https://www.altura.com/
I guess it depends on how much past experience they had with an array-based, stack-based, logic-based, pure functional or lisp family language, and how long ago that was. I can believe an experienced engineer can learn the basics of any language in a day. But being proficient and idiomatic is another matter.
> Designing on your own might take time some time but will help your product in long run as using a template restricts creative additions.

I feel the same way about templates as they constrain design freedom. I lean more toward CSS/JS frameworks.

> Pick any existing CSS framework sucha tailwind CSS

I've noticed tailwind gets a lot of love on HN. Is Tailwind UI going to help make it easy to create a landing page with top notch aesthetics?
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Satellite photos show chaos in Afghanistan exit
Spent 18 months building a modern No-code Chatbot platform for GTM teams
Hey all, my name is Santhosh, and I am the Co-founder of Jikoo. For the last 18 months, I have been working to build a modern No-code Chatbot and Livechat platform with ticketing capabilities.

The backstory:

I was leading the GTM of Zoho for the UK/European market back in 2020. When Covid struck we went to work from home, that's when the real challenge began. There were a lot of chats coming in from customers as a lot of people were working from home and incoming calls almost dropped to zero.

Sometimes we were handling 10-15 chats parallelly, chats were getting missed frequently. I was not able to transfer queries to sales/product teams as the chat product didn't allow us to do so. No proper ticketing and issue/query tagging were available within the live chat software which even slowed down the process, couldn't really understand why customers were coming. When we tried to implement a chatbot it took a lot of learning and time to actually go live.

So I finally decided this is the problem I should be solving which can make a real difference for the new-age companies and quit my job last year. In a startup, be it the Head of Marketing or Product should always be in sync with customer queries. So how do you create a product which can bring all the teams together in a single window without a lot of effort? I was a huge fan of service now - almost anything can be templated and workflows can be created to streamline processes.

So taking inspiration from Service now, I have created a next-gen Chatbot & Live chat software with rich ticketing capabilities. Gone are the times where you will have to worry about missing important customer chats.

Enough of the story, so let's see how we really make a difference:

Scenario 1: If a customer comes to report a bug - You can talk to him using the chatbot and gather all the information. Create a ticket automatically and tag it to the developer in charge, later the developer can push the issue to JIRA in seconds.

Scenario 2: If a new lead comes in, you can qualify them using the chatbot. Based on the responses you can either provide a self-service or tag someone from the sales team. The beauty here is our powerful tags can help you tag the query - Eg: Customer type | New lead, Location | New York, Deal Type | Enterprise. Makes life easy for your GTM teams to focus on stuff that matters.

Once the lead is converted you can create a new ticket from the existing chat and assign it to your onboarding or operations team. So the entire cycle of customer management becomes absolutely easy.

The quickest way to get a feeling of how Jikoo works is by checking out our page: https://jikoo.io/

With this version, I feel that I am very close to my vision for what Jikoo MVP should be. In other words; it is finally ready for public consumption. I'd wholeheartedly advice you to look into it and give it a whirl if you are interested in no-code and cx :)

Hope you like it, and please share any feedback you might have in the comments!
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If an analyst doesn't understand Islam, then they would get fooled.

If you understand that the Taliban are a local army that follows the Koran literally, then there's no confusion.

As an example, several Western female journalists are demanding "gender rights" for Afghani women. In Islamic practise, women have normal rights inside the home, but not outside.
JSON Schema Specification Lead at Postman shares tips for a productive workday
Well, rigor and quality in building industry are location dependent. I've read a blog of a builder who describes how architects regularly produce dangerous (too thin or just simply missing load-bearing beams) or straight up impossible (gable of negative size, yep) designs. The solution is that the builders just build whatever makes sense and sometimes the contractors simply don't notice.
(Disclaimer not a web but backend dev.)

In my experience it's much more important to modularize/capsulate/segmentate by groupings
of business logic then by groupings of implementation
details.

Applying this to web applications (not simple text focused websites) this would mean that its preferable
to have everything (HTML+JS+CSS) related to a specific widget (e.g. counter) in one place, instead of splitting it into many parts sprinkled across many files potentially in different folders. Similarly you also would e.g. want the CSS to be encapsulated as to the component as far as possible.

Its a bit of a different matter for classical html documents where the HTML made sense without JS or CSS and both where thinks you added "on top" to "just make it a bit nicer" but this isn't the think anymore for modern webapps (and many fancy websites).

Also if you work in a situation where you have many huge teams working on the same UI at the same time touching the same logical component (but normally different aspects of it) then having a more clear segregation can also make sense, but >99% of all companies are not ever in that situation.

This is also for example a major critic I have with react, it splits one logical unit across different files making it much harder to reason about it for the benefit of adding a bit more decoupling which isn't needed by >99% of dev teams.
Yep, the way I see it is, how much abstraction are you willing to accept.

Intuitively you may not want too much, until you find out that maybe you could have needed a bit more because of the repetitiveness. So frameworks that give you the option to gradually increase it when you need are the best. And when the documentation follows those patterns it's really great (I'd put Vue in that category).

Usually the thinking was, while it may not make sense, it will someday when my project grows, so let's adopt it right away. And for years I would have said that was a decent advice. Nowadays I think that with some of the more extreme scales behind some of those trends though, it's not always as clear cut.
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"Possible side effects" includes any condition that arose during the trial, whether or not it was directly caused by the vaccine being tested. Source: a family member has a job that involves drug trials.
Because the math doesn't work out.
Yes. Are there any advantages of Venmo over Zelle?
I don't see how this could have happened without either collusion between the insurance company and the researchers or at least one of the researchers directly tampering with the data.
This is true for many vaccines, but given the unique mechanism HIV uses to attack the immune system, it might actually work in actively infected HIV patients.
https://jikoo.io/
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/sep/11/heres-why-you-can-mail...
Facebook being in charge of creating the infrastructure for internet seems wrong to me.

It's like my drug dealer needing to sell me Meth so badly that he actually builds the road to my house.
> and that's not even considering other sources of entropy, like user agent or screen size.

As a reminder: Chrome sends 16 bits of x-client-data with every http request aimed at Google servers. So they already have half the bits they need to uniquely identify your system without FLoC.
Bash script to change Zoom virtual background every day
Was going to recommend this
Very cool, good luck! I'm sure you'll do great

p.s. if you would be open to listing your positions on a 4 day work week (even at 80% salary) I'd be more than happy to promote them on https://4dayweek.io + the newsletter for free
> Other small, harmless, cold–blooded animals

Sounds like a bit like my ex wife.
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First think that poped in DDG:

>Israel reinstates some virus restrictions to avoid a full lockdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/world/israel-covid-restri...

Sorry it's a paywall but the title is enough. Doesn't scream vaccine efficacy to me since they are in the top vaccinated country list.
Neither nuclear war nor climate change has the ability to destroy ALL of humanity.
It's nice to read a positive comment like yours occasionally, because the vast majority of the time, I'm just disappointed in how bad our programming tools (including languages) are.

It's become a meme in my office that I'm the guy constantly bitching about how stupid our languages are. This week I was back on my soap box about the fact that almost zero mainstream (statically typed) programming languages can even let you write down that you want a non-empty string. In some languages you can implement your own class/type that wraps around the built-in string type, but most of the time you are now introducing memory and CPU overhead, can't use your type with other APIs that expect strings, etc. So nobody does that. But ask yourself this: how often have you ever written a function that requested a string as input and actually wanted an empty string? How many times did you not even think about what would happen if someone DID pass an empty string?

Same goes for positive and non-negative numbers. How many times did you write "int" when you actually only wanted a positive number? If I have to type "if x <= 0 throw FooException" as the first line of one more function, I'm going to scream. (A lot of languages do have unsigned ints, to be fair. But some still don't, or their unsigned ints are almost useless.)

People make all kinds of Stockholm Syndrome-y excuses for it ("validate inputs at the edges is all you need"), but the truth is that (most of) our languages are so deficient for expressing really basic ideas.

Thank goodness there are some languages that do try to make it possible to write "newtypes" and try to make concurrency safer. Now if we could just get everyone to adopt those in less than a decade, maybe we'd be able to get to the next generation after that, and then maybe we'll have good programming languages before I die.

Sorry that turned into a rant... :/
Google's aberrated view of privacy and the role ads should play in our lives is partly why we have to constantly be on the lookout and expect to end up being screwed regardless, even if we pay $4000 for a device that runs Google TV.
If you want a more-than-surface-deep (but not academic deep) article on what makes HIV fascinating - https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-science/overview is a good quick read
They literally killed this vaccine, so it's anti-vax by definition in result.
It appears Replicache doesn't use CRDTs since it has a central source of truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175530

See also the commentary here: https://doc.replicache.dev/guide/local-mutations

This sounds a lot like Operational Transform but without the transform part - it assumes that locally applied mutations can be undone and rebased without user interaction. But I feel like the Google Wave team would have a lot of objections to the idea that this can just be ignored. If your state is just a group of key value stores where last write wins and everyone can agree on who's last, that's fine, but text/token streams require a notion of transformation that I'm worried Replicache simply glosses over.
Ironically though Ford would go on to do pretty much the same with the Explorer's tires and the fiesta/focus' transmission[1] but as I understand the Pinto was pretty much typical for compact cars of the era (they were all death traps) and the data used in the Mother Jones/60 Minutes exposes was inaccurate.

"Perhaps the most illuminating data comes from NHTSA fatality rates per million vehicles for 1975 and 1976. In the published chart, the Pinto is responsible for 298 deaths per million cars in 1975, making it on par with the Chevrolet Vega (288) and Datsun 510 (294), but considerably safer than the Datsun 1200/210 (392), the Toyota Corolla (333) and the VW Beetle (378). In 1976, the Pinto’s 322 deaths per million cars was slightly higher than the Chevrolet Vega (310) and AMC Gremlin (315), but better than the Datsun 510 (340), the Datsun 1200/210 (418) and the VW Beetle (370)."[2]

[1]https://www.freep.com/in-depth/money/cars/ford/2019/12/05/fo...

[2]https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/10/17/misunderstood-ca... citing
[3]http://www.perishablepundit.com/docs/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pi...
> Fox has a strangle-hold on the older minds

When most people think of Fox News, they think boomers. You might be right considering that the commercials they repeat target that demographic. As a non-boomer, however, it is refreshing to escape away from the blame Trump on everything narrative. I have a profound respect for older Americans and enjoy asking about history from their perspective. It's always engaging and fun when things are discussed in hindsight.

> The solution, I'm sorry to say, is not teaching critical thinking, or appealing to better emotions, but rather an equal-and-opposite channel: a news walk-through with the same emotional profile, but with opposite opinions to Fox.

Isn't that the point of CNN (or the point of Fox whichever way you look at it)? Cable news is exactly that, a commentary of today's news. Unfortunately all the news broadcasts have gone to cable especially during a time when there are cord-cutters everywhere. News isn't free over-the-air anymore. You have to belong to a certain segment to enjoy (or be susceptible to) that news.
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It's still unknown what causes long covid. Lingering virus is one hypothesis that's still plausible. Indeed some people believe it precisely because the vaccines seem to be helping significant numbers of people (but not everyone, they can also make it worse for some people).
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Genetics is complex and we don't even can handle complexity in computer programs.

Maybe we can choose eye color, but temperament? Far too complex, far too many possible side effects.

Just look what happened of the dream that AI could help with Corona

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-...
Regarding monitoring: I've come to rely on healthchecks.io to ensure my cron jobs when like I expect.
Problem is you might show up on the radar when you exchange Bitcoin or Fiat for Monero.
It's a bit ironic that we're essentially having a blub language debate on ycombinator's web site. I'll defer to Paul Graham's response: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I'm interested how this stacks against Phoenix Channels + Presence.
Does this count as an "easter egg"? I mean, fraud in an experiment about dishonesty is irony in its most ferrous form.
Not THAT much, e.g. people who believe conspiracy theories are more likely to be antivaxxers