skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You'd have thought the people supporting the plan were proposing to kill members' grandchildren.

That's crazy, considering that policy is likely adding an absolutely insane amount to everyone's property values. When NYC re-landscaped The Highline to make it exclusively native plants, property values in the area literally went up 10x.

I live in a HOA, and the first thing I did when I moved in was to dig up all the forsythia along our driveway and replace them with grafted pawpaws. Planting nice trees is the only home improvement you can make where you can spend $50 and add $100,000 to your property value. The returns are literally like getting a chance to go back to 2011 and buy Bitcoin.
Yeah up until the list of grievances I was thinking this was a serious post, but I’m guessing it’s a very lame attempt at trolling. These aren’t genuine workplace complaints, just caricatures of millennials who are probably in their 30s themselves.
The passage you quoted is not anti-freedom because it never says people should be forced to take their shots.

You also seem to be having a completely different argument -- that the risk/reward of Covid vaccines are debatable.

Assuming the debate is satisfyingly closed in the future, as it has been for polio, measles, and certain other vaccines, the people defining what shots you should (not must) take are scientific and medical groups using evidence that is transparently available to you.
Gold you hold is an asset.

It creates a liability, in the sense of associated risks of holding a large liquid portable store of wealth. You might find the storage location burgled, yourself kidnapped, associates (family, household or business help, etc.) betraying you, etc. The overall consequence of those risks is not necessarily the same as the value of the asset, and could well greatly exceed it.
With hindsight, there's certainly a discussion to be had about the Covid response of any European country that experienced significant excess mortality in April 2020, because it didn't have to be that way.

There may be extenuating circumstances in some instances, but in case of Sweden, I'm not sure what they would be. As far as I can see, policy makers rolled the dice and lost (assuming preservation of life is the metric of choice) - though that failure becomes less significant as time goes on and the fraction representing initial excess mortality starts shrinking...
I do not understand why any security concerned person would use biometric identification for anything, ever.
Never seen that before: your coinage? If so I hope your license is a little more free than the OP's: I intend using it when I can get away with it.
Yes.

The sign bit is totally independent of the value being encoded, whether that’s a number, q/sNaN, or infinity.

Nitpick: we are not flipping the sign bit, but rather setting it to 0.
It doesn't have to wipe your drive, just do reasonable things like kill your sensitive messenger accounts and clean up the history.
I will be more careful.
The big platforms will silence you for saying things that clearly fall under free speech.
Concepts have existed informally since the original C++ STL. For the last 25 years people have been trying to make them a language construct. The current design is the one compromise people could agree on while being implementable and backward compatible.

I haven't used it much yet, but I would still say it is pretty good although far from a proper template type system.
> If my life depended on a vehicle, I’d take a 2014 Jeep Wrangler...

I'm glad to read that. I've been feeling a bit backwards by holding on to my Jeep in a world slowly being filled by EVs, but you just made me feel better about it.
Lumber prices were also insane until the last few weeks. That’s not indicative of a structural change in the market sustainable over a long period of time.
> with lots of money simply going to waste

What does this look like? Is there money going into the system that’s not going to anyone / any company at all?
I think important point is distinction between:

a) static documents - basically HTML+CSS and no scripts on the back-end

There is not much to discuss here a lot of stuff could be just that but people don't want to write blog posts directly in html :)
We have static site generators that are doing great so it seems to be working well.

b) dynamic documents - you get data from DB based on query, like list of phone numbers in Texas and want to find specific city

Static page generators would not be that useful if one wants to reflect changes from db.
Queries are also nicer in db than having insane long list on page with CTRL-F.
I would say a CGI only thing would work great for such use case.
You probably want to thing about SQL injections but as it is browse only then might not be an issue.

c) web applications - here people want all bells and whistles

Security is important as you probably need authentication and preventing XSS is quite important here.
I would never build web application with only CGI - security headers are not that hard to add.
But authentication and authorization + XSS prevention is really hard. Then you have lots of requests that send/filter data.
You can have problems with SQL injection as you have to store some users and their passwords and their data, framework+orm helps preventing a lot of troubles.
One probably should not use a framework for making his blog/static-page.
Unfortunately nowadays most people build web apps.

This is what rubs me with posts about "you don't need X framework, it all should be static documents", well yes you don't need big framework if you build personal website. You probably need one if you build a web app. Downside is we have HTML+CSS as interface that was designed as document framework and not as application interface building framework. That is why we need a back end and front end frameworks.
My understanding is that the NKVD’s purges of Republicans in Spain was what first alarmed Orwell. I believe that he had to escape ‘warrants’ out for his assassination on his way out of Spain.
> awk

Or Perl. That's what Perl was originally created for.

Or sed. If awk is too mainstream for you.

Or Python.

Or just write the ugly pipeline in your script, and promptly forget how it actually works. I've done that a lot.
Some of the jobs look pretty cool, can you share what is the salary range to be expected? The website is silent about that, which in Europe almost always means underwhelming numbers.
Or, if we do want to get out, plan to stop at a cool restaurant or something instead of at a random supercharger location.

I would assume, as the number of electric cars rises, more and more restaurants see this as a business opportunity to offer charging while eating.

Did you know you can bring snacks and even coffee with you in your car?

As a German, I find the pure thought of doing so, horrend.
Thanks again for sharing your experience and perspectives on all this. It’s emboldening me to go indie and start my own company rather than chase the mirage of stock options.
> The only thing that (almost) guarantees good relationships with management is to just do whatever they want even when it is leading the company to ruin, never voice your objections, etc.

That is not my experience. When management asks to do something, it doesn't mean it likes any outcome. I am not calling to oppose any decision, but usually there are ways to express concerns. "High risk" for example is language they may understand. I've found that managers many times more confused and disoriented than you may expect. Sometimes asking questions discovers, that there are missing parts in the plan. But it is not easy, even to start questioning you need to have reputation (ex. guy that make things done). Finding right forum ("small group discussion") is another way to communicate concerns.

>they don’t usually care about the success of the company, just their own personal success

Well, people who put "success of the company" at highest priority usually not become manages. Many times managers are blind, because they have to follow orders (directions). Hearing from subject matter expert that the direction doesn't make sense not helping to their mental state.

My general position: I prefer to warn about potential bad outcome of decision without refusing to follow orders.
It sounds like a pretty good idea to me, and will ensure low speed, low traffic roads
IEEE754 provides a total ordering algorithm actually, but it's not used when you do double a, b; ... a < b
Without knowing what your captor already knows about your device, deleting data they may expect to find is a pretty high risk gambit.
So he doesn't know how to use search on the menu?
7D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel
I agree.

Modern cars depend on modern road infrastructure. Like traffic lights, lane markers, traffic engineering, etc, enabled the efficiency and convenience we enjoy today.

And this infrastructure was built for human driver. And they do not work well for software driver.
That’s interesting that they’ve structured their service as a subscription. Thank you!
Anecdotally: suspension and steering components wear a lot more than drivetrain components under northeastern US driving conditions. And electric cars will have springs, struts, dampers, sway bar links, tie rods, ball joints, and all the rest of the parts that are routinely exposed to dirt, salt, and water and subjected to all manner of forces from random angles.

By contrast, under normal operating conditions, most of the wear parts of the engine and driveline are running in a sealed environment, bathed in the appropriate lubricant, and, in the case of the engine, actively cooled to maintain optional running conditions.

Al the parts that make up an ICE are incredibly mature technology. The engineering work to get the tolerances and everything else worked out that has been done over the last hundred years is unreal. And it's happened in concert with work by chemists in the lubrication industry, and every other ancillary industry. The level of reliability under normal use with regular maintenance defies belief. Like, when was the last time you gave your spark plugs even a moment's thought? The progress in metallurgy, fueling and ignition systems has made them an all but lifetime part on modern cars.

I would actually wager that for most people, the least reliable and most aggravating part of their car is now the infotainment system.
Indeed. I've heard that there was a lead time of about 12 years on the EUV machines at ASML. I had a tour of one off their facilities once (generic recruitment thingy). Back in early 2000s they were working to correct for errors where the margin of error on their error detector was greater than the error that needed correcting.

(The wave length used was about an order of magnitude greater than the lirhography result; I have no recollection of how they claimed to handle that.)

They are pushing the boundaries of what's possible, using incredibly long lead times. I don't see how any start-up can compete with that, even in the absence of patents.
What "excess 10k dead"? Sweden basically only reported excess mortality in early 2020 and since then it has a mortality deficit.
Nice Tool. But why is it not possible to edit markdown files in arbitrary folders? why do I have to have a separate folder for notes and another one for all other documents?
i feel like personal recommendation is the best way to go.

i'm assuming folks don't do that mainly because by 'freelance UX designer' or 'freelance <any-profession>', we really mean 'nearly-free <any-profession>'.

at least, i do.
ASML may rely on ITAR / dual use parts they enables export control by the US. Or, the US is simply applying a diplomatic squeeze on the Netherlands.
how many features can your process accumulate before it's called a framework?
You're right. I must've divided 0 by 0 and -0. That's the only way C# gives me NaN. I thought I'd specifically avoided doing that.
Developer wins 2021 Pulitzer prize – without being a journalist
A developer and an architect win a Pulitzer prize for finding "detention centers" (=concentration camps) in China via satellite image parsing
What does it matter if your drive is imaged if you are using full disk encryption?
The way I see it, both parties run up the deficit. Spending is always going to be more than what is brought in from all forms of taxation because it seems to be the norm.

OUTLAYS $6.8 Trillion

REVENUES $3.8 Trillion

DEFICIT $3.0 Trillion

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/topics/budget

Democrats say they will take from the rich (lately) through increased taxes and redistribute, but do they actually? Or do they just take from people making $200k/yr+ who are kind of rich but not... ultra rich? How do you tax wealth? Not easily. Lots of loopholes. Would piss a lot of powerful people who lobby + and are "secretly" in control off, right? That's what we've been told our entire lives. Is it actually true?

How long has this level of revenue/outlay deficit been the norm? Will it always be? Does it matter? Some say it doesn't. Are we ever going to see a budget with a $0 deficit? How about a surplus?

Conservatives claim they are conservative in spending (actually, do they claim this anymore?) but then they run up the deficit with tax breaks for corporations and "the wealthy". Yes, that leads to some job creation/raises. Does the wealth actually trickle down? Doesn't it trickle back up? Democrats say they want to do well by offering the lower + middle class better health care/a better life overall (better schools, incentives to fix systemic racism, extra support for LGBT community), but I don't know how effective they are at doing it. It's hard to get a straight answer when 50% of America hates each other and is rooting for the other side to fail / be caught in a giant lie or scandal constantly.

From my research, America is behind EU and the rest of the developed world in a lot of measurements when it comes to health care, infrastructure, education, etc. We're fatter and dumber than most countries and less modern in our transportation. Yet we're somehow this economic powerhouse of the world and that keeps us ahead. But we're also continuing to run budgets with huge deficits...?

I wish I had a clear answer on politics. It seems like 95% of tech employees take the "I'm educated and I pick Democrat" path. It feels wrong to side with Republicans given their track record and the fact that it's 2021 and they're trying to bring religion into discussion about abortion (and they're obsessed with right to own assault rifles). It doesn't feel like Republicans care about lower/middle class America, whereas Democrats claim they do (they just want to give you health care and redistribute the wealth from the top, so they say... right? Am I crazy? Is this not the theming of American Democrats lately?)

Somebody who is smarter than me, please chime in and help me not be ignorant.
This is one of the things Google actually got right with Android. I can add as many Google accounts to my phone as I want. Anything that needs to be associated with a Google account lets me choose which account to use, and I can selectively decide what gets (and does not get) synced from each account (mail, contacts, photos, store purchases, etc.). Many apps will even let me switch between accounts easily and seamlessly.
Dangers of Digital Keychains
Why digital keychains (password managers) can in some cases be unsafe.
I'd see self driving as not needing a person at the wheel. I don't care if there are changes to the road, it's being driven without a person nat the wheel
Google pays Apple for having their search engine in Apple products. Why? If google search is must have, Google should not need to pay for it.

One explanation is that Google pays Apple a fee for not competing in search. This kind of evidence moves the suspicion towards this explanation.
Don't be that person, especially when you're wrong. Both forms are acceptable.

"In Australian and British English, 'practise' is the verb and 'practice' is the noun. In American English, 'practice' is both the verb and the noun."
Somewhat related, about 10 years ago I was in a tragic situation where someone I loved would be murdered but I couldn't speak out because of possible retaliation against my family.

I found myself compulsively walking randomly in the city every night for several nights. I would walk half way to a random destination only to change directions in 30 minutes convinced I was headed the wrong way forgetting the previous destination and repeatedly heading part way to successive random destinations. I did this night after night convinced there was a place I needed to go but in retrospect they were completely arbitrary and there was no purpose. I recently read the book Crime and Punishment and there is a scene a bit like this which suggests this may be in our DNA. To share further, I eventually spoke out (at some point you have to pick your poison) and the person did die suddenly and unexpectedly. The NYPD coroner eventually ruled out foul play, but the suspects the suspects left the country immediately after his death so it wouldn't have mattered.

Had you plotted my path you would say that it was the walk of a person who is "lost", yet I knew the city perfectly. However it was accurate to say I was hopelessly lost.

Changing subjects to lighten things up, I would assume there would be a metaphor for walking in way that parallels what your brain is doing when it is searching for a solution but I can't think of a word. Contemplative walks are certainly not erratic and discontinuous as described above. They are smooth and differentiable like a gradient descent.
I remember watching a documentary on Discovery in the early 90s where they showed a motorcade of 10 Audis closely following each other using radar and some magnetic markers embedded in the road surface. They could maneuver within inches of one another, stop on a dime etc. I wonder how much embedding such passive markers into the new roads would have cost compared to the amount of money pumped into autonomous driving companies so far.
It really depends who you're comparing with. If you're comparing with high population countries with lots of neighbors / travel links, then they did great.

If you're comparing with literally any of their neighbors, then they did really really badly. Their excess mortality was around 1000 per million (i.e. around 10,000 more people dead than expected), while Denmark, Finland and Norway were much much less.
Apple’s visual voicemail on the iPhone also syncs using IMAP hosted by your carrier.
> Another language-changing paradigm added to C++

no, people were writing "concept-like" code since C++98 in a very bloated way with e.g. sfinae, this is just standardizing existing practice (while improving it of course)
You're going to need to give some concrete examples to detail the specific threat you're imagining. I was already addressing the possibility of someone impersonating me to defraud financial institutions. This would be annoying, but is straightforwardly handled by our existing institutions. In the absolute worst case I would have to retain an attorney to protect against levying of my actual bank accounts, etc, while the defrauded parties sort themselves out. Do you have a different threat in mind?
More: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/author/christobuschek
Only in insider builds.

wsl --mount is not available in current release
Currently trying to order room service in a hotel from xxxxx.menu.org.Uk

It isn’t loading, just sits there spinning. Pile of shit. I wish they’d chosen to write the service as a reliable cgi rather than some web framework where errors are eaten and hidden in Ajax calls.

Uber eats let’s me place the order then vanishes when it comes to paying.

Nandos yesterday told me error UK03 when I tried ordering in the restaurant, slightly better, but perhaps those more concerned with scaling to a million concurrent users could deal with 1000 reliably first.
Good point, that's a very important requirement
Fastcgi solved that specific problem about minutes after CGI was invented.
I guess I don't understand your argument at all.

Certainly it's anti-freedom to mandate shots or maybe even to suggest them? Many things are anti-freedom if you think about it. Things like speed limits for example. What does it really mean?
(Sorry, this is my first time trying to do a formatted comment here.)

What I like to do is comments like:

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* Collates

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* {

* id: 4

* dept: 'oncology',

* name: 'Joe S.'

* }

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* into

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* {

* 4: { // id

* 'Joe. S': { // name

* dept: oncology

* }

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( Then insert horrible one-liner that does the transformation. )
It's not necessarily a balanced tree. One path can have length 40, while another could be 2.

I think at megacompanies, the hierarchy can be pretty deep before you get into what is normal for medium sized companies. Global -> Region ("Americas") -> Country ("USA") -> Region ("Northeast") -> State ("New York") and then you just have a company with a CEO (called something else at this level), SVPs, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Shift Supervisors, etc.
Herman & Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent" proposes the method through which the media influence isn't by way of "old men in a dark, smoky backroom" as the claim conjures images of. Rather, it's a series of filters that funnel like-minded people into the decision-making roles of the companies. If we simplify it a lot, it's the claim that a CEO is very likely to hire a senior editor that shares his views on the world, that editor in turn hires writers with a similar outlook on the world, etc. etc. Likewise, promotions within these companies is predicated on this same mechanism.

To the question "Do you think all journalists are self-censoring? Do you think I'm self-censoring?", posed by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Chomsky answered "I think you believe everything you're saying because if you didn't you wouldn't be sitting here". Both quotes paraphrased but meaning-preserving. [0]

This is 1 of 5 filters laid out in "Manufacturing Consent". It's, in my eyes, a very compelling analytical framework.

[0]: https://youtu.be/lLcpcytUnWU?t=176
- Video title is terribly divisive but the quote is at the timestamp. The whole 3 minute video just gives a bit of context to why the question is asked. It also cuts off as Andrew Marr is about to say something, making the video's title bunk. Viewer beware.
Sweden has ~14k official COVID deaths. Neighbouring Norway, at half the population and a moderate lockdown/PPE policy, has ~800 COVID deaths. The culture, climate, population density and demographics are very close.

All these extra Swedes died for sheer ineptitude of their government. There's hardly any difference in economic impact either.
The less you use the new features, the less benefit you get from them. You could stick to K&R C and get no benefit at all, but that would be equally as foolish as what you are doing.

The new features are there to improve your experience, and to make your code more reliable. When you have a choice between old and new, new is usually better.

Sticking to K&R, you would have as many bugs and crashes as other K&R code. Sticking to modern C++ makes most of such bugs impossible. That is progress.

You can stop learning and take up complaining at any time, as you have done.

But you can also start learning again at any time. Now is always a good time for that.
I'm no lawyer, but don't you usually have to show damages?
Thanks for your replay aaronrobinson!

The possibilities to get more hands-on are at the moment non-existent because I'm more engaged in the organizational PM activities and this mostly as an external service provider. Thus the possibilities to contribute beside the PM services are quite limited.

Bootcamps are not really available at my location at this time. Following on the support team route is a good suggestion which I'll keep in mind.

I'm writing from a throw-away account cause I want to discuss this topic on HN anonymously for several reasons. But thanks for your offer to DM.
I’m not saying all vaccines are ineffective. I’m wondering if mRNA vaccines are effective long term since they don’t produce sterilizing immunity.