skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It points to an interesting gap in discourse around vaccines.

One side (the mainstream) claims vaccines are effective and safe. The other side, claims that no, we do not in fact know that the vaccine is safe and therefore you should not get it and take your chances with the disease.

The problem is that we don't in fact know that the vaccines are truly safe for everyone, because mRNA technology (while incredible) is new, but from my personal interactions I've observed that most intelligent people see that getting the vaccine increases your expected quality of life given you've never had COVID before. However, those who don't believe this will take any claim made by the mainstream (vaccines are safe) as evidence that they are hiding something, further deepening their suspicions.

This is a feedback loop; the more people that refuse the vaccine, the more the mainstream will push for more vaccinations, causing more people to refuse the vaccine. All because the nuance of "we don't know that this is as safe as taking a walk in the sun, but we have solid evidence that it improves your E[QOL]" isn't easy to communicate.
Interesting work. My main question when reading is how the results compared to manually-written code. Naturally this is a much harder question to answer but it would be really interesting to see the results. Could be that Copilot is doing no better (or worse) than developers copying from Stack Overflow.

Perhaps you could take a similar approach as [1] and leverage MOOC participants?

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3383773
As an additional benefit, local bike shops and book shops also usually have some pretty cool people working there!
Please can you explain a non-american what are those idiosyncratic reasons?
That’s so stupid and petty, and will sound absolutely nonsensical to anyone who wasn’t familiar with Steve Jobs’s fashion choices. And those who are will know that Jobs hasn’t dictated anything for a good decade.

I’ve seen enough of Samsung’s phones to respect the product, but I’ve seen enough of their marketing to suspect that the people making those decisions are imbeciles.
I am happy the parts company is ditching Amazon, but its so much more important for us consumers to ditch amazon. I have cut my amazon purchases down to only 16 total items this year so far ( down from ~50 in 2020 ) and I am now only ordering from Amazon as a last option when I cant find what I want anywhere else. That brief glimpse of the Amazon future where all stores are shut down, and we can only ever buy things online, and everyone is an amazon serf was such a wakeup call as to what we were heading towards. I just hope enough people can jump ship to keep a functioning non amazon centric supply chain.
Why Small Beats Big: The Hidden Cost of Too Many Voices
I just got the shingles vaccine this year (two shots about 3 months apart). That vaccine knocked me down from hour 6 to about hour 54 both times. Worse than any other vaccine experience, including Pfizer C19. Still recommend it, but schedule it wisely.
Bikes are pretty low maintenance, the repairs are usually fairly simple, and the parts are cheap. It's hard to make margins on a low price low volume service. If a bike is really damaged it usually makes more sense to just replace it wholesale.

If e-bikes take off they could help. There are a lot more moving parts to break and especially electrical issues to track down. Electrical issues are real moneymakers in diagnostic fees on cars.
Deno looks great to glue together CICD work
Sorry, not being a pedant for the sake of it, where can I actually see some statistics showing confiscating empty dwellings would significantly reduce the prices of houses? I don't buy it.

Instead look at Japan and new Zealand, their planning policy acknowledged the simple fact of supply and demand and adapted, taller building with smaller apartments allowed in sought after areas.
The difference here is callers of mainWithOptions won't have to do the null/undefined check again.

They get back an option so they can just keep calling map.

And that's true all the way up the call stack.

But in the main example, since it may always return null/undefined, every caller up the stack will also have to do this check.

Null and undefined are used for lots of different purposes by lots of different people. None (and Options more generally) is much more specific - there may or may not be a value here but you can safely work with this value regardless without needing to first check.

The checking is built into the object for you.

Neither way is right, just about what you prefer. I find the ergonomics of options much nicer than null/undefined.
Because it involved non-police, the CADORS got filed swiftly.

When an RCMP (Canadian federal police) drone collided with their own helicopter, they took 4 months to report the incident:

https://skiesmag.com/news/rcmp-drone-flying-wrong-altitude-c...
Yes but that was before the gold standard was abolished. There are other ways now.
Had to turn off ublock origin to experience it.
I feel like the author covered this pretty well. If you have the luxury to organize your life around the terrible traffic (e.g. living and working in Venice) it's fantastic. If you need to get on a highway to get to work your experience will probably be much worse.
>Featured in a recent newsletter by Andrew Torba, the CEO and co-founder of parent company Gab AI, the video, down to its title, perfectly expresses Gab’s editorial line: a mix of faux expertise (Paul is a former eye surgeon), populist outrage, and selective analytical insight that invariably lands in a place where the elites are lying to you, America has lost its way, and white Christian values are under attack. The video also signifies Torba’s own rising profile as a right-wing, Christian (he signs all of his newsletter posts “Jesus is King”), conservative tech mogul, one who seeks to create his own alternative technological and epistemological universe, free of Facebook-deputized fact-checkers, interventionist government bureaucrats, and censorious liberal tech companies.

There was no link to the video in this article.

Is there proof that Torba said "white Christian values are under attack"? Did he even say "white" in the video at all? I doubt it.

Today, Torba responded to similar characterization by NYT and WaPo: https://news.gab.com/2021/08/23/hit-piece-on-gab-falls-flat-...

Here we have 3 journalists who together are so desperate to turn public opinion against this man that they must lie and evoke the tired old white supremacist Christian trope.
With this reasoning you can't know if drinking water is good for you without drinking it, so bringing vaccines into the mix has nothing to do with it.
Interesting - I also have a wireless logitech mouse connected to a ubuntu machine that intermittently crashes when going to sleep. It hadn't occurred to me that the crashes might be linked to the mouse.
There is no serious threat the US Dollar as the global reserve currency. China is a currency manipulator and is teetering on the edge of collapse because of their monetary management. Bitcoin is far too unstable and represents a relinquishment of government control over monetary policy, which no sane government will give up. To put it bluntly, governments would rather the US control the world’s money supply than to give up control to the blockchain, which is poorly understood and far too risky to use outside of speculative markets and small scale experiments.
I've been exploring hypergraphs a lot over the last 12 months. They are an incredibly rich way to look at a lot of existing (and new) mathematics, so much so that I think hypergraphs will have a good chance to become a signature mathematical structure over the next 100 years.

Unfortunately people don't yet have a good notion (or notation) for what a hypergraph even is! The wikipedia page is a disaster area, for example. Partly this is due to a lack of careful, general groundwork on how to think about hypergraphs. I'm confident this will get done though -- and aim to play a role in that. My personal view is that you need you really need to adopt an ADT-type viewpoint to do this, but I'll have to leave it at that for now.
you should search:

https://docone.io/search?code=D001172&term=Arthritis%2C%20Rh...

This condition is considered as a relapsing–remitting form of rheumatoid arthritis, despite some controversy.
I'd rather eat Japanese food in LA than American food in Tokyo, and it's not even close. But the average restaurant is probably better in Tokyo than in LA.
I disagree about Chicago. Good food in America is only where there are many foreigners, esp from Asia. Los Angeles and NYC have the best food (personally I prefer NYC). Outside of the US there are much better cities but if you're into diversity of different foods, then LA and NYC are excellent. Tokyo for example has way better Japanese food than LA but not so good Middle Eastern food for example.

LA also has the better access to a variety of fresh fruits and veggies because of its weather. That also influences the food scene.
I've been an interviewer with Karat for 2.5yrs, it's genuinely great. https://karat.com/

I know you made the statement in jest, but trying to improve on the interview process is not a bad idea. At the very least, it's less engineering time wasted conducting interviews.
This guy had a great breakdown for why the US military is so expensive: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/71bq8h/cmv_th...
PiGate – Emergency Email Gateway
I love the concept here (nice implementation too)

Removing the 'content' and just showing the structure of these annoying web elements in isolation has an interesting effect:

our minds typically do the exact opposite (to a certain extent)—the showcased elements are repeated so often they get partly filtered from experience: our minds know there's nothing interesting to them; a stored and practiced routine can be put on autoplay without conscious attention.

So the page serves to exactly invert that filter and highlight these elements that increasingly vanish[1] from our experience in response to repeated exposure.

[1] aside from a persistent low intensity feeling of annoyance/frustration of course
I grew up in Hollywood. The secret is to not try to do multiple outings across town in one day. You have to treat all the different neighborhoods as individual cities and just go somewhere for the day. Once rush hour hits, just expect to stay where you are and enjoy yourself until traffic lets off.
Not that person but is this it?

https://madebyjamie.design/articles/2021-08-20-advocating-fo...
Then why did the "worst" variant so far come from a place (India) with extremely low vaccination rates at the time?

It's a numbers game. With chickens there are billions of chickens created and destroyed annually, and almost all of them are vaccinated in utero, so it makes sense that we'd see the disease get selectively deadlier. With Covid if you knock down the disease rate to something that's basically a few cases per month via vaccinations, you won't have enough chances for mutations to occur.
> My kids are constantly looking at my face to for “is this okay” signals

Nobody's expecting you to wear masks at home.
try watching TV, I propose something like a law of technology:
'every technology that can be used to squeeze profit out of people is getting unusable in a very short amount of time'
Yes, governments should be incentivised to not arrest people who are innocent. Go try to reform your local judicial system so that innocent people aren't arrested.
What I find interesting is how I react to mosquito bites in Southeast Asia verse how I react to bites in North America. The difference is huge.
Why does the customer-service system even reveal the sensitive info before the agent inputs the code? It could be sent out-of-loop so it wouldn't even be possible for them to bypass.

Related question: What should happen to a customer who legitimately encounters this problem?
The food scene in larger American cities like NY, LA and SF is fantastic - and I've spent a lot of time outside of the USA.
I had to install drivers from the Arch User Repository to turn off the lights on a Razer keyboard. It still stays lit and in color-cycle mode unless it's plugged in directly to a USB port on the laptop.
If something doesn't support Web'n'Auth you can use TOTP with a Yubikey, the TOTP moves with the key, much better than those dumb authenticator possibly-spyware apps.
You Only Need One Income Stream
It's likely true but it's still a conspiracy theory because it involves multiple parties conspiring in secret.
Does anyone really believe the reported stats for China?
I know! I was all excited to push everyone over to WARP - but it's a no go - people don't want all their traffic being proxied through corp side (we reserve right to do what we need / want with corp traffice).

Info here:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

And yes, the junky folks have this solved - you drop the endpoint on client, set a split tunnel and just pick up your enterprise route.

A basic split tunnel (normal style) or one that picked up accessible ranges based on the individual user permissions both would work fine. So if you had a single app on 10.15.54.120 and user had access to that app, split tunnel would put that into route. Key is to leave everything else out - so your computer can see your phone can see your lights etc etc on local network and netflix and friends work normally.
Ah, I always liked that ending to Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel.
Ah I'm sorry you're having that problem. The audio is scheduled accurately with the web audio api (using Tone.js), but on some devices performance could still be an issue. The best experience is definitely with Chrome or Firefox on desktop/laptop (Safari or mobile devices may not work as well). If you think your device should be capable of running it smoothly (or the frame rate is good, but the audio isn't) it could help me out to know which OS and Browser you're using.
> So we're discussing a hypothetical developer who has "no interest towards algorithms", and you're imagining that this person is going to run a profiler to troubleshoot a performance issue and subsequently optimize algorithms to fix said performance issue? This sounds like a fantasy to me.

Our experiences are vastly different then. Nothing fantasy or hypothetical about this. Every great software engineer I've worked with is like this.

Profiling and identifying hot spots is an every-week occurrence in the field, very pragmatic and valuable work. Theoretical algorithms only happen on interview whiteboards, not on the job.
> consumption is a perfectly valid hobby

No it is not.
You clearly don't understand capitalism.

The business just provided the most value™ to the customer at that moment in time
> And if you accept that, having special syntax for arrays and maps is more convenient and readable than S-exprs.

S-expressions are arrays, and maps are really just degenerate unsorted arrays of key-value pairs. Taking a look at https://json.org/example.html, I think this is easily more readable:

(menu
(id file)
(value File)
(popup
(item (value New) (onclick "CreateNewDoc()"))
(item (value Open) (onclick "OpenDoc"))
(item (value Close) (onclick "CloseDoc()"))))

than:

{"menu": {
"id": "file",
"value": "File",
"popup": {
"menuitem": [
{"value": "New", "onclick": "CreateNewDoc()"},
{"value": "Open", "onclick": "OpenDoc()"},
{"value": "Close", "onclick": "CloseDoc()"}
]
}
}}
> for instance repeating that modified gravity is great and that strings/supersymmetry/etc is bad is a bit weak especially on a science education channel.

I'm not a physicist, but she does point out that she thinks dark matter is a combination of modified gravity, and some new particles, and not just one or the other.

Also, she does usually make it clear when she has an opinion and bias towards less supported hypotheses, but it's always on things that don't already have any evidentiary basis, like dark matter.
I opened the link, saw the article, and was trying to figure out what point was trying to be made.

Then I opened it in incognito mode and it was making a point about the commoditization of the web.

Just use browser extensions, folks.
I had never heard the term "airbox" before. To save people some Googling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbox
Minor but annoying: Napoleon didn't say that and didn't mean it like that. When introducing the Légion d’Honneur (open to civilians too), the first introduction of an honor since the French Revolution, some on the left complained that this reintroduction violated the revolutionary concept of social equality. In 1802 when discussing the creation of it, Théophile Berlier sneered at the concept as merely baubles, and Napoleon replied:

"You tell me that class distinctions are baubles used by monarchs, I defy you to show me a republic, ancient or modern, in which distinctions have not existed. You call these medals and ribbons baubles; well, it is with such baubles that men are led.

I would not say this in public, but in a assembly of wise statesmen it should be said. I don't think that the French love liberty and equality: the French are not changed by ten years of revolution: they are what the Gauls were, fierce and fickle. They have one feeling: honour. We must nourish that feeling. The people clamour for distinction. See how the crowd is awed by the medals and orders worn by foreign diplomats. We must recreate these distinctions. There has been too much tearing down; we must rebuild. A government exists, yes and power, but the nation itself - what is it? Scattered grains of sand."

He went on that in order to ameliorate that sand, "We must plant a few masses of granite as anchors in the soil of France."

His phrase "it is with such baubles that men are led" (and your paraphrase) are often quoted out of context as something cynical, but Napoleon was actually commending these things as the physical manifestations of honor. If he's cynical about something, it's the liberty and equality bits.
So why are you then joining this thread? Keep discussion in the context.

Anyway, army claimed they killed taliban like 10 years ago or so and here we are.
This is my favorite self-invented trick when I need a debugger to find the spot where my code is crashing but don’t have one handy or forgot how to use it: In vim, select a block of code, and then replace any blank lines with __LINE__ printfs. Run the program, and it will log until the point where the crash is. Add more blank lines and redo the replace if necessary.
Yes! We have started focusing on areas that appeal the most to US buyers (Cabo, Tulum, Puerto Vallarta, etc). Most of our marketing to date has been geared towards the Mexico market but we are starting to reach out to US buyers as well!
Umm how could the same be said about quantum mechanics ? Double slit experiment can be setup in a classroom.

If the predictions of your hypothesis require a country sized accelerator to test what are the real world applications ?
Honestly at this point in the game I have no clue what is factual and isn't. I don't know who the hell to trust anymore.

> The sad thing is many people still hold up the government / bureaucrats / politicians as omnipotent

And so-called "experts"... by which I mean only the ones that say this is the worst thing ever. Any expert in the field with any objections or criticisms to what we've done immediately gets the online equivalent of being letter bombed.

The public health messaging for this whole thing has been absolutely horrific and has only been getting worse. They've managed to cast so much fear, uncertainty and doubt on what are in fact remarkable vaccines... I don't know how they will ever repair their trust or credibility.
I got the same text. I think if people get access to your number, and your number is used as part of a 2fa for another service like your bank, then it is only a matter of time before you get hacked.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160229-the-sea-nomad-ch...

Not a new thing
How often do people reach out to you like this?
> I long for a curated list of such sites.

I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases.

Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the touch target for their menu is annoyingly small, or they are a little bit cluttered, or use more CPU than I'd like (specific mapping sites).

So it's not easy to fit a perfect list, but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is.

(Also I try to make my own obscure personal sites all the time as my contribution to this mess...)
I already do, but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s all bound up together and there are no choices I could make that mitigate the deleterious effects the industry has.

You’re free to label that histrionics, but I’m the one who has to face myself in the mirror.
> Ms. Bakogeorge, 25, has cerebral palsy, a condition that causes chronic pain. Her daily walking commutes to the office, she said, provided a form of mild exercise that helped her cope.

SO... What prevents her from just walking normally the same amount she would have to go to the office? I can see what the reporter is trying to do, use the plight of a disabled person to make people feel bad for not wanting to go into the office, but come on. As a disabled person myself, I have far more time and money not having to pay for an Uber or ride 3X as long on public transit every day.
Ask HN: What is your go-to product analytics tool?
For all your product usage, retention drivers, churn and deeper analysis of user patterns, what software do you find yourself turning to?
AC is somewhat cheap of source of heat in winter too, provided your system is scaled enough.
Is there equivalent empirical data from real programmers?

That is to say, you have code prompts here, let Copilot fill in the gaps, and rate that code. Is there a study that uses the same prompts with a selection of programmers to see if they do better or worse?

I'm curious because in my testing of copilot, it often writes garbage. But if I'm being honest, often, so do I.

I feel like Twitter's full of cheap shots against copilot's bad outputs, but many of them don't seem to be any worse than common errors. I would really like to see how copilot stands up to the existing human competition, especially on axes of security, which are a bit more objectively measurable than general "quality".
> activated by anybody but the driver.

Except this is precisely what the abstract is saying is a misuse of the system. You have the option to give the driver the control.

> Ideally, Copilot should be paired with appropriate security-aware tooling during both training and generation to minimize the risk of introducing security vulnerabilities.

You're oversimplifying by assuming the purpose of CoPilot is to write a whole block of text from generated code. CodePilot is a 80/20 thing when every developer on HN is pedantically assuming its a 100/0 one.
> he went more high end on all three

Maybe that was the problem there?