skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case I could give you some really bad advice, but it's something I know people do that is a quick and dirty solution for small hobby sites. Try to find a site in the same region as you that has similar content but has likely been reviewed by a legal team and has legal contacts. Copy/paste their legal policy / AUP / Terms of Use page, removing any references to them or their third parties and of course any copyrighted material. This is of course horrible advise and this text will quickly turn grey, as it should. :-)
Wait? So FB needs a report to make it look bad?
I don't think they meant that the government should actually do this, it was just to indicate the scale.
The technical feasibility of the FBI’s request was never the question, nor the basis of Apple’s objection.

Of course it’s even easier for Apple to say “no” to the government if they literally cannot do what the government is asking.

That’s the basis of the EFF’s objection to Apple’s plans: they think that by implementing this CSAM system, Apple will turn an impossibility into a possibility.
Google Cloud web UI. Navigating between different products/settings is super slow. I don't understand why it is loading that much. The CLI is good though
>[420 points] Show HN: I ripped off an existing product and added Bootstrap to it

That page is actually pretty funny here and there.
Said like a true Fella. I hear this a lot.
Why Cardano Does Not Need Slashing
How advanced are the analytics these provide? Depending on what signals they collect,I could see this being used to map with demographic data, etc.
I wish the computer science community would contribute to this project as much as the physics community does
I question the notion that JIRA is the only workable tool at large organizations. Many large organizations are full of small, relatively autonomous teams anyway, and those teams will benefit from a less bureaucratic tool.
Pattern 12 was something I learned early (fortunately) in my software development journey. I think the article I was reading was something to do with how to properly partition your disk (it was about 15 years ago, so fuzzy details, but I remember it was a topic that directly impacted disk storage). Anyway, it listed a series of steps that he followed, which I had printed out and began following (again, 15 years ago).

The paragraph following his series of steps then said, "I soon realized that this was not what I wanted, and in fact, it made for a cleaned out disk. No good. So next.."

And yes, it wiped my disk clean too. The light-hearted way in which he wrote this infuriated me. I just wiped clean my computer because of his article. Granted, I should not have blindly followed the article, and it was a good lesson that has prevented me from ever making the same mistake again. But the way he listed the steps in a very procedural, "this should be followed" format; it felt very deceptive, and the result was irreversible.
You won't find me defending the use of yacc, but in general hand written parsers are far more error prone.
> Credit cards should never be linked across accounts thanks to PCI-DSS complince

Afaik, PCI-DSS doesn't prevent you to store cryptographic hashes of card. Therefore cards still could be linked with hashes.
I wrote a message explaining why I won't be posting any more neuralhash preimages and an index/summary of my posts on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261147

Unfortunately it got flagged after getting 41 upvotes. :(
There were plenty of people who spoke out against simple precautions at the beginning of the pandemic, before vaccines were available to anyone. So I don't even need to speculate that at least some people do not take precautions while being unvaccinated; I've already seen a lot of it.
A question that would take 2-3 minutes of Googling to answer.
I did not downvote that question, but I still think it didn't have any place here.
In my experience, people who champion printf debugging usually don’t have the option to use an effective debugger. Low-tooling embedded or distributed systems for example.

Many others champion “you should understand your own code well enough that you don’t need a debugger”. Those people are usually in an unusual situation where they can work on a small bit of code in a small/solo team for a very long time.

Meanwhile, much of my career has been spent stepping through code I’ve never seen before and will never see again trying to fix bugs that span multiple teams and external libraries.
A wild assertion can indeed be posed as a question. It's a dark pattern rampantly used in conspiracy circles.
Apple announced two separate things in one press release: a CSAM-scanning system, and a parental control that uses AI to attempt to detect nude pictures in iMessages and alert the parents. The latter system does not send any info to Apple or any authorities.
Some information on which groups among the fully vaccinated are seeing a serious breakthrough infection.

>As of 15 August, 514 Israelis were hospitalized with severe or critical COVID-19, a 31% increase from just 4 days earlier. Of the 514, 59% were fully vaccinated. Of the vaccinated, 87% were 60 or older.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-...

and

>comorbidities were more frequent in patients with vaccine breakthrough infections in comparison to a large case series on unvaccinated hospitalized patients - including hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, chronic kidney diseases, chronic lung diseases, dementia and cancer. Moreover, 40% of the patients were immunocompromised.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210713/Israeli-study-of-...

So the serious infections are concentrated in those who are older, immunocompromised, or those who have other conditions already known to be linked to having a more serious case.
Recent and (somewhat) related:

Dumb Phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28246636 - Aug 2021 (150 comments)

The Light Phone: Minimal Smartphone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28184006 - Aug 2021 (157 comments)
This is an impressive non-answer. It provides a fair bit of reassuring detail while saying absolutely nothing of value of at all. Was there a cyber attack? Wasn’t there? Either way this answer looks better in an article than “no comment” but still admits nothing that could come back to bite you.
I did. They say that Verily is a part of Alphabet. What do your sources say?
There's your startup opportunity. Bonus points if you add surge pricing and the ability to tack on 15% to every item if the party is obviously there on an expense account or just looks like a bunch of rich guys.
Don't you mean the remaining 21.2%?
Why the coronavirus has changed as it has, and what it means going forward
The surveillance allows the government to better target the violence. Building lists of troublemakers, lists of those with guns, collecting information that can be used for blackmail, social credit scores, etc.

The Stasi, the East German secret police, had the same guns as officials have in free countries, the difference seemed to be the effort they put into surveillance. Technology enables so much more of that.
One of my favorite PLT related books is Programming Language Pragmatics, which spends a non trivial section near the beginning on just this issue. Among other things it's very useful to continue a best effort parse on the remainder after the parse error so you can show more syntax errors vs merely the first. But this is something of a nebulous art to accomplish.

I agree that I think generators could address this issue, they simply haven't.

Also I'm particularly fond of PEGs, because they match the intuitiveness of recursive descent parsers with a generator suitable formalism (though they have their rough edges as well).
They're a possible vehicle for literate programming, but I don't know that I'd call them the best vehicle. Using notebooks to build a stand-alone application would be awkward at best.

The current space to watch for literate programming seems to be Racket.
There's that cynicism again.

Tech has its bad apples, but overall, it's been a huge boost, not only to productivity, but quality of life for everyone.

Just because people are idiots and get off on raging on social media has nothing to do with the tech. "But the algorithms!" Nonsense. People were raging on message boards well before the algorithms, we're just seeing what happens when the internet is expanded to the general public and it's not just nerds arguing over tabs vs spaces or which semiconductor company makes the best processors.

UX has continued to improve year after year, just because your favorite app went to shit says nothing about the industry at large. I can't think of a single example of software that was better in the past vs now.

But go ahead, disconnect from tech, and see what the world was like before it.

Stop using the technological wonder that is Google Maps. Stop using Netflix with its stupendous ability to stream great quality video and audio on a connection that has no business handling it. Don't take advantage of Amazon's same day delivery on an obscure item that you would never find locally. Don't consume the billions of hours of educational videos on YouTube covering any topic you can think of. Give up the ability to connect and stay in touch with any person anywhere via the multitude of social media apps. Give up the ability to know what's happening on the other side of the world, as it's happening. Give up the ability to search for anything you can think of, and find multiple sources of information.

I mean, the improvements in every single industry have been massive due to tech. Anything from ordering food to launching rockets into space has been greatly improved by tech.

Tech has introduced new problems that we must address, but to complain that it hasn't brought forward some utopia you have in your mind, is just unfair.
Yes, which is why games that really took advantage of the hardware like Crash Bandicoot just used tons of small triangles.
Don't all mammals do this? If you have had puppies or kittens, you know they start playing with each other even before their eyes fully open.

Also, it seems that even puppies have a sense of 'fairness' when they play with each other.
Thank you - district heating looks like a great topic to learn more about; I hadn't really considered that the same principles behind feeding back into the (electric) energy grid could apply for thermal energy too.
Important that you bring up the age factor. We're doing more research now with our doctors on how best to adjust treatment based specifically on male hormonal changes with age.
https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
> SV's political culture (and largely America's culture) is being exported to the world at an ever increasing pace

The valley's culture has little in common the the rest of America's. It "exporting" its culture to the rest of the US as much as it is anywhere else, though I'd personally characterize it more as imperialism than exporting.
I always found this very interesting. With the exception of enterprise software built to run in customer datacenters with whatever infrastructure that may entail, practice seems to dictate that the overhead of making something DB agnostic isn't a worthwhile trade off.

I haven't spoken to too many folks who've had to make this decision, but off the top of my head I think there's a number of factors that aren't obvious at first glance that factor into this equation:

1. You need authors of queries to understand the least common denominator of supported SQL features and syntax (probably ANSI SQL, but there may be cases where it isn't)

2. Such projects would need to test or otherwise verify that all SQL queries execute in the ways they're expected to. This can be tricky when you have regressions in query performance from one database flavor to the next.

3. Your application can't have features that are made or broken by features specific to a particular database. I can see this being a very limiting constraint in a world where business intelligence and data analysis at scale has become a the norm.

Are there other factors here that would compel projects to stick to something like ODBC (or your database abstraction layer of choice) rather than against it?
God damn. Regret not spending the past 10 years trying to get into the States.
> I've experienced it after hard days at work (construction), multi hour lifting, cycling 50km. Same shit every time. Surprisingly, unlike what my dumbass brain says, I don't die if I eat only a little and just go to sleep.

I too have experienced this sensation my whole life under such situations. In fact, one of my favorite things to do in life is go for a 6-7 mile run, come home and lift weight for an hour or two... then... wait until I'm hungry (usually about 45 min) and eat an insane amount of food. The food tastes 10x better, and the sensation when eating it is pure bliss.

Always have felt great doing that, and I'm really skinny. We clearly don't have any idea why some people can do that, and others cant. It's probably not until we understand that difference that we'll have any sense what metabolically is happening.
That's not true. You can have a LL or LR grammar, and use a hand-written parser to get better speed, better error reporting, any number of reasons really. Java is LL(1), but javac seem to use a hand-written recursive descent parser. Now that I think about it, Java being omitted is weird.
Your [1] and [2] refer to separate systems. The parental control does not send info to authorities.
I would say it's the opposite. In most ways WSL was better than WSL2, except that filesystem metadata operations in Windows are crazy slow compared to Linux.

Until people tried to port build workflows from Linux to WSL nobody noticed, people working with Windows might have known metadata operations are slow but they worked around it, they just didn't make lots of small files, probably didn't even know there was some operating system that was vastly faster.

Microsoft does a focus group with WSL users and finds that some of them are frustrated because filesystem metadata operations are slow and they got desperate; they couldn't make NTFS much faster, they couldn't make any filesystem that uses the filesystem interface in Windows much faster.

So they create WSL2 which bypasses all the filesystem stuff in Windows and goes straight to the block layer.

The trouble with WSL2 is that you might as well just install Ubuntu on top of Hyper-V or VMWare or VirtualBox and if you can do it you can install it correctly, be able to install it if your Windows Store is broken

(e.g. so many times they told me to create a new user account, give up my browser history, and reconfigure all of the programs I use every day just so I could install worthless crapplets from the Windows Store... And I'd say, you fools, there is a procedure to rebuild the database for the Windows Store and unbreak it because you do it every time there is a Feature Update, just tell me how to make it happen.)

WSL2 is inferior to VirtualBox for the same reason that OneDrive is inferior to dropbox, the Windows Store is inferior to Steam, etc. Microsoft tries too hard to take advantage of close integration and that makes them screw it up.
To the first point - yes because it's being done for a completely valid medical reason. There isn't a slippery slope argument available here because people consider this reasonable because the cause is reasonable.

To the second point - I think religion does a lot of harm to modern society so I'd rather those all went away - yes even for the amish as inoffensive as they are.
Brandon James Greer[0] has some really good vids on pixel art, including 1-bit. I recommend trying it out for yourself in Aseprite, or if you have an iPad/Apple Pencil, Pixaki is actually really nice.

[0]: https://youtu.be/0BZwEoj50uw
Hopefully somebody will be able to comment further. In the meanwhile...I found this a good quality overview of the issue. Reference includes video and transcript for quicker read.

The TL;DR is that is considered unlikely for reasons explained. ( but not completely impossible )

"Do COVID-19 Vaccines Cause Antibody-dependent Enhancement (ADE)?"

https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-cent...
This. I seldom, if ever, carry my iPhone with me anywhere. But, for that one time that I actually have to make a phone call, I can.
This reason is why I personally would like separate app stores. I'd _really_ like to see an iOS app store, curated by the FOSS community, focused on privacy and productivity -- actual productivity, not mind-numbing dopamine fix loops!

Running a local "pihole" equivalent might be possible then; really the sky is the limit if we regain control of our devices.
> Preliminary research in Israel suggests booster shots significantly increase protection against the coronavirus a week after a person receives the third dose.

Which research? Thanks NPR for citing your sources?
Really smart to pick this. The econometrician in me smiled.
Personal theory --- micro plastic contamination.

The environment is totally polluted with it. As we speak, you are most likely inhaling plastic microfibers from your clothes and furniture.

Once inside your body, some of them can mimic hormones.
Ruby's syntactic flexibility is definitely a big factor in it.
Why this post make it to the list in the first place?
No, it's a very realistic attitude to have about being an indie game developer. The market is flooded and unless you have a really good idea, can make a really good game, and can promote the living fuck out of it you're going to have a hard time.

Still, at this point I'm almost willing to just try it and off myself when it doesn't work out and I'm broke. Looking at job ads right now is incredibly depressing.
I think it's still concerning that 60% of hospitalizations are vaccinated patients. Even if 79% of the population is vaccinated.
Earth has been hit by about half of that since life started here. Make our experience unusual enough and the average about 10000, and you'll get a Great Filter out of asteroid impacts.

You know, when a physics Nobel Prize winner makes some statement about probabilities that the entire community recognizes as insightful, it's usually not simplistic.
The blue team adopts Neoliberalism (3rd way Democrat) since Bill Clinton.
Berlin, along with Munich, is probably the hotspot for tech in Germany, so I think the comparison is actually quite apt.
Fewer than 10% of HN users are in the Bay Area. I don't know what the number for California is but I'd be surprised if it were above 15%. Half of the userbase is outside the U.S. People make a lot of false assumptions about the demographics here.

HN has always had a mix of topics. That hasn't changed.
IANAL the patent are required only if your devices does not already have an H.264/H.265 license.

H.264 is fine as it is literally the MP3 of Video. H.265 is a lot more complicated.
Wouldn't mind knowing what versions you were using/how long ago this was. We haven't seen anything like this in > 3 years. Possible a barely supported plugin caused issues?
A lot of this has to do with the fact that many Japanese manufacturers of the era basically got to 3D hardware by improving 2D sprite chips so they could scale and do affine transforms. This is why the PlayStation couldn't do perspective correct nor filtered textures and lacked a Z buffer, and why the Saturn drew with quads instead of tris.

Nintendo partnered with the most advanced Western 3D hardware manufacturer -- SGI. The N64 was kind of a cut down Indigo.
My Xiaomi note has a super eco mode. One home screen, up to 9 apps (I opted for Vivaldi, telegram, whatsapp, camera, newpipe, maps. Obviously phone, contacts, sms). When I found the feature I used it on when my battery was about to die, now it's my default productive mode. Battery is super happy to see the charger once or twice a week. It's a feature phone? No. But it's my camera, gps nav, notebook, mp3 player. All things I had in my backpack when feature phones were the only option.

I don't get this new trend of stupidly expensive, badly designed, health-conscious phones. Modern feature phones already exist. I've bought a couple clamshells with big display and big buttons to my elderly parents, less than 20eur each.

Browsing mudita website I see they are developing a minimal app launcher for Android, a more sensible way to embrace digital minimalism. Ready to pivot.

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Might be more of ignorance than anything else. Certainly wasn't the case when I was growing up. I was acutely aware of my parents financial situations and how they were making poor choices coupled with lack of ability to increase income.
Still another application: blog comments, as is done with Utterances.

> A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues. Use GitHub issues for blog comments, wiki pages and more!

https://github.com/utterance/utterances
Clearly it should be GAFAM (pronounced like Batman's eponymous metro).
I'd like to see the number of serious cases by age brackets, and by profile of patients (with comorbidities and not).
Also agree it's definitely possible, although would need to know more about OP.
Also (172 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18255904 [2018] ("Business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend")

It's not in the title but that one was also a no-apps/e-ink minimal phone.
>beginning to think it evolved out of a necessity for the majority of workers to feel a sense of worker-community and camaraderie.

Respectfully? Bollocks.

We didn't have any other alternative besides offices until a few decades ago, and we all know how much inertia society has.

It couldn't have started as the alternative because sending a letter to ask your colleague something wouldn't work to begin with.

Also, distrust of employees.
The Curse of More, Or, Does Anybody Have Any Time Left to Do Research?
Keystroke-level model: predict how long a task takes with different UX designs
Things that matter a lot these days:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

Someone that's done some analysis using the above mental models: https://www.covid-datascience.com/post/israeli-data-how-can-...
Until a browser update changes the behavior or different browser engines have different behaviors.
I will get downvoted... but really, 60% of the hospitalizations come from vaccinated population, does that really count as "incredibly effective"? Is that really what people were hoping for when Pfizer & Moderna announced 94%+ effectiveness?
Jaguar F-Pace is a fossil fuel car. The electric version is the I-Pace.
> 2. For the delta-variant we need a higher vaccination rate to reach herd immunity. Estimates vary, but most put this around 85%.

That's not how herd immunity works. You don't set a moving goalpost out of nowhere. We should be measuring R instead, and I suspect R is hardly impacted by vaccines at least for the Delta variant.
YC founders haven't "fled" to Bookface (let alone "many years ago") and it's not at all accurate to describe BF as "internal Hacker News".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22389362
Via Austin Z. Henley's favorite Wikipedia articles about science: https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/favwikiarticles.html
> The /bin/true (or /usr/bin/true) command is now nearly obsolete, because most extant shells now have a builtin "true" command. But it's still useful occasionally, for various silly reasons [...]

This make it sound like this is useless, but I disagree. For example, recently I had some games crash because they couldn't find pulseaudio, and making a symlink from pulseaudio to /bin/true fixed my issue (and yes, they had sound). So there are certainly legitimate uses for it.