skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only in the USA. Undergrad in the US is what high school is in most of the developed world -- a time for broad learning and exploration. Outside of the USA, if you're going to college, you're getting serious and fairly specific. In my experience, Americans take an extra four years or so to grow up, because they're allowed to. (I'm not saying this is good or bad.)
Can someone who knows more than me comment on my impression that the likelihood of ADE is much reduced with the very narrow (ie. spike-only) targeting of mRNA vaccines?
Here's the good news though: This proves that money is imaginary, and we should print up as much as we want, and do these things (in your list).
Mysteries of obesity: wild animals are becoming more obese too
I'll grant you that!

I have some residual nitpicks, on that point: many leaked data troves are much larger than that, though it is a material restriction.

The 30 threshold isn't leakless. Say you only have one hit, it still gets reported to Apple. The software also emits a small rate of "chaff", fake hits to help obscure the sub-threshold real hits. But it could still be used to produce a list of possible matches, including anyone with targeted material plus people who emitted fake matches, producing a list of potential targets much smaller than the whole population, for enhanced surveillance.
And the GP was asking a question, not stating it as a fact.
Let's waste it in a way that educates people, feeds them, and provides for their basic health care needs.
A question isn’t a wild assertion.
> you speak as if

You speak like your personal experience is everybody's. Comes off as pretty arrogant.
Oh, the context of twisting words to mean whatever you want. Cool cool.
Algorithms governing large amounts of information exchange in the world are all developed in California (Twitter/FB/Google) as well.

SV's political culture (and largely America's culture) is being exported to the world at an ever increasing pace: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...

Edit: Of course downvotes!
What can I, as an individual, do to protect my digital privacy then? Would that mean ditching the Apple ecosystem, and going full linux laptop & phone? As much as I would love to buy a pinephone, they just don't seem like a truly viable alternative...
I’m not saying it should by any means, only to appreciate the sheer scale. There are of course way better ideas.
Sorry for the meta comment, but that yellow horizontal line is hilarious.
The average German developer works for some non-software low-margin company where he only has limited impact on the business and is treated like a cost center, while the average SF developer works on tech projects with huge margins where he can have a huge impact on the product and is a valued employee.

Because the overall market skews towards lower salaries, even multinationals and the few local tech companies that exist there can pay less in Berlin.

Pay is also generally higher in the US, though usually not to this extent.
Paying Uber drivers a salary isn’t necessary.

They can be a part-time employees and chose when they work without having a fixed salary.

E.g. non-exempt employees as specified here: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...

> Nonexempt: An individual who is not exempt from the overtime provisions of the FLSA and is therefore entitled to overtime pay for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek (as well as any state overtime provisions). Nonexempt employees may be paid on a salary, hourly or other basis.
I too love having hard work to do and pouring myself into being a part of as much as I can.

I have discovered that, when my personal life has suffered and waned, it's because I'm trying to be a part of too much of the work.

The choice I've needed to make is whether I can give up some of the direct personal responsibility that I've internalized over the success of the program I run (big company).

If you can't be aware of the limits to your personal capacity, you'll end up living in the exhausted, stress-hormone-overdosed purgatory of burnout land, your body rebelling against your refusal to "go home" at the end of the day.

On the "things to do" side, I do better now that I keep a phone for work and don't put any work anything on my personal phone. I do carry both through the day, but I put the work one face down when I'm done and leave it on my desk until the next day.

The work computer is similarly separate from where I'm writing right now, and it too goes on silent mode and closed when I'm done. I'll go as far some weeks to unplug it on Friday and tuck it away, just to really remind myself that I'm not on the clock.
I'd venture that some of it at least is a combination of two factors:

- Compulsive and systematic abusers can make their way to powerful positions in the majority of modern organizations, where hierarchy and a lack of empathy can provide them with an edge.

- Normal people who suffer abuse - even if it's indirectly, and even if they're not really aware or able to articulate that something is wrong (for example, if they've experienced angry comments or unnecessary work from a manager, who is in fact simply passing down unpleasant demands they've received from above) are comforted and sedated by seeing that kind of abuse normalized on a "respectable" / "popular" television show.

If that theory is accurate, it wouldn't necessarily mean you have to be sympathetic to either population. It's just a possible way to understand the circumstances that lead normal people to spend their downtime with shows like this. Understanding can lead to empathy, and with both it's possible to find improvements. Change without understanding and empathy can be risky.
Apparently transcribe is a technical term too complicated for undergrads. I guess a third of college students have never read a transcript before leaving high school. Terrifying.

When I was a tutor at my community college, I learned pretty fast to explain concepts in as many different ways as I could until the concept “clicked”. Vocabulary is the gateway to understanding. From reading this paper, it seems like people didn’t know what transcribe means, so they miss that the name itself is an analogy and not solely a technical term.

It’s kind of frustrating that people are doing bad at biology because their English classes failed them.
I use all the above and then some.

I've written code to print scripting language stack traces when native code segfaults.

I've written code to auto-collect crashdumps from coworkers, and add important globals (or what they point to) to said crashdumps when collecting full 32GB+ memory dumps are impractical.

In-process debug toggles might show graphs or annotations that provide much more intuitive and visual alternatives to printf spam.

Unit and fuzz tests help catch things before they manifest in the wild.

GDB/LLDB supports python scripts which let you customize the debug view of some of your more opaque types. MSVC has .natvis files, which despite being awkward XML soup, can also be quite useful.
Entrepreneurs? Dang, I thought this was a forum for programmers.
How about DuckDB:

https://duckdb.org/

It keeps databases in a single local file like SQLite, and it supports PostgreSQL syntax (not sure which version). It does a load of funky stuff to be really fast at analytics workloads, but I would guess it's fast enough at transactional workloads for small-scale use.
https://archive.is/jQNxo
Worth noting you have to be invited to join Lobste.rs (by a current member). I'm not one, but the discussions there are often interesting - IME about half the stories I've seen here first and on those stories in general the Lobsters threads are a bit more technical and a bit more focused.

I quite like the 'what are you doing this weekend threads' it feels very small-community-like. [But that might just be that I've often felt a lack of tech community - as an example, I've used Linux for >20 years and don't have anyone in my life I could have a conversation about it with like you might chat to a neighbour/friend about pruning a tree or fixing your car.]
It really isn't possible to have a consistent cross platform experience outside "closed ecosystems" like the JVM. The problem is that good debugging usually has to integrate very deeply with the language/ecosystem/hardware. Unfortunately programming languages are a mishmash of distinct philosophies implemented differently by people who largely didn't agree with one another, so the debugging experience in most of them is inconsistent and because experience transfers less than you might think, generally abysmal. Moreover, all that deep integration and complexity mean that debuggers are sometimes wholly inappropriate for particular situations and as the use you'll just have to know/learn when that is.

But if you can get your hands on a "good" debugger with (e.g.) time travel or reverse debugging, there are entire classes of issues you can instantly solve. It's like having superpowers.
> hacker news

Where opinion is being manipulated by the U.S. security/military complex.
In the past I have used debuggers when learning a new language. Helped me to understand what was going on. I'm too impatient to single-step all but the most trivial routines.

When faced with a new API or algorithm, I write small programs with lots of prints to test/understand the function/object in question. Once that's done I encapsulate as a module and retain some assertions to catch any abuses.

I then build systems using the pre-tested modules. At that point I rely on the assertions, logging and exceptions to identify the source of problems. Problems are quickly traced back to the module with bugs which then undergoes further polishing as above.
Good to know! I took it almost 30 years ago. (Yeah. I'm old.)
I think this post is a case study in how a cryptic beginning can turn people off. Particularly these lines:

> Learning is not like seeing lions in a safari. More humble surfing. Less self-deluding chess.

> Reminder to self beginning.

> This is pedantic, but it's important.

The author mentions that storytelling is "near and dear to their heart." My guess is that they are trying to do the storytelling "hook" technique (where you start off by not explaining something fully so that people are compelled to read to the end and get closure). To their credit I did read to the end but I feel like that is a cheap trick. Like a UX dark pattern, but for writing.

The gist of the article is summed up in the title. I suppose this idea has implications for how you think about organizational learning but the author doesn't go into those implications whatsoever.
If it's malware that steals cookies, no 2fa is necessary, just set up your cookies and log in like it's a live session
Money is a social construct. We create money for investment every day. Investing in the population creates returns in tax revenue. You open opportunities for wealth creation by putting down roads and train stations and modes of commerce.
Well, there's this:

https://news.yahoo.com/u-state-department-recently-hit-20404...

> Without confirming any incident, a knowledgeable source told Reuters the State Department has not experienced significant disruptions and has not had its operations impeded in any way.

not worth much
The agenda release and docs update came a few days later, yes. I think it might have been in the Gem already, albeit experimentally.
Why is the govt (i.e., taxpayers) paying off a mortgage good for society? And if you later sell the house, do you keep the money, or pay back what the govt paid? Who benefits from the enormous appreciation (if the govt will be paying off the mortgage, why not offer $5 million for a typical 3br?)?
Behaviour-wise this is definitely true - not for everyone, but many. But I don't think it wouldn't matter for the comparison because they're looking at rates of serious illness, rather than absolute number of people catching it.

Saying that, if seriousness of disease is related to initial exposure amount, perhaps being vaxxed and overly brave could mean you get a higher initial dose?
This is a reflection of how engineers have become aware of the ethical and political effects of their work. To HN's credit the non-technical discussions are of high quality, in general.

From a purely technical standpoint, HN remains the best forum for discovery of new projects and giving feedback to FAANG. (M not so much).
Keep in mind that the words "reasonable market" and "alternatives" are doing a lot of work here.

From the linked documents:

> If Android competed with iOS on app transactions, the market competition would make Android apps cheaper for users and attract developers to launch their apps first (or even only) on Android. [...] After a meeting involving senior executives of Google and Apple, notes of the meeting were exchanged between the two companies. The notes reflect: "Our vision is that we work as if we are one company."

Epic's lawsuits are alleging that both Apple and Google have engaged in anti-competitive behavior here, albeit sometimes in different ways. Even bolder, they're claiming that Google and Apple engaged cooperative anti-competitive behavior that benefited both companies. What consumer-ready alternatives exist for users outside of Apple and Android? If a developer announces that they're building a smartphone game, and that it won't work on Android or iOS, do you think it's reasonably possible for that developer to make money with that game?

Apple has massive amounts of competitive leverage over the smartphone ecosystem; they control the most profitable app store. And the vast majority of non-iOS phones are running the Google Play Store. In that context, locking down the hardware has much bigger implications than it would in a truly competitive market. I think the question is, do we actually have a competitive smartphone market when it comes to smartphone app stores and OSes?
Drowning in details, missing the larger point that actually matters - are you a software engineer?
I get that laws and enforcement vary -- but companies which expose things to a broad and presumably international audience seem to be settling on a set of best practices.
You mention making a business outline. In my professional work, I'm familiar with e.g. details of data retention in a GDPR context being based on a business use, rather than just a preference to keep things. But ... sometimes the use isn't about business, and the law seems to regard that as not legitimate.

Earlier this summer I created a hobby site, which is all static content, but which includes a google analytics snippet. I really just wanted to be able to measure visitor numbers, file downloads, etc. The question "Are people even viewing the thing I published?" isn't intrinsically a business concern. I don't even really have records of any PII -- just some analytics and graphs of aggregate behavior. Nor do I have the ability to delete anything should a visitor request it. But my understanding is I'm nevertheless obligated to have a policy, a data controller, etc, and if someone does issue a GDPR related request, I'll perhaps respond by taking down the whole project. Which seems like a crazy situation.
Here's the Wikipedia entry on them -- they're definitely a misinformation monger.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Policy_Research
What is WSL2?
Yours is a very fair negative reaction. The information in the EFF’s includes a portion where it seems to be concerned only about alerting parents[1]. I think many parents would find that reasonable. However, the fact that the information will also be sent to the government [2] is just plainly an abuse of privacy, goes outside of the relationship between parent and child, and I do not imagine that parents would find that reasonable.

> [1] Moreover, the system Apple has developed assumes that the "parent" and "child" accounts involved actually belong to an adult who is the parent of a child, and that those individuals have a healthy relationship. This may not always be the case; an abusive adult may be the organiser of the account, and the consequences of parental notification could threaten the child’s safety and wellbeing. LGBTQ+ youths on family accounts with unsympathetic parents are particularly at risk. As a result of this change, iMessages will no longer provide confidentiality and privacy to those users through an end-to-end encrypted messaging system in which only the sender and intended recipients have access to the information sent.

> [2] When a preset threshold number of matches is met, it will disable the account and report the user and those images to authorities.
Apologies for off-topic: Does anyone recognize the blog platform/theme being used?
Keeping our privacy, both digital and otherwise, secure from intrusion isn't and absolutely shouldn't be about simply keeping them secure from "bad governments" and nefarious data thieves. The point should be to rigorously prevent governments of any kind using any supposedly good justification period from easily knowing or tracking certain things. If history should be able to teach us anything it's that good governments can become corrupt and that the data held by any large organization can quickly be stolen or misused by its individual members or others for their own ends. Data like that shouldn't simply be "secured", it should be made extremely difficult to collect in the first place, especially by any large centralized party.
Why is Rust the defining aspect? What circumstances would I use this in compared to other engines? Who is the intended audience?

Rust is my most-used Language, but my pattern-matching brain is cautious about projects that have "uses Rust" as a primary requirement.
it small in size，around 1/4 the size of big "Golden Cove" core. Gracemont is a big architecture enhancement over Tremont Core, which is nurtured by the legendary Jim Keller.
No avx512, but not skimpy in floating point.

The rumor is that Intel "Sierra Forest" will contain huge amount of small cores.
Probably yes, but there are A LOT of variables that influence the story (e.g. characters personality).
And is hosted in the exact same space and on the exact same Infrastructure as web 2.0. nothing will change. You don't control the infrastructure your a pawn to the system. You ultimately have no say in what is blocked or copied.
“Note that there is one less blank line here; it has been replaced by the #! line. But otherwise it is identical. Sun has merely passed on the copyright notice. I wonder if Sun has written permission from AT&T to use blank lines in their code?”

Fun fact: SVR4 was a joint AT&T/Sun project, so this was a SunOS file originally — I believe the “SMI” in the #ident line stands for “Sun Microsystems Inc.” and was a standard feature of all our SCCS identifiers.
People criticize YC-funded startups all the time on HN. Just look at the beating these guys took yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28247379.

We go out of our way to moderate threads less when a YC startup is involved (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...), but your behavior in this thread has been so egregious that I don't have a choice. "Less" doesn't mean "zero".
It would be nicer if this were a per-column constraint rather than a per-table one, but it's very welcome all the same.
>> for that company maxed out at 10%

That is high, many companies were still 3-5% in 2021, hard to predict what 2022 will look like but I am not expecting much in as many companies seem to not understand that is happening in the market...
Vendors /can/ do those things, but I’ve never seen it done. What I have seen are lots of static PDFs with no consideration for mobile friendly viewing. And you still have to wait for the waiter to place your order.
Would be nice to use it for a gopher(s)-to-https proxy.
So Windows 10 with WSL2 is the best Linux Distribution?

At least it has a sane desktop. I'll take that over a bare metal install of a Linux distro, such that I don't need to dual boot my machine.
When someone sends a message to your child, the message is for your child, not for you. Your child is the "end point" and you are an evesdropper.

This is a case where I think it is justified, as long as your child is a minor and you are his legal guardian. But as acceptable as it is, you are still a spy and the app is spyware.

The fears, justified or not, is that the same feature that can be used for parental control can also be used on adults without their consent.

Personally, I think that right now, the fears are overblown, but I also think that Apple got the backlash they deserved. Privacy is not to be taken lightly, it is something that both protects freedom and helps criminals, also a strong political stance. It is not just a marketing took against Google.
I'm afraid I do not follow...

1. 21.2% of the population (unvaccinated people older than 12) make up 40% of the hospitalizations. It's even more stark when you remove the immune compromised from the statistic.

2. For the delta-variant we need a higher vaccination rate to reach herd immunity. Estimates vary, but most put this around 85%.

3. While vaccinated people still can get sick (and why won't they, the immune system can only start to act after encountering the pathogen), but... the time of being infectious is lower and (see above) hospitalization and death rates are much lower.

Upon (very basic) scrutiny the numbers from Israel point to the high efficiency of the vaccines not the opposite.

And last, what would have us do instead?
Same with Google chat. It is bundled with gsuite so company thinks it is a waste to pay for something property like slack. But Google chat is literally the worst software I've used. Something as simple as search is broken every other week.
Hand-painted/drawn backgrounds were unfairly good back in the day. Something like Planescape: Torment looks better than its age because there’s really very little to render in real-time. Conversely, something comparable like SimGolf looks much worse despite coming out later because it couldn’t leverage anything pre-rendered.
I did this at my current employer (NZ govt uses shitty third party services which really want to invade your privacy). Basically, nope, I'm not installing this closed source third party app (whose only job is to issue MFA tokens for access to the intranet) onto my personal phone. If you want me to install it, give me a separate phone. After a lot of finagling I finally learned this was just TOTP, and there was a way to get my TOTP seed so I could use any old TOTP client. No indication of this while talking to support or looking at the registration website, of course.
It sounds like the author is discovering intuition as articulated in a very ancient form. Artists and geniuses have long had experiences of knowledge and information flowing through them and expressing itself through them as some external thing. Actually, everyone has this, but some seemingly to a greater degree than others.

Take for example August Kekule who supposedly discovered the shape of the benzene ring via dream of an ouroboros. Or, Seymour Cray who came to solutions via "communicating with elves" under his home.

If I recall correctly, I remember reading that in ancient Greece it was believed wisdom and knowledge was some external thing (maybe only one philosopher thought this?), like a spirit that would visit an individual. Things were not actively learned, but they were granted and bestowed by an unknown force.

The article though is very difficult to parse. Not to be rude but the signature at the end makes me think the author might just really enjoy the sound of their own writing a bit too much and wants to come across as profound. Communicating things in simpler, more relatable terms is much more meaningful and valuable. Then again it's also possible the author is just so eccentric and brilliant that their way of thinking is difficult to follow.
What on earth are you going on about?
Sturges' Formula