skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does understanding about how the world works have to do with the validity of a moon landing?
This is a great question for us non-lawyers. Why is it being downvoted? I'm confused about the "how" rather than "what" or "why". I see what happened, and why the the judge made the decision, but how can a judge tell a business where they can be and how many they service, if there's nothing illegal going on? Public nuisance laws, or something similar?
Waymo service area in San Francisco versus Uber and Lyft traffic
No, that isn't a conclusion from the study.

> Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.

Note also...

> evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated,

they didn't compare against 2 dose vaccinated, presumably because of lack of data.
I think his defenders are mostly people like you; people who are fundamentally dishonest assholes.

They like Joe because he is also a fundamentally dishonest asshole.

As evidence, you say you are not here to defend Joe, but you wrote multiple posts defending Joe. You’re a dishonest little asshole. Just like Joe.
That does sound spicier than placing tiles of vegetation.
IMHO, I don't think most people commenting here are getting it.

As an example, here's a bash alias generator, alf [0], which itself is a bash script, created using this. The bash script for alf is note really small [1]. Additionally, the output is extremely readable unlike most other bash scripts I myself have written!

Really amazing piece of software! Kudos.

[0]: https://github.com/DannyBen/alf
[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DannyBen/alf/master/alf
Having a device you own scan your files and report you is fundamentally different from having a server which you submitted plaintext files to search you. I agree both are bad, but Apple's scheme erodes a critical boundary.

It would be like if the bank searched your safe deposit box stored in their vault in the course of their business, but then later announced that to reduce the need to search your vault they'd be stationing a spy in your home to inspect the box before you leave for the bank. The spy will secretly report back to the bank if he sees something he suspects, and then the bank will search.

With these collision examples, you now learn that the spy will also be tripping balls.
> But it seems like an unwarranted leap to go from this formal comparison of cardinality of infinite sets, to the intuitive English-sentence idea that "almost all" real numbers are irrational, as if it had any analogy whatsover to a statement such as e.g. "almost all" values of 1/x are defined.

What's the objection? Almost all values of 1/x are defined. The analogy is... it's the same usage with the same meaning. That's not even an analogy.
It's a device to make it easy to communicate with Amazon, if you didn't want to do that why would you buy it?
If you have to actively circumvent the efforts of your users to make your webpage more readable, you may have a massive problem with your underlying design culture.
This is all about Apple users waking up to the fact that they've been had
Now I want to watch a movie about a post-apocalyptic society where one's social status is based on the size and rarity of one's CPU-jewellery collection.
I'm sorry to hear that you're close to burning out. Having a family definitely complicates the situation. I imagine it's much harder to fly with the wind when you're helping carry others.

If your work is remote, perhaps a change of scenery might suffice? I've been working from Albania, and with timezones, that basically means I get to go to the beach in the morning, then start work at 2PM-10:30PM.
Please downvote and flag this. In no way are Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca profiting off of this pandemic. I'm tired of misinformation being spread on HN by the alt-right.
"if you are a parent, I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how you foster reading amongst your students/children"

From birth: We read to our son often.

August 2020: I saw a recommendation on HN for the book "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons".

Aug-Dec 2020: I spent 25-30 hours following that playbook. (15-20 mins per day, 5 days per week, 20 weeks.)

August 2021: Our son (now almost 5yo) reads beyond the level that will be expected of him when he finishes Kindergarten (2 years from now). Most important for me: he's improving (both decoding and comprehension) without our help. He just picks things he wants to read (from his bookshelf, from the library, or from the thrift store), and gets started. He'll re-read books he likes, and abandon others.

Anyone who can read at high school level can follow the instructions in the book I used. Assuming you can find people like that for minimum wage(?), it should be possible to teach N children to read for $500 * N. ($15/hr x 30 hrs = $450, plus some money for materials.)

To put that $500 into context: it's approximately the same as SFUSD spends per student per week.

If you can really teach every child to read, for $8 per student ($110k/14k = $8), that would be a game-changer.
Is your laptop still working? Then don't give it back to Dell. Sell or give it to someone else who can use it for another year or two.
“You decide what to watch on Netflix because I literally can’t.”

About all I've heard in response to suggesting ideas like these is that I'm an adult, so nobody is able to decide anything for me anymore.

I completely disagree. Depending on the importance of the decision, I would gladly relinquish some of my personal liberty if I absolutely needed to take my mind off of the crushing weight of choice for a while. On bad days, I've found myself unable to stop being stressed at constantly questioning if I'm making the wrong choices, even for the most insignificant things like sitting down and doing nothing for a few minutes.

Also, some of the most significant turning points in my life only came as a result of people insisting that they knew what was best for me over and over again, and if I hadn't listened to their advice then I would be far worse off than I am now.
CPU, OS Simulation for Computer Education
Similar, but with a much better perf/W. That's the biggest problem with old hardware. I'd love to be able to run old servers with dual cores and such in a big cluster, but 60W for an old CPU with 10% of the performance of a similar modern CPU is just not very attractive ):
I used to see his clips on recommended and after watching some of them I would look for the whole podcast if it was interesting.

Now I don't even read the name Joe Rogan if I'm not watching UFC.

It's sad because I really enjoyed some of his content.
Joe holds and promotes many extreme beliefs but wants plausible deniability.

The format he uses lets him do this, empowering everything from Ivermectin promoters to white nationalists, while allowing him to feign that he’s not doing that
Pretty sure they used fake ads, but it’s a good precedent anyway.

Edit: and yes the album is available on Spotify in full.
The bottom line is I don't trust you to decide what should be censored. You don't trust me.

There is no workable censorship regime that does not devolve into ideological warfare.
Solving the include guard problem in C/C++
Much of the battle is learning how to assert some control over your life. Burnout comes with significant learned helplessness - A feeling that you don't have any control over your life because previous attempts to take control have failed.

The trick is to un-learn that helplessness by retraining yourself with small steps in the right direction. Jumping straight into hours of Leetcode grinding isn't a good small step. Setting a goal to solve 2 Leetcode problems per week is a good first step. Or even better, maybe skip the Leetcode and start pinging your network for any job openings. Not every job requires Leetcode practice.

> Vacation doesn't help. It just puts me farther behind.

Time to force some control over your workload. Does your manager try to shame you into not taking vacation? Or do they expect you to accomplish the same work whether your on vacation or not? Time to push back.

If you're burned out and thinking of quitting anyway, what's the worst that can happen? As it turns out, you're not actually going to get fired quickly at most any company for simply limiting your workload to something reasonable. There's a hiring crunch right now and they'd have to replace you with someone else. Then you'd just get another job, which is what you wanted anyway. Time to start setting some boundaries, leading with expectations instead of waiting for them to be applied to you, and forcing some vacation time into your schedule. No one is going to make vacation happen for you, so get it done.

Meanwhile, it's time to find another company. I agree that quitting isn't a great idea if it can be avoided. I've seen enough people quit due to burnout and/or depression, only to spiral further into burnout/depression in the ensuing loneliness and financial stresses. Better to switch to a new job where people actually enjoy working together.
Why is eating healthy and exercising expensive?
I didn't like them banning episodes too. There were internal movements from Spotify employees (liberal Silicon Valley workers) who wanted episodes completely censored and removed. Joe talked about it a few times and I read some articles.

The irony is that by moving to these liberal employees' platform, he's losing influence :)

By creating a crappy podcast platform they've ensured they get what they want and he ends up diminished.
> If we accept infinity as a participant in the mathematical logic, the infinitesimal also deserves a role as a counter-party.

Infinitesimals have a much bigger role in widely-known mathematics than infinities do; they are the basis for calculus.
You might be eligible for paid short-term disability leave with the doctor's note.

Also, interviewing and quitting after leave isn't unethical. Do it, take care of yourself.
Spotify is no longer the only kid in town.
First I had moved to tidal because of supposedly better audio. Then one day I figured out that I already pay for prime and get prime music with it, already pay Apple’s one iCloud bundle and get Apple Music with it, so tidal also went to the cancellation hole with Spotify.
Not going to have an Spotify account just to listen to Joe Rogan.
In a healthy job market and economy this is likely only 6 months expenses and best practice for everyone, regardless of occupation.
I'm not an educator, only an individual with no children who is interested in education. I do some volunteer work for education non-profits, so not sure how much help I'd be about budget stuff. Was really just curious when I asked that question.

With that said, most of my knowledge is about Mississippi. We have tons of problems with our public education system. Budget constraints are always a big issue for teachers, and one that might make it difficult to adopt a new program. At a very high level: https://mississippitoday.org/2018/04/16/analysis-shows-state...

If you're trying to make an impact in Mississippi, the Barksdale Reading Institute works in this space: https://msreads.org/.
> You said they should add a reporting mechanism, that won't stop anything because if a person already has knowledge that this content is being shared, they could just report it to the authorities. There is no reason to report it to Apple. Like you said, "Apple's role is not the police".

Recognition isn't something people would always be able to immediately do with CSAM imagery so Apple, which has already created a tool to recognize it, can assist with that. It can also create tools to reduce the overhead of reporting. If you make it easier to report, more people will do it. You're assuming that anyone that ever encounters CSAM would go out of their way to report it, which simply isn't true.

> This type of black and white ideology can't function in the real world. All rights have limits and the general rule is that your rights end when they start infringing on my rights. Your right to privacy does not supersede my right to not be a victim of a crime.

My right to privacy is not an infringement of your rights so this argument has no bearing in reality. Law enforcement requires probable cause to get permission to surveil the population and there's been countless cases thrown out because of this violation, which, as it turns out, was even tested in the context of technology interfacing with NCMEC.

> Everything I have seen from people in the know has suggested that this is a step on the path to Apple enabling E2EE encryption for iCloud.

Those people are also pushing the same false dichotomy that you are. There is no technical reason that this is required to enable E2EE for iCloud, it's purely speculation as to why Apple would roll this surveillance tool out, as a compromise to having a fully encrypted system.

> Do you have an actual suggestion that you think will cut down on CSAM beyond providing a redundant reporting system?

The reporting system isn't redundant, but beyond that, the impetus isn't on the person whose rights are being violated to offer solutions to replace that violation.
Let's say you build the perfect monetary policy into a cryptocurrency. Okay, now the basic institution of money is working again but what about everything else?

>Over the last two years, Lebanon has been gripped by an economic death spiral, the culmination of years of government corruption and mismanagement. The electricity supply has collapsed, pharmacies and gas stations are empty,

The article mentions infrastructure. First, how do you use cryptocurrencies with limited access to electricity? Second, how does cryptocurrency help with physical infrastructure? Have there been successful cases of countries with private infrastructure? Has there ever been an ICO to pay for a cell phone tower or a solar farm?
On emissive / colour displays, this still is my preference:

https://codepen.io/dredmorbius/full/KpMqqB

On e-ink, the off-white / off-black colour palette is actually something of a probem, though the page otherwise remains highly readable.

From the original page, the lack of margins is a problem. Text running straight into the gutter is a readability problem.
Just like Howard Stern moving to satellite radio or whatever it was.

Out of sight, out of mind.

This is also the dilemma writers face when putting their content behind a paywall. The conversation just moves on without you.
Substantially more guilt- based productivity maybe. I think I’ll be fine.
Fire, the millennial movement to save, invest, and quit the workplace
I wonder how Sqlite would fair, especially for the read test.
Interesting and relevant overview about how Netflix uses AI to "personalize" thumbnails: https://netflixtechblog.com/artwork-personalization-c589f074...
I would like to set boundaries. Like working 4 days a week, 10 out of 12 month a year. But most employers have a different idea of how much I should work.
The various health authorities told people not to use masks at first because:

Hospitals were in danger of running out of protective equipment.

The public was panic buying anything and everything. Remember empty grocery store shelves? Price gouging people who were hoarding all the hand sanitizer?

When those circumstances changed, so did the advice.

There's no one on earth who gets everything right first time, and thus never needs to change their mind. Not one single person.

Why do you value an opinion or advice that never changes?
I have an MBP2013 with Catalina and it’s been smooth sailing, good to know I shouldn’t upgrade to Mojave even
The measurement will be dominated by network IO time. Does the driver wait for acknowledgement when writing? Does it wait for each read before transmitting the next query? These details matter.

Postgres reads might be so fast because the test script reads keys in the order they were written. Postgres benefits from cache locality, as the table file maintains that order.
> which is quite closed, and nobody really can make extensive review for it

That's what Apple wants you to think, and they're very successful at marketing, but it's not really true. The jailbreak scene is not what it once was, but there are innards to Apple devices and services. Apple engineers put their pants on one leg at a time, the same as everyone else.
I think anyone would take that deal for $100 million. Joe's the real winner while people argue in the comments about this or that about his podcast. Clearly, having controversial guests on is fantastic for his podcast's influence.

I don't think Spotify is good for podcasts in general. I much prefer to consume podcasts with my own clients and workflows. Even youtube is better since it actually works well unlike the spotify app in my experience.
The ruling is that Berkeley did break the law. Or, at least, they didn’t follow it.

California has an environmental law called the California Environmental Quality Act[1] or CEQA. It sets forth a process that all state and local government entities (including state universities) must follow when undertaking new projects. My very superficial legal understanding of the CEQA is that it’s seriously complex. I’m on mobile so I’m having a hard time finding the document but to give you an idea of the complexity the state puts out an annual CEQA handbook with all the rules and guidance and recent cases and it’s something like 400 pages long. (Edit: Here’s a link to the PDF[2] of the 2021 Handbook.)

At the heart of CEQA is a requirement that, prior to undertaking a new project, the entity has to complete an environmental assessment of how the proposed project will impact things like water use, pollution, noise, etc. Then they need to publish the report, get comment from
the public, and, in certain instances, adjust the project plan to minimize the impact.

CEQA also, somewhat controversially, allows for a private right of civil action. So when a state or local government entity in California doesn’t comply with CEQA then a person who is or may be negatively impacted by the failure to comply can file a civil suit and that’s what happened here.

The reason the private right of action is controversial is because it’s sometimes (often?) used as pretext to get a court-order to prevent a project by people or groups who aren’t at all concerned for the environment but have some other motive. And, because the law is incredibly complex, it turns out it’s not a bad legal strategy for NIMBYs. (Edit: I just want to clarify that I don’t mean to imply the group who filed this suit are NIMBYs or environmental activists. I have zero idea as to their motives.)

Anyway, this case wound up on this judge’s docket because a local group brought suit under CEQA alleging the University didn’t follow all of the requirements and the judge agreed. So he sent them back to do the process again. And in the meantime, he froze enrollment.

(Again, I have a very superficial understanding of how it works so take everything I’ve said with a grain of salt. In practice it’s far more complex than what I’ve described.)

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Environmental_Qua...

[2]https://www.califaep.org/docs/CEQA_Handbook_2021.pdf
You're a borderline public figure in politics and your role in politics seems to have been your primary occupation over the past few years. Does that ever come up in your conversations with tech recruiters? Given these specifics, I'm not sure if your experience generalizes to other old engineers, though I'm sure ageism is a problem for older engineers in our industry.
> Part of the burnout (certainly not all, perhaps not even a majority) is the extra load working Americans are taking to offset the voluntarily unemployed.

Maybe better to focus on paid time off and sick leave. The companies can afford it, regardless of what they say..
Even searching for case law and public policy on this subject causes a chilling "WARNING CHILD ABUSE IMAGERY IS ILLEGAL" box to display on google.

Speaking out enough on this gets you called a pedo.

I will not go as far to claim that the people for this are intentionally using children to shield themselves from criticism push out a universal surveillance mechanism. ... but if you wanted to do exactly that, hiding behind the spectre of child abuse is exactly that.

There are some hard questions we should be asking. Facebook claims to have reported some 20 million insances of child porn last year, but there were only a couple prosecutions. Are the matches fake? Is the goal really to just build a huge database of kompromat? If these images aren't a concern why are only an infinitesimal proportion of cases prosecuted?
Millennials, the Wealthiest Generation? Believe It
The newer butterfly keyboards got all the bad press (for good reason) but a while back I had to use one of the early aluminum models from when they were still thick enough to hold disc drives, for the first time in many years, and damn, I'd forgotten just how much worse the original slim driveless models' keyboards were, than those. Those were basically perfect, for a laptop.
Was going to link this exact article, but you beat me to it. :) My biggest problem with Saladino's episode was that early in it became clear that he is a zealot, and almost by definition zealots are rarely generally "right" or "not pseudoscience" as GP claims in this specific case. Especially when their object of zealotry is an extremely complex field that we're only just beginning to understand. It's difficult to trust anything a zealot says. I surely don't have time to dig into all the ways in which they're using the "science" to support their perspective.
This idea presumes a few things:
1. Tech workers are burning out due to 'extra load' because of staffing issues at companies.
2. The staffing and workload issues are due to tech workers being voluntarily unemployed.

The first is probably very true. But tech companies have always ran as bare thin of a crew that they could to meet output requirements, which is why you can find content on tech burnout all the way back to the dotcom era and probably before.

The second is, in my mind, untenable. The kinds of salaries that a tech worker makes is wildly different from the amount that unemployment covers. In my state unemployment would barely be half of my salary, and thats with the added covid benefits. I strongly, strongly doubt there is even a small fraction of people willing to take that kind of paycut in exchange for pure idling.
"In no way are Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca profiting off of this pandemic"
Absurd remark. These companies are selling vaccines to governments around the world. Any reasonable, straightforward definition of 'profit' would apply here, as pharmaceutical companies are not non-profit entities.
To Big Sur?
The government has been leaning on to social media companies telling them to self-censor or the government will do it for them.
Mailing DVD rentals was literally what Netflix did before the advent of web streaming in the mid to late 2000s. They could offer a wider selection than Blockbuster, and people generally find it more convenient to sit around at home instead of putting on pants and going to their local video rental store.

While web streaming becoming popular (and the selection available for streaming becoming much wider) definitely dealt a killing blow to Blockbuster, Netflix was already successful with their mail-in rental service, and had made a name for themselves with it.
Berkeley is a public university.
> These deals are just payouts for the hosts not investments that make the shows better

Honestly I don't think Spotify bought podcasts to make money from it, they just want people to associate the word "podcast" with the app Spotify. And so far that works because no other app gained significant momentum.

The fact that less people watch the show is almost irrelevant
But what if he only did it for the lulz?
They're all in.

So am I: ordered a new laptop from System76 to replace my Mac and am phasing out my iphone.