skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is misleading. Different people asses risks differently. I have extremely little insight into the existing financial system: does my bank really have good security over their servers? Do they practice recovery on a regular basis so that there’s confidence my money will still be there when failures do happen? Will the IRS make a typo that results in my bank assets being frozen?

I have zero insight into that. A lot of people seem to take it foregranted that existing bank systems are infallible. I have no way to assess that beyond the test of time (which is still worth something).

Cryptocurrency lending platforms have similar types of risk: what’s the feasibility of the thing being hacked. For most of these, I can actually do a very rough assessment because the code is public, the team is usually public (and has a track record) and there are probably some security audits by groups who either are or aren’t yet reputable. I have more tools for assessing risk.

So yes, some people will judge the risk of the 0.1% system to be lower than the 4% system. Some people will judge the risk to be the reverse (more practical if you substitute Compound/Aave for the 4% system). But you can’t separate the risk of a system from the users of that system so cleanly. There’s a very large subjective component to it.
Or standard paraffin candles! The soot (even when they burn normally/"clean") is killer.

I have some beeswax ones coming soon which are supposed to be better; my PM25 meter is standing by for their arrival.
Stating a political preference is not hateful to anyone. Let’s not lessen the meaning of the word “hate.”
Perpetuating flamewars will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. Please review the rules.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Natural immunity should be better because you are exposed to all the same proteins in the vaccine plus more

This directly contradicts what immunologists seem to be finding as in the "Antibodies elicited by mRNA-1273 vaccination bind more broadly to the receptor binding domain than do those from SARS-CoV-2 infection" [1] study.

Summarized by the director of the NIH [2]:

> antibodies elicited by the mRNA vaccine were more focused to the RBD compared to antibodies elicited by an infection, which more often targeted other portions of the spike protein. Importantly, the vaccine-elicited antibodies targeted a broader range of places on the RBD than those elicited by natural infection.

If there's one thing we should learn from this pandemic it seems like the complexity and non-intuitiveness of the immune system is amongst them.

1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103407/

2: https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2021/06/22/how-immunity-genera...
I think that's correct with some overlap, yes. Zig's explicit goal - as stated by the creator - is to replace C. Nothing more, nothing less.

I feel like Rust wants to replace C but it also wants to replace C++. And given the complexity difference between the two languages, that means that Rust will end up closer to C++ than to C.

So there's some overlap based on how Rust positions itself, but not based on how Zig positions itself.
Honestly, 13" is more than you need for a 4:3 terminal. A lot of classic character terminals had 9 or 10 inch screens...it's not until you get to like the VT320 that you have a 14" screen. I'd consider a 10 inch screen about ideal, and the keyboard doesn't have to be 13", either.
Using Firefox/Fennec with uBlock Origin works just fine for me!
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fi...
[Disclosure] I'm Co-Founder and CEO of http://vantage.sh/

We are launching this effort primarily for startups and SMBs who are just getting started in their cloud cost journey who have trouble understanding their AWS bills. From what we've found, folks may just be generally unaware of general concepts or best practices as it relates to cloud costs that can save them a pretty significant amount on their AWS bill.

Typically we've found that a 30 minute call where we go over this in the context of the customer's bill can be really helpful - during our pilot of this we just ask customers to share their screen of the Vantage console where all of the billing data is present and we can walk through things and answer any questions. Occasionally in these calls we get feedback of use-cases that aren't covered and can add them to our roadmap as well - so its helpful in both directions.

Happy to answer any questions if they pop up!
> I really disagree with this on so many levels, and I believe the market will ultimately reject it too. When you’re spending tens of thousands on a car, the last thing you want is some optional monthly fee for seat warmers and navigation features.

Remember when Tesla temporarily unlocked extra range on their (existing) customer's cars because of a hurricane? Software-mediated market segmentation is already here, and has been for a while - I think binned microprocessors are the earliest example I can think of.
Specifically, students in their final year of high school, ahead of end-of-school exams.

It was an entirely voluntary operation you had to sign up for...

https://apnews.com/article/health-australia-coronavirus-pand...
I find it brutally slow. At first I was a big fan but over time I've mostly stopped using it because I just couldn't stand how slow it is (using it in browser on a laptop).

I hang on in the hopes they will address the problem.
I don’t really see what this has to do with vaccine passports (Louisana has a nice app for it, digital drivers license, proof of vaccination checked against a state database) but phone carriers do sell real-time location data to third parties. They were fined a pittance for it: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/fcc-issues-wrist...
This is a story out of India. Here, you cannot do any of those things without providing government-issued IDs and address proofs.
Amor Fati: Love your fate
TSA jobs cant go away now that they exist. They probably never will. It will look bad for whatever president that does it because they will eliminate jobs and "national security" checks.

Everyone knows its a joke but we will keep doing it.
I wonder if it would possible to use the golang cache server. :-)

> proxy.golang.org does not save all modules forever. There are a number of reasons for this, but one reason is if proxy.golang.org is not able to detect a suitable license. In this case, only a temporarily cached copy of the module will be made available, and may become unavailable if it is removed from the original source and becomes outdated. The checksums will still remain in the checksum database regardless of whether or not they have become unavailable in the mirror.

https://proxy.golang.org/
Show HN: Candidate assessment platform for interviewers
They're illegal where I live (Belgium). So I suspect they're at the very least not a universal thing.
I suggest you look into blockchains like Solana and Fantom, there have been some technological advancements lately that allow crazy fast and cheap transactions (with some other downsides of course).

I think of the current state of crypto as a kind of a wild west situation, there's still so much to be discovered and there's a lot of competition between different tokens to see who can do something better than the others. Saying that it's too slow right now doesn't mean it still will be a couple years down the line.
You mean, invisible Arab terrorists that are disarmed absurdly well by a vaccine. You see, this is exactly why it's a terrible analogy, because people will just twist it to suit their pre-conceived notions about the current divisive topic, bludgeon those they disagree with, and jump right back into the same damn arguments.

I thought we were reflecting on 9/11. COVID is such a bad analogy. FUCK, it's such a bad analogy.
No, I don't think people work 70 hours because they're successful. I think they work 70 hours out of necessity and others think that makes them successful.

If I were successful then I definitely wouldn't be _working_. Yet here I am working many hours and others claim I am successful.
Whether cloth masks “work” depends on your definition of work. They appear to be better than no mask at all, but not as good as surgical masks or N95 masks.
"Natural immunity is better" is a very misleading and dangerous statement. Many people take it to mean that their natural immunity is better even if they have never had a covid infection before. Many people, including young and recently healthy people are currently painfully and tragically dying in overcrowded hospitals because they believed that. Some especially misguided people have tried to get the virus intentionally so that they can get this much ballyhooed "natural immunity". The results have been predictably disastrous.

Yes, once you have had the virus and are lucky enough to survive and recover, the natural immunity thus obtained is better. For several months. Then after about 6-9 months (afaik, check the cdc site for the exact period) your natural immunity wears out and you are better off getting a vaccine. But if you haven't had the virus, your natural immunity is not very good at protecting against it (that is why millions of people around the world have already died), and it is a very dangerous risk to take.

My cousin had covid and long covid after it. She got covid before vaccines were available. She got the vaccine as soon as recommended by doctors for people that have suffered from covid. She really did not want to repeat that experience.

States whose politicians have been talking up natural immunity are very hard hit. Hospitals throughout the south are overcrowded. There is a country wide shortage of oxygen, which may soon start resulting in more deaths. This is a very bad time to to talk up misleading notions of "natural immunity."
Not a lot of creators are necessarily comfortable with Python or other coding, but there are definitely people (including me) interested in whatever can be done programmatically with a DAW quality, without a DAW.

This opens possibilities such as version control, collaboration via PR, the regular coding workflow etc.

(I am dabbling with music and Elixir + Rust at the moment, and definitely interested by what Pedalboard brings, including programmatic VST hosting etc).
What about 650000 American dead makes you cynical about COVID?
I think they solve some similar and some different problems, with some similarities and differences!

The biggest difference in the problems they solve, in my view, is that Zig does not aim for safety. It'll be easier to write safe programs yourself with Zig than it might be with C, but it doesn't give you any guarantees.

Zig also seems like it may be a better fit for embedded programming; there's a big community around embedded Rust, and it sounds like there's a lot of progress, but still an uphill battle.

But yes, Zig:Rust :: C:C++ has merit in that Zig is a much smaller, less feature-rich language.
> a system of mirrors would solve the problem.

A system of mirrors prevents a single node going down from taking the whole system (in theory at least, we've all seen plenty of times where failover goes poorly), but it doesn't do anything to ensure the long term survival of the system as people lose interest, lose the ability to participate, and sometimes die.

If you were around certain internet forums in the late '00s you might have run in to an image hosting platform called WaffleImages which was created in response to yet another popular free image hosting service locking down their embedding and ruining thousands of old posts. The goal was to distribute image hosting among community-operated mirrors, and it worked great for a few years. Over time though people lost interest while the rate of new mirrors getting added dropped to basically zero and eventually it fell apart.
Nah, not really. Video games have been shown to be very good at increasing problem solving, planning, and fine motor skills. The problem is parents (including mine) who didn't/don't put reasonable limits on their use. A kid who plays video games a couple hours per week is going to turn out just fine.

I think there are also serious qualitative differences between games in the 90s/00s and mobile freemium games of today.
Huge Matrix fan but ... gah ... this is not something I want. Spin offs, sure, but another Neo story? Nope. Don't care.

(Not to mention the simple fact that neither Wachowski has made anything good since the first Matrix.)
We are pretty good at death counts, it's easy. All the data is there. Tied to anonymised health condition as aggregates.

The problem is how do we even start to evaluate the cost of prevention. Measures? We have equipment and labour costs, that's easy to measure but the data is not made available. But then what is the opportunity cost on those who are inflicted the measures. A person goes on holiday and can perhaps browse a book while queuing for an hour to go through the security checks, a business traveller is simply standing there, unable to even make a phone call due to lack of privacy.

Also, if we spend 1 trillion usd on say the prevention of terrorism, and we "only" suffered 20 death in the United States during that period, it doesn't mean halving the expense would only double the death toll. We put measures and have no tool to measure their effect, high number of variables, and each of their weight evolve dynamically.

I think we better spend time educating the media industry to somewhat control the increasing rate of fear inducing columns published each second. And if they don't learn, regulate them since we are already regulating countless industries for that matter.
> Just because something hurt your enemy does not mean it helps you get closer to your goal.

I think that's a good general observation, but a key assumption of terrorism is that hurting your enemy /will/ pressure them to do what you want.

Terrorism is all about out unconventional ways of bringing pain to your enemy, rather than just defeating their military in combat. So I think terrorism can definitely be intended to sow fear, paranoia, overreaction, internal division, etc within the enemy civil society.

Not as the end goal, but as part of the strategy of inflicting paint to pressure them to capitulate.
100yr ago eugenics proponents were saying the same thing while bemoaning societies unwillingness to fully embrace their solutions. 200yr ago people who wanted to build heavy industry were making the same complaints bemoaning insufficient investment. And so on and so on.

~7 billion people aren't stupid. They just don't share your prioritization of whatever the societal issues you perceive to be most important today are. This trope is just a back handed way to call everyone who doesn't agree with you stupid, or some variation thereof.
This is completely tangential to your point, but why did you choose to use “she” as the pronoun in your last sentence? I see this more and more frequently, and I assume it has something to do with being more inclusive (so as not to imply only a man could be the subject), but I don’t want to assume. Why not use “they” instead?
It's kind of hard to tell what was really going on, but considering the following:

> The Iraqi government paid up to £37,000 for the devices despite the purchase price being put at around £11,500

and

> The training included instructions to Iraqi users to "shuffle their feet to generate static electricity to make the things work

The bigger story here is probably the utter corruption and incompetence of military related acquisitions.

Military spending is already politically untouchable >>> utterly corrupt even in the best cases >>> wildly wasteful … and then on top of that you add that it was American tax payer, i.e., someone else's money >>> in a collapsed country, Iraq >>> where there was even less oversight by the occupation forces >>> in a country that was utterly corrupt before it fell apart … and someone is surprised about any of this?

Literal pallets of billions of dollars of USD cash just disappeared in Iraq and things were built only on paper.

This wasn't an April fools' joke, it was a a tiny little side job in the biggest heist in human history. Let me put it this way… the USA was roughly $5 Trillion in debt in 2001, 20 years later we are $30 trillion in debt, just ignoring all the other squandered spending, these wars have essentially been a heist of $25 trillion dollars from American public coffers alone, not even to count all the other debt and spending and costs in human lives.

THAT's why the likes of Gates went from being a $10 billionaire, to a ~$150 billionaire and Bezos went from nothing to who north of $300 billion now???? Not even to mention all the other billionaires who were the ultimate recipients of all the money that was pillaged.

This guy was clearly just a tiny little easy bug the impotent government could manage to squash in an impotent show to the peasants not to step out of line.
It definitely reads like the beginning of a revenge action movie.
Thank you. Is there any way to use website address of my choice for free?
Sure, but they bought only one, then quickly concluded it did not work.
If it's a mob farm, a chunk loader won't work on its own, I think?
It does, as its user has little control over the underlying hardware/VM and it’s intended for on-demand use cases. It’s managing a process rather than a VM. It’s definitely a gray area… is Heroku serverless?
Looks promising! Good luck
Co-founder here. As software engineers, my friend and I conducted a number of technical and behavioural interviews over the years. We both felt the frustration with maintaining our own bank of questions, syncing with other interviewers and the time it takes to prepare candidate feedback for hiring managers. On the other side, hiring managers have to deal with tons of candidate feedback in a free text form in order to make a hiring decision.

Currently interviewers use different substitutes like Google Docs, Trello and so on. It does the job for small teams with infrequent hiring but for bigger teams with multiple interviewers it might create some friction.

We decided to build a platform that solves the problem of interview standardisation as well as makes it easy to evaluate candidates using star ratings. Any kind of feedback would be really appreciated!
Conflicted as I want to downvote you for not contributing to the conversation, but want to upvote you for finally using “hateful” correctly…

I assume that was the sarcastic point you were making?
What kind of decisions would you make with that information?

If you got the vaccine and then got the disease, be happy, you've just acquired natural immunity on the easy way.
Not sure why people are downvoting. We all have our hidden agendas, mine is the destruction of all macros.
I bought some electric candles. They can go months on a AA nimh battery, and if you pay enough for them, they are actually good / realistic enough for the wife's relaxation. Great for power outages as well.
This criticism could just as easily apply to Reddit. The entire thing is an echochamber of American civic religion and they ban any subversive communities. Their director of content policy was plucked straight out of the Atlantic Council for f sake.
The difference here though is that web 3 really is just 'technical details' to most people. PC's had potential, they were getting cheaper, faster, and more software was being written for them every day. People could play video games, and show off to their friends. Web 3 has none of that, it's all just technical details that 90% of the population doesn't care about one bit.
Very well written article! Personally, I'm still waiting for docker swarm. The thing is enterprise doesn't care about developer experience. They don't need to; they pay developers so much, they have over qualified developers who can grok Kubernetes, and can hire more at a moment's notice. They care much more about whether it meets their goals. Smaller companies/orgs are what care about DX. They have likely very few, potentially not super highly qualified developers, and very limited resources. To them, something that their developers can set up, understand, and maintain, that's reliable and resilient, is a HUGE win.
I seem to remember eastdakota (ceo of cloudflare) deplatforming the daily stormer (neonazi news aggregator) after comments made on HN.

Not all posts here are done by entry level junior engineer. This place has a disproportionate amount of C levels and high profile people who can make policy and impactful changes.
When was the nearly 2-1 vote in Washington? I found 59% against in 2016 and 57% against in 2018.[1][2]

The French government tried to spin a fuel tax as a carbon tax apparently. And protesters said it wasn't just about that tax.[3]

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Carbon_Emission_Tax_and_S...

[2] https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Initiative_1631,_Carbon_E...

[3] https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-riots-france-paris-in...
I wrote an RSS reader named Brook that's open source, runs on Firefox, and keeps all your data local, so you don't need to rely on a service that might disappear.

There's little or no keyboard support at the moment, but if you're interested in helping to either develop or make some suggestions, I'd be up for improving it!
Plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
Source: https://outgoing.prod.mozaws.net/v1/08a450f6d21388f6bfc51f2b...
I like randomness for these kinds of things. A special coin if the options are balanced, an enormous metal icosahedron (the D20 of Decision) if I feel like shading things out in five percentage point probabilities, or a Tarot deck if I am looking for reflection on my own thoughts.
> Public health messages need to be kept simple.

By simple you mean, dishonest?

People aren't as dumb as our betters believe. They pick up on obvious lies ("stop buying masks" => "everyone must wear a mask"), dishonesty ("ivermectin is for animals") and inconsistencies that fly in the face of intuition ("even if you had covid you still need the vaccination").

If the powers that be would stop trying to "shape human behavior" through lying we wouldn't see nearly the same level of vaccine hesitance and alternative medicine we do right now.
Sounds like a recipe for someone who never starts the dishes in the first place to complain about folks who do!!!!

/s
I think the reason why it's so easy to spread misinformation (not just about COVID vaccines) is that there's just too many facts out there. It's easy to cherry pick facts without context to support any conclusion whatsoever. Another comment in this thread points out that vaccination typically gives 10,000-100,000 times the antibody needed to fight an infection. So the 5.7-fold vs 8-fold difference is fairly meaningless in the proper context, but it can create doubts wholly disproportionate to its significance.
As always, Matt Levine provides the best, clearest explanation of how finance works. His explanation for why Coinbase's Lend product is legally doomed so long as the Howey test determines the scope of SEC regulation is succinct, clear, and amusing to read.

And then he discusses why the alternate regulator- the FDIC or OCC to regulate as a savings account- would be much much worse for Coinbase (100% equity capital requirements for all crypto would kill the company dead), and shows why this Lend program probably will never be available to the American general market. (He doesn't discuss in this article, but has in previous ones, that a possible exception to the regulations exists for "sophisticated investors"- those with more than 1 million in financial assets or who have passed certain exams.)