skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well (just reading the headline) I certainly wouldn't wanna be making a hobby device targeting the German market... sure if this only applies to companies who have been in business for X years and/or are selling Y+ devices.
"Developer hegemony" [0].

A couple of interesting insights:

- Software engineers are more like doctors/lawyers so why do software organizations look more traditional businesses rather than agencies?

- The way corporations are structured there is no incentive for software engineers at the bottom of the hierarchy to put more than a token effort in.

There's also a previous ASK HN about the "books that improved your career" [1].

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/35051753-
developer-hegemony

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27963226
> Many of my friends and colleagues have concerns about mRNA vaccines

I'm curious if you know why?
The media landscape today is such that msnbc, Fox News, the Washington post, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are all competing for the same advertising dollars and the same eyeballs. We have all seen how outrage drives engagement. I think it’s the same force at play here.
Naturalistic fallacy plus survivorship bias.

Edit:

> It's the pro vaccine people that push the issue and have an agenda.

Yes, that agenda is: keep the healthcare system running for other issues like accidents.

What anti-vaxxers don’t do: waive their right to get COVID treatment if their immune system doesn’t work as expected.
> There's no legitimate reason to doubt the safety or the efficacy of these vaccines such that the benefits of immunity don't vastly outweigh the reason.

This doesn't apply to all age groups, even if you trust the FDA implicitly. The vaccines are not approved for children under 12 because the proven benefits do not exceed the risks. The benefit of the vaccine slides dramatically with existing health and age; 12-17 year olds that are healthy will receive virtually no benefit from the vaccine.
Or alternatively that disadvantaged people are often disadvantaged even in theoretically corrective procedures (AKA legal settings).
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I think the bigger problem there is missing who the real customer is. Slacks pay-for features are targeted not at the users but at management, and management gets to dictate tools more often than not. Individual developers would absolutely jump on an async platform, but they're not the decision maker.
> You’re thinking of something else. FINRA is a non-profit self-regulating organisation. It has no power over anyone who doesn’t voluntarily submit to its rules. It is not a part of the government.

Financial industry participants are required by the SEC to submit to its rules and regulatory authority. You literally cannot create a financial institution without being forced to submit to FINRA.
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Progress may not be as slow as you think. Proliferation of body cameras on officers has done a lot to prevent bad behavior. Cops can't plant drugs/gun on someone, or lie about the facts of what happened very easily anymore. It also protects good cops from false allegations.
Yeah, I also think it's poorly named. It's semantically speaking not a major upgrade. But additionally, I'd prefer web 2.1 over web 3.0 first...
Talk to your local lockdown provider if you are not happy with the results.

Done properly, of course a lockdown would be effective. Why? Because of the Germ theory. The viruses exist and they don't teleport.

If anything, I would have much preferred if we had a month of global lockdown instead of years of slow burn battle. We wouldn't have had to convince people for vaccination too. It worked for Wuhan.
Yes, but that took 20 years. Before, they got a war and permanent drone terror plus a massive amount of ground troops. I doubt 9/11 has anything to do with them retreating now; in fact, it's probably helping that the scars heal.
I've done this too, I was using alternative clients as a crutch but I imagine they're just going to pull a Twitter at some point and kill off API access to third party clients.
> There is merit for harsh policies if you can prevent any case

This seems quite absolutist; why the all or nothing binary of "any case"?

There is merit for harsh policies, to a degree, if you can reduce fallout, to any relatively significant degree.

This may be subjective, but fwiw if Australia were actually monitoring the population via app, requiring check-in every 15 mins & deploying authorities otherwise (a conclusion some commenting here did seem to jump to at first, despite the otherworldly logistics that would entail), then of course questions would need to be asked about authoritarian escalation.

But enforced mandatory quarantine explicitly for those choosing to travel (something that's even been done in some European countries too), given the stakes at hand, really doesn't seem like an overstep relatively speaking.

It's also worth noting that travel in Australia is extremely restricted anyway, so the number of people who are subject to this is pretty tiny.
The natural immune response is what vaccines bolster by design….
Ingvar Kamprad (founder of IKEA) famously said that entering the stock market is like peeing yourself: "first it becomes warm, warm. then it becomes cold, cold"
My high school had a comp sci class (this was 1997, so only the 2nd year they offered the class). My father did some programming when he was younger and suggested that I take it. The class taught Turbo Pascal, which can be a little difficult for some people, so even though it started with over 90 people, there was only 18 of us left in the end. All of us passed the more advanced AP test and I think 15 of us got 5s. Credit goes to the teacher (Mr. McCollum at Calabasas High School), since I think lot of us went into programming as a career with a really high level of confidence. I did IT when I was in undergrad, which I didn't really care for, but my first full-time job was as a software engineer at an media company. Also, not the best situation since the software team is really just a support group, which can be an after-thought for management. It wasn't until I started my own company, after graduating business school, that I really appreciated the opportunities and freedom that programming offered me. Best time of my life (career-wise) were the first couple years of the business when I people were excited to use something I built and actually paid money for it.
They're not actually fine with other vaccines, they're "okay" with it because they had them as a baby without a choice. If they didn't, they would fight against it today. Same will be with COVID vaccines. It was the same with influenza. All it takes is their political party (fox news) to put out some dishonest material about other vaccines, and somehow people become self educated experts on mercury in vaccines.

Wrong people deserve to be told their wrong. They're not going to stop just because you're letting them be idiots.
That is the fallacy, lol.

Again, though - we’re not talking about increasing the overall economic output. We’re talking about spending resources to incentivize technological progress.

I’m also not saying it’s a good idea to start doing it because it’ll surely work. I’m only saying that it may well end up having positive effects outside of the primary use case.
>callous with trending algorithms
>abuse with some coordination

I take umbrage with those characterizations.

The practices described (pre-arranged release of information, voicing mutual support in coordinated manner, agreed-upon language and form) have for decades been the hallmark of professional marketing and journalism. Back when print and broadcast media were the top game, those methods were used by the small groups of legitimate journalists and marketers.

Twitter correctly recognizes coordinated release of information as signal of particularly important and valuable content. People organically coordinate release of information for it to get its full due impact and attention. People also organically ask their friends and business contacts to chip in with an upvote or reblog (or whatever is the equivalent on Twitter). Calling Twitter's or users' behaviors "callous" or "inauthentic" when it's the regular people - that is way off the mark.

My uncharitable read of it is - this whole venture reeks of gatekeeping for the old-guard legitimate journalism.
The attack in Afghanistan was initially to attack Al Quada directly. It turned into a war against the Taliban when they refused to give him up. That went on for a year or so, but the drum beat of war against Iraq started on 9/12.

There is a memo from Rumsfeld around then. [1]

The fact that all the terrorists were Saudi, that Bin Laden was Saudi, that Iraq was an enemy of the Saud regime, that Iraq was a "buffer" between the rest of the Middle East and Iran, all of that was ignored.

The war in Iraq was the US worst foreign affairs decision in the last 50 years.

All of the "WMD" and then "bringing democracy" was retconning the original desire to finish the first Iraq war, which had nothing to do with 9/11.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/plans-for-iraq-attack-began-on-...
Oh come on. Even before the pandemic your typical anti-vaccine person also wasn’t universally against all vaccines. They usually had some subset that represented their favorite rationale for not getting it: those containing substances they don’t like, those developed with a process that had a fetal cell line somewhere nearby, those given in clusters in early childhood instead of spread later on, etc. Anti-mRNA vaccine sentiment is just another instance of the same thing. Sorry if they feel sad for having that label, but it’s the same behavior.
> After the infertility issue with the HPV vaccine, which took many years to figure out

... Wait, which issue? There is no such issue recognized by mainstream medical authorities.
Definitely agree, programming languages are tools. There's different tools for different jobs, but nobody says "Engine, proudly made with Wrench" or "Shed, proudly made with Hammer and Nails" because that would be ridiculous.
Please note I am talking about the mainframe as a platform.

We can start here:

"IBM z15 Performance of Cryptographic Operations"

https://www.ibm.com/downloads/cas/6K2653EJ

Can your x86 do this?

Edit:
"Introducing the new IBM z15 T02"

https://www.ibm.com/training/pdfs/The_New_IBM_z15_A-technica...

==========

5.2 GHz core frequency

• On-chip compression accelerator (NXU)

• On Core L1/L2 Cache

• L2-I from 2MB to 4MB per core

• On chip L3 Cache

• L3 from 128MB to 256MB per chip

960 MB shared eDRAM L4 Cache

=========
A custom fork of tiny C compiler that supports c99 and c11
I like tiny c compiler but it does not fully supports c99 and c11. So I wanted to know if there was a fork of tcc that supports them. I want to use it in my project. If you know please let me know
Bittorrent seems to be the pioneer in this open P2P space and I liked also the zeronet initiative about descentralized web. Web3 is trying to pickup on that same space, I think maybe unifying these efforts of Web3 with Bittorrent and all will make a big descentralized ground for what Web3 should probably become and yes I do not think wallets are a good approach either it is stupid, is what we have now but we need a better approach without any browser plugins, maybe facial recognition is the key here.
There's procedure to leave a tray on corridor and have cabin crew protect it so people cant just jump in cabin.

Pilot also can check camera and deny the open.

So having a successful takeover depends on multiple failures at same time... chernobyl happened so its not impossible but much less likely then before.

At this point id be more worried about pilots or malware on flight computers.
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Well good thing this isn’t reddit. I’m not sure why you would ever use reddit as an example on what good moderation looks like.
> I've read far too much casual acceptance of the deaths of older people on HN, as if this ~15% of the population [in the US at least] are freely expendable.

I don't think most people on HN implying such things mean to say old people are freely expendable, but rather that they should not be saved at _all cost_. Our non-pharmaceutical interventions have a cost associated with them too, so we have to strike a balance that's acceptable. The debate to me is ultimately over where the line is. It's not helped that the true costs of lockdowns etc. (or indeed the true cost of not locking down) are not actually all that clear. One consequence is that debates over policies such as these have happened without reliable figures on both sides, and have therefore descended into unconstructive emotional arguments.
I don't get the hate for Metamask. You can connect hardware wallets to it and its actual UX is good.
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Oh hell no. You make a payment to some web developer who you thought was a refugee/asylum seeker, but couldn't verify their status. Let's say things go great.

Then let's say that person ends up getting denied for asylum seeker status, because they worked for the Taliban - let's say that part is even wrong, they never did that, or they did it under duress - let's say all that matters is that they showed up in this database.

Now you've just given a cryptocurrency payment to someone who was denied asylum seeker status, and because of an (incorrect) database entry, it looks like you've funded a terrorist organization.

No, thank you. You'd have to be extremely naive to believe somebody, then pay them in cryptocurrency because you believed their sob story about being an asylum seeker. You're likely actually funding somebody who might be in danger - because they were captured and forced to do work for some regime you don't agree with.

"I'm in North Korea and I need you to pay in bitcoin!" - That money isn't going to them, it's going to the North Korean state.

"Help me, I'm a computer science student of Kabul University!" - Congratulations, your btc payments funded the Taliban. They ARE a CS student of Kabul University, but they've been captured and are forced to work for the Taliban.

Nobody should even THINK about doing this.
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They scan your body for bulky objects under clothing and X-ray luggage. Shoes are the only other location to hide an explosive device.
No thank you. I don’t think you can trust folks seeking power to have your best interests was at heart. Every civilization before has destroyed their fiat currency through debasement. It is inevitable. Bitcoin is the first time in history folks have been able to opt out of this. I’m sorry you don’t get it today, but you will :-)
This is why it’s a donation to the party - not to them or their office - although they can want a campaign contribution, which again doesn’t count as going to them.

I’ve had an MP literally solicit this from me - he emailed a bunch of local businesses basically stating his price list. He’s no longer an MP, or in politics - but you see this stuff everywhere, all the time. Any member’s bill you see has almost certainly been sponsored.
Nice touch with the "Open [My email provider]" button/link (to confirm your email) after signing up! Haven't seen that anywhere before.
Does anyone have any plans for a cheap DIY Ozone sensor? My house came with an electronic air cleaner called an iWave:

https://iwaveair.com/

It claims to not emit any Ozone, but I'd like to be able to meaure it, and the commercial sensors tend to be expensive.
I tried to throw together something similar for my Kindle browser just now. I connected my bluetooth keyboard to my phone and ran the following in termux:

pkg install shellinabox
shellinaboxd -d -t -p 8080 -s "/:$(whoami):$(whoami):/:tmux attach"

There are better web terminals, but the don't seem to work with the crappy "Experimental Browser".
I speak my mind, unlike the echo chamber here. That's the opposite of disingenuous.

Others have agreed with me, they either get greyed out or flagged. Even in this thread, look below.

I'm sorry the majority follows blindly and can't see the similarities between the loss of freedom after 9/11 and covid.
There is a script for that, I was able to score a 3CPU/12GB Ram after a few days.

https://hitrov.medium.com/resolving-oracle-cloud-out-of-capa...
>All it takes is their political party (fox news)

Have you seen the data on which demographics are unvaccinated? You would be surprised
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Yes, this. We've been using JIRA, Confluence, and Bamboo and dear god does it drive me nuts how slow things are.
The recently published book Power Play by Tim Higgins is a very nice history of Tesla. It describes the Elon playbook in great detail:

1) Formulate goals that are guaranteed to fail.

2) Hire a pliable dude to do your bidding.

3) When the moment of truth comes, scapegoat your dude and swoop in to save the day.

This is what happened to Martin Eberhard (the actual founder of Tesla), to Doug Field, and pretty much to all other Elon lieutenants over the years.
The actual case counts for the US appear to be about 40 million right now, not 100 million.

I also wonder how many people who claim to have natural immunity actually have that natural immunity. The tale of Manaus is cautionary here.
Most people I work with seem to have just fallen into it. I was set since I was a child in the 1980s to become a professional programmer as I played around with BASIC on a Commodore and QBASIC on a 286. But as 2000 came around, everyone told me that programming was dead due to outsourcing. That was the idea at the time. What was true was something in the middle- it was becoming a damaged field. With no professional organization / union mechanism to keep it afloat as a bastion of the middle class. So I went into networking and mostly took whatever job was available, doing systems work and then devops.

After seeing Azure and AWS come online, that felt like a field that would shrink to a few cloud engineers, rather than be a field of CI/CD experts. I took a gamble to leave my job and study up, as I did have VB courses in high school (I attended the local college while in HS) and Java in college. So I studied up on Python, not knowing if I would fail at this endeavor and going to plan B (devops). I ended up switching to the .Net space and C#, and after months of 2-3 interviews a day, 3-4 days a week leaving my head empty and buzzing at the end of the day, I finally got hired.

I've worked on a few projects ever since in that same job, and still enjoy the coding, but don't enjoy the time limits or the general disrespect that you won't get in other careers. You're making Fabergé eggs and you're treated like you work in a factory. If I were to do it over again I would probably have gone into welding or another trade. Work where you can't just hire someone across the globe for.
Webster's 1913:

2. Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice.

4. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part; as, in the edge of evening. "On the edge of winter." Milton.

Either the literal sense 2 or figurative sense 4 works here. The special mathematical sense is nowhere given in that edition of Webster's. I suppose they expected one would consult Euclid if one wished to know its sense in that jargon.
Which goalpost? Two weeks to slow the spread?
Which is why the "War on Terror" never made one iota of sense. It's like having a "War on Tank Charges" or a "War on Carpet Bombing".

Terrorism is a tactic and wars on Nouns (Terror, Drugs, etc) never make sense.
I mean, they're still working on getting data on efficacy/safety on children, it's not like they have years of data to point to. I can kinda understand why some people might be wary, even when faced with extremely rare odds of complications; mechanically it seems very similar to the sort of belief that leads people to play lottery games, despite the obviously low odds of winning.

What the GP is saying is that us-vs-them rhetorics have a tendency to make parties illogically double down on doubts (not just with vaccines, but with literally every topic under the sun). If one wants to claim the intellectual higher ground, not taking this phenomenon into account seems like a pretty big blind spot, especially if we're on the topic of method efficacy.
I think the appropriate saying here is "You can't con an honest man"
I dont think the full meaning of my post was taken to heart.

> If you have a specific business application that requires additional scrutiny (i.e. nuclear reactor scram control system), then the appropriate domain-specific regulations & certifications should be applied.

Feel free to replace "nuclear reactor scram control system" with "PII" or any other less urgent thing that makes the particular business nervous. There are many problem domains where you literally cannot fuck this stuff up even if you tried.

The stakes for indie game developers are substantially different than those for a F500 insurance company.

We definitely need to get the fuck out of other people's business. If you dont want someone to have your PII, dont share it with them. Regulating everyone on the same axis is pure tyranny when the problem space is so large.
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Thanks for the correction. Do you know how remittances to El Salvador work in practice?

Do people use regulated money transfer services (Western Union) or do they use informal trust based money transfer services?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_value_transfer_system
The very existence of moderation is a limitation on certain speech. To acknowledge the necessity of any moderation is acknowledge the validity of free speech limitations in certain contexts. Anything beyond that is arguing specifics and thresholds, not categorical morality.

I’m curious if you feel the same way about other features such as the ability to ban users or remove comments, which is in effect is a much greater limit on people’s speech. I can say significantly less as a banned user than as a user who is discouraged from saying the n word (since you can still post those comments. they just end up with the word censored)

Do I think this is good feature? Absolutely not. It’s an anti-pattern. But my read is that it was a stop gap for a site which had a live instance running with minimal resources during early development. The maintainer has said they are removing it. Surely if the slur filter was a moral consideration rather than a practical one, they would have no interest in removing it.
We can't it be a browser-integrated feature? That we can store keys, have them sign messages and e.g. unlock the signature function through e.g. a hardware wallet or a master password?
Anyone can recommend good quality inexpensive sensors?
What blissful times we lived in before the daily drumbeat of “Accomplished young professional discovered to have said offensive things on the internet when they were a dumb teenager, reputation tarred and feathered for the rest of their life.”
It's hard to tell, but it looks like the laptop is effectively a shell for a compute element that can go in a NUC too.

It's a neat idea, and I recall there being a push for an open source device that was a computer in a PCMCIA card https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop which unfortunately looks like it hasn't been updated in a while.
I'm surprised by the operations cost for MF. In my org, we see significantly higher ops cost for MF over x86 simply because MF expertise is harder to find. Local colleges aren't seeing tons of high school students lining up to take MF courses/certs. The MF experts are at retirement age.
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