skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a couple points you missed:
From that Table 5. in the PHE report, younger ages 20-59 are having less deaths still than unvaccinated. It is a clear pattern from this table the younger you are - the better off when double vaccinated.

68.1% efficacy against death is huge, and for that period is likely to be mostly delta variant, we can't just forget about Alpha variant which vaccine does amazing with, which the previous data shows.. not sure how this points to them being "government propaganda" campaign. Although I agree it's a bit disappointing they are not painting the full picture.

But people reading that "73% of new deaths were unvaccinated" would cause panic among people that don't understand you need to take into account ~90% of population aged >60 have been double vaccinated for a while now .
Oh, so now you want to make a deal instead of just rape and pillage the proverbial market...
Autoly – Drive. Trade. Collaborate
Many theories were developed after the practical implementations. It is really hard to separate the two. Relational databases, for example, is a case where the theory came first. But would have that been created without the experience of using hierarchical databases?
I was watching the LuLaRoe documentary on Amazon Prime tonight and the female MLM founder's maiden name is "Startup." https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-lularoe-owner-deanne-sti...
Thanks for linking that Netflix series, I was unaware of it. It's pretty decent.
Just finished a project last summer with a cell modem, actually. Felt weird using AT commands to make an http connection.
Why and Where You Should Plant Your Flag
Hey!

Thanks for the correction. I’ll get on updating that.
Sure, a call center. Same as any business that sells a service to the public.
My Pixel 3A bricked suddenly as well. It’s now just collecting dust in the cabinet, very disappointing. Meanwhile, my iPhone 6S still works but with a deteriorated battery.
> I assumed the police themselves are almost never killed from job related hazards

I'm surprised that you thought this. They don't carry guns on them for fun. The situations where they kill civilians in "non-dangerous" situations is because they have to always respond like it is a dangerous situation (I am NOT justifying these killings or saying they are okay - just saying why it can happen). Somebody can pull a gun or a knife in less than a second.

I'm certainly no police advocate but you have to at least have some understanding of the context around their job. For example if they pull over a robbery or murder suspect they might be the only thing in the way between freedom and decades in jail - that is a very dangerous position for the cop.
So the founder of Linux wasn't banished. Got it.
The "digital equivalent of gold" is nonsense though, WoW gold is the "digital equivalent of gold" too.
After shutting down my startup I went into consulting. Frankly the work was easy compared to startup life and my experiences trying to move fast and iterate were exactly what my clients wanted to do.

I had a ton of knowledge gaps about enterprise, but they were relatively easy to fill in.
Discord raises $500M at $15B valuation
This is what happens when a bunch of spooks take over a company that was already a joke and turn it into a front.
> The sentiment ITT seems to be overly dismissive of the value of a system that can reliably run for decades.

In my experience it's a very narrow kind of reliability, where no-one cares whether the calculations are right as long as they're the same ones you've always run, and no-one's ever validated what or why is being calculated or sanity-checked it. Probably one of the vital constants in the system is 10x what it should be because someone made a typo it in 1982, but that's still considered "reliable".

> How many of the new Kafka systems being stood up today would you realistically expect to still be running in 2061? How reliably do you expect those systems to perform over that 40 year period?

If they were babied as much as the COBOL systems (no changes without months of testing, if data comes in in an incompatible format then we preprocess it...) then I'd expect them to last longer. They probably won't be, but if you decided to run the Kafka systems in a reliability-above-all-else way, I bet they'd do it better than the COBOL ones.
If facebook doesn't do this research a third party will and it will be much worse for them because they won't have prepared.
I honestly don't understand your comment. Are you saying they should have voted? Should not have? I have no idea what you are alluding to.
GoDaddy is actively shitty with a cancerous internal culture, but I guess that’s okay as long as they don’t host Nazis.
Treppr
> I wonder why those big companies don't hire someone new and train them

They don't have enough work to train them on and whatever they have is actually critical enough to need someone experienced.

My partner was hired to be a COBOL programmer right out of college in 2004 & trained to work on AS/400s.

The problem was that everything was a small part of a big project, but you got no experience building a big project over its lifetime to see how it should be done. And on top of it, a lot of things which were "the right way" in 1991 wasn't so great in 2005. So a lot of work was actually bringing the existing work to code before you could do the tiny bit of work which is actually needed.
Not foolish! The Tarsnap client code is open source, but the license file prohibits anyone from using the code: https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap/blob/master/COPYING

> Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, without modification,
is permitted for the sole purpose of using the "tarsnap" backup service
provided by Tarsnap Backup Inc.

The codebase is a jewel. I love the design, the way it's organized, the coding style, the algorithms, everything.

My process was to skim Colin's thesis: http://www.daemonology.net/papers/thesis.pdf

Along with the rsync thesis: https://www.samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf

Then I started making a mental map of tarsnap: How does it build its deduplication index? How does it decide where block boundaries start within a file? Etc.

Eventually I started coding the algorithms in Python, mostly as a way of understanding the code. It's not actually as hard as it sounds, but you have to be rigorous. (It's a C -> Python conversion, after all, so there's not much room for error.)

My process was basically: Copy the C code into a Python file; comment out the code; for each line, write the corresponding Python; try to get something running as quickly as possible.

It worked pretty well, but I eventually lost interest.

Over the years, I've wanted a deduplication library, and 2021 is no exception. Someday I'll just roll up my sleeves and finish porting it.
I'm not sure, but this longing for British rule and colonialism and the "good old days" sounds more and more like a dog whistle to me...

Maybe mc32 can enlighten us.
> in February 2018, QIN and his fund were profiled in the Wall Street Journal.

Sad that the financial press didn't smell a rat. I suppose if they were that savvy, they'd be making money on the street rather than working as journalists :-/
Oh, and if you’d be up for sharing any more info on how authorization _is_ done at fb, I’d love to chat. Email is in my profile :)
Mine too like 4 months ago
Learning a dozen interchangeable ALGOL-family languages doesn't teach you much more than learning one or two. You'd get more out of learning an ML-like language, a Lisp, an array language, something like Prolog...
> What would our world be like if it were illegal to have a social media account until you were 21 years old?

Is that the question you take away? Mine is...

What would our world be like if it were illegal to lie to or otherwise obstruct Congress?
And the US was once part of the UK, which doesn't mean the latter didn't colonise the former.
I often lament the loss of the ideal of the internet persona. Much of my growth as a preteen and teen came from online communities where it was easy to simply assume a new identity after learning from your mistakes. I would find it terrifying to grow up now, when your real identity follows you everywhere.
Let's hope so, because 'oil language' is also going to be problematic: https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl . I came here half-expecting an article about medieval French.
If the price keeps dropping at this rate lumber will be free by December! /s

Seriously, this is a welcome correction, and another sign that runaway inflation fears were based on hyperbole.
True. Except that smoking causes cancer in the individual and those unlucky enough to have to breathe that second-hand smoke. Social media causes cancerous decay in whole societies. and is a much bigger threat to all of us as a result.

We could choose not stand close to a smoker, not to share a ride in their car, etc. but it is very difficult to avoid having to interact with someone whose world-view has been bubbled up by their social media activity.
ever heard of email?
2x4s are reasonable again near me. However, plywood is not for some reason. The cheapest grade crap is 30 a 4x8 at Lowes tonight.
> that really chafes your britches.

Mmmm I dunno, I looked the fellow up and I think he's more of a culotte type.
It seemed apropos to the experience of writing HTML.

Development now is so smooth.

Then? Fire up your chainsaw.
We're here, still plugging along.

ADAM is a genomics analysis platform with specialized file formats built using Apache Avro, Apache Spark, and Apache Parquet. Apache 2 licensed.

https://github.com/bigdatagenomics/adam
Actually many countries have similar systems in place. For instance Spain's costs around 500,000 EUR (and then you must live in Spain for the next 10 years)
Are these leaked slides available anywhere? Or were they only shared with journalists?

The article buries the actual data in a paragraph toward the end of the article:

> According to one slide, 32 percent of teen girls said the app made them feel worse about their bodies. Of those who’d experienced suicidal thoughts, “13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to Instagram,” the Journal reported, citing another presentation.

We really need to see the survey questions and the data to understand what’s going on here. 6% or 13% of respondents reporting suicidal thoughts is worth investigating, but I’m really curious what the other 94% of self-reported contributors were.
>> what can you possibly do that justifies making $100 MM a year?

> Decide on a course of action for a large company that, over the next few years, makes it $5 billion instead of $4 billion.

That's (assuming it was a unique insight) an improvement of $1 billion to the company, or to GDP. That is a high number, even bigger than 100MM (although you specified years vs. year, but whatever). It doesn't follow that it justifies making $100 MM a year.
Twitter is a conscious act of publishing info into a public sphere, and the public nature of it is very obvious and upfront. I don't think it's OK to dox someone if they publish under a pseudonym on twitter although.

I'm not publishing my walking info that happens in public, even if the information is public, and someone has to do extra effort to get my unpublished information. I'm also not publishing my identity when I walk down the street, someone would have to dox me to figure out who I am on top of that, unless I was a public figure and they already knew who I was.

On the other hand if it's general information about a spot, I don't really mind too much. This happens already with traffic speed analysis on public roads for example for cars.

https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-those-weird-black-tubes-in-t...

And there are many similar infrastructural analytics I don't care much about, as long as it's done to maintain a system and not to track identities, much like server traffic usage & CPU usage monitoring on servers.
I don’t think it is used to mean literally by law. It means that the practice (being critical of other languages) was formally or explicitly encouraged by the community, rather than being an unspoken but common practice.
I don't think prices are "cratering" so much as just returning to normal rather than price gouging.

Now if I could just buy a GPU for a normal price...
That's not true at all. They're not claiming they can't split it up technically. They're claiming that part of the end-to-end user experience is that users trust the App Store because Apple has oversight into the entire chain from downloading apps to the OS to taking payment information on their devices. If they have to open it up to other parties, then that chain of trust is broken.
I'm waiting for the NFT of that press release
I think I gave enough examples to show how it was far more of a war than whatever arrangement we currently have with China, but also that it involved a lot of violence and conventional hot wars by proxy — a lot of war stuff for a non-war.

Also, the Cuban Missile Crisis/October Crisis was as Hot as a Cold War can get, given Kennedy’s advisors thought the naval blockade was tantamount to a declaration of war, and we were 2/3 of the way to a nuclear tipped torpedo hitting San Francisco Bay. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Arkhipov_(vice_admira...
Maybe because the TikTok algorithm is feeding you what you value. Whereas for people with different values, maybe people with certain insecurities that are in the process of change (mainly adolescents) they might be drawn to people that have what they lack just like any other social media platform.

TikTok is incredible, in my opinion, it really is the best content-delivery platform... but that is actually quite dangerous because what people want to see is not necessarily what they should see. It's important for people to have broad perspectives and I don't think TikTok addresses that so appropriately.
How is this different to the Internet Archive?
It's sort of like saying how do you beat Manchester United? Just kick the ball into their net a few times.

The steps are all the same. You kick the ball accurately. You show up for practice. You improve. You do a post and pre match analysis.

The only difference is how well you do those steps.

I think what a lot of newbie companies do is they try to be too clever. A newbie football manager thinks they can beat a superior team with better tactics and then neglects the training. The newbie startup thinks they can plan and growth hack to success and then forgets to find real customers.
It looks interesting. I'll have to hook up a board this weekend and try it. I was just playing with Nerves [0], and trying to see if I could just use Erlang instead of Elixir, since I started learning Erlang using Gene Sher's "The Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang" [1] a year and half ago or so.

[0] https://www.nerves-project.org/index.html
No, a non-employee contributing to open-source software doesn't make them unethical; again, I don't care to lay blame at the feet of a tool.

I take it as axiomatic that Facebook is an unethical actor. I believe I have good reasons for this. From there, I say that anyone who works to make Facebook more effective at its unethical goals is similarly unethical.

No, this doesn't include people that contribute to OSS that originated at Facebook. Improving OSS is a contribution to the community, of which Facebook is unfortunately permitted to benefit from. Facebook starting an OSS project does not make the OSS unethical, because the OSS is a tool.

The question is different for employees because of this community/Facebook divide. Facebook employees are not unethical because of the tools they use for Facebook, they are unethical for furthering Facebook's unethical aims.
Wait, people were saying/thought that this was runaway inflation and not a result of supply chain issues because of COVID and tons of people suddenly having to spend way more time in their house because of COVID?

Maybe I'm ignorant of the inflation argument more than anything else but it doesn't even pass the sniff test in my opinion.
Germany as portrayed doesnt exist anymore. The CCP and USA does.

Also, have you noticed how in the US there arent really any “Saving Private Ryan”s about the Korean War?
I've found openHAB to be quite stable. Setup is pretty heavyweight but I've just had it chugging along happily managing BLE, Z-Wave, a few cameras, etc.
You can enter toy numbers in TurboTax and see, but I found more references, e.g. when they wanted to make NYC track NYS' model:

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/12/nyregion/highest-tax-will...

https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/new-yorks-ugly-ste...

AR, too? https://taxedright.com/new-york-taxes/
There's a great Netflix [series](https://www.netflix.com/title/81441273) that covers the story behind the mission and each of the crew members.
Thank you for saying this, and saying it well. It’s really scary that all these “freedom” drum beaters and free market worshippers don’t consider this at all. What’s worse is that government at least have a tacit reason to keep the people’s best interest in mind, although that does seem to be eroding, but corporations have zero incentive to care about anything other than the gain of capital and more power.

Also, thanks for the book reference.
I’ve been following these prices closely for most of the year and what’s striking to me is just how wrong nearly all the industry experts were throughout the year. I don’t recall reading a single opinion that was anything other than “prices will remain very high for the foreseeable future.”
re: reports, I typo'd. I meant for 5/6 internships, you must write a report
> - Nexus 4: No hardware issues

More like "Nexus 4: glass back shatters on contact with barely cold countertops".
They're not pissing off users. Users overwhelmingly approve of the App Store process that Apple has in place and developers overwhelmingly benefit from the value of the customers Apple provides them. It's not about the lower margins, it's about recouping the costs that Apple spends to provide the end-to-end experience that they do.
Labor is a commodity and it obeys market forces (given adequate information); employees get paid salaries because they are selling their time. Employees are replaceable - when one leaves, they are replaced by an equivalent, and the show goes on.

I think the current (labor) sellers-market that's happening in tech sector gives the illusion that this is not the case, and that we are auctioning high-value, rare skills and not sellers of commodified labor, which has congealed around standardized tech stacks that make sure you're the right type of cog.
yeah, desktop environment.
As a long-time Android user, it is a little ridiculous how short Google's timeframe for even security support is, on their own hardware. Updates to Android that were supposed to help remedy this problem haven't seemed to make a dent.

I'm sure, being Google, they've done all sorts of data analysis and cost-benefit and shown that it's a small group that keep phones that long and that people don't care that much about the support period... but it's just another seemingly penny-pinching situation from them that I think hurts their brand more than it could possibly be saving.

I like my 3a a lot, and bought it cheap later in its lifecycle, and it's a little galling to check and see that the support "guarantee" only goes up to next May, and the security timeframe is the same! If they stick to that schedule I'll have only basically their dead minimum of 18 months of support from when they stopped selling a device, or close to it. Is there really that much upside to these cutoffs?

If anything, they should be using the Pixel line as a cudgel (or let's be nicer, example) to encourage longer support timeframes from other Android manufacturers.
One example I am trying to wrap my head around is if you have two adjacent polygons (say California and Oregon) and perform an interior cover of both with variable hex sizes.

It seems possible that a child hex might actually slip outside the boundary - since the 7 children don't fit squarely inside the parent (no pun intended).

In S2 it guaranteed that any child cell of the S2CellUnion representing that cover is strictly inside the polygon bounds.

This doesn't seem to be guaranteed in H3. I could have a location that is in Oregon, that depending on the child resolution could slip into to Oregon instead of California - or vice versa?

Now imagine an business application where a user must be mapped to one of 2 physically exclusive regions, (for say pricing, legal, compliance reasons) it seems like exact containment is preferred.

Perhaps there is another way to employ H3 that would mitigate this?
Like you hire from Harvard to show how rich your law firm is :)
Backpage shut down its adult services section back in January 2017. The defendants may have gotten a mistrial eventually, but they've lost years of their lives.
With the cash Apple is holding, I have zero doubts they will be perfectly fine.
I did this as my first job out of college and then within the core dev team at a large corporation serving multiple brands. You definitely see patterns and can help identify problems inside developers and managers do not see or dare admit. However you can also be seen as a warm body churning billable hours paid to the company at 4x your salary until you burn out. The lack of ownership of outcomes also means a lot of the real valuable lessons you get after your hard work are lost to you. It is however great for engineering roles where you are implementing tech the core team is new to. If you are an open source contributor or a specialist in a niche architecture, consulting would be a great gig, just make sure you make it a point to learn about the outcomes or decisions that come out to your work.
I think the main thrust of the article is that Peter Thiel's libertarianism is hugely unprincipled and inconsistent with itself. which might describe of lot of the more famous libertarians out there actually...
Here in Mexico we have an opposite view of this: The majority of developers have spent their professional life doing "consulting" jobs in outsourcing firms. Few devs have experience developing a product and taking care of it 2 or 3 years later.

The difference shows in the type of code they do, the "ownership" and engagement they have: Those with a consulting mind will do something and then have the notion that once its "done" they don't have to care about it. Those that have been bitten by their own code from the past have a better notion on how to write maintainable code.
“Likely to ensure compatibility with older Sega software, it was limited to a two-button controller.”

I don’t understand this. Is this just a guess or is there some reason you can’t just ignore extra buttons with older games?
Honest question: do you live with other people? I'd ask matthew-wegner as well but I can infer that he doesn't.
Where are you picking that up? That's your own making. nowhere were such things being thrown. The original question was was the place left governable, nothing more. You are giving the question with your own meaning.

Did the Soviet Union leave Cuba governable when they pulled out? Yes. The question isn't did the Soviets allow the Cubans to jail and kill dissenters. That would be a totally different question.
Children aren't the problem. Parents are.
Can we update the link to the official SpaceX channel? [This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pv01sSq44w) is actually in high resolution unlike the one on CNBC.
Given that children have attenuated rights in basically every society, restricting access to E2EE seems like an imperfect but deeply net positive way to reduce child harm. What “savory” actions for which a minor would use E2EE are you concerned are jeopardized by such a proposal?

(Particularly interested in what actions or content is jeopardized, not the ideal of privacy, which I agree is important even for minors)
Ive been blow away at how great my OnePlus 8 is. Camera is not as good as Samsung but everything else is great.
Ray Dalio: At end of the day, if Bitcoin is successful governments will kill it