skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
look - the tradeoff here is large vs large.
I detect a certain disdain for Android - however there is probably a larger dev pool right now who want that (versus you).

I dont disrespect your usecase, but any company would have to service its largest market first. And if the largest markets are all Android, Spring Boot, Kafka, Spark, etc... then that's where they will go.

I have been in your situation, but ultimately this is a Python 2 vs Python 3 situation. If you want to stay on Python 2..then you better be able to maintain it yourself.

Its just a larger pool of users on the other side. And this is the common developer on the street wanting to use Kotlin, Clojure, etc. This is the market, so here we are.
That was part of the journalistic fallacy. A/B testing is experimenting with people without their consent.

(And everyone agreed to the terms of service)
> By definition, Ponzi scheme’s, like musical chairs, do work as long as people keep playing.

A shared heuristic, not a definition. You pretty much defined economic participation or confidence in any monetary system (applicable to all markets).
Thanks for posting and your service!

Any chance declarative configuration (tank or any other format) will be getting a second chance? Like many here it’s the one way of working with HASS that feels/felt nice.
A recent study, "Waning of BNT162b2 vaccine protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in Qatar", https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hiam-Chemaitelly/public...

> As of August 22, 2021, it is estimated that just over 80% of persons ≥12 years of age have received both doses of these mRNA vaccines. This appears to be the highest mRNA vaccine coverage worldwide ... Qatar has unusually young, diverse demographics, in that only 9% of its residents are ≥50 years of age, and 89% are expatriates from over 150 countries.

> ... BNT162b2-induced protection against infection appears to peak in the first five weeks after the second dose, but then gradually wanes month by month, before reaching diminished levels by the 20th week. Meanwhile, BNT162b2-induced protection against hospitalization and death appears to persist with hardly any waning for at least six months following the second dose.

The graph on page 25 reports that effectiveness of Pfizer against symptomatic infection falls to 0.0% after the 20th week.
Because the structure is regular it was relatively easy to scale elements based on both FEA and actual testing. We use table various parametric design techniques in Solidworks in almost every project. The power of this approach is in the speed of iterations when design parameters change. Of course, it took years of fine tuning and experience to develop the right way to approach projects this way.
Possibly something like this? (Code for illustration purposes only, of course -- please no one use this.)

class AntiAntiPattern:
2 """A quick and dirty attempt to mock a Python class instance that 'undoes' the antipattern
3 described here:
4 https://docs.quantifiedcode.com/python-anti-patterns/correctness/mutable_default_value_as_argument.html)"""
5 __mutable_args__ = {} # TODO: a real implementation would probably use a WeakMap of some sort
6 def __init__(self, a, b=None, c={}, d=set()):
7 self.a = a
8 self.b = "foo" if b is None else b
9 self.c = c
10 self.d = "bar" if d is None else d
11 def __getattr__(self, k):
12 return self.__mutable_args__[k] if k in self.__mutable_args__ else super().getattr(k)
13 def __setattr__(self, k, v):
14 if v in self.__init__.__defaults__:
15 self.__mutable_args__[k] = v
16 else:
17 self.__dict__[k] = v
18 def __repr__(self):
19 return json.dumps(dict(self.__dict__, **self.__mutable_args__), default=str)
>>> t = AntiAntiPattern(4, d = 'hello!')
>>> t.__mutable_args__
{'b': None, 'c': {}}

>>> t.__dict__
{'a': 4, 'd': 'hello!'}

>>> t
{"a": 4, "d": "hello!", "b": null, "c": {}}

Edit: Oops, fixed a tiny logic bug in __init__. Trying to ween myself off of the 'a = a or "my_a_default"' syntax as instructed by previous commenters in this thread. :)

Edit2: It dawned on me that this doesn't actually resolve the 'gotcha' unless `v` is replaced with `deepcopy(v)` on line 15; otherwise the same exact problem rears its head:

>>> t = AntiAntiPattern(3, {})
>>> t.d
set()

>>> t.d.update([3,4])
>>> t
{"a": 3, "b": {}, "c": {}, "d": "{3, 4}"}

>>> t2 = AntiAntiPattern(4)
>>> t2
{"a": 4, "b": {}, "c": {}, "d": "{3, 4}"} # aw, heck

In which case I gather `__mutable_args__` is superfluous, and the solution involves simply making sure that class instances avoid pointing to the same memory objects?
Bunch of good points here, I appreciate you for writing it up. I'm really interested in this space in general and I don't know what the perfect solutions are.

One thing I'm cautiously interested in is the anti-corporate action taking place in China over the last couple months. From my view on the sidelines as an American, the Chinese Politbureau seems to have just up and deemed certain profitable business models counterproductive for their view of society, and just laid down the hammer to say that those companies can't be profitable anymore. Specifically they did this for private test-prep/tutoring companies--they have to be nonprofits now.

I think the US doesn't have the state capacity or the political will to do something quite so hard hitting. Maybe we say that ad companies can only have X percent profit margin, and above that their tax rates increase? Force companies to invest their earnings in non-ad technologies? Not exactly sure.

Speculation aside, I like your point about a 3rd party ad-free facebook client. This mirrors what another commenter mentioned about the platform/participant distinction. This could mirror the antitrust action taken against Microsoft in the 90s, maybe we say that facebook has to open up their internal APIs such that third party people people should be able to make their own clients.

The weird thing here is that the client app isn't really facebook's business model, right? The marketplace facebook creates is to their ad buyers, the users are subjected to that on the back-end. Maybe the ad marketplace should be made public in some way? Could imagine at least forcing the ad marketplace to operate like a 'lit' exchange where bids and offers are visible by all participants. Not sure what this would actually solve though.

It's been said before but Facebook should've never been allowed to buy Instagram.

More concretely there's room for small incrementalist pieces of legislation which could help shift the landscape in beneficial ways, like Australia's laws forcing social media networks to pay news media sites for their content. [0]

Matt Stoller's not perfect but I like a lot of his stuff on antitrust news, some links below
[0] https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/australia-forced-google-a...
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/facecrook-dealing-with-a-...
Did they also outlaw taking a woman out on an expensive date?
> Research will continue because businesses understand the value of science and research even if they don't respect it. That research will only ever be used to their advantage though.

Except it can't if it requires both internal data access and approval from FB management.
Yeah! Berlin and his ideas are explicitly referenced in the opening portions
Although I've heard this frequently here, it's not consistent with the many stories from friends detailing reinfection cases. Although friends can be mistaken or fibbing, the sheer volume of these stories along with the specific details of positive tests and so on make me wonder who's correct.
You still end up owning the house, so it's more of a conversion in savings. And you'd probably be paying it off over time, with the help of ongoing income, if the mortgage rate isn't super high.

Land depends on where you go, no comment there, but keeping up payment on your current place during construction just means you end up paying for 21 years of housing on a 20 year mortgage, or 31 years of housing on a 30 year mortgage, not a big deal.
Anonymous are on the right side of history, unlike the 'Right'.
> New high tech cities are being built all over the world now. They are paying top money so getting top talent and top firms to work for them.

Where? China, who has effectively no immigration? Definitely not Europe.
> If you've previously recovered from Covid, you already have long-lasting immunity.

Careful, suggesting that can get you crucified in the US.
On Twitter or Facebook this is where someone would link the New Yorker cartoon with the guy turning to his wife from the computer and saying, "look honey, I found something all the world's top scientists and doctors missed!"

When my daughter was very young her doctors tried to give her an oral antibiotic for a little infected sore she had on her finger. At the time I was much more of a "just do what the doctors say!" type, but luckily my wife insisted we handle it on our own with topical antibiotics instead. Now, knowing more about all the harms caused by antibiotics I'm extremely grateful we didn't just slavishly follow the doctors' advice.
In seriousness, good job looking out for your son.
Any specific cities you want to mention?
Relation to libraries and archives is always an interesting metric for a political system. Free access to archives was one of the demands of the french revolution and for good reason. It is also the reason, why in theory national libraries should archive the net (in Germany the national library is even allowed to crack copy protection for this purpose) - and they don't get the funds to do it. Ask yourself why that is and then think if you want to donate :) it is always the first step to control archives If you want to control information (think of climate data under Trump) - and at the moment the IA is a single point of failure...
It is scary, especially since there are very invested powers interested in keeping it that way. "Corporations good, government bad" they'll say to their people, all the way to the bank
Nothing consolidated. It's _recent_ read between the line consensus from US/PRC strategic thinkers if you follow the space closely. See most recent US war gaming scenarios and current indo-pac PRC proposals. War games mostly conclude PRC accomplishes air superiority and control over TW within days and the US can't credibly operate near PRC shores to defend TW. Think tank blobs are all about blockades or IRBMs within 1st island chain to box PRC in, or making TW porcupine to create deterrence, or making US deployments in Japan more survivable. The TLDR is that defending TW directly isn’t even being contemplated anymore, it's assumed to be lost to PRC. The literature around “rescuing” TW if island can put up a fight is becoming just as sparse.

>Amphibious landings are the hardest thing in all of warfare, especially since landings can only occur along Taiwan's well-fortified beaches, and not along its rocky cliff coastline and given the Taiwanese are dug-in and well-armed.

TW is well defended the same way Iraq’s Republican guard was well dug in. All of it will be gone after PRC controls the battle space from air, TW won’t be in position to threaten the amphib fleet in the first place. Again think Iraq/Afghanistan not Normandy. PRC military modernization was modelled around these capabilities. PLANavy doesn't even have major amphib acquisitions, they're relying on civilian sealift capacity. PLAN too focused on challenging the USN, large scale landing on TW is a secondary consideration kicked down to the merchant fleet. That's how uncontested they expect the eventual landings will be.

Many folks are regurgitating very old talking points made popular by articles like “Taiwan can win a war with China'' by Tanner Greer in 2018, himself regurgitating conventional out of date tropes. He was one of the last holdouts and changed his position after seeing the woeful state of the TW military. I would read this follow up article: Why I Fear for Taiwan [0] from 2020 to get a better understanding of TW reality. And I argue he’s still underestimating because he’s not familiar with developments on the PRC side. Reason why I emphasize _recent_ and publication dates of articles is that PLA is modernizing so fast that assumptions from even a few years ago no longer holds true.

[0] https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2020/09/why-i-fear-for-t...
Yes! This has been my nagging question for years too.

I make 5x the median wage in my county and my county has the second highest wage in the US.

I see all these $M houses being sold left and right and I'd never feel comfortable buying a $M plus house. What gives?
There have been numerous concerns, it is just the people sharing their reactions are not taken seriously and demonized and lumped into an anti-vaccine group for even speaking up.

This is part of the systemic issues I'm referring to. Also, they usually only look at reactions for about 15 minutes after receiving the vaccine. Any reaction after that is assumed to be unrelated.

I'd also like to point out that numerous deaths that have been attributed to COVID-19 which apparently were not due to COVID. This is just one of many similar stories:

https://www.king5.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washin...

From the story:

> Previously a COVID-19 death was counted if the coronavirus test came back positive.

> Four of those deaths were in King County and three were from Yakima. They included two suicides, three homicides and two overdose deaths, according to DOH.
Pretty much every young teen watches porn or violence/gore/etc online without their parents knowing, either because they search for it or one of their school friends show it to them. That's the reality.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Growing Faster Than We All Think
Your parent comment has nothing to do with the behavior that got Prenda sanctioned, which was representing themselves to the court as a third-party law firm retained by the copyright owner when in fact they were the first-party copyright owner themselves.

I have never understood why anyone viewed what happened to Prenda as a victory against copyright trolling. Prenda was a group that engaged in blatant, abusive copyright trolling, yes. And the official opinion of the legal system is that that was fine, and other people should keep doing it.
How can you possibly be confident in what it means for a business to deserve to exist? If they're not doing anything illegal and they're not losing money they deserve to exist, beyond that there's no way to say.
Which doesn't explain why you can't even wipe+unlock.
Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Software Engineering Job
> 3 months practicing small mock-ups

Each mock-up slightly bigger than the last, until one day...
COVID-19 is becoming endemic. The second booster will be the virus itself.
Wow, that thing just looks terrible.

Physical dials for AC, and a hole for an aftermarket stereo. That's what I want.

Not touch controls and this monstrosity.
The First Pitch Deck
The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors (2016)
The DEA was effectively stripped of its ability to issue "Immediate Suspension Orders" which were its most effective tool to combat drug diversion by stopping drug distributors with the passage of the "Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act" in 2016 [0]. This is actually a key point in the HBO documentary "The Crime of the Century."

> In April 2016, Congress enacted the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act of 2016, or the “Marino Bill,” which created a new standard of proof necessary for DEA to issue an ISO. Pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 824(d)(2), in order to issue an ISO against a registrant, DEA must prove that the registrant’s conduct was an “imminent danger to the public health or safety” because the registrant failed to maintain effective controls against diversion, or to otherwise comply with the obligations of DEA registration, and there is a substantial likelihood of an immediate threat that death, serious bodily harm, or abuse of a controlled substance would occur unless there is an immediate suspension of the registration. [0] (This is from the 2019 DOJ OIG report).

Separately, the same October 1, 2019 report from the DOJ OIG noted that the DEA was already decreasing use of ISOs (prior to the Marino Bill being passed), and authorized a 400% increase in oxycodone production from 2002 to 2013, and only reduced the production quota in 2017 [1].

[1]: https://oig.justice.gov/press/2019/2019-10-01.pdf
[0]: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/e1905.pdf
Galaxy somehow makes owning phones actually fun.

Pixel makes me feel I got a bare bone phone except I like the camera better than Galaxy's which feels a bit too vivid.

Kudos to the Galaxy team.
I've recently been studying category theory, mostly from Riehl's book, a few years after finishing my undergraduate math degree at a well-regarded school. I can't help but feel a little cheated that not one of my professors thought it was important to show us a little category theory.

Learning category theory has brought clarity that I never felt as a student. I always had this strange feeling that many of my courses wasted time proving "the same" facts over and over again. From group theory, to linear algebra, to topology, to measure theory. We'd spend most of the semester proving some trivial facts about morphisms and functors, just specialized to an unfamiliar category, and by the time we were done, we only had time to prove one or two interesting theorems before the semester ended.

Back then, I had stumbled upon some Wikipedia pages about category theory, but all the jargon seemed impenetrable at the time. Now, I really wish it had part of the curriculum from the very beginning. Simply giving students in an abstract algebra class the simple definitions for category, functor, and natural transformation would go a long way. Math programs should probably also start teaching Haskell or Coq in the first or second year.
Write once test everywhere was the problem. If you wanted a fully tested app, you have to bundle a JRE, and if you are bundling a JRE then backward compatibility is not as important.
I apologize for the delay. It took me awhile to locate my original source: page 18 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Mea culpa, though: the chart I remember was of cases not spread/fan-out. I guess it is pretty hard to judge who is spreading it and who is not, in the public. Most articles tend to measure viral shedding or load as an indicator, which does support my stance, but that's science journalism which has been wrong a lot lately. I won't ask any HN reader to make a conclusion based on what I claimed.
I'm a big believer that ivermectin probably helps (especially after the gigantic astroturfed media freakout about it), but Rogan took so many things it's impossible to credit any one part of his cocktail. Always funny when liberals get their hopes up as soon as someone tests positive and then they're fine a day or two later though.
This is great news for next year's burn
Would you rather watch cabletv or YouTube?

Would you rather fish out a map and look for directions or simply ask your car for navigation directions?

Would a cancer researcher use his library card and read literature or simply Google it?

Would you like to solve the protein folding problem?

All of these have been paid for by advertisements.
- My phone is bricked...

- Please go to Settings...

that was hilarious :)
There’s no substitute for incentivizing smart people and getting the fuck out of their way. Everything else is either friction or window dressing.
One piece of legislation we could adopt in the US is something like australia's requirement that Facebook pay media providers for their content. Has the effect of at least compensating media providers for their journalism.

https://www.ft.com/content/ad706bd3-2aed-49da-b4f4-862f15a2e...

I think the points about violent video games are good, but the OP here is that people are self-reporting instagram to be negatively correlated with mental health. That's distinct from more nebulous and bygone arguments about violent video games.

Funnily, this is also top page HN right now:
"Is America Inc getting less dynamic, less global and more monopolistic?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547224
what the hell are you talking about? it shouldn’t be illegal for a website to exist. some kids killed themselves on myspace and xanga too but there’s no reason to ban those types of sites. stop trying to ruin the internet
The problem is that as a regulator, the FDA declares what constitutes legal use.

Consequently, if they make over-prescribing legal, then it is.

Similar problem with the EPA chemical safety division: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28092336

The general problem is there's not enough basic funding to fund quality safety trials. Which are still run, but by the manufacturers themselves.

What probably should happen is more pushback from agencies with downstream remits like the DEA once statistically durable negative effects are observed on the ground.
I will buy a Google made phone for Development purposes since they get updates fast but as far as everyday use? Never again. My Nexus 6P bricked just because I forgot to charge it and it went down to 0. And when I did my research online about the problem it was a known issue. That made me furious. It made me move over to a Samsung Galaxy which I love. I can't believe this is still an issue with them.
Disband it and focus on harm reduction.

Edit: Let the CDC focus on harm reduction.

Read Maté's book, it completely changed my perspective. "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction"
https://g.co/kgs/iSPSHB
Does it support multilevel properties (ie. properties about properties)? What I mean is something like this

rome name="Rome" founded="753BC"(source=foobar) {
child ...
}
I’d like to see a comparison between for example Stripe and Plaid. I see some use case examples on the Plaid website, but it is still all pretty vague to me. Can plaid be used like a regular PSP? How does it compare to Stripe transactions? And Stripe Connect?
Alpha Sigma Phi
Here's a third study, from Qatar, based on positive PCR tests in recipients of Pfizer vaccines, which estimated 0% (not a typo) vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection after 20 weeks, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28548322
I couldn't help but think of Steve Jobs take on consultants when reading this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4CNB80SRc&t=10s
The federal government ignores them as these are not tasks of the federal government and therefore are at the complete discretion of the state governments

10th amendment

Now sure, the federal government has subjugated all of the states and is in a position to enforce arbitrary compliance to arbitrary whims, but it does also derive power from the collection of states and so it mostly ignores the discretion provided by the 10th amendment, to prevent that power from dissolving
It's easy for social media companies to break third party clients on a whim, or ban the users. I don't think any legal gray areas are the problem. You'd have to force companies to allow third party clients if you want them to be viable on most platforms.
Great market competition going on across the online video manifold.
Yeah, I legitimately can't tell if that was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek sarcasm or not.
Now I can post any song on Youtube, as long as the backing video is Rodney King.
https://discord.gg/5aTJwnMZ has expired
The Apple rumors were wrong
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but I thought Facebook specifically was known for being the highest paying of the FAANGs because they are the least prestigious (and also people have ethical concerns re: their products).
Well, that depends on what you're thinking about. Bitcoin does if the assumption is that its value continues to increase. And on the other side of things, a Ponzi scheme has no need for the number of participants to increase at all, or remain stable, if the fund manager is free to just revalue everyone's holdings. The part of the Ponzi scheme that causes it to fail is when I tell you you have more money than you actually have.
https://twitter.com/LilNasX/status/1438224069036498944
Remember 2008? (I know, ages and ages ago.)