skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Water landings you want to go in feet first but not perfectly vertical. Walking away is possible if your angle of entry is perfect--but even then you might be knocked unconscious and even if you're not you might not make it back to the surface before you run out of air.
> kids are at no risk, the overwhelming majority of adults are at no risk

What I've been looking for for a long time now is data on infection, hospitalization rates and mortality by vaccination status and age. They all get mixed and it's never really clear to me what the risk for, say, a vaccinated 40 year old or an unvaccinated 1 year old really is.
It's not a Ruby gotcha, it's a Rails routing gotcha. You can specify alternative formats on any path, e.g. you can access /path to get HTML (or whatever the "default" format for that controller method is) or you can access /path.json or /path.xml and if the controller method specifies handlers for those formats, you get that format. So if you allow a username like "john.doe" and the route is something like /john.doe then Rails will interpret the "john" as the ID part of the path and "doe" as the format part of the path. You can override this in your routes to support periods but then you do lose the capability of accessing alternative formats which sometimes can be useful.
EU is way behind in tech. Centralized web means centralized web in US or China. Probably the push for decentralized web will fail, but at least it appears that EU does something to reduce dependence on foreign superpowers.
Why is transparency a problem here?

Transparency in pay or transparency in value to the company?

The issue GP had was with disparities in pay and value. If you start being transparent on value, that gets into privacy issues.
Line of reasoning doesn't seem to account for ICU occupancy levels & reduces outcomes to simply "lived" vs "died" without looking at sub-outcomes under "lived" category.
Quick explainer video: https://youtu.be/5bk4Wc5Op2M
Note, that this is for TLS 1.0-2 and TLS 1.3 only has two options since it was implemented. For TLS 1.3...

> In Go 1.16, we started actively preferring ChaCha20Poly1305 cipher suites over AES-GCM on the server when we detect that either the client or the server lacks hardware support for AES-GCM. This is because AES-GCM is hard to implement efficiently and securely without dedicated hardware support (such as the AES-NI and CLMUL instruction sets).
There's probably a way to achieve something similar (though not exact) with just CSS. Their approach allows those buttons to jut right up against the title no matter how wide it is.

Personally I would have just hardcoded the breakpoint where that reflow happens and made sure that those buttons can never overlap the main content area. My preference is to avoid relying on JS for layout, whenever possible, for the sake of simplicity.
Yes that flexibility of what counts as an enemy is why the word “probably” was used.
I was surprised while I was developing this package how little code was needed in the end to write the functions, once the markdown data is extracted from files. md -> HTML -> ASCII was the hairy part but the results from html2text look great. The html2text config options aren't well-documented - there was a lot of trial-and-error.

File system properties do seem like an intuitive next step to extend the metadata 'getter', as the pathlib.Path objects are easily accessible. I was aiming to bring timestamps in but realised that the timestamps aren't available consistently in Linux, so I'll need to think about a cross-platform design.

FrontMatter is a good shout, I haven't used any in my notes, hopefully that content can be parsed neatly.
It's totally okay to use the OK symbol and pepe the frog, etc. I should have made that more clear; there's no problem in any way whatsoever with them until you start to see a pattern of the person using them being alt-right or adjacent, flirting with it, etc
The phone computers that came before it didn't have walled gardens either. Palm, for instance.
Just to clarify, I meant Redshift ra3 storage costs as much as s3, so you're not saving much by keeping things in s3 instead of in Redshift.

Although I don't know how Redshift compression compares to something like gzipped parquet. Maybe the data ends up taking more space and thus money.

Agreed on that elasticity.
This article gives far too little credit to John von Neumann (not to mention Turing).
George Herbert Walker Bush wasn’t a familiar name in your youth?
I do hope this is a humorous comment
That's the point, you never have any grounds to demand more unless you have another job offer on the table.

When companies say they can't afford to pay you x, they mean they don't want to pay you x.

Yes, sure, perhaps the employee was being cheated, but pay transparency is not going to fix that, that just insures everybody is being cheated evenly.

The cheating happens when the profits of the company are not distributed to the people that run it, but to the people who own it.
Would changing your orientation even matter? Wouldn't you just reach the new terminal velocity by the time you entered? It's not like your a Starship that can flip at the last moment and has a big difference between sideways and vertical terminal velocity.
I don't know you, nor your views, but consider that the reason this happens is that the people pushing this are acting in complete bad faith. They are not interested in using objective measures to help struggling groups succeed, they are merely using this fact to reinforce and promote their reactionary politics. Solving the problem will weaken these groups and their views which is why actually doing anything is out of the question.

As you can see from the rest of the replies to your comment, it is merely a convenient launchpad for advocating incel-derived views of men's "rights", white supremacy etc. Maybe you don't see anything odd about this, but the reactions you're seeing in the real world happen because normal people don't want to be seen advocating for these views.

I worry far, far more about boys falling into black hole of cynicism and victimhood. I've seen it happen to adult friends of mine and it's tragic.
Pay based on location is idiotic, if your pool is the entire world then your pay scale should reflect that market and average out. This means developers outside America get more purchasing power than San Fran devs, but that's the market you've entered.

It is simply artificial price fixing to pay based off location.
You added that last paragraph after your original comment, which was just the first two sentences. That was a highly misleading edit, because it changes the meaning of the reply you got. That was not a nice thing to do to the other user, even if they weren't being particularly nice to you in the first place.

It's great to share your personal experience and fine to edit your comments, but if you're making substantial edits, please say that they're edits.
More interesting to me is that one of the named persons, Daniel Gericke, is the CIO of ExpressVPN [1] which sold yesterday, the same day that the DoJ came to this prosecution agreement (!), for just under $1 billion. [2]

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/expressvpn-c...
[2]: https://www.techradar.com/news/expressvpn-to-join-kape-in-la...
I definitely overall agree, but on StackOverflow they aren't just fake internet points - they give you real privileges on the site
How does Oracle licensing play into this? Are these improvements likely to show up in less encumbered Java versions?
how do you distinguish between poop and mud? :)

its great in theory but real world creates harder challenges. the real answer is to keep track of all the dogs that pass by and then compare the before/after scenes for differences. i'm doing this with my garage door camera for detecting water (for a completely different problem)
I'm definitely not saying there are 640 participants, just that the size is unknown. Non-Covid deaths is a poor proxy of the population size, as that population is older because of how the vaccination programme worked. I don't think I'm making an interpretation, just pointing out the unknown
What were their points, and how do my points not address them? I very much responded, and I should be more clear than until a person is clearly alt-right, them using the OK symbol or pepe the frog is 100% fine and I wouldn't even think about it.
Swap it out for electric. I like how the “other” category of renewables is an exponential. The question is does that exponential get us to where we need to be in 10 years. If the answer is no, then we need to think about what minimizes overall damage the most.

I wonder what nation will be in last place for who is the cleanest. If theyre stubborn about burning gas I dont care about their sovereignty. I dont think I will be alone on that.
Informing the Chinese of an insurrection in the US chain of command that the general himself is leading is far worse.
No, it's just a randomly chosen name (a British new wave band from the early 80's).
ah, ok. My bad. I though by 'many' the commenter meant that most of people were minorities, which does not make much sense to me
If you can trigger a debugger from a keyword it's usually pretty easy to trigger it conditionally or on an exception in the code rather than through a GUI.

That works well for ruby and javascript and probably lots of others.

e.g. something like the equivalent of

def foo
bar.map do |b|
b.do_something!
debugger if b.state == :something_youre_interested_in
end
rescue => e
debugger
end

I'm really excited by Replay. I think it will be invaluable.
> The thing is, only Emiratis have "hands on keyboard" while the US engineers sit beside them and guide them, which supposedly dodges any legal concerns.

I find it pretty hard to believe any judge would buy this.
Here's one I worked on over a decade ago:

https://www.faculty.uci.edu/

It's a little clunky, but still going strong!

Honestly, I've found ColdFusion is a great solution for a lot of web development problems. It tends to break down with very complex apps, but for a lot of simple-to-mid comexity apps CF is great!
Don’t buy the bad data
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting unsubstantive and flamebait comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> People are very, very badly misinformed about their risks for covid.

This seems to be by design though.
There is also the related "Matthew effect"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Sociology_of_sc...
He has a massive ego for sure. But this idea of building up from the most general to the more specific appeals very much to me.
Lead is good, but I think it'd be easy to melt through.

Better add another layer of something more temperature resistant. Defense in depth.
>Yeah, and it didn't help when during the BLM protests, when social distancing was being trumpeted in all contexts, a number of doctors (can't remember if the CDC endorsed it or not) came out and said the massive crowds at the protests were acceptable because "race issues are health issues too" or something to that effect. That's obviously hypocritical to anyone with half a brain

Here's the letter https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jyfn4Wd2i6bRi12ePghMHtX3ys1...
This quote is mind boggling "Even so, we continue to support demonstrators who are tackling the paramount public health problem of pervasive racism."
Hah. Anticipated bail money, perhaps :)
I think you're dodging my main message. Of course it's ok to be white, I said that very very clearly in my comment I think, right?

The thing is, you have to see who is using and spreading that message. When it's alt-right people, you can assume malicious intent when they use it.

If someone who is not clearly alt-right says it, I wouldn't even think twice as that's literally meaningless, but you have to acknowledge how they are trying to use it as a dogwhistle
DoorDash sues over law that requires it to share customer data with restaurants
What if the arguments being made against each, rather than for, are compared?

Vaccine passports will likely require photo id to ensure you are the person with the vaccination record. If requiring IDs to vote disenfranchises a portion of the population, wouldn't requiring IDs for X have the same effect? In example, what happens to those who cannot get an ID due to immigration status or other reasons?
100%.

SAP is another ERP parallel universe, with its own language (ABAP), industry certification schemes, conferences, publications, culture...

These vendors specialize in solving the nexus of unfun problems that sit at the heart of every large organization (invoicing & expenses, accounting, payroll, budgeting & forecasting, financial statements…) and I believe them to be quite well insulated from the forces of open source and consumerization that have shaped the wider industry, because there is no consumer/hobbyist path to creating an alternative. Workday has come closest.
There are usually buttons next to pump screens and one will mute the sound. Just push them one by one.
Young males perhaps shouldn't be vaccinated since they are more likely to have a side effect than covid.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...
Hmm it seems I am required to sign up for an account before I can try it out. Either that or for some other reason I am missing the Record button.
fell 30,000 feet over 2.5 minutes and corrected tens of seconds before impact with the Pacific

What does "corrected tens of seconds before impact" mean here? Thanks.
I've been seeing this posted in a few threads and in my experience it's plain wrong. When I'm interviewing candidates I don't care about the degree at all.

RCNTX: Either you interview and make hiring decisions, and the behavior you're describing is in fact your own, or you have never actually hired anyone and are speculating. Which is it?
Terrorist bombs normally do not actually blow up planes. Rather, a successful bombing damages the skin enough that the wind shreds the plane. Thus it's quite possible to survive the bombing. Surviving the plane disintegrating around you, though...
No, it was more than that. Java has broken a ton of backwards compatibility in recent years. They stopped shipping a lot of stuff (like JavaFX), JavaEE stuff was removed from the JDK and then re-namespaced, they changed the formatting of the version number, they removed Web Start, they moved some stuff out of Unsafe, they changed how you access class files inside the JDK and so on.

The idea that the only thing that changed was access to internals isn't really the case, but a lot of these changes were "allowed" because Java cares about compatibility with its own spec rather than specific popular apps.
NGI0 is relatively often, and relatively approachable (though not major sums, usually), so there's almost always a call open. I got a grant through them and found the process very approachable, which I can't say of almost every other grant-giving organisation.

See https://nlnet.nl/NGI0/ and consider following them on Mastodon: https://mastodon.xyz/@ngizero
No. I’ve probably been unclear. Please forget thalidomide. Thalidomide was just an example. Everything needed to understand my position is contained in the post you just replied to.
I still have Java 8 installed. I'm not willing to accept Oracle's new Java license.
> so they're unlikely to have the classic C/C++ errors

Two things here :

- This vulnerability is a logic error (no header => root), not a buffer overflow. It could have happen in any language.

- C and C++ don't play in the same band anymore. Most security vulnerabilities affecting C generally do not affect C++ (no stack based string handling, no VLA, no void* everywhere, proper RAII, proper type safety)

And yes for developing a minimum-memory-footprint system daemon in 2021, I would use C++ or Rust but definitively not C.
One of things I really like about working on the D programming language is there sheer depth of characters I have met through it. We are all of a similar mould but we often come from very different backgrounds and paths.

For example: Hedge fund traders, Game Engine lead devs, scientists, profession esports players, aerospace engineers etc.

I particularly enjoy that D has given a bunch of smart people with no qualifications a venue to do what they love and get paid a small fortune doing it.
Lessons in Insanity
Even so, it's one thing to eat a human who has died naturally or by accident vs chasing down and killing another human to eat them.
Whoa, you can't attack others like that here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Since you've been doing it repeatedly, and ignored our requests to stop, I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I mean, just by your comment here you are continuing to show a lack of understanding of child development.
First for the US, I assume.
I am also against factory farming. That is orthogonal to the argument about there being plenty of pigs/dolphins.
Granted, it was an April Fools joke:

https://twitter.com/ptkaster/status/1377427814052335618?lang...

But it made me realize the code to track copy is there.
Seems like an application of the ladder of abstraction. [0] That is, abstracting over every possible value of a variable in a system.

In this case we abstract over time in a system of computation. To be more precise the system is a non-deterministic automata, so we abstract over time and all the possible branches too.

Mapping out all state of a non-deterministic automata, you eventually find overlaps of different branches. To Wolfram this is a big revelation since instead of the system getting more complicated you found some simplification, aka. generality.

[0] http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
>and new answers to old questions will never bubble to the top. The best you can do is add cautionary comments to outdated answers.

I always check answers for such cautionary comments. And if they point to another answer, I upvote it and downvote the original. So I'm not sure "never" is accurate such that SO should be considered "dead".
It would be nice to have a Plan A first.
Averaging out means that SV developers won't be accepting offers for those jobs because they will feel they are underpaid.
My understanding is that you are advocating for continuing to wear masks, restrict gatherings, and push for vaccination until COVID is eradicated or close to it, and are also under the impression that "until COVID is eradicated or close to it" could be a matter of just a few months if everyone would just work together.

My point is it will not be just a few months. It will be decades. Even in the case of measles, it took almost 10 years to get from 250,000 cases / year in the Americas to 100, and we're starting from a lot more than 250,000 cases a year in the Americas this time.

If the alternative is 10 or 20 more years of restrictions, I think "settle for covid being endemic for now, with vaccines available for anyone who wants them, and maybe push eradication at a later date when most everyone has either natural or vaccine immunity and that job is easier" is in fact a better solution.
Why would any molecules make it out of the atmosphere? The mean free path at low altitude is very short.
You'd be surprised how motivated many Googlers are to be on a leaderboard of top traders, even without $!
That and concurrent execution is where I've found print statements to be most useful, but nothing prevents a debugger from keeping track of some value over time and then display those values on the UI, just like one would with a print statement.

My view is that using print statements is absolutely a subpar method of debugging and that we should, in fact, optimize away from it by creating better debuggers.
Thanks for this link, really interesting stuff. For a while there was a fashion in OS research for orthogonal persistence but this is much deeper and more elegant.
You can look up the story, it was in the fevered summer of 2020 when lots of people were trying to get other people fired for innocent boring stuff in the name of Justice.
It's still not very clear.
The parent comment is about adjusting pay for productivity, what is the reasoning behind "in a world where you compensate for productivity, you'll have to pay more employees that are less productive"?
We don’t have it past early midsummer yet but this[1] goes to the beginning of summer. You can extrapolate out from the trend lines. I prefer to take a conservative ie. maximally pessimistic view because of the potential for human suffering. Ymmv

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2113

““In my opinion, a reasonable worst case scenario could see protection below 50% for elderly people and healthcare workers by winter,” he said. “If there are high levels of infection in the UK, driven by loosened social restrictions and a highly transmissible variant, this scenario could mean increased hospitalisations and deaths. We urgently need to make plans for vaccine boosters and decide if a strategy to vaccinate children is sensible.””

See also
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262423v...

Nothing past 6 months or so yet, but again the original British report which is discussed in the bmj article shows trend lines and it’s easy to extrapolate if you are good with charts/data.
I knew a small department of cobol programmers. I worked one bay over from them in the mid 90's. They had a million+ line program that did the payroll for a major aerospace company. Honestly, it seemed like they had a pretty good job. Decent pay, decent benefits, decent hours, not much stress, no ageism, etc .. a great way to raise a family.
Congratulations! This looks super interesting!

How are side effects (mutating HTTP calls, cookie creation, other I/O) handled?
I hope you are not claiming that these states implemented these laws for racist reasons. Is that your claim?

In USA, 1.1% of blacks are incarcerated, compared to 0.02% of whites. [0] Obviously the average black person does not commit 55 times the amount of crime of the average white person. Is this system something other than racist?

[0] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/10/30/prisoners_in_20...
This article is stolen from another blog. OP is a serial content thief who rehosts other peoples content on Vocal.Media for ad revenue. They're now targetting HN with their spam and they were busted the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28509445 and again last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28538985

Edit: and now this one too, pew pew! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28540643

Edit 2: to clarify, this article was stolen from here: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/life-culture/why-dont-rich-...
It's not about if devices are general computing devices or if the device maker can moderate third-party apps on its platform. Apple invited other developers to sell apps on a market it created and regulates. It also competes with those developers in this market. And in this case, it used its power as the market's regulator to remove a competitor and promote its own app.

Nintendo, Sony, etc also allow other developers to sell apps on markets they created, and they also compete with those developers. If Nintendo ever removes a platforming game for competing with the Mario series, we should also raise our pitchforks and protest against unfair abuse of power.
NLP on Google Sheets with Hugging Face Inference API
You're right. There is more nuance. For instance, many of the concerns about "long COVID" are legitimate.

But even within the nuance the statistics are being used to support narratives that aren't always honest. Just look at the news that apparently 40-45% of COVID hospitalizations are actually people who were admitted for another reason and just so happened to test positive upon admission.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/covid-hos...

This data changes the hospitalization narrative quite a bit.