skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it turns out that SARS-COV-2 escaped from a lab, that will absolutely be at the level of research (bio)chemists.

The problem with individual biohacking is that there's not even oversight by colleagues. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I'd expect someone working near/with a biochemist who was doing crazy stuff to speak out about it. There's no real equivalent for this if the work is going on in somebody's basement or workshop.
It's not a slippery slope fallacy because no slope is even being talked about. The logic is wrong from the start, no future changes needed.
Unlimited PTO are used to sucker people into the job
As a proud owner of a pair of pants, what are you so proud about?? You went and bought a gun??
I'm pretty sure that people will consider just about anything as "justifiable" as long as you can fit it in a single nice-sounding even if utterly nonsensical sentence. I mean, health has literally come at the end of a needle millions or billions of times.
Pick an open source project that interests you and spend a month on it. I would do it with the linux kernel if I had time
> i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

Small arms appear to have served Vietnam and Afghanistan well in repelling a much larger and stronger force.
Just curious, what are 5 new features that you find useful?
Add search to your S3 bucket’s non-text files
its very Australian.
It's a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Or is it an enigma wrapped in a mystery?
The mathematics of adversarial attacks in AI
Studies correlating obesity and poor sperm quality are numerous and easy to find.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/excess-we...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521747/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5657098/

You can find more without much effort. What I don't see are epidemiological studies trying to track the prevalence of obesity vs. the average sperm quality across different nations. Unfortunately.
Everybody is hugely misinformed about every country, especially kids.
I've heard it said before that the NSA is really the "Government Security Agency".

Kind of like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWKxWR7rehw&t=5335s
I'm not sure when that was, but in a contemporary setting, the line of questioning (and fascination about what's been normalised) would be highly reasonable.

Consider the frighteningly lengthy list of school shootings in the USA. [0]

I note that Wikipedia does not have an entry for school shootings in, say, Australia. Or in fact most other places.

I'm seeing a figure of ~ 1300 school shootings in the USA since 1970, so it doesn't appear to be an entirely modern problem.

In the USA (contemporary, again, sorry I'm not sure what era your experiences are from) there's ~30-40 (children-aged) victims of gun-related violence a day, with ~8 of those resulting in death. [1]

From outside that society, how people put up with this, living with regular active shooter drills, managing the additional anxiety, etc, is definitely going to be of interest.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
[1] https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/gun-violence/16-facts-about...
This assessment of the situation between C and Pascal appears very distorted.

Below is a "blow by blow" comparison of C VS Pascal, using a 1989 version of C versus a 1982 version of Pascal (thus excluding Turbo Pascal and Apple's Pascal). With C being the later version, Pascal still compared favorably.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Pascal_and_C

Furthermore, Pascal evolved into Object Pascal (created by Apple in 1986, from a forerunner named Clascal in 1983). Borland very soon afterwards (also 1986) added similar Object Pascal extensions to their Turbo Pascal.

Arguably Apple's Object Pascal and Borland's Turbo Pascal from the late 80s were the more feature rich and versatile language from that point, where only C++ could kind of compare (and it would have to play catch up). C# (born 2000) and Java (born 1995) didn't exist yet. If they compared the Object Pascal of 1989 to the C of 1989, a good case would be made for Pascal domination.

Here is a highly restrictive comparison of Object Pascal versus C (using C99). Object Pascal is very much comparable to both C and C++ combined.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Object_Pascal_an...

In regards to Brian Kernighan, it was a "hit piece". That paper had AT&T behind it (that's a smoking gun), where C and C++ were created. AT&T was actively competing against and trying to push Pascal out of the way.

It was also AT&T that pushed the C and C++ language dominance in the market, because they were behind Unix too. At that time, AT&T was one of the biggest companies in the world. As an American company, they had critical relationships and connections with other American tech companies, as well as lots of money. Something a single Swiss computer scientist (Wirth) didn't.

Niklaus Wirth, creator of Pascal and consultant on the Object Pascal creation team, has stated many times he embraced Pascal being used commercially too. His goal was both a well structured language for teaching and business.
No you don’t.

You do have one of the lowest Covid death rates in the world. You have a lot of states with complete freedom.
It's fascinating how empowering knowing just how safe you are can be.

I used nearly this exact phrase the other day with someone who appeared fearful of a dashboard tool and once they realised they could basically do no harm whatsoever it freed them up to experiment and learn.
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Citing several small countries with many significant differences from the U.S. isn’t solid logic. All of those countries are much smaller, much less diverse, and enjoy the geopolitical shelter of the U.S.
> And not verifiable as a fact

https://www.atlassian.com/company/values

- Open company, no bullshit

- Don’t Fuck the customer

Unless you are talking about them being the "only company". I'm sure there are others out there with similar ones but Atlassian is the only one I can find where internal company values containing "shit" and "fuck" are proudly displayed to the customers.
"I'm out of town this weekend, you can use my apartment" does not grant somebody unlimited permission to use your apartment. The supreme court is working backwards from their conclusion here.
Deplorably, no. Haven't looked at Object-Oriented COBOL, either.
Reversing Sinclair's 1974 calculator hack (2013)
Then you rent a T1 line, and not from Comcast.
It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.
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Cool logo generator for your next project:-)
Yes, everyone in Switzerland has a gun but you left out a very important detail: ammo is illegal to own.
Dunno about that, at least as far as Google is concerned. I was initially put off by the changes to Android (moving from 9ish to 11) because they took away the bottom control bar, but I've used it for a week and am completely comfortable with it now. The gestures are intuitive and easy to use.
They have backdoor for the CCP, but why would they tell you?
No, it rely on the fact it’s harder for criminals to get guns if it’s harder for everyone.
> If, statistically, America is so screwed up that you need to compare to Brazil and Mexico before the numbers start looking sort of reasonable, there may be a correlation with gun ownership the way that smoking may be correlated with cancer.

Compared to Mexico and Brazil, the US numbers look fucking awesome.

Compared to Greenland and Argentina, the US numbers look perfectly reasonable.

Compared to France, maybe we look bad. But compared to Japan, even France looks bad.

If I was trying to convince the French to reinstate the death penalty by pointing out that their homicide rate was 4-6 times as bad as Japan, and the French said “yeah but our homicide rate is 1/4 that of the US”, they would have a point. Single factors that map onto popular political controversies aren’t as big a factor as broader social and cultural factors. If you look at those factors, Japan is not a comparable country to France and France is not a comparable country to the United States.
The thing they're supposedly worried about is losing control over the culture. So it's that being in person is requores for the culture itself, but that the C suite wants to retain control.
Genius's investigation and analysis of Heroku's load balancing claims vs their actual practices was anything but "dickish", and it wasn't a "fight".

They produced an intelligent, thorough, and fair exposè of poor engineering practices by Heroku which were otherwise not documented (or worse, misleadingly documented), and which also benefited Heroku financially, since users would have to purchase many more dynos to get the expected performance - up to 50 times more if I recall correctly.

Genius didn't have to share any of their analysis. They could have simply shown it to Heroku and probably received a bunch of "hush" benefits to forget about the whole thing. The fact they bothered to polish it and open source it allowed others to benefit from their work and meant that even 8 years' later, someone like me can better plan hosting requirements and avoid falling into the trap they did.

Yes, Heroku's load balancing works the same way to this day, resulting in much higher costs to medium-large apps as well as huge degradations to end user experience as some users will randomly be routed to dynos with long queues despite others being completely idle! This is a huge waste of energy and bad for the environment too.

As a heavy Heroku user, I'm incredibly grateful for Genius's work on this issue!
"Thought leaders"?

Maybe a better choice of term could be discovered. Under the circumstances.
I have a .xyz domain for my personal stuff. The biggest issue I've had with it is that steam refused to acknowledge that it was a valid email domain. So they just wouldn't let me switch off gmail to me@mydomain.xyz because it didnt get past their filters. That was the biggest roadbump I had for switching off gmail.
This.

Any manager under me who refuses PTO to someone caring for a loved one in such a mentally wrenching situation like this deserves to get fired themselves. And if I have anything to say in the matter, they will be, in short order.
My personal residence doesn't serve as a chosen communications venue for a significant fraction of the local populous. Network effects are real. Failing to consider them is specious.

That doesn't mean I'm necessarily in favor of preventing these companies from moderating things. It just concerns me to see such obvious aspects disregarded.
> This is what drives me nuts. Why do they keep messing with the UI?

This is a general problem with corporate developed commercial software. Nobody ever got promoted by saying, "this is great, let's not change it."
I had a hackintosh back in 2009, and recently decided to go at it again and built a custom PC with all the components from https://www.tonymacx86.com/buyersguide/building-a-customac-h....
After a week I never managed to get the OS to install without the installation process crashing towards the end, so it's not "actually" easy even if you know your way around a computer.
It's "square brackets" for [ and ]. It's confusing the same word means something subtly different; you have the same with "chips" (French fries in the US, crisps are used for US chips, in New Zealand chips is used for both though which is even more confusing) or "pepper" (bell pepper in the UK, chilli pepper in the US).
That's a good idea since humans are indeed awful: if something truly morally bankrupt happens you can always trace it back to one of them. Ceterum censeo, delenda est homo.
“doing the bidding of those who are profiting from child exploitation.”

We recently had a politician arrested for grooming/abusing girls up here in Minnesota. Is this what you mean or are you referring to something else?
While the real world tests after release essentially always bear out Apple’s battery life and performance estimates as reasonable and fairly typical, I don’t fault anyone for generally holding product claims with skepticism. Apple is somewhat unique in reporting these values honestly.
I spoke with an inventor, author of many books, and semi-famous Silicon Valley millionaire— whom I respect deeply— who told me that as a teenager he toured a Wunder Bread factory and saw how they used high heat to prevent mold or something. He decided to breed a temperature tolerant mold in his home and then see if he could spread it at the factory on another tour.

That’s curiosity and science, too.

Fortunately, he lost interest after having successfully bred the mold, and never carried the attack out. But you know what, I don’t want kids and sociopaths having easy access to biotech at home. Who knows what hacks will ensue that could devastate crops or economies. The OP says that is a small likelihood. The truth is he has no model that allows rational computation of the risk. The truth is he has faith.

The author of the post understands the practice of science but not the sociology of trust that goes with the community of scientists. I don’t care how safe he declares his ideas to be, it’s not in societies interest to have “Joe’s homemade injectable health serum. You can trust ol’ NASA Joe” available at every roadside stand.
> Hardware costs are immaterial compared to people/opportunity costs.

First, the fact is that companies do care a lot about those costs, and why not have both? The early problems with the 8->9+ migrations were inevitable, as libraries became coupled to internals. There were two options: stop improving the platform, or get some short-term pain in exchange for a couple more decades at the top.

> Fact is, Java now has a reputation for pointless churn that it once didn't have.

It does have more churn than it once did, because that's what more people want. It's still significantly less churn than any other popular language/platform out there, with the exception of C.

> For example kicking JavaFX out of the default JDK builds makes no sense outside the world of Oracle corp politics. It would be easy to keep bundling it

I understand why it might appear to be easy to start bundling JavaFX with OpenJDK, but it's not. There is no one in the world more personally invested in the success of the platform than the people maintaining it, and we need to constantly choose where to put our resources. With an ecosystem so big, no matter what we do there are bound to be quite a few people who are disappointed with the budgeting, but the amazing resurgence we're seeing speaks for itself.

> Also people won't use incubator modules so realistically new Java's have very few new features that can justify the painful upgrade process.

You're entitled to that opinion, but in a few short months the majority of the ecosystem is expected to be on 11+.
I am 99% certain this is satire, but on the off-chance that I'm wrong - you know that Terraform, CDK, etc. exist, right?
Does the fact that you didn't need Npm mean that Deno has a suffciently large built-in library that a thing like Npm is in most cases not needed?
Yeah pretty sure this is BS. Bock talked extensively about interviews in his book. I recall him saying that after 4 interviews there were clear diminishing returns. If the interviews had no value, the diminishing returns would have been total at one.
It's the standard eschatological shtick: burn it all down and it'll be better this time around.
only what your friends share in chronological order => bad actors can't influence what gets shown first and if a friend shares disagreeable coordinated materials unfriend
GrapheneOS isn't less focused on privacy than security or than the other one. They recently made a thread addressing this:

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1424412990074494979
It's much harder with early 80s hardware (and no internet to learn this stuff) than with modern hardware. These machines were stateless beasts. You could either damage the BIOS with writing to it somehow, or fry some hardware. I suppose you could damage the floppy drive head with very intensive seek commands in a tight loop, or something like that.
unfriend them
Maybe you should take time off. In general, it seems pretty reasonable for companies to cap PTO and encourage people to take time off.
To say nothing of it being impossible to search. Ctrl-f + pagedown + f3 + pagedown + wait + f3 + pagedown + wait + f3…
This is stupid clickbait. Anyone actually trying to make a logo for their next project would actually be trying to create a logo, not this.
you cant even ask a question these days without being canceled.

This is probably the most unscientific timeline we are living in now where everything is politicized and questioning the "experts" is considered sacrilege.

Even Nicki Minaj is being harassed for doubting the party line https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/nicki-minaj-says-shes...
It's fairly clear from a century of (a) marketing (b) psychology that people aren't really even remotely close to as intelligent or wise as they like to think they are, and almost certainly do not know what's good for them (let alone actually managing to act upon it). Humans are almost trivially manipulable (ask any advertising agency) thanks to a set of cognitive biases (and even defects) that are easily exploited (intentionally or otherwise) by all kinds of information and presentations.

You don't have to think that you're wiser or more intelligent than other people to recognize this, and to understand the danger posed by certain kinds of presentations (which includes ads, something I wish was easier to regulate without violating free speech)
> Love Deno and using it as a node replacement.

I'm pretty happy with Node.js. What would be some good reasons to switch?
Why should the 2020 EUA or 2020 Warp Speed program excuse an early-2021 error in spacing?

Some countries, & domain experts, got it right from the get-go. Those countries have benefited – saving lives – with their proper reading of the precedent & limited trial data.

Fauci, & the US CDC/FDA advisory committees that could have corrected this early enough to benefit, got it wrong. Fauci, especially, misreported a schedule as "optimal" that better experts knew was conjectural, tentative, & rushed.

These managerial functionaries could correct the recommendations now, to help people, but still haven't. The US maximum delay, 6 weeks, is shorter than the minimum delay the UK's vax lead recommends – which is well backed by latest analyses.

What's that continuing failure, if not bureaucratic inertia? Loylty to 2020 guesses rather than 2021 science?

These institutions are slow to integrate new science, and bad at balancing prior knowledge with new info - instead consistently preferring what earlier committees rubber-stamped. And that's still killing Americans.
US had a two-party system pretty much since its inception - the two major parties changed over time, but the basic premise (that third party competitors are generally non-viable) holds.

The reason why US only has 2 parties is because its electoral system is first-past-the-post, and all legislative districts are single-member. The moment it switches to something like, say, MMP, I'm certain that the existing parties will disintegrate across factional lines.
The amount of kvetching and unneeded stress over what is basically a UI overhaul is astounding.

If your computer doesn’t run it then it’s moot. If you’re not interested in the UI overhaul don’t install. But neither case requires the amount of wahh that were seeing.
> Is lack of subtle/direct snarkiness a good thing?

It's quite possible to call out and dismantle bad ideas, without making it reflect poorly on the originator of the idea.

A snarky tone can have an underlying implication that the idea was so bad, the idea originator is not even worthy of a respectful reply.

Maybe this is warranted in some cases (e.g. a bullshitter bullshitting), but in the case of coworkers/contributors with good intent, this is just unnecessary abrasiveness.
Did you click through to the link in my first comment?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_Press_(report)

There are 2 indexes each for economic and press freedom. Our rankings on the economic freedom lists are 5th and 20th. On the press freedom ranks we are 44th, and 37th.
One time I joined a company that had unlimited PTO and I immediately tried to take 3 years of PTO and it was denied.
Unlimited indeed, what a scam.
dulse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaria_palmata
If GGP was being genuine and was really insulted by GGGPs suggested (which from the tone of the post, they probably weren’t) then there is every reason to talk to GGGP and ask them to change their behavior, if they fail to do so, you might start to think they are acting in malice towards GGP. If the insult is obvious then the case is pretty clear cut, however if it not we can believe at least believe GGP when they claim they were hurt. They might have a reason to be hurt that we don’t know about.
The signs are clearly intended for would-be criminals, that is the well understood meaning of a phrase like "we don't call 911" or "this house protected by Smith and Wesson". Nobody who lives next to such a house thinks these signs describe them or are meant for them at all, because they aren't criminals. The "I may shoot you" interpretation never occurs to them, because they don't think "I may rob this house" either.

You make a fundamental mistake by thinking that the sign has any effect on how much I trust my neighbors. Unless it's a NAMBLA flag, I am not going to let a bumper sticker or slogan override my personal experience of a person. Most people are like this.
Off topic but do you have any other interesting recommendations for books you've recently read?
Wait, so the British Indian Ocean Territory isn't a booming tech startup hub?
> Similar enough code block in that to what I just described to see there is now/still a known issue in java 17 to kill services after a prolonged period of time.

That's a crash going back to 8, which 17 is actually reported to reduce (i.e. 17 crashes less than 8 under those circumstances). But, as you can see, when such crashes are reported, they are investigated in depth.
If we're calling discord a forum, it's probably the worst forum (UX, mod tools, etc) I can think of.
Meanwhile tech workers still resist the idea of unionizing.
My first computer ever has been a zx spectrum. RIP sir. You changed at least one life for the better.
> Corollary 2: There are several knowledgeable and mature people here on Hacker News. They're here entirely because of dang. He is our keystone, weathering the assault of the barbarians for all of our sake. When he throws in the towel, we're done.

Truer words were never said about Hacker News.

I think he's paid. I hope he's paid.
In the US you can walk into any pharmacy and get your first or second shingles shot and Tdap booster, probably covered at no cost by your insurance. (Bonus for us older folks: A current Tdap seems to be, somehow, strongly protective against dementia.)

In most other countries they would be covered by national health service, instead.
> Huh? Are you implying that simply existing in the “New World” would cause the baseline expected murder rate to be higher for some reason?

That’s the pattern we empirically see with most New World countries, and if you consider the question with an open mind for a few minutes while considering the history of Western settlement of the Americas you can come up with a few decent hypotheses as far as what the reasons might be.
Those aren't silently dropped though, are they? The sending server is notified I think.
Lol, people are moving to Texas in droves.

Texas isn't the state with the tyranny.