skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
these are valid questions to ask but I'd be wary of falling into this very common trap that I see on HN, which is dismissing the sophistication of a product based on, well, nothing really. Given that another company was willing to pay $1b, and given that this is a free market, do you think it's more likely that ExpressVPN was simple and "not special", or that there is actually some substance there?
> I like to work with engineers who don't write buggy code.

I'm not sure if this is one of the most arrogant statements about engineering I've seen, or if you've found a treasure trove of demigods who never write code with bugs. If the latter, please have them fix the world posthaste.
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but the essential nuance here is your last few words: you're now checking-in literally everywhere, at all times. This makes the analogy of a hotel logbook a bit less apt (well, a lot less).

If I check into a hotel, I'm not also checking in to every other store/attraction/place on that trip, as well as every few steps I take, as well as every place that I look up on a map to see if I want to visit (i.e. search history).
Gensim is great for generating certain types of embeddings, but not for operationalizing them. It doesn’t do approximate nearest neighbor lookup which is a deal breaker for most models that use embeddings at scale. It also do not manage versioning so you end up having to hack a workflow around it to manage embedding. Finally, it’s not really data infrastructure like this is, so you end up doing hacky things like copying all your embeddings to every docker file. With regards to serving embeddings, gensim is just a library that supports in-memory brute force nearest neighbour look ups.
Its only a matter of time before the wrong people get their hands on all the data that big tech has been unscrupulously mining for years now. An authoritarian's wet dream.

Im typically a minimal regulation kind of guy but these orgs have consistently demonstrated that without some sort of effective privacy regulation, modern tech companies simply do not have enough incentive to self-regulate with respect to data collection. Laymen are too ignorant to demand better from the modern data cartel.
We know all social media is hit with attempted manipulation, the hard part is figuring out how and why. I doubt Facebook can figure it out.
That got downvoted fast. Typical Hacker News. (ᵔ◡ᵔ)
Cool, it appears that the trend towards JS may be causing self-selection -- if a page has a high amount of JS, it is highly unlikely to contain anything of value.
Writing Your Own Flask(like) Framework
Look at Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) you will find lots of tools related to telemetry.
Make whatever strawman analogies you want, but the fact of the matter is that massive online communication platforms like facebook are increasingly censoring dissenting opinions. One day, an opinion that you hold will become "dangerous", and you'll have to choose between conformity or being excluded from our increasingly digital society.

edit: why do we keep giving these companies the benefit of the doubt when they continue to lie about everything?
The mobile experience is much better though.
This is a search engine indexing the internet on a mariadb database hosted on consumer hardware maintained by a single person as a hobby and it does not suffer from HN hug of death
I think it really depends on the food. Like processed or skinned meat absorbs more than seeds or dry food, frozen absorbs less, or something like that. I haven't read about it for a while but that's what I remember was kind of like the consensus about where to start looking into if it's feasible to ban BPA.
Sublime Text's SQLTools [0] plugin is great for this.

[0] https://packagecontrol.io/packages/SQLTools
Here in NM, you can do your own electrical work, but you have to pass an exam first. The exam is non-trivial.

There's a separate exam for solar installs. I took and passed that, but given that it is open book (you get the NEC book) and covers "only 3 sections of the NEC"), it was suprisingly hard.
I am enjoying this, though it is very feature-sparse at the moment. That may be part of why I am enjoying it.

At the moment it is fairly easy to find high-quality work, I find it most akin to the experience of browsing an art fair or open galleries night: wandering without direction between exhibits, some of which are quite strong, others not interesting to me.

The rate of timeline refresh is still quite low, though I've "followed" a few dozen people.

It feels like a proof of concept at the moment but it's slowly quietly coming along.
Doesn't impostor syndrome imply mistakenly feeling that they are not qualified to do their work? I think this is different because said people seem to be great engineers and confident at their actual job. What they are not confident is in their ability to be Professional Interviewers/Master Leetcoders, which is a skillset almost completely divorced from their actual work.

I just landed a new job at a FAANG-level company two months ago. Not surprisingly, my actual work has no commonality with my Professional Leetcoder skills. I haven't looked at a leetcode problems since I got the offer and I fear my skills have already atrophied.
There's a great scene in a french series which explains this tongue in cheek with a fake passport, fake name, real name but fake passport and fake name but real passport.

So many scenarios, wish this clip was on youtube but it's "A Very Secret Service" it's on Netflix.
For me personally, I am still mystified by how subjective interviews like System Design/Behavioral are graded. E.g. if asked to design a large scale distributed system like Uber what would be the pass/fail criteria when calibration of responses is done w.r.t. YOE (5/10/15)? What would indicate that such and such is a good response for someone at Principal level but not so for someone who is at Senior level or vice versa.
You mean people like you? Or are you working there for minimum wage?
> Together with the replacement of Turbolinks and Rails UJS by the Hotwire combination of Stimulus and Turbo, we now have the most complete in-the-box front-end setup for writing great Rails applications ever. Without needing thousands of node dependencies in node_modules, fighting with bundler configurations, or any of the other challenges common with JavaScript development.

Awesome! I'm very interested in Hotwire, htmx, and similar tools. Would love to hear peoples experiences, especially people who have used multiple of these tools and can compare them / say something about which ones they prefer.
So, is this finally an opening to plugging in some scheduling customizations, even to the degree of the -ck (Con Kolivas) kernels? Since he's recently retired his maintenance of those, it seems topical.
Agree. If we had better privacy laws, this wouldn't be an issue.
I agree with seneca. HN os one of the last places on the internet to have serious civil discussions. The absence of low effort meme jokes is one of the ways it soft discourages people from opening the gates to memeery.

I'd rather rather compromise on a couple of laughs than see HN become a generic reddit like forum / social network.

Just may 2 cents
One of the most exciting opportunities IMO that Deno opens up, compared to most traditional server-side frameworks, is the possibility for simple url-based live-reload workflows in production.

I'd love to be able to develop backend services by pushing source code to some url as I develop, and then have the production instances of the service notified of the changes and reload themselves immediately for a super-tight feedback loop.

In theory, building this kind of workflow in Deno should be very feasible, so I'm hoping to give it a shot in the not too distant future, but I'm wondering if anyone else has already tried it?
I just want to express appreciation for your comment. I don't know why the news article wouldn't include a chart like this, but I'm glad you posted it.
Even so I know for a fact this won't work on everyone. Whatever you may do to them or offer them.

As long as there is people willing to literally die for a cause, this won't change.
> My point is that Republicans are in a position to offend urban voters without loss of power, and part of that is due to the Senate

I'm not sure I agree that Republicans in general are trying to offend urban voters. The Democrats completely ignored rural and blue-collar America for a decade and then for 5 years after that, lambasted them as racists, white supremacists, and the cause of virtually every social ill and historical moral failure in our country. While many Republicans like to lambast certain liberal urban strongholds (e.g., for crime and corruption), they're not categorically attacking urbanites and certainly not to the degree or duration that Democrats savaged rural and blue collar Americans.

I certainly don't agree with "due to the Senate". You mentioned several causes: gerrymandering, vote suppression, and Citizens United. I'm pretty sure most of these largely followed the demographic shift (rural areas voting Repulican), so they certainly can't be caused by the democratic shift (although there are ongoing attempts to gerrymander and suppress votes). Moreover, CU was a Supreme Court ruling.

To be clear, I think gerrymandering, vote suppression (excluding voter ID requirements), and CU are all bad things that should be reversed, but my point is that these aren't meaningfully products of the balance of power between rural and urban areas. The fact that rural areas are powerful doesn't inherently advantage one party over the other, rather, one party chose to cede rural power to the other party, so this can't be considered evidence that the balance of power is to blame.

> Democrats control government by a thread right now, after a Republican president who literally based his entire campaign on fomenting divisiveness and rejecting compromise.

You don't have to sell me on "Republicans (and Trump in particular) have behaved badly". I'm with you. But I don't agree that we have to overhaul our constitution so that Democrats can hold power and still abuse rural and blue collar Americans. There's a path forward that gives Democrats power, affords dignity to rural and blue collar Americans, and doesn't involve overhauling our constitution and for any Democrats who aren't hell-bent on maligning rural America, that's a win-win-win.

Justifying every bad behavior by pointing out someone else's worse behavior is, while common, deflection and race-to-the-bottom mentality, and it's really killing our country. The country can't afford for the Democrats to aspire to be only 1 moral unit better than the worst caricature of Republicans. Everyone should aim for their party to be morally better than they were yesterday, not just better than they perceive the other party to be.
Mullvad is great. No conflicts of interest, just a happy user.
You can make a model where the presented algorithm runs in O(1) time, for example a transdichotomous model. However those models have very unintuitive consequences (for example, the O(n log n) bound for sorting doesn't hold any longer!), which is what I was hinting to with my "big O is broken" remark.

You are absolutely right that it can't be done on a fixed-width register machine, though.

Generally speaking, most papers assume arithmetic is O(1) time and integers fit in O(1) space because keeping track of the actual time and space of integer arithmetic gets unwieldy very quickly. But this model is super broken: if arbitrary arithmetic can be performed in O(1) then P = PSPACE. The "gentlemen's agreement" assumption is that operations that make numbers grow too big are forbidden.

I don't know much about this stuff (I'm way out of my depth as a matter of fact), but I'm glad I could be useful :)
how on earth do you index so much on consumer hardware? my frontend developer mind is blown.
I spent 3 weeks in Germany a country not know for talkative or friendly people and I had more real and friendly conversations with others than three years in here in the US.
> It is totally consistent with SHORT-TERM reason

1. alternative is that they don't and their competitors do, and they get driven out of business. "Long term" doesn't mean anything when you're bankrupt short term.

2. my point in the previous comment is that the parent commenter explicitly said it was favorable to the shareholder, which contradicts his assertion that it's "not reasonable".

>The west is focused on quarterly profits (you get what you measure). China is focused on global domination.

The same investors that buy stocks at 34x annual earnings, necessitating more than three decades to make back their investment?

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio
> Men are made to be dumb, reckless and horny, the moment they become cerebral, emotional and scared that's the signal that society is on the brink of collapse.

This statement is wholly unsupported by history or science.
Well, if we control the epidemics of sedentarism and obesity doesn't follow, those complex causes may be worth investing on. But we have a very simple pair of problems (bad nutrition and sedentarism) that are able to explain more than all the obesity around without any need for a contributing cause.

(Anyway, the odds that there isn't any contributing cause on the tons of changes we made on the world are pretty small, and it's important to study those for individual health. It's just for societal health that there's no mystery to solve.)
It's an interesting matter. Numbers should be seen. I have not followed the data, but a quick search reveals a few articles are available, for example:

Reinfection Rates among Patients who Previously Tested Positive for COVID-19: a Retrospective Cohort Study [Mar 2021]

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33718968/

> Of 150,325 patients, 8,845 (5.9%) tested positive and 141,480 (94.1%) tested negative prior to August 30. 1,278 (14.4%) of the positive patients were retested after 90 days, and 62 had possible reinfection. Of those, 31 (50%) were symptomatic. Of those with initial negative testing, 5,449 (3.9%) were subsequently positive and 3,191 of those (58.5%) were symptomatic. Protection offered from prior infection was 81.8% (95% confidence interval 76.6 to 85.8), and against symptomatic infection was 84.5% (95% confidence interval 77.9 to 89.1). This protection increased over time

The literature should be checked to see the different estimates of different researches.

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Edit: those results seem consistent with my second in queue article,

Reduced Risk of Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 After COVID-19 Vaccination — Kentucky, May–June 2021

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7032e1.htm

since

> being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated

Those studies show a good amount of post infection protection, though lower than some relevant vaccines. Also duration of the protection should be factored in, and the consideration is ongoing: only a few hours ago I read material (an Axios summary) about Pfizer vs Moderna,

https://www.axios.com/pfizer-moderna-coronavirus-vaccines-ef...
We know.

But geek profiles and marketing profiles have often huge differences in life styles, ethics, rhythm, objectives, etc.

It was visible at university, it's still is in social life and work life.

Diversity enrich your life up to a point, after which cost/ratio plummet. I rarely see those profiles going along and having fun sharing time together. It's not impossible, but it's not common, so you won't get a lot of co-founders that will match, or that did, but will last.

It's not that geek are completely oblivious to their shortcoming.
Hit the sign up button at the top, scrolls me to the bottom but there's nothing there. Using Brave on Mac, even tried with blockers disabled.
You seem to be describing the low hanging fruit case mentioned in the article.
"14,000 people died after receiving a COVID vaccine" (Edit for clarity; this is my statement alone)

This statement is arguably a distortion of statistics. It is also consistent with the distorted statistics used for COVID cases and deaths.

Why would the methods used to count "deaths with COVID" not apply to "deaths with vaccine"? Is there a reason other than "because this interpretation favors my argument?"
How do you feel the engagement metrics will play out? They make me worried. Also, kudos for making this!
Anyone know of any water filters that remove phthalates/PFAS?
The most recent SWE in the mainstream spotlight I can think of was Notch, the author of Minecraft. I don't know if the engineering is super-noteworthy, but it was good enough to make a very valuable product in a short time with few people.
Well...that's the company that came to my mind when I read the headline? I didn't know there was another one.
For me, imdb was much better when they had user comments/discussion.

I never even posted on it myself, but browsing the discussions one could learn all sorts of trivia, inside info, speculation, etc about each movie.

Since they (inexplicably) killed that feature, I rarely even visit anymore. Your right, for many purposes wikipedia is better, especially for TV series episode lists with summaries.
The same person also wrote "The TTY Demystified" also a very good read: https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
I have not heard of it from Home Depot/Lowes (which do sell cheap quality stuff, but it is priced as such and labeled separately from high quality stuff as far as I know). I assume the at the consumer level retail level, it is only a problem at Amazon because they literally mix up inventory from various sources, whereas I assume Home Depot/Lowes/Target/Walmart do not (since they have not publicly stated it like Amazon).

Of course, the brands the items are sold under themselves might be swapping out their previously higher quality components for lesser components, and who would know until you have sufficient data from experience.
> It’s a huge pity that the state of the art in modern troll combat is behind NDAs.

I mean... do _you_ have any ideas about how to fix this sort of thing that would survive being published for the world to see?

I don't mean to offend you or anything, I just want to point out that the second you go public with your rules about how these things are detected, the people you are targeting will adjust their behavior to evade them.

I think that the secrecy is unfortunately a hard requirement until perhaps we could all coordinate into a global "behavioral score" system. And to be honest, that sort of shit is terrifying, so we should probably never do it.
For sure, but the defining characteristic of a portfolio is it differentiates a candidate, when there other good signals to do so don't exist.

And specifically, when there are no signals that can be normalized across candidates for comparison.

I feel like that's pretty descriptive of most general software development.
I think not if you use eBPF.
> wealth inequality is natural by definition, whether you like it or not.

Considering the huge variety in "natural by definition wealth inequality" across countries it feels like we have enough freedom to choose how much inequality we want. What we definitively know we is that we can make wealth inequality much worse than it has to be. Just take a look at South Africa. 30% unemployment by nature. Thank god we chose a different "natural by definition wealth inequality". What your argument also fails to consider is that wealth inequality is getting worse over time implying there must have been a natural shift rather than a political one.

>And imposing others share the fruit of their value, unethical.

If you refuse to share work, then you must share income by definition.

Consider a society that only needs a 4 hour work week. One person decides to work 8 hours because they like their job and talk about how amazing work is and people should work more. One person no longer has to work. The hard working person will then look at the unemployed person and then tell everyone how lazy he is.

Before you invoke the lump of labor fallacy, you have to realize that the argument relies on Say's law which assumes that the hard working person worked because he wasn't satisfied with the products and services one can obtain in a 4 hour work week, essentially that all the money that person earns will be spent and therefore generate demand for the person that is unemployed. The truth is far more pessimistic.

The hard working person will insist that he should keep his money even though he has no intention to spend it, essentially denying that say's law even exists (empirical evidence shows it's being broken all the time). This insistence is what keeps the lazy person unemployed. That unemployed person still needs 1 hour of services and goods (housing and food). The bandaid answer is to tax the hard working person and transfer the bare minimum to the unemployed person and it works because making everyone spend all their money is never going to happen, there are too many morally inclined people on this planet that insist on a oddly specific and harmful form of saving.
Typically, degree programs don't exist without students. ;)
> Flash just could not run well on power-constrained environments. Folks were allowed to run it on Android, but it sucked.

It was running pretty well 10 years on my LG Optimus One at the time, which was a cheap 200$ phone (not subsidized, I got it for 50$ because of a promotion that gave 100$ while it was 50$ off).

Still remember a few years ago, a bunch of friends started to play on our group conversation on the cheap HTML5 games of Facebook... theses games were so simple, yet most were complaining of performance issue. That was on phones that was now few generations better, and not the entry-level ones either...

Jobs knew how to control markets, we are on a thread about this. Flash was killed because he needed it to be killed to control the market.
That's not really for SEO, which favors readily accessible information.

That's ads. When mobile users have to scroll past 10 add, theyll click on some of them and make the blog money.
Not gonna happen unless someone makes forum software with better UX than Discord's, that is also as easy or easier to maintain / administer

So, not gonna happen. Discord has won forums for the foreseeable and is well on its way to FAANG tier dominance, impregnability, & scale
"Kape Technologies was originally found under the name of Crossrider in 2011 developing advertising apps until they changed their name in 2018.

However, their software was treated as malware by companies such as Malwarebytes and Symantec begging one to ask, how can such a company despite rebranding itself change the shoddy culture that it had?

But the connections don’t end there. The very first CEO of Crossrider, Koby Menachemi, happened to be once a part of Unit 8200 which is an Israeli Intelligence Unit in their military and has also been dubbed as “Israel’s NSA.” Teddy Sagi, one of the company’s investors was mentioned in the Panama Papers which were leaked in 2016."

https://www.hackread.com/israeli-firm-kape-technologies-expr...
Do you consider this fine? I don't think anyone benefits from a breakdown in civil order and the rule of law.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/ch...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53491223