skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article writes about very specific ethnicities with shared ancestry. Race is something entirely different.
Two (in my opinion) interesting things:

1) "Phase 3 of the substudy [for booster shots], conducted in 306 participants ≥18 to 55 years of age, [...]"

States are preparing to administer booster shots to high-risk populations [1]. After all, 91.0% of all COVID-19 related deaths happened ≥55 [2]. Yet, not a single person >55 was enrolled.

2) "A retrospective cohort study conducted at Kaiser Permanente Southern California suggests that the observed erosion in vaccine effectiveness is likely primarily due to waning effectiveness rather than due to Delta escaping vaccine protection"

Booster shots are mainly being advertised as a protection against waning immunity due to Delta [3]. Now, Pfizer admits that waning effectiveness may occur even without Delta (The two dose regimen was touted by Ugur Sahin, CEO and co-founder of BioNTech, as a way to immunize people "for at least a year" [4]).

[1] https://www.denverpost.com/2021/09/13/colorado-covid-booster...

[2] https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

[3] https://fortune.com/2021/08/23/booster-shots-delta-covid-19-...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin...
How do you design a “Keep Out ” sign to last 10k years? (2002)
SOAP isn't a Java tech.
I've never been surprised about Dieselgate. If an engineer is given a metric to beat, they'll beat the metric, not the spirit of the metric. The same attitude of improving the test still exists, it's why manual sports cars have tall gears - the test will happen at a more efficient rev range than the users will actually use. Variable valve timings, variable cam profiles, more aggressive sports modes: these are just hiding the real emissions at a rev range the emissions test won't reach. And wasn't it accepted wisdom that you shouldn't believe the MPG or L/100km figures?

So-called 'tech' is just as bad. A defeat device is so similar to the everyday silicon valley attitude it's hard to believe it didn't originate there. Move fast and break things? Building companies based on massive amounts of user data, then complaining you can't feasibly do manual content review? We can't build a society based on the assumption that engineers will act in the public's best interest.
Running the Covid-19 risk calculator from CERN on a Raspberry Pi
Instagram put 1990s Japanese tourist photography on ultra steroids.

At least in its Japanese analogue the prints if they were made were put in an album or photo box and rarely revisited and were private.

Instagram wants to prove to everyone you had a really beautiful piece of sushi, even if it tasted like it came from a supermarket.

Everything is about proving you were some place and saw some thing hopefully shiny.
There's a difference between disrupting yourself and not playing it safe.
Hm, interesting...

Every once in a while I think about whether I should sell all my photo equipment. I got a Fuji S5 Pro, some flashes, stuff like that, nothing fancy. Really loved using all of it before I went to study and work afterwards, so pre-2015.

These days I'm fascinated by the quality of my smartphone camera and haven't touched the Fuji for years (ok, took a dozen profile pictures last year, doesn't really count for me).

I feel like I've "burned out" on that hobby and should probably free the space in the cabinet by selling everything.

What's your take on this?
I'm an indie dev. who built this on weekends, 200 active visitors gets me excited, taking users data and selling it to someone doesn't :)
You started young; please continue with your adventure and stop using social media or at least those that affect your creativity.

Spend more time with yourself and your camera, seek for quiet times and places, and take as many pictures as possible.

Photography can be like a good book that captivates your imagination; master your craft and eventually you will become a story-teller through your photographs.

This one [1] is amazing, I love it!

[1] https://unsplash.com/photos/1_zBgojLzvA
Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds
https://archive.md/6qh7F
The Politics of Theo-Colonial Encounter: Observations from South India
In my opinion the biggest reason the major players can stay in their pseudo-monopolistic position is due to regulation in personal data. If we added regulation about data collection and storage I suspect we’d see a change. Observe how in areas with stricter data rules there are more competitors (e.g credit card processors, HIPPAA, etc.)
The founders had a reputation for being dickish. At some point they got into trouble for dubious SEO tactics that got them delisted from the Google index. More controversially, they were able to unfuck themselves by reaching out to Google executives, while so many other companies are at the mercy of Google with no recourse.
Cool !

I always wonder what modern UI would look like guided by these principles... I am a full-stack product designer.
Other interesting developments: https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/11/contributions/954/ and https://github.com/rgushchin/atc
This looks great, solid list of features.

I use Tweetbot and have done for many years, mostly because of a feature set like this. Is Kizie intending to compete with other third-party clients, or is it intending to target platforms like the web/Android where established apps like Tweetbot aren't available?
Elan Vital and the French ‘Cult of the Offensive’
>I get the feeling it will end badly.

Agreed.

As to the question of who has that kind of money: you're talking about income from employment, not assets. Maybe there are a lot of people with assets that put them in reach of £2-3M homes. And of course there are foreigners who don't work in the U.K., like Saudis, Russians, and Chinese.
Learnings from six months as a first-time engineering manager
Can you run word on an Xbox?

Obviously they are computers I just couldn't be bothered to fit the argument in the quotation.
VNET has been around for quite a while though…
> it may not contain negative wording

it must not contain negative wording would be more fitting. I find that a bit silly to be honest. On the other hand an employee wouldn't show a bad reference, but it is quite ridiculous.

freely translated:
"He always wanted to learn and completed his work
to our satisfaction" is basically an F.

Your new employer is allowed to call your old one if the employee consents. He is only allowed to ask about certain things like the content of the reference he gave.
I take most of my photos with a real camera. I'd love to share them on Instagram but Instagram has no UI whereby you can upload photos on the web; you have to transfer the photos to your phone first. Which is asinine.

Or at least that's the way it was a few years ago when I looked into IG and gave up on it. Maybe it's changed, but it clearly doesn't cater to people with real cameras.
True but "good enough" under too tight deadlines is what leads to security vulnerabilities.
For the love of God can we pleaaase stop referring to scandals as “something-gate”.
This exact company (TrustArc) was covered a few days ago in a story about Starbucks doing this kind of UX failure designed to keep users from disabling their cookies.
Like 8 years ago, I began annotating a Cormac McCarthy novel on Genius, and I quickly got a DM from a site admin who offered me a “Poetry Genius editor” position — tons of free karma and the ability to make edits without review — and encouraged me to keep writing. I didn’t pursue it very far and a few years later, I got another DM from a different admin saying that they were reducing the number of editors and:

> While reviewing your stuff, I noticed that you’ve got some really high quality work, but there are a few areas that could use a bit of improvement. Don’t worry, this doesn’t mean you’re guaranteed to be de-editored, it just means we need to work together on improving your annotations/acceptances

That sounded like work, so I declined :) And thus was my editorship revoked. I am going to guess that they had trouble ever getting a volunteer-editor model to stick.

P.S. the original DM thread offering me an editor position contains this gem:

> The deal with usage is this. We of course want to work on as much stuff in public domain (we have A LOT up there now). But if a newer text is elsewhere on the web we feel like it’s fair game.

Translation: if someone else shares content illegally, we can too

P.P.S. I think their SEO shenanigans [0) set them back a lot. Genius results still don’t come up very high when I google lyrics sometimes.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/25/google-rap-genius/amp/
>Do we need more laissez faire in our capitalism?

It's hard to see how we could do less given that they are barely regulated right now.

>There are the recent and obvious examples like Apple’s case with their App Store

I know they get a lot of criticism here but they seem the most benign to me. On the desktop their market share is tiny compared to Microsoft and even for phones Android is on as many phones (in the US, much more so in the rest of the world).

Meanwhile Google dominates in search, MS dominates in Office, MS/Amazon have carved up web services between them, Amazon dominates in online consumer sales.
I am not trolling. I do have a family. But I am still of the opinion that expecting absolutely no time/cost investment on your part when seeking a new job, is a false entitlement.
I agree that letting the market do its job would be the optimal solution, but this is unfortunately unrealistic. In most job markets there are information asymmetries so large that the market is effectively "nonfree" to begin with (free markets don't naturally emerge, you need at least some regulation for them to flourish).

In a utopian future where workers can freely reject bad working conditions, I agree, they would be unnecessary. For the time being, they are a necessary evil.

I once said half-jokingly that if they ever founded a union where membership is conditional on a whiteboard interview I'd join in a heartbeat. You need to keep out the politicized idiots who join a union not because of the union itself, but because they want to LARP as communists or whatever.
I assume you are talking about russian attack subs v.v. nuclear torpedoes. Cruise missiles with nukes I’m unaware of.
That would be cool :)

Also, I feel like there seems to be a lag when clicking on the tabs. Currently using it on Mobile Safari iOS 15. Maybe I'm expecting native-like perf or something :D
It was because of people, not the medium. Usenet was a great place for discussions, especially (but not only) on technical topics, by and for relatively competent people - at the beginning most people using it were from the academia. At some point (around AOL?) the inflow of newbies completely broke that paradigm.

Mind you, newsgroups had their dark aspects, too. Some binary groups had contents you'd prefer not to see - simply because the public at large was not really aware NNTP exists.
I have the same challenges with the AWS ui, managing thousands of EC2 instances. While the CLI makes it a little simpler, it's still slow as molasses.

Some of these problems are because of frontend cruft (perhaps with the goal of nudging users towards APIs) to be sure. But plenty of them are due to the reality that the cloud providers' backends often do not, ironically, work very well at scale.
All images coming from Twitter are broken. Firefox is counting images coming from https://pbs.twimg.com/ as trackers and stopping the load. This is with Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on. You can confirm this by clicking on the shield in the address bar, then clicking on Social Media Trackers.
> Don't know where you're from, but for Germany this is mostly solved

German here as well. For the Berufsfeuerwehr (for the Americans here: professional, full-time firefighters in big cities) yes, for Freiwillige Feuerwehr (volunteers, mostly in rural areas) not, which has been the subject of numerous media articles (e.g. https://kommunal.de/feuerwehr-fehlen-einsatzkraefte).

> As OP was mentioning garage fires, I was expecting urban neighborhoods, where getting enough water should (hopefully) not be a problem in 2021.

I was talking about electric car fires in general... and in rural areas, that is a problem (see e.g. https://www.nordkurier.de/uckermark/kontaminiertes-wasser-be...).

Anyway I'm not interested in fearmongering, just pointing out that even in Germany the situation isn't as decent as one might hope - and the US is even worse off.
> The top two sources of failure in software development projects are failing to discover what is actually needed and failure to eliminate chaos in the software before delivering it to the customer.

The first one is called requirements gathering (the method, requirements engineering). I was wondering how far I was going to have to read to find someone mentioning that.

It can be as simple as writing down a list of things the software has to do. It could be one afternoon brainstorming meeting, to start. But we don't even bother. Why? Because this discipline is not engineering, not science, not manufacturing. One my darker days, I think we are just playing in the mud.

I am grateful to work on virtual machines and compilers. They at least have functional requirements--an input specification--and a well-specified target machine. The rest in the middle is a fun design exercise, but there is a crucible at the end of the day. If you can't run the programs without bugs, you have failed. That makes it easy to put functional correctness first and performance second, as it should be. We need to find more ways of translating problems into requirements in order to reduce black art to science to practice.
Yes. Imagine that you had a fast-forward button that changed the time per frame from 41.7ms to 40ms. This is what a cinema-to-PAL conversion does.

It's a bit weird in the sense that everything is sped up and faster than normal. In the other hand, it's super simple and does not introduce the even weirder judder that a cinema-to-NTSC (telecine) conversion would do.

Personally I think it's easier to get used to everything being slightly faster but unmodified otherwise than to having additional frames being inserted and the resulting judder in all motion.
The edit feature, i think is problematic. Imagine you post something, X people liked it, then you edit the post changing the whole meaning of the message and the people that liked it before changes are still be there.. liking it. That's problematic IMO, when people get canceled because they liked something on Twitter, that they actually didn't.
And honestly much of the content is terrible. Maybe it’s better in rap in particular but it’s rare I’ll see notes on lyrics that aren’t well known or obvious.
Thanks all who replied. It doesn't look like they were hacked at all. Oof.

I semi-panicked because:

* The email was sent to an address which I haven't used in years and which is not associated with any SurveyMonkey account

* The email was NOT sent to the email address which IS associated with my SurveyMonkey account

* The FROM address was suspicious (not coming from surveymonkey.com)

* The origin server for the email was not from something I recognized as associated to SurveyMonkey

* Their main page doesn't say anything about Momentive (you have to go in the help section to find something)

* Momentive.com and Momentive.io are totally different companies
OK, so does Crypto Ranking Site promise not to manipulate token prices? Is there something that requires it to do otherwise?

The crypto marketplace is totally opaque and unregulated. This sort of this happens all the time. The best example being USDT. How does the price remain pegged at $1USD without any real, hard backing?
Does anybody remember a Taiwanese computer brand called Genius? I remember they were everywhere once, and then disappeared equally fast.
This is a bit of a HN cliche. Twitter can be great as long as you stay away from the toxic threads and you know when to switch off. I use it to banter about football and the like.
They did say "at Apple".

But Carmack is from a generation where developers were often still working on something on their own.

I do see a shift to a model where developers are viewed more as a commodity and less as artists. In a "just throw more developers at the problem" kind of way.
I much, much, much prefer the original, threaded and immutable conversational structure of traditional forums.

One thing I particularly despise about reddit is having to scroll past the bevy of meme/joke/tired reference (is that a jojo reference?? unexpected letterkenny!!!) comments that percolate to the top thanks to upvotes. In reasonably popular subreddits anyway, more niche ones may not generate any comments at all.

I'd much rather find a megathread about a subject on some popular forum, start some time in the past and work my way through the posts in chronological order as god intended.
It already has its own distribution.

https://github.com/home-assistant/operating-system
Today I do that with ~/public_gopher in a Spanish language based punbix. Much easier to setup.
Learn X in Y minutes, where X=Smalltalk
I think people predicted hyperinflation since QE has been introduced. What people don't get is that QE increases base money. When banks run out of reserves the central bank gives them more. The reverse relationship doesn't have to hold. Giving banks more reserves does not force them to lend the money out. The relationship between bank lending and base money has been fully decoupled. Whenever QE increases the supply of bank reserves it introduces more noise into the statistics.

Just because QE doesn't create inflation doesn't mean it is a free lunch though. QE purchases treasury bonds and effectively takes them out of the market. The government is paying interest to itself. There are institutions that need those treasury bonds which results in a collateral shortage. These institutions will continue buying treasury bonds driving interest rates slightly negative leading to a "technical" form of deflation however it is quite insignificant.
Thanks!

Kizie isn't intending to compete with any other app, it's intended to be user's Twitter app with flawless experience, if there's any feature that could possibly uplift your Twitter experience then I want to add that in Kizie, possibly on multiple platforms too :)
I guess this is why twitter doesn't allow edits. I never thought about it this way.
Yes. Right now I've saved a month of vacation days so it's totally possible for me. And during that month, you get paid for these new projects, so in the worst case you can ask for unpaid leave at your old employer. What's wrong with that?
I don't understand why the emissions procedure was so easy to trick in the first place. Obviously we want to know how much the emissions are in real life driving, so why isn't the test simply that we find a representative sample of 100 or so people who have the cars and are using them? Just shove the measuring kit on the cars, maybe pay people for the inconvenience, and see what the numbers come out as?

We're not talking about figures that were almost legal here, which maybe could justify a lab test, they were pumping out many times the amount that was allowed.
Twitter do not allow editing in their API, so all this app is doing is _not posting it_ for a short period of time after you click submit to allow you to edit if you need to. No one will see the tweet until that time period is over.
Lisp probably is a better language, the pragmatism is what keeps me on C# for server systems. Ironically, now that the desktop gui trend is over, there is no better time for Lisp to make a comeback.
Another anecdote: I'm mostly doing embedded C and I always fail leetcode tests and get my jobs when the interviewers endup valuing more the conversation where I can easily talk about past experience about real world problem I solved or the many time I went to a factory floor debugging embedded system live.

I was working for startup company a few year ago that didn't had yet their leetcode process setup. This startup had an algorithm team working on signal processing and the embed team that pretty much took their python algo and translated them in either C or ASM for some special accelerator + the typical board bringup.

Before using leetcode with new candidate they asked for some volunteer in the team to try it out. I did the test and failed miserably as always. My boss called me to his office and told me, your one of my best guy but you did the worst in the test. I told him this test is probably good for hiring someone for the algo team but for embed it's not relevant at all to the kind of problem we work on.

My boss did some research and found a test targeted at embedded programming. I did the test and got best score in the team (equal with one teammate).

Test are good but you need the right one for the right position. Most of the time for embed job it's the wrong test.
Google “Programming ruined my life” or a variation thereof. There are 3 things to keep ahead of:

1) Programming is a sedentary job, if you don’t take care of yourself (some sport, weight lifting, something keeping you active) you will feel physical strains over time.

2) Burnout is a possibility, I’ve seen programmers that had burnout, not self diagnosed but actual burnout. It was not pretty. Ever since I try to watch out for my mental healthy. It is easy to be put under enough pressure to break or even put yourself under that pressure (imposter syndrome …)

3) General negativity and naysaying. Part of the job is finding problems, debugging and generally poking holes in ideas so you don’t waste a lot of time implementing stuff that is impossible to begin with. Don’t let this become a part of you, don’t even let this take over in your job. It will rob you of the joy of programming.

That is what I gather from articles I’ve read over time and from myself. I am not aware of any research, just anecdotal evidence.
Yeah you’re right and I realise my comment didn’t make that clear.

I don’t run anything on the bare metal NUC directly. They’re all VMs (or Docker containers running in a VM) running in ESXi, with appropriate resources allocated (in the case of PiHole, as you say, those resources are pretty minimal).

I didn’t mean to imply running PiHole on an entire NUC.
I would actually really like it if a public-health approach was taken to household choices. Driving a car is simply expensive for society at large, because it has all sorts of negative effects on air quality, pedestrian safety, even stuff like municipal service provision (less density = higher costs). This isn't priced in, either in terms of taxation (normally you tax goods that cause social ills heavily, like cigarettes). In fact, the reverse happens. This is stupid, and bad for everyone, even car drivers.
Divergence of Arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline
I don't think they will be robots. Maybe cyborgs.
Typical reason for this is that JVM changed bytecode parsing in a backwards-incompatible way (yes this happens frequently e.g. to fix validation bugs) and the fix for this was then only rolled into a new version of the bytecode manipulation library, but that in turn had its own set of API changes, regressions and bugfixes, meaning that now whatever code sits on top has to be changed, etc.

Also most of the breaking changes from Java 8-11 are/were not spec changes. The spec leaves out many aspects of the Java platform that real apps rely on.

This idea that only apps that used JVM internals broke is totally wrong. I think the guys who work on Java think this because they don't actually use or work on any Java apps themselves beyond the ones that are a part of the JDK itself.
Reddit is a bad example. On smart phone they force you to use the app instead of the mobile web page. That doesn't happen with forum such as PHPBB. The exact reason why it is better to be a simple forum that works in simple browsers.