skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean Delta can just tell Southwest "these are our banned passengers; do what you want with this information (but also give us your list)."

Also casinos in the US seem to do this without any defamation lawsuits so it probably would work.
The flip side of that is making yourself easily taken advantage of. Hence the cliche of the hapless, happy fool. If you're in a position to not care about 5-figure differences in salaries, job opportunities, preserving your existing resources, etc, then I agree it's not worth caring. However most people have pretty limited resources, it's important to be wary of getting taken advantage of at least, if not to try and maximize your gain.
That is called ‘poor quality system design’ - it isn’t a feature.
> After serial passage through some large fraction of a billion humans

Wouldn’t this count as parallel passage though? Sure there’s more variability and evolutionary pressure on the mutations, but the speed of evolution (the number nucleotide mutations) is the same over the same period of time regardless of how many billions of people it infects in parallel.
> People in 2007 were truly astounded by the iPhone. It almost felt like a product delivered from the future. It put all industry jaws on the floor and reset the grid for everyone in the tech industry, without exception.

This is a large exaggeration. I was there as an adult. It was another cool piece of tech, sure, but come on.
You get your company 'firing on all cylinders' while your main competitor falters, a crypto currency boom starts while the government creates trillions of dollars out of thin air. Combination of skill, nerves of steel, and plenty of luck.
Comments are so cringe there.
I'll compare them to a BBForum/Wikipedia.

I disagree that these features are inherently valuable; in fact, I disagree that they have any value at all.

As far as I'm concerned, the basis of any media enterprise is the generation, dissemination, and moderation of content. The smallest, most well-known, prototype of an enterprise that accomplishes all three is Wikipedia. Aside from these features, anything extra is cruft.

Yes, this is overly-reductionist, weirdly neo-ludditic, and speaks past your points without paying your arguments the proper dues. We're cross-talking because we have different values; I do not value the things that you value.

The games, filters, marketplace, and messenger you mention are not features. They are deficiently complicated ways to achieve the core features of media enterprise; further, I don't think they're valuable media to deliver in the first place.

As to how I disambiguate complexity vs complicatedness, the first relates to the variety of interactions in a system while complicatedness relates to the sum total state of a system. A system with one node whose only input is its output, which outputs a TB of data to itself every second, and which stores all data it generates, is complicated. A system with two nodes, whose only inputs are each others' outputs, where one generates a byte of data every century and neither saves state, is more complex than the first but less complicated, and the converse is true.

I only consider the complicatedness vs complexity of features that _I_ deem worthwhile; if I don't consider a feature worthwhile, then all of its complexity is just cruft, which gets lumped into the less-granular metric of complicatedness.

I don't deem any of the features you mention (which differentiate FB, etc., from Wikipedia) to be worthwhile; therefore, they're all just more complicated versions of Wikipedia, without any meaningful improvements in the base complexity.

Also, how inherently complex are these features? Can you give me a best-case complexity? How are you measuring this 'inherent complexity'?

I've read through your replies to this thread. If I had your values, I'd agree heartily with you. What you say makes sense, your arguments are well-reasoned, and you present yourself well. I sincerely appreciate that you've taken the time to engage.

I hope I've confirmed the suspicion that seems to be built into your replies: our disagreement is not logical. It's entirely based on a difference in our values.
iOS 15 runs at 120hz but horizontal swipes across iOS are still 60hz
> Anonymity? People are unsurprisingly very in favor of KYC so we can apply anti–money laundering and terrorism laws.

That's true until KYC starts being use for "social credit" purposes.

Yes, money-laundering and terrorism are important but human nature being what it is, govts can't resist the temptation. In fact, one might reasonably argue that temptation is the point for folks who get into govt.

See also child-porn and drugs.
Probably fake history. Modern thinking is that Columbus had a pretty good idea where he was going because others had already been there.
So let me guess: "modern" here is indicates a shitty new thing that doesn't work as well as the old thing.

Funny how the software industry has managed to turn the connotation of "modern" for me from "neutral/slightly positive" to "definite negative" in around a decade.
> there is something special about this moment in time.

You completely missed his point. This moment is special to you because you are living it. Not because of the latest i9 chip or flying cars.
All businesses will eventually turn into subscriptions
Landlords almost never "settle" with the renter in this way, they keep the deposit and if they are a corporate landlord they sell off the debt to a collection agency and move on to the next tenant. If they are an individual landlord, then it really depends -- California has a lot of accidental landlords holding onto property because of Prop 13, and they can themselves be pretty incompetent in running their business. Negotiating with them is worth a try.

Part of the reason it doesn't happen is that if a tenant is not savvy enough to move to a cheaper unit when their income declines, they are unlikely to be savvy enough to try to negotiate with the landlord for a reduced debt obligation in exchange for quickly vacating.

The responsible tenants move out promptly to a place they can afford (or move in with family) and the irresponsible ones wait to be evicted. Unfortunately there isn't much middle ground.
These days the Microsoft laptops (v4) are surprisingly fantastic machines. Great screen, battery life, trackpad, etc. I've owned so many laptops, but MS seems to have surpassed even Dell is net build quality imho.
> For so many people in my class — blessedly “successful” knowledge workers safely sequestered in pleasant suburbs, college towns or gentrified urban neighborhoods — the horrors we encounter only on social media are a more or less accurate reflection of the lives of millions of Americans.

Misery might have a nicer veneer when it's not floating in poverty, but to believe that blessedly “successful” knowledge workers only encounter miserable Americans on social media is a stretch.

I think the author overestimates just how good his class has it. Behind closed doors, places like Silicon Valley are just as unhappy if not more unhappy than many other places where people are less educated and less financially secure. Drug and alcohol abuse are common. Many marriages are unhealthy and unhappy. Lots of people are concerned about money even though they have more of it than most people would accumulate in lifetimes. People struggle with their interpersonal relationships and many are lonely.

In reality, the suburbs, college towns and gentrified urban neighborhoods can be very unpleasant places. As an example, about a month before I left Silicon Valley, I had a terrible encounter in an upscale coffee shop. A man physically threatened me after he literally stole my table (where my food and belongings were) while I was using the restroom. This was not a mentally ill homeless person as one might guess, but rather a well-dressed young man who might very well have worked at one of the big tech companies surrounding the coffee shop.

Instead of author's "other people" approach, I'm going with "misery loves company". Facebook isn't other people. It's you.
Looks completely normal to me, like using "MacArthur" all over the place in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur.
The birds you listed don’t fly across oceans to get twigs.
so what is the alternative?
I’ve been on both sides of it. Big companies are too focused on level and TC. But smaller startups often have low pay, poor benefits, and try to make up for it with kool aid, gimmicks, and ra ra ra. I’ve been around the block too many times to not be cynical about it.
You can't do nun' till you get in the habit
The author trying to elicit sympathy for "the deep state" as a group of despised people seemed like an extremely contrived example. I agree that the article was polarizing, and caricature-like.
The “zero evidence” claim is fun because every day there is a failure to discover an origin species is de facto evidence of a non-zootonic origin, since that evidence is not subject to being hidden and is highly incentivized to find given it would be exculpatory.
> ...it would basically hand the market over to Apple. They're the only company with the vertical integration to be capable of supporting all their hardware and software properly for this sort of time span.

Microsoft has no trouble supporting Windows and Windows Server for 10 years, and they're installed on innumerable number of different hardware configurations. The core issue is that Android's OS stack was built without a properly decoupled hardware abstraction layer (HAL), necessitating the phone's OEM, the SOC manufacturer and the carrier to all work together to prep an OS update. Google tried addressing this in Android 8 (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/google-hopes-to-fix-...), but even now, an OEM still needs a carrier's input when prepping a new Android OS update, and there's still simply no motivation from either.
> Today, after a lot of negotiation, we've agreed that I'll be brought on as a contractor

Any tips on how you convinced a company that wanted to hire you as an employee to accept you as a contractor?

I did solo consulting for a few years (Silicon Valley) but while everyone was wanting to hire me as an employee (fairly specialized and in-demand skills), approximately nobody was even slightly interested in taking me on as a part-time contractor. Finding companies willing to do that was so difficult I eventually gave up and took a W2 job and here I am.
> Hiring managers aren't dumb and we do this all the time

Just as with technical interviews, it’s a perpetual cat and mouse game between employers and the prospective employees. It’s what happens when there’s a power asymmetry, a lot of money on the table, and a lot of prospects. So expect that internet guides will eventually catch on to your tactics and devise counter-strategies of their own, forcing you to come up with new counter-counter-strategies, and so on.

> Unless you're a FAANG hiring many people at once

Yeah, this state of affairs is also caused by an industry dominated by omni-resourced companies as well as a secondary tier of cutthroat former startups such as as Uber.
They are more separate than University of Cincinnati is. If someone in California asks what college you go to, you don't say "UC"....you say "UC Berkeley" (or "Cal") or "UCLA" or the like. But you simply say "UC" if you are in Ohio and go to Univ of Cincinnati.
I think my story is the same as many reluctant people: I had Covid, at the very beginning of the pandemic. It was like a flu but I lost my sense of smell for several months.

Having Covid made me question whether or not I should get the vaccine. My body did fight the real disease, why should I inject myself with something that only tries to mimic the real disease? I started to do some research...

My current conclusion is that my immune system is better than that of any vaccinated person who has not contracted the actual virus.
do one thing and do it well, huh?
You approach this as if it is a religious thing. You have a diploma in a field, just like any other business, you will need to find your own balance and just learn what you like and what you want to improve.

Don't think there will be a father figure software developer show up and take you under his wings. You are reading way too much internet articles regarding "my mentor thought me this, I owe him everything" etc. In real life it doesn't work that way, if you are really thinking of pursuing something to make a living or create something to improve the world, just focus on the subject and learn. Don't expect software development to be a BDSM type of relationship.
Rob has a big goal in conflict with my goals: he wants as few lines of code as possible. Obviously, the performance and extra features require more lines of code.

So he does not want my updates.
If you are only allowed to have a single test in your project, it would have to be the E2E smoke. I've seen systems where master don't even start up for weeks but project is still proud to present unit tests are green with 100% coverage. One single E2E smoke outweighs all those tests, catching everything from faulty configuration, infrastructure, interface assumptions, integrations, libraries and code bugs. After this it becomes more of a runtime vs coverage balance.

What you need to be aware of is that even one single E2E test can require a significant investment in bootstrapping your test-environment. If you are clever you will use this to improve the quality of your production code as well. For example, if you only have a single DB for production and now need to spin up an new instance for test, don't do it manually, instead refactor it into infrastructure-as-code and you've now turned this component into cattle instead of sheep, allowing you to scale both prod and test and giving your ops team a much easier life.
You should def care if it was a lab leak or not, because as we have learned the only way we are going to address these risks properly if it was. The way to see this is obvious is that we are not acting as if it was a lab leak, and we should be.
Firstly, I feel I got a bit swamped with replies to my initial comment. So I will try to address it all here.

I used to carry a small camera at all times in my bag, yes. Mostly a Canon G11 and at times an Olympus XA. But this was a long time ago as I no longer pass by any points of real interest (to me) on my commute.

But, let me get back to what I am trying to convey. From my perspective, phones on cameras (combined with social media) created a new class of photographers that would be most closely related to those that previously had cheap point-and-shoot cameras (if even a camera at all) with fixed lenses that are easy to operate but gets the job done to document something. The results will be subpar, but that does not matter as the point is not something abstract like “bokeh”, the desire is to document something visually to have it become a memory or communicate an event to someone else visually in a less artistic sense than a “real” photographer. This is why I find discussions about how digital depth of field is not authentic largely to miss the point. This class of photographers do not care, they want good aesthetics – yes – but it is not something they actively seek out like a “true” photographer.

But here is the kicker, I doubt that without a readily available camera in their phone these people would ever have become photographers in the first place and this is why the camera phone vs DSLR discussion annoys me. This new class of photographers did not make a conscious choice between shooting with a phone, point-and-shoot, mirrorless, or DSLR. They used what was already there to communicate and when a new camera phone comes around they enjoy the fact that they get better aesthetics out of it than their old one. In a sense, I doubt they even view their phone as a camera in the first place.

So, it is a spectrum ranging from camera phone up to medium format madness. But I think most of these discussions are had by the 5% such as myself (and yourself) that consider weight, dynamic range, glass, etc. Rather than the 95% who probably do not even perceive themselves as photographers in the first place – although they certainly are.
Aren't the reads emitting a set of size greater than 4 bases per position, with a wildcard or "?" perhaps one option?

(As in GATTACA might be read as is, but might be read as GAT?ACA.)

Still that's a minimal of 3 bits versus much longer.

[Edit : i see another commenter with the same observation, more thoroughly explained! ]
My company has some Haskell related work regarding programming language development for cloud infrastructure. We hire remotely. Contact me via my profile, and send me your resume.
Be an engineer, and do not defer to an MBA (nor other "business types") on business decisions:

https://youtu.be/xxcJzv_sgHg?t=837
Unfortunately that's not something you can do with legislation. Even the Federal moratorium was found unconstitutional. The government can't just step in and void a lease agreement.

What you can do is give people money to pay rent. But there is no guarantee they will actually use it to pay rent. My guess is that the combination of a moratorium on evictions and giving people rent money would lead to a lot of rental debt accumulating, when what people need to do (if they lost a job due to covid) is reduce their expenses and move to a place they can afford at their new income level, rather than trying to keep staying in an apartment they can no longer afford to live in, waiting for a job to return that is likely to never return.

If everyone did this, rental rates would decline as they would reflect the new levels of income people are actually earning, rather than the levels of income people wish they would still be earning. With the current approach, false price signals are created that make it seem like there is more demand for apartments at a given price point than what people can actually afford, and long term this hurts everyone.
Possibly not if the goal is to impress a potential mate.
Was it that big of a difference?
The banking system would obviously cooperate with authorities.
can anyone post a mirror? archive.org doesn't seem to support bugs.chromium.org :/
you've gotta know the details, kind of like those 19th and 20th century epidemiologists who went to the ground zero of say cholera outbreak* and investigated how it started and what was its source, and how exactly it originated and spread, and such investigations were helpful to bring about vaccines and preventive measures (and more recently see Ebola response for example).

Now while we do have effective Covid vaccines (at least for some variants of the virus), knowing the exact origin of a major pandemic, either it came from a natural source or a lab, is of major importance for science, medicine and public health.

Arguably we're lucky COVID was not as deadly as some other viral pandemics of the past** and we have to gather as much info as possible on its origin and distribution in order to prevent something like this (or worse) happening in the future.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Haffkine

**https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
No, it was never illegal for private citizens to use them before, they just banned the exchanges. Now any transaction is illegal.
Then they should've worked on fixing those problems, instead of adding even more new ones.

(I admit I haven't used systems with broken hibernates, or at least not any where a little it of troubleshooting could get it working, so that may skew my perception of it.)
It doesn't matter whether the birds did or didn't. What matters is that people of the time thought birds were bringing in sticks from somewhere west. People believed there was a land out there. Whether or not the observations behind those beliefs are credible doesn't take away from the fact of their believing there was a land to find.
How about we at least agree that we can all imagine this having been a lab leak, and therefore should take the requisite changes to protocols, funding, and so on that we would do if it were proven as such.
Unfortunately I don’t think any of these laws extend beyond salary to bonuses or equity, which makes them all but useless for tech jobs in markets like the Bay Area or Seattle.
I know people who have been happy with "One of your jobs as my manager is to make sure that my salary is competitive." The unstated follow-on is "if I find out that it isn't, I'm gone."

BTW - The correct response to a counter-offer is "Retroactive to when?"

Regardless of the answer, the end-state is "no" because once they think that you'll leave, they're looking for a way to replace you.
I routinely delete these “strictly necessary” cookies and the world doesn’t end.

Worst case scenario is I have to log in again.
If I am researching fast, 2x is good. If I want to consume the video fast it is 1.75x, and if I want to learn, perfect at 1.5x.

But some youtubers are so slow, I can't even tolerate their speech at 2x. I too have an extension for 3x and more but I barely use it for super slow talkers.
Markland is frequently referenced by the fourteenth century Norse characters in Jane Smiley's novel The Greenlanders [1988].
I cannot vouch for the historical accuracy, but the whole thing appears otherwise exceedingly well researched (and is hereby highly recommended).
These people maintained contact with Europe almost to the end. Titbits of myth and knowledge will have filtered through, not least via the papacy in Rome.
Do you know by any chance why POSIX bc has this weird limitation that function and variable identifiers should have a mere single letter (a-z)?
A lot of the "Mystery names" on the list sounds an awful lot like made-up Swedish towns (I'm assuming that if they were real the author would have found them). E.g.:

Bergsbo - could be a made-up town name, but it could also roughly be translated to "mountain dweller".

Bertby - Would literally translate to Bert (Swedish boy's name) village.

Biby - Bee village.

Billsta - -sta is a common suffix for places in Sweden.

Bjurön - Bjur is an old name for beaver, and the name literally translates to Beaver Island. Furthermore, bjur is (according to the Swedish National Encyclopedia) a common prefix used in village names. https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/bjur.
More disturbingly that his perception of old media is one of a careful, curated gate keeping process to ensure those producing information knew where the bounds should be.

I find this somewhat disquieting. I certainly thought it was somewhat true up to the early 1990s.

The implication is that it was always known that people are easily manipulated. They needed protecting from themselves and the manipulators need to come from a certain class.

I object to that notion, but I am appalled at the base insanity that Facebook creates so I find myself conceding the point.

It appears to me that we haven't really switched the model, but looking at the analysis of the tiny number of influencers it takes to generate 90% of anti vax or whatever propaganda on facebook it seems clear this isn't democratization.

We have simply been handed a different set of carefully curated sources of information.
> server side rollback

server controlled client side rollback, you mean?
> but by putting them on the plane tonight, they've clearly acknowledged

They haven't acknowledged.

They easily could have waited a week or month.

They have rushed to get them on the plane.

It's a clear statement.

Alternate theory is it's possible the USA forced them to do this as part of the swap.
does nim have anything like scikit yet?
Show HN: ExpoThemes – Themes for Windows
Er... Imagine selecting among those alphanumeric identifiers at system install time.
Incredible that a child 200k years ago left something behind that we can still see today.

I struggle to imagine what I could do today that someone 200k years from now would find. Any ideas?
As bankruptcy proceedings primarily help borrowers, it's not clear what punishing them would accomplish.