skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not really his actual profile as there are many republished articles, compendiums and books as well as essays and letters.

Einstein had few real publications, which I think is good. In fact, his CV is often shown as an example of what a top notch academic CV should look like. A few selected papers on core ideas, developed throughout a lifetime. Instead, many academics these days publish 500 or 600 articles during their career. That means they are just stamping their names onto one more than one paper per month, which is totally absurd.

Sadly, citations and paper counts have ceased to be useful metrics. Historically, productive institutions (Bell Labs, LMB Cambridge, CSHL, etc) did not measure performance with these, as they are useless. Now, on the other hand, things are quite different...
I agree with the spirit of your comment, but I'd argue it's even more specific than distrust of government; I think it's mostly tribalism, at least in the U.S. I imagine if Trump had reacted differently to the pandemic (acknowledged it was a thing at the beginning and urged or mandated vaccines) I think you'd see a high vaccination rate within his base and a different demographic altogether showing their distrust of government.
tell more..
And if the mark were instead the removal of a single atom in a 40cm length, the resolution would be even poorer.. able to encode a single 30 bit number by my very rough calculation.
You're trying to draw analogies between modern technology and the old town square. You should stop doing that because instant distribution to a billion people isn't the same thing as a speech to a thousand.

I provided examples of speech in the old town square leading to pathological outcomes, but we are in a very different regime now and analogizing too much isn't helpful.
Please don't take HN threads on flamewar tangents. This was a doozy. Such discussions are predictable, tedious, attract the same minority of commenters over and over and bore/drive away everybody else.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Great work!

Do you know why the per disclosure fees were removed in 2017?
Why do you think an anecdote where you don't even know all the details matters?
Nationalistic flamewar is off topic here and personal attack, which this crosses into, will get you banned.

Another thing we ban accounts for is when they use HN primarily for flamewar or political or ideological battle. Those things are against the guidelines/rules* because they destroy the site for its intended purpose. I mention this because your account is repeatedly posting flamewar comments and/or unsubstantive comments. Would you please stop that?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

* re your previous remark about that - I use both terms (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...)
> It’s entirely opposite to the whole field of good user interface design?

Good for whom? Good by what standard? The older I get the more I've come to suspect that most UI and UX designers come from the Temple Grandin school. They seem to think that users, website visitors, etc. are just human cattle and that their job is to design better cattle chutes.

I don't want a "better user interface". I want web apps that work, and I have yet to find one. Even dict.org reports errors when run through wave.webaim.org.

- If your web app doesn't work in Lynx, it doesn't work.

- If your web app doesn't work on a 56K dialup connection, it doesn't work.

- If your web app isn't WCAG 2.0 AAA compliant, it doesn't work.

> If I load up a site for some product, there’s basically 3 possible outcomes of reading the page:

No, there are four outcomes. You forgot one:

4. This website is so obnoxious that I've forgotten why I bothered accessing it in the first place.

If even one of your users asks, "Why am I doing this to myself," when visiting your website or using your web app, you've messed up.
This is great anti-dote to 'addictive design' practices that these companies use.
In general a function component does a lot more work than a class render function. Some of it is just about handling cases that we probably should have done with classes as well, but often didn't. The result is that everything must be carefully memoized (or not, it's sometimes hard to predict). For example, should you memoize a redux selector function like useSelector(state => state.x)? Should you wrap every function in useCallback? With classes we had arrow methods that ran once, while useCallback will be run every time the function component is run. We have to continuously check that function references are stable, if it matters, and if we care enough to bloat the function with various memo calls.

Now I'm not at all saying that class components are better. Hooks are mostly easier to work with. But there's no doubt that function components has me using too much brain power and lines of code on memoization. I like the new features the react team are working on, but I hope they'll eventually do something about the stable function reference problem as well.
Also useful the (consistent) Axios summary:

https://www.axios.com/youtube-anti-vax-misinformation-vaccin...
Misinformation should be put out in sunlight or else the public may lose the ability to think critically in some respects. Then they’ll be dependent on these companies to steer dialogue and be truth-tellers.
You broke the site guidelines badly with this comment—not just the obvious one asking people not to post insinuations like this, but also the one about political and ideological battle.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
What I meant by ongoing is that it is not one specific event like being hit by a car that you can point to...but something that happens over a long period of time. It's why I never pursued EMDR as a therapy. I cannot put one traumatic thing in my mind's eye, rather my entire childhood was trauma.
Anectodally, last school year all in-person schools were closed in WA state.

https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-media/inslee-extends-school...
The Purges Have Begun ⋆ Brownstone Institute
Do you mean the library of babel?
That’s some weasel wording with “(and may be because of)”. Also if you want posts of people celebrating death just stroll over into /b and mention anything to do with minorities and/or genocides.

/pol is not the only containment board or issue with 4chan
If I feel a need to watch a video, especially "watch it before you lose where you found it!" panicky feeling, I push the "Watch Later" button, and just treat that Watch Later queue as an infinitely long list of "meh, eventually I might watch it" videos.

If Youtube ever gets rid of that Watch Later button I guess I'll have to push stuff I'm interested in into a list of bookmarks or a log file or something.
Are you comfortable explaining why black Americans are overwhelmingly stuck with worse schools, worse access to healthcare, and generational poverty?
The problem is that bullshit takes significantly less effort to produce than a well-researched counter-argument.

With the sheer volume of disinformation out there, you can't even start to imagine having the required manpower to squash it all with refutation alone.
> At some point those ships will clear out of LA and there will be no more pile up. All the goods will have been distributed. Meanwhile, the world's container ship capacity will have increased by some large factor (30%, 50%) to address the shortage.

They'll be scrapped:

* https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/275-cargo-vessel...

* https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/ship-recycling-steel-...

Or at least the oldest, smallest, least efficient ones will be.
In many cases there has been a single photo of a politician with a mask off. Lots of predatory paparazzi photograph public individuals all day. Catching someone at a bad moment or accidentally doing something is easy.
Just threw together quick comparison between AVIF and the dithered image: https://ibb.co/hKnwF1Z (scaled up 4x)

I think we can pretty conclusively say that dithered PNG does not make sense from bandwidth point of view.
Are all URLs I visit sent to your server? Or is there a way I can see related HN/Twitter comments only on a button click when I choose so?
Normally I'd be opposed to censorship in general, but in this case I'm kind of glad, but only because shit like this is actually happening even now: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2021/0927/1249210-covid-pati...

AFAIC, anything they can do to suppress the raving lunacy of people like the ones who convinced that poor man to leave hospital, may he rest in peace, is a good thing in my book.
Your entire paragraph of "if you've paid any attention" are questionable.

I never heard people get mocked at any point for wearing a mask during the pandemic, even in the beginning when the CDC said it wasn't necessary.

In my PERSONAL opinion, the "lab leak" theory was never misinformation, but uninformation: Discussion pushed forward by right-wing outlets to generate an enemy, a "they" to blame. They used it as a cudgel without evidence against Anthony Fauci, and they beat the shit out of Asians because of it. Most importantly, it was completely irrelevant to the extent of us debating it, when the focus was on containing a disease for which there was no cure or vaccine.

And while there was some public skepticism about the pace of the vaccine process, I likewise don't think there was a "switch-flip" of trust in it like you suggest. When it came time to take it, everyone who wasn't a vaccine skeptic already went to get it when they could, and clearly the Trump admin was in charge through the development of the vaccine.

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There is also a difference between someone posting "I do not trust the government not to be incompetent, or not to run a mass trial on people" (though I think those people are nuts re: the vaccine), and someone saying "I know that Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci put microchips into a bone-melting serum that will activate in a year!"

It's a huge, multi-faceted issue. In the end, the problem to TRY to solve in coming years will be sifting between legitimate skepticism and good-faith debate, and nation-states/Fox-News lies that intend to manipulate you into anger and division, and whether private entities have the obligation to allow harmful information across their channels.
At least for music, you get much, much better recommendations when viewing in incognito mode. Basically you get songs that other people who listens to this song also listened to, instead of the same songs youtube thinks you like, regardless of the song playing.
Hypothetically you could achieve something similar using this[1]. Note the word "hypothetically".

[1] https://github.com/cakenggt/Library-Of-Pybel
Frankly, I am getting tired of labels. I one side of the debate is anti-mask / anti-vax crowd, then the other side is anti-living-life / pro-cower-in-the-basement-forever crowd.
Disclaimer: I'm working full time at Nextcloud on pure open source software and on my free time, I (co-)maintain many KDE apps, one of them currently sponsored by Nlnet.

Nlnet is a very nice initiative but let's be realistic the funding provided by them can support one or two developers working part time but not a team of developers working on a product full time.

What we need is more small companies that sell services to governments. But this implies sales teams, support contracts, and a lot of organization. It's not something that every one want to do and as the skills to start.
There are market-maker intermediaries in between but structurally you're playing the game primarily against professional finance teams with massive amounts of research, automation, and up-to-the-microsecond information you don't have access to who are the ones actually setting the price.
From reading comments, it seems like a lot of people don't understand that Delta changed things.

In a world without Delta, the vaccines did do an incredible job of actually preventing infection. "Effectiveness [against confirmed infection] remained above 95% regardless of age group, sex, race, or presence of comorbidities."[1] But that study used data up to March 2021, which means mostly non-Delta variants. Against Delta, vaccine effectiveness in preventing infection might be closer to 50%+ (e.g. [2]) -- which is still very effective! It's just not effective as we would like. "Hi, here's a shot that cuts your odds of getting infected in half. Do you want it?" Um, yes please.

You have to change your behavior when the facts in the world change. The messaging had to change with the facts. Of course you can't use the old vaccination thresholds for re-opening if the virus is now infecting 10x (50% vs. 95%) as many vaccinated people as it was 2 months ago, that doesn't make sense.

The virus moved the goalposts. You can be angry about that, but that's reality.

We are so lucky that despite everything, the vaccines are still incredibly effective at keeping you from dying if you get COVID. I'm actually very angry at how the mask messaging was handled (there should absolutely be consequences for that), but it doesn't matter how angry I am, if I don't get vaccinated I am irrationally refusing the single best way to avoid dying in this pandemic.

[1] https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M21-1577
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7034e4.htm
> I've just always considered understanding and being able to debug your environment to be a standard part of the job. As a professional software developer working in a Solaris environment, knowing how Solaris works, how to use the shell, tools, and other stuff is just basic.

If this was a standard part of the job, it wouldn't be my superpower. Working in a team where everyone (or almost everyone) can debug is amazing!
But if they actually turned off power, they'd lose track of where you are. They'd lose the tracking information needed for marketing. Can't have that.

Does "airplane mode" still shut off all transmitters?
Ask HN: What is the most crazy but missing API service you would use?
Hi everyone - I had this discussion with a good friend of mine today - with almost everything becoming accessible with REST API including human labour (Scale, Mechanical Turk) what is the most crazy but missing API service you would love to use but it is just not there?
Which FXP boards?
> Which is more dangerous to me, getting infected with the hypothetical virus, or getting vaccinated?

You not getting vaccinated and then getting infected with COVID is more dangerous to you and those around you than you getting vaccinated and then infected. Those are the only two options. Everyone on earth will contract COVID.

Surely you believe then that folks who refuse to get vaccinated on principle like yourself and then contract COVID should be triaged strictly below anyone else who needs medical care? I'm not saying that you shouldn't receive care, but you should receive it after everyone else has been sorted out. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes IMO.
That’s pretty amazing analysis.
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As a backend engineer, a blank text editor is where you start. We don't have a preference if you're a Don Knuth fan who counts bits, track your historical best TTI system metrics, or just assemble as much as is already out there. What we believe in is leverage, system design, and speed. We're highly collaborative, but also Go engineers singlehandedly own and operate the same amount of infra as 3-4 engineers at a large company.We are a unit. We set priorities, solve challenges, and execute. And with you, we’ll execute more than we ever have.

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You know, i'm not even sure that hooks were worth all of the problems with maintainability and readability that they've caused.

I don't have the slightest doubts about me being in the minority here, but i've seen a large amount of projects which attempt to use multiple state hooks per component, and as a consequence the dependency arrays become brittle as the code is changed and sooner or later you're stuck with your page being in an endless rendering loop, because your logic isn't clever enough to actually untangle all of the state to decide when it needs to change anything:

useEffect(() => {
... // a whole bunch of code
}, [foo, bar]);

useEffect(() => {
... // a whole bunch of code
}, [bar, baz]);

useEffect(() => {
... // a whole bunch of code
}, [foo, bar, baz]);

Sure, you can be responsible with that stuff when you're the one writing the code, but when you open up someone else's project and have "the business" breathing down on your neck but have to untangle their uncommented code, you feel like some of the features are footguns in disguise. At least with shouldComponentUpdate all of the code that decides whether something should be done was in one place.

You could easily comment that code out or change it. But with hooks, you need to untangle how all of the related calls to setState work and where every method for every state hook is called and why. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to decouple those.
Ha. Title is right about Android fanatics and Apple.
I like the snark. No way that roll out would get any better traction than the vaccine did in that crowd!
I just hope there won't be too much of a performance impact on my browser or the page load times
I still like them because their support folks sent me a t-shirt in, I dunno, maybe 2012, when I posted a slightly-clever workaround on their forums, for some subscription-related functionality they didn't have yet. Fairly cheap way to keep me feeling positive vibes about them, nearly a decade later.
but to van&ban any company playing games in the future!
AWS Lambda now supports ARM64 architecture
The developer guide has been updated with details [1], and you can select the new architecture when creating a Lambda function through the AWS Console. We'll likely see an official statement from AWS soon.

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/foundation-arch.html
> Also, the policy states some exceptional cases such as countervailing views with a support from medical experts, firsthand experiences, etc.
Do you think dithering beats AVIF in this comparison? https://ibb.co/hKnwF1Z
If you're vaccinated and in your forties, you weren't in a risk group from the start, and you're certainly not at risk any longer.

Kids living with their grandparents should definitely get vaccinated.
I am sorry for that. I didn't intend that. Thank you for pointing to the guidelines and I will take this more to heart when commenting.
It surprises me how many people aren't being proactive about their recommendations.

Hover your mouse over a recommendation you don't like, click the three dots that appear to the right of the title, click "Not interested". Results change very quickly.
Wine's are a little bit different imo, because there is a definitely legit basis there just the border with bullshit and marketing is fuzzy.

My take away from those double-blind experiments isn't that it's all made up, but rather that people need to practice more rigor.
Did you ever notice any issues with significant increased softirqs?

I started going down a similar path but a node that is acting as a gateway/bridge for UDP traffic routing to an outbound wireguard tunnel is now spending a constant ~20% CPU time on NET_RX softirqs with 10Mbps and 5~30Kpps. Almost no NET_TX.

It's specifically the combination of UDP-over-wg that seems to cause this. It's otherwise handling 1Gbps and way more packets just fine.

(I'm aware MQTT is TCP but hey, worth a shot)
I have to admit, there are zero competitors that I would seriously consider using instead of Stripe.

They've got a moat the size of an ocean.
An outlier example from 1907.
Early on, they didn't know if masks were effective against covid, because of the size of the particles. But they did still recommend them for healthcare workers:

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200130/Do-masks-protect-...

They were saying not to buy masks in order to preserve them for healthcare workers. There was already a severe shortage of them.

https://news.yahoo.com/cdc-warns-save-respirator-masks-for-h...
Run this for mountains, ski resorts so we know exactly which areas/runs will be most windy.
> Right, but would they be profitable if you took out the advertising and expansion costs?

An issue with this line of thought is that you think that they could one day flip a switch and just like that stop expanding or acquiring new customers.

Two problems with that are: 1) most likely if they stop growing, they start shrinking - it’s not like they are the only ones out there doing what they do, and 2) a lot of their marketing and expansion expenses (as corroborated by the sibling comment) don’t go towards acquiring new customers, but rather new drivers, which given their turn over, they can’t stop putting money into.

So basically if they stop spending money on advertising and expansion, they will loose all their drivers and slowly churn customers as well.

Hence, it doesn’t matter if they could technically be profitable without advertising and expansion, because then their business becomes unviable.
The thing is, youtube is crappy place for "whistle blowing" because video is a terrible medium for people evaluating information critically - any references a video might have will slip by a person, the general demeanor of a presenter can matter more than their content or credentials, etc.

It's not unreasonable for youtube to refuse non-mainstream health theories even if those theories deserve an airing somewhere.
What do you expect from Red Hat/IBM? We've all seen how poorly they handled OpenOffice.
that probably wouldn't be sufficient to instantly grasp which bracket in a set of five opening brackets corresponded to its closing bracket. humans are not great at visually assessing minor differences in absolute size