skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When users never user the features they asked for..."

At least they are users asking for a feature. I've lost count the number of times where a sales guy swears up and down that he'll close the deal if we put features X, Y, and Z. The C-Suite gets hot and bothered about closing and I get overruled. Stories for X, Y, and Z get written, backlogs reprioritized, features developed. Ta da! Then what happens?

"Customer" goes dark and we never hear from them again. ::laughcry::
What would actually happen if a year or two from now, it turned out that, however unlikely it may appear now, there really were serious long-term vaccine side-effects?

There's absolutely no way it would involve the pro-vax people saying, "We're sorry, you were right." More likely, the same political sides would dig in further, there would be a bunch of attempts to cover up and revise history, and the message would be "The evidence has changed, but people who never got the vaccines didn't believe in science and were still selfish and wrong."

That wouldn't be true if this were really about health.
> We want policy (politics) to create certainty and stability.

Maybe it's this half of the equation that needs to be examined.
At a past job, we used a Stripe partner called “Quaderno” to handle both tax calculations and invoicing. Take a look.
They meant MiG was an example of real innovation from the USSR and copying alone, in the bomber case, wasn't innovation.
Once you give up on changing people's minds, you fall into who can acquire more power and guns, which is a pretty unhealthy place for society.
What a rip off!!!! I'd demand a free jet ride regardless.

re: TIPO vs DL, points taken - the advantage in theory is that they're also basically incentivised towards market stability for your stock, and a return over time for their retail investors? (Not saying I agree, just, in theory)
I hate my current job. I'm looking for new jobs internally and externally. I don't find any of them interesting. The closest thing I found to something that might have been interesting was a senior Android dev at a medical start up (with a 50% increase!), but I wasn't qualified (I have a couple basic apps, but no 'real' experience) .

I guess I feel like all the other jobs will be just as bad, so why leave this one.
> perhaps the viral spike protein was causing all the tissues' damage and the vaccine included the spike protein

Yes, but without the vaccine, most people will get infected by real COVID, which introduces the same spike protein (in an uncontrolled quantity, as the virus is replicating) and several other proteins, causing even more damage. Is this a better outcome?

> we have government regulations and protocols that concern drug approvals to make sure that the general population is not exposed to unnecessary risks

These protocols are tuned to be super-safe when there is little at stake. With a raging pandemic, with a nontrivial mortality/long-term effects/economic and societal effects, you are going to change this.
I believe we do.
yes. it is nota number. the result of taking the square root of a negative result from dividing by zero.
Apple should have fixed these things with their iron grip on their production line. They shouldn't have had malfunctioning GPUs or CPU's shorting because they're too close to the display's power line, and they certainly shouldn't have dragged out the USB-C transition on iPhone so long. But they have, and it's always the same bullshit excuses that nobody wants to hear from the most powerful company in the world. These devices start to lose their 'magic' once you understand how the sausage is made (and at what cost), so I think criticism of them is perfectly warranted. Imagine how silly you'd look 15 years ago if you tried arguing that Microsoft didn't have a browser monopoly, or even today if you tried defending Facebook for 'trying their hardest'. It's all lip-service when your company is thousands of people large.
People are spending $3 for an app to get rid of Google AMP
And then you realize that the CRUD db you moved away from operates on event sourcing (WAL) anyway. And thus you’re just doing inner platform effect.
Any advice on buying these? A lot of the GaN bricks look impressive, but they're always made by a sketchy peripheral maker.
I wonder if he was nicer than Ghenghis Khan.
> Nobody complained about IBM mainframe quality

Well, that's completely ahistorical. "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" was due to conservatism and idiocy on the part of managers and businesspeople, not to mention... you know... IBM's monopoly power and the advantages that went along with that. During the bulk of the minicomputer and mainframe era it had little or nothing to do with the relative quality of IBM's stuff.
Natural immunity as a direct effect of an infection wave is my first guess. In some circles 'natural immunity' has become a dirty word :/

The assumptions between the equation rt = r0 * (1 - (vacRate * eff)) are too simplistic and unable to explain Florida infection wave behavior. There are more variables that we ignore when focusing only on Rt and vaccines.

The silver lining: At some point the whole population would have been exposed to covid, either through vaccines, infection or both. At that point the whole vaccination rate / effectiveness discussion becomes moot. Perhaps I wish the public discourse would keep an eye on 'estimated population fraction exposed to covid' that includes all plausible factors.
This was part of the lawsuit. They communicated with each other about offers made to each other's employees and agreed not to counter-offer above the initial offer.
From my experience at several (large, well-paying) software companies, I feel like this is already the case.

Employees who leave voluntarily will usually give as much notice as they can. There is no fixed guidance or expectation, but just good form to tell at least your manager as soon as you have made a decision. It isn't uncommon for people to publicly announce their departure 6-8 weeks in advance.

For people who are fired for bad performance, there is usually a PIP or other probationary period which would count as notice.

For layoffs, there will be severance (2-3 months is common).

The only time I have seen abrupt departures is for entirely unavoidable reasons – theft, sexual harassment, family issues, visas.
Starbucks and fastfood, etc, I don't see it as keeping-up-with-the-joneses expenses.

I feel in the US there is a lot of subconscious decision making that's essentially about buying more time with money, but in an actual monetary transaction as opposed to some implicit trade off. They seem to be chronically starved for time.
There's a world of difference between saying "we will do great things" and claiming "we have done great things".
Forgot to mention if my son get any kind of lungs issue or pneumonia he would likely die.
It’s because his lungs are already very week from some other issues.

So while “normal” kid are likely to survive if infected mine will not unless he has 0 symptoms.
Thanks for the kind words!

Guess there's two of us :D

Seriously though, the following:

* Jenn Has ADHD on FB

* ADHD TikTok (@connordewolfe and @catieosaurus)

* Support groups/forum/body doubling at ADHD Actually[1]

* How To ADHD Youtube channel (also Rick Green)

have been life-changing for me to discover. You are not alone. Welcome to the fold! :)

[1] https://adhdactually.com
Really? Make a fully featured modern DE/WM/Compostor in electron that fits into 128MB of RAM and runs at 60fps on a Pentium III in daily usage then with a suite of apps.

Or better yet, make a web engine from scratch, that is, write the rendering engine, compositing engine and so on using Electron primitives.

Because both of these work very well when using Qt as a base, see LXQt and KHTML.
I don’t think we can confidently say that space is discrete at the Planck scale.
> … placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger.

No. The phone got charged. That’s made clear in the quote. Something is draining it post-charge.
Yes, my calculation ignored property tax, repairs, etc. I thought you were making a claim that being at the inflation level meant leverage wouldn't help you. I agree you'd have to take the total cost into account before deciding whether to buy or rent, but then in that larger analysis I don't see how comparing to the inflation rate is so crucial: it's possible that the home value increases faster than inflation but it still makes better sense to rent (if taxes or repairs are prohibitively expensive). I think I misunderstood your point.
This completely ignores folk music, though. Are you seriously claiming that classical music was more popular than folk music among lower classes?
I feel bad for anyone who got sucked into event sourcing for general purpose applications. Like... I'm burning a candle for you right now.

The event stream stuff makes sense in some specialized use cases (LMAX?) but for general purpose stuff? Oof, no.

EDIT: Also, don't hate me folks, but any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion. Not hating the guy but he's blown quite a bit of hot air in his time.
Good example. I wonder if those in power who make money from coal plants know that they are causing some harm while they are causing some good (providing power) just prefer to deal with the pollution issues after they are dead :)
For sake of argument I have been restoring some 68k Macs I picked up at an estate sale. I was unaware that even back in 92 apple limited the hard drives you could use with the machines... And even when I emmulate Id data for whitelisted drives I still have to use a patched formatter to init/tattoo the drive and partition it.

Apple has been playing the proprietary game for some time.
You don't need the layers of bloatware on top of the sensors. Kinect for example just exposed and HID and library.
The issue I found when I was first looking at it was they were all a little bit different in random, and confounding ways. Also, whatever the “base version” of the application was had been undergoing development over the years when all these forks were being made.

Looking back on it, that likely would have been the best approach. But at the time the complexity of designing something like that was a bit beyond me.
So why didn’t any other computer maker do it?
We aren't going to call the pandemic over because the numbers made it.

We are going to call the pandemic over when people stop dying. Things were looking good until the Delta variant hit.
Hopefully not as an actual double, right? Not that many floating point registers compared to integer on most archs.
If someone is so irreplaceable and integral, the company should be paying over and above market rate to ensure they don't look outside.
Nova – The Cannabis Question
> There's no conspiracy...

Just goes to show how powerful the conspiracy is.
The Epoch Times? Seriously?
they are basically regurgitating content that has been told many times over
Pretty cool. Just listened to a podcast where they talked about solarpunk. I appreciate the movement for its optimistic outlook of integrating humanity with nature as opposed to the dystopian cyberpunk narratives we see where everything is techno-centric and completely apart from the natural place we originate from.
and how many people have had money locked up by the very institutions that exist to protect those assets? I trust me _way_ more than I trust nameless corporations.
Alabama, Georgia, Missisipi, South Carolina all show a similar profile:

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/alabama

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/georgia

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/mississippi

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/south-carolina

Edit: Also Oregon and Washington, lest we suspect there is a grand RedState conspiracy at foot.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/oregon

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/region/us/washington
The key thing to understand is it is a sales-led motion. As much as a lot of HN is not a fan of sales people, it is necessary for any buying process where there are multiple stakeholders involved. As much as I'd like for individual product managers to decide to adopt Amplitude, the reality is it needs the signoff of a full team to implement and adopt. What I have found is that product-led sales people are much more successful than other types of sellers at Amplitude.

There's a lot of ways people find us: events, online search for our content, our free plan, partners, customer referrals. We're still figuring this out as we scale!
I've started collecting screenshots of app updates that are simply "bug fixes and performance improvements" because it's such a joke at this point. What bugs? How much performance improvement? Did you also nuke one of my favorite features while you were at it, or require other actions of me that I wasn't intending to perform? Who knows? Guess I'll roll the dice once again...
Russia threatens to block YouTube after German channels are deleted
> Those that left because of a bad manager were in the minority

hehe I've seen the complete opposite - a whole dev team rise up to get rid of the manager. And when the manager didn't leave, it was set in stone that most of the devs left within weeks.
My favorite thing about stripe isn't even their product. It's the support. I know when I have a question, I can reach out, and speak to someone who has some clue about what I need. It's really enjoyable, and I almost look forward to speaking with them it's so anathema to anything else.
"I was honestly completely knocked cold fthat you came to the conclusion I was making your argument. The takeaway isn't that hate speech laws work, it's that they don't."

You've misunderstood. I was previously arguing that they don't work, not that they do work. Read the old post of mine that I linked.

"What you advocate is extremely similar and you are oblivious and disconnected to the reality of the similarity between our current censorship laws and those of the Weimar Republic."

I outlined the reasons why these are different situations which you haven't addressed in your reply.
Does anyone know of a hack or instructions that can convert a magsafe charger for old macbooks into a USB-C charger for new macbooks?
Looks like "NFS" in the hacker news font.
There are languages like Go, Rust or C that are compiled. If your lambda uses compiled languages you need to recompile to the right platform.

Additionally, a lot of interpreted languages depends on native libraries. You need to build those libraries using the right arch. It happens a lot if you want, for example, deploy a Rails app in Lambda.

By the way, Lambda works great for low latency apps. The "startup cost" is negligible if you know how to implement it. You can serve ML models from a lambda, and in that case you want a math library optimized for the platform. Unless you have a lot of traffic a Lambda usually is cheaper.
I fully agree with all of this, yes. Disbelieving experts is wrong unless you are an expert or other experts also disagree, and I think that is a symptom of social media. SM, to me, is the real problem.

People should be taking health advice from their doctors. Not from politicians, not from companies, and most definitely not from their friends on social media. This whole age of "nothing is true", therefore disbelieving experts, is IMO being fueled by social media.

All that being said, back to the original problem: assume I don't trust (or maybe pay attention to) experts, and I know zero technical details of this vaccine nor this virus. I'm in pretty good shape and the virus is mainly killing old people. The vaccine is new, and despite it not killing people, (some of) my friends are posting on FB about how this vaccine is dangerous and I'm a test subject.

I think that's a pretty good model that fits a great, great many people. I don't think it's hard to see how they arrive on "don't get a substance I don't understand that just got invented injected into my body." I think it's the reasonable choice.

The idea that they all did research and arrived at a logical, informed decision is a problem. (Most) People aren't doing that, and broadly speaking, they're never going to.
> they will have to start practice serious self-censorship or get banned from FAANG-land, isolating them from friends, family and potential love interests.

You mean, there could be consequences for our words and actions?
Side thought: it always annoys me when people change a subject line. I think I get it - it’s like a subliminal or contextual message. But it still seems odd and off, sort of.
"fundamentally" seems a bit overwrought
KVM over IP HAT for RPi 4 earns over $560K on Kickstarter
Did you miss the first (last) component of the address? "news"? It's a press release, which is a step in the wrong direction from the media. I was attempting to steelman the opposing position by upgrading it to media interpretations of press releases.
> Whats the point? You'll just debunk it with a bs "fact check"

There's a PhD waiting for someone who can do an "influence analysis" of points and counter-points diffusing through articles, social media debates, fact-checkers, counter-articles, etc. Including methodologies to differentiate bots, paid PR firms, machine learning analysis/targeting, and organic participants being influenced by all of the above.

Those who have been involved in a few of these debates can almost predict the graph of responses, as you did with the fact-check lookahead parser :)
This is not accurate.

“mRNA vaccines tell our cells to make a piece of the “spike protein” that is found on the surface of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Since only part of the protein is made, it does not harm the vaccine recipient, but it is antigenic and thus stimulates the immune system to make antibodies.”

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/hcp/mrna.html
Pretty much. When you trade any amount of money your trade is changing the market.

In some less honest markets there are even cases where what the numbers say you can trade isn't possible because those offering the deal won't follow through, or will let a friend in ahead of you
> out of hundreds of exit interviews

Datapoint here, I didn’t say the truth at my exit interview. I left because I was angry my team lead wouldn’t help me reach a new level in my career, but I pretended it was for higher pay. Blaming it on my manager would have been useless and closed doors if I wanted to rehire in the higher position. Saying it wouldn’t have given them an opportunity to fix it, because I needed to learn skills to become a team lead, which I hadn’t, so they couldn’t have just promoted me.
It’s much quicker and easier to run a story from AP than to hire your own journalists.
Why Are Fast Food Workers Signing Noncompetes?
The only link I see in this thread is a government press release, not a scientific study. The first step is to be able to distinguish those.
I think im general I believe that theory to be true, but that doesn't explain all the well fed boomers that went full Qanon. They have retirement accounts, own their houses, a few nice vehicles out front, a boat, maybe a second property, etc.

These people ended up being Qanon's bread and butter. From the outside in they seem in control of their lives, but maybe it's all a ruse.
Those guys who used to say 2+2=5 might have been on to something, but more correctly, it was probably 3 for fluid dynamics here.

I remember as an OTR driver the truckstop bathrooms I survived each day. The olfactory violence was palpable enough to feel it crawling through the mask and see it grinning as it coursed through what must have been an unusual ratio of gas to air. I'd think to myself in that sometimes surreal environment where photons seemed to sweat and stagger, that even an n95 was pointless, perhaps life itself. If rona be here, every particle is riding a pale horse in a hazmat suit. I'll always consider myself a permanent petri dish for that.

I'd be all for mandatory toilet skirts.
As much as scientists are taking a hard look at their own processes it is important to still lean on what is as close to known as can be.

You don't need to blindly trust science but also don't be blind to it. Assuming everything is false just leads to guts dominating which is unhelpful.

Similarly if there isn't studies done then relying on the ideas put forth by those who are in the field is better than arbitrary people looking for their five minutes of fame.

The peer review problem is "maybe we need to find a way to find good papers in addition to blocking bad ones" and the reproducibility problem is "people tend to focus so much on novel results that we end up effectively p hacking across all the studies we do".

Neither of those is the way it is usually referred to in layman's terms as "science is broken" that is an exaggeration but hey we do live in a world where that is how people talk...
Not long ago 97% thought the earth is flat and the sun orbits around it.
> If you remove the content from one place, it shows up in another, but now it has more credibility because it’s been “removed for truth”.

Such is the nature of a decentralized internet. The only centralized authority that can keep people off the internet is the government, and it would immediately run into freedom of speech issues (and I'm not a fan of government action. I'd much rather have private sites use their free speech/editorial powers to combat this).

Are many smaller fires better than fewer, but larger conflagrations? Depends on who you ask, I think so. However, platforms don't care about the larger picture, they are only concerned about the fires on their properties.
Ahead of German election, Telegram plays radicalizing role
Used to be:

Re: See this: WAS: Fwd: Re: Original subject
Do you have a substantive argument?
YouTube is a business and this is the correct decision. It's like banning medical prayer.
When someone's actively trying to get those around them killed, I find it difficult to criticise anyone for not being too distressed by their passing.
Not to de-merit the creator. Looks really useful. But I tend to code using Allman-style bracketing. I find Allman bracketing and corresponding indentation makes my code more readable, without the need for much color.
So are you people using the downvotes to disagree, or to voice discontent? I wish people would provide more context when an otherwise seemingly logical prompt is being greyed out and people like me who -want- to know more, and -want- to hear the counterpoint are just shrugging.
I personally just think it has a harmful effect on the metaphor of being "off". For the longest time, a device being 'off' was synonymous with being unplugged or unpowered, rendered fully nonfunctional. We worked really hard to build the metaphor of 'sleeping' devices to compliment this, and I think letting Find My run while a device is sleeping is perfectly fine. I worry for the end user though, who now has to tabulate the capabilities of their device in their head every time they power off.
Hmm, it's okay, but just leaves some blank space on the right.

I tried to fix it, adding these to yours seems to work okay:

youtube.com###related:upward(#secondary)
youtube.com##:root:not(:fullscreen) video:matches-css(left: 0px):style(object-fit: fill!important; width: 100%!important; height: auto!important;)
"Mo Gawdat is the Silicon Valley supergeek who believes we face an apocalyptic threat from artificial intelligence..."

Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/jkaZK
I'm hoping that the next stop is Lambda on GPUs
He's not, and never has been. He's just related to JFK. (And the son of Bobby Kennedy, who was a senator.)
Punishing consequences imposed by someone who is actively hostile to our worldview and values, yes. That is the source of the concern.
Awesome, I've wanted this for a while.

Now if only I could run a custom kernel...
It's amazing how vaccine mandates weren't freedom stealing socialism until now.
People should leave. Engineers do better learning new systems - learning from new people. You should leave every three years. I don't cry when an engineer leaves - they should!