skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The length of time does not matter when talking about infection rates and population groups.

If you have two population groups A and B and A has a massively lower infection rate then population group A is not going to have the virus surge through the entire population.

But this is all veering off my original point that you can’t claim bodily autonomy as a reason/right to not take preventative measures like the vaccine if you aren’t actually being autonomous.
By earnings I take it you mean revenue or sales, based on the rest of the text about the revenue multiple. Typically earnings refers to profit in one form or another (often it means after-tax profit, sometimes operating profit).

Cloudflare of course has no earnings. Their operating loss last quarter was $28.8 million. Their operating loss for the past four quarters was $106 million.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/earnings.asp
What private data would you get by tracking minecraft players?
I follow a youtube channel of a chap and his wife who left the city and relocated to a rural area to do sustainable farming with ducks and geese.

It is interesting but it is very hard work to husband animals but they seem very happy.

https://www.youtube.com/c/GoldShawFarm/videos
There’s no one “process” that companies follow. The OP describes a process but it’s one they initiated — sending out CVs and applying online and then waiting. Some employers probably have dysfunctional hiring processes, but you can find alternative routes that have better chances of success.

The alternatives have been understood for a long time. Look at What Color Is Your Parachute? by Bolles and Who’s Hiring Who? by Lathrop, for example. I haven’t applied for a job in decades but I have found continuous employment. I know plenty of other people in this business who do the same.

A person with little or no actual experience will find it difficult to get attention from employers, but that’s not a broken system nor is it specific to software dev jobs. There’s no shortage of inexperienced applicants, which is why they get little response from employers.

Anecdotally, when I listen to young inexperienced developers I think they have an inflated idea of their prospects and value in the software dev job market, which is something we programmers do to ourselves. I don’t know if the OP is new to the business or has years of experience, but someone with years of experience should have contacts and friends and connections to leverage.
It takes 1 to 2 quarters for silicon to be manufactured, we are seeing the results of decisions that were finalized in early 2021 with regard to what is available today to buy.
Here, for example, https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgresql
The Prepared: a newsletter about engineering, manufacturing, and infrastructure
I don't think what type of application it is determines if a person has a right to their privacy if they want it. Same goes for data, we don't have to "accept" anything.

On the other hand, if it wasn't Microsoft's brand being connected to this and it wasn't called telemetry but "Automatic Bug Report Sharing" nobody would make a peep.

The same goes for the kind of data or application: if people know what type of data would be shared and what it would look like, they might indeed understand that this isn't some nefarious profiling but just normal software improvement. If you are a developer, bug reports are nearly useless unless it's super repeatable with normal conditions and a few clearly defined steps... or if there is a useful automatic reporting system in place.

But none of that reduces someone's expectation of privacy or acceptance of data sharing.
I'm in a project using scrum (scrumbut - but I attribute that to a failing of scrum). There's more talk about story points and planning than there is actual development
Here is a GAWK program of mine that implements outgoing SMTP. While not a one-liner, this is much shorter and less tedious than trying to do it in C.

$ cat /bin/awkmail
#!/bin/gawk -f

BEGIN { smtp="/inet/tcp/0/smtp.yourco.com/25";
ORS="\r\n"; r=ARGV[1]; s=ARGV[2]; sbj=ARGV[3]; # /bin/awkmail to from subj < in

print "helo " ENVIRON["HOSTNAME"] |& smtp;
smtp |& getline j; print j
print "mail from: " s |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j
if(match(r, ","))
{
split(r, z, ",")
for(y in z) { print "rcpt to: " z[y] |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j }
}
else { print "rcpt to: " r |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j }
print "data" |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j

print "From: " s |& smtp; ARGV[2] = "" # not a file
print "To: " r |& smtp; ARGV[1] = "" # not a file
if(length(sbj)) { print "Subject: " sbj |& smtp; ARGV[3] = "" } # not a file
print "" |& smtp

while(getline > 0) print |& smtp

print "." |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j
print "quit" |& smtp; smtp |& getline j; print j

close(smtp) } # /inet/protocol/local-port/remote-host/remote-port
Ask HN: Is anyone using Neuromorphic algorithms/chips?
I noticed Intel released the Lohi2 Neuromorphic chip.

I am wondering what tasks neuromorphic chips/algos are good for? Are they being using in production anywhere?
Subheading after colon from the about page, just to avoid uninformative title.
All MLM's seems to come from Utah.
The data very much shows that vaccinated people are less likely to spread covid, if only because of the lower infection rates and shorter infection duration.

This paper is just saying that vaccinations are no excuse to abandon testing requirements since that allows you to identify any active spreaders regardless of vacination status.
The web version of YouTube on mobile Safari has some Javascript that prevents you from using the native iOS picture in picture. It literally hijacks it. You open the video, click the picture-in-picture button, and then when it minimizes, the YouTube website forces it back into its canvas player (I have confirmed this in a debugger). They obviously do this because they want you to download the YouTube app which has its own picture-in-picture mode and advertisements that are more difficult to block.

It's basically an antitrust micro-aggression. Not serious enough to get any attention, but combined with the rest of Google's behavior, it's death by 1000 cuts.
YouTube Bans Ron Paul Institute
Opel is owned by one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world now, so it's more likely they are diverting parts to their more popular brands.
The well regards for GNU and RMS in the Latin world is due to the strong philosophy against closed software, specially from MS. During most of the 90's and beginnings of 2000's, M$ would force their expensive licenses in governmental systems and would make everything to avoid interoperability, even within versions of their own systems.

End result was that countries would spend millions just to be able to share documents across agencies. Things started changing when KDE/Slackware, Ubuntu, Firefox, OpenOffice and other software systems started to become user-friendly, with nicer and intuitive interfaces. From this point on, governments started teaching GNU/Linux in schools and universities, explaining the benefits, the rights, etc, and then switching to open-sourced and free-software systems.
I was introduced to *nix from processing very large text files that text editors I was familiar with choked and died. Someone showed me sed/awk/grep, and it took seconds to process when other GUI editors couldn't open the file. Never looked back.
I think the calculus was that you didn't need "true" AI for a self-driving car.

That still might be accurate, just maybe not in the near term. It may be controversial, but I think that humanity's hubris is the biggest barrier towards developing more effective AI.
I've been to thrift stores. They no longer allow after-hours drop-off. They are quite selective about which items they will take. They certainly wouldn't waste their time and shelf-space with the "corkpull" mentioned in TFA. I have installed an under-cabinet jar-opening vise for my mother, which I only ordered because she specifically asked for it. No one in the family would dream of foisting it off on Goodwill if for some reason she didn't need it anymore. Admitting that trash is actually trash and throwing it away is the first step in living a life that produces less trash.
Or they don't view it as a concern to their readers
In that case I think enforcing it was necessary to break the status quo. If it should no longer be a law and let people decide is up to each one’s personal opinions. Myself, I think if someone wants to take risk and maybe get killed there are more efficient ways of doing it and in a way that wouldn’t potentially cause damage to others.
> They take the car because the train is way too expensive

OEBB (Austrian Federal Railways, the state train operator) does offer a family railcard ("Vorteilscard Family"), and it's hardly expensive:

"The Vorteilscard Family offers you a particularly inexpensive option to travel together with children. For only €19 a year, up to 4 children under the age of 15 can accompany you for free."
San Francisco city council voted in favor of making public transit free, even Muni was on board. Total cost was something like $20 million a year (city budget is measured in the Billions) to get rid of fares completely, forever. That happened about two months ago.

Mayor vetoed it, on the grounds that "it would be too popular and overtax muni's capacity". I'm not sure I buy that, my guess is that the local tour bus/tourist bike rental industry disapproved, but that's just speculation on my part. I would personally use Muni about 50% more but I have a chicken-and-egg problem; I don't use it enough to justify a monthly pass, and since I don't have a monthly pass, most times I'd rather just walk than catch a bus.
It likely will or has worked at some point for someone somewhere. Why not you?
But do note it's not part of CommonMark yet: https://spec.commonmark.org/current/

I hope it gets there. I like this feature. :-)
This is a reasonable stance. It's funny that the common retort to YouTube censorship is not to use it and to go somewhere else, but then you get downvoted for saying that's exactly what you're doing.
> For me, the mystery remains

Same bud, not really sure where to take the conversation if you are dismissing offhand your sources interpretation of the data and then still say

> So while this is a single source, it is from a highly credible org with a highly credible setting, making it difficult to dismiss offhand.
I love it. I would kill for one for reddit too.
Scrum isn't for everybody. I would say it is for organisations or departments whose business is not developing products, but who develop products to service their business needs. For everyone else, there are many better options to choose from.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23234572
It did not helped them fix problems in Teams, Windows and Office 365. Why do you think Minecraft will be different.
We once utilized an ad agency that relied heavily on "AI" to pre-test ad creative.

The agency presented regional branding campaign creative with our national flag flying at half mast. The AI predicted success. The ad agency stood by the AI.

Certainly would have generated clicks.

But the ad agency lost a customer. Not sure if the AI would have predicted that!
For the past hour or so.
Edit: Too many downvotes for my view that this Opel case is yet another symptom of the wrong handling of the panedmic by any governments, leading to inflation and supply chain disruptions.

If opinions are downvoted then I do not need to participate.
My PoC Xamarin app stopped working today... "The SSL connection could not be established."
Back to good ol' email
As seen elsethread, there is one single model of plane in the entire air cargo freight industry that's able to protect the humans onboard from the atmospheric exposure risks of dry ice, so technically that's still YMMV, but realistically it's not, and thus the FAA warning last December.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/dry-ice-the-russian-an-124...
That's true generally, but I thought I saw some stat that NSA hired some crazy % of the math PhDs in the US (like 30%+). I also thought the national labs were considered pretty good places to work.
Minecraft is a game played mostly by kids (minors). Tracking their behaviour, finding out what they try (even if just looking for ways to game the system) is pretty useful info.
If your CouchDB was open to the world, then that's definitely a configuration problem.

Sure, earlier versions shipped with "admin party" enabled by default but the docs made it very clear to not do that in public.
Is this implemented in cmark-gfm?

https://github.com/github/cmark-gfm
Communists must be bulldozed into mass graves.
How about performance issues and silent errors? Finding areas that need to me optimized because a lot of users have subtle issues kinda needs passive data collection.

As long as it is anonymous, it's a good thing, IMO.
Because the visual difference between abusive telemetry and benign or useful telemetry is 0. Same with disclosures.

And we are a very abused culture sitting in the middle of what I hope is peak surveillance capitalism.

Beat someone with a stick enough, and when you go to scratch your back and they flinch, it's not sensible to deride them for being irrational.
> Have you asked your parents what their core beliefs are and why they're on that team? You might find they're one or two issue voters. Not sure if that would help you find some peace with them.

My mother is a Q-anon type person that became deranged and believes in physically impossible conspiracies. She's jewish and hangs out in alternate youtubes that have videos of burning stars of david next to the Q stuff she's interested in. I think she became disoriented by her economic trajectory in life where she initially was working with a masters and then became a housewife that was unable to reenter the economy. She spent over a decade listening to right-wing talk radio and fell into the youtube zone. and At this point I do not know what will reach her.

My father is a lawyer that rubs shoulders with big real estate people. In his youth he supported Nixon. This lived experience of contact with the morally bankrupt rich capitalists has imo morally damaged him. When I asked him if a poor person should die on the street if they can't pay for healthcare, he assented. He doesn't want to be a bad guy, but outside of his specialty his thinking is not clear or imo firmly grounded. He watches Fox and listens to Tucker. He's a Regan type Republican.

> I'm only a conservative because I'm anti big government, anti identity politics, and pro individuality

I'm a communist because over time I realized that we are being divided against each other by the rich and need social solidarity and democracy to have a high-functioning society. I think freedom comes from having security in food, housing, education and from the creative output of individuals and groups and not from what you're able to buy. In other words, a decent society comes from addressing the needs of the people and cooperation, not from making them compete against each other.
Yeah that'd make sense. Thinking about it, that's exactly what happened with the Manhattan Project.
You forgot about the egress fees. Try running BigQuery on a (big) dataset stored in S3. You probably wouldn't even think of that because of how stupid that is at the moment.
Cloudflare acquiring Lumen and Fly would be interesting to see.

All of Lumen’s value is in the nationwide backbone fiber although they are trying to make a play in edge computing. IMO those fiber assets in the hands of a company like CF combined with a service like Fly would be pretty incredible.
On top of the JVM implementation potentially being faster, OpenGL drivers on Linux are sometimes better than their Windows counterparts; especially with the less modern OGL that Minecraft uses
Opel annual sales in 2019 was 800k, half their peak of 1.6 million in 1999 and there sales graph is basically a steady continuous drop in that period: https://carsalesbase.com/europe-opel-vauxhall/

The people who historically would have bought Opels or Vauxhalls (thanks to high numbers of UK imports, you used to see both here) now tend to buy Toyotas and Kias mostly today, at least in my country.
I'm not sure how much of a 'reimagining' or 'fresh look' this is when you really get going, but judging from the home page the novel feature seems to be... dialogue backgrounds that run into buttons?
They appear to have moved their status page to Azure.

Current incident report: https://slack-status.azureedge.net/2021-09/06c1e17de93e7dc2

DNS outages are why we put status pages on different domains with different DNS providers. :-)
I think we're a year ahead of Cloud Flare on learning but we do not want to be acquired. They also don't like us much.
Citation needed. Not every bug will be solved by telemetry, but that doesn't mean we wouldn't be in a very different state without it.
Because adding more engineers to a project increases communication overhead.

Obligatory Tweet: https://twitter.com/RichRogers_/status/1159872097205805056
I can't open comments on firefox. hitting O does nothing. Opening new links also opens them in a popup window rather than a new tab, so firefox blocks those by default too.

Overall its nice to use a keyboard but the information density is so poor and the site isn't as performant as news.ycombinator.com so I won't be making a switch, and I can't comment on how it renders comments since it doesn't open comment sections in firefox at least.

I've been on the hunt for a HN TUI client or some other way to make threads play nicely with a text based browser. That would really help with my newsboat based internet consumption if I didn't have to open a browser to read comment threads. I have gotten close, but with all the text based browsers I've tried, they all don't indent comments correctly in threads which makes it not very useful.
> The whistle blower is named and public, not anonymous.

Okay, and my point still stands.

> who probably doesn't possess any material facts.

Why do you make such strong assertions/assumptions when you have no idea to whom I'm referring?

> That's really not at issue here, I think you're addressing a strawman that I didn't make.

Not really, no. I don't think you're really making good points to begin with.
Your account may be old enough that the more aggressive anti-fraud measures have not kicked in. They made it clear to me that their system would flag my email by having their name it. I've explained to no less than 5 support members what a canary is and they still have not resolved my issues. I even changed my email, still no luck.
Correct, edited my comment to show revenue. I'm old enough to remember a time when an "undefined" P/E ratio would have raised eyebrows.
US Published National Debt: $28T. The Truth: $146T. Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k
rtv is an old standard tool that behaves similarly imo. I don't think its under active development anymore but it still works (i'm sure theres a fork or a similar reddit cli under active development these days)
I'm buying one because I have problems but I sincerely think there should be a cut down version. Especially one without a floppy drive (What if you don't actually have any old floppies and just want a cool embedded games platform?)

I mean, I'm not seriously expecting this to be the next big computing platform but I do think that a lower barrier to entry would help adoption.
Auto chips are usually a higher grade than consumer. They have to be able to handle wide ranges of temperature and moisture and also handle vibration. There is usually an extensive testing process until a chip gets qualified for auto production. This is especially true for chips used in the drivetrain and/or safety systems.

There are some cases where a foundry is already qualified for an auto grade chip and they make a consumer chip in addition to it on the same equipment. They can stop making the consumer chip and devote 100% of their capacity to the auto grade chip.

If that is a possibility, I am sure it is already happening. But a lot of foundries that make consumer chips simply aren't qualified to make auto grade chips, so they cannot move production.
This is awesome!! :)

One tiny thing (though everyone's tiny suggestions sure add up :D ) (aside from the alt-h not working in firefox)...

It would be awesome if hitting space or something on a selected post would open it in a iframe (or panel) in the middle of the screen.

Then be able to up-arrow/down-array (or PGUP/PGDOWN) through the page and escape out of it.

This would mean you can quickly skim an article without leaving the app!

But, well done, it's absolutely wicked :D
Cheesy German movies from the 80's.
What I'll never understand is why carmakers don't take advantage of this situation and address a market that's been literally BEGGING for decades for a new product:

A simple, basic car, with the ONLY electronic control being for:

- Valve timing
- Fuel injection
- Oxygen and throttle
- Emissions

There's a market for budget and privacy oriented customers that all carmakers seem to have ignored for two decades now. Give us a simple car with no GPS navigation, ass warmers, tire pressure sensors, telemetry, backup cameras, USB chargers, proximity detectors, traction control, keyless entry, remote climate control, etc.

But instead of addressing this market, these carmakers have decided to throw up their hands and shut down production or pile up unfinished inventory waiting on chips. It makes precisely zero sense.

I understand the re-engineering is a cost. But when you're simply removing existing features, this should be a fairly negligible one.

edit: I wasn't aware any of these luxury features were mandated by governments. Apologies, and disregard.
I highly, highly recommend learning Forth, solely because it will melt your brain. (In a good way.) Keeping track of a stack in your head as you're writing is a delightful puzzle.

Then go write a Forth. Easy to implement, and a rewarding exercise.
Looks like few people read my comment and then went and downvoted many of my recent comments on HN.
There's so much BS around use if AI/ML in the enterprise space right now.

It's totally self perpetuating.

My sales team keep asking me to add AI to X product. Doesn't matter if it's not required, or even makes sense they ask because the competition is doing it and they get asked by our clients/prospects in an expecting tone, if we offer some AI on our products.

There are places we do offer it where it genuinely adds value but this 'sprinkle AI on everything for the sake of it' needs to die.