skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah but that’s how these scammy companies get most regular folks. Just by listing in an exchange garbage shares get bought up by index fund at the expense of unsophisticated investors
You're still missing my point. Testing shows you testing bugs. Running in production shows you production bugs. There are bugs you literally will never see in test until you run in production. There is absolutely no way to discover those bugs purely by testing, no matter how rigorous your test is.

The most glaring of these bugs are SEUs caused by cosmic rays. Unless your test framework is running on 10,000 machines, 24 hours a day, for 3 years, you will not receive the SEUs that will affect production and cause bugs which are literally impossible without randomly-generated cosmic rays.

The simpler of the bugs are buggy firmware. Or very specific sections of a protocol getting corrupted in very specific ways that only trigger specific kinds of logic in a program over a long period of time. Or simply rolling over a floating point that was never reached in test because "we thought 10,000 test nodes was enough" or "we didn't have 64 terabytes of RAM".

And more examples, like the implementation or the administrative tools just being programmed shittily. Even if you find every edge case, you can write a program badly which will simply not deal with it properly. Or not have the tools for the admins to be able to deal with every strange scenario (a common problem with distributed systems that haven't been run in production). Or 5 different bugs happening across 5 completely different systems at the same time in just the right order to cause catastrophic failure.

Complex systems just fuck up more. In fact, if your big complex distributed system isn't fucking up, it's very likely that it will fuck up and you just haven't seen it yet, which is way more dangerous than not knowing how or when it's going to fuck up.
This is different. This is if the price of filet mignon drops, you end up spending more money on filet in absolute terms.
Or when GitHub copilot starts suggesting it lol.
I also did one a while back if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/s_XYWwCu8vM
> the spike protein the current generation of vaxes target is common to all of the variants.

Until it wanes, which you don’t know when it does, so you take a booster until you get a breakthrough case because you aren’t immunized, you got a biological shortcut.
We had to do this for a link shortening system (to make sure random base64 didn't contain profanity). It was a pretty fun problem. Not just the implementation, but doing the math to make sure it didn't make our shortened links easily enumerable. The implementation wasn't too bad, but we set up logging initially to spit out any random strings it decided to block. I demo'd this in front of the whole company and live tailed the logs and the first one that popped up during the demo was a big ole F bomb. It made for an excellent demo.
“Nobody” is relative. Rust doesn’t have a lot of users, but it isn’t Pony.
I have both an electric car and a Chevy Silverado 4x4 truck. My electric car has a $450 registration fee every year. My truck is only $130.
The point being made by the OP and the comments here is that shouldn't be necessary. When every update includes new obnoxious shit that you don't want and have to figure out how to revert, it's no longer an improvement. Fighting the software you use is a horrible position to be in.
Half of the critics always complain that Mozilla is too reliant on Google, the other half complain that they spend any time whatsoever on profitable side projects that give them independent sources of revenue.
Language friend, this is a family site
> I have nothing personal to gain by this lawsuit and a lot to lose professionally…

>Many of you have asked how you can support me and my efforts to challenge coercive mandates. My first answer is to consider becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter

This bit is hilarious
The Science article's[1] subheading quotes: "Israelis who had an infection were more protected against the Delta coronavirus variant than those who had an already highly effective COVID-19 vaccine"

[1]https://www.science.org/content/article/having-sars-cov-2-on...
Taxes do unjustly (sexism, dick tax) punish single men, but the marriage deal is even more disadvantageous. Most marriages will end in divorce, and most divorces will end up very unfavorably for men.

Thus avoiding marriage stands to reason.

There should not be a legal concept of marriage to begin with. The state should just treat everybody as individuals, and end this anachronistic insanity.
Apple Promotes Apple Music, Apple Arcade in iOS Settings App
Be careful not to conflate what the science says and what scientists say. The position you articulate is certainly in vogue at the moment but I'm not aware of any study that supports it, let alone one that's methodologically sound.
Is there a blog or something where someone is going through the dump and summarizing?
Because it’s cool to hate things. Some people form identities through the things they dislike rather than the things they do like.
I can really identify with that. My efforts are against spam and trolls; at least the spam is predictable and easier to take a sledgehammer to! Those grey-area trolls are such a miserable part of online content and moderation.
Because only foxnews can oppose a mandate... way to hand rightwingers victory in next elections. Vaccine is good but mandates are not.
Thanks! Coming in to this cold: Starting with reading the apology and the first few comments on that page, then back here down to yours. This paints a totally different picture to the impressions I got from the preceding steps; I can fully understand the upset.
The crlp looks like it has a timestamp and geo_id appears to be a zip code. The rest is non-trivial to decode.
From what I understand, the immune response from natural infection varies dependent on the individual and circumstance, so some may have tested positive with their immune system not eliciting as robust a response as someone who was vaccinated (or infected under different circumstances). So you could have person A who tests positive but with very low viral load and was asymptomatic (for example) and their immune response is much less robust than person B who was symptomatic. When they encounter the same variant in the future, person A may have much less protection (or none at all[1]) compared to person B. I'm not sure if we have nailed down what tests tell us the robustness of someones immunity accurately to be able to rely on them for something like health passes.

Another factor I have come across is that it may be that natural immunity is more variant specific while the vaccine results in a immune response to a wider array of variants. This seems like it may be valid considering the situation in Brazil[2] and with our understanding of the flu, but I am not sure the mechanism for this.

Lastly (as mentioned in another comment) it can create perverse incentives where people will do something like "covid parties" to gain natural immunity which would make things worse.

The vaccine on the other hand has a dose which is of a known quantity and the response from that dose is well understood across many demographics. So it may come down to the fact that we understand the vaccine response better than natural responses.

I'm not saying whether or not any of this is a good enough reason not to allow for natural immunity to be just as valid, but it's what I have come to understand (which may be incorrect) based on the data we have.

[1] https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article

[2] https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n394
I would also call attention to how this site talks about trans people, given that the original tweet author is trans.
The executive director of the .NET Foundation force merged a PR on a project, instead of following project guidelines.

The incident snowballed into other projects discovering they have been moved to the .NET Foundations Github Enterprise account without their knowledge.

And even more projects joining the snowball with “we were told the Foundation were just there to help us, not take over project ownership”

And now there is a huge snowball with a lot of projects and people stuck inside.
Is pkunk a Star Control 2 reference?
Thank you for your feedback, Title ellipsizing on phone is a real issue which I should have addressed earlier; I will be working on it soon.
Opera is making a comeback!!!!
Reflecting on Four Years at Databricks
Sheesh

c) "Porco dio saranno mica i testimoni di Geova? No eh diocan digli che i signori sono fuori, non ho tempo per stargli dietro."
("Fuck, they can't be Jehovah's witnesses, can they? Tell them we're out, we don't have time for their shit.")
Gamers sure do love the n word.
I’ve been working on compliance software for 2 years now and this problem is hard. A large part of it is in “ensuring compliance”. You have to sort of straddle the line otherwise you end up a data controller instead of a data processor. You also can’t really give legal advice. You can build as many tools as you want but it’s really hard to give a good toolset and also not become liable.
The Economics of Programming Languages (2005)
I don't know, I was mostly repeating this warning I read elsewhere:

DO NOT POST THE MAGNET LINKS IN THIS THREAD

Feel free to discuss this for what it is, news about a data leak.

As per rule 1 'Search the Internet.....' a quick search will give you the data should you want it, understand however that this is stolen data and should it be what is described the torrent will likely be peer logged and addresses handed to the relevant authorities should Twitch wish to pursue legal action against those sharing it.

---

Sorry if I was incorrect about the validity of the warning
Also, his friend apparently liked to tell people it was him and post selfies on Facebook saying he was Zodiac.

https://twitter.com/Q_Review/status/1445837540620218369
Apple prepping for launch of Legacy Contacts feature in iOS 15
> Just use a standard database and get on with coding features instead.

Better still, choose a "standard database" that supports sharding.
live : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eRgGS4SuJ8
According to this data, only 3% of Twitch’s top-earning streamers are women... so I don't agree.
As a complete tangent, I find it quite sad that because of things like the ft paywall, stories like this that are written today will be lost to the sands of time.
I'd pay for Firefox Relay to have unlimited aliases.
We had a legitimate Michael Hunt at our school. He went by Mike.
Texas's controversial abortion bill blocked by federal judge
> you got a biological shortcut

What do you mean by this?
I'd rather have them distance themselves from Google and ads revenue entirely.
The professor lost in the video -- he did not win. The one who _didn't believe_ that one could go faster downwind than the wind gave the $10,000 to charity. Or did I miss something?
Let's suppose the above is true (I think that's not settled, but let's say it is), then what do we do about people who took less effective (approved) vaccines? That will also allow for infection. What do we do about them?
Suck it, conservatives.
Unless you're a virologist, I don't want you opinion on the efficacy and reasons for vaccination. If I wanted to know if I can trust a bridge I'd ask people intimate with the details. Anyone else speaking in their place is muddying the waters.
If you have a credit card with capital one, they provide a browser extension for generating and managing virtual numbers which works like a charm. I’ve been happily using it for all online purchases for the past couple of years. No need to worry about merchants charging for cancelled subscriptions, and if a service has implemented any dark patterns in their unsubscribe process, I just kill the virtual number and let it resolve itself, rather than needing to worry about it.
Can you give a single example of a major tech company using nosql as its primary db for any application?
Right, but I'm also an end user, so that's the part I care about first.
I want to preface that it's a very strong claim to say that the true and accurate cause would be culture, and claiming the possibility isn't good enough, you'd need to strongly demonstrate evidence that this is the real contributing factor.

Having said that, Culture could be an explanation, but it would still be a problem, because children should have equal opportunity, and if it were true that culture can affect your opportunities, then it wouldn't be fair to have some children born into a culture that diminishes their opportunity. That's why we have a lot of laws already related to restricting certain ways you can raise your kids, like mandatory school, bans on corporal punishments, requirements to meet their basic needs, etc.

Beyond that, there are questions around culture as well, such as, would it be culture on its own? Or culture within a particular environment that might favor against certain cultures? And this might not even be in an actively and conscious discriminatory fashion. It could be as an accidental effect of compounding factors. For example, imagine that a particular market buying power is dominated by mostly people of culture A, they have the money, but as someone of culture B, you might not be able to understand or relate to that market and thus fail to appeal to them, meaning your business will be less successful as an effect of that.

Another big question around culture would be historical, for example, if you include in culture say a tendency to be illiterate, or a lack of insistence on intellectualism or education or reading, etc. It is possible the historical context influenced such a culture and did so unfairly.

My point basically is that first I think it's very early to really advance that the cause could be cultural and there are many other possibilities just as likely if not more. And even if culture is a factor, it's not a justification, and we should still strive to address the unequal opportunities it creates.
Neither of your two statements are true. Plenty of organizations have dead weight, particularly larger ones. Some universities exclude people based on ability (particularly those who market themselves as elite), but not all -- after all, formally a university is an institution for advancing knowledge and historically had have plenty of below-average intelligence noblemen.

No, the real issue with "ableism" is the scarcity of resources or efficiency. Some people are just more efficient or capable at achieving particular tasks or goals. An attack against ableism is an attack against capitalism and efficient allocation of resources.
It seems you are assuming that software is usually written well, or as well as it can be. It's much more likely to be the opposite.
> Is there a specific term for the trade off of denormalized vs more easily query/shard/etc?

No, it's pretty much just called that. A good DBA will be able to strike the right balance between normalization and performance using their intuition and experience, which is one of the reasons they're often paid very well despite working in relatively ancient ecosystems.
It's $25K "over 10 years" - they are not going to spend all of it in a single year because then there would be nothing left.
Essentially saying that opinions you don't agree with make a website a shithole.

Not blaming you at all, but understand that's why many people feel like Twitter is a shithole.
> Mozilla doesn’t need donations. The $450 million it gets from Google each year is enough for a browser.

It really isn’t when you factor in Gecko and SpiderMonkey.

cue the armchair quarterbacks who think you can do all of this with 20 people
https://xkcd.com/1401/
While we have a lot of hydro power, the grid itself is not ideal. There are several regions which are quite constrained in terms of how much power they can import from other regions.

For example, recently there's been quite high electricity prices here (as in most of Europe) due to lack of rain. However this only affected the southern half of Norway[1], as the northern part had a fair bit of rain but limited distribution lines to the south.

There's been quite a bit of talk in the news about how much we need to spend to upgrade our grid for the future. It's not gonna be cheap...

[1] https://www.nordpoolgroup.com/Market-data1/Dayahead/Area-Pri... (compare Oslo with Tromsø for late September)
There are definitely more than just white males here because just about every topic specific to some country or region gets comments from people in that area and I doubt they're all white.

People of color around the world have opinions about race, gender, etc which I think would offend you. Some of their countries even have laws, language and cultural traditions that are completely against your own values.

Also, perhaps it's very difficult to avoid becoming reddit when controversial topics are present? Which comment forum do you think gets it right and what's their secret?
if you delete the key - the data is effectively gone
And at such polarized extremes. I see unironic communists post in worldnews about as often as any kind of conservative.
Fired on Mars
it seems like the current logic is to mix vaccines to create the most robust vaccine immune response, but depending on availability that may be easier said than done.
but in the chart, poultry is still 165.
BigQuery supports trailing commas in select statements: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq...
No, you only have to assume there are other proteins for the immune system to attack other than the spike. Which we already know is true, though it isn't clear if attacking them works, we know there is more than the spike protein in the virus.
IIRC, OS/2 was very popular with multi-line BBSes back in the day for its accessible multitasking on x86-based systems (x86 Unix wasn't really a thing yet), especially since you could run DOS in emulation. (Though there was a number of BBS software systems for OS/2.)

DESQview was the other popular software if you wanted to stick with something more DOS-based. (Running QEMM to squeeze the most of your memory was also a thing.)

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_BBS_software#MS-DOS_an...

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

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
Most of the examples listed are just like... stair vs ramp/escalators. Very little had anything to do with accomplishing anything academic.
14% of GDP - but a MUCH larger percent of exports. Also a quite large percent is indirectly from oil, i.e. oil related services.

Additionally social funding in Norway comes from oil - without that funding taxes would have to go up a lot.
What about the image is dirty? I don’t get it.
A big difference is that Norway is a sovereign state and didn't have to deal with federal and inter-provincial politics like Alberta did. I have my doubts about whether or not a federal government that has done something like the National Energy Program would allow a province within their country to hold a sovereign wealth fund worth hundreds of billions, or even over a trillion dollars.
My personal preference is (1) and (3). Buy once, cry once. Not buy and discard in 3 years because the battery is non-removable-for-your-safety™.
The 'traditional' i.e. non-RNA Oxford vaccine has somewhat greater risk profile than Moderna.
> Canada? Brazil? Heck the US for that matter?

Yes to all three. How could you have forgotten the colonisation of North America?
I think they passed the law precisely so that it would be blocked by a federal judge. Opens the door to a supreme court abortion case.
Unless the situation is nuanced. Which is pretty much all the time.

“Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance.”
"Please hold, your call is important to us!" ♪♪
There are some less scrupulous sites that ban privacy.com cards. Dallas Morning News is a recent one I ran into.
I had to google "mike hawk" before I got it.
Deep Neural Networks and Tabular Data: A Survey
On that page I see this:

> To change or cancel your subscription, please contact Customer Care.
They don’t want to get high on their own supply.
$450 million is 2,250 people on $200,000 salaries.

The pay rise the CEO took over the last five years is equal to an additional 12 engineers receiving the above salary.
I don’t know about cheaper, but Fuji, HP and photography related companies made disks.
Completely unrelated, but the SCSI versions made them pretty much plug and play with tons of hardware. There is an old Roland sampler I have made in ‘88 that uses one, and Zip disks leave floppies completely in the dust. It’s truly night and day on every level.
For some it's just opinions; text on a wall. For others those opinions have a major impact on their lives. It's with them everywhere they go.

These are not the same.
The J&J vaccine in the US was evaluated at 67% efficacy, vs ~95% for the mRNA counterparts.

Are those people then supposed to take the mRNA vaccines in addition, if not, why are people with natural immunity required to get an additional vaccine (among them J&J)?
I find myself wondering if this a parody:

> My biggest barrier is other people’s assumptions about what I can and can’t do. While I was doing postdoctoral fieldwork in Panama, our team needed to collect female butterflies from the rainforest. There was some scepticism about my taking part, because I wouldn’t be able to hike. I convinced them to drop me off by a river with a stool and some nets, and I parked myself by plants that I knew the butterflies like. I caught two females. The hikers caught only one — and were bitten by chigger mites and mosquitos. It was a great moment to flip life a middle finger.
Ask HN: Resources for learning about automated theorem proving?
I'd love to learn more about automated theorem proving! I searched online for classes to take, or textbooks to read, but I haven't found anything from the last 5 years.

Does anybody have resources they recommend for learning about this? I am assuming that something more up-to-date would be helpful here but if there are excellent resources from the past that I should check out, I'm open to anything.
What technique can lower the loudness of a sound at your ear without actually decreasing the intensity? Compression and appropriately applied delay can make a recorded sound seem louder -- are you suggesting AirPods do the inverse of that?

The principle of ANC is straightforward and the textbook definition doesn't involve any psychoacoustic tricks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control. You haven't given any reason to think AirPods are doing something fundamentally different.
so are they being put on leave for "challenging their vaccine mandate on behalf of Covid-recovered individuals with natural immunity" or because they refuse to get vaccinated in accordance with mandates?