skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I forgot a word there. Post now edited.

I meant, "when this COBOL gig ends", not "when this COBOL ends" which is what I initially typed.

I agree that COBOL will outlive a lot of these modern flash-in-the-pan frameworks.

However, the number of COBOL jobs will dwindle over time, and if I took a theoretical COBOL job today it's not clear to me that I would be particularly employable if/when that job ended. Particularly if I am unable/unwilling to relocate as I suspect COBOL jobs may be much less likely to be remote.

Whereas, in comparison, if one stays current in Ruby/Python/JS/.NET/Java then one's prospects would remain strong for the forseeable future. "Staying current" on the tech treadmill is of course its own special hell, but it is probably the safer road.

What happens in 1 or 2 years when the current
hottest new full-stack, mvc, reactive 3.0 whatever
is old and tired and you have to learn the new
thing? You learn the new thing.

OK, but how employable are you at that point?

It's going to take some significant effort to catch back up.

Perhaps more crucially, your resume is not going to be appealing to potential employers. If they're looking for hotshots in the latest framework, do you think they're going to look kindly upon a candidate who's spent the last X years working with COBOL?

There are ways to address that, such as getting up to speed in Trendy Framework XYZ and making some portfolio pieces, open source contributions, etc. But, that's not always a smooth road.
If you say "probably" doesn't that mean it is not really certain if it is that way? May be, may be not. Maybe probably 10 times faster?
If it's a strike then it 9 times out of 10 means the airline will have to payout for delayed and cancelled flights. I would imagine they are trying to spin this every which way possible to eliminate the inevitable bill that will need to be paid. Financials are probably out of whack too since covid so this situation could really cripple/break them.
Prepare for the energy spike as well...

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/coal
If we go beyond Econ 101, what scenario do you envision in 2021 where everyone gets money handed out to them and either (a) prices go down or (b) people get happier?

There is no practical way that handing out more money is going to create more resources. In theory there might be one, but in practice the globe just shut down percentages of the economy in response to the coronavirus. There are still policies in place where people willing and able to work are being mass-ejected from their jobs. Add money handouts to that and the only way to be surprised if prices go up is to be not paying any attention to anything economic.
I wonder if the government ever looks at the laughable compensation of its employees as a security risk. Every time I see salary numbers — even for very specialized and prestigious jobs — I’m shocked at how little they make.
That link reminds me of how stupid the US ethanol policy is.
Terrible headline for what is otherwise a very interesting article.
Enumeration and more - as far as i understood.

My evil website can no longer access the top secret stuff you are developing on localhost.

My evil website can no longer enumerate the http servers in your local LAN.
> Much of what K8S does is replace what you would be doing manually or by tying together many other tools yourself

So that's where it's wrong IMO, it replaces simple static site hosting/managers/etc, instead of having a single-click toolchain that takes your commits and CI/CD it properly, you now have to install and maintain that yourself manually.`
The rapid antigen test is considerably less accurate than a PCR test if the goal is individual medical treatment, but if the goal is public health, it's potentially more effective. Michael Mina makes the case for this persuasively in a recent UCSF Grand Rounds[1].

These tests could be made available at scale and cheaply, as is the case in many European countries, but we have chosen not to do that. This is a mistake we can fix, but it's agonizing how late we are - I was pushing my congresspeople to unblock it in January or February.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWDGNrOqQfQ
I’ve also seen plenty of web apps which load slowly because they load too much javascript. Most of it unused. I was asked to help out with one project my coworkers were working on where the bundler was pulling in multiple copies of momentjs, each complete with its own copy of the global time zone database. The page loaded way faster once we cleared that out.

A few years ago I noticed most websites just seemed slower than they should on my computer. The culprit turned out to be metamask (an etherium wallet extension). It was adding 700 kilobytes of javascript to each page load thanks to web3. It also exposed my etherium address to any website that asked.

The JS was cached, but just parsing that much code added noticeable lag to every page load. Everything felt zippy once I uninstalled that.
Indeed. I've got the Samsung QM43R which has a standard 60 Hz refresh rate at 4K, and also has a pretty good brightness, 500cd/m². It's not too expensive (€ 700 in Europe with VAT) because it doesn't come with a foot. But it's not too heavy so a good desktop monitor arm will do.

For office work, nowadays I especially pay attention to maximum sustained brightness.
Agree. My 4th year robotics course was 8-bit PIC assembly. They wouldn't let us use AVRs because they were too powerful.

Turns out that PIC assembly is super fun.
Are all these recent cease and desist letters the early sign of a company in its death throes?

One can only hope…
The BSDs manage to do it much better, in having a more cathredal like approach to the whole OS stack.
You and I are free to speculate as are lower quality publications less concerned with their reputation but the timing is insufficiently persuasive by itself and what we ought to want from journalism is sound investigation and factual reporting even if this necessarily lags speculation.

It might come to pass that the speculation turns out to be correct and people shall be free to call out the news for not calling it like it is but if it turns out wrong the same folks would be quick to call out the "fake news" I'd rather they be careful and I'd rather you interpreted such care charitably.

> if you don't support employees demanding medical freedom because they see through the corruption taking place, you don't need to fly on airplanes.

In place of arguing on the internet or at least in addition to I would suggest that I simply lobby my government to take away their medical freedom in service of protecting my life and my families lives. A minority of individuals may disagree but if the alternative is poverty almost all of them will ultimately take the measures that will ultimately protect them, their families, and mine.

We will win but ultimately so will they because they wont be in a hospital room suffocating on a ventilator. Seems like the definition of a win win.
> Why shouldn't google be able to paste ads for its products on certain searches?

Because their monopoly in search business is an illegal advantage for the other business they are promoting. (Not my words - taken from [0]). I guess it ends up being what one thinks of one business v/s others. For me, content search should be a different business from content creation.

App bundling is another area where I side with un-bundling, something Google have had issues as well[1]

I have no intention of trying to have a conversation regarding "regulating algorithms" and such, just that Google should compete fairly with other content creation and keep search business separate from others.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/MEMO_1...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/27/1040889789/google-eu-android-...
OpenSea: The marketplace behind NFT mania is just getting started
Basically all the things that EM's companies are working on: spaceships & solar system exploration, neuralink, humanoid robots. EM has perfect taste for what's cool and important in tech/engineering/applied science

Everything else is meh
ProxyStore
Agreed. Seamless integration with the print process is key to the success of the service. Thanks for sharing your experience and for the advice regarding virtual printer driver!
Read the studies, not the reporting on the studies. There are almost 70 studies now. Remdesivir had like 1 or 2?

All except a few show clear benefit for ivermectin.

Of course I can pick and choose parts of the data which shows it is not interesting. Read the OROGINAL. Read many of them! This fast food like referencing to scientific information out there is really damaging.

Here is a question though for all of you who think it does not work based on some articles etc.

Lets say the many docs who wrote those studies are right and every claim it does not work is fake/lie/stupid knowing the original data/studies and having experience with it.

My question is: could you digest that we live in such a society which does that for some weird (lets say unknown or any) reason, or you say, that is impossible in our society. I am asking, because what I see for months now, people are not discussing ivermectin but they discuss the fake discussion about ivermectin. Ivermectin cant work in mind of many, because their favourite storyteller told so and of course the mainstream went against it like a nuke, with similar articles like that.

Do these people know that there were multiple peer revied but later retracted papers which showed another drug, HCQ does not work, but later it turned out the authors/docs were OVERDOSING their patients 2-3x and claimed HCQ does not help but increases (late stage) mortality? I can show you ot is retracted. Why you dont know about that from mainstream media? Same applies to ivermectin.

One has to dig a LITTLE BIT and will find skeletons everywhere. This starts reading the original papers so you wont fall for it when a paper has a conclusion as “more data needed” translated in mainstream “no proof it works”. It happened with HCQ, but you only know that if you read the original.

Blatant lies around generic, cheap drugs, I am really really sad just a few people are willing to know the truth about them in these important times. Interestingly all the people who read these originals are saying the same as me. It is that clear.

We shall not fall for misinformation and propaganda… read the original…
‘Life Is Simple’ Review: A Blade to Shave Away Error
https://archive.is/bl8ao
Spam, the mother of all growth hacking.

It makes me laugh thinking about my time as a growth hacker. Reading these style of posts and thinking that there's going to be some hidden gem of dam buster that will unleash all leads.

Nope just spam. Spam will get you the results you need.
These tests are much less effective alone than vaccination.
More money in the hands of investors with the looming threat of increased inflation would lead to investors demanding higher rates of return for their investments at each step in the supply chain. And when the system is flooded with money, you can also expect companies to expand while the cost to borrow is cheap and for new entrants entering and attempting to grab a market share.

More companies or expanding companies vying for more raw material / services leads to higher demand from suppliers (hence the bidding GP mentioned).

There are likely other mechanisms in play too, and probably much simpler ones than this, but this was the first mechanism to cross my mind when seeing your question.
>This is exactly the line of reasoning which lead the free world into this predicament.

The predicament where an organisation can't offend 1.4 billion people and push an unstable region further into instability.

There are definitely battles that need to be had with the CCP, but this argument of semantics isn't one of them.
Profoundly narrow point of view to think your work singlehandedly raised a child.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_a_village
Many engineers would be very hesitant to devote their career to an organization that was shrinking/stagnating at all. In the 1960s, NASA was growing and at the center of the national consciousness. That had to be good for recruiting.

Since then, so much else has grown immensely while NASA hasn't.

I'm not sold on the lack of competence though. They were just flying around a helicopter on Mars. It mildly amused the public for a couple days, but you could certainly argue it's among the most impressive feats ever accomplished.
They are different but I think FOSS apps inclines to be privacy friendly and if there are some issue we can always fork it remove the code that phones to its home?

But I agree andriod being in hands ads company has really no incentive to be privacy friendly. Apple mostly selling hard generally have incentive to be more privacy friendly.
From the guidelines:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
But isn't this the exact point of operation, controlling and finance in any large corporation wants to find? Extract from bottom to the top until it breaks and then hope to steer back a tiny little bit and keep operating in that state?

Finance never did produce, it's whole purpose is to extract.

Run a gasoline engine to lean and it will start to heat and stutter...

As for the growth, in a peaceful society you can grow as much as the amount of people you supply, so without war there will probably no other way than saying goodbye to growth.
> I don't see political instability ever being much of a problem.

Constantly in the political sphere are candidates promising to forgive tuition debt because its so crazy, and politicians promising the government will cover healthcare because its so crazy.

We're not at political instability, but I think we're crossed over into "politicians have to solve this not because its a governments responsibility, but because people can't solve it so they're asking politicians" which is often the first step to instability.
The instructions are in the armoury.

cat cellar/armoury/scroll
This sounds like you're strawmanning the GP.
Abito Da Sposa Lungo Cerniera Cuore
Kath Kuni Architecture
If the cause is the military, why is southwest so disproportionately affected, and being affected in so many cities?

> “The problems weren’t concentrated in just one particular region. The cancelations affected the entire Southwest network. People living in cities where Southwest has a big operation, like Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and where I am in the San Francisco Bay Area, saw cancelations in the double-digits.”
Could add 'F' for frustration !
Either because:

1) Lack of service delivery

2) Lack of corrective action (i.e ignoring for months or years reported security holes)

Sure there are many more examples.
> A lot can be done in a billion+ years.

Indeed, to the point that talking about it in terms of what "we" could do about it in ordinary engineering terms becomes pointless.

A billion years ago, the first multicellular plants were beginning to move onto land; animals were still water-bound single cells who would have to wait another couple hundred million years to discover sex. Whatever life still exists on Earth a billion years from now will presumably be as far removed from us as we are from those ancient ancestors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...
Would you say the same to be true about any book you might purchase?
Facebook says it will ban sales of the Amazon rainforest after an investigation
My mistake, I linked the wrong thing. Here is the right one https://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-price... .
Also the name of a river and a bird.
I haven't seen that paper before but I've heard of similar ideas. It seems like it might be helpful, but I'd be wary of unintended side effects, eh?
Are you sure about "donated"?

My understanding is that Israel paid well above market to go to the front of the line, Japan is definitely paying for doses... do you have links to authoritative primary sources on this (e.g., not a news organization or activist group)?

(I don't know, so I'm actually curious here)
generally, prices are rising, which means workers will demand more money to cover their increased living costs or find an employer who will. (and if house prices are going up, rents are probably doing so as well, particularly as things like REITs have become a whole category of investment products.)

the overall effects can have pretty subtle origins but can ripple through gradually. the worst part about this is, if it happens long enough, inflation can more or less become a sustained expectation and grab a life of its own.
These days machine learning,blockchain, artificial intelligence, privacy, smart things just seems to be buzz word for trivial things. And in academia if students generally mention these words so that they can get funding. Also if you are going to join company you can say "I did deep learning for this or that to impress the interviewer"
For another anecdote, I just looked at my monthly grocery spending in the last 3 years, and there is no significant difference visible. Germany.

edit, to be more precise: I looked at January to September for 2019, 20 and 21, and the difference was < 100€ over that timeframe.
A non-deterministic Turing machine has the ability to choose "correctly" from a finite set of options. (This corresponds to search, which gives a nice intuitive notion that search can't do better than exponential time without knowledge of the search space unless P=NP.)
>why cant I import a few domestic helpers and just feed/clothe/house them

Slavery.
Q: Why do the vaccines need to be donated?

A: Because western countries hold patents on the vaccines and we prioritize profit over lives.
One aspect about this architecture, that I think it shares with some traditional Japanese architectures, that really strikes me is the modularity of it all.

These houses are built with the foresight that parts will break and need to be replaced bit by bit. Many western buildings are instead built to require either complete demolition or occasional, expensive rennovations
Pinboard “earlier”/“later” Button Functionality
Are the "<<earlier"/"later>>" buttons working for you? Clicking on <<earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks of <<earlier or later>> return that same page of bookmarks.

Tried on Safari & Chrome.
A dollar is worth far less than it was a year ago. Even discarding any other supply chain / production disruptions, things cost more because dollars are inflated.
Buffered ground.
What was Barinsta? I couldn't find any information on that.
Nice list! Scilab looks pretty interesting, especially the Simulink-like part.

I only wish there was something Python-based for Dynamical/Hybrid Systems.
> When have you seen a movie about the USSR winning the WW2?

No single country won WWII.

Saying so is nationalist propaganda which devalues and demeans the sacrifices of every other country.
And in this particular case the underlying text is visible even with naked eye.
> depressingly incremental step

Courts, by their nature, answer only the questions put to them to resolve a partifular case or controversy.
The conclusion is that because the approval process was expedited, the safety risks Moderna posed to under-30s were not discovered until millions had already taken it. I.e. these vaccines have gone through a much shorter time period of testing than previous ones.
It's an odd kind of donation though... Many of those countries are perfectly able to afford their own doses... But are blocked from doing so in favour of being given donated doses, that normally come with political strings attached.

Some would say it's a way for the west to buy influence rather cheaply.
Could it be more cost of living and less huge taxes? Income tax in Australia is nothing up to AU$18,200, but house pricing is remarkably high.

I think it will all come to a head soon enough, and housing affordability is just about the first thing I'd be tackling.
Kubernetes is a low level tool which should be used only at large companies with large teams to support it and build all the required tooling around it.

80% of companies building on top of kubernetes should just pay some provider to do it for them, or use higher level tools. The crazyness going in the DevOps/Infrastructure world is as bad, or worse, as the one going on in the frontend space.
Know Your Enemy: American WW2 Propaganda Film about Japan
Now I can tell if my "claimed-to-have-perfect-pitch" friend is lying anywhere.
Google's insistence on using security as an excuse to remove functionality that they want to keep exclusive to their products is so blatant it either is or should be illegal.

No local access kills Google Cast competitors as well as things like this (Nearby Share competitor), Android SMS limitations nearly killed most Android Messenger competitors, removing clipboard access forced people to use one of 2 decent Android keyboards to get clipboard sync back (one of which is conveniently enough developed by Google)...

I have not seen one single instance of Google killing some functionality for security that wouldn't have been easily implemented with permissions instead and that wasn't clearly designed to stomp out competition.
Earl Odda’s Chapel at Deerhurst
Yes the aggregate demand/supply model covers demand and supply shocks, which can correspond to inflationary and recessionary conditions.
Well you see, to be critical of a paradigm, for example modern monetary theory, you have to have a PhD in that paradigm. That’s why you can’t say that god doesn’t exist unless you’re a priest or a theologian. Makes sense to me
> websites that have noticeably slow javascript "startup" times.

Doesn't that just mean it can take a long time for the browser-application to download all of its scripts?

That can certainly take a long time but it depends on
1) The speed of the web-server(s) serving those scripts
2) The speed of the network you are connected to

So web-sites taking a long time to execute their JavaScript on your PC in the browser does not say much about the speed of JavaScript the language.

But it is a practical concern of course. Which brings to my mind the fact that JavaScript programs can exhibit extreme parallelism, because they can execute in millions of browsers at the same time, think SETI-search, or unauthorized crypto-mining.

So in practice JavaScript can have a huge computational throughput, in other words great speed, because it can execute on multiple clients at the same time, easily.
That's entirely false.

The AZ/British vaccine is being provided at cost

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/mar/28/astrazeneca...

> AstraZeneca is one of the shining stars of the pandemic. Not only did it produce a vaccine where other big players failed, the UK-Swedish company has pledged to sell it at cost until it is able to declare the pandemic over.

If countries still can't afford it they are being given away

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-begins-donating-millio...

> the UK has pledged to donate 100 million vaccines overseas by June 2022, 80 million of which will go to COVAX
Just needs a bit of creativity. There are plenty of “bedpost caps” and “espresso tampers”.
“Guys its not funnny to leak classified Documents of modern equipment you put the lives of many on stake who work daily with the Vehicles! Keep in Mind that those documents will be deleted immediately alongside sanctions. Thanks for reading!”

I always think it is amazing how many buy into the lifes at risk hyperbole. Even if we assume that the content in the document isn't already known to all the "players" in the field, how much "advantage" can be gained from the manual (I suspect if it really was that important they would not put it in the manual). Moreover, if leaking the manual really puts the lifes of the crew at risk, would not leaking also put lifes at risk, i.e. the one of the people fighting the tanks?