skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Alas, there are no signs that the current crop of covid vaccines are capable of the same (long term effective ) performance.

That's quite possible, and we'll know more in a few years.
Israel has good stats after a 3rd shot within 6 months of the second ( https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1444675839904210951 ), but we don't know if that will be the end of it.

However the saying is: "you go to war with the army that you have now, not the army that you want to have". We're very fortunate to have fairly effective COVID-19 vaccines within a year of the pandemic starting - in early 2020 we did not expect vaccines so soon. We should use them as well as we can. Dismissing the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for not being 100% effective or everlasting after 1 or 2 shots, when we still give 5 Polio shots, decades later, is lunacy.
Basically that's what Git-LFS does; it takes the SHA of the file, stores it in the git version of the file, and then stores the contents next to it. It's all transparent and works pretty well.
is it still profitable?
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...

The actual timeline of events doesn't match what you think would happen. They banned him and then used the threat of a lawsuit to get him to take down the extension/code.
They deluded themselves into thinking they could somehow obtain Chrome's market share by making Firefox more like Chrome. They threw the ten percent of users who loved what Firefox was under the bus in order to chase the 40 percent they will never, ever sway.

Remember when you could make Firefox look and behave exactly like you wanted it to? Because I sure as hell do.
https://youtu.be/3FxfXVuHRjM

Lego does indeed sink
A key differentiator between theosophy and the other ideologies you mention is that the former's seminary text includes the words inferior races with regard to certain specific "non-Aryan" races, and discussions on the spiritual poverty of semites compared with Aryans.
Many things can make my blood boil, but this thing was the topic. (cough whataboutism cough)

But yes people supporting near slave labor while also wanting UBI does make my blood boil, lazy fucks.

As does child-trafficking, bank bailouts, defense contract laundering, nepotism, etc.

Gotta have ice cold veins to counteract all that blood boiling bullshit in the world, dontcha.
I didn't know what Barbra Streisand's Malibu residence looked like, but now I do.
You don't have to wait. It's already here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_journalism
The difference is that the internet, at the physical level, is centralized through interconnects. In a way that radio transmission need not be.
Sustained political effort - in spite of the established rules. Every one of those people risked their jobs and in many cases their health and life fighting for those rights against laws and established order. People today want their cake and to eat it to. They want the people who made an economic exchange for their labor also let them do things that work directly against their "the purchaser's" interests. How about people organize mass strikes? Scared of losing their jobs? Too busy? Not enough time? The OG labor movement had all of that and dealt with violent opposition to boot. Maybe things aren't that bad and it's a minority whining? I don't know but something isn't adding up to me.

How about people decide to take action -- regardless of the consequences to themselves instead of worrying about maintaining the scraps they're fed in the process? Why is today so much different than yesterday that people don't want to risk their standing and their lives for their principals and expect it just to happen, to be given? All the whining is just theatre as far as I'm concerned until people start actually making the hard decisions and doing something at risk to themselves for what they believe.

Why do people seem so hypocritical compared to the people during those decades you mention?

The owners of Coinbase made a stand for what they believe in, I support that. Maybe the otherside of the table needs to take that collective action they talk so much about instead of talking.

Edit: And you know I'm not sorry but I just don't feel bad for office workers bitching about their jobs. I feel bad for the front line workers, in the stores in the warehouses in logistics and shipping. They actually have real gripes to contend with being physically worn down everyday yet we lump the person sitting in their office chair reading reddit for 8 hours with these people actually killing themselves to get you a package a couple hours sooner.

Note: This isn't aimed at you directly but very much what I feel is the superficialness of many movements today.
Ross Ihaka also mentioned getting rid of lazyness as one of the things he would do if he were re-designing R. Here is his presentation from 2017: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88TftllIjaY
If I exploit a vulnerability in order to crack their security and run my own code on Facebook servers, I've committed a crime.

Sending an HTTP request to the Facebook server is not a crime. Facebook code is still in control. It can ignore my request.
A sin or lie by omission requires intent, and the OP stated their intent was not to misrepresent the author.
Googling "Byzantine era anesthetics" brings up a whole long list of research papers and articles.

Apparently (from the summary of one of the articles) opium has been used as a pain killer for a very long time, and the Byzantines used laudanum.

https://rhm.sums.ac.ir/article_45640.html

Maybe they knocked the guy out with laudanum before the procedure, which would have made the whole thing much easier and far less unpleasant for the patient.
I love all things text mode.

For anyone searching for the Borland style text interface, it was actually called TurboVision, not BGI (which was a generic graphics library). TurboVision (and many GUIs of the time) largely followed the Common User Interface (CUI) spec by IBM for its interactions in text mode.

It is fair to say there was a lot of screen space devoted to borders and such, especially in 80x25 mode, but that helped make everything super clear and usable.
Thanks for making me discover org-roam.

> I don't take enough of them because of the effort involved in doing so

And then the effort of launching a GUI or a big program (so 1-5 seconds) just to retrieve a command or a line of text. With a (lightweight) terminal-based solution, you just grep the file or use whatever is available to find the information faster.
I wish. Gecko is open source, so there's no technical reason another non-Chromium browser couldn't be created (which I think is important for the web ecosystem, avoiding browser monoculture, etc.). I suspect that no one has really done it because it would be a terrible uphill battle and there's no direct revenue to be had. Browser money comes from ad/search partnerships, which require a strong existing userbase, or just the userbase itself in the case of something like Chrome.
Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists
No disrespect intended, but I really enjoyed reading this in Comic Book Guy's voice.
Relational databases aren’t dinosaurs, they’re sharks
Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
Texas can be proven to exist quite easily.
Proving the 2020 election was clean is a different matter.

But you probably know this on some level already.

“That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.”
I don't think we understand the true legal ramifications yet, of forcing an experimental vaccine on so many. We knew about the pericarditis, the myocarditis, the blood clots, and the autoimmune disorders, the deaths, they are well documented in VAERS, even if massively undercounted.

And yet, our political class did not stop

Then Delta emerged, and vaccine efficacy dropped wholesale. Work was made conditional based on jabs. Science became a mantra, but in actuality it was ignored as the strong evidence for natural immunity was silenced. Bigtech previcated, and floundered, attaching notes to obituaries and criticism. Disinformation replaced information, as vaxxes were pushed on those with de minimis risk of covid, the 18 year olds without co-morbidities with 1 in 5 million chances of dying.

And yet, our political class did not stop.

Now, other democracies with medical systems in many cases matching our own are halting some of the vaccine distribution. It looks like the Chinese with their attenuated vaccines definitely had a better approach. But there is still an active mandate in several sectors of the economy, and an unconstituional campaign to deny religious exemptions that will likely eviscerate employment. Nurses are leaving in droves rather than vaccinate, having seen the side effects up close and personal.

When will our political class stop?

I sincerely believe we are ahead of the curve on a wave of class action lawsuits the likes of which this country has never seen. Tobacco, Asbestos, and every other toxic substances could pale in comparison to the potential payouts from the deaths, injuries, and reduced longevity coming from these leaky, toxic vaccines.
Americans are so free that they have to pay $2,350 for the privilege of becoming non-Americans.
I believe that in a society that has free speech, there is a duty of the member's of society to exercise their free speech and disassociate from those acting unethically. Particularly for unethical actions that cannot be prosecuted due to the rights afforded to all.

Now while there are a lot of things that facebook probably can be prosecuted for, there are many things that they probably can't be. So I think we have an obligation to shame and shun those who act in reprehensible ways. And obviously in proportion to how culpable/complicit those individuals are.
Has anyone kicked the tires on Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster and care to give their thoughts? My initial foray into Airflow 1 met a lot of complexity that both Prefect and Dagster claim to minimize.
If Google won't enable AI-filtering AI, they'll become irrelevant, and people will migrate, just as they did away from Altavista.

I'd be surprised if Google didn't already devalue "content" created by GPT-3.
> There is an entire economy and ecosystem based on rewarding sinister web design. The complexity and resources involved in keeping pace with contemporary garbage while qualifying simply as a functional browser is too vast.

Yeah, HTML standards have basically evolved into a kind of regulatory capture that protects Google's browser. Even Microsoft found them too difficult to implement and meet user expectations.

> I don't believe we'll ever see an all around user-friendly, privacy respecting, well designed, functional browser. I'd delight in being wrong here, but sincerely doubt it.

At least if we rely on market incentives. I suppose we might see one if it's regulated into existence (e.g. European regulators forcing Google, Microsoft, etc. to provide browsers that respect privacy and provide functional extension capability for ad blockers and the like).
> Global minimum effective corporation tax rate of 15% for multinationals with revenues in excess of €750 million

> No change to the 12.5% rate for businesses with revenues below €750 million
Maybe that has to do with things like documents workflows, other meta information related to the applications.
I highly recommend John Romer's Byzantium: The Lost Empire. It's available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MkhUix6PNI
Web browsers should be able to handle all the major URL transport types, it's a new deficiency in Chrome.
Google's ranking team will obviously respond to this kind of page replication/variants if it becomes a common thing. What will be interesting to see is whether they favor it (because it gives searchers better more targeted and more actionable results) or punish it (because it pollutes the search results with near duplicates).

Perhaps sites will need to add a new form of cardinal url metadata to hint around this kind of customization?
> “If cryptocurrency exchanges want to be the banks of the future, we need to make sure people can have confidence in these systems,” she [Deputy Attorney General] said during an interview at the Aspen Cyber Summit.

You'll know Bitcoin has failed if cryptocurrency exchanges become the banks of the future. The entire idea behind Bitcoin is money without banks or the baggage they bring.

Ironically, the harder the US and other countries push exchanges - to tax, to fight the endless wars on drugs and terrorism - the more likely it is that users will implement the behaviors that will obviate the need for exchanges in the first place.
FAANG is not the tech industry. Are you saying every company has as large and international a recruitment pool as Google? But again, that’s what this convo is really about — the perceptions and prejudices that tech libertarians develop based on the perceived behaviors of less than 1% of employees at 5 tech firms. Hilarious.
Even cooler when viewed in motion https://youtu.be/XRawUKO2Qy8?t=5848
I've used it! My gripe is that I'm not fond of their async implementations, it blows up the code when I want to do something simple. I understand the tradeoff is there in order to utilize external hardware for bigger tensor applications, but sometimes I just want a thin API for n-dimensional operations... like ... well, you know what I'm going to say. :)
Commenting as an employee, with the account created for that purpose? It's not true what you're saying, but it's good that you're going that route. As I've said, I am a user of Pulumi, and you're doing loads of things good, just don't try to discard that you started as "TF under the hood".
Are you fine with corporate personhood in other respects, but not this one?
Understanding the Four Types of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Classified based on their functionalities.
I wrote a custom script for myself about two years ago to do the exact same thing! It’s still publicly accessible in my GitHub gists. I had no idea that others will find it useful.

I unfollowed everyone. Then I added a selective few to follow. I have tweaked who I follow and who I unfollow over the last two years to give me a balanced news feed that I enjoy. Basically twitter behavior but on FB.
I plan to give LibreWolf a try.
It might also work in a sense that FB has less qualified engineers than they would otherwise have. Which would cause their quality of service to be less, hopefully. Which would provide some advantage to their competitors, and/or annoy some of their users into leaving.
The difference between traditional union organizing and the social justice crusaders here is that the unions were fighting management to improve the material well being of the workers. They wanted more sick leave, higher wages, etc.

The present-day crusaders are attacking their fellow employees (who disagree with them) as well as customers (trying to get customers who disagree with them dropped). They are most certainly not fighting management. Management gets involved in those cases where it tries to stop one of the crusading employees from harassing another employee or customer, at which point there are demonstrations to try to get the enemy coworker or employee dropped.

That is why this is not at all like the unionization efforts of the past.
OAN is Vampire media. I'm stunned to learn ATT is involved with them.
I've run into that too. People attach a lot of value to version numbers, even for internal projects/releases, and it's hard to get their perspective shifted to just accept it as communication tool (e.g. semver).

There's nothing special about 1.0.0 vs 2.0.0, it just means there was a breaking change and you may need to do some work when upgrading.

And a major, awesome feature might get released as 1.15.25 -> 1.16.0, that's OK. (marketing hates this)
Closed source?

What kind of data they'll suck in order to monetize the browser?
> Count me along the people who got started programming because there's a button right there telling you it's possible to make the machine do your bidding.

This exactly. Every web browser has JavaScript, but there's no button to press to bring up a tab with a simple, easy to use JavaScript programming environment (e.g. a canvas, console, code editor, demo programs) with a link to beginner-friendly tutorials and documentation.

The button + tab would be easy to make, though tutorials/documentation would be a lot more work.
Completely depressing looking back at this thread and realizing that Hacker News has an issue with users holding advance degrees. I expect this jealousy and hatred from sites like reddit and Facebook, it should not be tolerated here on HN. This is NOT ok behavior especially from the amount of work these graduates and institutions have pushed into our fields. There is a complete lack of respect here and it shows.

You are not an engineer if you did not flow through an ABET institution. You're a developer, nothing wrong with that but you're not an Engineer. No, I do not care if your company has other certain titles, those are easily made up and have no academic backing.

This behavior we're seeing here is the same as if I pretended I was an MD after taking a first-aid-class. It's disrespectful to those that put in the effort to expand our academic understandings and our capabilities for others to turn around and then pretend that title is their own.

It is not.
The thing I hate about this line of thinking is the supposed "distractions" of being mission-focused are nearly all related simply to basic rights/dignities for marginalized groups. I don't think anyone is saying companies need to take a strong stance on every political issue, but merely saying "we as a company believe the lives of our Black employees matter" or "we as a company welcome and accept our LGBTQ+ employees and don't tolerate anyone who doesn't" are just...basic things you need to do in 2021. They aren't a distraction, I would say not saying them is a distraction.

In all of the discussion around the blog post from Armstrong last year and the similar discussion around Basecamp, I never once saw an example cited of these so-called distractions from being mission-focused that wasn't just affirming the basic dignity of a group of people. I don't understand why doing so should be controversial. Anyone who doesn't fully and unambiguously support the right of Black people to not be killed randomly and of LGBTQ+ people to exist simply doesn't belong in polite, modern society. How is this controversial?

I simply cannot imagine working at a place that doesn't recognize the humanity of their workers. Utterly baffling and heartless mindset.
SELF-policed.
Checkout great expectations (https://greatexpectations.io/). You basically run assertions on your data. It auto-generates documentation for you and you can also store results of your validations in a flat file or database. I think there are dbt modules that try to mimic great expectations' validation but I like the docs that come with great expectations
> I enjoyed your post until this sentence.

Why? The problem with complaining (such as in an echo chamber like HN often is too) is that it is a way to vent frustration, taking the pressure of an issue. So in a way complaining actually helps the ones you are complaining about.
Ah my bad re: BGI vs. TurboVision, my memory from those days is quite fuzzy!
There is plenty of ISM spectrum for people to use however they like.
I add a letter to distinguish between updates made on the same day: 2021-10-08a, 2021-10-08b. So far no one has been so quick with updates that I've gone past z, but I'll have my y2k moment someday.
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3/ One of the biggest concerns around our stance was that it would impact our diversity numbers. Since my post, we've grown our headcount about 110%, while our diversity numbers have remained the same, or even improved on some metrics.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Reddit is at scale a sentence like this often means they’ve established a dominant monoculture and squashed out the ‘annoyances’..
Does that include the engineered quasi-mRNA in the vaccine, that was specially crafted to evade certain types of degradation?

The vaccine is not and purposefully does not act like normal mRNA. It's not even made of the same 4 building blocks.
>forcing an experimental vaccine on so many

I'm not aware of an experimental vaccine being forced on anyone, can you provide an example?

Back when all vaccines were operating under an EUA and were experimental, there were zero vaccine mandates.

After a vaccine was fully approved and shown to be unequivocally safe and effective, it was then no longer experimental. Mandating vaccines that are shown to be effective and safe is as old as the USA is as a country, and this is no outlier.
No but there are no fewer than 56 landraces of at least 3 root vegetables.
All these forks will die because even firefox, a well organised OSS project is struggling

That leaves Edge, Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi

Because you even mentioned them, I don't think you understand the question. Let me rephrase it: who will develop, and have a sustainable business model for a new browser engine and break Chromium's monoculture, other than Firefox?
It does work, but it has to be truly pervasive. If it's 1 out of 9 personal interactions that the person might have, the very proportion becomes a self-justification: "if it really were that bad, why don't all those people bring it up?"

But e.g. you don't see many people openly self-identifying as racists anymore.
I'm not GP, but I did work at Facebook until just over a year ago (two teams over ~3.5 years). For practical purposes, impact means measurable change of some metric(s). That can be latency, reliability, number of interviews done (really), efficiency, whatever. In theory non-measurable impacts are valued too, but in practice only if your boss and their peers org-wide who participate in "calibrations" are sympathetic. It's an uphill battle TBH, and not unrelated to why I left.

And yes, everybody games it. At the end of every half there's a flurry of "brag posts" about everyone's impactful projects. Better braggers get better results. Sometimes the metrics and measurements and analyses are pretty obviously suspect, but who wants to be the one to say so and never get positive feedback on their own review from that person or their friends ever again? Again, it comes down to consensus on whether the claimed improvements are real or not.

I was in infra (storage) so I don't know how it might be different in more product-oriented parts of the company. However, when the fundamental philosophy behind measuring and rewarding impact is questionable that sets an upper limit on how good things can be over there.
Yes. It is a simple Google search away.
> Then Delta emerged, and vaccine efficacy dropped wholesale.

This is bollocks.

Pre-Delta, if double vaccinated the vaccines are about 95% effective against severe illness and death. Post Delta, about 92%.

That's still incredible, and actually pretty high as vaccines go.
Backlash against is not warranted. Why would you say that it is?
> the more likely it is that users will implement the behaviors that will obviate the need for exchanges in the first place.

So double ironically, the US cracking down on Bitcoin, is good for Bitcoin.
At 20 I was interested in HAM radio. I went to a meeting at my university. Meetings were entirely five retired engineers talking the whole time, that was boring. There was one other student, who was the president. When I asked questions about radio and RF, they recommended I go to the library to look for books. I felt that I really didn’t need to spend an hour of my time to have them tell me that. I went to one other meeting, but I had school and work taking up my time and realized attending was not worth my time. I hope the community has improved since then, because it was not inviting to young people when I wanted to get involved.