skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Finland, Sweden and Denmark have already banned use of Moderna due to their findings of it increasing myocarditis, but it's still unknown if other vaccines have a high rate of this side effect.

Good to see other countries investigating this too.
From the article:

> When he worked in a call centre, he would mute the phone, rather than answer it.

Call center employees are heavily monitored, and have a lot of metrics, like number of subscriptions or whatever is relevant. Color me skeptical.
Dense Vector Embeddings for NLP
I had the same feeling. I now use Organic Maps which I find much better.
AWS SSO [1] negates a lot of that pain, but still won't let you have two accounts open in the same browser window. You can use email/password logins or a SAML source like Active Directory.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/single-sign-on/
It's very noticeable that all of those have an actual market, whereas if you want a reactor you have very limited choices. Nuclear power is more like the F-35, where the job of the contractor is to establish it as a "national necessity" and then bill as much as they can get away with while prolonging the programme, because there's no realistic competitors.

SpaceX made the product on private money and then sold it to the government once it could be seen to work.
On understanding dopamine, FWIW, I recommend two excellent resources: one is Robert Sapolsky's 720-page tome, Behave—he gives a robust intro to dopamine in the second chapter, "One Second Before", and expands on it further in the book.

The other is prof. Andrew Huberman's podcast. He recently did a 2-hour episode[1] on dopamine. The segment on smartphones and how they alter our dopamine circuits starts at 01:15:28[2]

[1] https://hubermanlab.com/controlling-your-dopamine-for-motiva...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmOF0crdyRU&t=4528s
Well contrary to what Republicans believe all the great things America has done have been funded by the Federal government.
It was obvious from the start that all this NFT market is pure nonsense, but it is nice that someone takes time to clearly explain why. Maybe it'll save some innocent souls from losing their money.
How come? The fastest GPU in scallion's README has hash rate 11646 MH/s. To brute-force a 64-bit key ID at this rate you would need, on average, 50 GPU-years.
Note that Linux demos typically use much smaller x86-32 instead of modern x86-64 as in the article.
It's not just desperation, wealth disparity has also contributed to the erosion of any value that used to be given to where the money comes from. The spectrum from speculation to gambling used be be linked to a certain kind of stigma (more so for straight up honest gambling, but also for speculation), these days it's more like "hard-earned? you got no-one to blame but yourself!"

And how could it not erode? It's difficult to take pride in your hard-earned cash when it's all coming from a stack of advertising media fueled by advertising media, as if all the way down.
You don't insurance to protect the car, you get insurance to protect yourself, i.e., liability.

If you do an oopsy, and someone dies or even ends up in a wheelchair, how are you going to pay for the resulting lawsuit otherwise? Covering repairs is just an added bonus on top of the CYA.

Also consider if you end up in a wheelchair or quadriplegic: what happens if the person who hit you is a deadbeat driving around without insurance? Do you think you'll be able to extract anything out of them with a standard lawsuit?

Do you have general life insurance with critical illness coverage? Do you have any kind of income replacement policy?

* https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/01041...
I wonder how this stacks up against asyncpg?
Speed of a SPA without having to write JavaScript
> What is not supported is a git frontend to the internal VCS. This is mostly due to the fact that support of any additional tool required staffing, so only a limited number of configurations/tools can be supported.

It's super weird to me that Google wouldn't staff this. Given how much of the external world uses git, I would have thought that keeping new hires productive would have made this staffing requirement a no-brainer.

But what do I know, I don't work for Google. I'd be super interested if anyone knows why this is the case, though.
Where by "look outside" you mean "read headlines in Murdoch-owned newspapers printed in the states and talking about Europe"?

Yes, high gas prices partly caused by political shenanigans totally made me thankful that we hadn't moved faster to electrification and renewables and instead dragged our feet for so many years because of bogus fears that renewables would be ruinously costly and not even work and kill all the birds etc. Well done to everyone who contributed to that propaganda effort.
Extra ordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence to warrant the effort. A single generic social spending figure doesn't meet that.

Why won't you just provide a single respectable, non-lobbyist, historian/economists that supports your claim?
> and banned for 2 years from touching school computers for net send shenanigans

Ha, yeah I got banned for using net send as an IM app with friends too. There were a couple of us in my school who were skilled, enthusiastic programmers - it is kinda stupid that the punishment they decided on was to prevent us from being educated :-/
I agree it's not an argument for bitcoin. Whether bitcoin is a net positive environmentally or not is a different debate. I was just emphasizing how people point fingers at Proof of Work without considering the immense negative environmental externalities generated by the current fiat system.
Any evidence that a significant fraction come from those? It'd be incredibly easy to prove if that's the case and I only ever see guesswork rather than Blockchain analysis behind those claims.

Moreover, most of the big NFT investors seem to have a long history and as far as I can tell are often just collectors who are already rich from crypto.
User interface and modes of interaction. Current patterns still revolve around 2D content and laser pointers. We don't have decent user interfaces built around handling "physical" objects. The HW is quite diverse and it's hard to build for. Accessibility design is not yet explored (most applications just assume you have two fully functioning hands).

For locomotion around larger VR spaces, the teleportation is current state of art. The academic community has worked on "redirected walking" which makes best use of limited real space and distorts the 1:1 relationship to make wide VR areas reachable. It is still not widely used and allegedly causes nausea with users.

Big companies are also working on tele-presence being as natural as possible, with eye tracking and mirroring of facial expressions. Facebook is trying to tackle uncanny valley problem with cartoonish avatars and it seems to be working well.

Most of VR/AR development happens within walled gardens and this is preventing cross-compatibility and wider reach. Sony's PS5 force feedback controllers would be amazing for AR/VR tactile interactions, but patents make this impossible.

There is also the ethical danger of Big Tech spying on people through cameras, of filtering the AR camera feed for their purposes, of detecting sub-conscious tendencies through eye tracking, and subtly rewarding users when they make desirable choices.
I used to be a Software Engineer, but after only a few years sitting at a desk I realized I wanted time a lot more than I wanted money. So I made a choice and left that life.

Since then I've spent 5 years driving through 55 countries (Alaska to Argentina and Around Africa). I've gone on week-long wilderness moose and bison hunting trips near the Arctic Circle, I've played a lot of disc golf, snowboarded many 100 day seasons, hiked for thousands of hours and generally enjoyed a huge amount of "free" time.
I've poked lava with a stick, climbed a 20,000ft active volcano, gone skydiving, got lots of SCUBA certificates, had to veer off road not to hit lions and elephants and met all kinds of interesting people all over the world. I've also published a couple of books and achieved a few life goals like speaking on stage at major events, getting published in magazines I highly respect. All of that was only possible because I had the time.

Of course, I have way less money than I did before. I've spent 6 years of my adult life living in a tent. I've never owned a new phone (actually I've never really had a phone), no tv, basically never buy anything new at all.

I'm also about a thousand times happier than before.

We all have a limited number of hours we get to live, and how you spend them is your choice. I find it's most heavily constrained by how you choose to spend money. If you choose to spend less at every opportunity, that means you'll be able to work a lot less. Find ways to find enjoyment and fulfillment that don't cost money - i.e. a walk in the mountains or throwing the Frisbee instead of a day at Disneyland or going to the movies. These days I "work" something like 10-20 hours a week on my own passion projects, which provides enough money for the lifestyle I want to live (for the last 8 years I've earned around $15k-$20k a year, total)
Thanks for sharing your experience. Let's hope the immigrant residents of the USA can help reverse the current trajectory. Those born in America have not seen how the current movie ended elsewhere.
Projects were moved to the .net foundation organization. The .net organization obtained administrative authority on those projects without asking or notifying their respective owners.
The rest of the article does go on to talk about more reasonable examples of people deciding not to go back to jobs, but I agree the Author would have been better served without 'Gavin' (from a credibility perspective).
This is useless grandstanding anyway, you can just get a P.O. Box and fill in that information.
> how did the Guardian get Gavin as a source?

Typically it's a friend or acquaintance of the writer, and that inspires the writer to pitch the story and they're incentivised to do so to get paid.

> Finally how did he manage to stay employed when pretty much everywhere nowadays does some sort of standup where everyone sees you had a ticket that was supposed to take 2 hours and then you took a day, and then the next, and then the next. At some point fairly quickly it becomes obvious you real slow.

Yup, that's a surefire recipe to get onto a PIP within a few months. But maybe he doesn't work in tech companies but at some large corp doing some silo function and the expected work is just low enough for this to fly under the radar.
This is still a common prank at work on win10 pc’s
College cites ‘scientific racism,’ renames Linnaeus building
Yes, I did wonder about this. The call centers I've been exposed to would notice in a heartbeat if you weren't picking up the phone at all.
ServiceNow had (still probably has) something called inbound actions.

This is people clicking on mailto: hyperlinks in servicenow notification emails to do stuff like approve/reject a service request or reopen an incident ticket.

You can go beyond this functionality and build any workflow to be triggered after consuming an inbound email sent to client@servicenow.com

I am sure there are a number of email based integrations built using this especially when the upstream application didn't speak API but could do email.
Your Side Hustle Isn't a Startup or Is It?
Yes he does. The answer is right there in that link.
Remember JavaScript before "async"? Lots of boilerplate there. You had to wait until some committee decided to incorporate it into the language.

So "modern" languages without macros have such patches every now and then. Still, it's easy to find boilerplate in programs.

The reason is that a lot of boilerplate is specific to the program's domain, and you're left with cumbersome syntactic patterns and no tools to abstract them.

So yes, you need to learn how to write macros. But, assuming good taste, the simplicity is in their use, not their definition. It's a good tradeoff because macros are used much more often than they are defined.

By the way, the language introduced by a macro often allows arbitrary Lisp code to be mixed with it. The example did not demonstrate this, and that's why you had an easy time thinking up a non-macro alternative (which still has some unfortunate implications, like needing to interpret at runtime).
I also get a distinct whiff of BS off this part of the article.
This has to be a key factor. Your average 20-something has terrible life-prospects. If they have a little political nous they will correctly deduce that their parent's generation stole their wealth and wellbeing (through a house price bubble, destruction of pensions, wages growing slower than inflation, climate crisis round the corner, student debt coupled with credential inflation, national debt, privatization, knee-capping of unions, a ruinously expensive military-industrial complex, etc etc).

Could you blame them for thinking that anyone who works for a living is a mug, paying for the lifestyle of kleptocratic boomers? Cryptocurrencies provide an emancipatory (and entirely false) narrative. Why not gamble, and try to defeat the system?
While I agree NFTs are dumb, argument that they are scum is weak. People pay for all kinds of dumb things, like penny stocks or collectibles.

I am sure there can be people that pay for database entry and are happy with their purchase.
Including many native English speakers.
Same here. I can also recommend :

- Organic Maps which is cleaner than Osmand

- KeepassDX for password management

- AntennaPod for podcasts

- I have a Tutanota email address. Their app is fully open source, downloadable on FDroid's main repos.
How Can I Get the Oil and Gas Industry Phone Number List?
People sometimes mistakenly knitpick my jokes, but I always put it down to writing too much purl.
Well I suppose you can assassinate nuclear scientists, bomb the shit out of the facilities, and withhold development aid and necessary technology regardless of whether you have nuclear technology. Once bombs are on the table, boundaries are out the window.

I can't tell to what extent you're being sarcastic. Your final sentence seems to have suffered during editing, but I gather you hold it as absolute that no unstable regime should have access to nuclear power, and that it is impossible to determine the difference between the risk of an unstable regime and a stable regime holding nuclear power, from which I infer that you hold it absolute that stable regimes should also not have access to nuclear power.
Are you seriously saying that someone wanting nuclear power is legitimate grounds for war? If you were the leader of some country that would have about a 50% chance of success, would you declare war on Australia, now that they've announced they intend to pursue (limited, though surely particularly risky) nuclear power?
not sure if Americans make the difference
Not 100% true, FWIW. I've had scenarios, even recently, where our insurance offered two options:
1) Take it to an approved shop for a full repair
2) They send a check for the estimated repair value to me, and I do whatever I want, which could including pocketing the money and living with the damage.

Granted, "living with the damage" would probably not be feasible in a meteor impact scenario, but for lesser damage it can work.
Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine services down many hours (so far)
Google wrote a book about it. It's free to read. https://sre.google/books/
Distributing Alert Messages from Grafana with Webhooks
Rich (for formatting) and textual (for TUI) from Will McGugan are great libraries:

https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich

https://github.com/willmcgugan/textual
Interesting. Have seen a lot of these kinds of apps. Contact syncing. Payroll syncing. E-commerce / web stores.

Time and attendance would be a new one.

Tho, many of these apps already have integrations to Xero (et al) to do exactly this, turn time entries into invoices. So what value prop are you providing on top of that?

There are usually workflows & edge cases to optimise for. And some of these integrations don’t get the love they need to thrive.

Reach out if you want to get certified with Xero and get listed in the Xero App Store. Can help. (First).(last name)@xero.com

Good luck.
Pro: You can blame your cloud provider when it fails.

Con: The biggest public clouds are extremely expensive if you want good performances.
This is a great explanation. I know people who "bought"/"named" stars. Never understood it. And NFTs are this.

You don't own the thing you think you do.
The maxim "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" applies (sort of).

Just because it's nonsense doesn't mean that a bunch of people aren't going to make significant amounts of money before it fades away.
We are born into a system we didn't choose. We can however choose to embrace it, to reject it or to manipulate it to our own ends if we spot inefficiencies to exploit.

This may not seem fair to those who embrace it, but Gavin's point is that the system doesn't present him with a fair choice.

We may not agree, but philosophically this seems to be a sound position, especially since the cost of rejecting the system is extremely high.
But this isn’t NFT? I was hoping for an analysis on methods and volumes in the whole ecosystem.
> You're buying an expensive entry in someone else's database

Nope, you're buying a non-fungible token on a public ledger where the data and association with a specific address (or addresses) can be read without permission. This ownership and permission can then be moved around (potentially for large sums - potentially for near-zero amounts) by means that are independent of the client used. So for instance an NFT could give me access to an exclusive Discord channel (the client here being a Discord bot) and I could potentially sell or otherwise pass that onto someone else who wants access. The ownership of that token could also afford me access to, for instance, buying another token on another smart contract (the client here being another smart contract).

That they are commonly linked to metadata associated with JPEGs is really missing the opportunity here.

Furthermore, since everything's on a public ledger the much-stated money laundering is surprisingly difficult. And in fact multiple people have been caught out by this (a simple example being one of OpenSea's PM's wallets showing that they were frontrunning; another is VCs front-running their portfolio companies' air drops). That NFTs are often exchanged between bot accounts and multiple wallets (often tracked back to known individuals) to pump prices is also well-known and visible on the blockchain.

Whether or not you think expensive JPEGs are 2020s' Beanie Babies, it's hard to imagine a programmer on HN not being able to think of interesting non-JPEG things to do with an open source, public and permissionless ledger/database.

EDIT: disclosure - I have some JPEG NFTs. They weren't super expensive to me but I bought them so I had skin in the game that forced me to investigate this market rather than shouting "but money laundering!" from the sidelines. I'm glad I did this. Via getting into the weeds I've discovered a vibrant and super interesting ecosystem of developers, entrepreneurs, cryptographers and opportunities I'd never have known about otherwise. Are my JPEGs worth it? Doubt it. But the experience has been super interesting so far.
Machine Learning and Dreams
When you buy an expensive piece of art, you often never physically see it, and a warehouse just notes that it belongs to you instead of the previous owner.
What does a construction failure have to do with our authorities?
Web 47.0.

When I see the version numbers I know some form of bullshit self promotion is right there. Traditionally this marketing (stupidity) applied to nonsense in the advertising and social media space. In the case of AH I can see it applied to crypto as Andreessen was an early advocate for bitcoin. It’s like marketers need some form of extended technical credibility applied to what is otherwise an empty finance/investment scheme regardless of the actual underlying product.

Let’s not forget that originally the version numbers described new approaches to the technology: Web 2.0 for SaaS and REST, Web 3.0 for semantic data technologies.
That's a good point! I didn't think about either of those issues. The second one raises the average team's chances of such a spate of unrelated attacks significantly, if anything related to this formula could be said to be significant, because the increase in risk to teams in West Bengal and Ukraine is enormously larger than the decrease in risk to teams in Atlanta.
Having also not spent that much quality time with the hyperspec, even if I've quite enjoyed dabbling in common lisp from time to time, it wouldn't've occurred to me that the spec would explain 'why' as well as 'what'.

"Underestimating the hyperspec" is a persistent mistake on my part sadly, although I at least seem to underestimate it less these days.
Apparently they get enough done to suffice?
An alternative to doing less of a job you hate is to find a job you like doing. Easier for some people than others, obviously.
Right, but there are mixing wallets and private coins so why bother with NFT?
+1 for Temporal. Using in prod, its great
My concern is that this is only a temporary state, a symptom of employers who have not yet been well calibrated to WFH yet. When they become more savvy I fear they will find ways to make you work for the full 8 or 9 hours while working from home by giving you more tasks to do.
Odd. For some reason, my version of nasm didn't do that, and instead opted for the lengthier 10-byte instruction shown in the article's objdump output. Maybe it's just an older version of nasm.
The source it gives for the mortality of myocarditis is a paper titled "A clinical trial of immunosuppressive therapy for myocarditis" I.e. they were testing a possible treatment. The conclusion was "Our results do not support routine treatment of myocarditis with immunosuppressive drugs."

Referencing this as though it's the true mortality rate is woefully misleading. This is the mortality rate when using this experimental treatment.

In regards to the cardiac arrests and ambulance calls, it seems that the graph almost exactly follows the baseline, except for the two heatwaves. It doesn't say what the baseline is - I guess 2020 figures?

Edit: on further inspection - figures 1a,b,c are from a paper[1] and are showing an increase in cardiac arrest, unconsciousness, e.t.c. however this article ignores 2 graphs from the paper which show a decrease in chest pain and decrease in breathing difficulty, both of which are myocarditis symptoms.

I think this article is wilfully misleading.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
For whatever reason, American wolves attack people much, much less frequently than Eurasian wolves.