skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is valid; however, I would say that something being legally possible and technically possible are two different things. I think there have been several data breaches in the past couple years that have shown data to be kept or used beyond its assumed intended purpose.

Even if the company itself followed the law completely, there's nothing technically stopping a bad actor (internal or external) from doing whatever they want with it if they access it.
Show HN: A Hacker News mobile app with crowdsourced images and subtitles
I hadn't actually heard of it either, from one of the first results:

> This whole thing got started earlier this month, at the Talladega Superspeedway. Brandon Brown had just won a NASCAR race. And sportscaster Kelli Stavast at one point commented during an interview with Brown afterward how the crowd seemed to be chanting in his honor: ‘Let’s go, Brandon!”

>Unfortunately, that’s not actually what they were chanting. Not even close. The crowd was very clearly addressing President Biden, not Brandon. Only, with an f-bomb in front of his name instead of “Let’s go!”

Video: https://youtu.be/kQ8asiDn2_A

Source: https://bgr.com/politics/lets-go-brandon-the-backstory-of-th...
When? When will we see the stupidly obvious pattern?

When will insufferable idiots finally clue into the demonstrable fact that if it's possible, spooks are doing it?
That's not true. For example, in PostgREST we setup a nix-shell[1] that allows us to run tests in different PostgreSQL versions(from 9.6 to 14).

[1]: https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/tree/main/nix#working...
("in San Francisco") From 2005 to 2020 the estimated number of unsheltered homeless people nearly doubled, even as homelessness declined nationwide.

One possible explanation: California has become the dumping ground for the nation's homeless population.

We have a nationwide shortage of housing. Both in person and online, I continue to hear homeless people plan to move someplace relatively warm and dry while stuck on the streets.

California is on a short list of states with dry weather and the weather there is more temperate than, say, Nevada or Arizona. You can die in the extreme heat of summer in some of the dry states.

I don't think the mess in San Francisco is entirely due to local policies. I think the nation as a whole needs substantially more affordable housing.
> Well none of the push for mandates or vaccine passports or other such nonsense makes much sense if the vaccines don't prevent spread and only provide an individual benefit of reduced risk.

Perhaps you'd prefer overrun ICU units so people die of treatable diseases because nobody can find a bed?

Vaccines absolutely benefit everybody even if they just reduce severity but don't contain spread (and I don't concede that point).
Drink alcohol.
None of this matters. It is the responsibility of the operator to ensure the weapon is safe to fire. If the operator doesn’t know how to do this, then they shouldn’t be using the firearm—-go take a safety class. It’s the same thing as flying an aircraft—-the PIC is responsible for ensuring the plane is safe to fly, not the aircraft owner.
Yes. You don’t have a “right” to participate in modern society if it will make others deathly ill. You have the “freedom” to go build a cabin in the woods if you’d like.

Just get the damn vaccine. I’m not suggesting you need to run out and get the first ones off the production line if you want to be more cautious, but once half the country has gotten it there’s really no logical reason to be hesitant.

I also think we’d save an awful lot of lives if the flu vaccine was mandatory at least for K-12 children, at basically no cost.
I don't buy it. I have multiple times been served articles on my Google news feed about specific topics (e.g. dishwasher efficiency) that are orthogonal from my typical interests and that I had only ever discussed offline and never electronically in any form. I can think of no plausible explanation for this aside from Google obtaining audio that is ambiently gathered by my phone and feeding that back into their article-optimization engine.
Hate to break it to you bud if you heard that from a woman they were probably just trying to stoke your ego, no one has a "preference" for getting a bruised cervix
Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why?
According to the media and from watching my professional circle, it seems that many are indeed changing jobs with significant pay raises--the so-called Great Resignation.

I'd like to hear from HN about job changes and raises. Anecdotes are welcome, but ideally one of us works in HR and has systematic data.

But more importantly, I'd like to think through the reasons driving the Great Resignation. Below are several explanations with my own assessments.

1. People die from Covid, reducing the labor force.
-> Irrelevant for tech workers

2. People get large checks from the gov and are not pressured to find job.
-> Irrelevant for tech workers

3. People avoided changing jobs during the pandemic. So the high turnover now is simply making up for low turnover in 2020.
-> This does explain the high turnover, but not the significant raises. Indeed, the number of workers and jobs remains the same--people are shuffling between places. To be convinced of this theory, I'd like to see that raises are flat.

3. Senior workers are retiring early due to pandemic-related revelation. Mid-level workers are thus getting more promos than usual.
-> Seems plausible. To be convinced, I need to see mid-level workers getting raises, and entry-level workers NOT getting raises.

4. [My theory] Remote work allows better matching of people and jobs. Imagine that person A can deliver lots of value to company B, but is hitherto prevented to do so due to location. With remote work, Person A can now work for Company B and get paid higher accordingly.
-> To be convinced, I need to see that remote job offers have higher comp vs comparable non-remote job offers. If this theory is true, then the Great Resignation/Remote Work makes the job market more efficient, creates value for society, and should be celebrated by employees and employers alike.

5. [My theory] The pandemic pushes society forward in terms of tech adoption, making tech workers even more valuable than before.
-> Seems plausible, since tech has become more valuable as a whole (e.g. stock price), not just salary. If this theory is true, then it is again a good thing for both tech workers and the broader society.
Wow!! I'm one of those people - TIL about Sonobus. Thank you for that, because it's amazing, how-did-I-not-know software. With iOS and Android builds, too!
To quote the article:

"The reactions break the carbon dioxide into oxygen gas, as well as carbonaceous sheets which ‘float’ to the surface of the container due to differences in density and can therefore be easily extracted."

and

"According to the research team, the process showed 92% efficiency in converting a tonne of CO2, using just 230kWh of energy."
The same goes for the US. but there are always regional differences, the bigger point is that people are not just a simple lookup table, they can adapt to a personal assistant that only understands an imperfect understanding by changing they way they speak to the device. People will do this without even being conscious of it.
At my last employer, we lost a ton of engineering candidates to Flexport - it was frustrating because we'd try to articulate the scope of the opportunity, but some combination of what Flexport is doing and the recruiting process meant you guys would win every time.
Thank you for confirming!
This is like saying if all white dogs were killed, dogs evolved into black ones.
Really really difficult, and maybe not possible for many years to come.

Someone recently posted a link to Terence Tao on mathematical notation. Much the same problem. Notation is hard. Indeed I reckon notation is one of the most difficult problems we have.

That said, visualising Music is kinda like musicalising Art. Possible but not necessarily useful. Synesthesia is one way to deal with it, but is hugely reliant on very human perception and kinda iffy (not knocking those who can experience synesthetically, more suggesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_It_Like_to_Be_a_Bat%3F).

A general theory of correspondence of meaning and notation is still unavailable, notwithstanding a vast amount of research in the field. If you can make any useful contribution at all you are worthy of historical recognition.

I've been thinking about this stuff for decades, and can only recommend Charles Saunders Pierce as a good beginning for the modern mind.
The chain of things that has to happen for this to work is implausible:

1. The device has to record the things used by the always on mics listening for wake words somewhere, without any other developers figuring this out and sharing how it is done.

2. Apps, using a background task, have to monitor those recordings, run speech recognition, and pick out key words, without anyone identifying this process.

3. The apps then have send those keywords back to the ad network, without anyone ever sniffing the network traffic and seeing this process.

Other methods are similarly implausible, for example it is unlikely the ad networks would be able to get the audio off of the device for cloud (instead of local recognition) without researchers noticing. The only method that I buy for this is that open apps have a way to turn on the mic without the OS notification that the mic is on and share it while the app is open. This is still pretty unlikely (would not be hard to sniff for example), but more than the other options at least.
Shared/coworking space. But in my part of the world, the pandemic restrictions have mostly been lifted.
Doctors are expected to give medical advice while the US government is banned from policing speech. The analogy is fundamentally flawed.
Wild (in a good way).
I learned to program with C# back in 2007. I have been following .NET and C# for more than a decade now, I look back fondly at my time with the language and people there. However, if the team is having this much internal struggle why would I ever come back? Why would I stake my business on another Oracle when there are much better alternatives?
Well established scientific concensus.

If you're referring to anything related to Covid there's no well-established scientific consensus it literally just happened around year and a half ago it's impossible to have scientific consensus.

Even the most respected scientists are saying they don't know about a lot of things related to covid.

also well-established scientific consensus is not an ideal goal post .

Galileo was excommunicated.

Labotomies won the Nobel prize.

Nothing is certain in life when human beings are involved no matter how comforting that thought is. There is only a narrative of certainty.
Is your TV internet connected? Some have content fingerprinting technology to determine what you're watching shares that back to the ad networks.
Take up Argentine tango.
For how many topics and spoken words does this not happen for? You probably can't count them.

I don't think this happens because I don't think it's technically feasible. The hotword detection stuff that is always on ("hey siri", "ok google") is incredibly limited in vocabulary.

Maybe one day that will change, maybe it's even possible now, but people have been telling stories like yours since well before I know for sure it was technically infeasible to do it.
Also get some thumbtacks and red string and use it to create a real world relationship mapping between each person.
I’ve helped a lot of people with different types of issues related to software throughout my career without presuming to charge them for my time.

Coding is all about problem solving, which is typically the easy part of anything meaningful. Finding the right problems to solve is much harder.

I think the type of people that would be good mentors to me are beyond the point of needing any amount of money that would be reasonable to charge for their time. I think most people capable of meaningful mentorship, including myself, will likely be doing so for reasons other than financial gain.

That said I think getting coaching for various skills is totally valid, including coding. What I need, personally, is more about cultivating a healthy mindset about technology, strategy, and leadership. There are probably few people in the world that have something meaningful to say about those things.
If there was a story, why do you call it "the Hunter Biden laptop story"?

I mean, why does everybody call it that, rather than referring to it by the dastardly deeds that were revealed?

I just keep forgetting.
https://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/FINAL-PIT-R... is full of a lot of good data.
The only way I have cinnamon is in the bark form that gets added whole to flavor dishes. The bark itself doesn’t get eaten. I wonder what the problematic amount that way is.
> You don’t have a “right” to participate in modern society if it will make others deathly ill.

Everyone who engages in any social contact with others could potentially transmit to them a pathogen which proves lethal. This emphatically includes those who have taken the COVID-19 vaccines.
If there is no high speed how are people supposed to get in from out of the city in some timely fashion? You say better for neighborhoods and the city without considering all the outer neighborhoods that often house more people than the inner ones.
Lmao, so people wanting children to be able to cycle safely to school is communism?

>The risk of biking injuries is always present

Lol. Because nobody was ever injured in a car before. What do you think are the major source of cycling injuries? It's collisions with motor vehicles. You fall off your bike and you'll probably scrape a knee. You get hit by a truck and it's near certain death. Cycling is NOT a dangerous activity, it is a benign activity done in a dangerous environment. Obvious example of Netherlands, where biking is number 1 method of transport, and nobody wears a helmet, yet they have one of the lowest rates of injury, thanks to the fact they have great cycling infrastructure which separates vulnerable road users from vehicles.

>Cars are not the enemy

Maybe some people think they are, but of course that is not the case. But that does not mean that cars must be used for every trip that we do. We can recognize that certain means of transport are better suited to certain journeys. If you are traveling very long distances then it makes sense to fly or take a boat. Likewise if you are traveling short distances it makes sense to walk or cycle. What people want is the freedom to choose their own means of transport. They want to be able to choose if they want to walk, cycle, take public transport or drive and they want to use whatever method is most convenient for them for whatever journey they are doing. They do not want the government to invest all transport funds solely into roads for cars and design cities around cars making their use essentially mandatory. I'm sure the car lobby is happy that many countries decided to do this in the 70's and that the decision to do that had nothing to do with influence from them, but now people are starting to see that the government has essentially made cars mandatory and their freedom has been taken from them. Of course cars are not the enemy and they are never going to go away, there will always be journeys where cars makes the most sense from a cost, convenience and time perspective, and there will always be people who just like driving.

>Porsche's synthetic fuel will reduce CO2 from cars dramatically

People often focus on the cO2 emissions from cars when driving, but that is actually not the worst part. In fact, it is actually much better to keep driving your old petrol car for as long as possible instead of switching to a brand new electric/low emissions car, because there are significant cO2 emissions released from building a new car. Then there is the cO2 emissions from building roads. Building just 2 meters of road has the same emissions as building a brand new car.

>Claus Schwab

Not surprised to hear you mention this name, or Santa Claus as I like to call him. The new favorite go-to for conspiracy nuts nowadays.
This was actually illuminating
No idea.. I have no kids :) Not sure at what age they are capable of what. Of course I was also young but like I said in the Netherlands bikes are king of the road. And I lived in a quiet suburb.

It also depends on the area. If they'd just cycle to school in a quiet area it'd be ok more easily than if they have to cross roads like Passeig de Gracia, Arago or Gran Via, or some of the busier Rondas of course.

I rarely cycle here anyway. I mainly walk, I don't feel safe enough cycling. There's some cycle lanes but not in every street, and often not well connected, or they suddenly jump to another side (the ones on Diagonal tend to do this), mix with pedestrians etc.
What is the probability that one will catch COVID at all AND if one does, what is the probability of serious illness or death FROM COVID not with COVID? Spend some time on the CDC website and quit listening to bureaucrats, politicians and the media.
Easy way to understand statistical recall and precision
>One possible explanation: California has become the dumping ground for the nation's homeless population.

>I think the nation as a whole needs substantially more affordable housing.

And San Francisco will never be a place with affordable housing.

Modesto, ok. Manteca, ok. Not SF. No one ever thinks, I'm homeless, lemme go to SF and see if I can find something there.

It's political. Otherwise you'd see more homeless in San Diego than SF.
The general semiconductor shortage is likely to ripple upward to AMD even if AMD can produce everything without interruption.

Processors rely on a motherboard. Those motherboards have a lot of popcorn semiconductors on them. A shortage in any one of those cheap chips means no motherboard sale which means no processor sale.

Combine this with more people going back to in person (so less online) and it's likely that AMD is going to have a bit of volume hit.
pretty severe extrapolation of one minuscule data point to the behavior of a massive conglomerate. could have just been a bored child that set those spices that way
Since I moved out of SF I’ve wondered if there will ever be some public epiphany that with their well-intentioned policies they’ve reinforced what they most wanted to destroy: a society of the haves and have-nots.
Did Kirk have relations with non humanoids? The Gorn doesn't count :)
no retransmits - Opus handles a degree of packet loss pretty well. Not using FEC as it adds extra latency.
For what it's worth the subway is very safe in terms of violent crime. But pickpockets are a scourge yes. The problem is the police can only give them a fine if they steal less than 400 euro in value (see more info about that here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/14/woman-defends-... ). Even if it's their 5000th time. There's gangs of professional pickpockets.

They got me once and I've busted them trying a couple of times. Whenever you grab them they always just drop the phone or wallet and walk off, they never fight. But I did notice they always work in groups so they probably do attack if you get violent yourself.
The jester is basically spreading hate speech and harmful misinformation. There limits to iTs juST a pRAnk
Please no more CEOs running for president. The government is not a business.
> There's something about cyclists taking over the road that really provokes some drivers.

Every critical mass ride I've ever seen blatantly ignores traffic laws, particularly running red lights. I say this as an avid cyclist and bike commuter: drivers are right to be pissed at them (but not to do something dangerous).
OK let's back up. It's not even an open secret but just regular, acknowledged fact that this sort of result is the purpose of lobbying. Is the scandal, in this case, that the lobbying worked? Why are we particularly shocked about this instance and not many others?
Having a legitimately feasible way to do carbon capture is a Good Thing as we phase out coal fired generation.

If it can be retrofitted to existing generators, then at least they stop generating CO2 into the atmosphere.

There's been a lot of nonsensical "CCS" (Carbon Capture and Storage) where the "storage" is "somehow pump it back underground where it screws the water table".

At least this mechanism captures the CO2 into a form where not only is it potentially useful, but is also easy to re-store in a stable way, potentially back to the same coal mines the original fossil fuel came from.
Thanks for the feedback, I knew there was more to it bu it's interesting that's a later interpretation (presumably the didn't imagine the executive would have so much power).

The point I was making with the theorist stuff is this song falls right into prime Q, the government is killing us territory. If YouTube, years after giving those people platforms and building them up has decided that doesn't fit their values or the values of their advertisers that's how it works.

I'm just not sure that conservatives really want to die on this hill with Kyrie Irving and the flat earthers.
Eli was a great man and mentor. I miss him almost every day.
He had a slightly different line, but got executed if he crossed that one.
There are all kinds of caveats which is why I went with "likely."
Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted to Human
Anyone who wonders how SF keeps sliding further into dystopia, this is why. Because every negative consequence of their politics gets blamed on some other.
The Dark Side of Supporting an Open Source Project
Too many confounding variables. As vaccines increase immunity, protective measures such as mask wearing and social distancing and travel restrictions are dropped, increasing spread. There’s also the inverse effect where increased spread leads to higher vaccination rates.

Across different countries the testing methodologies are too different to meaningfully compare with.

Finally your last paragraph only applies if the vaccinated person gets infected with delta in the first place (in other words has a breakthrough infection).

95% of COVID-19 deaths are happening among the unvaccinated right now, you’re spreading FUD about what’s basically a miracle.
The original reference is this video of a "children's" book of the same title, read by Samuel L Jackson, for those who've never seen it [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb0t9TUNLpg
It's an interesting set of questions and as you point out, it's hard for me to narrow down to a single thing. I'm certain my social circle saved me, but my closest friends in high school were mostly from similar, or less fortunate financial circumstances.

For me, I don't think it was the curriculum or the socioeconomic background of the kids so much as the little sliver of hope it gave me/us.

It was the remote possibility that I just might be able to build a life that did not look like the adult lives I could see. A life that wouldn't be a decades long, living nightmare of hypocrisy, low-wage slavery, overwhelming debt and silent desperation, which is what I could see in most adults I had ever met, even (maybe especially?) the "wealthy" ones.

I'm not sure regular public schools generally offer that kind of possibility or outlet to basically hopeless, misguided (but creative) kids like I was. My previous schools only offered extra discipline in the form of regular beatings [1] which mainly just triggered and reinforced my lifelong distrust of authority figures.

[1]: I (wrongly) assumed corporal punishment had long ago been outlawed or at least effectively banned in Florida's public schools decades ago, but alas our government officials will never permit anyone to besmirch our earned reputation as an ignorant backwater. Corporal punishment is apparently still permitted to this day:

https://www.the74million.org/article/kids-keep-getting-hit-a...
He was removed when he wouldn't just give up power like a normal loser, but he sure as hell prodded them for 4 years and it sure as hell got him elected.