skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"3. If you force people to divest their portfolios before taking public office you will reduce the pool of people willing to serve."

Great! America needs politicians whom are not wealthy boys, and girls.
Pardon my French, but you're either a coward or bootlicker. There won't be any criminal prosecution for raising legitimate issues internally & putting those in writing, no matter what company lawyers tell you.

And if the most privileged and job-secure people on the planet can't take the risk of undermining their FAANG overlords for the sake of humanity, who will?
For completeness some of the theories included that paper ballots were tampered with, falsified, or not counted correctly.

Seems a little less outlandish than the idea that there was some vast conspiracy involving Trump and Putin to hack the previous election, but I guess that's not a high bar.
Exactly. It's pure greed, they will never stop. The only solutions are to make advertising illegal or technologically infeasible.
This is actually a different rapper, the article is referring to Bryson Gray. Either way, I don't see the medical misinformation.

https://genius.com/Bryson-gray-lets-go-brandon-lyrics
I mean, it is "their" democracy too. Also, advocating for corporate censorship is not helping to stabilize democracy, it is eroding one of its foundations: the ability of citizens to freely express themselves.
This is what I expected to hear. We had similar issues in the US with corporate tech when various financial regulations came down in the early ‘00s
Still have the issue of binary data encoding as well since the data will have those bytes in it so they need to be escaped vs a format that defines how to encoding binary as is efficiently (length delimited).
I am not so sure about the fraud claim. I once saw an add on FB and bought the product. I am still happy to this day and do not feel the victim to fraud. But I do agree it is odd society has allowed it to go on as it has for so long. Especially in the US with their constitutional rights and freedoms. People so worried the government will sneak the smallest peek but totally don’t bat and eye when some private company mines every detail of your life. Weird.
At least not without the attendant responsibilities. If we're going to treat companies like people, go all the way. When they commit crimes, send them to prison, i.e., make them fully stop any economic activity for years at a time.
As a European running multiple sites and services, you seem to have no idea what you're talking about. The EU rules are quite simple and easy to follow, and I love having real privacy protection from corporate interests.
It's very radical and divisive legislation opposed by much, if not the majority of the nation.

Blocking this type of radicalism is why the Senate exists. You saw the same thing happen during President Trump's administration, when an extremist tax bill was proposed, and much of the radicalism in that legislation was removed by the same senate, with the same howls about obstructionism being levied at moderate Republican senators from the GOP base.

Basically go down the line of the major legislative efforts and you see extremist stuff being passed by the house, and then toned down or dropped in the Senate. And not only legislative efforts, but the entire history of the two bodies, the Senate is usually the moderating force.

Thank God for the Senate.
> Another very funny thing people believe is that Google wanted to do "evil" things but their perfectly crafted plan fell apart at the last second when they realized that they have "do no evil" in their code of conduct.

Of course the CoC is not binding, but having that in there was a statement, which meant, roughly interpreted, "the impact of our work should not be net negative". The removal of the line itself did not change anything, of course, but it was a clear statement that this priority had been dropped. I think it's quite obvious why this is seen as not great.
There's also Minecraft NBT. It's a bit obscure but quite nice. https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/NBT_format
I think you are on to something. But is t that was hn is?
In Australia the rationale for a Vaccine Passport is because the unvaccinated are super spreaders.

Yet, the latest data out of the UK (COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42, Page 13) [1] shows that the double-vaccinated are around TWICE as likely to catch COVID-19 (and according to the CDC, the viral load of a vaccinated person is the same as an unvaccinated person due to the vaccines being systemic and not mucosal vaccines).

This leaves two possible reasons for vaccine passports;

1) To punish the unvaccinated for not taking the vaccine.

2) To reduce the burden on the health system. But in a country nearing 90% double vaccinated, this point holds less weight.

What are peoples thoughts?

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
In the context of this discussion, it is more useful for FAANG to mean any tech company or tech adjacent company employing a lot of software engineers with comparatively high pay, in the form of cash or cash + stock.
I think you misunderstand advertising if you think it’s fraud.
> Most of the nations where these kinds of restrictions are in place aren't in danger of getting their hospitals swamped to that degree.

Yes, but i'll tell you, the physicians are fed up (or at least the emergency physician i know is). Working in a hospital during the crisis was not pro-bono, but close. His 70-hour weeks for 6 week and his "vacations" (known as week-end for the rest of us) for the remaining of 2020 did burn him a bit. At least he got some "thank you".

Did you ever had a client (or a boss) that wanted you to implement something that you knew would create issues, and ignored your advices. You helped him anyway, mitigated the loss because you worked harder than your were paid to, even taking time of your week-end to help. He said thank you, but did not offer a significant pay raise. Then, 4 month later, the EXACT same thing happen. Do you focus on other client? Do you quit to find a new job?

I wouldn't be mad if my cousin refused to take care of Covid patients, especially unvaccinated ones. I know he morally, physically, can't but tbh i would've quit last year if i where him. I guess that's why i'm not in the field.
The fact that they’re suggesting we keep the Third Amendment (which is, for all intents and purposes, useless), but get rid of the rest leads me to believe it’s sarcasm. If someone was serious about “repealing” the Bill of Rights, they probably haven’t read it and don’t know anything more than the First and Second.
Ask HN: How to Reach a Human at Instagram
Hi HN. My wife's Instagram account has been deactivated and blocked because we moved and don't have the phone number associated with the account anymore. It's asking for the SMS verification code. All attempts to get help have failed, and many require being logged in. There seems no way to contact a human.

We're working with a friend back where we came from, trying to get the number back. It may not be possible.

Is her account of ten years just gone? She was slowly building up her audience hoping to be an "influencer" one day. The thought of starting over from zero is heart breaking for her.

Is there anything we can try?
I find that more often than not, addressing it the way I just did brings the comment back into discussion rather than just brushing it aside. No need for leveraging rules that may or may not be followed, sometimes an impartial and rational third party inquiring buys enough 'hang time' for an otherwise okay comment to reach more people before it is returned to the gallows.

If I may, for a moment: filter bubbles are a useful but also dangerous thing, and if we allow ourselves to silence small irritances eventually, like with opiate dependency, we will find ourselves in the situation where the smallest pains are now grave and world-ending issues that stop everything and must be addressed/stopped immediately. I often disagree with the downvoted comments as well, however still upvote and vouch when they're rational yet contradictory.

Two sided discourse is one of the most important things to me, and in a way I think that we are losing the ability to disagree with each other, and that is a suboptimal outcome of our heightened ability to filter our data streams to weed out opinions we don't like. It's not enough for some people to disagree now, you must pursue the dissenter until you've destroyed their will to continue.

Surely it does not need to be spelled out how this can result in a chilling effect of outside thought and rational debate.
But the health system is engineered to cope with the base load, and there are also many public health measures designed to try and move their behaviour to more healthy ones as well. Just because the magnitude of the covid/infectious disease response we are seeing now is so strong is only because the burden of disease is so high. There are always anti smoking and exercise/healthy eating measures, but they pale into the background given the lack of acuity… much to public health officials dismay
I use newspaper ads, billboards and social media presence. Works fine. I don't need to see your nudes, know your friends, hoard your browsing history.
Webb's Launch GSFC/NASA
Can someone provide some color on why a state actor would advertise such a feat? Now that this is public, I imagine Tesla can and likely will work to block access.
Sure they are simple to follow. The question I have for you is how do you attract new customers?
Freedom of speech is with respect to the state, not other people. If you can show that these platforms are acting on behalf of the state — sure. But, I suspect they’re not.
They are free. And the data is published. Been that way since the start. You're not accounting for the relentless disinformation being spread. That's the whole point of this thread.
> Would we have wanted social platforms to give a voice to the "American First" movement of the 1930s?

Of course, it's part of democratic debate. Remember America stayed out of World War 2 until Pearl Harbor. Lindbergh's argument from the video you link is completely reasonable.
Unfair in the sense that the buyer pays more than the cost of goods sold, but trade often increases utility for both parties anyway. People happily pay $1,000/year for homeowners insurance even though the expected losses and expenses are only $970 or whatever, because they don’t want to be on the hook for a new home if theirs burns down, and they’re generally better off for doing so. And they may buy it from for-profit insurers, even though those for-profit insurers are in direct competition with mutuals (basically co-ops) and there’s full price transparency, because despite the capitalist making an expected profit of $30 or whatever the stock insurer provides a better price or service.

There’s absolutely no requirement that a capitalist (either the same one that stands to profit or a different one) control the flow of information in order to profit, lots of (probably most) capital funds the production of highly competitive and price-transparent goods, and all public stock companies disclose their expenses publicly. Even Google and Facebook provide clear prices to their customers, the issue with surveillance companies in particular is that their users aren’t the customers, but that’s totally orthogonal to the conflict you’re describing.
YouTube's bar for "medical misinfo" ladies and gentlemen...
The firecracker VMM ( https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ ) is an example of a Rust project that has truly left the lab. I believe Firecracker powers significant aspects of AWS lambda.
The conclusion the author makes ("With hooks, it’s now simpler to learn React; because of this, its use in the tech world today has grown") is pretty garbage though, could be any reason popularity of the search term has increased. That it's because it's easier to learn feels pretty far down the list of possible reasons. The rate of the increase for React in that graph is pretty constant, and I see nothing that gives the impression that the introduction of Hooks (February 06, 2019) accelerated the increase.

But yeah, harsh words by akdor1154 maybe but I agree with the sentiment in general.
I know it’s utopia, but I still can’t help but ask, why can’t we have protobuffs or some other binary format with readers integrated into normal systems the way everything has a Json reader.

I mean, stuff like “double click on .protobuff file and it opens in notepad and looks like json or whatever. When you click save it gets serialized back to protobuff.
thank you, google/youtube, for helping me to keep my mind closed and comply.
I feel like you're making an assumption that Twitter/FB users are representative of the broader population.

The Arab Spring was a CIA op. It wasn't a natural result of wide spread social media use. The CIA may be using social media now, but they've been causing social unrest across the globe since their inception.
The same way they have for the last thousand years?

Tech isn't magic. It's still just a business.
That's interesting, I'd always thought it was more the CO2 acting as a solvent to flush out the oil. Is there any reading material on this?
> If you want to process any kind of data you are immediately forced to spend a lot of money on security certifications

No, you don't

> This is one of the potential factors why the EU loses out to other markets in startup-friendliness.

No, it doesn't.

What it "loses out on" is on price dumping through unlimited investor money and wholesale private data collection
Smaller companies have fewer compliance concerns and thus have an easier and cheaper job conforming.

As for the comment about "consolidation of goods/services into larger and larger corporations", that's very much an Americanisation. It's usually the American firms that go for global monopolies. I'm not saying we don't have large multi-nationals in the Europe as well but there is a real culture for supporting independent businesses here which I've not noticed in America (it might exist there but I've not seen it as prevalent there during my visits).

Frankly, the only people GDPR affects is those it's expressly there to protect us from. So I consider that a win.
Everywhere I look in society, another instance of corruption pops out
Yandex gives me storage, reliability, custom domains and government spying for free. How can Fastmail compete when it charges for the same things? They don't even have custom domains on their cheaper plan.
What are these security certifications you are referring to, and who required you to get them?
Months ago I saw someone here compare advertising to mind hacking. It's a really interesting analogy. These people want to hack our minds in order to inject their little brands. Like the bots hammering away at ports of servers, they keep hammering away at our senses until something sticks.

Like an hour ago I was writing a post and reached the conlusion advertising is mind rape.

I've also often thought advertising are like military psychological operations except run by civilians.

I should probably start keeping track of these analogies...
Lack of accurate targeting leads to lower ROI. If you’re trying to build a direct sales business that would seem to be a rather large impediment.
Well, the example was on OSX, and it's generally not a good idea to do static linking there ;) (same on many other systems, you need minimally certain amount of dynamically linked stuff).

Blaze/Bazel rules for Lisp support building fully static SBCL binaries (except possibly for grabbing dynamic stuff that is forced by glibc). ECL also supports static linking.
Because unvaccinated people cause hospitals to be overcrowded.
You heard correctly. A reporter said it was "Lets go Brandon" in stark contrast to obvious reality, and the originally Ironic and now more widespread adoption of that has confused the situation further.
That turned out well for American and the world in 2008 didn’t it?
But the cameras’ supporters said they felt mystified by all the resistance. Going soft on crime could put their families at risk, they argued — and no one on public roads should expect privacy, anyway. If their opponents weren’t criminals, what did they have to hide? Who wouldn’t want to feel safer?

Ah yes, rational thoughts. If you have nothing to hide, then why won’t you let them search
The amount of effort asked is not the same. The amount of time is not the same.

And by the way, obese and smokers do pay a premium on life insurance, and probably medical insurance too.
I think you're right. It doesn't mean it's the healthier way, because with social comes the whole social-feedback system attached to it (upvotes, dogpilling, etc), but it is indeed the mechanic that seems to drive user engagement.

It's also what's leveraged to keep users consuming content and to return for more.

You see who follows who, who has many followers that might be worth following, etc etc... the closest the web had to that was the visitor counter? Or like you said the comments box like Disqus?

As an anecdote:

Many years ago I used to visit a "technews site" that used spread theories/inside info about the tech industry (mostly just copied from forums in the form of "leaks"), very mediocre with no basis for 80% of the content, and the whole thing about it was fanboyism around AMD vs NVIDIA vs INTEL and PC vs CONSOLES, all the engagement happened in Disqus comments - spreading memes, making fun of eachother, insults, etc.

I stopped visiting that site because it was trash, sometimes they got things right though. A few weeks ago I was watching some game trailer, and in the part of the Tech Reviewers quotes, there they were - WCCFTech! "I thought, wow, how the hell did they get to be side by side with the big boys?" And I knew the answer, fanboyism + FUD and a comments section to let people vent. Good for them.
Not sure this has much to do with OO vs Functional Hooks, more like reading the docs?

OO lifecycle: constructor, render, componendDidMount, render, (render, componentDidUpdate, render)*

FH lifecycle: (renderFn, useEffectFn | (useLayoutEffectFn, renderFn))+

For more in-depth musing over the exact behavior, see, for example: https://reacttraining.com/blog/useEffect-is-not-the-new-comp...
Whats more valuable – a unsecured functional or a secured dysfunctional device?
So is it better a device - whos security is invalidated shuts down completely or should it continue to provide the service it was designated for?
Could it be that your expectations of what housing should be are formed by the "default" households? I think 2 bed is way too much for one person, while 3 bed is barely enough for two, so it looks like you are getting a better deal now :)
When your entire continent's underwater again with lockdowns this winter, that look a lot like Australia's, I wonder if there will be any media coverage about how poorly this system ended up working.

Your vaccination didn't do dick for you, raverbashing. All it did was pledge your allegiance to one of the several megalomaniac pharmaceutical multinationals for the rest of your waking life. You played into your nation's desire to embrace Mussolini-style fascism. Your immunity is worse than anyone who actually recovered from COVID-19.

Admitting you're a fool is harder than accepting the truth, but you're bound to live through more hell until you begin to change your perspective.
There are ethics laws for lawyers and judges. The problem is: the enforcer of those ethics laws are partially the judges themselves. It’s the same issue with cops breaking the law; cops don’t rat on/arrest other cops.
Have you made use of tools like babelfish? https://github.com/bouk/babelfish
In 1941, a Polish lieutenant and six others that had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp began a long journey south on foot (about 6,500km), traveling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British India in the winter of 1942.

The distances you are talking about seem wrong. You are saying they are barely a half marathon away from Pakistan. If that was true, they should have walked a long time ago. That is hardly a grueling distance.

Personally, there is no distance I wouldn’t walk if it was the only way to save my life. Either way, better to die knowing you were heading toward freedom than imprisoned waiting to be decapitated, tortured, or worse. Because if not, you will certainly die with regret.
> Since these DDoS attacks started we have worked with our system administrators and Internet Service Provider to mitigate the attacks

How do you mitigate such an attack though? I know Cloudflare can stop this, but how do you create your own bespoke 'DDOS mitigation' tool, and what does that look like?
> The single line referencing COVID is this: "Green light, mandate

Inaccurate. The line "Pandemic ain't real, they just planned it" is also referencing COVID, and pushing a false and dangerous conspiracy theory about it.
What kinds of security certifications? GDPR doesn't require any certifications
Yet, the latest data out of the UK (COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report Week 42, Page 13) [1] shows that the
double-vaccinated are around TWICE as likely to catch COVID-19

I hope you don't work in programming or data analytics
The "Let's go Brandon" thing was an almost comical attempt by the news reporter to try to cover up what the chant was.
For what it's worth, it appears a C++ version [0] of that binary search algorithm with Clang 13 requires 9.45 cycles [1]. The clang++-generated ASM is quite similar to the rustc-generated ASM in the article. Not sure what accounts for the difference from the C++ implementations the author was comparing against.

Regardless, it's neat to see the two languages are so close in performance here. I wonder if down the line, the richer information about lifetimes, etc. that Rust provides will allow optimizations beyond those available to C++ -- or if this is already the case.

[0] https://godbolt.org/z/Mj7PWevex
[1] https://bit.ly/3CawbUe
Super. That was such a good site. Tried looking for it a few years back and got redirected to “similar” websites.
Watched it here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/Saint_BTC/status/1451559663753859...

Mostly just the rappers waving their hands around and showing their guns.
I don't know a gentle, polite way to point out that you've hit every platitude in its most thoughtless, vacuous form:

- You can still disagree with a private company
- We as a society are thoroughly divided on that, and many disagree that issues of rights and morality are decided democratically
- Political speech you disagree with has value
It's a half baked effort to capitalize the Trump name, because of money losing ventures under the same brand.
If they walk carefully at 4 hours for a few weeks, especially under the cover of night, they could easily do it. It’s the only way.

The key challenge isn’t the distance, it’s planning the route.
So you're going to keep asking people until you hear what you expect to hear instead of looking at the evidence? Based on your behavior here, it seems like you have already formed your conclusion and are only looking to hear specifically what you want instead of listening to the majority.
Does this also extend to the willfully obese? Smokers? Chronic drug abusers, alcoholics, etc? It is my impression these are compounding factors listed as comorbidities to Covid, however we don't seem to focus on these segments of the population much, perhaps because of our own personal biases as most humans in this age fall into one or more of those categories.
You're right, it's more like corporate-sponsored brainwashing.
The companies consolidate in USA regardless of what Europe does, nothing Europe does will change that.
Why?

If the answer is "of course there are more cases in the vaccinated, because more people are vaccinated", then see the table at the top of page 13, specifically the last 2 columns showing cases per 100,000 population. For age range 30-39 and above, the rates per population in the vaccinated are higher than the unvaccinated.