skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a counterpoint I'd like to claim that pen and paper is a massively underrated tool for programming, and furthermore that the parts that you can do on pen and paper are more mathematically interesting than the parts that can't be done without a computer.
That last one made be lol'd. How do you even respond to that?
My daughter was almost named “to be determined”. We went out for lunch one day and this woman at a table beside us was talking about her granddaughter. Her granddaughter sounded like a great kid and when she (finally) said her granddaughter’s name, my partner and I gave each other a look. That was the name…

I wish your app had existed then - it would have been easier than the grand email list o’ names we shared with everyone even remotely related to us.

But also, I wonder if that woman had any idea that she would inadvertently name my only child just by bragging about her grand baby. And in a sense, that gets to be your honour now. You built something that will be responsible for naming humans. That’s truly profound.

Great hack…:)
People are really confusing the effects of "wearing a mask on the bus" with the effects of "closing offices and schools down."
The archived page is pulled from http://www.skirsch.com/humor/techarg.htm. There's some merit to some of these, but it's not a serious list.
> If you have a "breakthrough infection", you are just as likely to spread it to someone else as someone who is infected without the vaccine

Somewhat less likely; on average if you're vaccinated you won't be infectious for as long a time if you do get it.
The vaccine drastically reduces your chance to spread the virus.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.13.21260393v...
Wow, I think your example is what's mental. In no way what so ever is it ok for someone to share that with someone else.

So I actually like your analogy, it shows how insane the ad businesses and tracking is.

(Except for the part where you say the other business owner does it to give great service. Ads aren't used to help people, no one likes them)
Are you the only caregiver? If you are, and can afford to hire or have friends and family help please do so. The caregiver needs breaks , you need to pay attention to yourself. My dad took an entire year off to take care of my mom when she had cancer Unfortunately, despite us telling him, he would never leave her side ( we were fortunate to have people who were willing to come and help out). He was completely burnt out, and her death was in some ways a relief, he started eating better, and taking care of himself. ( I could not help since I was living in another country and had a young family myself).
Therapy helps too, or just talking to people and being kind to yourself.
Most of the ad industry believes that because they use a 3rd party impression or click tracking they are safe from these attacks. This article outlines how ad fraud operations find vulnerabilities in those technologies that the ad industry trusts. 3rd party verification does not mean you have avoided fraud.
LXQt is kind of in no man's land for me. If I want a very basic floating/stacking WM, I'll use Openbox (which is the WM they use anyway, just with extra stuff). If I want a Qt DE that is light on resources, Plasma is surprisingly good now (~400-450MB RAM on idle for me). Otherwise, something like a tiling WM will likely always be lighter.

I do appreciate some of their bundled tools though. PCManFM is a great little file manager, and Featherpad is a much nicer notepad type basic text editor than say KWrite.
Well now you'd be violating the GDPR.

Before we didn't have these laws because this wasn't a problem in practice - nobody was calling other businesses at scale to tell them who was buying fungus cream. If they were, we would've had a law equivalent to the GDPR to prevent that.

Actually, there was one incident in the US where a politician's video rental history was disclosed against his wishes and as a result a law was drafted to prevent this practice in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act
I heard rumors that the NSF might double in size.

I’d rather see funding go towards an international science foundation, personally There are so many amazing scientists in other countries that can’t get even living expenses covered.
As others said, try to take leave but there is a reality where that is not possible:

This happened to one of my parents at the beginning of my career but I was a contractor and had to make ends meet in the new city I had just moved to. My parents were of the position that they raised me to do that specific thing and wanted me to do that. As far as focus, this wasn't difficult for me except when there was news. More than a couple times I did have to abruptly leave one city and transit to the other where my parent was in the hospital. There was no certainty about my job but that part did work out for me, but it just as easily could have not. For me, the separation allowed for more rationale prognosis because the original diagnosis was obviously a death sentence (your situation may be different and it wasnt specified in your post) and both me and my afflicted parent understood that pragmatically, but the people there through the whole process stuck with the hopium that a miracle would happen. They couldnt see the subtle deterioration day by day, but me being there every 3 weeks made the snapshots much more obvious. “Yeah spot on diagnosis doctor and the entire internet and all studies that omit how the few percent that do make the 5 year survival rate are not having a good time”. I think its easier to focus when being practical, like you dont need to be a nihilist to the people around you during the process but it is possible to skip all the stages of grief and accept it while keeping a positive outlook. Its not like the people that didn't beat cancer weren't strong enough, its just that a random direction of metastasis disrupted a crucial life process or not. So the stages of grief will be the most distracting if reality will not be accepted, but you can steer the energy positively without distorting reality.
The technology is not brand new. It has been used in labs for decades. This is just the first time it has been used in a drug for humans. All traces of the vaccine leave your body within days of receiving the shot.
Lysenkoism, usually, when people refer to denial of reality in connection with the Soviet Union.
>Do you understand that even if you don't click accept, if you browse the EU's own websites, they track you?

>https://ec.europa.eu/info/privacy-policy/europa-analytics_en

>The anti-google / pro-gdpr stuff is almost religious orthodoxy now in terms of its unwillingness to evaluate facts.

No, you can set your browser's do not track preference and this website will honor it (among the vanishingly few who do).
I went to their website in incognito mode.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/privacy-policy/europa-analytics_en

Before accepting any cookies I got a _pk_id cookie expiring in 13 months.

They are clear this is what will happen.

Just check it for yourself before you listen to the lies / blather you read here.

The EU's own websites track you on first landing.

Note - I have been following this. They used to do a blocking cookie pop-up. This actually had nothing set on pop-up, but blocked you from using their websites until you gave consent or denied it.

The problem was, these required cookie popups are so annoying that many folks have (perhaps illegally) moved to the EU's new model, where they stick it at the bottom, they set the cookies, and if you just use the website you get them.
The laws of decency, respected by all decent people. Sure, keep a ledger of what I buy from you. But do not tell anyone else anything about me. I respect this principle in non-commercial life, and so do my friends. You are not exempt from the rules governing decency just because you sell things.
I’m very into in-person socialization. VRchat is the first time I’ve been able to make internet-first friends. It don’t feel that it’s in any way introvert-specific. It feels like hanging out with people in real life. I got on there because of pandemic shutdowns, but I’m still using it. It allows me to fit some social interaction into an unplanned one or two hour block of time, which was hard to achieve before. It’s sort of like living on the same block as a bar that is populated by people with my interests and is open 24/7, except I can access it from anywhere in the world.
Derek Lowe is the biggest pharma shill in media.
What other data points? Can you provide peer reviewed high quality data to support your claims? Just because you want a conspiracy theory to be true does not make it so.
If you read the excellent Bernays' propaganda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_(book)), you can have dive into how advertising was perceived in 1920.

While I don't buy that this is the only view at the time, and that there was no dirt to find, I believe that there was a time were ads were imagined as a way to inform the consumers, or at least convey some kind of information to them.

Unfortunately, the market doesn't optimize for what's right, only for what's profitable. The too may or may not aligned at first, but give it enough time, and it will deviate.
Facebook allowed users to create paid subscription links (with zero fees)
Oh, I don't doubt that they have a very sophisticated model for this. I'm just saying they probably take customer acquisition cost into account in the model too.

"I bet they do it for free marketing" doesn't mean "I bet they didn't do the math". It means "I bet their marketing department measures everything and is good at math too."
This could be named “Things to say to defuse the overeducated clueless self-entitled newb who is toxically ramming his lame ideas into the team” :-)
That sucks.

I use spacemacs remotely on a terminal with mosh and tmux, so I don’t notice. But back in ‘10, evil mode wasn’t usable for me on the terminal. I imagine spacemacs on 2010 era hardware would suck, let alone GUI.

I wonder if the new chips like the M1 would make a difference.
I found this helpful when learning orca: https://youtu.be/ktcWOLeWP-g?t=222
1. Coordinated disclosure, not "responsible disclosure". Words matter.

2. Full disclosure is the preferred method for disclosing cryptographic weaknesses. https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2007/01/schneier_fu... Since Threema sells itself as a "private messaging" app, the general rule for cryptography applies.

3. Being "a jerk" is not the same thing as misleading users into a false sense of security. Saying I am "no better than" them is saying what I'm doing is equivalent or worse.
> And yet, as I go from company to company, I keep being surprised to find zero people using Docker.

Well that's pretty astounding. I work on a service at a Very Large Company that intercepts each docker container as it passes into our production-deployable repos and it inspects about 100 containers per hour. This isn't every build, it's every actual prod deployment. Mind you, we have lot of services doing deployments, but the ones that aren't using docker are in the vast, vast minority.

I think one thing docker brings you is consistency. At our level of scale, you can't be doing "pip install"s on random hosts or you'd never be able to say what state everything is in. Docker isn't the only way to do this, of course, but it's one way. And I'm super happy that other teams the produce tools built on piles of python now package them as docker containers on a standard base so I can just run them rather than spend a day untangle my completely-hosed python environment every few months.
Keep crushing it Kyriakos and Raouf!
Substantially correct on the first part. In particular, and depends on the region/processor/card brand, many SMBs will have interchange which has a fixed-per-transaction component in addition to a percentage fee, and that can be prohibitive at small "basket" sizes.

The U.S. has the world's most developed and widely relied upon credit reporting infrastructure, by a substantial margin. The history of FICO doesn't quite fit into the margins of this comment but I'd love to do an issue on it someday. Credit scores per se are less a thing in Japan but there are cross-issuer I-can't-believe-its-not-bureaus which have information sharing agreements, the dominant purpose of them being identifying fraudulent actors and account takeovers rather than credit risk (nearly zero in Japan, historically).
Something they talk about a lot on the Vergecast (weekly podcast from The Verge) is that the killer app for AR is identifying people in real life for you. I think that's probably true for a lot of people who have to have a lot of professional in-person interactions with a lot of different people - which importantly includes journalists. They semi-jokingly talk about how they'd forgive many misgivings about a product that could reliably do that. And Facebook seems to be in by far the best position to have the data to build that product, as long as they hang on to their facial recognition data set somewhere.
Haiku Activity Report – October 2021
Fun with SQL in Postgres: Finding Revenue Accrued per Day
I read this thread and can't believe it. I'm a RoR Dev in a medium sized software house, we are hiring, everyone on the market is hiring, and bunch of new Ruby people are joining the scene each month (either via internships or moving from PHP or something)

From my perspective Ruby + Rails is really booming. Most of our clients (startups) want to use RoR due to it's development speed.

Also salaries are higher than ever.
> I know the metaverse is not VR

I hate saying "VR/AR/XR" is the metaverse.

Because as far as I can tell the metaverse is VRChat.

> If you have a rich social life with friends you can interact with in
> person frequently [...] why would you want to be in VR all day?

VRChat is immensely good. Teenagers and 20-somethings in particular eat it up. They make games, fantasy worlds, have improv shows, gameshows, LARPing, dance and talent competitions, etc.

VRChat is great for the younger generation that has trouble socializing, and that's a larger demographic than you think. Anime fans, classical nerds, furries, LGBT in conservative towns, etc. This is their social life. Their vacation spot.

VRChat is the closest approximation of what the metaverse will be. Log on and see what it's like.

The most contrarian reason this doesn't map to Zuckerberg's vision is that you can import your own models and don't have to pay anyone. Just like you can set anything as your Twitter profile picture.

VRChat is the metaverse. It's free. It's such a tangle of rights issues for any would-be acquirer that Zuckerberg won't touch it. And it'll be much more fun than any corporate playpen they come up with.
Sam, through YC, is an investor in basically some of the biggest unicorns in history.

IIRC YC's investment is 7%, correct? I'm not sure how much they participate in subsequent rounds, but Stripe alone is now valued at about $95 billion.

I'd be shocked if Sam weren't that loaded.
That website is very much designed to be scary. They say that hospital admins think 30% and above of Covid patients mean "extreme", but they use 20% and above for the "extreme" red. Then below that they use % "extreme", but without close reading, you think they are talking about hospital capacity. Over the whole map it's hard to find any county with over 20% of their beds being Covid patients.
The big thing is what did all of this look like before Covid? Most of the problems with capacity are due to staffing, which seems to be the real bottle-neck here.
Full disclosure is the only responsible disclosure method. I am glad that they decided to be public about it.
Nothing has made it seem like anyone actually looks at any of this themselves. I've been following this a while now.

Open a new incognitio window and go here:
https://ec.europa.eu/info/privacy-policy/europa-analytics_en

Do not click accept on anything.

Check your cookies. Tracking cookies have been set before consent.

Many on HN are ranting about how something like this is illegal or that the GDPR is easy. The answer is that the GDPR is NOT easy. That some would say that setting tracking cookies on landing without consent is not legal, others that it is, and the EU is all over on enforcement.

If you browse an EU website, they track you without any explicit consent.

I prefer this approach personally, all their websites used to have a modal pop-up, you could not move forward until you consented. Between phone, desktop etc etc, SO annoying. I'm sure it turned a lot of folks off GDPR, so they cheat with this to try and avoid annoying people (as many others do).
I checked the readme of both those packages and I can't for the life of me understand why would anyone use either of them.

Why the fuck do all these leftpad is-even hello-world tic-tac-toe packages have millions of downloads?
>all medical tests are coming up negative/normal

Indicating that this is a neurological problem.

>you don't know any of her other symptoms

I can only imagine as you did not communicate them. But let me guess: fatigue, brain fog, possibly panic attacks, tingling/burning sensations in feet or hands, limbs numbing especially at night, the sensation of suffocation or dissatisfaction with breathing, the sense of a blocked nose while there is no stuff in there, headaches, spatial disorientation, loss of short-term memory, impacted ability to speak and learn new things, GI and cardiovascular issues. All that while having a normal (>= 96%) O2 saturation in the blood.

>I don't understand how you can be "pretty sure she is thiamine deficient".

She may have an acquired mitochondrial dysfunction caused by the oxidative stress induced by the active phase of illness. Which is unfortunately pretty typical for Covid [1] and 30% of survivors will have metabolic and neurological complications as the result, regardless of the severity of the original illness.

This is the first thing to check given the symptoms, but most of neurologists are unaware of it yet. You can do a formal test that checks for that condition: transketolase.

I am also including some materials that might help: [2], [3]

[1] https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpcell.004...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UOyE-3PbJY

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjVXFqiPDwE
> they’re entitled to reasonable compensation

Do we know they were offered reasonable compensation and turned it down in favor of weaponization?

Also, there has been a long-running legal issue between sonos and several other tech companies. I believe centered on them just ignoring the patent and releasing features without acknowledgement (nevermind compensation). Its entirely reasonable in this case to say "until we agree to terms, i want you to STOP violating my patent"
No CE class label???

edit: Found this, which somewhat explains it: https://dronedj.com/2021/11/05/dji-mavic-3-ce-class-label/
Yes, maybe the ROC should work towards an eventual liberation of the territory under PRC occupation.
The US is not the world and really, a lot of people have made a lot of truly strange statements.

I have seen plenty of scientists with all kinds of statements, the worst being ‘oh if you got infected, it’s your own fault because you clearly didn’t stay 1.5 m from other people. Because otherwise it is impossible to get infected!’
> Now say John travels to another town, and the proprietor of a similar establishment in that town, wanting to provide John with the best level of service, calls you to ask "Hey, what does John like?", and you tell them.

That was already way too invasive, yes. You could probably get away with it before, because the scale was so small that it wasn't quite as horrible. There is after all a difference between occasionally violating one person's privacy and violating the privacy of thousands of people a minute. Not an actual ethical difference, but there are finite legal resources to go around.

Also, I object to this idea that because the pieces of behavior are acceptable the combined effect is automatically okay. It's perfectly legal to own and use a camera. It's perfectly legal to own an use a telephoto lens. It's even legal to look at your neighbor's house. Nonetheless, taking a camera and pointing it through a telephoto lens at a neighbor's house and recording 24/7 is an excellent way to get arrested.
What if everyone does it and so you literally don't have anywhere else to go?

What if the data collection was done in such a way that most non-technical people aren't even aware what data is being collected and how it is used? In my hypothetical example about a business employing an army of workers to follow, photograph & take notes about every customer the behavior would at least be visible by the customers (and so they could choose to go elsewhere), which is not the case with modern technology - data is being collected silently in the background.

> why should it be illegal or regulated by the government in any way

There are plenty of other unlawful things you could apply this question to. Society enacts laws to dissuade & punish behaviors that the majority finds reprehensible.
Says the person with free time to write, freedom to express an opinion, food in their belly, shelter, hot water, a computer in their pocket, access to a free vaccine, yada yada yada.
Is there a difference between white paper and design doc? My impression is that a white paper is more academic, and so I'm not sure what it ends up looking like.

At one of my jobs, we wrote design docs for most major changes (we had a checklist for deciding if the doc was necessary at all). It was ultimately quite helpful because documentation about most important changes existed, even if the dev didn't write any documentation in code. The technical designs also had a template, so it was a fairly easy path for a developer to know what questions to answer or not in their doc.

Is this the same idea as a white paper?
They also intentionally don’t integrate with Apple TV - which is what I use to organise all my watchlist in one place. It’s anti-consumer.
You can't leave us hanging after a story like that :)
> There were six hospitalizations and no deaths among the 607 patients who received Paxlovid within five days of symptom onset, compared to 41 hospitalizations and 10 deaths in the placebo cohort.

I know it shouldn't be shocking but it just hit me that being in the control group here is very close to getting a death sentence. I couldn't find it in the article OP shared or the press release, but did the control group get any other treatment?
'Wearable developer'- I love it :)

We don't currently support end user's pushing raw data to us, what use case are you thinking, out of interest ?
> We do miss out on getting featured in the tech media. TechCrunch published a story about our growth once (thanks to the VCs who were sharing a list of fastest growing open source startup) but otherwise, we get no coverage that VC-funded startups get.

This isn't because you're bootstrapped, it's likely because you don't have a PR team pitching on your behalf. That's how stories get placed.

Congrats!
> Now say John travels to another town, and the proprietor of a similar establishment in that town, wanting to provide John with the best level of service, calls you to ask "Hey, what does John like?", and you tell them.

That's not how it works in the real world though. Why would a restaurant answer someone random calling them and asking what one of their regulars is typically ordering? I see no possible benefit in answering that question.
Interesting take.

And I guess tobacco companies learned from the Catholic Church.