skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hey! Co-founder of Freshpaint here. Yes, we're YC-backed along with Segment, so you're probably thinking of us. YC does often fund startups working on similar things.
Please stop repeating misinformation. Vaccination has only a temporary and limited effect on reducing transmission.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02689-y
And regarding the new features that are there (i.e. the stuff that's not pointless UI fluff), the most useful ones (for me personally, the WSL improvements) are being backported to 10 anyway.
That document, which I've read, lists "a floating-point type" as allowed since C++ 20.
very old --

some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10488996
I think you're over estimating how complicated that stuff is...
> and yet I’m working with sr engineers that created this mess…

Engineers or "Engineers"? I'm asking because there's a trend in this industry to call everyone engineer (6 months bootcamp front-end engineer). But then you see things like that...
….Flexing about the Apple surveillance machine.
Didn't DirectStorage get it's Win11 exclusivity removed? and it'll be on Win10 as well?
You might want to store application specific passwords in the Keychain.

Here is how to do it in .mbsyncrc

https://gist.github.com/eddieh/8c853c6cf8ffb3ad87e0720eb50f8...

And here is how to do it in .msmtprc

https://gist.github.com/eddieh/5b4df4a8a98ea202e6ebb020871b0...
If you can't see how the government continuing to treat someone like a criminal after they've paid their debt to society is wrong, I'm not sure anything I can say will convince you.
Microsoft and intel should have to mail me a new pc for free.
I don't think calling for harassement would help getting a new job (unlike the rest of her complaints)
20 bucks from suburbs to boston round trip. ~18 miles one way.
Great question!

Some mechanism to significantly improve intelligence. This could be in any form: book, coaching, game, etc. Some examples of benefits:

- Avoiding making mistakes that cost time among other things (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure). Programming bugs are on my mind at the moment but could be in other areas as well.

- Make faster decisions with more confidence

- Crush programming interviews
I don't think that's the reason. Valve is too small to really achieve anything with our user data, nor do they have any impetus to collect it. The Hardware Survey is technically optional, and my recommendations are so unbelievably poor that I can't seriously believe that feature ingests any individual user data.

I suspect it's more to do with the fact that without requiring a new Steam Ticket every once in a while, I could go and install much of my library on a friend's computer (or any number of friends!), rig the OS to deny Steam internet connectivity, and thereby allow them to play games with my licenses indefinitely and undetectably! The horror!
Ask HN: How software developers can help fighting climate change?
Ideas in different fields, from GPU programming to Web development...

Is the computing (PCs, Cloud services, video game consoles, ...) contribution to the gobal climate change high?
It's become so annoying I dread weekly sync-ups now. It feels like an hour-long UI QA session.
> I didn't write the laws

Not sure what your angle here is, but you clearly aren't an unbiased commenter. You have gone on and on about how many lives this law has saved, and how dangerous it is to drive without a screen and so on. So yes, I do expect you to make a better case rather than walk around acting as if yours is the foregone conclusion, obvious and right (of course, because it's for the children!)

You still have not responded to my central claim that these screens claim far, far more lives than they save.
Have you heard of stablecoins?
Many years ago I worked at a company that had many rounds of RIF (reductions in force). We always did them on Friday - people would be called in for their exit interview and IT removed their access while it happened. We were based in the US but had offices in the UK.

Because of labor laws in the UK, HR did everything they could to avoid laying off the UK office staff because the process and cost was prohibitive. We kept people in the UK office for years just because it would have been a pain in the butt to remove them even if they were redundant or basically had no tasking.
anything change from the last time you posted this?

Here's some discussion from 5 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052405
It's not blanket-banned in Europe (or the EU). It's generally not permitted in pharmaceutical products, some countries restrict its commercial sale.
It's strange that HN is the most antivaxx place on the internet that I know. On reddit, antivaxxers are mocked and segregated to their own subs. On youtube, the worst misinformation is removed (though maybe just from my bubble). Twitter and facebook are cesspools as always but I don't use those.

So HN is the only place I regularly visit where this antivaxx nonsense is taken hold. You see people posting seriously about Ivermectin, linking whatever fake websites like that "covidmeta" thing, and so on.

Strange.

EDIT: One feature I would love on HN is some way to add tags to posters that I see, so I could somehow mark the worst offenders in reality-denying and can make sure to disregard their opinions in other ways, because their brains obviously can process information correctly.
Is it ordinary for Federal Judges to speak of "grave statutory and constitutional issues"?
Huh? So, if the mine was unstable the slaves would do what exactly? Go work at another mine?
For the starving, exploited third world workers in the state of illegal immigrants with no rights - probably not so much.

Or for the fate of one of the real slaves.

What is different today, is that slavery is mostly viewed as a bad thing. That is a accomplishment, but it doesn't mean we got rid of the misery.
> Even when I forgot my Apple ID (as it had been so long) it took over a week before Apple deemed it okay for me to recover my password.

I do not see what is wrong this added security. For something that unlocks basically everything about me, it seems reasonable to not let it be unlocked at a moment’s notice.
> One has to remember what Valve tried to achieve. If I remember correctly, Microsoft back then announced that the Microsoft Store would be an integral part of the upcoming Windows 10

Your recollection is incomplete. Microsoft was threatening to lockdown Windows app installations by requiring app signing for all executables in Win10. In the worst case, it meant the Microsoft Store would be the only store on Windows, and Steam simply wouldn't work on Windows.

Microsoft was toying with an idea that posed an existential threat to Valve. IMO, Valve's goal was to be unshackled from Microsoft's mercurial whims, and despite a slow start, they have finally achieved that goal in the last few years. Microsoft is still proceeding doen the TPM path, and has a turnkey walled garden - I think Valves call was the right one.
Cost efficiency is the key, though. It'd be kind of like newer 2.5" SSDs, the actual drive takes up a fraction of the space inside. Just without the benefit of being cheaper.

Power savings would pale in comparison to cost and for many components like amps, bigger = more power.
Ask HN: How can old phones be slower while doing basic tasks?
I just got a new phone after 4 years (iPhone x to iPhone 13 Pro). And its mind boggling how much faster the phones opens Apps etc.

But I ask myself, why? I mean, web browsing, open spreadsheet apps etc. Did developers become so lazy that they don‘t really optimize anymore?

A phone created this year should perform the basic tasks as well as in 5 years, shouldn‘t it?
If it wasn't for running AAA games natively, I would happily ditch windows. The day most AAA games come out on Metal API for mac, I'll gladly switch.
> There is no reason fertilizers can't be made with unreliable solar and wind and carbon capture.

Or you know... just using grazing ruminants like we have for 1000s of years.
Reminder that before their hard left turn away from civil liberties and towards partisanship, the ACLU was against vaccine mandates:
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/aclu-flip-flops-...

Another interesting piece of the public conversation around mandates is the redefinition of the term vaccine (https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126...). The CDC claims they redefined it away from the word “immunity” towards the word “protection” because no vaccine grants perfect immunity. Personally I find that to be a bad answer. By taking a weighty word like “vaccine” and redefining it, the expectations of risks and benefits the public holds were exploited. For the majority of the public, those who are under 50 and healthy, COVID poses little risk - it’s not much different from a typical seasonal flu. Personally I think getting an mRNA vaccine is a reasonable low-risk action but the risk of undergoing any medical intervention is nonzero, and it is higher for a novel technology. I bet that if the COVID vaccines were not called a vaccine, people would evaluate the risk reward trade off differently.
This doesn’t affect me, so I won’t comment on the decision or its merits/alternatives. But I’m astonished that in the same article:

- they say that they removed DirectX 12 support to address a security vulnerability

- they say you can restore DirectX 12 support with the older, vulnerable firmware

… and don’t warn that this implies reintroducing the vulnerability. I mean, sure, the implication is clear if you’re reading top to bottom to understand the reason for the change. But it’s certainly not going to be clear to people who understandably may find this looking for a “fix”, where skipping to the solution is a common pattern.

That seems exceedingly irresponsible to me. Security fixes are for your users, not for your own checklist to cover your ass.
Having never used Ruby or even heard of this feature before, is this not a massive supply chain-style attack surface? If I define methods/classes with the same names as common other packages, is there any way the user can tell which one they’re using if I get them to install my package?
>> I am still miffed about Skylake being out of support for Windows 11.

You can always run the latest versions of Linux.
We are so glad to have you as customers and I can't wait to partner as you grow to mega scale.
You don't make money in the airline industry by being an airline.
Yes absolutely. We have daily and monthly budgets on the roadmap to make sure nobody gets a surprise bill in the future. This and more tools to make sure you are running your database optimally.
You joke, but we do that in high-risk environment, like driving in Russia (dashcams) or protesting.

Paying by card has saved my butt several times, when I was able to prove to a retailer when and where I bought a product for warranty purposes, or get out of a contract that had 2 weeks 'cooloff' period to terminate but the agency kept playing dumb and 'loosing' all my letters and emails.
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Subject: An update on Waterluvian
Git users rebase published history all the time. What they don't do all the time is just don't plant the rebased history under the same head; moving that head that way would then be the non-fast-forward change, not the creation of the rebase per se.

> I don’t have anything against holding this goal, but I’m unconvinced that it’s relevant.

I am likewise not convinced of the value of immutability.

I see the git repository as an object being edited, and that object has no history of its own. When we add a new commit, say, we are making a new version of the whole git-object which now has some new objects in it, plus a moved head.

The old git repo in which that head pointed to the previous commit doesn't exist any more. Well, some people have copies of it. They can stick with those, or get this one. Take it or leave it.

We should be able to control any aspect of our work. If I want to rewrite thousands of commit messages in the published master branch, that's my privilege. Git deals with this just fine; someone who fetches that is informed that their master is divergent by thousands of commits. They can disagree with what I did and then just cherry pick things onto the original branch going forward.
That's slightly over the distance of PDX-SEA on the west coast, which is currently available for $28-47 depending on capacity. The equivalent bus trip (Greyhound) costs $22.

The vast majority of people just drive instead. People doing anything except driving is unusual.
It's amazing how wasteful the whole industry is.

Now you have soldered CPUs in laptops - a great way to ensure they get replaced often ($$$ for Intel/etc) and end up in a dump in Africa somewhere, where no one will see or use the vast majority of it, ever again.

What a waste.
For the uninformed, what does it mean here to 'shuck' the drives? Just deal hunting or are people doing something with them after buying them like returning/RMAing etc?
Same. I was planning on riding my build a while longer yet, but I was unwilling to be left behind, so I'm upgrading my PC soon.
Anyone? Bueller?
Vote for a carbon tax.
Seems like some double dipping here. Not familiar with the EU patterns, but if seniors & retired people receive income from public sources, like Social Security in the US, then premature mortality results in a big savings, not additional costs.
If Google does ever kills off matrix.itasoftware.com, and you build a replica, I would pay for it and/or help you to the extent possible.
And for Gmail specifically you might want to look at the mbsync option PipelineDepth

As noted in the .mbsyncrc gist:

> The value is "used to limit average bandwidth consumption (GMail may require this if you have a very fast connection)." Turns out the same is true for iCloud. There's probably some optimized value greater than "1" that can be used, but this works for me.

I actually have it set to 5 now.
Through product-management and estimation.

At scale, R&D can, to a limited extent, be commoditized. Companies/organizations (think particle-accelerators, etc.) have substantial experience bringing new technologies into production. If a new process has been proven in the lab and estimates exist for the speed with which each technology-demonstration milestone can be reached, one can credibly estimate when a new technology can reach the market. It is an inexact science, but all science is inexact.

With sufficiently accurate estimates and conservative allowances for uncertainty and schedule-slippage, one can reliably do this. Intel did so for decades, using Moore's Law as a roadmap.
Apple deliberately slowed down old models to force you to upgrade.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51413724
The Value of an In-House Adversary
I haven't been reviewing my Anki decks much lately, but earlier this year I was spending a lot of time studying for the Security+ certification test, and used an Anki deck as part of my prep for that.

Otherwise, I have a Greek alphabet deck I like to review, and a bunch of basic math stuff (pre-algebra, algebra, trig level stuff) just to help keep that stuff in mind.
Hydrogen is bound in both compounds - you need to expand energy to extract it.

As in our oxidizing atmosphere natural gas is a source of (chemical) energy, you can burn it to provide the energy needed to extract the hydrogen. This is the steam reforming reaction.

Since water is not a source of energy, you need to add (expensive) electrical energy in order to extract the hydrogen. This is the electrolysis reaction.
Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones (2020)
You’ve just made me think about memories I’ve surpressed of a job I had, where the boss would hold Monday morning meetings every week to go around the table and get updates from the team.

He took the opportunity to pick on someone different each time and rip them to shreds. It was a horrible thing to be part of.

Needless to say my Sunday evenings were a write off during that period with the stress of having to go to that the following morning (and it potentially bring my turn to receive the wrath)
haha mad respect to you
Are they being treated like a criminal in this case? Or are they merely being treated as requiring standard (not reduced) security screening?

I’m far more concerned where felons are denied the right to vote or to bear arms than I am with them having to stand in the same security line as most people.
It's not a hoax, it's a competition the website is running to promote some architecture software. It says it all right there in the article. It's just some guy's cool concept art, it's not meant to be taken so seriously.
Mods: this is a better link than the OP.
Tangential, but Greenspun seems to have gone into full on crank mode.
Kind of a tangent, but I hate how all these studies have a 6 month cut off on vaccinated participants

We know the vaccine confers high immunity early on, and then wanes.

As opposed to natural immunity which is proving to be more robust and long lasting.

I would really like to see if this 2.34x improvement lasts in individuals vaccinated 6+ months ago.
Has there ever been a dirty bomb anywhere?
Accept that software development is not the coalface of countering climate change, and use your high earning power to make money and invest / donate to carbon capture or renewable technology.
Really? Interesting perspective.

For me, it is very obvious which side this person is on (both the twitterer and HN poster) based on keyword like "authoritarian" and "propaganda" and "fear of death", not to mention "people have science as religion".
This makes me think of GabeN's 2011 commentary on expanding Steam into notoriously hax0r-infested Russia: the smart money scoffed at the prospect, keenly aware that the Russkies will just steal your product and why not make it that much harder for them to get their hands on it?

“Russia now outside of Germany is our largest continental European market [...] The people who are telling you that Russians pirate everything are the people who wait six months to localize their product into Russia. It doesn't take much in terms of providing a better service to make pirates a non-issue.” [0]

"We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." [1]

I for one absolutely have more money than I once did, but to be honest I stopped pirating long before that in '09 or '10, once I realized that the then-ridiculous Humble Bundles and Steam sales reduced the actual expenditure required from "gotta save up" to a mere "gotta skip buying takeout tonight". Of course the sales have decreased in quality since then, but so too has the number of games I want to play, and the time I can spend doing it.

[0] https://www.pcgamer.com/gabe-newell-on-piracy-and-steams-suc...

[1] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/Valves-Gabe-Newell-Says-Pira...
Apart from Apple's "battery lifetime optimization", a system having an actual history of use will always be a bit slower (or if badly optimized, a lot slower) than a new device.

Have you tried factory-resetting your old phone if that's an option for iPhones, to get more of an apple-to-apple comparison?
I don't think you should assume SPJ was brought in to transition Epic to Haskell.
Sure, we tend to forget that things like Independence Day fireworks are also modern rituals. I don't see how that's super relevant to my original point, though? Religion is not the only ritual system, but it does seem to be the one with the most consistent track record of inciting huge non-economically-motivated resource expenditures (at least superficially; the economic impact of social cohesion is one of small-change-in-the-exponent things that's easy to underestimate). Anyway, I really just wanted to push back on the idea that "ritual purposes" is an implausible explanation for these kinds of things.
Yep, emacs has it all :)
Anything new here?

Lots of previous discussion:

1 year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23334190

4 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15360509

6 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11516902
Sure, but there are plenty where it does. Noise ordinances, pollution controls, maximum fishing or hunting takes, etc. would all be examples of this.
That explains it why /r/science is such a graveyard! Thank you!

It sounds like if any of the 1500 mods dislike a comment, then that comment disappears. That's extremely biased towards removing comments.

My suggestion would have those 1500 mini mods vote "keep" or "remove" - majority wins. The main mod can look at contentious votes and override the mini mods decisions. Further the main mod can remove mini mods that are voting poorly.
Funny how this is blowing up my timeline right now.. isn't this just the annual inflation adjustment?

But as an annual reminder.. max out your 401k! Also if you can find a way to be even partially self-employed--max out the (much larger) employer contribution as well.
I get increasingly frustrated by the spammy SO mirroring spam sites getting into the top 3 results.
Even more interesting is when asked "What percent of CDC employees are vaccinated?"...Walensky essentially responded, she didn't know. As the primary national tracker of the pandemic, you would think CDC would know their numbers (especially internal ones) inside out.

Source: https://youtu.be/AXHYgn3g-wQ?t=7715 (time 2:08:35)
Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.
If you see the multiple orders of magnitude reduction in cost to launch satellites we've seen recently, as a result of reusing landable rocket stages, how can you been so bearish on physical engineering improvements?

Even computing advancements are technically a physical engineering triumph, taking the form of increased precision in chip creation.
I rented a VPS from the French website (their native language), and it was confusing. I remember looping through the same 2 pages 10 times before actually finding the instance's access instructions.

Of course, you don't have to care about the console once you have SSH access to the server. It seems to be pretty good service for the money.
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I like iOS, but I won’t buy their flagship hardware. It’s too expensive for something so fragile.

I have 3 iOS devices, but I won’t pay a grand for a phone. I would rather replace my base level devices in 4 or 5 years when they start to age out.
Pretty much every meaningful exploit chain includes privilege escalation.
For what it's worth, the face recognition unlock is probably the most insecure unlock there is on the phone (and unsettling to me when I've tried it). I'm sure they've fixed it by now, but I recall an early story of an asian woman giving her phone to a coworker and being startled by the phone unlocking. The fingerprint readers also creep me out (not as much as the facial recognition) and they're very efficient, you can use them without even looking or while picking up the device.
^C is not fully equivalent to Esc. It won't trigger InsertLeave autocommands and doesn't work with a count.
I only brought negative "primes" in for this particular article because then 1 and -1 are like twin primes. I usually don't think about negatives in these contexts. Just thought that was interesting.
Have you seen "Alter Ego?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wmsyPsny3s