skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first things you have to embrace is the inherent hypocrisy in the overall equality movement. While there are people who genuinely believe in equality and equal treatment for all, the loudest and most prominent people are pushing the exact agenda you are speaking about : " directly and openly identifying "white male" as a negative trait when discussing a candidate after an interview ". I have seen this first hand in interviews and in employment with some of the largest and influential companies in the tech industry.

The sad truth is that you have to find some way to find peace in it all. If that means being quiet, if it means accepting things that you feel are wrong, or if it means standing up to say it is wrong and being labeled. You have to make hard choices in both potential employers and how far up the ladder you want to climb. IT is not an easy decision and not one that anyone other then yourself can make. The idea of making current people pay for past mistakes is irrational, and the "what it has been like " movement will forever be seen as such. The socio-political components aside there are financial burdens as well, should a company not appear 'woke' enough and see their bottom line deteriorate.

IMHO our biggest mistake was making the cause of social justice profitable. As soon as people could gain money, power or influence based on calling other people out the core values became null and void to people who could care less about social justice and just want to be 'right' and/or reap the rewards both socially and financially. That is NOT to say that the fight for social justice should not be / can not be happening, it simply needs to be a matter of doing right for the sake of doing right and not for profiteering or popularity. We are the first to call out bad actors and put our hands out for the rewards therein, but we are the last to recognize good actors and then they turn up with their hands out, looking to be recognized from the rest of the pack we tell them "what do you want, a cookie?".

We need more social justice advocates, and less social justice warriors.

You can flag this all you care to , or even downvote it but it does not change the truth : We all fall into one of two categories - those who believe in equality for all with no discrimination whatsoever, or those who believe in socially acceptable 'justified' discrimination against specific groups.
A lot of the big titans in the streaming biz are already whinging about account sharing[0], so I wouldn't be surprised if they start complaining that people aren't "committed" enough to their streams as well, too.

It'd be way easier to cut down on stream cycling than account sharing, too - just jack up the monthly price and make the annual price cheaper.

[0] which is particularly rich because they sell multi-stream plans that are almost practically built for it
It's not just a payment processor though, it's a third-party financing service from a company that myself and I assume most other people have never heard of, which as far as I can tell is built on a business model of tricking people into taking on more debt.

I'd at least be a little more forgiving if it was actually a Microsoft service, but the fact that it's gonna be prompting random people to give up their financial and spending details to some random company makes it worse.
I choose not to self-disclose, even in places where it might benefit me like sexuality or gender identity. If I get to the interview stage and the person I'm being interviewed by makes it a big deal, I thank them for their time and leave.
Yep, we ought to be evidence-based about everything we have done: travel bans, masks, respirators, distancing, plexiglass, closing businesses, forcing healthy kids to wear masks in schools, forcing everyone to get vaccinated, rubber gloves in the grocery store. All of it.

So far, our track record isn't that great. The two RCTs for masks and Covid showed minimal (if not zero) effect [1], and you can barely say the results out loud lest you get silenced by the angry mob (as you can see from the color of this comment). I'm not hopeful.

But please let me know when someone actually does an unbiased study of travel restrictions. I have yet to see one. The biggest tragedy of this pandemic is the number of people who are willing to substitute their (popular) opinions for evidence and call it "science".

I guarantee that every response to this comment will be from someone asserting that "masks work", and linking to a paper that they haven't actually read, or worse: an editorial about papers they haven't read. Most people have literally no idea what the data is on any of this.

[1] https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...
Traditionally, home video and cinema were two segregated markets. The reason why you paid 10 pounds for that DVD is because the film is a few months old. If you wanted to see it at release date you were paying the same price per person, per view.
As a white male team leader with hiring authority I select the best person for the job who will enhance the team and bring with them the talent to accomplish our goals. Having said that, I believe diversity is a strength and that women and people of color are underrepresented in tech, and use my influence to help correct that as much as possible without sacrificing operational readiness. It has not been a problem. I can't speak for others experiences or biases but I simply do not see the problem that OP is detailing.
This is why we need an independent web browser with only basic set of features that are enough for average user.
You can view JHU's raw data sources at https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19. According to that, they are getting COVID death numbers for Sweden from the Swedish Public Health Agency via https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6.... I am not fluent in Swedish, but perhaps someone who is can tell you exactly how the Swedish Public Health Agency measures them. Likewise for the other countries cited.
That was a really long way to say "Lots of people still use work as their only social engagement." and "Lots of people can't form a coherent thought long enough to write an email."
Given that the CDC lied to the US & World about the proper approach to self-protection (wearing masks), they certainly do not have my trust.

I'll take my chances. I will not trust the Federal government's dishonest "experts".
Software is a thing too!
Things has a really good open-source clone called Planner[0] that I quite like. Now, if only they'd package it some way other than flatpak...

[0] https://github.com/alainm23/planner
Ok, but then force Android and macOS to unbundle their crap. Why do I have to use Chrome and Gmail as default? Why do I get force fed iMessage, Safari and iCloud?
A study in Nature had previously shown that >= 20 amino acid mutations on the spike protein was sufficient to cause immune escape from the vaccine or previous infection, but that individuals who were both previously infected and vaccinated were still able to neutralize the mutant virus. [1]

The omicron variant has >30 AA mutations on the spike protein, so it remains to be seen how effective vaccines are in response to it. Even if it is unable to prevent infection, it's still likely that the vaccines will provide some attenuation of severity, especially with a booster. We also now have pharmaceutical means to treat infections, so any notions that this will bring us back to March 2020 seem unrealistic.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04005-0
That's how validation of TLS certificates and domain registration still works.
Mutations happen during spread, so as long as we have huge swaths of unvaccinated people in every country around the world, the mutations will continue to happen. Luckily, variants of concern have slowed significantly as more and more people have gotten vaccinated (and practiced social distancing, masks, wash hands, etc), but there's still a long way to go before we can finally put this pandemic behind us.
The overwhelming majority of people who died of it reached a very advanced age and had other medical conditions. They would probably have died of a normal flu too.

Your link is pure fake news. It's an article trying to pass a known side effect of the mRNA medication (myocarditis) as stemming from the virus. Also it's from the press of an authoritarian country that is deporting people into camps...
But one of the biggest issues I've seen regarding the hyperloop is the near vacuum costing and polluting more than a conventional metro, let alone being slower to shuffle total people than a metro, and more overall more expensive than a metro.

For reference:
[0]https://youtu.be/CQJgFh_e01g

While this isn't explicitly about the hyperloop, it gives a good similar line with relation to the hyperloop
[1]https://youtu.be/5OtKEetGy2Y
> I started thinking about what “evangelism” actually means.

it means "to spread the good news", and all proselytizers would do well to remember the apocryphal advice of Francis of Assisi, "tell the good news at all times; when necessary, use words".

The author of this piece concludes that

> evangelism is about being worth people’s trust

and that's quite correct.
Too early to tell.

This is a variant of concern that has only been aware in the public space for like 3 days. There's pretty much no evidence of... Anything... yet.

Gamma avoided natural immunity. Lambda could have avoided the vaccine. Etc etc. Variants and mutations like this come out all the time.

The question is if we should care. Well, no one knows yet. This is the time to start classifying and studying the variant.
Wrong: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5124998/ (also see footnote 1).
Yeah, I also think that my approach might have been less obvious if I hadn't already completed a college major in a different subject.
Not suprising, I have to assume it was microsoft who pushed 343 to push out the giant dark pattern that is Halo Infinate.
If any portion of "secure-from-user" display chain gets broken, including nerfing intel ME, Widevine won't provide higher support than IIRC "Level 1" and Netflix (and other streaming websites) won't provide anything above 720p.

Of course forget about it on anything other than windows (maybe mac?)
I bought one 20 yrs ago because I thought it would become useful. I've never had to use it. It's just taking up space.

I agree. You should buy what you need when you need it not because it's cheap and you think it will be useful.

If you must then put the money aside in a savings account ready to use it if you need to buy the item.
If your money making is at the detriment of society as a whole then there very much is something wrong with it.
Java has been using this approach with new reserved identifiers like `var` and `record` in the interest of backwards compatibility.

JavaScript has done something similar with its `await`, `let`, etc
I still try to acquire blu-rays not because I actually want to collect them but because it provides an opportunity to get the best quality with minimal loss of my freedoms(no tracking, no BS with DRM restrictions, I can toss their online player where it belongs: in the trash).

Once acquired, I then take the disc data and strip its own DRM off of it. Now I have the content with the absolute best quality and can just sit back and play it in my preferred player. Obviously this is a hassle compared to just clicking play on Netflix/buying online but I am still enjoying the ability while it lasts. After all, with declining sales of Blu-ray and 4K UHD Blu-Ray seeming like its a bust, there are probably only a few years left until we lose this avenue of control of our media.
MAMAA
> It is ridiculous and baseless to compare it to obesity which is not causing any significant strain on the hospital system like COVID is.

Wrong[1][2][3][4]. I get that it may not be politically convenient for you, but let's not mince words: obesity is killing many more people than COVID ever did or ever will.

[1] https://www.cardinalhealth.com/en/essential-insights/obesity....

[2] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111302...

[3] https://www.the-hospitalist.org/hospitalist/article/123191/o...

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/04/obesity-putt...
There's something clearly wrong with the code samples: look at the </string> "closing tags" which somehow sneaked in in line 17 of the first sample
It's DRM requirement
HP 8566B spectrum analyzer and 8510C network analyzer. HP RPN calculators. Really any late 80’s and early 90’s HP test equipment. Built like tanks and designed by engineers for engineers.
The average user doesn't want a web browser with only basic features, they want all of the web to work, all of the time (excepting maybe ads.)
F# is really, really bleeding into C#. There'll be a convergence, for all intents and purposes, by about C# 15 at this rate.
Read about the differences in mutation for maesles and corona viruses and you'll probably never make this comparison again.
It started from an extremely low base.
And extrapolating that curve is completely wrong as you can see from today numbers. 2.8k compared to yesterday 2.4K.
It’s obviously still early to know anything conclusive but the relatively small increase today is a very good sign.
We’ll know something more next week.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...

There's one from Stanford & Yale that says they do.
> If we couldn't overcome it after a year of lockdowns, why is this gonna be the time it changes?

Lockdowns are not about overcoming it; they're about saving lives. I think it's fair to say that the lockdowns saved quite a lot of them. Looking at how the death charts correlate with lockdown impositions might support this viewpoint.
I'm afraid that, to my mind, it doesn't matter whether the goal is to discriminate or not. The discrimination itself is a problem, and we'd be better agreeing that this is a place we will not go to, no matter the end.
And it would make even more sense to just pay for a VPN subscription, since they're cheaper than $4 per month.
Caprice32 core DLC added [RetroArch Steam]
I cannot stand how everything with internet access is just becoming a vehicle to shove ads down everyone’s throat. This web browser wants to sell me credit deals. My expensive TV has banner ads in the menus (well, it did until I blocked about two dozen domains). An increasing amount of apps are sending “offers” I never requested via push notifications on my phone.

My belongings are not a fucking corporate billboard.
> There is an increasingly great suite of all-electric options out there, cars like the Chevrolet Bolt EUV, Ford Mustang Mach-E…

Starting that list with the Volt, a car whose production has been halted, had fire issues to the point of the manufacturer recommending not to park anywhere close to homes or other cars (!), plus the Mach-E that had a recall for the roof falling off, doesn’t inspire much confidence.
Is the PL/I alternate return fundamentally different from Fortran's (or FORTRAN's in those days)?
>Speculation on my part but I wouldn’t be surprised if those kinds of requirements are mainly there to appease motion picture industry partners who Netflix is licensing content from.

Quite likely, but why I, the end user, would ever care about that?

it just degrades my experience.
Here in Canada all the modem/router combo units from large providers are gigabit for LAN. In pretty sure that it's been that way for at least 5 years.

I'm pretty sure new PCs and laptops have had gigabit standard for probably about 10 years.

Enthusiast and prosumer motherboards are now coming with 2.5 gigabit networking.
Wow that's amazing coverage and will be a great resource someday for seeing how the news and the policy happened over the course of today. Thus far. Excellent work.
Race core DLC added [RetroArch Steam]
vaxed or waxed, no. That's not how immunity works.
Yes, Android is in fact one of the major contributors to that 'tipping point' I was mentioning.
Whenever people are predicting the end of the world because of some political or cultural upheaval, I think about the internet, or airport security. There are really simple ways that any idiot could totally fuck up either of them and cause catastrophic problems. But it doesn't happen. What that shows is that the potential for catastrophe has nothing to do with catastrophe actually happening. Even if the world could fall apart around you at any moment, it's probably not going to.
The world survived the 1918 flu without any vaccines and only sporadic and limited social distancing... but it killed 50 million people. That sucks, and we can do better.

Societies survive these things, usually; it's people who die.
Read the study, not a press release. It said quite explicitly that cloth masks had no effect, and surgical masks had an extremely minor overall effect (11.3% reduction in symptomatic seroprevalence), with an absolute effect size of 0.09%:

https://www.poverty-action.org/sites/default/files/publicati...
It does, a least in my case (AMD RX580 with distro amdgpu driver).
Not the commenter above, but I don't really want to support Facebook's attempt to dodge bad press with a name change.

I'll stick with FAAMG.
> Farmers complain that they capture only a small fraction of the value of food as eaten

They’re still not wrong. The difference between what they get paid for a potato and what I pay for a bag is quite extreme.

I think it’s quite a bit different than say, gasoline vs barrel of oil, or iPhone at Bestbuy vs what Apple gets paid, or lower-end clothing.

I get that potato is low value/lb, but I’m thinking the same applies as you go up the value/lb for raw things.
> The EU tech sector needs to build something better. LibreOffice and Linux as it stands is not it. I tried over and over again to use it but it’s just not good.

Can you elaborate?

I have had quite a nice experience on the Linux ecosystem and with LibreOffice too.

But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™. I do concede that Excel pushes that point further down the road with what I remember to be better performance when working with bigger files, but by no means something so drastic.
It's pretty clear at this point that restrictions and masks help reduce the spread. Of course it's another question how does that balance out in the longer term, e.g. how did the lockdowns affect the economy, or the mental and physical healtht of people.
These travel bans serve to slow down the spread, but at the expense of keeping thousands of families separated and harming diplomacy between countries. Even air cargo has taken a big hit. And aviation has barely opened up, now to be put on hold again. The long term consequences of slowing a virus from entering a country for make a week or two are not being considered.
Ask HN: Thoughts – will Microsoft ever publish Excel for Linux?
For almost all my use cases, the online version of Office is wonderful. Yes, there is advanced functionality in Word, in Powerpoint, etc. that aren't 100% compatible, but wow, what a fantastic accomplishment by the Microsoft team in making it available by browser.

It would be incredible if MS could publish Excel on Linux. What are the technical limitations preventing this?
>"I think until [those] that run the EU find some time between their Brussels [meetings and conferences] to encourage innovation inside the EU borders, we'll only be using fines and legalese to even the playing field with the rest of the world."

The real question is what the limits of government support and 'encouragement' are. It seems like governments are capable of enacting massive infusions of capital into stable industries, but there aren't many cases where the government itself created 'innovation'.

There are arguments to be made around semiconductors and the military (and similar examples), but that was mostly the government fostering the demand side, not really 'taking charge'. There is no lack of demand for software products in the EU, but there does seem to be a distinct lack of innovation.
> This is precisely what I have already said in my first post, i.e. that standardized languages like C/C++ are forced to specify only the minimal features that are available on all operating systems, so they cannot include WaitForMultipleEvents, while PL/I was free of such portability concerns,

I think you missed my point. WaitForMultipleEvents is not part of a thread API on any platform. It's a part of the platform API, and is used by single-threaded and multi-threaded code. There's no reason for pthreads (or any other thread API) to represent this system call, because the system call either exists, and can be used directly, or does not exist, and cannot be used.

In essence, you're really just noting that POSIX (not pthreads) never had a wait-for-just-about-anything API. That's a legitimate complaint, just not very relevant for multithreaded programming.

> This is not surprising

Well, given that you said "This is almost never what you want.", I'd count it as least a little surprising. My point was that multi-join is not "almost never what you want", but has always been "useful in certain contexts". I have never come across a multi-join API that blocks until all threads have completed (they typically return when any of the specified threads completes), and so the difference in efficiency for this version of multi-join is essentially identical to a loop+single-join.

>This has historical roots from the first UNIX versions written for DEC computers.

I don't see much evidence for this claim. task_t exists in early versions of AIX and Mach, and the terminology was already common in Multics (as you know). I don't think that Linux' use of task_t has any relationship to the Ultrix use, but maybe you have some specific insight here?
Do you have any evidence of a significant covid outbreak being traced to grocery shopping?
That's incorrect. Here is a review of 19 RCTs showing that masks work: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/
I have the same one. It's great. Simple, well-made, and makes a good cup. And I prefer stainless given the potential health risks of aluminum.
Agreed. Please unbundle everything!
How does he (or people in general) pronounce arxiv?
Pretty in this context mostly means predictable, which does have an effect. If you are called to fix a broken connection and you get a rats nest it will take a lot longer and might impact other users.
So Sweden had proportionately 5 times more deaths for not locking down with a death / population ratio of 0.00145? I don't think it's ridiculous to consider not locking down with those stats.

Locking down has tremendous costs whether mental or economic, you just can't compute and make a nice graph of it.
We were close to clearing out measles in western countries until the anti-vax movement came along. These days, not so much.
You’re wrong. If say One Wilshire[1] or one of the very few other carrier hotels in its class abruptly ceased existing the Internet would be wrecked and rebuilding would be a matter of months at the very best. It doesn’t matter how many peers a big telco has when the supermajority of backbone peerings are in a handful of buildings.

[1] https://one-wilshire.com/
11.3% reduction in the base of an exponential process is huge.
They said “If I operate a machine shop”.

So presumably just another programmer making up an analogy with insufficient background knowledge so that we can nitpick the details of it.
I think their point was that J and SQL target different domains, and each will be stronger in its respective domain. If I want to join two tables, filtering on some value, sorting, and viewing the first ten results, SQL will likely be the cleaner syntax. If I want to apply a polynomial function to a list of values, and calculate the standard deviation of the result, J will be much cleaner.

There's some similarity, at a high level, with how they work. But it doesn't really make sense to say one is, overall, better than the other, because they don't solve the same problem. It's like saying a hammer is better than a screwdriver.