skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a ridiculous cop-out. Dev work is very regimented for many of us; we have a half dozen regular agile meetings, deployment schedules, etc. The process for code getting accepted and deployed is well-established.

It's very easy to establish a standard response time for getting back to candidates or tell them when you're going to make a selection, and to communicate and enforce a timeline for things like sending and signing documents. I could literally automate most of the process.
> There are so many other cities with more crime and violence but Chicago is the preferred choice when you want to agitate and alarm.

I'm not sure what cities have more crime and violence than Chicago. But if commenting on Chicago is off limits, what cities do people have your blessing to comment on? I would never want to agitate and alarm.
Yes, working on cryptographic and consensus protocols is very similar to punching babies

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Thanks for this paper! This is exactly what I was looking for.
It's not even just gaming or priority. As others mention, it just straight up ignores substantial search terms or interprets them only to sell mainstream crap. It will return nothing rather than obscure terms that are present on the web.
I think of carpentry more like building a deck or a shed and woodworking is more of building a bench or a bookcase.

Even with woodworking things end up not square and fixing/hiding those mistakes is part of the project, just using a smaller scale than carpentry.
> Covid is already just another common cold for the young.

> Covid infection fatality rate for children is on the order of 1/100,000, similar to influenza or varicella (chicken pox)

Aren't flu and chicken pox an order of magnitude or two (or three?) more deadly than the common cold in children?
If you have something to hide, don't give a copy to any third-party.

even a second-party is a risk.
Yeah, I can't confirm it, but the weirdest I think I've seen is in r/science about research that was funded by the meat industry saying that a diet with meat is healthier than vegetarianism or veganism.

The study was poorly done and there were tons of comments pushing the same message: "vegetarians/vegans are annoying hipsters who will lecture you for eating meat and they'll be so deservedly upset by this."

Found it and most of those comments are deleted now (https://redd.it/qskxol). Is the meat industry losing a sizable chunk of profits to more people swearing off meat for moral reasons, or ditching meat as a financial decision?

Edit: Threw that link into a website that restores deleted comments (https://www.reveddit.com/v/science/comments/qskxol/meat_cons...).

Mods deleted all references to fact that the study was funded by a beef company. Blatant corruption?
Bugs and grad student software aside, ask anyone who thinks they can rely on a model to predict the future to implement a model of: a simple pendulum, a double pendulum, the three body problem, the stock market, and then finally the climate.

Those are roughly in order of difficulty, and if they fail at an earlier one, you shouldn't trust the later ones. The first one isn't even chaotic, and I wouldn't trust a model built from first principles alone to be in phase past a dozen cycles or so.

You can curve fit things after the fact (interpolation), but extrapolation is always on shaky ground.
Different languages have different colloquialisms.
How does this work from a regulatory standpoint?
Most countries license frequency bands to dedicated operators under very specific conditions. These operators usually pay a lot of money for that and need to provide a certain degree of public coverage.
If an arthritis remedy video has 11K likes, but 250K likes, that suggests there is some problem with the content of the video. Those users should be clicking "report" rather than "dislike".
ARM in general is available. But good ARM is only in proprietary walled gardens.

Compare RaspberryPi or Snapdragon with Apple M1.
It says Telegram has no message content. Isn't telegram not E2EE by default, instead required explicit steps to make a conversation encrypted?

Either way looks like Signal wins by a lot. The size of it spot is so small, it seems almost squeezed in. But only because they have nothing to share.
> Ylu shouldn't always just blurt out your gomut reactions

case in point :-)
Nathan Lineback has an article with more screenshots on his site. His review is over 20 years old now.
http://toastytech.com/guis/dvx.html
I got assigned to build a flash video player
Covid is the goose of the golden eggs. As long as the Big Pharma is making money, Covid is here to stay.
i would suggest to follow Ben Eater's 8 bit computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBy...
and would strongly recommend to build it (you can see the parts on his website https://eater.net/ or buy the whole kit)
but we are talking in the context of a project which specifically aims to do these things without the baggage of other platforms. And these things are BMC functions.
> Has there even been a refence who was not in awe about the demi-god-genius-philanthropist that they are asked about?

I’ve only checked maybe 50-100 developer references over the years, but I can think of at least 3 that sunk the candidate outright and many more that were lukewarm. Enthusiastic references were uncommon and stood out.
Ask HN: MongoDB is a re:Invent partner?
I noticed that Mongodb figures prominently in the sponsor list for re:Invent. That was not something I expected to see considering AWS support for the earlier mongodb open source code. Anyone have any background on if they've made up?
Where can I find the "Verbatim" option?
best thing is that you dont own the antenna, so Amz will prob rent out the remaining capacity.
Autism is actually hard to fake and requires a diagnosis.
Can you turn that off if you have icloud or do you need to not use icloud all together?
Ok it seems clear that you are reacting strongly to that line, to the point that you can't engage with what the article is actually saying. And that's fine! Sorry to waste the time even trying.
Omicron already in the Netherlands a week before South Africa alerted the WHO
One approach that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort
I mean your technically right to question because the only thing which can increase deaths are births ultimately as everything else 'just' moves them forward, but I think it was quiet clear what they meant.
This is patently false.

Seattle passed a sugar tax several years ago and has already measured a significant decline in sugary drink consumption in lower income demographics, https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/news/lower-income-sea...

Incidentally, the people who fight these kinds of regulations tend to be the same conservatives who also whine about how the CDC is telling people to mask up, socially distance, and get vaccinated rather than exercise more and eat healthier.
> The only winning move is not to play

It has infact come to this. A lot of people whom I met at hackathons don't participate anymore and it took me a while to realise that this was because hackathons aren't what they used to be.
C++. I've dabbled in C and old C++ since I've started programming, but I've never really felt like I learnt the language. I'm thinking of going though Meyers' most recent ed. of Effective Modern C++.
Back end developers are not needed in general.

(Ducks from all the rotten vegetables being thrown at me)

It was a joke, everyone!

(I am a front end developer and I like teasing back end folks)
> If your name is Kevin and you are the one sending on the messages, where is “Kevin” in the above text?

It’s not, but if it was radio calls:

Jack, this is Kevin, clean the shelves, over.
Kevin, this is Jack, wilco, out.

Which is analogous to asynchronous message passing on a shared bus; but even then its still (in programming terms) like (using hypothetical syntax):

receiver<from:sender>.message(message_data)

With typical in-band request-response message sending, there is no need to specify the sender, as a return goes back to the sender implicitly. (And programming platforms that do use asynchronous message passing typically don’t make the sender explicitly identify itself, though the receiver does typically get a handle for the sender to respond to, so it looks something like the above from the receiver side, if not the sender side.)
You and the person you are communicating with must both not use iCloud backup. And since apple pushes the backup features pretty heavily, you can be reasonable sure that the person you are communicating is using backups. IE, you cannot use iMessage.
All else being equal, then very clearly yes. You could perhaps try to incorporate predictions of more indirect effects of longer lives (like increased reproduction rates and population) to argue that it could somehow cancel out, but that would take a lot of work to be convincing.
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The mask advice didn't change because of any new evidence. It changed because the public health authorities stopped being worried about health care providers not having enough PPE. The real problem was that in the first place, instead of lying and saying masks did not work (which they knew was false at the time), they should have said "Yes, masks work, but the highest risk people are health care workers so we are using the government's eminent domain power to commandeer supplies of PPE until we know all health care workers have enough, so until that happens it will be very difficult for private individuals to obtain masks."
California should have closed the lane once a year for one minute to run a single vehicle down the carpool lane in the wrong direction. Then they could justify that the lane marking was the right color (since in theory, the lane can be reverse-flow at any time, and hey sometimes they even do it).
Here are the key differences between 5G and Wifi:
1. Dedicated vs shared spectrum. Though all big countries have shared spectrum initiatives for 5G too but it is still not a free for all like Wifi. So interference-wise 5G might be better for some use cases. Have heard about that in several shipping ports where Private 5G is deployed
2. Security. Due to the usage of SIM but Wifi security is good too
3. Range - though most of 5G is in comparable frequency ranges with Wifi, there is a huge range of powers at which 5G base stations can transmit so range is possibly larger for 5G

But it all depends on use-case and there is no clear winner for all situations.
Yea because amazon isn't used to entering markets with small margins.

/s
It's money that decides.
Good point! I’ve been excited to see where light field tech leads on the practical side of things. If indeed they’re able to overcome the resolution limitations using AI assist then this is a great step forward!
Just going by your IFR figures for Covid, without even considering hospitalisations and long term effects, it is certainly not just another common cold for the young.

Furthermore, we don't know what if any protection childhood infection would give later in life - certainly reinfection in adults is common, with no guarantee that symptoms are less severe.

To take any approach that allows the widespread circulation of Covid is reckless at best at this moment, particularly when we do have the tools available to us to control it (mandatory vaccination and targeted lockdowns).
Sources? From https://ssl.law.uq.edu.au/journals/index.php/maritimejournal... I read something rather different:

> CO2 is the main greenhouse gas emitted by ships. Methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from ship engines have a minor global warming role compared with CO2. Further, SOx, NOx, PM and VOC also have a minor role in global warming. Particulate matter arising from SOx emissions has a potential cooling effect and/or creates local climate disturbance (see section 6.1). The sulphur content of marine fuels will decrease due to IMO MARPOL Annex VI and other measures.

Page 27 says:

> Fuglestvedt et al[10] claim net cooling for shipping. Bows pointed out that their methodology was flawed as they did not account for cumulative effect of CO2[11]. That is, CO2 that has accumulated goes on accumulating, but other pollutant concentrations remain steady. The sulphate particulates have a relatively short lifetime in the atmosphere in terms of global warming.

[11] is http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13157-transport-emissi... .
The problem with this approach is that it pushes out a lot of people, especially women and minorities. When you are conditioned from birth to believe that you belong somewhere, a bit of criticism like this is easily brushed off. White men especially are used to seeing board rooms full of similar looking people, or equally homogenous computer engineering teams. We don't often stop to question if we belong in a STEM field. We assume it.

When you've had to fight for your seat at the table, having your idea called stupid by a high ranking faculty member might rattle you enough to leave. Not because you don't deserve to be there, or are somehow intrinsically less capable of receiving criticism, but because you don't have the misplaced confidence of some of your peers.
> heads of state to Nobel Prize winners to A-list celebrities

I'm reminded of my OH's retort to someone reportedly claiming fluency in multiple languages, "Great, but do they have anything interesting to say in any of them?"

I'm just not interested in Twitter as a source of information. For me, it's a last-ditch-saloon means to complain to companies who can't or won't publish a customer services email address. That's all.
Culture of maintenance and tech debt reduction
Hah, this tale about Guy Consolmagno makes it feel even more appropriate that in my second or third reread I'm mostly sure that I accidentally left my copy of your book behind on a school trip to the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery. Seemed an interesting place to lose that book at the time, and more so now.
I wish Amazon would stop naming things "serverless" that clearly have a well defined type and number of servers at any point. That includes Redshift Serverless and Aurora Serverless. If it has a cluster, it isn't serverless it is just autoscaling. Every time they announce a serverless product I'm assuming that it will be like Lambda and am mostly disappointed. For example, a real Aurora Serverless would be more like CockroachDB Cloud or DynamodDB. And a real Redshift Serverless would be more like BigQuery.
> Can anyone please recommend a good front end framework/tool for a backend dev?

Next.js + deploy to Vercel - great dev experience.
well, that's definitely going into all my future Call of Cthlhu games whenever a shꙮggꙮth is mentioned...
That's actually hilarious - that list isn't bad!
Thanks for the kind words! And yes, indeed we feel that the combination with delivery services makes a significant difference. By improving the inspiration experience and doing the related shopping on your behalf, we’re trying to deliver a smooth and successful cooking and dinner experience without the hassle. We believe that this is critical for a service like ours.

And in addition, as you pointed out, with each order we learn from the integrated shopping about the user’s preferences which enables us to continuously improve the service over time.
Right to work laws in no way limit who can or can not be hired. Everyone is still free to associate, or not associate, with whomever they want. All it means is that non-union members can't be forced to pay union fees as part of their employment contract. An organization can still restrict its association to only union members, but if it chooses to associate with non-union members, it can't penalize them by charging them a fee to remain non-union members.
It isn't. It is more similar to Snowflake's warehouse model.
I have some experience building rural cellular networks (4G and starting to work on 5G), and can say that the core network part of the network is usually not the biggest challenge. There are open source cores available that actually work quite well for basic Internet access (magma has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread), and open5gs is another one. They can be deployed on lightweight edge infrastructure or in the cloud, since the computational overhead for the core is not huge for a small network (10s-100s of devices). SIM cards can be purchased pretty easily online from a variety of sources. There are even already existing turnkey solutions with a core network hosted in the cloud providing a management portal that integrates directly with like-branded radios (see Baicells).

Getting outdoor radios for rural access installed though is a bit more challenging, and I would be surprised if AWS was offering an outdoor solution here in the short term. Directional antennas and radio planning become a lot more important. There are a couple different players who will sell outdoor CBRS radios in small volume who all have pluses and minuses. CBRS is great for rural areas since there are often GAA channels available, but depending on the terrain may or may not provide huge area coverage. CBRS limits the height above average terrain and power you can deploy at. There are limits to the types of equipment and locations you can deploy without getting a professional installer certification. Getting the certification slightly raises those limits, but they are still something you need to take into account for wide-area access. You can actually get the CPI certification pretty easily via online classes offered by the different SAS (spectrum access service) providers. If you’re seriously considering founding a cellular wisp, there are some Facebook (unfortunately haha) groups out there that are pretty active and where you can get shoptalk questions answered about specific radios and technologies!

IMO the main value add from the AWS solution here is the access control, monitoring/auditing, and QoS management they are offering, which would be essential in an industrial setting, especially if running sensitive services over the network.
Almost comical what the absence of a single word can do.
> If the virus could persist viably on surfaces, handling a soiled mask properly would be absolutely critical to getting any benefit from it, and handling it improperly would be risky.

That's not a reason to tell people that masks don't work. It's a reason to tell people that masks do work, provided you take precautions A, B, and C. And you should also say why those precautions are necessary--because of the assumed risk of touch transmission--so people can apply common sense, since no amount of advice from a central authority can possibly cover all individual cases.
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This isn't what the post of talking about.

The post is talking about the fact that hackathons are no longer judged by their technical merits.

that the OP doesn't understand the value of backend developers in real world is not something that I can see from the post.
Most of the article is about semi-lattices and posets which are often most usefully described in a categorical framework. Fibonacci sequence is just a toy example to demonstrate the general concept. I have a ton of graduate level math books that torture a toy example to death because they’re concrete.
Again, there's like a hundred topics that have been omitted from history books, and saying which three of those your book doesn't cover isn't helpful if you're trying to promote a book. If I were to write a book about Ancient Egypt, I wouldn't say "I'd like to present to you my new book about Ancient Egypt. The book is NOT involved with Middle Kingdom metalworking or the lives of lower rank scribes. Thank you for your attention." or anything like that, since you'd still have no idea of what it is about. Your uncertainty about the content would have decreased very little compared to some other things I could have told you in about the same volume of text -- for example that the book was actually about the estimated quantitative economic history of Egyptian agriculture (crop yields, taxes, etc.) from Old Kingdom to Roman Egypt or something like that.
I used DESQview to run a multi-node BBS back in the day. I tried using Windows 3.1 but it was dog slow in comparison.
Bad deals and not-so-good deals
GIFs are outdated... https://old.reddit.com/user/anti-gif-bot/
I am referring to a hypothetical dockerless OCI compatability layer built on top of `guix shell --container` or `guix system container`.

I sort of got this idea from runj [0], an attempt to create an OCI compatible runtime for FreeBSD jails.

The main advantage is to use certain OCI-compatible tools (e.g. k8s) with Guix without needing to use Docker.

[0] https://samuel.karp.dev/blog/2021/03/runj-a-new-oci-runtime-...
Thanks for adding the further context here. I'd like to add context to your point:

> If the pandemic has taught us nothing else, it's that many people are staggeringly selfish and are quite willing to let other people die rather than they being mildly inconvenienced.

I don't believe that "anti-maskers", who you are probably referring to, are significantly more selfish than "maskers." If you understand that most of them truly believe masks are not helpful, and even some believe they are harmful, then to them it's more than just "I'd rather kill people than be inconvenienced." They don't believe they are killing anyone.
For a while they allowed testing negative or recovery from a prior infection to count for the green pass. Did they change that?
Thanks for the feedback! Very helpful for us to think about how we can showcase our service before the sign-up event and remove the uncertainty related to location.

Do you mind me asking: in terms of food, what would be most important to you before signup? Is it to see the quality of the recipes, or rather a test if we can make good recommendations based on your specific preferences and needs?
I don't know whether Telegram is E2EE by default (probably not.) When you do a call on telegram you are given a series of emoji and they are supposed to match what the person on the other side has, and that's supposed to indicate E2EE for that call.
Well, shoot everybody knows who you are now that that drunken tweet of yours from three years ago went viral thanks to a twitter rage mob. So, we reckon that makes you a public figure.
I would recommend mithril.js - simple comes with batteries included. and easy to start with, just include it in the script tag.
with mithril you will find it easier to transition to the big boys - react, vue, etc.
if you wanna start with the big boys, go with svelte though ecosystem is kinda small but the templates etc it's just writing html you're used to.
react if you want something ergonomic and easy to find help with - well that is before the shit called hooks
I was working at a small manufacturing company in Tennessee over my summer break from college in I think 1992 and they had decided to buy DESQview because it looked cool. It really was amazing multitasking our netware apps on it.
When the population is growing, yes. A bit of hand-wavy calculation to illustrate the phenomenon: if people die at 80, then people dying today are those born in 1931, if they died at 85 it would be people born in 1926, which were less numerous => less death. (Of course, not every one die at the same age and all, but you get the idea)
> Many devices are useful in the local network only

no amazon-made device is local only.

> I just don't like the idea that all information must be collected by any means.

I agree with your sentiment, but most devices don't really have access to much data of concern. I'd be more worried 5g bullshit is used in screens that can send ads over a smart bulb or something.
what is the motivation?
Yeah, this comment chain pretty sums up my experience. Google has become AltaVista.
Thanks for the document, so the ARM marketing just confused me. ;-)

Yes N2 is more likely than V1. N2 has the better PPA ratio.
Own CPU core is very unlikely as I am not aware of any rumors which we would have notice before.

N2 also supports ARMv9 which is nice.