skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advent is a season of the liturgical year observed in most Christian denominations as a time of expectant waiting and preparation for both the celebration of the Nativity of Christ at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity, and is part of the wider Christmas and holiday season.
There are plenty of distros of Linux that have fully removed binary blobs [1]. As far as I am aware, it wouldn't be allowed to fork Mathematica and remove all proprietary blobs.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
> Hey I am Johannes and I talk to humans and machines!

Dear Johannes, you should know that you're great at marketing, too! One of the best headlines I've seen in a while :)

It might be helpful to mention where you are usually located, so people that want to hire you have a sense of the timezone you work in.
FYI, people have been posting about this on stackoverflow meta going back at least 8 years: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/200177/a-site-or-sc...
I'm a record producer and co-owner of a general contracting company and I don't work in tech. The things that drew me to HN over ten years ago was 1) The breadth of intellectually stimulating essays and articles 2) The quality of discussion around said articles and 3) The quality of moderation and the culture that upholds it.

For the intellectually curious I don't know many other places in which to have these discussion online. Everything else seems to be corrupted in one way or another (trashy/unfocused content, poor/zero moderation, community not large or diverse enough).

If y'all know of another place that satisfies my three criteria above please let me know.
Right. That's why I won't sign a job offer until the background checks are done. Not that there's anything of concern: every one has come back clean as can be, but I just don't like to take any chances.

Companies usually fuss about it, but I insist, and among quite a few orgs over the past 25 years I've never had one pass because I refused to sign prior to background check.
That's a good point.

I was thinking more generally: "someone drinks milk, they get sick, they don't drink it, don't die".
Wait to call the fire department until you're sure the photos have burned.

(No, I'm not serious; this is terrible advice!)
You're the one that has no idea what Advent means in western European culture
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I think that the death rate stays intake in the best case scenario. It could be higher than the Delta rate though, we don't know yet. But you know, I have no reasons to believe that we are so lucky, and even importantly, we deserve the best case scenario. US is crazy. Courts all over the country halt COVID protections measures. Republicans in the house don't want to prevent the government shutdown because of the vaccine mandates for private sector. Anti-vaxx rhetoric is stronger than ever before. So, people continue to die because dysfunctional government can't get their sh*t together. One party goes all-in with cultural war, conspiracy theories and sabotages everything. The other party is so weak that they can't execute the agenda of their own president.
I’ve been using a MacBook Pro as a daily driver for about 6 years.

I had a 2015 MacBook Pro, and I upgraded once to the new 2019 MacBook Pro. Then, my company got me the new 16” that came out this year.

I write design and write software in my day job, including iOS. I also write cross platform code in C++ and Rust, and I do some data work/Spark in Scala.

My work involves using the Jetbrains products, and I use iTerm2 with ohmyzsh. I also use Omnigraffle for designs and white boarding.

It’s a wonderful experience. In terms of negatives, I hated carrying a dongle with my 2019 MacBook Pro, and the docking station I had would sometimes cause a crash. Other than that, no issues. I would rank the machines in order of the latest MacBook Pro, the 2015, and then the 2019.

Obviously the 2019 was a massive step up from the 2015, but the lack of usable ports and having to carry dongles was an annoyance.
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Let me start with general: Companies aren't people.

We tend to ascribe... personalities to large companies; explain them in single sentences. IBM is old and stodgy, Oracle has awful licensing practices, Amazon has (great cloud | shoddy warehouse employment practices | too much counterfeit goods) depending on perspective, etc. Sometimes we mix up Musk and Tesla. Overall, we tend to put a simple descriptive sentence over companies, just like we do over politics and history etc. We must, it's how we make sense of the world :).

But in a company of tens and hundreds of thousands of employees, cultures and perspectives and motivations can differ significantly. It'll be a complex landscape. Not all of IBM is stodgy anymore than all of Google is cool. And I've been amused there's a guy in Amazon who maintains PeopleSoft HR just like there's guy in Government of Canada who maintains PeopleSoft HR :-). The IBM guys designing hardware who test their work by putting radioactive material under the computer and seeing how CPUs behave? not so old and stodgy, in my mind :D . There's also some genuine good hard work on occasionally boring stuff like RDBMS engines & optimizers, compilers and OSs for obscure boxes, and I am pretty grateful to folks who write p-series firmware because watching a live production sync and migration is exciting stuff, as well as OS/390 / z/OS/VM guys who are probably chuckling at the "Virtualization" and "Cloudiness" things we all think are shiny and new and cool:). Don't know enough to speak about the quantum thing, I suspect there's a core of innovation wrapped in unfortunate marketing bollocks, as there was for "Watson" (which I find easier to think of "branding for semi-related suite of created and acquired products, some good some average some ugly" rather than "AI that won Jeopardy").

For myself, FWIW, people around me have much more immediate impact on my working satisfaction, than overall corporate average/stereotype. And I've worked with excited enthusiastic peers, been surrounded by experienced leaders who provided extensive mentorship, and done some personally exciting stuff (inasmuch as "pushing 1's and 0's around and making computers go bleep bloop" is exciting:). I've had times when I worked on personally technologically exciting things; and I've been in places and worked for clients where it's all molasses and quagmire and politics and procedures; I've tried to force myself to learn something about all, and I feel I've gained a certain perspective... but we each have our own perspective and priorities and where I've found satisfactions others would only find frustrations. But what it comes down to - I've been surrounded by sufficient percentage of people competent and motivated (even if in ways and fields that HN stereotypically would not always necessarily respect), to enjoy myself on average :).
Bus Simulator 21: We should pay bus drivers more
The worst of all are those websites that only show the content in search engine. When you click the link to their webpages, you can only see random texts have nothing to do with the search result at all. There must be some really narcissistic programmers behind these.
WebGL 2 in Safari does run on Metal. WebGL 1 also runs on Metal. Apple contributors added support to ANGLE to use a Metal back end and it’s enabled by default in the latest Safari.
This kind of thing generally requires a level of sophistication around data preservation and software tool use that many people don't have. So, the chances that things don't go according to plan have probably gone up.

It's still hard to beat paper for these types of applications.
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I've seen several developers google "w3schools someDomEvent" because they are conditioned by those search results. Has it accidentally become a halfway useful site?
PG considered them a special case of linkbait. Which is the only other time you are supposed to modify the title.
> So yes, being vaccinated does not mean you’re free to act like we did two years ago.

When are you free to do that? Covid is never going away, there's nothing else to wait for.

Is the answer to that just never?
ddg has the same issue though
So when you really live there, where is your corporeal form? Floating in a nutrient broth? If so, I'd prefer chicken flavored over the beef or vegetarian options please.
Is this really saying for 2021, the first solution to the first problem came in 30 seconds after being posted? That's insane!
It's not just about feeling smart and superior, it also helps them feel invulnerable. People victim-blame smokers who get lung cancer because they don't want to think about the chance they might get it too.
I understand your take, but I would rather see the HN community's take on it rather than Reddit's. There are Google and Apple insiders, actual lawyers, repair techs, and more here. Even tangential threads can be interesting.
This cannot be used as an argument against vaccination though. The same thing happens if the population has a high percentage of people who got sick with covid, except that in that case there is a much higher death toll.
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The grandparent comment is an example of the kind of “middlebrow dismissal” [1] that isn’t really welcome here.

It sets the tone with dismissive snark (“find and dandy”), then implicitly asserts that the project is not interesting because it’s not production-ready.

Of course it’s obvious to everyone here that version 0.2 beta software is not production-ready, so obvious that comments to that effect are at best superfluous, at worst annoying.

But its production-readiness is clearly not the focus of the discussion, rather its novelty and potential is. That’s what makes it interesting and worth discussing here.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
Node can run multi-process with the Cluster module. Node being written as a monolith but running it in 100 instances is also an option. Roles can be implemented in software. There's much less "orchestrating complexity" when you're deploying a single service.

So Node being single-threaded is not itself a reason to use microservices.

I tend toward writing a monolith for the core API of a service, but then break out microservices for tasks that need to scale independently (or that need to run on high-memory/high-performance instances, for example). So I'm not totally against using microservices. But we should choose to use them when they're to our advantage to use them, not just "because they're already written that way."
I think the fact that $amzn didn't move on this news is proof that hedge fund's have done a bad job of updating their 'facebook' web scrapers to read the word 'meta' in context.
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Disclaimer: I work on the team at Google responsible for the open source translator engine that runs under WebGL (ANGLE)

WebGL on Linux requires the OpenGL backend until eventually Vulkan is supported well enough.

Apple's WebGL2-on-Metal approach involves the same translator engine I work on, and was very much a collaborative effort between Google, Apple, and external contributors. Chrome will adopt this in the future after integration work is finished.

I can confirm that browser GPU programmers are definitely spread pretty thin just ensuring compatibility and reliability across all platforms
Once you start throwing around terms like "basic infosec", I think you need to recognize that the vast majority of people in the world won't even know what that term means. And shouldn't have to. It's up to us (the more technically-minded people) to protect them by helping to drive change, both in legislation, and technical measures to make it so people don't need to trust these big corporations. That's our failure, though I certainly recognize that this is a difficult thing to do.
Something you may be more familiar with is people's concept that someone that "knows computers" is familiar with any and every sort of task that involves a computer whereas in fact this could encompass a wide variety of different skills that require an individual investment of time.

The same can be said of medicine where encompasses a very broad set of skills. Your doctor may have been an expert in sports medicine or brain surgery but it doesn't automatically make him competent and epidemiology. It also doesn't force him to pay attention to current developments in the news which is likely what informed your opinion. Personally I found it was completely obvious in January that we would be dealing with a crisis because I followed the situation and suspect strongly that your doctor friend did not.

There is also the issue of survivor-ship bias. We worry about many things and we will absolutely recall the times our worry was justified and forget when it we are mistaken. If Yellowstone ever blows there will be many people who knew it was just around the corner and this will be true if it blows now or in a century, whether or not we have any scientific basis for the thought process.

TLDR: A singular doctor of unknown specialty getting it wrong in January isn't a flaw in science. Science isn't expected to be very good at ensuring a single expert of only tangential expertise gives you the right answer whereas it is reasonable good groups sometimes slowly arriving at increasingly correct answers. If you want a more correct answer consider consulting or reading what several people of relevant expertise who are up to the minute on current information have to say.
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I'm also ok with an internship role or working on something as a sample before discussing further.
Yup, that sucks.

It's the Tragedy of the commons. And IFAIK there's no way to solve it without charging for everything.
There are lots of simple things that are normally easier to do in the web framework that are suddenly easier to do in the database (with the side effect that you can do DB optimizations much easier).

But the other consideration is that you likely need to do a lot with a reverse-proxy like traefik to have much control of what you are really exposing to the outside world. PostgREST is not Spring, it doesn't have explicit control over every little thing so you're likely to need something in front of it. Anyway, point is that having a simple Flask server with a few endpoints running wouldn't complicate the architecture very much b/c you are better off with something in front of it doing routing already (and ssl termination, etc).
Reminds me a little of an oldie but a goodie: expertsexchange.com
Something to keep in mind is the rate of people near death from other serious diseases who will not be willing, or might not be given the vaccine, because of their already compromised immune system and weakened state.

If you have terminal cancer, with a few weeks to live are you even going to bother to take the vaccine? If you end up in the hospital in your last few weeks before death, good chance you will get covid there too. This is why I'm skeptical. Even if you show twice the rate of vaccinated dying. We are talking about such small numbers 30 vs 60 / 100,000 that its not at all clear its just not selection bias.

The requirement to have two doses to be counted as vaccinated could also be hiding a spike in deaths after the first vaccine. Its possible to have a graph that goes up, than goes down. Meaning the first vaccine shot kills of the very weak. Some people with compromised immune systems are not able to mount a proper immune response to any vaccine.
The very sick people admitted to the hospital that are immediately vaccinated on admission, than then live on survive the first dose of the vaccine, will be a subgroup of those healthier ones anyway.

Most of the dying from Covid are sick 80 year olds with comorbidities. You could probably ask these people to tie their shoe laces on hospital admission, and show far better statistical outcomes. Then go on to claiming teaching people to tie shoes laces saves lives. When in fact you're just doing a fitness test.
Sure.

But note also that there are people one might be willing to gamble on employing at $12/hour but that don't offer a positive return at capital at $15/hour.

I think minimum wage laws are important, but that reducing the supply of labor will do more to push up the wages of the lowest earners.
But if the phone doesn't come with a card pre-installed, people are going to complain that it doesn't work, or that they didn't know they had to purchase a card.

Unless it comes with a card, but the card is not inserted, so the user has to do it before booting up the phone
I was under the impression, based on the existence of outward-facing surveillance cameras from business and Amazon Ring and whatnot, that there was a general right to record anything whatsoever as long as it is happening in public. There are obviously some limitations, but they all relate to national security, i.e. if you go around taking pictures of military installation perimeter security, even from outside the perimeter on publicly accessible land, you're gonna get your camera confiscated and be brought in for questioning. Otherwise, it is seemingly impossible to guarantee freedom of the press if you don't have freedom to record events taking place in public view. The police can't wipe human memory, so the only conceivable reason to prevent filming is to degrade the quality of evidence any time police activity falls under investigation, which can't seriously be considered a legitimate goal of government.
FWIW, I didn't find writing a TCP stack any fun..

Standards are more a guidance.

(or were, back then)
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Just like pretty much every other thing online Google (search) is constantly in danger of being run over by people acting in bad-faith to game the system.

Of course their actions have not been perfect but it is a mistake to say that their search would be better as a "plain old algorithm" no matter how well-engineered it is.

I'm certain that search results would be worse than they are now if the algorithm was just "grep but for the whole internet". Or that, in that case, the careful complexity necessary in each search to exclude all the SEO garbage would be unbearable.
Yeah, but we care a lot a lot less about the company's secrets than customer secrets.
How about a State felony case that has taken nearly two years?
There's a difference between victim blaming and protecting oneself against the world. The sad reality is that systems in society don't always work the way they're supposed to, whether that be companies being egregiously unprofessional when working on user's devices, or police showing up to an armed burglary long after the events have transpired and lives were harmed/lost.