skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A virus that kills the patient will still infect less people than one that doesn't.

The fact that viruses in general can spread more widely and more qiuckly doesn't change this.
My point is that the respondents may have been a self-selecting group due to a third factor, or they may just be people in general becoming more aware of this type of behavior. People who were internet addicts in the 90s are a skewed population.

My life is functionally impaired due to my homosexuality: Finding a partner is logistically difficult when your dating pool is, at best, 4% of that of others. This causes major financial and logistical impairments. Is my homosexuality the problem or is the problem a society which makes being single a difficulty? Likewise, 100 years ago, I would have spent my whole life blind. Now I live a normal life with very little in the way of visual accommodation. You cannot separate impairment from human society; humans are social animals.

Are the people in the article impaired because the internet is a problem, because of an external predisposition to addiction manifesting through internet use, or because society is impairing them?

It may be that the internet is a problem, but we aren't going to be able to answer that question unless we get rid of confounding variables.
i am not referring the game's tokenomics. Just saying why NFTs would be useful here. Proof of breeding and lineage is important for Pokemon-lite games.
> It doesn't reduce spread in a significant enough amount to make a difference

Yes, it does.

> This seems especially true with Omicron and the spread through vaccinated air travellers.

Nobody knows yet. We don't have enough data. Anyone who says something definitive about Omicron is either basing it off of a small amount of early data, or is lying to you. Things like infection rate, hospitalization and death are all lagging indicators. We do not have enough data to make such assertions yet.

> It encourages mutating variants to escape/prevail because it reduces severity so you are more likely to function socially and keep spreading it.

This we agree on - which is why vaccination is so important. It does reduce spread. Not sure where you got the idea it does not.

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E (to the person who responded to me): Your response was flagged and dead before I even came back to look, so it wasn't me. Nice try calling me "cowardly" though.

The vaccine does reduce spread of the virus(es) it is made for. That statement had little to do with omicron.

My second point about assertions still stands. I don't think my comment was that hard to decipher, and certainly didn't warrant calling me names.

Being purposefully obtuse about relatively simple concepts is generally not well received on HN. Perhaps that's why you were immediately flagged.
Earth-Sun system should radiate about 200 watts of gravitational waves continuously. One 20th that should be 10 watts of permanent deformation.

Bad news is 10 watts is not much, spread thru a large volume. Good news is its "easy" to measure the infra red radiation from Pioneer and Voyager space probes running less than a KW point source of energy.

I wonder if the gravity probe A and B missions would show those permanent deformations in their data.

Permanent deformation should be detected in large scale long term orbits, eventually?
I thought the handshake phase that sends the client options -IS- the fingerprinting phase? Which means there are only 15-35 total fingerprints for that session, no? I sense I'm missing something else... I mean, what else do you permute? The cipherstrings are already the permuted combinations of the crypto primitives.
Russia, India abandon US dollar in mutual settlements
Why does it matter to speak they built in rust in demo video? It should not matter to customers.
That problem is not unique to Microsoft, or even the software and computing industry as a whole.

I don’t believe ‘incentivised’ is the correct term either as it suggests and additional reward on top of the binary give and take between more or less software assurance in response to market demands. It’s just a business decision that everyone has to make. Even open source communities need to make a decision to expend time in one area or another.
AFAIK a security rule says that you shall run as few processes as possible to achieve your goal and keep ports closed by default. Windows (even 10) does not care about it.
Ask HN: What is the best database to use for a self-hosted GIS application?
As I am transitioning out of my father’s appraisal practice and starting my own, I am keen to modernize some of the workflow and build a second-brain to augment my own practice.

Part of this is taking work that we’ve done on spreadsheets and making it so I can have a mapped time series view of changes in the markets I serve (which help me fill out parts of the forms, and have a more informed view of how prices in different areas fluctuate over time/historically/etc). I have a bit of an SQL background, but that was more data wrangling than actual production work, so I fully understand I might not be informed on the best db for my use case.

Having it be self-hosted is my only caveat, as I would need access even if the internet is down, and I don’t trust cloud providers to do a better job than I can (used to work at one, so I am biased in that respect). Would most likely be hosting on a NAS/Synology Box connected to my Desktop.

This would be nothing customer facing and is purely for my office to use as a competitive advantage over the majority of my older peers; Many of which while technically adept to an extent, but whose processes are still tied to “the way it’s always been done”.

If there are any things I can clarify or any additional questions you might have, I’ll be keeping an eye on the thread as I’m researching the houses we’ll be appraising later this week.

Thanks for any input!
The interview is fake, but this story isn't. Years ago, when I still had to earn living by coding in C++, I complained about C++ to a friend of mine who was a well respected university professor. He said: "I know Bjarne. He is a good guy. He didn't do it deliberately."

Incidentally, back then I had to write device drivers in C++ - templates, inheritance and all. To preserve my sanity, I wrote a Perl script which converted a simple text file describing device registers into the horrible C++ code sausages.
Could it be a honey pot? Previous dark net repositories of child porn were used to find pedophiles and those creating the illegal content.
What's your take on developing a new code search instead of partnering with an existing global code graph like Sourcegraph? What are the advantages of GitHub Code Search over Sourcegraph?
My job uses https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/ and I'm generally happy with it. It has some problems with special character searches at times but generally does what I want. It's certainly better than code search in our on-prem github instance.
Likewise alchemists were all in on the philosopher's stones.
Look at: https://idownvotedbecau.se/

Personally I don't take them to heart. I often see people ask 'Why was this downvoted?', and I get that. There are comments on here that are blatant troll-like remarks and don't add to the conversation, so it's obvious why some people get downvoted. Boggles my mind that insightful, constructive comments are downvoted though.
Lead piping, galvanized steel piping with lead service lines, lead paint, your actual back yard if you live in an area that was densely populated during the leaded gasoline era, the kitschy old toys at grandma and grandpas house... the biggest issue can be just about anything, depending on your specific living environment.
https://grep.app/ is a great alternative to github's current search engine.
'Sarco' (assisted suicide pod) cleared for use in Switzerland
> in recent US history

*in recent international history.

This goes far beyond the US. The UK's Royal Family and other very high profile people all over the planet are implicated, in addition to US citizens.
> Codetermination in Germany

For some reason, at first, I read this as "Code termination" (not co-determination) and thought it was a mistranslation of some German compound noun, and I was confused.
They might have a point there about potential for declining general vaccination rates in children in future - the anti-vax movement was already seemingly gaining steam before COVID, with measles outbreaks on the West coast and other things.

Fortunately it'll be relatively easy to measure, albeit only in a few years' time.
So what would you call "design", the ups and downs of C married with UNIX porting from PDP-7 into PDP-11, or a waterfall design Algol-68 style?
They could just disable new device installs and allow existing users to continue using it. That would be enough to motivate them to correct behavior without causing an uproar. Existing users wouldn't even notice.
Doesn't it seem a pretty strong indicator that the claim they got censored for reporting on Maxwell is untrue because more popular, more credible people aren't being suspended. If the goal is to supress news about Maxwell it seems pretty clear that suspending some small anonymous account would not acheive that.
Linux tries pretty hard to use panics as an absolute last resort: there are a lot of invariant failures that are better handled by disabling drivers or subsystems, marking an impossible response as illegal and just trying to muster on, etc.

Having exception-worthy invariants become panics would probably be a nightmare, at least for idiomatic C++: every nontrivial ctor (including copies and moves) might be a panic site.
Because it's just snarky.
> Getting infected, using early treatments (even controversial ones) and recovering with a dose of natural immunity is probably better

Citation needed, as you appear to be saying that a COVID infection is preferable to a vaccination, and that is an extraordinary claim. Bonus points for using " natural immunity", a loaded term.
Facebook is incorporated in Ireland for tax purposes, as are many other US tech companies. This means that Facebook's GDPR violations are enforced by the Irish DPA. This is a conflict of interest for the Irish government: if they are not hospitable to US tech giants, they may lose their status as a favored tax haven. The Irish DPA has given all indications that it is compromised, and this is a sore point for the regulators in other major EU countries, notably France and Germany.
Or maybe he was the exception and not the rule, and by a lucky connection of Venus with Saturn had the "right" patch of land, with the "right" soil and the "right" set of "injected tree sprouts" or whatever.

I don't doubt that it can work, what I am telling you is that AFAIK it is not a "surely working" approach, if you have some land and some spare thousands Euro to invest in an experiment, it is fine, if you think that those thousands Euro will surely grow to a few tens in fifteen years, you are most probably wrong.
Oh huh. It must have moved on significantly from when I last looked at it years ago. It started of based largely on LK work.

If you look at the old code [1], it has a C++ extension & is likely compiled with a C++ compiler but the code itself is really just C. That's why cloc sometimes isn't an accurate tool for these. I don't have a sense of what the policy is but they could still be sticking with the C convention w/ C++ only utilizing things like constexpr & various other compiler pieces. They do seem to be making use of templates so it looks like there's been a lot more modernization done there.

[1] https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/9c7855e320662ad90...
> There is absolutely no way to stop the spread forever.

There's a significant difference between COVID-19/SARS-COV-2 become endemic, and it continuing as a pandemic that threatens public health systems due to caseload density. Yes, we're unlikely to get beyond it being endemic, which means that like influenza, it will continue to be an issue, but we can certainly get a point where it is "just endemic", which would be a huge improvement over the current situation.
Blockchain lets them wash their hands of theft, just say "Oops, blockchain! It's theirs now, we don't control that."

Users may consider this a bug, but from Ubisoft's side it's less responsibility.
Better is the worst enemy of good. Please suggest a different metric then. One that can be measured easily and will do about as well as the biased infected numbers or one which will do better than the biased infected numbers at a similar effort.

There is little control theoretic relevance of the Dunkelziffer smoothly varying between 2 and 6 as long as that doesn't make the controller overlook a wave (it doesn't). The sign of the policy should still be the same and if measures don't work, harder measures are imposed means we basically got a PI(D) controller and can achieve stationary solutions even if the Dunkelziffer changes smoothly.
>> it's extremely difficult to simply quantify the work in such a way to see it as a value add.

Which is often the case even in product development. They know the existing product is only going to be useful for the next few years. They know they need something new to build on the line. But somehow the development of that new thing is seen as pure cost rather than an investment in the future.
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I posit inflation is simply our perception of time dilation at scale.
It would be wise not to confuse C++ at Google with C++.

Google has extremely strong internal coding standards. Those standards restrict which C++ features can be used, and how and where those C++ features can be used.

Without compliance based upon paycheck and performance reviews, I'm not sure that I'd want to try to make that kind of selective enforcement work.
The vast majority of users don't really understand what's going on. All they'll know is that Apple pulled two apps that they use all the time, and they'll blame Apple for it. Yes, it's stupid, but it's the unfortunate reality.

I do use Snapchat, but I would 100% support Apple pulling the app until they fall in line with proper privacy controls. Unfortunately I'm in the minority, and both Apple and Snapchat know this.
> Thousands of gigabytes

Terabytes, even!
Would you expand on what part of the user experience is not great please? Is it the UI, UX, wear / form factor of the devices?

How might the experience be improved?
I addressed the question to you because I thought that was what you were saying: that somehow the involvement of a decentralized ledger made money laundering less attractive. Your description of the actual reasoning, that it shifts the burden of responsibility, makes a lot more sense.
As a european I find this seriously disturbing.

We've had water supply for hundreds of years, even in Russia it is generally decent, there is no excuse for a first world country.

Bottling industry is harmfull, wastefull and inefficient.
Thanks for checking the product.
Its build on Softr & Airtable mainly, and main challenge of using no-code is mainly customization isn't that easy.
> I say bodily autonomy, you might say we mandate all sorts of vaccines […] talk to me in 5 or 10 years when we have long term data

It’s strange to me that the arguments against vaccines are all self-centered, about personal risk, and the arguments in favor are all addressing net social benefit. I kinda want the bodily autonomy to not get infected by someone refusing to take any social precautions over political beliefs.

We have more than enough data already, enough people have died from COVID, to prove the vaccine is a net benefit to society, and enough data and solid evidence to know that the personal risk is much lower than the risks that come from getting COVID.

> because something is approved by the majority doesn’t disqualify it from being tyrannical

We’re talking about something specific, not vague platitudes. Tyranny is defined as being oppressive, arbitrary or cruel assertions of power. None of that is true for the COVID vaccine.
Exactly which voting bloc do you think is composed of lead poisoning victims?
If the sex dolls and anime aren't enough for them to stop then they should just be castrated.
Curious, what's your definition of queue?
Yeah, that does sound like Tamil. Ligatures become necessary even for combining just 2 code points.
> But I'm still in mourning that async took over the world.

I agree, it does seem like a step backwards in general. However, for Rust it makes sense. There is no runtime, so there is nothing to preempt the green threads/lightweight processes etc. But yeah, with higher level languages like Python, I was disappointed to see how async was emphasized in 3.x over green threads which were already used by a number of projects.
> Essentially, every single PS1 game 'faked' 3D by using the GTE (which was separate from the GPU) to project 3D points and polygons into a 2D rasterizer.

While it's true that the PS1 handles perspective projection through the GTE (as the GPU is a primitive rasterizer, after all) I don't think it's fair to call it 'faked 3D' since, in my understanding, 3D projection is another fundamental stage in the graphics pipeline (our displays are 2D grids of pixels, so we need to transform the 3D world into something it can be displayed there). Other consoles like the Nintendo 64 provided more capability on the GPU side (the RCP) which allowed to move part of the matrix operations away from the CPU chip.

Be as it may, I've seen the 'fake 3D' claim before and I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing something in my understanding of this technology, maybe someone can offer a third opinion?

P.S I'm the one that wrote https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/playstation which is referenced at the bottom of the article (the 'Other reading'), I'm glad the author found it helpful (or interesting)!
Just doing random sampling on a small group to estimate the error ratio should also work. Also as long as everyone who has symptoms can get a test the error ratio is bounded by the ratio of people with symptoms making it irrelevant for this control problem.
Replying here since the GP comment is dead.

At least in the US, the psych system for such offenders is anything but "cushy"... Also inmates tend to absolutely _hate_ child offenders, so good luck in there.
If the vaccine brings R0 down to below 1.0 for vaccinated people, then the vaccine offers a way to get the virus to an endemic situation rather than a pandemic.

The evidence is still not solid on whether or not it does this, as far as I am aware.
To ab-use something you genereally need to be using that thing.

It is impossible to prevent abuse, but it is necessary to contain it.
I doubt that before WSL this would be something. I mean developing on windows was always far lot difficult than Linux or MacOS.
I think it depends on what you want to do.

I use Unity extensively and adding a PS1 filter to an existing game takes a 15$ asset. The only real downside is your stuck in the Unity verse.

I would absolutely love for Godot to have a robust asset store ( yes paid assets , I've no problem paying for good code ). Let's hope Godot 4 is nice.
Great. I'm using grep.app[1] usually as for me the GitHub search is mostly useless. Your mileage may vary though.
That being said there are many other great search interfaces that I am using often when I'm trying to find solutions to common problems or specific design patterns. Chromium search[2] comes to mind, Mozilla's Firefox[3], Android[4] or of course Google[5]

[1] https://grep.app/

[2] https://cs.chromium.org/

[3] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/

[4] https://cs.android.com/

[5] https://cs.opensource.google/
Can we make memristors with this info?
I have been thinking this for the last decade of reading this perspective on HN, but it's worth saying: if this is true, it's at best a dramatically bimodal situation.

The incredibly-slack labor market this describes wasn't reflective of my experience or that of anybody I knew as of ten years ago. After a decade of tightening in that market, this is even less true.

As I said, it's likely bimodal: certain geographies/verticals/perhaps specialties probably still afford tech workers a 1990s-like level of market power.

But it's worth pointing out that what you're describing is not remotely the norm for at least some dense subnetwork of labor (of which I'm a part). Further, it's potentially the case that entry into this labor market is accessible to those who are currently in the looser market, especially as IMO talent doesn't account for the entirety of the gap.
How does it prove your point?
> The fact is that Microsoft has continuously improved its process for the past fifteen years while being the most exposed company in IT.

It's not just that they have continuously improved process, they have also made enormous contributions to the security space in terms of building and sharing repeatable processes, and providing a platform to socialize some of those practices (for example, bug bounty programs, threat modelling, SDL practices, tons of documentation and guidance around how to improve processes).

I am not a Microsoft shill - my main use for Windows and Microsoft products are video games, and Microsoft Office, but they have made tremendous progress and shared several tools and learnings along the way.
I have a nice coffee mug that I got for the end of a multi million dollar deal. I dont drink coffee. They would not have got that deal done without me. As I was one of two people on the planet who knew how that code worked and the other dude left years earlier. They then wondered why my productivity jumped off a cliff.
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The point is that they're pretty easily findable if you're looking for them.

And stolen or extorted images of late teens, in particular, are all over "amateur" porn sites even if you're not looking for them.

"Thousands of gigabytes" is consistent with a single cheap hard drive. If that's the threshold for alarm then the alarm is permanent.

The concern ("alarm" if you will) is not based on the count in gigabytes (which is of course trivial), but in the harm caused to real, actual people. As explained in the article.
Is there any reason to target it these days?
Plenty of evidence that Omicron has been around for a substantial period of time. I believe the lower bound is at least a month in the US and Europe at this point, presumably longer at the point of origin.
> "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

> -Donald Knuth, 1974
Groups never admit failure
But I did take the vaccine, twice. It gives me great anxiety to think about taking it again given what I have gone through. My situation improved significantly but I might not be so lucky next time.
I shouldnt have to weigh up potential damage to my heart, versus my right to freedom of movement (im an expat).

Personally im holding out for Novavax now.
I mean sex abuse in general - Brock turner was literally caught in the act of raping a women and got 3 months :-/
How advanced a civilization is is strongly correlated to energy consumption. If cheap fusion energy is possible, then I think we'll see the next "industrial revolution" as many activities that were previously deemed infeasible for mass consumption due to energy costs will be possible.

e.g. Every household can have indoor greenhouses for home grown fruits/vegetables
Seems like the vaccine is the deadly roulette ticket: risk of fatal bloodclotting every time a new vaccine is administered while ironically being at a higher risk against new, potentially more dangerous, mutations compared to people who recovered from a Covid infection naturally. I guess it comes down how much you trust pharmaceutical companies having the payday of a lifetime and politicians on a power trip.