skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should you be free to use whatever drug you want?

Your body, your choice? There are many ways to answer this, and no matter how it is answered there will always be a group of people who disagree. This is why as a society we have a framework for making those decisions which sometimes gets it right and sometimes gets it wrong.

If we legalized all drugs and let people do what they want, do we stop a 10 year old from taking meth, after all it their choice. I think it would be absurd to have 0 restrictions, but that would go against the concept of being able to make free choices.

> Do doctors hold any responsibility over getting you addicted by drugs they prescribe? (Aren't doctors the experts?)

If they prescribed them outside of the boundaries of their professional framework, then yes.

> Now that marijuana is legal, should you sue the legal stores if you get addicted?

You buying marijuana intentionally is a little different from being under the mindset that a licensed medical professional (and health system) is acting within your best interest. Part of this problem also is Purdue mislead people on the addictiveness of their product.

However in saying the above, there is a lot more to this than just supplying a drug. They broke other laws such as the anti kickback.
It's unnecessary. Just use individual useStates for each property. Makes it easier to type, too. Otherwise you might as well go with something like Redux.
Top performers leave the company voluntarily, most often to get a promotion and pay rise elsewhere. This is commonplace in tech. The problem is (particularly during the last few months) the intake of talent has struggled to keep up.
In this case, 'allow' is in the context of speeches on universities, where of course the universities get to decide who is allowed on their property. It is not a country-wide government restriction, or even censorship by a quasi-monopolist such as Google/Facebook.
I think that's one of the things that confuses people. WASM is, in some respects, very similar to ASM. In other respects, it's very similar to a language VM, but has a name that makes that non-obvious. Will likely get more confusing as they add things that normal ASM doesn't do, like GC, direct JS call interop, more data types, etc.
Not to mention someone’s value ends up varying based on what they are assigned to and who they work with. Frankly the whole idea of precisely measuring individual value is bean-counting bullshit.
Whenever you think that you’re on the outside looking in, seeing the world for what it is while others seem blind, you should reconsider your perspective.

The Chinese people is not some herd of sheep without mental faculties. I wince when I see quotes like these spoken about a people of literal billions.
Get serious. It's only talks, no actions will follow. Money are more important.
Right, but surely they have resources at the school if they need technical assistance. It's a university. Just find any CS major and they'll tell you how to set up a website.
You can use AssemblyScript instead of Rust
This is much simpler than JWT; you'd have a hard time to implement this incorrectly as opposed to JWT. I'm not in the loop, but JWT also used to specify an entire tirefire for crypto algorithms. Probably still does.
Real life story:

In the late 70s I was new to using the teletype we shared in the office, and one day I had a job waiting for a tape to be mounted. An old hand asked what the problem was, "here, move over" he said "this should help".

He typed a message:

- why don't you .......s do some ....ing work for a ....ing change -

and walked away. I was left traumatised.

I later got a call from the ops manager saying that he and the operators were shocked by the language. I doubt it.

If that was you, I still haven't forgotten!*
Right, block access and carry on with your day.
> I read their Privacy Policy. They are quite explicit about what they plan to do to you.

OK, well, I've skimmed it and I can't see anything that suggests they are going to spy on our employees and sell the data to advertisers. I hate to drop it back on you but which passages make you think they do that?

These things do often sound terrifying because things like "I'm going to use Google Analytics to see which parts of the product people aren't using so we can email them reminders" get turned into passages like "We will upload all your activity to a third-party advertising company for marketing purposes".

> I have worked with computer security at an advanced level ... A hostile agent would decrease the security on my network. That was my first thought when I got that awful email.

I believe you! 100%!

But you are unusual, and without verification a control such as "All laptops should have screens that lock after 5 minutes" won't be followed by everyone. NOT EVEN CLOSE to everyone.

> Also, I don't get it why that need such a thing on my PC. I don't have credentials to production systems or production data. I am a software developer. I work with code and documentation. That's it.

Sure. Another commenter in the thread has said that because of that this isn't strictly required for SOC2. I'm sure they're right.. but I'm not sure I want anyone working on our codebase at all who doesn't have basic security settings set on on their laptop (Again, I know YOU do :) )

Back to the using your own computer thing again - this is why I think lots of companies say "You use our hardware for all company work but IF you really really want to do BYOD then you have to accept some of these agents". Not sure if that's the attitude at your firm, but that seems reasonable.
Isn’t it summer in South Africa now? Their current COVID spike could be over, but it doesn’t it’s over for good.
Relative tolerance becomes problematic though if your numbers are very close to zero. (https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-float...)
Maybe Apple is headed toward Bootcamp for Linux, since Bootcamp for Windows doesn't exist for the M1.

Interesting, since Microsoft is also putting so much work into Linux interoperability these days. Perhaps these are the seeds of convergence. Or at least Linux being the common denominator OS on all machines.
It sounds like they were doing more than just not being actively harmful. They were actively helpful but we can only speculate on their motive.
TikTok school shooting threat “challenge” rattles country
Nim provides the benefit of both: when interfacing with C libraries a case-agnostic language helps.

Yet, checks on function definition and types has the same benefit of case-pedantic language, without forcing a specific style on the developer.
Hey everyone! I love how on Hacker News we don't only talk about news, but also frequently about older classic articles (posts with the year in the title like [0]). I haven't seen that practice on other sites, which is a shame. For me those posts are often the most valuable since they are less easily forgotten than discussions about the latest outage ;)

So I built this small website to browse and search across these timeless HN posts [1]. The idea is to make use of the immense library we're all curating by posting and commenting here. What you can do with the site:

• See all recent HN discussions about timeless content, without it being lost in other posts: https://hn.lindylearn.io

• Browse the best essays of all time, according to HN: https://hn.lindylearn.io/best

• What's the best content for example on "career advice"? https://hn.lindylearn.io/search?q=career%20advice

• Which articles from 1995 do we still talk about? https://hn.lindylearn.io/years/1995

• What are the best posts on any website? https://hn.lindylearn.io/from?site=paulgraham.com

IMHO it's an excellent Friday evening idea to explore and read through some of these articles (that's at least my plan). It was a quick project to put together, I hope it's useful for you all! Halfway through I realised there's some prior art for it [2], but I think this site adds enough to make it worthwhile.

Technical info: Most of the data can be easily queried through the HN BigQuery dataset, and I added a periodic function to poll more recent data from the API. The filtered posts are then hosted in Firestore for most of the pages + Relevance.ai for the search. The frontend is built with Next.js and uses the original HN CSS + small tweaks like the year display.
It indexes all HN posts with a year in the title that have more than 40 upvotes, where the article publish date is >= 2 years before the post date (results in about 10k posts). Articles are ranked by the summed score across all posts for the url.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29590667

[1] Named "Lindy Hacker News" after the Lindy Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16442888
Sadly not - remember, the US with the UK's complicity is going to let Julian Assange rot in prison probably for the rest of his life. For engaging in an act of journalism which in all likelihood ended the Iraq war, or at least made a substantial contribution to doing so.
Introduce them to identity politics.
I used to think but the last few years in the US taught me that people everywhere have the same capacity for zealotry, they may have to be reached/triggered differently that’s all.
Quebec offered $1 billion in incentives for their healthcare worker vax mandate -- and it still failed.

Sep 2021, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-plan-nursing-...

> The Quebec government has announced it will provide nurses with financial bonuses of up to $18,000 as part of its emergency plan to fix the staffing crisis in the province's health-care network ... the plan would cost close to $1 billion

Nov 2021, https://globalnews.ca/news/8346947/quebec-drops-vaccine-mand...

> Quebec is backtracking on its enforced COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health-care workers, government officials announced Wednesday. After pushing back its deadline multiple times, Health Minister Christian Dubé said the province will abandon the measure altogether, as the health-care network can’t afford to lose the thousands of non-vaccinated employees. The loss of unvaccinated staff would have had a “devastating effect on the system,” according to the health ministry.
Flatland is amazing! Without giving anything up, its a short-story that takes place in two dimensions, where men are polygons and women are lines. It's a brilliantly written satire of Victorian culture and an interesting thought experiment.
So, the other students that trailed the speaker with accusations and harassment on the university’s property will face consequences for their actions to discourage this from recurring, right? Didn’t see that part in the article.
The first article link you posted literally agrees with me: (double?) vaccination offers 70% protection against hospitalisation by Omicron.
I'm probably going to get down voted like crazy

HN in particular seems to have quite a noticeable "skeptic" bent about it, so I wouldn't worry!

The new variant is basically a bad cold

This is what I was worried people would start inferring from that headline – it's not really an accurate representation, since this article is just talking about how the UK government describes "symptoms".

Initial data from South Africa does suggest it's possible this variant may be less severe than we saw in previous waves. We don't really have enough data to come to a clear conclusion on that at this stage, because of the pace of change and the number of confounding factors, such as previous infection. The Discovery Health study suggests that hospitalisations may be up to 30% lower than in South Africa's initial Delta wave – if that does turn out to be the case, it's positive. However, the same study also points out that the risk of reinfection is higher, as is the risk of hospitalisation (from a very low base level) among children.

We can also see evidence from the UK that Omicron appears to be significantly more transmissible – the number of cases is currently doubling every 48 hours. Of course that won't continue, but my understanding is that we are likely to see up to about 1m cases a day in the UK by the end of the year. At the moment (very roughly) about 1% of positive (confirmed by test, so lower in practice) in the UK result in hospital admission. So it's not hard to see that a rapid increase in the number of infections could result in a significant spike in hospital admissions, with all of the knock-on effects that this causes – even if the severity of each individual case is much lower.

I'm sure everyone hopes this isn't the case, and that it turns out that this wave spikes and subsides quickly with minimal harm – but it definitely seems way to early to be drawing conclusions like "this is just a bad cold". I'm personally a little bit confused about the number of posts I see which seem to want to twist any data they can find into an existing narrative they've already settled on.
I can only talk for Software Engineers. Amazon pay for engineers is by no means low, definitely above the median. But it doesn't pay top dollar either. We are constantly losing good candidates to other companies for a higher pay. That's not counting those that don't even bother applying, for which we don't have visibility.
If the word "elite" was replaced with "competent" would you still ask why? I think the underlying question is a good one.
FDA makes abortion pills permanently available through mail and telehealth
My employers laptop is in a separate VLAN. What makes you sure that no-one else than the employer has access to it. This laptop has Windows 10 installed for example. And a shit-ton of McAfee crap. I would trust my employer but not the many companies who have a foothold on the machine as well because my employer is too cheap to install decent stuff on it.
Population is over 3x what it was in 1918.

Your argument framed relatively instead of absolutely: "COVID has only killed a third as many Americans as the Spanish flu"
You can still buy from Mcmaster-Carr. You'll pay more, but reliable quality is there if you need it.
Fact-check: Are electric vehicles more likely to fail in traffic jams?
That statement ignores the fact that estimate of 80% had already caught previous mutation of the Covid. That is presumably even better than the vaccine.
Leaked documents reveal what Facebook thinks of rivals, from YouTube to LinkedIn
My basic claim is the author did a slight-of-hand by accepting eye-witness claims to alien abduction to be counted as evidence for alien abductions, then rejecting the existence of easily demonstrated evidence that could be used to support the effectiveness snake oil.

I cannot answer your question because I don't understand the author's viewpoint. That's because to me the phrase "no evidence" is not really related to the 'belief in fallible scientists' but to the belief in fallible claims.

This could be because I was trained in science, and the author is trying to make some point about poor science communications by scientists and journalists.

But the author is engaged in some rather poor science communications, by misrepresenting the BMJ paper, by using a mutable definition of what evidence means, and by lumping everything claims from 'zero evidence' to 'no hard evidence' into a single characterization.

Before you respond, take a look at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3676982 titled "Hydroxychloroquine, Parachutes And How to Understand 'The Evidence'". Here's the start:

> It is deliberately misleading to make general claims that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work for CoViD-19. It is even more misleading to claim that “the evidence” proves that hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work.

> To understand this, consider the use of parachutes.

Doesn't this argument sound familiar?
Yes, wealthy people own the vast majority of stocks. It's hard to invest a significant amount when 50% of your income goes to housing.
Relevant Brass Eye clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3xUjw2BCYE
Well I'd love a source on that but even if true the population of the IS during that time was only 103 million so %-wise that still is still only 1/3

Sauce: https://alltrendsonline.com/what-was-the-population-of-the-u...
"We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact help@purdueexponent.org or call 765-743-1111."

WOW.
You do not know how easy it is to control mass populations. Open a history book
This happens in Canadian universities as well, Tibetan or Chinese students are harrased. Doesn't look like anything is done to prevent it.

[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/china-tibet-student-e...]
We're not going to stop omicron - that's pretty clear. We may need to spread the wave over a longer time period though. The current models are predicting a UK wave peaking in early to mid january with hospital admissions between half and double the previous highest peak. If it's half, we're probably OK. If it's double, the hospitals will not cope and many people will die unnecessarily, both from covid and from everything else you need emergency treatment for. The growth rate is so fast at the moment - less that 2 days doubling - that we could easily end up with 25% of healthcare workers (and delivery drivers, etc) off work at the same time. It looks like Denmark and the UK will provide the test case everyone else needs to decide whether stricter measures are needed to spread the wave. Personally, I'd prefer we weren't the test case - I think a little more caution at the moment on behalf of the government would be warranted.
Usually when clients need that level of vigilance, they provide their own laptops. I wouldn't say is a "new" normal, I think it has been common practice for a while at least in the consulting industry
> The Chinese people is not some herd of sheep without mental faculties.

Have you read 1984? Neither are the Party members. (And also, the quote doesn't mention the people.)
javscript!
Richer country, better quality of life, more personal freedoms. Not bizarre assumption at all.
My guess is that there is not enough staff resources to ensure that all sites are compliant to the GDPR regulations so a blanket block of the EU was the most (only) cost effective solution to mitigate risk.
There are a lot of things involved in increasing hospital capacity. One would be increasing the number of workers.

With things like masks we were able to free up supply by allowing N95 construction masks to be used until other production can get up to speed. We don't exactly have a hidden cache of nurses and doctors that can be rallied upon a moment's notice.

Now getting rid of the ones that can, and probably contracted COVID already does make zero sense.
Depressing but a good point. Hopefully we can stop hoarding vaccines/patents so the global south can be vaccinated before their winter.
US embarrassments, however, have movies made about them, as opposed to burying them as deeply as possible whilst simultaneously threatening every single citizen with, essentially, removal from society, if they speak against the chosen narrative.

No country is innocent, some are, however, free (moreso, at least, enough to matter, enough to choose if the need arises).
If you value material possessions only then your right.

However, the past generations in my family were able to have one working parent and still provide for the family.

I have a wonderful “tech job” and still need my wife to work fill time so we can raise our two kids and we still can’t purchase a house.

Anecdotally, I don’t understand how we are better off, but you are correct; the tvs are much higher resolution in 2021.
This is a student newspaper, not actually a property of the university itself. Moreover, we’re you seriously considering ponying up tuition for a US university (most of which goes to fund a bloated administration apparatus)?
I guess I should add that I'll still complain about not making good money or getting a meaningful raise/promotion.
> We are sending the data to the warehouse as a float

There is your problem
It’s a form of purity spiral where the consensus on acceptable behaviour becomes narrower and narrower as peope try to out-compete each other on who is the most virtuous, or in this case who is the most careful about nonexistent GDPR risks.
LabView or a similar visual GUI would be my guess. I always found it to be pretty intuitive.
Since GDPR, I've had to implement a lot of data retention policy and "nuke" button type feature in various systems.

But as a general web consumer myself, all I've noticed is that nearly every website I visit has a banner at the bottom saying "We use cookies, click Accept". Very rarely is there some kind of "Please Don't" button. It's just tacit acceptance, or else close the browser tab to opt-out.
Chaijs.com just let their domain expire
Because both parties are owned by oligarchs who would lose money if that happened.

Minimum wage hikes chew through profits and profits are pretty much the #1 legislative priority because that's the primary concern of those doing the campaign financing.

Same reason gun control wont happen no matter how many people get killed - ultimately its because gun manufacturers would lose money.

American politics is the art of trying to shape public opinion just enough to be compatible with the desires of campaign financers.
Your "persecution" is a cheap shadow of actual persecution, which was meted out to whole sexes and races under the flag of inherent superiority. That's not what the modern right is feeling. They are feeling the consequences of expressing overt racism and sexism. It is their right to do so. Nobody has taken away that right. It is everyone's right to reject racism and sexism and the people espousing it.
Rich Hickey, of Clojure fame, has a talk you might find interesting. It goes by multiple titles:
* Step Away from the Computer
* Hammock-Driven Development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc

The idea / hypothesis is that sometimes we need to sit down and think about something for an hour, a day... This seemingly "wasted time" can pay huge dividends in long-term health of a project. Like compound interest.

As others have noted, this may seen "lazy" to managers, especially if LOC or sprint velocity is the metric they use.
The Chinese people will surely not write about the Americans like this. 1984 is banned there.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/U9Wb9Vs
> I don't feel they've always done so sufficiently in recent years

I TA'd for an anthro program a bit and the 'free thought' people were usually finding out that they'd been abusing terms of art or needed to switch contexts and were struggling to reframe their perceptions.

The difference between "you can't do that" and "that's not what we're doing here" evaded some people for a while.
My grandfather fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was a radio operator in Patton's army. The only story I remember about the Battle of the Bulge was that a German soldier had sneaked through the lines and was killing soldiers while they slept in the snow. He heard someone coming through the snow and pretended to be asleep and killed the man with his bayonet. It was the only time he ever talked about killing someone.

He had a bit of what we would now call PTSD. When I was four years old, I jumped out to surprise him while he was reading a book. He full-force punched me in the face. He also didn't like loud noises. My grandmother said that he was always a little messed up after liberating a concentration camp (Buchenwald maybe?).

He had originally joined the army to be part of the ski troops, as he was an avid skier. But during training he caught Rocky Mountain spotted fever and was recovering when his unit was sent over. After he recovered he was trained as a radio operator and assigned to Patton's army.
Where is the Windows 11 control panel? Does it even have one?
They literally added a feature which they don’t need, and which only seems useful to asahi.

The bare minimum would have been to not do that.