skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"it would just appear out of the blue and kill you"

I've had it and it didn't kill me. It also hasn't killed my wife, my kids, and the ~20 friends I know who have had it. If you want data rather than anecdotes... the current covid mortality rate (worldwide) is tiny.

Being killed by covid is NOT a typical outcome for the vast majority of those who get infected, and employing hyperbole like this is just ensuring that the world's overreaction continues. Let's make sure the language we use is proportionate.
> Then you should already be gravely concerned

I am concerned. I explicitly wrote "...not only plausible, but is of real concern."
Yes, it is. The Sun is a very large ball of gas with a small one of something that is not gas on the middle (and a gradient between them). This goes well inside the large ball of gas.
You got it actually, it's all about how long you leave your hand in. And that is why the probe has a very elliptical orbit, so it "touches" the sun briefly and goes back out into space to cool down.

Temperature is not what burns you, it's heat flow that does the burning. A boiling pot has a lot of molecules densely packed together, so heat transfer happens fast. The air inside the oven is hot but will not be as effective in transferring heat to your hand. There is more "thermal resistance" between your hand and the air inside the oven than your hand and the water inside a boiling pot.
I might have phrased that poorly. I mean plenty of jobs outside the US have greatly increased salaries in 2021, which was a ripple effect of remote work/globalization. I was looking at a 25%-160% salary increase back while I was job hunting this year.

It used to be that the biggest barrier to hiring outside a country was that it was less effective to have them work remotely 100% of the time. But now it's practically the same thing. Some companies are getting bargains, others are just using it to hire the best out of other countries.
> Regulation though is not part of the free market capitalism paradigm

Who told you that? People like to simplify views and say that people are "anti-regulation", but really people are anti-poorly-thought-out-regulation. What famous capitalist do you know that argued theft for example should be unregulated?
I think point 13 misses a nuance- technology has arguably already killed people (see: genocide and Facebook). But I would like to specify that it has to kill people that other folks deem important enough to prevent the further deaths of.
> Since the OS is proprietary, how do we know they didn't go for it anyway?

Reverse engineering is a thing.
If you don't have a syncing compositor which is a bit of a limitation.
> We’re never going to get the broader SE culture to care about things like performance, compatibility, accessibility, security, or privacy, at least not without legal regulations that are enforced.

Which is why software as a skill in and of itself will go the way of mathematics. And then SE's might actually start doing real engineering.
I’ve had palpitations before from having too much caffeine regularly (yes, while stressed).
I spent $1.99 on a custom ringtone in the Apple AppStore. Best $1.99 I ever spent because I’ve never heard another phone with this ringtone (can’t be said for ANY of the default ringtones).

That’s after several hours using GarageBand to create and export a custom ringtone. That was an utter nightmare because there’s just no easy way to get custom ringtones onto iOS unless you buy it from the AppStore.
This!!! I’ve done a fair bit of python api development mostly for ML services. We used flask/gunicorn and I’m considering moving to fastapi. I’m sure Django is awesome for what it does well but python has a lot more options.

Fwiw - I do dabble in Go. I’ve used it for some very targeted systems work where I don’t have to install a python interpreter on the target machine and hacking some k8s operators. I really like Go - but the ML ecosystem is pretty heavily python.
It depends....if the mobbing is what my former agile consultants were pushing (having everyone from dev's to business analysts do it) then no, it doesn't work. The few places that I have seen it work sort of well is when there is some big issue going on such as a production outage that can be benefited from having a group of devs together looking at the issue. Aside from that the level of engagement goes down the more people you add to the session and it felt to have diminishing returns on the quality to developer count ratio.
> In Italy the 15 wait is done in an additional room where people are just "asked" to stay at the end of the process.

Same as the UK until this change.

> I can't see how a wait at the end of the process could reduce throughput by 23%.

Because there are vaccination centres where the capacity of the waiting room at the end is the limiting factor.

> This looks like the next UK mismanagement of the pandemic.

There we are, the rest of your argument was just pretext for some racism.
It has name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Exactly, just like firefox / chrome

you hear about firefox everywhere, everyday, and yet only has 3% marketshare
- adds nothing

- just expresses personal preference

- bad assumptions

- bad argument

- factually incorrect

- too unclear

- inflammatory or dismissive

- probably other stuff

> I believe that downvoting someone just because you disagree with them is terrible for a discussion network

Sure but I think it is a bit naive and futile to expect otherwise. People are going to try to hide and punish the spreading of opinions that they don't want people to have. Consider especially that there are opinions that people consider against their interests for people to hold, thus there is an even stronger incentive for them to suppress them and doing so would be entirely rational.
There was a bit of a downswing in CS degrees around the first DOTCOM bust, a lot of folks left programs at 2nd tier colleges and moved to adjacent but less “software” and “subject to outsourcing” like industrial engineering, electrical engineering.

I didn’t exactly have a broad view at the time, but it seemed like top ~20 Comp Sci programs were largely unaffected and kept growing the whole time.
Good article. TLDR: Wright's Law, Jevon's Paradox, governmental policy.

As editor, I would have encouraged author to include three more facets.

What is the market size for batteries? Give me a range. From incremental replacement of existing tech to total switchover.

Projections into the future. Per Wright's Law, driving down production costs, the marginal costs (?) of batteries will approach material costs. So what is that point and when will it happen?

The driver for Wright's Law is investment. What is that shape? Spending $X billions will reduce the price of 1kwh of batteries by $Y dollars. Mostly to train us noob observers and misc other policy makers to think in these terms. So during the food fights over our futureperfect carbon negative economy, tax payers and lobbyists for the captains of industry can say stuff like

"Ahem. Yes madam Senator, excellent question. Per our analysis, if the USA govt invests and underwrites 100 megabucks for the next decade, we'll bring to market 100 megawhats (sic), at below current prices and decreasing into the future, employing 100 kilopeeps (sic), resulting in 400 megabucks of tax and licensing revenue back to the USA govt over the next 40 years. Doing so will guarantee our grandchildren's economic security and prosperity. We ask for your support. Thank you."
Looks like "security LARPers" are at it again. I'd bet 99% of buyers will self destruct their laptop themselves, by accidentally bumping into the cord.

And to think now, the same people are pushing the narrative how PGP is bad.
"A teacher spending an hour to teach one child teaches one child"

Thats a tautology, not analysis.

A teacher spending an hour in front of 300 kids might create 300 buisinessmen, so have you accounted for their contributuon to the conomy?
It's natural stocks go up if no one has to sell (because credit is cheap) and economic opportunities are limited.
My read on the situation is that stocks were criminally undervalued for decades and just recently started reaching sane valuations. It's a good thing as well. It shouldn't be the case that you can earn 5%+ a year for doing nothing. P/e ratios in 30s and 40s are the new normal at least for big established companies.
I've done it, it's significantly better in terms of software robustness and having a good time.

You definitely get less code written than you would individually, but at the end of it everyone involved understands how the code works and why it conforms to the requirements which keeps your team's general knowledge high and turbocharges training for juniors.

It's also just pleasant to do a genuine team activity and have a laugh with people.

This is all coming from someone who greatly prefers working on their own to doing paring etc btw. It is nothing like the joy of getting your mind spinning at exactly the right speed, becoming one with the problem and smashing out a solution - so don't mentally compare it to that. It's much more like hanging out and brainstorming stupid ideas with your friends on the couch.
Hans Jonas on Gnosticism
> those companies don't install file scanners on your device so the excuse is bullshit.

They don’t install file scanners on iOS because they cannot. They are happy with scanning my contacts and doing who knows what with my photos if I let them, though.
I don’t quite follow you.
"Empirical research on software engineering is a trainwreck"

...and here are some truths from my empirical research.
You're forgetting about market share. If prices don't sink further because demand elasticity is maxed out it has to be the result of some form of market failure. Either on the seller side (collusion, aka refusal to use pricing for market share increase) or irrationality on the buyer side (veblen goods, clearly a factor with cars and moon travel is, in a way, off the charts in that metric).

I like to look at sinking prices of technology through the the mental model of an inherent minimum cost, where learning or scale doesn't just make it magically cheaper but reduces avoidable overhead. Plenty of product types that have started expensive and then became cheaper and cheaper have clearly seen all the economy of scale that could reasonably be expected, they wouldn't become any cheaper per unit if the market consumed 10x as much. Same for spending a few more decades making them, unlikely to learn ways to make it web cheaper.
Somehow I feel like I cleverly tricked you without intending to. Won't stop me from taking credit for that unintended consequence though, "MUWAHAHAHA! He fell for it!" :)
Aren't they already soldered in place in modern laptops?
Agreed. I spend a lot of time on TikTok (my main interests tech-wise are HCI, digital discovery, and social computing so it's like catnip) and a LOT of younger people are going into tech for the money.

I'm 33 and I started programming in the 90s (I was raised by two geek parents a la Larry Page who were supportive), so I'm sort of in-between the two 'generations'. At age 37 and above, pretty much everybody is either a career switcher (in which case they've considered things that aren't money) or started before developing got big. I say 37 because that was old enough to already be coding and brought INTO the money with job offers in the dot com era. (I had a couple of offers from people who didn't believe I was 11/12, and I knew some people who were 16-19 who were leaving school to take REALLY well paying jobs none of us ever expected.)

After that, it was well known that coding could lead to a lot of money, and as the sector continues to grow and other opportunities to escape poverty shrink, it's pretty inevitable that people end up in coding for the money. Especially since that's how we teach them: All the tech courses are about employment, not playing. Kids don't learn tech as a joy or a tool to make their lives better, it's just another corporate hoop.
The problem with blaming capitalism, is that these things are by no means unique to capitalism. People are as self-serving in communistic "utopias" as in capitalist ones. Plus many economies are a mix of both capitalist/socialist elements - people cherry-pick things they like/dislike according to what they want to prove; but the US is by no mean more/less "capitalistic" than any other nation. Some capitalistic value could just as well be described as conservative.

Fostering co-operative communities has less to do with the political/control system, and more to do with how it is implemented - and the mindset of the population. I could just as well blame multi-culturalism, or globalism, or lack of religion, or metropolitan lifestyle on lack of social cohesion.
This case reminds me a bit of the big stink with the Daraprim price hikes and Martin Shkreli being dumb enough to be the public face of it. That worked out pretty bad for him but also bad for everyone else, because now we had a guy to blame for it, instead of asking the harder questions like "why aren't drug prices regulated?" Utilities must go to the public utility commission to raise rates so why is the same not done for drugs? The federal government stockpiles oil in case of shortages, why is it not responsible for ensuring that drug production is continued?

The maddening thing about the Apple CSAM scanning controversy is that I still have no idea which legislation Apple is complying with, and it's difficult to find out any reporting on that aspect. US? UK? EU? Clearly there is/are some government organization(s) with teeth long enough that Apple is not willing to go to court again as was the case with the San Bernandino shooter. Point is, whether or not Apple has been dishonest about this whole thing, they are still just a distraction.
Is that enso software related to the software launcher by Aza Raskin?
I am downvoting comments that are (subjectively) misleading, false or with bad intentions. Never for different opinions, I am actually upvoting any different opinion sustained by solid arguments.

This is only for HN, I am not active on social networks, I had enough.
The problem isn't best case scenario, but possibility of abuse.

gradual typing is an easy way to acquire more tech debt once tickets are closed and no-one comes back to add more types.

Corps like a simple plan->code->test->done without any "return" to code considered "done".
At least the price is normal. I'm ok with 6 euro for a one meter TOS link cable. Nice touch with the "can't lose those" protective tip covers, I really miss that when moving stuff around.
When a post lowers the quality of the debate.

> I believe that downvoting someone just because you disagree with them is terrible for a discussion network like HN

Yes: that would be unintellectual. If this is for debate, debate it should be. (Otherwise it would be "polling", not debating.)

Some noted that "If one can upvote to express agreement, then one could downvote to express disagreement". This position fails to see the asymmetry in rational discourse: you may not need further arguments to support the weight of an expressed position, but you do, in general, need arguments to instead oppose it.

(Otherwise, it's Monty Python's Argument Sketch - "Yes it is", "No it isn't"...)
Just like in the '90s we (silly script kiddies) put press "Alt-F4 to continue" on our websites.
Can you provide sources for either of these claims? Neither of them match my understanding of the current data on omicron
Ask HN: Is there a Techmeme dataset available? (https://www.techmeme.com/)
It would be interesting to load this dataset to something like BigQuery and take a look at what was hot in startup / tech ecosystem at given point in time. Example, Occurrences of news related to startups based out of Bengaluru, over a period of time etc.
I downvoted it because "a few outliers" does not remotely imply "100% random". Votes are pretty well correlated with comment quality, and being able to cite extreme exceptions is not a refutation of that.
HN and Reddit (obviously depends on a subreddit) are drastically different communities than LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

I might downvote on HN or Reddit if something is spammy or blatantly doesn't bring any value to the conversation. I do that very rarely though.

Frequency wise I much more often go straight to reporting content for removal without getting into discussion with people that have more free time than me. While it still unfortunately takes time, I believe that if damaging (racist, abusive, calling for violence) content is left unattended the general amount of it will only multiply with time.
Following thought comes to my mind: Long and recurring discussions come up on complex (among others) topics. A long and recurring discussion on those topics only arises if more than one party is involved and everybody involved can contribute meaningful input - whether this is questions or answers. So you have a bunch of 'experts' discussing a topic, but here's the problem: Among those experts, who is in the position to stand above everybody else and moderates this thing? Given all participants know each other well and can sort this out, you don't have a problem. But we're talking about the internet. Who is the one sorting out what is meaningful content? What contributes to the discussion? What's necessary and what's bloated information? How to structure prior discussion? All of this has proper potential for a heated discussion on its own. But in the end someone has to have the authority.

I try to abstract the problem (as I understand it) and I see an attempt in finding a perfect system. There might be a system that does justice in treating the content of the discussion well (retrospectively) - but the human aspect of discussions ?. This reminds me of an open source project. If the participants want to treat the discussion seriously, they'd have to do serious research of what has happened until now. No room for a lighthearted quick thought, because it probably has been said earlier on. Someone would rightfully point that out, but would that lead to a healthy atmosphere and exchange of thought for all potential people? Surely in some cases and on some topics and with the right people. But in general, I'm not so sure...
I find it interesting how your (assumed) US based 'feel' is different from my Netherlands based one, which could be a difference between us, our countries, or both. We've been getting - in my opinion - rather fair and unbiased information, including when and where they simply did not know, were uncertain or disagreed (that's not to say I agree with all decisions or lack thereof).

I see the 'it's not a lab leak' as China's narrative, which, well, by definition I can not see as black and white. It has never been communicated or pushed as a 'fact' here either, as far as I can remember.

As for vaccine safety, possibly side effects have always been taken seriously here, halting vaccination when there was doubt (astra I believe) and giving certain vaccines (not) to certain age groups. Also, I personally think vaccines are safe. No, there's no flat out 100% guarantee that you will NOT have any side effects, but chances are so small and they are often temporary. I still call that safe.

Yes, there's a chance you're that very unlucky one. It's something you can say to yourself throughout the entire day, when you get in the car, get on a plane, ride your bike, walk through the city at night, eat food, enjoy nature, or even sneeze. Yet we don't, we just go and live our lives. I do understand it feels different when it's a conscious choice you have to make, but that doesn't change the numbers.
It's not really a positive term in English either, I think the name's supposed to be a joke
It is when they spend a decade insisting that they right and everyone else was wrong, then ended up doing it anyway.

Generics aren't a cutting edge feature that they wanted to see how it would develop. Their objection against it was ideological.
Doesn't matter, almost nobody uses Ruby without Rails. And my statement holds true for any Ruby framework.
To add to the confusion of the agile term, the lay term and the company name, I know epics as some part of the React state-management library, Redux Observable...
It may have been a mistake for Apple as a company to make this decision, but I think we can understand why the individuals within Apple might choose to let decisions like this play out and fail in public, even if they know it is going to fail.
Use you imagination.
You don't have to douse the whole thing with expoxy. The dimm assembly looks like this: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/dpYyM4oeOLPPTdpF.hug...

Putting epoxy around the top and bottom edges (where the retention clips are) and the right edge (where the contacts are) should make it extremely difficult to dislodge, but not impact the thermal performance of the chips (the black rectangles).
It's crazy as DJI is quite a popular brand in the US.
Because large banks can amortize usage over many homes. A battery bank for your house needs to be large enough for your worst case usage even though you rarely get there. If you add up all the breakers in my box it is far more power than the power company can supply to my house - but I never use them all at once. My house has a backup generator that can supply far less than the power company: it is enough for typical use but I have to be careful when I'm using it.

A large bank can take advantage that typical is far less than worst case, and not everyone will hit the worst case at the same time. Thus a large bank to supply the same number of users can be far smaller than every user having their own small bank. (though it is possible for all the small banks to supply to each other)
I've noticed that probably six months ago, vouching a comment would immediately return it to a live state ~90% of the time. Presumably because as soon as it hits the dead state it no longer gets flagged, so one is all that's needed to put it back over the threshold. Recently, my vouches have revived comments 0% of the time. I'm not sure if the algorithm or UI changed, or if I was simply using the feature too much for someone's liking and they disabled it for me on the back end?

I've come across many, many helpful and thoughtful comments that I can't revive simply because this thing that should work has stopped even though I have about 30x the karma needed for it.
Log4jmemes.com: for those of us that need a laugh
Case in point the Governor of Missouri in the US claiming that a report was hacking[1] when they hit F12 and viewed a website's HTML which contained Social Security Numbers.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/us/missouri-st-louis-post...
JSON Meta Application Protocol
> But if this is really one-in-a-million stuff I really wonder how I happen to know someone who has it

Do we teach statistics in school anymore? This is such a nonsensical remark.
> It should be noted that "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" isn't a meaningful reason to exclude something from a language, unless it's a hobby project.

If we assume complexity ~= "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" then I think it's an excellent reason not to include something! Somebody has to maintain this stuff and making it complicated makes that hard, which in turn means less time to spend on things like tooling, performance improvements and documentation which then makes our lives as users of the language harder.

Of course there is a trade-off here but I think, in general, the go team manage to strike a nice balance.
> After 30 hits (so 30 false positives), and then the photos are manually reviewed by a human being.

As much as I think the panic is way overblown, this bit is simply unacceptable, and they need to get nailed just for having thought this was a good idea. Nobody is to review personal photos; this is an insane breach of privacy.
It's local only and they already scan your photos on-device anyway. All the images have been processed for content and you can do content aware searches on the images.