skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, of course not. I never claimed it was. This whole thread is about not comparing apples to oranges.
You're just a cheery person huh.

I didn't move the goalposts, I corrected your strawman. You said 30-49 and completely ignored anyone else. Nice of you to hold yourself accountable, but feel free to project more.

Again the questions is..

Does vaccinating young people correlate to a decrease in cases among >50s.

Since we agree that vaccinating young people is mainly about protecting everyone else, I'd like to see data that proves it actually helps.
There's no sterilising immunity. That's a gross oversimplification of the incredibly complex thing that the immune system is.

Immune response isn't linear. Likewise, viral reproduction isn't linear. They're not even constant within the same tissue.

So whatever happens will depend on the virus, on the viral load, where it appears, and previous type and kind of immunity, and the speed of that immune response.

Fun fact: the overwhelming majority of HIV exposures don't result in infection, but one would be stupid to claim that most people have "sterilising immunity" to HIV. It simply can't target most cells and dies off in the mucous membranes.
If Amazon engineers said they never work more than 40 hours a week and shut off their work phones at 5, I’d consider their pay decent.

And maybe it’s true. But I’m not sure.
I'm quite surprised at this blog post, since AWS has popular tools like CDK that make creating cloud resources developer friendly, while leveraging familiar programming languages and high level constructs. A lot of the partner and 3rd party options are more targeted (imo) for supporting multi-cloud use case with a unified tool and to provide an alternative to AWS native tooling.

Disclaimer: I work at Amazon.
I don't use my private accounts for anything related to this client.
They had to explicitly pass through the DoD certifications and contracts requirements, and probably had to implement some custom features on Windows for it.

So hes, they are.

Now, the question is: would you rather have lived the cold war without a nuclear deterrent in your country?

It's a harder question to answer.
Except what is your assumption for hospitalisation % in the more transmissible variant based on? If it's for example 0.1% (remembering hospitalisation is already only something like 2-5% with Delta - as a 'with covid' ), that's an immense increase in transmission required considering for population density allowing such numbers, previous infections in the at-risk population and seasonal impact etc.

And you didn't answer the second bit.
Yeah, you have to use a map but your kid only has to interact with the school bullies at school and you aren't temped to reach out to your college fling behind your wife's back beacuse you never see her bikini photos.

Things have gotten better, but in lots of ways they have gotten worse.
How to use spot instances during the Christmas frenzy?
Pick your preferred laptop. Add 25% to your final cost for overhead and profit on the hardware. Estimate the time acquiring and setting it up and send the client a proposed cost for their change to the scope.

It is business.
The author makes a good point in regard to comparing the Internet and social media to the dawn of printing and mass literacy. We tend to see books and literacy as inherently good, but pretty much the first thing people did with printing technology in the West was to start a bunch of new versions of Christianity which often fought bloody wars among themselves. So the upheavals caused by social media aren't really unexpected.
For sure it won't be easy, because it would be the first time NATO would have to engage in a conventional war with a country with nukes. That's the whole point Russia counts on: that the nukes will scare NATO partners away. But this would be a suicidal move that would make no sense. And in a conventional war Russia stands no chances against the armies of NATO.
Plain text is inherently superior for collaboration (versioning, diffing, merging, blame etc.), maturity of tools (I'm thinking Sublime/vi here, not IDEs), and interoperatbility with other tools (e.g. how easy it is to generate/consume).
HSE: Heterogeneous-Memory Storage Engine
Alzheimer's drug aducanumab not approved for use in EU
Your mortgages are inflation adjusted? That's completely nuts, if you pay the interest only on your loan it keeps growing to reflect inflation; nice! :-)

> my house has gone up in value by 100k since I bought it 18 months ago

Yikes, that sounds like a heated housing market, unless your house cost £ 20 million to begin with :-)
Physical health as well. Obesity has exploded since the 1970s. Normal weight people are already a minority.
Floating point numbers, and why they suck
>How is not catcalling a problem?

Let me requote the article.

A catcall isn’t just a catcall, it’s a symbol for the entire social structure around the power exchange of sex. It is no longer a compliment – an acknowledgement of the desirability of their Thing – but rather an insult, a claim that they are only desirable for their Thing.

Catcalls on the street are fine, because they are 100% okay with being a one dimensional sex object to strangers.

That's what the article said on the subject. Some women see the catcall as a compliment, others dont.

This is the balance. This isn't toxic masculinity being eliminated. This is men not being interested in 'the thing' and therefore the balance shifts accordingly. Men are thusly some amount more powerful and in control.

Here's kind of a big caveat as well. There's a wall on this balance. There is a point in which there's too much risk in sex and you will never catcall. When catcalling ends, it's because we are at that wall.

Moreover, now what are the consequences of being at the wall? Negative birthrates when excluding immigration. Huge increase in open border immigration. Reversal of abortion rights is certain. Birth control will almost certainly get banned.

Obviously 'catcalling' aka free speech isn't the problem. It's just a clear canary in the coal mine.
> Any solution for a given use case can and should get compared with other solutions for that use case.

And the current use cases are sufficiently different that it's like comparing apples and oranges.

> I'm really sorry that it doesn't seem (judging by this thread) to compare particularly well for most developers, but that doesn't invalidate the comparison.

Again, do you think the same of Tor? It doesn't compare particularly well by most mainstream metrics. High latency, low bandwidth. And yet it serves a lot of value to a lot of people.

But then some smartass goes and says "It's completely useless tech, I can host a simple static website on clearnet for much less hassle." Yeah, duh, but that's not the point of Tor. Go use the clearnet if that's what you're looking to do.
ItsDangerous
Have you traveled using maps and GPS? They are very different, and not even comparable.

It seems to me like comparing a shovel to a ditch digging machine.

It is possible to navigate using maps. But not practical for the mass audience of GPS who can’t use maps. And impossible for the industries that require GPS (uber types).

Technology is a multiplier that increases the returns on things my removing labor and letting it focus on other, more productive things.

Similarly, arguing that the internet isn’t 1000x easier to learn things because libraries exist is odd to me. Have you ever tried to use a book in a library to find that it’s checked out? Or not available at all. Inter library loans used to take 30 days, if I had access to a good library, and now that information is available to me for free.

This doesn’t mean the world is perfect or that we don’t still have so much work to do. But it’s just an odd perspective that seems unmoored from reality, since these things can be objectively measured.
Un-ironically, elections are all about money, and quadratic voting seems to be okay at letting populations allocate money.

So if we change the idea of "one person, one vote" to "one vote, one dollar", we not only rid ourselves of the problem of elections (sorting bad candidates) we effectively turn elections into budget resolutions.

Quadratic voting to pick candidates seems like the wrong idea. Using it to pick budget spend in place of elected budget directors is what it was invented to do.
Ubuntu LTS. It also serves for my wife and (small) kids so something easy that works out of the box.

It's great because it gives the kids a computer that's 'theirs' but I can manage their freedom to the level that they're ready for (access to internet etc). And the oldest one (9y) already started to meddle with shell scripts so the experiment seems to work =)
I do sometimes wonder how much of the attitude and behavior of many IT people I've met might ultimately be sourced from the BOfH, taken to heart by people who didn't really get the joke. Much like how modern game 'critic' culture seems to have been derived from the AVGN.
it's not hyperbolic, there is a lot of liquidity in this multi trillion dollar market and also enough recipients don't want dollars.
Coding is organizing and modifying information. If you didn't code before, you cannot comprehend all the subtleties and will end up squeezing new concepts in your language as you start understanding them. Classical recipe for delicious spaghetti code and we all started there!

Through iterations and deliberate design choices, you may end up with a workable language. But you are no longer a non-programmer by then.
Inflation at the levels we are seeing it is certainly a problem caused by the pandemic and the reactions to the pandemic.
EWD 1036: On the cruelty of teaching computing science
It doesn't matter where you are on the scale if the scale of "helping dictators with malicious intents".

Don't get me wrong, I don't think facebook or any big tech companies has any kind of moral upper hand, given they all spy on people, lie, engage in corruption, monopoly abuses, and so on. And they all have weapon dealers in their portfolio, which sell arms to the same people using pegasus.
Charge them a premium for it too.
What if we take something like GPT-3 and have it rewrite all the resumes before they sent to processing into NLP models?
I've worked with healthcare in many different roles. I can tell you conclusively that doctors and nurses are absolutely googling the issue. Though often not actually google but something equivalent.
Oh , so just like any news site nowadays. Some (browser developer) people never learn. Or to put it another way: "Lusers, bless their little hearts, have simple minds. " [1]

[1] a.s.r. FAQ
My company is implementing this exact thing - and in general for company laptops I'd say it's not really too crazy (freelancers, contactors will most likely be given machines too if they need any level of access to our stuff/code). From what drata told our team - the agent is based on OSQuery, and just reports disk encryption, antivirus, screen lock, installed applications.

Not sure what the other commenters in this thread are going on about but AICPA's soc2 common criteria _do_ require that a bunch of that stuff is configured. The reality we're facing is that unless we actually monitor for those basic security config things, sales/marketing/etc will disable those setting for no reason and promptly leave their laptop in a Starbucks with client user lists or confidential data on it.

For other context - based on our research, compliance automation platforms like drata or secureframe greatly decrease the cost of the actual audit since it makes evidence collection that the proper security controls are in place and are functioning much easier.

From your perspective though I 100% get the concern though from a freelancer - I'd say that they shouldn't want you to be handling their source code on your personal machine anyways and should prob. send you a laptop.
That wouldn’t let the poster signal that he’s better than others.
It turns out that if you write down on the list of requirements that you would want from a voting system in order for it to be fair, the no deterministic voting system is fair. This is known as Arrow's theorem (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo...).

Interestingly Arrow's theorem doesn't apply to randomized voting systems. In particular, the system of picking a random voter to decide the election satisfies (probabilistically) every standard notion of fairness.
No, I don't do research myself on issues that are not my specialty. Either the next step is obvious, or it's beyond my reach. Precisely because I lack the necessary experience and know-how to apply research results to the clinical problem at hand. For my family, I refer them to someone I believe is good because I've seen them in action and judged them to be good from my limited perspective, if possible.

Some docs have bigger egos and will do what you say and research and act outside of their specialty for themselves or their family. In my experience, this very often leads to subpar care (and even quite horrifying failures, sometimes).

Now, one can of course look things up to discuss them with their doc and learn why said doc chose whichever option they chose. That shows you're interested and your doc will usually happily oblige if he/she is not already overworked and completely burned out. If your doc's answer to that doesn't satisfy you, then maybe it's better to change.
Yet another use case for working through virtual desktops.....
We as in tech nerds, or we as in whole society?
> The world needs more people who are two days into learning something writing about the problems of people who are one day in.

~ https://twitter.com/patio11/status/803825771349426176
This is the paradox of tolerance. A truly tolerant society would tolerate intolerance, which makes the society not truly tolerant anymore.

So a society would need to be a bit intolerant to stamp out intolerance, making it overall more tolerant.
Is this Critical Race Theory?
Principia

A work from the early 20th century, mathematics, logic.

I think some expert called Bertrand Russell's and A.N. Whitehead's "Principia Mathematica" initiative a "bizarre" piece of work, when seen from the perspective of a programming language designer.

I can't make a qualified statement about this, as I am neither a mathematician nor a language designer. And I cannot find the exact quote on the internet, sorry. Just saying.

In code? See for yourself :

https://www.principiarewrite.com/
or
https://github.com/LogicalAtomist/principia/blob/master/PL.v
Also humans vary in their ability/ desire to ween themselves off.

One of my acquaintances needed fentanyl lollipops to manage the incredible amount of pain he was in. Once the surgeries and other treatment were finished he got off opioids, in maybe a year or two.
It's interesting because I remember all the early discussions against generics in Go centred around "what Real World scenario do you need it for?"

An argument against generics was that people found it hard to find examples that were 'real' where generics would be beneficial, and so because it was rarely needed the question of whether the language should be drastically bodged/ruined/adjusted for this feature was called into question.

In retrospect you had a self-selecting population of people who loved Go and presumably didn't have much use for generics, whereas people who did presumably used something else.

I guess all we can learn from this is that human imagination is poor, and many of us need the thing in our hand to work out what we can do with it.
The fact is that the US industrial revolution began with an act of industrial espionage against the UK. That the US did end up contributing to the industrial revolution is neither here nor there, as it's also true that China is contributing meaningfully to the technological advancement of humanity now as well.

This is a standard case of one rising power coming up agains the incumbent. They'll do what they have to do to catch up, just as you did what you had to do ~150 years ago. Saying that, I hope China isn't ultimately successful due to their total disregard for human rights, but getting all bent out of shape over this trade secrets stuff is silly.
When the federal government can dilute the value of money while giving tons of it to banks and mega corps as near free loans, it becomes inevitable that there is a transfer of wealth up from the bottom.
That introduces more friction into the process, but incentives will always find a way. We haven't been able to stop a billion dollar drug trade, what makes you think banning a trillion dollar crypto market will cause it to disappear entirely? It might have a huge collapse in value and finally drive away all the dumb money pouring in, but it will still be there.
I always enter my card details (unless direct bank transfer is available, which is becoming pretty popular lyckily).

But I never found the idea that a saved credit card number (23 digits) would make a shopping experience so much convenient than having to enter it.
A typical checkout still has me entering my address, choosing between 5 different delivery options, agreeing to various terms and so on. The payment step is just a minor step along the way.

I wonder if this entering of payment info is feeling more inconvenient to people who have become used to not having to do it, for example because they have used Amazon (I still never ordered anything there because they don't have a functioning operation where I live).
You touch on the core issue, but I would like to highlight it. At the core, the opioid issue is not really about opioids at all, it too is just a symptom of a far greater issue, corruption, rot, degeneration of the system. And of course that manifests itself in ways like this "opioid epidemic" that is really no different than what Pablo Escobar or El Chapo were doing; they just didn't have the connections and were not part of the identity group that makes up the ruling class, something they may have learned even no amount of money can buy you into … ignoring all their less than sophisticated antics for a moment.

The Sacklers are just purely evil people that were part of the system of evil people who are the ruling class. That's fundamentally why they got away with what objectively is mass murder and even essentially treason, because the ruling class they are a part of is no longer a group that has the USA or its people in its interests. The American people and America are clearly well beyond their circle of interests and priorities. We now have not just the "opioid epidemic" to prove that, but the total and complete hollowing out of the American economy and also the complete burying of America under masses of debt. Not just the American, but the whole Trans-Atlantic ruling class are objectively made up of abusive, predatory, parasitic, evil people. Their actions and words speak for themselves, no amount of postulation required.

The only other alternative is that they are utterly incompetent to such a degree that they are mentally ill with something like schizophrenia or some other psychosis.

But one must assume that since they were actively and zealously behind all that they now lay at the feet of regular people of their own counties and societies (colonialism, slavery, etc.) that they too now are actively behind this new plunder and enslavement to debt and erosion of currency and value. Why would they not be, they have only ever gotten away with it, barring a few revolutions here and there before they learned to control them.
I believe merchants are not allowed to charge extra for visa or mastercard, but there is a hefty commission payed to them.

They then use this to attracts customers and/or banks to sign up. Rupay customers end up paying part of the hefty commissions (albeit indirectly) that Visa charges the merchants and the Visa customers get discounts, cash backs and offers.

A payment network is just a payment network, they shouldn't be using their market dominance to run marketing schemes.
Of course there are. For example a one line change to make the text-size slightly bigger.
I Built a Blockchain “Game” in 3 Weeks: Tools and 3 Painful Lessons
Less Painful Linear Types
They are very very important for late stage cancer patients.
Ask HN: What are the best materials to start with reinforcement learning?
Theres left alignment and then theres left position (left side of display rather simply left aligned but still on the bottom). On my Win 11 machine you can only position the bar on the bottom, and no setting is offered to change it other than icon alignment.
> And yet he's almost sure to win again in 2024.

Wait, what? He's running again?
Judge Overturns Purdue Pharma’s Opioid Settlement
What are you defining as a "community"? A Discord/Telegram group, and shitposting memes on Twitter with a bit of engagement from other marks?
Windows 2000 was something of a local maximum of UI. I contend you simply can't do much better without completely changing the paradigm. While the underpinnings of Windows have improved since then, the UI only continues to go backwards and it's a real shame.
Although charge back mechanisms exists for merchant transactions, I don't know of anyone who had got back their money lost through the theft of their card data. I wouldn't be surprised if VISA/MASTER/AMEX don't have such liabilities in India as they do in US/Europe.

I had a conversation with cyber-crime police reg the aforementioned SMS scam using ngrok, They mentioned that many in my city have lost huge sums of money through it and the scam is not just for stealing bank credentials, the attacker's application tries to exploit victim's system and had successfully installed RAT.

Successive Indian Govt. have been at loggerheads with VISA/MASTER duopoly and have successfully derailed it for domestic payments, Now Unified Payments Interface(UPI)[1] which works with payment apps has more transactions than debit/CC. So the domestic criminals have largely switched to UPI/Bank account based scams.

Occasionally some of these criminals get caught and some get their money back.

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/...
Facebook: "Internal BGP is awesome, here's a long paper blowing our own trumpet"

Also Facebook: "Sorry, we just had a massive global outage when our internal DNS servers withdrew their internal BGP advertisements, it messed the network up so bad we had to send engineers to datacentres to fix it because remote access was FUBAR"

Don't get me wrong, I can see the potential benefits of BGP for internal routing, even with all the imperfections of BGP. I just think its a bit funny Facebook is blowing this particular trumpet.
This is way beyond the original point being made, but in the YT app, the button to view channels that a user has subscribed to is indeed labelled "subscriptions".

I agree that in this context, the natural interpretation of the word is that money has been invested.
How long are we talking? I remember being in Mumble sessions for hours quite often back in ~2007, 2008 and I never noticed anything like that.
I like Nim, and probably will learn it at some point.

But no, Nim is not everything "python should/want to be".

The name case insensitivity and the implicit imports on the global namespaces are perfect examples of stuff that are better in Python.
What’s the story like using Nim for WASM?

I’ve always meant to take a proper look at Nim, and maybe WASM could be the perfect place for it.
Lovely fake doc that excites the imagination. There are plenty of actual and real unknown synths out there - my personal favorite is one I have had the pleasure to play personally and that moment is one of my favorite life memories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANS_synthesizer. Analogue synths are amazing beasts.
You are not bursting anything because I value your opinion as much as you do mine(0%). As always time will tell. Also, being used rarely means it's used and growing by simple fact of being existing, therefore you have no standing to "burst my bubble", and only expose yourself as ignorant and uninformed by your own admission.