skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could, I would downvote anything that does not increase the signal-to-noise ratio. In the last 1-2 years, there has been an upward trend in reddit-like comments like "Yes!", "That sucks", and smart-ass/low-quality oneliners that are supposed to be funny.

if only those comments could just disappear from HN.
Ok so where? And is everyone boosted? And how do you infer that vaxxing kids is worthless?
Sounds interesting, and thanks for disclosing your connection to Holo! :)
I agree with bluGill and I've done most of my career programming backend infra in Python. Give me C++, Rust, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript—as long as it has a type system. Eliminates a whole class of runtime errors and just makes life easier. When I'm dealing with large projects that have lots of moving parts and other developers, strict types are essential.

It's true that one can write unit tests to firm up dynamically-typed code, but doing so is not only a slog, it makes changes more fragile and deployments a lot scarier. If you aren't perfect the first time you write the tests, instead of a build failing you get restart loops, dead threads, and in the worst cases data corruption from improper silent type coercion.
I very rarely downvote.

I think the downvote option is probably needed but it can be problematic - it carries different meanings with subtle differences:

- A way to signal disagreement with a comment.

- A means to flag a comment as clearly misleading or incorrect.

- A way of signalling a 'low value' comment (obviously subjective).

- A way for the downvoter to simply express his or her displeasure at what has been posted regardless how reasonable the comment is. (This probably happens more often than people care to admit it. It's subtly different than just disagreement.)

One might argue all the above examples are types of 'disagreement'.

An idea:

Clicking downvote adds the following line to the end of a comment: 3 readers disagree or 3 readers downvoted. Would this make readers pause before they hit the downvote button? (And is that a good or bad thing?)
Go is not Rust, but there is a lot it could learn from Rust without sacrifice: sum types, Result for error handling, iterators with for loop support, [edit] non-nullable types etc.
> I am seeing a lot of comments about how the graphs are not anchored at 0.

Personal preference: for large offsets that makes sense. For small ones (~10% of max here) it seems unnecessary, or, to a suspicious mind, meant to hide something ;)
Nuclear isn't sustainable, extremely slow to build and astronomically expensive. It's not an option.

Hydropower is sustainable but has a very limited potential,and its impact on the environment is much, much higher than comparable wind/solar installations.
Reasonable and logical: it's a similar idea to a locally hosted virus scanner scanning all your documents...
I think experience will differ a lot based on when you were vaccinated. Earlier on (Feb/March last year) it sounds like the waiting time wasn't being strictly enforced - you were advised to wait especially if you were driving but there wasn't really any administration of it. That was the experience my parents had and I heard similar from other people vaccinated at that time.

I got vaccinated in the summer at one of the larger vaccination centres and they were being more strict about it. After getting vaccinated they gave you a card with a time written on it which was when you were supposed to leave (although both times it was only 10 mins not 15). There was a dedicated 'room' with chairs in it and a clock and a nurse watching over things. After your time was up you left the card on the chair. Nobody was physically forcing you to stay but there was an obvious expectation that you would and I didn't see anybody walk straight out either time (out of a sample of 60+ people that I overlapped with).
By the time you get to that high a harmonic, the signal is way, way, way down.

I have to imagine these footprints, both the u.fl footprint and the 0402 footprint, were meant to be used during testing, and I can't imagine that their own testing also involved Dremeling off a trace. Removing the cap at the end of the curved stub is surely fine.
>Maybe Tim Cook will fight tooth-and-nail to avoid adding non-CSAM hashes to that list.

1) Tim Cool will have no knowledge of this when the government inevitably expands the hash list

2) Apple gets a list of hashes, not content, from NCMEC which is an unconstitutional quasi-governmental agency created by congress and funded by the government to bypass the 4th amendment.

3) Apple will simply get an updated list of hashes and has no reasonable means to verify what the hashes from any given government are.
I'm in my 40's and my graduating comp sci class was the biggest in history at that time because of the money people were making in the first dot com boom.
Keep in mind that "the last 1%" does not mean "horrible pain points". Will we ever get the last 1% of functionality running? Probably not; there's certainly stuff in these machines that nobody will care about enough to be worth making work (there's also stuff we already support that macOS doesn't yet, so it goes both ways!). But our goal isn't to make 100% of the features of the hardware work; it is to make all the features people expect to work work, and make them stable. We can't do everything - e.g. proper notch support depends on, well, downstream projects supporting that - but we can make it a good experience (e.g. by excluding the strip of screen containing the notch by default).

Will there be bugs? Absolutely. But hey, that's why I'm here, isn't it? Report away, I'll get it fixed :-)
It is in the Queen's collection but it does go on display. When I was squiring visiting family around the city we decided to do the palace tour and I was pleasantly surprised to turn a corner and see it on display right in front of me. This was only a few months after watching Tim's Vermeer so it was fun having to explain to the people with my why I was so excited to see it on display.

If you plan ahead and time your visit right you too can see it in person.
~500 karma is the threshold to downvote.
This could have saved the creator of silk route. Not that I sympathize with crime, but he was unfairly accused of crimes he didn't committed like paying hitmen to kill enemies. Also, the way to operation was setup to get his laptop forcefully from him was, at the least, disrespectful. If FBI was so sure he committed any crime, they could have legally got a search warrant.
Not always the case. There are non-democratic capitalist societies with varying degrees of performance, from great (Singapore) to awful (the entire post-Soviet space).

On the other hand, over-regulated or fully socialist societies seem to be incompatible with democracy, I'd agree with that one.
As person who uses both Rust & Go at my $DAYJOB, I would say, both have their merits and demerits, I think, we should view them as tools instead of attaching ourselves to any particular language emotionally. I like to think them as different tools for different use-cases. Use the right tool for the right job. In my opinion, go does an excellent job at networking (TLS/HTTP) & quick cli apps while rust shreds text & does an amazing job at memory management (this is a figurative example; don't drone me if I missed your favorite feature).
Got the booster the other day and no 15 minute wait time. This is in the US. I did ask them to aspirate the shot before pushing it and they seemed surprised but did it without issue and were very nice about it. Have read a few articles questioning whether accidental intravenous injections are causing myopericarditis. Figured having them aspirate would just be a good thing.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34406358/
There are many additional variables though. How much time since your last shot, which vaccine, how long between jabs, which variant of the virus you are exposed to, the state your immune system is in.

If you’ve had two jabs, spaced 3 weeks apart, last jab was 6 months ago, and you get exposed to omicron, it is a much worse scenario than “20% more likely to get symptoms”. So there is a rational push for boosters right now.
Agreed, not being snarky, but isn't that what the "R" is in the (R)emote (C)ode (E)xecution is - The ability to trigger arbitrary code execution over a network (especially via a wide-area network such as the Internet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_code_execution

The attacker can inject an LDAP URL with their own malicious code into a vulnerable website, via a request, that then is logged with logj4. The logging library if vulnerable will actually download and execute this remote malicious code, just by the attacker submitting the bad input. Obviously the vulnerable website needs to be logging this request information.
It's like this comment comes from a different reality, but I imagine so. You can probably also use use it to desensitize yourself from notification phobia.
An innovative solution to the wrong problem.

What exactly does one achieve in nailing the local pedo for old content? If he's stupid enough to be uploading it to iCloud he's stupid enough to get himself busted in all manner of other ways. The real problem is of course criminals who are currently engaged in the production of CSAM. Which Apple's scheme does nothing to address.
> As someone in a population that is 99%+ vaccinated and covid is spreading like wildfire, the vaccines are doing nothing to stop spread now.

The fact it continues to spread is not evidence that it is doing "nothing" to stop the spread.
I think you're confusing look with function. Two things need not look the same to "adhere to assumptions and pattern recognition," but rather need to function the same and have the same underlying conceptual language. If the web had better builtin widgets (combo boxes, dialogs, etc.), then you'd get this benefit, but because everybody is reinventing everything with JS, every site feels different.
There's a quote attributed to Peter Maurin: "We must make the kind of society where it is easier for people to be good."

I think, in the case of downvotes, it's easy for them to be used for reasons other than their intended purpose because they are the least time consuming way to express displeasure, and there is virtually no downside to using them for that purpose.

It would obviously add complexity to have a separate mechanism for voicing disagreement with an argument presented in good faith. But it might make it easier for people to use downvotes appropriately for cases where the person is not acting in good faith or violating the forum's rules.
There isn't any political pressure from Red Hat. They're often the only company that does any work on the input stack in userspace, without them it would probably not even exist or be stuck in a very old state. You can complain but it's unlikely to be of much use when the real issue is lack of manpower and there just aren't enough people to respond to all the complaints users have. A surefire way to solve that would be to start contributing, Red Hat won't stand in your way.
The same could be said about all trades people (and yes I consider most software engineering a trade), there are those who care deeply about the quality of their work and improving that. Then there are those who get really comfortable and are fine with stagnating.
I mean that the Gov will come along and say:

"See that hashing thing you have, this secret gov. order that you can't tell anyone about says you need to look for this list of hashes too. If you find them, you have to let these 5 people know and if you tell anyone you'll accidentally shoot yourself three times in the back of the head to commit suicide!"
It is. We are talking about software licenses, not FSF opinion on software distributions.
Sure, they're not following the rules. Why would that affect the validity of your contract with them if you purchase good from them? Why would this contract not bind the seller?
I agree that it is a greek tragedy that it always comes to this, but this is just the market’s way of monetizing the medium. This is how it happens. We used to sit through 20 minutes(!) of commercials every hour for tv content. Now we download one or two magnitudes more data than is required so that the content we actually want is “free”. Efficient markets will always devolve to this unfortunately.

At least this (compared to unskippable commercials of past) I can bypass looking at.
Check this: https://idownvotedbecau.se/
So ignore the reality we see with our eyes and double down on an ideology that is clearly not working for anyone? Got it. SF never mass incarcerated criminals and was already lax on crime. I didn’t realize “restorative justice” meant letting elderly Asians get beat in the streets or letting drug users take over children's parks. SF is a joke and doubling down on failing strategies because of ideology is why it such a miserable place. The neo-liberals have turned SF into ancapistan. Hopefully you can afford privat security, otherwise SF feels like living in a slum.

Other countries that are actually progressive (not just woke) have found better ways to clean up cities but also decriminalize drugs. The red light district in Amsterdam is cleaner than almost any part of SF. What we are doing is clearly failing. The difference is they don’t let people just openly use drugs on the streets, don’t allow theft, and don’t tolerate anarchy like we do.
That's true, but they also often leave.

I've taught three[0] people a little younger than me software that all wanted to do it for the freedom and financial security and two of the three transferred out of software to something else in tech like product management. It really bummed me out too, because it was the two women out of the three. Their lives are still markedly better than before, but I want more women in actual software.

[0] Well, more than that, but the others gave up on the first week or two.
> They cancelled it!

I doubt it. It will be quietly implemented. If a techie digs in far enough with RE to prove it, general society will treat them like they wear a tinfoil hat.
Indeed, I feel extremely fortunate to have wound up with computers as an interest while young because that allowed me to build a well paid career doing something I love despite lacking a degree, but that sense of unfairness you mention makes it a bit bittersweet.

I think the bottom line is that everybody should be able to earn a good living wage, regardless of their line of work. It feels broken that one would need to seek a specific job or set of jobs to have a hope of living comfortably.
The Government know that that there are millions of people wandering around unvaxinated and additionally these are largely the group that have started voting "Conservative" since 2016 because Facebook and feelings equals facts etc. The Government know only a small fraction of these people will actually die because of COVID so they can still be relied upon at the next election.

The main collateral damage in all this is, of course, the NHS. If I have to point out the Governents actions (not their words) on the operation on the NHS in the last decade, then I'm not sure we are speaking the same language.

And if I hear "Labour would have been bad/worse" one more time ... I won't be surprised at this stage.
> It's not because there's a shortage of vaccines

No, it's because we didn't really push the equivalent of the European Green Pass. In some countries, you can be refused your salary if you don't get the pass, which in practice introduces de-facto compulsory vaccination.

That is squarely a governmental responsibility. You can argue that public opinion here is too individualist to ever agree (particularly now, so late), but that was definitely a political choice that is impacting vaccination rates.
>imagine having a person every ~2 minutes for extended periods of time.

For my 1s dose I was at a walk in that had announced a lower age range than rest of London and the entire twittersphere showed up as a result.

The docs must have been at <15 seconds each. Basically conveyor belt of people barely breaking their stride while walking past. They were still going at 19h00. Wild.

Though to be fair lots of volunteers on both before & after dealing with the logistics so that docs just did the needle part.

Definitely not sustainable pace especially if you expecting to do the same next day, but was impressive display of possible throughput
You mean like a flu shot? And Tdap? Oh no. Anyways.

This assessment is nether particularly interesting nor at all unprecedented. If it ends up being with us indefinitely, then a COVID booster will simply be incorporated into the annual flu shot.
San Francisco mayor pledges more police, safety measures
Please tell me this mission ends with the Venera/Cassini treatment of "let's drop the sucker into the atmosphere and see how long it lasts"
The author spends time on another forum called Lobsters, which has a fairly pronounced anti-capitalist user base. I think this is where that is coming from.
You don't need a mask if you're social distancing. You've got some major cognitive dissonance going on. There's absolutely no scientific backing behind what you just said. Your own health anxiety is talking. People are looking at you weirdly because it looks like you're in full psychosis mode doing illogical things.

The biggest issue is that the minority of people like you are dictating how everyone else has to lead their lives. Dirty looks aren't "intolerance". Now, if they were telling you that you could not wear a mask that might be intolerant (see how that's similar to telling people they have to wear masks).
I actually have a different view. One of the things I love about go is it's a simple language, and I can hold the whole language spec in my head while I'm programming.

A generics implementation can't sacrifice the simplicity of the language, or make it any harder to read go code.
The only viable option that I found that could reliably infer commands from speech is https://github.com/Picovoice/rhino

Unfortunately it is not open source (the GitHub just has binary blobs) and requires an account to log in to generate and download model files, but the accuracy is great and you can use it to send commands to Home Assistant to turn lights on/off etc.
I disagree - the difference isn’t leverage it’s monetize-ability.

If teachers were paid a lifetime percentage of their students earnings teachers would make far more than software engineers. Barring some cultural revolution that’s not going to happen.

Software engineers simply make more money because the companies they work for have high margins.
At current and last job we trust all devs with production DB access, but it's logged any time they access a machine that has prod DB access. We also have a migration framework that can create an audit log that can then be used to perform or rollback the migration. It works at the row/object level. There is a review system around migrations and you have to pass your ticket ID to run the migration, and it will check if the ticket was approved.

Former job eventually had a system of request - you would request access for your user for 24 hours.

Job before that only managers had prod db access. Do not recommend if possible.
Lol. I was just stating my personal preferences, then you came calling me out unreasonable. I made it very clear, that it's about how I feel about it. Not reason. I am not arguing at all.

But hey, I also gave you an actual argument, you ignored......
The theft of blacks' labor in the past does not mean that higher rates of paid employment today would not increase black wealth.
I wonder though. I know someone under 40 who has complained of heart arrhythmia, sudden severe fatigue and a squeezing pressure on his chest. He had Moderna but it happened >7 days afterwards. He never reported it because he assumed it was psychological instead and that doctors would dismiss it with anti-depressants.

The paper doesn't give a rate for this type of thing, only for people who went to hospital. But if this is really one-in-a-million stuff I really wonder how I happen to know someone who has it. Also there are only ~21 million software developers in the world, HN has only a fraction of them reading let alone commenting and yet this thread is filling up with people describing the exact same thing that happened to my friend.

I find it hard to believe these things are really as rare as they're implying. Perhaps there's a reason they don't give rates for the "squeeze+tiredness+irregular heartbeat" problem.
> But especially so with me, given I care about weird exotic technology at the boundary of programming.

Smells a bit like a humblebrag. Here's mine:

But especially so with me, given I care about extremely high-Quality software.

> Also also also, most muggles don’t want to program their own computers, much in the same way that most muggles don’t want to do their own taxes or wire their own houses.

This is true, but I'm uncomfortable referring to non-techs as "muggles." Some of the least-computer-tech-savvy people I know, are doctors, lawyers, and scientists (and I actually know quite a few).

> 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.

Unfortunately, I have to agree with this.
True, but I'd argue that regulation is not part of the free market capitalist paradigm. Regulations are created and enforced by the democratic institutions that are not part of the market paradigm.
??

I have Alexa through Sonos for years. It has never tried to sell me anything? What’s the context of these upsells?
Why would they want to entrap people with fake child porn images? What would even be the point of getting people flagged? They would never be convicted anyway, since they are not actually storing illegal images.
I love Alacritty, but it has some awful bugs (in the rendering or windowing library they use, not Alacritty itself) with nVidia + Wayland.
They weren't ever firmly opposed to generics. Here's the FAQ from 2009:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091113154906/http://golang.org...

> Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.

> Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it.

12 years later, here they are.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/15/matt-ridl...
I consistently downvote posts talking about voting. I have downvoted what I thought was great posts bcs they ended with a "inb4 incoming downvotes lolz".
> just so story

Thank you, this is the term I was looking for, and indeed, pretty much all of the "plans" the author lays out are "just so stories", untestable and with the implication that they are the true reasons things are as they are.
Any articles you can point me to? I can’t find anything about this.
Spoof Amazon Eventbridge messages to send custom messages through AWS Chatbot
> it’s probably as much as you can expect to have him take the advice.

Particularly considering that he didn't do it in early 2020, when it mattered the most.
"In other, less-regulated countries, KN95 masks where missing for just a brief period of time"

"heavy restrictions imposed by... you know... governments."

I don't think we live on the same planet, UK government was trowing tens of billions at anyone who could supply masks, it took almost a year to fix supply while frontline doctors and nurses were dying. You could literally sell them masks that didn't actually work and they would take em.

I am not getting the feeling we are having reasonable discourse, it doesnt matter what happens, you always blame 'regulation', did regulation get millions of containers stuck in US, causing shortage of containers in China? Did regulation make it so you only have 2 ports that can unload giant container ships?
Like https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2021/12/15/matt-ridl...?