skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My team calls it Swarming. We Swarm up on a problem like a bunch of hornets, together we hammer that shit from many angles, heavyweight team and then boom, it's done. I think I got it from TPS
Because 0.3 * 1 = 0.3

And

0.3 * 0.3 = 0.09
And that is one of the key "benefits" of HTTP/3 if you're a Google-scale company.
An animal study indicated that most cases of myocarditis associated with COVID-19 vaccination could be caused by incorrect injection technique. So the issue is not with the vaccine per se, but with injecting it into a vein instead of a muscle. This research hasn't been reproduced in humans though, so there could be something else going on.

https://www.10news.com/news/in-depth/in-depth-can-a-simple-t...
What's a "huge" gap?
> used to have weekly episodes with irregular heartbeats due to severe

Off topic, but this happened to me as well. I was having up to 20,000 PVCs a day, and I believe they were brought on by stress. What did you end up doing to reduce them? Or did they slowly resolve on their own?
Stating without context that "vaccines cause myocarditis" is indeed disinformation, because it encourages people to irrationally focus on a particular (edge-case) negative outcome, whilst disregarding the (common) positive outcome.

Add the context, and the potential for disinformation goes away: "Vaccines cause myocarditis, but overall at a lower rate than the disease itself. Additionally, the disease has many other, much more significant, risks that are mitigated by vaccination."

The point I'm making is that disinformation is a psychological effect. A statement can be factually true and still be disinformation ("100% of child abusers found to have consumed dihydrogen monoxide", etc.)
I almost cheer when a comment of mine gets a quick down vote. Nothing attracts upvotes faster than a grey comment that shouldn't be grey.
As a marxist, I will certainly concede that hand-wavy diagnoses of "capitalism" with no other analysis or consideration being applied to everything from mental illness to the domination of Marvel films is grating and meaningless.
> Github doesn't maintain the open source software they host.

Right but they host it. And before Github hosted it and made money doing so we didn't have a great distribution mechanism for open source software.

> Capitalism isn't the originating point of houses though. However, it is the originating point of mortgages, and the massive profits banks draw off of them. I'd say it's a double-edged sword on that front

It's a hard thing because you also can't just go into the woods and cut down trees and build your own house anymore right? There's no "free property" so the times have changed. Banks might make massive profits on home loans, but at the same time without making a profit you won't give someone a loan for a house. Making a profit isn't really a big issue anyway.

The scenario here is not: "get a free house" or "banks make massive profits on houses". So it's a bit of a false dichotomy you've created.

> Those countries are social democracies - they invest a lot into welfare and the state. The US is probably the world's most capitalist country, that or South Korea. Both have terrible standards of living for poorer people.

> Fundamentally, the incentives of capital drive towards maximising profits and minimising costs - everything else is surplus to requirements. I'm not on board with the people who think capitalism is the worst thing ever, but its incentives are pretty bad and it's usually better off mixed with taxes, regulation, nationalisation etc into a mixed economy.

Yea this happens from time to time but people confuse government and economic systems. The US for example is a constitutional republic (or similar idk exactly) and uses the private means of production (capitalism) as its economic system. Take Norway or another country and while they do have democratic socialism as a government system, they still employ capitalism as their economic model. They have a stock market, people own factories or houses, and they sell their labor. And if you do some research (if you're interested) countries like that tend to rate even higher than the US on metrics of things like "the worlds most capitalistic economies", "the most entrepreneurial economies", the most "free economies", etc. I think your comment about regulation and taxes highlights this misunderstanding. Highly capitalist economies (Denmark, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States, etc.) have different levels of taxation and for different items, rules and regulations, etc.

I think the biggest failure of capitalism (if you'll allow) is that it does very bad with things that can't be or haven't been priced appropriately. We see this with pollution and the environment right now.
Perhaps. But in hindsight, Go's generics implementation turned different enough to warrant benefit of the doubt in my opinion. A notable difference is that Go interfaces are implicit while C# and Java are explicit and that affects Go generics.
Also magnetic usb cables are quite easily available now. You could use any tiny usb device and add magnetic feature to it for around $10 or so.
>Sometimes, the right way to kill a project (politically) is to let it publicly fail.

I feel this is definitely true most of the time, but in this case the cost to their public image/perception among the tech crowd was so high it was a mistake.
>Or, maybe just add back the Kensington Security Slot and attach the laptop to yourself/desk with a strong wire and not have your laptop yanked in the first place.

They could still yank you. It would pretty hard for you to execute the self destruct sequence after the undercover fbi agent knocked you over from your chair.
Chapter 2 and 3 of the "BGB" contain several paragraphs which define legal rights and obligations for doing business via the internet or telephone.

§312f for example defines that customers must receive "a copy of a contractual document signed by the contracting parties in such a way that their identity is identifiable" (translated via DeepL).

A simple mail address is not an identity in German law, especially not when doing business with B2C as you always have a 14 day period to cancel your order (except for downloads and various, special products).

edit: If you want to cancel, you must be able to do so via (offline) mail, too.
Downvotes on HN are basically random.

I've had well-written comments downvoted into oblivion in threads that also included another comment stating the exact same opinion slightly differently. I've had zingy one-liners upvoted to 100 or so. I've had discussions where the back and forth statements alternated between negative and positive karma.

I'm treating it as a study in human behavior around communications. So far my takeaways are:

- a zingy one-liner that agrees with the zeitgeist will be upvoted to the sky

- the same type of comment expressing a contrarian view will be buried

- timing matters: if you get a few downvotes early on, the downvote brigade will help ensure a continued slide

- downvoting to disagree is natural (meme theory and all that). What's interesting to me is how can one overcome the impulse to downvote and potentially seed a new idea in someone's brain.
Web3: The next generation of the web is here apparently
SSDs and drive-managed SMR HDDs do not immediately delete the data.

If the system is interrupted after data is deleted there is a good chance you can still get it back.

On a normal HDD you still have to wipe the data (ie. physically overwrite it half a dozen times). But this is not possible to execute reliably on SSD or drive-managed SMR HDD.
For the virus to be spreadable it has to create symptoms.

With Covid for example you would have to make a virus that can compete and attach better to the ACE2 receptor. If it is better at attaching its more bio-competitive against normal use and more likely to make you sick. The key thing with covid is to prevent a cytokine storm, but the 'ideal' virus would still make you quite sick and some would die in the process.

Maybe viruses for bacteria. But viruses to compete against other viruses and win is a recipe for disaster.
Almost never downvote unless someone is objectively wrong and is also incapable of being corrected.
This outstanding 1959 movie from Bell Labs demonstrates standing waves, impedance matching, and more in a very nice way using a couple of Shive wave machines, hosted by Dr. Shive himself [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Shive
I imagine you'll get a higher percentage of respondants from the group that downvotes for "good reasons", than you will from the group that downvotes for "bad reasons" as they are probably less willing to publically admit it. So I doubt the responses in this thread will be that representative overall.
Ethereum has proven that many dont care about decentralization in the short term, so ETH will be forked to death over the coming years to achieve lower fees and high throughput instead.
I'm not any sort of expert, but the topics TFA article covers are many that weigh upon my mind, and quite frankly, the author comes across as smug and egotistical, ironically the traits he seems to rail against in the "edgelord" section.

For one thing, there is a lot of begging the question going on in most of these "plans that shall not be named", with a side order of heavy cultural colorings the author does not even appear to realize they operate under.
True, yet Action is impossible to coordinate without hope.
The difference here is usually leverage. A teacher spending an hour to teach one child teaches one child, but a programmer who spends an hour writing code to generate a dollar’s worth of value can have that run thousands of times a second or 24/7 even when they’re sleeping.

Of course teachers who understand this also make money, see Miss Excel ( https://www.instagram.com/miss.excel/?hl=en ), who was/is making $100k a day with excel instruction videos on tiktok and instagram. It’ll all about leverage.
The only acceptable solution is full E2EE for all Apple services. Nothing else is satisfactory at this point. They need to make this step to regain their user's trust.
I rarely downvote good faith comments (even if they are wrong) and instead try to focus more on upvoting good comments. However, I do downvote obvious spam, trolling, etc.
A giant step for mankind, I do hope that this will continue for the years to come
Capitalism and Satan are similar in that both are used as slurs meaning "human nature".
FWIW, Paul Graham has commented that using up/down arrows for agreement/disagreement is fine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171.

At the end of the day I think everyone just upvotes comments they like, and downvotes comments they dislike, people just have different reactions to things that impact what "dislike" means to them.
Search UI Interaction for Webapp
Are you alluding to SCTP/DCCP? Or is there some other protocol I don't know about?
What sucks is having a supercomputer in your jeans' pocket that is significantly less responsive to your input than a Commodore 64 and is mostly used to deliver ads to you.
German stats unfortunately mis-attribute the number of cases in the unvaccinated very severely. Actually what they do is so bad it is really just making the numbers up. Article is sadly paywalled:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus235442252/Fakten...

But what it says is that the German authorities don't have data on the vaccination status of most COVID cases. Instead of admitting this they just relabel all people of unknown status as unvaccinated.
The plot you share is exactly the context I am asking for. It looks like "mostly recovered back to the trendline" is technically true, but it's still measurably below that trendline. And my point is that, even if it was fully at the trendline last Nov, I would want the article to say that, because it's not something that I would a priori expect.

To be clear, I am not arguing that the narrative is wrong, just that the article doesn't have the context to convince me that the narrative is right.
> containing only solar and wind

Conveniently leaving out hydro and nuclear… [Edit: which only makes this easier.]
I mean, the sentence translates to "there's no evidence this is better, but some people are doing it and liking it".

This is not about being objectively better but only about preference. So that's not a "truth".

Sure people might prefer static over dynamic, but until we have hard evidence that one is actually better than the other, this is only preference which is heavily influenced by the current moment we are in.

Having said all that, I've worked with both and lean a lot more towards typed languages now (more than I did previously). But this is not an uncomfortable truth, because it's not objectively true.
Perhaps this will paradoxically be a good thing. I have for a long time been wondering if or to what extent are the reports of ageism in the industry well founded.

If it turns out that hiring older developers gets you a much higher likelihood of getting someone who cares, this might change matters significantly (assuming of course that there actually is a problem in the first place).
I tend to agree.

The only time I get really annoyed for being downvoted is after presenting a provable factual statement, which riles up a fanboi of some sorts..

That said, I don't think I ever complained about a downvote. It's not worth it, detracts from the discussion flow and is almost always self-correcting by upvotes from others.
Love the work! One request though, could future progress reports include a little bit about the work being done for OpenBSD also? I know there is someone on the team who is working on the porting effort to Linux, but is also working on OpenBSD concurrently. Thank you!
>It compares on-device image hashes with hashes of known CP images.

No, it compares against hashes supplied by a government agency (NCMEC). Apple has no way to verify the hashes are in fact CP, as it is only re-hashing hashes.
If someting is factually wrong I give the person the benefit of the doubt and assume they just don't know. In those situations rather than downvoting I usually just post a comment with a correction. I don't think understandable ignorance is personally worth my downvote. It's an opportunity to educate instead.
The cop needs probable cause, which seeing you transporting corpses clearly is.

However, the game warden only needs suspicion. That’s a considerably lower bar to clear. He definitely doesn’t need to see the poached animals.
It’s not like they just had them ready to go at the flip of a switch and we’re just holding out.

There were trade offs and they didn’t have a solution on day one.

They’ve always said they were open to them with the right implementation.
One rule about voting: Don't shit where you eat. In other words, don't downvote comments / commenters you are also arguing with.

I try (but probably fail often) to downvote only on fact or form, not opinion.
Is mobbing really better than pairing? I've never done it. Sounds awful. I got into this game to have long stretches of solitary work, that's when I'm at my best. Not entirely obviously, I still work on a team. Anyway, pairing can work well under the right circumstances, curious to hear anyone's take on whether mobbing works or not.
If every system ends up the same way, it's probably the people not the systems.
Not true. You can trust your own observations and thought process results and can make your own small statistics from anecdotes coming from your acquaintances.
Performance per Watt only matters to Intel when they are leading. Otherwise they brute force to be "fastest". I think that the ARM in Macs is on a different trajectory than Intel. The battery life along in an ARM based Mac is second to none. That's more important to most folks, IMO.
The Dream of U.S.-Made Computer Chips
Quarkus is NOT affected by the Log4j Vulnerability
Wait. Are Norway and Sweden in the group of "most capitalist"? I thought they also had a bunch of socialized programs. I feel like USA and UK are the top two "most capitalist" countries.
> I'm talking about cases where you don't want to work for them at all.

Given enough money, I would be thrilled to work for the worst client I can imagine. There are very few cases where I would flat out refuse to work with a client, regardless of money. And in those cases, I would be scared to death to just say: “sorry, I feel it would be better not to work for you, although you want it”.
It's always surprised me how available DJI drones are in the US, you can easily find them at Best Buy. What are the odds they aren't being used to spy on Americans?
More Americans Left Religion During the Pandemic
Actually I think while the compiler is a bit naive, the compiler writers are not. They are striving for simplicity, maintainability, speed, etc., vs trying to optimize high-level FP-esque idioms into fast machine code.

The compiler has definitely gotten more optimal over the years, but it's a different beastie than the rust one. Because go is not rust.
Agreed. We waited the full 15 minutes on trust, but having driven there I would have preferred to sit in the car. If people are planning to drive it might be an idea to do that anyway - no delay to others, and avoiding getting into difficulty while driving?
What’s confusing about it? In this context, “statically-typed languages” refers to things like Haskell, and “formal methods” refers to things like TLA+. The two are not at all the same, nor are they intended to be.
He would of avoided jail (that day, the agent would have noticed the bump-kill-switch and averted recon)

He would had always of went to prison, even if they didn't get his HDD unencrypted. He used his personal email to promote his Mycology website, had the Obama administration to contend with, and was the first to sail westward.

Free Ross (The Department of Parks and Recreation)
Bitcoin 'could'... but GBP & USD 'will' become worthless, guaranteed.
It's not only that. Usually - and provided that you comment in good faith and provide a well reasoned opinion - being downvoted is actually a badge of honor in a way.

And yes, it's usually self-correcting anyway.
>No one's lives have been ruined by this

This is a strong claim with zero evidence. The social costs of defending an accused perpetrator of this nature are insanely high.

While we're making unsubstantiated claims, I assert that intelligence agencies routinely exploit this. My only substantiation is that it's obvious and I would if I worked for them.
It is unfortunate that parent latched on to capitalism. Point number 13 from the post resonated with me the most since the software I write can damage the environment or expensive machines that are difficult to replace if there are errors, and as a professional electrical engineer I do sign off that it is built correctly and am liable, and therefore I limit the scope so I can manage the workload, document test results that show it works correctly, and put a lot of effort in to handling faults so machinery shuts down safely when there is a problem with a sensor or actuator. Also I keep it as simple as it can be to get the job done so it is readable for other people to understand and troubleshoot.

Imagine if you could sue software vendors for lost revenue due to bugs.

The posts point about people taking responsibility for their software not happening until there are regulations and regulations being written in blood is a good one.
This piece is great overall, but:

> TDD[...] zealots are probably zealots [...]

Because they're sick to death of things breaking in production and having to program against interfaces that were designed as an implementer was thinking about them over how a caller would view them. There are times and places to not do TDD, I'd say on the backend around 15% of the time where exploration first is more important (e.g., some data science thing where you don't even know the shape of the data yet) but for run of the mill programming TDD works, but most people still don't do it even if they say they do.

I had my zealot phase on TDD, and what got me out of it was just resigning to the reality that the world isn't going to change. But that said, when friends / coworkers going on zealot style TDD rants I pour gasoline on that fire because I still enthusiastically agree with them.
I downvote comments written in a flame war or Reddit-silly joke style.
Ok, so you get the item and it explodes in your face. Whom do you sue?
> it seems to be happening on huge swaths of adults as we speak.

I am fully convinced there are vast swaths of legal "adults" who are not fully emotionally developed. On my really bad days, I'm one of them. The one thing that saves me is I tend to snap out of it eventually and think of the long term. I think that many "adults" never do.

Events in recent years have only reinforced this point of view.
What is Linux graphics performance like? Can you comment on battery life also compared to the Mac OS running?
The vacuum probably also helps. I'd also expect a few mm of vacuum might do the trick of avoiding contracting covid, though I'd not (as the Dutch say) put my hand in the flame for it.

(Equivalent expression in English might be that I'd not wager a lot of money on it, i.e. that I'm not completely certain given the consequences if it's wrong.)
> it's fun for designers to make up their own UIs

It's not just "fun," it's necessary to create an optimal user experience for every particular use-case. Have you ever played two video games which have the same UI? I'd be surprised if you have. Each and every one has its own interaction patterns, its own design language, and its own visual hierarchy.

I absolutely want the web to have better builtin widgets with common functionality and accessibility, but the point is not for them to look the same, but rather work the same.
I'm guessing it is because it's harder to securely wipe SSD/flash drives [0]. Anyway I'm no expert on these topics.

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Securely_wipe_disk#Flash_me...
> timing matters: if you get a few downvotes early on, the downvote brigade will help ensure a continued slide

I think the comment kind and timing matter together. If the comment was reasonable but contrary to popular views, it will usually attract early downvotes, but over time I’ve noticed the score will normalize as more measured people visit the story over the day.
Hobo-Dyer? That's clearly inferior to either the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection or it's oblique aspect, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyou_hemisphere-in-a-square_p... .
Pathways for Open Collective’s “Exit to Community” (Part 2)
of course. emacs itself is written in emacs lisp. it's not just an extension script for it. but it is not the most performant language. depending on the implementation, common lisp can be a beast with unmatched interactive development (in emacs of course)
Those views don't make you more likely to catch and spread a deadly disease. They are fairly harmless.
Meanwhile in the US in several states christian fundamentalists managed to introduce an abortion ban. Similar stuff is happening in parts of Eastern Europe.

It’s nowhere near resolved yet.
When I had the Karma to do it I would too lol.

The problem is you have to have dead comments turned on to vouch, but the ability to flag comments is default with enough karma.

I didn't even know there were so many decent flagged comments until I turned on dead.

I think it would be cool to have a mechanism where if someone's flagged comments get vouched for so many times they lose their ability to flag for a period of time.
Apple seeks patent for device-to-device digital ID provisioning
You really nailed it. I agree 100%.

It still riles me, when well reasoned opinions are downvoted.

Edited to add: Your comment is a brilliant example and I really don't get why it's downvoted <shrug>