skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm hopeful. "The logic of political survival" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/logic-political-survival ) is one of many books that make a decent case for democratic systems simply being better than authoritarian (in the long run), the more democratic the better. This old journal article while dated and possibly no longer accurate about the arab world give a military perspective on the same dynamics https://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars

It's important to remember that 100 years ago (if you squint, 150 years no contest, there basically was no democracy in the modern sense (universal suffrage, no special rights), kings and queens and aristocrats still held most power and wealth in most places around the world. It's very easy to forget that the descendants of these aristocrats in places where lasting measures against the lingering power of the old rich weren't taken (i.e., they weren't executed and their wealth was left intact) are usually still in the richest 100 families of the country and wield considerable political influence.

I will stop here now because dang has repeatedly asked me not to make statements likely to inflame "boring" political discussions but I do think that as more and more people realize that they are not in fact temporarily embarrassed millionaires the old power bases of corruption and uncapped dynastic wealth will follow the way of dynastic hegemony over nations.
It depends a lot on the primary thing. One rarely needs much in the way of deep focus to fold laundry or do dishes or clean a bathroom, after all, and some light entertainment makes these tasks go by noticeably faster and more pleasantly than they do in its absence.
Good point, sometimes you need self-determination, sometimes Uncle Ben will help you determine.
I keep getting emails from those LinkedIn scraping sites that construct your email from common emails conventions (e.g. $firstname.$lastname@$popularEmailProvider), and when I look through their sites, they always claim that what they're doing is legal as far as GDPR is concerned because of "legitimate interest". Ridiculous that I have to contact them to force them to stop selling my data when they shouldn't have the details in the first place.
Though on the other hand, when you're trying to debug some linux issue there's not often a better resource than the arch wiki. Even when not using arch yourself.
You can simply make that illegal.
Should this be illegal? No, probably not. Is this the future I want to live in? Also no.
I find lots of love for RSS by "innovators" and "experts" of HN community. Despite of it, the thing (RSS) is only going low and I don’t see anything other than RSS readers/mergers invented?
Cryptocurrency is cryptography based currency though, so the term does make sense.
> And most hilariously, progressive luminaries like Daniel Cohn-Bendit or Volker Beck – which during the 1980s gained political traction by "fighting" against having A NATIONAL CENSUS AT ALL – are nowadays championing throwing out medical-data privacy alltogether and having to hand out your unlocked phone to the police at their whim.

Can you provide some sources for that, I haven't closely followed German politics in recent years (as I've been living overseas), but I'm quite surprised that DCB would champion police search powers like that.
All this talk about "mild" cases with Omicron are failing to grasp the whole situation at two very important corners:

- countries affected so far have excellent immunization rates, i.e. if I take these populations as a reference, I'm just checking how immunized people are affected. Not every country has had either a lot of cases or large/successful immunization programs

- if the transmission rate in South Afrika and GB is any indication (reminder, both have quite good immunization rates), there will still be enough severe cases, because there will be just an unbelievable amount of overall cases in a very short timeframe and even with Omicron and a well immunized population, some remaining x% will land in the hospital.

I would argue that at the rate Omicron currently growing in GB, NL, DK, NO, etc. this thing will go on a rampage all over Europe. The amount of spread virus is so much not comparable to Delta getting to populations that were so far better protected, i.e. child care, elderly care, etc.

Countries like Germany and Austria are seriously in for a ride. Yes, I'm quite pessimistic here and I really hope I am wrong.
In my experience thats not true, but it does take education and cultural change to get there.
Flu shots are “updated” every year for new variants.

I might be wrong, but I think covid boosters so far are all just extra doses of the same old material. I don’t think anyone would get flu shots if we were expected to get 4 doses of the same thing with demonstrated lower efficacy.

I’m perfectly fine with getting boosters if they’re adjusted to be more effective against new strains. Getting a third, fourth, or fifth dose of the same old strain that’s basically been evolutionarily eliminated seems off to me.
Do you not? I certainly do, at least in the last few years, every single time. And if we're sharing anecdotes, I was absolutely fine after all 3 of my covid shots, just a painful arm the next day and that's about it.
While this is an "interesting" story, I'd love to get some verification on it.

It sounds plausible, but almost illegal ? I'm in EU so don't know how really things work over there, but I would assume Tesla would need a judicial order siding with the bank to be able to do this ? I mean it's probably not the wild west over there. Or is it ?
Saw this link here in the past. Didn’t pickup. The reason why I don’t like it is that random people, regardless their expertise, cannot just review PRs and understand the impact of the change on the system without being deeply involved in the product.
Collection of European/EU-based search engines
I want to know why they never fully investigate why there is such a disparity of outcomes between people who catch SARS2.

One can say obesity, but what does that mean physiologically? Is it just they already how too much inflammation?

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.119....

Of is it that they are deficiency in some nutrient that causes the inflammation?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09466...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/fsn3.2203

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12011-020-02060-8

Vaccines are the low hanging fruit but they are obviously are not working so well. Maybe we should all be talking about human nutrition a bit more.
Swift is designed to be a lock-in to Apple development for Apple. If it was otherwise, why WOULDN'T you also provide compilation to Wasm and Javascript, etc., if you are a company with the resources of Apple? Don't get me wrong, Swift is great, but it is a big lock-in.

I have programmed for the last 4 years or so almost exclusively in Swift, but I am now switching to TypeScript in general. Writing my libraries in TypeScript, I will still be able to access them from Swift and other languages via embedded browser engines.
We do not have Repo in EU like they do in the US.
I honestly don't know what this adds to the discussion though. Like....good for you? And of course you didn't get accused of such things, because it would have made zero sense in context.
most sites would not need a 'cookie banner'... unless they wish to track you/mine your data/etc.
> “When I began disciplined reading, I was reading at a rate of four thousand words a minute,” the girl said. “They had quite a time correcting me of it. I had to take remedial reading, and my parents were ashamed of me. Now I’ve learned to read almost slow enough.”

> Slow enough, that is, to remember verbatim everything she has read. “We on Camiroi are only a little more intelligent than you on Earth,” one of the adults says. “We cannot afford to waste time on forgetting or reviewing, or pursuing anything of a shallowness that lends itself to scanning.”

-- Primary Education of the Camiroi, R. A. Lafferty [1]

[1] https://www.thenewatlantis.com/text-patterns/reading-at-spee...
Unsurprising and seen here: [0] A text book definition of a backdoor.

It is still not your car. It is still Tesla's.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26512855
Or, for a not-far-fetched example, say the data goes to a country where
1) you have relatives, and
2) homosexuality is a capital offense,

and your search results may be use to implicate you of homosexuality, or by extension your relatives in that country, and the country's police are monitoring search histories.
Many places use a deposit system, where if you return the packaging for recycling, you get your money back. This cuts down on litter, at no cost to those who recycle.
I think the mention of a bank is misleading. I think in this case the owner organised finance with Tesla directly. When he failed to pay Tesla on time they repo'd the car themselves.
>>Why can’t they make it effective with one vaccine?

There are actual technical and medical answers to this, but somehow I have a feeling you aren't interested in knowing them.
Did you discover the £200 purchase separately?

(I'm speculating that the deliberate upload of prohibited material was to get you locked out of your account so you couldn't reverse the purchase from inside FB).
pyramid of maslow hierarchy of needs might be intresting for you.
Why do people keep saying this? I have literally never received a flu shot, they have always been reserved for the sick and elderly

Why not, instead of shots, do these pharmaceutical companies not prioritise developing an effective at home treatment for the symptoms of Covid-19? It's very hard to see light at the end of this tunnel, which appears to be becoming a booster merry-go-round.
or "I want to break into the house, which windows are hardest for the neighbors to monitor"

so it kind of depends on what you mean by "I'll be going to the next day and prepare accordingly."
The third group might think both are true. Factory farming with all it's animal cruelty and antibiotic bonanza is terrible. Persecuting people for conforming to societal norms and attempting to erase history is also neither smart nor good.
When reading the tweet, I get the feeling that it is satire (kind of like the Onion).

I am not aware that Tesla is directly financing the vehicles, so why would they hire a repo person to go repossess it? In addition, given the OTA update capabilities of Tesla, they could probably just remotely disable the car, and not have to worry about the expense of liability of a repo agent. In addition, the picture is weird, as if you had such full control of the car, why would you need to put a "boot" on the car to immobilize it, since it would make driving it back to Tesla harder.

I am calling satire on the tweet, until further proof.
Oh shoot, the voice control is very cool, I missed it ... more advanced than I'd imagined.

Nice one.
I don't listen to podcasts and couldn't make one, because without non-verbal cues from my audience I can't adjust my speech to keep them engaged.

It's like with this vampire who is familiar with mobile phones, but finds it weird that anyone would want to have a conversation without registering the other person's scent and feeling their heartbeat.

I see why people listen at 3x - too many podacsters seem to be enamoured with their own voice to a point where they add irrelevant stuff like my vampire bit here. But while you can skip this in text, it's not easy to do when listening.

I don't think that on average they actually lose anything because of that, since the conversation is one-sided anyway. They wouldn't have retained more had they listened to it at 1x speed.

As for trying to consume as much literature as possible and feeling inadequate: this is a problem as old as printed press, for which there is no real solution aside from managing expectations.
Having on-demand engineers look at code, without broader context on the project it is in my view the same as something that can be automated either or both via static analysis and custom ci/cd workflow checks. This can probably makes sense on a project with more junior engineers where many basic improvements can be supposedly suggested without needing broader context? I would be keen on hearing the use case
Shouldn't

sock.close()

imply

sock.shutdown()

? Isn't it pointless to call both?
> Same in Germany

Too many stores refuse to take bottle types that they don't sell though. I am often left with one or two bottles that technically should be eligible, but I have to take them back with me. The Norwegian way seems more convenient for consumers.
The Problem in the Lab: Discrimination women often face in science practice
I'm not sure if it would be playable in one color or need tweaks to the characters used first.

I do know that terminal environments a relevant to my work environment and so answering this question and definitely falls on under "professional development" for today's work queue.
Seriously, they chase down normal cars for repossession I don’t feel strongly that this is all that different than it getting towed from your driveway.

Would I be really annoyed if it was my car? Yeah, but at the same time it’s up for repo either way.

We already knew that Tesla HQ can control the cars for service and such
The author should re-write this post. In Rust.
Which is why all of these companies are currently working on "v2" of the vaccine which specifically targets omicron. But since the current version of the vaccine was found the be effective anyway, that's why it's being used. I imagine by the time next year it won't be in use anymore, purely because of its lack of effectivness for whatever variant is around then.
How long did it take them to process your ID and give you access back?
I suppose it really depends on exact legal contract. Is the financing that is loan against the vehicle and it is owned by the user. Or is it essentially rented.

And in first case even with court order there is good question about other creditors...
That would make much more sense.
They are not forced by law, they are actually entirely unnecessary, and the ones nagging you are probably not following the law, since GDPR says that saying "No" should be as easy as saying "Yes".

There is a way to shortcut this: Do-Not-Track header. But nobody follows it. There is also GPC (https://globalprivacycontrol.github.io/gpc-spec/) but browsers need to implement it. There are also several other ad-hoc ways of shortcutting it, like third-party cookies, for example. But that cookie would only allow "shortcutting" the "no" answer, not the "yes". So companies simply don't implement it.

There is also the possibility of not tracking at all. So the ball is entirely on the businesses' court.

The law is fine actually. The only issue is that it's not strict enough.
This is kind of creepy: for some reason Firefox only displays the “Full screen” pop-up warning several seconds after the website has actually gone full screen. I don't know what causes this delay, but if there's a way to raise it high enough, it completely defeats the point of the warning, and could lead to fishing.
> immense amounts of pension fund money being poured into venture capital

Is this still true? When ERISA was amended/relaxed and most pensions were defined benefits it was probably true.

But aren't the vast majority of pension plans defined contribution now?
Are defined contribution plans being funneled into venture capital (is that even allowed?)

Certainly social security money is not -- they're required to invest that in US treasuries.
On the one hand I never understood why Americans get so outraged by boobs. Or, more specifically, why the male nipple is fine but a female nipple is somehow offensive. It’s not sentiment shared in Spain (where this Twitch steam was from).

But equally it was pretty clear from the preceding dialog on that show that the presenter was intentionally trying to provoke a reaction from her show’s management and this wasn’t just some cultural misunderstanding.
Look at the data per age group and per sex, when looking at 0-99 all 3 sexes does not tell the full story since 65+ have totally different risks from covid-19 than 20-29.
and unlike theft, much easier to establish and prove guilt.
The main issue here I guess, is Tesla assisting the bailiffs. Bailiffs (here in the UK) have certain legal rights to enter and repossess your house and/or remove property you haven't fully paid for. They are granted this right via a case-by-case court order.

If Telsa are also granted the rights within the court order to assist the bailiffs, then presumably it would be a fully legal action.

At the end of the day, you sign a contract wherein you agree to keep up payments on an item, and if you don't the item will be repossessed. If you don't like those terms, don't get stuff on payment plans.
It's not even that interesting. Owner doesn't pay bill on an item being used as collateral. Said item is repossessed.

I hope the repo person realizes the future will need that type of job less and less.
No.

(I used Manjaro in the past but I had many more issues when updating packages then with my current Arch.)
> I wasn't aware that someone had to invent the monolith

Why, of course someone had to: Whoever sent it to those hairy guys at the beginning of 2001.
Nor can arbitrary people weigh the balance between accepting technical debt and shipping a feature.

It involves a risk / benefit analysis.

On the other hand, maybe you can build a relationship with contractors that focus on reviewing code. And maybe it can give insights your team won't have?
> I still would expect Google to find a way to fuck it up.

Playing cat and mouse with only a few large entities vs. literally every website on the web seems like progress.

And let's be realistic, "intentionally broken" can be prevented by having a serious deterrent and removing the incentive.
Slight exaggeration there but yeah, I think there is an expectation that you would want to known how it works as well as how to use it. For me that’s a good thing, but sure it’s not for everyone.
You can see beaver dams from space, or atmospheric oxygen. Only sending radio signals is uniquely human.

In terms of space, single called organisms have traveled further from earth than people have. So calling us spacefaring is kind of misleading in the context of alien life. I doubt we’re detectable outside of a 100 light year sphere from earth and none of those stars look like they contain any habitable planets. The only way to suggest alien intelligent life is meaningfully different than beavers in this context is to raise the bar far enough we don’t qualify.
I can't stress enough how dangerous it is to pretend society can end a virus that is not only incredibly contagious between humans but also has many animal carriers.

There is nothing more dangerous than society with no trust and this completely fabricated idea that people's behavior is to blame for the continued existence of covid serves no purpose other than to erode trust.
It's a matter of perspective and perspective is practiced.

You are focused on positive outcomes, but those aren't under your control. Your focus should be on actions that you would expect to have positive consequences. If you've done those, you're personally off the hook as far as the outcome is concerned.

Since you are only holding yourself accountable to the actions and not the outcome, you might then have the energy to fix it later when the outcomes aren't positive.
While potentially completely unrelated, I've seen how "cowboy-like" the whole bounty hunters situation is over there, so it honestly and unfortunately wouldn't surprise me as much if it were the case with the creditors ...
Not much into US law, but can someone tell us what is happening if you had personal possession of value in your car?
> there is no way to shortcut this boring and useless process

This is false, automated refusal (or consent, if one swings that way) of tracking exists. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/ https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

> This law specifically mentions that I need to be nagged for every single new domain I visit (dozens per day) and specifically mentions that having a single setting I can tweak is not OK.

This is also false. But humour me, where in the law does it say that? Concrete citation, please.
> If Swift was a better designed language, it would have taken over by now.

If you look closely at the most used languages in different domains right now it'll become clear that the design is not what led to their wider adoption.
800 million in revenue seems really reasonable for having developed one of the best, it not the best, COVID 19 vaccines in the world.

Consider that Apple's annual revenue from just airpods is over 10 billion.
No.

(I used Manjaro in the past but I had many more issues when updating packages than with my current Arch.)
>>Why do people keep saying this?

Because the population on HN is not homogeneus and different regions in the world approach the flu vaccine differently? In some countries it's completely free and it's normal to get it every year, and even in some countries where it isn't, there's only a nominal cost and usually the employer covers it - so most people get the flu shot too. Not a big deal at all.

>> they have always been reserved for the sick and elderly

See above. Maybe that's true where you live.

>> instead of shots, do these pharmaceutical companies not prioritise developing an effective at home treatment for the symptoms of Covid-19

Why not both? Treatment for symptoms is under development, as well as vaccine which you take with an inhaler at home. Or would you rather that they stopped the development of vaccines completely and focused just on the treatment of symptoms?
Another related article:

https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2020/how-d...
I stopped having WiFi problems on Arch once I learned the nmcli syntax.
A lot of law enforcement is privatized in the USA so a lot of things that would be very illegal in most EU countries is ok there (fx bounty hunters)
Just because you get a rebate for engaging in "desired behavior" doesn't make it not a tax.
How is this a bombshell?

VAERS data isn’t reliable and should not be used to determine adverse reactions.
I agree that CMPs are better than everybody rolling their own solution (lots of time wasted by developers and lawyers).

However, CookieBot is terrible imho. They delay page load by about a second (!) because their APIs are so slow. Their tech is incredibly fragile, if their crawler has an issue and doesn't crawl your page completely, they'll silently (!) remove all cookies from the consent and leave you completely non-compliant until the next successful crawl (crawls take hours to days and are automatically done once a month). Their support has a response time of 3-5 business days (!) for commercial users and consists of people who barely know the product and definitely don't know anything about web tech.

I don't have a favorite vendor in that market, but CookieBot is definitely the worst one I have worked with.
Funny thing is that Internet Explorer used to have these banners. But users started disabling them and accepting the cookies when they got too annoying.
Thank you both. Sanity might be salvagable!
Here are my thoughts as someone who hires and supervises data scientist and statisticians. I personally find that candidates are lacking in one or more of three areas: 1) Technical knowledge, 2) Problem solving, 3) Communication. I would advise a little introspection or feedback from others to figure out which of these areas you could improve, and let that guide you with how best to prepare.

Other than that it heavily depends on the company you are interviewing for. One one extreme some interviews will feel more like trivia questions, and others might be obscure IQ test style puzzles. Good luck!
I made a small website, and didn't use any cookies because what are they good for?

But then I thought to add a 'cookie consent' banner anyway because people expect one.