skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You better answer your own question. This is a very bad comment you've made, both offending and insulting, at the same time completely offtopic. I'm flagging it.
You do realize that school children don't live alone correct?
< “It is just pinging around.”

Would you feel any differently if people were recording your activities by pointing a camera at your window from the street? Or even just pressing random doorbells to see if anyone lives there?

Personally I think there is little difference between virtual unwarranted data collection and physical intrusions, and just because there isn’t some kind of barrier doesn’t make it acceptable.

“Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves, and thereby express themselves selectively.”

I’d posit that recording the location of every IP address, which in many cases can be directly tied to an individual, violates a user’s right to privacy by publishing information about them without their consent.
Is this why it’s seemingly impossible to have synced wireless audio that’s not AirPlay or Sonos?
Thankfully we have vaccines.
Those people can vaccinate and do any number of measures to protect themselves as they see fit.

As you can see it’s not a zero sum game. The precautions you are implying must be taken to protect a hypothetical outlier is essentially shutting down all learning at this school, and likely many others like it.

I would suggest on balance, and particularly in light of how virulent and mild Omicron is, it’s time for the “protect grandpa” pleaders to update their mental model - what you’re saying is sacrifice everyone’s quality of life and freedom and ability to live, learn, and play, for a hypothetical outlier who has plenty of tools already to protect themselves.
Providing a set amount of electricity 24/7 of course has a cost as well as setting up renewable sources. But especially solar cells have only fixed/maintenance costs, but no "fuel" cost per amount of electrictiy produced. This leads to a price for the electricity, which mostly has to be reconed up to the point where the grid demands are satisfied. Any excess electricity is literally free and can be repurposed, as long as that purpose can utilize intermittant supply.
If you look at the German electricity prices at the power exchange, high renewable output correlates with very low prices. The amortized costs of renewables by now are distinctly lower than for fossil fuel and of course nuclear power. While large investments have to be taken, a further expansion of renewables should lower the electricity price in Germany (and the rest of Europe via trade)

Current prices are very high, because of gas shortage. I don't have a clear idea how it all started, but it seems there was a too large dependency on the spot markets vs. long term contracts, and now the spot markets have skyrocketed. There are political aspecst too - Russia for sure could extend their deliveries, but barely deliver what was contractually agreed upon.

It didn't help, that several French nuclear plants have been shut down without warning as safety problems were detected and have now to be fixed. Finally, the weather has been not so friendly for renewables in the last year, for the first time in many years, Germany had a small decrease in production year over year.
Are RIGHT JOINs ever necessary?
Even if it is not dangerous to them, it gives really fertile grounds for spread to student’s families, friends, etc who may be in the vulnerable group.
MiniVM uses coroutines already, every 1000 branches the vm will return to the scheduler. The Build system can accept CFLAGS+=-DVM_BRANCH_DEFER which makes MiniVM able to run part of bytecode up-to N instructions.

It is not exposed on the insruction level yet tho. Would be quite easy to add.
Those children bring covid home.

If you're going to design a virus incubation factory, what you do is put 30 people in a room for 8 hours, turn on the heat, close the windows, try to keep them talking, singing and yelling, then at the end of the day put them on a bus to distribute to every household in town. Repeat for 22 days a month.
You are clearly not familiar with the Bio-mass 'green' lobby in the UK and US.

The UK does not have enough woodland for all these tax payer subsidized 'green' energy plants so they are physically shipping wood pellets from US and Canada to these bio-mass plants. Trees are cut, shredded, put on a truck, put on a boat, then burned in furnaces, to generate steam, to produce 'green' energy.
Don't ever put an Apple ID into a Mac. The only thing you lose is iCloud (mostly not e2e encrypted, so a privacy nightmare) and the App Store. Macs can still install non-App Store software, though, so you don't actually need an Apple ID on them.

You're just asking for paternalistic, Apple-knows-best trouble. Apple's cloud services are mostly garbage, anyway.
A good event system is not hard, but a reliable one is hard. Reliability in making sure events are received, processed, not lost and not processed multiple times
Great for kids...terrible for orphans.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p1007-covid-19-orpha...

Human beings aren't numbers on a table or statistics in a study.
> a Linux machine cant be used to develop iOS apps

Of course, and serious gamers or users of specialty software may still need Windows, etc etc. These are examples of the "billions of reasons" that I alluded to in my comment, and it's why i took care to refer to it as the _default_ choice, not the universal one.
> That's a pretty shocking stat too!

Is it, though? It sounds like plain old production costs.

I mean, unless you build a coal plant right into a coal mine, a natural gas generator at each gas well, you don't store any surplus wind power... Energy is needed in parts of the energy production chain to keep it working.
Yes, and a lot of people hand their money to lazy scammers who use imgur as the file host
Does anyone have stat on how many fully vaccinated people died?
The narrative has been changing continually during the pandemic, which is to be expected since we've gone from not understanding what it is and realizing that we were completely unprepared, to lulls where we thought we were getting over it, to spikes where we were largely willing to use what we learned earlier on, to the current spike where people are figuring out that this may be with us for the long run.

As for holding people accountable, where would we even begin? I saw politicians closing beds and physically demolishing hospitals 30 years ago. Politicians of varying stripes did little to rebuild the system after that. While there was a push to hire more people at the start of the pandemic (both in health care and education), the interest seems to have dwindled off since no one wants to deal with the long term costs. Even if they were willing to live with the costs, few sensible people are willing to take on those roles because the involve continual sacrifice. There is also no guarantee that months or years of training will be rewarded with a career since the demand is likely to be short-term. There are so many people who can be blamed, so many people who should be blamed, but it won't address the problem since the decisions were either made in the distant past or are a consequence of inaction rather than of action.
Go for it. My name's at the bottom of the page and I'm on LinkedIn.
Swift decline ≠ immediate decline. Paper Moon came out 2 years after Picture Show, after which most of what he made was unwatchable by near unanimous consent. If that's not a swift decline I don't know what is.
Yes they’ll go home to their vaccinated parents.

What edge case are you trying to solve by remaining in a state of hysteria?
It does allow you to skip, but you're right that it's a dark pattern. Apple really wants you to be on board with their network services, because Apple 3.0 wants recurring services revenue like a crackhead wants crack.
> The CDC estimates that 573 kids between the ages of 5-18 have died of Covid

It’s even worse, these are kids that died with COVID, not of COVID. So if a child tests positive and then gets killed in a car crash, it’s in this statistic.
I've learned that today!
Apologies - I edited it apparently just before you replied, and I wasn't familiar with how to mark edits.
Behind closed doors, I like to ask CEOs these questions:

“What patents are holding you back?”

“What would you build right now if there were no restrictions from copyright/patents?”

There are some very surprising (caveat: not to most of HN) patents that are holding us back.
Vulnerable population is like half of the population.
those who reap the profits will be network validators, which as of today is ~300k validators[1]

[1]https://beaconscan.com/
I did set up my M1 Max without an apple id. I logged into the app store later, but I didn't log into the system itself and double checked that all cloud services were disabled.
The very least, you should not reward alternate behaviour like in my example above. That's a good place to start. In some of the cases I have seen, individual contributors got a pat on the back while the others got disproportionate raises, bonuses etc.
A long time ago I was looking at security of contactless-related security systems such as door access control. The security is absolutely terrible for the most part; there was very little cryptography and the cryptography there was is often broken (by others that is - I don't have the skills to break it myself, I just looked at existing open-source tools), so seeing undocumented backdoor passwords is not surprising.

The general feeling that I got is that outside of IT there's a lot of people who think "it's on a computer so it must be secure". Maybe that's technically true in the sense that it's secure because they have no clue how to use a computer and think that their idea of the difficulty of using one is enough security but obviously that's not the case.

Many systems were (and are even today - the industry is very slow and physical security companies that are responsible for selling/installing these systems rarely have the skills to evaluate them) just based on an ID the keycard broadcasts unencrypted - there is no challenge response nor encryption, even when the keycard itself supported at least some crypto (Mifare Classic for example - that is broken but at least it would be an attempt at making it secure).

Systems that use Mifare Classic would make you think that you'd need to break the crypto and copy the secret data from the card (which is possible and there are open-source toolkits to do it) but in reality you don't even need to bother as copying the UID (which is unencrypted and broadcast in the clear) is enough.

Systems that use HID (which seems like it would be secure, if I remember right those use at least some form of cryptography) that I interacted with as a user (at a well-known tech company) used USB readers in what looked like keyboard emulation mode which "typed" the public UID of the card during provisioning. I am not sure if the actual readers on the doors did anything more (maybe the provisioning step just looks up a UID in a DB and doesn't technically need to be secure, as the readers will only use that UID to lookup a public key in the DB and then do proper authentication?) but there could be potential for a flaw too.
With already knowing python and js it might be interesting to learn databases and web servers next. I would reccomend postgres and nginx. They'll connect up nicely with python and JavaScript and you'll be working with a whole stack top to bottom.

Another fun place to explore might be libraries for either language. Both have rich ecosystems of thousands of libraries that connect up to various things in the physical and digital world.

https://pypistats.org/top
Apple in hardware is a vendor like other vendors. Just remove their OS.
I wonder if there was anything in Europe comparable to the 1970s cultural backlash in the US with movies like Silkwood, China Syndrome, etc. It's not the Atom people feared, but Man. Hasty push to profits, led to rushed designs, accidents, black op coverups, etc.

A real and true accounting of the Nuclear History of the World is perhaps too secret to ever be told ;)
Toyota to remanufacture cars up to three times in UK
There weren’t this many antivaxx idiots around, and they couldn’t spread their bullshit on the internet with no stop.
"Hardgainer" is simply the term for a person that struggles to put mass ("hard" "gainer") using generic programs; it's not associated to a specific methodology.

For this reason, by looking the term up, one will find different approaches, and try a few, to see what works.

> If you want to gain weight you will just have to eat more food?

This is imprecise/wrong for several reasons, the first being that the parent assumes already a correct diet:

> I'm an otherwise healthy young male but even with proper diet my weight gain rate is way too slow

Now:

> All the fundamentals are relatively the same

Even assuming that fundamentals are "relatively the same", each body responds differently, and there are lots of ways to structure a plan, even if the same exercises are performed.

It's ultimately a matter of finding what works effectively for a given body. I actually write as somebody who does only fundamentals (as in "multi-joint exercises" for the main muscle groups) with a nonconventional schedule.
Nah also just the principle of data minimisation - if there is no good reason to save it (this long) then it shouldn't be saved. A DPA would probably have Google pay for that if it would come that far.
Not moving the goal post. I agree that criminalization of leaving home for the unvaccinated gets more appealing by the day. But I also don't know that vaccines actually end it at this point.
They're really good at ripening on the go? I have no idea, they cost about the same in Europe from Ireland to Romania, which is rather insane.

On that note, walnuts are so expensive, meanwhile they grow literally everywhere around here with no special care or anything.
If you are saying "just have positive people attend school and don't bother testing contacts", then you're not just advocating to give all the kids COVID at the same time, but also all their parents and their parents' contacts - in a very short space of time. So basically the entire population? Why then are you only looking at the number of children that have died of COVID?
I just opened that first link in a private window, and I get a cookie banner. Maybe because I'm in France.
Since you only really need command line access (graphics performance is a non-issue), you might consider VMWare? Either to run new macOS versions as guests in your older OS (I have macOS 11 virtualized within OS X 10.9), or even from Windows or Linux (with the VMWare EFI patch to remove the Apple hardware check).

(Or Virtualbox or Parallels, but I've consistently found VMWare to be the best with macOS guests.)
Note some of the newly proposed UUID formats would take care of some of these issues [1]. They are time-ordered but still have a good bit of random entropy.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28088213
What else is out there that works this well out of the box and doesn't need constant maintenance? I'm genuinely curious.
If your family is not vaccinated then stay home.
Archived link - https://archive.fo/4kWHs
I used to fall asleep on my bus journey and in class. I was punished for cheating because I had opened a test without realising what it was. Granted, I stayed awake into the early hours of the morning reading books but I still think schools should be starting much later. Though, schools are primarily daycares, so that wouldn't work.
If the peak was 95%, it's quite likely that at least in some places some people were triaged out of the ICU.
> Also, where in Europe are cops stopping you for vaccination on the street?

have seen it in Germany Austria and France. The worst is when you're also guilty of being a brown person, when you look poor, or belong to a specific group like the Roma.
> Preventing people from talking is not the way to fix our problems

So you think platforms should allow for radicalisation?
Bashforth: A Forth interpreter, written as bash script
you get to vote with your eyes and attention; if you truly want to advance your position come up with a better approach to convincing the rest of us.

If your comment was a drive-by sniping that made you feel good and has by now left your attention, mission accomplished.
Don't you feel that a default anything should be easy to use and intuitive? I don't think anyone who ever first came across Vim could even figure out how to quit, let alone do anything useful. Seems to disqualify it as a useful default editor, don't you think?
What? I'm not saying SMS is the better option or something. I'm saying that people in most countries picked WhatsApp/Telegram over the Apple-specific iMessage!
I guess it's a matter of chance (unless you have a spam filter that filters them from you?). It was only hours after an otherwise unused email made it into AUTHORS.md for a major project that it started receiving spam and it's been a steady stream since.
> What if I just want an offline record of my emails for the day that google decides to delete me from the internet?

Well this is what just a normal email client does - it downloads latest emails via IMAP.
The UUID type index in Postgres is optimized: https://brandur.org/sortsupport
"how often are Bussard Ramjets invoked in SF stories?"

If I recall correctly in Star Trek the glowing blobs at the front of warp engine nacelles of the Enterprise are ramscoops to collect fuel for the impulse engine.
A lot of RFID door openers also just use mechanical relays to power the locking mechanism, which can be triggered from outside with a strong magnet.

In the end it probably depends on what your threat model is. To keep out thieves, most of them are probably unsuited.
Please, enough with the hyperbole. No one suggested anything of the sort.
> Illegal images being sent to your wallet, forcing you to go to prison in some places.

Images are not stored in a wallet. NFTs and ERC20s do not actually live in a Ethereum wallet. They live in a smart contract. And that smart contract has a ledger of account for who has the right to transfer that particular asset.

The images themselves, unless they are SVGs, are typically stored on Filecoin or Arweave or a centralized server and marked by an IPFS hash.

Content moderation is handled by the data storers in those networks: https://www.arweave.org/technology#content-moderation

Spam NFTs are just like spam email. The receipt of something illicit or illegal does not mean automatic imprisonment anywhere that I'm aware of. If you live in such a jurisdiction, I suggest you flee immediately.
well, umm, did the lockdown in Quebec happened before or after the cases started increasing?
For me it comes from Asian anti-utopianism. “No point getting so worked up about the way humans just are.”
Here is the video interview I believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOlEYcd1nyI

Doctor is recovered from Covid and has worked Covid ICU, does not believe the arguments for mandates hold together.
And both are now eclipsed by the wild speculation. The vast majority of buttcoins' "usage" is all about "number go up".
I wonder how many parents/family members would still support the lockdowns if you told them that they were for their safety, not their children's. "We're shutting down the entire school system for your safety, even after you've had many chances to get vaccinated"
You might as well ask them to do the exam on a cliffs edge, or with a gun pointed at them. Fucking with students during an event that can have huge long term consequences for their future is shamefully cruel, if you ask me.
Accepted can mean that it will eventually be created though. In the sense that it's validated and guaranteed to be created at a later point ("eventually").
Understanding McLuhan: A Conversation with Andrew McLuhan
I think he might be having some mental health issues ... probably a breakdown of sorts
I've had some similar experiences; it's tricky to keep up with what's going on in some environments.

It's easier when you and the team have regular communication and build up a shared set of interpersonal experiences and terminology over time, and have similar tolerance levels for quality and detail.

Over the past few years I've had a sense that there's room for improvement regarding details, bugfixes and maintenance in software, but I think that says more about my own preferred pace and problem-solving style nowadays.

If any of that resonates, I'd suggest you try out one or two puzzles from last year's Advent of Code - I enjoyed those a lot, and I think that part of the reason was that they allowed me to digest, tackle and experiment with solutions at my own preferred level, with preferred tools, and on my own timescale -- with a clear, binary "success" criteria.

Software needs to lean towards FOSS and become simpler for it to be sustainable, in my personal and long-argued opinion. A nice thing about FOSS software issues is that you can solve them at your own pace, but you'd need to find an employer who is willing to invest in improving that kind of software, and would like you to work on it -- assuming that any of that even appeals to you in the first place.

As with one or two other comments here, please take these thoughts with a grain of salt and take your time to figure out what works for you; I'm probably just projecting my own situation here.
While the claim in the preface that a great deal of the book requires no calculus is correct, I found that some of the very important theorems in the book depend heavily on calculus. Further, as soon as the text begins discussing analytic continuation of the zeta function, there is heavy usage of contour integrals. I had to brush up on complex analysis in order to make sense of the text.

In case anyone is interested, I have taken a large number of notes that illustrate many theorems in the book with concrete examples. These examples may help in "visualizing" the theorems. The notes are available here: https://offbeat.cc/iant/boards/. These notes also elaborate several intermediate steps of various proofs that are not explicitly expressed in the book.
Same statement still applies. World must go on. We have vaccines now.
I’m another dev who built a webhook solution and wishes he had built /events instead. Many of the reasons are similar those raised by the stripe dev who holds top comment in a earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27823109

We also have the (mis?)fortune of needing to push a high volume of data to some subscribers. The tricks required here — gzipping request bodies, multiple push workers — significantly increase complexity and demands on the engineers writing the destination endpoint. It’s much simpler for me to just worry about making sure my own endpoint is fast enough.

To this I’ll add that while Postgres replication slots are pretty amazing, they come with two significant drawbacks (at least when used with 10.4+ logical replication):

1. AFAIK there is no way to specify a retention policy. This means that if a subscriber falls too far behind, the disk fills up with unread logs. If you’re using a SaaS database, this means the DB becomes completely unresponsive and you have to call support. This reason alone makes them too dangerous to use in prod.

2. The way you consume data from the replication slot is totally different from how you consume it in a query. This means maintaining two code paths.
This is cool. I think as crypto pushes the boundary of ideas of what's possible, there will be more feedback loops where people will then realize (and build) those similar ideas in a better way but _without_ crypto or full decentralization.
That's a different design issue then - it means lack of synchronization. It is orthogonal to using uuids at a client. In fact, (properly) using uuids are a reasonable way to resolve this.
I wonder if we could get Firefox to automatically solve them. That is in the main version so nobody has to see those stupid things again.