skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd like a job doing FP, it is still one of your better chances. The JVM probably puts lots of managers at ease. With a library like Cats, it can be very Haskell-like. I enjoy being paid to write it, but I would never bother with it in my free time. Too big to be fun.

As for popularity, I think Kotlin is pushing it out of the spotlight? I don't really know or care.
This is called title inflation.

Like the hilarious thing about Facebook and Data Science is that the term was invented there, and they needed to retitle all of their analysts (like Product Data Science) as they couldn't hire any analytical people with an analyst title in SV (or so I have been told).

Like, data science was defined back in the days as a social science PhD who could run experiments and write MapReduce jobs. I'm pretty sure that most people would disagree with this definition these days.
The key distinction is not that China is more ideological (it's just a different ideology), but rather that they're is a democratic and rule-based foundation to the regulation of free speech. Both the democracy and application of the rules may be flawed at times, but it's the consent (through democratic politics) which makes the situations very different.
There's a difference between days off and "half the country is boarding trains to some remote village so I guess the economy is just going to halt for a couple of weeks." And oh no, lots of people just sit around watching TV when they have to spend time with their folks. We must retvrn to tradition because family relations were 100% super functional and healthy back before modernity/communism/capitalism/your-favorite-boogieman ruined everything.

> It actually helps destroy a culture faster, else there may be too much resistance.

Ah, the classic "evidence against my point is actually evidence for my point."
It would be abused into the ground by the same people who set up these scam sites in the first place. For most things on the internet, the crappiness of the average person is the limiting factor.
I don't think so.

1) non-coders don't need to watch code. They will need code snippets when learning how to code, to learn how to code/syntax. Not to explain the code in most cases.

2) if non English coders don't understand English at all. But almost all programming is in English. Perhaps for the nouns used?
Nice one! I remember seeing a short video, from a comment in HN, that was brilliant and was taking the idea of self-reference and our universe being a simulation to the extreme. (Spoilers follow) It was inside a big prison cell, where a new inmate arrived and there was an older man holding a box that contained a duplicate of the cell, but with real (identical) people. Someone could interact and see the results on 2 different levels/realities! Anyone remembers or knows what I’m describing?
My budget is limited, but I just purchased a $50 shipment of your masks because this is awesome.

Thank you.
It's either going to go vertical or horizontal.

If people afraid of sprawl say no to vertical, then horizontal is going to happen just outside of wherever they care about.

Many people's politics are wildly irrationally disconnected from their sentiments.

I used to live in Davis. If I was King, I'd steamroll everything between A&B and 1st and Russell and replace it with ~30-40 story apartment buildings with multilevel bike parking like in Amsterdam (ex: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1e/c4/d7/1ec4d7a99c2151699afe...), and rooftop bars and cafes.

The walls would be a mix of vertical gardening (ex: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...) and photovoltaic windows. The bottom floors would have retail and dedicated community space.

The buildings would further have multi-level skywalks connecting them with small nook like terraces (ex: https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/59f1/27ba/b22e/38e2/a...)

There would intentionally, by design, be zero parking spaces except to accommodate the handicapped.

That's as Davis as you're going to get while actually solving the problem
> The fact that "public health" has not been willing to reevaluate their policies and insist on sticking to policies that are literally damaging to the health of the public is telling.

Just curious, what would you suggest ?

Because as far as I can tell there are no good solutions.

I suppose the difference between our countries is that until university, you get put into class with 30 people, and do all the classes together.

There are some cases when you can have different additional classes, but thats kind of limited to couple of hours a week, and would not be that hard to just leave off
I wouldn't draw the parallels between China today and Germany in the 1930s, but I do see similarities to Germany before WWI.

Like China Germany just went through a break-neck pace industrialization to the point where it became a major competitor to the other great powers. It even had its own 'century of humiliation' in the 17th century starting with the Thirty Years' War. There was a lot of nationalism and ressentiment in Germany towards France and UK at the time and I do feel similar things are going on in China today.
Fair enough, and thanks for the correction.
> sLogger.debug( "Not marking nodes down due to local pause" );

vs

> NodeMarkingInactiveEvent.publish( localPause );

The second statement is totally not logging because it doesn't have the word "logging" in it. ;-)

That being said... conceptually, I do like the generality of publishing an event that describes internal system state, rather than logging a string on some level. OTOH the logging is supposed to be human, rather than machine-readable. But it's also gotta be a heap more work to do it this way and, maybe you'll never know if the error occurred cause the service lost network for some period of time (because it can't write to the event bus either!)
"In 2020.. Total commercial hog slaughter was 131.563 million head" - US FDA Report. I appreciate your sentiment, but if you would like to direct effort toward this cause, perhaps the food industry would be a better starting point.
While true, there are also examples with vaccine reactions.

There's a hell a lot of selfishness going on by people demanding perfect security and therefore whole industries to be shut down.

I am vaccinated and get tested at least 3 times a week because I still have contact to others, but the selfishness doesn't just affect on position in this debate.
It is absolutely without any doubt happening on HN and I have previously been banned trying to point it out.
I have no deeper insights into hackernes userbase. But here is another recent example:

"Wikipedia blames pro-China infiltration for bans"
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58559412

Btw. casting doubt on unwanted opinions is often used in propaganda. ;)
so that the audience can know which opinions were kept and which were removed.

Let's be honest, you already know that just from the context of the question and which show is doing the interview. If the audience is deceived it's only because they want to be.
Not only that. You can’t just travel from China to Taiwan. It’s a bit difficult. Most people must travel as part of a tour group. Unless it’s business or you have family to sponsor you or something like that. Basically you can’t just jump on a plane and have a holiday in Taiwan from China.
I’m not personally disagreeing as I think I see your point on some level, but I think a lot of smart people strongly disagree and maybe they have a point too.

A lot of people make the argument that extreme low-vulnerability people like e.g. myself have a lot of influence on life or death stakes outcomes for the more vulnerable and are therefore morally responsible for doing some set of things. I’d like to understand how clear the science is on that argument because I neither want to endanger people because I can’t be bothered to make some sacrifices, nor do I want to live in infinite crisis mode if it makes no difference anyways. I’d like to use numbers to guide that decision.
I wonder if that is more likely to cause an air leak than fixing the strap with glue. I usually have a few spare masks with me in case one breaks while out of the house. In practice the straps usually break when taking the mask off or putting it on, not while wearing it. So I'm unlikely to experience breaks at Kroger ;).
If there's a solution

Isn't what you're asking for just polling?
The website says:

> Subjective Scoring: Construction
> Ear loop strength, build quality, and comfort. This test is somewhat subjective, which is why we don’t include in pass/fail analysis.

> Smell is not considered as part of pass/fail analysis.
Principal Investigator, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_investigator
He's meant to play in the Australian Open, but his visa was revoked because he isn't vaccinated (it has been reinstated now though). So this is mostly just a joke since the opponent is a koala and the ball is the corona virus.

https://www.cbssports.com/tennis/news/australian-open-2022-n...
"I'm finding it hard to shake the conviction that anything I input on my computer or a website is being recorded and analyzed."

I share your concern, but 'analytics', 'telemetry', 'web beacons' (whatever it's euphemistically called) have been adopted wholesale by developers when creating software. It is rarely questioned by developers because it have become so normal.

An uncomfortable truth is that it is often developers who incorporate user tracking in their software. It doesn't matter if the software is an OS, a desktop app or a SaaS 'cloud' app.

For example, Microsoft's Visual Studio Code is a desktop app that collects telemetry. Electron makes it easy to embed analytics in an app - something developers are eager to do.

Google's ChromeOS is a 'cloud' OS used by millions of school kids in the US. It is not possible to use the full features of the OS without a Google account. Even if user data is 'anonymised' and aggregated we are talking about volumes of data that are simply enormous.

User tracking in software is a juggernaut that shows no sign of slowing down, particulary with the popularity of SaaS. [1]

What do developers have to say about this pervasive tracking?

<tumbleweed rolls by>

Developers are more likely to defend their favourite tech company rather than question or scrutinise their tracking practices.

[1] This is a Figma blog post about how Notion was designed using Figma:

"It was around that time we noticed Ivan in Figma. He suddenly popped to the top of our most active user list — spending upwards of 18+ hours a day in our design tool."

https://www.figma.com/blog/design-on-a-deadline-how-notion-p...

The last time this story was posted on HN, the snippet above passed without any comment - and was considered a perfectly normal use of user tracking.
I've written about this and some of the ideas being discussed here. Essays that I'm reasonably proud of:

https://notoriousbfg.com/building-software-sharing-knowledge

https://notoriousbfg.com/code-and-context

TLDR: I don't think that poorly written code is as common as devs like to thing it is. Context is just as important in our general perception of how well some code has been written/designed. There are several ways we can and should document our code including descriptive variable and method names, commit messages, tests and PR comments.
The Art of Lisp and Writing
That is good for privacy though.
well yeah, things sure would have been more fair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unicorn
> I'm increasingly of the opinion that Google (the advertising engine) has destroyed Google (the search engine), by the two step process of making it profitable to produce blogspam then forcing search to remove blogspam - and a lot of the useful content has gone out with that bathwater.

If you're looking for someone to blame google seems like the wrong party here. Surely the people abusing the system (i.e. blog spam) should at least share a good chunk of the blame.
I misread it as well, thought "it can't be, or it's a parody", re-read it, "oh, unicorn and gun?".

The disappointment....
Not officially and not like the US.

However for about 10 years there have been issued warrants without the name of the court and judges on them in terror-related cases:
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/danmark-har-hemmelige-domm...

Of course the court sessions in this case are not open to the public on request of the prosecutor. The defense has declared that it wants to let the public in, but that the judges will most likely not agree to that.
> Journalists work for private corporations

Indeed - that's the drift of Manufacturing Consensus.

To add to that: TV journalism is a form of entertainment, especially sofa-chat news-lite and vox-pop. Vox-pop, especially, is always manipulative. Interviewees always seem to be idiots, because audiences don't want to feel more stupid than the "man on the street". The information content of a vox-pop segment is zero.
Still allows for commercial use, but mandates source be provided with all executable versions (i.e. is copyleft). It is not clear to me from the text ( https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/custom-page/... ) what happens when the source is used to start providing a service (as the AGPL protects against). From my reading, you do not need to provide the source in this case. My confusion stems from the fact that the license speaks of "communicating" the work, as well as distributing it. I don't know what that is supposed to mean.
Cats are "biologically designed to kill and eat flesh" but have you ever seen
what cats do to the animals they capture for food? On the other hand, humans
don't, as a rule torture our food and we usually kill our food before we eat it.
Not all meat-eating animals have the same kind of behaviour toward their prey.

Humans are "biologically designed" to love other animals and care for them.
Not in an Elmyra Duff kind of way, but in the way that has allowed us to tame
and domesticate the wild ancestors of the animals we still live with. In the
same way that our animals have a docile and calm nature that allows them to be
domesticated, we have a caring and loving nature that allows us to domesticate
them. We are not lions. A lion could not domesticate a flock of sheep. It would
just fall on the sheep and slaughter them, on the first day. Without our love
for animals, which is just as ingrained into us as our love of eating their
flesh, we wouldn't be who we are today, our civilisation wouldn't be what it is
today, our bodies and brains wouldn't be what they are today.

Those animals have given us so much, and they will continue to give us even
more. The least we can do is to treat them with respect and ensure they have a
dignified life and a dignified death.
Dutch police running ads calling hackers egocentric on Google
I'm also there with you, that was quite the roller coaster and impacted my trust fairly deeply. Although the totality of the evidence made that one pretty clear to me after researching further than the show; I felt like there was some bad faith cherry-picking going on, which is extremely effective on me but only while it lasts.

A similar series with all the levers cranked to the maximum is "Killer Ratings" on Netflix - just an unbelievable story out of Brazil that left me questioning everything. And that one I couldn't resolve in my head; it still bothers me today.
I never liked the socializing part, it was more some kind of FOMO with the smokers. The other ones stand. But the way it should be is that everyone gets a break, and that you can do smoking during the break or something else. Something like smoking a cigarette was something to hold in my hands and something to do when nervous. I know a better way to get some exercise: do a warming up, put on a podcast or music, and go run (cardio). You do two in one, and you don't have to go to a coffee shop (I find the idea of a coffee shop ridiculous, like a pub, because these goods are perfectly affordable and reachable at home but then again I'm not into the socializing aspect).
I don't. And you're right as in his exploits did not happen in a vacuum.

A pervasive theme is that time rumbles by and great men merely cling on and go with it at the right time. The Greeks were in the mood for a rampage and off they went. An Alexander born today won't start conquering foreign lands.

And yet, I can't shake the feeling that there must me something unique to Alexander and others.

Time passes, but not everybody massages it just enough to make a change.
the trick is to strike the ball from the side by moving into it. The Koala has a maximum moving speed, so changing sides guarantees a win.
They don't need to do that. Interviewing people on the street already selects for the kind of people who wander around shopping malls in the middle of a weekday, ie those who don't work 9-5, very much not a cross-section of society. The sooner vox pops disappear altogether the better.
Damn, they require you to tell them how many mice you've got so you can get that many anaesthesis doses? That rule wasn't thought through.
I invoke Godwin's law. Will someone please train this software on photos of Adolf Hitler and stop this, please. Thank you.
Monty Python's lumberjack is I suppose about as comic in 'braces and a bra' as in 'suspenders and a bra'!
It's not that broken. If you type "30ml in fluid ounces" in to google (i.e. the same thing you did 10 years ago) it works as expected.
I didn't design this UX, so can't be certain of the designer's intent.

However, more charitable interpretations could be:

1. perhaps the user has accidentally chosen the wrong category?

2. perhaps the product they're looking for is miscategorised? (I've definitely seen these.)
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I have been thinking about this a lot lately.
Not necessarily. We have evolved features that are beneficial to us as well as those that just happened and wasn’t too detrimental nor useful. We are not the “perfect creature”.

It is no longer thought to be a rudimentary organ but let me use it as an example: our appendix could very well serve no purpose, but it was not too detrimental (we didn’t get appendicitis in great enough numbers) so it remained.

While being able to digest meat is likely beneficial (though actually it is very easy to consume meat, especially cooked one compared to raw vegetables — just look at a cow’s digestive track), it doesn’t mean that we are made for that. A horse will gladly eat a small chicken for extra protein if it wanders to it (look up on YouTube)
> Obviously it's possible to do this securely, if you have the right technical knowledge and the time and dedication to apply it, but I'd guess that it's a very small percentage of people who fall into that camp.

I think there's an underlying subtext that is missed in the article and this comment. Like, I don't disagree with the quoted bit above, but at the same time, I can't help but recognize that its truth is a consequence of design choices rather than an inevitability.

Americans happily own cars, which are themselves quite dangerous, laborious to manage, expensive to operate, have to be insured, and require an extensive and constantly updated training to maintain. They are companies that offer rental models, rather than ownership models, but they are mostly used by urban dwellers with limited income and travelers. Most people would tell you they'd prefer to own one. It's just a cultural context.

The same applies to servers. We could have servers that were well designed for people to self-manage with perhaps some basic training (certainly no more difficult than what is required than to pass a driving test), regular servicing, recalls, service stations spread throughout the nation, legal adjusted to favour ownership, etc.

Really, from a practical standpoint, the difference between a server and so many other computers deployed in homes (routers, mobile phones, IoT devices, cars, laptops, etc.) is far more subtle than we're willing to acknowledge... and frankly we actually introduce a lot of systemic risk by NOT requiring basic skills, regular servicing, insurance, etc. for these "pseudo-servers".
I've had a similar experience. I'll never submit to a vox-pop interview again; they presented my remarks out of context, and manipulated me.
Let's not hijack the thread with politics. I will say this, there was no motive for it to be "purposefully created" - that is nonsense, try and think about it objectively for a second. It's far more nuanced than that. The issue here is the motivation for your post, do you interject any mention of Gandhi with critiques of his character / behaviour?
Completely misses the point with their claim: "Google is just promoting carrier lock-in as a solution to Apple lock-in."

That's not what RCS is.
First commercial pebble-bed reactor connected to grid in China
Think that's the same reason they were used in nuclear testing, at least in the USSR.
Interestingly, in the EU, all cars sold since mid-2018 have a mandatory SIM card as part of the eCall system. In the event of a crash, it automatically connects to the driver to the local 112 emergency number, but also sends telemetry (location, direction of travel, VIN and some other details). There are definitely privacy implications to this system.

It doesn't generally help when the vehicle enters the water, because the signal attenuates so quickly in water that it's very unlikely that the modem will be able to connect to a tower.
Thank you for this reply. My experience aligns with yours, and I find your conclusion (the question is not interesting) insightful. You're probably right.

I am an ex-academic that wrote useless algorithms. The implementations were mathematically correct and the algorithms did what we said they did, but the premise of the algorithm itself was flawed. To the extent that the algorithms were correct, the target problems were useless, and to the extent that the target problem was a "real-world" problem, there were a million things unrelated to the mathematics that made the contribution inconsequential.

The reason I wondered about such a study is that I know many academics who wouldn't believe the situation as dire as you describe it (though I very much agree it is <0.01% -- I just wanted to be conservative).
Djokovic traveled to Australia several days ago with the intent to compete in the Australian Open, which begins on January 18th. Upon arrival he was told by immigration that his visa was being revoked. He had been assured—by Tennis Australia?—that he would be granted a medical exemption to Australia's policy that all travelers entering the country must be fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2.

For months Djokovic had been keeping his vaccination status private and everyone was wondering what he would do. We now know from transcripts released with the immigration officers that he is not vaccinated. He had been planning to claim a medical exemption based on the fact that he tested PCR positive for SARS-CoV-2 on December 16th, but Australia does not recognize previous infection as equivalent to vaccination.

He was escorted to a government-run quarantine facility as he appealed this decision in Australia's courts. Yesterday (Monday) the court overruled the Australian federal government's decision to revoke Djokovic's visa and now it seems that he will play in the tournament.

More info:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/jan/05/novak-djokovic...
I find these responses fascinating as the "clearly slanted" results tend to change direction depending on the political affiliation of the person making the claim! Having said that, I'd love to be proved wrong if you have any evidence to show a particular bias one way or the other?
Wouldn't that provide more data on who are the scammers?
>the economy is growing

Is it really though? It seems like we have less and work more. Could some of our measurements be wrong?
> oh I'd absolutely agree that a random nginx install is likely to be better than many browsers, but nginx has had years and years of attacks directed at it, so will be a very well hardened target.

That would seem to be an existence proof that servers in the home is just a matter of design priorities then, no?