skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sympathize with this, but how can you even effectively operate a school to provide the day care part if half the staff are absent? (Either directly because they are sick with covid, or caring for a family member who is, or they lack childcare for their own kids, or simply because they're not being paid enough to deal with the bullshit and risk ...)

It just seems like, regardless of our values, the sheer weight of the case rates and staff shortages is going to force closures in the near term if it hasn't already.

If you put a bunch of vulnerable kids in an auditorium together with minimal supervision because you've got an effective teacher:student ratio of 1:50 or worse, is that really better?

(Maybe it is. I'll admit to not having come from a dysfunctional or unsafe home as the author of the linked piece describes, so I may lack some perspective here.)
Memories... When I was at Amazon, my starter project was modifying Redshift to support four-byte UTF-8 characters, not just three-byte.
Non-human animal-to-animal transmission has been observed, like on Danish mink farms. But you can sequence the virus from many human and non-human infections and build a phylogenetic tree from the sequences, knowing that each variant should have all the mutations of its ancestor plus maybe some new ones. In such a tree, the proximal zoonotic host should have infections with no human-infection ancestor. This was observed for the original SARS (palm civets) and MERS (camels), each within about a year. For SARS-CoV-2, we're still waiting.
I disagree, but I posted it and I work for FusionAuth :) .

If you want to move off of Auth0 to another provider (Keycloak, etc, etc) you'll still need to do the mapping, retrieve your users' password hashes, and update your applications.

Just ignore the sections about FusionAuth.
Isn't that basically how Australia was populated?
I do not know of a way to make this a compiler error:

const user: User = JSON.parse(…);
I'm picking up what you're putting down.
This might take the cake for the dumbest comment I've ever read on HN. With absolutely zero data/evidence, you're trying to categorize the views of millions of people, along with their professional qualifications. This is probably why the mainstream denigrates your views.
> Many are convinced that the vaccine is actually harmful... and I'm convinced that viewpoint only gained traction because of the strong-arming going on in government.

Some reading I've done recently has changed my mind on this. Check out the recently released unclassified (but suppressed) DARPA documents on the SARS-Cov2 virus.

It appears there actually has been a significant information war going on from the top... but I suspect it remains to be seen why exactly the campaign took place.
Is it possible to just unionize the IT division of a company?
> I think what is more fascinating is that high-ranking politicians ...

Expand that to anyone in a leading position, including tennis players.

You don't get to be at the top without bending the rules.
Pomerium v0.16 Is Live
Pomerium is announcing the v0.16 release! This is a big release, and includes several new features:

- Kubernetes Ingress Controller: You can now dynamically provision routes from Ingress resources and set policy based on annotations for Kubernetes workflows.

- Desktop App: Power users that need TCP-based services now have an easy-to-use VPN alternative. We’ve created a desktop application to support secure access to non-web traffic protocols such as RDP, SSH, MySQL, Postgres, REDIS, and more!

- Device Identity: One of the core tenants of zero trust is to leverage device identity into policy decisions. Pomerium uses the open standard WebAuthn to bring device-aware policy evaluation into access decisions.

- Pomerium Policy Language (PPL): You can now use a YAML-based notation for creating simple yet flexible authorization policies. It’s now possible to express policy for contextual factors like time-of-day, groups, users, device identity as well as details about the incoming request.

This release also includes other new features, general improvements, and bug fixes. A complete list can be found in the announcement post.
> I fail to understand why Web Scraping isn't almost universally viewed as unethical and a terrible and nasty business practice.

Scraping is simply a way to get data. I used to run a team that was paid by large government contractors in the US to scrape their job posts from their career portals, and then deliver those posts via email, fax and snail mail to veteran's service officers near the job opening. It was required by regulation, and the only way to get the job data was to scrape.Many enterprise applicant tracking systems did not have a good way to automatically deliver that data or wanted $millions for that capability. Scraping was the best way and in some cases, the only way.

By the way, search engines like Google are scrape data and index it.
Agreed. I shouldn't have assumed the OP was an engineer. This strategy is definitely software engineering specific for the most part.
It depends on the industry and company/client size you want to work with. For better or worse, large institutional companies and slow-moving industries are still often on the 'Microsoft stack' top to bottom, from desktops to backend infrastructure. I work in healthcare, and this is especially true here.

These companies/industries have strongly entrenched attachment to the Microsoft world, its certifications, etc. Microsoft cultivates this, Amazon imitates this, others try to emulate this. Because $$$.
No; the libertarian perspective would be "everyone should negotiate their own contract".
And moreover that 21% is trending upwards according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/967365/worldwide-cloud-i...
To be sure, 'not for medical use' probably means that the manufacturer of the mask didn't want to pay (in money and/or effort) to go through the regulatory process to obtain an official rating; this has more to do with what the market wants (cheap masks! who cares about ratings!) than the government.
> MS stack will be high quality

As someone who has used the MS stack, I have yet to witness anything I would call high quality.
At this point with Omicron, it's also that the messaging has gotten so damn muddy and contradicting. Here's what I mean.

* Get vaccinated to protect yourself. Well now we know you can get a breakthrough infection.

* Get vaccinated to protect others. Well now we know you can still infect while vaccinated.

* Wear a mask to protect yourself. Well now we know that masks don't really do a damn thing unless you wear an N95 properly, even then it's not super effective against Omicron.

* Wear a mask to protect others. Again, we now know that masks do little to protect others with this variant.

The frustration in all of this is, as a young and healthy person, I'm not worried about COVID. And if there is nothing I can do to protect others, please just let me sign the liability waver already. If I get sick and die, that's on me, just please stop enforcing mandates "for my own good".
I remember reading this article a few years ago that Goldman Sachs. It's paywalled but the basics was that GS stores energy during the night, and uses the energy during the day. I thought it was neat, but they're obviously not new to this concept.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-01/goldman-s...
As long as the data is from within the system, yes. If you're trying to use data from an external source (api request, external json file etc) than no, but that's true of most type systems.

If you correctly type the response of that request then the answer becomes yes again.
The military is actually doing a ton of work with blimp and zeppelin like things currently - you do not hear about it much but there is a a ton of testing and research being done.
My understanding is that this paradigm was incredibly dangerous, with a lot of workers losing hands and arms in accidents. Turning on or off a given machine involved physically putting the belt on or pulling it off, and you could easily get caught in it. A very clever system for the technology of the day, but it's good we don't use it anymore, at least without more advanced safety mechanisms and practices.
Retrotransposons Control the Brain
MacBook Pro Max versus Asus Zephyrus M16(Intel Core I9+Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060)
Google is a crawler not a scraper, these are two totally different things
[0] is a doctored video. Go frame by frame just before explosion and watch tracking of horses. [1],[2],[3] is real
60% is great! That's much better than hydrogen, but still far from lithium. Let's hope the $/kWh is decent.
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This discussion is about the standard library, not the language runtime. Decent performance here is meant relative to the performance of the language. In this case it could mean algorithmic complexity, for example.
so... what do we do with non-criminals? All the small things like bike theft, not paying child support, fare evasion and urinating in the streets?

For extra credit: assume the offender has no money.
That's because that's not a contract. Real contracts can only bind people who sign them, but in places that don't recognize right to work, you can be forced to join a union just because 51% of your co-workers signed.
Can you pick up a new Windows machine and play my Super Tux Kart binary?
100% agree that using Auth0 is better than rolling your own auth.

I haven't done a ton with Cognito, but everyone I talk to tells me it is great for simple use cases (serverless, great pricing) but miserable once you step off the basic happy path. Enormous missed opportunity for AWS, IMO.

Azure ADB2C, with all its flaws, shows that Microsoft is serious about trying to own customer identity.
Technically yes, but US standards require a headstrap... which is generally tighter in my experience. I'm wondering if the ear loops reduce efficacy significantly (assuming fit is proper otherwise).
Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it.

For the most part, I've learned to live with it, but it has greatly been amplified by these interviews lately.

I've also had it happen to me when I'm on business calls when I'm acting on behalf of the business to make a good impression.

And of course, public speaking, but I feel like that's pretty normal.

I like what you're saying though, just knowing there is a backup plan when things aren't going as planned, in and of itself is treatment.
The title is misleading -- one developer (a major one, mind you) is stepping back from offering free community support. This is not "Apache PLC4X" announcing an end of community support, it is one of the core developers announcing he will be doing so.
Instead you run face first into the thread per connection limit rake...
Yes, that's a sad situation. C# is a great general purpose language but for us desktop developers following MS GUI trends is a nightmare. WinUI 3 is the latest attempt to unify stuff.

In general MS still seems like a safe bet given how tightly it's integrated across many large corporations.
> MS stack will be high quality

I've yet to experience a MS product that I would consider to be "high quality" (including Azure)
Could you please stop creating accounts like this? It will eventually get your main account banned as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This is a beautiful article, and it contain two beautiful quotes, one from David Graeber and the other from Eula Bliss. Alas, I find the contrarian in me rising up against in particular the quote from Bliss:

> “The poets gave away their own books, handbound sometimes, and letterpress broadsides made on antiquated machinery, they gave their time to editing each other’s work in their bedroom offices … they performed their work for nothing but applause, and they gave each other places to stay, couches to sleep on.” She makes her point at the end of the paragraph: “I guess … it’s easy for me to believe there’s an alternative to capitalism because I feel like I’ve lived it.”

Yes, yes, you've lived it inside a house that was built with a system closer to capitalism than anything else, sharing couches made in a system closer to capitalism than anything else, printing books and poems on antiquated machinery made in a system closer to capitalism than anything else ...

I live my life in some ways on the periphery of capitalism, in some ways closer to Bliss and her fellow poets, as I somehow manage to convince people to pay me to keep working on software they could otherwise get without paying, software they can copy freely and use for any purpose they want.

But ... that existence is embedded within an utterly enormous capitalist system, and while my entirely optional-in-life DAW software (as with Bliss' poetry) might find a way to break the mold, to live outside of the assumptions of capitalism, I find it so hard to imagine how the food I eat, the bicycle tires I ride on, the solar panels that power my house, how any of the actual physical, tangible essentials and inessentials of life could do the same.

Graeber of course has always had much to say about our paralysis, our inability to imagine a future unlike our present, but as yet, even his writing has not given me a way to do that to the point where I could share Bliss' belief in an alternative.
What you fail to acknowledge is that Bing Google etcetera have an effective monopoly on search. They can afford to respect robots.txt because everyone wants them to scrape their site.

The first mover advantage is so huge in this case that without allowing scraping, it's hard to understand how anyone could ever compete with these monoliths.
I can't get behind the idea that a type system is either completely sound or completely useless.

Surely preventing 99% of issues (or 90%, or 80%) is good?

I'm also not aware of too many real-world instances of unsoundness in TS that has caused problems. Obviously I don't know your specific scenario, but it's possible there are ways to work with TS (instead of against it) to get a good level of type safety.
> One of the benefits they touting is "Long duration energy storage"

According to their marketing video [1] "Long duration" is relative to current lithium ion battery-based storage. So their system can store energy up to 24 hours vs a few hours for batteries.

For even longer term storage (weeks, months, seasons), some time of chemical storage will be needed. Currently, both hydrogen electrolysis and ammonia synthesis [2] are being explored for that.

1. https://youtu.be/cOWjwwKSR78?t=136

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_2Z_VwFNc
Part of it is the widespread use of subpar languages for large scale development. Python, javascript, golang, etc. are all very bad languages to use in large scale dev. They may be relatively quick to get things off the ground, but once things become complex, their shortcomings are going to affect development quickly.
I have no idea why you thought anything I said had to do with "brain science" studies.
If it isn’t happening in your neighborhood doesn’t mean it is dead…
Agreed. I'm fully aware that the pay jump train ends sometime. I recommend people take advantage of this tactic when they're young.

My own tactic is to move jobs often, but also take on multiple remote roles at the same time.
The article raises a very pertinent question vis-a-vis American commitment and the lengths to which the US is willing to go to stop or reverse a Chinese invasion. The last war where Americans went to great lengths willingly was World War 2. I think that was because most Americans were of European descent, and many were relative newcomers with connections to the old countries, and felt a kinship or personal stake in what happened in Europe. Also, there was a large population of men who were willing to sign up to the military effort voluntarily (the draft was imposed later).
Open market operations of various central banks certainly impacts equity prices of publicly traded stocks. In some cases the holdings are enormous: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/BOJ-tops-pension-wh...
This is a daily pain we've experienced while working in the industry! Our projects would usually allocate a few weeks to refactor notebooks before deployment! So we started working on an open-source framework to help us produce maintainable work from Jupyter. It allows easy git collaboration and eases deployment. https://github.com/ploomber/ploomber
Not OP, but I wonder if the process would be in some way comparable to rigging a 3D model. There is well, you usually have some high-level input parameters, which influence joints on a predefined skeleton, which in turn determines the position of individual vertices in the 3D body. Finally, the 3D shape is used to render the actual pixels.

On each step, high-level parameters are combined with predefined weights to produce a more low-level output.

Seems, a similar transformation is going on here, except that the weights and the structure are somehow learned on its own.
Every channel's a little different—I might get more initial views if released later in the day, but it seems like YouTube's algorithm is biased more towards how the clickthrough rate and watch percentage go, then it gives another pass at a new audience on day two and sees if it changes—if it does, you can get a significant boost on the 2nd day (or I've seen up to a few days later, for a good video).

The basic answer is more, "it's complicated"—but for me it's more convenient to release in the morning so I can check in on comments early on (sometimes I get some new ideas or re-test based on early comments for things I missed!).
My counter anecdote 1 I’d never really used LinkedIn much, but a FAANG recruiter found me on it. That’s how I got my interview, which I passed, which changed my life for the better.

Mass recruiters are the problem here. I’ve never tried the brown M&M strategy, Instead I prefer to just tell them no thanks when it’s not interesting.
Nice that I'm contributing to a nicer HN. I'm not Mr HN though, so maybe you got the wrong person? :)
The next OWS will be armed. The left is seeing the way the right operates and is understanding that non-violent confrontation doesn’t work.

For better or worse, the way the laws in America are written, violence is the way we deal with problems. When someone who desires an outcome can use violent means to get you there, the second amendment ensures you have violent means to resist them.
In theory this is correct, but in practice Reason(ML) is dead. Or it was the last time I checked a month or two ago.

ReScript lives on though.
Whilst you have a good point for the present, it is noteworthy that medical professionals working in covid wards (and so the ones with FFP2/equivalent or better) had, in the studies I have read, consistently lower rates of infection than even other hospital workers (with only surgical masks) during the first wave.

I recall seeing studies from the UK and US showing this, and possibly other countries.
> I absolutely love that these things were mandated before “the science” could somehow prove they worked

When threatened with a new virus which spreads through respiratory system it is a common sense to start covering nose and mouth. Especially when there's a copious amount of evidence that masks work for reducing infections in case of other respiratory deceases.

I think we should speak more about how a political bias takes precedence over the survival instinct. That's what does kill people.
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This is a good point; if I recall, the Sirius/XM merger was allowed to proceed because, even though that created a monopoly in satellite radio, they were competing in a broader landscape.
I agree, just want to add my anecdotal evidence. I graduated undergrad in Dec 2020 with a good job lined up, as did many of my friends who picked majors that had been the obvious good choices when they enrolled in college 4 years earlier. It was easy to see what career tracks would be good ideas, and the people I know who put in minimal effort to research these before committing ended up just fine. It’s not like people who picked majors with poor employment prospects were blindsided at any point. Now these are the same people who I see vocally advocating for the government to cancel their debt and cancel their rent.

I’d say I’m pretty progressive on most issues, and obviously I have sympathy for my friends that ended up this way, but I have to agree with you that one way we could end up with fewer people limping along is to just keep them from shooting themselves in the foot.
With the upcoming Valhalla project, a Point field will be flattenable.
Also chiming in to say thanks for the good work! This looks like an amazing release - I practically jumped in excitement when I saw the fish style autocomplete.
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Nice port! However it's not letting me re-use a guessed letter, which makes it way harder to guess the answer
Corporations are a pattern of relations (social and economic) that are socially reproduced and codified by the legal system. The current body of law is a strange attractor for among other things, the reproduction of corporations as they exist today[1]. The way capitalism is coded is at the expense of experimenting with other systems[2]. Instead of experimenting with alternative systems of economic organization, we see an ongoing attempt to level all forms of alternative economic organization. In effect, the notion of "capitalism is the only known way" becomes a prescriptive rather than descriptive - a normative statement rather than a observational one.

If we were truly looking for more advanced forms of organization beyond the status quo, I would expect that economic imperialism would not exist. Instead, even more aspects of basic society are capitalized and in recent decades also codified using the inflexible mechanisms of computer code. The last remaining hold outs do so at their own expense[3]. So no, I don't think we're exploring the possibility space of superior economic technology, we're stagnating.

1. As a self-preservation principle

2. See M. Fisher, Capital Realism - https://libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%...

3. Market, political, cultural, economic forces all contribute to the complete and total capture of universal capitalism. Those who wish not to comply face political, social, and economic sanctions from the individual to national levels.
> Why isn't it valid to say you don't like unions and so don't want anything to do with them?

Because you can't possibly have personally experienced every union, and the media isn't good at covering unions generally, so whatever bias you're (or anyone else making this statement is) presenting here feels unearned.

This is similar to the bias of racism or homophobia, right? Like, "I saw a Black person steal something, so now I think that all Black people are untrustworthy." Or, "I saw a gay man hit on a straight guy and now I think all gay men are sex pests." These are declarative statements about all people in those groups based on a small amount of information and on societal bias.

And these biases rarely go the other way – do you also end up saying, "I don't like corporations and don't want anything to do with them?" Corporations are, by far, have a vastly worse record on theft, corruption, anti-environmental practices, etc.
I have a similar thought about flamewars on the internet, or rather about why generic discussions so often turn into flamewars: the mind resorts to indignation to amuse itself in the absence of anything more interesting.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
We can't stop the pandemic just with masking, vaccines, and the level of quarantining that people are willing to put up with.
Incompetence is everywhere, probably evenly distributed.

It's just that at large scale it becomes noticeable, small orgs can float through unnoticed.