skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't take it as a statement on the average Indian developer, just on the extremes, the variance.

I personally have no trouble asserting that the worst Indian developers are worse than the worst American developers without making any claim about average quality. There is a large cohort of developers in India and other third world countries whose main exposure to programming concepts is poorly taught classes with sometimes hundreds of students to an instructor for instance. That kind of thing simply does not exist in that capacity in the west. Minimum wage laws and such are also a contributor here, people of such poor skill are simply not employable in the west because the price floor for employing someone is so much higher.

None of this has anything to do with race or ethnicity, only societal wealth and development inequalities.
You can bypass the TPM and CPU restriction by doing a fresh install off a USB drive. It's basically a non issue at this point.

The FUD around TPM is massively blown out of proportion, which is frightening considering the HN is supposed to be a tech savvy userbase driven by facts rather than FUD.

TPM is basically a secure enclave for highly sensitive private keys, similar to what the T2 did on the Macs. It's much safer to have important private keys stored there than on disk and in system memory where they're in reach of basic exploits like Mimikatz or Javascript vulns coming from your browser.
That view is not supported by all vaccination researchers. The argument against that line of thought is that your immune response to, say, omicron is very specific toward that variant. Consequently, if you catch omicron, that does not mean you're automatically protected against other variants.
>The Goa'uld on the other hand were flamboyant and arrogant

They were great villains because they had distinct personalities and were rivals with each other. Ba'al and his clones were especially fun to watch.
Ok, so I had to dig out an old blog post: https://techinorg.blogspot.com/2010/04/swithing-to-mac-one-y...

So it wasn't jumping between words it was home/end.
Yeah, I don't actively follow him either, and I am aware that he has aligned himself more with the right lately. I do think though that his work on the Snowden case was really courageous - whether or not you agree or disagree with what he did, it certainly takes balls to go up against the NatSec apparatus.
Malware attacks targeting Ukraine government
“Note that this is the probability of an infection being Omicron given a person is infected, so it doesn’t tell us how likely a person is to test positive in the first place.”
We’ll have to think of a different methodology because it’s not ethical to issue placebo vaccines during a pandemic.
Cash is highly regulated, in a lot of EU countries it's not even possible to spend too much cash in a shop in a single transaction. Cash transactions over XXX amount (few thousands) require identity and they have to be reported by the seller as well. Carrying over 10k euro in cash has to be declared during air travel too.
It's the norm in France for employers to pay another euro of tax for each euro their employees earn.
Video: https://youtu.be/igEUjEci-eg

Apparently it's only the first three levels. It's still impressive to get this type of graphics to run on a GameBoy Advanced.
Ask HN: What do you say to someone who wants to get into software development?
Occasionally I have friends who really want to get involved in software, but they have zero background in it whatsoever. I'm never really sure what to say. Computers and programming have been a part of my life as long as I can remember. It's the only thing I was ever good at or wanted to do. I can't really understand how to articulate that. It seems impossible for me to recommend someone do this stuff without having that lifelong level of understanding and context and passion. Am I wrong? Is software really not that hard, and able to be learned later in life?
...for 12 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0&t=28s
would like to see a live animation of this
Do you computer-analyze your games?

One stockfish computer analysis must cost more than merely playing 1,000 unanalyzed games.
My experience was bit different. I find there are caring Microsoft employees who would address the feedback/request in the best way they possibly can. I always got a reasonable reply and willingness to help.

Having worked in a large organization I know that the more hops this information has to go through to get processed, the more likely it will end in limbo. Granted, so far limbo happened in 100% of my opened cases but I could clearly see an employee willing to help and probably being limited by the internal org structure which is not optimized for reacting to user feedback (sadly same goes for most other big tech companies).
Feels like that’s more a statement about the efficacy of the vaccine against Delta vs Omicron. “…and test positive for COVID-19…” already narrows the groups down to only the positive cases, it’s not a statement about those groups’ relative sizes.
The aroma of saffron is just amazing.

I grew up in India where saffron is added on rice, zero-proof drinks, dessert…and even hot milk tea.

Sprinkle a few strands on your morning milk tea!
If schools take most of the tax then reduce school funding. Is that crazy?

We have a similar case in my town. Schools get most of the property tax. We're paying for laptops for all the kids. Subs are making 12/hr.
Dribbble is a pretty popular one. There's also ArtStation for art and 3D modeling.
Are these all from the profit seeking entrepreneur?
Youtube recommended the following video after watching the above. Pretty neat to see the paths of the charged particles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiscokCGOhs&ab_channel=Cloud...
The good, the interface is cleaner in many areas including the settings, snip, and other built-in apps. Start menu is fine, better support for features that have been around forever (multiple desktops). Better support for WSL2. Better looking Explorer with more sensible menu options. Appears to have 100% compatibility with previous Windows versions. Better tiled window support with numerous snapping options, no need for third party tools for that (great on very large screens).

The bad, power users thrown to the side in favor of reducing clutter in some areas. In particular, the Explorer right-click menu has been gutted. Now there's an annoying "show all options" step to get to common actions you may have installed such as "open in Notepad++". By default, the menu shows 5 options and a few context actions but is designed to avoid the massive (and perhaps confusing) menus users would have after installing 20+ apps. Perhaps this is "mixed" rather than bad but I find it annoying.

The ugly, there's a small but noticeable latency in Explorer when navigating back and forth rapidly between drives/directories. A search for "windows 11 explorer slow" shows a common theme. It's not a constant, more like some sort of indexing hiccup that occurs from time to time when backing out of a folder or entering a new one.

That performance bug may be resolved in a bit, most bugs reported on the bug tracker have gotten surprisingly quick response rates. I reported a critical bug in the snip tool that was resolved in an emergency patch a week later.

There's probably other "good" items but as a Windows 10 power user/developer, this is what I noticed as part of the transition.
It only 420k because they pay themselves minimum salaries. The founder/lead dev is easily worth mid 6 figures on the market and yet his salary is not even 60k EUR.

It's a great project, great quality and run at a low cost but it's all that because it's run by people who sacrifice their financial situation to make their idea happen.
I dont really appreciate the conspiratorial or political framing, but I will contend that these results seem to support your claim.
It’s ironic that the article is about people using the study to spread misinformation about the results of the study.

Social media users are misrepresenting these findings (on Omicron’s apparent ability to breakthrough vaccine protection) by saying those vaccinated are more susceptible to infection overall.
That... Is a different statement. It says that they are more likely to have a specific variant, given that they got infected. It did not say they are more likely to get infected. Right?
> I initially drew the meters as 7-segment LEDs but that wasn't localizable to all cultures (How do you do a right-to-left reading 7-segment LED for Saudi Arabia?) so they only lasted for one version or so.

I don't get it. Why isn't that localizable? You can write the numbers in either direction with it, can't you? What am I missing?
you are protected from infection only if you have a huge number of antibodies since they can immediately overpower the virus when it gets in. when the antibodies are few and the virus comes in you have to wait for the trained t-cells to produce enough of them to again overpower the virus, so you get sick for a short time and then get better.
of course the quality of a vaccine determines how quickly and effectively the dormant t-cells are able to produce antibodies, so a very very very good vaccine can even protect from infection years after inoculation, and that's why the CDC has recently asked for more research in order to produce these kind of vaccines for the long term
As of Windows 10, UWP apps aren’t usable without explorer.exe actively running; window contents don’t update to match frame size changes. So the answer is surprisingly kind of no, unless you want to commit to never using “modern” apps, or manually opening file explorer every time you do.

Of course some would say that not being able to use UWP apps is an enhancement, not a bug.
The primary reason we care about faster-than-light travel is because our lifespans are so much shorter than time taken to travel to other stars.

If/When AI takes over, it will likely be quite content with taking 10,000 years to go to the distant stars. It will also likely be more capable of breaking off a piece of itself and launching it at 1/10th C in order to get around relatively quickly.

It could "colonize" the entire galaxy in 10 million years - which is an acceptable time scale for it given that it has no finite lifespan.

It is our biological limitations that fixate us on faster-than-light travel. ...something the rest of the universe probably doesn't think too much about.
> beyond the manufacture of the solar panel

Should we count the cost of manufacturing the computer(s) doing the work? More so if ASIC? The recycling-or-not of same?

I’ve been thinking about “mining something” since I will soon have a surplus of solar energy I can’t sell back into the grid. Not a ton but enough to maybe join a pool and make a small profit.

But even then it strikes me as wasteful… gotta do something with that box when it’s obsolete.
I think I'm misremembering. I read through some of the introductory material in the second edition of his book and found it less critical than I recalled.

But in some places, it definitely comes across as hostile (e.g. footnote 107).

Also, the sentence "Bayesian probability is a very general approach to probability, and it includes as a special case another important approach, the frequentist approach" is pretty funny. I know the exact technical result he's referring to, but it's clearly wrong to gloss it like that.

He does mention consistency once, page 221, but (unconvincingly) handwaves away concerns about it. (Large N regimes exist that aren't N=infinity...)
There are two points to add: (1) If you use a randomly generated password of upper/lower/punctuation that's 63^length; (2) Four words is vocabulary^4.

One breakeven point is 63^10 (9.8e17) ~ 20000^4 (1.6e17).

This is being quite generous to the four words as the likelyhood of word selection from the vocabulary would be far from uniform. Also offset by the fact that shorter length passwords are brute-forced. If four-words became the dominant meta then we could instead have brute force applied to the word dictionary forms.
I'm not surprised that the UK is deploying it's often used Nanny State scare tactics to try and outlaw encryption. Don't take them lightly, though, fight back!
Well, one important confounder is age (older people tend to be more vaccinated), but they control for that.

Many other confounders cannot easily be controlled for, but is there any reason to assume that they're correlated with the outcome? It could be that vaccinated people are more careful in terms of meeting other people.

At any rate, we had big RCTs at the beginning that demonstrated efficacy against the then prevailing variant (alpha, I assume).

It'll be tricky to repeat an RCT at this stage.
You can go one step further and drive the costs to zero by outsourcing not only the social aspects, but the chess games as well!
The phrase you’re focusing on is taken out of the larger context, which was estimating the lower possible bound of expenditure on staffing. Bottom of the barrel means the lowest quality / cheapest of a given option, which in this case would be the lowest-bidding team of engineers from a low cost of living country, and the combo of those 2 often is India. It’s a reference to the way middle managers think about cost reduction and not the OP’s feeling about Indians.
Climate crisis aside, the absurdity of bitcoin mining parasitically profiting out of a local geopolitical situation like this is very ...illustrative.
The vast majority of cases don't end up in the hospital, vaccinated or otherwise. People seem to forget this fact.
I mean, the present UK government also broke a whole bunch of other laws, so, why would they care if it's illegal?

The current British Prime Minister was literally fired from a previous job as a journalist because he can't stop telling lies. It's worth making a distinction from Trump here. Trump wasn't a liar, Trump was a bullshitter. A Liar knows what the truth is, and is trying to convince you of a falsehood, bullshitters have no idea what is true or false, they don't care. In some ways this makes Boris worse - he's deliberately trying to mislead you, which is harder to evade, is his claim that he enjoys making model buses a lie? Probably, but why is he lying about that? There were various theories. With Trump what he's saying has no connection to anything, so, it offers no clues as to the facts but at least you know that.

But like Trump, Boris is very popular with people who don't know much of anything. For them, the results of their support for Boris (everything got worse) are disheartening, but they're unable to join the dots. Who knows why this has happened, it surely can't be Boris' fault, wouldn't he tell us?
If you write your operating system to use the paravirtual devices and run inside a hypervisor then you don’t need to worry about drivers for all the physical devices you might find.

By the time you have attracted enough users that those few percent of performance you are losing on the paravirtual drivers is an issue, the extra code for some performance critical native drivers will be a small part of your OS.
Immigration and globalization are such great forces for good. Unfortunately, the downsides are obvious while the much, much greater advantages are often much more hidden.
You’re misinterpreting (unintentionally or otherwise) this statement.

All this is saying is that P(Omicron variant | positive test AND 3x vaccine) > P(Omicron variant | positive test AND no vaccine).

In no way this is implying P(Getting Omicron | 3x vaccine) > P(Getting Omicron | no vaccine).
"Everyone I know" is anecdotal and most people that use this language are outright lying. Trump is an expert at "They're saying things are bad" and of course some people believe this nonsense. "Everyone" and "They" are propaganda tools.

Make a claim. Provide the evidence.

Otherwise you're just one of the people that refuses to accept reality.
Well, antivaxxers would take the placebo. But they wouldn't take the vaccine. So you can't randomise the trial.
Hi Phillip, you are a very unusual PM in a very unusual group that is able to derive a lot of value from user feedback who are usually very technical experts. I'm not sure how much your personal experience generalizes. Same could be said for my experience I guess so that is a fair point. I definitely had a bad time at a bad group. In the Steves era there were a lot of bad groups. I predate your tenure by quite a bit but I do keep in touch with former colleagues and exert soft influence to get the things I need built. I also think there is a selection criteria bias on the type of PM to be on HackerNews. Why does it happen to be you posting here out of such a large company. Also I thought you left - I would have counted you as one of the ones who cared leaving? I know others who also care haven't left but I think it's safe to say that on average they care less. You will be missed. You also started at MSFT right? I think you're taking things from Microsoft on face value that perhaps you shouldn't be.
Awk is the coolest tool you don't know (2021)
Our 40 years you see everything. This last employer was known for this sort of thing, yet still successful despite their best efforts to mess everything up.
What does Prince Andrew have to do with the government?
I interpret OP‘s comment rather as an intersection, not a union of the targeted dev group. Your last sentence however sounds passive aggressive to me, which I rather don’t want to read here on HN
This is to prevent MPs and civil servants from evading professional communications logs rules, right? Right?
You can replace task manager with something else. These days, I highly recommend doing so with processhacker for power users.
Surprisingly, I find the first image (the 10 000 random points) to be one of the most please of the article. My favorite would be the squares with noise, then the 10k random points, then the blue squares.
AFAIK you can still use Windows 11 without an MS account. Similar to current new installs of Win10 it really wants you to push to using one, but doesn't entirely enforce it.
Yes that's probably near the median dev salary locally.

Some FAANGs understand this and have decided to hire more in Europe.
I’d really like a Pandora for cheese recommendation service based on current cheeses
> The tech jumped the shark at the start of season 5 with the introduction of Prometheus

Agreed, the tech development timeline was way too fast starting with the Prometheus. Progress up to that point was a little more plausible.

I also never understood why they didn't come up with their own energy weapons. Those were the first things they started collecting, so they should have been able to replicate them given how other tech progressed. And who builds starships before they can build simple weapons?

Sure bullets were more accurate according to canon, but having a lightweight and inexhaustible weapon is also invaluable, so putting some effort into improving the accuracy of the energy weapons seems like a no-brainer. Never made sense to me, but a fun show regardless.
You cut the sentence in the middle: "though individuals who had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine continued to be less likely to test positive for COVID-19, regardless of variant." Which does not mean the unvaccinated are more likely to get omicron like you originally claimed. Just that if they are infected it is more likely to be omicron. Which means the vaccine is less effective against omicron than other variants, which we already know.
"Whereas I've never seen a frequentist book dismissive of Bayes methods. (Counterexamples welcome!)"

Indeed! There's a lot of Bayesian propaganda floating around these days. While I enjoy it, I would also love to see some frequentist propaganda (ideally with substantive educational content...).
Tutorial: Writing a Tiny Rust Game Engine for Web
Statistics professors everywhere just giving a long, sad sigh.
It’s similar to the circuit breaker design pattern as well.
Our hospital system is actively collapsing right now. They have chronically underinvested in “run the business” activities and taken any capital out of the system through buybacks and large capital expense budgets for building new facilities. I don’t see any way out of this crisis other than public ownership of hospitals — or a lot fewer hospitals and a lot more people dying at home or in the street because the system was too broken to care for them.

Knowing this country, I’m sad that this choice is likely a foregone conclusion.
I don't really get the example of being able to work from home, but I would expect differences are extremely regional/national.

In some countries there's a formal labor law for doctors notes after X days that is known by all and which might mean your doctor checks and registers the case(?) in other places it is total discretion if a manager demands a note but rarely does in places that aren't shift work oriented.
I remember the term as being popularized in the 1970s, in regard to the Washington Bullets' chances of winning the NBA championship. I thought that it was the coach who coined it, but Wikipedia says not. Anyway, Wikipedia traces the expression "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings" no farther back than the middle 1970s. The Ring Cycle had a fair bit of history by then; and I'm not that confident in the ability of guys in the 1970s sports world to name the soprano roles in opera.
Figure it’s relevant to this thread - Eric Topol (very credentialed medical researcher) does a pretty good overview & summary on how the vaccines are doing.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/were-very-lucky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_particle#Energy_and_abso...: “With a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV; the speed of emitted alpha particles is 15,000 km/s”

15,000 km/s ÷ 20,000 miles/hour
= 15 km/s ÷ 20 miles/hour
≈ 15 km/s ÷ 32 km/hour
= 15 × 3,600 ÷ 32
≈ 1,600

(The kinetic energy of these alpha particles may be a bit lower or higher)
It's history. There's bound to be vagaries of interpretation for different authors. But even given your source it doesn't seem so much inaccurate as mostly corroborated

> De Vries attributes this decline to the loss of the spice trade

And regarding the date I don't think you can over specify the meaning of the article's sentence on Venice to induce an inaccuracy.

Vasco de Gama’s discovery of a sea-route to the spice lands ... in 1498 ... destroyed the economies of Alexandria, Genoa and Venice

Sure, you could read that as: "Venice's economy was destroyed the moment de Gama set foot on the spice lands", but it seems an equally, if not more, valid reading (and much more generous and reasonable), to assume what is meant is that de Gama's discovery eventually destroyed those economies...as in, it was an inflection point that tipped the scales in Portugal's favor and helped begin the processes that directly lead to the incumbents' declines.

Reasonable given that no one expects economies of empires to be destroyed overnight. With empire-scale reserves, and monopoly advantages the process could reasonably take a century, of course (and a century being roughly the span from 1498 to the 17th century). And generous given that, since the decline date is so easily found on a resource as common as Wikipedia, it's unlikely they are mistaken by not being erudite enough.

The lack of elaborating temporal detail is even less damning, given the economy the article seems to want to take with words, sparing a mere two sentences on large swathes of history. With this sort of compact language, who can expect them to pedantically agonize over removing every possible divergent interpretation, and achieve unequivocal precision?

I think the more likely situation is the article is perfectly accurate on that point, and you've simply read an inaccuracy into it by misinterpreting the authors' omission of absolute precision as error.
There's shit developers everywhere. No need to call out people from a specific culture as being worse on average.