skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a coworker who was a Disney World character, voiceover actor, and then a flight attendant before going to a coding bootcamp. 12 weeks in a bootcamp and she was a solid junior frontend developer. I think that path is very achievable for a lot of people. I'm not sure if it is possible to take that route and go directly into distributed systems engineering, machine learning, or architecture, but depending on what "get involved in software" there are lots of paths from no experience to entry level.
They completely messed up their response to covid, had partial lockdowns that didn't work and thus went on longer, didn't screen people coming into the country, didn't shut schools for ages, and now UK has the highest infection rate of any large country, 22%.

Yet still half of the conservatives are against the meager restrictions we have now, want to get rid of asking people nicely to wear masks.
https://www.kaggle.com/mathurinache/cheese-pics

https://query.wikidata.org/#%23Subclass%20of%20Cheese%2C%20w...
Maybe I'm getting this wrong, but in my understanding is that since with this configuration it must be the same for T amd T-1 one and so must already exist from the beginning. There is no state other than itself that leads to it.

So the still image is already the animation of it ;)
> Instead we should fix the backdoors so that code can be reasonable "law".

There never will be. For the absolute vast majority of people, programmers included, these "contracts" will be a yet another blackbox.

Moreover, it already is a blackbox even to the people who develop them, because they can't find errors in their own software and APIs.
Interesting, on AZERTY (french) keyboards, parentheses are unshifted. They are on 5 and on ° (the key just right of 0). On the other hand, { is on alt gr on 4, [ on alt gr on 5, ] on alt gr ° and } on alt gr + (right of °). I wonder if it influences the programming languages that people prefer, even just a bit. Or maybe the style? Unshifted parenthesis makes function call easier for example.
FAA to change how some planes land in effort to cut emissions
If you get a long covid symptom and want to be treated for that it might be smart to keep your medical records up to date. Hard to know what the future brings on long covid and treatments for it.

Or conceivably in a year they have two vaccines, one is more suitable for those that are recovered, the other more suitable for those who never had it. Which one will they give you?
Am I the only one who doesn’t know any of these acronyms?
If you cut back the antenna length so you can’t hear the fundamental 100 ft away, the harmonics shouldn’t be an issue. But, I’d have to build it to be sure. I might do that!

Here’s some info on suitable low pass filters for $5. You’d have to modify the 600 meter kit for 555 kHz, after reading up on the design at the linked technical pages.

https://qrp-labs.com/lpfkit.html
Might use it in June, unless they push it further (like they did previously).
Have you actually worked at a company that outsources part of their workforce to India? The workload of the remaining local workers often increases considerably to make up for the mistakes, some of the work has to be redone entirely, directions have to be spoonfed to the outsourced teams to get any kind of result. This has been my experience and that of many people who have had the misfortune of experiencing that sort of outsourcing at their workplace.

Western companies often take short-term counterproductive actions to decrease their costs at the cost of product quality and long-term viability, it's nothing new.
An employee costs more than just their salary.
Democratic centralism is a form of democracy, that only gives a voice to a very limited number of cadres, which is the exact opposite of a democracy. It excludes anyone who is not a communist party member by its definition, even in it's most inclusive form. This is motivated by the 'vanguard' role of the party - you see that it is a very insincere form of democracy, as such. The inevitable result of this this form of democracy, as you call it, is the concentration of all power in a very select cirlce of leaders. In other words, the result is a stalinist nightmare, and it doesn't matter who is in charge of the show, the end result is always the same.
I have a fun one! One day I received a call from a friend. The conversation was awkward until he asked me why I called him. Neither of us had called the other, but both our phones rang, and we still don’t know what happened.
And it's usually even simpler than that. Most property taxes go to education, which is usually a higher cost per student in cities (for often worse outcomes). And a decent chunk of the balance is police and fire.
Roads aren't just roads. They are sewer pipes, water pipes, gas pipes, telecommunication lines, and power lines. These items age and also need replaced. Not sure how much remodeling you've ever done, but refits are more expensive than having something built in a new structure. It gets even more expensive when this infrastructure is in use while you're upgrading it.
The United Kingdom is a monarchy ruled by Queen Elizabeth (the mother of Andrew), even though the British people go far out of their way to pretend that's not the case. It's why Boris Johnson had to meet with the queen about forming a new government. Why is she involved at all? It's because she rules the United Kingdom in fact. Andrew's family rules Britain (for what, 1200 years? [1]), that's quite relevant to the context. The political structure of the United Kingdom goes very far out of its way to look after and protect the royal family (their rulers).

Shall we pretend that the family that has ruled Britain for 1200 years has no political power? Har har.

Every country in Europe that still regressively clings to a monarchy (and there are a lot of them) goes out of its way to pretend - because it's so comically backwards - that their monarchy is only a figurehead / ceremonial and has no real role. In fact they're all back up dictatorships waiting in the wings if there's ever enough political chaos to prompt the people to turn to that, and that happens every time historically.

[1] https://allthatsinteresting.com/lineage-british-royal-family
> The new campaign, however, is entirely focused on the argument that improved encryption would hamper efforts to tackle child exploitation online.

I bet cars and homes without microphones and cameras spying on their residents also hampers their efforts to keep children safe - are those next on the chopping block? They're already spying on near every street corner, after all.

Funny how they never say "Technology has given us all this extra surveillance capability, you can reduce our legal powers somewhat to compensate" - it's always "People have some tiny scrap of privacy left - we must eliminate it, or terrorists and pedophiles win!"
nitter.net (or any other Nitter instance) is excellent for desktop. Nitter (instances) should offer RSS feeds, so you don't even have to use a browser to keep yourself up to date on any public Twitter account.

However, even though Nitter instances are much lighter to load in browsers (for both desktop and mobile) compared to the native Twitter webpage, you may also benefit from Fritter, an open source frontend app for Android. (I don't know of any open source alternatives on iOS.)

Fritter homepage: https://fritter.cc/
GitHub repo: https://github.com/jonjomckay/fritter
Play Store listing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jonjomckay...
F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jonjomckay.fritter/
How it is regressive? It is quite equal percent-wise, how all taxes should be.
He’s a plumber alright. :)
Should move away from France, over 50k in taxes!t
https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data#casesByVaccinationStatus

Search for "hospital but not the ICU". Look above it for ICU stats.
For "Not in ICU", it can be argued that even 10% is an overstatement.
The author of the article, meanwhile, doesn't provide any sources whatsoever.

Another interesting piece of data was recently removed from Got-t of Alberta website, but you can see it here:
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-government-of-albert...
I see more cryptocurrency than cryptography on the HN front page, by a large margin, so er, yes, it's a valid comment.
Has anyone made a bot yet to automatically reply to stalebot so issues aren't closed?
My company isn’t based out of SV, we pay 130-220k base depending on team and experience. Senior devs are 200k+
To enjoy an interesting and arguably also somewhat more accurate experience reading articles such as these, try mentally replacing the term "vaccine breakthrough" with "vaccine failure". Going to hospital is not protection.
Given that distinction between liar and bullshitter, I think Johnson is not even capable of comprehending that “truth” is a concept, let alone that other people can and do judge him for saying untrue things.

Main example that gives me this belief is this: https://youtu.be/wzUDRyciqVM

Where Boris Johnson says “well actually there’s no press here” to a man who responds by turning to and pointing out the press cameras filming both of them having this conversation and saying “What do you mean there is no press here? What are they then?”
Proposal to merge WASI based WebAssembly support
I think devs can use Gtk if they're developing for Linux or don't mind using pyGtk for multi-platform, use Qt or Flutter otherwise if they're going multi-platform, make sure everything follows freedesktop specifications, and then just pack it to Flatpak, test it for Gnome and KDE... then just tell everyone whose DE doesn't support it to just deal with it.

Heck, many apps are web-based and uses electron anyways, and those are generally multiplatform anyways.

I think if whatever app they make/port worrks via Flatpak, it should work on all/most modern distro.
> - Unskilled, inexpensive developers

Would have gotten exactly the same backlash if he said "unskilled inexpensive Indian developers". You just show here how unreasonable you are. The developers being stationed in India is very important for the comment, since then you pay much less for them, and then you pick the cheapest among the developers stationed in India, hence "bottom of the barrel Indian developers". There is no racism at all embedded in that statement.

> But that doesn't quite have the ring of some good ol' casual racism/stereotyping that everyone can pile on I suppose.

What? "Bottom of the barrel" has no racial connotations at all, you can use it in any scenario.
Google, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
The pressure waves were measurable globally. Here’s some tweets earlier with data from London: https://twitter.com/russss/status/1482449707083390977
Yes and it was a mistake in my opinion. It make employees feel that the company is paying for these benefits and it makes the company believe that they are spending money for things they should not (I've heard so many CEOs complaining about having to pay "all those taxes for their employees"). I prefer a way where the employee is responsible for all costs with a deduction at the source to make sure you don't get nasty surprises at the end of the year. In term of numbers that's all the same, not in term of psychology.
bunny.net is what you need.
"better" is subjective. Bootstrapped gives you more control over the business but it also makes it harder to expand once you have product market fit (exceptions are always there). Bootstrapped means you most likely have yourself or may be another co-founder who have to share the burden of all the challenges and downsides. Bootstrapped means you probably cannot pay the best money to top talent and unless you are in an upcoming/hot space, you will have trouble attracting the best talent. VC funding brings tons of its own challenges. Right off the bat, you now have a pressure to deliver a fast paced/hockey stick growth or your investors won't make money. Making money for investors becomes a higher or at least same priority as making revenue for the company in general. You now have to answer to people you would rather not in many cases. Not to mention the public scrutiny it brings. However, the plus of VC backed is that you have money to attract top talent and can offer a lot of incentives that are harder as a bootstrapped company.

I think everyone should do their 1st company bootstrapped (I am biased obviously). This will force you to be frugal with spending habits while trying to optimize revenue with least waste. It will also make you come up with creative ways to survive/grow and find product market fit. The downside is that you may run out of money or never reach enough traction as you may not be able to build a great team quick enough in cases.

I would say it depends on your goal. If you want to grow super fast and build a billion dollar company, you definitely want to go the VC route. If you want to start something that replaces your job and then may be grow a bit more with a small team, bootstrapped is the way to go. Sometimes a bootstrapped business can become VC backed and vice versa.
Tech Tent: Has Theranos Changed Silicon Valley?
That's insanely cool. I want one of these at home. I could watch it for hours. A spinthariscope too!
Found the link to How To on Azure and the Bandwidth alliance:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/44072079721...

And azure's Pricing is here:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/...

Its not 12c per gig, its 8.75c per gig for Microsoft Routing... (at least from Europe and NA) and 8c for Internet Routing... Not a massive saving... Mind you, if you are based in South America, you go from 18.1c per gig down to 12...

For Us, mostly based in Europe, it would be a difference of around 995 per month on Azure Bandwidth costs, if all our bandwidth just came from Azure. Same for South America is 6 grand in savings...
And I wish they would be rewarded by their users even more.
> I doubt that. Are there voting schemes out there which prevent people from bringing mobile phones inside a voting booth?

Well, this is one reason why the last three places I’ve lived don’t allow phone usage in the polling station and have processes for getting another ballot, but also none of the electronic systems can survive that level of control either — most of them make it substantially easier for the attacker, especially at scale. That last part is important because the more people are required to pull off an attack the less likely it is to be successful.

> Laypersons have trust in things like online banking, even though it's technically a flaming garbage fire. People could just as well have trust in a cryptographically verified voting scheme.

Banking has key differences, though, which I think are significant: you can do non-anonymous audits, you don’t need deniability, and most importantly you can restore losses after the fact.
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai had already almost disappeared before the eruption.

A picture taken two hours before the widely publicized explosive detonation showed that the 2015 eruption products, which is really the north north west side of the much larger caldera that isn't even fully shown in this picture, had already disappeared. https://denvergazette.com/news/nation-world/a-planet-skysat-...
In my opinion books for practitioners is not the place for such discussions. Deborah's book might be poorly written, but if we want to go where the foundations of disagreements are we have to reach philosophy. Bayessian advocates are also often philosophers, like i.e. Jacob Feldman.

From theoretical statisticians Larry Wasserman is more on the frequentist side. See for example his response on Deborah's blog [1]. But he doesn't advocate for it in his books. So yeah, besides Deborah, I am not aware of any other frequentist "propagandist".

[1] https://errorstatistics.com/2013/12/27/deconstructing-larry-...
Just use C++. No need to proliferate the C language.
I've posted this reply numerous times here but a junior dev in San Francisco on 120k, after paying taxes and rent has more left over than a mid level engineer in the UK makes in gross pay.
Feds' spending on facial recognition tech expands, despite privacy concerns
Truly a novel situation we find ourselves in:

https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Ahospitals+intitle%...

https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle%3Ahospitals+intitle%...
A rough estimate is that the cost of an employee is 1.25x - 1.4x the salary of an employee in the US. With health insurance, Social Security taxes, 401K matching, office expenses, and more.
About 8 tech employees where I am in Europe. And that's after all the additional costs apart from salary.
Yes, I do. Really.

And if current mmap() implementations aren't up to the task, can we fix mmap()?

Please.
You are indeed a different person, my apologies.

We are discussing a video being removed, the other poster was the one acreaming about it being misinformative. They have no idea why or even what videos were stricken, they were simply gloating.

This is beyond a platform having the right or not, they can indeed choose what to host. Byt once you start labeling videos as misinformation or censoring and removing them, you male yourself the arbiter of truth.

I personally do not want an ad company deciding anything for me, not ever.

A label would be one thing, but removing videos on a whim (which happens every single day- reasons are almost never given, and the rules arw arbitrary).

Also, comparing a person to a huge public square (youtube is very much an online public square) is very disingenuous. If I choose not to believe something (my version of 'allowing something on my platform or not), it wouldn't effectively silence that person, as it does when videos and channels are nixed.
>It is the opposite. Illinois homes’ sale prices are kept down due to the higher (and always increasing) property taxes.

So true. I used to live in the Quad Cities, which holds Bettendorf and Davenport in Iowa and Rock Island and Moline in Illinois. When looking at houses, there might be a 25% difference in prices for similar houses in Iowa vs Illinois. Many of my coworkers on the Illinois side were looking to move to Iowa, but were going to walk out with very little equity by the time they took a hit on the sale price and pay transaction costs.

The consensus among locals was "Illinois state government may implode at some point, and pretty well the only way to avoid that is by significantly increasing taxes".
It's a lot more like blogs than it is like twitter, but overall it's almost closest to MySpace. I think if you wanted to write long form content on a social media platform, there isn't really a better pick.
Isn’t that good for your wallet? 20 % saved (if you are in the US)
I always wondered why. One of my assumptions is that since payroll/timekeeping does not really change, the incentive to update these systems is not there.

Also I bet these systems have lots of little moving parts under the surface no one really considers, but these little parts prevent an upgrade.
Myanmar's pro-democracy forces resist with cryptocurrency
It's a way to feel superior and get under your skin, because it's more about that than convincing anyone.
Does Tesla have a big problem with Not-Invented-Here syndrome? They seem like the kind of place that would.
I know, but with the technology we are able to employ nowadays I think it's reasonable to push for vaccines that protect people for 20 years like the one for hepatitis. Hell, now we can even think about curing cancer with mRNA, I think a strong flu/corona virus might be within our limits
Tying property tax to market value is a form of this, I think. The town doesn’t realize substantially more costs when property values go up, but wants to participate in the growth of ‘its’ property. So it structures its relationship with its users to capture some of the growth in value.

Unfortunately the leverage of a small town is relatively low, so they don’t have much power to capture their users growth
One obvious problem is that the roads are too expensive to maintain, primarily because they are only built to last 20-30 years. Government expenditure favors employment over long lived infrastructure. Legislators favor distributing funds to contractors who may reciprocate with campaign funding.

There's no technical reason why these roads could not be put in to last far longer than 20-30 years without major repairs. Source: family member was a civil engineer specializing in road pavement and construction for many decadeds.
Took a few years for C to adopt function prototypes from C++, one can hope that RAII makes it in less than a century
...or you can go the other route and make a very deliberate decision that there is one specific piece of hardware that you're going to support and not be sidetracked into developing drivers for a huge array of hardware.

For example, I bought a used Sony Xperia X that was several years out of date when Sailfish OS was released. I also bought a half-decade old Think Pad because it was one of the few machines that LibreBoot supports. I actually care way more about software than about having the latest hardware or the broadest array of hardware options to choose from.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that all the major operating systems, both proprietary and open source, are pretty good. What people do is pick the OS that best supports the software they use.
I basically just want the cliffhanger to be resolved, so the comic may be an option.
But if someone has the source of alternate storyline that is more than just a quick wrap up then I am more than happy to read that instead
> USA health care system, culturally, is about saving lives.

With all respect, but for someone who had lived in the US after moving from EU, I'd say it's first and foremost about making money. It saves lives where saving is needed, but I'd argue vast majority of cases are outpatient and the culture is strikingly blunt about milking the patient.
They have a whole page that is ostensibly showing their opposition to suicide… not a great sign in and of itself, but their definition of suicide is chilling:

‘The true meaning of "suicide" is to turn against the Next Level when it is being offered.’

Suicide is turning against cult teaching, while bodily death is referred to as being‘recalled,’ as if the person is a faulty toaster. It’s all so twisted and wrong.
Typing on the keyboard is surprisingly fun.

For larger programs you can interact with the Lisp Badge via a serial console. Here's a setup for using Emacs's built-in serial support. This makes programming the Lisp Badge very similar to working in SLIME, with an on-target REPL and the ability to evaluate code fragments onto the target:

http://forum.ulisp.com/t/emacs-for-programming/236/13

I used that mode to port Emacs's Tetris to the Lisp Badge:

http://forum.ulisp.com/t/tetris-on-the-lisp-badge/945

After (save-image) and unplugging from serial, I had a portable Lisp-hackable handheld gaming system. I made small tweaks to the game code -- like new cheat modes or modified sound effects -- with the built-in keyboard.
I'm assuming you're speaking tongue in cheek, but I thought about why we have problems that the Romans didn't.

I don't know about ease of maintenance and access to utilities, but Romans did not have trucks that destroyed the roads (the ratio of weight of vehicles to the wear on the road is exponential, not linear), but I have no concept of how cobblestone is affected by trucks. Roman roads are also affected by survivorship bias (we see the roads that survived, not 90% of the roads that haven't) and they were not affected as much by freeze/thaw cycles as North American roads are.

My intutition says that they also probably were not generally as wide as North American roads. Drivers here have an expectation of being able to drive at high speeds without worrying about passing on coming traffic - Pictures I've seen of Roman highways were not two wagons wide. Less road width means less maintenance since there's physically less roads.