skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want anyone, comorbidities or otherwise to have to suffer the effects of covid

This is a childish worldview, not because empathy is wrong or harm minimization is wrong but because you're subjectively presuming that COVID harm is more valid a goal to minimize than: depression and suicide, deaths and bad health due to inactivity, etc, etc. Further, we have no idea of the knock-on effects, perhaps we'll realize in ten years that we've created a demographic time bomb because everyone under the age of 20 right now will be incredibly distrustful of society and government, and choose to not actively contribute. My point is, someone is being harmed by the choices we make, even if COVID deaths go down (but, then again, with all our actions in the US, we've seemingly not avoided that much COVID infection and death, worst of both worlds).

>and I think the fact that many hospitals and healthcare workers (at least in the US), seemed to be at their breaking point means now does not feel like the time to try and ignore covid

Perhaps, the issue is that we've created an industry where the credentialing is monopolized by special interest groups when we also need that industry to be adequately staffed to absorb shocks like pandemics. If we wanted to alleviate overburdened doctors, we could've eliminated the functional cap on the number of students studying each year to be doctors back in 2020. But, your average doctor would actually oppose that choice, because their incentives are not aligned with society's.
And not just for salaries, which can be handled with companies like Deel and Remote. For me equity is the bigger concern.

If I join a UK startup, best case scenario is paying 10% tax on the upside of any exit windfalls. If I join any company outside the UK, that immediately jumps to ~55%.
Money laundering, illegal transactions?
No, that is not how it works, Apple is not being dishonest.

The App Sandbox enforces the sandbox rules that are a signed component of the app. The App Store ensures that the entitlements that an app has are valid, necessary, and safe.

If you remove the App Store, a binary can have any entitlements or policies it would like, including not to have one. For example the Facebook, TikTok, or Google apps can give themselves the appropriate permissions to access all your data. The kernel will enforce those sandbox rules, and ensure that the app never accesses more than all of your data.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” in 21 Languages (Disney Video)
I have no qualms with releasing a subset of the data that is properly and irreversibly anonymized. But you have to keep in mind that by introducing “randomness” into the dataset, you limit it’s usefulness to check to make sure the statistics match up with the study’s official topline results.

Furthermore, the FDA submission dataset is essentially a database with dozens of tables each with often hundreds of columns. It’s a LOT of data, with exponential complexity to make sure all the right fields are redacted. There’s also the point that pharma companies are under no obligation to release this data. It’s generally considered proprietary. That said, due to the substantial amount of government funding provided to the development of the vaccine, I think we should be entitled to this information.
Gravity waves? The way you described this in your other post as "in which the air column itself is transported vertically", did you mean pressure waves, as in a change in air pressure?

I'm not a geologist, so don't take my incredulity for anything suggesting scientific fact, here.
I had never heard of playdate, and frankly was unlikely to buy one even after I had heard of it, except ...

Lucas Pope [1] of "Return of the Obra Dinn" and "Papers, Please" fame is doing his next game, "Mars After Midnight" for it [2]. [actually, browsing his website is how I even heard about the playdate]

The day that both Mars after Midnight, and the playdate itself, are actually out, I shall purchase both.

[1] https://dukope.com/

[2] https://dukope.itch.io/mars-after-midnight/devlog/261758/mar...
For a more technical example:

I think a lot of us have come across systems that seemed weird so we ask "what the fuck were they thinking, this sucks". A lot of times this leads to frustration and the urge to rebuild.

And it's all because the reasons for it being that way aren't clear (hey, documentation is important). More often than not, the reasons for a particular decision are sound and, if given, can foster acceptance and appreciation.
If you care about climate, get cryptocurrency banned. Air travel has all sorts of bad consequences, but also has economic and social benefits. Crypto on the other hand is an endless black hole of energy that even when used for its intended purpose creates economic and social harm.

Talking about taking away things that people like, like airplanes and red meat and gas stoves just get people up in arms. Start with the low-hanging fruit: crypto has no value except to speculators and criminals and tax evaders. Concrete is like 10% of our energy use, and we use way too much of it for temporary structures. No one likes leaf blowers, just ban the gas-powered ones.
flying isn't a step on maslow's heirarchy of needs.
I don't think so, if there is a gun the police is coming with guns. That is true even in Norway. Once you start waving around a gun or something that looks like a gun with some threats as well you will be taken seriously. With one very possible consequence that you will be shot.

Defund the police is not solving this situation. It could solve a lot of situations more calmly but not this one.
Varnish Cache reaches 383Gbps of throughput on a single server [pdf]
Self selecting crowd that has something to hide.
No. All that happens in the Casimir effect is that the vacuum state between a pair of uncharged plates is slightly different from the vacuum state in the absence of all matter whatsoever. There is no "negative energy" anywhere in the Casimir effect, despite pop science articles that appear to claim the contrary.
More of a marketing genius.
It's instantaneous at 100% of light speed (impossible for massive objects). At "near" light speed, you need seventeen nines (0.99999999999999999c) to bring a trip across the galaxy down to a subjective day. I'm not sure how near your idea of "near" is. You also need instantaneous acceleration at both ends, which is quite a requirement.
Where are you getting a 10% fatality rate from?
Big corps are tend to be good, small local corps tend to be bad for maternity leave. They don't want employee to leave even though it's guaranteed right and they don't pay salary but insurance pay some money.
AI in health and medicine – Nature Review
New variant, more restrictions out of caution, wait for new vaccine.

Rinse and repeat.
>It also speaks to inner AWS turmoil at least at DynamoDB.

How? Rick wasn't part of the DynamoDB service team. He wasn't an engineer, nor a manager on the team, nor even a product manager. He was a salesperson that specialized in DDB. He most likely had very little interactions, if any, with the engineering team. I don't see how him leaving speaks at all to anything about the inner workings of the engineering teams.

Rick seems cool, and after skimming some of his chats he seems really knowledgeable about the customer-facing side of DDB, and I mean absolutely no disrespect to him. But I think you're making way too many assumptions about his "rank" and "influence" within the company.
archived: https://archive.is/OxvbA
Everything from filter boxes to masks that are effective. It starts with acknowledging that Covid is airborne and then going from there
Do you really think that that is what TFA is about, at all?

Cause its fucking great advice for dealing with your boss. Getting called in on your day off? Don't want to come in? Don't explain, simply decline. Need to take a day off? Notify them, don't explain or justify past the bare minimum.

Explaining when you don't need to is not a great idea. Thats the big idea. Not, "never explain yourself", which is assinine, and obviously much easier for you to rail against.
I think it mostly consisted of "KEEP PRESSING REFRESH AND YOU'LL GET LET IN AT SOME POINT" so there wasn't any additional unplanned load for Roblox.
If it had nothing to do with the class conflict then you would not care how rich people live because rich accommodations do not create any noticeable load. And as for practicality - somebody living in a big house would not make your apartment any less practical yet you think everybody has to live like you.

I don't know if you are fooling yourself into thinking you are being rational and caring for environment and practicality but you are not fooling me.
I preferred the cursive.
You shouldn’t distrust VAERS per se, but it’s purpose is not risk assessment. It’s purpose is surfacing rare side effects for further study.

You don’t have to trust the drug co’s for that, we also have vaccine safety datalink system; so far the only notable side effect of the mRNA vaccines has been the myocarditis in younger people.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34477809/

Also your point about PCR testing is not accurate.
I'll be the devil's advocate. I can see a need to encrypt privileged communications, like with your lawyer, your health care provider, etc, but chats, for example? Can someone please change my mind?

And by the way, I find arguments of the type "are you ok to have transparent walls at the bathrooom" quite unconvincing. Bathrooms are not protected with encryption, the analogy is very weak. Or, "If you have nothing to hide, can you share with me your bank account password"? Well, no, the communication with my bank is encrypted, and I seriously doubt the Government wants me to put it out in the clear (oh, and also, banks are so heavily regulated, e.g. Anti-Money-Laundering, that if the Government wants to find anything about anything, they probably already can, regardless of how encrypted your communication with the bank is).
Apropos...

This teenager has been telling me on a monthly basis since last year that "food still tastes like garbage to me." It is some kind of strange side-effect she has from holding her breath at the bottom of the deep end of the pool.

Oops, did I write, "holding her breath at the bottom of the deep end of the pool?" I meant to write "a mild case of covid."
Any specific suggested books by Dr. Cox as someone new but enthusiastic to the field?
Here's the video of him firing 900 people over a Zoom call right before Christmas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nBQGWF4Cpg
> Attempting to cast facts as opinion is classic propaganda.

So is stating your opinions and claiming they are facts. And so is shouting out certain facts loudly, in order to distract attention from other facts that you don't want people to pay attention to. And so is accusing someone else of doing one of these things, loudly, in order to keep people from noticing that you are doing another.
This used to be a reliable workaround to "web nannies" or corporate filters as well.
"Involved in laws" doesn't really describe the CDC exactly, but whatever.

One example of many:

https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/drowsy_driving.html
If billionaires should or shouldn't exist is not the question.

The real question as a society is why we accept that a few people have so much resources that they can not expend for generations while millions are dying because they don't have the bare minimum to stay alive.
But can't they still do that right now? So parents proposal would make the situation a tiny bit better?
In Japan, most people use Line for messaging and calls. I love it but it is not secure.
Floating windows works fine on stock, I don't remember what command you need but iirc the Taskbar app has instructions for enabling them with adb.
A dynamic_assert() function would be a more general way to check a predicate at runtime. It can be compiled out for release builds and report failures to a centralized log for cases where the assertion is ignored.
I think there are apps that could read OBD-II codes? Though usually they're kinds cryptic and fixing them often beyond what an average motorist could do.
Surprisingly it's not that much. At a constant 1G acceleration you could travel across the galaxy (100k light years) in 12 years (from your reference frame)[0].

I definitely agree that such travel would require enormous amounts of energy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_travel_under_constant_ac...
Yes, but it's useful to them. That's the point.
Poll: % of commercial software built legally/illegally using OSS?
How much of commercial software is built legally/illegally using open source software?
10-20%
21-30%
31-40%
41-50%
> Wearing a mask and not meeting in large groups is not stopping socialization.

I'm sorry, but I can't engage in good faith when this is your opening statement. Facial cues are an essential part of socialization. Meeting in large groups is one form of socialization, one that's incredibly common among teenagers and children.
I'm probably wrong but I thought the argument was being made that you could generate the same effect?

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00981257/document#:~:te....
As the paper's title says, it's a randomized controlled trial, not a meta-analysis. A meta-analysis would likely exclude the RCT due to poor experimental design.
> Since Java 8 there is static and default methods in interfaces.

That's not relevant to the part of my post that you quoted...

I was describing a hypothetical situation where you already have two interfaces, but would like to have functionality that only makes sense for an object that implements BOTH of those interfaces. The only way to do that in Java is to write a THIRD interface that combines the two and then go through and change your implementations to implement that new interface instead of the two separate ones.

However, in the bullet point above, I mentioned static methods on traits in Rust, which is different than what static methods on interface in Java are. In Java, a static method on an interface is just a function on the interface, itself. In Rust a trait can declare that an implementing type must have a static method matching the signature. This is because Rust traits are type classes, while Java interfaces are just object interfaces and cannot constrain the implementing type, itself.

> Curious, what rust sql query builder are you refer to?

I have been mostly using mysql_async (https://docs.rs/mysql_async/latest/mysql_async/), but recently started playing with sqlx (https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx). I guess "query builder" isn't the right way to describe them, but I'm not sure what else to call them...
Those are very different corners of philosophy. Things can be epistomogically unprovable, but at the same time ethically relevant.

Put another way, your counterargument applies equally to genocide as it does to octopus intelligence. That doesn't mean we should proceed as if genocide is ethically neutral.
Yeah it would be good to include all those dimensions in listings, I agree.
The policy of universities and the federal government is to wait. What for? Undefined. Supposedly, they were going to lift covid restrictions, but then Omicron came. However we know that omicron is very mild and not any more a significant threat than driving a car or living in the U.S. in general. Yet here we are.

The overwhelming majority of people in the U.S. have already had covid, or have been vaccinated, or both. The socioeconomic affects of current restrictions are like a smog of cigarette smoke across the country. It won't kill you as fast as the very few people covid now will, but it will kill you later. We aren't looking at the carcinogenic effects of policies. If we were we would see a skyrocket in homelessness, unemployment, evaporation of jobs, and a market that overall will not take the same risks knowing the government(s) can shut their operations down at any moment.

The policy makers for covid restrictions act like this is all a bandaid that will fall off eventually, but as far as I have seen they lied and the bandaid is actually a whole roll of duct tape.
You implied the price change wasn’t massive, but it was. This is what you said:

> A 52% correction in price would be a dire situation indeed. A 52% correction in multiple feels like a semblance of sanity is returning.
I'm also a native English speaker, and I'm totally with you on both points.
What are the advantages of remote work, for marketing?
The linked article only looks at the time period of the last 50 years. If you believe in big cycles (like covered in Ray Dalio’s “The Changing World Order”), expand that perspective to several hundred years and market returns don’t look quite as guaranteed over a given 20 year period. I’m still formulating my own thesis but it’s a good read if you are into such things.
more than 50%
Twitter is filled with people whose tagline includes "their pronouns and mental illnesses" to paraphrase Mike Solana. Why would one expect the "metaverse" to be any less tribal?
We spent our lives searching for the Creator, and in the end all we found was GitHub Copilot
Of course, although you may be able to go very much faster, you also now took on all this extra responsibility, and so complexity, and so likely bugs.

Chances are the weird corner case where the TCP implementation blows up was seen in a dozen other Linux applications and fixed, but the same case inside your entirely userspace QUIC implementation gets to explode while the boss is doing the live $100M pitch demo. Awkward.

Code that is competing with Linux for performance is likely to be highly concurrent (a big risk factor for bugs) and doing fancy gymnastics with memory (another risk factor) so we're not talking about a landscape where bugs are rare or one where they're very easy to track down.

I believe this sort of thing is one reason Linux is putting more emphasis on safety. As usual for HN this bug already has people saying both "Rust wouldn't catch this" and "actually Rust would catch this", but even if you're quite sure Rust isn't the answer a safer Linux by whatever means makes this argument better for Linux than it is today.
Text messaging on cell phones worked fine until Apple got involved. Now when I send a message to a relative, their response goes to my Macbook.

(I have an Android phone, they have an Apple phone)
Game Engine Programming by Jonathan Blow
Meh. The OP looks only at historical data only over the past 10 years -- all of which occurred during the longest-ever rising (bull) stock market in US history (excluding the temporary shock and recovery at the beginning of the pandemic).

A more useful analysis would look at data during the 2000 to 2002 period, during which the market caps of many prominent, high-quality tech stocks declined by 80% or more. What happened to startup fundraising during that period?

Or it would look at data from the 1973-1982 period, during which many so-called "nifty fifty" tech stocks (think IBM and Xerox in their heyday) declined by large double-digit percentages and did not recover for nine years. What happened to startup fundraising during that period?
I really liked your Zedripper page!
> But it's not exactly the case you could pull this off with, say, Tesla, unless there's some ETF that's 99% TSLA (is there?)

Don't know, doubt it but its a business opportunity. It’s why there are so many ETFs, take your 20 basis points from investors and work on something else.

More likely to find an ETF that hasn't rebalanced and has a large holding of Tesla.
It could use hnrss.org and zapier just pulls in the feed.
I know which one I'd rather debug, but which one can a new student get started with faster? They are unlikely to already have a scheme interpreter on their computer.
> We have become so devoted to frugality and bureaucracy, and are so readily appeased by basic functionality, that we have lost the fortitude to take and demand risks, even if the outcome could be the most beautiful thing we’ve ever seen.

The most notable example of this is that for the entirety of his seven year term, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has declined to stay at the Official Residence of the PM, 24 Sussex Drive, because it's in such poor condition. He has also not moved an inch to make any repairs whatsoever to bring it up to a standard such that the property could be used. Presumably it would be "unseemly" for a PM to spend money for their indirect benefit.

If the property is so bad and undesirable that it should be replaced instead of renovated, man, I can't believe it would be possible to be done. Canadian governments are so miserly I cannot imagine a government that would spend millions on this project even if it was an elegant Canadian designed building Canadians could all be proud of.

So the property just sits there. Incredible Canadian politicized frugality ensures mediocrity.
You don't even have to be zero emissions. You just need net zero. If you're putting carbon into the air, you need to sink an equivalent amount of it. If you use biofuels for instance, so long as you replant/regrow the same biomass as you convert to fuel, you're closing the loop.

Zero emissions technologies are great where they're practical. Aircraft are one of those places where the energy density and overall density of your fuel source is very, very important.
Tautological positions like this are interesting: "this couldn't happen, so the evidence that it might have is clearly fabricated".

I mean even Google HR admits the manager acted inappropriately more than once.

Like you seem to be going from "I find one person quoted in this article unreliable" to "all the allegations from a half dozen different sources are false", which seems odd.
Ask HN: Are there any online services that have helped your kids find friends?
Our 10-year-old son is having a really hard time making friends, which is all the more heartbreaking because prior to the pandemic he was Mr. Social.

He's especially disheartened that his main friend group from school mostly have parents with fringe views we don't share, and he just doesn't enjoy being around them anymore.

We're trying to (cautiously) explore in-person extracurriculars, but I'm wondering if there are any online services that might also be helpful. We've tried penpals, but he's really looking for more realtime interactions. Of course, video chats have their own set of issues, so we'd only want to go that route if there's strict vetting.
I'd argue that if a language needs to be subsidized its going to die off anyway. But whatever money has been spent on dumber things.
I see it more as a 'why not?' kind of issue. Why can't I encrypt my own communications? Why does the government need to see what I talk about and to whom? Criminals aren't going to avoid encryption technology just because the government says so, which means the law only really applies to law abiding citizens. I want the government to explain why they need this power without invoking the criminal scare tactic since we already know it isn't relevant.
Atomic Memory Operations in RISC-V
Write Once, Burn Anywhere
Judges, courts, and basically everyone (including most defendants) would rather have one hearing than 12.
Well see what happens. I’m sure it’ll be fine in the end.
Cheers. Also, don’t eat the yellow snow.
Question: How horribly does the world break if you pipe the output to a file instead of stdout?
Me neither.

This is dire. Even if you're in favor of vaccine "passports", surely it must be recognized that antigen tests are the safest way to reduce spread - variants are easily infecting double jabbed people.

> People will no longer be allowed to show a negative test to enter restaurants, bars, theaters, museums and stadiums or travel on trains — only proof of vaccination will be accepted.

Kinda seems like people globally are aggresively sleepwalking into normalizing the removal of bodily autonomy and free travel, shrieking that it's in the name of science despite ignoring the actual science.