skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But, that was before covid. People will be on a ventilator, struggling to breathe, literally dying, and still claim that covid is all a big hoax."

I don't think most people, especially those who are vaccine skeptical, think COVID is a hoax. I think you see people with different opinions on the response to COVID - especially when you see overt gaslighting for anything that goes against the blatantly obvious narrative.

Same with climate change - the more screeching about "the science is settled" the more people will dig their heals in and reject such a narrative. I have at least one copy of Newsweek from the 80's with a picture of the frozen earth on the cover and in the 90's climate alarmists were agressivly warning by the 2000's all the costal cities were going to be under water (and yet all the politicians and powerful people [such as the Obama's] are still buying property in Marthas Vineyard - barely above sea level).

Ever hear the story of Peter and the Wolf?

I dunno - may the problem isn't entirely with everyone else? Maybe the things you are so confident in aren't as black and white as you obviously assume?

Nah - it's easier to just ascribe it as the other guy being wrong. It couldn't possibly be me.
Just from a week ago on HN:

I'm making a Typescript type-checker in Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30033119
It's actually amazing how Nintendo's "Focus on 1P titles and make HW that is appealing to the masses" used to be its greatest disadvantage and is now probably the only reason for their existence.

Kind of Japan's Apple in some ways (with SEGA unfortunately being Japan's NeXT).
Could a 30 year old manage a 60 year old? Certainly a 35 year old could manage a 57 year old?
> What you are describing is guilt by association with China. It is not illegal to work to promote scientific collaboration with China

Perhaps it should be.
I have met several engineers that were very much senior to their managers but did not want to make the shift from IC to management.
You make excellent points and we completely agree. I'm in a huge slump for exactly this. I've spent the last three years building an extremely useful proof of concept for environmental monitoring and being rewarded for it is literally an active fight.

However, this is primarily tied to the incentives in place for judging science. Extremely important work often has no value in the current structure, due to all of the publish-or-perish and University hierarchies that have been written about ad-nauseum but that have yet to significantly change. I have nothing meaningful to add to that conversation in fact. We know what the problems are. We just don't fix them.
Wish my phone could report a bad battery. I installed Accubattery which reported 68% of designed capacity. I went to one of the ubiquitious mobile stores in Indian cities and got a new battery and charging port. The guy said battery doesnt look bulged and port doesnt look work either, so if I still have issues, he will replace a board. He is right, and I have to do that shortly.
I've known people who submitted working patches to the Linux kernel at 13, which I'd say is a reasonable start for "doing this". A 30 year old managing a 43 year old would not be strange at all.
Sometimes you have to dive into a problem, experiment, try things out.

There is such a thing as premature collaboration.

If you want to be truly great at something, you need to practice it consistently by yourself.
Once the lethality data started to accumulate, I had the same thought. Even though it's still definitely not something you want to get, especially if you have comorbidities.

It's insane to think about, but as our biological engineering skills mature, it's worth having a discussion about whether (1) mass vaccination + (2) release of highly-contagious, low-lethality strain should be in the pandemic playbook.

There are no sure things in biology, but a hypothetical reality where Delta (or god forbid something like MERS-CoV) is circulating with Omicron-rates of transmissibility... start to beg questions about what the least bad approach is.
Whether this pans out into an approved vaccine or not, I'm terribly curious about the results of the study comparing Omicron booster versus existing booster.

Apparently the existing booster shot elicited a more diverse set of antibodies compared to the ones from just a two shot regimen. Which is kinda interesting. I forget what it's called, but there's this phenomenon in immunology where the immune system can get "stuck" with whatever initial antibodies it comes up with and doesn't adapt well. Seems that wasn't the case with the COVID boosters, thankfully. And that explains why the boosters have been so dramatically more effective against Omicron (80% versus <40% for those with just two shots, natural immunity, etc; IIRC).

But would an Omicron booster have elicited an even "better" set of antibodies? Would we get back to 90% protection like the good ole days?

And of course the big question; is an Omicron booster going to provide better forward protection?

The results of this study are going to be deliciously intriguing.
Anecdote, but this was the approximate case on the team I worked on at Google (Manager in his mid 30s, team mostly in their 20s with one in his 50s). It happens. Actually, it was nice to see, as some evidence of non-ageism.

I hope to no longer need to work by the time I'm 50, but nobody knows what the future will bring, so I'd certainly like to have the option just in case!
Considering how blatantly Android is already violating antitrust statues (the Android MADA mentioned above which governs the relationship between Google and OEMs is... flagrantly illegal, and has only gotten away with it by being kept very secret), I am quite doubtful that the government will yet do anything any sooner because Google chooses to support users better.

It would not be leveraging for the Pixel business either, it would leveraging Android for Android as a whole: Presumably Google could drop support for hardware that does not provide five years of support from the Android codebase. It would then be on Qualcomm to either meet or fail to meet that requirement, and set their license pricing accordingly.

Having a support lifecycle of at least five years is... bare minimum for the industry. Nobody could argue that it is an antitrust issue to require it.
This is a very important point. Xiaomi is selling premium phones with unreal amount of ads (like im their Calculator app...), but these phones have amazing support from the communities, both from Lineage and upcoming alternatives like Ubuntu Touch. So for cost-conscious, privacy-oriented people, Xiaomi is a good option. And so are the Pixels, because they also recieve similar community support, and unlocking the bootloader is a single command.

In the end of the day, every company have their own incentives (Google, Xiaomi or Apple), but the users still have power over Android, while that is so not the case for Apple and iOS.

Edit: fixed typo
Oxytocin and autism has been studied for some time, and the use of nasal oxytocin as treatment for autism has also been studied. Better if we looked at the literature than get excited by a random reddit post reposted on twitter.

e.g. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C47&q=oxy...
I disagree. Yes, if you have a static webpage and all you need to do is scroll, then you can easily get 60 fps, notably because the scrolling is handled natively by the browser and basically is just a translation on the GPU. If the web app accepts user input, especially touch with dragging, then the page will not feel native with the current batch of browsers for the reasons I mentioned above.
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A lot. Technical managers need not be experienced technical talents who have made a potentially incompatible shift to management.
In college we were tasked with designing a CPU. Mine was a stack oriented (started register based and retained the registers but most ops were on the stack) that used a very large microcode word, one per clock cycle of the instruction being executed. In the end, I was saving bits from the control word and doing "ready" signals between the blocks so that the microcode didn't need to drive everything. In theory, it could do more than one thing in a clock cycle if the stars aligned just right and there would be no dependencies. No instruction used the feature in the end, because the deadline was too close.

Wish I had the time to implement it. OTOH, I'm glad I never had to debug all the analog glitches and timing bugs that design certainly would show when it colided with reality
I don’t think that is fully confirmed as so many people who are getting it are double or triple vaccinated already.

(I currently have Covid, probably Omicron, triple vaxed, and would describe it as a rotten cold)
You can purchase <$100 smartphones at any Walmart, Target, Kroger, Dollar General, cell phone shop, online, and so on. +$100 smartphones are rarely a need. They are mostly a want.

Edit: And least we forget...

https://www.softstech.net/list-of-best-custom-roms-for-googl...
Further than they siloed it before, yes. In comparison to the competition (which sadly withdrew for other reasons), they are extremely far behind: Windows ME worked fine with hardware and drivers from Windows 95. But the whole problem is the consequence of Linux not having a stable driver interface.
People have been sick of slow programs and slow computers since literally forever. I think you live in a bubble or are complacent.

No one I know has anything good to say about microsoft teams, for instance. And that's just one of the recent "dekstop apps" which are actually framed browsers.
In fairness to all of us humans, no. We do not blindly trust our brains. This explicitly how science came about, and this is also how entire branches of philosophy came about.
It sounds like China's version is closer to the novel. Here's Wikipedia summary of how 'Fight Club' the book ended:

"With Tyler gone, the narrator waits for the bomb to explode and kill him. The bomb malfunctions because Tyler mixed paraffin into the explosives. Still alive and holding Tyler's gun, the narrator makes the first decision that is truly his own: he puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself. Some time later, he awakens in a mental hospital, believing he is in Heaven, and imagines an argument with God over human nature. The book ends with the narrator being approached by hospital employees who reveal themselves to be Project members. They tell him their plans still continue, and that they are expecting Tyler to come back.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(novel)
What's wrong with a $50 smartphone?
Google 'blueline' (the codename for Pixel 3) shows "partial" mainline kernel support, and work in progress for more - https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_3(google-blu... So there is some hope that this might become at least a semi-usable device with reasonably trusted, non-flaky sources. Android app support can then be provided on top of the mainline kernel as a custom "container" via Anbox/Waydroid.
I feel like we are going to have to get a yearly booster and they will be guessing the strains every year just like the flu.

Note: 100% a gut feeling
I think Omicron is almost universally mild for those who have had the existing vaccines. And as most people have (here in the UK anyway), I can understand why people are seeing it as mild.
> Progressives tend to be very dismissive of the Chesterton's Fence analogy

Is this true? Who is leading the charge to distrust longstanding institutions such as universities… or the CDC? Who is trying to hold nature in balance? Even the right to terminate a pregnancy can be seen as a Chesterson’s fence that is looking to be torn down.

The former leader of the “conservative” party was infamous for steamrolling norms.

I’m not a progressive personally, but I think this is an unfair description of them. Too broad a brush.
If you didn't already know, the standard OTP schemes used in many systems have desktop and hardware security token implementations. Doesn't help with systems that use non-standard schemes unfortunately.
A formal specification would be basically useless, if nothing guarantees that the reference implementation actually follows it. Sharing & contributing to the same test suite is a much more practical approach.
I am saying exactly that free (as in speech) software is not free (as in beer), and the $800 never went to the support of a FOSS alternative. If your quip was an attempt at humor, it was bad. If it was an attempt at dismissing free/libre software, it was even worse.
My first job out of university, I was promoted to manager in my mid 20s. One of the senior engineers reporting to me had kids older than me.

Now, they were PAID a lot more than me ...

The first thing they taught me was that it wasn't my job to do the work, because it didn't matter how smart I was, I didn't have almost 30 years experience.
D's original symbol table system was completely consistent, extensible, and orthogonal. I explained it till I was blue in the face, and exactly zero people understood it. D now has a significantly more complex one.
In the U.S. at least:

> There are two states and 618 counties that require circuit breakers (i.e. short-term mitigation measures needed to preserve hospital functioning) at this point because their hospitals are at or above 100% capacity (assuming that the number of staffed beds has not increased in the past week). Medical military personnel have already been dispatched to a number of hospitals across the nation. Nebraska also joined a short list of states that have enacted its Crisis Standards of Care plan. But community-wide efforts to reduce spread desperately need to be taken, too. Fourteen additional states are at high risk of exceeding 100% hospital capacity in the next 1-10 days.

Source: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/state-of-affa...
Just go on to reddit, and you'll find lots of people defending China against what they think is a smear campaign. Lots of these people appear to be young westerners who have bought into China's propaganda.
My view of techbros comes more from reading HN. It's got less to do with villainy, but more to do with childishness.

I see, every day on HN, a ton of misogyny, racism, and entitlement. It's often wrapped up in a shallow "greed is good" worldview but really just "I've got mine and if you don't have yours, that's because you're not smart like me."

I see the villainy of Silicon Valley as that writ very large. But for me, the canonical techbro isn't Mark Zuckerberg, but the armies of HN commenters who often deride him while being just as myopic, narrow-minded, and selfish.

I used to think of myself as a techie, if not a techbro. I imagined moving to Silicon Valley at one point, but am horrified now. Not because of the corporations, which are their own kind of problem, but because of the people who should be my peers.

I know it's partly a problem of perception -- the most obnoxious people speak loudest, and on top of that I pay the most attention to them. The majority of people are probably not as bad as the image I've formed. But the absolute number of such people is depressingly large, and I'm not forming that perception secondhand. I'm talking about people who come here every day to tell me about it.

I don't know how the rest of the world perceives it. They probably do pay too much attention to the evil CEOs, and probably view the worker drones as tiny clones of him. But to me they seem even worse.
UK Gov announces new cyber strategy to protect public sector
Nowhere do you quote them making any such outlandish claim.

All this says is that it's effective.
That's fun! I made up a word and sent the link to my brother. He got it right on the first guess! Had the biggest laugh in a long time.

Perhaps you could add a "surprise" flag when creating a game that just hides the info panel so that the guessers don't know it was you who picked the word.
Solid advice. Everything is such a difficult balancing act
when you work with other engineers. I say this because at the other end of the spectrum its really easy to land yourself and those around you in needless drama by asking too publicly for feedback on ideas. Hey everyone, just wondering what our thoughts as a team are on auto formatting the codebase / switching tabs to spaces / repainting the bike shed?

Some wise advice I once got from an engineer who has gone on to be a stellar engineering leader: utilise the power of managers. Good managers are drama fire breaks. They can tell you — without raising the emotional stakes with anyone else — why a particular bit of tech debt exists, whether anyone on their team is going to be amenable to you fiddling with it, and who to work with directly on anything likely to cause drama would it have been more widely shared.

Managers aren’t immune to drama but the good ones can help keep it minimised.
Two shots reduces chances of hospitalization/death by about 90%. Two shots and a booster by like 98%. Sorry you got the sniffles though.
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You're right, the relative expense to the revenue isn't a good argument when you're framing it in the light of efficient business practices.

On the other hand if you consider the real intention of illuminating Google's cashflow it's pretty damning. Do you pay some relative pittance to keep devices supported, adding value to customers, reducing waste, increasing convenience? 'Cause this is a moral argument, not a financial one, and if you're fleecing the public at large (in myriad ways) it's more a question of the lord giving alms to his subject than it is paying $50 for a piece of gum.

Should Lord Google be a beneficent ruler, or a shitpile?
Really? I mean, I've seen it over ten years of usage, and it's never been any other way, so that sounds like a deliberate decision. At the very least, not using internal storage -- when RAM is needed for something else -- is a decision.
> Without a class or some system that keeps some bookkeeping data around with methods, every function has to have that bookkeeping state passed in as a handle, and all of a sudden all functions need to know something about how setup works, as opposed to what it does.

Classes make so much sense for me in this space, that I can hardly see why people would defend not using them.

Additional to your points, having things in classes with clear interfaces makes it possible to easily integrate new underlying functionality without changing the contract. For example you only store things on S3, have a nice class with store methods and so on. You can just add another different storage backend. How would you do that using functions only? If they also need to take care of setup? A nightmare.
I was unfortunately reminded this when swapping out game cartridges on a flight once. I stuck one in my mouth a bit to hold it while I messed with the carrying case and other cartridge and had the awful bitter taste for the rest of the flight.
are we pretending that they didn't say that exclusively in hopes the deal would go through?

They will turn around that statement on a dime and not a single investor will blink with "...but you said to the regulators...". No risk in making such a silly statement.

They probably will get a change of leadership though. Often they chose the best-man-for-the-merger, and when it doesn't work out, they then actually search for the best-person-for-the-job.
From what little we know of recent designs (the best public documentation being the fantastic work to reverse engineer AMD K8 and K10 microcode here https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/Microcode ), I'd describe x86 microcode as particularly wide vertical microcode, 64 bit ops in the case of k8/k10.

The bit width is more a heuristic. With horizontal microcode you can look at each group of bits and it's clear 'these three bits are the selection input to this mux', 'this bit is an enable for the buffer linking these two buses', etc. Vertical microcode in contrast is further decoded with bit fields having different meanings based on opcode style fields. RISC in a lot of ways was the realization 'hey, we can assume with this new arch that there's an i-cache, so why have microcode at all, but instead load what was vertical microcode from RAM dynamically and execute it directly'.

Pretty universally, OoO superscalar cores will use vertical microcode (or vertical microcode looking micro-ops even if they don't originate from microcode) because that's the right abstraction you want at the most expensive part of the design: the tracking of in flight and undispatched operations in the reorder buffer, and how the results route in the bypass network. Any additional wodtch there really starts to hit your power budget, and it's the wrong level for horizontal microcode because the execution units will make different choices on even how many control signals they want.
But why would that even need targeted advertising? There's literally nothing that stops publishers, media outlets, magazines/journals, etc. from charging per article right now.
Unprecedented model of protein behavior linked to cancer-causing mutations
Product Requirements Document ... a full specification of everything the software needs to do.

Sometimes VERY detailed, sometimes not so much.
ahem, this is the main reason i ditch android for iphone a few years ago... Apple devices keep on running years after they supossed to

is design flaw from the industry, top brands should do better
Let me start by saying thank you so much for the thoughtful reply. I started to apply for a few SWE jobs and will make sure to try to be as socially present as I can be. I will also look into the other suggestions you made and see if I can find cool openings that would be able to utilize my math background.

Sorry for the late reply I had not to pleasent covid-19.
> This reminds me of when people try to make a new Ruby implementation. They get the basics down and think "this isn't so bad! I can do this!". Fast forward a few months and they're stuck on some nasty little edge case around eval and method_missing that they need to run Rails. Or some weird aspect of C extensions.

I think that's exactly why the author wrote this:

> Eventually, I realized that rewriting a massive project such as tsc would be extremely difficult to continue. But the performance gains were exciting. This led me to try another route: porting instead of a complete rewrite. So, I started looking at the TypeScript source code.

It will require ongoing work to keep up with changes to upstream, but by matching upstream's structure as closely as possible (given the language difference), the path to supporting these nasty little edge cases should be relatively clear.
Is there basically any guarantee that if I use IPFS, my computer wont be used to store and distribute CSAM?