skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a really complicated issue. I've had a doctor friend explain it to me that one way to look at it is ignorance is a disease. The unvaccinated who have Covid now have two diseases they're fighting against. It's an interesting perspective.

Keeping with that perspective, those coming to the hospital with Covid that goes untreated are more likely to die in the next 30 days than those who come in with cancer that goes untreated. That's the calculus being played out. They're hoping to get through these waves and then get back to the patients who weren't facing as immediate a health threat.

What's really bothering my medical friends, and I suspect may be the source of so much burnout, is the prevalence of willful ignorance. They see it as a majority of the unvaccinated are people who should know better - that's what's making this so tough for them. They knew there would be cranks and crackpots who wouldn't get the vaccine because there always are. They weren't expecting it to be this prevalent and they certainly weren't expecting it to be politicized. The whole situation is demoralizing and causing people to reassess their life choices.
Part of the problem is that context is something AI is bad at and instructions are highly context dependent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN2RM-CHkuI
I highly doubt Promise Keepers has ever given any campaign contributions. Are you just making this up?
>> (2) the homeserver has (!) plaintext access to all traffic on it

> hmm, isn't that unavoidable?

Not only is it avoidable, it’s not actually true AFAIU. It’s unfortunate (if historically justifiable) that Matrix has a non-E2EE mode, but the thing it brands as E2EE is actually deserving of the name, with messages accessible to clients only and the associated hurdles (you literally can’t get access to message history in encrypted chats from a new client on the same account unless you get one of your old clients to cross-sign, even if the homeserver will help mediate the prompt).

Matrix is not free of problems, but it does have federated, multi-party, multi-device, end-to-end encrypted chats with persistent history and forward secrecy. The underlying crypto goes by Megolm[1]. It’s slightly weaker[2] (in particular regarding backward secrecy) than the strictly two-party thing Signal does (however they brand it these days), but nowhere near the point of allowing the homeserver to eavesdrop.

[1] https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2019/03/10/a-look-at-matrix-orgs-...

[2] https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm/blob/master/docs/me...
It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes are freaking expensive.
It's significantly below freezing in much of the northern U.S. and virtually all population centers of Canada.
My impression is that automatic exposure has also gotten a lot better, although it's been a long time since I've done film. Cameras have also gotten a lot better at shooting in low light.
they are probably not making any $ with this or else you would see the same sophistication that goes into this spam as you see with YouTube crypto spam.

These guys are not on their A game here.
Thanks for the clear explanation. I'm less clear on what particle spin is though.
One past thread:

How I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229412 - April 2017 (133 comments)
They dont also fall under the DOD? (I am not a US citizen, genuine question)

Also want to echo sentiments about roaming profiles and how annoying they can be.
I remember a college lecture on this topic and the professor mentioned that Catholic clergy always retained knowledge of reading and writing, but there was 1 or 2 generations in France where the aristocracy couldn't read. I think Charlemagne famously learned to read as an adult. And of course slaves/peasants/serfs never really gained the ability to read until public education came around much later.
Twitter's biggest external spam problems are:

• abuse of @-replies

• unsolicitied DMs

…which both grow with account size (& other forms of prominence, & certain topic-areas), so your anecdotal testimony that it's not in your feed doesn't do much to qualify or refute the magnitudes of others' problems.

Twitter's biggest internal spam problems are:

• Twitter's ads are repetitive, poorly-targeted crap

• Twitter does not provide reliable ways to disable their unwanted inserts – quickly ignoring any number of 'see less often' choices, and doing things like randomly reverting people from their chosen 'latest' to Twitter's algorithmic 'home' feed.

As fair definitions of 'spam' or even more generally 'harassment' include "continued unwanted interactions against expressed preferences", this means Twitter Inc is the biggest spammer/harasser on its own platform.
Multiverse (YC W20) Is Hiring an Eng Manager to Build the Future of Tabletop RPGs
software is a gigantic barrier even when you put hardware next to it. maybe not for a highly sophisticated hardware like video cards, but generally, yes.
Ask HN: New open source libraries for accounting?
I am interested in learning about new libearies relevant for accounting, preferably in Java
I'm not sure if there is any historical evidence backing that up (IE, Tim Berners-Lee used Finger protocol as an inspiration. A lot of the UNIX protocols of the time were like that (NNTP in particular), simple call/response with textual commands and arguments.
The D-Health Trial: a RCT of the effect of Vitamin D on mortality
By the evidence, we could reasonably deduce that people who make decisions in rich countries don't give a crap about poor peoples' parasite infections or anything else, but would anyway like them to please limit breeding of new virus variants that might get back to infect rich people.

Thus, they subsidize expensive vaccines, but not cheap vermicides. But not really even enough of the vaccines. As it becomes clear that herd immunity is impossible (because of animal reservoirs, and because they provide too little vaccine anyway) I expect vaccine help to trail off.

Meanwhile, rich countries' mortality from complications of sugar overdosing absolutely dwarfs COVID-19's, but nothing can be done about that without affecting profits.
The battle for the world’s most powerful cyberweapon
This is what happens when you outsource moderation to algos and temp workers. Try spamming HN or Reddit with crypto giveaway scams (or any other scam) and see how long you last. (Hint: not long). Algos help , but invariably smart spammers will evade them, hence the needs for humans. Twitter does not lose much business to spam. All they need is to keep most of it under check.
Interesting, however statistical significance seems borderline at best
>It encourages its members to disobey orders which they believe would violate the U.S. Constitution.

Couldn't that also be stated as "It encourages its members to obey the law"?
Arizona can a accept taxes in sheep if they want. What they cannot do is require their citizens to accept sheep when they want to be paid in USD. Same deal with Bitcoin.
ive been pondering some of these crazy bills around crypto or the culture war at the state level and ive come to a single generous conclusion...

Under capitalisms fourth epoch, neoliberalism, there simply isnt much left for the state to really do. Its completely divorced by monetary policy save for ardent enforcement of austerity or the class structure through physical means, and its only ever called upon each decade to bless the rescue of lumbering appendages such as trade and banking when they fail. The state runs the military but has no real say in foreign trade, save when its called upon to enact the will of its true constituency (the capital class) in affecting the firm will of globalization in its varied permutations. the state runs education only in that it may abdicate itself from the role through privatization, and the state has a say in healthcare only in that its made compulsory its purchase through law. its regulatory agency has largely been diluted to a brisk rubber stamp in all but the most arcane function.

So left to their own devices, states must remain relevant in that they exude autonomy and purpose, lest their citizens grow restless and apathetic to the call of democracy twice or thrice a year. a law here, an edict there, some popcorn and theatricality always help...even if its ultimately at the expense of the tax payer through lawsuits and defeat, it at least keeps them interested and entertained. it acts as a bundle of shiny car keys to a child, lest apathy at the polls completely delegitimize the state as an organism.
In practice, one does not write a single line of code without feeling that it is somehow getting you closer to the desired outcome. If you have the ability to anticipate that it will not contribute to that goal, or that it will create problems on the way, or that there is a better way, even before you have written and tested it, then it would be counterproductive not to do so.
Does anyone know why the sum doesn't add up to 100% in that chart?
Every time Twitter makes a move people either cry censorship or they cry that deleting the spam helps "one side".
Sounds like you need a new CTO.
Fixing the Linux Kernel Vulnerability Cve-2022-0185
Maybe if they didn't want to get paid.

(And that could actually happen. Say the state decides that they don't want to do X, but state or federal law says they have to. Well, fine, but there's a fee for X. The state just requires that you have to pay it in gold or silver.)
Late 80s and my junior high school computerized attendance reporting (and some grades) through shared documents on a 'teacher' Appletalk share I had access to (because I set it up!) Well now... ;) Honestly though I never did any of that sort of thing for profit, I managed to satisfy my needs selling disks with games on them and then turning a blind eye when people were playing them during class hours (I was basically used as a free labour resource by the school so I don't feel bad about that in the slightest.) Ah, the things we did when we were teenagers...
Yes most studies on micronutrient supplementation are badly flawed in that way. They typically give a supplement to the study group and a placebo to the control group, but since vitamins also come from other sources the supplements are only loosely correlated with actual levels.

A better approach is to pick at least two different target levels for separate study groups. Then use periodic blood tests to precisely titrate those levels using varying amounts of supplements as needed. If the results show a clear relationship between the different blood levels and the study goal then it's likely a real causal relationship exists.
Please don't start nationalistic flamewars on HN. They're tedious, repetitive, and nasty—just what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I would argue to you don't even need to put that much effort into learning bash scripting, you can totally get away with knowing systemd, journalctl, nginx, apt, ssh and docker and how to run them through bash.

Everything else is per-software files configuration and running commands from the software setup documentation.

Plus, I would run a server with a DE simply because I want to be able to look into databases with a GUI and do config files editing with a nice text editor.
I feel for this person, but there's a line in here I found revealing:

> Unfortunately, Dgraph was always undervalued by investors.

This feels a bit like blaming the investors for why the company failed. To put it bluntly, there's a point at which you raise capital and build on vision. Your early investors and users are taking a giant leap that a. you can execute on the vision and b. customers will one day want to pay you for that vision.

Then there's point at which the rubber hits the road, and either customers pay you money for the thing you built or they don't. If they don't, you need a really convincing story to convince your investors they shouldn't cut their losses. It's a shame the company failed, it seems like they were working on some cool technology. But based on this post it sounds like no one wanted to pay for whatever it was they built.
Do you just swallow a pill?
Apple's New Universal Control Feature for Macs Feels Like Magic
This is a windows issue. I have had a lot of public sector clients, and rules have prevented me from doing a forensic analysis on the machines they provision, either MSFT's products are so egregious and unusable that we just pretend to use them, or the more plausible idea that corporate IT groups are using enterprise laptop fleets to run bitcoin mining.
This could be the case, but I suspect if you tweeted “how to reset my chase bank account password” you might get the same level of spam. I don’t think it’s only crypto, just amplified in crypto.
> in the future, 100% of the code that you write will be business logic

The present reality of Lambda is quite different though. Even though the code of the function itself is more or less "business logic" (although this is a really meaningless term when we're talking about known programming languages and computers), the scaffolding around it with Terraform/CloudFormation/Serverless/etc. is substantial, riddled with quirks and is really time-consuming to figure out and update. I don't think I spend less time on this accidental complexity now when we have most of our logic in Lambda, compared to the times when we were just running Flask apps in a VM.

This is not to mention how hard one has to fight to overcome the limitations of the runtime, e.g. adding some "warmers" scripts to reduce cold-start latency (no, provisioned concurrency doesn't help and is ridiculously expensive). And then comes the bill after you accidentally created invocation loop between two functions.
But then they wouldn't be able to install the corporate spyware that keeps the evil hackers away.
I think you're confused.

This part of the Constitution limits what states can do. It doesn't limit what the U.S. Congress can do, and the U.S. Congress has passed a law that makes U.S. coins and currency legal tender at what is currently 31 U.S. Code § 5103.

Federal law takes precedence over state law, and therefore it is the U.S. government that has decided, on Arizona's behalf, what constitutes legal tender.

The same section forbids states from making treaties with foreign powers; something that the U.S. government does all the time.
You don't have to sell me goods and services for cash. However, you must accept USD if I owe you money.
Because at least for Vitamin D in general, there are a bunch of studies, and overall it looks like it probably doesn't work[0].

I'd recommend taking it anyway, but there are more than two studies and the results are not solidly on the side of "it works".

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/covidvitamin-d-much-mo...
Aha, didn't know you guys have it so rough up there.
Here's one way they do it that isn't documented or widely known: an account can get "searchbanned". While your account is searchbanned, your new tweets can't show up in other people's search results unless they follow you. There is no indication when you've been seachbanned or when the ban is lifted, and no documentation on its existence or how to get un-searchbanned. We know because we gather community input on a specific hashtag, and have gotten complaints that specific people's contributions weren't included, because they didn't show up in the search.

Interestingly, we had one person's account whose search results still showed searchbanned tweets. They would not show for that person if they logged out. We also could not find out why that person's account in particular could see them.
minikube is good where you have to have a VM, which is development on Windows and OS X. Linux containers need Linux, much to the dismay of laptop buyers I guess.

I personally don't bother. I use Windows but just have a pet Linux VM where I actually do work, and then use kind (with podman; Docker seems to be turning the screws and I'm getting out ahead of that).
Oh, I have no doubt that it's easier to teach in general, because you don't need to actually shape the way the students think.
> Twitter sells eyeballs. Do they pay me to visit their site? To tweet?

No, they provide you with a service free of charge with the open knowledge that they pay for it by selling your attention.

This is Quid pro quo.
The main priority of an IT department is security.

The most secure system is one that isn't being used.

Therefore, the main priority of an IT department is to make the systems as difficult or unpleasant to use as possible.
Nitpick - where are you seeing those 300K offers? Is that beyond senior dev, because all I see is 100-150K for roles in the Valley (via linkedin and all the salary comparison sites).
Maybe 3 at the most. A few years back, I disconnected from all but a small handful that I know personally.
Arguably, one might wish to create a audible, non-linguistic shorthand for positional control, that would allow for higher efficiency when, say, retouching an image within Photoshop, but without the use of hands.
The problem is you pay the same price if you pay in cash
They'll still take the username out from underneath of you if they so choose. It's been done before.

one example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/lbv0eo/twitter_use...
less oven space, need to replace entire stove, made in a factory and not at home.

It is cleaner perhaps and more purpose-built. But I would not call that practical.
I once really desperately needed a Python tool. Wasted an hour and getting more and more enraged trying to install it, overwriting hell-knows-what and ruining god-knows-how-many other programs in the process. Eventually it did occur to me to just use Docker and that did it. <facepalm>

Every time I am forced to do something with Python I end up hating it. It seems those who write it are just not interested in anyone who doesn't have a complete dev environment setup for it. :(
Yep, thanks -- got directed to this thread. Our spam team was already on it. It is spam, not malware. No one is infected with anything. I think things are already improving and they'll keep debugging it.
Seems about right. I've done engagements will multiple financial clients and they seem to make it their job to make every engineer as unproductive as possible.
It simply requires more self-reliant men and women to be bold with the truth as opposed to rationalizing some future comfortable well-being which is being jeopardized. If anything, being outwardly self-righteous filters out those who have secrets to hide.-Joseph Ariel Hazani
There are many reasons why it's not that simple.

1. We need to dress up to go outside, exposing only minimal amounts of skin.

2. People of color produce less vitamin D (most likely due to skin pigmentation).

3. Pollution and shadows significantly reduce UV light within cities.
From the article: “The balance is made up by the pretty-happies at around 57 percent, who I omitted from the chart because their numbers didn’t change from 2018 to 2021.”
There is a third choice. "Pretty happy". It's then middle and left out because it's considered the "neutral" answer
Software like VS Code lives in cycles. It's popular now but you will see it being less popular every year. People will notice how it grows slower, buggier, and probably some unpopular decisions by Microsoft will annoy users. This is the default path for big software.

Vim will always be there and because it's not backed by big tech, it will continue to be modular, fast and modern.

Much like Linux, learning it means you are free, powerful and you will not get affected by the whims of big tech. This is very valuable.

Every year you use free software, you invest time in skills that won't go away and will support you for life.
If Russians can do it, so can you!

Don't be a small cat!
PR/astroturfing. It's a reference to Paul Graham's essay "The Submarine: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I live very close, I had no idea these had disappeared and reappeared, they’re really part of the town now. Kind of like punting in oxford.

One thing that’s not mentioned here is that the river is really shallow (like 1 foot deep in many places). So you often have to walk the boat. And the boats have to go below bridges that are also really low, so whoever is in the boat needs to completely lie down to go under the bridges. It is somewhat scary.
Powerful:

> If we know that the roots of violence are fertilized by childhood abuse, can we make a long-term commitment to reduce violence by focusing on our children rather than our criminals?
Short throw from that to this classic:

> <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

http://www.bash.org/?5273
> That's the main reason we are using present tense in commit messages, not past tense.

As a linguistic note, commit messages (at least, English commit messages) almost always use an infinitive verb and therefore may be considered to have no tense at all, though to argue that infinitives have no tense you do need to draw a distinction between tense and aspect.
Indeed, I had no problems with vitamin D levels when living in Georgia (the state), especially since I regularly ran or otherwise exercised outdoors after work and most weekends year round (even when it got cold, it didn't get that cold, and there was no ice to speak of south of Atlanta). But during my first winter in Colorado, hah! Good luck getting sunlight during the week when the sun sets by 4:40pm and the sidewalks and trails you run on are covered with ice even if you do get outside before then.
> The friendlier one eventually described how much it had cost to investigate another recent case where a person was reported to have pulled down an American flag and stepped on it. Only after the investigation was well under way did they learn that the perpetrator of this nefarious act was only four years old.

I never cease to be amused and amazed by the incredible lack of imagination discernment law enforcement personnel display at all levels. I'm sure some smart people work at the three letter agencies, but there sure is a range!

To me, I take it as a lesson about the dangers of dogmatic following of rules and how such a system will inevitably provoke people into work that have less than zero desired value. Obviously, as 1984 and many other works remind us, the value is in reinforcing the power of the system - but the official line of the system is to say that's not the case.

The reason government agencies are so fond of crushing people who have the bad luck to become centered in their gaze is that they know or suspect they are not clever enough to match wits with a below-average four year old and they would never want that possible fact to become public knowledge.
Alternatively, if cynical right wing partisans and right wing media apparatus had not lached on to ivermectin, it is possible that it would be frequently used as part of treatment regimens, effective or not.
The graph makes it rather look like as if the decline in happiness began half a decade ago. The pandemic certainly didn‘t help but I would guess it all started with the polarization during the Trump administration.
Racks are not that expensive, and are a very good way to keep things connected, powered, accessible and tidy.

Heaps of Pis in rafters will quickly turn into a cable spaghetti hell tied into ugly knots.
I wasn't able to read the whole article since I'm not subscribed, but the answer is in the text that was included to me.

It's because "pretty happy" is the 3rd answer to the question and that number has stayed the same.
Stephen Wolfram was right all along
Are you a pirate? – Michael Arrington
Element on Android still doesn't support searching in encrypted rooms. The UX is years behind Signal and I'm not sure if they're catching up.
Yes, you're right. It slows the rate of heat transfer.