skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meta discussion about abstaining from the poll:

I just loaded this submission because I am very interested in the results. I have not interviewed in ages, and I want to know what the trend is, but I do not have a meaningful opinion. I have to make a vote one way or another in order to see the results though.

This means I will most likely vote “depends” and not explain it in order to see the results as they develop. I do not want to do this.

Adding an option to abstain would help a lot here, and I suspect this applies to many if not most polls on HN. The number of abstentions should of course appear in the results.
“those who are supposedly in charge are slaves to a self perpetuating emergent behavior”

That describes most of society and for sure a lot of companies. A lot of people realize that something is not right but they still stay confined within that framework.
No there should be no place for bad opinions, otherwise people can LARP their favourite dystopian fiction.
I don’t disagree that Clinton is as establishment as it gets and there were a lot of reasons to not want her in office.

I’m just triggered by the false equivalency, because unlikeable elite as she may be, her politics are more like treatable cancer for democracy whereas Trumps is like acute lead poisoning.

The reason I mentioned the republican governors wasn’t to suggest you were a member, rather to suggest that if we did think those states performed election fraud then we’d expect it to be in favour of the Republican Party, right?

Regardless of all that I hope you have a great weekend :)
Welcome to HN in [current year]. You can write any nonsense you want and it’s perfectly fine as long as it goes along with the current zeitgeist of the userbase.

I know plenty of Uber drivers who wear a mask alone while on then way to pickup for conscience, as getting reported for not having it can get you kicked off, but yes surely those people are the authoritarians.
Certainly that's incorrect, actual logic is used throughout virtually all sciences to deduce conclusions using methods of proof. The reason we're able to deduce many core truths of reality is by relying on both observation and logic to guide us to truth.

But, to engage with your implied argument in good faith: Do irrational people deserve to have all their money taken from them?
I'm exaggerating but Playwright vs Puppeteer is a bit like comparing Puppeteer with Selenium
> Orwellian oppression is very visible

1984 makes a fairly strong point that this is not true.

The proles do not conceive of the fact that they are oppressed. Only the outer party can even think this, and at best its a muted response. Newspeak is about making it impossible to see or conceptualize oppression or injustice.
No, spending more than you earn like there is no tomorrow for 20 years has caused inflation
The expansion of NATO came first in 97- at a point when Russia was militarily at its weakest, and a drunk American puppet was in charge.

Crimea would likely still belong to Ukraine if NATO hadnt done that - eastern europe being a buffer being the presumption built into the negotiations. There was some trust before. There is none now.

As it was, the pushback on NATO against the vulnerable, much invaded western border once Russia recovered economic and military strength was inevitable.

As inevitable as the NATO invasion and occupation of Afghanistan when in 2001 the Taliban dared to request evidence and a trial while Americans bayed for blood.
It doesn't, but your analogy of pretending you were talking to a schoolchild about 2 + 2 has nothing to do with the real world either, so I thought I'd respond in a whimsical way.
> My daughter is in pre-med. Apparently people are dropping out like flies and not just because of the course load. They're watching how medical professionals are being treated and saying screw it!

And who can blame them at this point? If anything we need more doctors/nurses/healthcare workers, but now we're going to be moving in the wrong direction for many years.
It's too easy to cheat at Wordle, even if you don't know what html/javascript is. Just open a new browser, solve it there, and enter the solution in your main browser.

In the age of intrusive anti-cheat software and byzantine security measures, the fact that Wordle doesn't attempt to prevent cheating is something I find weirdly charming.
We can talk about the utility of a tool and decide whether it should exist or not, or we can just let people use the tools that work for them and not use them if they don't work for us. I'd prefer the latter. If it sucks so bad then people won't use it. If it sucks at it's stated purpose but is good for something else, people can use it for that instead. If people are using it for something then it's good for something and not really my business if they use it or not.

The philosophy behind "it" is a pretty complex thing. You can design a currency using the tools used to make bitcoin and have any sort of economic philosophy as your guide. It isn't limited to Austrian economics. You can have a linear, predictable supply increase, a finite supply, a logarithmic debasement rate (percentage of supply increase rate), a complex algorithm to determine it, a democratic process, or even just some guy calling the shots if you want. It's a general purpose tool.

I'm aware of the huge flaw in the "market cap" metric and it's relative uselessness.

If reversible transactions are a value add, people will use currencies with that option, and where it's not, people won't.

I don't think bitcoin makes good money. But I do think you can make good money with the technology, I think it is good that this thing is driving people to make technology with which you can make potentially better money, I think we are finding the utility of this stuff by just letting people do what they want with it, and I personally find it useful in my life.
> doubts about the usability of any specification language that ...

You can extrude hidden state in ML-like languages, which gives rise to all manner of subtle behaviour in combination with higher-order functions. As Pitts, Odersky, Stark and others have shown in the early 1990s, even just the ability to generate fresh names (in ML-like languages, this corresponds to the type Ref(Unit)), in conjunction with higher-order functions gives you essentially all the specification and reasoning problems of state.

> normally you'd just allow pure functions.

This is way too restrictive for non-trivial programs. This restriction work for sorting. And in reality even there you'd run into problem, for example if you take into account that a predicate might throw an exception (which, in practise you cannot avoid, think overflow or taking the head of an empty list).

> the only specs where I've experienced anything close to ...

I think that's because you have not attempted to prove substantial theorems about substantial code. The SeL4 verification is interesting in this context: it's specification (a purely functional specification of the OS behaviour) had, IIRC about 1/3 of the size of the OS's C code. Which is not much of a compression.
> To me, this ignores the fact that a death of a loved/cared for individual is the most "minimum quality of life" you can get.

Counterpoint: my grandmother spent her last two years in perpetual loneliness because of covid measures in care homes preventing our family from ensuring full time visitors.
In his defence, Richard Browning, of Gravity Industries, was an actual Royal Marine. Granted, reservist, but they still take and pass the commando course. I ran into him a couple of times in the service; while he's not in anymore, "cosplay" seems a harsh term in his case.
I wouldn't call that being negative. It's being realistic looking at what our "leaders" are focusing on.

Climate change or world pollution or population disproporties are three topics that need immediate action under rigor and force. Most estimations I'm aware of predict we will miss all of our deadlines.

Young people don't have to be the most intelligent ppl on the planet to be able to read what scientists that are experts in the field with tens of years of experience have to say. And they pretty much have consensus.
Few scientists can be wrong, but if vast majority of them agrees on something -> there is a pretty high chance they are right.

The situation we are in right now with information about it being at hand causes young ppl to be constantly depressed. The sole result of that will be devastating for the future. Even if our predictions prove themselves to be wrong and all will be dandy.

I'm not gonna even talk about geopolitical issues we are currently struggling with.
Sending Lenin to Russia wasn’t about causing a revolution, that had actually already happened, but it was about trying to affect who would win the following fight for power.
An endemic disease is a disease that is always present in a particular population/region.

Ex. Flu, malaria, HIV, syphilis, and… COVID

Am I missing something?
People will delay a dental procedure but they will not delay making their kids #1.
I am from Spain. May I introduce you to the old "picaresca" from The Lazarillo of Tormes?

We Hispanics gave the world great people, but we got lot of hustlery and bribery since the Roman Empire. Italy is like that too.

A lot of great Spaniard writers said that they were fed up of Spain and the Hispanic culture as a whole, from Pio Baroja to Estaislao Figueras.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/P%C3%ADo_Baroja?lang=en

And Pio Baroja should be the ultimate Hispanic figure, the one who put all the Christian bullshit away and fully embraced Humanism and scientific Enlightenment from the 16th Century as the students in Salamanca did, but, you know, we might have been cursed, because even if Spain was the proto-embracer of Humanism and Enlightenment, (even before Lutherans, y'all HN readers please look up "school of Salamanca"), we burned our crap down three centuries later.
Who gets to decide what changes are kosher? Sounds like bureaucratic behavior modeling.
Mark Cuban Launches Online Pharmacy with Generic Drugs at Affordable Prices
The only thing I wish we had was remote browser access - so I could run my tests on a VM (like within a docker image) and use a browser on the host.

We use TestCafe at work for this purpose. I personally hate TestCafe as it's is an absurd unfocused mess of a browser remote, but it lets me control my browser by navigating to a URL which no other browser remote system does.
The real question is, will the big cryptocurrencies hold? Bitcoin is down almost half from its peak, but it's done that before. What's different this time is that more countries, especially China, have banned cryptocurrency operations. Hard to say.

At some point, Tether is going to crack. The backing isn't there, and everybody knows it now.
It can't survive a net outflow. It's still possible to exit Tether for another stablecoin. USDT and USDC are still trading at 1:1. You can redeem USDC for US dollars. So if you own USDT, get out while you can. When stablecoins crash, they crash all the way to zero.

The SEC continues to bring enforcement actions. 97 so far in the cryptocurrency area.[1] Most recently, "Gold Hawgs". "Instead of using all of the investor funds to develop Gold Hawgs' business, Garcia, the chief financial officer and a 50% owner of the company, allegedly stole approximately $123,000 of the money raised from investors by transferring the funds to another company that he controlled; he then allegedly used the money to pay for various personal and business expenses unrelated to Gold Hawgs."

Before that, "Crowd Machine": "In this offering, which occurred between January and April 2018, Sproule told investors that the ICO proceeds would be used to develop a new technology that would enable Metavine, Inc.’s existing application-development software to run on a decentralized network of users’ own computers. Instead, Crowd Machine and Sproule began diverting more than $5.8 million in ICO proceeds to gold mining entities in South Africa – a use that was never disclosed to investors."

Before that, "Denaro": "Auzins misappropriated all of the ICO’s proceeds."

Before that, "MyMicroProfits": "Defendant Ryan Ginster allegedly engaged in a fraudulent scheme raising millions in cryptocurrency using online investment programs and then converted the cryptocurrency for his own benefit,"

Totally ordinary con game rip-offs. Only the hype is new.

It looks like 2022 will be the big shakeout year for NFTs and the low end of cryptocurrencies.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/cybersecurity-enforcement-acti...
but the increase was still less than the increase from the virus.

Incorrect, you can clearly see from figure 2 on page 11 that the second dose of Moderna had a higher risk than the virus. Is there a reason you omit this?

That increase in myocarditis from vaccines was only present in men under 40

The paper doesn’t contain a breakdown in the sex difference. This was for men and women.

The authors have an updated pre-print that breaks it down by sex and both Pfizer and Moderna had higher rates than the virus for men(page 13): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...

If the authors fixed the denominator for viral infection (i.e. used sero-prevalance), it would look even worse.
If they keep failing at teaching something, then maybe what's being taught is wrong, not who's taught.

It's like how left-handed kids have been taught to write with their right hand: how many lefties must fail until they realize writing with your left should be acceptable?
Minimizing trust should always be a goal of a security system. If you can minimize trust without harming usability, compatibility, capability, security, cost, etc... you should do it.

When we talk about trust we often mean different things:

* In cryptography and security by "trust" we mean a party or subsystems that if they fail or are compromised then the system may experience a failure. I need to trust that my local city is not putting lead in the drinking water. If someone could design plumping that removed lead from water and cost the same to install as regular pipes than cities should install those pipes to reduce the costs of a trust failure.

* In other settings when we talk about trust we are often talking about trust-worthiness. My local city is trustworthy so I can drink the tap water without fear of lead poisoning.

As a society we should both increase trustworthiness and reduce trust assumptions. Doing both of these will increase societal trust. I trust my city isn't putting lead in the drinking water because they are trustworthy but also because some independent agency tests the drinking water for lead. To build societal trust, verify.
Having already had an infection before you were able to get vaccinated.

A recent CDC study [0] joins plenty of others from last year in showing that these people were at least as protected from infections and severe outcomes during delta as those who were vaccinated without a prior infection.

Avoiding getting something that offers little benefit and offers even small risks makes sense to me.

You've probably spent the last year being told these people are trying to murder your family though, so it also makes sense to me if you don't agree with this.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
Yes, good point.

I wonder if that applies to all infrastructure, or just enterprise applications.
BLS does indeed have an inflation calculator!

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

From that page:

> The CPI inflation calculator uses the Consumer Price Index[link] for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) U.S. city average series for all items, not seasonally adjusted. This data[link] represents changes in the prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by urban households.

Clicking "this data" leads to https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0, which lists the same reference base that Big Time specifies:

> Base Period: 1982-84=100
Not usually, its the same with HD's. You can't get the raw signal data from the drive unless you have special firmware, or find a hidden read command somewhere.

The drive can't necessarily even pick "wrong" data to send you because there are a lot more failure cases than "I got a sector but the ECC/CRC doesn't match". Embedded servo errors can mean it can't even find the right place, then there are likely head positioning and amp tuning parameters which generally get dynamically adjusted on the fly. This AFAIK is a large part of why reading a "bad" sector can take so long. Its repeatedly rereading it trying to adjust/bias those tuning parameters in order to get a clean read. And there are multiple layers of signal conditioning/coding/etc usually in a feedback loop. The data has to get really trashed before its not recoverable, but when that happens it good and done. (think about even CD's which can get massively scratched/damaged before they stop playing).
There is also gauge/taiko https://taiko.dev/
I made an app to learn Hirigana (ひらがな) with Flash Cards
Not the worst decision considering how VIX is looking.
It's good to remember that the AMA and other medical groups lobbied for capping the residency slots back in 1997 (when an "oversupply" of doctors was forecast).

From [1]:

> "The United States is on the verge of a serious oversupply of physicians," the AMA and five other medical groups said in a joint statement. "The current rate of physician supply -- the number of physicians entering the work force each year -- is clearly excessive."

> The groups, representing a large segment of the medical establishment, proposed limits on the number of doctors who become residents each year.

> The number of medical residents, now 25,000, should be much lower, the groups said. While they did not endorse a specific number, they suggested that 18,700 might be appropriate.

They've changed their tune (which I, cynically, think is because the members in the late 90s have all "gotten theirs" by now).

[0] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/thanks-to-doctors-there-a...

[1] https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-03-01-19970600...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/01/us/doctors-assert-there-a...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/13/health/train-more-doctors-res...

[4] http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9708/24/doctor.glut/
I don’t think they will fix it, isn’t it searching for and proxy ink for AirTags?
> Covid 19 is a different virus and the interventions of a flu pandemic are not going to yield the same results.

The results don't have to be identical. As long as a benefit exists and it can help reduce the major problems we're facing right now it's worth it.

> Infection is a binary status. You are either infected or not.

The amount of virus matters in if you get infected or not. The more you do to reduce the amount of virus that is in the air the better. You are correct that you can't expect perfect protection from a mask while standing in a fog of virus, but that's rarely the scenario people experience. Masks have been shown again and again to he effective at helping prevent the spread of covid. I wouldn't feel comfortable sitting in a classroom with 40-60 other kids while there were thousands of new infections every day in my community, but if I were forced to, I'd make damn sure I had a mask on. What's the alternative?
>>rather to suggest that if we did think those states performed election fraud then we’d expect it to be in favour of the Republican Party, right?

Not necessarily, there was a large part of the Republican party that was, and still is Never Trumpers...

They were the establishment, anti-populist, neo-con wing of the party. Their allegiance is not the party, but the establishment, the elite, etc.
Have emoji not become part of our writing structure though? A decent percentage of online chats and comments, especially on social networks, includes at least one emoji that couldn't be easily or accurately represented in the regular written language.
fahrenheit 451
Not sure why you think the split is so tilted towards genetics. If TT had been born in some 3rd world country with poor nutrition and crappy education system, how would he be exposed to all the higher level math topics? It's clear you need that exposure, you aren't just going to know things about what mathematicians have thought about and consider important without coming into contact with some.
Pros: you are high all the time

Cons: you don't have parents or a family, you never experience real human relationships or love, in all likelihood your fetus will have been intentionally handicapped before birth, and if you did win the lottery and were born with your intellect in tact you'll get sent to an island to die if you start thinking too much.
> A more accurate way of thinking about it, IMHO, is to look at how homogeneous the project is.

This is a very good point. I tend to take as a given the a highly homogeneous project is always a smaller/simpler one, and that a heterogenous one is always a large project with a large team... but thinking about it, this is not true at all, in fact I can think about some very large projects that don't do many different things, and I can think about some smaller projects I've worked on that are a bit of a Swiss Army knife.
Not only that, but these days "gamma" refers to nuclear sources, "x-ray" refers to electron sources--there is no actual dividing line.

Thus a gamma device can't be turned on and off, if it's got much energy you need an awful lot of shielding.

I suspect they're talking about scanning *for* gamma radiation, not *with* gamma radiation. As in someone smuggling nuclear materials. (Note, however, that when you're scanning people it's another matter--when you find someone that trips the geiger counter it's probably medical, not nefarious.)
Its not March 2020 anymore we have vaccines and treatments the externalities have changed so should our behaviors.
Hi HN,
this is most likely the most primitive internet search engine of all time, built with CommonCrawl data [1]. It would have been a feasible candidate to work with sql.js-httpvfs [2], a WebAssembly-compiled SQLite driver on a vfs to be able to omit the server part - but when I tried it, the performance with larger result numbers was a bit too slow to be usable, so it wasn't possible.

Try searching for your hometown, for example. You'll get quite uncommon yet interesting results. Full of spam though. It really makes you appreciate the enormous filtering that common search engines apply to their results.

[1] https://commoncrawl.org/
[2] https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
Absolutely false as noted by the other reply to this comment.

Don’t just blindly trust someone else’s comment.

You can clearly see from figure 2 on page 11 that the second dose of Moderna has a higher risk than the virus. The updated preprint also shows this for Pfizer.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01630-0.pdf

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v... (page 13)

My other point on vaccine effectiveness against omicron stands as well.
Science has been fully replaced by politics and become a joke nowadays
You can query the Tailscale API socket locally from your application to see who someone is (email address) based on the connecting IP. It would be nice if the API let you tap into their ACL system as well
What would be really cool is if this concept could be expanded to allow a specific block on a website to be directly linked to. Currently, this is generally done by using a dom selector, which is super clunky and unreliable, since all it takes is for the id/class name to be changed for it to stop working.
I wish languages did a far better job clearly distinguishing between their operations:

1. You are acting in byte space and it’s pretty unambiguous what should happen. We are not acknowledging the semantics of language and alphabets.

2. You’re acting in language space and these operations will behave the way you probably think they should (depending on your cultural expectations, probably)