skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Besides, wearing a mask is not exactly a heavy burden to bear. Yes, it's annoying, but the consequences of not doing so are also annoying, and in more than zero cases deadly.

Sure, but tons of things are deadly in a non-zero number of cases, which most people give no thought to. Micromorts are everywhere.

I've been baffled at the strong anti-mask reaction and the way so many people've wanted to toss mask mandates and other measures out the second things even slightly improve, but if current trends continue (Omicron burning out, the virus generally getting less-bad, vaccinations continuing to be administered) I'll have (weakly, without really caring that much) joined team-no-mask-mandates-in-schools by next school year. My kids have been champs at wearing them but it's clear they're a (minor) problem in school, from the muffling effect if nothing else, and that compliance and good mask-wearing generally is pretty shit among younger kids anyway. I think we're probably past the cost/reward tipping point already, but again, I've tended to favor sticking with safety measures until we're extra sure, if only to avoid policy change whiplash.

OTOH I kind of love masks and hope it remains non-weird to go out in public in one. Two years of no illnesses in our house has been awesome.
It does essentially define away the authentication bypass problem, which is a class of vulnerability we still regularly find in modern web applications. To say nothing of the fact that no human has ever implemented a SAML RP without a game-over vulnerability. Seems like a self-evidently bad plan.
The concept of anything a light year away or more being able to wipe out life on Earth is pretty mind-boggling to me. I wish we focused more on things that were mind-boggling rather than mind killing. But that's just not how this culture is playing out.
The scaled images are wild.
Look: if you think you have a case, ask Joe to invite you to a program, and argue your point. I don't think he is of the anchors who would argue with you in bad faith. I am pretty sure that if Neil actually had something valid to say in favor of his position, that road was and likely still is available to him. He just preferred to strike below belt, because he thought he could get away with it. It also demonstrates that he likely does not have a valid point he can present and defend in a fair debate.
My first job out of school was at a dot-com in Vegas in the year 2000 initially as the network administrator. Susan was the Director of Marketing. My first interaction with her was typical assisting someone with some issue or another, but I noticed her book shelf was full of very technical books, and it turned out she was a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert and I was just a simple MCP (I was new to Windows NT, my background was in Netware). I was about 22 and she was about 40, and it was very intimidating at the time, especially after I learned she was Susan Thunder.

While the company was downsizing (dot-com bust) the CTO told me to batten down the hatches while Susan was being laid off. I told him that I'm fairly confident she knows more about NT than I do and that I didn't think I could do enough to secure things, so we more or less shut things down for the night.

I sort of remember the whole company being scared of her in general. I don't know why though, she was always very nice to me and seemed pleasant in general. It was an overreaction to shut down the network that night, Susan never attempted revenge. In hindsight, she was probably an adult that understood that companies fail and it wasn't personal.
There is a large contingent of non-religious people who are against it on civil liberties grounds. The resistance to it truly crosses both parties, and it requires the cooperation of the States, which makes it politically non-viable as a practical matter.
Your comment is not factually incorrect, but it takes a lot of logical leaps. Let's say: if all other things were equal, would you want to hire a candidate who has worked with just 1 programming language throughout her career or someone with experience on 5 different programming languages?

It's probably correct to answer "the person with 5", but does it automatically prove that "# of languages under the belt" is a great metric for evaluating engineering prospects?

We can come up with all kinds of justification for the current state of engineering interviews, but most everyone conducting the intervews know that our methods are extremely primitive and are thirsty for a better path forward.
When did I ever say that you would need to "merge" your SPA with an API server? I didn't, because you don't, because, like I said above...

My point is "there's no more coupling [from using an explicit shared type schema] than what exists in the first place." for which I provided a logical argument in the comment you replied to.

This was in response to your earlier statement "At the expense of coupling which is not a trivial concern."

Do you have any additional arguments for why adding a type schema introduces additional coupling that were not covered above?
People buying this mask disappoint me. They should at least go full hose:

https://fakemaskworldwide.com/the-offensively-fake-fake-mask...
Are you an anarchist? That sounds a lot like the ancap proposal, and I think this was one of the best pitches I've read for it. Respectful but also pretty convincing.
Nah, it's just "you're guilty, the end."
Part of Firebase's recruiting success was due to early engagement at collegiate hackathons. Top tier candidates were applying out of school because they liked working with the product and liked the team behind it.

This is a great long tail suggestion.

For the short term it's really about networking and poaching.
Simple solution: Military industry.

Some generals would likely find a mobile mill stone quite useful. When your centuria loot a conquered land they can now take raw grains in addition to processed flour without being tied down to the local stationary mills.
That's justifiable due to risk and cost of capital but there are contrary investors.
When you have managed to build a storage site, it seems like a no-brainer to offer it to others (for a fee).

Obviously there is the difficulty of transporting the nuclear materials, but there already exist containers which are designed to survive train crashes to store this stuff in. One of those on a boat should be fine, as long as some insurance will pay the cost to recover the container from the seabed if the boat were to sink.
This one-dimensional approach is especially bad since the emergence of omicron, where number of infections doesn’t even capture the level of COVID danger.
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Chat phishing is coming.
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In a similar vein, I was astonished to read how much time was spent on spinning before the invention of the spinning wheel:

Consequently, spinning thread may have been the single most frequently performed work-task in the ancient world (the various farming tasks being more varied and more seasonal, while spinning was being done continuously all year round). We tend to think of the pre-modern world as a world of farmers (and it was) but we ought just as well to think of it as a world of spinnners.

I had no idea! From https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-t...

The spinning wheel started out being three times more productive (at a somewhat reduced quality) and then, within a century or two, ten times more productive than the previous method.

Needless to say, a reduction in labor time potentially close to an order of magnitude in the most labor-intensive part (again, c. 80% of the labor time!) of textile production had enormous economic impacts (...). English cloth production tripled (measured by weight) between 1315 and 1545 and cloth produced per capita increased five-fold.
Or open your browser's dev tools and type:

$('game-app').solution
It's not about individual risk, it's about collective risk, and honestly it's quite selfish to consider the COVID risks only with regard to yourself.

And Omicron has made it so the risk profile is effectively the same as when this pandemic started; you will get it, you will be contagious for a time, and you will infect others.

By looking at that risk and accepting it, you're throwing away the work you've previously put in to avoid being a bad person.
Churches?
Yep, that did the trick. Thanks.
If you bother to read the papers cited within this press release, you'll see they all go on fishing expeditions to find anyone reporting symptoms, then claim that these are caused by Covid. From the headline study [1]:

> Presenting symptoms included palpitations, chronic rhinitis, dysgeusia, chills, insomnia, hyperhidrosis, anxiety, sore throat, and headache among others.

Literally anyone reporting sweating, headache, anxeity or insomnia is counted as "long Covid", if they hadn't reported it before their Covid diagnosis. Completely ridiculous. This is not research.

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.03.21252086v...
Please see my larger edit in my original comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30104420

I was wrong.
Can someone explain what made one a reactionary in the political context of the times of this story?
> A financial device called Overnight, were you would convert your brazilian currency (had many names) into USD at night and then convert it back to BR on the next day

Who eats the loss from the fluctuations in this case? Any idea how the providers used to hedge against the risk.
"crime" here means that crypto incentivizes crime itself, not that it is "illegal" in the country: pump and dump, scams, cybercrime, tax evasion, etc.
Aren't there now ways of renewing (for lack of a better word) spent nuclear fuel?
If it transfers data through serial it is generally pretty easy to capture the traffic and reverse engineer, two of my jobs have been projects exactly like this. Only on one occasion have I had to replace the control electronics in the machine where the 8755 ROM/IO chip had failed and the program data was lost
I was not told to not exert myself when I got my 2 doses. I was however told that if I experienced any negative symptoms, just nap through it essentially.
Actually nope. It takes more energy to slow yourself down enough to crash into the sun, starting from the earth, than it does to hop on over to the moon.
And here you are making pseudoscientific judgements (chemical imbalance?!) about a huge number of people you've lumped into a group and referred to as "these people."

I'm seriously surprised you haven't been downvoted off this thread.
> We'd ignore any warning in the Egyptian pyramids created only ~5,000 years ago

Worse, the 'mummys curse' became a part of popular culture!
I feel like I'm obligated to share this almost 20 year old Spolsky post that gave me my understanding of characters.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
Oh, no, it started in the seventies, around that.

It is a mixture of "look what happens if we let everybody have nuclear power: now Pakistan and India have it, and there is a great chance of a nuclear conflict" (simplifying). And at the same time the ecologists, saying "NO to nuclear power" (I remember this in my childhood in Spain, it was huge).

Fuckushima has turned it into what seems a non-negotiable idea at any costs.

But notice that some weeks ago the European Commission decided to push for calling nuclear "green" (I agree with this) but also liquified gas (!!).
https://stanfordreview.org/stanford-bicycles-helmets-masks/
Damn I thought square came out with something
The transitive PTSD from your fellow pilots dying is real. I quit after 800+ flights (including motored, and yes it is incredible) after the 5th death of someone I'd either been close to or at least on adventures with. Not to mention all the broken vertebrae which is a lot more common than death. In the span of a few years I saw three ridiculously experienced instructors (one had like 8,000 flights) smash into the ground, then spend 2 months in the hospital and a year recovering.

The fact that we know what mistakes they made is a red herring. You'd have to be a fool to think you're going to be the first paragliding pilot in history to never make a potentially fatal mistake. One of them, a friend and a very good pilot, simply pulled his brake half an inch too far. It was a perfectly calm evening.

There were two warring factions at my local mountain. One organized around the idea that paragliding can be made safe. My camp maintained that 'safe' and 'paragliding' should never be in the same sentence without an 'isn't' between them. Hikers always opened conversation with "Is it safe?" The other camp would say "Oh yes, quite, and would you like a ride for $200?" Our camp would try not to laugh. I'd usually reply with, "Does it look safe?" We said it was all about risks and percentages, with the understanding that the risk of dying or being crippled with a slow glider in perfect conditions is always > 0.

I'm not saying it isn't worth it. It's totally worth it, though it's easier for me to say since I got out unharmed. Rather, I developed a discomfort that prevented me from enjoying it. Not fear - but a kind of disillusionment. Because even though my instructor said "It's not safe." over and over, and even though I repeated it to others, secretly I believed it was and it took 8 years for observed events to wear that belief down. A big part of me hopes I return, maybe after my parents are gone or I'm their age or something. There is really nothing like it in the world and I doubt anything I ever do will ever energize my soul the way free flying did.
They shouldn't be penalized for it either, using reference should be a force of habit.

The main problem with your response is that the threshold for "basic concept" is arbitrary by framework, by language, by time, by interviewer. Revert back to interviewing things relevant for the day to day job, look at what developers actually employed there did over the last few weeks, and interview on that.
I said "possible", not "possible within our current approach".

But maybe changing our current approach isn't currently possible politically...
And as I said: a feature like this is entirely possible with the MIT licence, because it only addresses the licenced source code, not what said code actually does at runtime. Just read the licence yourself, it's exceptionally short.

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It's entirely possible that Finland and other countries are positioning themselves to become the biggest "exporter" of nuclear waste disposal.

There are plenty of countries around the world with no actual plan for waste disposal, including the US. If Finland is willing to accept the risk in exchange for a certain amount of financial compensation, then it seems likely wealthy countries would make that choice.
If the waste is pulled into the mantle near a volcano, wouldn't that be a problem? Maybe no new volcanoes will form in 100k years.
Exactly - that's why I like the use of "anti-intellectual" as an adjective for Gemini - Gemini's design is anti-conducive to thought and information transfer because of the massive impact of mathematical notation, images, and animations.
How exactly do you determine who is a woman though? Because appearances alone don't cut it, and the more you pick things apart, the less you can make any hard lines. Simply put, trans women are women.
Put a giant pre-inflated airbag around it and that might not be unreasonable.
Nurses working in the ICU during the beginning of the pandemic would use the same mask for an entire week without losing efficacy. If the masks didn't work, we would have seen a huge number of them infected in the NYC hospitals but that didn't happen. Most viruses don't survive very long on surfaces.
Germany has a strong cultural and political opposition to nuclear power, particularly in their Green Party, for many different reasons that I’m not qualified to discuss. I suspect the initial cost is also a barrier to much of Europe, if only for political reasons.
Does anyone have the AirPods 3? Are they worth it?
Exactly: https://trendguardian.medium.com/in-data-we-trust-2978dacc8c...

“Culture is religion externalized.” - Douglas Phillips
The court will appoint him expert witness at his own trial or will he have to recuse due to conflict of interest? This is kind of wild times.
If everyone worked 25 hours a week, dog walking would not even exist as a job. Literally anyone can do it as long as they can walk. Let's not pretend it's a noble contribution to society here, it's objectively speaking something a 15 year old teenager can do.
Nevada became politically important due to its Senator being the Majority Leader (Ie the leader of the US upper house, the Senate). With him gone (retired and recently, rip) I think it might be much easier to convince them.

It’s such (excuse my language) bullshit. The facility is incredibly safe. It would be so much safer than leaving spent nuclear fuel on site all across the country. It’s unbelievable that there is resistance to it.
"CS111: Operating System Principles" at UCLA is open-coursed. They're using OSTEP as their textbook: https://laforge.cs.ucla.edu/cs111/
+1 to both to Freya and Bartosz, both are incredible knowledge sharers. I'm happy to see their names pop up on these sorts of things more frequently.
Were you expecting productivity tips or something?
> so our remote ancestors won't be tempted

To nit-pick, I think you mean descendants.
if one wants to play with virtual tape libraries, quadstorvtl is a nice solution to that:

https://quadstor.com/

unfortunately they dont seem to have an open vcs for the source... (other than really old versions on github)

other than that there is mhvtl:

http://www.mhvtl.com
I mean during a long period humans were probably mainly dying of other things than old age? Wisdom and skill transfer must have had huge importance, but the chance of reaching 200 years of age must have been miniscule for a long part of our race's time on earth even if they could live that long.
Planes and submarines treat down as special because down is genuinely special. We would have some other abstraction if this were not the case.
Great read! Your casual reminder that there's a group of SML-ers who hang out on Reddit [1].

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-functiona...

[1] http://reddit.com/r/sml
> For two years we’ve been asked to park our problems and to act like literally all that matters is the spread of Covid.

The problem is only half the population really followed through. These measures are still needed more because half the population effectively thinks COVID is no big deal or a hoax.
Look at it this way: so far, our ability to communicate to the future and understand evidence from the past has only increased over time. So, while we have no precedent, we also have no reason to doubt the humans of future.
Which is still an extremely low risk, affecting a relatively small part of the population. The infectious diseases they talk about are from expansion of the disease carrier range (mosquitoes and ticks). These have mitigating factors to avoid the infections. There's very little cumulative risk and it's still largely location based.

So this is a far cry from your example of cigarettes and ending up in a PSA. The risk is much higher with cigarettes. As stated by the previous commenter - they are not something to be afraid of.
Parachutes have a minimum altitude, and jetpacks really do not push people into flying high. (What is a problem in more ways than that, because most of the things that can make your flight safer need altitude.)
When containers get breached, they diffuse through rock and soil and reach the surface. French govt estimated that it would reach the surface 400 years after burial (so, 100 years for a breach and 300 years to swim down and up), diffused enough not to cause harm.

So nuclear waste in a subduction zone would require a zone which dives faster than diffusion goes.
I wonder what the context of the image is.
There aren't tons of things you do that actively harm others, and when there are those things, they're regulated and compliance is enforced via legislation.

Wearing/not wearing a mask is not a heavy burden to bear, and by not doing it, you're increasing the net risk of everyone around you, in addition to your own.

That's what makes this different from wearing a helmet 24/7. But you knew that! Why is this the thing we can't do for one another, this small, one thing?!
You can't imagine any circumstance where it's okay?
What's your take on bootcamps? I worked pretty hard to get my BS CS, but now it seems like a lot of people I knew from college who were liberal arts majors are going to bootcamp. It's got me wondering about the value of my own degree.
It wouldn't work well since the hardware isn't designed for this purpose and coverage is focused on US land.
Why’s it /so/ disappointing? I/We would definitely appreciate if you could elaborate. I’m not saying https is pointless, but why is it such a big deal for a site like this?

And how is self signed better? If anything I’d say it’s worse! It creates a false sense of security.
Other HN commenters have pointed out abundant methodological errors in these scenarios.

I'll take another tack: I believe it is a category error to ask humans to determine the moral or "most moral" action in these scenarios. There are two sufficient conditions for this:

1. There is no present, efficient moral agent. A self-driving car, no matter how "smart" (i.e., proficient at self-driving) it is, is not a moral agent: it is not capable of obeying a self-derived legislation, nor does it have an autonomous morality. Asking the self-driving car to do the right thing is like asking the puppy-kicking machine to do the right thing.

2. The scenario is not one where an efficient moral action occurs. The efficient moral action is really a complex of actions, tracing from the decision to design a "self-driving" car in the first place to the decision to put it in the street, knowing full well that it isn't an agent in its own right. That is an immoral action, and it's the only relevant one.

As such, all we humans can do in these scenarios is grasp towards the decision we think is most "preferable," where "preferable" comes down to a bunch of confabulating sentiments (age, weight, "social value", how much gore we have to witness, etc.). But that's not a moral decision on our part: the moral decision was made long before the scenario was entered.
Dr Harper has had a huge impact. Reading these experiences is very cool.
What's wrong with advertising something which is actually great. Remix seems very promising and has much better performance than nextjs
It's a misconception that shooting things to the Sun is easy, it's actually extremely difficult due to the fact that when you launch off of the Earth, after escaping Earth's gravity you're left with ~30km/s of leftover momentum that you have to do something with in order to not wind up in an orbit around the Sun.