skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry to tell you, but most programming is just elementary school math and boolean operations. In many cases it doesn't even require high school math. I'm not saying it is easy, but it certainly doesn't require any sophisticated math.
I call it a malware blocker, rather than an adblocker - here's my reasoning:

One day I was on a classifieds site[1], browsing listings, when after a few pages, I was met with a page redirect to one of those scammy support center sites (taking over the browser), advising that my computer had been infected by a virus (obviously hadn't) and I needed to call in to "Apple's Support Center" immediately. This was on Safari (the newer useless extension-neutered version), on what I considered a reputable site. I tested again to make sure it was indeed the site that produced this, and sure enough reproduced it after browsing a few pages of listings.

I advised the site that they likely had a rogue advert in rotation causing this, but as usual, the blame got put on me instead, claiming that it was probably some extension (didn't have any - they're basically useless on Safari now) or it was my ISP, blah blah blah

That's the day I decided to use a real browser ("If it doesn't run uBlock Origin, it's not a real browser"), so I switched to Firefox and installed uBO. This is also when I decided to call such utilities as uBO "malware blockers" rather than "ad blockers".

Websites can try to deflect the blame all they want[2], but in the end if visiting your website results in any attempts to compromise my computer, it's your site doing it as far as I'm concerned.

If the website industry can't regulate itself to prevent such things, then I'm going to do it myself, and I'll push back on any claims that I'm using an "ad" blocker when I'm really guarding against malware attacks.

[1] I'm loathe to name it since I don't recall which site it was specifically, but it was a classifieds-style site, with the reputation of, say, eBay-level recognition.

[2] https://www.imore.com/content-blockers-bad-ads-and-what-were...
Think about the domain of the function

EDIT: Someone already provided the answer here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146426
The only exception to watch out for is when buying a crappy version of x will negatively color your new experiences with an activity. Tools meant for precision but the cheap versions are plastic rattle traps that get out of calibration/alignment from basic use can be extremely frustrating to someone just getting started in an activity. The user may throw their hands up and quit whereas a good quality tool would have made their new hobby more enjoyable/accessible (e.g. no, it’s not you, you’re just fighting a really crappy tool every step of the way). Again, tasks/activities that require repeatable precision come to mind here.
This article is a pretty fascinating experiment showing how propaganda (or, to be more generous: click-bait) works in real time. Look at how many comments in this thread think that the archive versions were censored based on the misleading title. You could probably argue that the title is technically correct and that's what makes propaganda so effective.

It's unfortunate, because there is a nuanced discussion to be had here, about whether re-broadcasts should be modified (e.g. should we be okay with that if there is a disclaimer?), but the conversation gets derailed immediately because many people only read headlines. But of course, they know what they are doing, trying to get a rise. They could have easily used a more accurate, but boring, title such as "BBC re-broadcasts differ from archived versions."
i have registered in google apps in 2007 and stil using it with my family. 4 persons is about 288$ anualy (( It's OK to pay 5$ per month for ALL G Workspace account, but not for every user.
This is exactly my point. I'm not against outlawing casinos (i think you should be able to do pretty much whatever the eff you want with your body and money).

BUT if we are going to allow them, should we allow them to only let people play when they lose?

The decision to let them exist is as arbitrary as the decision to allow them to only play when they when.
> Sputnik/AstraZeneca vaccines were released almost at the same time as Moderna/Pfizer

Most of the time and cost is associated with the trials - not the actual development AFAIK.

What would be more promising is if MRNA proves to be much more likely to pass trials. I think we need a lot more attempts at different viruses to have an idea here.

Certainly - if this HIV vaccine /does/ work - that's a huge win for MRNA.

> If mRNA vaccine was as magical as it was marketed, we wouldn’t be getting 3-4(and soon 5?) doses of the same vaccine with the emergence of new variants. Rather, there would be delta- and omicron-specific vaccine.

This is nonsense. The traditional vaccines don't work any better. They're worse. This is evidence MRNA is better than traditional vaccines.
I've been sent to interviews by HR with a folder holding another dude's resume before.

This is probably the same thing but remote instead of in person.
https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-marital-st...
For a replacement like that, it's probably worth watching for Father's Day and other sales. With cordless tools, you're really buying into a battery accessory system, and it's good to know what tools are available for the battery you select.
Capcom? Konami? Sega? Nah, let's buy this 1 old ass game.

Hope Bungie has something in the works that is 3.6B
Fair point. And thanks. I think now that my position - while how it should be, consistent with the GDPR and repeated at multiple places - is possibly not in line with a court decision from 2019 or so, that interpreted the e-Privacy Directive in a wrong way imho, and at the very least might depends on local practice of how EU "law" is applied. So you two are probably right.

Ridiculous to govern non-privacy relevant tech usage like this. I still think that's illegal where I live. Regardless, let's hope the e-Privacy Regulation or future court decisions solve this.
This will be Phase 1 clinical trials, ie they're mostly about side effects (and potentially dosage): ie they'll mostly check whether this will kill you / which dosage van be considered mostly safe. But at later trial stages, this will be one method to do this. Another and mich simpler one: you check whether the vaccinated people develop the antibodies you're looking for.
What went wrong with the Western world isn't so much the totally unchanged mainstream position that television companies can and should be able to cut away from or bleep content deemed "objectionable" or even mildly inappropriate for the audience as they have done since the beginning of broadcast media, but that certain groups only became interested in contesting this (by means of dubious analogies to constitutional speech protections) when the definition of "objectionable content" expanded to include casual racism.
Well yeah, they usually do that, but draws by insufficient material still happen pretty frequently. Also, king vs. king is not the only way it can end; you'll see king vs. king and knight (or bishop) pop up pretty often too.
Not the poster. Advil is pretty safe, but sometimes has horrific effects (e.g. Stevens Johnson Syndrome, catastrophic stomach bleeding, etc.)

Also, NSAIDs are shown to slow healing from injury in most cases.

Ibuprofen is terrifically useful but also a little scary for something we use so routinely.

e.g. some parents gave their 7 year old a motrin, and all her skin sloughed off her body and she had brain damage and lost 80% of her lung function.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jury-awards-63m-to-samantha-rec....
Ok, changed from https://blog.staging.begin.com/posts/2022-01-27-the-boring-t.... Thanks!
Ask HN: What's the Best Secure, User-Friendly Email App for Windows/macOS?
It must support "unsend" feature.

I prefer free versions, but given the features I'm asking, I understand that some apps might not be free, which is ok as long as there's guarantee that my data isn't used as yet another revenue stream for app developers.
> they maybe self-publish Destiny 2 now

Yes since 2019

https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/47569
While I agree with most of this article, I think having one screen for CarPlay is a huge bonus. I replaced the receiver on my old Mazda, and having just that screen for GPS, music, etc. is great.
For some managers they are a weapon they use to gaslight their reports. That is, they tell one person one thing and tell another person another thing.

At least in a team meeting you never are thinking that this is going on.

It might not be the usual situation but it happened to me once and because of that the 1-1 is going to have a bad smell that's going to require a huge amount of trust in the manager to overcome.
Unfortunately the government is imminently planning on requiring "smart" features like a law enforcement lowjack for "hot cars"[0] and a remote "kill switch" [1]. Granted, I'd be more than okay building a ranch vehicle or purchasing an old car and deleting these features as willful non-compliance.

[0] https://hothardware.com/news/bidens-infrastructure-bill-mand...

(hot hardware is an oddly good source of electrical engineering news too!)

[1] https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/12/29/new-federal-regulation....
This is just not true and is particularly obtuse. I am not expecting free content using an adblocker, there is often just no way to avoid ads with some products.
consumerreports.org does exactly what you want, but you have to pay for it. if you don't want to pay for it, then you get what you pay for. google isn't complacent. google has a large number of paying customers that aren't you. you don't live in a socialist utopia. you live in a world where things cost money. you can pay for the information you want, or someone else can pay for you to have the information they want you to have.
I'm searching for it myself. There's been plenty of venting about "smart" TVs on HN in the past year. The fellow who wanted to start the project said he had a background in electronics, I should have stickied that thread.
State lotteries are a means to shift tax burden from the wealthy to the poor. Every time one is implemented to "support education", it is always followed by a tax break for the upper class, resulting in a net 0 increase in school budgets.
Thank you, this is a good resource!

But in order to have a good approximation of the effectiveness, we would need people to get infected. If I simplify, I would get vaccinated and stop using protection (i.e. condoms) during intercourse, but then I may catch it and end up living for life with HIV (contrast to COVID where you still have fairly reasonable chances to recover from). How would trials work for things like this?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I hope you see where I'm going with this.
Customization is nice, but it's a nightmare for testing and support. You can't test every combination, and you can never know if you're seeing the same thing the customer sees. Plus it's murder if you have to share a device with someone else. I have enough trouble just with the radio presets between myself and my wife!
I don't care enough to add Bluetooth. If I do anything, I'll add a backup camera.
I honestly agree with you, but am worried about the precedent it would set. If you start banning stuff because of addiction, does it apply to things like soda or fast food? Would it apply to things like baseball cards or other collectables?

This is a really tricky problem, as there is clear evidence that these things hurt society as a whole, but it's hard to draw the line who is making deliberate choices about their gambling/smoking/drinking, and who is hooked.

Is there a politician somewhere that will try to ban Facebook because of the 'addiction' potential? I'm usually not much of a slippery slope guy, but it does seem weird, especially since a lot of this would be done by regulation, not legislation.
In 2017 I bought a new Renault Twingo in the basic version to commute. It was great in an unexpected way: it didn’t distract at all from driving. It had one great simple feature: you could put your smartphone at the place usual GPS screens are mounted. That is it. So you could use a Renault provided App on your phone or use Google Maps. I missed nothing.
Maybe it's also worth mentioning where it's used in AWS: Lambda Functions

Use case: starting a VM as fast as possible while maintaining the isolation that a VM (compared to a container) provides
yes, so the question is what would he/she change about how it is advertised in the US (or I guess in new zealand)
> US government to offer fifty years of tax free profits

Not even Communist states attempt to plan spending fifty years ahead of time.
Not OP, but if I had to guess, the coder just looked for the most favorable 'prop bets' that books use to get the casuals in the door and took advantage of those favorable odds.

Not really any other way to do it without fixing games.
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>An "elite controller" is a person living with HIV who is able to maintain undetectable viral loads for at least 12 months despite not having started antiretroviral therapy (ART) . Elite controllers are rare: for every two hundred people living with HIV, approximately one may be an elite controller (0.5%).

> It is not entirely understood why some patients are able to achieve undetectable viral loads without ART.

https://www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/faq/what-elite-controller
Great to hear you didn’t find these things a problem and that they aren’t really that hard to understand.
Why is there “almost no chance”? They said they won’t email for advertising purposes. There wasn’t much wiggle room with the way they phrased it. It’s possible that they outright lied, I guess.

“Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change”

https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
I think that this might be a follow-on benefit of Operation Warp Speed which had a post a few days ago.

From that post, it seems like one of the benefits to Moderna (apart from a big cash infusion) was that Moderna had the science, but did not actually have the experience and pipelines of actually bringing a drug to a broad market. They did not have the experience and infrastructure for large scale human trials and for the large scale manufacturing.

Experience with creating, testing, manufacturing, and rolling out the Covid vaccines, were I am sure invaluable in helping Moderna become a "full-stack" drug company.

Very excited by this development and looking forward to (hopefully promising) results.

It will be wonderful if we can make HIV/AIDS something future generations will only know from history books.
they, the medical professionals

QC = not dying, not having more side effects ..

when you say pure free market, I'd like to know how you get access to this market and who ensure you're not "selling" bad stuff/practice/ideas
> A lawsuit to recuperate the wages and damage to the business might even be worth looking into.

No, probably not. Speak to any business owner who has been in a lawsuit and they'll likely tell you it's not worth the headache. A close relative told me that even if a customer straight up won't pay for a done job, he'd rather forgo the payment then deal with a lawsuit.

Lawsuits usually have:

1) monetary costs - those lawyers are very expensive

2) emotional costs - take a big mental toll to deal with

3) reputational costs - it goes in the public record. Next time a potential candidate googles your company, it might show up that you sued a former employee. Hopefully they read further to see if you were justified in doing so....

4) opportunity costs - you (hopefully) have better things to do with your time

If you are big enough, maybe you have a legal team to deal with this stuff. But even then, you have to choose your battles. A hired lawyer is still expensive and it's not worth going after small battles, even the ones you know you will win.

Also, as others have mentioned, it's not unreasonable to have a friend or relative look over your email communications during your interview process unless you were explicitly asked not to do so. In fact, it's a smart idea!
Already, around 5 years ago, I had a small repair (tranny fluid filler tube replacement) done at a transmission shop. When I arrived, I walked in to hear the owner cursing Ford, because the part required for a 10-year-old Mustang was no longer made by Ford, but also not yet made by any aftermarket. The shop had to custom-fabricate the part themselves.

This will only get worse. Look at how many smartphones don't get security patches after 2 years.
Lazy is usually used to mean demand-driven, as opposed to input-driven, in my experience, so exactly the opposite of this, but different people mean different things. (Did a lot of my PhD on dataflow.)
Generally the long pole in vaccine approval is showing that it works - not that it's safe. If there's only a handful of cases worldwide, say for Ebola, then you have to vaccinate a few thousand people and wait for a period where a statistically significant portion would have caught the disease and then didn't. This can be years. There's only a few cases per year, you can't just give a bunch of people Ebola to see if the vaccine works. They're not waiting for 'long-term side effects' to show up, they know they don't exist.

However, with HIV as with COVID, there's a pretty significant installed base around the country so showing that it works isn't really a challenge.

Usually only a few thousand or tens of thousands of folks participate in basically any drug trial, btw. We very well understand the risk profile of mRNA vaccines at this point, having deployed billions of them and studied the technology for 40+ years. And having studied vaccines for upwards of 300 years.
My experience (on Reddit) is that progressives are the only ones willing to admit they support racial discrimination. They don't like to call it that, but they absolutely support the policies that give preference based on skin color and will defend their reasons for supporting racial discrimination.
What's running in the cloud if not Linux?
It's not tech, but I spend most of my time hanging out on Telegram with number of people I've met through the Furry Writer's Guild.
TIBCO has a lot of Analytics and Data products. One of their acquisitions, called Spotfire, is actually a really good product.

Over the last few years they've also acquired a lot of Data Science companies, but it always felt like they were bargain shopping and acquiring companies nobody else wanted to buy.

Honestly, I pity Spotfire. IME it's the best out of all the products in that space (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, etc) and is much better for actually Analyzing data in comparison to other products it competes with. But they got acquired by TIBCO, who basically did a great job of losing the mindshare race against Tableau. I feel like some other company would have done a better job with Spotfire.
Recent Fortune 500 contracting experience I had:

Ubuntu was to be introduced into the company. The team was 1 developer and 4 managers. When we asked for collaboration with the developer the manager kept saying "we don't do this" "it's not a supported configuration".

The developer defied his direct superior and offered collaboration and as a result was removed from the project.

Now the project staff was 4 managers and 0 developers.

The manager claimed he was doing this to protect his developer from overwork, but really it was just about his own ego.

A lot of the projects I saw there were basically 1 engineer and a couple of managers of some sort. Security manager, Project Manager, Portfolio Manager, some medium management and some other people. And then they would constantly say that they don't have resources to fix things. Well yeah, because you have 1 engineer for 10 projects, but 4 managers per project.
Or even to have some clojure services and some Java ones. And then work toward more clojure over time if there’s good reason to do it.
state run gaming, limit the bets people make, allow them to "win back" their UBI

everyone's a winner, baby!
it also doesn't matter whether a business offers subscriptions, because ads can (and will) always inevitably be layered on top as an additional revenue source. see newspapers, radio, tv, and even real estate for prior art in this regard, and cars, appliances, and other internet-connected goods as ongoing evolutions.

ads vs. free content is indeed a very false dichotomy.
Yup. When I was a junior engineer, I was working for a bank and the various teams were all blaming each other about high latency in the stack, which involved Tibco Rendezvous. Basically, a way to distribute market data over multicast. They blamed Rendezvous, they blamed the network hardware, they blamed everything except their spreadsheets. (Yes, the tech stack at the time was spreadsheet <-> spreadsheet over multicast.) Anyway, I wrote a small Perl application that measured the end-to-end latency (when market data changed, vs when the published output changed) in addition to network induced latency (basically echo packets; write something out, see when it came back over the link). What the data showed was that the data processing spreadsheet introduced tons of random latency, and the network was totally fine. I sent that up the chain and the bug in the spreadsheet was found almost immediately, solving a multi-month blame game in hours.

A little off topic but good memories.
There we have it, metaverse solved.
You've got that backwards. Prius weren't cool all the way until 2014, around the time environmental status symbol transferred to EV's and the used Prius started becoming very economical. Certain half of the political spectrum wouldn't be caught dead in them before hand and every other Hollywood movie had a cringy joke lambasting or praising them. Now they're just seen as a reliable financially savvy vehicles, not very "cool", but more popular now that regular people would have no problem driving them.
This form of visual programming has been used in 3D modeling and visualization industries for 15+ years [0-3]. It's an excellent gateway to real programming, but any complexity quickly overwhelms the visual organization of nodes.

[0]https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/2.79/render/blender_rende...
[1]https://www.rhino3d.com/6/new/grasshopper/
[2]https://blog.vectorworks.net/what-is-marionette-a-look-at-ve...
[3]https://dynamobim.org
I get what your saying.

But on the other hand we are just talking about celebrating this. I feel like those sub-communities are probably more aware of the impact HIV than the average cis straight person and are probably going to celebrate this as well.

I don't get what's insensitive about it at all so maybe I am missing your point.
Probably worth reading about Asymmetric numeral systems first:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems
Prohibition aides and cultivates an underworld which operates outside the bounds of legality.

Rather put a high tax, like tobacco products, do the state can make a boatload of money from vices rather than enriching the criminal underworld and indirectly funding illegal guns, sex trade, rackets etc...

Anecdotally, my own country banned alcohol and cigarette sales during the first lockdown. The black market rose from nowhere and made a filthy amount of money. You can guess whether or not the violent crime rate has increased of decreased.