skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have not. There's really no sense in which Facebook isnt possible for me. I could say that I have privacy concerns but I'm genuinely not interested in being a weirdo parent that puts pressure on my kids. Most of the organizers are just trying to find a platform that is "gated" (by invite only) and everyone uses. Hard to beat FB for that in 2022.
Key-value stores seem easier to reason about for simple use cases.
Thought experiment: I have 7 subscriptions. 4 of those are through the App Store. My credit card expires or get lost. What are the chances I enter new credit card information on your site as opposed to App Store?

And let’s not pretend that Apple is making a lot of money off of Indy developers. Most of the App Store revenue is coming from pay to win games and loot boxes.
"inefficient and unfair; they favor expensive modes over cheaper modes, and impose large external costs"

Why? Freedom of movement. Curious animals.

There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
> "Banging out code" is nothing special, yet here they are knocking at your door?

They tend to want to pay pretty poorly in this situation.
AirTags are so irritating. If you ever travel with a group its like daily notifications about someone's stalking you with their airpods and there isn't a way to permanently ignore a device.
Antitrust Should Be Used to Fight Inflation
Please define what you mean by ending the pandemic.

> human rights violations.

Which ones?
Or central banks, for that matter? They print new money, and use it to buy and hold financial assets (usually government bonds). New money was added to the system, other assets were taken out.
Yes I agree this is what I do all the time and it works in most cases
Apple's centralization is not forcefully removed, you can choose to keep using only Apple approved software from Apple store and you will not see any difference.
This change would just allows you to install software from another source if you wish.
If Apple implements the change similar to how Android works, you will have to allow installation from non-Apple store sources, you can do it per app, you can do it once and then disable it, you can allow main app store to scan all your apps for security.

If you are arguing that some people will be tricked into installing malware from other sources then you are right that this change would allow that but it will still require user to go through few steps which should raise red flags for them. Some people just can't resist pushing that button without thinking and regardless of the consequences and in that case app store safety net is just temporary anyway, they are still exposed to the real world where that will harm them in a more serious way.
I would also think about services in general. Then again I suppose that as European my travel tolerances are much lower.
You've made me feel embarrassingly privileged for have done absolutely nothing to earn my right to work in the world's tech capital.

I wonder how many people just slightly less motivated or talented than you are turned away (or even more troubling: less able to afford prolific immigration lawyers). I understand the importance of immigration controls writ large, but this is transparently ridiculous.
I sort of think businessinsider.com might face some GDPR fines for the way it doesn't seem to let you opt out of sharing personal information.

on edit: change GDPR fnes to GDPR fines, interestingly fnes has a meaning in Danish https://sproget.dk/lookup?SearchableText=fnes
Reminds me of the studies with drug addiction and rats. IIRC some of the early studies about how certain drugs were so addictive were done with rats who basically couldn't do anything else, and when you give the rats other things to do in their life, suddenly the drugs aren't as interesting.

I think the fundamental thing about playing repetitive games like WoW forever is that the skinner box is more interesting than real life, which is more an indictment of their real life than the game. Not sure how to fix that, though, and certainly there are people who can enjoy MMO's in moderation.
That’s correct. However, purity is not relevant; only hate and non-hate is. The only requirement is to have non-haters that hate the haters. Everything else is specific variable details per social group and per person.

“A bunch of haters grouped together and started hating on people that they hated; the non-haters said “stop that”, and when the haters refused, the non-haters violently stopped them.”

This describes a variety of wars in human history, for example World War II. The non-haters aren’t “pure”, they don’t always succeed, sometimes they attempt non-violence first — but the tendency of societies to act in alignment with that description remains consistent across human history.

(ps. Humanity’s skills at balancing cognitive dissonance come into play quite strongly here, as being in the position of “non-hater” while also hating “haters” is definitely at tension with itself. I suppose the dissonance is balanced by over the tipping point of societal benefit versus personal benefit, but that’s not an area I’ve studied as closely yet; individual psychology is less interesting to me.)
That reminds me of another cruelty-free animal product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eignblunzn

A blood sausage made from human blood. Nothing wrong with it ethically, but upsetting enough for performance art.
What the difference between ev-1, 2 and 3?
That is right. It is just immunity as a term in the medical community vs average joe use of the word. Medical community immunity means your immune system fights off the invaders before anything medically interesting happens, not that you have a magical force field that prevents entry. Not sure why people are trying to twist that into some sort of insidious plot.

If you have the measles vaccine and you get exposed to measles, measles will be in your body for a short time in low quantities, but your immune system will quickly destroy it. That means you are unlikely to pass it on or develop symptoms.
Epic tried to use the same argument in front of a desk judge with a real law degree. She disagreed.
A small fraction of software developers work on safety-critical software. Safety-critical software is (or at least should be) developed with quite different methodologies, as the cost/benefit assessment is very different regarding development speed against number and nature of defects.

If there are lessons written in blood for the development of safety-critical software, they haven't propagated to the wider field of software development.

(Disclaimer: I don't work on safety-critical software.)
Neatly distinguishing the EU from the US.
Exactly, this move tells us that the people behind Wormhole think that $325m is the lower bound for the risk to their previous investment if they didn't act. That means they likely have billions at stake in which they fear losing or like I originally said they are worried it is a bubble that might pop.
Detailed breakdown here: https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616
> There are thresholds at which it becomes a felony, so that might be an answer to your question.

Are you saying that police shouldn't bother investigating crimes that aren't felonies? Why even have misdemeanors at all then?
Yes, I did make that common mistake once again.
The 800,000 figure spans two years. The above figures are for one year (2020).
Where does Snowflake go on this map?
The packet header would leak that info too with src/dst IP addresses.
Does anyone know where I can find graphs that show the % of infections that each variant represents over time?
Salting doesn't matter in this case. They're not finding a list of free-floating passwords and then seeing if anyone has that password; they're finding a list of accounts and associated passwords. So they only have to check that particular combination, just as they would for a regular login.
PS... this map is really cool
Exactly, was thinking along the same lines.

While I appreciate the "shipostedness" in fulfilling the task "connect to DB in CSS" by cramming whole SQL database into CSS custom property and working with it using paint worklet (this would probably not even remotely cross my mind ever), with more pragmatic approach I don't see requirement of having actual database in the CSS in the original tweet, so single boring URL endpoint reading the SQL query from parameter and responding with CSS à la `:root { --result: 'whatever'; }` should accomplish given task as well, without those Houdini's stunts:

@import "sql.css?query=Robert')%3B%20DROP%20TABLE%20Students%3B--"
body::before { content: var(--result); }

(I guess browsers do URI encoding anyway, so probably no need to encode it by hand).

Or perhaps even more simple with render to image (like `<!..><svg ...><text>whatever</text></svg>`.

body::before { content: url(sql.svg?query=...); }

That paint worklet does something similar anyway, but instead of `background: paint(…);` this would be `… url(…)`.

If JS and/or strictly static server-side is a must, the sql.css / sql.svg could be handled by a service worker with that sql-asm.js at disposal.
You don't go to jail if you can't repay your mortgage.
Yep. If you owe the bank $1,000 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100M that's the bank's problem.
But Netflix (which GP was talking about implicitly by the comment they replied to) doesn't.
I think a lot of it was just young, trendy counterculture that followed the shift in tech demographics in the last few decades. Sublime Text was hot and it was dark. Another thing that helped it along was the fact that when your eyes adjust to a dark mode app, context switching to a "light mode" app is painful on the eyes. So people reinforced the idea that "light mode" hurts, rather than that switching hurts.
20 Years Building JWST – A Conversation with NASA’s Paul Geithner
> I've always had this pointless desire to get a non-synchronous transmission truck driver's licence. I just think it'd be fun learning to drive an 18 speed crash box with double clutching and clutch brakes - something I imagine will soon be a thing of the past. Regrettably, there's no real reason for me to get it.

Look out. I know a guy who caved in and learned. Then decided he doesn't like computers all that much and he doesn't _really_ need that software engineer salary, especially if he can cut on rent by sleeping in his truck.
I invite you actually to read the whole paper. Please pay attention specifically to section 2.1 where the author contrasts "fair value", "ex ante" and "ex post" approaches to direct cost estimation.

The paper says that you cannot look at a successful bailout and conclude that it must have been good policy, because success was not guaranteed; you instead need to look at the range of outcomes that are reasonably possible to estimate the likely costs.

The author doesn't at all say that the "ex post" account of actual cashflows is an inaccurate measurement of what happened; only that it doesn't represent a useful policy tool for estimating whether other bailouts represent good value.
It was used in reference to a friend who has told me countlessly that they want to quit but they don't know how. I also ran into this as a teen but "woke" up from it when going to college.
Haven’t the older vaccines been mandated for much longer?
So, it has a sensor that is also a solar cell.

> We believe such a device can play a vital role in emerging fields such as wearable imaging, sensor networks, smart environments, and the Internet of things.

How is this better than to have an actual solar cell generating energy that can be used for more things that the camera itself? Micro solar cells are already produced and benefit from economy of scale as can be used for many things.

Really cool project, but the commercial goals seem off.
That doesn't appear to be true.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-24/jane-stre...
It also ignores how R&D and tech markets work. That "regressive tax on those who can't afford upfront capital" is an "R&D subsidy to early customers who are providing the upfront capital to lower the cost of solar". As solar companies get more wealthy customers, they can spend more on technology to improve efficiency, they gain economies of scale, and they can attract more financial capital on equity markets.

All of this has actually played out - the cost per watt of a solar installation is now 1/3 of what it was 10 years ago:

https://www.nrel.gov/news/program/2021/documenting-a-decade-...
It's not that I have to "win" just get most of the people using default tools to still see ads. My ads are very not intrusive so I doubt people will go to any special effort for blocking them, it's the default tool that blocks everything is my problem.
I meant more in the context of corps only getting fines for illegal activities that actual people would go to jail for
Apparently they do, it's called Solana, and the hacker did the minting for them :)

See the top comment.
Show HN: Measure code by Kolmogrov complexity, not lines
Well... that was an unsettling read.

> The evolution of Marek's disease due to vaccination has had a profound effect on the poultry industry. All chickens across the globe are now vaccinated against Marek's disease (birds hatched in private flocks for laying or exhibition are rarely vaccinated). Highly virulent strains have been selected to the point that any chicken that is unvaccinated will die if infected.[14] Other leaky vaccines are commonly used in agriculture. One vaccine in particular is the vaccine for avian influenza. Leaky vaccine use for avian influenza can select for virulent strains.[15]

Wonderful. Like H5N1, which has a 60% mortality in humans.
If it were 20%, people would complain it wasn’t 10%. And If it were 10%, they’d complain it should be 5%.

And there are plenty of other malls to move to, is just that your customers aren’t there.

I really don’t get the complaint about Apple’s monopoly on iOS. To me, it’s like VW’s monopoly on Jettas.
I mean small debtors just get to declare bankruptcy and not pay, which is a pretty good power to have. Large debtors have broader obligations to the community.
Building ships and moving bridges. Aren't Dutch notoriously good at both? Why is it a big deal then.
The good news is that most people have the good sense not to stick their hands in disposals when they're running.
Inside America's Legendary Audio Gear Factory
One space heater is 12-15 amps. I can't count how many people I've had to explain that to as they scratched their heads why they keep tripping the circuit breaker in the winter.

Also lesser know fact: A circuit breaker doesn't cut off at the rated amperage. It cuts off when it spikes above that amperage. When the current is steady, you can blow past the limit, but one little wobble and it will finally trip. "I wasn't doing anything different" being a common refrain. A little ripple from the city power or the other end of the house can push it over.
I'm shocked there was an interior room that allowed smoking. It must not have been in California this millennium.

I decided to stop smoking the day Jerry Yang held the door open for me and my band of misfits on our way to the outside smoking area. David Filo once asked me if he could share the panini station I was presently occupying in the cafeteria, URL's. I answered affirmatively but subsequently wished I had uttered "it would be an honor."
So why don't debtors unionise?
what exactly do you mean by server-side template insertion? as long as you're still sending html to my browser, i'll be able to block it.
Exactly. The Handyman's Invoice/$1000 Plumber joke is a positive anecdote from the standpoint of the service provider, but it's usually stated as something like "Step 1: Know your value," which is deceptively simple.
tfw "maintenance" is actually just "still in development"
Often have severe migraines. When it’s coming on Dark mode is sometimes the difference between major or mild.
Night shift helps some.s

Fl-41 glasses work much better, but I often don’t have them handy.
A while back I tried to find some good rhythm games for mobile, and they seemed to fall into two categories:

* Unpolished games with more limited and/or less interesting content that you could buy for a straight fee

* Fun-looking, polished games with songs I wanted to try that were filled with energy systems and ways to get you to spend money forever and ever
Consider other roles that lean more on your skills outside of the code-editor, but still allow you to leverage your technical prowess: structuring, organizing, connecting things together...

- Move into leadership/mgmt?
- Project management?
- Product management?
- Sales Engineer?
- Solution Architect?
One past thread:

This video camera is powered by light - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9392583 - April 2015 (17 comments)
I'm guessing you're gonna tell me the first company to make such earbuds was not Apple? I'm interested to know who it was.

> Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.

Knock-off makers seem to be doing just fine right now by reverse-engineering products. Do you think this is going to make their life much easier?
My ex gf uses these to track her fiancé ...sticking it in his bag where he doesn't look. These things are SO ripe for abuse.
Unit tests are not always a good match with the application: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/testing-harness-vs-u...

I tend to use a lot of test harnesses (which, IMNSHO, are much better application exemplars than most unit tests).

I also use a lot of headerdoc stuff. In Xcode, it allows your own code to show up in the QuickHelp navigator tab, and you can generate really good SDK docs.

It also stays fresh. Easy to maintain. Using "breakers" is a huge aspect of my code. Makes it much easier to scan, and liberal use of // MARK: is good.
> if you have say 100A service you could pull 150A for a decently long time before the main trips, perhaps for the runtime of some appliances, and over time that could lead to heat problems.

Depends on the trip curve and the age of the overcurrent device. Looking at the trip curve for a Fuji BW250 (125-250 amp frame size), at 150% the device will trip in what looks like 5-30 minutes. Any load over 10x rated current is an instant trip.

There was a scandal many years ago where an electrical equipment manufacturer, Federal Pacific, was caught rigging its testing machines to pass faulty or poorly performing circuit breakers. It was found that some of those breakers would carry 150%+ rated current without tripping. They were responsible for quite a few electrical fires and were sued into oblivion.
Who Still Buys Wite-Out, and Why? (2019)
Ironically variable reward schedules are the most powerful reward schedules for maintaining behavior in the absence of further rewards. I know you're not a rat/pidgeon but it's just funny you picked the one that classical behavioral psychology would say is close to the most influential.
>the goalposts are exactly the same as they were two years ago

Shouldn't the politicians have made progress on this issue over the course of two years? At what point is it incompetence or corruption, if the billions being spent to fight the pandemic make zero discernable impact on the most critical issue?
I was the lead engineer for about 4 years.
So if printing makes dollars worth more, why stop? Or that effect only applied to 2009?
Thanks, this is helpful. I will think about whether any of the stuff I've done could have been spec'd out that way.
Body Odor May Have Smelled Much Worse to Your Ancient Ancestors
Imminent merger of giant black holes predicted
> Tell this mom that the infinitesimal chance that her child would have from COID side affects was worth it for the problems she is now facing

That's an awful way to analyze risk.

If you have a one in a million risk of something, and you trade it for a different but nearly-identical one in a million risk for the same thing, and then get the bad outcome, you did not make the wrong choice. Let alone if you traded for a lower risk.

Every step you take, you trade out trillions of potential futures. You are always, always creating new risks and destroying old risks. A decision like getting vaccinated is easy to point at and say "oh I shouldn't have done it" but you could just as realistically say "if I hadn't eaten tuna seven weeks ago these problems wouldn't have happened".

You do not get to compare the outcome of a specific case, only knowable in hindsight, with the "infinitesimal risk" of the alternative.
A flat green roof. Which is much worse than just a flat roof.

The drainage will clog and they’ll risk having a leaky roof every spring. And you can’t get up there with a snow shovel because it’s a green roof and you’d scrape off all the dirt and plants.
Sounds like most builders I've come across. The difference is they normally have a design they're supposed to work from.
I don’t know about all of them, but a quick Google search shows that both Mongolia and Puru have intelligence agencies, which means very likely they have some sort of collection capability for HUMINT and/or SIGINT.

The ones that don’t have intelligence capabilities are probably the exception rather than the rule, and I doubt they’re doing out of good will vs just not having the resources for it.
I'd love to have the ability to write a direct query plan, for the rare occasion where the query planner does something stupid. But, ya SQL is great for the majority of situations.
So what you're saying, then, is that if objective reality doesn't exist, it's not possible to make rational decisions. Please, prove objective reality, exists. If you're not capable of making rational decisions, because the universe isn't objective, any proof you produce is irrational, but you may still claim to have proven objective reality exists, on account of the irrationality.

It seems that we both agree that its not possible for people in non-objective realities to rationally decide objective reality exists!
Most ad blockers are blocking third-party ads sent from a separate domain. If I insert some ad in the page HTML so it looks like the rest of the page it is harder. It can be done but I don't think people will bother as much since my ads are not very intrusive, it's just tools block everything so my site gets hit even though the ads are not bad.
> If you are arguing that some people will be tricked into installing malware from other sources then you are right that this change would allow that but it will still require user to go through few steps which should raise red flags for them. Some people just can't resist pushing that button without thinking and regardless of the consequences and in that case app store safety net is just temporary anyway, they are still exposed to the real world where that will harm them in a more serious way.

I seriously could care less what we as HN want out of a phone in a way. We are head strong enough to do something different for ourselves -- literally look at PinePhone, etc.

What I'm concerned about is the trickery that is sinister beyond belief, getting access that they never earned and do not deserve.

Here's an example:
https://youtu.be/VrKW58MS12g?t=406

This 'hack' is quite insane... Brillant and horrid... and I foresee it happening left and right.
You just described every police department in the country.
DigitalOcean just refunded unused funds back to inactive users' PayPal accounts
A lot of users on twitter[1], myself included, just received a payment by DigitalOcean out of the blue. Turns out they apparently refunded the unused funds of inactive users.

[1]: https://twitter.com/search?q=digitalocean%20paypal&src=typed_query&f=live
Thanks for the links! These helped me find some new nice trails to follow.
FYI, the GP comment said "The issue was resolved/disclosed very quickly, and in a professional manor."

So they didn't say their "entire set of actions" was "professional" just that it was disclosed and resolved professionally.