skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There was some period of discussion on the subject back in like 2003 but the ad companies went to war against human civilization and there's been no going back.

I believe this is true about society in general and has gone on since long before 2003. Almost every ill in modern society can be drawn back to some people doing their best to convince other people to buy shit from them. At this point, I think we should make a serious political effort to outright ban advertising and marketing entirely. Whatever the results of that are, I seriously doubt they'd be worse than what we have.
But, HIV mutates super easily, which is why we do not already have a more traditional vaccine that works. It will be a greater challenge in this regard than COVID-19/Omicron, not an easier one.
Anecdata, but the last time I went to the doc they just asked me what my height and weight were

Perhaps if I'd said I don't know they would've measured, but this was also at the height of covid (Dr had two masks and a face shield on)
Accidentally discovering that tildeverse doesn't like to be visited if following a link from Hacker News :-)
I dislike seeing this trope about women being brought into, of all things, a discussion about a dog.
A boring technology is one with which a large number of developers have previous production experience with. Or probably even "of the developers you can realistically expect to hire".
Friends and family on Telegram, HN is the stable one for technical stuff.

Earlier I have dabbled in Mastodon but they seems doggedly insistent on recreating the same problems that Twitter had (everything public, subscribing to the whole person, not just interests).

These days Matrix is finally (IMO, some might have enjoyed it a while already) shaping up nicely (again IMO).
"long and wide enough for a person to enter" -- has anyone seen it and thought, "Hmm, let me go inside, what could go wrong. I don't see fangs."
I have Ad-block but still see a lot of Ads. I started to shun certain websites (major news sites particularly) a while ago. The only occasions I turn it off is when I legitimately believe that authors deserve a bit of extra revenue from Ads.
Having the ability to post anonymously online is very important, but more and more developers seem to discourage this, and I don't like it.
This is the way. You are thinking like an engineer, and that will create solutions. Extracting carbon from the air, if done in a net-neutral manner (impossible with today's tech AFAICT), will provide us with sustainable hydrocarbons, nature's battery.
Harbor Freight's "low quality" tools will work for a great many average home owners doing some upgrading or light work. We absolutely fall into the trap of wanting the best thing ever, but how many people actually need the top of the line Milwaukee or Makita brand biscuit joiner for the 2 tables they ever make at 200$, vs the Harbor Freight one at 60 that you can probably find a coupon for to make it 45-50?

On that note though, an even worse practice is when a brand achieves notoriety for quality and starts making "light" versions of their tools. One example of this before they went belly up was Craftsman making nearly identical looking "Sears" brand that weren't covered by the craftsman warranty. Bosch also did this with pimping out their brand name to extend to rather crappy home appliances here in the EU. Black and Decker was synonymous with reliability in the early 80s, and I still have some jigsaws and circular saws from my dad that work great from that era, but anything from them now is arguably worse than the cheapest things you can buy at Harbor Freight.
The comments here, Jesus Christ. This is about harm reduction. Yes, being overweight is unhealthy, but it's more unhealthy to be overweight and never see the doctor because you're ashamed of your body.

People avoid going to the doctor for all kinds of irrational reasons. This is a way to entice a population that'd be embarrassed by a public weigh in (and thus avoid care) with an easy way out of their shame (thus hopefully not avoiding care).
Here's a funny one:

I worked at a financial company as a web developer. A co-developer sat at the desk opposite, with the wall behind him. He would sit there playing games on his phone all day. ALL DAY. Yet, his work got done, but it was the barest minimum and really poor code.

So, one day I say "Tomas, I never see you write any code. Yet, your work is always done."

"Oh!", he says with a grin, "I've outsourced my entire job to my friend back in the Czech Republic. I pay him about 30% of what I earn and he writes all my code and sends it back."
Entire dishwasher it's a gimmick. you can wash dishes yourself. or you can use dishwasher in order to save some time. same with auto-dosing - it's a convenience and it's really convenient. with regards to pricing: machine comes with 6 disks. You can refill them later with usual powder in a couple of minutes.

Another gimmick that machine has, it's auto-opening at the end of the cycle in order to vent off steam.

I had many different dishwashers over the years, but Miele one is so far the best I ever had
Just an aside as a former carpenter:

Battery powered hand tool systems are a big cost now, especially that brushless motor have got so good. Its important to think about them as a system, like will replacement batteries still exist in 2 years, can more tools work with the same battery, etc. That makes it harder to try something and see how good it is. I agree with you re many tools though. For tools I'd recommend talking to someone who works with them daily to get a real opinion, and wouldn't trust anything I read
> But I often heard engineers complain about their company being stuck in the past and they wish to use all the cool tech they see in the news.

This is becoming my go-to filter for determining if I would want to hire someone in the first place. Hypothetically, if someone told me they left their prior job because they wanted to "use cool tech" on an interview, I would be providing a strong "No" input to the process.

The honest reality is that a lot of people are doing a job they probably should not be doing. If you want to be really good at writing software for other people, you should enjoy delivering experiences to your actual users. I find many developers can't even enumerate who their end users are these days.
Same, I didn't get it until someone on reddit explained it to me :)
As much as I'd like to blame them, the number of people who willingly refused the vaccine are irrelevant compared to those who do not have access to it.
Prescription medication advertising is banned everywhere in the developed world except USA and New Zealand.
Oh thank God, does this one work?
I have chronic GI distress. One of the things that upsets it is vegetables. I can eat them if they have been cooked down enough, but I have a really hard time digesting them if they are in smoothies, salads, as vegetable spread etc. Because of this I'm careful about how I ingest them. I wish this wasn't the case
You can widen your location on bumble? How did you match with person in South Africa?
I wholeheartedly agree, I downvoted the comment because it appeared to be made in bad faith (and from another comment I posted on this topic, I obviously share the concern that this HIV vaccine may lose efficacy over time).

Also, it's not hard to see how a vaccine for HIV would be much more effective at slowing pandemic progression than a vaccine for an airborne virus, even if the vaccines conferred the same benefits. Right now, if you get HIV, you are essentially contagious for life until you get on antiretrovirals that can bring your viral load to undetectable (and, you also need to be on those antiretrovirals for life). If an HIV vaccine prevented you from having a long term infection, it could potentially fully end the pandemic.
I am dpark from 2032. I have absolutely no human rights, and I never need to think about what to buy/watch/read, because Google consolidated all markets. I don't vote anymore because every aspect of life is controlled by G anyway. I have access to a shiny new tech that you don't yet have a name for! Google is still a net positive "historically".

everything you think you know about "history" is misinformation. In 2032 Google AI-generates colorful VR videos of the Real Past and boy, I am telling you, we are much better off now!

Keep Googling,
dpark, 2032
The Covid-19 vaccines were made against the original strain in which it was 95% effective. Let's see how the updated Omicron vaccine goes. I am guessing we are going to see above 90% effectiveness. mRNA vaccines are looking pretty promising at neutralizing the specific virus they are targeting. How effective that is for mutated and related viruses is what remains to be seen.
uBlock Origin works well for me in Chromium. It knows to autoplay on Youtube out of the box.
I think it's weird wording from legal. My guess is that the work laptop has security software preinstalled that routes traffic through a proxy that they can see, even encrypted traffic. So they're just collecting John's traffic for analysis
>24%, 27%, 45%, or 62%

Seems reliable lol

I prefer to ask people if they support racial discrimination. Very few say yes, outside of progressives of course.
The problem with Clojure is that it is too good. It gives you, the programmer, too much freedom.

Most people do not have problems that require so much freedom.

Most people do not know what to do with that freedom -- they don't have enough experience actually organising their applications.

Most people benefit from using a language/framework that requires them or at least rewards them to put things in a certain way. For example Java Spring rewards people for following a certain application design -- you can break rules but then you are on your own and Stack[Exchange|Overflow] examples can no longer be copied/pasted directly into your codebase.

As much as I love Clojure, every single corporate Clojure project I have seen in the past was an utterly unmaintainable mess.

I have never actually participated in a Clojure project (I use Clojure mostly for rapid prototyping/PoC-ing), but what I figured is that Clojure requires minimum maturity from the developer and especially drive to be constantly simplifying things -- which is unfortunately very high bar. Most developers I work with / interviewed do not really understand what it means to refactor and simplify. Most people are only focused on the part of the work when they get something to produce expected values and everything else just isn't high priority in a corporate environment.
Rentals are somewhat of an odd model, at least pre covid. By buying less popular models/excess capacity they buy at slightly above build cost, and the manufacture or dealers buy the cars from the rental company at it's depreciated value.

https://www.autorentalnews.com/155877/car-rental-qa-what-are...
With the current WiFi connected Miele laundry machines you can use the app to pause and add more laundry.
Exactly what information were you hoping to glean from a search like "new car"? There are searches that are too insipid to be considered as part of search quality signals.

There is a corresponding meme where people complain about the quality of the results for "best pants" where they have to amend it to "best pants reddit". Well, I have news for you: "best pants" is not a search that can be usefully answered. There is no such thing as "best pants".
the comedian Mitch Hedberg had a bit about this.

"You know how they advertise a casino, they always show a guy winning money, but that’s false advertising. Because that’s what happens the least. Perhaps when they advertise a hamburger they could show a guy choking. This is what happened once."
Thank you! Just the kind of explanation I was looking for, most appreciated.
it's defense in depth.

if someone has HIV, they can be treated and if they are consistent with treatment they can have such a low (undetectable) viral load that it is not transmittable. (aka U=U)

additionally, high risk populations (transactional sex, msm, intravenous drug users) can take the same drugs and be protected from the virus. (aka PREP)

also people with known exposures or likely exposures can have post exposure prophylaxis with the same drugs (e.g. in the case of an accidental needle stick in a healthcare worker).

These defenses have already radically slowed the spread and increased the lifespan and quality of life of those who become HIV positive.

Now we will hopefully have a an additional defense that will be even easier (no daily dosing required for negative at-risk population) and probably much more broadly administered.

I love the progress we are making with vaccines.
it's unnecessary to record the audio to solve the problem
I wish I had a better way to support content sites without paying for individual websites. I’m guessing this would never happen, but I would definitely pay a single monthly fee to get access to all the major news sites and if it helped ensure some level of journalistic integrity.
There was an article on HN a few months back about a new printing process for ICs in the, what, 100nm range. The idea was to have a plant suitable for making short runs of undemanding parts. If that's possible, it's probably a useful niche someone will occupy.

Automotive is headed in the wrong direction. Tesla's dashboard now consumes several hundred watts and cuts vehicle range around 3%.[1] Come on. You do not need Unreal Engine in the dashboard.

[1] https://www.neowin.net/news/tesla-wants-model-3-owners-to-gi...
Dumb cars aren't more expensive to produce. And EVs don't have to be "tech". It's just that is what people want.
In the days of Amazon (aka Aliexpress) that advice has to become more nuanced though. You still need a baseline of fitness-for-purpose rather than one-click buying a GENSYM Cordless Drill and thinking it might possibly suffice. And the traditional go-to of (brick and mortar curated) Harbor Fright has become somewhat expensive thanks to Trump's inflation, as well as increasing margins due to popularity (see also: Monoprice).

There's also just quality of life. As a DIYer I'm not particularly concerned about wearing out tools. But still I might want to pay more for better ergonomics, ecosystem compatibility, power, tolerances, or other non-longevity qualities, rather than being stuck with an adequate but suboptimal tool that gets the job done while bothering me.
But it's also pretty much only normal in Germany, and only on Autobahns. Almost everywhere in Europe the highway speed limit is 110 to 130 km/h, similar to the US.
I've always taken the stance of cars being nothing more than a product to transport me. I've always found it hard to justify spending $30k more because that one has a nice leather interior, touch screens, and looks prettier. They both do the same job, we'll both arrive at the office at the same time.

A $50 used deck with bluetooth is all the tech I need.
Two observations:

1. Given the continued efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines against severe illness, it stands to (lay-)reason that a similar outcome might occur with HIV. A world in which HIV is roughly as transmissible as it currently is (and is still responsive to other avenues of treatment/prevention, like PrEP) but where it does not cause fatal immunocompromization is an extremely preferable world.

2. We have no particular reason to believe that HIV's mutation vectors are more or less susceptible to the vectors that mRNA vaccines target, versus "traditional" vaccines.
Earlier this year, I was asked to interview a man who was procured through a remote-staffing firm. He was based in Southeast Asia, and on his resume it looked like he met all of the competencies we needed -- including English proficiency.

But on the call, I noticed that whenever I asked him a question, he would turn off his camera, pause for 10-20 seconds, answer the question, then turn his video back on.

Eventually, I cut the call short and messaged the guy from the remote-staffing firm who had set up the interview to ask about this bizarre behavior.

An investigation determined that the man was using a translator and really didn't speak any English whatsoever.

I have no idea how he expected to be able to do the job if he had been hired, but I guess he thought it was worth a shot.
"John is talking extensively about working in a garage because his three children and wife are home. In the interview, he made references to being single and was visibly in an indoor desk area."

If John is reading, you now have documentation that marital status has played a part in the decision process (even if not the sole issue) should they decide to let you go.
Rust: Changes in the Core Team
I’d love to read this if it was actually open to the public!
I'd argue then that the level of usage dictated a better one. Most people don't actually use tools to failure. I've owned edging tools, routers, sanders, even a small metal lathe from Harbor freight that have handled 10+ years of very occasional use just fine. If you're using things so much that they fail, yes, buy a more quality version. If it fails on the first use, Harbor freight happens to have a very generous return / exchange policy within the first 30 days.
Good point.

I think you may have meant to put "This must be a powerful, true, and dangerous idea if so many people are trying to hide it" in quotes -- to show that it might be the attitude of a conspiracy theorist towards efforts to hide the conspiracy.
My understanding is that college basketball is the worst team sport:

1. One player can significantly affect the outcome

2. The players are being paid peanuts

3. shaving points can be very lucrative to the fixers without actually affecting the outcome of the game.

A 5 figure payout just to win a game by less than expected can look like a great deal to a college athlete
Distorting and leveling is a matter of perspective.

Yes tariffs (inbound) and subsidies (outbound) both distort the playing field. But no country can unilaterally disarm.
At the time, Google's competitor Yahoo!/Overture were 100% pay-for-placement. There was no such thing as organic results.
That’s how it works if you use the carrier network. I think when a patent suit changed FaceTime away from peer to peer, the carriers route all traffic through some device local to them — Remember most mobile traffic is proxied. They bill based on where it goes.

It’s not unique to AT&T.
Or a human who is tired of his small children picking up literal cat feces from the feral cat who is pooping in their planters. I would recommend looking up Toxoplasma Gondii.

You can also enjoy this classic comic to help re-align you on how many birds cats kill: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
That’s definitely an ad
sport, it's so interesting that no one ever thought of betting on the result or taking drugs while watching it
No system is perfect. Laws are made to protect the majority, not the minority. It takes a lot of effort individually to find out what is ethical, and education seldom teach these.

Freedom of religion and separation of church and state helps create a collective conscience to enact laws, but at the end it comes down to each individual's responsibility to search for the truth - an effort that advertising can easily tamper with. We could use more stringent laws for advertising.

Note that the gaming and crypto industries have parallels with gambling, both targeting the younger population (least able to control addictions)

Disney (a media conglomerate) was initially opposed to sports betting, but once covid hit their bottom line, they turned to this opportunity once it was legal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27514437
I don't doubt that some hide their hate behind that, but that does not mean that all critisism of Israel is "hidden antisemitism". Interpreting what peoples "real feelings" are from such a small post is pretty complicated, and since antisemitism is very serious you should not throw those accusations around easily. I can't see anything antisemitic in the post you called antisemitic. What is it actually you think was antisemitic about it?
Exactly. The COVID vaccines have been proven over and over again to reliably prevent serious illness across the original strain and every variant of concern we’ve seen since then. The fact that they initially also largely prevented infection against the original strain was a bonus that scientists were never counting on.

Now, just because omicron is better at driving breakthrough infections, that fact is being used in bad faith by some who now say the vaccines “don’t work”, even though they are still as effective at preventing serious illness
I am both overweight an self conscious about it, but I too felt like I was teleported to some bizarre alternate reality filled with dumb people while reading the article.

Then I scrolled to the end and saw: "You can order your own 'Please don’t weigh me' cards"... So it's just a bunch of grifters grifting away and preying on people's insecurities. Nothing to see here.
A sandwich chain with a location near me requires a 3-step captcha to be solved every time you want to log into the account.
Same for our 2021 Mazda crossover. Lcd screen but no touch screen. Just a spin/tilt/press knob for media/settings. Climate control is a dedicated physical panel. It was a big selling point fornus
So it's race to buy up all the publishers?
We had this happen, but it did not get all the way to being hired thankfully.

I got on a call to interview a candidate, and he didn't know anything. Like, hilariously unqualified, his knowledge level on software engineering was effectively zero. Fairly short call once we realized what the score was.

Immediately the recruiter calls me back (she was on the call as well) and started apologizing profusely. She said the guy on this call was definitely not the guy she screened on an earlier phone call.

Luckily we didn't get as far as hiring a fraud.

But I have to say, also, that this kind of incident is why I really love a good recruiter, and try to hold onto them if at all possible. We had one guy we worked with who had a nearly 100% success rate placing people with us. He didn't just phone screen randos, he had a pool of people that he cultivated, he interviewed them himself in depth. So when he made a recommendation, he knew it was a good fit, and he was right almost every time.
It is and many get paid for it. You think those top prime picks are most viewed/best rate.. no they are picked by an editor for a variety of reasons some include clauses in deals or money spent/relationship with the studio.
It's interesting working for a large employer that relies on ad revenue. Among employees there's understanding that ad blocking bites into our revenue. I'm sure some of the employees use ad blockers themselves, though. And when we get customer complaints about the site acting wonky, they're pretty open about using ad blocking. Sometimes it's possible that the ad blocker itself is what causes the issue. There are be a couple of opinions that folks that use ad blockers are on their own and that we won't cater to them, but the more dominant position is that the people complaining are our most active users and help drive engagement, so there's still a strong argument for the site working well in a "degraded" (ad-blocked) mode.

There's still a sweet spot to aim for that is ad-compatible. For one thing, limit CLS, because I think content that jumps around due to ads has got to be one of the biggest drivers toward reaching for an ad blocker.

Also, some widely-used ad systems are not all that compatible with single-page apps. (Looking at you, gpt.js.) Even if you call their cleanup methods after destroying an ad, you'll have a memory leak on the browser side if you don't completely reload the page/app. So users complain about the SPA "bogging down" as they use it, and they'll often (correctly, even if accidentally) blame the ads. So the ad systems have got to buckle down and fix their own problems if they don't want to drive users toward ad blockers.