skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's sadly quite normalised here. Melbourne Cup. Betting odds broadcast alongside sport. Retired athletes spruiking. Pokies as an adjacent issue.

I know a 40ish yo mother who won't watch an AFL game without a bet on. I'm guessing she does it to make the games more interesting. Rarely seems to bet on the game result, but on quicker/earlier exotics like first goal.

Always felt like fantasy sports comps were a positive way to build on games. I've had fantasy comps with friends or randoms where they've created great conversations and community. However, it seems like those are increasingly trending to draw money and payouts rather than glory or a voucher from a sponsor.
I thought that deal got delayed because of some concern I don't remember.
Another similar solution which is production ready is ZeroTier. That one supports IPv4 on your private network as well.
Not OP, but figured I'd add to this:

Eich ended up on the advisory board of OTOY.[0] As you can see, it's not exactly a bastion of virtue.

It gets worse.[1] I read through probably a few hundred pages of the deposition transcript for that case out of sheer curiosity one night, and was left feeling nothing but disgust.

[0] https://home.otoy.com/advisory-board/

[1] https://christopheremoore.net/otoy/
I've seen that episode but not made that connection, very interesting.

However, the way the quote ends paints a slightly different picture:

`The doctrine of liberalism is an attempt to escape from this endless oscillation. The essence of liberalism is an attempt to secure a social order not based on irrational dogma, and insuring stability without involving more restraints than are necessary for the preservation of the community. Whether this attempt can succeed only the future can determine.`
This is not an either or situation. The point is if you commit a violent crime, you should be removed from society. This has a knock on effect of preventing that person from committing another crime.

Which article? On Josephus Davis? This was massive news in our city, Davis shot a dogwalker after robbing him.

The particulars on Mr. Davis:

He was released on reduced bail (300k->20k) for armed kidnapping the month before. He was also released after carjacking a rideshare driver the year before.

This is not a nice person.

>Like, suppose we locked up every person. Crime outside prisons would plummet! What if we made people wear GPS units at all time? Executed everyone who sped or worse!

Not sure why you're assuming I think this.

The purpose of showing this local story is that if there are not some kind of consequence to bad actors, things repeat themselves. Reform of cash bail appears to have side effects.
I've never had a shop refuse to work on any of my many rotary cars I've owned. That said, as someone who is a massive rotary/wankel fan and who has seen plenty of rotary designers make the claim that "this time is different", count me as extremely skeptical.
This sounds like the headline of an Onion article. I laughed as I read it.
A well-timed X (stop page load) click can let you read as many NYT articles as you want.
You just need the index.html file and the main.[bundle_hash].js file. You can scrape out the Google Tag Manager import from index.html if you want, though I didn't check to see what tracking it was importing (probably basically analytics).

But so long as you have those two files in a folder, you can open index.html and it'll work fine. My friends and I have been putting in joke words in a shared clone for each other and hosting it on GitHub Pages.
I think this is the distinction. People that see nothing wrong with piracy are happy to equate it to ad blocking.

Personally I will not pirate software but I'll block ads 'till the cows come home.

I find the two completely different from a moral stand.
Ha! We could be on the same team. The person would sit with someone to get help for each of his tasks. Eventually he was the only one promoted.
Reading on smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension
Yes very exciting, sounds like this method has achieved a snr ~ 1 revealing the the frequency distribution of the underlying signal. Like you I cant wait to see what happens in the coming decades.
Ask HN: Book comparing major programming languages at a technical level?
I'm looking for a book / lengthy article comparing major mainstream programming languages. I'm looking for something that assumes some knowledge of computer science, covering more technical / implementation topics such as

- Languages that are compiled to machine instructions, vs compiled to VM bytecode, vs interpreted?

- What do these things mean?

- How do these choices affect the languages and the facilities that they offer to programmers?

- Languages with and without type systems

- Generics

- Different approaches to concurrency

I'm not looking for treatment of standard "programming" topics such as procedural vs OO vs functional.

I'm imagining it might explain the above with reference to:

- C / C++

- Java / C#

- Python / Ruby

- Javascript

It might be fun if it covered many more languages than that, but first things first I would like an introduction to the major features of the programming language landscape focusing on the most popular languages in use today.

Does a book like that exist?
No logging might "work" for a small project, but only in the way that not wearing clothes might "work" if you're only running outside to grab your mail then running back inside.
I have to agree on this.

Google should not set the wrong expectation right from the start. At that point in time, the impression I got is Google App is just a typical Gmail account with the additional feature of using custom domain with some administrative features.

And with what Google is doing today to Google Apps (now packaged as G Suite legacy free), there is nothing stopping Google from doing the same thing to the typical Gmail accounts as well.

Imagine you have been using your whatever@gmail.com for everything and is deeply integrated in you life. One fine day, Google bite back and also say you have to start paying to use whatever@gmail.com, how does it sound? We don't own the gmail.com domain and we will be held ransom to stay or lose the email address if we don't want to pay.

So are we also wrong to have the expectation of entitlement that the normal Gmail account will be forever free to us (i.e. provided Google is still around)?
The game is points-based, "genius rank" means something like 80% of the possible points have been found.

https://i.imgur.com/dw244XL.png

You can't actually complete the game without paying. I think it's a pretty dark pattern - get the player invested, then block their progress.
There is a response here
https://medium.com/humanizing-the-singularity/the-best-of-bo...
Would the study have been published if it came out the other way? If not, you have a form of inadvertent p hacking.
You ever seen a 3 year old in the front seat?
U.S. and Allies Close to Reviving Nuclear Deal with Iran, Officials Say
> What's interesting is that in average, Black people (and many other group) get paid less than their counterpart for the same job. Same for men vs women. Isn't that nice to be paid above your ability?

Is it actually same ability though? IIRC the men vs women difference disappears once you control for hours worked, for example.
The Best of Both Worlds: Solving Doctorow’s (Blockchain) Oracle Problem
It is the nerds and geeks who like Tesla the most.
Thank you for introducing me to Lehman's laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_ev...

https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/SE-Intro/lehma...

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/work/papers/feast1.pdf
To a large degree:
https://docs.github.com/en/pages/getting-started-with-github...
> For example: If you say "Joe is a liar" and then you are heard saying "I said that to ruin his reputation" it should be criminal.

That's what slander is. It's already illegal (not sure if it's a felony, though, or just a misdemeanor).

Apart from slander, though... strong disagree. You should be able to be offensive. Being offensive is in poor taste, and often is also poor tactics, but it shouldn't be illegal. Best reason why: "When it's illegal to offend, being offended is a weapon." (I stole that from someone here on HN, but I don't have the source handy at the moment.) I do not want to give that power to every busybody and power-tripper with an internet connection.
every month I'm breaking a sensor in my 2004 dodge. It's been about $300 every other month in mechanic fees. I've got two new ones right now. They got rid of relays and are using some kind of FET for some sensors, lights, switches. Some of the sensors are catastrophic (won't drive or drives extremely dangerous). For whatever reason dodge decided to get rid of the throttle cable and go with a two sensor and servo. If it fails, no mechanic will touch it. I took it out and cleaned it, and it just started working. Ghost in the machine.
A response to https://onezero.medium.com/the-inevitability-of-trusted-thir... by Cory Doctorow.
India’s first 3D Construction Startup
fine for me on android and linux - any addons running?
> The only chance any of this stuff could be reformed is off the back of a party with a huge majority ramming it through

The Courts could do something about it. The European Convention on Human Rights (and the Human Rights Act 1998 which incorporates the Convention into UK law) protects freedom of speech. Its free speech guarantee has a lengthy list of exceptions, but it is up to the Courts to interpret the scope of the exceptions. Thus far, they've tended to read them broadly, limiting the value of the Convention's free speech guarantees; but, maybe one day the Courts will start interpreting them in a more narrow way. I wouldn't get one's hopes up, but it wouldn't be an impossible development.

The UK Conservative government plans to replace the Human Rights Act with a "British Bill of Rights" [0]. It is hard to predict what the outcome will be. On the one hand, the overall intention is to "water down" the European Convention on Human Rights, making it harder to pursue claims under it in the UK Courts. On the other hand, the UK government wants it to put special emphasis on "free speech" rights. In particular, it wants to prioritise freedom of the press over the right to privacy, contrary to recent case law which the UK government perceives as putting the priority the other way around. We can't yet know whether this project of replacing the Human Rights Act will succeed, nor can we yet know what exactly any replacement legislation will say, nor can we yet know what the Courts will make of it. But it is possible that it might improve the situation on free speech, even at the price of regression in other areas of human rights protection.

[0] https://consult.justice.gov.uk/human-rights/human-rights-act...
> If we were reckless and just wanted to inject someone with the latest update, this could be done in a matter of days. Human trials took months and people still complained that it was 'developed too quickly'. Then there's logistics.

I'm sure there is also the commercial concerns about cannibalising their own product. Would you take the 1-strain BioNTech vaccine if you knew that a 5-strain is also in circulation?
> One such thing is sudden onset symptoms well after the thing has left your system, because there isn't a biological way for that to have an effect

The hard part about conversations like this are that you could have written the definitive book on this stuff, or you could be just another dummy on the internet like me. So I have to take a statement like that and do my best to evaluate it myself, since I have no idea how to value your expertise. If you're an expert of some sort, I apologize in advance.

We know for a fact that vaccines have long term effects. They wouldn't be useful otherwise. It would be nice if they could only have positive long term effects, but why would there be any guarantee of that?

Symptoms could start immediately but be undetectable until they progress far enough (think a tiny little tumor for just one example). Again, not claiming this is happening, just saying that it seems nutty to assume it can't happen.

When I read "we understand how vaccines work pretty well", I automatically translate it to "we understand pretty well what happens when we inject a substance into a human body", and then I think "really?". We have some useful models, sure, but "understanding pretty well" seems a vast overstatement of the situation, especially when its laypeople chatting on the internet.

The abstract concept of a vaccine is pretty simple. Anybody can regurgitate the picture book version of it. Any specific instantiation of one is remarkably complex, all the way from manufacturing, to transport, to administration, and then interacting with the legacy ball of spaghetti that is the human body and it's various systems.

The fact that we humans decided to name some substance the same thing that we named some other substances that we created in the past doesn't necessarily tell you how that substance is going to interact with the body. It can provide you with hypotheses, but hypotheses need to be tested.
Notice how theres quite a gap in listings from the 80s to 90s. The rise of the PC coincided with a dark age of innovation in software.
In this case it depends if people being charged for decrying the military are the same people who supported the laws under anti-ISIS justification. I suspect it's the other way around. "Leopards ate my neighbors face, says lady whose neighbor told her his face would be eaten by a leopard."
Sorry for taking long to respond.

I do not believe the thread is full of liars or propaganda, although there is probably some, but I do believe many many people are ill informed and regurgitating headlines they read.

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/ncov/ep...

Page 16 shows deaths by vaccination status in the last 60 days.
I really doubt this is a valid philosophical concept. Of course, almost anything can be correct as long as you redefine the word "prison" accordingly, but still, being prohibited of leaving your cell/home/visiting a grocery store w/o a QR-code/saying things on the internet are objective realities, regardless of them applying only to you or to everyone else as well. So, yeah, I guess it does work like that, but only as long as other people changing their definition of a "prison" is enough for you to feel free again.
So how do they get ballistic missiles during the blockade?
The vaccine is clearly not 98% effective. It never was.
> Suppose your lifespan was potentially 1 trillion years, how low would your risk tolerance need to be?

Depends what your quality lifespan is. If I get sick of everything, that time isn't worth much.

There's also a "time-value" of life.

Cool stuff I can do today may be worth a lot more to me than things I can do 500B years from now. Especially since the person that would be doing them is someone I cannot identify with at all.
> The people of Orange frequently swam with the reptiles, and even nicknamed two of them Cheeto and Marshmallow.

Do Aussies frequently swim with Saltwater Crocs?
Is this a real problem? You generally need 1-4 clicks, do you loose count?
There is a lot of ignorance around all topics but in technology it seems to be more pronounced if only because I have personal and professional interest. I felt inclined to support 10x0five in his statement as my own experiences are identical as it relates to storing files in a database. There were, and likely still are, those that proclaim over and over to never store serially linked chunked data in a database, aka files, yet after building and proving a model in production long before today's tech that stance has seemed to change. The benefits far outweigh the costs when having everything in a database which is comparable in today's uptake of putting everything under version control. Fear not what others judge about your ideas as this should just be more motivation to "press for real answers" proving yourself correct.
People are getting 80+MPG with hybrids. The standard EPA tests involve reasonably aggressive driving which is why the 1981 Chevrolet Chevette is only listed at 33 MPG highway.
Vertiginous Question
I don't think this is particularly new:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnUq33HCLzU&list=PLZlbplZQQw...

This talk outlines a lot of evidence for volcanic side effects causing the P-T extinction, from global warming, to release of mercury, to increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. There's even some evidence presented for the volcanism to have burned up a large coal deposit, which would have released a lot of C02 and mercury.
My high school it's til youre 21, after that you need special permission from the administration
> 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.

There are about 5 different false assertions in here with nothing to back them up.

The Israelis have found that a 4th shot isn't particularly useful in immocompetent healthy younger adults under 65. We're unlikely to have a 4th shot. This makes sense because in between the first dose(s) and the booster shot the immune system had time for the response to mature via hypermutation/maturation.

There's nothing wrong with the mRNA vaccines either since they're better for this virus than any other vaccine for this virus. The old school inactivate virus vaccines are worse than mRNA vaccines (although cheaper and easier to mass produce).

People compare mRNA vaccines to the polio vaccine but that is apples and oranges, since coronavirus is a virus that doesn't typically have a viremic phase (outside of severe multi-organ COVID). An appropriate comparison would be between coronavirus vaccines and flu vaccines. Comparing a coronavirus vaccine to a polio vaccine is just ignorant.

The mRNA vaccines are also wildly successful by the measure which matters most, which is protection against severe disease and death. They were never promised as being perfect against contracting the disease and transmission. You can lookup very public headline statements from Fauci in late 2020 before the vaccine trials were done setting expectations around a 50% vaccine efficacy against contracting disease.

We're also unlikely to be chasing after reformulating the vaccine for specific variants since by the time it could be updated and a hundred million doses were produced and shipped and we tried to get them into people's arms the variant wave would be over in that region. Just producing and moving the doses is a logistics problem that will take months. And the boosted response to the ancestral virus is still very strong against Omicron, and there's no evidence of any waning of efficacy against severe disease or hospitalization and no evidence of escape from T-cells (and the pattern of mutations in Omicron is random with respect to T-cell epitopes and shows no clustering).

The newspapers never should have sold vaccines as a way to stop the virus in its tracks. That isn't a problem with the science or the technology though. That is just that human emotions got out of control wishing for a magic shot that would make it all stop.

People often complain about the trials being cut short, but in fact we had enough data to determine the efficacy and safety outcomes. What we cut short was durability. Turns out the neutralizing antibodies and efficacy against infection/disease wane over 6-12 months (as it does with natural infection as well). That's the reason why the original 90% VE against infection numbers turned out to be wrong, we cut the studies short to start getting it into arms. The 90% VE against hospitalization/death have been maintained though.
Reminds me of Victor Gruen (designer of the modern shopping mall) and his thoughts on what it became.
I considered mentioning this in the post but I wanted to keep it short and sweet.

Yeah, Wordle itself is not that complicated, and as you said, other than serving the HTML and JS it requires no server-side processing. I'm definitely going to download the HTML and JS and rehost it, at least just for myself privately.

To me, that's further reason why the Wordle purchase is sad. NYT is essentially buying some HTML, CSS, JS… and a playerbase. Rather than competing by improving their existing puzzles and/or creating new ones, they're just buying out the competition.

Even though technically-minded people like you and me will be able to re-host Wordle quite easily, the general public who lack those skills will still eventually lose access to the original independent Wordle.
My colleagues wrote PyF, using the same idea of code written in boxes that you link together. It saved all code blocks in an XML file.

We used it on financial data. One of our programs was so complex that we fell back on using a text editor to directly edit the XML instead of using the GUI.

The project was published on pypi but for some reason the source code was never published and it is in the same state since 2011, using python 2 and all. I left the place 2 years ago but my colleagues who still work there said it's still mission-critical. A kind of Cobol.
Interesting article, thanks for sharing.

Here's when reading on the phone works really well for me FWIW:

- Reading something I've already read or skimmed before, in order to go to sleep.

I don't tend to get distracted with this, because I know from experience that switching to other contexts will reduce my chance of getting to sleep. Plus I have a nice long list of books I enjoy ready to go.

This factor--not switching contexts--and the "already read before / stay away from new stuff" factor also help to lower the unwanted effects I can get with dopaminergic inputs: Reading news, reading new books, shopping online, posting on social media.

I find that this phone reading method works really well for reinforcement learning, especially with things like mechanistic systems study. It has been on my favorite activity list for something like 3 years now. I tend to skim early and come back to solidify what I've learned later.

So: I will continue to read on my phone--sometimes, and in specific ways. Just my subjective 2c.
If you are trying to prove anything to your managers - it's a waste of time. If your peers are happy with you - it's all that matters. Looks like it got professional work ethics and it's something to be proud of. Having worked onshore, offshore, remotely - I don't think there is any difference really.
> I'm not aware of WW2 being about freedom of speech.

I'm pretty sure if Britain had ended up being occupied, they'd have had less freedom of speech than they enjoy today.
> Another similar solution which is production ready is ZeroTier. That one supports IPv4 on your private network as well.

With a centralized server and usage limits and depending on proprietary software. No, thanks.
> Yes, they signed off on "operation warp-speed", but who wouldn't?

Around 200 other countries did not!
Exactly. Don’t blame Covid for people.
OEM might not be asbestos but aftermarket asbestos containing pad can be bought. Who knows that the material does that's in them today?

I'm generally surprised by what I was exposed to at shop class, not necessarily asbestos but machines that could absolutely wreck a body let loose by a bunch of haphazard children. Blinding lights, kids sticking like 4 inches of iron into a hydraulic cutting machine and hitting go. A girl cut her finger off on a bandsaw.