skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Democratic party was quite cynical in its association with the anti-war movement of the time. As soon as they achieved some electoral success, their actions disavowed themselves (this is unsurprisingly not the only such example). I think this makes it accurate to call the war bipartisan (supported by both parties), even though there was a huge people's movement (largely aligned with one of those parties) opposing it.
More likely than not the outcome would have been the same even if they were unvaccinated, because covid-19 just isn't that bad of a virus. If you're under 30 years old, even with Wuhan/Alpha/Delta variants, you were at lower risk than with the yearly flu.
I'll do one better: it translates perfect English names to the local language and names like "Max muscle Gym" get translated to something like "way too much muscle" cuz there's no word for maximum
In Argentina one of the biggest issues with this Index is that if they use the official exchange I may look like that the Peso is way stronger than what actually it is.
We have a lot of restrictions that prohibit Argentinian's from getting Dollars a that exchange ( only 200 USD a months ). It should be more fair to use the "Dollar Libre" (kind of dollars of the black market) as the exchange rate, which is double the official.
Mechanical keyboard enthusiasts might notice that Routed Gothic is a fairly good match for the “Gorton Modified” legends on Signature Plastics keycaps. Last year I put together an HHKB-like homage to the BBC Micro keyboard, which required custom keycaps to get the ECMA-23 bit-paired layout. I mostly used Routed Gothic to design the keycaps: https://github.com/fanf2/kbd#gorton-like-fonts
"Not taking the vaccine isn't any more egoistic than smoking, being obese, driving a motorbike, eating unhealthy, not supplementing vitamin D or anything else that increases your risk of illness"

I'm sorry but once again, hospitals aren't currently overrun by illnesses due to smokers, obese, etc. They are overrun by people with severe Covid cases, with significantly more unvaccinated people than vaccinated people.

"Not taking the vaccine also does not automatically translate into becoming hospitalized with severe Covid"
Of course, it just tends to reduce the severity of covid cases. Which is the point, because, you remember, it reduces hospitalizations so that health services can remain functional?

"This is also evidenced by my own and my wife's case: Two doses of pfizer, then infected by a person who was tripple-vaccinated and we both had symptomatic Covid that wasn't mild by any means."
Why aren't you considering the possibility that your not-mild covid could have been worse if you weren't vaccinated? I don't see your case as an evidence for anything, really. [Edit: Apart from the fact that covid vaccines don't make one immune, especially with variants. The point was that they still help significantly with case severity]
From the Stackoverflow survey, it would be below the national average (the mean), but I don't think there's actually many regions that pay the national average. SV pays more and most of the rest pays less.
Requesting a page with en_US has become meaningless. YouTube search must be one of the worst offenders. Results are regionalized into entirely unrelated content.
"Gemini" can be a bit tricky to search for, so here's a link for the curious: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

It genuinely strives to do essential what the top-level comment describes. It presents content in a very raw form. All styling and presentation details are left up to the client applications. Gemini users are a small, but passionate, little corner of the internet.
> Questions of what people own and control are increasingly replaced by questions of who or what people are, replacing the clash of classes with the collaging of identities.

This is the main issue as far as I'm concerned. What the author refers to as hyper-politics is basically the unfortunate and dangerous re-emergence of transcendental concerns into the strictly temporal mechanisms of 20th century political organization.

This is extraordinarily concerning.

For more on the emergence of contemporary hyper-politics from an American perspective, I found Joshua Mitchell's "American Awakening" particularly helpful.
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> Then the real you can see that message and intervene.

How does one “see” this message? In fiat, my bank just calls/emails me.

> But I totally want to be protected from my banks incompetency

In your example, what if you’re “incompetent” and lose your keys, or get kidnapped and keys are stolen - how would a message on the blockchain help mitigate this?
Thank you I could tell it was a good read but my morning eyes kept getting lost in the paragraph.
Introduction to Prediction Markets, Robin Hanson
The devils advocate answer:

Statistically, some of your employees probably aren’t good enough to be worth employing. But managers are human, hard conversations are hard, there are lots of incentives to not manage those people out.

By having an attrition target and forcing people to cut the bottom 10%, you basically skip over the soft fuzzy human factors keeping people around, and instead fall back to the statistical truth that the worst 10% probably are negative value employees.

Not saying I agree with this, but I think that’s the strongest case you can make for it.
"Burroughs software was designed to run only on proprietary hardware. For this reason, Burroughs was free to distribute the source code of all software it sold, including the MCP, which was designed with this openness in mind. "

so it should be around :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP
Yes, some do. They monitor both real and virtual desktops.

But you dodged the question. When doing creative work, having an openly accepting environment makes a lot of difference. Can we agree on this?
I don't think you've ever started a company with a new product. What if you make the world's best cheese grater. Nobody knows about it. You don't have connections to supermarkets. Smaller stores don't want to carry your niche item. You have $5000 budget to get your cheese grater out. How do you let people know about it?

Online targetted advertising is basically the current established way to find those people who actually would care about your special cheese grater and start to get your business going. If you're looking at alternatives those would be either untargetted online advertising (incredibly inefficient, only people who don't care about cheese graters would see your ads and that's your $5000 down the toilet) or real world advertising like... Door to door salesmen? Or take out fliers in your local newspaper? That's what people used to do

If you feel cheese graters are useless and somehow deserve to remain unbought, then replace it with any other item which does match your bar for utility value.
How many people are effectively managing the disease now who would have died 30 years ago? Perhaps you should be less glib out of respect for their lives.
This reminds me of the "Active X" technology that Microsoft was pushing in the late 1990s.

With Active X you could package a Windows program as a "COM object" that could be embedded in a rectangle in a web browser. This was part of a wider technology where you could, say, use a visual builder to embed a COM object as a visual widget in a Visual Basic problem.

It was a pretty good technology but had the major problems that (1) it was dependent on Windows and would make web pages incompatible with MacOS, Linux, etc. and (2) it had no sandboxing of any kind which made it unacceptable from a security viewpoint, even in a time which was innocent compared to today.

One problem: mobile apps expect to have access to the whole screen and not run in some arbitrary rectangle embedded in a web page

Two routes to embedding:

(a) do basically the same thing you do when you install an app except display the app in a web page. this will take as long as installing the app but the app will be able to do anything the app does except persist data because the app gets uninstalled when you leave the web page (unless instead of installing it later you can flip a switch to 'keep' it)

(b) boot up the app in a VM or container on a server and make it accessible by 'remote desktop' or video. This could be quick to start but would take resources on Apple or the developer's part. For many apps the system would be responsive enough that the demo is fair but for others (say something 'AR oriented' that uses spatial sensing) the introduced latency would be a problem.
> I think this position is insane

So who do you think is most likely to replace Boris as PM, if he is kicked out? Truss? Sunak?

Frankly, I prefer incompentent corrupt Tory leaders to competent corrupt Tory leaders. Boris is an albatross around the Tories' neck, and if they do remove him, it'll be because they can see that he's a liability. It's good if the Tories are encumbered by a clown.
There's merchants of record like Paddle.com that do the exact same thing (handle taxes on software sales for you) and they charge 5%. And that includes payment processing fees they have to pay to Paypal etc.
So with Apple's scale, they could easily offer this service at below 5% commission.
One of my professors answered “How do you go about debugging your programs?” with “I don’t debug, I prove my code correct before typing it in.” Not very useful.
Bingo, you find a problem that's been broken for 6 months, it's not an emergency. It will still be broken tomorrow.

Also see, when everything is a priority/emergency, nothing is....

The squeaky wheel has to be actively on fire to get attention at this point.
Sequencing in distributed systems is difficult to handle correctly. When faced with such a situation, it’s often a matter of philosophy rather than technical brilliance - are you willing to accept that failure is inevitable even with a neat “waiter” implementation? What happens if the waiter waits forever? Is shaving seconds tangibly benefitting customers (for Sentry it might) and worth the operational overhead?

Framing these problems slightly differently - is 10 second latency close enough to “real time”? - unlocks solutions like an online batch processor that reads out of your DB (if it doesn’t support NOTIFY) on an indexed incremental identifier.
"Also native support for map/filter/reduce/etc."

Native support for them in the context of the existing Go spec will be coming with the next release. To reserve the right to evolve the native support before committing it to the backwards compatibility promise, it will initially appear in the https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp external repository, but that is the official Go repo for things either too unstable to be included in the standard library, or still experimental. General expectation is it'll be in the standard library in the release after that. It won't be in the standard library, but it's as official as it can be beyond that.

I carefully phrased that with "in the context of the existing Go spec", because I think expectations of this support are wildly out of whack with the reality. It's still going to be a very unpleasant style to work in, with many and manifold problems: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2955 . I think people will be crazy to turn to that style in Go. Go wasn't just missing generics to support this style, it was missing many things, and "solving" the generics problem still leaves it missing many things.
> Meanwhile I grow tired of Visa and others logging my transaction history and travel patterns to sell changes in my behavior as a service. I am seeking to minimize this.

Your alternative is to write all your transaction history to a public ledger?
OP posted it with the original headline

https://web.archive.org/web/20220203013548/https://www.thegu...

They submitted at 2022-02-03T03:09:31 [0] but this post got re-upped by the mods, as they sometimes do for submissions they feel deserve a second chance [1]

[0] as you can confirm by mousing over where it currently, erroneously, says "3 hours"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380
In retrospect it would surprise some at how advanced the B5000 arch. and implementations were, virtual memory and concurrent, parallel, quorum processing and so on. I learned the stack based, superscalar B7800 CPU to the gate, bit level; single clocking and chasing the op codes and small code through the entire machine including the IO and stacks in memory. I was supporting 4x4 (cpuxio) B7800 and a 2x2 B6700 and all peripherals including hundreds of disk spindles at a 24x7 site. As well as the IOM and then new 4k chip memory infrastructure. Unfortunately I was not able to spend any time at the OS level though, running an early C(?) and Cobol compilers maybe. Spent months taught by Jerry Jackson at the Paoli plant. And sadly no longer have any tapes or docs. My last experience was confguring host devices allowing high speed direct parallel communications between disparate running systems. I cannot describe how powerful the exposure to these technologies were for my future understanding.
How is that a bug if pages can still change, and thus animate, the favicon via JS?
This is a good analysis of understand what's currently happening in the tech sphere.
If that's what you are doing then why play the app store game?
Air Force taps Clearview AI to research face-identifying AR glasses
I still assume political reasons and it's a lose lose situation for MS. E.g. they either include Taiwan's flag and lose China's approval, or they don't and get a huge backlash from everywhere else.

PS: Firefox on Windows uses its own emoji font "Twemoji Mozilla" to display flags.
No, the financial sector is not a centralised system. There are multiple providers of financial services that compete in the market for customers. So it's fundamentally decentralised.
Here is a Reuters link for those who don't want to tap anything running a .ru TLD with a ten foot pole, which should be everyone.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-china-tell-nato-...

I suspect this will set the Doomsday clock closer to midnight than ever before.

The event is bizarre to me, since Chinese govt. typically hates Russian govt. and vice versa. Though they both hate the U.S. more.
You probably missed the bit where the Yacht is higher than the maximum elevation of the bridge, the part where it was decreed that the bridge is a monument and that in the future it would no longer be taken apart for tall ships to pass because of the risk of structural damage to the bridge each time that happens.
For one, people who live under oppressive regimes.
I like the page and, instead of finding the fixed width “inexcusable”, see it as an element of tasteful design that makes the text easy to read, as you’ve chosen an ideal width. The justification would work better if there were hyphenation, though.
Many people don't know this font and yet it turns out spent some part of 16 years pressing their fingertips on it:

https://jalopnik.com/see-if-you-can-spot-the-vw-connection-i...
I think it works if you:

s/knows/hopes/
This does not work. When married, all your and his/her accounts are locked, as they are considered shared property, no matter the name on the account. The legal proces after death is to decide who owns what as this decides what share the state gets.

Also not advocating for crypto, just saying you should be able to live a while without access to a bank.
It's nice to know they have a commitment to democracy.
As power moved from local to national, perceptions became more import than realities.
Since Europe is in a gas shortage they aren't going to not buy it. However, they are in talks to impose a carbon border tax on imports. This would make producers that didn't have leaks have a price advantage over those that do.
Merck’s Covid Pill Fumble Gives Pfizer Potential $17B Win
I'm surprised they really break down the pricing on their custom tracking devices. Most companies would just have a "contact us" button and then dump out some arbitrary pricing after a few email exchanges.
We need something like the Sharpe ratio for comparing 'investments' that have a negative expectation value! (snickers, slaps sides, ...)
> But there is a section of people who do want to run their own bank. That the cryptocurrency space exists in the first place is the evidence of this.

Most of the crypto-bros don't run their own banks either.

All of them depend on institutions that effectively act as banks somewhere down the line... first of all, the overwhelming majority of actual cryptocoin users doesn't run their own nodes (which, as "bookkeeping", is one of the core functions of running a bank), instead keeping their wallet at some sort of wallet service or transaction gateway, because running a node requires disk space and a continuously running machine. And then, almost everyone participating in any coin requires exchanges to turn the coins back into fiat money or vice versa - I've yet to see any actual real-world economy that does not use fiat money but instead handles everything with Bitcoins or whatever.

> Decentralization at the core gives people more options, which I think in the long-term leads to a better world, compared to the alternative. Not because it is decentralized, but because it gives more options to the ones who need it.

The only thing "decentralization" enables is a lot of elaborate, irreversible scams, hacks and thefts. A banking system without some sort of centralized entity to deal with disputes and prevent usage for criminal activity eventually will break down... there's a new exchange that got hacked, a "smart contract" drained via intentional or unintentional bugs, NFTs being doubly-sold (if I understand that recent OpenSea bug correctly) or rug-pull scams exposed almost every other week. That is not a trustworthy environment.

Not to mention that all cryptocurrencies to date have led to enormous waste of resources: electricity, CPUs, GPUs, ASIC fab capacity, RAM, HDD... literally everything that could be used to mine coins got used for that purpose and outright killed the market for these, because miners can always pay far greater sums for components than individual people can.
Those managers were definitely lazy. The parent commenter is not. As an Amazon manager you have tremendous power to screw over your reports and take credit for cutting out low performers. Not going that way and actually investing to "hire and develop the best" is the right and the hard thing to do. I think the hire and develop lp is the one which is enforced the least at Amazon and that's due to lazy management.
Zinc lozenges for the common cold: a living review
This is sort of what Reader Mode and Pocket achieve. However Pocket is now trying to get into the recommendation game, and devoted some of its interface to this sort of personalization.
And never have email correspondence with anybody who uses GMail?
Most of the real, whole food that is healthy to eat and makes up an ideal diet. Although grains and legumes are an exception.
If I die, a quorum of friends around the world can verify this fact independently and when satisfied can provide those I will my funds to pieces of a private key that when assembled can recover all funds without my help.

Schemes like that are not easily possible with physical assets or fiat currency.
Author here.

I’m a software engineer who likes to have fun on LinkedIn, not a recruiter/spammer. And yes, I was actually an SDE at Amazon!
Why would anyone be good at arithmetic? Who does their own arithmetic?

I understand that before smartphones it was less common to have a calculator in your literal pocket all the time, but you’d have one at work. You’d have one doing your taxes. Even you child would have one at the bottom of the toy box or left on the floor somewhere.

That was the state of things for decades.

I recently taught my daughter long division. Home schooling; it’s a requirement. I have to be honest, so I can’t tell her it’s important. She wants to know why it’s in the requirements. My best guess is that it was a job skill in the 1970s and that the education system has a lot of bureaucratic inertia.
Does anyone have any insight into what the culture for Product Managers in AWS is? Currently interviewing with them, and it’s impossible to determine the culture from their interview process. For example, I asked how large the team was, and the interviewer responded that he couldn’t tell me that information.
I remember first reading about this a few years back. I was getting recruiters in my inbox wondering if they can poach me to AWS. Back then I thought Amazon was just like the other FAANG companies, but to be safe I searched `r/CSCareerQuestions` on Reddit and found stories similar to this one.

Never replied to those recruiters, and honestly at this point I try to stay away from FAANG's in general, they have the cash and prestige but I'm sure it's like any other F500 once you're working there. I don't need the stress of being a cog in someones megamachine.
So rare you're willing to spend Friday working hours driving to your three day weekend getaway?
I don’t care if they work or not. Public health officials get to communicate health information. They don’t get to force the population to wear masks for 2 years. That isn’t their job even if you or they think it is.

You might love masks but not everybody feels the same way. Leave people the hell alone.
If it's to prevent tracking I'm all for it, but I would love them to then provide an API to enable favicon overlays for badges/notifications (in a tracking abuse free way).

Maybe, just maybe, with the news they are finally implementing Web Push Notifications and the suggestion it's the first step towards supporting PWAs, they might create a icon badge api for both the favicon but also PWA icons.
“Personal footprint” is propaganda by oil/gas/coal industries, it’s absolutely idiotic. There should be a worldwide tax on producing greenhouse gas. Extreme economic, business, travel, etc, isolation on every country/corporation that doesn’t subscribe to it. Bankrupt them into the ground.
I use Paddle as a seller and it's an amazing experience. No VAT hassle (both paying it and displaying prices correctly on my website) and super easy integration on my website (comparable to Stripe). Plus you get a bunch of payment methods at once (Apple Pay, Paypal, credit card, bank transfer,...).
A great experience all around for a fair price (5%).
> Serious question: what are the odds that go 2

The Go maintainers already said that they don't have any plans to do an actual version 2.0 anymore. Generics turned out to be possible without breaking backward-compatibility.
There are plenty old bugs yes but does this one really count as a bug? It categories as "enhancement" and I personally agree it's more like a feature request.
I mostly work in Rails, but when I have to hop into a node project, it feels like I'm stepping back into PHP in terms of sheer madness.

Barely any convention, lots of repetition and configuration - all things Rails specifically set out to solve.