skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eugenics is the most obvious example of the moral failure of utilitarianism, which in the end is really just man's attempt to invent morality for himself. In the end it results in an extremely ugly and selfish worldview. The "unfit" are to be exterminated in utero, the poor are to be prevented or dissuaded from reproducing. The claim is that this is better for the environment or for humanity as a whole, but I say the truth is that it's more convenient for the elite class who invented this evil ideology in the first place.
> But they have an incentive to make decisions on merit otherwise they would go out of business and be out-competed.

Yeah, you would think so. To some extent you are right. But I think corporations are still very inefficient and get away with promoting or hiring less than ideal candidates. Why do they not get out-competed? Because the competition is also flawed in similar ways.
Additional titles can sometimes be used to determine business strategy or product development, Apple can be ultra secretive about both. I suspect that would be part of the official rational for doing it.
It's a great feature, but it had a few unintended side-effects:

https://lwn.net/Articles/819834/
"Blocking userfaultfd() kernel-fault handling" (patches to fix a security issue, more detail in https://duasynt.com/blog/linux-kernel-heap-spray)

https://lwn.net/Articles/849876/
"Patching until the COWs come home" (complicated interaction with copy-on-write)
Google is already doing this in countries like China and South Korea.
New Planet Discovered Around Proxima Centauri, Star Nearest the Sun
Contact tracing at the very least. It controls spread while allow places to stay open. Seems like the US just threw up their hands and decided that it was too difficult logistically and alternating between partial lockdowns and letting people who whatever.
It's not that hard. The risk is highest when we have these waves from new variants. There are forecasts that predict them with weeks lead time. And then the wave comes and goes over a few weeks. You just have to up your defenses during those weeks.
To be fair, as we are aiming to become better software engineers, on every PR we make, we should be aiming to decrease our bug rate, and increase our speed, testing, robustness, performance and the overall expressiveness.

Why don't you "simply write code faster with fewer bugs" seems sarcastic or unrealistic (or Übermensch) but over time with practice we should attempt to do this. And I do see it, within the practices of the top software engineers on GitHub, who often write better quality code than I could faster than I could. It must be achievable.
Ok 30 days do you have a link for that?
The article actually left out one of the oldest frameworks for doing this:

Wt

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

It uses C++ to program a back-end application kind of like you would with with Qt, and then it does all the required Javascript/HTML to render your app in the browser. It is kind of like Qt for the web (painting with a very, very broad brush).

I have also tried wasm with various Rust frameworks (Seed and Yew).

However, for my latest project (triviarex.com) I ended up abandoning those in favor of React Javascript, however with a non-traditional architecture.

The downside of these frameworks for me was tooling and turn around time and integration. React has great tooling, and it is easy to do live coding. In addition, there are a lot of pre-built components for Javascript frameworks and a ton of documentation.

While there can be live coding with the backend, I guess because of my background, I like to use strongly typed languages in the backend to help catch logical errors earlier, and that requires a compilation step.

So this is the architecture pattern that I am using.

My backend is written in Rust in Actix, and each session is represented by an Actor. The React front-end establishes a web sockets connection to the actor, and sends commands to the actor, which are then parsed by the backend using Serde JSON, and handled using pattern matching. All the state and state transitions are handled on the backend which then sends the frontend a Javascript serialization of a Rust enum that describes what the state is, and what data is needed to render. The front-end basically has a series a if-else statements that match against the state and renders it. Most logical processing lives on the backend, and most of the buttons simply just send a web socket message to the backend.

For me, this is the best of both worlds. I get the strong typing and correctness of Rust in the backend to manage the complexities of state management, and I get the flexibility and live coding of Javascript and React on the front-end to quickly and interactively develop the UI. Many times, I will be testing and see that the formatting or placement looks off, and I just quickly change the html/css/javascript and have it instantly appear.
Your argument is, “This thing may be bad, but what about this other thing that I think is even worse?”

It doesn’t address why you don’t find the arguments compelling. Do you think energy impact is completely trivial?
Few, if any. They are a really good idea in so many ways, but Americans regard speed cameras of all sorts as unsporting and invasive.

I used to feel the same way, until some combination of experience with traffic cameras in other countries and maturity changed my mind.

Traffic-stops are dangerous for all concerned, expensive, don't scale, and are rife with the opportunity for profiling/abuse.

To the extent that we can agree on speed limits that delineate the difference between safe and unsafe behavior, average-speed cameras are a great way to ensure that those limits aren't radically exceeded.

There are places, like Highway 20 in Washington State, where the privacy risk is limited. If you pass through Newhalem, you're either going to the mountains or you're going to Mazama, 60 miles away. On that stretch of road, if a car arrives >10% earlier than can possibly be safe, why can't we fine the car's owner?
I find it humorous that the first website this link took me to was this: http://www.softpaw.org/fae2.html

The design is, uh, certainly not minimal.
> the privacy-first analytics tool

Don't be coy. Call it what it is - an analytics service.

And as such it falls largerly in the same bucket as GA, because if someone's using Simple Analytics, my surfing data - against my wishes - is being shared with some random third party. Whether it's less, more or comparably evil as GA is secondary.
This is the reasoning that leads to absurd levels of death we've seen over the last two years. It's great for you, no doubt, but incredibly selfish.
Yes, TCAS allows cooperating aircraft to tell each other their position. But it's not required for small aircraft and both aircraft need it for functionality.
Searching for "Allow All" becomes a reflex after a while. I don't know anybody rejecting anything anymore, it's even worse.
Bill Gates Letter to Hobbyists (1976) [pdf]
it's a scam that separates people from their money and wastes absolutely gobsmacking amounts of energy for literally no reason. what good could possibly come of it
The shinier the shield, the darker the heart. Don't always assume someone who looks conventionally attract are good folk. I've had plenty of 'smilers' in my day that made my blood run cold when they turned on me.
No offense, but you have probably not been in software development for 25+ years.

I've been doing web dev for 30 yrs and it's kind of funny to see everyone inventing server side rendering, plain old html and php again. It's a spiral, not a circle and we're a bit wiser and performant this time, but much of it has been done and gone in some way or another.
> During March 2020–January 2021, the risk for myocarditis was 0.146% among patients with COVID-19 and 0.009% among patients without COVID-19. Among patients with COVID-19, the risk for myocarditis was higher among males (0.187%) than among females (0.109%) and was highest among adults aged ≥75 years (0.238%), 65–74 years (0.186%), and 50–64 years (0.155%) and among children aged <16 years (0.133%).

https://www.myocarditisfoundation.org/about-myocarditis/

> While we often associate cardiovascular conditions with elderly populations, myocarditis can affect anyone, including young adults, children and infants. In fact, it most often affects otherwise healthy, young, athletic types with the high-risk population being those of ages from puberty through their early 30’s, affecting males twice as often as females. Myocarditis is the 3rd leading cause of Sudden Death in children and young adults.
In my native Belgium, indexation is set in law. Price levels up by 6%? Wages up by 6%. There has been tiny bits of nibbling at the edges, but the principle stands and is not up for discussion.
Think about it the other way - you could have been a janitor for Apple and your new employers would be none the wiser.
It's not rumoured, it's thousands of articles that explain how this is a big deal and how many industries have had to slow down because of it. Chips are used in everything, your personal laptop is really irrelevant in the equation.
Are Fintech Plug-Ins The Future?
You don't want to live in a country with mass disabilities either.
Since everyone is spying on everyone, what's the ethical or moral issue here?
If your opponent is the US government you are already doomed.
I mean the less-cynical take is now that the author actually understands the reality of the business instead of the warped outsider's perception it doesn't seem half as evil as he was made to believe. I can respect that.
It feels like I’ve been hearing that this is transitory, there was nothing to worry about. Worrywarts we’re exaggerating… and now the chickens come home to roost.

And, I can understand that coming from the Whitehouse, after all it’s a political liability… but news organizations, economists, journals, Twitter, publications… as if they all just joined a narrative to wish something untrue.

There is no “fourth estate”. That looks to have been a myth to perpetrate unwarranted prestige.
Thanks! I've actually listed this as a career goal in my performance reviews. My company requires architects to be respected respected (fast) senior devs (they view technical career paths as linear, and one must be better at the role below it to be good at the next one). Something which I'm not. So it's highly unlikely. Maybe if I find myself out of a job I will apply to some architect positions.
Is this what the people who made it big in crypto spend their money on? It costs as much as a top of the line gaming rig.
I worked at British Aerospace and my title was software engineer. Compared to previous programming jobs, this was roughly 70% paper work and 30% developing software. It was quite formal how they developed software using the waterfall method. Everything was documented and signed off before any development happened. Formal specs, design specs, acceptance tests (for afterwards) and so on. It felt more engineered than any other software development job I've had since.
There is no different solution. The EU tried twice to build this kind of solution and EU courts have shot it down twice with the argument that in the face of no legal representation of EU citizens in the US it is not possible.

So the US needs to move here or it can not happen.
A Millenial Considers the New German Problem After 30 Years of Peace (2021)
Note only veterans were studied here (i.e. the most vulnerable demographic anyway).
A static webserver is just the webserver in my mind. If you use something like nginx you are only going to be surprised by a remote exploit about once every two decades. Yeah, if you use some sprawling set of 'apps' that use things like Log4j on top of your server you're exposing attack surfaces.
I think it's a bit extreme to call it vandalism. Presumably the editor didn't give much thought to the archival value of the "reject" photos.

It's a bit easy to armchair quarterback now, when we can preserve and access data so readily. But I suspect a contemporary editor would have had no idea that anybody would ever want to look at the b-roll.
You also can't separate that this all became popular during a global pandemic and people love to gamble.

I think its easy to underestimate the amount of global entertainment dollars that have been on the sidelines the past two years.

It is a fashion trend that will turn to dust as the pandemic fades. No one is going to want to be reminded of the pandemic in two years when people were so starved for entertainment they were buying these stupid ape pictures.
You should also admire the boy who took his dorm-gossip php script and made it the world's biggest media empire
> so long as the data is located and processed in France.

... you also have to ask for permission first.

The main difference is that for a data processor in France it seems possible to get all the right contracts in place, while a US based data processor is incapable of doing that thanks to FISA and similar US initiatives.
Thanks, updated the comment.
Isn't it a little remiss to report on inflation without even mentioning the huge increase in M1/M2 money supply since the pandemic began? [1]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
> Thankfully "let it rip" is paying off

Let's see if the cardiologists agree next year.
Ask HN: Does your current project use off the shelf auth or homegrown?
I work in the auth space and was talking to someone else in the same area. They mentioned that "off the shelf" auth solutions, either SaaS or OSS, were becoming more prevalent. They were seeing fewer and fewer homegrown solutions.

That's not what I've been seeing at all, so I wondered if you'd share:

* does your current product or project use a homegrown solution?

* if you use an off-the-shelf solution, what is it?
Sorry I read your post kind of annoyed that people were conflating two different painkillers and didn't read the last sentence properly.
> What do you do for fun after work?

This is nice as a casual social question, but it isn’t related to the job and shouldn’t be relevant. If your goal is to understand if all they do is work, asking about working hours is more to the point.
> Thankfully "let it rip" is paying off with infections plummeting around the world after an 8 week~ wave of it.

Our reported cases here in Canada are only plummeting since restrictions have been placed on who can actually have a PCR test scheduled, and these are the only results that are reported.

The emphasis has been put on handing out rapid tests, which aren't tracked. As expected, cases started dropping immediately alongside the number of PCR tests performed. We're not past the spike, we're just ignoring it.
Your civil liberties don't give you a right to get other people sick. My son's a type 1 diabetic (this isn't a matter of diet, exercise - that's type 2 diabetes.) Diabetics are at higher risk for complications from COVID. It pisses me off that people like you (and there are a lot of you) think it's your right to do what you please because it's inconvenient to wear masks, quarantine, social distance, etc. There are a lot of people at risk. Don't be a selfish prick.
>The market responding to the law with billions of cookie banners was as predictable as prohibition leading to bootlegging.

And now the regulators are responding to it.[0]

[0] https://www.iccl.ie/news/gdpr-enforcer-rules-that-iab-europe...
You're making a false dichotomy, ignoring the existence of other treatments, the fact that 50-80% of infections are asymptomatic, and the fact that cross-immunity from previous coronaviruses means many people may never develop COVID, even if they are exposed.
I’m with you: I much prefer the USA’s response to China’s. However, if COVID turned out to be worse and I felt my and my family’s life were in danger, I would expect (and demand) that level of lockdown here at least.
This is basically a 'we are watching you' warning, second time the fine will be different
>squeak a few extra cars through as a yellow turns red, sure.

For one thing, this counts as blowing through a red light. Secondly, I've seen plenty of this in Philly - people blowing blowing through stop lights and stop signs
I think it is catchy and saying "I tapped danced my frontend" seems to work for me and reflects the speed of development that CLOG and Common Lisp offer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clog_dancing
I worked at Apple and I’m okay they do this. My role is my information to share. I don’t need that sitting in some database in perpetuity.
AI Gets a Quantum Computing Speedup
The cheapest plan is 19€ / month which is twice what I pay for my VPS. Not realistic. It's very easy to rack up bills while building a website: hosting, domain name, Wordpress plugins, analytics, publicity etc

I don't have analytics yet on my site (it's a very recent side project). I didn't want to go the Google route because ethics, now I don't even have the choice (I'm French).

I looked at the self-hosted options but it seems overly complicated (I'm afraid installing them on my VPS will kill perfs), so now I'm considering just writing a script to parse Apache's logs.
Apple also was involved with the really shady no-compete-clause stuff for former employees, so this does not surprise me, but I don't know if I am ready to attribute this to malice yet -

I can imagine there being some HR system that does this automatically as a default for employees that don't have a title at Apple anymore.
Any evidence that this represents the common man freeing himself from the economic authorities and not just the privileged class using it for capital flight and tax evasion?
Doesn't matter one single bit, they are still the 100% subsidiary of Alphabet which is legally bound to provide data at the request of US gov agencies.
According to Figure 1, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3#Sec2

First COVID-19-positive
test (T,) between 1 March 2020
and 15 January 2021
n = 162.690

VA vaccination began in late December 2020, hence some of the veterans may have received at least one injection, but would not have been considered vaccinated until 14 days after their second injection, https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/82728/va-begin-covid-19-vaccina...
I don't think it does. They cite table 21 for this analysis: https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...

If you read their footnotes, they say:
"In total, 95,223 (61.93%) participants in COVID-19 group received COVID-19 vaccine (42,065 (44.18%), 45,450 (47.73%) and 7708 (8.09%) received BNT162b2, mRNA-1273 and Ad26.COV2.S, respectively) and 3,173,169 (56.29%) participants in contemporary group received COVID-19 vaccine (1,349,844 (42.54%), 1,609,399 (50.72%) and 213,926 (6.74%) received BNT162b2, mRNA-1273 and Ad26.COV2.S, respectively) before end of follow up."

So it looks like both the COVID-19 group and contemporary group had received the covid vaccine.
Protecting people from financial misery in order to isolate is the path we took and completely half assed it. There was never a moment when police were instructed to harass people for being outside, or not wearing a mask.

Now if you have something against government mandating that businesses operate within certain safety parameters then I’ve got news for you….
It really doesn't.

(I also fail to understand how giving ownership to Facebook for all messaging is somehow an improvement in Europe.)
Why is that? It's called analytics for a reason.
you can use a template engine that escapes all variables by default. in either case, it's just about coding defensively and being secure by default
We're not going to do perpetual lockdowns for the rest of eternity and not every country in the world is capable of enforcing a lockdown like China and the rest of East Asia anyway. It was always going to spread.

Easy for the laptop class of this website to call not wanting lockdowns selfish when it disproportionally harms the poorest and most vulnerable of our society.
Most the diseases we have eradicated with vaccines were already not in a position to cause pandemics. We also vaccinated against them mostly in childhood, which 20 years later gave us (the beginning of) an adult population that didn't need to be cajoled into doing the right thing.

By contrast, COVID19 is in almost every sense a brand new disease to which very few humans anywhere on the planet had any natural immunity, and is contagious enough (even in the less-highly contagious variant cases) to cause pandemics that are public (not personal) health emergencies.

It's hardly surprising that the approaches would differ somewhat.
I'm not surprised.

"simple" has to imply neither "primitive" nor "bad workmanship". Bauhaus takes this principle, and expresses it in architectural and industrial design.

This is a timeless truth, that can be seen in everything humans create, from art, architecture, writing, up to and including software.
widespread - here in Michigan the Governor ran on a campaign of "fix the damn roads"
> I think it's a violation of my civil liberties.

As an immunocompromised person, and considering the ADA, I'm of the opinion that some mitigation strategies, like required masking in the grocery store, help preserve my civil liberties and should be considered reasonable accommodations.

Given our civil liberties conflict, you wind up in a tough to resolve scenario.
Not really an Einstein quote [0].

[0] - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/07/forgotten/
Contact tracing, heavy testing would've been a good happy medium. It don't have to be all or nothing.
https://arachnoid.com/android/SSHelper/index.html
Studies aren’t the best but it looks like vaccination significantly reduces the risk of these issues. Just hold off infections till the population can get vaccinated.

Bigger issue is getting people to vaccinate especially since long Covid will cost billions in increased insurance premiums and Medicare costs.
>Apple does not have to share their database with these third party companies, but not only do they choose to do so they also make sure the information is wrong. Apple is, essentially, being unethical on two levels

By giving out wrong personal information, the argument could be made that they are protecting privacy.

I do not believe saying "associate" is wrong, though. It's a term that is commonly used by HR to refer generically to anyone who works for a company. If you haven't encountered it, it may feel foreign to you, especially since Apple is a retail company and you may be conflating it with "retail associate." That's not what it means though.

"Employee" is a term fraught with legal and other liability in it's use (think Uber drivers - are they employees or contractors?). HR departments will refer to everybody as “associates” to mitigate risk. If Apple wanted to confirm employment, but not divulge titles, they could say associate.

Similarly, Starbucks uses "partners." Do you really think a barista is a part-owner in Starbucks and that's why they're called a partner?
The the title would have been changed to “former employee”, not “associate”, for which the only conceivable reason seems to be to confuse.
That's not hard, just costly. Hard would be "here is your data in an obscure binary format and we are not going to tell you how to decode it". If you want to make a point of it being expensive, just say that it is expensive. Expensive isn't hard, it's just a calculation.
Anyone here that works on these kind of deep-dive type of security research? Can you give a TLDR of how do you usually set everything up to find these results?

As in, do you set up some sort of test environment/website with full debug logs and take if one step at a time from there? If so, how to you ensure that it is realistic and relevant to real world use since real-world architecture might differ from a setup that worked in your experiments?

I ask this because I used to do some bug bounties and it consisted of a lot of painful trial and error. I can't imagine anything new and profound can be found that way.

(PS in case it isn't obvious I didn't open up the research links and read in detail, hence a tldr)