skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like that. More mass slows everything down and makes changing direction harder.
What do you find not great in the UI of OpenTTD? It's not perfect, but it's relatively great, compared to virtually every major build sim that came out in the next two decades. It's functional and fast. 00s UIs were plain horrible, and I don't think it got that much better.
That's a false dichotomy. You can be vaccinated and get covid since the vaccine only prevents serious illness (and as this study says, you don't need to be serious ill to have these elevated risks). So it's not an either/or. With the soon to be endemic status, it's most probably 1) catch covid while unvaccinated 2) catch covid while vaccinated 3) very unlikely but not catch covid with either vaccination status.
Thanks but I get a 504 Bad Gateway error (I'm assuming the submitted link is paywalled, geo-fenced or similar?) so heres a Wayback link https://web.archive.org/web/20220208121636/https://www.techn...
"I can imagine it would add at least 20% to their operating costs."

Why is everybody working on the assumption that all this data has to sit in the US?

Keep it in a country with the strict-est possible privacy laws, say Switzerland, and noone would complain.
The Turnpikes were like this back in the day. You got a timestamped slip of paper when you got on, and you paid based on mileage driven when you go off. And if the times showed your average speed was too high, you would get ticketed also at the exit.
This is pretty standard practice. A company will typically only say "Yes, So-and-So did work here".
Probably a higher standard deviation is the better way to phrase it, though it's pretty fat tailed.
It's all good. Everything being said, I appreciate efforts like ClojureScript. There is just so much power in being able to use the same language and share the same models on the front and back end, but not all of us want to use JavaScript/Typescript.
I always come around to see the merits of a thing when it starts benefitting me.
While I agree with this idealistic view, all it takes is one delusional, misinformed or ambitious EM to break rank and start cutting corners for short term wins with the management and before you know it all teams are now expected to do the same.

Any organization where management does not readily acknowledge their reliance on technology and its associated upkeep costs is doomed to eventually sink waist deep in a tech mud pool of their own making.
Much more human effort went into making food back then. Our food is much cheaper than in the past.

(Assuming you live in the US and are middle-class.) You can eat heathy if you want to. It's your choice what you eat. You can choose to only buy unprocessed food and make everything from scratch. You can bring your own meals with you when you travel away from your home.

The fact that we have fresh vegetables imported from thousands of miles away, and plenty of frozen (but otherwise minimally-processed) food means you can have a better diet than back then. It's all about your choices.
The Sage and the Apprentice
Remember when security was pretty much just scanning floppies for viruses before you ran the program?
Myocarditis is absolutely documented in COVID.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33088905/

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm

> During March 2020–January 2021, patients with COVID-19 had nearly 16 times the risk for myocarditis compared with patients who did not have COVID-19, and risk varied by sex and age.
Agreed - lockdowns are the novel strategy being used for COVID, whereas "let er' rip" which is just protecting the most vulnerable population while minimizing disruptions for everyone else has been the status quo.

We didn't shut down society for polio before the vaccine. That was an exponentially more fucked up disease.
Unfortunately the cost in borne by us, regular EU internet users through a much degraded Internet browsing experience.
It's a more general effect where conservatives will cut budgets and mismanage government services and then, having done that will turn around and go "See, look! I told you the public sector can't do this!".

And in my opinion, you're kind of falling for it. Is it true that the BBC has not evolved its business model? Well yes and no. Yes it's true that the BBC has largely failed to find new forms of revenue. That's directly because the royal charter prevents it from doing so. Is it true that the license fee is a weird tax that is badly enforced. Absolutely, but again, it's not the BBC's choice how the license fee is set up. It's the governments choice, and rather than fix the problems, the government has made them worse (through stealth budget cuts including forcing the BBC to cover the cost of free licenses for the elderly). The government could scrap the license fee tomorrow and fund the BBC out of general taxation, or remove the restrictions on the BBC monetizing its content, or remove the BBC's obligation to do a whole swathe of programming that is unprofitable but required by the royal charter. All of that is in the government's power to do. It continually chooses not to fix the problem and instead continually just bash the BBC for things that aren't within it's control.

If you look at the things that the BBC is actually in control of though - the content it produces - it does a fantastic job.
Most people in Europe use WhatsApp anyway...
You can try (especially if you know ahead of time) but background check is done by a third party. Recruiters and interviewers don't care until background check flags it. You can try to be upfront about it, but it just creates a weird situation and they will defer to the 3rd party background check anyway.
Any evidence you may share with the background check company is not present on the final background report (since it might contain salary information which would be illegal i guess). It's a little bit like credit reporting, if your bank misreports in a few places you are f*ed.
That's the funny thing: they are sensitive of data collection by corporations when the data collection during the DDR was done by the government, something that they surely dont care about.
After reading this article this was my question as well, it seems like a very relevant point considering a majority of the population (in my country at least) is vaccinated twice, and getting up on their booster too now.
I'd say I Vued my frontend.
IPTV. It's the only reason i own bitcoins. :)
You said ' “Funding raised” is completely uncorrelated with how successful the company is. ' I showed you this statement is wrong, by providing you a statistic that proves they are correlated. We were not talking about any specific case, I don't know why you've opened with that. The coin flip statement is true but also completely unrelated to our discussion.
Chris McCord, quoted in the article, explains extremely well the absurd state of stateless http requests, from a perspective that is not appreciated in the article (queued to 40m50s):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhNv1ikZNLs&list=PLqj39LCvnO...

The programming model (in liveview, don't know about blazor or hotwire or livewire) really lets you get better performance by doing less. A part of me sarcastically thinks wow, damn, deleting data is irreversible data transformation and therefore increases entropy, every stateless http request is inching us closer to the heat death of the universe.
They still do in China: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptio...
I'm not them, but I think they probably are referring to the fact that sitting on your ass eating cheetos for a year also takes a serious toll on heart health.
> "making it hard to move your business data and processes to a different offering", not "network costs money"

Correction: "Network costs obscene amounts of money" ~= "making it hard to move your business data and processes to a different offering"
Freeman Dyson’s Advice to a College Freshman
We had our ancient garage door opener replaced last year and I opted to add the outdoor keypad thing. It turns out those just sync to the opener and run off a battery, you can just go buy one and screw it to your house. No wires, no fancy opener required. Best of all I can go for a walk with no key or phone.
Exactly this. The author's dev-blaming perspective is that Tech Debt costs are not accounted for systematically nor communicated clearly to the business folks.

Yet the intro provides an example of clearly quantifying and communicating the costs. I'd say he disproves his own point in the introduction. I found it hard to read the rest of this article.
NASA outlines concerns about Starlink next-gen constellation in FCC letter
> So, basically, the US security services can hoover up data about EU citizens, and those EU citizens aren't allowed any legal redress about it. Which, unsurprisingly, they aren't okay with.

Nothing about this stops that. Like I said to the other person this is protectionism. Requiring every US-based tech company to duplicate its infrastructure in the EU, Which in turn gives EU competitors an unfair advantage.
Peloton just didn't wine and dine and wow Wall Street enough for them to consistently hype the stock and now it's the CEOs fault? Because he didn't create the "magic show" that Wall Street wanted to see? John Foley is a founder of the Peloton business and created value from nothing to a leading fitness technology company. Why should he have to justify anything he does to asset managers who have never created any value in their entire careers? Wall Street only destroys value and extracts they don't create anything.

You're a founder and your business goes through a few rough years as you build the business and experiment? Wall Street says "quit, give up and sell". What a bunch of Wall Street hacks and they pushed out a perfectly good CEO, really sad. Just so the business could be sold off for a fraction of its' real value to some conglomerate to let it wither away and die.
I have an NB1, so I know exactly what you're talking about. I love it. No turbo, though.
To take a single-sentence stab at summary: It seems the brain stores semantic descriptions of what we perceive, and memories are reconstructions from those descriptions rather than retrieval of the actual perception.
WD, Kioxia Lose 'At Least' 6.5 Exabytes of 3D NAND Due to Contamination
If you ask people pointed enough questions, you'll soon find that their "subconscious" reasoning is just conscious reasoning that they don't attribute to themselves.
How does it correlate with time spent managing, seeking funding, doing pr, …. Which all correlate with success/age. Some also switch from academia to various monetary or political activities.

Working to make a mark is way different from keeping a lab running.
This is Apple's DNA and much more in recent years.

The "monetize everything to the max" policy of encouraging developers to test their new pre-release M1 chip + OS and software for $500 and then after they return their DTK they offered a $200 store credit.

The pettiness of continuing to charge 30% fees in one way or the other when they have been ordered by the courts to open their restrictions.

The constant sabotage of everything related to repairing their products many times making their own stuff shittier.

And now the "Either you are a faceless Apple minion, or your existence is a mere footnote".

It's the Apple we all know and love.
> I’m not sure preventing the spread is realistic.

South Korea has a total confirmed case rate 10x lower than the USA, and a death rate 20x lower. It's absolutely realistic. It just requires serious effort on the part of everyone to follow straightforward rules about testing/tracing/mitigation. Korea hasn't been shut down for two years. They've just been smarter about it.
Complicating the matter here is the Data Retention Directive, which while invalidated by the ECJ is still at least partially applied by some member states.
Can't speak for the Netherlands, but contactless payments seem to dominate in many European countries: https://www.nets.eu/Media-and-press/news/Pages/The-DACH-regi...
"varied by sex and age"... please see the part in comment about young healthy people.
France also had a very strict lockdown with 100,000 police enforcing the no travel laws between March 17th and April 1st had 5.8 million controls and issued 359,000 fines. The US never had a real lockdown.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110584/fines-controls-o...
Kudos to the Gruaniad for stopping the BBC hanging itself. I think they should be allowed a small gloat off the back of this.
There's no hard limit here provided by the law or otherwise. Some of the local data protection offices say that they find something of "up to 30 days" reasonable, so I guess that's a good starting point. Cutting that time in half will show good faith and you'll still be able to analyze logs, I think.
I took full advantage of my @apple.com address when I was in sales at the Ala Moana store. Hard to believe the webmail software at that time was Squirrelmail.
Start constructing your views from a foundation of, "I'm a good person. The things I do are good."
Good law understands consequences.

The market responding to the law with billions of cookie banners was as predictable as prohibition leading to bootlegging.
Sadly, I think you mean;

Shut up and take my cryptocurrency
One big difference for me would be that in real life, there is a far greater probability of your side conversation not being recorded. Or you not erroneously transmitting it to people you do not intend to.
Title should include (1998).

I like this quote:
" The irony is that Perl itself is a subset of UNIX features condensed into a quick-and-dirty scripting language. In a literary light, if UNIX is the Great Novel, Perl is the /Cliffs Notes/."
I could just as likely propose

4. Unknown long-term risks of Covid enhanced by vaccine + unknown long-term risks of vaccine.

Vaccine-enhanced disease is a very real thing, it's happened before (e.g. dengue). But it doesn't matter. Now we are talking about higher order nonlinear terms which are almost impossible to predict.

I am not claiming that I know for sure getting the vaccine is a negative risk/reward, although I do believe it is a possibility. I am just claiming that, given the present situation and present uncertainty, the vaccine mandate laws are evil, and the people who advertised this as a great vaccine with 90% efficacy ("pandemic of the unvaccinated") are liars since it's actually the least effective vaccine ever made.

>One look at hospitalization and death stats should confirm this as obvious

Not in my country, not obvious at all. And my country has better data than yours I bet.
Equifax has way more than just employment history.
I really miss the original Nukemap. The modern one, a forced re-implementation because API providers massively increased their fees, it nicely done in open source software. Unfortunately it now relies on fancy features like webgl to draw the ellipses/circles on the map where before it was just vanilla JS. Many browsers and machines, all of mine included, do not support webgl. RIP nukemap.
I've read a number of times about aphantasia, but I'm still unsure about things. For instance, if I'm asked to think of a cup in my minds eye, I would say yes, I can. Therefore I don't have aphantasia. But it is not at all like looking at a real cup or a picture of a cup. It is far more liminal and fleeting.

One bit of evidence of this is when I tried LSD a few times in the past, I don't get CEV (closed eye visuals), while some people report rich, colorful scenery. All the same, I do get visual impressions without actually seeing anything. For instance, while listening to a particular song it generated nothing but blackness in my minds eye, yet all the same I had the impression of looking at glossy flower made of hard glass. I was getting the interpretive conclusion of vision without any of the other information flow that comes along with actually seeing the object.

When I visualize things in my mind, it is kind of like that too -- I can describe what I'm seeing but I don't really see it.
With the market as it is now, cars a few years old cost almost as much as new cars; it may be worth considering.
I don't disagree with you.

> basically the same as pressing delete on a digital camera - do you keep every photo you take, even bad ones?

I used to keep everything, now I make an effort to delete the crap or even redundant photos. I agonize over this, but I try to do it. Then again, most photos I take I never look at again in my life, which I'm guessing happens to many of us in the age of digital cameras.

> To us these are irreplaceable parts of history, but it wasn't like that to him.

Yes, this is the crux of the problem.

Like you, I don't think this was censorship. I used the word "censor" because that's how the article frames it, but I agree this was an act of editing/choosing, not censorship.
The counter to this is that companies rarely cut ops staff when moving to the cloud. The problem is that you still have security and monitoring knobs to fiddle with in a cloud. And the staff you had is worse at fiddling with these knobs than the old knobs that they knew well. Plus, you've now added a whole new category of cost optimization problems.
It seems we're in agreement - it was a half truth to target one group for the blame when clearly others are also contributing.
TFA is surprisingly unapologetic about the Rube Goldberg SSH solution.

On the other hand fly.io looks really interesting, I want to try it out. The infrastructure described (other than the SSH hack) feels like how a modern cloud platform should be built.
Wondering if this will also apply to gmail, google drive and so on. Also wondering if there is a way to agree to storing my data in the us. Nonetheless it appears that this a good opportunity for an eu based alternative to google analytics.

Also what are the implications of cross eu-us chat apps where a person’s name is visible? Doesnt it mean that when a recipient in the us sees the name, the eu person’s data has been transferred to the us?

Apologies if this comment is ignorant, i am not well versed in the topic, but to me it sounds like this is quite an issue for us-eu chat and email apps.
"to the evil US empire"

Or to everyone, by leaving it in a giant publically exposed database enabling massive financial fraud. Thanks equifax
It absolutely means they "have a control group of people infected but unvaccinated".

As it's not a clinical trial, that means they have the vaccination status as a value in the data being analyzed, and are able to account for its effects in their analysis, and did so.
> 1. Since 2020, it's illegal to send PII (personally identifiable) data to the US because of the removal of the Privacy Shield Framework [2]

Minor nit - "PII" really isn't the right term to use, because it suggests the info itself must be personally identifiable to an individual. The GDPR covers much more than this, and uses the term "Personal Data".
An agreement requires a meeting of the minds. Blindly clicking "yes, accept cookies" in popups does not rise to that level. People just want to read the article, they do not understand or care about the data retention policy. So it is very hard to claim they consented.
Who is deciding what is the wrong and good direction to innovate in for everybody else?
Can anyone clarify what this quote refers to: "what really sets Erlang apart, for McCord, is its ability to preschedule processes so that the CPU doesn't get hung up on any single thread."

What's this concept called? Is it simply a matter of setting a priority level on a certain task, that way the scheduler can make sure it doesn't block?
Blackwell is engaged in activist investing. Their goal is to make profit by changing how the company is run. This deck is surely part of that campaign. Thus it may contain truths, but it also serves their agenda. Best to be understood in that light.

> I do find the arguments around bad governance structures and oversight weird though, as those should have been known before they invested.

Likely they knew and saw an opportunity for their investment strategy.
A pet peeve of mine is that the slippery slope fallacy can be defined as "modus ponens but wrong".

A fallacy should be a incorrect shape of an argument, a incorrect reasoning, not just a false statement.
> I like how Ada and Modula-2 have a separation between the definition of interfaces and their implementation: you can compile the interface spec and code against it before the interface has a single implementation, which makes collaboration in a team easier.

Java, C#, and Rust all have interfaces. (Although Rust might call them something different. I had a lot of trouble learning Rust.)

Even in C you can typedef a function pointer. (Although I haven't done anything like that in ~20ish years.)
> official databases maintained by job verification services run by companies such as Equifax and Lexis-Nexis

Sweet jesus how is that even legal?! And... why are companies outsourcing what used to be a core competence of an HR department?!
I'm on 27 years without any wrist problems which I attribute to my typing style. I am self-taught and don't use any known position like home row. My fingers don't have designated keys, instead choosing a finger depending on which is closest or which fingers are best suited to do a combination of keys or a pattern. My elbows are usually outside so that my wrists are not normally bent on the side and lay straight, think < > but not so extreme. If possible I keep my seat high so that my arms are in a downward slope so that my wrists are not bent upwards. It's harder to do this when using a laptop w/o an external kb. Home row puts incredible strain on wrists and find it to be a horrible way to teach people to type. Similar to when they teach you to learn piano, the elbow positioning is important to reduce wrist pain.

Since he talks about wpm, I'll elaborate on mine. When I was 13 my keyboarding class instructor in 7th grade tried to force me to learn home row, but was nice enough to make a deal that if I could beat him in a typing test I could type my way. I scored a 96 versus his 88 and won. In my 20s I was in the low 150s on my best days in a DOS-based typing software. I have an official 136 wpm score with 95% accuracy at our state job agency back in the early 2000s, they said their highest recorded, which included tests with paragraphs in nothing but symbols. I know the method works but I haven't figured out a reliable way to teach it to others and I don't know if it works for short fingers or if shorter fingers would possibly make it work better.
With all this chip shortage, i was thinking that i still have the same laptop from 2014. It's not like it's slow and it's not like they make them much faster anymore. So maybe the chip shortage is not as big problem as rumored?
It's what product is doing anyway, numbers are so often just made up to support a narrative.
> are we concerned that there is a similar risk to younger folks who got COVID

Children's ACE2 receptors are more resilient to damage, which is likely why they have only ~50% the risk of long covid as compared with a fully vaccinated adult. So yes, it's definitely a risk, but a smaller one.

That said, as an adult you can likely mitigate any cardiovascular damage at least somewhat by taking an ACE inhibitor to up-regulate your ACE2 receptors, whereas without medical training that probably wouldn't be especially safe or ethical to do on your kids.
If I’m not mistaken, isn’t Google now using Google Ireland Limited as the corporation that houses EU-incoming data, and thus they keep the EU data in datacenters owned by that shell company (and physically within the EU)?
After two weeks with no Covid restrictions in Denmark
I'd say 80% of the time at work
Grist vs. Airtable
It is. From the perspective of the person choosing an analytics system, it doesn't matter exactly what the reason is, though.