skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Mr Gates,

Would you please not forget to address in your
next book the following:

- Are you still of the opinion that vaccines should not
be shared with the 3rd world? [1] , [2]

- In some developed countries citizens are on their nth Boost
but most of the 3rd world is still struggling to get a first dose. Any suggestions
to address this dichotomy?

- Could you please review in your book, what actions your
foundation helped promote to help prepare the World prepare
for the current pandemic, besides your well known Ted talk?

- Would you mind starting Chapter 1, by stating what makes you
uniquely qualified to talk about vaccines and pandemic policies?

- If the next pandemic is even more serious than the current one,
would you mind unambiguously stating your opinion concerning medical
mandates?

[1] "Bill Gates under fire for saying vaccine formulas shouldn’t be shared with developing world"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bill-gates...

[2] "Bill Gates believes Covid 19 vaccine tech should not be given to India, what he said and why he said it"
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/bill-gates-b...
After decades of research, the time has come: degrowth now has its own journal
>but did not restart all the erroneously-scheduled rendezvous radar jobs

That's wrong. Excess CPU time was stolen by radar counter hardware, not by any software (counters worked by stopping CPU and using its ALU). Problem arised because main guidance routine (SERVICER job) was scheduled always every 2 seconds (by READACCS task/interrupt), and with excess stolen time it didn't finish in time, leading to scheduling of another SERVICER before previous instance finished. This repeated until memory ran out for stacking another SERVICER job. There was no "erroneously-scheduled rendezvous radar jobs", job that needed shedding was multiple stacked instances of SERVICER itself.
It's by far much more likely than my own government doing anything close to it yes.
They may as well say all former employees are Vice Presidents then, if it makes people feel better. It's just as meaningless as saying all former employees are "associates".

To add another anecdote: I work for a non-FAANG big tech co, which also provides former employees the 1-800 number that a new employer can use to verify employment; they do not reveal tiles or salary. As a manager, I cannot provide a reference for former employees.
*Hear, hear

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear
Starting their response by attacking DFEH rather than focusing on the issue at hand. That's a common rhetoric trick and makes them more suspect IMO.
Great thing that it's possible to work remotely from low-cost areas now! If the median home price in your area is more than $320k, you might consider going remote and buying elsewhere. (If home ownership is a top priority.)
Modern humans lived in Europe 10k years earlier than previously thought
I also can’t imagine verifying or asking HR to verify someone’s level or salary. They’d start questioning if I understood the point of the interview.

The whole prior salary thing is very touchy now, and in some states potential employers aren't allowed to ask.

The company my wife works for will only confirm whether an employee was employed at a given date, or not. No salary information. No titles. Nothing other than a yes, or no.
I HATE the 'modern-web' it is x10 worse on mobile.

You usually have to wait for the trackers, ads, popups, accept-popups,newsletters signups etc. I basically cant view 60% of the webpages google recommends for me ony android mobile. The other 40% is usually just super thin seo content :/

I just finished reading the Gemini Protocol specs. I really hope something like this takes off and there will be a second 'silo/community' running alongside the modern web.
What's worse is you get tracked even if you are paying.
No bikes? The Netherlands will be sad.
> You can.

Practically speaking, not really. A tiny fraction of people might earn enough to save enough to buy a house, but most will be priced out at every stage by people taking mortgages. Some people inherit existing property and trade it for other property. But if you are starting from scratch it's virtually impossible. Do you know anyone who has done it?

> They're lending you the money.

Are they? If I lend you my car, I don't have access to my car during that time. But money is just made up. There's nothing moving around. Banks aren't losing anything when they lend you something. They just create a deposit and a liability and get on with it. As long as they are all doing it at roughly the same rate nothing stops the economy filling up on debt, as it has done and continues to do.

Remember, banks lending money is nothing like you or I lending money. The banks control the ledger. They don't play by the same rules as us.
Thanks for sharing! I am still proud of this hack :)
Yes, clearly, because Covid hasn't disrupted anything else. /s

I suspect that the causes are more complicated.
It depends on the climate of where you live. Some places just don’t have the right kind of weather year round.
And in that scenario, Apple is the bad actor for referring to a non-C-suite employee as an associate, not the employer who fired someone over unverified information and poor assumptions?
Butting ahead of people in line at the bank doesn't make the line go faster. It may work on a highway without congestion, but if your route is going to enter congestion you're only getting in front of someone who would otherwise be where you are at that very moment
sucks for people like me with no debts though.
It’s a simple shell game. Meta US can very well become a subsidiary of Meta Bahamas, and still get licensing fees for its brands and IP from a nominally independent Meta EU.
Totally on point, but if I may offer a twist:

Say you run a large plumbing company, and you discover your plumbers took shortcuts on a particular job that resulted in an abundance of leaks for a given project.

The plumbing company cannot ask the plumbers for their pay back. They will have to eat the cost and fix the plumbing.

So, it's the business's problem either way. They can additionally choose to fire those plumbers if they want, which is line with your point of not believing the plumbers had no idea.

But it's still the company's debt to pay. They made the mistake of hiring people that were not capable of surfacing risks.
IMHO, there's two ways to look at that problem : protect the fragile, or restrain the non-fragile. And I'm in the same boat as your son.

The current policies in the west have done nothing to proactively protect the fragile, and everything to restrain the non-fragile.

As an example of what I mean : I spent a couple of lockdowns in a relatively poor country (Serbia) which for example allowed the 60+, fragile and immunocompromised exclusive access to shops, malls and other commerce until 9, a 30 minute pause to ventilate with nobody inside, and then normal access for the rest of the population. Subsidised delivery services were organised, etc. 16 hospitals with 900 ICU bed each (pop 6 million) were built chinese-style in 6 months, so the local healthcare system could go back to normal.

Also, health insurance has a basic public option, with price-controlled drugs, generally 10-15x smaller than the US retail price, even for US-made drugs, new or old.

Watching the US figuratively struggle for air for two years has been quite demoralizing.
It's sad but predictable that the top response amounts to "Forcing companies to act ethically and legally would just push them into the USA".

That's not exactly a great argument here, given that this French court has objectively made the right legal decision here in terms of EU privacy law, and the rights of their citizens.
This is brilliant! We designers like freedom of thought, and Figma give us that. The goal with makers.so is: inside the same tool I use to lay out ideas, I can also publish them (i.e. use makers.so components) without ever depending on a developer or third party app.

A "Component Engineer" is this second stage of the process (after playing around, I can now publish this with some rules).
It's a really good point about Apple willfully using an Experian service as part of this strategy. As to defamation, I don't think that's clear. Apple is intentionally using the term to be as legally vague as possible about how it externally reports its past connection to its ex-payees. This is mostly liability management, essentially saying less that can't be called false, instead of the defamatory tactic of saying more that is not true.

as·so·ci·ate (n)
1. a partner or colleague in business or at work.
2. a person with limited or subordinate membership of an organization.
3. joined or connected with an organization or business.
- Source: Google search results fed by Oxford Languages

This kind of vague hedging in communication for legal purposes is pretty longterm characteristic of the organization. It's the "say absolutely nothing after termination that can be dissected in court later" school. The school has adherents all over the place.
So you aren't allowed to speak freely and they are controlling what people can and can't wear?

So they do deny freedom of speech and freedom of expression to people that the government doesn't like (in this case Neo-Nazis).

The amount of mental gymnastics people do is astounding.
It's fantastic for I/O-heavy 'server'-type code

I have found nodejs frustrating for CRUD APIs, the is 'fantastic for heavy I/O' while true ends up guiding you to complex microservices(or trying to use a external services for everything) because you don't want to slow down the event loop as you add more and more cpu processing to your app.
A Hairy PostgreSQL Incident
Just look at the amount of altcoins now,... investing $100 into one of them could make you a millionaire, so someone will get rich out of them. Most of the others will fail miserably, and people will lose money. Again, the documentary will be made about the one who made it.
Advertising a product that does X/Y/Z but also causes cancer without mentioning the cancer means people want a different product that isn’t being sold.

Currently (edit:some) prescription drugs are being advertised with mentions of side effects like death, but what’s being treated isn’t mentioned. That’s clearly not advertising the actual product being sold either, yet it’s also effective.
> a good reason to never let rates get this low in the first place

My brother-in-law remarked that "the fed is overdue to raise rates". My reply: asset prices don't matter to ordinary people.

You already know this, but the Fed's mandate is "price stability and full employment". Full employment is going great -- the job market is tight, low-end labor is seeing lots of wage growth, everyone who wants a job is getting one.

Price stability was also fine until about 6 months ago.

The thing I keep coming back to, is how incredibly little asset prices really matter, in the larger scheme of things. What does matter is things like employment, the price of milk, and whether people have a roof over their heads (rental affordability).

In the larger sense, the fed's hands are tied, unless their legal mandate is amended to include "not creating asset bubbles". The distributive and stability effects of today's monetary policy might be the longest-lasting intellectual shift to come out of all this.
The rest of the world could also brain drain the US if it was easier to get into. The US -> EU/UK immigrants that I personally know have had a pretty hard time getting there permanently.
It’s a feature that Deno has and that works on the web (ESM imports from URLs). People have use cases for it and they want it. That’s not to say it’s secure by default of course but the demand is there.
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mind blown! We could have as many opt-in legal systems as we want! Like a ball to go with the chain.
What about all the other things they need to buy with their not a lot of money which have also gone up in price (say food)
We have deep respect for German and other languages, but HN is an English-language site, so posts here need to be in English.

That may require waiting until a good English-language article appears, but the more significant the topic is, the more (and sooner) this is likely to happen.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
If you have hyperinflation then your stock market is going to overheat and bust through the top of your chart over and over again! :))

History books focus on the bread lines, but if you dig deep enough you can find the stock market charts and they are epic! The capital class made so much bank and dipped out, just remember to actually leave because the people come for you.
Protecting the privacy of citizens is not akin to society-wide censorship, a la China. This is a disingenuous argument.
Still quite used in Canada, but I think we also had one of the highest penetration rates of SMS/MMS to begin with.

That being said, were it shut off I'd just use one of the other five messaging services on my phone...
> gas will inevitably drop back down

Why is this inevitable?

Investment in US tight oil is stagnating, OPEC+ lacks either the desire or capability to increase production, Venezuela's production capacity is still terrible, and rumors are getting quite loud that Ghawar has finally peaked.

EV sales are still far less than 50% of total sales, so net global fuel demand will continue to increase in the face of tight supply.

Barring another severe COVID variant outbreak, I don't see fuel prices declining anytime soon.

And the cool thing about energy prices is they feed forward into the cost of literally everything else in future PPI/CPI prints.
Believe it or not, but wealthy people have more debt relative to income than the poor. For instance, I have a mortgage that is several multiples above my annual income. Most other wealthy people also have debt because it makes sense due to low rates and good credit. The poor often have a tough time getting credit. If you're not making a lot of money it's tough to get debt at multiples of your annual income. That's why payday lenders are so popular (ultra short term high interest rate loans)

It also doesn't help if your income doesn't go up. You end up just paying more for everything. And the poor spend a lot higher percentage of their income on every day purchases that are being impacted.

So on net I think the poor are a lot worse off with high inflation.
> Germany has literally criminalised thinking the wrong things, and denies people to associate freely based on the things that they happen to think.

Yeah, like "all jews should be killed". Good thing.

> It doesn't stop those people thinking those things and it doesn't stop people from associating with each other.

It prevents such things from being normalized and makes it harder for them to be put in action.

Yeah, I know what you learned in school that this is worse than actual mass murder, and that everyone should be allowed to advocate for mass murder so that they can be disputed in the "marketplace of ideas".

In reality, what you get is echo chambers that lead people to believe that they're part of a majority who thinks that mass murder (of the right groups, of course) is good, and then some of them start to think that it's up to them to just go and do it.

In reality, criminalizing thinking certain clearly defined wrong things protects the freedom of everyone.
Not a clean room, but reminds me when I was working in a partner's small datacenter and found an electrician in there using a chop saw on metal conduit.
yep, obviously

but not much of one when the fed has backstopped everything that matters

another policy error, in my uniformed opinion
> Inflation is a good thing for people with a lot of debt but not a lot of money.

The counter to this is inflation is painful to people living on savings or fixed incomes. And the politics here are brutal - young people whom this benefits don't vote, older people whom this hurts do.
If they are holocaust deniers, As much as I love free speech, I can understand where the german government is coming from. we can't allow THAT to ever happen again.

This will probably get flagged or downvoted to oblivion but meanwhile, no one bats an eye at the worldwide brushing under the rug of the Palestinian Apartheid.
Those people have killed ~200 people in Germany since reunification. (Older data aren't reliable.) Putting a brake on that isn't unjustified.
> Inflation is a good thing for people with a lot of debt but not a lot of money.

I think it's good for people that can hop from job to job demanding higher wages as inflation comes. But if you're not in a position to do that, how is inflation good?
Telegram blocked calls to violence before, so technically it's nothing new.
Said another way, holding interest rates below inflation devalues assets relative to cash flows. If the gap is relatively small (e.g. 5-15%) then the economy can adapt to lower asset prices relative to cash. Workers get more margin, businesses invest in cash generating activities, speculative bets get hammered, asset returns are low.

If anything I'd say this exercise shows the limits of Federal Reserve power. Without the tight labor market of the pandemic, low interest rates simply raised asset prices. We should take the lesson that the fed should not be solely responsible for driving the economy.
You have a privilege; relevant parties believe your resume without needing to verify it. This behavior by Apple is disproportionately harmful to those without this privilege (eg. people on certain visas).
I believe the German government has a novel interpretation of their jurisdiction as covering any website with content in the German language (see the Project Gutenberg debacle).
JavaScript itself is very powerful in its own domain(the DOM interactions in the browser) but most of the bloat comes from developers wanting to write JS in different way than originally designed. 20 years of JS frameworks and at the end of the day all they do is arranging HTML boxes through slightly different code.

But why so many frameworks for the exact same output? It usually comes down to code management and making the code writing closer to the mental models of the problem they intend to solve.

I find it very unproductive to try to force JS to fit in every domain possible because there are already very mature languages who were designed with that domain in mind. That said, JavaScript has the power of being able to run everywhere which gives it unique advantage in actually learning and running the code written in JS.

I don't have a conclusion for this. I know JS and feels great to be able to run it everywhere, especially quick and dirty solutions are almost as nice as working with PHP. However, it easily frustrates me when trying to do something better than quick and dirty and start appreciating the domain specific toolsets. I guess the moral of the story is that JS is great but let's not try to solve every problem with it.
Sucks for anyone retired - anyone who has saved over the years - anyone who wants to buy a house, or buy a TV.

And it has a historical track record of getting out of control, and wiping out nation states.

Not arguing that inflation doesn't have it's upsides. But it has some serious serious downsides.
Depends on who is already financed. Likely this will be a lagging indicator and we’ll see further increases in institutional investment. Government at all levels will avoid being involved because citizens have grown used to the liquidity of their homes. The long term consequence to the retail market is going to be a tough pill to swallow. Builders adding to inventory are partnering with institutions already. All of this plays out in favor of expanding the SFR market share.
It’s a destruction of stored value. It’s never good even if people who took out unwise debts get their asses saved.
It also works out _sort of_ well for homeowners - at this rate, my house payment is going to end up being a minor inconvenience instead of my largest fixed payment. Of course, I'll still have to pay property taxes and insurance on the newly inflated value of the house.
FTA: “whose résumé conflict with official databases maintained by job verification services run by companies such as Equifax and Lexis-Nexis”

What’s official about those databases? Aren’t these just “best effort” results from those companies?

(I also think this kind of service should be opt-in for (former) employees, if not outright forbidden, but that’s another story)
Ransomware surge prompts joint NCSC, CISA warning to safeguard systems
Take out some debt. I’m serious. That “free” money is there for you to take risks and invest with.
inventory is building back up at a rapid pace. I see lots of construction everywhere.
correct, and this practice is sickeningly widespread.
It's an irrelevant exception because it hasn't been law for over half a century now.
CORS and SRI are just completely different. CORS exists to allow requests that would be banned under the Same Origin Policy, most of which have dynamic responses and could not integrate with SRI at all.
They have virtually no experience on their C-suite in managing complex logistics problems. The people they hire from FAANG are mediocre middle managers who then get titles like VP or SVP. They are trying to scale too fast to keep up with their valuation, without a clear vision.
The key takeaway is that if someone wants to discredit a protest movement they should get a few goons to dress up in black, mask their faces, and get a Nazi flag. Have them stand near the protest area, get a photographer to snap a photo and then duck out quickly.

The photo will spread, the media will pick it up, and a sizeable number of people will endlessly harp on the fact that a Nazi flag was present. It won't matter how many people were at the protest, or how long the demonstration lasted for. And no one in the media will apply the same contextualization that produced "fiery, but mostly peaceful".
can someone explain this?
Average University faculty member age has increased from 35 to 65 since 1980
All the talk about Pascal. :)

But in those days there was also Smalltalk, which I find --except for the syntax-- a very modern language. I like to think of Ruby as Smalltalk with a syntax make-over and some FP bolted on top in places it makes sense.
I mean you are both part of the executive team. The CEO is an immediate part of your working group. You probably should be talking almost daily at times.

It would be like the product manager never talking to their team’s engineering manager. The two are tied at the hip—at least in orgs I’ve worked at.
ACH transfers are still slow, somehow. Modernize American banking first. Good luck.
Sounds like Carvana might end up as the next Zillow Offers, but in the meantime I believe it…

I bought a pickup truck new just before the pandemic, and dealers are selling my model and year of the truck, with more miles, for $10-20k more than I originally bought it for.

I’d consider selling, but what would I replace it with?

New cars are just as expensive, hard to get ahold of, and on top of that have all kinds of corners cut because of the chip shortage…
As some who felt the same way but now lives somewhere with snow on the ground this of year it’s nice to still be able to cycle without the freezing cold and ice patches.
Show me the actual bombs or a bombmaking workshop that isn't just toy fireworks, and we can talk about this being anything other than being pissy and catharting angst against the establishment. Plans don't mean squat without evidence of execution. This is Russia we're talking about though.
This is a lovely product. I would like to use it and compare to jq, which I already use to query the contents of a JSON structure from the CLI.
For some definition of transitory, all inflation is transitory. That's a pretty useless definition.

2 full quarters of inflation well beyond target levels (with an accelerating trend) goes beyond a transitory event, in my opinion.
The price increases at the grocery store whether it be shrinkflation or price jumps, will never come back down. This is going to squeeze a lot of people.