skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voluntary screening of prospective parents for genetic disorders doesn’t seem malicious to me. Especially if they already know they are at high risk. If my partner and I realized we would have a child with an inherited burden, we’d probably adopt instead.

You could say this counts as Eugenics, but maybe people just need a different word since Eugenics is so tainted.
The notion that the Chinese room is 'mysticistic' is one of the most bewildering responses to it to the point where I don't think people who make that argument actually understood Searle.

Searle, simplified holds that consciousness is a property of very particular biochemical systems, not a disembodied thing that exists independent of the matter it inhibits.

It's the rational-oriented circles ironically enough who almost dabble in a Cartesian Dualism by positing "computation" or "minds" as distinct from matter. In fact with on occasion almost religious-sounding implications.
No reason ad tech companies should have freedom to associate real world data with online data. This seems like the perfect candidate for a US state proposition.. no company engaged in online ad tech may combine or allow any other entity to marry online identities with real life.
My phrasing would be "NFTs alleged to be worth $200M"...
For VR (Quest/Steam) There is a beautiful minimalistic game called Cubism that uses a similar set of shapes in 3 dimensional space where you need to fit the group of blocks into increasingly complex forms. It's a very soothing environment and the graphics are so clear with technical touches like a high frame rate (120hz), perfect hand controls, and use of AR/passthrough, all possible due to the relatively simple game requirements. Highly recommend the experience if you can do it.

There is also a free open version similar to Cubism built in WebXR called Plockle that follows the same theme [2].

[1] https://www.cubism-vr.com/

[2] https://constructarcade.com/game/plockle/
Even without that legislation, most people would already care about avoiding poisoned food.

So a law specifically forbidding poisons is in line with what the majority already cares about.

(Slightly related: see eg some Chinese people making good money from buying baby formula overseas and shipping it back home in their luggage. China has legislation against poison, but people don't trust the enforcement enough.)
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/27/9/21-1042_article

"In summary, we show that patients with low SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in their respiratory tract are less likely to mount a systemic antibody response. Although we cannot formally exclude false-positive RT-PCR results in some participants, PCR contamination is highly unlikely as an explanation for our findings (Appendix). We also show that clinical illness does not guarantee seroconversion and that laboratories with highly sensitive RT-PCR assays are more likely to detect serologic nonresponders. These results provide an explanation for the puzzling variability of seroconversion in different cohorts."

Also: https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/covid-19-studies-natural-i...
Even an atheist commanding officer will tell you: meeting the religious needs of servicemembers is very important to the U.S. military. It's a morale thing and morale is critical for a high-functioning force. There is an entire military occupational speciality (i.e. job title) for both chaplains (officers) and chaplains assistants (enlisted). Chaplains from a wide variety of faiths can be found in the U.S military but even a chaplain of a different faith than your own is available for counseling. In a forward-deployed situation, the chaplain can even function like a therapist for servicemembers who need and seek help. They also assist the commander with non-religious activities relating to morale and welfare. If, for example, you had a hurt servicemember in the hospital, a commander might send the chaplain to go and check on them.
Not sure about the parent poster, but I am here mostly for the comments, and rarely visit the linked content.
I mean in that case you're still paying Microsoft for a Windows install. I'm not sure that is really "choosing a different OS" in a way that matters much. You chose Windows and a different OS, from Microsoft's point of view they still got theirs
> based on the papers I've read the post-infection immune response is weaker

Please provide a citation for one of these papers.

> Positive PCR will also identify asymptomatic people, who are the most likely to not develop useful antibodies.*

UK health data showed in 2021 that Delta/Apha Covid reinfections were in the range of 0.1% and 1%.

Blood serum antibodies are one small component of a very complex array of immune system defenses. If someone is asymptomatic (NOTE: near-ideal scenario for the benefit claimed by vaccines, i.e. reduction of symptoms), one scenario is that their immune system mounted a strong nasal/mucosal response in the upper respiratory system, based on exposure to prior coronaviruses. So not only did they defeat Covid the first time, but their immune system has now been upgraded even further against future Covid-and-neighboring threats.
> Apple and Firefox brought this on by killing 3rd party cookies.

And the ad networks–like Google–brought that on by their user-hostile data collection practices.
> Governments have been trending towards policies I like since long before I was born.

Assuming you aren't too young, were you in favour of going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Patriot Act? Trump's travel ban?

The the long arc of the moral universe doesn't always bend towards our understanding of justice.
Meditation, of course. The Brahmavihara of Karuna (compassion) is exactly what you are looking for here.
In sum: it's a nothingburger.

This reeks of "sovereign citizen" reasoning: existing laws around vaccination don't apply because someone at the CDC updated the website! I guess that's even simpler than looking for the gold fringe on the flag.
Keep in mind that to a certain extent electricity is fungible.

If data centres weren't using the clean energy, something else could use it that's currently being produced in a more dirty way.
I do! Thank you.
I largely agree they're in the same realm, but not exactly the same. With TV or books, you're still in the current world, visually. You can still see your aging paint, dirty floor, etc. You can also do them with others, watching movies together or reading books aloud.

VR is completely self isolating. And I think that's the point, at this point.

Ethically, who knows. Compare how you'd feel with two friends, sitting around watching TV together, versus the same setting but each is on their own phone. That already happens today and is incredibly alienating, so this seems like that feeling on steroids. It -feels- incredibly unethical to me.
I mostly keep them for reference purposes and when I feel like casually exploring a topic.

If I am actively learning something, I usually need to be hands-on with my toy project (which is never really a toy project as in it has to do something of value to me), and books are too slow to go through questions I might have while building stuff.

I do enjoy an ocassional "historical" programming book for a subject I care about (eg. Codds Relational Model for Database Management), but rarely will I read a book cover to cover.
Thank you for apologizing. I was not offended. I was baffled because it was totally non sequitur.
As to a book recommendation, the Buddha's "Early Buddhist Texts" (of the Pali Canon) are highly recommended. There's a lot of material there, but well worth reading, IMHO.
the 95%-ile is irrelevant - it's more the sector that matters. a 5%-ile doctor is still going to be able to do the work of a doctor.

The reason photography or art/music require a 99%-ile is because these sectors require popularity, and the quality is subjective. Only the most popular pieces make any money - the rest are passion projects by its creators.

Engineering sectors don't need it - there's an objective standard to which your work can be graded, and as long as you pass that grade, your work is valuable to someone (who's gonna be paying you for it).
I'm pretty sure those big retailers are already doing this. Given sufficient profit motive, you should always assume the worst possible.
<tinfoil>In the world of global governmental (often extra-legal) surveillance, aren't attempts to be anonymous likely to make you a person of interest?</tinfoil>
> I don't believe any court of law

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against OSHA mandates.

Amorphous "protection" is not the same as the historical gold standard of "sterilizing immunity". No one claimed that historical immunity of prior vaccines was 100%, but it was close enough to stop infections and transmissions, unlike the current Covid-19 injections which do not -- and decline even further in efficacy on a monthly basis.

vaccine efficacy over time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
I was going to suggest introducing the kind of heuristic analysis found in antivirus engines. Kind of like your item #2 - don’t run scripts that behave badly (for some heuristically recognizable “bad behavior”.) Basically a browser built-in AV scanner. Maybe give a user the option to permit the script once per session, or forever. Something like this would definitely introduce a UX speed bump, it sounds terrible.
Maybe instead of doubling the price, McDonald's could cut their profits? I'm sure the shareholders would still do just fine with $3.75 billions per year instead of $7.5.

But the poor shareholders would be very sad with that, they don't deserve such a misfortune. It's better and easier to just underpay their employees, they don't need to make a living anyway.
First ask why.

Both tongue in cheek and for real. If you don't know why, ask someone else.
I see… okay, thank you for educating me a bit further. The claim in TFA indeed sounded hyperbolic, and the plethora of law sites encouraging people to sue, only increased the fear factor.

My takeaway will still remain that ensuring comprehensive insurance should be a key factor in these engagements. But, good to know it’s not that simple for someone to steal your home over liability!
> Why does selling the data matter?

It is somewhat galling for your private behavior to be monetized.

But you're right that the selling itself is not the core issue. The core issue is that it's being shared. The monetization is an incentive to share, and that's where the problem lies.

By contrast, think about your doctor: they can't legally sell your private data. If they share it with anyone, it is for the express purpose of helping you, their patient. No problem there! My doctor shares my data with their lab testing partners and cloud vendor, and it doesn't bother me at all.

Now imagine if my doctor could legally sell my data to anyone and make even more money from me. We know with 100% certainty that every hospital would sell that data far and wide.

This is what adtech firms are doing, just with (slightly) less sensitive data than my doctor has.
It's a really, really great show. You won't regret it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394720

68+ points
And for good reasons. I think there is an almost ignorant annoyance with devs who reinvent, but a lot of times they’re reinventing a punctured wheel or the wheel is for a bulldozer and they need one for a minivan.

I had this exact experience: “why should I reinvent the wheel?” Oh this solution doesn’t let you apply partial payments or apply one payment to multiple invoices. This one doesn’t create account statements. This one can’t fax invoices. This one only supports Stripe (and has its own undocumented billing API because who would use anything other than Stripe?). This one has a weird XML definition system for subscription pricing which makes it difficult if not impossible to handle negotiated rates on a per-account basis. Not to mention having to teach billing people how to write the weird XML. This one won’t prorate invoices. This one is a cloud service that costs $100+ a month and is liable to be unavailable when I really need it! They all have weird features that I will never use.

Ok, we’ll go with this imperfect one and make some changes. But where’s the entry point? How does weird framework in weird language even work? What are the conventions? How is the original developer differing from those conventions?

And then you come to the realization that the wheel gets reinvented because the existing wheels were made with specific business logic in mind. While this can often be generalized for a particular industry or set of use cases, it often does not and can not cover all use cases. The wheel is reinvented.

(Not so fast with the XKCD comic about new standards. We’re not imposing standards on others, we just need our software to work for us.)

Sometimes the wheel doesn’t need to be reinvented. Some help desk software I wanted to use needed some slight tweaks. The entry points were obvious and the development environment was easy to setup. I made the tweaks and was good to go.
The keyword is "define"!

You can just define the first turn to be Right no matter how it is oriented.

If you are not happy with that then just rotate the first segment until it looks Right to you. Then label the other turns.

If you are still not happy with the word Right to denote the first term then just make up new notation. Define the first turn to be 1. Use numbers to denote turns if you object to using Left and Right.
Lawyers weren't doing too hot about a decade ago, especially entry level. Part of the problem is that just about every university wants a law school. Revenue is similar to a med school, but with far lower costs to operate, it's basically free money.
At the end of the day the data is still coming from the client so perhaps the best approach in future would be to find ways to make the data less useful or useless.
On personal anecdotes, I've used the same internet identity across all platforms and it's not hard to locate my real life identity from there...since like 20 years ago when I got on the internet. So all the good reputation and bad reputation followed me through, and surprised me in best and worst way.

There're times when I wished I had concealed myself saying certain things (or just haven't said it), and times when I felt the joy of recognition when people connected dots about me and became closer friend. Now as I'm getting old, it's just a habit, no longer about risks or rewards.

Yet, both younger me and older me will probably be very indecisive about doing this if they've never done it and are told about all the fortune/misfortune this has brought to me, including meeting my wife and thinking about suicides.
It requires some effort to get oriented, but the granularity of control is fantastic. There is no competition.

Although the dev gave up on it, he's open to someone picking it up (if there are any brave souls on HN)

https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/i240ds/reques...
I'm glad someone came across that! Happy you thought it was a good way to handle it
> The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against OSHA mandates.

Critically, not on the cockamamie basis that the CDC's website reflects the ground truth of what it means to be vaccinated.

SCOTUS's ruling was based on OSHA's authority, not a definitional dispute.
The Chicken Tax (2015)
discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30394720
IIRC Kobyashi maru incident involves a no-win situation where you change the rules of the game to create a winning situation. How are we looking at a Kobyashi maru incident here? Can you explain?
This is from 2019
But this is not a scheme to match overall throughput. It's supposed to be slower.
I find NVC to be harmful and passive aggressive when wielded by some people. Any time we talk empathy it can turn into "what someone else just knows you're thinking" and the slippery slope into thought policing. And I've only heard of NVC folks using that.

Personally, I prefer what can be demonstrably shown via past behavior combined with a sense of charity.
So weird to read that. You mean people making minimum wage are driving around over there?
In Brazil, there's successful people with years long career, making way above the minimum wage, who can't afford a car. Actually, the minimum wage is currently 1/4 to 1/5 of the expected cost of living in some large cities.
Yes, there are so many reasons to rule against ill-conceived vaccine mandates. SCOTUS picked one.
This is the Twitter clone that former President Trump has sponsored, in order to keep on tooting after he was banned from other social media services.

Not sure what to make of it; I wonder how many fake accounts get set up.
This article was a great read!
The first coherent rotating object detection toolbox
Efficient benchmark model
Modular design and flexible configuration files
Welcome to use and contribute!
> I can't find a direct link to what, exactly, they changed when I look this up. I would appreciate an official reference.

Old: https://web.archive.org/web/20191111050113/https://www.cdc.g...

New: https://web.archive.org/web/20220205010915/https://www.cdc.g...

In particular, the CDC used to say that vaccines protect you from disease, and now they don't.
Ambitions and Emotions Run Hot in 'The Founders,' a History of PayPal
hey, as one of the reporters writing the article, I'm intrigued, obviously :D
Archived: https://archive.ph/Rl8up
It can be a monotonous grind, but it isn't for me. The difference is I "preload" my head with a problem I want to solve, and then solve it while running. It's very productive time.
Well... At least on Europe it will be forbidden on all European union countries.
#2 already happened in 2020 with Uber & Lyft significantly cutting their engineering workforce (but not fully like a bankruptcy might entail).

I remember feeling concern about the local SF job market at the time, it was totally unfounded.

The demand for software engineers that can ship product is very deep.

FAANG engineers might not like the non-FAANG offers they might get at smaller firms, but they are solid jobs & you can easily retire on the timeframe set by the previous generation's yardstick (62-70 y/o).
This is a chiptune remake of legendary album "Kind of Blue".

From ? 2010. I got into it when it was first released. You should, too.
GPT-3 actually does track the previous 2048 tokens of input and output for context.
Read high quality fiction
This is a neat idea, but I'm not sure I see the need for this specific tool. Shellcheck covers essentially all the errors that are mentioned in the Google Style Guide so I'd just be using that instead.

And as the Guide itself, it is mostly OK, but there are a few things I really don't like. For example:

- Whatever doc format they use is not as nice to use as shdoc. Namely, you don't have to add the spaces to your comment to make it formatted properly

- The 'no tabs' thing is pretty bullshit - Bash is literally the perfect language to use tabs and their "Whatever you do, don’t use tabs" comment really kills me

- I don't like their recommendation of using `[[`. Only using `[[` for stuff like regex and glob matching makes it much easier to paste code between Bash and POSIX sh.

There are also a few things they forgot to mention, like the lastpipe` shopt option when talking about piping while loops. And maybe it would be nice to recommend using local like `local var=`. But I guess this guide is meant more for new people that don't know all the pitfalls and stuff

But I think I agree there is some need for a more extensible linter. I've been eyeing the Bash LSP, which is based off the Bash Tree Sitter parser, but that has quite a few bugs with parsing that I've been meaning to send PR's for.

I wonder if `shfmt` has gotten better since I used it. A few years ago, it was quite buggy with prepending extra whitespace whenever I formatted the file
"Don't buy domain names"

OK but why?

The dodgy guy who ran that website had to own the domain name somehow?
"I think we just need to ban all targeted advertising based on viewer profiles, even session data such as IP and geo-location"

I'd go further and ban all unsolicited advertising.
Do you believe ad-blockers could checksum these scripts or do some sort of pattern recognition - like some anti-viruses do - match and deny these scripts?
How about that government services must be built by the government?
From the USA, there aren’t very many friendly time zones. Both Europe and India are absolutely terrible time zone wise. I absolutely hate having very early and very late meetings (i.e., anything before 9 and after 5 Pacific time). Central and South America on the other hand…
It was a tor hidden service. Do domain purchase required.
Thank you! I used VirtualBox running Windows 95, but there were a lot of roadblocks - finding a Netscape 2.0 installer, mounting it etc.

Unfortunately I didn't document the process at all and have forgotten everything, so I can't give much useful info, apologies. Just know that there is pain down that path.
So I got a promise, then how to await it? I don't want to use then callback.
up to $6.9 - which would be (roughly) $10 local bucks on my country.
If Google actually listened to the Java developer community, they would have kept Java up to date instead of doing their own version of .NET.

Naturally after showing the finger to Sun and Oracle, "Android.NET" is the way.
For simple accounting stuff, you can also checkout Frappebooks: https://frappebooks.com/

It's from the same folks behind ERPNext.
Before any of my fellow citizens complain, take note:

> This new system should not put American noses out of joint. The United States Customs and Border Protection has run a similar visa-waiver program since 2008, called the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA). The U.S. visa-waiver program requires citizens from 40 countries in Europe and elsewhere to apply online for a visa waiver and pay $14 to enter the U.S. for short stays of less than 90 days.
I’ll put one sometime relatively soon, got some other stuff on my plate. The Wordle clone is currently “mostly functional”—no pretty graphics or anything, but gameplay checks. I have a limited stamina for NES programming, but I had fun with the proof of concept.
It’s just another mechanism to maintain their existing spyware systems. What google absolutely depends on is having as much of the web as possible including their code.

Essentially: if every website includes some amount of their code it becomes increasingly difficult to block every tentacle. Presumably the goal is that it doesn’t matter if 90% of their crap is blocked by browsers: as long as a single tentacle leaks enough info on any given page they can track you.

How true this is in the face of privacy preserving vpns like Apple’s private relay I don’t know.