skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kilopounds, or just 1000 pounds? K is commonly used as an abbreviation for 1000.
You know that’s not going to happen, so I’m curious what your comment was intended to elicit.

Follow-up questions like mine?
I have more optimism. Dogmas are hard to cast aside, but gradually things progress forward.
I'm beginning to think that owning a browser is hacking in Missouri
You're right, but socially and organizationally it's more practical to fix the problem via gene therapy rather than institute compulsory abortions after a genetic test. Unfortunately due to the barbarity of Nazi Germany even rational eugenics programs are taboo in the West, and trying to fight that is a losing battle.
Bugs.

Yum!
I wonder why Safari is required? I’d be interested in paying for this if it worked with Firefox.
KYC done properly means the bank understands every customer. What you do in life, what you get normally paid for, etc.

Problem is, it’s tricky to do at scale and the banks want to profit more, so it makes financial sense for them to err on the side of caution with small accounts that are possibly net loss anyway (considering maintenance overhead, etc.) but starting with a certain level of wealth I think they are more than willing to not care.
You can be opposed to fascism and be opposed to antifa, and opposed to the actions people-who-say-they-are-antifa take during their riots
> Do what?

All of the things that these companies do to monitor and track as much of the population as they can.

What I'm saying is it's funny because it's one of those things that's apparently legal to do in the aggregate but not individually?

Imagine if someone started up a business to track Google employees.
Apple Silicon machines have no TrustZone, SMM, or anything else to steal control away from the main CPU cores. They also have tricks like being able to direct low-priority IRQs away from CPUs running RT tasks, which we might want to figure out how to support on Linux. The CPU frequency switching latencies are also lower than x86 machines as far as I can tell, and the stalls on switching shorter too. I am very much looking forward to testing out RT on them and seeing how stable I can get low latency audio, compared to typical Intel boxes which are... not great.
Data is just data and should be open to inspection. Why wouldn't they release the data with their own interpretation and caveats? My guess is the data is too conclusive to misinterpret, and it doesn't say what they want it to.
>But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.

I think this point of view is not only blatantly false but also much more dangerous than most people realize. It sets an unrealistic standard across all disciplines, with a wide range of detrimental effects:

1. People entering majors that they are not qualified for, taking on more debt and failing later than than they otherwise would

2. Incentives for schools and colleges to inflate grades, since people are less likely to question unrealistically high graduation rates

3. 1 and 2 combining in the worst case to uncrease the number of incompetent workers across technical industries

We've had decades of this sort "you can do anything if you work hard" propaganda in the west now and I fear that in addition to reducing competence across the board, it reduces the average person's ability to recognize competence, since the default assumption is that we are all endowed with the same potential, something fundamentally incompatible with human nature.
Here's a better idea: how about we allow colleges to repeal diplomas for folks who graduate but clearly didn't learn anything. Let's start with the author of this column.
Was it? I thought it came from Snow Crash, and the VR in that book is generally a pretty nice part of that world IIRC.
Agreed. I think some people in the pro-eugenics crowd mistake a broad anti-eugenics stance as an ignorant denial of possible benefits. I think it could be good and fine, but I don't trust humans to make those decisions. I don't trust myself to make that call.
I would expect layers of abstraction to continue
to build up and programming to become something
like using spreadsheets to do your actual task.

But in general, people have been saying this for 50+ years.

It hasn't happened yet for (at least) two reasons.

1. Increased demands on programmers have increased at least as quickly as their productivity has skyrocketed.

2. Non-trivial systems will require some non-trivial encoding of business and data logic. You can simplify the tools all you like, but at some point the tools are no longer the limiting factor and some complex logic has got to be dictated to the dang computer, somehow, by somebody. It is then going to need to be tested and deployed. It is also going to have to be built in ways that are maintainable. Most programmers struggle with these things in 2022; we are nowhere near making this easy for laypeople. If anything I feel that infrastructure has gotten way more complicated in the last 10 years.

Something does need to change. The current situation is unsustainable, with programmers commanding insane salaries. At some point it becomes a limiting factor on the economy.

But our tools are decades away from being usable by non-programmers. I see no possible solution besides increasing the supply of programmers.
> String theory is famous for being unfalsifiable.

Yeah, but this is a reason why lots of physicists disregard string theory as a dead end.
"Private Relay uses both the CONNECT and CONNECT-UDP methods in HTTP/3
to set up connections quickly. For connections to websites that support TLS or
QUIC, the initial TLS handshake messages are sent in the same set of data as
the proxy request"

Would this not hinder the proposed mechanism discussed in the article?

Edit: forgive me, for my knowledge of networking is limited and I'd like to learn more if I am incorrect.
Solid point. Gen X would never put up with this bullshit.
There's a tendency here to assume all words refer to software. I've seen people referring to software tests as "harnesses". No, fucker, I make test harnesses. With wire and terminals and a crimper. The result is a physical wiring harness, so called because it has wires bundled and routed according to their function, the literal definition of a harness. It connects to the device under test so we can test it.

My optimism that software people will put the word "software" on words they borrow from other things that still exist, never fails to bite me in HN headlines.
Admittedly, I only skimmed this. But within the space of video games, I’m not sure Overwatch is a stunning example since it’s generally a casual game.

I’ve been playing various iterations of Counter-Strike and StarCraft for decades. Sometimes with deliberate practice, including reading strategies, playing custom maps to practice certain skills, and watching series aimed at improving level of play. And despite the hundreds of hours invested I don’t believe I’ve ever cracked the top 50% in any leaderboard rankings.

Anyone in the top 5% is definitely that good, executing complex strategies with extreme precision.

There are lots of areas in life that are highly competitive — where being the best takes raw talent, a huge time investment, and a bit of luck. I wouldn’t try to diminish that.
> by fining them a fraction of their graduates’ student debt defaults, charging them an insurance premium against such failures to repay, or some similar mechanism, the concept of schools sharing the risk of inadequate performance

Wouldn’t colleges just charge more to account for the potential fines?

Or maybe they would allow fewer students to graduate, at which point students have student loans and no diploma. Sounds like a lose/lose.

I’m also wondering if the data on loan defaults after attending a certain college would be consistent enough to attribute the default primarily to the education rather than to luck, major life events, lifestyle choices, etc.

And if a student graduates with the lowest GPA possible, do they not bear some responsibility for low aspirations or low ability as well?

I’m a little perplexed that this is a serious proposal.
Agreed. Especially around three to ten years after the no code solution is implemented when it needs a full rewrite in order to do one of: decrease vendor lock-in, satisfy audit requirements (i.e. meaningful peer review), incorporate professional change management, or scale beyond what the relevant no code framework was designed for.
It's important to choose the right thing to be in the top 0.01 percent of.

Being the 200th best bobsledder probably sucks. Being in the top 200 lawyers is probably pretty awesome.
It certainly sounds ominous, but the experiments were done in hamsters, whereas human exposure to BA.2 doesn’t seem to pan out the same way.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/study-sho...

>Among 95,470 infections analyzed by the national laboratory, 3.6% of those with BA.2 were hospitalized, compared with 3.4% of those with the original strain [BA.1]. Among 3,058 hospitalized patients, 30.5% of those infected with BA.2 developed severe disease compared with 33.5% of those with the original omicron version.

And even if we disregard these real-world results in humans, the hamster experiment found that BA.2 was equivalent in lung pathology and overall fusogenicity to B.1.1/D614G, which is still far less fusogenic than delta. Fusogenicity is linked to lymphopenia[1] and blood clots/stroke[2].

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41418-021-00795-y

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664391/
You missed the part where they recommend changing the script's name as well, add in changing a few variable/function names in the script and even matching the hash of the script itself would be useless. On top of them recommending using a sub domain with an A/AAAA record so its first party.
This confirms a long-held fear of mine.

I wasn't sure what exactly it might be... but I was always concerned with these face masks breaking down over time and forcing me to inhale... something...

Turns out what we're inhaling is far worse than I imagined. I thought maybe some plastic fibers or something like that... not a known carcinogen.
Is there a reason it could not happen, or do you just think it won't? I wouldn't be so sure in say, ~100 years, that we'll be doing much significant ocean fishing.
Studying ML has massively increased my appreciation for the intelligence in biology from cyanobacteria to mollusks, but rarely people on Twitter.
I wrote a "smart" random clicker. It iterates through all the shapes and clicks their locations in a double-for loop. I added some jitter because it can't tell when it succeeds (so sometimes it starts in the "middle" of a loop and get stuck).

Paste this in the console and go! https://gist.github.com/topher200/aead3fd53b0f26bf880e7752eb...

I got a score of 33 on the first full run, which seems to be the highest in the thread (just barely beating the manual brute-force 31 run from @chungy[1]). I think it could be improved by being smarter about the when to click a random guess (or figuring out a way to remove the random clicking completely).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30408693
I think in the short-term the strategy is this from the article:

> Or ... block all the IP addresses of Google App Engine, at the risk of blocking many applications. having nothing to do with tracking.

Anyone hosting legitimate apps in the Google ecosystsm is indirectly complicit in this and at least for my personal network, I have no concern with blocking Google App Engine holistically.

Additionally, I think it's important to hurt Google as much as possible for escalating in this way. Widespread blocking of GAE may seem extreme but it's also arguably warranted.
Thank you, this is wonderful!
Apple Private Relay runs on iDevices, which are almost all identical.
And let's let parents off scot-free because clearly everyone else is to blame for their children's lack of success. /s
Yeah, that's weird. Either the association is so strong with some people that they can't see Tay-Sachs without immediately thinking Ashkenazi, or there was a stealth edit to the comment.
The way I look at it is a matter of attack surface and attack distance. Digital vastly increases both.

You have layers and layers of technology in even the simplest modern computers, and core network infrastructure subject to tapping or worse.

And much of this that can be done from anywhere on the planet.

Analog requires physical proximity, a strength and a serious inconvenience. But it also has the property of being legacy, in that you are now immune to state of the art digital methods, and susceptible to older ones that may be out of institutional memory and practice.
There are exceptions to the rule. I know good engineers who started quite late in life.

But in general, I don't see a deluge of kids eager to become developers. Still seems very niche just like it always has been.
From South Louisiana, it's the same for us growing up only instead of a dam it's the offshore drilling. We learn about the ecology of the delta, then go cheer the Saints in their black and gold jerseys (Who dat!).
I think this tends to overestimate the amount of time folks who aren't developers want to spend developing. Most spreadsheets, even of the complex variety, exist as steps in a chain of human decisions -- they basically replace notepaper and calculators. (Spreadsheets that act as inputs to software chains are usually created by developers.)

Having previously been involved in architecting and building enterprise low-code/no-code solutions, and then working as a strategy consultant thereafter (including partnering with other major low-code/no-code vendors), I can say that what the business wants to do is sketch out the rough plan of how a process works (with a couple of exception states) and have someone else go through not only the implementation, but the hard work of dealing with all the error states, data cleansing and ETL, deployment, and monitoring, while they get on with the hard work of actually doing their jobs. There just isn't an appetite for people to do two jobs at once.

What the article seems to miss is that companies are currently being much more aggressive in nearshoring work -- there's a huge boom in Mexico and LATAM development that's pushing up salaries there (as has happened in Eastern and Central European states). One thing that's distinct from the offshore boom is that, if you weren't a major consulting org, your offshore folks probably weren't colleagues, whereas with nearshore you're much more likely to see them integrated into the organization (again, due to TZ and the ability to fly someone in at the last minute for meetings). It'll be interesting to see what this does to the Mexican/LATAM economies -- Costa Rica, for example, with only $5mm people, punches way above its weight in software services exports.
Yeah, its not clear if preventing symptomatic infection is as crucial an end-point in contrast to preventing hospitalization, the latter of which is indeed mediated by T-cell immunity rather than antibody titers. The following detail is worth noting though ---

"Vaccine sera were collected from sixteen vaccinees four weeks after the second vaccination with mRNA-1273 (Moderna)"

So it seems like they haven't tested against sera from people who got three doses? Response to BA.1 was better with three doses than two, but I think if the data from Israel was to go by, the impact of the third dose on antibody titers also waned over time (although T-cell mediated immunity stayed the same in terms of % hospitalized).
This is the saddest thing I've read on this website. I hope for your own sake you allow yourself to learn new things in the future.
Will they control for IQ?
Top 5% of leaderboard may equal to 99.99% of participants.
Talking specifically about the web: We're still not there with no code tools and I don't know if there's a future where the very specific needs of businesses could be met with building blocks. Sure, designs, basic features--but there always seems to be the one feature that is outside of the scope of what the tool can provide and it can send the project tumbling down trying to shoehorn it in. The tools are getting better, but I think we're a long way away from where developers, at least strong backend or full stack developers need to worry about their job security.
I didn’t say it couldn’t, I said it wouldn’t. Why would everyone voluntarily stop eating seafood?
The classic "oh actually that's a 1 in 20 occurrence rate" issue.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves!"
The article gets close enough to this that I’m surprised they miss it: result types and typedefs get the best of both worlds. If you can define ResultString = Result<string> you don’t have to worry about the “fussy <>” problem (though I cannot tell if this was a serious critique or not), nor do you need to duplicate code you get from a non-generic implementation

In a language like OCaml this is really easy:

type UserIpResult = (UserIp, string) result
GTM doesn't serve ads though, so my understanding is the OP doesn't apply to ads, only trackers
The new employee probably filled out a form that asked what kind of start date swag/sizing they wanted
Why does this process exist anymore?

Book binding might as well go the way of vinyl records. The digital product is just as good if not better.

The future of printed books may be just curios that very few people collect, to have a physical product in their hands and for nostalgia.
I have no concern with blocking Google App Engine holistically

Unfortunately, it seems that more and more government web sites rely on Google services to function. And there's no replacement for those.
Now this is crazy. What do you think this means? Assuming you were born in 73, maybe you were an early adopter in a previous life lol
They did test against antibodies from human sera samples (Figure 2E), but as parent commenter noted, this doesn't test for T-cell mediated responses.
Intel Details Its Bitcoin-Mining 'Bonanza Mine' Chips and 3,600-Watt Miner
Top 5% of your company is not top 5% of participants, unless your company recruits based on randomness.
Some of us can't drink alcohol anymore, so I think VR whiskey is where people should be focusing efforts.
What I want is irrelevant. The point is a good half of the population in the United States believes that the social and material landscape they grew up with is in profound decay. What I specifically perceive to be the issue is much less important than the fact that lots of people think their lives are being trampled upon, but if we're asking me personally? For starters, I want the businesses of my home that were shuttered due to arbitrary restrictions that were not levied upon megacorporations over the flu to be reopened and fully compensated at the expense of the people that made trillions. I want them to go back in time and prevent the government subsidized section 8 housing that infested my town and skyrocketed and filled it full of fentanyl and methamphetamine and subsequent overdoses and rape and murders to be prevented in the first place. That would also have prevented it from being later burned down in riots as well. I want public schools that enrich the cognitive function and knowledge of my kids instead of trying to convince them they are racist and transgender. I want there to be a steady supply of goods on store shelves again, and not incredible supply chain crises created by an intentional multinational campaign of The Great Reset. I want Klaus Schwab to not be able to publicly gloat he controls the elected representatives of G5 nations. I want to be able to travel freely without having my family's medical decisions scrutinized. I want the free as in freedom Internet I grew up with back before 5 companies controlled the entire social graph. I would like more manufacturing backbone and jobs in the United States, like before we shipped everything to Mexico and China. I would also like 95% of H1Bs to be banned, and the sponsors penalized by the government for immigration fraud. I want housing to cost the same percentage of the median income as it did for my grandparents. College, the same.
this is true for certain activities like structured information retrieval; legal opinion and binding decisions are not what is on the line.
They won't, but perhaps they should, because we are decimating sea life and destroying undersea ecosystems.

You're right though, people won't. People won't even stop hunting and eating known-endangered animals.
I wouldn't put too much weight into that number. Studies of energy usage for data transfer vary by over 5 orders of magnitude depending on their assumptions. This paper [1], which is an analysis of 14 different studies, came up with 0.06 kWh/GB in 2015, with energy usage halving every 2 years. Assuming the trend continued, that would put it at less than 0.01 kWh/GB today.

The claim about CO2 emissions for a Google search was also contested at the time and later retracted by the original source [2][3]. Unfortunately, once on the internet, these things just keep getting repeated.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jiec.12630

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/revealed-the-times-made-up...

[3] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/powering-google-sear...
COVID19 and Sequencing
Can you even interpret graphs?
Firefox has never been slow for me over the last 15 years because NoScript makes it light years better than Chrome. Conversely, I routinely have the Android assistant lock up on me from JS bloat despite the supposed performance enhancement of AMP pages.
Leaderboard may be the wrong term. In StarCraft 2 for instance, there are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Masters, and Grandmasters leagues. Diamond 1 to GM might include around 5% of the ranked players.
Migrating to AWS Step Functuons
Does a pen exist in the form factor of a Fisher’s Bullet Space Pen that has gel ink? I want something small to put in my front pocket that I can trust not to ever leak and also have gel pen.
Please make a list for the rest of us and post about it.
I read the comment as agreeing with you more than it disagreed. Gp is rightfully mad at Congress and IRS because ,regardless of Intuit's own interests, levying federal taxes is solely a power of Congress. If neither Congress nor the IRS are making tax filing simpler, then either there's some hidden agenda or they're just plain incompetent. They're not victims of anything other than themselves.
> Matt Damon interview

Would you happen to know where to find that interview?
YC school already provides a platform for this. Feel free to check it out.
I'm not the parent poster, but I see this as well.

I think the majority of folks are comfortable with Netflix and smartphones and social media, but these are dead-simple and mostly passive experiences explicitly designed for the lowest common denominator in terms of technical proficiency.

Beyond that, a lot of people kind of hate technology.

And why shouldn't they? It's fucking horrible. Stuff breaks easy and gets obsoleted. Social media is a hellscape and actively makes them feel bad, a steep price to pay for seeing pics from their nieces and grandsons. Everybody hates the shitty touch controls in their cars that require you to click through a bunch of screens instead of just twisting a physical knob. Tons of consumer tech is literally spying on you. Most of it is user-hostile in some way or another, and at a minimum everything is trying to get you to sign up to some subscription service and will also stop working as soon as the manufacturer loses interest in keeping those servers running so you never feel like you actually own everything. You can't even enjoy Christmas morning any more; it's five hours of software updates.

Oh, and Slack and other communication tools are the thing their manager uses to harass them every five minutes. I bet a significant portion of the American population experiences a literal spike in blood pressure and cortisol levels when they hear that Slack notification SFX.

There's a lot of cool tech out there, but consumer technology is a fucking nightmare.