skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is still a lack of common sense. Anyone who looked at the age distribution of covid patients and deaths knows that there are hardly any children getting sick from covid, and everything I heard points to the few ones having almost always other severe diseases (cancer, etc), so covid being the drop in the bucket.
> They are still pushing for vaccine mandates for children that will not change anything materially.

I don't really understand this thinking. Yes, covid deaths in the under 18 group are a drop in the bucket compared to covid deaths in other age groups. But that's only because covid had such a massive toll in other age groups. We're still talking over a thousand deaths in the under 18 group, tens of thousands of hospitalizations, and many many more who had symptoms that persisted beyond a month. Even knocking those numbers down by half would be significant.

And, re masks, the general scientific consensus at this point is that yes, masks do have an effect on transmission rates, and the quality of the mask matters in how much of an impact is seen. Mandates also have an impact, although it depends on how much the mandate actually impacts behavior. It's not security theater, but some mandates will be much more effective than others.

And I'll note - US public health authorities did, in my view, lose some credibility on masks. But for different reasons than you mention. Statements early on saying masks weren't necessary for general use I think did a lot of harm. Personally, I can understand - evidence was weaker for general population usage at the time, and there was a dire shortage of even surgical masks for healthcare workers. So, I get that they wanted to avoid even more shortages for healthcare workers, but this original messaging really hurt later on when masks were being recommended. My second complaint is that, once the supply was there for surgical masks (and then for N95 and equivalents), public health authorities were really slow to push better masks, and only meekly did so.

> Credibility takes decades to build and minutes to lose. Look at Ukraine. No one believed the US intelligence when they claimed Putin was serious about invading, because of the bullshit they pushed 20 years earlier with Iraq.

Lots of us who were entirely skeptical of US intelligence re Iraq found US intelligence re Putin's intent to invade entirely believable and plausible.
Noam Chomsky: Humanity Faces Two Existential Threats. One Is Nearly Ignored
It really depends on how easily you can sell it.

For some shares, there is a private market, and typically the company has to approve of sales. If they do, and the market has willing buyers, no problem. If the company blocks every sale, it's worthless.
Self-modifying code is prohibited on iOS by codesigning. However, achieving Turing complete execution capable of calling any API not behind an entitlement is very feasible and regularly passes App Store review for simple cases. The more complicated ones might too, but they aren't delivered via the store very often ;)
Subtle in the context: not just a "testimony of knowledge in a priceless form", but also an "in-the-cradle" ('incunabulum' - the term conveys "immaturity"), a relic of old times predating current state-of-the-art practice (the printing press). Both sides of value are in a museum piece.
Rollups have a few properties that are distinct from a centralized VISA system. One is that they are cryptographically verifiable, with this data posted onto Ethereum. Another is that they often include permissionless traits - such as L1 smart contract calls that allow users to “force” transactions from L1 to L2 and back even if the centralized sequencer is trying to censor or block the user’s transaction. In this way, you can always withdraw from a rollup L2 back to Ethereum just by signing with your key.

This goes in hand with forkability - lots of rollups are open source - and composability. You can withdraw your L2 tokens back to L1, and put them in another rollup. If VISA or PayPal blocks your account, you are stuck.
I always preferred Tank Wars over Scorched Earth
With a bit of collaboration i bet we can flag it off the front page in no time.

You (or Drew or someone else) can resubmit it later with a bogus query string to skip HNs dupe checker.
I'm not a fan of google but you can do exactly what this search engine does by curating your own list of domains to search against.

https://programmablesearchengine.google.com
Impact Markets: The Annoying Details
Over the weekend I plan to cut out the heart of my setup, make it generic enough to share on GitHub and do an extremely short video walkthrough of how I use it. (Except I know how my plans don't always get turned into actions)
This widely varies by countries, as well as often states. It entails what criteria you use for your statistic and how you collect the data. Because unfortunately data collection is one of those things that is assumed to be trivial, but actually quite difficult and costly. Especially in the beginning, you just took the rate of positively tested patients. Because you could do so at a single point in your hospital, the testing center. Figuring out information concerning individual patients means having to collect this information for every individual as well.

Let me also point out that this wasnt some grand failure. We were in a situation in which what ever information we could get was really helpful. But you have to be aware, that there is not magic box somewhere that spits out perfect information. All data collection has its limitations, its why we still know very little about long covid. Because getting that data is incredibly difficult, especially at scale.
Dr. Deborah Birx in April 2020: "If Someone Dies With COVID-19 We Are Counting That As A COVID-19 Death"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/04/08/dr_birx_u...!

A few months ago, the CDC quietly cut the covid death toll by 72k: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cdc-coding-err...

People who died for any reason within weeks of a positive covid test result were being counted as covid deaths, even gunshot victim: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/grand-county-covid-dea...

The loosey-goosey way covid deaths have been counted in the USA, inflating the death toll, seems to be an area of curiously selective collective amnesia.
Much as I hate seeing money wasted on weaponry that could be devoted to forestalling global climate catastrophe and the imminent collapse of civilization... War has only ever been prevented by having been prepared for it.

Sometimes you get war anyway. When you do, the outcome without preparation is much worse.

Captain Cook happened to mention the peaceful Chatham Islanders, hundreds of miles off east, to some Maori in New Zealand. Within two weeks they had mounted an expedition that killed all the men and enslaved or killed all the women and children.
Mental Health of a Developer
agreed, the arbitrary requirement of 100% effectivensss seems like the nirvana fallacy to me
Do you know any companies that do this besides Amazon?
You should always came upfront and tell them that you have an issue with oral communication. I'm 46 and all my life I struggled because whenever things got oral I have a rush of adrenaline that renders me almost powerless. It helped a lot if I tell them 1st about my issue, they will adapt/understood your issues.
> It's pretty simple, all the Bitcoin 'manipulation' you see is simply buying/selling open market coins.

LOL. And every tether is backed by a US Dollar in a bank account, right? Nobody could possibly (say) fake buy pressure to put the prices up?

> The point is, Bitcoin will bounce back, the dollar will not.

What point? For what purpose will bitcoin "bounce back" that the dollar will not?

As the dollar is not an investment, but a means of exchange, it doesn't seem particularly important whether the dollar 'bounces back', because nobody is trying to sell you dollars to stick under the mattress as a get-rich-quick scheme.

What a weird comment.
The best/most advantageous way to play a game
Isn’t this a violation of Slack and Discord TOS? I think this guy did well, but as this tool grew more popular, Slack and Discord might pursue legal actions
Enlighten me in how that article is related with what I said.
100 corporations account for 71% of all emissions. US military loan admits more than Portugal and Denmark. It's not the rich people, it's their businesses
> Germany doesn't really lack electricity.

... yet.

There is an interesting report on the ARD Mediathek [1] right now in which - among other nuclear-involved people - the guy responsible the flow of electricity talks about power production and consumption. He points out that while it is true that at some points in time, renewables provided 95% of our consumption, there are still other times where they make up less than 1%. He then proceeds to explain that we do not have the energy storage to survive that, and that such an energy storage - with our current technology - will not be technically feasible, and that our neighbouring countries will not be able to support us if bad comes to worse.

His prognosis is that if we proceed with the nuclear shutdown, we will perpetuate coal burning for the foreseeable future.

Oh, right, some genius also decided to stop that.

We like to think of ourselves to be enlightened trailblazers. But maybe we should take a step back and consider if we might be wrong.

[1] https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/dokus-im-ersten/dokumentar... - the part I'm talking about starts at about 35:35, German only (unfortunately)
Obviously you’re going to lose some performance.

But it’s fucking fast, faster than anyone (including me) would have believed a few years ago.

The ability to live-update software before the native code can arrive is a game-changer.

This stuff is a big deal.
SC2 has only gotten easier to play. Selecting multiple buildings, selecting more than 12 units, auto-mining, idle workers, select all army.

So you must be referring to how other players got better at winning, or the aggressive strategies players employ to win. Or maybe you don’t like some specific units that were added that you consider anti-fun. Whatever the case, unranked, co-op, custom games didn’t solve these problems for you as a player.

I’m curious what specific evolution you think SC2 went through that was undesirable.
> there's no job in [Rust]

As of today, indeed.com lists 1,500 remote jobs mentioning Rust vs. 4,018 jobs mentioning Golang. That's not so bad. (However, there's no way to tell how many of those listings are Rust-specific as opposed to polyglot job descriptions.)

> Also, the [Rust] community is toxic.

Speaking slightly humorously, if you think Rust community is toxic, try expressing your dissatisfaction with Swift or Apple in the fanboi Swift community (controlled by Apple employees) and see what happens to you :).
> The only problem I see is that bikes are also very easy to be stolen and the police here (Finland) doesn’t seem to do much about it.

i solved this by getting insurance. when mine was stolen police told me they never find them except when they find a huge number of stolen bikes all at the same place and time (eg a warehouse, a garage etc)
> Greg Kurtzer stayed 2 years at the beginning, doing mainly PR/legal/community stuff

Heck, that's the very stuff nobody wants to take care of, kudos to him he wanted to spend his time on these.
I now realize where Pocket Tanks got its inspiration.
I can agree with your general time scales on self driving. Just today in SF I watched firsthand a "Cruise" self driving car completely wig out when faced with a double parked car (pointed in the same direction as the "Cruise") and oncoming traffic on the opposite side of the street.

When it decided to make its manuever (on coming traffic briefly stopped to allow the car to drive around the double parked vehicle) the car made erratic micro turns and short hard braking action (pushing the nose of the car down) once it entered the (stopped) on coming traffic lane. The occupants were definitely thrashed around a bit.

The attempt was not pretty and definitely not even close to human level proficeny.

A typical manuever one has to make these days in the Bay with street parking eliminated in many busy restaurant / cafe corridors.
We don't even have a good way
to dispose nuclear waste.

Sure we do, just aerosolize it and vent it into the atmosphere! At which point...

Nuclear energy is [...] massively
[subsidized] by the state.

...You'd have a fair comparison to other modes of energy production. It's not nuclear that's massively subsidized, everything else is.
Elastic App Search would be well suited for something like that. It comes with a built in crawler.
That has a round trip efficiency of around 20-25 % I think (more if you can also use the process heat), so we would need to over-provision renewables by 400 % to make it work.
> We don’t have an energy problem. We have a gas problem.

As soon as the risk of running out of gas turns into reality, and people won't be able/allowed to heat their homes as usual, many will start plugging in their electrical fan heaters. The gas problem might expand into an electricity problem. How much of a problem, we'll probably find out soon.
If you run an AirBNB you might not be there when the guest arrives.
I'm not in Texas, so an engineering degree is enough to call myself an engineer[1]. I don't need to be licensed and insured to operate a locomotive.

[1] although really, that's just me being credentialist: doing engineering is enough to justify calling oneself an engineer.
I would love to see a reference about this being actively used, in a meaningful capacity (as in: enough to prevent a countrywide blackout).
What if the hypothetical risk-of-drowning vaccine were found to greatly heighten the young recipients', particularly young males', risk of myocarditis and pericarditis (among other potential adverse effects) and a significant percentage of those who developed myocarditis/pericarditis passed away within a few subsequent years?

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.23.21268276v...
An answer box is the right thing for that query. (the web servers)

The part that Google seem to have unfortunately skimmed over is that the answers need to be relevant, exact & correct.
> Nuclear energy is just cheap because it gets massively funded by the state.

No it doesn't. Not anymore than gas, coal and renewables at least.

The issue of disposal is also simply incorrect. There are plenty of places to store it, France does it, everyone does it. Do you know where the waste from coal goes? Into the atmosphere, where it kills thousands directly and potentially billions indirectly with global warming. So it's comical to criticise nuclear for waste issues.

Barring hydro (which Germany cannot have) and coal/gas, there is no alternative but nuclear. Renewables cannot be a reliable source of energy because they are intermittent. You will always need some stable source, and currently (and for the foreseeable future), it's nuclear.
Of course. The question is when. If they Russia cuts off the gas they basically will just destroy their economy faster. And it's a matter of time before production elsewhere ramps up to compensate. The coming winter will be a challenge, the winter after that it will be solved one way or another. Probably at great cost but it will be a lot less of an issue.

Also, Russia needs more than just cash to fuel the war. They are currently cut off from a lot of essential imports and the international market and their army clearly is under-performing because of apparent logistical, supply, and morale issues.

I think Germany might prove to have a lot more stamina than Russia. Riding out the next winter without Russian gas won't be fun but it will be able to deal with it. On the other hand, I don't think a second winter in the Ukraine is going turn things around for the Russians either and I think they are well aware of it. So, Putin can commit economical suicide or he can come back to the negotiation table. The question is what he has to bring to the table. It's not looking like he has much to offer.
I mean if you're going to fake it anyway you could've stayed home and just pouted in front of a green screen.
Cat's out of the bag now.
Hey man if you it you'll see I am a crypto enthusiast and actually support Bitcoin, its not my go-to crypto but I do like and support it, this was just a devils advocate type approach.
> I like their attitude a lot more compared to what I've seen from Rocky's developers

Could you elaborate?
What this might look like: the interviewer starts the call and says “good morning, how are you?”. OP answers with “Nervous! I’m not great at talking over the phone instead of in person.”

There have been a few times when, post interviews, I’ve been on the hiring panel and someone said “I don’t know if they were just nervous or what…”. Just be totally upfront about it, especially for a junior position.
No. If I want to go on a Tuesday they're getting photobombed and that's the end of it.
I would define Stripe as B2B2C. It’s not simply a B2B because they help business charge customers. Their value is convincing business to use their platform. Most businesses will choose payment gateways that their customers use. And by far the number 1 request from customers is usually PayPal. They might be invisible to the customer, but business will alway prefer to integrate with payment gateways that will get customers to say yes faster. It’s nuanced, but that has just been my experience. Logically you are correct though, on the surface, brand recognition should not matter.
Life cycles of a hornet colony (2003)
>We find your country is sixty or seventy thousand li [three li make one mile, ordinarily] from China Yet there are barbarian ships that strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians. That is to say, the great profit made by barbarians is all taken from the rightful share of China. By what right do they then in return use the poisonous drug to injure the Chinese people? Even though the barbarians may not necessarily intend to do us harm, yet in coveting profit to an extreme, they have no regard for injuring others. Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries -- how much less to China! Of all that China exports to foreign countries, there is not a single thing which is not beneficial to people: they are of benefit when eaten, or of benefit when used, or of benefit when resold: all are beneficial. Is there a single article from China which has done any harm to foreign countries?

>Suppose there were people from another country who carried opium for sale to England and seduced your people into buying and smoking it; certainly your honorable ruler would deeply hate it and be bitterly aroused. We have heard heretofore that your honorable ruler is kind and benevolent.

>We have further learned that in London, the capital of your honorable rule, and in Scotland, Ireland, and other places, originally no opium has been produced. Only in several places of India under your control such as Bengal, Madras, Bombay, Patna, Benares, and Malwa has opium been planted from hill to hill, and ponds have been opened for its manufacture. For months and years work is continued in order to accumulate the poison. The obnoxious odor ascends, irritating heaven and frightening the spirits. Indeed you, O King, can eradicate the opium plant in these places, hoe over the fields entirely, and sow in its stead the five grains [millet, barley, wheat, etc.]. Anyone who dares again attempt to plant and manufacture opium should be severely punished. This will really be a great, benevolent government policy that will increase the common weal and get rid of evil. For this, Heaven must support you and the spirits must bring you good fortune, prolonging your old age and extending your descendants. All will depend on this act.

Reading this was pretty sad. So many vain appeals to reason. "We know you know it's bad for you, you've banned it yourself, please stop dumping it on us." Unfortunately the people he wrote that letter to didnt see them as equals.
It's amazing how many well intentioned people cannot grasp this very simple point. There is no way to run a grid solely on solar and wind. Therefore the choice isn't between those and nuclear, it's between nuclear and coal/gas.
> Germany is so poor it can't afford to pay 50% more for gas

Germany isn't. Many Germans are. If missing gas leads to industry breaking down, more Germans will be.

Germans being made poor, especially for no good reasons other than the decisions of politicians abroad, tends to lead to unintended, but severe consequences. Already, wannabe autocrats are winding up their propaganda. Guess which countries they will have a look at first.
Pyrolysis could in theory be done with concentrated solar thermal energy. The issues would be:

-- How much mirror area [heat] would be needed?

-- Mirror geometry: Troughs may lend themselves to continuous processing and gas recovery a bit better than central point concentrators but they provide less heat potential.

-- Can the economics work if you only process when the sun shines?
You're still young. Try to get yourself somewhere closer to a tech job than construction. I had a lot of quiet times working as a hardware technician in past and other IT (sys-admin) jobs, while working on software projects and learning more about software in my spare time.

Of course, it is not so suitable if you are traveling a lot, but the general advice here is not to work so far away from a tech position, when you're quite passionate about software & tech. Communication and interviewing skills are something you can learn, don't let that hold you back from actual interviews, keep interviewing for jobs that you want; you'll get better at it.
Climbing Through the Window
45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of healthcare alone. We have the lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rate in the developed world. Our public education systems are some of the most underperforming in the developed world.
The amount of money we've sent to Ukraine so far could end homelessness and hunger in the US three times over.
Killing people on the other side of the world and a proxy war is not a priority for me. Solving these problems for my own countrymen is. No contest.
This code won't work in any case. You can't do arithmetic like that. And I think it's much better code anyway to create the expansion once, because otherwise you have to construct NAME ## __COUNTER at each use and it quickly becomes unmaintainable and hard to change how you construct that name.

IMO the best solution if you want to avoid an extra indirection to inject some state, would be preprocessor variables that you can assign to in a macro expansion. Procedural preprocessor code basically. But the preprocessor doesn't work like that.
RSUs are great at public companies, as soon as they vest they turn into regular shares. At a private company, well, it seems pretty hard to sell any shares in those isn't it?
CVE-2022-29593 – Authentication Bypass by Capture Replay (Dingtian-DT-R002)
There is no large scale hydrogen storage facility that could take even 1% of German's energy needs.
I did not meant multicore solely for the embedded product space, I aimed my wishes a little too broad it seems :)

There are many such projects that looks fantastic, embedded and non-ememmbeded that quickly fails a real world use even hobby'ish world usage :/
EDIT: FAIL as in it doesnt come with nice or easy to use network libs i have to roll my own.

Also that is sorta my point, I dont want to extend/built libraries in 2022 I want to built connected programs and hit the ground running.
Brand new code often has vulnerabilities in it too.