skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen many dumb events happen in my lifetime, and there were a few months where large parts of the scientific establishment went into denial mode over COVID.

Note that if you want to claim stuff like this, before you do so, you do an excellent study that can't be trivially refuted (it takes time and effort to steelman a paper and the PR before unleashing it). For example, the paper this article cites is: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34991109/
The article ends with:

"Our findings are reassuring; we find no population-level clinically meaningful change in menstrual cycle length associated with COVID19 vaccination. Our findings support and help explain the self-reports of changes in cycle length. Individuals receiving two COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single cycle do appear to experience a longer but temporary cycle length change."

if the changes exist, but aren't medically important, there is stil a risk that many people will be vaccine-hesistant if they hear this in the news. The medical establishment skirted with hiding some legitimate results for this reason (I think they are re-evaluating whether this is a good idea, for the future).

BTW, similar work by the same team was published in January (7 months ago) and NPR tweeted it, without being banned: https://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Fulltext/9900/Associat...

here's a tweet from almost a year ago addressing the issue of whether people were being ignored/dismissed: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/vaccine-peri... with a bunch of discussion about exactly this.
This reminds me of Jeremiah Denton, a POW in that same war who was interviewed on TV to explain that the prisoners were being treated humanely. As he gave the verbal answers his captors expected, he blinked his eyes in Morse Code:

– ––– •–• – ••– •–• •
T O R T U R E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rufnWLVQcKg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

Epilog: A few years ago, someone gave me a Fourth of July T-shirt. Made in Vietnam.

It made me think how so few of us in each country really wanted to fight these wars.
Fascinating.

Smalltalk projects like this (and Pharo) are the only things keeping me interested in OOP and hesitating to go all in on FP.
Great to hear. Which two courses have you taken so far and have you decided on your specialization? I had specialized in computing systems and the courses — especially compilers — was top notch.
Of course people want to ascribe agency to success, and necessarily failure. The flip side of luck is fate.

Just look at the success of ideas like predestination and physical determinism vs. free will in the "marketplace of ideas". Many people really don't like it when you strip them of agency, no matter how flimsy the story told to fill the void.
The audit discussed in the article was "several years" after 2011. The document I linked discusses, on page 17, a 2012 GAO report on 21 large NASA projects and discusses how its cost overruns are affecting other programs, which could be motivation to can the project or otherwise give the impression it will "never get off the ground"

I brought it up because it more closely fit GP's "2012" timeline and shows that even before the audit in the article, there was good reason to doubt the future of the mission.

Please also remember the HN commenting guidelines ("Please don't comment on whether someone read an article."):
When you config git you set your email and name. You can change the config per git repo, so first thing first make sure all the repo you want with your alias are set up correctly. This way you don't leak your info via commit.

As for Github I think the easiest way would be to use two browsers? Or two profiles if you use Chrome.
this is also true, and it also runs within science itself. if someone spends two years collecting some data that is very hard to collect and it has a few papers worth of insights within it, they're going to want to keep that data private until they can get those papers out themselves lest someone else come along, download their data and scoop them before they have a chance to see the fruits of their hard labor.

while it's not great for science at large, i don't blame them either.
Interesting to see that people are renting cars just to drive them for Uber and Lyft.
Anecdotal.
Definitely some interesting info. Has this been produced for previous years? I'm intrigued how the sentiment in the weather highlights might have changed over time.
I know of a company whose sysadmins still put sync;sync;sync in the scripts they deploy on customers’ machines… just because “you never know”.
The author of the article should replace software engineer with software developer. Not being a gatekeeper but this is the proper term for the role described in the article.
You'll want inside macintosh 1-5 and a decent starter book. If you want system 7 then you need the newer inside macintosh volumes or volume 6 at least.

Think Pascal was the easiest way for me to get started. It fits well on the screen. I use resedit to do resources and then you just link the resedit file in the project preferences. The book Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer is pretty good for learning how to start.

Think Reference is useful too, or ObiWan for an online reference.

If you prefer C, it's a little idiosyncratic on the Mac. Code warrior, older versions, will run, and so will Think C. There was also Symantec C++ for the Mac that I never tried.

If you want the apple tools, they were released on CDs called ETO in the latter years. MPW is ... well it gives you a shell but it's got a learning curve.

You can also cross compile to the Mac with Free Pascal. There's also a Modula-2 system called MacMETH. Microsoft had a version of Visual C++ that had a Mac compiler too. Sometimes the easiest thing is to set up an appletalk share and do your coding on a familiar machine with a large monitor.
How much should someone documenting an API be able to use it?

I've been interviewing for a technical writer and some very experienced people, who seem to be greater at the job of Technical Writer, don't have basic coding proficiency.

If my org needs a writer who can code too, should we be trying to find a _developer_ who wants to write too? Coding and writing seem like different careers paths so are we looking for a unicorn?
Svelte should also be considered before React/Vue/Angular, because it's a generation ahead of all of them -- in many ways. The recommendations for React in here are no bueno unless you're just looking for the framework with the most job postings.
Seems like a good idea. You can rent a car for $50 and easily make more than that in a day.
Why do you think Stripe's rise to a ~$100B valuation during that same period wasn't a similar aberration?
>For other topics that aren't strictly programming, eg AI, ML, game theory, cryptography, quantum computing, probabilistic methods, optimization,... it would take a significant amount of dedication to match the amount of understanding that a rigorous course with problem sets can give you in self study.

You mean, the same amount it would take to do it through a university program? I fundamentally don't believe the material is unavailable. If you've done a CS undergrad at a respectable university, you should have enough instinct to build a curriculum to become well versed in those subjects

I am going through the autodidact process for all of those subjects (except quantum computing) (yes, it's brutal, especially alongside a FT job). But with the amount of MIT open courseware, books, and frankly, just wiki pages available, it's been easier than doing it at the pace of a university course
This idea ("almost everything is luck") is not exactly rare. But the author has a giant blind spot when he cites the story of Abraham Wald while ignoring a glaring case of similar gap in his own argument.

There are tons of people who had all the luck in the world and they didn't achieve much at all.

Just look at his long list of all the lucky circumstances that Steve Jobs had to encounter ("he was born in the USA", "GPS was funded", "all the necessary technologies necessary to create an iPhone already existed").

True, but Steve Jobs wasn't the only one who had this kind of luck. Most of these conditions are wide enough that, in their intersection, there were at least several million other individuals whose activity didn't result in anything remarkable.

At which moment we are back to square one. Was Jobs' life story a propaganda? Perhaps, but if you want to recast it as an end product of several instances of luck, you need to explain all the duds too.

An interesting example is Elon Musk. Whenever Musk is discussed on Reddit or on HN, there is a glut of forists who explain that someone born into this kind of wealth and privilege simply had to be wildly successful.

But Musk's own brother Kimbal, who grew up in the very same family and environment, is barely known.
Russian economy on brink of collapse.

Russian army is losing.

Ghost of Kieve.

Putin is unhinged.

NATO more United than ever

That's the propaganda and rehtoric.

Ukraine was yet another massive failure from the ruling elite.

Their attempted fix, extreme sanctions has made things worse... for us and many millions of people in the world.

Reality is catching up to the propaganda. I have no idea why generation after generation keeps calling for it and going on these disastrous adventures.
I did mandatory military service in Germany and from my own - much milder, of course - personal experience I can emphasise with Wittgenstein.

Military service can really force you out of your bubble: All my friends chose to do civil service instead or were unfit for duty. The other conscripts were very different from me and I never before or after in my life felt so alienated from the people around me.

Just one example: From the environment I grew up in, I though that it was natural that women could be leaders, until then I thought that sexism would be a subtle thing, mostly of implicit, hidden biases. I was shocked to hear how my fellow soldiers talked about the one female sergeant. They made fun of her behind her back (even though she was a hypercompetent badass, for example sneaking through the forest mock killing all the guards during a training exercise), talked about how they could never respect her, because she was a woman, fantasised together about going up to her room to have rough sex with her….

I really did not like them as persons, I did not want to be friends with any of them and I generally hated spending time with them (playing football together was still fun though). Maybe I was arrogant, too?

I don’t know, it’s kinda fun to accuse Wittgenstein of arrogance from the comfort of ones chair, surrounded by ones bubble of similar-minded people, while imagining how one would be friends with the proletariat one never meets - but I kinda believe Wittgenstein, when he called his fellow soldiers bigoted. I can feel with him, trying to do his best in a horrible, scary situation, praying to be brave, while being surrounded by people he really does not like and there are worse things than complaining a bit in your diary in a situation like this.
I'd agree that these pop, self help seminar success stories are unhelpful, but for different reasons (although they are mentioned in the article): people with these stories rarely mention the not so pretty parts of the story unless those parts serve to "teach a lesson" in line with the narrative in the story, and that successful people tend to ascribe success disproportionately to themselves in a manner very akin to superstition. Most of what they're telling you were the keys to their success will be unhelpful, nevertheless, examining their success with your own mind and not with their words can show you a great deal about what works and what doesn't.
I just want to point out that you’re living the American Dream. I think you may misunderstand the term as it’s generally used.

The phrase isn’t about becoming a billionaire. It’s rooted in the American frontier period, inspired by Protestant values, and is much more aligned with living a happy upper-middle-class life: owning land, a home, enough resources to have a family, and having meaningful or productive work.
> One plaintiff, Bianca DeLoach, described being swarmed by police with their guns drawn at a gas station in March 2021 while her children watched from inside the rental she’d paid for.

> When he opened the door at least 4 officers had guns pointed at him.

> Darnay Taper spent two nights in jail last year after being pulled over in March 2021 by eight police cars while during a Hertz rental and held at gunpoint, according to the complaint.

Why are guns such a reflex for cops in scenarios that clearly do not warrant them? Can't we find some better cops?
So, if Russia's 90% of the way there, are we in the US ~75% of the way there? The main thing we're missing from that list is the false flag attacks, the other boxes check off.
Hey this is my job! You don’t necessarily want to focus on an idea but instead get obsessed with a problem to solve. You want to spend some time validating the problem and interviewing customers with this problem. Only then do you start ideating on ways to solve the problem for users.

I have a big list of ideas too but I’m not entirely sure they all solve a valid problem. I’m nervous about spending a lot of time on something that’s cool but not sellable
I don't think that GUI toolkits that are in use today were born in their final form, or that everything was planned from the start.

I think that unfortunate early design decisions can lead to dead-ends, or extremely painful evolution, of course, and knowledge can help, but paralysis is in my opinion an ever bigger issue.

Making the perfect GUI Toolkit starts by making one that is Good Enough for some use cases.
Maybe you know this, but he already released an MVP for a GUI library: https://github.com/linebender/druid
There is even tech that claims to solve the train-test split “under the hood”. You also get surprised with the low amount of data points some of these ML people think is necessary. Far off from what you learn in basic statistics classes.

To not provide accurate ways of reproducing something claimed in a paper means that the paper is invalid.
> AboveTheLaw tends to be long on cheerleading and snark, and short on legal analysis, particularly when an issue presents itself as GenZ fan faces versus The Establishment, something you can see by reading their many other articles.

That would be a major change from the old days. Back before Gen Z was old enough to get a job, ATL was a blog run by a woman named Ellie. It was aimed specifically at BigLaw associates and was total snark all day, everyday. If you saw something there you didn’t see elsewhere, there was a 99% chance it was inside info from one of the associates on the case.
One more con. The screen is very bad. My kid's came new, but it looked worst than the 90s non-active matrix laptop I had. I wouldn't stand more than a few minutes on it. I guess kids have good enough eyes to not affect them too much. But maybe it speeds up their eyes' wear and tear. Hope kids won't be using it more than an hour or so a day.
> Definitely some interesting info. Has this been produced for previous years? I'm intrigued how the sentiment in the weather highlights might have changed over time.

I would imagine so. Something like this was a key part of the plot to the 80s comedy movie Trading Places.
Let's start from the beginning, do you understand what "consent" means?
Got made redundant, building a website on my own.. any tips?
I was made redundant earlier this year. Probably for the best as I was stagnating there.

Decided to have a go at starting my own business and making my own website, a music portal.

It's been a fun process so far. Designing, learning, coding, building, getting feedback.

Would like to share the journey a bit so happy to answer any questions.

Keen to hear any tips from others who are doing the same..
This is pretty much the real reason I’d consider pursuing a Masters degree. Being in an academic environment for a while sounds fun, even if the resulting degree is fairly useless or redundant. I’d love a second chance to be exposed to people who could become new friends, while also learning a thing or two maybe.
> "Old computer security" did not have "download and execute code from arbitrary strangers" in its threat profile, but the fact that our industry has driven that exact policy to become the dominant method of running software is the basis of much wasted electricity in our sisyphean efforts to protect our data in the land of SPAs and Service Workers.

That started way before SPA's and service workers. Ever download some shareware/freeware from a random bbs/ftp or similar? Ever downloaded some random exe from a website in the 90's or 00's? Ever used napster/kazaa/limewire/bittorrent to pirate software? I'm guessing basically all HN readers have done at least one of those, at least once.

I think it's fair to say that ever since the internet allowed us to share code we have "downloaded and executed code from arbitrary strangers", in more or less secure ways. The internet was a bit less malicious back then, so we were generally afforded more naivety to do so but I think the current way for normal people to do it (sandboxed js in a browser VM) is the most secure way to do it yet.
Dear Imgui has an impressive implementation of detachable tabs. https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/Multi-Viewports
You got much more detailed explanations in that thread. It simply doesn't scale like that. These are extremely bespoke systems, and the entire process is gated on vendors and facilities that are both unique in the world and under high demand. There is simply no way you get a 2nd unit at the kind of discount you're assuming.
Aside from the loss of the Cold War, what you're describing sounds a lot like the United States.
> tempted to fill in one of those applications on his behalf…

…and then send in his death certificate. It should be amusing, provided you aren’t nicked for filling in the policy.
That video was pretty bad, though. It completely ignores everything we know about the CMB. If it were true that the speed of light was different in different directions, the CMB would look very different.
For the most part I agree with the author and have heard similar sentiments from people with an undergrad cs education.
I wish people would talk more or elaborate on what it “means” to be “self taught”. To me, taking a course on a subject is basically a subscription to being exposed to a defined set of material. Whether an individual learns that material is up to them (is this considered “self teaching”?).
Formal education (with or without a degree tied to it) can lower the activation energy of learning. But it is by no means the best way to learn for everyone.
Caught my attention as eesel means donkey in my mother tongue. Privacy policy and terms of service links lead nowhere. Does not seem like those topics are considered seriously, just to make the footer look right. Seems like a scam.
I'm Tired of Making Decisions
A more scrappy approach is what I'm trying to do with my library, rui [1]. Just get something out there. Also, it's really in service of my (already released) app, as opposed to trying to be a successful open source project. If others happen to like it, great!

That said, I think Druid is a good Minimum Viable Product. I just needed GPU acceleration for my app, and wanted something closer to SwiftUI, which I'm used to.

[1] https://github.com/audulus/rui
Agree. That's why I will never re-write function is-Thirteen() when a battle-tested reusable package exists in NPM exactly for this.
The best GPU accelerated text rendering I know of is https://sluglibrary.com/. Not based on distance fields. Unfortunately not open source, though it is a one-man project. Maybe someday one of the big tech companies will pay him a whole ton of money to open source it.
I don't know if your chip fab comparison is correct. It would be more comparable if you included the cost of building the chip fab itself as well as the R&D cost of several of the key technologies in the fab.

Also, the entire Apollo infrastructure was actually designed for many more launches than occurred, that's why some of that infrastructure is still in use to this day. It's been a few years since I read a biography of Von Braun but I remember him making design decisions for Apollo that anticipated many more launches and manned missions to Mars and Venus in the 1970s with a manned Mars base by the early 80s.
Thinking about checking into a hotel for 3 nights and staying indoors with the AC on
The armed rabble have been arrested, charged, and in many cases imprisoned. The federal agents in question have not been, despite manifest proof of the crime of destroying evidence.
Jira's querying and reporting facilities leave a lot to be desired. I have some scripts to pull the data down into a sqlite database so I can query it much better.
I think developer portfolios lack text
When I decided to make my portfolio, I started by looking at other developers' portfolios. I saw many fancy websites, with animations and cool visualisations. But one thing always bothered me. Even after viewing the site, I still had no idea who that person was and what their personality was like.
I find that a crucial part of a portfolio website. It is important too So when I made my own, I wrote a detailed description for every featured project, some general sentences about me, why I code, how I learn to code, what my ambitions are, and what I am currently working on. On Twitter I got great feedback for this approach. In case you want to take a look at my portfolio, you can find it under:

https://hendel.vercel.app/
Aren't you stating the very thing that will be argued in court?
Joe is a millionaire who makes his money from his coal... are you surprised he doesn't support climate actions or taxes?

Joe claims his objection is due to inflation issues. But inflation is being driven by external factors such as the price of food and oil. And, yes, we do need to import oil. The U.S. produces light sweet crude but we also need heavy oil for diesel and asphalt so we need imports. The whole world is suffering from inflation at the moment.

Joe wants to reduce the deficit and debt... which is what more taxes would do. So it seems he doesn't want to reduce the deficit or debt.
If it were true that the speed of light is different in different directions, the CMB would look completely different than it does. This was a major oversight in Veritasium's video.
It's amazing how brutally honest McNamara was about his own failings in bringing an MBA type approach to a foreign war.
Where are you sitting?
Satellite imaging is great for when you don't have accurate reports on the ground. However, in many areas (certainly all of North America) we already have a very good indication of how crops are faring. Professionals walking through the fields every day are, no surprise, pretty good at knowing what's going on with a crop that determines their livelihood.

Go look at the article. They talk to a farmer that knows perfectly well that the wheat harvest is going to suck without looking at a single satellite photo. I don't know about the french gov, but I strongly suspect they issue very detailed reports about current conditions and outlooks just like the US. There is trillions of dollars at stake.

What we don't have is accurate weather forecasts past 5-10 days in the future. Your crop might be doing great until a single weather event wipes the whole thing out, and there is nothing you can do about it. This happens ALL THE TIME. You can look at 12 hr old satellite photos and say, "Wow! This crop is looking very healthy". Meanwhile the farmer on the ground is looking at a bunch of plants that just got destroyed by too much rain/frost/wind/heat.

Its not that they're being anti-science, its that this isn't a new idea, and probably doesn't expose information that the experts didn't already know.