skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, the authors state they found no evidence that vaccinated and boosted individuals were faster to clear covid (either according to PCR testing or culture [replication-competent viruses]) than unvaccinated.

This directly contradicts much of the dishonest, unethical messaging urging young and healthy individuals to submit to experimental shots, which sold it to us on the basis that we would be shielding higher-risk persons, depriving those who were not at high risk yet chanced the shots for altruistic reasons of genuine informed consent.

The clearing rates indicated in the embedded figure match what I'm seeing in my own community and I'm afraid your cognitive dissonance is bound to increase as time goes on and you find you're inhabiting what you claim to view as a conspiracy theory.

Time will tell.
The Air is probably too thin to not become too fragile in bigger sizes. Just get a MacBook Pro in 14 or 16.
Multiple other companies doing the same thing would point to a trend.
In Germany, police officers, soldiers and (depending on the state) teachers and other sort of public officials swear an oath of office that bans them from strikes ("Beamte").
> I've heard the meat of carnivores tastes unpleasant

People eating salmons and other predatory fish would disagree. Horse meat is really good, and dogs probably taste like chicken anyway ...

But no meat beats well-prepared tofu & seitan ;p
The perfect main course after the whale appetizer!
This doesn’t mean anything. Markets mature and margins decline. All firms have to compete for labor, and the market for labor has tightened. However during an inflationary environment it’s pretty easy to raise prices.

They’ll eventually build higher labor costs into their financial projects and pass along some of the costs. Shareholders probably won’t care much, because Amazon is still a good investment.
Who is more efficient than Amazon/Walmart/Target/Home Depot/Staples/Costco/etc?

They set the bottom price, and if they are earning 2%-4% profit margins, then their costs increases will have to end up in either prices increases or them no longer selling the product.

The funny thing is that it is Amazon coming along and greatly increasing demand for labor (in conjunction with reduced supply of that type of labor) that caused all the other warehouse jobs and retailers to increase pay.

And I hope the labor continues making gains in their quality of life at work and pay, but I do not see this happening without an increase in prices for products (like we have already seen).
After a series of bad experiences with Poetry, I switched the packages I maintain to PDM. Although I have hit a few minor snags, the maintainer and other users in the project's github discussions have never failed to help with a fix, workaround, or advice. It's pleasant to use, and I think the only feature I cared about which was in Poetry but not PDM (a publish-to-pypi command), has proven easier to do with the Twine tool anyway.

My situation is I think unusual, in that I need to use a private pypi repo which requires mTLS for both fetching and publishing. Had it not been for that I suspect I'd still be using Poetry, but given the experiences I've had with PDM I wouldn't switch back even if the situation with my repo changed.
Citation? Genuinely never heard this argument before.
The third party can’t really do much with this data.
Men don't leave career paths because men have no choice to leave a career. Ask any man with kids if he can quit his job to stay at home. Most will just laugh at the question. The answer is obviously no.

Women almost invariably marry men with more or at least equal earning potential. For women in tech, one of the consequences is that basically their husbands have the means for them to quit work, and many make that choice.
I appreciate the link, thank you.
this is the classic "neoliberal" take: you as an individual of the poor or working class should focus your energy on fixing worldwide problems through careful consideration of your consumer decisions as individual actors (purchase this product instead of that one, etc.)
I found the same re: compressed stream, however I also found that hand optimizing the decompressed JSON made for significant performance improvements on underpowered devices (e.g. some old Android phone).
I modified my GitHub history to write on my contributions heatmap
Edit: The submission seems to have stripped the GET params from the URL, so click on 1970 in the timeline in order to see it, or click here: https://github.com/conor-f?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1...

Github contributions heatmaps are too visually boring, so I wrote a basic script to let you write short phrases on them! Check out the code here https://gist.github.com/conor-f/93221bb74fb522d0e98029c48417...
I'm not going to deny that looking after children is more than a full-time job, but your assertion applies that only women are going to be capable (or willing) to take on that burden. And when it comes to staying out until the children move out... I have not met anyone who paused their career that long. By age 5, your children are likely to be going to school almost every workday, which means you're going to be with them for equal amounts of time whether you're working or not.
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Right, I see, because you have to say `method(:foo)` or `-> { foo }` or whatever. To me this is an acceptable syntactic trade-off in exchange for being able to invoke the method with bare `foo` (i.e. variable reads and method calls look the same) but I can see from other comments here that some people dislike that ability anyway. Vive la différence!
They've hired a bunch of outside agencies to help union-busting. My guess is that it came from one of them, and that Amazon will sue them for whatever damages are caused by this.
> If anything, I'd expect it's less of a factor in tech in the last two years because the main issue there has been the pandemic's effect on childcare, and swinging a remote or odd hours job is easier in tech.

Actually I would consider it a bigger factor in tech because a typical tech role, say, of a developer, makes far more sustained intellectual demands than, say, an administrative position. Speaking for myself, even when I'm not working, the problem I'm trying to solve is almost always in the back of my mind. It takes a toll and managing that in parallel with childcare would be super difficult.
I’m not responsible for the business decisions Facebook makes. It’s their choice to make it $0. Can I pay if I wanted to? No.
Wow thank you, these are incredible!! Will try and get to as many of these as possible
I think the if being an infix operator is a bit "cryptic". I mean IMO it is easier to read - and in reality it's not a problem, because it's pretty unambiguous what's going on, but some people get annoyed by "oh you can do that in ruby?" Trigger that happens the first few times you see it.

Probably same with fields/methods with a postfix ?
My mom was a negotiator for the teacher's union for about a decade. She was a para-professional, working with disabled students, for about 20 years. You should try talking with the people you are making claims about. I bet they're very different from what you think.
How much do you think Amazon can actually raise prices before people just shop elsewhere?

The simple truth is warehouse employee salaries aren’t significant because of throughput. Someone making 30$/hour vs 15$/hour sounds huge but when people are picking 300+ items an hour that’s 5 cents a pop. But, more realistic unionized job would be 17$/hour but only 250 items a sub 2 cents increase.
Without stats this is just a myth now.
Claims that I'm denying reality by someone who clearly is denying reality lacks any sting.

Examples.

- Offering well-sourced factual claims is not craziness.

- I'm not Ukrainian. I assure you that the California coast is not under any current threat.

- The military facts on the ground say that Russia cannot successfully take much more territory than it already has, and is extremely unlikely to be able to sustain what it has already taken.

- You are continuing to ignore the very real issues that I raised about genocide, etc.

Here is a fact for you to consider. Russia lost the Cold War in part because they didn't have the economy to be a counterweight to the USA. And economic trends have not gone in their favor. By GDP, Russia last year was only slightly more important than Florida. Thanks to sanctions, they are rapidly reducing in geopolitical importance. Not fast enough, I grant. But they aren't in a sustainable position.
For me this fits more into how I think or how I say things in my mind.

It might be that I am not an english speaker, but for example when I say to someone a list of instructions I usually say it like this:

"Add more water if the dough is dry"

and I don't usually say

"If the dough is dry add more water"

The same for saying for example:

"stop mixing if the dough is starting to tear"

or

"put the bread in the oven when it is ready"
Indeed, calling it just "riding" is one of many odd horsepeople shibboleths. This is actually my other huge nerd topic.

Other ones include that nobody calls them stables, it's "the barn," there is a difference between a rider, an owner, horsewoman, horseman (horseman is a reverently reserved term of respect, and horsewoman is also a term of respect, both take a few decades of riding to earn, when a horsewoman is a horseman, it's like saying Maestro, it's deference). English and Western riding are a level of detail equivalent to red and white wine, they sort of describe more what you don't do more than what you in fact do. A trail ride is called going out for a hack, or going hacking, and a horse that is safe on a trail is called a good hack. Disciplines are very siloed and the equivalent difference would be someone interested in rally car racing vs. street racing, where they both like cars, but wouldn't have much to talk about other than some technical rivalry. It's almost to the level of the difference between SWE and devops, you're both "good at computers," but that's about all they have in common.

Wrt motorcycles, we also say motorcyclist or biker, not rider. Funny that the differences between motorcyclists and bikers are alot like that of English and Western riding, as they're motivated by different things.

Also, I've eaten a horse steak. I don't crave it, but it's neutral. Part of our human stewardship of nature involves killing, culling and eating other animals, just as bugs will devour my body once I go. The squeamishness around eating horse meat seems more like a fear of ones own mortality after being confronted with the body of a being one empathizes with. It's a free preference and choice, and I would only say that fear is expressed by people who would judge others for eating the meat, but not by someone who just doesn't eat it.

source: rides motorycle to the barn to go on a hack to unwind after hacking all day as a desk jockey and using hack writer skills to comment on hacker news.
1 Euro is roughly 1 USD now. The Yen is also relatively weaker now, despite Japan having lower inflation. The only major currency that's risen against the dollar is the Russian ruble, which has been heavily manipulated.
My SO who lived for a time in the UK refuses to eat lamb in the US because "it's terrible." Apparently lamb in the UK is the gold standard for quality.
Same way we have dealt with industry bad actors for hundreds of years. Regulations.
I think Pages is a joke for serious writing

What makes Word the best tool for serious writing? I use Pages for writing papers (for humanities courses) and vim+pandoc for math. I have dabbled with Word here and there over the years but I've never seen anything that would indicate to me that it's amazing for writing. Personally, I can't figure out what's going on with the ribbon. It just seems to be a heavily modal interface which is not particularly discoverable.
The Asahi Linux team lead don't seem to agree that this is a fair assessment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28762744#28764136
As opposed to a fake codebase? This sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman.
We do mostly use that term in my company, where I think we do DEI relatively well.
Then the majority voice here would be crucifying Google for forking Linux. "Hurr durr embrace extend extinguish amirite????" See ashmem, binder, wakelocks, etc...

Ashmem is especially great example because upstream, having refused to take it for so long, ended up pulling their own NIH when they made the exact same thing but called it memfd.

At least with a new kernel they could also fix various mistakes that have long since been enshrined in Linux. Like the dreadful approach to permissions & sandboxing. Not that Linux has anything it could easily do here, that's the curse of legacy. But still, it's a fundamentally wrong approach to how systems are used today vs. 50 years ago when many of these semantics were established.
Short Biography of Third Caliph Uthman
> It did? I completely missed that, but it's probably because I'm old...

IIRC, being a "social media influencer" is literally selling out, and it seems like it's what a lot of kids aspire to these days.
Very cool, do you do any vetting / background checks of the projects that are submitted?
Amazon has incredibly crappy working conditions and extremely high turnover. Even if you don't like unions on average, I don't see what they have to lose in this case.
I'm in the northeast US and grew up without A/C. My house now has central A/C, but I still think of it as unnecessarily opulent and I feel bad about using it. I keep the setpoint pretty high most of the time, unless someone else comes over to visit and complains. The number of people who just leave their A/C at 70 F and leave it is just staggering to me.
It was probably incorporated into HP's consumer printers
Daily exercise routine, as little as 5 mins a day of bodyweight exercises and at least 20 minutes of intensional walking, as much light as possible, preferably direct sunlight and directly on the skin when possible for at least 5 mins a day. I set up a mirror which has a view about 20 metres away so when Im thinking I can look in the distance to release some eye tension. Thats just what I do... its the bare minimum.
All of Apple's software is free so you pay via hardware and services. I prefer the Mac ecosystem to the Windows one so there really is no choice. I'd be open to another ecosystem (Linux?) if it worked better than the Apple one or if Apple made consistently started making some decisions that went over the line (like their CSAM stuff which is on the edge).

Until then a few hundred dollars a year to be in a better ecosystem is not even worth second guessing.
Thanks. This may be useful for me someday.
> The company said it is required by Chinese cybersecurity regulations to examine and approve documents connected online, and does so using encryption that protects users’ privacy.

What an astounding statement, like "we had to destroy the village in order to save it". It can make sense when consider the state as essentially the owner of its population. That makes it the state's privacy, and violating your own privacy is nonsensical.

Kingsoft is not "required by Chinese cybersecurity regulations" to do business with China, and therefore participate in their human right violations, so they own responsibility for this. "I had to build the infrastructure for systemmatic oppression in order to make a profit" is not a convincing ethical argument.
Hm interesting, I didn't know of the effect on EALA. I was at EARS, but I had already left by the time the lawsuit was settled. The people were great but the structure of the industry was still messed up IMO
Can I install macOS Recovery without installing full macOS? If my memory serves my well, macOS Recovery is a part of full macOS, so to get it, you need a full install. If that's true, you still need a full macOS install in order to install Asahi Linux, in comparison to normal laptop/desktop computers which can have nothing on them, but still allow you to install Windows/Linux/macOS.
Tampoco "if", "for", "while"...
Roy Fielding’s REST dissertation (2018)
Hehe or alternative Gnome’s Objective-C. They should have build Gnome from the start to have an object model compatible with Objective-C.
I'm having a harder and harder time dealing with the extreme activism of today. It's really disappointing. While I enjoy the intellectual stimulation HN has to offer the tone and malice of activism, for any cause, has made this place toxic for me. The gain is knowledge is not worth witnessing the degradation of humanity.
They would not stop tracking you even if you pay. There are countless examples of this.

The only way to win is not to use term.
The author give implementation details names which are also not good naming as not reflecting the global idea.
Honestly I had a really solid memory for the most part until I started doing drugs and drinking. College is a giant blur. I remember many many insignificant events in fine detail but putting together a timezone of events I impossible. E.g. which classes and when. Etc

Now that I've layed of the drugs and reduced my alcoholism to socially normal levels my memory is a lot better.
Or the opposite, but yes, I think you are onto it.
If he uncritically praised every Apple product without question, sure, fine, but as I and others here have pointed out that's simply, obviously, provably not the case. There are many, many examples of where he has seriously disagreed with design, commercial and technical decisions Apple has made and said so very clearly. That's a lot of why I read his stuff.
This is very cool! Nice work OP. A lot cleaner and intuitive than even Vala (which in itself was a giant leap forward in GTK development).
Don't think of it as a 25% difference. Think of it as a 15% difference, since in many places, Americans will also have to pay up to 10.5% sales tax.
Do you really believe that the majority of software engineers were "hacking on computers at age 13"? Can we stop pretending that everyone coding for a living is a passionate embodiment of the hacker ethos?

Even thinking of myself (for whom open source was very important personally and career-wise), I didn't learn how to program until college.

There are plenty of opportunities to improve diversity in tech at many stages of the pipeline. Hiring and retention are part of that pipeline. I think it's disingenuous to imply that tech companies are not at fault in any way here, and that there's nothing they can do short of time travel or investing in middle school education.

I'm not saying everything in the article is the right answer, but there are a lot of good suggestions.
At least in theory unions have the correct incentive structure, as they get a fixed percentage of their member's incomes, so to get more money from their members, they need to negotiate better salaries for them.
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We have this problem in Haifa, Israel too. The city borders on natural woodland, and the boars go into the neighborhoods looking for food in the trash.
Of the various things you may condemn Walt Disney for, he placed an immense value in craftsmanship as well.
I was about to write the same thing when I read your comment.

Additionally, duck and geese can be bought at my local whole foods and often sell out.
I don't have a problem with debt if it's spent on R&D. But we pay one person to dig ditches and another to fill them, and say "see we created two jobs!" and both guys vote for that politician.
According to a post on xml.com[0], development of the spec that would become XML-RPC started in 1998. Microsoft was selling (32-bit) NT for Alpha at that point, and according to Raymond Chen[1] they had an internal 64-bit build of it.

I may be dating myself here, but a lot of folks new to the industry seem to think of anything pre-2000 as a dark time full of greyscale CRTs and dot-matrix printers. While those did exist in the home market, academic and business computing (where most of the advanced tech was being developed) was pretty advanced and a modern engineer would have felt right at home on a mid-90s UNIX workstation.

If you go back further you'll start encountering things like CORBA, which were pretty bad, but had the legitimate excuse of being very early. Remember that the '90s moved fast by modern standards -- CORBA was contemporary with MS-DOS, while XML-RPC was after IE had dethroned Netscape.

[0] https://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-m...
Yeah, I think that's why.
It's really annoying as the M1 Mini can drive two external monitors (it has no internal) so the M1 Air in clamshell mode should be able to drive two externals, but it can't.

I can't give up my four externals (+ the laptop screen itself) so my Intel MBP will soldier on until I get a Pro.
People with large amounts of money/property/assets often do have one thing in common that explains much of this stereotype - they're afraid that someone is going to come and try to take it all away from them. If they're a wealthy family, then they're often worried that one of their family members will squander all the wealth so that's often a subject of discussion - who has access to the funds? I've known a few such families, they're often fairly miserable in their internal dynamics.

It all seems a bit futile, though, the extraction of wealth from the economy via the neoliberal program and the creation of wealthy lifestyles. What's happened in the USA is that the neoliberals vacuumed all the wealth out of the middle class, so now it's basically posh and prole with a big gap between them. It's as if it the USA has become late 19th century Britain (certainly the educational system is going that way). It has all the unpleasant vibes of a dying Empire.

One notion from the article that's very true is this: Or does she (and everyone else here) habitually exaggerate their productivity?

That's perhaps a central myth that must be maintained, that the USA is a meritocracy where hard work and hustle is the route to wealth, when in reality it has more to do with inheritance than anything else. Some people from wealthy families do squander their inheritance, but even then their social networks tend to keep them from falling below the poverty line.

The fact that most wealth is in the hands of a lazy aristocratic class that isn't (with some exceptions) using it to build new research laboratories or develop novel technologies, while China rushes full speed ahead (ever see Shenzhen?), doesn't bode well for the future of the USA.
Solar is a luxury, it requires a substantial amount of real estate and a clear view of the sky. Both of which are incompatible with dense urban areas and shared spaces.
Seems like a great way to introduce bias and thus create a useless jury pool. Every summoned juror was selected by sight and was in a mall in the middle of a traditional workday. Bravo.
Moneylike
Rabbit is popular in paella.
Goat is delicious and readily available in US states with a large Latinx population. Cabrito tacos are a delicacy.
Prices in Switzerland are somewhat similar to or a bit higher (and certainly not 10 times) than the US, except for meat.
My guess would be a combination of ptrace/strace/overriding libc and/or eBPF.