skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any time people's thinking around Covid doesn't make sense to you, try to remember how often we were (and are) knowingly and intentionally lied to by trusted authorities. For example, "masks don't work", or, "GOF researchers are so confident this didn't leak from a lab that you're an anti-science (!) Trump fanatic if you suggest it".

Also, the idea that the elderly must be saved at all costs surely comes as surprising news to anyone paying attention to how healthcare works, or how nursing homes are managed. Many countries Corona death states consist of 30-50% purely nursing home deaths from extreme mismanagement, and decades of under-funding for nursing homes.

If you care about the elderly, then be outraged at those responsible for that major fuckup, not the people trying to get a sense of perspective amid oceans of deliberate misinformation and unjustified censorship.
> The boomers I think are the first generation in historical memory to act this way

No, they aren't.

> Everything is about them, it's always been about them

No, it isn't.

> Look at Social Security funding/timing,

You mean the way that, as Boomers were in early-mid career, the Silent Generation-dominated political class vastly increased taxes on workers for social security while also for the first time adopting taxes on social security benefits for the first time?

> Look at the response to COVID (and for reference compare it to the response to AIDs).

They are remarkably similar at the federal level, actually. In both cases, Republican Administrations deliberately didn't take it seriously for political reasons until media coverage of deaths and other political pressure from below resulted in a partial reversal. Everything about COVID happened faster, but the faster policy shift was mostly a result of it being a faster spreading, more acutely impactful pandemic, killing about as many people in its first year in the US as AIDS has in the US in total to date.

EDIT TO ADD:

> I'm in my 40s now, but I still feel in some ways like a kid living in a world run by and for boomers.

This is relatively normal. Boomers in their own 40s experienced the same thing with regard to Silents. The big difference is because Gen X is a so much of bust generation compared to both Boomers and Millennials, they never became or will become dominant, and because not only are Millenials more liberal than Boomers but Gen X is more conservative than both, Gen X’s influence is basically to slightly extend and reinforce the feeling of Boomer domination for Millenials.
I don't know, I only have the drawing tablet and the sound hardware, that hopefully will keep working with the current laptop. For the rest Linux will be enough I guess.
As a blog editor, I can definitely see a scenario where submissions are made by those unaware of details about the final form - especially when students (likely early in their publishing career) are involved.
It's not censorship when you delete your own content.
Yeah, but if that definition is constantly shifting, you cannot expect it to work with existing codebases.
Star dust... Please sign your name to all ignorance to follow... We're past pretend crypto ananymity
Human to human spread was confirmed before any international case was found.

I traveled from China to US in January 2020 well after China had reported the virus as transmissible and the US was not doing jack shit to screen.
Landfills full of solar panels is better than the air full of CO2.
Visualize a random walk with generative art
Hope the video is fun, and here’s a math puzzle I thought of while creating it.

The algorithm:

Pen width = 12px
Canvas x bounds = [-900px, 900px]
Canvas y bounds = [-600px, 600px]

At each timestep:
- The pen starts at the origin
- A direction is chosen [N,S,E,W] with each direction receiving 25%
probability.
- The pen moves forward in that direction with a distance chosen
uniformly from the integer range [50,75]
- After moving, if the pen is out of bounds of the canvas in the x
direction, set its x coordinate to 0 leaving the y coordinate unchanged
- After moving, if the pen is out of bounds of the canvas in the y
direction, set its y coordinate to 0 leaving the x coordinate unchanged

What is the probability that at timestep t, a pixel (x, y) is colored?
Leaked documents reveal Amazon’s process to review employees’ worth to Amazon
REN IS KING AND MINECRAFT SAVED ETERNITY!!!
Second paragraph of the title article:

> Surprisingly, despite this journey starting with C++ and WG21, the C Committee is the one that managed to get there first

Later it mentions presenting their first formal attempt at this to Belfast 2019, that's a C++ meeting, it's too late for this to go into C++ 20 at that point, but it easily could have been in C++ 23 (it is not).
12ft.io is used to bypass the paywall for people who don't have a subscription.
Nothing is built into the structure. I think folks are taking this for granted. You have to consciously create such structure regardless of the conditions. It's possible to have anti-social office environments too.
It’s not quite as simple as stating they are different diseases.

These diseases are caused by single celled organisms which keep spawning clones rather than having sex among a population. So the point you call a different COVID or influenza strain a different disease is effectively arbitrary unlike with sexual species where you can draw the line when they can’t breed with each other.
From the comments section we learn that the author is Thomas Basbøll, the same person mentioned in the prompt, "What about Thomas Basbøll? Didn't he play a part in this process?" in step 8. As this is obviously some kind of inside joke, I guess, we are supposed to know already and regulars to the blog will know.
yup. and as soon it becomes a revenue stream, there is no incentive to prevent false flagging
Since the project at the OP link is mostly/initially aimed at Russia, in my own experience, it's not always just DPI — it's often DPI combined with a firewall. Roskomnadzor can order to block access to a domain, but then they can also specify an IP or a subnet instead. For example, that's what happened when they tried to block Telegram, which does not use DNS at all.
Funny how all these articles are based on one badly researched blog post from back then. Don't be evil is not gone - it never was. They merely moved it to the end of their code of conduct [1]. It's insane how none of these authors could be bothered to do 30 seconds of fact checking before spewing out the same based bullshit just because it fits their narrative.

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
My frustration isn't really rooted in legality and has more to do with my personal beliefs about tech and unregulated capitalism.

I've worked in tech a bit - I know how this goes. Some company wants to get a massive valuation by hitting DAU's in the millions, but you can't do maintenance/support with that many users in a single org even if you wanted to. As an engineer, I can totally relate to the feeling of "fuck support - that sounds awful", and I struggle to blame _them_ because, well - like I said, even if they tried they couldn't possible cover that much work due to an inability to scale their organization.

Psychologically? It's pretty easy to get pissed off at these companies when this happens. These companies are growth-obsessed and the ostensible philosophy is always "making the world a better place". STFU and do your jobs or don't build a product that can't scale and try to pretend it's scaling just fine.
Lol they are playing themselves a bit because stuff being "more than libraries glued together" is generally a bad thing!
Well yeah — therein lies the problem with a language with pervasive undefined behavior.
Unless there's some kind of enforcement mechanism, free public transit becomes the abode of the homeless.
With these two pieces of data:

* the identical text copied from stack overflow should be easily identifiable

* volunteers put together a list of these sites themselves

it should be obvious to Google apoligists that Google is either negligent or intentionally allowing these sites in their search. I'm sick of hearing about how "the world is different" and it's an "arms race" between spam sites and google. Bullshit.
Good catch! I edited my original post to reflect this.
Science is an INEXPLICABLE REALITY THAT WILL NEVER CEASE
>The original meaning of "game engine" which made much more sense was: "the actual code which enables the game to run", e.g. just the runtime parts, the tiny piece of code that's dangling off the end of the asset pipeline ("tiny" relative to the work that needs to go into authoring tools and asset pipeline).

It still means that. When you hit the "Build" button in the Unreal IDE, you get your assets and custom code packaged together with the engine code. It doesn't bundle the IDE. I haven't used Unity in years, but from what I remember it works the same.

The IDE is only there (at least in Unreal's case) to give artists and programmers an easy workflow to develop the finished product, after which it's cast adrift. You need an integrated IDE these days because the number of features that are included in the engine is insane. If you're doing shaders and you're not writing them in raw GLSL, then the Unreal materials interface in the IDE is indispensable. If you're doing visual scripting (eg. Blueprint) the same applies.
The iron trade in the western Roman Empire between Gaul and the Mediterranean
No. I work on a start upy science park where every fifth car is a tesla, the cafe roasts it's own beans in "Bertha " and the barista is 6'4", dresses like a lumberjack, has a magnificent beard, and insists that they are non binary because they once painted their nails. Even there, in the most wanky of environments imaginable, only about half of the laptop wielders in the work pods / shared spaces / flow rooms (shudder) are using a Mac.
I'm talking about the relationship between monkeypox and smallpox, vs the relationship between 2022's influenza and the spanish flu. These are both respectively in the same virus families. No?

Smallpox is concerning, monkeypox as it is today isn't very concerning. If I understand the comments in this thread, the great concern is that monkeypox could become something quite deadly like smallpox was.

Is that risk substantially greater than the risk of a new influenza that rips through the population like the Spanish Flu once did?
People who call C simple have some weird definition of simple. How many C programs contain UB or are pure UB? Probably over 95%+. Language's not simple at all.
I've been experiencing the same. Here are a bunch of egregious spam mistakes we collected from different people to illustrate the problem: https://www.surgehq.ai/blog/are-the-spammers-winning-failure...
A similar story played out in Jalopnik, an automotive blog with a similar irreverent outsider ethos under the same Gawker Media Group umbrella as Deadspin. Many writers came and went, including a group that started The Autopian (https://www.theautopian.com/) which reminds me of a Jalopnik before the buyout.
If you think it's normal to put those three things together on a shopping list then I have a bridge to add to it.

Edit: I think this reads as if I'm disagreeing, whereas I'm piling in together!
I get that. The problem is Twitter/TikTok/Facebook does and will spill into the real world and truly effect you.
I've just started listening to the ArtHoles podcasts and it turns out some of the greatest artists were complete disasters in every other respect.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/artholes/id1434325501
> if you get vaccinated, you won't get covid

[…]

> So, almost noone vaccinated will get it

That’s a pretty clear case of moving the goalposts if I ever saw it.
I journal my ideas everyday meticulously, I journalled over 450+ thoughts. I use GitHub as a blog. Usually some improvement of how computers could work related to integration, parallelisation, performance, devops and optimisation. (See my profile for links)
This visually hides the HTML elements on Google Search and for me only. There is no networking involved and so Italian TLDs are still reachable.

This is a personal solution to an extremely disruptive and long standing problem, and only affects those who choose to employ it. It's not hurting anyone.
As the other poster said, it's due to other countries confounding the data.
Check this for example: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-salary-salary-...

You can specify the location - the salaries are more inline with what you'd expect if you select the USA. Also note that 8,540 of 37,546 respondents are from the US - so MOST of this data is not relevant to the USA.
Maybe true but still a bad take. Reducing the surface area of a problem like this makes its much easier to iterate on energy efficiencies than having millions of cars to replace periodically all with variable lifespans
This sounds a little too much like what happened in Sri Lanka[0]. Is now a great time to go messing with food supply anywhere? Pricing and availability is VERY out of wack in my part of the US still.

0: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/18/a-food-crisis-looms...
Look man is there some reason you presuppose bad intent and ascribe to a difference of opinion as a lie?

There was a time when wanting free speech was a good thing. It wasn’t that long ago.
Nucleon 16 is the first bike to use revolutionary Supre Drive tech
Should not be an issue in Europe. Usually homeless people have other options than sleeping in public transport here.
The difference between monkeypox and smallpox is arbitrary?

How many people are dropping dead from it? It doesn't seem like an arbitrary distinction to me.
Published 13 months ago. Is this technology in use, yet?
Your science is only an excuse to not involve the favored explanation... Up qwerks FOREVER! (down ones too)
I guess I could use `git fsck --lost-found` too.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck
Except the large majority of buildings are not going to last anywhere close to 100 years, and they will be very likely be replaced with better buildings long before that.

And most of the buildings that instead have a lifespan beyond 2122 are historical buildings built with very thick walls and they don't need insulation work beyond replacing windows.

There are many statistics on building lifecycle that you can easily find on the Internet.

So such estimation is really not grounded in reality.
FWIW, `latexmk` has a "Watch the sources for this document and rebuild if they change" mode builtin. It gets activated if you pass it the command line flag `-pvc`.
Such things cannot be completely excluded, but they should also be easy to detect. I assume that for any such new cultivar many detailed chemical analyses will be done before deciding that all went well.

Such side effects can also happen when using more traditional methods, i.e. selection of improved cultivars from plants that have suffered spontaneous random mutations or random mutations caused by mutagenic agents.

On the other hand, when you insert a foreign gene in the plant genome, e.g. with the purpose of making it pest-resistant, the results are far more unpredictable then in cases like this, where an already existing gene has been duplicated, in order to increase its activity.
The SO chart shows Erlang is actually highest at $120K salary. Also note the median years of experience is 13. Making $110K after 13 years is not all that great. The chart would be more useful if it showed a trajectory over time for each language. Overall I don’t think this chart should influence anyone’s decision to pick a programming language.

I worked with a few teams using Clojure and there was nothing magical about it. One of the Clojure teams’ API was very thoughtfully done and reliable. Another Clojure team s’ API was a mess and caused loads of issues. I suspect the first team chose Clojure organically and the second team picked it due the SO salary.
> "Did you read the snail mail letter from someone who does just that?"

I did. The author struggled embedding files into their executables with makefiles. We don't know anything else beyond that. So what?

People also struggle with memory management in C, an arguably much more difficult and widespread problem. Should we introduce a garbage collector into the C spec? How about we just pull in libsodium into the C standard library because people struggle with getting cryptography right?

OP mentions #embed was a multi-year long uphill battle, with a lot of convincing needed at every turn. That in itself is enough proof that people aren't in clear agreement over there being a single "right" solution. Hence, leave this task to bespoke build systems and be done with it. Let different build systems offer different solutions. Allow for different syntaxes, etc. Leave the core language lean.
With this correction, are you under the impression that people are assuming there's no cost to running trains now?
I was the person at the organization FiberCorps in Lafayette, LA who chose Blake's proposal. It was an ML project involving Twitter. I don't remember the specifics and have no desire to dismiss people's opinions based on titles.

The simple fact is that if there exists a question of whether or not a system can be some level of alive/sentient, the ethical path suggests treating it as such until more is uncovered.

Google isn't doing that and most of HN seems to be very obstinate in focusing on making myths of certainty and/or participating in bully culture.

I'm glad we're all going through this now so we can purge the toxic cultural norms arising and move toward a stance that's more life-affirming, especially if there is no singularity now. It's important for us to set the stage of humanity to receive any singularity/AGI in a loving manner.
The return of dreamweaver...
"broken link" is indeed not the only problem with NFTs, but I'm keen to hear your perspective on NFT use-cases.
The love of money is the root of all evil. So of public companies are meant to chase money above all else, they're kinda required to be evil, aren't they? (From a Christian perspective at least.)
Lots of things, but war especially. “When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable.”
Any RSS app can use these feeds.
as some mentioned, there are benefits and there are costs applying the 'lift and shift' for big things like kafka (and elastic search, DBs, etc).
The main assumption is that MOST of your apps (especially the ones affected by kafka access latency) run in k8s already. Access from outside should be mainly for:

a. integrations with other systems which do not have very strict latency constraints

b. replication to disaster recovery site

The benefits are listed (between lines) in both article and below.

Price is is usually still treating those pods like pets:

- one pod per k8s node (taints&node selectors)
- special sizing & tunings of the targeted nodes (resources, kernel params, etc)

- one LB per Pod. yes, costly and against what you would expect, but that's what is required for a bullet proof deploy. (delay is not always there, especially in clouds, LB have super efficient implementations (especially gcp)

- bullet proof storage, with the required performance computed in your sizing phase.
According to your link, Windows has 3 times the market share of OS X. In Germany it is closer to 4 times.
Mr. Rogers Consistently Weighed 143 Pounds. The Significance Behind That Number
Personally I think GNOME 3 nowadays is one of the best DE I have ever used and I continue to use it every day.
And because if every outcome happens the probabilities of those outcomes are meaningless, and those probabilities are the predictive content of a quantum mechanical theory. It's an "interpretation" that requires you to ditch the entire value of the thing you're "interpreting". You don't need to know anything about QM other than that it has been empirically tested and is probabilistic in nature to reject the many worlds interpretation on this basis.

Each time I mention this online I state it more confidently, in the hope that some day someone will Cunningham's law me and change my mind. If I haven't committed some gross misunderstanding it's disappointing that so many physicists fall for such obvious bunk. I've already seen the attempted arguments listed at [1] and none of them are remotely convincing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Pro...
Oh for sure the employee was being a hassle and his firing is really the only sensible conclusion. But he was also probably acting in the only way possible given his sense of ethics if he truly believes he was dealing with a sentient being. Or this is all just a cleverly crafted PR stunt…

Lamoire has evidence and anecdotal experience that leads him to believe this thing is sentient. You don’t believe him because you cannot fathom how a language model could possibly meet your standard of sentience. Nobody wins because sentience is not well defined. Of course you are free to dismiss any opinion you like, cool. But you can’t really disprove Lamoire assertions because you can’t even define sentience because we don’t know how to develop a hypothesis that we can viciously disprove regarding what qualifies it. It’s an innate and philosophical concept as we know it today.
I write COBOL
I work 24hrs/week
I make $15k/week

I also can’t center a div on a web page or do much of anything other then what I do.

Specialization IMO is key to highest job satisfaction and highest salary in this industry
I use godbolt as a repl for both Zig and Rust. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

It's not a true repl, but it evaluates your code on the fly and shows the generated assembly. It's useful in a lot of the same ways a real REPL is.
I have been suspended from Twitter for very silly things that don’t match the rule they claim I violated - very neutral statements that they claimed were “wishing harm” or something. It makes me appreciate the actual human moderation of HN.
On the contrary, it's far better suited to providing demand when solar is most available. It's far better than trying to fight the cold using solar. The tiny theoretical efficiency boost from lower temperatures and high sun is virtually irrelevant in comparison (and much more relevant to thermal power plant considerations).

Much of the world gets literally twice the sunlight as most of Germany and that's the annual average. When talking about the winter time, the difference can be more like a factor of 5 or more when taking into account heat needs.

I fail to see why people use northern Europe as the baseline for their solar arguments when it's clearly a cornercase, given a global perspective.
Wait... They are running the machine again? We never even pretended to begin introducing new (science/physics/ phase shifting sound) to reality... Here's a leak to pay attention to... You are a work product and your enemy/creator is proud of that
You don't need human eyes on every single tweet, just need enough people to review the flagged content. You could still have algorithms flag things and rank them by confidence levels. You could also hide the content first and queue it for human review instead of auto-banning the user. It's a lot of work, but I feel like there's a lot more that could be done.
Almost any other western country other than the US and Switzerland will massively pull down the average. Especially in the US salaries are extremely inflated. I know academics in physics who are effectively chained to the US because they are so used to the huge amount of money. In Germany for example you cannot expect to make more than 70k euro max, probably more like 50-55k euro a year even as a senior software engineer. I don't think a lot of americans appreciate how vastly inflated american wages are