skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can any Hacker News health experts refute any of the points documented and referenced in the above link made by Steve Kirsch? Any health experts willing to debate him for $1,000,000? Why is there such dead silence on these topics? Is it unimportant? Has society been turned away from real science and rational thought?
> Apple’s definition of tracking is sharing information about an identifiable person between unrelated parties.

That is a weird definition of tracking! By that definition, a single party that follows what you do over time is not tracking you?

That is separate from the question of whether or not Apple is actually doing this and not telling us (I'd bet they are), I'm just saying that that definition of tracking reads like it's from a parallel universe.
lol you probably never wrote a live of code in your proffesional life xD i've used Idea and it's shit and slow as fuck. VSCode works fast even on a laptop, with intellisense scanning code in background. Noob.
I was a very junior dev when I worked for a huge health insurance company, I was placed under a senior dev to learn JSP and Java Servlets using an internal app. I quickly ran through a book on JSP to prepare for the project.

When I get there, the guy had already written one page of the app, and he did it by doing System.out.println in the servlet for ALL THE HTML. In other words, he didn't use JSP templates at all.

System.out.println("<html>");
System.out.println("<head>");
System.out.println("<title>This janky ass code</title>");

I looked at that abomination and said, "This isn't JSP at all...." He rambled on about sometimes in a project, we just need to get things done with the tools we knew, etc. etc.

I went to our boss and told him I wasn't learning JSP, which was the mandate of the company back then. He just kind of smirked and said, "Yeah, that sounds like Ken. He knows programming, though, blah blah blah."

2nd worse boss I ever had, the dev was a lunatic, and that company was a joke.
HTTP/2 Server Push being impractical matches my experience on getting my game client[0] to load quickly (2.5 - 3.5 seconds via Starlink, for cold - warm cache). What slowed it down:

1. Fetching many resources simultaneously, 162 resources just for terrain data, a couple hundred more for meshes. I am currently serving with Express, so the solution here was to put Cloudflare in front of it as a reverse proxy with a short cache TTL. Cloudflare then serves them with HTTP/3. Also, requesting all of these simultaneously rather than sequentially. The header overhead isn't a problem with HTTP/3 since that uses a hash or something rather than re-sending all the same headers in each request.

2. Resource byte size. Cloudflare does Brotli but from my testing, I would need to combine terrain zones into a single binary blob for this to reduce byte size by half. (Compressing things that are a few hundred bytes achieves very little.) But combining these would mean that any change to the data of one zone would require re-compressing all zones. (Mesh compression with Draco[1] helped though.)

3. ROUNDTRIP. Especially with connection latency. This is where Server Push comes in. I actually experimented with it. But it basically only saves one roundtrip (~50-500ms depending on connection); the server establishes a connection then can push. Without server push, the server establishes a connection, then waits for the client to request resources.

The client requesting resources has a few advantages. 1) Server doesn't need to figure out what data the client needs, the client can do those calculations, and the server can simply verify (which is a lighter SQL query than discovery). 2) Client can not-request resources which it already has (in cache or storage)! 3) Resources can be cached by Cloudflare at the edge.

0: earth.suncapped.com

1: github.com/google/draco
My though was :

1. Save my bookmark in the blockchain via an ID (hash maybe) that is stored in a "bookmarks" smart contract
2. Use said ID to identify the bookmark in an IPFS file containing the whole bookmark data.

That way, the bookmark will live perpetually in the blockchain, and there are incentives for third unknown (to me) third parties to maintain the blockchain and its data. I still have to either pay Piñata or have my file pinned in IPFS.

- Why not an open export standard that you backup regularly either manually or via an API to a third-party cloud storage provider?

Right, because all those cases require me to "regularly" do something manually

- Why does it need to live in the cloud? Why not your own server or local device?

Because I want to be able to access it from multiple locations? And I don't want to risk losing them again if my local server breaks or whatnot... I also don't want to maintain a local server.

- There isn't one valid usage scenario for blockchain that actually makes sense versus existing solutions.

I am OK if you do not find it useful. I am sorry my proposal caused so much pain to you. I can sense in your angry reply that you got frustrated by my comment. For that I apologize. I'll keep thinking of interesting use cases for the Blockchain, hopefully that doesn't give you headaches :). All the best!
Hi, I am the guy who was going to buy a house in the countryside and who might need to talk to you about killing hornets. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32149932)

I'm contacting you to tell you that I bought the house, and I have finally moved, and I love it here.

But guess wha? We have hornets. And I already hate them. 10 minutes ago I removed my first nest. It was a small one, inside our mailbox! Highly inconvenient and disgusting.

There must be some other nest nearby, those buggers keep coming to pester us while we eat.

Do you have any pointers about how to find where a hornet's nest is?
> I mean, is your entire decision going to be made on GIT being used?

I think it's up to every candidate to decide what's important to them. There are so many jobs, candidates can be choosy, so they might as well find a company that fits them. For the candidate that loves Git and absolutely requires it to be used for them to be fulfilled, it's a good question to ask. It's hardly going to be difficult for a candidate to find a company which answers yes to that particular question, so might as well ask and then skip a company that says no.
I used CVS. And worse.
> There’s no systemic meltdown coming this time around, because there hasn’t been the same level of lending excesses and because many of the biggest banks pulled back from mortgages after the financial crisis. ...

This is the consensus view. Funny thing is, this is exactly the kind of thing people were yammering on about with respect to "subprime" in 2007. Contained. Don't worry about it. A few weak players will go under, but there is no systemic risk.

Now, maybe that's true this time. Or not. What is certain is that the mortgage industry went through a metamorphosis since the GFC, and most of the players are now not banks.

> “The nonbanks are poorly capitalized,” said Nancy Wallace, chair of the real estate group at Berkeley Haas, the business school at University of California, Berkeley. “When the mortgage market tanks they are in trouble.”

> In 2004, only about a third of the top 20 lenders for refinancings were independent firms. Last year, two-thirds of the top 20 were non-bank lenders, according to LendingPatterns.com, which analyzes the industry for mortgage lenders. Since 2016, banks have seen their share of the market shrink to about a third from about half, according to news and data provider Inside Mortgage Finance.

So what happens when the major source of debt fueling the ongoing housing debacle comes from "poorly capitalized" non-banks? The obvious answer is that the gravy train careens into a ditch. Less capital means fewer loans. Fewer loans mean house prices are no longer supported by debt. Given that they stopped being supported by incomes a long time ago, there's nothing left to prop the thing up.

So it will certainly be different this time around. Every financial crisis is different in its own way.
I don't mean to offend, but you almost proven the article correct.

He is stating we are becoming a non-reading society. Literacy is about being able to read or write, not the ability to learn new things. You may be correct we are learning a lot more about the world, but we aren't doing it so through the medium of books. I would suggest audio or visual mediums are the new deliverers of information, with context given by Wikipedia.

The value he is presenting, from my point of view, is not pure knowledge gaining, but communal knowledge. At the beginning, he is giving his perspective of a time when everyone read at least a certain set of books, but the island is vast and so has the wondrous coastline to a negative impact.

Also, I could read a Wikipedia article and retain nothing and read a 500 page book and think about it weekly. Interest in the topic is important to retention so is the quality of the book.

I say these things as I watch three hours of YouTube a day... smh.
How is picking the one with the longest word count the best ??
Every interview process I've had after I got my first job I was able to talk to basically anyone I wanted and set up extra calls just to ask about the company, process, product, etc.

I don't have great insight into the meta for picking the right questions, but I feel like people really don't take advantage of their power in job-hunting. Ask to talk to an engineer currently on the team. Ask to talk to someone more customer-facing to talk about the product and the business (especially if it's a small company). Or don't if you don't care about those things.

These lists are a useful tool in figuring out what you might care about or not care about. I think that's the best insight into what meta to follow: some introspection on your values. Finally, as with anything else, it's an iterative process. You won't get everything right the first time and the target moves as your values do.
They don't hold up well to repeated side impacts or horizontal shearing. So kids jumping on it, shin kicks, or moving locations. They do well with the vertical forces if they're rarely moved.
Agreed, that's why I started by modifying clang. I think we can start dropping some of the crufty legacy in the C++ language without throwing it all out and starting again. While clang tidy could be used to check for a lot of these, I wanted to show that we could change the language directly and what that could look like.
> alcohol abuse is a surefire way to get liver cancer

...and even then, in the vast majority of primary liver cancer cases, cirrhosis is already present, and typically precedes the cancer. So yes, it's very likely that the generally unhealthy lifestyle of the alcoholic is the primary contributor, here.
That’s the worst you get to give status updates to 3-layers of manager stating from the most senior to most junior.
Show HN: I built a simple review to see if you deserve a raise
> Educationalist here, actually it isn't :) For many people, this just makes you feel bad - and that's it.

Are you just asking overweight people or are you asking all people? The people who are overweight today are obviously the group of people for which social pressure is ineffective. I'm talking about all people including the people who are successfully at a healthy weight.
Dolphins and whales as well
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-whales-and...
That sounds exactly like "The client should manage the resources on the client not the server"
Taligent Readies a New Development Paradigm (1995)
oh but they do. All of the apps you purchase, stocks you own, news stories you read, location of your phone/mac based on precise geolocation, your name, address, age, gender, oh and this too:

> We may also use local, on-device processing to select which ad to display, using > information stored on your device, such as the apps you frequently open.

But who's counting?

https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...
There's the clockwork devterm! https://www.clockworkpi.com/ It's a weird product that I can't realistically imagine using but it's cool nonetheless
Every American kitchen has measuring cups, few have scales. And people learn that method and continue to use it (most people don't even know about zeroing a scale after you add each ingredient).

It may also be that US measuring cups are "more convenient" sizes than the equivalent metric ones would be.

For flour, they often specify "sifted" which removes some of the variability.
Clients connect to server, connection kept open and server push the base64 data to all connected clients.
> does each event belong to one entity, to one type of entities, or is it global

Are you asking about building aggregates in CQRS? Or is this specific to event sourcing?

Were your concerns were with modeling your domain more so than the infrastructure powering the "event sourcing"?
haha wasn't in there! Def lookied :)
It could also be that milder forms are an asset in an information based economy
Discussion of the same presentation 11 months ago, when the title was 400GB/s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738

This was the video which was posted back then alongside the slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-HcG8QxPc
Tips for Riding Motorbikes in Thailand
Meta: There's also an article about Ada in this issue, but the Taligent part is what I'm interested in.
> Surely after all this time, there would be a clear winner between Modern and Pfizer, right? There's no reason to believe both products would be equally efficacious and safe over such a time period.

Moderna and Pfizer both use the same techniques to create an mRNA vaccine that targets the same spike protein. Why would you expect significant difference between them? What you would expect and what the data shows is that any difference between their effectiveness is smaller than the margin of error in evaluating their effectiveness.

You’re looking for a problem where there does not appear to be one.
It doesn't matter one iota. He could have waterboarded Mother Theresa for all I care.

Due. Process. Them you can abscond with liberties. No due process, no absconding with liberties. Destroying evidence, especially exculpatory evidence is the System placing itself above it's mandate from the People as laid out in the Constitution.

If you want to imprison someone, you prove your case, maintain all evidence, and investigate every instance of exculpatory evidence you can.

It is not the job of Law Enforcement to secure a conviction. It is their job to see Justice done to the best of their ability. If they violate that mandate by destroying exculpatory evidence, they vacate their authority to imprison.

The scales of Justice demand this bias. Otherwise you've equipped the State with carte blanche to lock up and keep locked up anyone they like.

Due Process. It means something. You may not sympathize with the person, but it is critically important that we hold the edifices of power to maximal account.
Video of this presentation available here: https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/pa...
There's also a button in the iPhone control center. No need to even unlock your phone, just swipe down from the top-right!
Looking forward to seeing the final result, looks very interesting so far.

How complex do the functions get, does it end up getting into (pre)calculus or anything like that?
But the goal wasn't better or faster. It was giving more customers the same service. You're talking about a completely different problem.
You should say your point instead of tiptoeing around it
That's for apps to track you, not for apple.
I do not doubt some people are doing it. Go have fun with it, if you are into that.

But clearly not "everyone" is doing it and I strongly doubt a majority is.
Worst case you provide 90% of their food and decrease it a little bit for each generation until they’ve learned how to hunt.
One can’t help but wonder how much the movie influenced the work
> mortgage-backed securities

This describes the US system as well. The 'servicing' (who you pay each month) of the loan might change hands, but the underlying debt was bundled and sold off already. In the US, many banks don't service loans. I assume, that "Fund X" buys the securities using funds from 401ks, etc, and they kick the servicing to a preferred partner. The partner gets paid some cut. The fund gets the yield, the fees are paid out to to the servicing entity.

This is why the 2008 event was so disruptive. Mortgage brokers were labeling everything as AAA, and the funds were buying them up. Banks weren't risking their own capital, they want the 401k holders to own the debt, and they just take their cut. It's a nice racket, can't figure out how to break in, though.
There may be one or two parents who do this but trust me that the process of seeking help for an autistic child is not fun. I don’t see how anyone can go through this for those reasons, it’s really hard emotionally.
The way I've been putting it to people lately is: Never underestimate how hard a problem can grow by making it big. And also, at times, it is hard to appreciate how difficult something becomes if you haven't walked the path at least partially.

Like, from work, hosting postgres. At this point, I very much understand why a consultant once said - "You cannot make mistakes in a postgres 10GB or 100GB and a dozen transactions per second in size". And he's right, give it some hardware, don't touch knobs except for 1 or 2 and that's it. The average application accessing our postgres clusters is just too small to cause problems.

And then we have 2 postgres clusters with a dataset size of 1TB or 2TB peaking at like 300 - 400 transactions per second. That's not necessarily big or busy for what postgres can do, but it becomes noticeable that you have to do some things right at this point and some patterns just stop working hard.

And then there are people dealing with postgres instances 100 - 1000x bigger than this. And that's becoming tangibly awesome and frightening by now, using awesome in a more oldschool way there.
While this may sound reminiscent of the 2008 crisis, I think there are some important differences according to the article:

In 2008 the fundamental problem were defaults - people just weren't meeting their mortgage payments (and lots of financial engineering that spread the losses in ways nobody understood beforehand). This sounds like the problem is mainly related to rising interest rates, through a number of channels: 1) less demand for loans and thus less top-line revenue, 2) lower value of fixed-rate loans in wholesale markets (on which they seem to have relied), and potentially 3) higher refinancing costs if they didn't hedge out the interest rate risk in their books (fixed interest income, floating interest expenses). Banks generally hedge out these risks because regulation forces them to be very conservative in their risk management, but here it seems we're mostly talking about non-banks, so they may have fallen for the temptation of a little short-term profitability boost by saving on interest rate protection.

I'm not saying that defaults aren't a problem, especially in this extremely high-risk subprime business that we seem to be talking about here, but there is some hope to think that those might be less bad this time. We're seeing a lot of inflation, and if wages keep pace with prices (conceivable in a time of low unemployment) then the burden of debt service on fixed-rate mortgages would actually become smaller in proportion to the overall household budget. Of course, there are still a lot of ways things could go quite wrong re defaults (eg prices have been skyrocketing in a lot of areas, if those start to plunge anything is on the table, even strategic defaults). But it's interesting to note that lenders can also face problems unrelated to defaults.

I'm also curious how those actors (usually insurances) who took the floating end of interest rate swaps during the lows are doing now.
I'm not saying you did, I'm just disagreeing that it would actually be a different situation nowadays. Apologies if that came across incorrectly.
that's not Server Push, but Server-Sent Events probably
Grocer's quotes for emphasis.
Well yeah, but the onrushing climate catastrophe is going to selectively wreak havoc on the poor, and especially poor brown people nearer the equator.
Exactly ! I feel double mad when reading metrics/measurements in non metric format

1) Im mad cause now i need to google a convert query and author assumes the world is only full of U.S.A ppl

2) Mad cause I should know approximate conversion value, since I *think/claim" to be not a stupid person.

Both of the are usually false, in my case at least
My gateway metal idols were Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads and Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, all of whom I got to see in concert. And I'm going to just going to say it, "1984" was one of my favorite albums (although not really metal, the cover reminded me of the one on Black Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell"). Paul Graham's description of high school in one essay was right on the mark for me, I sat at the heavy metal table at lunch when I wasn't truant.

A friend of mine at work mentioned around 1988 that I should listen to 10,000 Maniacs--the name sounded interesting, and (I'll probably get beat up here for saying this) Natalie Merchant's Greek Siren-like voice led me down a more, er "primrose path" musically. Peter Tosh, too.

[On a personal note, I might have been able to get the courage to ask Natalie out back then even though she was totally out of my league--like my wife, and I dated a few women like Lita over the years, but asking Lita out? That's a whole other level of courage. Iommi was engaged to her, by the way, for reference.]

I'm 55 and I still listen to metal especially while working, but I stopped trying new stuff in the early 2000's. So the newest I listen to would be Slipknot or Soulfly. My brother tried getting me to listen to modern "Norse Core" or something, but I didn't get it.

I suspect my wife got into metal through the albums of Bon Jovi, but she denies it.
went to go check out their youtube channel cus i really wanted to learn more about Mariam and she doesn't even appear in the videos, its all her dad lol
Not particularly relevant to this use case.
Why now, and why DTrace (vs BPF)? Looking at the doc [1]:

> Check that you are running a supported version of Windows. The current download of DTrace is supported in the Insider builds of 20H1 Windows after version 18980 and Windows Server Build 18975. Installing this version of DTrace on older versions of Windows can lead to system instability and is not recommended. The archived version of DTrace for 19H1 is available at Archived Download DTrace on Windows. Note that this version of DTrace is no longer supported.

So it's not "now", but has been there for a while. Also it might not be very helpful to align with BPF anyway as the kernel itself is totally different thus any tool reuse wouldn't be very practical.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/de...
That's not how it works. Every ad vendor has a privacy page with this stuff spelled out in the same way.
This could easily be addressed by simply not offering the option to someone in default, but even without doing that, I don't think your assertion makes sense. Not paying my mortgage on the idea that my bank will go brankrupt before they are able to reposses my house is a HUGE gamble. I doubt my monthly payment has any meaningful impact on my banks bottom line.
I knew a person that worked in facilities at Apple back in the 80-90's. She told me once that someone had taken a dump on a table in a conference room. I guess they where trying to send a message about the results of a meeting. I have had the urge to defecate in conference rooms ever since. Maybe call it the Steve Jobs Phenomenon or Apple Phenomenon.