skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I asked a highly credentialed, very aged, pediatrician why I should get my toddler with no comorbidities vaccinated with a novel type of vaccine having significant known side effects, for a disease having a fatality rate something like 1 in 5 or 10 million.

His answer of "get it to protect everyone else" was the worst non-answer I have ever heard.

Nothing in my life has shook my trust in so called "Authority Figures" like the debacle that is the Covid Response and Mandate drive.
I'm talking about CCP in 1936, when they were still guerrilla.
It's interesting what "popular" can mean. Chances are the "popular" kids in your high school weren't necessarily well liked, they just had social clout.

Where I work now the the "Java" devs code about 80% Kotlin and 20% Java.

At my previous job we were mostly Ruby except for a service that relied on a Java library that connected to some obscure systems that no other language had a library for. Yeah, we used Java, but it was because that was our only option.
HaxeUI adds a cross-platform canvas implementation
Why would you only encode your media in a format that none of your customers have support for in the first place?

Additionally, being an open standard, you can probably rely on ffmpeg supporting it. This allows you to transcode into something that your proprietary encoder will support for ingest if it comes to that.
This was copied from the original article linked by this article...
AMP is not a format.
NYTImes lied to us
>the entire welfare system is in real trouble unless the proportion of young people isn't inflated somehow

>The generation born in the '50s and '60s is retiring now, and it's much larger than subsequent generations. Retirement age is 67. Their healthcare and pension is paid for by the working population, who hope the next generation will pass on the torch.

Are you suggesting it is a good idea to replace the native population to support the Swedish welfare system? Additionally, the article states that many of these immigrant are themselves using the welfare system. Wouldn't it be better to bite the bullet and let the country reach its carrying capacity naturally even if it results in some pain? I don't think this can be explained from an economic perspective.

I think the aging population simply acted as an allowing factor that made the discussion viable politically. But I think ultimately it happened as part of liberal immigration ideology itself. From that standpoint, the immigration policy is still largely a success. If all life is equal and everyone deserves the human rights, then from that prospective, even if the policy has issues, those issues do not outweigh the total net gain of humanity. Even if it comes at a cost for some people.

>But the other option isn't pretty either.

Can you explain what the other option is and why you think it would be pretty?
That doesn't work on the local network, does it?
I note in my other reply in this thread that they do describe some of the methodology (although I have not yet located a copy of the paper itself) appears to be address this.

They looked at the mental health (as measured by self-reported surveys) among schools over time and cross-referenced that with the rollout of Facebook over time. So they could compare the change in mental health at schools the received Facebook access and compare it to the change in mental health at schools that did not receive Facebook access at the same time.

The methodology appears to be fairly novel and does isolate them from several reverse-causation biases, as it is difficult to imagine that the rollout of Facebook was influenced by factors that led to the decline of mental health in student bodies.
That there are none left besides the limited interbreeding mark in our genetics could be seen as evidence.
I would love it if some reviewers had the guts to do this.

Unfortunately, it is probably also a way to get your early review sample privilege revoked.
Release of SvelteStorm 5.0: An IDE for Svelte Developers
Per Boom's website, they are targeting price points that would let businesses economically sell seats at normal business class fares. However, knowing airlines, I would be surprised if they sold tickets for less than (say) 1.5x the highest subsonic fare for the route.

Using the example above, that would put supersonic flights in the range of 10x economy, which feels about right for airline pricing. (At least until there are tons of supersonic flights to push down prices.)
SvelteStorm has enhanced key features and added developer tools, such as Time Travel Debugging, Performance Dashboard, and State Manager.
> For example, one recent query planner improvement excludes data more efficiently for relative now()-based queries (e.g., WHERE time >= now()-’1 week’::interval).

This could be done by just calculating the start date in code too.

> When hypertables are compressed the amount of data that queries need to read is reduced, leading to dramatic increases in performance of 1000x or more.

At my workplace we recently experimented with storing time series data in an array in a postgres row. This gets compressed as a TOAST array, can store thousands of ints in just a few DB pages (aka loading it is about the same as an index scan). We also use Timescale for a different service mind you. I'm sure this format is more efficient than the Timescale format too. In Timescale you would need rows containing (for example) (date, user_id, time_on_site), one row per day. The postgres array format (start_date, user_id, time_on_site_by_date) indexing where 0=start_date, 1=start_date+1 is like 1/3rd the size uncompressed. And yea, even if something is compressed, you still gotta put the uncompressed version in memory somewhere.
I forgot to mention, I personally did the following:
Designed and had a shade enclosure built, figured out and fabricated irrigation, tables, set up nutrients and managed to grow a healthy crop. From there, I tested different blends and recipes, settled on a product line, designed the branding, the packaging and found manufacturers, set up the processing equipment and just finished taking photos and making the website.

I'm happy to share any and all details about any and all of the processes.
It's a total gamble but I consider it an opportunity to teach my kids about taking an idea and turning it into a set of skills and potentially a viable business.

They are more interested in this than watching me code or discuss project on slack with the rest of the team ;).

I hope we can get on people's radar and provide a cool product to people that appreciate it. Thanks for reading.
There's a browser plugin called uMatrix that lets you block cookies and javascript on a per-site basis. I just have it blocking all cookies by default unless its a site I need to log in to.
I'm more concerned about censorship. China justifies their mass internet censorship with pornography bans, which have high public support. Will deepfakes push the US over the edge, bringing the free Internet to an end?

I'm not concerned at all about pornography addiction, I don't think that's real. On the contrary, pornography promotes autonomy and independence by making people less dependent on others for sexual stimulation. It's a massive social good, and unrestricted pornography is the sign of a modern society.
The party is over: How Meta and Google are using recession fears to clean house
I am becoming increasingly skeptical that good internal documentation is even possible. I've been working in software development for around 12 years and have _never_ seen it done well and asking around the best I've heard offered up is the equivalent of an internal stack overflow.

For a while, I thought that maybe an exception would be having a technical writer on staff but after reading this post I'm significantly disheartened on that front too. I'd be interested to hear if anyone on hacker news has experienced good internal documentation and even more interested if any of you folks have experienced anything truly _great_.

For my contribution, I've found that documentation fails for a couple of reasons. The first is the burden of correctness. The people who most would like documentation are also the people who most need the documentation and they usually are also the people most likely to be reluctant to contribute to the documentation because they don't feel they can accurately represent the information. Imagine someone ramping into a feature and spending a few days reverse engineering how it works, collecting info, etc. Sometimes they'll put it up somewhere but a lot of the time contributing partial information feels 'wrong'.

And the second bit I find to be a big reason why documentation efforts fail is just the sheer friction of putting it into the documentation store to begin with. In confluence, for example, if you have a bit of information it can be tough to work out how to categorize it, where in the hierarchy it should go, etc, etc. Or if it's a GitHub wiki you want to put it somewhere that it is discoverable but also be careful that it's 'correct' because you don't want to break backlinks if it gets recategorized.

I've mostly given up on it at this point. Instead, I take detailed personal notes and make them publicly available. It doesn't have to be correct because being advertised as personal notes means that it's my opinion on the truth rather than objective fact. It isn't far away from my codebase, I can just tap a short keybinding in my editor to type my notes or search them and I can link directly from the notes to lines of code in files to jump back and forth. The particular system I use means that if I write a short snippet of code to solve a one off issue (like calling a path helper to derive a URL that I can't find in the interface) I can even drop it in a code block and execute it right from my note-taking tool. It isn't ideal for sure but I've gotten way farther in having a shareable knowledge base this way than I have in literal years of trying to get a shared, useful documentation store spun up.
JavaScript/WebAssembly port of Super Mario 64 on Replit
I made it a point to not read it, because virtually all social science papers are like these. It's really not worth my time and why the "shallow" dismissals should be the default response.

Going back to your specific comments. Clearly the universities were not randomly assigned the treatment and control. And the actual number of independent sample sizes is extremely unlikely to give stat sig results at the single percentage digit impact shown. And no matter what they do, for something as complex as mental health, listing out all the confounding factors is hopeless - unlike lung cancer where you are literally sucking tar into your lungs and the sample sizes and effects are huge. Its a useful observational study, but it is ridiculous to call it a proof.

> We know that smoking is linked to cancer through decades of correlational studies and careful analysis of confounding factors, for example.

Yes, it took decades, when there is no proper control set. There are work arounds like backdoor and front door criteria, but yeah - it will take decades of work and looking inside the "black box".
All data is data, if you want more go find or acquire.
Sorry, if you want to see the spinning globe, you'll need an M1.
This was code from another article, linked in the introduction.
> The diversity of *nix based OSes are a testament to what could happen in the absence of monopolistic powers.

You mean how they all died and Linux became king?

The market cannot support diversity of operating systems -- users will flock to where the applications are and developers flock to where the users are. Only a small number of choices are ever sustainable.

If Android disappeared tomorrow and 10 operating systems were designed to replace it eventually there would be only 1 or 2 surviving.

If Samsung forked Android it will still need to run Android apps and therefore be Android. That's pretty much exactly what they do now.
What if the attacker is the one who built and shipped the OS to begin with? Everything you say is true, but it doesn't matter as long as user data (history, location, etc) is being shipped off to Google.

Or, put another way: your threat model is a nefarious hacker or three-letter-agency who might secretly modify your hardware/software to get your data. Mine is surveillance capitalism. ChromeOS is secure under your threat model, but is _built by the attacker_ under mine.

Both of these threat models are important to consider, but one is much more relevant to a larger portion of the population than the other.
One thing about this study as described in the article is it doesn’t really seem to be about “Facebook” persay but social media in general, it doesn’t seem to cover any of the newsfeed optimization stuff since it was done using data from the initial college rollout. Interesting nonetheless but I think it’s weird to attribute it to “Facebook” specifically, I mean, you sort of have to since they only covered Facebook in the research, but it mostly seems to be about “services that facilitate comparison to your peers.”
" while far from American levels of gun homicide, is extreme for Europe "

I can't recall the exact number, but it went something like "remove top 10 dangerous cities from violent crime statistics in the USA, it pretty much becomes like a standard European country".
Starship's payload volume is around 1000 m ^3, which should be about the same as an A380 interior volume.

For a flight time between 20 (minimum) and 40 minutes (maximum) to anywhere on earth, this volume could comfortably fit 1000 passengers per flight.

At 2 or 3 times the price of a regular ticket, their offer would be a direct competitor against business class tickets, if they can reduce enough the risk, and handle logistics of rapid reuse.
Not if you do what Dart did: https://medium.com/dartlang/making-dart-a-better-language-fo...
> "Ironically, you could do better having an employee than a slave –and this held even in ancient times when slavery was present."

Interesting. Thanks.
And a whole host of other games: Hatred, Active Shooter, Rape Day, Super Seducer 3. In many cases, Valve retroactively edited its content policies to justify banning such games.
I’ve had employment contracts (financial services) that forbade any other employment at all.

I wasn’t surprised by this. If your contract is one for a professional, knowledge worker type role and you’re paid according to your results or output, then the company wants you to focus all of your working attention on it. If you’ve got mental capacity to do more work, do it for them, get rewarded accordingly.
When a US company acts in the interests or even as a proxy for the US government, can they still claim to be a private company when it comes to the rules they must follow?

It seems like even though Iran is Iran, once you act as an extension of the US government you should be open to the same standards of accountability. Otherwise, our government will just continue to outsource around their mandated oversight (for instance, see how the CIA uses foundations like the National Endowment for Democracy to accomplish this).
I think you are talking about this example:

ResultSet rs = DB."SELECT * FROM Person p WHERE p.last_name = \{name}";

This when it becomes valid java will not allow an SQL injection attack. The name part would be properly passed as a parameter. Not a string concatenation.
Per https://openjdk.org/jeps/430

If that was not the example you where thinking about, sorry :)

Otherwise yes don't build parameterized SQL out of strings !
Good news: the crust is still technically there
Bad news: a bunch of it collapsed in the middle and the resulting energy heated it to make more magma and the crust is unrecognizable
Contracting can also be lose-lose:

1) Software engineers have to be salesmen as well to find companies willing to pay them well for jobs. Software engineers that can sell themselves do very well. The rest do not. Rule of thumb is that "sales" for contractors is at least a half-time job.

2) Companies do not like to hire contractors for critical software because (a) they are unable to tell the difference between a good engineer and a crap engineer until it is too late and (b) if the contractor disappears, they are stuck with software that may or may not be maintainable and no way forward other than hiring another contractor (goto (a)).
Which kind of begs the question about the differences between a "walled garden" in a way to protect their users and what exactly amounts to anti-competitive business practices.

Windows phones tried the Apple approach if I remember correctly when their phones were on the market and it wasn't enough to keep them competitive. They had a litany of other issues to boot, but taking the "walled garden" approach raised the ire of many developers.
What's Microsoft's interest in this? They don't have a big search or ads business. What are they doing with Consumer data?
API Endpoint Management and Metrics Are Now GA
You think Apple will support it or even Microsoft? The large hardware vendors not supporting it is really a big deal don’t you think?
I hate that I was baited into taking a closer look at this rather than just sticking with my trite dismissal. I did locate a preprint of the paper [1], but have not yet looked at it to determine if any of my above criticisms hold water.

Nonetheless I remain blithely confident that this study is not going to be the one to break the mold.

[1] https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/256787/1/1801812535....
> No, they don't. Credit cards have a 3% fee tacked on. Paypal does, too. Money orders do. Travelers' checks do. Wired money does. All of them do.

My wire transfers costs $0.85 for any domestic transfer. Credit card is a %, but more importantly it doesn't /change/ like foreign transactions do.

> The government's job in a free market is to protect people from fraud. I've said this a dozen times in this thread. You can stop now bringing up more cases of fraud, as it won't help your case.

But can you base a government on that legal principle without the government then inventing all that other stuff you don't like? Libertarians don't really like consumer protection agencies like CFPB I don't think.

Of course the highest office held by a libertarian in California is a Redondo Beach city council member NIMBY who's trying to prevent people from using their property rights (https://mobile.twitter.com/mnolangray/status/156626436981758...). So who knows what that party believes.
HN site itself will just take you to the post if it's already been added.
You should check out Vanced / ReVanced. Vanced is basically a modified Youtube app with ads removed and a lot of the other annoyances fixed. It's gotten trickier to find since google sent them a nastygram, but they posted the SHA256 on https://vancedapp.com/ so if you find a copy floating around, you can quickly determine if it's legit or not.

ReVanced is a WIP set of tools to patch Youtube and other apps - https://github.com/revanced

Vanced and Iceraven (Firefox with more addons enabled) are two of the main things keeping me on Android.
Right, the "vs" gives a much different and frankly misleading impression of the article than the "+".
It takes both. If people couldn't send a message to your email just by knowing it, then you wouldn't get SPAM.

Instead, you could be giving out capabilities, to send you email. And if one of them was abused, you'd simply turn it off, and only accounts who used it in the past could continue to send. New ones wouldn't be.
> The evidence includes the actual record of rising temperatures, rising CO2 levels, and laboratory experiments that confirm that the greenhouse effect exists. None of those are just models.

No, but the things actually being cited—namely, the IPCC annual reports—as the pretext for a lot of the foolish policy we're seeing, are based on models.

> I'm extremely surprised that even a single scientific paper predicted the demise of the species due to climate change within a few years. Could you point me to such a thing?

No, that rhetoric often comes from misinterpretations/misrepresentations of scientific papers and statistics (by politicians, the media, and leaders of NGOs) which is then used to justify the aforementioned foolish policy.

Which is frustrating as the papers often denote a problem existing, but not as one without remedy. And this is the crux of the problem: the argument is framed as being whether or not climate change exists (anyone who doesn't swallow the narrative whole is automatically a "climate denier") and not "given that it exists—and we know the cause—why are we ignoring viable solutions to those causes in favor of less-viable half-solutions that exacerbate the problem?"
> You could’ve avoided all that work with a comparatively simple tunnel.

Having just dug several holes 3' deep and 8" wide for a small project, that's definitely still work XD

I'd actually be interested to read a What If on digging a tunnel to the other side of the earth. Oh... https://what-if.xkcd.com/135/
That's because Google uses Go internally. It's not consumer-facing technology.
Yes because transcoding audio couldn’t possibly lead to lesser quality.
I mean if there was another competitor store installed by default (as mandated by law, like browser choice was at one point) that wouldn't charge devs $100/year to upload anything and take 30% of all income you'd quickly see the App store deserted.

Then Apple would have to set their pricings competitively, instead of monopolistically.
> For instance, on x86 (64-bit, 32-bit, or even 16-bit), filling with the 0xcc byte means that, if executed as code, it will trap (0xcc is the single-byte INT3 "single-step breakpoint" instruction).

Trying to execute off the heap is going to trap anyways.
40cm taller than the Shard in London according to Wikipedia.
The reported death numbers absolutely were inflated in many areas, at least early in the pandemic. This is a proven fact not open to dispute. For example, Santa Clara County had to revise their death toll down by 22% because they were using invalid criteria.

https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-revises-tota...

Whether such classification errors were deliberate is a separate issue. In most cases I suspect it was more due to lack of resources and/or incompetence rather than a deliberate attempt to mislead.

Medicare did pay hospitals more to care for COVID-19 patients. That is also a fact not open to dispute. Whether doctors or hospitals deliberately inflated numbers to make money is unknown.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

About half of the COVID-19 positive hospital patients were admitted for unrelated reasons, and only tested positive as part of admission screening.

https://gothamist.com/news/new-preliminary-state-data-shows-...
How would you do it
> By requiring software engineers to be employees, a Congressional report estimated, income and payroll taxes would rise by $60 million a year because employees had few opportunities to cheat on their taxes.

Makes sense.