skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A study ... suggested it may be driven by an inflammatory response associated with SARS-CoV-2’s spike protein, which the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines coax the body to produce. The group reported finding certain antibodies in both vaccine-induced myocarditis patients and patients with severe COVID-19, which itself can cause myocarditis.

If those who had this reaction to the vaccine gotten COVID without the vaccine, would it not be likely that they would see the same inflammation response and the same heart damage? If that were the case, receiving the vaccine still seems like a reasonable choice.
Iraq 1 was justified imho
I'm sure it's inevitable, but I'd like to point out it's been inevitable for at least 50 years.
But how much do they charge airlines?
I suppose this is colored by my distrust of cloud storage. Since I don't use it for the most part a lot of the "easy" solutions don't work for me. Putting my data on someone else's servers just never seemed like a great idea to me.
I remember Vonnegut saying that on a PBS interview quite a few years back now, but I didn't realize it was in one of his books. I'm happy to entertain people who want to tell me different, but so far no one has been able to convince me. Most people don't seem to think it's the case though.

It's nice to see it stuck with someone else.
What do you mean? The goalposts were always clear, and open discussion was always acceptable.
Why does it need a citation? It's absolutely plausible just based on back-of-the-napkin math. I'd be surprised if it's off by more than 10% in the majority of cases.
We may have run in to the same person in SF.

When I used to attend in-person network events, I was sometimes asked "what do you care about?"

Which, to me, tagged them as people who weren't all that interested in you, but really wanted you to ask the same question back so they could feel good about their answer, e.g. "having an impact" or "making the world a better place."

My answer to that question was always "fucking around and finding out."

But more often than not, people would ask, "what is it you do?"

And my answer to that was always "whatever the fuck I want to, it makes money and everyone goes home happy."
I didn’t even realize that widgets were so under-developed? I legit thought I’d look into writing one today as I suddenly had a use case. Apparently at the moment the only way to write one is Win32 flavored C++ and a bunch of COM Black Magic. One would assume from their marketing that they’d have at least started at .NET. But instead it’s C++ and Someday(TM) PWAs (via Edge I assume) can provide widgets.

That just runs completely counter to all the Dev Experience marketing you get from them. It feels like Widgets were slapped together by the kernel team at the last minute.
If you get the vaccine, then you definitely get the vaccine.
I've a quip of my own that I use in the same sort of situations:

"Don't worry, all of this is temporary." (A modern take on "this too shall pass".)

I think it comes from the constant context in my mind, something along the lines of "will this matter in a thousand years?"
We could "solve hunger" in USA with just the money we're wasting prolonging the suffering in Ukraine. Not spending lots of money to fill troubled areas with deadly weapons (see also Haiti, Ethiopia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, etc.) might not solve war but would certainly reduce it.

We don't do rational and good things, because 95% of Americans have no effect on what our nation actually does. Our system is a simulation of democratic rule, where we make a great show of occasionally choosing between Coke and Pepsi. Meanwhile all laws are written by lobbyists. They also appoint all bureaucrats, which explains why we performed more poorly against covid than every other nation, except Peru, Brazil, and a few eastern European nations... while spending twice as much on health care as every other nation. Gosh I wonder where Pfizer is spending their windfall profits?

You'll know that things are about to change when the billionaires begin dying violently. So, not soon.
Yeah, I think jab has become accepted US shorthand for a shot and it's not pejorative. But your comment is shocking, you made a graceful acceptance that the word's definition had changed? Thank you.
For how big fingers are, it does a pretty good job. Word selection is just a long press. A long press on space works well for moving the cursor. Definitely better than the loupe we used to have.
This is true.

Also Note: the opposite is not true. Tightening using and impact driver is a great way to cam-out and damage a Phillips head screw. That's why torx style is much more popular with impact drills.
Autonomous ocean going drones have been common place for decades.

Fire and forget programmable torpedoes have been a thing for decades.

What makes no sense is trying to link them in some operational/controllable/recallable way to submarines which are trying to remain covert, as the communication channels give away the submarine or require them to do risky behaviors like surface for satellite comms.

So my point is, you’re not proposing anything novel where you seem to think you are, and where you think they are advantages are actually significant operational disadvantages based on actual submarine mission profiles.
What to look for in cloud-native, software defined storage
Directory Opus embeds labels into the file system:

https://www.gpsoft.com.au/help/opus12/index.html#!Documents/...
Los Angeles to consider supplying libraries with anti-overdose medication Narcan
Title is inaccurate: "There has been no activity on your Heroku account in the past year."
What's complex to you about Cloudflare Stream? It looks like you upload a video and they give you an HTML embed for it.

With hundreds of GB of data and TBs of traffic, it sounds to me like you're in the range where it's worth doing it right, handling different encodings and resolutions for different devices, etc. It sounds like Cloudflare Stream will do that for you; I'm not sure how you would configure a VPS to do the same thing.
Yes it's definitely a "server with dedicated role" scenario.
A good amount of modern building code is related to energy efficiency. These standards applying to new construction make sense: it's only a marginal increase in cost to add insulation, use upgraded products, or ensure air-tightness during construction. However, for existing homes, this would be extremely costly. The house would, in many cases, need to be ripped down to the studs on exterior walls and completely reinsulated/sealed, older windows would need to be replaced, HVAC ducts exposed and sealed/insulated, etc.

For an existing structure, the result of all these improvements, even considering rising energy costs, would never pay back over the expected life of the house. Code tries to strike a balance here by enforcing that when it's reasonable to do so (e.g. you tore down to the studs for a remodel anyway), you need to bring the areas modified up to modern-ish standards.
You underestimate how difficult to buy a correct ticket
EXACTLY what I was pointing to, more clearly expounded - thx!
Mike Hearn.

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....
> Millions have been spent on studying and modifying wild coronaviruses and it not only failed to predict this pandemic [...]

Huh? Coronaviruses have been pointed out as a big area of concern for decades, at least.

What would you have expected as a prediction, exact date and time and genetic sequence?
Another interesting question: what does it to to youth?

If you grow up with the idea of "money" as a stack of coins and notes that disappear as they're consumed, does it create a different perspective on spending and saving than seeing it primarily as a score on a screen?

I can recall a bit of a parenting crisis back in the '80s, where there was concern that children wouldn't learn to read an analog clock face; there's probably some knock-on factors about understanding fractions and modulo arithmetic. I'd expect similar needs for physical money; change making is fast mental math.
Yeah.. when I saw that and something about joining a waitlist for something that should be developed in public I noped my way out. I hope other people learn have similar BS indicators and don't fall for this stuff. There is nothing open about joining a wait-list.
AWS has cloudfront hosting for video streaming that is pretty easy to code against.
>i dont know why you are showing it off

it may be as simple as them just being excited. I sure was when I wrote my first program and many people don't have anyone else to show it to. The world is so full of things to passively consume that someone building anything, no matter how scuffed or with little explanation does in my opinion not really deserved to be treated abrasively.
Can relate. My parents were more strict with my study and piano practices after 10 so most of the good memories came from time before that.

My best two pieces of memories: 1) Parents took me to a geology museum and I got awed by the huge dinosaur skeleton; 2) In some Saturday nights I'd sleep between parents and we all watched paleontology programs on TV

I'll probably do similar things with my son.
If you are in the US, half the us thinks masks and taking care not to communicate deadly diseases to them in some evil attempt to control them. In my world, all my friends know it's real and masks help protect you, but they are just so tired of it. I'm tired of it, but I still wear one, don't eat at inside restaurants, etc. But most people stopped thinking of covid as that disease that can really hurt you, if you are unlucky enough. Half the time I'm tempted not to wear a mask - my wife gets frustrated at me, but I do wear one when out at the store etc.
Samantha Fox Strip Poker on C64. ohhh yeah
Even if this was true...

It makes perfect sense.

It costs money to host these small free projects. To store them requires disk space. Someone has to pay for them.
Good point - the wording I chose should have qualified the scope in that first statement: how about something like "as the scope that is reproduced verbatim increases, the likelihood of infringement approaches 100%?" (excluding prior art, public domain, etc). Obviously no one could reasonably claim copyright on a variable declaration - the scope is too small, and in some languages there is only one way to express it.

However, the statement was only for cases of verbatim copies produced by Copilot. The AFC Wikipedia article states that "Proving copyright infringement requires proving both ownership of the copyright and that copying took place." The 3 detailed tests developed in that case appear to be "expand" the determination of infringement to close potential loopholes where, while there is not a verbatim copy, infringement is still deemed to have occurred because of "substantial similarity". e.g. someone copies a program but changes the variable names.

So where is the line between infringement and not, in cases where there is an exact copy of a code fragment? Can we still use the utilitarian defense or is that only used by the court to exclude portions of the code in the tests for "substantial similarity"?
Mattermost is pretty nice, really. I wish it had a better way to export conversations in order to save them, but overall, way nicer than teams.
I don't know anyone still on Heroku, but thanks for sharing it with us. I've cross posted it in the local dev community lists I'm on. I'm curious if this is part of a slow sunsetting of Heroku, or an evaluation of if it can survive in this current category as it stands.

Cheers to any Heroku devs reading this, I'm sure it was a tough call, and I'm hoping for all the generosity you all provided over the years that you end up where you want to be.
If they don't start caring on their own in a big hurry, they'll be forced to understand why they should care in only a slightly lesser hurry...

I don't want to be condemned to repeat history because hordes of dolts can't even begin to pay attention

ugh
Ha, you're right. I never thought about that lol
Gboard often does a much better job with autocorrect.
Yep, also not sure who fiber internet is aimed at – coax does the job just fine.

(sorry, couldn't help myself)

Obviously this is aimed at people that want: higher bandwidth / lower latency internet connectivity on airplanes?
Agreed on static type checking - I also consider it extremely important. However I don't see it as being incompatible with the philosophy of live programming. Smalltalk relies a great deal on dynamism, but I believe it would be possible to create a language and environment that both enforces static typing and supports live programming + persistence. It's an open research problem though.
I'd rather that be a problem left to etiquette, rather than avoided due to lack of technology.
Sorry, I was slightly off. It can only be aligned to the bottom or left now (no right or top alignment). This change was made with Windows 11.
except nobody moved from irc to discord because of the protocol. and all discord does can be implemented on top of it. nobody cares.

irc died and discord boomed because there was a user generation change. an explosion of new users eclipsed the few irc old timers.

discord is garbage any way you look at it. dont try to sell it as fixing irc. lol.
For me, what’s it’s primarily “about,” of course, is the making present in an unbloodied manner the eternal and propitious Sacrifice of Christ, “proclaim[ing] the Lord’s death until he comes” (1 Cor 11:26). And in the Eucharist we receive the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Christ truly present under the species of bread and wine. I would imagine that our Eucharistic theologies are generally not dissimilar.

But what I meant by that particular comment was that there was a fitting consonance between using bread whose proceeds went toward helping those in need and the works of love and mercy to which the Eucharistic Lord calls us.

Edit: And I certainly didn’t read any dunking into your question! Anglican Eucharistic theology is sort of all over the place. The vast majority of Anglicans adhere to some understanding of the Real Presence (and the Anglican theological tradition has generally tended to exclude memorialist understandings of the Eucharist, fwiw). I tend to have a very “Anglo-Catholic” sacramental theology.
While I'm not yet retired, my sons have moved away. I'm not really the sentimental type, and I enjoy having days mostly to myself again, but they are always on my mind to one degree or another.
I guess I would have assumed the opposite? A virus that just jumped from bats to humans is expected to evolve pretty quickly in the binding domain as it “learns” to better target human ACE2. I thought the reason they targeted spike was that it’s on the surface of the virus and so an obvious target for antibodies to attach, whereas if you target some structural proteins deep inside the viral structure you’re taking a risk that the antibodies won’t be able to reach them.
Or quit Twitter because the algorithm pushes celebrities and organizations too much, rather than actual humans?
I imagine they are directly targeting the inflight wifi market.
Sure, but my point was there that it's really easy to use KVs as a backing store for tags, which you can implement anywhere and easily serialize. Sets, if you have to do something like transform it to JSON, you have a choice to make: dict:true, or list.
Airlines that want to let people watch Netflix.
I assume SQL stored procedures on some database work have some of those features? Seems like the sort of things that database engine developers would consider and the atomic semantics of committing stored procedures to a database lend itself to that model more closely (for databases with atomic DDL).

I worked with an Object Oriented database that had some cool features because the code was stored as highly structured data within the database itself, i.e. the code you saved was not text at all (except when dumped/reloaded to external file - similar to exporting/importing data of a database to/from a file as a textual representation).
https://www.netjets.com/en-gb/on-board-wi-fi-netjets-fleet

Compare to what’s currently available to jet charter. StarLink’s product is currently priced (monthly) around an hour or two of flight time, depending on airframe class.

> Wi-Fi is currently available in the Phenom 300, Citation Latitude, Challenger 350 and Global 6000.

> The first three models have a satellite-based connectivity with a shared bandwidth going up to max speeds of up to 0.43Mb per second (depending on the aircraft type) while the Global 6000 is equipped with a new satellite solution called Ka-Band. Ka-Band allows for internet speeds that are ten times faster than the previous solution, going up to 4Mbp/s. It allows good internet browsing, including streaming or file download, and provides better coverage than SwiftBroadBand, specifically over Greenland. This is a very positive development as this area is mainly flown over during international flights on long range cabins. Due to the size and weight of the equipment, this solution is only available on large cabin aircraft like the G6000.
Reform Section 230, punish users spreading online hate: New York AG
I heard the rythm and tunes of "Comfort Eagle" by Cake, while reading your hymn. Your hymn sort of fits, both in tone, sarcasm and meter of that song.
Thank you
I'll change the title.

"The Illustrated History of How Sugar Destroyed the World"
Presumably C will piggyback on this.
> Back when I was new, engineers worked directly with subject matter experts and the occasional business analyst. Now we’ve mostly replaced SMEs with product, and I don’t think it’s working out.

Exactly this.

Not only that, but when it works the way you're describing, it's often a 2-way conversation. The developer strives to understand the goals, then starts making suggestions to determine if the business is ok with shortcomings that would make it a lot cheaper and faster, but would fulfill those goals. They'll also dig into what the business wants in the future so when the implementation starts they can take that into account.

Instead we get product who wants to own all of that and then throw things up into a jira ticket and have it magically be great. There's no value add there.
Interesting, I guess I've never seen anyone upset about xkcd before.

I'm not sure if "author" here refers to the HN comment author or Munroe, but the latter is hard for me to view as "knowing better than to ever create anything", given authoring 1000+ webcomics and all.
Because of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33255477
And the people of Taiwan don't want to communist Chinese mainland govt to come and kill all their leaders, imprison people and take away their freedom, like the folks in officially happy Hong Kong. Adding on to your comment, it's pretty obvious why anyone would want to stay out of China's control.
Putin called he needs your brilliant strategic advice. 1 week to Kyiv or was it 2 days? I can't recall. This kind nationalistic PRC BS is how they will start a war, get defeated than have another civil war with 100 million dead.
Yes, I absolutely agree with you. It is WAY worse than it has ever been. What you described is exactly what I have been plagued with... (I never thought I was messing up, because it was such a DRASTICALLY different experience)
> Not sure who this is aimed at

owners of airplanes
Why do you defer automatically to authority?

It's not offensive to question it, and you trying to police people with legitimate grievance is disgusting.
This will only continue to get worse.
I just assume that once you get into the FAANG caliber of compensation in the US tech industry (and possibly well before that), that suddenly the walls, and everything else starts listening and glowing.
Run by the same companies that marked USB products
> I was surprised to learn that they actually had a decent algorithm for detecting possibly fraudolent and/or irrelevant content, as well as a weighted voting system, where the vote of a couple users with lots of karma are more important than hundreds of votes from low karma users.

> votes of suspicious users are still displayed normally, even though they do not count as much as a normal user’s vote, if not at all.

That's interesting.

There are a few notable groups of bad actors on HN but obviously the really good ones you wouldn't know about, which is a bit of a teapot.

The lack of a downvote button on posts does stop a lot of attacks.

Interesting write-up. I don't think the final exploit leads the way to a useable hack, but the journey says a lot.
That's excellent!

I think it's pretty interesting that this sequence can be hiding within the 44 repeating digits of the decimal expansion of 1/89:

0.1123595505617977528089887640449438202247191011235… [1]

A proof can be found here: https://www.cantorsparadise.com/why-does-1-89-represent-the-...

[1] I couldn't easily find this many digits online, but here's a Python program to calculate them:

num = int(input('numerator: '))
denom = int(input('denom: '))
sig = int(input('significant digits: '))

div = num // denom
rem = num % denom

print(f'{div}.{(rem*(10**sig))//denom}')
>If one only spends time on Hacker News, or other startup-oriented news sites, they might believe that everyone is working on their next multi-million-dollar startup and/or exit strategy

This might have been true a decade ago...now I don't really see it as much

Way more cynicism (though that's always been present) about tech and business overall than it used to be around here.
Me too. One place I worked, the CTO called their (medical) software a dried up pile of *stuff. Every time you would scratch the surface it would just flake off and fall apart in your hand.
I’ve been having the exact same issues and thought it was just me.

Thanks for putting words to it and posting it.
What a perfect opportunity to discuss something that drives me absolutely nuts. The term "hacker" being used so liberally (especially here, despite the name).

No, getting your app launched does not make you a hacker. Being the CEO of a startup does not make you a hacker. Writing a website does not make you a hacker. In fact, in my opinion, these things are against the very spirit of the hacker.

A hacker is someone who creatively solves a problem, usually in an unexpected way. Sometimes, this is "hacking" together parts of smaller systems to create something novel and unique. The religious text of such hackers, the Jargon File, says so. Hence, why the above are not hackers. Gluing frameworks together does not make a hacker. Hijacking your CANBUS system to make your car better does. In fact, it would seem commenters here despise the idea of the hacker... there are so many posts that are either ambivalent or downright malicious towards people suggesting using a different language, trying a different technique, or whatever. To use the authors term the dominant mentality is unfortunately one of "what does this do for me" or "how can I make money with this". It seems like every young developer I talk to is obsessed with making the next big app in $FRAMEWORK or whatever. It's getting harder to find people who write code for the love of the art.

The author is correct except in his use of the term hacker. I find it distasteful to attribute the average MBA-cum-developer a title as important as hacker. The snark is deserved. Our field has been hijacked by normies. This post is an important reminder of that.