skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is knowledge to be had in the confusion itself, given this was asked on HN.

Read a HN comment section, versus a Reddit comment or YouTube comment section, and take some notes on the difference in communicative styles.

The latter are what people on average like to be around: it's got political stuff and the like, sure, but most comments that rise to the top are jokes and generally uplifting comments.

A HN comment section is more like a series of bitter black-white 0-100 swings on who is right or not about something. Relatively, it's scathing and stammering. Sometimes it feels like the author had their fists clenched and was stomping their feet on the ground as they wrote it.

"Normal" people just really don't like that way of communicating. It's not pleasant, and they don't want to be around it.

But that's how tech people tend to be, relatively speaking, especially at senior levels. Much like the computers they work with: empathy only if you're 100% right, otherwise a surly rebuke.

Also it's a fairly open secret that this profession has a lot of people "on the spectrum", which is jarring for others who are not used to interacting with such people.

The solution lies in putting in solid work so develop understanding of each other. And it only takes reading a few books.

The two groups are necessarily different. Many manager types would go nuts dealing with the daily inanity of machines breaking in new and creative ways. Many engineer types would hate having to deal with directly with customers, investors, marketers, sales reps and all that "people stuff". They need each other and "othering" each other doesn't achieve anything in the long run.

The managers need to do more to understand the daily experience of the engineer and what they value or dislike and why, and engineers need to zoom out and try to understand or at least mimic the perspective and social needs of managers.

Everybody's busy and no one wants to do this, but they just have to. They can at least start with recognizing each other's experiences. A manager saying "we need to pay down technical debt so we can speed up future development", or "we won't add more devs to the project because it will slow it down" will go a long way towards respect. That's "empathy" to an engineer.

Likewise, an engineer will do well to say things like "this task will improve lifetime customer value" or "reduce churn" or even hold your nose and say "synergise" if you have to, and hold your tongue on the technical matters. And above all else: ask questions! Actually try to understand their needs, so you can find new ways to meet in the middle. That's empathy for a manager.
Show HN: I built RoQR, a privacy-respecting platform for dynamic QR codes
Hi HN,

For the last few months, I have been building RoQR, a privacy-respecting SaaS platform for dynamic QR codes. Dynamic QR codes let the code creator see statistics about the number of scans and update the target that the code links to without changing the code itself.

RoQR is different from other dynamic QR code platforms in a few ways:
Privacy respecting
RoQR is a marketing tool, but we aim to be the most privacy-respecting alternative in our niche. Unlike a lot of other companies in the space, we don’t collect any personally identifiable information about the users that scan our codes, we respect [DNT-headers](https://allaboutdnt.com/), we don’t use cookies to identify repeat scanners and we don’t offer tracking pixels that track end-users across the web. My hope with RoQR is to do for QR codes what [Plausible](https://plausible.io) (big fan!) is doing for website analytics.
Cost-aligned pricing
All of our plans include our full set of features. The only factor that determines the cost is the number of monthly scans. I think this better aligns our costs with revenues, and makes all of our improvements available to all our customers.
Open source
[RoQR is open-source](https://github.com/roqr/roqr), licensed under the AGPL.

If you’re interested, I have a [longer post](https://roqr.app/blog/introducing-roqr/) on our blog announcing the launch. Happy to answer any questions and would love to hear any feedback you might have.
See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786471
I was expecting someone to comment on attractiveness and its impact on this. Didn’t find it.
Microsoft 365 faces darkening GDPR compliance clouds after German report
I can't tell if the article is recommending not using 3rd party packages or simple not to get caught up in an opinionated framework. I agree that opinionated frameworks don't can be problematic as they don't compose but can't agree that with the statement that 3rd party libraries are bad. This is basically build vs buy argument favouring the build side.

A more measured approach would be to avoid 3rd party packages that aren't very popular or are not particularly active.
Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat
No Harvard does NOT mandate the flu shot:

"Noncompliance with the flu requirement will not impact your ability to register for classes for the summer or fall semester. "
I think Crocodile Dundee did this on the Hudson river, too.
The hardware is badass. It only becomes cost-efficient when you need to scale far up, but then it is very good. The have been building and improving these machines for nearly 70 years now.
from the inside of various companies in France, unions only seem to protect free-loading employees (as longs as they were members of that union, ofc). Outside, I've seen union organize protests and strikes, some that seemed justified, some that were dubious or frankly BS. So I can relate with the desire to leave for a country where unions seem less like a drain on productivity.
> Google’s business is not quite as resilient as a building, which is a hard business to mess up

This guy lives in a different planet.
Remember when the message they were safe and proven to prevent you from getting COVID?
I was disappointed with the article.

This doesn't explain anything new beyond a standard textbook. Same stuff - differently regurgitated. (If you want a swing on this topic MIT 6.004/nand2tetris does a better job & even talks about trade-offs such as doping, channel contaminations, propagation delays due to FET designs, which electrical engineers routinely deal with in production. There are few videos by Carver Mead as well who intuitively explains why transistor work the way they do.)

And for delving into F/R bias, junction effects, leakage current - there are no illustrations showing polarity or flow of charges. Sorry but this is just another low SNR article for today.
Unlike the conversion from grass to cow, the conversion from cow to tiger doesn't improve the nutrition for the consumer.
That's a fairly reductionist view. Yes, it's supposed to be surprising, because it's a very hard problem, and traditional algorithmic programming couldn't crack it. I'm a little annoyed by that tweet, especially considering the high qualifications of the person tweeting it.
At the time there were inflated Israeli data that suggested a reduction of risk of asymptomatic infection by 94%. Except, they were extrapolations because they were done on the general population, not on regularly-tested people.

UK's SIREN had a lower risk reduction recorded (60% IIRC), but more importantly, it halved after three months. Governments and others thought, wrongly, that elimination was possible. But the writing was on the wall since March 2020.
Basically a sugar mixture then? We already get enough unintended sugars.
Of course they are. No less than any other "recommendation".
> JSON sucks. But we're making it better.

Why would you make something better at sucking? Just gron the damn thing and grep through it like a normal person.
Not at Harvard, that's for sure.
I had this too. Google decided to block my company's domain for no good reason. I also couldn't reach anyone in Google to sort it out - I eventually had a response that "it's an automated system, there is noone who looks after it or can do anything about it".

My company's email is hosted on GMail, and that also silently swallowed any in- or out-bound emails that as much as mentioned my domain. Including the email to our support inbox from our customer telling us they were having problems.

Running anything in production at the whim of Google is too much of a risk, and I've been migrating everything I can off them ever since. They're a menace.
> What brand do we trust the most to do the design job right regardless of context?

It's not apple designers making the app. But apple design of form over function is certainly a poor fit for a device you need to rely on.

In any case, my gf's iphone's map app is completely unusable from me. Every time it's faster if I just take my own phone and open OSMand.

People working at apple aren't more intelligent or skilled than the general population really.
There is no technical barriers that can not be overcome to allow the use of XMPP by normal non-technical users. GChat for years was XMPP until google got a market share they desired and choose to take their users off an open protocol in favor of their own one (which they then killed a few years later )
Untrustworthy money beats out trustworthy.

If I've already made a billion being scum it pays for me to buy your trustworthy platform when it is still in the millions stage, then corrupt it and pump as much money out of it as possible based on its good name.

We see this on non internet products often. Some popular 'small farm' product gets bought by a megacorp but they don't change their marketing.
Thank for finding an actual source. I appreciate it. But, having read your articles, perhaps you should realize the quote somes with more context, and it snot as straightforward as you say. The second article you link specifically calls it "half true," which means it's not a blatant lie. It's a statement that's accuracy has shifted with the emergence of new variants and social practices to reduce the spread. Considering the alternative is someone who suggested injecting bleach into people to stop the virus, I'd say Biden's statements aren't as bad as the Washington Examiner is making them out to be.
There was a funny ad years back where an exec walks into the data center and finds it nearly empty after the young newbie has consolidated all of their servers into VMs running on a single z990. (In retrospect I notice there are no disk drives or tape drives to be seen, though.)
Non-authoritarian solution is to have certification. It will be up to consumer to buy only food certified by PureFood.
> It wasn't particularly pleasant, but certainly not a "deadly virus"

I know somebody who contracted Malaria and lived. It wasn't particularly pleasant but certainly not a "deadly disease".
Yes I did, thanks...
There is no CRT whrr sound, when you turn it on, nor the high pitched whine.
The graphic in OP summerize it pretty well. If all you need is something quick, and you don’t expect (or currently have the budget) to scale it a lot in the close future, then using a framework may very well be the best solution.
I don’t understand what is IndieWeb

Their website seems like a MediaWiki instance.

Is it a software? A network of websites? A service? I cannot tell from the page and I am staring at it

MediaWiki is nice I guess (but kind of crap to maintain) but that’s not really it right?
Strong tangent here, but y'all vegetarians in the Bay Area ought try Dad's Luncheonette in Half Moon Bay for their mushroom sandwich, a vegetarian's alternative to the hamburger sandwich.

I got no affiliation with Dad's aside from thinking that they make a couple of fine sandwiches, and the mushroom sandwich is a great example of a vegetarian hamburger "alternative" that doesn't try to be a hamburger but tastes real good.

I'm omnivorous but like that mushroom sandwich sometimes (and the hamburger sandwich they sell is probably the best sandwich in the state, so that's saying something).
I agree. But the thing I don't understand is why more people haven't been charged yet? Surely someone from the prosecution side of things has had access to it. Perhaps the evidence is too weak to support any case.
You’re conflating the money supply with money. The inherent value of the money supply is constant. That’s why you could halve it uniformly without impacting much. But that also necessarily means that each unit of currency does in fact have value. So if you invest it in scams, you can call that destroying wealth.

Also worth nothing that we’re not really talking about money. We’re talking about equity in companies with the statement that billions of capital was destroyed by investing in BlockFi.
I don’t think that link addresses the concern directly: it’s saying that the B cells can recognize multiple variant’s spike antigen, but the data shows that only ~10% of people vaccinated prior to natural infection developed N protein antibodies while almost all people who have natural infection first develop both S and N protein antibodies.
> It looks like you don't understand the definition and the point of reproducibility. If you just click on a button to recompute the results from the same code, this is not "reproducibility".

Cool. Except they don't give you the source even when the paper is about the source. So if you want to make sure their benchmarks make sense you can't.

How do i know? It has happened to me.

> You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Therefore, your conclusions are worthless.

I'm sorry by being right I've offended your sensibility to the point that you need to insult me to feel whole again.
Incorrect. Read the whole page.

Flu is mandated is mandated for (only) spring term, because it's a seasonal disease and the vaccine is administered in the fall term.

> Students must be compliant with all vaccine requirements in order to register for the spring term.
>>americans/europeans can hardly imagine.

Americans and Europeans have the desire to learn this lesson the hard way. They lack the wisdom to learn from others and instead believe their governments are the noble governments that would never violate their rights for power.
Still wrong.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33787054
Well, that didn't work too good.

Reword the text below without using the letter a:

[text]

According to every known law of aviation, there is no way bee should be able to take to the skies. Its wings are too small to lift its hefty little form from the ground. The bee, however, flies regardless because bees do not worry about what humans deem inconceivable. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Ooh, black and yellow! Let's mix it up a bit. Barry! Breakfast is ready! Ooming! Wait one moment. Hello? Can you marvel at how quick they fly?
I understand that Mr Epstein was intent on mixing socially with "virtually everyone with money", regardless of their proclivities. For camouflage, so to speak. That's the smart move, right?
Maybe it's because I don't understand machine learning well enough, but this part:

> We enable order with positional embeddings. For ViT, these positional embeddings are learned vectors with the same dimensionality as our patch embeddings.

> After creating the patch embeddings and prepending the “class” embedding, we sum them all with positional embeddings.

> These positional embeddings are learned during pretraining and (sometimes) during fine-tuning. During training, these embeddings converge into vector spaces where they show high similarity to their neighboring position embeddings — particularly those sharing the same column and row

Made no sense to me.

Like, okay, the positional embedding represents the position of a "patch" within the input image? What else? How are they used, what are they compared against, how are they fed into the neural network?
Yes, they do. On the same page you're quoting they mention that they mandate it for spring quarter registration. They mandate it that way because the flu is seasonal. By the time you need to register it will be shortly before flu season kicks in.
Code is little more than a very formal way to describe an algorithm, the difference between a detailed algorithm and a piece of code is very small in many cases. And in the cases where the given algorithm is general and no code is given, reproducibility is at stakes.

But ideally you want both: the description of the procedure to rewrite an equivalent program, and the actual code that gave the results detailed in the article. This is happening more and more frequently, and this is a good thing.
> The efficacy cannot be anywhere near what was claimed, or has deteriorated since for sure.

It has deteriorated as the virus mutated. I had thought this was widely reported, but now I guess not.
I regularly buy and eat Beyond Sausage. Not a fan of their other products due to texture/taste. Just like with other food companies, I like some products, dislike others.

Nobody should be treating food stocks like growth stocks imo. Food doesn't scale that way and the margins aren't great.
> but just isn't very likely.

He "took his own life" under very suspect circumstances. I wouldn't put that down as isn't very likely.
The challenge hypothesis still describes a relationship between testosterone and aggression that is exclusive to males; it just turned out to be a little more complex than "more T always equals more aggression."

It still proves my point. This is a biological feature exclusive to males which influences their behavior. Biological sex influences behavior.
I moved to a city. One reason was that the car-dominated suburbs makes it reaaaally hard to make friends. Time from getting out of bed to meeting someone is like 30-45minutes, and I have to spend money. In the city,it is more like 15 minutes, meaning you can do it twice as often, hang out longer.

I would say this is a big factor.

The country side works so long as your friends are close by for beer, movies, and games? maybe?
They are not targeted for vegans, the huge majority of customer are curious people that wants to transition into vegetarian/vegan diet and need the help of plant based meats.
Thanks for the input. Not sure to what extent the links support the assertion
> "associated with chronic degenerative diseases including renal diseases" "in a hypertension-independent manner"

> https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
Excess levels of sodium/salt *may* put you at risk for:
Excess levels of sodium/salt *may* cause increased water retention that leads to:
(my emphasis)

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32738302/
"Some studies have shown that HSD has a positive correlation with albuminuria, an important risk factor for the development and progression of kidney disease in a hypertension-independent manner "

A correlation with a risk factor .It asserts "is associated with chronic degenerative diseases including renal diseases" with no citation. The paper itself is about feeding a high-salt diet to mice.

I'll see your citations, and raise you:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33351135/
Sodium intake, life expectancy, and all-cause mortality

"Our observation of sodium intake correlating positively with life expectancy and inversely with all-cause mortality worldwide and in high-income countries argues against dietary sodium intake being a culprit of curtailing life span or a risk factor for premature death. These data are observational and should not be used as a base for nutritional interventions".
Note that the flu mandate is a very new policy.

I'm not sure when Harvard started, but Massachusetts only started in 2020 after Covid started.
I agree, there are some ergonomic improvements that could definitly be made, something like sqlx would be nice for example
Have you really? I worked in an org full of fairly technical non-devs and never had someone ask that. Mostly because corporations usually have no problem paying for Word... and google docs exists.
I don't think demand for Beyond will ever hit zero but I do think recent demand seems to have been temporary & can see it falling into a niche.

In the past, vegetarianism/veganism was mostly the reserve of activist types, dogmatic in their approach, with little interest in fake meats (though they existed, demand & competition was low enough for them to be pretty poor substitutes).

Then, more recently, there was a big trend of vegetarianism becoming more mainstream, with many people trialling it: during that trial, there's naturally a lot of reliance on products like Beyond. Similarly, with the mainstreaming of it all, many old-timer vegetarians become more comfortable/open with liking/trying meaty things & also as the product quality/variety improves, many old-timer vegetarians will be naturally curious excited to test new options. So this all results in big spikes in demand for Beyond.

Now I think we're entering a phase of (a) long-term dedicated vegetarians have tried it out & the novelty has disappeared and (b) "trial" vegetarians are settling into a "flexitarian" / low-meat diet, where they just eat real meat when they want to, but do their best to reduce consumption. So the demand drops.

There's still going to be the odd "trial" vegetarian who likes meat but stayed strict & there's probably some old-timers who developed a taste for it, but it's a much lower % of people than at the peak of novel interest.

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There's also a few notable exceptions where new substitutes have succeeded in gaining a culturally iconic status - e.g. the Greggs sausages in the UK. These will probably retain some popularity I guess, but they're very much the exception.
Have you seen overmind?
https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind
>it's mostly just greed trying to amplify control. such agenda will never triumph.

Sometimes it gains power for a long period of time with unfortunate results. Not that I think that is a valid argument against freedom of expression.
You mean spam blocking? That is literally censorship.
The number of times that the asp.net "startup" has changed is completely ridiculous. It all started from a very bad place with a startup class that is stupidly called by reflection, forcing the developer to use trial and error to discover what methods should be used.

Thankfully, they have finally done away with this but it is sad that they ever allowed these horrible patterns in the first place. Another abysmal area is SignalR (clearly developed by children).
No, I remember the scientists being “it’s amazing, we managed 90% effectiveness at preventing infections, and we would still have gone forward with this if it had only been 50%”.
Some of the best software devs I have ever met were some old graybeards who cut their coding teeth under the old Soviet umbrella. My theory is that the scarcity of cutting edge hardware forced folks to squeeze ever drop of capability out of the hardware that they had available to them via the software.
It's possible that there's nothing damning about Pritzker or others who raised objections, but there's still dirt on some of the other clients who didn't challenge this.

Not super likely though.
> Vaccinated people are also less likely to collapse the local medical system in surges because their disease course is less severe

But once you have primed your cell immunity with exposure (vaccine or natural), the benefit of repeated boosters is negligible. Protection from infection is affected by changes in variants because only Ig neutralizing the spike can block infection. Cell-based immunity, although it does not prevent infection, is more resilient to these changes (the homology in the SARS-CoV-2 proteins outside the spike is around 80-85%). Also, memory cells last for at least two years after exposure (A.Sette's group works).

IOW, less severe versus an immunologically naive person. But at this point, with 95%+ seroprevalence, these scenarios are becoming very rare.