skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those can all easily be emulated in software, if you're determined enough.

Not possible if vendor signature checking is enforced. All major webauthn device manufacturers sign the keys of all the devices they produce. You can prove a given device is unique and issued by Apple, Yubico, Google, Microsoft, etc.
In percentages it's an excess mortality of approximately 7%.

As in "7% of people who died, have died in excess of what we expect".

It should be noted that in the years prior to this, excess deaths were falling precipitously. (10-20%)

Eitherway, it's well documented in the studies.
I'm sorry, are you suggesting the vaccines had no protective effect against covid?

I feel like this is going to be a waste of my time, so I'm going to drop this.
> To me, seeing crypto on a resume means the engineer is a true believer in viability of crypto, and therefore not smart enough to do well in a big boy company.

Even the skeptics here are laughing at such an absolutely nonsensical comment like this.

I guess engineers at Square, Twitter, Stripe, Mastercard, Visa, Checkout.com, Google, Meta, etc are not doing well for sure despite still having crypto products and partnerships. /s

As always, absolutist comments like this can be safely ignored and laughed at.
> They're meant to be a disruptive start up they should be lean.

When has this ever been a thing? They raised tons of money in huge valuations and used it to hire a boatload of people. Tale as old as time.

Agree with the rest of your post though, it’s unclear what their endgame was/is to get into the black.
Why would you need someone with decades of experience to hire an intern or a new grad?

It's customary for a lot of companies to have an interviewer which is above or _at_ the level that you are recruiting. Therefore someone with a year or two of experience is perfectly able to hire an intern or someone that will be hired at the same level as them.

Looking at Amazon for example, "Hire and Develop the Best" is one of the leadership principles, and you CANNOT be promoted if you don't conduct interviews.
The chances of myocarditis are still much higher with actual Covid than with the vaccine. And given that Covid is endemic it's just a choice which immunization method you prefer Covid or mRNA.

Comparing the side effects of those two methods I think mRNA definitely wins out. Of course that's only the case if you ignore all the FUD being spread about how the mRNA vaccine will definitely kill you.
that would be an JSON benchmark not right? raw throughput is more useful to test WebServers, but JSON performance is also important, but i think is another benchmark. PyPy do very well in JSON too take a look https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=1...
If people are dying so much from covid then the vaccines are completely useless since they were supposed to reduce mortality.
Both underfunding and overfunding can cause inefficiencies, there is a sweet spot in the middle where an organisation would be at its most efficient.

It's quite clear that the NHS has been underfunded, and under resourced, for the last decade. However the government still try to argue that the inefficiencies are a organisational problem rather than a funding problem. Which is still laughable when they have presided over it during the whole time period in question.
Show HN: Save and organize Twitter threads locally from the command line
I built a tool for saving and viewing a local copy of any Twitter thread and thought I'd share it here.

thread-safe is a simple CLI that combines all of a thread's contents (including each tweet's text, links, and media attachments such as images and videos) into a locally generated HTML file that can be used to display the thread locally in a browser at any time. The HTML file, all attachments, and a JSON data file are saved to the local filesystem for any use or simply as an archive.

This provides a simple way to save threads of interest without having to use a third-party app that needs access to your Twitter account (or vice-versa) and forces you to reply to the thread to "unroll" or otherwise save a copy.

By using a dedicated directory for all generated files, thread-safe can be used to maintain a local library of saved threads that can easily be searched using standard commandline tooling like (rip)grep, fzf, fd, and any other awesome tool of your choice.

I hope you might find it useful and I'd love to take any feedback or suggestions that might come to mind!
I posted a years ago about how austerity was an outcome of the misuse of Excel for problems of scale that it wasn't designed for. Once some researchers figured out the problem with the spreadsheet that these governments were using, almost all stopped with austerity policies, but the UK didn't.

I posted that there would likely be one of two outcomes - a lost decade, we'd be in a worse position and no one should ever again think that the Conservatives are economic masters compared to Labour again, or that George Osborne was a bona fide economic genius and the UK would come out of this extended austerity in a fitter and leaner state ready for the challenges ahead (ala early Thatcherism).

The answer is the the first one - we had the lost decade, are looking at potential second lost decade and we're now equivalent to a central European country not France.

The Conservatives deserve to die at the next general election for this and should be replaced by a completely new right of centre political party as the opposition.
What a shitty article. No mention of the cuts to the NHS by the tories and the effect that had on its ability to serve the public but they make it seem like this is a side effect of the covid vaccines? What the actual fuck.
By that only measure Nobels are thousand of time less valuable than Sam Bankman Fried
Well, not exactly sarcasm but a snarky way to say that Ruby was written by a Japanese programmer, so he can't be completely incompetent.

Perl is my preference of the three (Perl, Python, Ruby). I agree with 'There Is More Than One Way To Do It', and disagree with 'There Is Only One Way To Do It'. And Perl has the best support for regular expressions. Ruby is OK, but I learned Perl first, so it feels more natural.
Some of the most upsetting disasters (in the sense of how avoidable they should have been) have been caused by failures of the human-machine interface, particularly with automation.

For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Flight_521 - a go around was commanded by the pilots to abort a landing, but they weren't aware that the automated go around system - specifically the auto-throttles - would not engage if the wheels had touched the ground (if only briefly). Thus engine power remained at idle/landing speed, and the plane fell out of the sky.

The pilots should have checked the throttles of course, but they would not necessarily have been aware that the wheels had touched down, may not have known/remembered that the automatic go around system would not function in that case, and they were concentrating on flying the plane in presumably unusual circumstances that led to the go around in the first place - they assumed the automation would function as it usually does.

A better human-machine interface (e.g. with a warning that go around automation was disabled) would have prevented the crash. I think anyone designing human-machine interfaces, especially safety critical systems, should read up on these cases.
I do. I don't want to post it here. If you go the the disruptingjapan.com site, you'll find it pretty easily.
This is an interesting analogy. But a teacher is supposed to know more than a student does. If that's the case then all's good. Yet in most examples the user of ChatGPT knows less and asks it for help in a domain they don't master, be it political/philosophical essay writing or writing code in a language they don't practice, and then publishing said texts or putting said programs in production. This cannot end well.
Both these points are unfair to junior developers. Suppose your first job out of college was in crypto? Yeah a mistake, but it shouldn't blacken your entire career, especially if you learned some non-crypto skills in the process. And if it's your first job you need something else in your resume to show you have some non-tech skills and responsibilities. Nothing wrong with cashier in McDonalds, it shows you can work in a team, talk to customers, and deal with pressure.
I think the idea is that if big institutional holders like Coinbase subsidize mining at a loss, the for-profit miners become less necessary. To be clear, I'm not defending this theory, it's just the most reasonable theory I've heard.

As it happens, mining is currently also subsidized by a bunch of retail investors flocking into the publicly traded miners, given that most of them are currently losing money per coin on a unit basis once hardware depreciation is factored in.
Using as much data as BBC is using here which is none.
Clojure uses [] and {}, eg. :

(defn fib [x, n]
(if (< (count x) n)
(fib (conj x (+ (last x) (nth x (- (count x) 2)))) n)
x))
A similar story: Admiral Hyman Rickover, the "father of the nuclear Navy," interviewed every single officer and candidate who wanted to become a nuke, because he'd promised Congress that he'd do so. Rickover-interview stories are legendary in the nuke Navy.

(Nearly 50 years later I can still practically recite my own rather-uncomfortable interview with the "KOG" [Kindly Old Gentleman]; someday I should write it up.)

One famous Rickover-interview story is that the admiral would sometimes take the prospect out to lunch in the Crystal City cafeteria — if the prospect salted his food (yes, back then it was his food) before tasting it, then that disqualified the prospect.

Of course, there was always an exception: Another story is that one prospect did indeed salt his food before tasting it, and Rickover immediately told him he wouldn't be accepted into The Program. The prospect responded: Admiral, I work in this building, I eat lunch here every day, I know exactly how they season this dish. According to the story, that changed Rickover's mind; he let the prospect into The Program, in part because the prospect was willing to correct a superior who didn't have all the relevant information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover
He said exactly the same thing. A lawyer needs to remember those laws, and knowing how to find them. A software developer needs to have knowledge in security or whatever, and know how to code (which uses this knowledge).
An awful lot of the well paid rust jobs (good comp, good bennies) are in the blockchain space.

I know a handful of rust developers who refuse to work on anything that touches a blockchain, and they regularly express frustration that the majority of rust jobs they see advertised are in that space.
Perhaps we should avoid trying to understand the world around us in simple terms since we know we've got it wrong in the past? Or maybe it's better for us to discuss the arguments and metaphors themselves? Perhaps you could give a reason why you think the human brain is not physical system?

Don't get me wrong, I do believe there's a place for the philosophy of science. But to give a list of instances where metaphors have been wong in the past as some form of argument against a given metaphor does not seem robust to me.
“ Everyone's just slapping their wildest AI sci-fi fantasies on it”

Well said. I agree there is good reason to be a little skeptical of the hype.
Cute names are fun for the people creating them and writing code. They are stressful for the people trying to make sense of code and maintain a product under a deadline. The question is, which matters more:

A. Having fun yourself over the course of a week.

B. Getting a job done and helping your coworkers get their job done over the course of years.
They reduced deaths from covid by an absolutely insane level, it's undeniable and easily provable. Without vaccines we would still be doing regular lockdowns.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/uk/

Look at those first two massive spikes in daily deaths in the last two charts. That level of exponential increase in daily deaths led to two long lockdowns, which as you can see temporarily dealt with the issue. Can you spot where vaccines were introduced en masse and we never had a lockdown again? It's really not difficult to see that vaccines effectively stopped exponentially growing daily deaths. To argue that they had no effect is bordering on insane, or at least just extreme ignorance of data.

* To argue against lockdowns is to say it's perfectly fine for those exponential deaths to climb to the level of tens of thousands per day. Obviously no reasonable government was ever going to let that happen, it would be a PR nightmare. So the anti lockdown argument was always a non starter.

* To argue against vaccines is to say that it's ok to have regular ongoing lockdowns.

Yet paradoxically the anti lockdowns and anti vaccine crowds are the same! Frankly, both positions are completely silly.

(A reasonable argument could be made for no lockdowns, but the reality is no western government would ever implement that strategy. We have to live in reality.)
The birth of the Hungarian home computer scene back in the '80s
It may be rational behavior though. If the insider view is that the equity is worthless it makes sense to explore every possible option, no matter how weird.
Assuming you meant name not time. I can think of a few...

1) Limited market size
2) Doesn't sound great (w from h dot come)
3) Not easily remembered
4) Not search friendly

Also I think a good domain is one that would sell for more than $1k. I would have a difficult time justifying that price. Hope I'm wrong! Good luck.
HR peeps are gonna lose their minds over this one. such crap! i like lots of pepper. i never met someone who prepared food for me who likes pepper as much as i do. i know for a fact every time it's gonna be under-seasoned to my tastes. what Edison and most employers don't understand is everyone has their own taste. assuming what people know, is just as bad as judging them for making assumptions. this is why employment just sucks. bad ideas generated by bad people. DC? XD
What do you need help with?
>The reason? Almost all utility cables in London are underground.

I am assuming that is the same in most part of the world?

So it is a feature, not a bug.
Not to argue, but rather to add my experience as it is fairly unique, I did a renovation to a property that cost a low six-figure amount of money (£).

Few have done this so whenever this conversation happens everybody talks about house prices as if there is nothing driving them other than "planning permission is an expensive, time-costly and risky endeavour" -- that's not all as the cost of doing building work is very high! While there were a range of build costs given to us by building contractors, they were all eye-wateringly expensive and at the lower end you have to carefully consider the risk of fraud.

Overall we had a very painful experience and the project was beset with poorly executed work and fraud until we realised what was happening half-way through the project and diverted a large amount of our resources into sorting everything out [0]. As a professional software engineer, I'm used to being able to trust that people will do what they say, but this market is a whole different game and much more cutthroat. We specified exactly the work that should be done and the materials that should be used with an architect's help but this isn't enough: you have to carefully evaluate every single piece of work to ensure compliance and be ready for gamesmanship/fraud or even financial/legal conflict from contractors.

My point is that house prices must reflect the the costs/risks of building and these are numerous:

- Designing, quantifying and specifying work
- Navigating bureaucracy and failure to get sign-off
causing costly re-designs
- On-site supervision of workers completion of jobs and
assessment of materials used
- Evaluations of work completed by independent surveyors
- Organisational and project management skill
- Understanding of construction and contract law with its
many peculiarities (e.g. were you aware that you must pay
*any* amount that a building contractor specifies in a
validly constructed payment notice unless you have sent
a pay less notice with calculations showing otherwise?
This is often used in "Smash and Grab" abjudications to
force clients to pay money as "if the paying party does
not serve the right notice against your application then
they must pay first and argue later." [1])

There aren't as many skilled tradespeople as there used to be and quality building work is labour/skill intensive, complex and risky. My experiences leads me to believe that the lack of competition between contractors is just as likely to be driving high house prices as overall planning risks/costs. (It's just that the former is opaque and invisible to most people even if they work in research/policy.)

[0] Our contractor went as far as attempting to extort money from us by getting a subcontractor to send threats to us and finally slinked away unscathed once we involved a quantity surveyor and lawyer.
[1] https://helix-law.co.uk/smash-and-grab-adjudication-overview/
How is observing someone discriminating against people in an odd way discrimination?
I am not belittling. I have used the Support libraries in every Android app I’ve ever worked on.
I am just pointing out that like Play Services, and the post we are commenting on, the support libraries are symptoms of a root cause.
I don't think you are engaging very deeply in thought here. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63548270
Username is irl_chad …
There are 100+ agencies you need to file with, and you need to follow up several times as your data can be re-syndicated between them during grace periods. It is -lot- of work which is why efficient services who've optimized this are likely worth the money.
If you are cooking with apples as an ingredient, the skin will often be a textural problem.

If you're eating a fresh apple, it generally isn't an issue.
Going up the stack a bit this feels to me like the same sort of "we know better" mentality that said no one really needs generics.
That opens you up to the "gun and bag" risk, though.
> That description of his childhood works for me in sociological terms — let’s avoid stuff that we know to create monsters — but not on individual ones (i.e. the monster, having been created, is indeed a monster).

Can you elaborate on this
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-phrase-no-evidence...

You can see the problem. Science communicators are using the same term - “no evidence” - to mean:

This thing is super plausible, and honestly very likely true, but we haven’t checked yet, so we can’t be sure.

We have hard-and-fast evidence that this is false, stop repeating this easily debunked lie.

This is utterly corrosive to anybody trusting science journalism.
Japanese games usually have a pretty low software-quality. They are full of strange bugs, lacking good UI&UX, are technical inferior to the western state of the art. Even AAA-Games have often insane bad details on non-game-parts. They often compensate this with good or at least different content, but as we are talking here about software, engine-features and -quality do matter.

To name some prominent example: the latest Pokemon-game released 2-3 months ago, is infamous for how bad the graphics were, how many bugs it has(had?) and how bad the performance is. And this is from an old established company, making billions with their games.
How can I not obsess? The world might end if the gov. doesn't tax enough!
The NHS is just a government department run by the UK Health Minister. Always point the finger at the person holding the purse strings and the person controlling the laws and policies.

The best time to start training more doctors and nurses is ten years ago. The second best time is today.
That's really interesting, I did not know about that, thanks for the link ! It's highly specific but could make a lot of cool "wow-effect" products or software suddenly viable, especially if it percolates to your average consumer hardware some way or another.
> They're meant to be a disruptive start up

they have IPOed and insiders continue to exit as fast as possible
> Google Play is an application package that's added to another operating system, and an optional one at that.

Since Google rules the OHA (Open Handset Alliance) with an iron fist, there's no way on earth an OEM can brand its devices "Android" without Google's blessing (read: installing Google Apps in the /system partition which no user can get rid without unlocking the bootloader). And more and more of the open source parts of AOSP have been left to rot, in favour of "Pixel-only" apps. How many years has it been since JBQ quit AOSP in protest? And what has changed?

> If you want to get quick updates from Google, vote with your wallet and buy an Android One phone.

Those who voted with their wallets, got into a program which Google all but abandoned. Some OEMs like Nokia (HMD Global), Motorola (Lenovo), and ASUS continue to ship seemingly unbloated Androids (but not as part of Android One). But credit where due: GKI (Android Common Kernels), Treble, APEX, pKVM (microdroid), TEE OS will pay dividends in the coming decade, essentially superseding programs like Android One.

[0] https://archive.is/2WjUU
ChatGPT-Written Malware
You have to ask yourself "why did it pay very well?"

For every person who made money on crypto there was someone that lost as well.
Rolling out “slow lanes” to combat loneliness
For all practical purposes, a programming language is defined by it's general real world implementation, and not it's specification. Maybe not so much for computer scientists, but for programmers, Python is interpreted with some JIT alternatives and C++ is compiled.
Rust is the lingua franca of fine rug merchants.
And the solution is something where 0,000001% society hold 50% of the coins/"wealth"?

The reason bitcoin will never be the main currency is, that even in case case crypto will ever be technically/UX viable as a currency (is very, very, very far from it) nobody of the 99% that do not own bitcoin now will choose bitcoin as the main currency. They will choose some most likely government started crypto where they can exchange their current money 1:1 and not buy into some stupid old thing that gives them nothing.

So if crypto ever succeeds it is the death of bitcoin as the new system that converts from the old will win by a million miles
I know one thing that is certainly not responsible for this jump in excess death.
What’s a better name. “Epiphany” or “GNOME Web”?

Everyone calls it Epiphany anyway.

So yeah I agree.
The argument has convinced me, even though I thought it was crazy, initially.

Very good points and for many things, I think this applied very well.
Crypto people and big company people are not distinct groups. You can find people that worked in large and small companies that never touched crypto, but also find people who worked in large crypto. Coinbase is a great example, as with their 6k+ peak employees count they definitely were are larger company.
Your surprise over a £3 fee strikes me as a perfect illustration of crypto: profoundly naive, inexperienced investors getting a hard lesson in how unregulated markets work.

I hope, some years down the line, you take the broader life lesson that anyone promising you money for nothing does not have your best interests at heart.
Lol. I probably shouldn't but I find this quite funny.
Average wealth of the top 0.1% in the US is ~$50m. Average wealth overall is ~$100k. So it’s not billions of times more, it’s ~thousands of times more.

Most high net worth individuals keep their wealth in stocks and shares. This is not what hoarding means.

The comparison to crypto scams is absurd.
I've also seen it produce complete gibberish when faced with a math problem. With a very clear but wrong explanation of why is gibberish was the correct answer.