skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the knee-jerk response should not be "the correlation is spurious", rather it should be "the causation is different from what the authors would like it to be". (That is, whatever hypothesis they came up with, we should assume it's wrong and tell the authors to go pound sand unless they provide strong evidence otherwise.)

In this case, as others are saying, the explanation that comes to my mind is: "What kind of person gets vaccinated against rare diseases that people don't normally get? Probably one who cares extra about health and has resources to spend on it, and has a proactive and vigilant doctor." Selection bias should always be considered in correlational studies.
I can’t speak for how it is in 2023. But in 2020, I had nothing but a long history as an “enterprise developer” at unknown companies writing C# CRUD apps and I had every tech company reaching out to me.

It really didn’t matter where you work if you could pass the DS&A monkey dance interview, you could get a job at most of the tech companies.

I did a slight pivot to fall into BigTech. So I didn’t have to.
Specifically which European car manufacturers. The obvious ones seem just fine, btw.
> dedicated (reflow oven) like the T-962

The trouble with the T-962 is that the stock units heat so unevenly that you can scorch the center of the board while getting cold solder joints near the edges.

I have one of those with the mods for improved firmware and better thermocouple references. It's OK. The firmware runs the fan all the time, even during heating, which improves the heat distribution. There's a better mod which adds a second fan.

A number of companies in China made clones of those things, but none of them seem to have done a redesign to make a better one at roughly the same price. Now there seems to be a new generation of these things, with more fan power. That's a step forward. No idea if they're any good. (There are reflow oven review sites, as bogus as mattress review sites.) There ought to be a good $200 reflow oven by now.

You can buy good small reflow ovens from the US and Germany, but prices are upwards of US$3000.
I have been following this Youtuber for a while now, and I have been amazed by his creativity and unorthodox use of flexible PCBs. Strongly recommend watching a few more of his videos
Infrastructure Questions
Netflix blows away expectations on subscriber numbers
Time spent thinking about the big picture automatically detracts from time thinking about details. I tend to agree with you that being a jack of all trades and knowing when to apply which strategy will work best, but not all people can master knowing when to apply which strategy.

Having people around with specific biases together with people who can intermediate (another type of skill) can still make a fantastic team is my overall point.
Sometimes I don't mind waiting for the query to finish. Makes for a good coffee break.
Yes, same story, and also Sharepoint. Because it's already there, with Microsoft 365. My joy is… limited.
I have used Taxes For Expats for years and have been satisfied with their software and level of service, however for my particular case they cost several hundred dollars per return.
I’m not sure what you mean by custom non-browser software. It wasn’t something I intended to refer to.
Is it possible the US has an unusually violent population? Perhaps due to greater car usage during the leaded petrol era?
> There's a reason languages like Idris, Haskell and so forth are much more popular in solipsistic domains like theorem-proving than they are in a business application.

Scala developers would disagree.

Especially in business applications strong static types are extremely helpful to prevent bugs and model the domains of interest in a proper way.
I’ve used a Prius as a heated camper, sleeping in the back. Doesn’t use much gas and it’s very comfortable. The motor comes on sporadically.

Ever since, I’ve wished for a hybrid RV that was basically a gas powered generator putting power into batteries, running the drive train when you need to move and powering everything else (heat, ac, computer, etc.) when you’re parked.

For whatever reason, no such vehicle seems to exist.
Tangent, but more meme marketing name suggestion: how does the knight move?

https://youtu.be/wfDCLEAU9hE
It personally took me over a year to learn how to navigate BigTech after spending an entire 25 year career at small unknown companies.

I came straight from a 60 person company to AWS. It wasn’t pretty and I was hired for a remote position during Covid
My 2017 PH-1 running vanilla Android 9 played this without a single issue. Not only new phones - feels future to me
Thanks for talking about your experiences dealing with it. When I read that, I am glad I was not alone in experiencing day to day biases. I guess the writing was on the wall but I didn't see it when I moved to Europe. Over years, my colleagues have said some mean bigoted things and hr is fine as long as it was said in a sarcastic tone on freedom of speech.
How You Respond to Security Researchers Says Everything About You
The design for this app is atrocious for anybody who has played online chess.

“This is a valid move. This is a valid move.”

reads rules.

“They couldn’t paint one measly Queen black? Exit”

You know if you know. The queen is white. I’m going to occupy the diagonal.
That's odd. I've never had an issue with F-Droid over many years and across many devices.
I still miss my BlackBerry, not just for the keyboard; the trackpad was far more precise and comfortable than a touch screen. No awkward reaching for controls at the top of the screen, no fat-fingering the wrong link.

I honestly think their biggest mistake was the BlackBerry-specific data plan requirement, not the slow entry to the touchscreen market.
Adept.ai is rumoured to have a model that understands screens and web pages, but they are still in pre-release stage.

If you use the image as input, you can try the DONUT model [1] that directly answers questions without external OCR. It can be fine-tuned to suit your needs.

You can get a pretty decent reading of screens and text documents with Amazon Textract. They find key-value pairs pretty reliably.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.15664
> That seems like a "lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas" situation. If someone doesn't want to be accused of cheating in a high-stakes game then they shouldn't cheat in a low-stakes game.

On the one hand, I'm inclined to agree with the assertion that dishonesty damages one's credibility.

On the other hand, there's degrees of dishonesty - should someone who (intentionally lied, and) denied going over the speed limit be automatically considered lying when he also denies premeditated murder?
I’m surprised that so many people can tickle their social itch over the internet.

There is nothing about the dynamics involved that I’d consider social.

Interaction is mostly with total strangers, almost always in text form (no subtext, no facial expression, no body language).

Comments are written at people, not to people — to illicit support for one’s position or condemnation of the opposing one.

Social networks : Being social
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Sock : Loving spouse
Oops! dint know that ..
Thanks for the info!
Common blocks have been outdated for the past >33 years. Modules have been the proper modern safer way of sharing data and procedures since 1990.
60% versus 6%? That's an order of magnitude difference.
https://archive.is/gdHwa
I think the old binaries can be patched for new iOS. Or new binaries can be patched for custom backup locations. Or perhaps the open source libimobiledevice [1] can be used somehow.

In any case, requiring passcode might be a good permanent solution after all.
I went from demonstrating a “high degree of ability and skill” that brought in an extra 1 million in revenue at a 60 person company over a year. It was lauded by CxOs.

Doing the same type of work at AWS gets a congratulatory email and is just a drop in the bucket.

I’ve also gone through interview training. We are specifically told not to consider where you got your experience or education from as long as you meet the standards. While they don’t bring me in for coding interviews, I’ve been on interview panels as part of the system design section. I know this to be true.
There's a DuckDB and Polars and similar tools now, which can finally outperform the venerable unix tools. Once the data is on the laptop you can get order of magnitude faster execution than Spark.

The unsolved problems are 1) what if the data and what you do with it suddenly doesn't fit on a laptop (giving everyone 64 GB RAM laptops for example seems like a waste) and 2) how do you deliver the relevant subset of the data from the petabyte place where you store it to the laptop.

If someone could solve that, Spark could finally go to hell.
Yes, Fortran has `pure` and `impure` attributes for functions/subroutines (with and without side-effects).
```
pure recursive function factorial(n)
integer, intent(in) :: n
...
end
```
Even "implicits" (especially the explicit ones called `given`s in Scala) are extremely useful I don't think you need them for type-class derivation. Rust does not use "implicits" for that, I think.
Up until this change I was using iMazing on Windows to have daily local backups of my devices. It supports backing up via WiFi.

Now it nags me every day to enter my passcode on my devices. :-(
Hopefully both "believe in science" folks and "I do my own research on substack" folks are paying attention. Science is really hard and, while government agencies can do a better job than amateur substack research, they still screw up on regular basis. For example, CDC carb heavy food pyramid turned out to be a total hogwash and ruined health of countless people. You should probably still follow mainstream recommendation, because one must follow something and alternatives are less reliable on average. But you have no right to force everyone into it or shush them up when they discuss other opinions.
It's good. It mixes languages some times (I use it in spanish) and sometimes uses a weird choice of sources.

Id like to have a button to make it go deeper, not just elaborate a bit more on who says what.

The follow up questions thing is kinda that, but somehow I feel it's not "there".

Maybe I have to play more with it, but ill definitely use it.

I really like this approach of backing up claims with links.

IMO you're into something powerful. ChatGPT is more impressive but you can't really do information retrieval with it, you have to trust (or not) it.

Now that I'm writing this, I'd like to know where in the sources does it get the info for its claims.
There's No Such Thing as Knowing All the Way to the Bottom
This lightning talk from Noah Gibbs will save enthusiastic programmers/developers from some pitfalls.
> It is literally their job

A job which also includes prosecutorial discretion.

IOW, it's also literally their job to decide which cases to pursue and which to drop.
Can confirm, backups over WiFi are affected as well.
The good news is, the interior doesn’t look like a refugee from a 1970s porn movie the way so many RVs still do. The bad news is, it looks like a 1980s dentist office.
You’re leaving lot of noise on the table if you only look with one eye.
Yes I’m absolutely sure that you are representative of most users. Besides, you should want an extra level of security before someone can connect your phone to a computer and slurp up all of your data.
Ok; let me try again without my "premisconceptions" (not a word found in the Oxford English Dictionary, fwiw).

So your earlier comment should be read as:

> All business is about making productive use of someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions. The only question is whether that productive use is within tolerable limits.

... Except then that second sentence doesn't make sense now. If we take out the word "exploit", what are these "tolerable limits" of productive use you're pointing to? The original sentence read as if staying within "tolerable limits" is important to limit the implied harm we're doing by trading.

It reads like a motte-and-bailey argument[1] to me. Like what you're trying to say is this:

> All business is about exploiting ("1. to make productive use of / UTILIZE") someone somewhere for your benefit, no exceptions. The only question is whether that exploitation ("2. make use of (a situation) in a way considered unfair or underhand") is within tolerable limits.

When pushed on why you think business is dangerous you fall back on definition 1 of exploit. But then you lean on definition 2 of "exploit" to imply wrongness - "The only question is whether that productive use is within tolerable limits.". Or as another commenter wrote, "Are [workers] actually happy? Or are they exploited? That's the issue."

The blending together of these definitions feels slippery and underhanded. I don't care what word you use. Do you think trade is good or bad? Healthy or unhealthy for the participants?

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bri...
k2pdfopt is an alternative with a billion useful options:

https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
Agree on this, there is a wide divergence among those who are a bit sceptical of vaccines. Most people have a high trust in vaccines as they should, but recent developments have made more people sceptical.

The last round of vaccination before covid was for the swine flu where one of the vaccines showed a lot more adverse effects than the others (7x) https://www.contagionlive.com/view/high-rates-of-adverse-eve...
Also a lot of people became sceptical when they tried to get the children vaccinated for covid even though there were almost no adverse effects on children from the natural infection.
It is possible to be sceptical of one vaccine and not all vaccines.
Why shouldn't people try different, novel approaches on their personal websites, though?

Where else should one try out "weird" (non-mainstream) concepts and see what sticks?

I don't understand your harsh dismissal of the author based on the design of a personal website, to be honest.
Haha. Now the browser runs in the kernel. What can go wrong ?

I think it was Microsoft that saw that running graphics in kernel is a bad idea.

But, yeah, this was a very long time ago and why not make the same mistakes over and over again.
Ask HN: Where is that noise coming from?
As a fun experiment, say you’re in a (mostly) silent house and there is a faint, irregularly timed noise that sounds pretty similar each time.

At your disposal you have yourself, your cat, another person, and two modern smartphones. You’ve tried wandering around, and you just can’t figure it out off the top of your head.

What technical/non-technical method would you use to locate the source of the sound?
Nuclear reactors are almost as old as computer, yet we have seen nothing like the scaling we have in the semiconductor industry. Part of this is because they half of the power plant is essentially a steam turbine just like in most other thermal power plants. That technology is essentially centuries old. Not much scaling to be done there.
Fresh out of university new grads were getting $100k/year base salaries there when I graduated about 11 years ago. Plus stock and bonuses. So for 3-5 years xp “normal” engineer it was very, very doable to have $300k total comp (stocks, bonus and base) at Microsoft. I’m quoting Microsoft Silicon Valley numbers because that was the one I was interning at the time.
Huh. That’s weird. A looking down variant sounds misleading.
5.66% of the Year Has Passed
Poor guy! No man deserves such treatment.
I believe a compounding factor in this problem was a 2015 decision to ban onshore wind farms in England.

Leading to the somewhat perverse situation where it's now necessary to build new or bigger lines from Scotland all the way down to the south of England where most of that generated energy is needed.
So sorry. Other than my sympathy, the only thing I have to offer is that a government job might be a good bet. They usually have insane medical coverage, and usually the programming knowledge you need is not exactly state of the art.
I was thinking the same. But then I thought about it more and wondered why you need to enter your own password if you're already logged on. If an attacker is already in the system, it can install key logger and whatnot without the root password. And the xn--ts9h program can have the Unix permission so that only the user can run it.
I had music on my iPhone in mobile Safari. But the ringer switch had to be on and I had to press the top right sound button.
> So far, he added, no new bears have come in with missing toes.

Makes me feel happier. I work closely with animal conservation since last decade. Traps are seldom essential in E Asia. I can understand some are used in N America for game, or herd protection. It often ends up with lot of other collateral.
Also thank you for maintaining civility and expressing genuine curiosity. It's easy to forget that not everyone who is a fan of nuclear is just using it as a tool to attack anything that threatens fossil fuels just hecause those ones are the loudest my distaste towards some of the other commenters caught you in the crossfire and I apologise.
He may very well have just made that up.
yeah--no captions.
Looks great, would love to own one if I had the spare cash.
You forgot the /s again.
The recruiters just spray and pray wildly. Since 2020, I’ve had:

- A recruiter from Google reach out to me about an Engineering Manager position - I’ve never managed anyone in my life.

- A recruiter from Facebook reach out to me about a senior software engineering position even though the last job I had at the time that had an official title of “software engineer” was two years prior and I had no details about what I did and the company I worked for was unknown

- two recruiters reaching out to me from Amazon about “exciting software development opportunities” - while it clearly showed on my LinkedIn profile that I was working at AWS.
If the herd is at one extreme or the other, the middle ground is the opposite of going with the herd.

It could be unpopular because it's wrong, or it might be the insightful choice. Critical thinking will probably help figure out which it is.
Lowtax banned Phoenix/Firebird at one point, early on. He didn’t like people complaining that stuff didn’t render correctly. He only allowed Internet Explorer for some time. It wasn’t funny.
`curl | sh` is not signed by a CA.

With a conventional package manager, the contents of the package itself is signed, not just the connection to the mirror that hosts the package itself. Having a secure connection to the mirror is not necessary in this case because there is no way to modify the package without it being detected.

With `curl | sh`, only the connection to the server is signed, but not what you are piping into your shell.
As somebody who tinkered a lot with Twitter's and Facebook's APIs, I'm inviting all my fellow developers to entirely give up these efforts and let those platforms (and their users) rot in their own shit.

By building products against these platforms, we're playing the game of someone whose interest is clearly not that of creating a vibrant developer community or having a vast selection of 3rd-party apps and alternative clients.

Once users start using a 3rd-party app, they stop using the big platform's official app. The app loses visibility on what the user does, therefore it loses money, because surveillance, data collection, data resale and slamming ads in front of your eyes is the only viable way that these degenerate businesses have found to make money (and they have never been incentivised, for the past two decades, to seek for alternative business models).

So, as developers, we're playing a game that we're doomed to lose. We'll have to catch up with whatever unannounced update to the APIs or the T&Cs the platform's company decides to impose. We'll have to walk around all the obstacles that they put on our path. And, most of all, we are always exposed to the risk of the platform suddenly pulling the plug from their own APIs, therefore flushing months or years of hard work from our side down the toilet with a single decision.

I've seen Facebook fight against my scrapers for a long time. I've seen Twitter restricting their APIs again and again, forcing me to adapt my bridges every time. I've seen WhatsApp block my phone number in the past because I was using it to reverse engineer their API. I've seen Instagram go after anyone trying to build a 3rd-party client, or an even remotely potential competitor (Biblogram being the last one, and going after Pixelfed for the names of their filters is another recent one).

Now I'm done with these motherfuckers. If they don't want our efforts, if they don't respect our work, then they deserve to rot in hell. And their users deserve to use only the proprietary spyware/crapware that is thrown at them, if they don't listen to our calls for using alternatives.

If you want a flexible and developer-friendly social network with plenty of APIs, well-documented protocols, plenty of choice when it comes to clients, and even RSS support, use any Fediverse product.

If you want a messaging app that you can easily program and extend, and it's even compatible via bridges with virtually any protocol out there, use Matrix.

We have open solutions based on open protocols today, which aren't subject to the whims of a random billionaire who likes to enter the server room and unplug whichever machine he finds within reach. Let's just use them, instead of complaining of platforms that aren't aligned with our values and keep shutting down our efforts. Competition is what these companies deserve to make sure that they keep building stuff that people like, and you don't compete with someone by trying to improve their own environment. You compete by building a better product and stealing their user base one unit at the time
The US is weird that one would even think that's an option. I'm BA gold and have never had such a problem.
Check out eg. “Race condition vs. Data Race: the differences explained” [0]

[0]: https://www.avanderlee.com/swift/race-condition-vs-data-race...
Oops, so I have. Or perhaps GitHub’s svn invented me…
> Being the strongest is never assumed to require being individually stronger than everyone else. That's not how these things are evaluated.

Never? I suggest doing a survey of some people.
California's new wealth tax follows you to Florida or Texas
To quote the Wikipedia article you cited:

> This demand can be met by unvarying power plants,[2] dispatchable generation,[3] or by a collection of smaller intermittent energy sources,[4] depending on which approach has the best mix of cost, availability and reliability in any particular market.

Renewables are baseload. They mainly compete with other traditional "base load" power plants, i.e. coal and nuclear, all of which rely on dispatch able generation for evening out the peaks and trowths. Your calculation also doesn't make sense, you never need storage to cover the whole electricity generation in all of the US. It's like saying in an all nuclear scenario we need to build plants to cover twice the peak demand because all plants could be under maintenance at the same time. You don't build with 100% redundancy.
put the two smartphones in the freezer.

put the other person and the cat in the rear bedroom and lock the door.

cotton balls.

if you don't have them, you can cut up your socks.

you put them in your ears.

if the sound keeps on, then the source of the sounds is just that you're crazy and delusional.

if not, it's just the furnace

it doesn't matter which, because the other human will have called emergency services and you'll be going to a nice place
Maybe I don’t.

So what happens when a server gets deleted? Isn’t your account bound to that server?
It's not a browser (or even a piece of a browser), it's a method of statically sandboxing a native binary.
Target square in middle of circle, don't get captured or capture.