skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "anti-vax" is considered a valid "scientific dissent"

Anti-vaxers are against science in general. First, it's part of Russian disinformation campaign:

> This week, we also heard that Ukrainian authorities are too stupid to deal with the measles outbreak in their country. The epidemic allegedly threatens not only the lives of children in Ukraine, but also the country’s visa-free regime with the EU. Thus, the disinformers helpfully suggest using Russian-made vaccines. The European and American vaccines, especially those available in Georgia, were reported as unreliable, since they might be manufactured in the infamous Lugar lab (the very same one that brought you the toxic mosquitos). But Georgians, according to pro-Kremlin sources, have even bigger things to worry about, as the UN and its partner organisation are deliberately spreading HIV in the country and planning for Georgian genocide.

See https://euvsdisinfo.eu/fatal-distraction (2019).

However, this disinformation succeed because science is opaque, so general population cannot verify claims, any claims. General public MUST BELIEVE to an authority. We need to make science more accessible to general public, for example, by utilizing AI to explain complex topics in simple enough terms and charts. However, it should not be like «hey, you, stupid, eat this, because you cannot understand what we are doing anyway». It should be accessible form of the same content, not a separate content. Something like: «Hey, AI, I cannot understand this paragraph, formula, or chart, so rewrite it to make it accessible for me (and translate it to my native language)».
A denormalized database model is considered bad desig to begin with, and has performance costs on its own. This is why the OP says this is a "hot take". :)

Maybe there are situations where this actually helps, although the resulting datastructure to me looks more like a multi-key cache.
> "Looking back on all the above from a 2023 vantage point, I think that, as a community of Internet engineers, we got a lot right, but that today there's way more that needs to be done to better protect the security and privacy of people who use the Internet. In particular, we (the technical community) haven't done nearly as good a job at countering surveillance capitalism, which has exploded in the last decade. In part, that's because many of the problems are outside of the scope of bodies such as the IETF. For example, intrusive backend sharing of people's data for advertising purposes can't really be mitigated via Internet protocols.

However, I also think that the real annoyance felt with respect to the Snowden revelations is (in general) not felt nearly as much when it comes to the legal but hugely privacy-invasive activities of major employers of Internet engineers.

It's noteworthy that RFC 7258 doesn't consider that bad actors are limited to governments, and personally, I think many advertising industry schemes for collecting data are egregious examples of pervasive monitoring and hence ought also be considered an attack on the Internet that ought be mitigated where possible. However, the Internet technical community clearly hasn't acted in that way over the last decade."

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We are all very aware of Snowden's revelations and call him a hero, but we also routinely ignore, if not get paid by, major tech corporations that make tracking and advertising, a form of surveillance, their main source of income.

I guess it's easy not to care when you're paid $250,000/yr and have a nice cafeteria to get unlimited free snacks.
Not sure how accurate this list is. Acting is both unimpacted and eliminated according to this post, for example.

I don't have a hard time believing that mining is not as productive a field as it once was. It's a shrinking part of the WV economy.
> No, most software today is designed for the use case that you have never seen the software before.

Yep, it's fun when you go to a site where you have a log in but it expired and have to search for the tiny 'sign in' button that's mostly covered by the sign up form.
The problem is that nobody can verify the truth of every statement for themselves. Reality is too complex and no individual person has the time or the resources. For the vast majority of our beliefs, we have to rely on the consensus of experts, and that actually works really well. That doesn't mean science is perfect. But look at the theories that allow us to build a CPU with 50 billion transistors or a rocket that can go to the moon and tell me there isn't objective truth there.
Oh astronomy and black holes influence everyday policy? Do you enjoy blanket statements much?
The author is using the usual definition where vertices are an arbitrary (finite) set and edges are pairs of vertices. From the book:

Definition 2.1.1. A simple graph is a pair (V, E), where V is a finite set, and
where E is a subset of P_2(V).

Sure in some examples V happens to be a set of natural numbers and then edges must be pairs if natural numbers, but there's nothing weird with that as any set would do. (Incidentally in model theory countably infinite graphs are often assumed to have as underlying set the naturals because it is convenient notationwise)
No market for electric motorbikes. Based on my experience the reason for buying a motorbike is to be obnoxiously loud and disturb your whole city block. Can't do that with electric.
Yeah, a lot of them are very cool.
An issue I had, having been previously quite familiar with the literature on the 2003 variant of COVID, is that the government manifestly ignored many of the scientific findings of that earlier outbreak for political reasons.

It would have been great if they leaned on the science from the 2003 version of the disease, but they didn’t and some of the policies made no sense in light of that prior literature.
Could also just mean that they have some fewer teaching personnel or in research positions. Trying to do same job with less people.
No one has actually done that research, yet everyone is sure it exists...
It seems to be working well enough for a certain other high-profile defendant at the moment.
If the tables involved in the join are of 100M+ records what I do when the joins use varchar columns to improve the performance is to use an additional integer column of the varchar one that is a CRC of it (or hash if you prefer that) and use the integer one instead in the join.
Must have missed that part. But my intention wasn’t to offend. It felt like the part about solving a problem other developers couldn’t was the main crux of the article, and the insight about inertia in big companies was tacked on. But I’m sure others will disagree.
You just asked one.
Toyota had its infamous stuck accelerator pedal issue in 2009, etc.

AFAIK that was never proven to be a software problem.
Answering dharmab's response

Ugh, pulling and especially re-inserting the camshaft shouldnt be done in a hurry. At least from my experience with the V-Strom's V-engine. Needs to be cooled down and insertion of the camshaft needs proper care (no dinging of the bearing shells) and one must make sure to not skip a tooth at the geartrain/chain.
>What percentage of long-distance relationships work out long-term? Do you become more or less close with friends after they move out of town? Do you still "know" them the same as you did when you regularly met in person for lunch or drinks? Is it awkward when you do see each other in person that one visit a year?

that's the crux of a lot of people here. You are comparing coworkers to friend and some people don't care about friendhips at work. They just want to do their work, stay in good graces, and get back to their leisure ASAP. It's not their job to care about overall company productivity, so as long as they feel more productive it's a win. Any inefficies is irrelevant because it means the ball is in their court and they still get more time for said leisure.

As of now, the WFH initiative is the cloesest we got to a wide scale 32 hour work week that many desire.
The process of studying those subjects is very strongly political.

Stop assuming bad faith and stick to the point.
Sometimes it's not even particularly covert just hard to see the big picture as the events unfold.

https://wwnorton.com/books/Invisible-Hands/
Without exception, LLM frontends out there that use vector search simply do a query and hope for the best. The reality is that the answer may not be in the result. It is a hard problem to solve. We are at least 1-2 stepping stones away from having a solution that actually works!
> Recommendations that show up on my Home timeline aren't all voluntary

This is an orthogonal problem; I absolutely agree that recommendations are bad. Incidentally, many people "on the other side" (the ones you want to silence) agree with this, as they're constantly shown content they wouldn't otherwise consume, which in their case is mainstream and all-pervasive. This is exacerbated by the fact that, if they try to set up their social media, they get deplatformed by cloud providers, payment processors, etc.

> I want to stop those consequences from happening.

We have a law system to stop these consequences from happening. The moment an extremist acts with violence, they are stopped with violence by law.

> Ultimately, the objective is to protect our freedoms, even if it means sacrificing a little freedom (of speech) in the here and now.

And you get to decide which speech is dangerous and which speech is not, which ideas are dangerous and which ideas are not, from the height of your moral superiority, I guess.
These ideas have mileage but as long as the source code is plain text, the way we represent changes is always going to be text based too.

Wouldn’t a better starting point be to change the way we represent source code, then let the patch tools follow?

Your editor knows exactly what steps you took to make your change. A semantic VCS like you describe sounds very similar to reaching eventual consistency in a distributed data structure by sharing streams of edits between peers.

Personally, I’m a firm believer in text. Auto formatting code so that changes are line oriented helps a lot. So does a good culture of namespaces and separation of concerns. Conflicts happen when two people working on different things have to edit the same code. You can dodge that by more carefully structuring your project.

There’s a reason why software projects aren’t just single-file piles of symbols. Code is primarily supposed to be human readable, and the more legible the project the better shape it is in for good ole line oriented diffing and patching.
This project returns results over HTTP. You get what you want by running the server binary on the server, then access it with your web browser.
I think vouch only shows up when it's [flagged][dead] or [dead], not when it's only [flagged]
The problem is when we fully defer to scientists on things that are beyond their area of expertise. For instance, while an epidemiologist can provide valuable guidance on measures that could reduce the spread of a virus, they might not be equipped to assess the broader implications of these measures on aspects like the economy, child development, or mental health. Similarly, a climate scientist can project temperature changes for the coming century, but determining the comprehensive impact of these changes on human societies or conducting a cost-benefit analysis of various measures
to mitigate it might be outside their domain.
Word is Ben does not think that moisture or wetness is natural.
He can be both. An entitled schmuck who's not entirely there.
The use cases define whether pijul is sufficient for your needs. For bisecting to find a bug, it seems you could easily bisect along a history of patches. Maybe there are patches that may alter the history that haven’t yet been merged, but that’s really an agreement between you and your collaborators that they should commit often. A similar constraint is required if you need to tag a commit for a release (where a snapshot can have meaningful implications for legal compliance, reproducible builds etc.)
We've gone with Postgres and pg_vector which works really well thus far, especially since we know and like the existing Postgres tooling and vector functionality there is just a (widely supported) pg_vector extension away. Since it now also supports HNSW indices it should perform well on large amounts of vectorized data as well (though we haven't tested this yet).

From a consultant perspective, Postgres as a requirement is a much easier sell then some new, hot but unknown dedicated vector DB.
We avoid it entirely. If it can't be done in Terraform, it must be done outside Terraform and fed in via variables.

Though of course there's also teams that run ansible from it with lots of implicit settings, making it a pain to move from dev machines to CI.
Elon has also engaged in crypto market manipulation by shilling and dumping DOGE regularly. They're absolutely comparable.
That article has biased interpretations of the data. It discounts circumstantial evidence of a lab origin, while foregrounding circumstantial evidence of zoonotic origin.

Neither theory has direct evidence. Nobody has found covid at WIV, and nobody found an animal reservoir that could prove zoonotic origin. All we have are two pieces of circumstantial evidence:

(1) Lab origin: Covid was discovered close to the WIV, while it was researching gain-of-function on coronaviruses.

(2) Zoonotic origin: Covid was discovered in a wet market, where past coronaviruses have been known to evolve and leap to humans.

Yet, that article completely discounts (1) as evidence, while calling the evidence of it occurring near WIV "a coincidence":

> There is currently no evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has a laboratory origin. There is no evidence that any early cases had any connection to the WIV, in contrast to the clear epidemiological links to animal markets in Wuhan, nor evidence that the WIV possessed or worked on a progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 prior to the pandemic. The suspicion that SARS-CoV-2 might have a laboratory origin stems from the coincidence that it was first detected in a city that houses a major virological laboratory that studies coronaviruses

That is a biased interpretation.

Then it goes on to say that (2) does count as evidence, even though there's no reservoir animal that could make the direct connection:

> We contend that although the animal reservoir for SARS-CoV2 has not been identified and the key species may not have been tested, in contrast to other scenarios there is substantial body of scientific evidence supporting a zoonotic origin.

Certainly, if you discount all the evidence coming from your opposition, and foreground all the evidence that agrees with you, it's going to look like your side is right.
He understands it just fine.

He doesn't care how long the total life span is. It's perfectly capable of it (access to the option can be paid for so it's not equivalent to a hack) and he wants to go further on a single charge, so this is a perfectly reasonable tradeoff to make.

Just let the user make that choice without an absurd subscription.
Ask HN: Do FANGs/big tech companies budge on IP clauses for L3-L5 engineers?
I want the IP agreement i sign to only include the work done for the company, and to exclude anything i do on my own time

i was thinking of trying to work for FANG (or whatever big tech companies pay similar) because they tend to pay a lot more than smaller/mid size companies

i wanted to know if FANGs budge on IP clauses for L3 to L5 level engineers. or if they just laugh in your face and say "sign or someone else will"

i ask because I don't want to spend the next 6-12 months grinding LC if they don't generally do that
I have been running an old HP thin client (I think either a t510 or t520). It’s holding up surprisingly well as a general purpose home server. It is low power, completely silent, comes with 16GB onboard SSD and loads of ports. I’ve added two SATA ports using a cheap extension module from AliExpress, but it also comes with 4 USB ports for external storage.
Ah. Funny. I probably have this. That was unexpected. Thank you.
It seems that yourself and Animats are in essential agreement.

As was said above:

Not because masks didn't work, but because they were in short supply and medical and emergency personnel needed them more.

I'm outside the US - I recall the US Surgeon General making those statements at the time and it seemed very clear that logistics and pragmatics were being discussed rather than the "science of masks".

At that time most of the US had no general spread of COVID - the midwest buying up all the masks wasn't doing anything useful other than making those few places that actually needed masks there and then more dangerous.

As your quote states:

if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
Nice thick hiking socks. My feet feel so much better and there's a lot of room for my toes to wiggle usually.

Also, bar soap. Switching from liquid body wash to bar soap stands as one of my best decisions. Made the switch 8 years ago now and I just opened a new bar of goat milk soap made by some regional (local...ish) nuns. It's just so much easier to travel with, and I find there are better options for my super-dry skin in bar soap land.
Is 2 weeks of travel a year that unexpected? A job I got hired at said to expect quarterly travel for various conferences. Not week long arrangements, but we're talking about being ready with a few week's notice to fly out for a few days to some different part of the world.

of course I got hired in that place in 1/2020, so we know how that turned out.
Japanese service manuals for electronics, especially ones starting in the early 80's when the printing quality started getting really good, are a sight to behold. In the era before the EDA software did everything, the annotated schematics and PCB board layouts in the manuals are gorgeous, especially those by Sony and Matsushita / Panasonic.

When the EDA tools started making the prints fully automatically and all the tables and notes just became automated outputs to PDF... it kinda killed a bit of the artistry that went into the layouts of the prints. I also feel that the care and choosing the fonts / lettering styles / etc. have become eschewed in favor of just putting out whatever the defaults are from current software without care of adjustment. It's why all published schematics these days look alike, and boring by comparison.

The early Walkman manuals are a good example of this:

https://archive.org/details/wm-f15_202004/SONYWM-DD_service_...

The perfect little isometric views of the special isolated components in boxes along the outside, the shading of the traces on the PCB....
It feels like Postgres is eating the world. In a thread a couple of days ago many argued that with the capability of efficiently storing and processing JSON we can do without MongoDB et al. Now we also replace vector databases.
There are extensions that provide columnar storage and to be honest I never completely understood the need for specialized time series databases.

It is a bit as if Postgres has become what Oracle wanted to be - a one-stop solution for all your data storage needs.
Found it, thanks for the directions.

> Ours is that we perform a task in the public interest.

You really really want to change this. It will never hold. You need a legal basis for this condition (lett. e of art. 6).
Not legal advice: a legitimate interest (lett. f, art. 6) looks more defendable

> We will erase any individual’s personal data at their request within 30 days, according to GDPR’s article 17.

30 days is a very long time

Also: I'm getting an internal server error, data collected: 0
Federal sentencing guidelines take into account many things. You get (bad) points (called levels) for how many people you harmed, dollar value of the harm, whether or not you used "sophisticated" means, etc, etc. These points are then converted to a sentence length according to this[1] chart. The main contributor in a case like this is going to be the dollar amount of the fraud (which is huge), as those points stack up quickly, capping out at 30 levels for a fraud of over $550M. So if as assume he gets the highest level, that's 30 levels on its own, which if you read the guideline chart linked means a recommended sentence of 8 years for a first time offender just from those levels alone. Add all the other levels in and you can get to 43 (life imprisonment for first time offenders) pretty quickly.

[1] https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manu...
Yes this is the exact situation where sql falls short. You can't make cross-table indexes to serve OLAP-esq queries, and the most recent X is the common one for pagination in applications.
I prefer to denormalize manually at write time in a transaction, rather than use triggers or materialized views.
What can’t be helped? Your comment is too vague for me to understand what you’re getting at.

As I said in my original comment, I think scientists are being put in political positions because of a failure of culture/people/society to care sufficiently about philosophy and religion.

The solution to this seems obvious to me.
One of the best things about doing business and also non monetary interactions globally is opting out of local distractions

As soon as you unsubscribe to US perspectives, nobody is detailing conversations about the PRC ultimately winning that territory and the ways it behaves, it is very easy to operate there on a day to day basis
These are the degrees that the members of the committee that made the recommendation hold:

Chemical Engineering; Journalism; Computer Engineering; Sport and Exercise Psychology; Mechanical Engineering; History; Finance; Biological Science; Chemistry; Creative Writing; Technology Education; Exercise Physiology; Industrial Engineering; Electrical Engineering; Zoology and Psychology
Probably because power users are en insignificant fraction of users for a general public application.

I drive a car and only care about the speed, how far I can drive and to be warned that I have to stop if something is wrong.

I do not care about the temperature of the oil or water, about the tension on the thffr which powers the louhguh or why zgfnkvgv failed.

I know that if something goes wrong I will call the road assistance number.

If someone wants to learn more there is the hidden bus they can plug into, aka Dev Tools For Cars
Yeah I work in a team with a mix of contractors who BYOD and perm staff who use laptops provided to them.

The contractors have a huge productivity advantage out of the gate - modern hardware, any software, no mandatory VPN that blocks genuinely useful websites (MDN!).
I think part of the problem is it seems everyone is trying to make a version control tool that is agnostic to all languages. Both computationally and UI wise. But C++ users expect to see different things than JavaScript users and so forth.

I’m surprised at the lack of hyper-specific language version control tools. I thought about making a side project for one in Julia a while back but not quite sure how it would look. Some random thoughts:

- info on type, name, constant changes

- let me checkout older revisions of individual functions / objects / whatever

- on unit test result changes for functions that have unit tests

- when changes are simply a refactor and are functionally the same
Almost all (in the mathematical sense) car accidents are caused by pilot error, and not the subtle kind: driving into oncoming traffic. running red lights and other ways of ignoring way of right. drugs. speeding and tailgating.

You could envisage technical solutions for some classes of these errors, but they would usually require huge changes to infrastructure or only work for new cars. And full self-driving is still ways off.