skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel you're not enjoying looking for evidence of your claims as much as I am.

But sure, it says:

> Vaccine mandates were primarily advocated to decrease severe COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, protect healthcare systems, ensure safer public spaces, and aim for herd immunity. This approach was favored even when the effect of vaccines on transmission was not fully known, as the overall public health benefits were clear.

I also explicitly challenged it and asked what's the point of mandating healthy individuals to get vaccinated if they weren't sure it would reduce transmission and it said:

> 1. Prevent severe disease: Even healthy individuals can suffer severe effects from COVID-19, although the risk is lower.

> 2. Reduce the burden on healthcare: Preventing illness in healthy individuals helps maintain healthcare capacity for all.

> 3. Mitigate the risk of variants: High vaccination rates can reduce the chance of new, potentially more dangerous variants.

> These benefits were considered to outweigh the uncertainties regarding transmission at the time mandates were discussed.

Please paste snippets and links to archives or other indicators that may show that when vaccines first arrived expert said it would prevent transmision without any basis for their claims. I'm totally willing to believe it, and I'm sure some did, but it also looks like there were experts and official sources that explicitly said that wasn't a sure thing. So at least I know I'm not crazy for having had that impression.

And you have to recognize, there's a lot of revisionist history and false representation going around too. I'm sure some people would have told others that experts and officials said something and they actually never said that. This probably happened a lot, which can make it feel to people experts and officials said something even when they never did.

Also, if it helps you swallow what I'm saying, I want to point out that I'm not a fan of vaccine mandates for the same reasons that I'm pro-choice. I believe people should have autonomy over their bodies.
Would have been interesting if HP had produced the Apple II and ushered in the personal computing era.

But if HP had been interested in doing so, then Woz might have stayed there to begin with.
Great work, though note that it will be available on 2.3 release estimated in 2024 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15022#issuecomment-18024...
>the act of swapping money in exchange for the game is basically 0 work.

you're still treating this as a software service. Remember that for a physical store:

1. you need to maintain the store. you can't have dirt bugs and grime everywhere
2. you need insurance to deal with various inevitable factors. theft, crime within store grounds, destruction of property, etc.
3. buildings break down faster than servers. you need to upkeep that.
4. security. Need to monitor the store in and outside of business hours.
5. yes, support. They manage memberships, pre-orders, process returns in or out of warranty/return period, check inventory for if older used games are around, and can route you to other locations for such product.

Its only cut and dry if you never think what is needed to maintain the norm for you.
It's not beneficial to not get sick with the flu for a week? you do you, but hey
EF Core these days is insanely good.

It definitely has an initial learning curve, but once you've built a small sample app, it's quite easy to move ridiculous fast.

It still provides access to raw SQL and can always add in Dapper if you want/need more complicated queries. But productivity is really, really good with very little sacrifice in terms of performance.
> They're ubiquitous, but few prefer them over the convenience of delivery to the doorstep. Buyers are never responsible for missing packages so there's little incentive to use lockers unless you're buying a secret gift or live in a very sketchy neighborhood or your home is so far from the warehouses that same-day delivery is only available at the locker

Then why so much effort is needed to stop package theft to the point of giving access to your house to strangers? Apparently getting package on your doorstep is not as convenient as you would like others to believe. Using such lockers is convenient and secure, giving package to recipient hands is secure but not convenient, leaving package at doorstep* is neither.

*or any other place convenient for whomever is delivering it
> It's also a challenge to deploy OTP along other non-hypervised runtimes.

What in tarnation. Please expand on this one.
Tumblr has better checkmarks.
Create an iOS app with only server-side Rust
We also don't allow your government to develop competencies. All those examples of government failures in tech are failures of private sector consultants because we're allergic to allowing the government to develop in-house expertise.
What about the energy sector and their political allies' 50 year campaign gaslighting the public about the dangers posed by climate change?
I'd love to see both an answer to your question, and also your twenty minute explanation written up, if you haven't already!
It’s random unless there are some serious red flags. Just re-apply.
In living memory of most of us, China was just a deeply impoverished nation known for little more than exporting cheap unreliable crap. Any achievement they did make was framed as being stolen from somebody else. Yet now, their successes in space, industry, science, and technology are completely taken for granted. Funny how quickly things change! The status quo of the world is constantly shifting. Those nations which strive to advance, will. Those nations which rest on their laurels of achievements past, will gradually find themselves with little left to cling to beyond those laurels.

I think it's awesome to see previously neglected nations beginning to be able to take part in major space programs. They also come with unique benefits. Like somebody else mentioned, for one thing Venezuela is in a dream scenario for launches. Eastern exposure to the ocean and substantially closer to the equator than e.g. Florida. This means ships taking off from there are able to more optimally sort of 'sling shot' off of Earth's rotation - the Earth rotates Eastward, and fastest at the equator. Same reason that in Andy Weir's Artemis novel, Kenya ended up being a world leader in space. And there's no logical reason this wouldn't happen. Countries can be developed, but they can't be moved.
Would you say the Google search engine or the iPhone have happened anyway?
Having been through this two major reasons.

they never talk to users. Seriously it’s crazy - you think it’s bad in industry - govt is wild. A bunch of folks 10 levels away decide on things. They will literally never even do one click in a demo - it’s all paperwork based - so when in 10 seconds users can tell it’s hot garbage (ultra slow, ancient Java version required and all) it’s too late.

Sane developers are smart enough not to contract with the government. McBride principles compliance? Virgin redwood compliance? Race info on all staff. Ethnicity for all staff? I once escalated to city attorney a compliance requirement that we hand out an IRS form for a program that no longer existed (advance earned tax credits I think) and they said form still had to be handed out (because some political body had required it be) but we could tell employees who filled out the form it was for a program that was no longer in operation and we would not process the form. Multiply by 20. So you get compliance and other middlemen who exacerbate the first issue - the folks developing are super removed from users.
> Why are all of these examples of successful government tech investment so old?

There are indeed newer examples such as GPS, RF-CMOS, Lidar, Siri, mRNA vaccines that DARPA invested in one way or another. Not saying they are as spectacular as the internet.
> For example, I cannot give up MS Entity Framework Core or Hot Chocolate graphql server for C#.

What? Why? Also, what do you mean nothing is as feature complete as Entity Framework? What about ActiveRecord, Ecto, Django ORM, Knex, even Dapper in C# itself......
There is a lot to like about Elixir itself including the nice syntax, which as mentioned in the article is inspired by Ruby and very easy to pickup. The BEAM/OTP is what really give Elixir the edge over other languages that I've used.

In my experience they include many batteries that would be libraries in other languages, and most times those libraries add a ton of complexity, and sometimes a big learning curve; Async anything is a good example.

I think once one works with Elixir for some time, and gets to learn these builtin tools and abstractions they understand the power of the ecosystem as a whole.
Because of stuff like this I don't get how you can trust it not to hallucinate when it summarizes your inbox.
Private interest created the use cases and further innovation but public investment, as they say, took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Yeah, at first when the RSI pain started, it felt it was really scary. Like viscerally scary in a way that is hard to describe unless you have felt that kind of fear. realistically, though knowing that I can use this tool to be able to code, even without the use of my hands, it makes me just feel calm. Obviously, I wouldn't want to lose use of my hands, but should that reality happen it is something that I could actually live with and tolerate. Would suck to give up video games entirely though. It's amazingly ironic that coding without your hands, ends up being faster than coding with your hands, but it wouldn't be reality if it wasn't ironic eh?
Their core thoughts seems to good, final result isn't.
For those who haven't heard of the Barkley before, there's a fantastic documentary about it. Apparently it's on Amazon Prime now.

https://barkleymovie.com/

The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats Its Young

If you apply to join and are accepted, the acceptance letter begins with something like, "Deepest condolences, you have been accepted..."
Nissan Systems Outage Takes Down Financing, Parts and Other Services Nationwide
I feel the technical barrier of adoption of bayesian methods is still high enough to deter potential users.
Why does HR language sound so dehumanizing? I mean terms like 'terminating employees' 'bus factor'
I still want to try emulating[1] ITS someday, just to experience the original versions of emacs, zork/dungeon, macsyma, SHRDLU, ...

Though I imagine like an online community or game it can't really be recreated since it depended on its users at MIT and elsewhere, and its specific time and place in history.

[1] https://github.com/PDP-10/its
Did you take any notes on the reverse engineering or is your code the documentation?
Once again proving Vi is the superior editor :)
>Selling on your own website, yes, you should be able to cover sending your own exe 100gb or not with each sale.

I think the point was that if you were hosting independently, your video game isn't going to be 100+ GB. You will handle the costs or build it into the price of the game.

Dunno how thin margins Valve operates on, but I think they can survive on less than 30%, especially since they offer lower rates to AAA studios.
i guess it's different for different people. for me, regardless of the game play type, it's exhausting. I can watch TV without issue, but playing games strains my eyes much much more than TV viewing. after an hour playing, i have to stop
Applied! Just wanted to know - F1 OPT students are eligible, right?
These are product for certain type of people. I could’ve been that person maybe 10 years ago, or whenever I thought compiling Gentoo on a Pentium 4 was worth my time. But as I got busier with life, that opinion changed. To have to pay for a product that “mostly” works? (That doesn’t really once you read more details about it)
The US companies don't have to do anything - J1 is applied by the student, he just needs a signing letter from you (German here who did this twice in 2007 and 2009). I did not have an attorney or help; just apply at the US Embassy and follow the procedure.
Bloodhound project seeks new driver in pursuit of 800mph
“In fact, I might go as far as saying that Elixir gives you a fun language (like Ruby) while leaving out the stateful footguns OOP languages give you. There are no classes, no instances, no inheritance…it's immutable and functional and you're not bogged down by a static type system.”

I want this but with types. I’m convinced strongly typed is the way to go for larger code bases as it hides the magic of a lot of things and is easier to reason about.
Definitely not every game but a space rpg? It’s basically cutting out anything that humans genuinely find interesting on a primal level.
I'm speaking more in general, not as a comparison between cyberpunk 2077 and starfield, there are plenty of games that do not have dark themes, and I don't think that any of that is required to make a good game.
Feels like there needs to be more frequent feedback about what Siri is doing in cases like that instead of treating the whole input as a single unit.
Ask HN: Tips to hire Database Kernel engineers for an early stage startup?
The title pretty much says it.

Context: I see this is a niche and folks with that talent tend to work at BIG tech. How startups in this space hire their first few engineers?
I‘ve been playing the guitar for very long, and it occurred to me that physical health correlates with my ability to synchronize both hands. Having a steady hand helps tremendously with that IME. I noticed e.g. when I quit drinking (even occasionally) that I got way better at this. While typing, I also started stumbling way less over complicated words at that time.

Practice did help too, but tbh, I practiced a _lot_ and it was frustrating seeing other players be so much more accurate than me while I had likely practiced just as much. Being healthy is just a competitive advantage.
most indies don't (and usually shouldn't, unless mobile) target casual gamers, and they can't bet on "stumbling upon a random game" to sell.

That stuff isn't easy but fortunately Valve isn't the only one offering that, and pretty much every other storefront offers lower rates if that's important.
Godspeed Frank. Thanks for your service.
Ugh. Maybe I'm not too sorry not to have a garage - the workshop space would be nice, but a basement suffices, and at least parking where I do I can trust the street won't stop working.
the author of the question has a strong opinion against such a step, that he calls "appeasement". See his answers when asked for his reasons.
Can't help but notice that you again didn't answer the question. I will third the request.
You're talking about the moors and visigoths in Spain, but did you forget those people integrated with the locals by invading? They weren't exactly welcomed with open arms, they just forced their way in and then took over. That's how the history of most of Europe looks, with all those examples of people displaced by newcomers. Why would any sane person want this? Just because it happened commonly in the past doesn't mean it's a good thing. In the modern world, we've mostly agreed that invading other places just because you want to live there, and want to marginalize or kill the people already living there, is no longer acceptable. Are you honestly saying you want to go back to those days?
The Graphic Truth: Where Immigrants to US and Canada Come From
And still 0 successful startup has been built on top of elixir.
Historically, very few colleges admitted women, thus when they began doing so, they became "coeducational" institutions, but the prominent feature of such institutions was the (then minority) presence of women, who thus became associated with the term. There's little in history or language that is symmetrical or equitable - although, these days, the smart money on the unspecified college student is that she's a woman.
GP asked for the opposite of that. Ligatures are troublesome while writing code.
Personally, I think the real solution, the ultimate solution, was detailed in the 1930s book "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley: reproduction and child-rearing needs to be outsourced to the government. It's the only way for the math to work. People just don't want to have 6 kids any more, and I don't think that's going to change. (And yes, people have to have 6 kids for population growth to work, because there's always going to be people who have 1 or none, so you need plenty of high-fertility couples to make up for them. People haven't stopped having kids these days, they've just stopped having so many.)
You're right, of course, but 10-30 people isn't much of a business opportunity unless they're stupendously rich.
> In Ruby it's common to use exceptions for control flow.

I think this is just plain incorrect. The example given later in this paragraph is the Rails `update` method--but the approach used in all canonical Rails examples and generators is the non-exception version of `update`.
Types are coming! Hopefully not too far away.

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
This is interesting but also a nightmare for me as colorblind
Rna vaccines might be that but it is still too early to tell.
> They outsourced the job, and gave me a 3 month severance, with health insurance (like I was still working), contingent on my cooperation with the consultants they retained to replace me.

This seems a bit light if you are literally the guy who keeps all the lights on. I'd expect at the very least to transition you to a consulting contract at a very generous rate to ensure your continued cooperation.

How much do you think the consultants that they retained to replace you cost?
I think there's a lot of wisdom to the old adage "birds of a feather flock together".
These famous US government investments are more precisely described as military investments, which they were. Almost all effective government investment was closely connected to a specific military objective, and measured against delivery on that objective. The US has been unusually effective at keeping these projects from turning into pure jobs programs, which is the default outcome in virtually every country.

It is an interesting question as to why the US defense institutions are so consistently effective at producing advanced R&D when that is not the outcome of almost any government program in the world, including most other parts of the US government. Even most modern trauma medicine was pioneered by the US military. These programs usually manufacture sinecures in most countries. The US has somehow, in this one narrow area, largely avoided that trap. It would be interesting to know if it is cultural and/or an artifact of how the programs are structured.
> I suspect you will find a similar effect with extended sleep depravation.

Early into my investment banking career, I once worked about 130 hours in a single week and started hallucinating in the office, hearing voices as if my relatives were speaking random sentences to me

Sample size of one, but I can definitely attest to the effect
It’s been 14 hours so there definitely no auto filter. It’s kind of a testament to the moderating here that I’ve been on hacker news for 6+ years and never once have I tried to use a slur.
Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids
I wonder if the colour could be replaced with different shapes and you call the shapes out instead?

Edit: apparently so!
I strongly believe we need some kind of affirming visual feedback for the device. The main issue i see with a voice centric smartphone interface is the ability to control the information you see over the internet. A centralised platform like Humane network decides what information you get to consume. A visual interface allows you to navigate freely and fetch the information you need. This approach to smartphone is only restrictive.
I often see people say static typing slows them down and I'd really like to know why that is because for me it's the exact opposite, I really don't like not knowing what format data is in. I'd much rather have to write slightly more verbose code and have a vast number of possible errors caught at compile time instead of having things go wrong in production when someone inputs something a bit weird with nothing so much as an error.
You can use shapes instead of colors: https://www.cursorless.org/docs/#shapes
If someone who maintains this site happens to be here: in the “code ligatures” section, where .overflow-y-scroll is used, that should be doing `overflow-y: auto` rather than `overflow-y: scroll`… though honestly I’m sceptical about the wisdom of the height capping anyway.

`overflow: scroll` is almost never (p>0.999) the right thing, and users that don’t use overlay scrollbars are suffering because of the poor choice of name, getting a forced scrollbar when one is almost never appropriate. (This includes almost all Windows for now, I believe; and some Linux, probably no longer most since GNOME is bent on ruining everyone’s life; and some macOS.)

—⁂—

When is `overflow: scroll` legitimate?

One obsolete case is preventing document scrolling when a modal is open, without triggering reflow due to the scrollbar disappearing, but I say the side-effects are still worse than the problem (the document scrollbar is nonsensical while the modal is open), so you should let it be (why was scrolling the document under the modal such a problem anyway?), or prevent scrolling by means other than scrollbar manipulation, by capturing it in the modal backdrop.

Another obsolete case is avoiding a bit of layout shift when switching between pages if some fit in the viewport an others don’t; but honestly it’s so long since I’ve seen a site where any pages fit in the viewport… and more to the point, this is better handled with `scrollbar-gutter` (not supported by Safari; you could use @supports to fall back to `overflow: scroll`, but the importance and number of affected users—since Safari is normally overlay scrollbars—are so tiny I don’t think it’s worth it).

The only arguably legitimate case I can think of is on spreadsheets/data grid components, where you can reasonably prefer to display a noop scrollbars rather than just reserving the space for them.

OK, and one other: code to find scrollbar dimensions for various layout purpose normally uses `overflow: scroll` on a temporary element and this is legit, even though you could do it other, mildly more complex ways; but it also makes assumptions about scrollbars always being the same size, and there’s honestly no reason why they should be, and `scrollbar-width` has shown a distinct appetite for using thinner scrollbars in some places and a browser could reasonably vary its default scrollbar width based on the dimensions. And scrollbar-dimension-finding isn’t particularly common, and the problems it’s used to solve are mostly better handled in other ways; now if only viewport units weren’t broken by design in the presence of document scrollbars…

I’ve contemplated campaigning for explicit deprecation of `overflow: scroll` and getting warnings shown in dev tools if you use them, because I’ve seen it misused so many times in the last decade, where people actually meant `overflow: auto`, and other than scrollbar-dimension-finding doubt I’ve seen even a single legitimate and reasonable use in that time.
Fun fact, while we learnt about the Bolivian Water War in India, we were never told that after the exit of the international consortium, about half the population of Cochabamba continue to lack access to water, while those who do have only intermittent supply. Meanwhile, SEMAPA, the government entity at the center of the protests, has a budget of only $5 million, which renders them unable to expand or revamp the current water supply network.
It’s to make you forget that your coworkers are people instead of “resources” and are being “terminated” instead of “quitting.”