jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Also, wouldn’t it be “defense-blog”?
N95 Respirators vs Medical Masks for Preventing Influenza Among Health Care Personnel: A Randomized Clinical Trial

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214

“As worn by health care personnel in this trial, use of N95 respirators, compared with medical masks, in the outpatient setting resulted in no significant difference in the rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”

To be clear, this trail was for outpatient care — not necessarily applicable to shoving tubes down throats, but probably applicable to people walking down the street.
mac users must be chronic daters....they are always going for the shiny new thing on the market.
I'm a huge fan of OpenBSD, having tried freebsd and most of the major Linux distress before settling on it. If I had to identify the why, i'd have to agree with the jazz reference. I seriously started comparing the various distros around 2003, and OpenBSD just gave a more consistent, well documented and clean experience. It is a very conservative distro, and has a pristine configuration and network stack. It's reliable, and trustworthy. On the downside, it's not particularly performant, nor is it well supported by enterprise Applications - you won't be running oracle 10g on OpenBSD.

Its upgrades are rolled out like clockwork, and are always evolutionary improvements on the previous version.
I haven't seen the whole of it, but it's not ugly and doesn't break all the rules of good design.
Microsoft is no more the destination for any of the skills claimed in the title tag

so they are using SEO for getting on first page on search engines :)
meh, read the comments on my blog and think for yourself instead taking some collectively-generated number as an indicator of whether you should scowl at me or not.
What does legitimately offended mean?

Take a look at my hypothetical scenario.

If I'm a Foo and Foo's have always owned, sold and even killed Baz's on a whim. And their whole history, culture and law reinforces and even encourages them to do so.

And now someone tells me that my progenitors were assholes to do so. Do I have right to be legitimately offended? And if so - does this make racism ok?
Yes. Additionally: lots of people aspire to be well-read, but disagree with her choices. As far as I can tell, they're all fiction.

She doesn't list Michel de Montaigne, Thoreau, Emerson, William James, or other authors of "classics" that I would consider to be required to be considered "well-read."
In "Genius" Harold Bloom lists 100 authors. I trust his judgement more than mine so I'm slowly working my way through his choices.
Enable Dev mode (by plugging into Xcode) then you can swipe left and right between apps, or push up to see the MRU app list. The swipe left and right makes it feel the apps are running, you're just switching screens. Convenient and fast.
If I was wealthy I wouldn't want more money. I would want my existing money to go further. If you can make sure everyone relatively is poorer than you it's much easier for you to gain status.

I think it's weird how the video suggests that we should channel greed to good causes instead of money because you can just set up an economy that rewards good causes and achieve the same result.

There is also the suggestion of using taxation to "take away their wealth" yes you can do that or you can do something far worse. Lower unemployment(and underemployment) and cause income inflation. It will eat away at the wealth of the rich far faster than taxation would and they can't run away because they would not only have to move themselves but also their companies.
If the clipart was to be usable by the Windows 3.x versions, or Windows 95 running on FAT, if I remember correctly.
> "Don't let the door hit you on your way out"

I never bother to enter apple's tyrannical ecosystem . So there is no door to hit me on the way out.

> Well, they repair all kinds of parts, and have guarantees and guarantee extension programs.

You can not get a lot surface mount chips to repair a mac book or iPhone without having to look on the gray-market. This is even before possible firmware issue if you manage to find parts. Heck even getting full replacement boards is basically impossible, unless they are from donor machines that have other problems.

> "Well, it does in a few ways. Mandating how the software is made, and what software is sold, when it should adapt new libs to continue being sold, etc, means that they can move the platform in different ways faster."

I disagree, allowing people to side-load does not stop apple from having policies in place for it's app stores. That's honestly the only problem. It's the owners hardware, they should not need apples permission to run code on it. Unless the owner can sign software themselves and/or run it without apple's consent this will always be a problem. You can't even install gcc without jailbreaking an iPhone.

At the very least I should be able to install an other OS on the device like GNU/Linux. If apple does not want to open iOS the user should at least have that option for the hardware.

This is even before you get into how apple treats developers. Have you read the entire App store guidelines. Some of it is ridiculous. Some of the insanity prevents Firefox from even porting their own browser engine.
Thanks for sharing this, good to know. But in the context of this discussion, it is kind of bad news. Those who avoid WhatsApp (and other messengers) do so because they don't want to trapped within it - SMS and RCS promises us more mobility and privacy because it is a standardised technology that works with all cellular service providers. Using a Google app for RCS, instead of WhatsApp, will just trap you within Google ecosystem, instead of Facebook.
I would "object" to Trump doing so in the sense that I would judge it to be the rationalizing behaviour of an egomaniac. Which is exactly my reaction to the linked statements by Hillary Clinton.

It is still absurd to act like there is an equivalence between her claiming that Russian interference misled voters into choosing the "wrong" candidate, vs. Trump (a) claiming that ballots were manufactured, altered or tampered with and that actual voting infrastructure and processes are corrupt, (b) having his legal team launch a bunch of frivolous lawsuits in various states, and (c) pressuring the secretary of state of an electorally-close state to overturn election results.

Clinton's statements, as overblown as they may have been, were just an accusation of unfairness, not calling for the results to be overturned and the loser installed in office. All of the #resistance rhetoric was about the need to defeat Trump through the electoral process, or through parliamentary procedures (based on his actions after taking office). Again, there is a fundamental difference between claiming that voters were lied to, and claiming that the government itself directly interfered in the voting process without ANY remotely credible evidence to back that claim.

Trying to equate the two situations because they both involved the use of the word "illegitimate" is beyond laughable.
source? I assume you are refer to the thing that went around yesterday? Then no, there is a big difference between the option to share data to get a feature (even though I'd agree the feature isn't well-designed) and what WhatsApp is doing here.
Exactly, Trump and his sycophants invited this mob to the Capitol, riled them up, filled them venomous lies about the election and their institutions, and deprived Congress of an appropriate level of protection.

Yet, people are trying to cast aspersions of the poor Capitol Police?
Maybe it's just me but I tend not to worry much about these scans.
So I'm curious. I live in Japan and have a Japanese number. I have a USA number via Google Fi. I get several spam calls on the USA number but zero on the Japan number.

Any idea why? It it just luck? It is scammers don't target Japan? Is it some technical difference that makes it harder/impossible/costly in Japan? Is it an enforcement issue?

Also what happened / is happening with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN ? Will it solve the issue?
I built a 40% keyboard a while back somewhat for the fun of it. I can type on it, but honestly it's difficult. Hunt and peck style, sure - speed typing, not yet.
Then you have a machine that's unusable until you find one, but it's not bricked (which means that the hardware is irreversibly unusable).
I used to work in the Caribbean when internet there was ridiculously expensive.

Local social life was fantastic - I missed nothing about the internet. Also - I missed nothing about not keeping up to date on latest news - locals just didn't care what was going on for the most part - the latest "outrages" were 100% irrelevant. If you went to bar at night, and IF they had a TV on, it was sports.

So you'd come back to the states - and you'd have to catchup on everyone who had said terrible things.
Being poor has the highest chance of you not using the internet, compared to the other factors.
I hope and expect that you're right: a) no-one needs any more Facebook in their lives, and b) Apple will probably start off decently and then can iterate.
What is PCI lane efficiency? I thought they were fixed speed and bandwidth.
You can absolutely do that with macOS, you just have to download the OS and create the macOS-installer USB stick on a Mac.

The firmware thing is a separate, unfortunate, issue.
If you are not a developer already, I highly recommend learning how to code in a mature scripting language like Ruby or Python. Most sysadmins who have Linux heritage can code mean awk/bash/shell scripts but are scared of objects and stuff like hashes.

Start learning about real-time data and stream-based logging. LinkedIn and Netflix are pushing the bar higher with their Apache incubated to independent project open source contributions. As businesses try to gain more competitive/operational advantages/efficiencies, real-time data is becoming more important. Why ask what the customer did last week if they can see what the customers are doing right now.

The "grand-daddy" article: "The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction"

https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha... (discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916557)

http://techblog.netflix.com/2014/01/improving-netflixs-opera...

https://engineering.linkedin.com/stream-processing/moving-fa...

https://engineering.linkedin.com/data-streams/apache-samza-l...
Just say you reject, no need to explain - I believe this is the way of the least drama.
Hanging out at Hacker News.
Generally it may fall under the Computer Misuse Act and 'unauthorised access to computer material'. Presumably from Moonpig's perspective inputting alternative customer IDs would be considered to be unauthorised access...
Clojure code is surprisingly hard to edit for a Lisp-like language. The gratuitous use of square brackets where a Lisp would just use parentheses is part of that.

Omitting the parentheses inside those square brackets, however, was an even worse decision wrt editability. When you can't edit a sequence of syntactically homogenous items by simple s-expression manipulations, your Lisp's design is defective.
Yep, plus that. Although I had to buy the Dutch (My native language) version too (first bought the English version). The subjects are pretty difficult so reading about them in my native language worked better for me.
> They are funding proxy wars throught the Middle East.

America is funding proxy wars throughout the midde east too.

> What i am asking you is to recognize that Iran is a global threat to peace and that Israel can offer the best answer. I think that's true.

We are at war with eastasia. We have always been at war with eastasia.

Sorry bro, I don’t subscribe to trumpism, zionism or americanism. No nation is more of a global threat to peace than the usa.
> I think empathy and caring are natural consequences of that type of displacement from individual satisfaction or understanding and a desire to better understand the world naturally leads to more empathy.

Makes sense, it's impossible to feel empathy for someone who you're not aware of. To use one of Wallace's examples if you don't consider the circumstances of the "fat, dead-eyed screaming lady" (or don't even notice she's there) you won't have any empathy for her. So in effect mindfulness increases your net empathy (which starts at more or less zero in infancy, I think in developmental psychology they say babies start developing self awareness at around 2, and awareness of others at around 3).
This is a different API than for App Store billing afaik
https://mxroute.com/

100$ lifetime, 360 outbound/hour. Or you could go with a yearly rate.

Might want to read the terms of service for your usecase, but it works for me with low traffic and multiple boxes/accounts.
In some ways I don't mind that. If all the normal people are off using their terminals then perhaps workstations will shift back towards supporting advanced users.
This is a great discussion and not at all my point. I don't care who tried to compromise what, the consumer and along with their data is beholden to multiple masters.
There's a difference between dismissing someone's objection solely for lack of credentials (an appeal to authority) and valuing the opinion of an expert.

The former is absolute, the latter allows for other factors of consideration.
Could you give some more search terms? Google isn’t returning anything.
Unfortunately this is not common on ARM SBCs, at least not yet, they usually come with a SoC vendor supplied old kernel, and that's about it. And we forgive them, for the sake of low price.

Like Odroid Go Advance, a Rockchip 3326 based "retro handheld", and it's clones, was a tremendous hit of last year, still stuck with a 4.4 kernel.
I don't understand where you're going with this in relation to saalweachter's imaginary groups A and B. Neanderthal genes have nothing to do with population bottlenecks.
No, it sucks. Having Client side relational storage in a client side web app is a very powerful thing.

Having this on disconnected devices is a very common use case. These types of applications has been written in crummy VB6 or .NET code for a long time on handheld devices, etc. I guess they will continue to be written in it then.

Key/value stores and key/value stores with ponies and rainbows (NoSQL) is not a sufficently general solution to replace the relational model.
It's my personal site, experiments like this are why it exists :)

As far as costs go, my Rackspace VPS was $11/mo. Given that I get close to zero traffic and CF is $0.15/GB, this will cost less than $1/mo. I'd say that's a pretty good price for having my site hosted on a high performance CDN with points of presence worldwide.
Yes, planning to.
Here's another data point: Googlers hate doing partner stuff. Google has lots of APIs they have to maintain -- everything from Android to GData and that puts a burden on SWEs who spend half the time writing new code, and the other half supporting partner companies who rely on google engineers to help fix their shitty code.
I really see no benefit to doing this as opposed to using shared hosting or a cheap vps (prgrm's smallest is like 8 bucks right?) ... nevermind that, doesn't amazon have a free tier right now for aws?
I started out as a tester/functional designer at a job ( did some network / helpdesk stuff before that) since they didn't have a lot of developers and none that could program in a modern languages (MUMPS programers) I took 2 weeks off and learned Python after that c#. I went back to school in the evenings where I learn't some Java/SQL etc. and when't to a Cache course

now I work at a different company programming Flex RIA's and learning Clojure.

So when I started I didn't have experience or formal training but I was some kind of a computer geek BBS/FidoNet FTW! ;)
I was a bit surprised by the fact that he didn't want his name revealed in the article. It's not like some people don't know who he is.
[edit] decided to respect Moxie's request in the article and remove a small bit of identifiable info
As an employee, your role is essentially a permanent state of brown nosing. First of all you must convince a rich person/company that you are worthy. Then you must convince them that you want to work for them, that they're special, and so on. And then later, you must defer, every single day. Ill? According to policy document AED, page 5, section b, one of your eight sick days will be deducted, worker drone!
It's not enough to simply perform a valuable function for society. You need to be subservient and defer to authority - you are worth less than your betters (those with wealth) and must please them in order to eat, in order to shelter.

And?

Why is that bad?
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/research/hartmann.popcorn.h...

For the past 80 years concession prices have been used to keep ticket prices artificially low, to increase the number of film goers, which helps the theaters stay busy, creates the "experience" (I've yet to be in a crowded theater and someone actually hold up a conversation, or answer a cell phone), and most of all allows greater profits to go to the film companies and allows bigger better quality films to be produced.

It's not a joke, it's a sound business strategy. Just like how Coca-Cola and Pepsi have two-dozen drink products each even though 78% of Coca-Cola's gallon sales come from actual "Coca-Cola".

This is similar to how I walk into the grocery store and see beef packaged at $1/lb even though I have a relative in the meat packing industry, that actually packages the meat for my local store and he says they (the meat packers) can't sell it for less than $1.50/lb without making a loss.
As hackermom said above, "exercise" doesn't have to be some boring gym workout; cycling or running to work is exercise too, and makes for a far more awesome commute (if you live within 10 miles of work).
Great story, and a very logical one, immigrants depend on other people (especially illegal immigrants) to get their troubles resolved so they know the value of helping others.

We habitually rely on institutions or the government to save our bacon, something an immigrant likely has no desire for interacting with.

About 5 years ago I planned to visit friends in Texas by car from a little place called Richards Landing in Ontario. That's a pretty long trip and even though we had two stops planned it still was going to take a lot of time on unfamiliar roads, plenty of the driving at night.

Somewhere in Iowa, about 45 minutes past Decorah a deer teleported out of nowhere in front of the car and we hit it hard enough that the deer was probably mortally wounded (it still managed to run off!) and the bonnet lock had crushed all the way in to the valve cover.

The car looked an absolute mess and it didn't look like we were going to reach our destination.

We limped in to some sleepy town (2:30 am), some gas station right off the highway wondering what to do next.

Before we could even ask the guy that ran the garage came out and said he's already called his brother in law and he was underway. We didn't really get what was going on but since we couldn't really go anywhere we just hung out, 5 minutes later a pick-up rolled in to the gas station with a sleepy looking guy in it. He jumped out, walked around our minivan, asked if it still moved or of we needed a tow. The car still ran (but made some pretty scary sounds) so he told us to follow him.

After a few minutes we got to an industrial area of the small town, he rolled up a huge garage door and we were welcomed to his car repair service.

In the space of 4 hours he took the front of the car apart, straightened out the pieces that had taken the brunt of the impact, fixed the valve cover with some of the most impressive epoxy that I've ever seen, found ways to get each and every one of the problems the car had to be fixed in a temporary but very serviceable way.

Little by little the car looked like it was going to be a reliable vehicle again and at the end the only tell-tales were the dent in the hood and two tie down straps running across it to hold it down (the lock had gone beyond repair).

So, when all was done we aked how much we owed him, the answer was simple: "Nothing. Could have happened to me just the same, and I'm sure you folks would have helped me out as much as you could too."

Whatever we did he refused payment, so in the end we bade our goodbyes and continued to Texas, from there to Fort Collins, Colorado and from there back to Canada, the 'temporary' fixes held as good as could be expected and when we turned the car in for a proper repair it was in a way a weird feeling because we'd gotten used to seeing the orange stripes across the hood :)

There are lots of nice people in this world.
I think it's a way to schedule a visit from a dominatrix?
"This cloak is able to conceal a macroscopic object with a maximum height of 2 mm, larger than 3500 free-space-wavelength, inside a transparent liquid environment"
The PDF is downloadable from here:
http://arxiv4.library.cornell.edu/abs/1012.2783v1
The setup is only proven with a laser from one direction with a specific green pattern.
From page 8: "The observer in all cases is assumed to have a fixed height of h"
Is the cost of housing just much cheaper than people expect it to be or what? I'm surprised to hear it's lower than Atlanta which is where I currently live.
I fail to understand what kind of advantage this language brings to the table compared to the existing solutions.

You touched the subject of the awkward syntax of VHDL. But what about the syntax of Verilog? The syntax seems to be very similar to Verilog.

And besides of the syntax, what are the other features that this language brings that we can't find anywhere else?

And why do you claim that this is oriented "for developers"? Who are these "developers"? Software guys?
Agreed on the Engineering Statistics Handbook, especially Section 5 on Process Improvement, which contains a decent (and free) treatment of Design of Experiments. A lot of the earlier sections are ok but not as sharply interesting, but their DoE stuff is quite good.
>>> What it feels like is that you are tapping into something truer and deeper

It might feel like you are tapping into something truer and deeper, but that doesn't mean that you are.
Ahh, haha. I see. I've watched certain movies and shows that I found profound without tripping (surprisingly the most profound thing I've watched is the Futurama episode, Godfellas). I've done many many artistic things, drawing, painting, etc. We built things with legos before. Listened to different kinds of music. Played with animals (I swear my dog could sense something was up... never seen him in such a lovey mode). Once I mixed highlighter fluid with bubbles and created a "universe" on the wall in our basement (no windows, and all black lights at the time). I've done the mundane like play video games (went for an hour in GTA-IV sailing out to sea.. it never ends). Played music alone and with friends (recorded some). I've tried reading books. One time I took a programming quiz because I'd forgotten to and it was due within the hour (extremely hard). One of the most profound things I did was go on a several hour walk through only back alleys with friends and reflected on urban decay. There's more, but thats the best I can think of off the top of my head.
In a digital download world, what is it that a record company brings to the party? I have always thought that record companies, like book publishers and newspapers, were likely to become extinct because direct delivery is a better way of distribution. To what extent is all the posturing really about trying to extend the lifetime of a cash cow?
Actually, my dream has always been the aurora borealis.