skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not true. Vaccinations are not 100% effective. They're usually in the range of 90% to 99% effective. Protection also wanes over time. Because of this, herd immunity protects everyone, not just those who are unable to be vaccinated for health reasons.
Wireguard still has this warning on their site:

> WireGuard is currently working toward a stable 1.0 release. Current snapshots are generally versioned "0.0.YYYYMMDD" or "0.0.V", but these should not be considered real releases and they may contain security quirks (which would not be eligible for CVEs, since this is pre-release snapshot software). This text will be removed after a thorough audit.
> The desire to "correct" other people who are wrong is the fundamental impulse of authoritarianism.

Maybe, but it's also the impulse of people who rightly care about the future of our shared world.
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?? I've never met anyone that confused the conflict setting of MASH as Vietnam. Where do you base that on? Because of the time it was aired/produced?
George Soros: Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Be in Control of Facebook
Thanks. Clarified.

Awareness is gained by that action that differs between languages.
I don't think they work at that level of detail that high up, they just vote "make it universal" and then a bunch of other regulatory bodies need to setup the exact requirements and negotiate them.
In German it is gifted (as in giving a gift) - Aufmerksamkeit schenken.
Having used all three of Alexa, 'Ok Google', and Siri, I'd have to say Siri is the worst of the three. It's extremely far behind the the other two.

Try your voice searches with Google and it's very likely you'll get what you want.
No, I think "writers" just write because they are paid to, so they use 10000 words instead of being precise and getting to the point.

I wish people could just state their idea and be done, instead of padding it out to make it look more "official"
JavaScript Party 112: Do you want JavaScript again or more JavaScript?
I guess the solution to that would be something like a funny cat video on how to learn to focus for longer times.
You left out a major detail. Contrapoints is a far leftist who was let off the hook after making a groveling apology.

Good luck with any of that if you are even slightly to the right of center.

In general she tows the party line of what is acceptable to the Silicon Valley hall monitors and tattletales. She only ran afoul of a few even further to the left of her. Trying to use her as a counter-example is laughable.
For 99% of people, []{} are obscure mathematical symbols with little purpose in daily life.

Many English-keyboard-owners can't type "6°C" correctly, or "6000cm³", so I can't say Belgium's standard is worse.
There's a simpler explanation, and the post actually touches on the point when discussing Is It Keto:

> I abandoned the site in April but came back four months later after realizing that it had grown by itself without me.

As a salaried employee, you aren't actually building anything that accretes value to yourself in that way. You don't show up for work for 4 months and you'll likely be fired. Obviously it never works out forever, but the value you build when striking out on your own has a much longer potency than getting paid in cash and stock.
The author has specifically said it'll be considered released when it's in the kernel, which makes the parents point kinda mute.
A good way to think of it is that you aren't looking for problems. You're looking for smells.

Most business owners tend to be experts in their specific domain, where they have already used their knowledge and expertise to great advantage. But running a business entails more than just handling the problem domain itself. There's an entire category of tasks and responsibilities under the "business administration" umbrella that the business owner will not be an expert in, and will probably despise dealing with because it takes them away from the fun stuff that is their expertise. That's a good area to focus your gaze on.

For instance, the accounting clerk may be spending 4+ hours every day manually typing invoices into two different systems, but to the business owner this is probably perceived as a normal and expected course of business. The accounting clerk is unlikely to complain about it themselves either, since they are getting paid to do it (remember that Sinclair quote). But to you as a software engineer, double data entry is very obviously a red flag, and if you care enough about it you can do a deep dive and see if it can be eliminated using automation, and present it as a cost-saving solution.

Generally speaking, nobody is going to hand you a written list of their problems on a silver platter, and even if they do, the problems they have identified will be so general and vague (e.g. "we have a lot of inefficiencies in our accounting department") that you won't be able to simply go home and start hacking away at them. So you need to use a methodology to start peeling off the layers of the onion, so to speak. And that always entails follow-up meetings and learning other software systems and familiarizing yourself with various business practices.

At some point, you will come to the realization that you no longer view yourself as a "software engineer". Rather, you are a problem solver, and writing code is simply one of the many skills you possess. That's when you'll know you're on the right track.
In 2019, I tried to do this with stone quarries[1], sheet metal shops[2], and email copywriters[3], but the first two mostly wouldn't talk to me and the latter didn't seem to have enough opportunity for a niche business.

I don't think any of these businesses would pay for What Got Done, but I think there are a zillion businesses very geographically close to you that would.

I note in several of your posts that you live in Western MA. You're two hours by car (assuming you miss traffic!), or three hours by train, from Boston. I can think of ten companies off the top of my head that fit the mold Patrick mentions as potential customers for What Got Done, that would not bat an eye at paying the upper limit of prices mentioned. (My current employer being one of them!)

Happy to help you brainstorm potential customers via email - I'm at (my_hn_username)@gmail dot com.
I'm really tired of mainstream articles which are essentially a reporting finding 3 people on twitter who are for/against something and saying "internet is in uproar about whatever"
> Before, around 2010-2012, people who disagreed would usually leave it at that and walk away respectfully

That's never (even before the internet) been true in unmoderated open online fora, and it's still true in closed and heavily moderated fora that seek that outcome.

Unmoderated open fora have probably become more dominant because effective moderation doesn't scale.
It has always been like this as far as I can remember.

It's probably more annoying now since:

1) There is a lot more people online now than 10 years ago. We've gone from being in the far west to the industrial phase of the internet.

2) Since the web 2.0 thing there are now comments everywhere. It became even worse with social media.
How is this fixed, truthfully?
By censoring or oppressing one side of the argument, so that divergence from the status quo becomes invisible or perhaps illegal.

People disagree; people have always disagreed.
The fact that we are now repeatedly being told this is "toxic" is part of an ongoing campaign to suppress dissenting voices.

It seems often to be the case that speech which oppresses people is "free"; while speech which identifies that oppression is "toxic".
Is it basically a pastebin for long posts?
Because we are in the age of overstating and zero subtleness. So it is surprising for younger folks to see the opposite.
Watch any current show based on the past. In the first few minutes, you will have a scene showing over-the-top discrimination with the bad guys (white, male) saying out loud how the minority group will never amount to anything forever and ever.
> But why should in your examples "the authorities" care or not whether you are using a browser over HTTP(S) or any other kind of software/protocol?

You are going to be more suspicious if you are using $protocol-specific-for-encrypted-chat than if you are just browing the web.

> Bits are bits

I agree, but this does not stop my ISP from throttling my SSH speed.
I’m sorry. You’re correct. I got carried away by the Asimov connection.
It wasn't obsolete in the slightest when Jobs published that letter. It was a piece of software worth billions, powering games like Farmville worth billions, powering video like YouTube, advertising, and it had remained a popular creative platform for two decades.

There is more information about it here - in addition to Jobs going after Flash so publicly they added an app store rule specifying which languages developers could use to publish apps, and excluded Flash, after Adobe had made substantial progress publishing native iOS apps from Flash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_and_Adobe_Flash_controve...
Similar thing happened to me with my last job (software dev). I applied and didn't get a response.

5 months (yes, nearly half a year) later they send me an email asking if I'm still looking for work. I told them I am still looking but I have to decline since given it took 5 months to respond, I have very low confidence in the company to treat its employees with respect nor do I have any reason to take them seriously. They sent back a very detailed nicely written apology and explained how there was a recruiting "scandal" in the company and the steps they took to correct it.

I gave them another chance, ended up accepting the position and I was at the company for more than 3 years.
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"mutable unboxed vectors"? You mean like a C array? How primitive and horrifying!
Welcome to the Internet. :)
>Stalker is still the most beautiful film I've ever seen

It's my favorite movie of all time
> A botanical illustrator is able to create a compromise of accuracy, an idealized image from several specimens

This is a real advantage of illustration, assuming the illustrator has put in their research.

> and the inclusion of the face and reverse of the features such as leaves. Additionally, details of sections can be given at a magnified scale and included around the margins around the image.

This is spurious; photos of the face and reverse of a leaf are no different from illustrations of the face and reverse of a leaf in terms of what it's possible to include in an image, and obviously the same goes for marginalia. You can composite multiple photos on one page just as easily as you can draw multiple things on one page.
Heuristics and some hooked-up algorithms to a searchbox are not Artificial Intelligence. Nowhere in those software stacks is anything remotely intelligent happening. The tool is doing exactly what it was programmed to do: receive input, apply algorithm, wait for input. It's still completely dumb. Something like "artificially assisted" would make more sense.
>Do you think anyone would pick "soul-crushing maybe-kill-yourself poverty" over working at Google?

I've done this before and I would do it again. I wish I had something profound to add but I don't. Working in a corporate environment is just incredibly grating.
> The problem is that it has gotten worse in the real world too. Ive had friends family and strangers yell at me over minor political disagreements, and its not primarily coming from any particular side or group.

I've heard this said quite a bit, but I have yet to experience it, and I live in a major metropolitan area. I hope I'm not just one of the lucky ones, and this stuff is more limited IRL than most people think.
Plants that are alive are generally hydrated...
You can't get the associative property in higher dimensions. There is something called octonions (which is not associative but has some similar tho weaker properties)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octonion
There is a sequence of such structures, but after the Octonions you get non-zero numbers that multiply to zero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cayley%E2%80%93Dickson_constru...
Adding to your point, I'm wondering if OP has ever had a religious group show up at their doorstep. It's the same idea; "Our ideas are right, yours are wrong."
There are no laws stopping them from doing this, (short of solicitation statutes) and there's certainly no convincing them they are wrong. Just smile politely and ignore them.

Really, it's the same problem just dressed up differently. Now the issue just has these new buzzwords attached to it like "algorithm" and "data privacy" and whatnot. Nothing will change until people learn to leave their pride on their desktop, but that's not the way of some cultures.
What's the history of using ^ to indicate a control character? Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_notation) didn't provide any history.
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Are health insurance costs included in your current $2k monthly expenses? Did you buy the house outright?
> So how do we fix this?

Do not participate in forums where this type of behavior happens. And participate actively in moderation (flag/upvote/downvote) to keep forums civil and interesting.

I'd say forums aren't well-suited to discuss political issues. But I agree that tech could help. For instance, Stack Exchange Politics is readable but last time I checked, it didn't really provide much value. Mostly, arguing about politics is a waste of time, on a forum or anywhere else.
Yes, I understand this point but the ratio between rents and property values varies wildly. So yes you can compute an average ratio and say it is "equivalent" to a tax on imputed rent if you adjust by that ratio, just as you could average out the number of bathrooms in each house and say it is "equivalent" to a bathroom tax. But it's not a very compelling argument!
What was the process like to become Zapier certified?
I like Matrix+Riot.im, especially as a Slack killer and as a self-hosted option.

But in terms of getting less technical people on board (frankly, often the sort to go to WA anyhow), I deeply suggest Signal.
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> I think most people would be less toxic if their posts and comments were both (1) public and (2) linked to their real name.

Counterargument:

https://www.facebook.com

Q.E.D.
https://grammarist.com/usage/moot-mute/
Regardless of the brand, it's still not intelligent in any meaningful way. The capability of alexa/siri/whatever directly corresponds to whether or not some programmer implemented a match statement on that particular kind of question. Alex/siri are still just dumb tools, with voice recognition as a facade. That's not AI.
It's coming from inside the house!

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1067175527180513280

"No one ever changed the world at 40 hours a week"

"80 hours minimum, with peaks at 100 hours"

A 100 hour week would be 16.6 hours for 6 days and 1 day off, or 14.25 hour days with no days off

The idea that entrepreneurs need to work more than 40 hours a week to be successful is as old as our industry, and I'd go so far as to say that those casually working a schedule that looks more like a salaried position are probably "consultants" and aren't really entrepreneurs trying to build something or change something
SpinLaunch, which launches rockets with a centrifuge at 10,000g
In general internet communities face a trade off between monetization and quality. The more you monetize a community the crappier it becomes. In the long term, the key to running a healthy online community is to find a good balance, which essentially means figuring out how to not make too much money.
Mostly what I hear is the internalized "No! Don't eat it! Too many calories!". If I don't hear that (or conjure up that voice) then I end up eating the bagel. It's like that for any bit of food I see laying around.
I think there is something important that we lose when we increase the accuracy of a representation at the expense of the elegance of the representation. Illustrations to photographs is a great example here, but another one is in maps.

I don't know if anyone here ever used this, but there used to be a system called LineDrive [1] that would give you "napkin" directions instead of overlaying the directions on a map. It used to be on Microsoft's MapPoint but apparently decomissioned [2].

This was most useful in the time when you would print out directions instead of getting them dynamically, but I feel like there's still a place for it -- I don't need to necessarily know the details of every twist and turn in the road so much as a schematic overview, even when getting turn-by-turn directions. It would be great to see this revived in some way, because I think the representative maps are much more clear for most use cases.

[1] http://vis.berkeley.edu/papers/rtmaps/

[2] https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/remember...
> I would suggest devoting approximately zero cycles to cost control. You don't have a cost problem and no amount of cost control will bend the curve of your current businesses to sustainability.

I strongly disagree with the perspective here. Cost control isn't the core problem for the author, but every dollar matters at this stage. The difference between "we're losing money every month" and "we're break even" and "we're slightly profitable" is huge when talking to parents and other people in the social circle.
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I've wondered if there is a civilization somewhere that runs on energy from the jet that comes out of a quasar.

The main trouble I see with it is that the output varies a lot depending on the rate at which stuff is falling into the black hole.

Maybe you could modulate that with large dust clouds and create vast amounts of living space with small (1000 km radius) ringworlds.
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Bit like arguing that another keyboard layout would be better and it would if your starting from scratch, but people tend to go with what they know and that propergates as accepted and good enough, a standard. Hence, whilst there are better layouts for keyboard, we still have QWERTY.

Much the same with argument here, sure GA would be better, and maybe that may well come about, but alas quaternions are somewhat known by the many over the few and a bit of a QWERTY situation plays out.
It’s already happening, there’s a ton of games that aren’t on the App Store any more because their creators stopped paying a hundred bucks a year. A lot of them won’t work on newer versions of iOS even if you still have a copy.
> not counting 'undefined', Haskell's dirty little not-secret

There is no "undefined" value in pure Haskell. There are expressions that have no value, due to a runtime exception (error, undefined, division by zero, memory allocation failure) or non-termination (unbounded recursion). Either way, evaluating the expression does not produce a value for the remainder of the program to operate on—you can't write a (pure) program like `if isUndefined expr then x else y` since—assuming isUndefined is a pure function and doesn't ignore its argument—the whole program is undefined if expr is undefined.
Oh, I didn't know that. Still, since everyone seems to add everyone to all of the things in our workplace then, the effect is the same – just a bunch of noise and an endless turning off of notifications. I just logged in and again had 100+ notifications from groups I've never heard of before, nor subscribed to. My feed is full of stuff that's of no meaning to me, and so the whole thing becomes useless. Maybe it's useful elsewhere in other organizations, but I wouldn't know.
Why 0! = 1
Reminder that a large, large percentage of the population does not have the mental capacity for an internal monologue.
The atrocities are ongoing and the Syrian regime has slaughtered hundreds of thousands and displaced millions with the help of Russia and the support of Iran. The insanity needs to be stopped, then you can talk about recovery.

Idlib, which is basically a huge refugee camp for millions that were forced out our fled the rest of the country, was bombed to hell over the last three days; there are at least 700,000 refugees that are now yet again displaced. In just three days.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51317720
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"Telegram developer says competitor is wrong and dangerous"

I am not a whatsapp fanboy, but I strongly doubt that these flaws were designed, and to call them "backdoors" is hyperbole.

I also am sure that the only reason we know about this backdoor is because Bezos was blackmailed.

I am in no doubt that nation states have a cache of exploits for signal, telgram, facebook messenger and whatsapp.
Yeah, I don't work on codebases of that scale so I can't really comment knowingly of what cost it would take to move the whole parcel over the GA. Probably highly dependant on code / social org.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taraxacum_officinale...

You would be hard pressed to find a single photograph that captures this much individual information about what the various parts and stages of a dandelion look like. Even to find the leaf shape captured correctly is hard for a photograph. I think in this case there's a difference between what is photorealistic and what is useful information for identification.
Eye witness testimony is the lowest form of evidence.
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self employed != SV-style entrepreneur
The title should be "Why 0! = 1!".
An interrupt controller has no knowledge of device semantics; it can just prioritize them based on a simple priority value. The scheduler could do the same thing. It could even be configuration-free by using some convention, like lower instrument numbers have higher priority.

Also, the physical layer of MIDI could simply be extended into higher baud rates while all else stays the same.

I can't remember the last time I used a serial line to an embedded system in the last 15 years that wasn't pegged to 115 kbps. Bit rate is a relatively trivial parameter in serial communication; it doesn't give rise to a full blown different protocol.

115 kbps is almost four times faster than MIDI's 31250. Plain serial communication can go even faster. The current-loop style signaling in MIDI is robust against noise and good for distance. 400 kbps MIDI seems quite realistic.

This would just be used for multiplexed traffic, like sequencer to synth; no need for it from an individual instrument or controller.
> stop centralising everything

Even federated approaches like mastodon also have big issues with toxicity.