skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Serious question. Do you think they care about the hundreds of businesses, many LGBT owned, that were closed, destroyed, or extorted by the peaceful protestors of CHAZ/CHOP? About citizens who slog through miles of filth, shit on the sidewalks, and needles on the ground?
Because the vast majority of these patients were old, and the elderly often have lasting symptoms from any serious infection. Any viral infection can cause long term issues if you have a compromised immune system or are elderly.

I've read the UK case study which had 60+ subjects and many of those under 60 were listed as "high risk" professions (they didn't list the professions due to privacy, but I'm guessing it's likely front like health care with high exposure amounts).

The biggest source of transmission is still the home. You're around someone who is breathing out large viral load. This might be why we're seeing the huge uptakes in Texas, Florida and Southern California: people indoors all the time because air conditioning.

There are other diseases with long term effects in only some people: Ticks and Limes disease is a good example.

I think we might be seeing something similar to Limes here.
Since Iowa is pretty high up on that list of "states that are run by mini-Trumps", I'll just throw in my two cents that for a state that is supposedly doing "everything wrong", life is basically normal here. We wear masks when going into stores now. That's literally the only major change to an otherwise normal life.
Truth. I don't believe there is any way my home appreciation will outpace my property taxes.

It of course depends on where you live, but if you want to live anywhere that's desirable near city centers..
Talking about should is well and good so long as we remember that many things which have been implemented with the intent of helping ended up being very bad
i'm glad to hear you've found something that helps you. I was joking about the messiah complex, though it is something my therapist has made the occasional joke about too when i get over-ambitious about things i wanna do (he did specify i don't seem to actually have it, though - just good old-fashioned depression).
That is a far right viewpoint. Modern economics requires a government to actively maintain a steady value in its currency. Removing this control is, by definition, far right.
The Esp32 is such an amazing device. If I had more time I would love to learn more about it. I've just ordered a few more sensors for it.

I'm pretty excited about it.
Just a cautionary note - category theory has seemingly been at "There's tremendous potential here! We just need to find a big win to make that clear to everyone else..." for quite a few years now.
I looked up my neighborhood and it’s literally the same. In fact, the place where a supermarket used to be is exactly where the supermarket is now.

I guess from a community perspective, the defaults for where to place the town church, market, park are pretty easy to figure out and needs little changing.

Side note:

If someone’s bored, would love to just hold up my phone and see the historical pictures of a building, seems like this api could allow for it.

AR can’t come soon enough.
IMO in the age of insanely high tech salaries, early stage funding is very overrated. I saved $2.2M in my 8 year Bay Area career as a regular engineer with no exits, and I didn't even work at FANG. I have friends who saved more than twice as much as me. And then YC gives out 150k? 150k is a joke to anyone with a decent job. Why not save 2 million and then start your company at age 29 instead of 21 begging people for tiny money for huge share of your company? The YC model made sense back when it was founded and engineers made 60-80k. Now after the second tech boom, you are much better off working for FANG for 5-10 years and then starting your own company owning 100% of the equity until a real money $10M+ series A
The suit wasn't about their dominance in the PC operating systems market, it was about anticompetitive behavior to maintain that advantage against competitors, and anticompetitive behavior to gain advantages against competitors in other markets.

Had the suit came earlier, we would not have been blessed with the decade of security vulnerabilities that plagued the desktop because Internet Explorer was tightly integrated with Windows, and perhaps Netscape would still be around, along with Be Inc.
It was tied to Bazaar until 2015 too.
This Youtube channel has lots of other great examples of whats possible with voice synthesis today: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRt-fquxnij9wDnFJnpPS2Q

Some of my favorites include Sinatra singing ABBA's Dancing Queen [1], six presidents rapping the NWA classic [2], and Milton Friedman rapping 50's P.I.M.P. [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo_w4KGifug

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAZVp-n-5TM

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUYMvuNIas
I read a study from awhile back that said that for whites, wealth correlated with intelligence but that it didn’t with blacks when there was discrimination.
Snaps being able to install kernel modules still disturbs me even today...

Seems like Canonical is crammjng everything they can into Snap - free software, privacy & security be damned!
PHP 8 adds support for quantum superpositions. (Well, it does and it doesn't.)
I know it's hyperbolic, I just consider it on the same tier as "x person DESTROYS y person".
This app can still be installed manually on Android if you download it directly from Epic's website.
Automatic type conversion is prone to errors. Either they acknowledge that and force strict comparison (or add a way to do that), or they ignore and thus their change has no real effect, since mistakes will still happen with the new scheme.

>As if this would cause less issues?

Causing issues isn't the problem. Transparently breaking code is. Deprecating would give time for people to adapt their code and would warn them about the downsides or loose type conversion. Changing the semantics of loose comparison will make static analysis and finding potential issues way harder (and may post-pone finding the problems it introduces to years down the line). Adding a mode that warns/throws when encountering loose comparison would both make current code still work, and warn users of potential issues.
I was sick in March for two weeks with some kind of Bronchitis. I don't think it was Covid based on the description of the symptoms.

But since working form home, neither me, my wife, or any of my kids have gotten a cold which is kind of amazing.
But is that how the universities behave?
Saugerties, NY (already moved). Close enough to Boston, NYC, Philly to make day trips if necessary. Cut cost of living by 50% over where I was. Employer has cut 75% of office space in NYC already, holding onto remainder as hot desk space.
Isn’t Florida, in most places, worse than SoCal in terms of response to BLM and Covid?
I do think it has had a large negative impact on my life, but I've lacked insurance for the past couple of years and have been unable to see a psych. Things kind of spiraled away a couple of years ago. At the time I did see it coming and went to see a psych, but I had no idea what ADHD was. Was treated for depression, but obviously it made little difference. I did find out about ADHD at one point and realized it described me to a T, but I had an old psychiatrist at the time who essentially said that only kids have ADHD (I'm from a former Soviet state so that might've been the prevailing knowledge at the time). Eventually when I get insurance again I'll try to see one. But thank you for the thought.

The main thing is that I'm just not sure how much of it is ADHD and how much laziness or something else. It just seems like all of the things ascribed to ADHD could come from other things.
Huh? If you can't engage the discussion don't engage. "Your spidy sense is screaming"... ? "Kudos for encapsulating all the arguments that don't need to take place...".

I feel like folks don't have a feel for that the history of anti-trust action has been used for.

In many cases you have clear to very clear anti-competitive behavior. Move in next door, sell at a big loss, drive out competition, then restore pricing. So you take and establish market power through predetory behavior.

What's challenging about the case with apple is that they have always run their own app store, and the success of that store has attracted both users and developers. They have had the same terms for a very long time.

The normal anti-competitive type behavior would be to do no fee for developers if they signed exclusive agreements, then after you had 80% of market you'd switch terms and no one could fight it.

Google did this with things like maps, super cheap for developers, no one else could compete, then it was 4x the price (I forget now) and we had to wait a bit for others to catchup so we had alternatives. My cable company did this (we had a wireless provider show up, prices dropped overnight to keep them out, then when they left some areas that were harder to serve cable co raised right back up.)

There is an alternative in the market here too, a well funded one. Google has an app store. Samsung has an app store. Carriers preload apps that cannot be removed to "help" their customers. Some companies build in basically backdoors to android so they can load all sorts of apps after the fact (mostly advertising).

Apple does not allow any of that - they are FAMOUS for wanting control. They don't allow the carriers to preload bloatware and never have allowed it. They don't allow them to do their own auto-updating apps or app stores. They support their phones for incredibly long periods compared to much of their competition (some android phones SHIP with software 2 years old and literally never get an update).

When you buy and apple you are guaranteed not to get this stuff - and some people like that. Does this make it illegal? It a long way from a standard anti-trust case. They've never had anyone else competing with them to take share. They were also the first with the glass face smartphone so this was their market, their actual market share in segment has been going DOWN not up a long time despite the laughter of their competitors when they introduced the iphone.

So, is there a commercial reason for them to behave this way - sure.

I'm curious - why post slams on HN rather than discussing the topic? Just don't reply.
So exactly what did a the government action have to do with

A) Facebook becoming a dominant social network? 10 years later?

B) Apple’s resurgence with first the iPod - it’s not like MS didn’t try repeatedly to compete (Plays4Sure, Zune) and then the iPhone? Again nothing that the government did stopped MS from losing its early lead in smart phones.

3. Google from becoming the most popular search engine.

4. Amazon from becoming dominant?

As far as the landscape being more diverse, Microsoft and Apple still have about the same split in PC operating systems, Google and Apple have about the same split in mobile operating systems as MS/Apple. And now instead of IE being dominant and Netscape being an also ran, now Chrome is just as dominant and Firefox is an also ran - funded mostly by Google.

Meet the new boss...
This was probably _the_ QA site for development/IT questions prior to SO. It used to be completely open and I really enjoyed helping out answering questions on the site. It felt like a focussed newsgroup that was super accessible.

But then they got scammy with hiding answers to users (but allowing googlebot to index) and paywalling... and that's why when Joel announced he was working on SO, I was super keen. Was one of the first few hundred users and it was exactly the anti-EE stance that appealed.

Fuck ExpertSexChange and the horse they rode in on.

EDIT: Jeff, rather... I followed both Joel and Jeff at the time, but think it was Jeff's posts that hooked me. https://blog.codinghorror.com/introducing-stackoverflow-com/
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Near as I can tell, it actually depends on what you're buying. If it's for the app itself, like an upgrade to "premium" or stuff for the game you're playing, it has to go through Google Pay and they take their cut. If it's something unrelated to the app, like a physical product or digital content for use outside the app, you're not beholden to Google Pay. But it seems like there are some grey areas.

I didn't get this from any single source, just bits and pieces put together from random forum posts and a few quora threads. And of course policies can change, so anything I found might be different right now. But I know you can buy digital books through Amazon's Kindle app on Android and it doesn't look like Google gets any of that cut: it's the normal "one click" purchase option you see in their web site, no prompt for Google Pay, just click and it's yours, downloading right away.
Correct! I did not mean to say that it was actually Arecibo in a different country, but rather that it was fairly heavily inspired by it.

I mentioned some of what you talk about in the latter part of your comment in another reply on a descendant of the GGP.
Sad irony that Thailand is definitely an amazing place to relocate, but also it's currently not letting anyone in
why doesn't it work on ARM? problems with lwjgl?
A 3" cable of this type is not an insignificant thing. Have you ever seen the cables used to support telephone poles? Those are maybe 3/8" (working from memory). If you are a teenager running in the dark at full speed at night while attempting to evade being caught papering a friends house and catch one of these cables across your neck, you're going to have a very bad night. I've seen the results.

The damage isn't from something failing because there was no other support after this cable failed. It was this failing cable falling back to the ground that did the damage. If it were an object like a rock, it would just drop straight-ish down to make a hole where it impacts. This is a cable that would make that initial impact hole, but would continue to do damage as it was pulled into its final resting spot.
I'm not disagreeing, but it was a very specific thing that hobbled the antitrust result against MS: the DOJ had won, and then the 2000 election ushered in the Bush Administration. Nine months later, the DoJ decided to abandon seeking a breakup of MS, instead pursuing a toothless negotiated settlement allowing some competitive software presence and better documentation of APIs. It wasn't generic gov't incompetence; it was a specific policy decision by a Microsoft friendly administration.
Temptation Bundling
Big Steam user here and I agree with you on the updates thing. However this aspect has more or less value depending on what you play and when.

Single player games purchased a year after release likely never need to be patched ever again.

Unfortunately AAA games with multiplayer et al seem to need to be patch immediately upon release...
BTW, OSTree is also the technplogy behind Fedora Silverblue, Fedora IoT and modern versions of Coee OS. Also flatpaks use OSTree internally for deduplication of all runtimes and flatpaks & for diff only downloads.
15k a year for me. Approx 7.5 to the various Governments and the other half to schools. Those 5 million $$$ sports complexes and artificial turf football fields at the middle school (Grade 5-8) aren't going to build themselves....

Meanwhile they can't create a decent online curriculum so kids can learn from home.

It's a joke. Teachers and the School Districts get whatever they ask for because voters are too stupid to figure out what it costs them. I guy I work with doesn't even know how much he pays in tax every year since it is in escrow with his mortgage payment. He just votes yes because it's for the kids you know.....
I feel like that just reinforces my point. Figuring out which random unsupported distro to install on the Linux laptop you bought is even less feasible for non-technical users than choosing a different login session on Ubuntu.
True eradication of most germs is probably impossible, given how hard it was for smallpox and how hard it currently is for polio. But I don't think there's any inherent reason why all remotely serious diseases couldn't be driven to the level of tuberculosis - something that exists, endemic in every country, but at such a low level that most people have no real expectation they might catch it.
I’m excited. Thanks for the response. This is something I will try and find time to contribute to.
A lot of people who would have a problem with it are also convinced they have no power to affect its existence, so you never hear from them.
Either coastal Carolinas or Hawaii. We like living near the ocean and access to good outdoors activities on land.
Coastal Carolinas is much more affordable than Hawaii and more access to certain outdoor activities (hunting and freshwater fishing). Also not as isolated as Hawaii.

But Hawaii looks incredible.
I hope to visit them both and make a decision when more things are open in both places to get a feel for them.

I think both are probably close to tech wastelands so will need to have employment that allows remote from those states to do it.
Watch the movie Contact. There's an entire scene underneath the dome.

also: http://www.mreclipse.com/Observatory/Arecibo/full/Arecibo03-...
Start self-hosting
It really is that car dealerships are very wealthy and have a lot of political clout. There were also early rulings that a manufacturer can't order a car dealership how to operate - the basics of the case were that American manufacturers were lending or outright granting money for people to start dealerships. Those dealerships started trying to sell foreign cars, the manufacturers said "no way", the dealerships fought back, and the dealerships won.

Basically it's become a textbook example of the entrenched parties setting up barriers to entry. They have lots of money, and are often active in their local communities, so people generally like them.

Edit: basically, I'm saying it really is too hard to change because the law is on the dealerships side, and there's a lot of momentum and status quo to overcome.
I haven't had a cold in years. I still have issues because of my genetic disorder, but, yeah. Colds can be avoided and it's wonderful.
Yep, those are pretty cool and also make it more sad that video game consoles continue to go down this road of lockdown.

Of course Sony also had OtherOS on PS3. It's a bit sad it ended the way that it did.
Except for the fact that allergies are a form of an overactive immune system, so that actually completely countermands your point.

Are there potential concerns with finding ways to prevent transmission of disease? Yes, for sure. Are they a systemic weakening of a society's immune system? No, it's not. If anything, the danger is in preventing disease to the point that lots of folks develop auto-immune disorders.
This is huge. And a much bigger threat than a DOJ monopoly lawsuit.
The whole "personality differences" section.
I don't understand this reply.
Tcl/Tk binding to Blend2D vector graphics engine
Trains are very fuel efficient. CSX says trains can move a ton of freight approximately 492 miles on a single gallon of fuel. https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/the-csx-advantage/fue...
I've disabled the vast majority of Google apps that ship with the phone:

- Chrome: privacy related, not necessarily garbage, but if the OS were Chinese we'd effortlessly call Chrome's behaviours spyware. I use Firefox

- Photos: random single-touch dialogs offering to enable sync. This is upsell and another opt-in data grab. Also the source of the aforementioned ITS 4AM WAKE UP AND HAVE A DELETE MEME PARTY notification. I use f-spot but I'm not a huge fan of it

- Messages: can't remember. Probably another notification thrown up without warning. I use Pulse now

- Maps: where to even begin? The app has about one UI element left that actually relates to navigation and the rest is some disguised Google Shopping link. I use the paid version of OsmAnd where possible

- Gmail/Accounts: phone book data-grab. I use Outlook

- Gboard: still using this. Still very aware its forwarding my keystrokes to the mothership for "contextual prediction" or whatever you call it. If Gboard were published by TikTok rather than Google we'd have sent some folk to the electric chair over it already

- Play Services: mandatory back channel to the mothership with root access on your phone. Can wake it up, force install something that listens to you, or update itself to force you to click on WHO adverts^W^W^W^W participate in informational and beneficial COVID-19 contact tracing, so much more

Probably forgotten quite a bit. Mandatory Games app IIRC? That would have been disabled on the first day
What Apple achieved is very rare in the industry. They achieved both complete horizontal and vertical integration for all their products.

Even Microsoft kind of failed to do this. Most computers sold running Windows are not built by Microsoft.
> you're better to rip the band-aid

Not for silent failure. This soft of change means that tons of systems will fail in unexpected ways in unexpected places, and often people will never know about it. It's a security nightmare.

Ripping the band-aid off is much more compelling when it will result in an exception. Silent failure, though. Ugh, if you actually care about writing reliable software, it's the worst.
Impossible to enforce consistently. Feels like a way to exclude Wikileaked info in particular.
That seems like such a ridiculous attitude.

I want one just one grocery store! Want less common ingredients? NO! I just want one store! I want just one hardware store! Want some part they don't carry? Sucks to be you.
Just one car store, etc...

If nothing else I at least one two stores. One for regular apps and one for porn apps. You can see steam now has lots of adult apps.
Interesting idea!

Perhaps the 'random' docs could instead be generated (or even trained) for even-greater significance of the new embeddings.

For example: after doing LDA, generate a 'paragon' doc of each topic. Or coalescing all docs of a known label together, then reducing them to D summary pseudo-words – the D 'words' with minimum total WMD to all docs of the same label. Or adding further R docs into regions of maximum confusion.
The best white/Asian kids seemed to be much more experienced with actual computers and computing. Classes taught in schools cannot compensate for this. It’s the difference between learning about programming in school and actual on the job programming or better yet hacking with strong friends for a year. It’s a huge difference in confidence, comfort, and dexterity. It isn’t necessarily a difference in raw ability.
> Does anyone have any argument for why this right would be a bad thing?

For one thing, that is how you get viruses. This is amusingly similar to the mask refusal arguments.

> People would get bad software on their phones, but last I checked, this is happening already

"My proposal would lead to bad things, but there already are bad things" is a terrible argument.
Came here to make alien attack joke.
"DARPA plans to carry out tests with thousand-float arrays in the Southern California Bight and Gulf of Mexico later this year. Initially they will be arranged at about one float per three square kilometers. Waterson believes separation can be increased to one float per twenty square kilometers while maintaining coverage. He is also talking about much bigger arrays in future, of tens of thousands of floats. . . "

Eh Cartels, semi submersible smuggling going to get a LOT harder now.
GeeTest Wins Two Awards at ISC2020 Held by Qihoo 360
And all the systrm stuff is immutable and managged by OSTree. This makes it posdoble to diff only download a new system state and then atomically switch to it after reboot. And if you hit any issues with it, just boot to the previous one (you can have multiple previous states).
Is "demo" for "demolish" common usage?

EDIT: non-native speaker trying to improve my English by asking questions about English used in the wild; not trying to be judgemental