skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The CCP is absolutely censoring, monitoring and harvesting data from every app that is based and controlled from China, especially WeChat.

That is publicly stated policy.

There is no need for 'tit for tat' apps from China should be banned by every reasonable jurisdiction outside China for that reason alone.

Without even getting complicated, just using EU GDPR as a basis for banning it would be just fine under already established legislation.

We just went through the entire 20th century of trying to overcome such bad regimes, the only reason that China is able to get away with any of it is due to basic economic power i.e. trade interdependance.

So it's time to reconsider and realign - too bad Trump pulled out of the TPP because that would have been a good first step.
You'll love Wordtsar then.
In what age group? The 1976 vaccine actually killed people and gave Guillain Barré to many more, so that's your worst-case outcome. So far, under 20 years of age, the fatality rate for Covid is measured in low-single-digit thousandths of a percent (i.e. under a thousand in the US).

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.24.20180851v...
Moving because of the pandemic when it means moving away from jobs (and potentially a career in the case of a technical writer), family, friends you've had since childhood...

It's not only not that simple, it's not even clear to me it's the right answer. The right answer is probably something involving employers understanding that this is a hard time right now and you need to be flexible.
Move to an area where you can afford a house on one income or two half incomes and stop working so much. If you want to raise a family, raise one. That's your choice.

If you want other people to subsidize your productivity and/or income so you can live beyond your means in an area where you can't afford to raise a family, then that's a big ask.
Distributed costs and concentrated benefits. Each particular emissions reduction plan impacts specific groups that will fight it. General taxation to pay for geo-engineering projects impacts everyone as well, but not in specific ways.

There might be more public support in a moon-shot big engineering project, and fighting the small-government types, than say, reducing emissions for factories and fighting the relevant lobby.
Q: How Much Energy Does It Take to Store a Bit?

A: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2018/ph240/jiang2/

Q: How Much Energy Does It Take to Erase a Bit?

A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle and http://strangepaths.com/reversible-computation/2008/01/20/en...

Interesting: https://cds.cern.ch/record/396654/files/9908043.pdf
Of the systems listed in the paper, the only one I'd really heard of was BrightID, and it still seems like potentially the best. The FAQ on their website is a good introduction[0], but the paper seems rightly cautious:

"To control for Sybil attacks BrightID runs GroupSybilRank, a modification of the SybilRank algorithm, to estimate the anti-Sybil score of the network participants based on affinity between groups. Proposed to be used as the official BrightID anti-sybil algorithm, the effectiveness of this algorithm in the presence of multiple attack vectors, remains to be proved."

Unfortunately, just proving personhood is only the first step in deciding someone's reputation, but it seems like a good basis to build some proper decentralized trust systems from, for example [1].

[0] https://www.brightid.org/faq

[1] https://adecentralizedworld.com/2020/06/a-trust-and-moderati...
If you implement, for example, the network stack as a filesystem, and you have generic facilities which let you bind "files" from one system to another, you can forward your traffic through another host as easily as:

import remote-host /net

Now your new network connections will go through remote-host, because a network connection is just reads and writes to files in /net.

Lots of neat applications when you take a few simple ideas and expand them as far as you can: represent everything as files in a namespace, provide advanced tools to manipulate that namespace, and do it all via a networked protocol.
Federal expenditures are very different and removed from one's local community. Everyone should absolutely get some say in how their money is spent at the local level.

> Most places in the US seem to choose tyranny.

Very true and very sad as well.
I think if Trump were to triumphantly and controversially announce approval of a vaccine, it would become a badge of honor among his fans.
I"m not sure why this thread is so polarized. I am 30 and I don't have kids - I am burnt out from the pandemic and can assume that those trapped inside with their kids are orders of magnitude more burnt out than me. I feel bad for them. I am also very burnt out, which shows itself in an array of different symptoms (more irritable, more prone to being frustrated/resentful for those that have different situations than me, etc).

It's fine to acknowledge that some have it harder than you, but to also wish that you had it easier. I wish we all had it easier. Sometimes, when I'm feeling most frustrated with everything, I wish I also had an excuse to work part time but keep my entire pay (which is, ignoring all else, what a lot of peers with children get). Humans are complicated and can have lots of feelings, some of which are irrational and some of which are unempathetic. We're all getting squeezed right now.
No evidence was presented in that comment, other than evidence of political bias.
I eat meat and dislike spinach. Will I suddenly start liking spinach if I cut the meat out of my diet?
I don't know what to tell you, I personally run many services this way, and I've yet to encounter a situation where this doesn't work.

Regardless, your landing page currently is inaccessible. That should be a major concern.
File replacement can be done now through non-portable renaming gyrations.

I was under the impression that POSIX requires renames to be atomic, and have relied on that in embedded Linux systems with UBIFS. Are there exceptions among truly compliant filesystems and OSes, and/or is the atomicity guarantee not as strong as I thought?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. In 2005, Grover Norquist had this to say:

> Doing taxes keeps citizens aware of the tax burden imposed upon them by the government.

https://theweek.com/articles/825902/how-republicans-trapped-...
I'm not trying to move goalposts. My point is that parents get a special privilege that people with similarly charitable obligations wouldn't. If I wanted to do something undeniably good for society that is NOT rearing children, my employer wouldn't let me off the hook without a pay cut.
I don’t have kids. I have a partner with some very not fun medical conditions.

I have never had any issues getting “dinged” for the fact that I have to stop work at a specific time because meds need to be taken with food. I communicate it clearly to my peers and managers.

In the last couple months I’ve had to miss days to deal with doctors sometimes on zero notice (as in I actually responded to a question from my boss with “uh if this is urgent here’s my cell call in about 30 and I can discuss it but I have to take my other half to the doctor”)

Some of this is being willing to admit it and just simply ask. I didn’t once and tried to work through it and my boss at the time reamed me out for it.

But I’d also never think twice if a coworker said “I gotta take off early, got a date”. Life happens, as long as nobody is outright abusing it who cares?

It sounds like in the situation you described people are abusing it and the managers are just not paying much attention.
And that comparison breaks down as soon as you go from making widgets to creating nebulous IP. Who can really say if the smoker on non smoker writes better code in their 8 hrs
> Maybe not a pandemic ...

But, we are in a pandemic now. So the rest of your argument is moot.

> One knows unexpected things happen with children, if you haven't prepared for those unplanned contingencies, that's on you as a parent.

Sure, maybe a broken leg, or mono, or some other health issue could force the child to be home for a while. But not all schools close suddenly, and all other childcare options as well. What would planning for that look like exactly?

> Well, this small pack of nurses all knowingly do the same thing, they have children as much as humanly possible, think on the order of 8-13 children ... able to work only 6 months out of the year, 6 month vacations

As a father of two small children, I can confidently tell you that having a newborn is hardly a six month vacation.
Not yet, but stay tuned.
Yeah. This is how I feel too. I think eventually there will be enough lobbying that you'll be forced to take your car to a dealer for regular maintenance, but it'll mostly be a scam to generate recurring revenue. They'll sell it as a safety issue, but it'll be closer to charging you an exorbitant amount of money to rotate the tires and check the fluid levels.

Between that and DLC style options, they'll price anchor everything so the only option that makes any economic sense is to lease. Watch for 2nd and 3rd owner leasing options in the next 20 years IMO.
If a few hundred people get a brutal side-effect, that's enough ammo for anti-vaxers to severely cripple the general public's trust in our public health systems.

Somewhat frustratingly, this vaccine needs to be held to the same standards of safety & efficacy as any other vaccine, but I do wish they'd let immunocompromised people get access to the thing a notch earlier than they would otherwise.
Of course? So what? Many of those children will not have children of their own, so that puts them in a different class than their parents. Which is why that is different then going to school.
InSpec is really a good tool you should know. I believe you can write molecule tests with it so it’s something you may have already used at this point and not realized it.
> Beginner/amateur-level acoustic pianos have largely been replaced by electronic instruments. In fact it's almost impossible to give them away.

One of my hobbies is watching the free section on Craigslist. Perfectly good (sometimes quite beautiful) pianos are one of the things that show up with surprising regularity. Always with the caveat, "Must take it away yourself."
Nope.

0. They park car 1 at Red's Meadow (top right, safe) and walk in to point 1 on the map.
1. They start a walk with friends from car 2 at this trailhead
2. They notice the fire and get advice to exit via Red's Meadow. Instead they take car 2 and drive towards the fire!
3. They realise this wasn't a good idea and turn around and go to Mammoth Trail and park car 2.
4. They stop for the night heading towards Red's Meadow
5. They walk to Red's Meadow to car 1 and exit safely

Not an easy situation and I'm sure they had reasons but they did drive away from safety towards the fire after being told not to.
Yes. Fortunately hardware is getting faster, which mostly compensates. But the web has definitely turned into a bloated whale
Exactly. I believe someone tried investigating a solution to use a modern system and either perform some kind of pass through to a Win95 VM or some such magic, and it ultimately came down to needing to re-implement either the driver or the software, and that is hard to do without funding and time. Or any good documentation on what the original function and behavior was.
It is, but those usually stem from the need for heat in the extreme cold, which is often achieved by the old fashioned method of burning wood in a stove.
I've been looking for something similar that either has a markup language associated with it or is easy to add one to. I wish to prototype a GUI markup standard with it as a proof of concept so that we can have GUI-over-HTTP instead of live with the ever failing & bloated HTML/JS/DOM/CSS GUI emulators. So far, Terminal.Gui looks interesting, but I don't know if it's cross-platform yet.
... yeah, and way more people are dying from COVID than have ever died from all vaccines put together.
> Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?

That's the thing -- you won't actually go volunteer with the homeless. (Or at least, 99% of us wouldn't.) But parents actually have to change those diapers. If there's a little kid running around in the background of that Zoom call, someone is doing a lot of hard work to keep the kid alive. And unlike volunteering at the homeless shelter, they can't just decide they don't feel like it.
Having used both. If I look around I see Chef used less and less and Ansible more and more but that does not mean there is a valid path from Chef to Ansible when you way more than a trivial number of hosts. I'd say go from Chef to Saltstack. If you only have a few hosts, sure Ansible.
Your company must have some good metrics or they are measuring clicks per minute if you think they would notice 25% output growth very quickly. Likely you just wouldn’t get promoted and that might happen to your coworkers in due time
Car dealership analogy is flawed.

In some states its illegal for the car manufacturer to directly sale to the consumer, they have to go through car dealerships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
maybe this is off-topic, but it's interesting to me that this is the first time i've heard this referred to as the "astrazeneca vaccine". all the previous good-news stories seemed to call it the oxford vaccine.
I remember when in 2006/7ish he said that Apple should give up on hardware and license MacOS. I assume that he knows that vertical integration is Apple's whole strategy, so I guess his grift is just going for the stupidest takes possible and saying them angrily to make it seem like he's saying something of import.
While giving every employee personal time may well be the right answer, I also believe that we should acknowledge that, at least up until recently, there was an on-going social contract that society had that provided parents with additional time as an on-going investment into the health of our social fabric, and that, in a sense, we have already benefited (at least in aggregate) from the dividend payed by the previous generation. I think there's a cogent argument to be made that by not paying it forward, we are breaching the duty incurred when we received the benefit as children.
Yeah, they are better than some places. I should probably go back to the main thread an see what others suggested. I wasn't able to think of any for-profit organizations whose mission it is to fix a world problem and goes beyond just being a tagline.
It's quite common for larger stores in The Netherlands.

Credit cards basically aren't a thing here, so that's probably why they came up with it.
here: https://medium.com/hackernoon/no-zero-days-my-path-from-code...

good luck, friend
I look at it like being in a different country. I mean, suppose you live in country X, and you know that salaries and benefits are higher in country Y. Still, only so many people can move from X to Y, for whatever reason. So you live your life as well as you can in your home country.

And at least you don't live in country Z. ;-)

At my age and skill set, I don't know if I'd be competitive for a job in one of the high-wage cities anyway. There may be some things that I can do cheaper, that make it attractive for my employer to keep me rather than moving my work elsewhere.
One aspect of sexual selection is that a disadvantageous trait needn't kill to cause differential outcomes in reproduction. If a deficiency results lower hunting success, diminished fighting prowess, loss of mental acuity etc. the individual will be disfavored in mate selection. Iterated over generations, this eventually extinguishes some genes.

There's also the aesthetic aspect, where some traits seem to be favored simply because they are attractive to the opposite sex, which can be justified because offspring will have more favorable opportunities for reproduction, but only because the trait is well liked. A strange attractor in the genetic code, if you will. This happens across species, so I wouldn't call it artificial selection - artificial selection applied to humans is also known as eugenics.
Companies don't have any social responsibility.

Companies don't have any country allegiance responsibilities.

Companies don't have any employee allegiance responsibilities.

Companies only have responsibilities to the shareholders.

If I was running a company in the U.S., and in my role I basically I am doing that I'd be completely furious with the the U.S. government and how they've handled the pandemic, and I am furious with the U.S. government and how they've handled this pandemic.

Health care responsibilities for employees have been shoved down the throat of companies for years. Now companies are supposed to make accommodations for the failure of a government to act correctly during a pandemic.

Pandemic, Blah, blah blah, "I need to spend my day as a parent, so I can't work, but please pay me like I am working." If an employee can't complete their job tasks they should be fired. It doesn't matter that it's the failure of a government to act that's causing the employee come up short, that's not the problem of the company.
Large enough societies can carry people who don’t reproduce be it by choice or because of infertility or being LGBT. Same as we can accommodate a certain number of full time thinkers and artists who otherwise don’t produce tangible things. So it’s a function of what the demographics can handle. Smaller populations might require something like ancient Greeks did.
> Take out the garbage.

I don't agree. You don't get promotions/pay hikes/bonuses for taking garbage out. Those are given to ppl who ship products directly bringing in tthe revenue.

> I'll say this also applies to your first few weeks/months in a new codebase.

I agree with this.
I am well aware of that. This is precisely why I chose not have children.
I find it interesting that receiving unsolicited goods, it's fine to keep them but when unsolicited money appears (due to a bank error or similar), it needs to be paid back.
This is what I do on my blog, with some additional metadata:

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I'm a single parent working full time from home in addition to some university that's online too. My children are young, right at the beginning of their school experience (7 and 5). It's not too bad.

I spent years working my arse off after I became a single parent so I could have a career that also lets me be an involved parent. This year was meant to be my first relaxing year. It hasn't worked out that way but it's still an easier year for me than 2019 and 2018. I would go two months straight with 100-110 hours per week of time commitments.

Maybe I have an advantage because I'm used to not having free time. Home schooling is at most 30 hours per week but in reality far less unless your child has special needs. My 7 year old is mostly autonomous. Let's assume 40 hours per week of work. That's still only 70 hours per week. People might need to just manage their hours better each week. I do a lot of homeschooling on weekends, the work we missed during the week when my kids needed help but I was busy. I don't see any reason schooling on weekends would be an issue?
They think whatever Trump tells them to think. So if Trump tells them to take a shot, they will take the shot (FOR FREEDOM!).
> "IMO the real broken part of this system..."

> "It's when people are working till 11pm..."

Says it all right there.
Is this one of the two favorites?
I don’t think you do get it, no. Staff are not “asking their colleagues to finance their lifestyles”, they are asking their managers to accommodate their needs so they can continue to contribute the best they can to the company. If bosses choose to penalise other staff for that — when they have many other options! - that is on them.

Exactly as how the government would be to blame in the ludicrous tax hypothetical (which falsely compares an accommodation with a benefit).
It also allowed for amazing clustering.

I would guess there are quite a few filesystems lost in history. My personal favorite will be the Newton's Soups. A modern version with replication would be amazing.
Just stop, you're an embarrassment.
I imagine it would be constrained on shipping logistics, initially. Vaccines require temp. controlled shipping.

Effectively random.
It's tricky to be both reasonably biologically accurate, and yet computationally efficient. Some models do exist to fit this niche. One I'm familiar with is Izhikevich (2003), a model with four morphology parameters and two state variables and corresponding ordinary differential equations. It can simulate the spiking behaviour of several different kinds of neurons.

https://www.izhikevich.org/publications/spikes.htm

I've written a SIMD-based simulator that can integrate 500k of those neurons in real-time on a standard laptop. That's a bit of a limit case -- it doesn't yet model action potentials or learning, which would slow it down quite a bit. The details here matter a lot: a GPU version I experimented with could do about 1M, whereas an earlier version of this work that was a straight-up CPU-based solution (_not_ SIMD) but _with_ action potentials and learning could only model 1k.
I like https://github.com/bpython/curtsies by @ballingt. It was used to implement bpython, one of the best python REPLs imo.
> have open phase 3 trials that accept anyone willing to waive the risks

If we can quickly train up musicians and waitresses to do the data collection, sure.
Being able to focus is not something you can fix with software.

There are lots of techniques from the world of ADHD therapy. One of them is to make a schedule, so that you always know what you should be working on for any given chunk of time.

Often, there are underlying issues like anxiety that will cause people to be unable to focus. You just have to figure out what it is for you. It might just be that you need to practice it, which is increasingly common in a world of instantaneous, bite-sized entertainment.
The article seems to indicate that this could be a SAE, but also that "the participant is expected to recover".
Ah, I remember this. This is friendly UI
5 hours 23 minutes 49 seconds. Good game.

What was the significance of the music?
You don’t need to go so far back. The 2009 swine flu pandemic vaccine caused Narcolepsy in about 10 / 100 000 vaccinated, all of which were children aged 12-16 (which is not a group included in trials, by the way).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix
If is such a killer app, Epic is free to create their own phone OS, it would sell like hot pancakes.

You know, actual innovation.
I've long contended that linkedin is essentially like a seedy dating site where we're all the women and the recruiters are the men hounding us.
I would love a stripped down electric work truck without all the fancy/expensive tech.
The US probably doesn't have it due to the prevalence of credit cards: those essentially let you order something without actually paying for it as well.

It's not uncommon for stores in The Netherlands to accept delayed payment. Basically, you're able to pay up to 14 days after arrival, without any interest charged.
Having childless people pick up the slack for no extra pay isn't caring.

And even that level of "caring" is not going to last.
I don't think the investors (at least the later ones) made meaningful money at that kind of acquisition price.

Founded in 2008, that's 105M for some fraction (maybe a majority) of the equity... minus fees / taxes / legal costs, that's a pretty lousy investment, especially compared to market returns over this timeframe.