skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging from most of her writing online (which is all pretty assertive) I think it's far more likely she said "if you don't fix this, I can't continue working here".

And that's both a negotiating position and a resignation.
Installing GalliumOS on an Old Chromebook
Citation needed for "appealing". The flesh is chewy and almost entirely tasteless.
My contribution is correct. I'm not a parrot. Temp RAM disk started in Linux 2.3 (possibly older than that), it didn't come from builds inside containers or instances in the cloud.
It always seems to fall through the cracks in these discussions, maybe because there's not a lot of folks who run the distro, but Gentoo has very nice command line tools.
Good point. Asking who gave the feedback could mean their qualifications but be interpreted as their names. Or their qualifications might be enough to identify them.
This study was only for patients current with COVID, but the science suggests high levels of Vitamin D is a key indicator for avoiding COVID. Prevention it seems is worth the Vitamin D. One study, published online in JAMA Network Open in September, used data from 489 patients in Chicago. It showed the risk of testing positive for the disease was 1.77 times higher for people with a deficiency compared with those with adequate levels of vitamin D.

[0].https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

That all to say, I think the differing view points on Vitamin D might have something to do with general views on supplementation as either helpful, harmful, or pointless.
In theory. In practice just about every quantitative method or metric used to measure social welfare or individual well being falls back on price. And since our culture has a fetish for positivism and anything that looks like “math” those are the fixed assumptions that guide our decision making.
Agreed. The only time I ever had to wait for a Supercharger was at the one at the Tesla store in Nashville. It had 6 chargers, but 3 were being used by the people who worked at the store, so only 3 were available for other use.
I'm very confounded by the "Excess mortality by age group" data in the US. It _appears_ as if the mortality increase is _almost the same for all age groups_, especially at the beginning and after the initial hump. 15-64 yr olds had a 32% higher chance of dying at the hump and stayed above 11% for most of the year. Wow.

All the previous findings were that COVID is _extremely unlikely_ to kill you if you are under 50, and pretty unlikely-ish under 70 -- so where are these deaths coming from?
> And if you have kids, it's like grand per kid for daycare right?

It depends on your income. Here in Maryland, families of four making up to $70,000/year are eligible for childcare subsidies.

These numbers come from high income people who try to imagine what it would be like to be low income but don’t actually know about all of the programs the US, especially blue coastal states and the Midwest, have for people under a certain income level.

For higher income people like engineers, their employees will pay for their healthcare. Things like daycare can be a stretch, but you only pay that for a few years before the kids are eligible for free per-school. Say you have 2 kids and they need $1,500/month daycare for four years. (That’s more than I pay in Maryland which is a high cost state.) That works out to about $3,600 per year over a career. Two people working will absolutely make that much more in take home pay the US than in Europe.
Check out vinegar. It, maybe some baking soda will do more than bleach to pit stains
How to measure social mobility? https://archive.is/YIjwk
How can I try it myself? Nobody is giving me access to the information I need to actually draw an informed conclusion.
Oh, thank you very much! Never heard about this one, wondering if there is a way to repeal it...
It's nice to finally get to see some of the content of the paper and it's awesome that Bender was willing to step up and give some context to world about what the hell it was about.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is also a good teaching tool in these situations. Yes, money won’t buy you all the way up the hierarchy to self-actualization (which is probably what these folks vaguely mean by “happiness”). But it will surely get you up the lower levels and perhaps some way further than that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_need...
I am just working on pretty much the same tool: subscanner.com

My goal is to get the content indexed on search engines to make youtube transcripts browsable.

I have decided not to use auto-generated subtitles as they are of poor quality and search engines do not like broken English. However since I am not done with the tool completely yet, I might reconsider this.

An example video on subscanner: https://subscanner.com/rjDX5ItsOnQ
It's still pointless because no MS-DOS system will be alive in 2107.
> Growing up, I kind of thought "Most people are just nice." I had no means to figure out how much was natural charm, how much was me dressing well...

> Being homeless taught me that, no, most people absolutely are not just nice.

I know this will get downvoted but AFAIK most people see homeless people themselves as "not nice" as in "it's not nice to foist your problems on the rest of us", "it's not nice not to take responsibility for yourself", "it's not nice for your to stink up places", "it's not nice for you to foist your crazy on us", etc...

In other words, most people are not nice to people they perceive as being not nice to others and so homeless are first perceived as the originator of being "not nice" and so get treated reciprocally.

I'm all for helping people who are down and out and help give them a 2nd chance but, for lack of a better way to state this, the homeless person needs to take responsibility and go take advantage of whatever programs are offered vs putting their problems on everyone else. It's a very western thing to think society owes you just for existing.
Most people can’t live on their wages? What do they do? You realize that over 90% of US citizens have health insurance right?
> A version of Google’s language model, BERT, which underpins the company’s search engine, produced 1,438 pounds of CO2 equivalent in Strubell’s estimate

So... they're saying it used about $100 worth of electricity.

[ https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=74&t=11 ]

[ https://www.statista.com/statistics/190680/us-industrial-con... ]
Not sure if you're on iOS, but Apollo is a very well built third-party Reddit client. It's about 70MB to install, and lets you clear the data cache if you're concerned about storage. You can also browse without an account.
I used Gallium on a Chromebook before we got the ability to use Linux (Beta). Gallium is one of the best Linux distros I've ever used. It is built on Xubuntu and keeps simplicity in mind. I'd recommend it to every Chrome OS user out there. The devs are pretty nice too.
So we're right back to "it's not for you it's for the people around you, you selfish asshole"?
It likely means he’s upset Reddit isn’t a clone of OANN.
Every single day that goes by, a billionaire does absolutely nothing with his extra billions. No looks shedding of 1-2 billions dollars. Instead there is a measly donation of 100000k here or there.

Billionaires are keeping the society this way.
"Print statements are a valid way to debug code."

In 30+ years of programming, vast majority of bugs I've fixed were diagnosed with a few strategically placed print statements.

"I just print values. When I’m developing a program I do tremendous amount of printing. And by the time I take out, or comment out the prints it really is pretty solid. I rarely have to go back." — Ken Thompson in the book Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
More just when there are sentences such as "X said Y in an interview", I want a link to the interview or when "the report concluded that X was caused by Y", I want a link to the report or study, ideally to the specific page where the claim is made. Or where they got the raw data for a table or chart.
Moderna Covid-19 vaccine trial participant recounts her experience [video]
I can't answer your question, but I do happen to know that there has been a large increase in drug overdoses and suicides according to the data I've seen for a specific region I was looking at recently. No idea if it's a national trend.
> Ah, we've reached the crux of the problem. You are not concerned with making things good only with making them even. This is just crab mentality[1]. Someone else has more than you, so you need to pull them down. Or perhaps you've conflated the two and think that if things are even, they will necessarily be good, or at least better than they are when they're uneven. Let me assure you, it is entirely possible for things to become more even and also have everyone be worse off than they were before.

That's another assumption, I'm concerned about both. You still haven't answered the question of what is going to be harmed by reducing the wealth of every billionaire by 73%. I see you have concerns about government ineptly wasting the money, but even if they did, it's not clear how that would be materially worse for the average American. The worst way the government could spend that money would be to hand it back to the billionaires, which would put us back in the current situation. I'm open to an alternative, but I don't want assurances. I want historical examples, preferably ones that occur in the United States. Raising the specter of Communism is useless demagoguery, since there is no serious constituency for it.

> Sure, we can invest in those things. We can also pursue policies (like antitrust enforcement) that would naturally result in less inequality without distorting the market by confiscating and destroying wealth when it reaches some arbitrary number.

War anti-trust enforcement! You have to do both though. You don't have to destroy wealth, you can also redistribute it in various ways. Even George W. Bush was a fan of the ole' stimulus check. I also hear the people would really like a public healthcare option - investing in that might spur some economic growth.

> It's true the New Deal happened and then a strong middle class emerged some years later, that doesn't mean one caused the other. There was a little thing called World War II as well, and the rest of the productive capacity of the industrial world being destroyed with only America left may have contributed to the abundance of high-paying manufacturing jobs, just a little.

Well, we tried doing it the way the laissez-faire way after Europe destroyed it's labor capacity in WW1, and it resulted in the Great Depression. We tried the New Deal, fought a Europe-destroying war, followed by more Keynesian policy, and it resulted in prosperity (including the areas rebuilt under the Marshall Plan). I'm just some guy, but I'm going to go with my gut and say we should do the thing that worked, over the economic ideology that has failed the average American every time it has been trotted out.

> Yeah, there's a historical precedent for burning witches at the stake too, that doesn't mean it's a good thing.

Now you are just being hysterical. Forcing Jeff Bezos to live on a mere $50,000,000,000 is hardly burning him at the stake.
The cost is so low as to be non-existent. The downsides of printing money are effectively nil. If this were not true the modern global economy would have died out decades ago, when printing money became the primary method of commerce. Your concern here cannot rationally be a concern for printing money, a ship that sailed long ago. So I’d have to assume your concern is how the printed money should or should not be used. And in this case you were replying with concern to a post that recommended using printed money to pay high-risk people a sustainable income when their jobs should be furloughed. But instead of making a case as to why high-risk people should continue to sustain high-risk, you instead want to falsely claim printing money is significantly detrimental.
Sounds like someone was bankrolling you through this period of failure?

And from you're own admission you "had to scrounge for change" a few times... I know people who nearly starved to death as little children. In fact there are starving, begging kids out on the streets all over the city I live in.

It doesn't sound like you have any familiarity with the type of extreme poverty that hundreds of millions of people on Earth live through, for whom it is clearly not a choice.
You might consider https://member.cash

User accounts are based on private keys, so are self-sovereign. Posts and interactions are recorded on the blockchain, so removal becomes impossible.
> The problem with just taxing it all away to prevent him from being a billionaire is the money is tied to control of the company, so it's equivalent to saying nobody can build a business bigger than some arbitrary limit.

Limits are hardly arbitrary. If you control a large enough chunk of economic output that your decisions have distortionary effects on other markets and people it’s not an “arbitrary” standard that this should be disallowed. I assume everyone on HN would be pretty pro something like net neutrality to constrain gatekeepers from carving a slice out of all business done on the internet for themselves on these grounds. But, for some reason, people seem to have trouble connecting how the same logic applies to distortionary control over the media or something like urban transit.
Real estate is local, my house in Alabama has returned sub 1% annualized in appreciation, my house in Washington as returned about 6% annualized. Where supply is constrained, prices are going up, where there is excess, prices aren't even keeping up with inflation. Seems like a perfectly rational market to me.

Financial assets is far too broad a category, but "markets can remain irrational far longer than you can remain solvent" isn't some new statement. I'd argue that this is more a consequence of a confluence of factors including the end of general scarcity of capital, low interest rates, and low taxes.

Medical and Education costs are structural issues within the US, see most of Europe for a counter example.

As far as outsourcing, well that has lifted over 1 billion people out of poverty...so yea, I got nothing for you if you think American's being able to buy more goods for fewer dollars while simultaneously making the world a better place is something to be concerned about.

And our economy is far more stable today then any time in the history of the US. Or are we going to pretend that multiple depressions didn't happen in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? The only reason that the 2008 recession was as bad as it was, was because of a lack of political will to spend money.
Is someone saying tools shouldn’t be made? It’s good for engineers to think about how tools they make could be abused to mitigate damage.

In a case like this, the developer could have added some periodic notification to the device or require the device user to rotate a code or reauth with the service periodically to limit abuse.

Can you think of a modification like that you could implement on a baseball bat? Of course not. Is merely a straw man.
And may be with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triarchy_%28theory%29
I wonder if, at some point, a brand will subsidize those costs just to keep a foot in a market (if they fail to take the bait and cover the cost themselves).
"We have been stuck on this one problem – how do proteins fold up – for nearly 50 years. To see DeepMind produce a solution for this, having worked personally on this problem for so long and after so many stops and starts, wondering if we’d ever get there, is a very special moment. "

- Professor John Moult

Co-Founder and Chair of CASP, University of Maryland

Gee, the Co-Founder of the competition calls it a solution. I wonder if that might be because this is a solution to the problem as he A) Knows much more about the problem than you B) has actually personally seen the results and C) has far more context than you to base his decision to call it a solution.
I moved into a walkable Seattle downtown-fringe area in 2005. Most needed stuff was sold within a few blocks. Thanks to great nearby transit connects to anywhere in the region, sold my vehicle after a year.

Lived there 12 years ... 120k miles less gas & maintenance. Miss it a lot now (one bus, nearest stores 2 miles, nearest transit station is a 15 min ride away. Perfect for Covid I guess.)
This seems like it is for people who already have it. If you are not yet infected, there is evidence that Vitamin D can help reduce the severity of covid if you get it.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77093-z?fbclid=Iw...

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/12/3642/htm?fbclid=IwAR3Y8...
> Ultimately it makes the whole Ethical AI department look more like a rubber stamp for Google.

It didn't concern you before?
This is the first negative thing I've ever seen about metafilter.
The Beatles did not exploit the labor of people pressing their records to become wealthy. Those same people pressed records for other artists who did not make it big, or even fell flat. Their labor input was exactly the same.

The difference was in the songs the Beatles created. The Beatles created those songs, not the laborers who pressed the records.

Or take Stevie Nicks, who google reports is worth $100m. Are the stage hands who set things up for a concert creating that wealth for her? Nope. Those stage hands could do exactly the same for my unrecognized musical talent, I could pay them the same, and would lose gigantic amounts of money.

Is Stevie exploiting those stage hands? If she is, then wouldn't those stage hands doing the exact same work for me be exploiting me for my foolish money?

Bottom line is people are entitled to what they can negotiate for. They don't give it back if their employer loses money, so why would they be entitled to what their employer made?
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
There's no fundamental reason that time_t needs to be 32-bit on 32-bit systems, it's just that a ton of software casts/coerces time_t to/from int.
It's also better to use significant figures or a relative (as opposed to absolute as computed above) error if you're working with small values.
(Having not read any of this). Isn't Google committed to be net carbon neutral/negative? If so, does the claimed extra electricity usage matter?
Down with Slack
I wouldn’t be so sure. I tried to add a page for a newly released album by a band that has a sizable Wikipedia page, and within an hour it had been deleted and all of the associated link changes to update footers/etc had been reverted as well. I reopened it and added more (read: useless, unnecessary) content, and after a month in the review queue it got accepted.

Adding a new page is harder than ever, because of WP:N.
How are engineers proud to work at reddit when their primary job is maintaining a worse version of the website full of ads, tracking, dark patterns everywhere and fake loading screens?

It's also slow, very slow.
fwiw, it's instantaneous for me on a 2016 laptop running Firefox on Linux w/ Xorg and nVidia. No fans even spin up (and this is an HP, and we all know how much HP fans like to spin.)

https://imgur.com/a/BjRqAs2
Inflation hasn't become a reality since the other nations still trust the value of the US dollars as reserve. With so high trade deficits, we are essentially saying to the world, "sell me goods in exchange for the paper that I printed some big numbers on it", without getting as much in return.

Do you think this is sustainable in the long run? Will they keep giving us more goods/services than they get? What would happen if they decide to not use US dollar as reserve or they start demanding another currency for trade?
Or that business with a million employees could just return a greater share of the wealth to the employees instead of the owners, thereby avoiding triggering the marginal tax
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I am concerned about FISA and FISC. Based on what I have read, they could, if they deemed necessary at any point down the line, coerce surveillance, and also issue a gag order so one could not even tell people about the coerced surveillance. Of course, this could be mitigated if one has servers outside the USA, but then access points within the USA would become the contact nodes. I just want to help restore the right to privacy, but if for some reason law enforcement finds a reason to demand logs, it gets murky fast. Currently weighing the potential ramifications. But if there were some way to screen unsavory topics out, it might all be alright.
No one is trying to take the $60 an hour you make coaching. The way Bezos or Gates or Zuckerberg make their wealth is not at all similar to how you or I do. If you want to take the conservative argument, Gates taking my tax dollars by selling his computers to the government is not a voluntary transaction. He then takes that money to lobby the government so that I have to give him even more of my tax money.
So far, but has anyone ever given them something worth taking seriously? How wide of a variety of approaches have we tried?

Ross Perot did all right, and he was a total amateur. If a group of people actually put some serious though and effort into it, who knows what might be possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot#1992_presidential_c...

In the 1992 election, he received 18.9% of the popular vote, about 19,741,065 votes, but no electoral college votes, making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.[46] Unlike Perot, however, other third-party candidates since Roosevelt won multiple electoral college votes: Robert La Follette in 1924, Strom Thurmond in 1948, and George Wallace in 1968. Compared with Thurmond and Wallace, who polled very strongly in a small number of states, Perot's vote was more evenly spread across the country. Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30.44% of the vote to Bush's 30.39% (Clinton won with 38.77%); in Utah, Perot received 27.34% of the vote to Clinton's 24.65% (Bush won with 43.36%). Although Perot did not win a state, he received a plurality of votes in some counties.[47][48] His popular vote total is still by far the most ever garnered for a third-party candidate, almost double the previous record set by Wallace in 1968.

A detailed analysis of voting demographics revealed that Perot's support drew heavily from across the political spectrum, with 20% of his votes coming from self-described liberals, 27% from self-described conservatives, and 53% coming from self-described moderates. Economically, however, the majority of Perot voters (57%) were middle class, earning between $15,000 and $49,000 annually, with the bulk of the remainder drawing from the upper-middle class (29% earning more than $50,000 annually).[49] Exit polls also showed that 38% of Perot voters would have otherwise voted for Bush, and 38% would have voted for Clinton.[50] Though there were widespread claims that Perot acted as a "spoiler," post-election analysis suggested that his presence in the race likely did not affect the outcome.[51]
Which platform?
You said "many times you need legal or social solutions", but now you're dismissing legal and social solutions.

Most people on here will agree that banning encryption is going too far. But it's ridiculous to use the worst-case solution as a pretext to avoid even thinking about the problem.
In Emacs, an org-capture template[1] can be used to quickly and easily append new items to logs. It can prompt the user to enter text in multiple locations, eliminating the need to navigate around boilerplate to write entries. It can also prompt for tags to help make organization and searching easier. Additionally, it has the benefit of being callable anytime and anywhere within Emacs.

I've only recently gotten around to using them, but they're really nice for quickly logging things that I was too lazy to do otherwise (e.g. recipes I have tried).

[1]https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-templates.html