skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This makes a fractional difference at most. And, I disagree on the following grounds -

Let's say we assume the point of herd immunity is when 60% are infected (which I also doubt: models were not taking into account superspreading events when this was established as an estimate)

Then we can agree that if ~60% of the population is seropositive and no longer infectious, everyone (everyone else) is now safe. Cool.

However, if there is uncontrolled infection, then we reach the 60% mark of herd immunity, you bust through that ceiling because most people are still infectious and continuing to infect others.
"Still" as in "it's a kids thing"? Or as in "it's known to be bad for you"? Or maybe "it's archaic"?

Regardless I disagree.
Culture and gender aren't linked.

Does culture tell you if someone's gender, sexual preferences, what kind of car they drive, whether or not they're a furry, what god(s) they do or do not believe in, etc.?

Don't put people in boxes based on your limited world view.

Think about the limit. When we're uploaded to the matrix, you'll finally be able to be whatever gender you want to be without fear for the stupid stigmas of this world. You can try lots of things. You can be a man, woman, multi-gender foxperson, or a stoic agender deity. Maybe lots of things. You'll be free.

Let people be who they are.

You be who you are.

Just be happy.
Most totalitarian states predate YT and other forms of social media, so this is irrelevant. Now that they are here, they use it to fullest extent.
It’s not only people, it looks like EY moved 7,500 roles and £1.2trn out of UK to the European Union.

But I agree, while it’s significant, it won’t be significant enough for anything major.
I hear you and sometimes the results weren't conclusive but I did uncover a few gems. particularly around pricing and the hero statement.

I would rather do it than not.
The Road to PWA – Part II
It was edited.
One quote from the list of BOFH excuses (of the early 2000s, https://gist.github.com/chuckwagoncomputing/ff980f81482b5894...) was:

> Firmware update in the coffee machine

It isn't funny any more...

> https://support.smarter.am/hc/en-us/articles/115005135369-My...

> In case your Smarter Coffee machine has become stuck while updating, please follow the steps below to manually perform the firmware update...

- Turn product off at the wall.

- Press and hold the 2 left buttons on the control panel.

- Turn the power on at the wall and keep holding the two buttons for 10 seconds.

- The "Update" screen should then appear. (Check this has appeared on the screen, good news if it has!)

- Connect to the "Update" network and wait for it to connect. (Check that the signal bars at the top of the iPhone screen are there, this can take up to 55 seconds)

- Open the Smarter app

- Select "update" firmware either via the 'pop-up' or from the 'About' page

- Select 'next', it will take you to the page where it tells you to connect to update network.

- Close and open the app ONCE.

- Press next

- It should update...

- Once it reaches 100%, the coffee machine screen will say "Loading" while it reboots.
> And yet what many others are asking for here is turn-key totalitarianism

Ah, America. This attitude is why the US is the world leader in COVID-19, and things are only getting worse.

Very soon there will be days with 5000 Americans dead, 300,000 new infections, and God knows how many people crippled for life, and yet I'm sure people will still be going on about "totalitarianism" and fiercely resisting any public health measures.
Ireland here - Whatsapp is ubiquitous, even amongst the elderly. Presumably because iPhones are still in the minority, so iMessage hasn't taken over.
I'm shocked that it's only 63%. With the perception that this will allow a return to normal and the risk perceptions noted here https://covid19pulse.usc.edu/ I would expect it higher.
Cheeky, google. What's next, type Windows and you suggest Linux?
Also "erlich blachman" and "erlich bachman"
Yes, people should right-size their spend and effort to their goals. I'm thinking of the scenario where the person actually had an intent to have "good" quality and spent more money for what they were told would "look better", but due to inaccurate information sources (eg salespeople, buzzwordy feature bullet points on signage, friend, etc) they don't end up with what they thought they would get (and paid upward for). The frustrating part is there's no fundamental reason they couldn't have actually got what they wanted instead of being mildly disappointed that their extra $500 spent "isn't really as different as they'd hoped". Yes, there's a point of diminishing returns beyond which more money buys things that don't matter (like 4k resolution vs good 1080 when the viewing distance-to-screen size makes the difference optically negligible to human eyes).

However, under that point of contextual diminishing returns, a little bit of on-point knowledge or information can really maximize the return on incremental spend and effort.
They're totally different apps! Signal's focus is 1-to-1 encrypted chats. Telegram's focus is broadcasting messages and group chats. One of them is a secure messenger, the other is a social media network on top of a messaging app.
SpaceX doesn't compete directly with them but the rockets from Virgin Orbit, RocketLab, and Relatvity Space are also exciting.
I have recently seen two people attacked on Twitter for being balanced and not wanting to take the extreme point of view. I don't think it's healthy to polarize the talk so much.
Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going.
I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job.
People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a day. Still worked on it for many many hours.
App is still running today and generating 2k per day. It gave me freedom to quit my day job and the opportunity to start a business as around it a few years ago. And just recently I started an entire new (more serious) fintech business.
Although I know it's not easy to start something like I did. But on the other hand. Most people are not even trying it. I always tell people to really start making something you feel passionate about. (I am talking from a developers perspective) Don't look at others and don't do something other want you to do. If money is the motive, then you will fail for sure.
I'm pretty sure the UK won't exist in its current form in 5 years - directly as a result of Brexit.
...exactly...
Cool project, I like that you've clearly stated on the front page exactly what it's for.

Just FYI the bottom of your Blog pages contains a button with a strange label CANVAS::BLOG.BUTTON.NEXT

Also the link to your Privacy Policy has (almost) the same foreground and background color.

https://i.imgur.com/HcU0wOy.png
Ruby has some options too, one of them being ruby-packer. Here's[0] how I used it to generate single executables.

[0] https://nts.strzibny.name/making-a-ruby-executable-with-ruby...
Glad to hear that you liked the post and that you'll try it in a project of yours! It'd be nice to hear about your experience later on. crossterm is a very nice library, and I suspect it'd be extended somehow to "natively" support the kind of mocking I presented in the post without having to add an intermediate abstraction layer.
Should twitter remove posts like this? https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1337043496230932483

"Four people who received Pfizer's vaccine developed Bell's palsy, a form of temporary facial paralysis"

The trouble is, this one's a bit different than a slippery slope argument. We'll have to decide whether we want to allow fringe news at all.

If YouTube announced tomorrow that they would ban opposition to the new vaccine, would that feel as comfortable?
GDPR works well in this direction but it still adds in the informed consent which caused alot of the popups and the original cookie law was the EU as well. Basically, the EU while making the internet better is also making it worse. But it's a process and I think GDPR is a move in the right direction.
Well as always, that can easily be done on Linux. There is even a widget on KDE that lets you do precisely that.
Russia only holds 4.3% of global hack attacks, whereas USA and China are the biggest ones. North Korea is not even in top 10.
There are lots of problems that aren't being addressed here.

First, java ends up doing a huge number of heap allocations that are just stack allocations for other system languages.

Second, java might have some heap allocation optimization, but it's still a huge performance sink to allocate in a tight loop.

Third, reference counting is not slow. Incrementing or decrementing an integer only when a variable isn't moved can be both cheap and rare. Even better, it is deterministic. Garbage collection gets its optimization from doing bulk operations, which is exactly what becomes a problem. Any speed up pales in comparison to the speed advantage of avoiding those allocations all together. Once allocations are not weighing down performance, the lack of pauses and deterministic behavior of reference counting is an even larger advantage.

You can say that memory 'has already been allocated from the kernel' but that is what heap allocators do in any language. Jemalloc maps virtual memory and puts it into pools for sizes and threads.

At the end of the day, taking out excessive allocations is usually a trivial optimization to make. It is usually trivial to avoid in the first place. Languages fighting their garbage collector and promising the next version will have one that is faster and/or lower latency is a cycle that has been going on before java was first released. At a certain point I think people should accept that stack allocations and moves of heap allocations take care of the vast majority of scenarios and actual reference counting in this context is not a problem. Variable with unknown lifetimes should only be needed when communicating with unknown components. Garbage collection on the other hand has been a constant problem as soon as there is any neccesity for interactivity.
From one of your old comments [0] referencing "Flash Boys": when did Lewis talk about Marillion? It's one of my favorite band, I was surprised to see it mentioned there :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046736
Size of visual cue and size of hit target should not be conflated. In terms of visuals, it is a good idea for the marker to be presented as unobtrusively as possible.
Object Pooling Is Awesome
Eating less fiber, more saturated fat and more sugar throughout the day is linked with lighter, less restorative sleep. In one study, researchers tracked diet and sleep for a group of healthy adults over the course of five nights and found that indeed, food choices during the day did affect sleep.
> mutual trust and vulnerability

Depending on your manager and organization, this is definitely not mutual. Managers have power over their reports, even if it is as subtle as being able to influence the decisions of more senior management over who should be promoted, retained, demoted, or fired.
Same here, but my guess is that oculus as its own company is not profitable. So the choice is likely between this and no oculus.
We don't need cosmic deity levels of certainty. Most first-world judicial systems are predicated on the standard of evidence being "reasonable". As in "reasonable cause to believe" or "beyond a reasonable doubt". We have functioned pretty well with based on "reasonable" and we can apply that same standard here. It is fair to label a statement as at least misinformation if it seems to be untrue beyond a reasonable doubt. Disinformation requires intent which is much harder to determine but not really relevant.
>We grant these companies patents so they can be open about their tech.

We also have EU wide law that protects these companies from lawsuits for side effects, instead the company, a governments gets sued.
These are reasonable suggestions, I would add that You should be aware that some people are more difficult to read than others, so You shouldn't expect immediate feedback on if your actions are working. Also know when someone just doesn't like You, accept it and cut your losses, move on, maybe they will come around but there is no way to force someone to like You.

The only other thing I have found has given me great success is saying YES when You are invited to social activities. If every time a person asks You to do something, You have an excuse not to and turn them down, they will stop asking. If on the other hand You say Yes, You will find people will start asking You first.
Republicans outperformed expectations in Congressional results. This is unusual given congressional results and presidential results have historically correlated. I don't understand the explanation for that if Democrats rigged the election somehow.

It seems more plausible that:

- there was a really high turnout aided by widespread absentee voting

- a large single-digit percentage of voters went Republican in the congressional races but didn't vote for Trump

I can't think of a fraud based scenario with any factual support that is as compelling.
While there are concerning similarities, Google backed off from their “real names” policy years ago. Facebook continues to enforce such a policy despite its much-noted dangers and disparities [0], while also more aggressively (compared to Google) banning users for having multiple accounts, making posts Facebook doesn’t like, or not behaving like a “real user” according to their entirely opaque algorithms.

In my direct personal experience as an Oculus/Facebook/Google account-holder, Facebook’s polices have had a much larger negative impact on consumers. I’m glad they are the (first) target of this probe.

[0] https://boingboing.net/tag/real-names
> Its rather simple, fill out a form for every patient admitted to ICU.

With all due respect, it's like you've never met Americans. People wouldn't cooperate if asked to, and the hospitals can't afford to hire the people it would take to process the forms.

The primary question to ask in America is always this: "Can an investor make money out of this?"
The worst part of the Facebook/Oculus integration is that there's no way to log out--you can't even revoke the login remotely via the Facebook settings page which can do that for any other device--so anyone who has access to your headset has access to your Facebook account and your Messenger history, forever.

With Quest 1, which had a separate account system, I would frequently show off the headset by letting people try it on. With Quest 2, anyone who tries it on would have full access to my Facebook account and Messenger history, so I can't do that. And no, they don't give you any sort of warning about this, you have to figure it out yourself.

(I reported this to their bug bounty program on October 26. The submission was rejected as a duplicate. I rechecked today and it was still not fixed.)
I know providing a fully baked compiler API isn’t high on their list (think babel). I couldn’t find any information from the Typescript team regarding anything you’ve stated about 3rd party build systems and the compiler being provided only for convenience.

Do you have anything you can point to from the team about this?
I love these stories a lot more than that I love the venture capitalist backed start-up that makes 3x for their investors.
> rejecting the Recovery Fund as currently proposed due to how strongly it ties EU countries together, inadvertently strengthening the position of authoritarian eastern countries like Hungary and Poland.

This almost exact scenario has previously happened already:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_Fundamental_Rights_...

(those using mobile Wikipedia app, scroll down to "The British and Polish protocol")

Also:

> Britain was in basically just in for the economic side of the European Communities, and always rejected or scoffed at the idea of European integration

The lecture of other opt-outs tends to confirm that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt-outs_in_the_European_Union

Lastly:

> authoritarian eastern countries like Hungary and Poland.

While I understand that the situation there is a bit dire by EU standards, calling them authoritarian is an overstatement. They're not Belarus, UAE or NK. Yet...
I had to add hl=en to the url to get the expected result (forcing the page to english)

https://www.google.com/search?q=emacs&hl=en
Explore this 670 MPix Macro picture
Seeing people you know believe in bullshit makes it harder to believe that you and the people around you believe in what is right and do not believe in bullshit. The idea that you might not be right and might instead be believing in bullshit is uncomfortable to a lot of people.
You might want to read articles since that one directly contradicts everything you’ve said:

> The Mueller Report did not find any evidence of collusion, but did find two main efforts by the Russians to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign.

If you read the report, note that they found multiple cases where people were interested in colluding (e.g. the Trump Tower meeting where they wanted to get dirt from some Russian lawyers) but did not find enough evidence proving intent to bring formal charges, in part because the administration was successfully able to prevent testimony and evidence collection. That’s very different from exoneration.
>Today, being killed by a toaster is many orders of magnitude more likely than being killed by a terrorist.

I don't think this is true. Googling it, it seems to originate from the claim "you should be more scared of toasters than sharks" based on the number of toaster deaths (source of this data is unclear - Fermi estimate?)

The only data I could find cites 21 deaths in the US in 2000 from "countertop cooking." By comparison, there were 211 mass shooting deaths in the US in 2019 per Northeastern University.
https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/hazard_housewares.pdf
Looks very nice!

Do you have some sort of upload API, so music creation software could potentially upload directly, without going through a GUI? (I realize this may be an exotic request, so I understand if this is not of interest for you to implement).
the status page needs a status page
Research data that could help others fight the pandemic should not be secret.

But personal data should be. And data about business processes have no reason to be accessible. Work data can be misleading too.

Imagine you are working on a software project, there is a massive bug in your code, you know it is there and you intend to work on it before release. Now, imagine a competitor, trying to do the same and trying to get some advance, he steals your code, but he doesn't know about the bug and releases his own software based on it. You don't want that to happen with a vaccine...
I used igdm.
Until I stopped using ig itself, several weeks ago.
Like I did FB many, many years ago.
I didn't close down the accounts either. I just stopped using them.
Stopping that, and a good clear out of bookmarks [deleted], mail-subscriptions etc has forced me to restart my onlininess (save for very basic email).
Feel much better, and I'd like to start the next year 'clean'.
> key figures from the Adobe team visiting our London office and candidly telling us the reason Flash was being blocked, esp. on mobile, was entirely due to commercial reasons by Apple, and not for technical reasons

That doesn't explain why Flash met the same fate on Android. They even had Flash players for Android, but those faded out after a few years.
LLVM-DIVA – Debug Information Visual Analyzer
Hmm, maybe. That's why I added the "text editor" suffix to the title, to be specific about what I was referring to. "Interactive command-line app" could also be misinterpreted because any CLI that asks for user input on a line-oriented manner (e.g. a REPL) would qualify, right?
Your exact attitude _is_ the problem (which you apparently don't see) but are you even in the US?

Demanding transparent and legal elections and refusing to accept results from those that aren't isn't extremist.
For the specific claim made above (Biden and Trump both filled in, going to Biden), if I recall it was one of the witnesses during the Michigan legislature hearing.

For your other citation requests, please see:
https://cdn.donaldjtrump.com/public-files/press_assets/1.-11...

If you do a search for "Exhibit 1" this will take you to the list of affidavits.

> Honestly, genuinely, do you believe your layman perspective is more valid than someone who has spent their entire life honing their craft (judges)?

In matters of law, certainly not. In matters of right and wrong, I consider myself on an equal footing as anybody else.

I've reviewed the reasons the judges have dismissed the cases. The reasons typically boil down to either:

1) Outright dismissal without giving opportunity to provide any evidence,
2) Dismissal on technical grounds (e.g. standing),
3) Dismissal from declaring the affidavits hear-say,
4) Dismissal that grants premise that election laws were not followed but this does not prove fraud

I'm not sure what the legal standards are on what determines an affidavit to be hear-say or not, but they can be submitted to a court as evidence. Thus far, no judge (as far as I'm aware) has allowed them to be provided as evidence.

Regardless of the legal implications of affidavits and the standards they must meet to be provided as evidence in court, I have seen more than enough (dozens if not hundreds) of testimonies that provide the same consistent general picture: election laws were not followed, and in a significant way.

For point #4 above, either the election laws exist for a reason, or they don't. The election laws that prevent fraud were (in my opinion) blatantly ignored, in critical Democrat areas, amounting to hundreds of thousands of votes processed without the required legal oversight.

(For the record, wasn't me who downvoted. Thanks for engaging in constructive discussion. )
Creating fresh accounts for devices requiring them should be standard practice, and companies not allowing this boycotted.

When you buy an Android phone, Google gives you a "free" account if you chose to create one (no phone number verification needed).

EDIT: Or not, apparently. Might only work with some whitelisted manufacturers. Boycott Google too I guess.
I decided it was worth asking money for before I laid a finger to the keyboard.

Getting first users was really tough. I "launched" on product hunt and that was a bomb. I posted around some forums and that got some attention, but it was a post on reddit that was seen by the owner of a niche forum for audio engineers that helped.

He allowed to me to post in their commercial thread and that got me going with a bunch of audio engineers who saw real value in the product.

That burst of interest and Q&A gave me a TON of feedback to improve things and add features.

Then things just VERY slowly started to snowball. and I do mean VERY SLOWLY.

I also get a lot of traffic from organic google searches as I rank number 1 in google for some very relevant search terms. Even outranking soundcloud. Have no idea how that happened.

As far as I'm concerned it was 2 years of refining the product. Only in the past 6 months have I seen consistent month on month growth, and it's still very early days.
It used to be a hard rule that would trigger a shadowban, now it's just "reddiquette".
What about a session cookie that is used for more than just authentication like for example tying browsing sessions on different devices by the same user together?
Jesus no wonder many IT professionals in europe want to come here.
Yeah WhatsApp is the complete norm in the US but almost no one uses it in the US.
File under: it's better to apologize than to do the right things the first time.
Ooops... thanks so much I will address these issues tonight.