skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanic pays income tax additionally.

Also the company you work for as a software engineer pays VAT on the products or services it sells to clients or customers.
How so if the net liability change is nil? No extra money comes out of your account, it's just a paper charge that cancels itself.

If I have misinterpreted it, I would very much like to know so I can inform my accountant. VAT is enough of a hairy mess as it is.
Most EU countries you pay the tax regardless of owning a TV or not, it is part of the electricity bill or similar.

I have lived half of my life in Germany and still find it strange having GEZ, or whatever replaced it now, instead of everyone pays approach that most countries on the continent do.
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US Supreme Court rejects Trump-backed bid to overturn election
nah, AOC is legit
I don't know either way about your question, but aren't these sort of power law dynamics common in everything? I don't think it would be surprising if that was the case with this "pandemic" nor would it make this virus special. Just like 90% of the content is created by 10% of the people in social media, or something like that.
Plastic surgeons: Business up because clients don’t like how they look on Zoom
Illegal but also very possibly without consequence. The NLRB has no independent enforcement power, sadly: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do
FDA Authorizes Emergency Use of Pfizer’s Coronavirus Vaccine
Or you can side step the issue by avoiding chaining together long lists of adjectives.

You're spot on with the articles though. When coming from a language like Japanese that doesn't have articles the using "a" and "the" correctly is maddening.
so this killer misspelled plenty of words, some on purse, most not, and he came up with a cypher that wasn't broken for 5 decades, even with computers we had up to this day? you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that something doesn't add up.
It’s mentioned in the nature article:

> Studies of common-cold coronaviruses, sampled across multiple seasons, have identified some signs of evolution in response to immunity. But the pace of change is slow, says Volker Thiel, an RNA virologist at the Institute of Virology and Immunology in Bern. “These strains remain constant, more or less.”

So there seems to be a pretty good chance that this won’t really be an issue.
To be fair, YouTube doesn't run on Linux anyway, it crawls, unless you happen the have the magical combination of proper drivers.
The exception to this is a handful of remaining "legacy" pre-RIR address holders. I'm surprised AWS, etc. are so willingly handing the addresses they buy from legacy holders over to ARIN.
The Stubborn Classism of Classical Music
Salesmen have spent much more time learning about the products they sell than I do. Should I trust them completely and buy what they tell me to?
> My pet theory is that it isn't a decline of brain ability but rather a psychological shift: Adults expect results, get frustrated more quickly, can't tolerate speaking "silly" for long etc.

Totally agree. An adult working full time on acquiring a language can learn to use a foreign language at an adult level within maybe a year or so. It's just that nobody does that, because there are other things to do...

Children literally need decades to reach an adult level of competence in their native language, despite 24/7 immersion.

Language learning techniques for adults (studying abstract grammar, cramming vocabulary) are very effective and kids don't learn the way.

There is one major disadvantage that adults have though, and that's at acquiring correct pronunciation. I think I've never met a person in my life who didn't learn a language from a very young age and who didn't sound slightly off to a native speaker.

There might be the rare exceptional talent who can do that, but to a first approximation it's not possible as an adult anymore.
The rise of 15-minute cities (profiling startup: Reef)
I didn't say Linux is intentionally bad at hibernation/shutdown: I said maybe it's not a priority in terms of resources/focus.

At no point did I say users want it to be bad at shutdown/hibernation.

I said for my job/use-case, I spend most of my time trying to stop the computer from sleeping. I posted this because the comment I was responding to said that 99% of users wanted the computer to sleep on lid-shut, and I thought I'd contribute to point out that's the opposite of my use case (indeed, I pretty much want the computer to never sleep on lid-shut). And i run linux as the primary OS on pretty much all my computers. A lot of linux users are also probably coming from a background where computers didn't sleep/shutdown very often.

I didn't use the word amateur. I didn't use the word professional. I didn't mention anything about using an OS that works as expected. I listed my background and use case.

I didn't say anything about any users being better than others.

I do think, based on all that, you may have some sensitivities that made you interpret things in a particular light.
Use DNS, that’s what it’s there for. MAC addresses aren’t referred to as fundamentally flawed and they are approximately the same length as the shorted version of the address you posted.
Yeah, EV Nova was HUGE. The content was primarily the product of ATMOS studios in Australia. It started out as a plugin for EV Override, but Ambrosia bought the rights and helped turn it into the 3rd iteration of the game.

The original EV was great to explore in, but fairly linear (two main threads to the storyline, I believe), but Nova was massive with so many routes through, I doubt anyone ever saw it all!
While Dash isn't cross platform, there is Zeal https://zealdocs.org/ which works on Windows, Linux and macOS. It's very similar.
(This is satire!)
> So where am I wrong?

Where you think processing the data just means loading up an excel table (or running a CSV through R) and that's the only data relating to the studies. Patient data is not the only thing being analyzed and it includes things like manufacturing, transport, etc

> Where is this MD, MPH from Johns Hopkins wrong?

He's not wrong but his worries as a clinical trial expert are a subset of the worries of an agency like the FDA. And I'm sure his workflow as clinical study expert is more fine tuned for that.

Or as in a developer analogy: making a code change is a 5 minute job. Actually making the change, testing, deploying, etc may take a whole day.

> Why is the UK able to approve it over a week ago but the FDA needs longer?

Pfizer sent the last info to the FDA on 22th of November. The MHRA had started a rolling review and received the last batch of info they needed on the 23rd of November.

I am certainly frustrated with the speed as well, but I don't think it's too much of a difference. Yes, maybe it could be faster.
Security breaches are very convenient.

First, practically any information revealed can be considered security breach even if you just forward a meeting invite with a list of coworkers to your private email or you talked to your friend at a party about what you do at work. This is all explicitly, prominently prohibited by contract (not a google employee but any large corporation I worked did that).

Second, company can avoid releasing too much information about it exactly because it is security matter.

Third, there is usually good track of evidence and it is easy to find. Just look at the mail the person sent outside the company and look for anything they should not be revealing (ie. almost any information).

Fourth, there needs to be no precedent for firing employees for security incidents. Companies do that regularly for valid reasons. And yet as or even more frequently, they decide not to react, also for valid reasons.
The thing about treating people like interchangeable parts and optimizing for low wages is you also get low skilled people / compromise. (low CoL but why stop there, why not look for cheaper people)

Low skilled people will slow things down, will destroy any quality and advantages you have in your code and then leave as they get better (or stay if they're really crappy)

It's worse if they stay as they have a tendency to multiply and get promoted to middle management and crap even more on things...

This will only be noticed via the occasional question "why does it take so long when competitors already did this" after a few years.

Also, by not keeping talent you lose their knowledge. All for what?, I doubt their wages factor too much in any product.

Alternative is to keep good people and pay them well, nurture a culture of excellency and kick out occasional bad hires.

That way you get great products and usually good costs as you tend to need fewer people to get things done (even if they cost more)

Note: I've seen both types of companies and some in between.
Doesn't that just punt the question to, "what is a computational object"?

The fundamental abstraction/metaphor of the CLI is the file (especially in unix), where for a graphical system it is the "window". But the window has always been a weak metaphor. Windows are nothing like the thing outside the computer. Nobody understands them to be metaphors to physical windows. They are much closer to the computational object they represent (an area of i/o) than they are to a real window. Files on the other hand, are like their physical non computer counterparts. They are in fact much closer to real files than they are to a filesystem that's divided up into sectors or whatnot and distributed in the disk.

Does that mean from this definition, cli's are the metaphors and window systems are the abstraction?
Knew author was a complete whiny asshole and stopped reading at 'convicted dog-fighting organizer Michael Vick.'

What a smug piece of shit. Maybe pick another player to highlight instead.
Oh, I think it's time for self reflection! Start the timer.
...unless the sacrificial material is a component of the salt anyway, like Beryllium.

ORNL proposed to have a Beryllium rod in contact with the fuel salt. It isn't needed to prevent corrosion of Hastelloy N in clean fuel salt, but it was intended to scavenge the fission product Tellurium, which was found to otherwise cause corrosion.
Easy, IBM PC clones happened.

Apple are the survivors of the vertical integrated home computers, and they only managed to survive by reverse acquisition of NeXT, and diversifying outside of the desktop market.
US Working Age Population Is Now Shrinking
Depends on your goal. It the goal is to prevent deaths and reduce hospital occupancy then it make sense to give it to those most likely to die or to be hospitalized. If it spreads asymptomaticly that's not a big deal.
But how often do people have to write down or dictate IP addresses?
That seems to be an incorrect understanding. Selective pressure is only one of the factors influencing how frequently the virus has mutations. Self correction mechanics in the RNAs replication seem to have a much more stronger effect, since they “correct” the mutations. The article specifically mentions that the timeline for significant mutations is likely in the order of a few years.
One thing that I see happening time and time again with solutions aimed at less-technical users, is that they inevitably end up being pushed to more technically inclined users as they are still seen as 'too technical'.
As a result, these users work with very limited options while they could (much more easily) build something from scratch.

A concrete example of this is Google Tag Manager, which was made so online marketeers could implement tracking without having to involve software engineers.
In the end, the actual implementation of anything non-trivial is pushed to a software engineer, who has to spend time fighting the system to implement basic things without proper version control that could have been implemented on the actual site in a fraction of the time.

As I write this, I realize that the thing that irks me the most about this is that it is a complete departure from the 'normal' agreed upon way to do proper software engineering, with all the tools that go along with that.
Working in a 'low-code' system almost always means changing your entire process (which often goes against everything we've learned over the last decades of software development).
Scientists just teleported an object into Earth's orbit for the first time (2017)
I think this is true, a lot of enterprise applications can be designed and are designed directly by the developers, that do a mix of backend and frontend work.

By using a UI library like Angular Material, a UI framework like Material Design and some simple UI design principles, it's possible to build a more than decent UI experience, without having UI specialists on the team.
What does AS stand for in this context? An internet search didn't prove to be very useful.
Sadly, POS terminals these days seem to be going in the direction of high-latency touch interfaces. Those old curses-based terminals were so fast to get things done in.

Magit[1] is another modern example of a TUI done right: discoverable, good dwim[2] inference that doesn't get in the way of experts, plus an escape hatch for typing out the exact git commands for those 5% usecases.

[1] https://magit.vc/

[2] do what I mean
To which it will become more contagious more quickly...
Somehow, such dishonesty is tolerated for corporations. That will eventually bite the people back.

Security is personal. Very few people in companies don't violate exposing their user sessions to others unattended, which is a security breach. With GDPR, such lax security may carry million dollar fines, and prison time.
I understand the pricing model of getting in the door that's not where you are going wrong. TRY THIS EXERCISE ACTUALLY LISTEN WHEN PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO HELP YOU.

I don't think you understand, I AM your target market for this product and I'm trying to tell you the model makes no sense, you seem to be focussing on the dollar issue. I did NOT say you are priced too high, I said the pricing/usage model does not make SENSE for THIS product. You think I have the time to keep going back for some non defined "process" every time I want to automate something? Especially when the limits are this low?

I am not going to start using your product when you could vanish after I have advocated for this automation to be installed. The reason? Because I would be the one that got blamed when things suddenly break.

For data entry solutions, I could have it scripted or use any number of solutions that run in software installed on my side of the network that never will get shut off by you, your buyer, your ISP, whatever.

I hope you prove me wrong and you make a lot of money. You never did answer the other important question is what happens if your service goes down or is sold? All those people that integrated with you are going to be royally screwed unless you can offer an in house replacement platform or a guarantee in the notice that is more than reasonable. In the places I've worked this is a no go from the start if this touches anything critical in the flow of business.

I don't want to argue anymore, it never makes progress after this so take the advice or not up to you.
You do know you don't have to write out all the zeros in an IPv6 address?
Built this HN clone last month which is my first Rust project! So far very impressed with the language.

This also uses my own frontend web framework Prism. Prism is a new web framework which has the ability to "prerender" pages in Rust. Kinda of like something like NextJS is but the render functions are native/pure rust code. There is no other frontend web framework (React, Vue, Svelte) which has this ability, Prism is the first.

Maybe you are writing are site which does rendering through a server side templating language. These are purely server side rendering solutions and miss out on some of the progressive benefits of client side rendering, routing and runtime JS. Using Prism you can get those benefits but can build backend and server side rendering in Rust rather than have to shell out a slower JS server.

It also has a special technique for hydration that is much faster than partial hydration as does not require any JS state blob or rerender on load. You can read about this here: https://dev.to/kaleidawave/jit-hydration-4b62

I have a full article more about the development here: https://kaleidawave.medium.com/hacker-news-clone-with-prism-...

And the site is public here: http://40.115.126.159/

This is very experimental at this stage , if you are writing sites that do SSR in a language other than JS, Prism is working on enable compilation for other languages such has been done for Rust. It would be great to hear your opinions on it!
Autonomous System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
You mean ceramics?

There are so many to chose from, and most are unusable for one reason or another. The leading candidate being investigated is carborundum (silicon carbide). It doesn't corrode in molten salt, it low appetite for neutrons, is reasonably easy to manufacture, conducts heat fairly well. It's even mentioned in the video.
This is a good question, I don't get why you are downvoted. I also own some /22 and I've been so far reluctant to rent them for the reasons you mentioned.
Oh this is an interesting workaround. Didn't know you can limit memory to processes. Ubuntu doesn't handle out of memory at all. The whole system just locks up and freezes (at least on 20.04)

Like you say, it doesn't release memory so I need to restart periodically. If I forget then I need to do a hard restart when the system locks up (sometimes loosing work :/)

It seems strange.. it used to handle hundred of open tabs just fine and now it's completely crippled. My guess is that in making the browser faster they cache more and more - and Firefox devs prolly run on fancy machines with tons of RAM.
It has nothing to do with network admins. Everything the majority of customers care about in the US is available on IPv4 and sometimes ipv6. If v6 goes down for your customers, they probably won’t even notice. If you don’t have v4, you don’t have a business.

It hasn’t even been that long that Amazon EC2 has had v6 support, which is where a huge chunk of the Internet is hosted.

The network admins at ISPs are just providing connectivity the customers demand. It’s hosting providers and sys admins that don’t bother setting up anything interesting on v6 in the first place.
So ... knowledge wasn’t power after all?
Someone always has to make this argument.

A) we all know, we're not 6 years old.

B) it doesn't really matter, the value is still $2B. It's not the total dump sale value we care for but the actual value of these addresses in the hands of Amazon.

Edit: apply this same exact comment also to any discussion about Bezos' net worth
It spesifically says its not for accessibility testing in the article.
My startup offers a residential IP sharing model where users get paid to share their bandwidth: https://packetstream.io
This is going to be a boon for bitcoin exchanges and their likes. These will become “prepaid btc / monero cards” or something like that.
i'm with grumple. over half of Google's CEOs and founders have been charged with sexual misconduct and worse. schmidt should be in jail.
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Fluoride (with a 'd') is not fluorine (with a 'n'). The difference is as big as that between sodium and sodium chloride. You can eat one, but not the other.

The most powerful oxidizer in MSR fuel salt is the U(IV) ion.
Yeah Python culture is generally pretty "direct". I did mostly python the last decade and got so used to "no problem to read the source of pytorch or whatever" that I meanwhile really feel challenged when I look at Java, C# whatever framework/library code to figure out where the abstractions end and the actual work is happening.
My own code also became less and less abstract over time.
I tried writing my own little accounting app in GnuCOBOL. For fun, believe it or not. It didn't take me too long to bow to the inevitable and rewrite it in Perl.

Speaking tangentially, there's a project on Sourceforge called Applewood Computers Accounting System
https://sourceforge.net/projects/acas/

I had a look at it a few years ago, and decided it probably wasn't suitable for my purposes. Interestingly, I see that it was updated in June of this year. The original code stretches back decades, IIRC, and has been deployed in a commercial setting. I spoke to the author on one occasion.

I have a casual interest in retro stuff, so Cobol was kinda interesting to play with for awhile, but in the end I decided that it was hopelessly impractical.
I suspect you're being rhetorical, but the algorithm and specific metrics to use are selected by the developer. The data is entirely user generated - it's the result of collecting the metrics over some period of time. The trained model is the result of feeding the collected data into the chosen algorithm.

The point is that the algorithm is, for all practical purposes, tuning itself. The developer has essentially selected a black box to feed the data into, told it what to optimize for, and given it the ability to wiggle a bunch of unlabeled knobs. Which knobs it should tweak and in precisely what way is never specified by the developer. Instead of "show the following things to the following users", the developer just says "maximize number of videos viewed per visit" and the algorithm tweaks whatever parameters have been made available to it until it finds something that works.

Unfortunately, "something that works" is often not what we might have liked. ML is a bit like a Djinn, fulfilling wishes in an unpredictable and borderline malicious manner.
> You clearly don't travel, or you're a liar, because your varied claims are uproariously disconnected reality.
Why mRNA vaccines won’t change your genetic material
“Activist”? This was spearheaded by the US government against Wikileaks.
Ah yes, typical HNer.
Modular unikernel designed to run applications securely on micro-VMs
Things beginning with -- are generally just variables in css that can be retrieved later.

Older browsers used to have lots of ways to execute js from css (e.g. expression()) but all the browser vendors realized that that was terrible and are careful not to allow it. Most modern pure css attacks (in general, not what this article is about) involve loading different background images based on page content to exfiltrate secrets.
css custom property. doesn’t run anything, but it holds a string verbatim, that js code can read
Why there's "new Function()" that looks for CSS computed styles with "--script"? Is this some pattern with a popular JS framework?
This is a very good suggestion, do you have anything specific in mind? We've been looking at the the WAC spec (part of the Solid project) which is related, though different, and interesting.
https://github.com/solid/web-access-control-spec do you have any thoughts on that?
I'm glad you like it, I've found these lectures to be helpful. Some of my favorites are linked below:

[0] http://rickroderick.org/304-marcuse-and-one-dimensional-man-...

[1] http://rickroderick.org/301-paul-ricoeur-the-masters-of-susp...

[2] http://rickroderick.org/306-foucault-and-the-disappearance-o...

[3] http://rickroderick.org/206-nietzsche-the-will-to-power-1991...
perhaps internal reflection within the beer can
This would lead to incredible toxic situations.
If I want to apply to 5 companies and all 5 have 1, but different questions that I could learn in a week. Would you considser it would be more efficient for any party for me to learn this in advance?

Also, this assumes it is known upfront what this required knowledge would be...