skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really true that all of them are: Alaska and North Dakota are actually quite wealthy per capita due to petroleum. Connecticut is also one of the states handling the vaccination quite well, and it's quite urban. But a number of the states doing well with vaccinations are quite poor and rural, and that just makes it all the more damning that California is doing so terribly poorly.

As far as I can tell, it's not anything particularly to do with any demographic factor: other big states like New York and Texas are doing much better than California. States that are both deeply red and deeply blue are doing much better than California. California is just... failing. We're underperforming every state that might reasonably be a comparator.
My wife started cooking bacon in the oven or toaster oven. It increases latency from a cold start (preheating) but I find it takes less attention that a stovetop, and the result is still tasty. I am curious if you have experimented with that, specifically because as you state you enjoy the scheduling most.
Lol, "innovation".

How about this: Every user, when setting up a new device, gets a clearly displayed option as to whether or not they want to be shown personalized ads based on the tracking of their browser history. Basically, a clearly displayed "Yes, I want to be tracked for the purposes of showing me ads" option. How many people do you think with want to opt in if they really had the choice? Heck, why do you think Facebook is going so bananas over Apple just asking people to opt-in to tracking?

The only 'innovation' going on is making the tracking difficult for your average, non-technical person to (a) know what is going on and (b) how to opt-out.
I think the idea that once a few at-risk populations get vaccinated we can “go back to normal” is pretty naive. You still get it mildly and can spread it once vaccinated. People outside at-risk groups who aren’t vaccinated yet can die. We don’t know how long the vaccine is good for—maybe we have to get it once a year like the flu, who knows? I’m a gambler and I’d bet we’ll be wearing masks for years, and possibly forever, depending on how the thing mutates and behaves.

My parents think they are gonna get jabbed then it’s off to happy hour, and that just seems incredibly simplistic.
Good advise - I know people who got fired because all of a sudden during a zoom session on their personal device some content showed up that would not have been on a work computer.
Seconding this. Our team actually decided to implement gRPC + gRPC-gateway in a green-field project at work, as part of an initiative to "PoC" that it could be done and bring us lots of benefits. We got auto-gen'd docs, clients, all the works that gRPC + protobuf in Golang promises.

Between a few breaking upstream changes in grpc-gateway (iirc), learning a new framework vs the stdlib + chi router setup that had already been proven in the greater team, feature shipment dropped through the floor. Couple that with the fact that, as stated, these benefits come with well-iterated data models; conversely, our _not_ well-established data models proved to be a constant PITA when having to regenerate this file and that file. No one used the auto-gen'd docs because they were constantly changing anyway. And integrating with our CI/CD pipeline was a nightmare.

Between providing value with a team's previously proven tools and spending innovation tokens, I'd definitely suggest weighing carefully if you need this to be one of them (bi-directional streaming and a well-established project seem like good candidates though).
> The host of a social media platform should be no more lumped in with the users of that platform than a phone company

Section 230 exists because even the legal system assumed guilt by association. Without it, sharing someone's false information would be illegal (such as the false dominican voting machine statements[0]). The phone company isn't liable because they're a public utility and don't moderate content - but congress didn't want the internet to be the internet to be filled with porn, so they created 230 which allowed them to remove some content without being liable for all content.

0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2020/12/21/fox-new...
Best practice - get a bag and make French onion soup. By the 4th onion with a YouTube video with proper technique you will be screaming fast comparatively. And French onion soup is delicious
It isn't dehumanizing to consider someone "a source of information or expertise". It's humanizing in that those are predominantly human things. And that's one of the primary senses of the word. It seems uncharitable to assume someone must mean some other sense.
The LZ algorithms are like magic. LZ78 factorization can be written in 5 line of python, and then can be used in a mysteriously effective distance metric. The power of math and "useless" Kolmogorov complexity!
>A less dramatic way to put this might be: the person who is paying the bill is the person who gets to decide.

Well, the reason they're "paying the bill" is because they have the money and you don't.

Which is as good as the King having gold and army, and you, the serf not.

>Arguably, this is as it should be. Taken to its logical conclusion the alternative would mean that nobody is entitled to make a decision about anything without taking a referendum on the matter.

If only we weren't forced by the laws of nature to take things to their "logical conclusion" (i.e. their exaggerated slippery slope ending), but could instead use some moderation and judgment, but still come with something better than strict hierachical dominance in companies...

If only...
Your co-worker is not your friend either (at first, or may never be).
I am not angry or outraged. I didnt call him a hypocrite.

People simply lose sight of the luxury and freedom that we have in modern societies. It takes active reflection and a study of history to really appreciate the things we have.

While an improvement to the economics system or the lives of the common man is possible, you cannot do it if you don't have an honest vision of what the current condition is.

So much work has been done to build the modern society. You wouldn't call linux a waste of time because it has bugs, would you?
The alternative to capitalistic forces showing you ads personalized based on your conversation isn't to get the same app with no ads at all - it is either get the same app just with non-personalized ads, or no app at all.
It seems to do the equivalent of this on my ubuntu machine too.
I'll hedge this by saying I can only speak for the teams I've worked on, plus my somewhat limited understanding of company-wide policies.

The answer to both questions is no. If you opt out, your data is not used for modeling or targeting or anything. Perhaps some internal reporting that isn't used for anything other than like PMs wanting to understand user behavior? Even that I'm not sure about.

If you are identified as being in market for something based on activity and then opt out, you will no longer be classified as being in market. That classification will be deleted- though perhaps not immediately but within some reasonable time frame, say 24 hours or so.
Drop all requirements for vaccination except age. This vastly simplifies logisitics and virtually guarantees you will not have vaccines expiring.
It is not illegal to be stupid.
This cattle vs pet analogy is harmful.

I found many people using it for the sake of sounding articulated, but not even in farms cattles are as disposable as we like to use it to refer to computers, distributions or whatever.
Griffin also apologized for it. And was still investigated by the secret service.
This is the right answer. This is the only reason that we know that it works. The other answers are more like the history of this vaccine (which are really interesting though)
Best friends are not the ones being targeted here. You have examples such a Don Lemon trying to tar all Republican voters as being in league with the neo Nazis https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6223009033001 .

Loose associations don't mean you are in agreement with people on every possible issue. I agree with Hitler that public sanitation is important but consider him to be one of the most evil men to ever exist.

It's just not a good way to make a judgement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
> Are there good features to help lower the distraction level?

Disable all notifications on it and it quickly evolves into a regular watch on your wrist.

> Do you find it useful (and worth the price) for the passive health tracking stuff?

It's a nice companion to an Apple device in the Apple ecosystem; and, if you're someone that's not into Fitbit for whatever reason, I've found it fine.

I also own the least expensive Apple Watch 6, as I was using it as a test device to see if I'd be interested in staying in the ecosystem. I don't see a reason to leave it.

I've also bought one for my mother - who immediately disabled all notifications, too, for herself; and, she quite likes it so far. I asked her to turn on fall notification and we're friends on Apple Fitness Sharing or whatever it's called.

I think it's fine and it serves my needs. I would need to look at the market again for another device that has over a day of battery life (always-on screen off, no notifications), an O2 sensor, heartrate sensor, doesn't fight with my PiHole or VPN (Fitbit did not like me being on a VPN) and other features if I'm in the mood for them.

I use Apple Pay all the time, so it's nice there, as well.

I mean, I'm happy?
ahh, you beat me to it! Yes, good point about the smaller stomachs.

Wikipedia says that "Studies show that there is a correlation between small stature and a longer life expectancy. Individuals of small stature are also more likely to have lower blood pressure and are less likely to acquire cancer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height

So this could be it ;-)
He was probably referring to the Soviet Union - but his prediction about communist/totalitarian regimes being "heirs" (i.e effectively deal w/ over population) seems somewhat accurate at least.

Also - clearly Jordan Peterson got his fashion sense from Aldous here.
thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14462125
If everyone else is getting the same dozen daily scam emails related to Ethereum that I am, I'd have to assume that it has irreparably harmed the currency's reputation.
You don't need to trust the server with E2E encryption. If you can review and trust the client, the server only has access to the information that the client sends.

Even if they release up-to-date server code, we have no way to confirm that's the code that's running on their servers. People would then complain that they don't have shell access to the servers to ensure the code is what is expected.
Its pretty bad.

XCode (with swift) seems to crash on me regularly just with normal usage. The last time I used it occasionally it would lag so badly that it sometimes lost characters I was typing, and my code would come out completely garbled (what!?). A few weeks ago I tried to do a local build of Signal's iOS app and the swift compiler errored out on some random function. Apparently it spent so long doing type inference that it decided to just generate a compilation error instead. I guess I'm not wealthy enough to even compile swift code slowly. (For reference, this on a $3000 (AUD) macbook pro from 2016 with 16 gigs ram, the latest xcode and nothing else open).

Back in the objective-C days I used to really like XCode and loved interface builder. The documentation and ecosystem seemed top notch. But in the last few years its gotten much, much worse. Its like the old guard have left and a young generation have come in to develop the swift ecosystem - and they just don't have good judgement yet. The documentation is halfbaked at best. The whole environment is an overcomplicated, buggy, laggy mess. Its a pity too, because I think Swift is a lovely language and I love what they're doing with SwiftUI.

In comparison I find microsoft's tooling around their languages to be excellent. Visual studio + vs code are fast, stable, feature rich and responsive. Particularly with microsoft's own languages: C# and typescript.
This is...a little terrifying to read knowing that I could do this any day now if I decided to. I’m almost afraid of what it would be like, and the possibility of liking it.
HR even eats it's own. At a company I worked for, after a merger with another company, one of the HR reps was tasked with laying off numerous people. It was the first time she did it, and it devastated her. At the end of the grueling week, HR laid her off.
twitter didn't remove it initially and must have done so only after backlash pointing out their hypocrisy. Opponents of Trump have had free reign the last four years to incite violence against him and his supporters. Once you label your opponents nazis you can say what you like as far as the tech giants are concerned.
Article is about a german company.
>With the major difference that these days a lot of people get to choose their employers.

That was true for many in the feudal times too, they could shop around and pledge their allegiance to one or another feudal lord, and even be given a plot of land to cultivate (as long as the lord got their share of the results).

If anything, the feudal lords left them even more to their own devices, and demanded even less of their produce (like 10% was common).

If it wasn't for the lack of technology and modern conveniences and frequent wars and dangers from outside, it would be a pretty good lifestyle...
Growing up in the pacific northwest, I don't think this is a most people thing. :) everyone I know walking around there cares about wet feet, since it's likely to happen 270 days out of the year.
This was how we graded exams when I was a TA. Graders were assigned a specific question and would pass it off to the next station when done.
than any other editor.

Does that includes Vim?
> I just had a receiver die. It was 8.5 years old, not really outdated... But those kinds of things should last a lot longer!

If it's just a capacitor that failed, it might be repairable for a few dollars. Electrolytic capacitors unfortunately have a finite lifetime, which gets worse with higher temperatures.
What’s the Use of LinkedIn?
Speaking of repairing, learning a little bit about electronics and soldering has greatly improved my ability to fix various electronics. Usually it’s something small like a bad cap or mosfet.

I really believe they should teach basic electronic repair in school. A tiny bit goes a long way.
Show HN: Instil – Platform for creating and monetising live classes
Well that clears it up.
> Being under-40 with no kids or seniors in my home, easily working from home, I expect to get vax sometime this summer. This is fine, I’m happy to let seniors, medical and frontline workers get it first. This of course includes teachers so they can open schools for good come August.

I'd probably pay $29.95 per month to participate in a social network where the average comment is as normal as this paragraph.

Call it sensiblepeoplewhowearmasks.com or perhaps lowerbloodpressure.org
They've had a year to prepare.
The login items are applications that open automatically when the computer is started (like the startup folder on Windows).
I didn't read it that way. Also a lifelong registered Democrat who isn't happy with the way California is being run.
I thought I'd chime in with something that seems to be overlooked. Japanese have the 80% diet rule. Eat until you are 80% full. Hara hachi bun me. Calorie restriction has been shown to increase lifespan in several different species,

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/calorie...
Other way around. Alt-right is attempting to co-opt "freedom of speech" the same way they've co-opted "patriot".
We recently converted a chrome extension into safari extension using the tool provided by apple [1]. While the conversion is smooth in general, the generated app (not the extension) got UI issue during extension review! Reviewer insists the app does not fit the UI guideline. I need to write back and explain the entire app is actually generated by the official Apple tool. The only use of generated app is open the preferences page of Safari. Anyway, after two back and forth, the extension is finally launched.

[1]: https://bartsolutions.github.io/2020/11/20/safari-extension/
> how come I can trivially change brightness on a laptop monitor but none of my desktop screens?

In Windows I'm using a free app called Twinkle Tray that sits right in the Taskbar and you can use the mouse wheel or click it to increase/decrease the brightness. In Mac I use Brightness Slider, also free. These apps have been life savers!
> anything served cold besides ice cream is disgusting,

In the west there are salads. They're cold. In Japan salads are rare and usually nothing but iceberg lettuce and cherry tomatoes.

> who thinks that anything pickled is gross,

The pickled isle of a western super market has more pickled things than the corresponding Japanese super market. They're just different kinds of pickled things.

> normal Japanese meal generally has a pretty good mix of stuff

And similar in the west isn't it? The normal family dinner is 1 meat dish (beef/chicken/pork/fish), 1 starch dish (bread/potatoes/rice), 1-2 veggie dishes (salad, green beens, peas, carrots, etc...)

Japanese "in general" find many western things disgusting. Most Japanese find savory beans gross. As popular as cheese as become in Japan there's still a large percentage of Japanese that have never eaten any or eat it rarely. This is especially true outside big cities where the culture is less influenced by the west.

Japanese often can't eat anything other than Japanese food. There are plenty of tours of other countries where you can sign up to have all your meals prepared for you while abroad and all of it will be Japanese food.

Many Asian cultures (including Japan), for many people if you haven't eating a bowl of rice you haven't eaten.
Whoooooooooooo would not want to catch whatever the fuck that charge is
It is a good thing to have a sharp knife if you are into making food from scratch, because if you are, you will be using the knife a lot.
Most of the tooling that comes with a kitchen isn't very friendly to learn, and while more transparent companies grant chef access for assistants, many still resist allowing chef privileges on the kitchen. The standard oven that used to be the default cooking, baking, and frying aren't commonly used in modern kitchen shops.

Too many people, knifes and other tools are unneeded overhead on their application. One can cook a little cake, or pasta and be off to the races while only interacting with kitchen as part of their build system.
Fat shaming is brutal in Asian countries. If one is fat, they will be bullied or they will need to be bully. I know a Pakistani American obese woman who went to Pakistan for a wedding. Every kid in the neighborhood was calling "moti" auntie which is equalant of fatty.

I work with a lot of Indians and they will randomly point out that you have gained weight.
>Are we talking about work or life? Sure, private companies aren't democracies, but why should they be? Democracies are extremely inefficient.

Isn't the common argument of economists that democracies are more efficient? (I do believe they're just paying service to their own governments, and just say what gets them grants and such, but in any case, that's the conventional wisdom).

Plus, democracies are "less efficient" compared to what dictatorship that did better than a democracy?

The main counter-example that comes to mind is China, and even them are mainly effective because of huge population and low labor costs, by being the place to outsource production by those democracies that can pay for it.

>I can't imagine them being nearly as effective because democratic processes to get new features would always be gridlocked.

Grid-locked by what? The purpose of voting in a democracy is to remove gridlocks. You don't even have to vote for everything, you can vote on a platform, and can delegate power for a certain time to someone to make the decisions, and then judge how they performed, and vote again after the period ended.

>Outside of work I certainly live in a free society. I can walk up to a rich person ("a lord") and insult him to his face and nothing will happen.*

You'd be surprised.

Plus, they can crush your neighborhood (e.g. to throw the tenants out and build some monstrocity), cajole with your lawmakers, fuck your working life, pollute your city/countryside/water supply, and usually nothing will happen.

And if they really cared, they could trivially have you killed, with nothing happening. It's just not worth the small risk of them being tied to it. But they hire legal teams and detectives to throw dirt at their enemies all the time..
I imagine most people who have worked at a company probably know these things very well already, but it's nice to have them acknowledged and repeated publicly since companies rarely tell the truth in this regard.
I disagree, too, because while you are cooking, there are a lot of other things to do in the kitchen. There are times when you are just waiting 2-3 hours. If you have unwashed dishes, that is a good time to clean it all up. Once you are done with the kitchen, feel free to do anything else until, say, the lentils are done.
The other commenter kind of hinted at it, but there's tricks to cutting every vegetable efficiently. Humans have been cooking forever and have gotten good at it.
I run untested, viewer-submitted code on my 500-LED Christmas tree
that's a hell of a niche given that it probably describes the distances between countless of population centres on the globe. As the article points out, it's a 2 trillion dollar industry.
Ypu're missing the point. There is no way anyone can implement or disprove the merits of this patent. No one now has an incentive to even try, because it's already owned. Therefore, innovation not encouraged.

When the legal construct becomes a method of financial speculation, I object to the assertion it does anything other than what it seems to do on the tin, which is provide a framework to front run people doing actual work.

I don't buy it.
Southeast Asia's Grab considering U.S. IPO this year
Richard Feynman has a short book on Quantum electrodynamics for dummys. Otherwise known as QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. Read that as many times as you need to break you of any preconceived notions about how light works.

As for sin waves etc. It's better think of light oscillation between it's energy as an electric field and a magnetic field at right angles to each other. Although I think that's kinda gross and wrong.

As for an antenna producing visible light, in theory there isn't any reason. Because radio waves are light. The problem is practicalities.
What's not mentioned in the OP:

- INSANE peer pressure. If you're skinny as a twig in the US, you're probably considered normal in Japan. If you're actually an obese person (again, in the US standard), people here wouldn't even look at you straight. This kind of environment put a huge pressure for one to stay in shape.

- INSANE obsession for health. I hear that Americans are obsessed with health, but oh boy, have they looked into Japan. Small clinics are everywhere and they're always filled with anxious patients because they have a benign stomach pain or something. Physical checkup is mandatory for most companies. I also read that the fear of COVID in Japan is the strongest in the world, despite a relatively low infection/death number here. People are always talking about their health, and so is the national media. If you watch the Japanese TV, you'll also feel sick, simply because there's so much fear! Maybe this is good for public health overall, but I bet there's a certain mental toll.
I think the point is that HR exists primarily to protect the company from its employees. It's very good at that.