skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously, none of this is black and white. It's definitely possible for the less well-off to devote resources to passing meritocracy tests. It's just harder.

It's not either or: 1) people should take more accountability for their own lives, but at the same time, 2) it should be easier to raise yourself up if you're less fortunate.

If you're willing to overcome the obstacles you can accomplish nearly anything. I'm just in favor of fewer obstacles.
You probably have to separate out "the EPA" (a somewhat loaded term) from the things the EPA did, like ban Lead in drinking water, or eliminate acid rain.

If you break it down to the concrete actions, most of the historical ones are reasonably popular. Even today (well, 2017) "The EPA", unqualified, was reasonably popular:

> Some 39 percent of Americans would like to see the EPA, the nation’s top environmental regulator, “strengthened or expanded,” while another 22 percent hope for it to “remain the same,” according to the poll. Just 19 percent said they would like to see the agency “weakened or eliminated” and the rest said they “don’t know.”

(https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-environment/unl...)
> But that's not possible so you have to find a middle ground.

How about we set the middle ground as "respecting local regulation" at a specific time point? It's incredibly mindblowing to me that he basically said in public "we're gonna ignore your laws" and the local government was like "lol, whatcha gonna do".
Totally agree. One redeeming truth is that software is similar to finance in that it gives an outsized advantage to a business vs one that doesn't get it. Unlike finance though, "softwarizing" a company is a much more drastic transformation than having a finance team and most business can't level up. It so happens that we're still at the early ages of that process and thus the "tech company" distinction still exists. In the future all big companies will be "tech companies" in that sense. (Marc was right)
Get them to look at https://yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk/ and report their side effects. That's the UK system for reporting side effects in medications of any form.

Also weekly report of the covid-19 vaccine side effects here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid...

Had my jab 3 hours ago, and enjoying a nice honey dew pomelo as I type thinking, fruit just don't get any better than this.
I had no idea this was even an option to change. I love it already.

I'm guessing the feedback they provided in the ticket means they will be keeping this option, thankfully
A couple of additional benefits of OODA loops, not editing my original because I'm on mobile:

It really helps prevent micromanaging, because it encourages the team leader to only change orders in response to a change in what they've observed.

It's very useful in after action debriefing ("debugging" for the HN crowd), because specific questions can be asked about where in the OODA loop a fault occured. Did you observe something incorrectly, or miss noticing a key detail? Did you incorrectly orient yourself because you didn't understand the purpose of what you were doing? Did you make a bad decision, or the wrong decision? Did you do everything else right, but your team failed in taking action correctly? Utilizing this framework gives granularity and introspection to you decision making process.

It prevents undermanagement, as you feel compelled (and justified) in responding to a changing situation, rather than fighting with yourself about taking action.
Yes, I know that the brains behind the vaccine are the people from BioNTech, but without the engineering, manufacturing and delivery guaranteed by Pfizer, we would have been in a bad spot here in the EU. Research is great, but implementation is what kills us... and bureaucracy.
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Dear Mozilla,

I've been an evangelist for FF for 15-ish years, since before Chrome existed. I teach computer science, which means my evangelism is multiplied by the hundreds of students I see every year.

Why is it that every time we interact, you're ruining something?

This removal of Compact will not be the straw that breaks my back, but it's still one more straw. Why are you playing chicken with your userbase?

Yours,
jholman
Ironically I never understood agile and waterfall either.

I always thought that the entire universe operates by what people seem to call "waterfall", and "agile" was just a term that managers use when they're not happy with the way the universe works so they can bump up their own reputation.
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If it weren't for those 'using a browser with a worse experience because of some futile moral cause', IE would still be king.
The feeling I am getting is that AZ is being less cautious with their promises. What I fear is that they did the same with their fase 3 trials.

I read an unsourced claim on HN a few weeks ago that they did 9 phase-3 trials, and applied for approval on the basis of only 2. Which would be rather bad if true. Moreover, it is clear that their 1.5 dose regimen was a mistake in trial execution.

Meanwhile, the FDA still hasn't approved AZ.

It seems possible that AZ was overeager to present good results, and thus was less cautious than they should have been.
It's only a possibility, but its one that worries me.

Anyone here have an source to confirm / debunk the rumor that AZ did 9 trials, and only applied on the basis of 2 trials?

edit:
I just looked at the stats in the UK, and it certainly seems like since they started vaccinating cases have dropped off, and deaths have dropped of even faster. Since vaccines are probably targeted at the more vulnerable, it certainly seems to show that the vaccine has very positive net effects.
Can you expand on this? What's so bad about the defaults?
It was enabled by default for me - I presume it just took my OS appearance settings?
Perhaps all these people are reluctant to share their actual personality and insights with people who “cleverly lob” tricky questions, “filter for potential friends” based on binary answers to binary questions, and think they’re being magnanimous when they avoid debate “kill-shots”.
Perhaps you should consider the death rate per million between UK and Germany first?

Or compare with Ireland next door to UK, if they had same death rate there be about 70K more people alive in UK today

Yet all of that was forgotten in the manufactured in media vaccine nationalism wars
Shame that we can't convert, say, jogging or bicycling into BTC mining.
Probably so that Indians cashing out can't get as much real money for their digital bucks.
> At some point isn't contacting this service really just contacting a handful of IP addresses?

"Handful". S3 has 283 subnets allocated to it, biggest one being a /15, so there are some few hunderd thousand IP addresses reserved for S3. While impossible to say how many of them are actively in use, I imagine large fraction of them.

The AWS IP ranges are documented in https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json
Banning mining alone is unenforceable. All of the other aspects are required.

Ultimately mining becomes uneconomical when the price of the coin falls. As such anyone who wishes to 'ban' mining should also aim to reduce the price of the coin as much as possible.
Nope. They are options, like quarantine, masks, different vaccines. It's not "this vaccine right now or death."

The most sensible thing is to investigate this, maybe more without the vaccine died from thrombosis, but need to see.
If there's a regional instability for a year or two and spent fuel pools boil off and then waste melts through, possibly poisoning the groundwater for that region, that's a big problem.
So a more accurate description is: politicians care deeply if people die from an action (or inaction) that went against the public opinion.
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I've owned the Original Vive, the Vive Pro, Vive Pro with wireless add-on, and the Quest 2 - everything is put away in favor of the Quest 2, in fact I bought two of them. I even made a (only for the Quest) facebook account, something I haven't had since 2010. The Quest 2 is awesome, IMO the first truly accessible VR platform.

With a modern wifi hub, it can also stream from your PC outrageously well - no cable needed. (Virtual Desktop + Sidequest).

Anyway, I recommend it.
> Maybe the problem is actual hardware

I think it is - as far as I know most modern GPUd implement MSAA at the hardware level, and that's why even a mobile GPU can handle. 8x MSAA at 1080p.

I don't know anything about the Raspberry Pi GPU, but maybe you'd have better results switching to FXAA or SMAA there (by which I mean faster, not visually better).
> It's not more morally reprehensible than <very reprehensible thing>.
Facebook does offer a paid option for “companies”, called Workplace. IIRC, it costs $3 per active user per month. I don’t know about feature parity with the surveillance based facebook.com. Of course, Workplace cannot be used with random people that one may interact with across different spheres of life.
Because they’re a “tech” company through and through and to them it’s a step backwards.
Regardless, you can't compare the US to countries like Sweden or Norway which are 95% white and 85% ethnically homogeneous.
>Given that some amount of alternate vaccines are available, governments are doing the right thing by "deferring" deployment of this vaccine for a short while, because this move has the highest chance avoiding direct harm to people from medicine

I think so too, especially since AZ is one of the least effective ones available.
The quickest way to learn what you need to know is to start building. Then there will be something you need to know to keep going and you learn that and keep going until the next thing you need to know and you learn that...and so on.

Sure later you might face something you need to know and wish you had known earlier because now you need to redo a part or all of your earlier work. That is unavoidable. Doing things wrong is what "learning" means.
Yes, in deed we have. As does France.
That's not what this is.

The quantitative model has its own problems. It's why youtube, for instance, looks like it's designed for toddlers using tablets.
SpaceX satellites are designed to remove themselves from orbit and burn up. Few of them will be space junk.

They are a headache for astronomers. Its debatable which is the bigger public good.
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But it is not a matter of "if". It is a matter of "when". Bad actor(s) will find out at some point if it is even remotely popular and then it's game over.
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The twenty dollar bill was called a "yuppie food coupon" back when yuppies were a thing. You went to a restaurant, and regardless of the price of your meal, you expected that a $20 would be food, tax, beverage, and tip, without expecting all that much change back. So if "food from any restaurant seems to cost at least $40 for two people", that would suggest that the cost of the yuppie food coupon hasn't changed since the 80s.

Similarly "Starbucks" has been called "Fourbucks" since at least the 90s. If you don't want to pay that much, it's basically a dollar at any convenience store -- literally for pretty much any volume.

As for your investments... yeah, I do think there's inflation there. We're Quantitatively Easing money directly into the stock market, and it doesn't seem to be making its way out. That's a problem, but not a CPI problem.

Similarly, the housing market is up in some places and way down in others -- most visibly in New York and San Francisco, where a ton of people had been paying a lot of money. The money appears to have moved without changing the total amount being paid all that much.
> Citation definitely needed. This is worded without precision, you could claim "work as well" to mean nearly anything. Do you have specifics, with data? Performance? Functionality? Features? DRM? What is it? I haven't encountered any broken web sites with desktop Firefox. But, I also don't look at all the internet, so I'm curious - what's broken?

Mostly JS-heavy sites by big companies. But yes, I admit that I don't have hard data to back this claim up.

> What alternatives are there? Chrome is a no-go, Brave is off doing it's URL redirect and bitcoin weirdness (that I don't need in a browser) Edge is just Chrome. There's some de-googled Chrome options and I guess some weird special-build Firefox options, but really, out of all the options I see, FF is best for me.

Un-googled chromium is one. I suppose that I trust Mozilla marginally more with my user data than Google.

But yes, I agree, the browser landscape is pretty lousy right now.

> I'm not changing because they moved one tiny feature used by a very vocal minority, and it's a mistake to assume that FF has no value or no "sell".

I perceive this to be the continuation of a trend.

I think FF still has value for now, but it seems like that value is pretty quickly dropping - as a piece of software, if not from a philosophical perspective (supporting the open web and all that).
Turns out, I was using default density. I thought I was using Compact, so I suppose it isn't personally a big deal to me.

I do agree with most of the complaints, however.

It is apparent to me that there is a faction within Mozilla/Firefox that have an explicit directive to trim low-use features, no matter how passionate the users of those features are. I wish Firefox looked to the GNOME project to see how people feel about removing low-use features ideologically (hint: it sucks).

Chrome does a lot of things correctly, and it has its core competencies. Firefox should have its own, and optimize towards that. The only large group of people advocating for it anymore seem to be skilled users. Why piss them off?

Separate but related: My parents explicitly wanted off FF because it kept on changing its layout. Casual users don't like UI changes.
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Depends on how you define short on doses. We have less than what we've planned but we seem to adminster less than we have at the moment.
Get a cheap 2017 Toyota Camry/Carolla and throw a Comma 2 in it. Car is half the price of a model 3 and for ~$1300 you can get level 2 ADAS.

I have it in a less than optimal car (Honda Fit) and it has transformed how I drive.
People lived in the north without electricity but they've NEVER lived in the north without fire. And there aren't enough trees in the north. Iceland (for instance) cut all of theirs down for heating and other uses. Similar to the British Isles. They turned to burning peat and coal to stay warm (etc). Others have mentioned whale blubber.

Unless you live near a hot springs, electricity is actually the best we've got for staying warm in the north with the least carbon emissions. Nuclear, wind, hydro, or geothermal are all valid options for producing this electricity in the North. Probably in combination and probably with some storage (batteries plus occasional hydrogen?) and heatpumps to increase the efficiency. So in fact, USE electricity.

In the Global South, solar reigns supreme as far as the least expensive energy source.
I agree that it's hard to discover, as I haven't been aware of it until today, despite the thickness of firefox's UI being the most major grip I have with it as an otherwise ardent user. I've added it to my configs and will find a CSS solution if the option goes away.
I followed the second link and while I can't evaluate all the claims made there (many of which seem to be substantive), there are enough that are silly and transparently political so as to cast doubt on the project of "discrediting" his work. Stuff like this:

"Arguments such as these have made him a darling of bourgeois intellectuals, who have grown tired of looking meanspirited and self-serving when they make their transparently desperate efforts to displace histories of imperialism back on its victims. They need a pseudointellectual explanation for inequality in order to sustain the bourgeois social order that guarantees their privilege. This they found in Guns, Germs and Steel."

This kind of psychologizing looks pretty silly to me and I'm not sure what any of it has to do with the arguments made in the actual book.
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Lockdowns are enforced inaction, so the logic is counterintuitive in that case.
It just means that you need to cast via intptr_t, i.e. double casts `(void*)(intptr_t)i` and `(int)(intptr_t)p`. GLib has macros for it if you feel that's useful.
This is kinda similar to ix.io. Cool!
I think I took an advertising class long time ago (so long ago that I don't remember if it was an actual advertising class, Advertising 101 or some marketing class). But, what stuck to me was, that most people said that they were unaffected by ads, and the data showed otherwise. Ads also help with brand recognition etc. Typically, people are very familiar with some space, say desktop CPUs... and they'll say, "I'll never buy an intel CPU just based on an ad", and that might be true. However, when it comes to a space that's completely far away from their day to day expertise, say... weedkiller in the garden, and they're more likely to trust a branded product that they've seen product placement or other types of ad.

Of course, not everyone is that way, but ads have different objectives, and they are effective.
I don't know why firefox has so many different places to change settings
Very true, mining is nowhere near the top of any list of climate concerns.

But I feel like addressing it as a problem now rather than a few years down the road might be a good idea. Socially and politically normalizing the idea of intentionally wasting energy in exchange for financial gain seems like the wrong signal.
By an array of fans specced like 8cm 10W 10krpm, like six fans wide two fans deep, blowing into a passive heatsink, with help of air ducts inside the chassis

Intel or AMD or SPARC or ARM the setup is all the same for rackmount hardwares, pure copper passive heatsink and high power axial fans
Or get an electric car. Even with embodied emissions, it's half (or less) of the emissions of a conventional car. And improving over time. (In the US, emissions per kWh of electricity have dropped about 30% over the last 10 years alone.)
Come on, the government is not "communist" in any practical sense of the word, anymore than the right is "fascist" as people in the left usually call it. Those words work well to inflame the masses and polarize political campaigns but not for serious political analysis.

Sure, some individual members of the government (with very limited decision-making power, being the minority members of a coalition) declare themselves so. In an already very diluted way. And they do some political posturing with nationalizations (which aren't even a communist thing. If nationalizing a few strategic industries is communism, then what was Spain in the 80s with lots of nationalized industry? The USSR?). But it's not really going to happen. They know it, we know it.

Macron has also set forth the idea of nationalizing some industries to face the COVID crisis, and I actually think it's more likely to happen in France (with its notoriously non-communist government) than in Spain.
Regulation to require reporting is fine and I'd definitely like to see that happen. I'm just hoping there won't be unnecessary regulations due to emotional or similar reasons.
We all have to make our own choices.
Telegram's clients are amazing (including the ones developed by the community, such as telega.el for Emacs). It is miles ahead of any other messenger in the UX department. Friends of mine who have (reluctantly, in some cases) tried it out quickly got stuck because of this single point.

The other thing it's got going for it is that its protocol is designed to work in low-bandwidth environments. Yeah, the protocol looks crazy - but it really does work. Imagine being on an underground train and only occasionally getting a few seconds of internet while passing a stop: Most messengers will at most start showing you a "Connecting ..." status, Telegram will do a full state sync (minus media files, of course) in the same time.
That question is also from the quote
I love Desktop Telegram for many reasons but mostly because it's Open Source: https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop
It's also worth noting that it seems like Germans perceive the AstraZenica vaccine as second-rate, and were even skipping appointments in the hope of getting the Pfizer/BioNTech shot later.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/world/europe/germany-coro...:

> Many people — including health workers — are skipping appointments or refusing to sign up for the AstraZeneca shot, which they fear is less effective than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the officials say. As a result, two weeks after the first delivery of 1.45 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived in Germany, only 270,986 have been administered, according to data collected by the public health authority, the Robert Koch Institute.
Interesting, will bring that up next time someone says something. Ta.
In addition to the phones you likely have in mind, postmarketOS aims to support old Android phones and such. Next time you get a new phone, you could try to port pmOS to your old one. That, or pick up a supported model to play with.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
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From top of my head, not before June / July or when the WHO declares the end of the pandemic.
It could also be driven by money.

The alternative Pzifer jab is 10-20 times as expensive.

That is a lot money, some of which may find its way to work the media and the decision makers.
>decidedly not an opinion piece, but sourced from The New York Post

Sorry if I'm misreading you, but are you suggesting that an opinion piece ceases to be an opinion piece if it references and includes details from news reporting?
I don't think that's the case, the US isn't exporting any vaccines afaik and the EU doses are primarily produced in Europe.
>As far as I understand it, the EU member states are not generally short on doses

Let me correct that understanding. The EU is absolutely short on doses. AZ has only delivered 10% of what they promised. There is no doubt if the EU had a greater supply the vaccine rollout would be going much better.
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More like, India trying to curb a known method of money laundering by the corrupt elites, criminals and select vocal few.
But if these reactions are a result of the vaccine, it has to be at an extremely low rate of people vaccinated. Even the small rate of death from COVID for young people is going to be higher than that risk.
> I suspect the truth is, in the narrow domain of electric power distribution, Texas too has an inept government...

This is an absurd comparison. South Africa owns and runs its power utility. The result is that they struggle to provide electricity on an ongoing basis. According to Wikipedia, small business owners in South Africa said that load shedding was the number one challenge that they faced in Q1 of 2019.[0]

Texas does not own or run its utilities. They are privately run, and are given wide latitude by the state. The result is that the worst of the utilities are tragically only able to provide 99.95% uptime, with some power consumers experiencing outages for a few days per decade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis