skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In coastal cities, sure. But in a lot of parts of the country it’s not.

Also, as others have noted, different jurisdictions may have higher limits.

But to go to civil court to recover $20,000 just isn’t worth it. Your legal expenses will be significant and you face the prospect of losing or being unable to collect.

So by limiting your potential damages you don’t incur litigation expenses, spend less time and stress on it and your net return may be similar.

What’s better? $5,000 it costs you nothing to get a judgement for (other than a nominal filing fee) minus 10-20% for the collection agency or $20,000 you may need to spend $10-20K to litigate?
There's no evidence to refute, though, besides the fact that the lab exists. It's pure speculation either way.
The CV only contains a subset of all acceptances
That's just messing up with the market. You need to make both easy, so that people who want to settle and buy can do that; and people who want to be mobile and rent can do that.
I wouldn't dismiss it.

I just haven't seen any evidence of it that I think 'proves' it.
Easy answer: it's impossible to prove a negative.

In this case, that the lab was not responsible.
Iowa's only nuclear power plant will be turned into a solar farm
Photonic resonator interferometric scattering microscopy
Wow that does sound nasty indeed.
The old design was optimized for usability, the new is optimized for ad revenue and/or for pushing people on the app.
It's never been found in an influenza virus in nature, but covid isn't an influenza virus. Is this never found in coronaviruses in nature?
That’s why you assume the sun is a total loss and you spend no time chasing it. Let the debtor dodge collections agents and field those phone calls.
Interesting!

Agurk has a point as well.

All I know and was saying that in my field (engineering thermodynamics... in some sense the field on this topic), people feel very strongly about "compressor -> compressible fluid" and "pump -> incompressible fluid" (and the "fan" stuff).
A bitcoin that couldn’t be spent anywhere outside of e.g. China would be far less valuable than one that could be spent anywhere. At very least this would reduce the profitability of ransomware attacks.
This is a condo on the lower end of the price spectrum in a large complex, so not a property a wealthy out of towner would be shopping for. If fair market value was >$300k, I wouldn't consider such an arrangement as I might miss the whale.
Really? That’s strange, because I don’t remember my old TV supporting AirPlay. I also don’t remember ever seeing ads on my LG.
The ironic thing is, Java now has records (case classes in Scala) and pattern matching (fully fledged Scala-like pattern matching is in the works). It's better designed than Scala, and will be faster due to better integration with the JVM.
That depends on the facts, context, audience and other human-related things.

As an employer or anyone at all really, ideally, you should do the right things, where “the right things” is only vaguely defined.

Some of these things are written in laws, regulations, and court decisions. They help when one doesn’t know how to handle certain citations (like this case about religious beliefs of other people): looking for that stuff and simply doing what’s written there is a good strategy to not screw up human interactions too much.

However, many other of these right things aren’t written anywhere, adult people are supposed to already know them somehow. Probably, that’s what called “cultural context”.

All that stuff is weird and often illogical, but that’s how all modern societies have been working for centuries if not millennia.
Small talk appears, on the surface, to have limited utility. With deeper study, though, it becomes clear that it is the impedance-matching that smooths the interaction between people.

There is a reason that almost everyone who works in deeply-human endeavors engages in it. It respects and acknowledges the humanity of interactions.

Just saying, "No." has a very different impact (and efficacy) than, "I respect and acknowledge you and your work, but that course of action simply isn't possible."
Fintech Innovation in the US Impediments and Solutions
Tremors around Iceland's erupting volcano visualized real time in Plotly
Something that has been exposed a lot during this pandemic: expert opinions
Particulate emissions can come from the tires. EVs aren't magic on this form of pollution. Plus, you can have particulate filters on the engine exhaust, reducing this greatly.
The V2 (Structure Core) has a built in IMU and is much better at keeping tracking. The quality of the USB link between the sensor and the computer also makes a big difference. (not an expert in this particular area) but iirc USB is like TCP in that if a packet is missing or corrupted it'll ask for it to be resent, it seems like the Structure sensors are quite sensitive to this and missing more then a few frames leads to alignment issues. That being said I wouldn't call the experience user friendly on any level, their software is really really bad too, I've had to write some tools to modify their save files so that I can rotate the reconstruction area because that's not a feature of the software. Definitely strongly dis-recommend buying one.
I do think the rise of a popular staunchly conservative social network is somewhat inevitable. Twitter/FB have irrevocably alienated Trump, so now we'll just have two worlds in different datacenters, instead of two worlds in a single datacenter. Polarization increases.
This type of "no-click search" is infuriating because of how often people take the snippet Google spits out at face value, without the context that a full article might have provided.
Truth is, I am not as enamored about the company as I was before, and that's what I tell myself, but it's still sour grapes syndrome. It would still be an astronomical step up for me careerwise. I would literally throw away my senior SWE status to join any of the aforementioned companies as a junior SWE level.
Huh - what's the last language that got mainstream adoption without backing from a large company? It almost seems impossible these days.

Ruby?
They haven’t backed off from global inference. They did move to require you to type collections, but methods are not inferred at definition but rather at invocation and it happens globally.

There is no solution really. If you want a language to feel like it is dynamically typed but actually has types, something gotta give, and in this case it is compilation times. And it gets quite high fast.
No one’s asking me to, but I’d testify that I absolutely didn’t know the implications back when I had share buttons on my site. It was a fun thing that almost everyone was doing, for the sole intention of making it more convenient for visitors to share my content that they enjoyed. Period. It absolutely wasn’t so that I could make it easy for FB and friends to track my visitors.

It all seems so obvious in retrospect, but at the time there wasn’t a lot of pushback from people explaining why it was a terrible idea.
It seems like more Western MSM yellow journalism hating on China with FUD.
Nim is more mature and a with a lot bigger community with diffrent focus.

Crystal focus is pure web trying to be Ruby and Nim is more like python.
Please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN—especially on divisive topics. The guidelines are clear on this, and we ban accounts that break them repeatedly. Given that we've had to warn you half a dozen times now, it's time for you to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this.
Joining forces on better browser compatibility in 2021
Pattern matching is (will be) better implemented in Java. It's fully fledged compared to Kotlin's implementation.
You're close, but there's no "Firefox Corp".

From Wikipedia:
"Mozilla [...] is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. [...] The community is supported institutionally by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation."
Oh that probably fixed most of the problems then; mbox is a terrible, no good, very-bad format.
This is the wrong way to look at it.

Atmospheric forcing doesn't distinguish between "natural" and "unnatural" causes. Let's grant that methanogenesis from ruminant bellies has been a constant throughout history (unlikely, but as we'll see, irrelevant): that methane contributes a certain amount to the greenhouse effect.

That amount is non-trivial, because methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and there are a lot of cattle out there. It does break down, but more is constantly being emitted: all of this is factored in to calculations giving cattle's contribution to warming.

A cheap mitigation which eliminates this source of methane is great news, because it reduces the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere: which is the only thing we care about, certainly not whether that gas is au naturale.
Thanks! I really like activity feed concept, certainly better than confluence digest emails I get daily.
From that second link:

> Although they only emerge under artificial conditions in influenza viruses, these furin cleavage sites are found within several branches of the coronavirus family tree. However SARS‐CoV‐2 is the only lineage B coronavirus found with one, and the only other coronaviruses known to have them are only at most 60% identical to this novel coronavirus.
That's a good way of looking at it.

This discussion point reminds me of a Sir Ken Robinson talk (not sure which one, but he has many). After a friend's musical performance on stage, he comments to his friend that he'd love to do what he's doing, being on stage, playing guitar. His friend quickly remarks that no, he actually wouldn't. If he really wanted to be a musician, he would've done it by now. He would've put in the work and toil to get there. Instead, he just likes the idea of being able to perform at a high level in front of other people.

I think so many of our fantasies are like that. We think of the end result and want that, but don't think about all the work needed to get there and whether we're up for that.
My favorite bit, and it more or less sums up the whole article: "Obamacare’s survival says a lot about the differences between the two parties nowadays, and not just on health care. It’s a sign of how different they have become, in temperament as much as ideology, and why one has shown that it’s capable of governing and the other has nearly forgotten how."
Interview with Co-Founder of Dark Star Quantum Lab
> Archived specimens show that Lyme disease was endemic well before the establishment of Plum Island laboratory.

> Additionally, Lyme disease was never a topic of research at Plum Island, according to the US Department of Homeland Security and Department of Agriculture.

These are facts, too, in your link. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There would be a lot of value in independent organizations that can evaluate engineering practices. Non-technical businesses could just ask if you have cert XYZ before paying you.

It wouldn't have to get into the weeds too much. I mean really basic stuff like finding documents and following them to restore a backup or release a new version or fix a simple bug injected in the system.
Outside of some noteworthy scummy politicians and a few partisan media outlets. I really haven't seen much in the way of MSM media pushing that theory as fact.
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments, especially on divisive topics.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please also don't go on about downvotes. As the site guidelines say, this never does any good and it makes boring reading.
Not OP, but I'm assuming he was arguing that, given that the major social media platforms have said they will remove any Covid information that is misleading, would they even allow posts like this "suggesting the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak is plausible".

Note Facebook has previously explicitly banned posts "falsely claiming the virus is man-made". Source: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/08/965390755/facebook-widens-ban...
2.8M nut, about 50/50 in regular/retirement accounts. I'm mid 40's, married with two pre-teen kids, annual expenses of $80K, live in HCOL area (Southern California). Would you FIRE in this situation? Would you take a year long hiatus? As much as I would like to FIRE, I can't/won't, even though the "numbers" say I probably could. But seriously considering a months to year long career break/sabbatical/hiatus, because I'm extremely extremely burnt out. Has anyone here taken a gap year in their 40's/50's? Was it difficult to find another job?
Crystal comes from a Ruby background, but it's far more than compiled Ruby. As a general purpose language mainly aiming at application development it can surely compete with any of the above in that field.
The main objective inherited from Ruby is the focus on developer hapiness. While doing that it doesn't back down on performance or interoparability.
So, what would you say a "feeling" is, exactly?
I am not sure what you mean. Using sequential returns from every starting year in your database is, if I have understood you correctly, the same as using block bootstrap (at the limit, sequential returns from every starting year is the same as block bootstraps of lifespan length taken an infinite number of times).

You don't look at yearly returns. There are many reasons for not doing this but the basic one is volatility clustering. Yearly returns are mostly independent, but volatility is not...again, that is why you use a block bootstrap (you can vary the length of block but for this kind of analysis more than once decade makes sense).
I guess you haven’t been paying attention to what’s happening with tech companies who get to control types of media.
My parents live in rural Indiana and get people asking if they want to sell or if they want to sell part of their land once every couple of years.

Two years ago my cousin sold his house even though it wasn't up for sale(in a small town in Indiana) because someone liked it so much that they kept offering them more and more money.
Personalized Plan for Keto
Ruby is a great language, the only nits I have with it are error handling, types and a bit of the perlisms and shellisms that crept in. If Crystal fixed these I would be interested
Presumably - if states are defining 1-party vs. 2-party consent laws, then doesn't the 10th amendment imply that this matter shouldn't be handled federally?
Command-line time tracker written in shell script
Hi Operyl, GitLab PM here. Thanks for the feedback on What's New. As you point out, it looks like we have some opportunity for refinement and better/clearer messaging for folks that update right away to the .0 release. I've opened up this issue to track that work and welcome your feedback or ideas there. Thank you! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/325591
Iceland's land area is reasonably large (about half the area of Great Britain) but it only has a population of ~340,000 people. It's really empty.
IMO it's very likely to have originated in a lab leak. It doesn't matter much however since there is no evidence, and any evidence of such will likely be covered up.

Being culpable for a disaster on this scale would be unprecedented in the economic reparations, so much so that we'll likely never find the origins.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. I've spent a lot of time, energy, and words asking people not to do that in the opposite direction [1]. It applies just as much the other way around. Name-calling, flamebait, and nationalistic provocations take the internet straight to hell. We're trying to avoid that fate here, or at least stave it off [2] a little longer.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26545902.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I roll my own. Cheapo PoE cameras, with a Ubiq PoE switch. Custom written app to display the RTSP streams on a web page. Only accessible over VPN and zero outbound internet access. I don't have anything doing motion detection or anything fancy, just 24/7 recording and live view playback.
It's a good thing there are more than like 5 software companies to work at.

And most of the smaller ones, while less prestigious, are probably just straight up better places to work.
Especially since the user is the one being tricked into executing the ransomware.
Thanks very much! We've gotten some requests to "lift" the feed up to each level of the tool summarize what's been going on. Something we've thought about quite a bit but haven't had time to get to just yet.
I would say if you can afford a good down payment then buy now. Otherwise, rent and save more for a down payment.
Very Brave New World-esque. Make rules to keep everyone friendly, but meanwhile what you're actually doing is silencing people and making it impossible to have any real discussion.

I better be careful, since I'm only allowed to make 4 comments an hour I have to be very selective of the opinions I share.
> but mostly just base status drive and ego.

I see this. Props for understanding yourself!

The number of status updates I see from former work colleagues who, pretty transparently, just want to Let You Know they are Still Really Important is astonishing -- especially ones close to normal retirement age. My reaction is something akin to (e.g) "what have you done wrong that you're over 60 and are still climbing the greasy pole?"

But it takes effort to check out of the game. I felt _exactly_ the same internal pressure after leaving one job to "update my status" once I started my own, next, Really Important Role - even when doing so was blatantly at odds with my values.

It takes a lot of knowing yourself and your own motivations to come to terms with this. It reminds me a great deal of Kung Fu!

‘Have you no ambition, Master Po?’ -Disciple Caine
‘Only one. Five years hence, it is my wish to make a pilgrimage to the Forbidden City. It is a place where even priests receive no special status. There in the Temple of Heaven, will be a festival The full moon of May. It will be the thirteenth day of the fifth month in the Year of the Dog.’ -Master Po
‘That is not such a great ambition.’ -Disciple Caine
‘But it is ambition, nonetheless. Who among us is without flaw?’ -Master Po
Phase 3 under normal circumstances from that link:

> Trials often last a year or more and involve several thousand patients.

Also this seems to be a US/UK difference, as over here phase 3 includes long-term safety before it's approved for use, with emergency use authorization to skip that being the exception: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline
Game objects can be simple state machines. Also, you have ets for "mutable" storage.
Chris Columbus confirms there is an R-rated version of 'Mrs Doubtfire'
Another approach to FIRE that I think is actually more fulfilling is to gradually reduce working hours until "retired".

For example, explore a position that lets you work 4 days a week and take Mondays or Fridays off. Later, switch to part time or contracting 6 months on 6 months off.

I don't personally think gap years will be very fulfilling unless it's something like a whole family 1 year vacation where you all go and live someplace.
The article/blog post itself seems a bit pointless, minimal content and comes along as more of a humble brag. However I guess it triggers discussion so it's not without value entirely.

I have experienced countless rejections. Tens to hundreds every time I switch jobs.
After just a few of these, you realize no one knows how to hire and just laugh at the absurdity of this profession.
I'd add one anecdote: I went hiking on one of the Hawaiian volcanos a few years ago and got up close with some active (but extremely slow-moving) lava. Here's a pic of me poking it with a stick:

https://imgur.com/DuwuCg1

What amazed me was the absolute sheer about of heat generated from that one TINY little patch. Like, as intense as standing in front of a pizza oven going at full blast. I could stand about ~15 seconds of it once I exposed the molten part, and then I had to step away. Overall in the area it was warm - mostly because it was Hawaii and hot out! - but also because of general ambient warmth. But it was just that - warmth.

But when I exposed that piece of molten lava - that was HEAT.
Anything in google that hits the political "twiddler" does not produce useful results. This was in the Zachary Vorheis leak of Google internal documents.

https://saraacarter.com/google-whistleblower-state-attorney-...
Companies love opportunities for sponsorship to get promotion (and status) back. That means unless ideologically opposed almost all small open-source projects will get a larger company to backed them up. I think there are more direction and governance issues than financial.
APIs as infrastructure: future-proofing Stripe with versioning (2017)
> The problem of course arises when content creators stop making the content for Google to scrape and index, what then?

This has already happened. People put content on their sites only long enough to figure out what works, then turn that content into a book that can be sold. Every Cal Newport book came out of his blog posts.

Others are turning content into paid newsletters, courses and Patreon-only walled content.

Wrote something 15 years ago? Just set the "Date Modified" to last week and Google will think it's been updated.

The 'content' you and I are seeing are just second and third-hand summarizations of popular topics written by content marketers.
there's just no realistic chance a novel virus coincidentally originates in the same isolated place as a lab that specializes in that exact same type of virus

If it came from somewhere else, why wasn’t the outbreak noticed there first, is the million dollar question. It requires some serious mental gymnastics at this point to believe it didn’t originate in that lab. The only real question is if it was released deliberately.
Trump: America No Longer Has a 'Free Press'
It's very hard to be intellectually curious when I'm only allowed to post 3-4 comments an hour. What if I'm having a conversation with someone? Why am I not allowed to respond?
True, they always say to hire your own inspector. But finding one who isn't a charalatan is a coin toss. You might be able to hire them independently, but recommendations from agents who are "working for you" is still a large part of their business. And they're not liable for anything they fail to notice. That entire industry favors people who are deal makers, not deal breakers.

The inspector is working for the sale, but indirectly.

One house that my family sold, the inspector showed up at the appointed time, and mentioned that he was the buyer broker's brother. He didn't find any problems with the house.
Oh yeah, how reliable the experts were all along during this pandemic. We should be so glad we had them from day 1.
Cervical Spinal Cord Transcutaneous Stimulation Improves Upper Extremity
> there's just no realistic chance a novel virus coincidentally originates in the same isolated place as a lab that specializes in that exact same type of virus

Why not? Wuhan is the 43rd largest city in the world. Meanwhile, the earliest cases of CoVid were all connected to the same wet market. Doesn't that have a higher probability being the origin?
The Germans also committed the criminal sin of tinkering on the production line. Consistency is the foundation of logistics. Its amazing how some lessons from WWII might benefit software developers in the present.
India isn't a great place to be looking if you don't want to see a bunch of cows.
> No Nulls

Does it not? It has 'nil', just like Ruby. Basically the same thing, the docs literally say it's 'similar to null in other languages'.

https://crystal-lang.org/reference/syntax_and_semantics/lite...
Two-party consent is a funny thing. It's empowering to individuals in their interactions with corporations, but in this case it's clearly disempowering to individuals.

Is "asymmetric" one-party consent a thing in any jurisdiction?