skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this kind of thing will never end until there's national zoning laws that override local ones. however something like that would be challenged probably up to the supreme court.

it's a tough hill to die on.

it's a never ending cycle -> if you're poor you're more likely to rent -> if you rent you're more likely to be affected by a recession -> if you're laid off others are also laid off -> landlord risk increases so rent increases commensurately -> repeat.

the only way to end this vicious cycle is to just buy your house as you're more insulated from rent increases and moratoriums are a bit more generous, but zoning laws...
Forks are arbitrary. There's no need to literally gather 51% consensus, it just means users of Fork A are in an entirely different universe than Fork B and that's fine.

For example when BTC split into BTC and BCH, for me the ticker for Bitcoin went from BTC to BCH because BCH was the continuation of "real bitcoin". And the absurdly-small-blocks crowd obviously felt the opposite. And that's completely fine.

One of the most pernicious beliefs of the BTC crowd is that a hard fork is some evil, unforgivable thing. It shows a total misunderstanding of how free software works.
Well, SpaceX Falcon 1 started with private money. However their first 'test' costumers was a DoD student project.

However then they did got significant (200-300M) in funding because of the effort around commercial resupply of ISS and more later but that financed the whole Falcon 9 and Dragon program.

That funding they used to offer a rocket that then accumulated a huge backlog of launches because of the low pricing they offered. Note, this was before re-usability was even a factor.

Its also true of course that other companies, including ULA (and its parents LM and Boeing), Orbitl ATK and others also had to option to commercially bid for those government contracts.

Orbital ATK did however their rocket met with no success in the commercial market.

Rocket Plane Kistler tried, but their efforts were very much Old Space and they couldn't raise the insane amount of money they wanted to raise and NASA kicked them out of the program.

Overall, SpaceX was certainty helped by the need for Commercial resupply of ISS and without that they might have gone bankrupt. However, what they did with the funds, was truly amazing and beyond what anybody could have hopped for.
This sounds fantastic and looks like a far more elegant version of WordPress. Can anyone using Ghost give their thoughts on advantages and disadvantages?

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After reading that, I’m already sold.
Ah jwz did this for /. too? If he did then it seems like he has switched it off, because I cannot reproduce it
Exactly.

I struggle hard with this topic. I feel like being here, perceiving the world. Yet, if I simulated every molecule of my body, the simulated me would seemingly "feel" the same things, think likewise.

It feels there is more to "me" than what would be of the _simulated_ me. On the other hand I see no way to prove so.
Don't worry; they have laws to ensure that.
It would be counter-intuitive if I endorse a Recoil-based solution on this thread that talks about a different library, LOL.

But since I want to help as much as I can, my advice is, regardless of which library you choose, or which approach (atomic vs. monolithic/structured)... start with analyzing which parts of the state in your app really are supposed to be "shared" state. I have a feeling you may be trying to use "shared" state libraries to manage state that only the individual components would actually need. Do those dynamic components actually need to share data? The answer to that is the first important consideration, IMHO, before you can go forward.

Good luck.
Did you know officials sent a warning in 2018 about the Wuhan Institute of Virology warning that their experiments were dangerous and the facility was run poorly, risking a new Sars-like pandemic?
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52318539

Did you know the CCP arrested the first doctor sounding the alarm about COVID?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51364382

Did you know viruses have escaped from labs before? It is a known risk.

You can say the evidence is not conclusive and you would be right. But it's far from "speculative nonsense."

One wonders if you would be similarly skeptical of claims relating to COVID's cause being something much more speculative and vague... say, global anthropogenic climate change, for example. I'm sure you'd be pumping the brakes just as hard on any speculation to that effect, right? ;-)
Not once you're used to it. Humans are good at spotting patterns, and once you're used to the patterns of the boilerplate it becomes easy to read and you only notice the anomalies.

The famous "if err != nil {" boilerplate becomes expected after each call and you only notice if it changes.
Yes the system is not meritocratic, some people have it much harder and can't do much about it. That sucks for the individual, but it "works" in the sense it is a hurdle/disincentive from the population overconcentrating at few big cities.
You can link to a graph with a particular selection of countries directly. There is a symbol with connected dots in the bottom right corner of the graph that allows to copy a link to it as it is shown.

Example:

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
What makes this so painful for me is that person responsible, the comission president von der Leyen, was not actually elected by the people.

We need some massive reforms and rebuilding after this. There already was a lot of EU scepticism, and instead of taking this opportunity to shine, they completely squandered it and destroyed trust.
There are a lot of connectors that get generically called 'Molex connectors'. Molex makes a ton of products.
Qualia is actually only a subset of consciousness, generally referring to the coarsest types of consciousness (i.e. that which is readily identifiable). But qualia is by no means the entirety of consciousness.
Israel got priority by being 'just right' sized with an efficient healthcare system and being able to demonstrate the ability to organise a mass vaccination as quickly as possible. As such they acted as a very large scale test of what we can expect as the number of people vaccinated increases.

I don't think this is particularly to the detriment of Germany. Wasn't Israel vaccinating people before Germany had approved any vaccination?
Clearly there are a bunch of people voting down anything that is too critical of China.

WHY there are a bunch of people voting that down I leave to others to speculate. But I'm going to vote up any verifiable factual statements that have been voted down.
Magic of CSS
...and importantly, there was specifically Coronavirus bat research in that specific facility.
I can understand where this poster is coming from. I don't know of anything innovative coming out of Austria/Austrian companies.
One thing that came to mind while reading was how sensitive the "financial independence" path was to unexpected changes in life.

If ones model financial independence is so fragile that "comfort spending" is not included in the analysis, then I am not quite sure one can call that strategy financial independence.
Any iPhone with FaceID is actually a very capable as a 3D scanner. I recommend heges, it has support for Lidar scanning as well (if you have an iPhone 12 Pro or a new iPad Pro).

https://hege.sh/
Google just released a new app with wireless tech that’s better than Bluetooth
I'm confused, do you think SARS was also escaped from the lab, or just COVID?
Maybe, I'm more inclined to believe it's some classic astroturfing.

HN will normally answer questions in good faith, even controversial ones.
I'm still unsure why certain websites result in browser processes using up substantial resources in terms of CPU time or system memory. I typically will search for "Web Content" processes in top and kill the ones that are taking more than a certain percent of resident memory or using more than 20% CPU time just to keep the computer usable.

That's not a problem I recall encountering in the days of Firefox 2.0.
There's a high percentage of "rich" people in the Bay Area who rent because even a run-down, small, shitty house is $1mm+.
Even simpler solution: Switch entirely to sales tax to fund everything. Whittle things down to three sales taxes: federal, state and local and the federal also gets the benefit of import taxes.

If you consume more, you pay more.

Everyone has skin in the game (everyone pays proportional to their consumption) and thus everyone now has a vested interest in advocating for a leaner, smarter and more efficient government that is less wasteful.

A progressive income tax is actively counter-productive to getting a greater return on investment for governance.

Furthermore, a progressive income tax also massively distorts the price of labor so no one paying for labor is paying the true cost of labor which should be the sum of (1) the disposable income paid to a laborer and the (2) taxes that laborer pays to the government. You're not actually making people better off with a progressive income tax because the market will just lower the amount paid to be equal to the disposable income portion.
US spending exceeds $10 billion: https://time.com/5921360/operation-warp-speed-vaccine-spendi... (the Biden administration has since committed further funds also)

That NPR article proceeds on the very unlikely assumption that unused vaccines will not be reallocated to other countries.

It's also hard to really judge the potential other scenarios in the overall situation; the US production ramp up is going to benefit everyone in the medium term, and it's not really clear that it would have been much different if BioNTech partnered with a different manufacturer (much of the work in the US is being done at purpose built contract manufacturer facilities; AstraZenaca and J&J share some sites...).

Edit: There's also the question of whether potential partners were really interchangeable, or if Pfizer has some advantage in knowledge or whatever.
Yeah, the new microcontroller boards that have Arduino Uno MCU (ATmega328P) and cheap Wi-Fi (ESP8266) bundled on a single board and connected together via UART are really great. I recently got a couple of these from AliExpress for $12 including shipping (for experimenting with sensors), and I noticed that they are really well supported by the Arduino IDE and the open source community in general.
There's evidence that many things are possible. Conspiracies are possible, but they are primarily a diagnosis of exclusion OR if there is specific evidence pointing in that direction.

The US media has made an art out of turning speculation into exciting narratives that large fractions of the population believe that turned out to be completely fabricated but retain adherents for years or generations after.
> The USA negociated more slowly than the EU.

The US signed their AZ deal months before the EU and UK. They threw billions of dollars at every company they could find, readily paying high rates while other countries tried to negotiate lower ones. So I'm really not sure where this idea of yours comes from.

$1.2 Billion to AZ in May: https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/05/21/trump-administrati...

EU's deal was signed in August: https://www.fiercepharma.com/manufacturing/az-nets-396m-down...

$1.95 Billion to Pfizer in July:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/health/was-the-pfizer-vac...

EU's deal with Pfizer was in November:
https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
When you're blaming the victim and defending criminals pretexting "security practices". No one deserve to be punished excepting by the Law.
Halix is an independent contractor, AZ is not the owner at all.
A problem with all of the responses here is that they swing and miss at trying to find an allegory that matches this situation, and then conflate their allegory as truth, losing any of the nuances of the Facebook situation.

You can skew these examples to make your point stronger, too. (The Radio in the restaurant is listening to me!)

The only situation that matches is the exact one at hand: Facebook tracked user information in their share/like widgets. Is that ok under the law? It wouldn't surprise me if it was, but I don't I think the laws should be tightened up on this as well.
If you're looking for a clean, fast interface for sports scores, I built https://plaintextsports.com to do exactly that.
>A portfolio of that size will easily throw off 500k in dividends a year.

Where are you "easily" getting 5% dividends? Are those mythical W2 boomers suddenly into sketchy crypto "funds"?

Vanguards "Dividend Growth" fund is yielding 1.71%. Total stock 1.33%
UK contract is also on a “best effort” basis.
I'd love to read a detailed write-up about this. Why packet radio - what was the real-time requirement and why couldn't it be fulfilled by an internet connection (I understand internet was primitive back then, but ISDN should've been able to give you enough bandwidth?).
Who is renting higher priced apartments if not the rich?
If I were to build my own search engine:

- I'd make sure that multipurpose sites get lower ranks, ecommerce with a blog would get worse rank than a stand alone blog or an ecommerce. this would eliminate all the content marketing and owners would have to focus on their core business

- I would put a cap on amount of content that increases rank. A website with a million recipes harvested from other sites won't be better than a blog with 10 quality recipes.

- I would downgrade rank for use of third-party cookies, invasive ads etc.

- I would give users an option to "mute" a website

- Randomise top results to make sure no one can "occupy" top spots.
That’s absurd. On the contrary, we should work closer with our ally USA, increase trade and more cooperation. We should completely decouple from China and stop trade from there, and restart domestic manufacturing.
It has that 'if I can do it, you can too' that people who don't know how the world works but base their life around what other people are doing/saying absolutely love, because it gives them hope.

The more people sharing 'started from the bottom now we here' without mentioning the likelihood of it happening, the more people love it. Delusional, yet simple self serving beliefs have a snowball effect without fail - I'd wager Western culture is almost entirely made up of them at this point, which has some interesting consequences.
Consider the Ares Lifebook $289, 7.8in and runs Android :) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0814RYMNF
The last sev:hi OpenSSL vulnerability was an X.509 null pointer read, crash-only, just in case you're calibrating expectations.
Dolt with Popular DataFrame Tools
If they make an offer that’s motivating, you say yes and change jobs.
Given that the general public has largely moved on to web interfaces or mobile apps for email access, do we really need to render HTML emails in Thunderbird? I have mine set to display messages as plain text.
Envssh: Take your environment variables, configuration files with you
The main difference between EU and SpaceX is probably investors.
Oh yeah, it's working very well, for the shareholders.
I disagree, every company on the top fines list has more money in proportion to the fine than the examples the parent comment gave, except maybe the bank. These fines are so tiny no one will ever care about user privacy or data security.
Channels are easy to automate this way- look at the Typescript discord by Microsoft where they spin up channels per support request.
I'm not sure AZ said otherwise. I did check and you are correct about signing date.

However the devil as always is in the detail and the two contracts are different and best covered here: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...

Crux being the UK contract was a contractual commitment to deliver whilst the EU contract was best effort.
I get it, and I think we've all been hurt. But why keep this list?

I remember when I had a stellar year at a big corp. My manager said `nothing bad to report, wow`. I was ready for that S - a Special automatically meant a promotion.

A few weeks later, when the whole R&D got the performance letter, I received mine with a C. D usually meant `demitido`, or fired in portuguese. I couldn't believe it, and I kept that letter through many years, just as a reminder of how you can get screwed by things that are not in your power.

A few years later, when I saw the letter, I had a much better job, and was much happier. No good could come from seeing that letter from time to time, so I threw it away.

As long as these things are living in your life, they are consuming you. The sooner you let them go, the sooner you'll be free
Then there is no distinction between the free software movement and RMS, and then longstanding, well-respected contributors (the author of that first post literally won the Free Software Award from the FSF two days ago) can be cast aside and dismissed as "fools," on the principle that you need to piss people off, and so let's find someone to piss off.

There are plenty of people around with RMS's zeal for the free software movement. There are few people around with RMS's zeal for RMS.
>"The EU, for all its socialism and condescension of the US, should by all means be clobbering the US. But it's getting clobbered."

The US has never lacked the decisiveness and the ability to mobilize.
Most of my IoT devices are made by European companies (Eve and Hue) so you'd think an EU standard could work. But nobody needs their lightbulb to run a "web OS interface". This standard seems to break the rule of least power compared to something like Thread or HomeKit.
It seems a bit weird that the location of this tunnel would be in a very rural part of Norway and not very close to any large cities. Maybe it's just an anchorage where ships wait for a berth elsewhere?
There's resistance to AstraZeneca vaccine, and in my country (Hungary) to Sinopharm and SPUTNIK-V. Russian troops invaded Hungary in the past, so there's not much trust in a Russian vaccine, we trust the EU and US more, but the government is laundering lots of money by getting vaccines from the east (they payed $31 per dose for Sinopharm vaccine)
The first sentence on that Wikipedia page:

"In philosophy and certain models of psychology, qualia (/ˈkwɑːliə/ or /ˈkweɪliə/; singular form: quale) are defined as individual instances of subjective, conscious experience"

Shows that qualia is defined in terms of "conscious experience." If qualia is an essential feature of consciousness then the Wikipedia definition is a recursive definition.

The definition of the word "Sword" is "Sword" which is true but tells me nothing at the same time.
1. Even if this particular virus didn't originate in our own house, if we want to demand openness and security from other countries, we in the US should start by being open with records of accidents and enhanced measures to prevent future accidents.
> it seemed like the AstraZeneca Phase 3 testing was rushed and on a level that would be unacceptable if there wasn't a pandemic

I didn't like the lack of data on the older populations, either, and totally get why various regulators decided they wanted more such before going forward with it (given that the AZ one is based on known vaccine tech I'd have trusted it anyway, but that's a personal choice).

However the lack of data in the older population was not due to rushing (though it was rushed, obviously). They started pretty early on before much was known about the medical aspects of Covid-19 and took the deliberate decision not to risk people with age-reduced immune systems at the start.

Yes, that wasn't helpful, but you could also argue it was pretty good ethically and morally so it's hard really to fault them for it.
Oh, absolutely agree. But everyone needs to find that balance for themselves. For some people that balance may truly involve working themselves to near death in their 20s and 30s so they can retire with a more-than-comfortable lifestyle. That's not for me, but I see no problem with someone doing that if that's what they truly want.

I'm lucky that I'll be able to retire soon and still be financially secure against all but the worst medical disasters (agree that the US sucks in this regard), medical disasters that would likely bankrupt me even if I was working (and would likely mean I couldn't work anymore anyway). I know this isn't possible for many people in the FIRE crowd, let alone most people in general. I've also been lucky that I've been able to travel a lot in my 30s and a decent amount in my 20s, despite working hard for most of it. So it's not like I've been all-work-and-no-play up until now; it's a balance I've been mostly happy with (certainly with some exceptions), but I know others might want a different balance (in either direction), and that's ok.

Just a bit on "enjoying work": I really want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. For the most part I enjoy and love the work I do, but overall I don't really enjoy "the job". I don't enjoy the meetings, the process that caters to the lowest common denominator, the politics, the fight to get things done the way I think they should get done. There are definitely some aspects of my current work that I probably couldn't do without all the other stuff (because they require a large organization with considerable financial resources). But there's a lot of it that I could do on my own, or (for example) in a small group of people working on an open source project. Retirement for me doesn't mean I stop being a software developer; it means I stop developing software on an employer's terms, and stop doing it for a profit motive. And if I get temporarily (or even permanently) tired of it, I can simply choose to do something else, on a moment's notice, without financial consequences. I'm not sure if this is the popular definition, but to me "retirement" means I do whatever I want -- including "work" -- without a care toward how it affects my income, and with the ability to shift my priorities on a dime.
The other thing to note is this virus hops to new species super fast. its already in pretty much every mammal we interact with now. You going to tell me this super fast spreading - super species hoping virus was waiting in a cave somewhere and never spread?

not buying it.
hopefully the cost of reverting full diff (which would be the result of a ransomware attack) won't obliterate the subscription tier a victim is on. the ransom cost might be cheaper!
They signed 1 dey before the UK, which also got a 'best effort' contract.
I love the casual feel of this app. I would just keep this humming along in the background during code sprints and general digital (a)syncing with friends.
I always wonder why Jetbrains YouTrack never gets much mention, it's a really versatile system. Though the real area where it shines is where you have multiple projects to manage and teams of people who are spread across multiple projects.
That, however, reduces their chance in getting tenants so it becomes a vicious self-feeding closed circuit process?
They break aesthetics and for a lot of people that's more important than actual capabilities.
> The US has never lacked the decisiveness and the ability to mobilize.

It's dithering in both World Wars (among many, many other examples) would lead many people to question the decisiveness side of that.
java succeeded because of managed memory, which made it possible to build systems that didn’t randomly segfault by default
I think that’s pretty harsh. Perhaps he’s not the best SWE candidate at a FAANG or FAANG-like place — but he’s in a tenure-track position at a school that is top 40ish for public universities (averaging both engineering and computer science in undergrad rankings), which is hardly something to “switch industries” over.

We do ourselves a major disservice by pretending that only having an academic position at the top five or ten schools or a job at one of the top five or six tech companies is the only way to achieve success.
Famous people have different expectations of privacy than ordinary people.