skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't like how these people aren't punished how I want, so let's sanction crime against them" is a ... questionable concept, to phrase it nicely. Lot's of nasty precedents. Are you sure kindergardens are punished reliably enough for lapses of security?

Also:

Ransomware gangs also target companies that do not have "enormous amounts of user's personal and financial data".

Since too many companies didn't pay ransomware gangs now have taken to stealing data in addition - are you fine with a ransomware gang selling your personal data then, because they are "helping"?
I think it's important to separate out the moral and psychological components here.

I agree with you that if your bills are paid and you're harming no one, then you have no moral obligation to do anything more than sit on your butt and play videogames. It's your life.

At the same time, humans are a social species. We have evolved brains and intrinsic motivation reward systems that only give us the real deep kinds of life-satisfaction emotions if we are putting real effort into something that we find to be meaningful in ways that help our perceived family or tribe.

There are of course outliers who can spend indefinite days just binge-watching TV happy as a clam. But most of us are wired like border collies. If we don't have a herd to take care of some real reason to get out of bed in the morning, we go crazy.
I don't really buy this. if you're going to be at a hot startup for 4 years and can easily afford a house the way the SF bay market has been for the past 2 decades is such that you would've made money in any 4 year period just buying and selling. covid might be the single exception.

I think the issue is more that sf people are rich for the country but not rich for the bay area so they just rent.
interesting, but better to keep that list for yourself
just as fences must be erected to encircle the entire property they guard, rather than just one or two small segments erected to block specific approaches.
There are a few web frameworks for Crystal, so you could easily add React to one of those for the frontend
Far from firm? If I sign a contract to buy apples from you 6 months from now, but you show up with apple seeds, was my order not firm if I don't pay you?

The fact is when Pfizer showed up with a vaccine, they knew they could sell $2 billion to the US and would have legal recourse if the US government didn't pay. That's as firm as it gets.
Not "is exporting", but "plans to send", quite different.
Meanwhile EU exported at least 3.9 million doses to Canada, 3.1 million doses to Mexico [1]

https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=2252
Systemd and Wayland being cancer is not nonsense.
Because there is nothing but subjective experience.

Not knowing what subjective experience is means there's literally no objective explanation for anything.

Everything you experience - including all of science and math - is filtered through subjective processes.

If you think this is wrong, try to prove that math exists in a self-consistent form without any subjectivity at all.

You won't be able to.

If you read Hilbert's original notes on his Project, he was using words like "intuitive" to describe certain fundamental elements in math. This bothered him, but the problem turned out to be more complex than he expected.

Philosophers have a special word - 'intersubjective' - to describe how these experiences work. Intersubjective experiences are collectively consistent and reliable but are not provably independent and objective. The best you'll get from them is consistency and predictability.

It's easy to confuse this with objectivity, but as members of the human species we can only know our own experiences, and we don't know anything at all about what other possible experiences are available.

So it would be naive - and a denial of the Copernican Principle - to assume that human intersubjectivity is somehow definitive and ultimate.
Source on the UK using single dose vaccines? Afaik the only one is the J&J one of which not a single dose has been delivered to the UK so far.
Who is "they"? The people active in the local community and sit on the zoning boards denying permits and variances to build?
This. Don't build unless you you already know what you are doing. I know what I'm doing and it is an absolute bitch and I am finding I have to do most of my own work.
Good luck getting the truth out of any company about why they rejected a candidate.
>I think any new programming language should have a "why?" section on their page.

It's right here:

https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal
I’m not going to rattle off my own career rejection list (though I’ve definitely done in in talks I’ve given aimed at people about to graduate from college), but I really appreciate this post.

I don’t work in academia, but I know enough people that do to know how rare it is to be open about what is a very rejection-heavy industry, and I commend the author for putting that out there!
The FDA has yet to approve AstraZeneca's vaccine while the EU approved it back in January. The US has a stockpile of 40million doses which are not being used until approval arrives while European vaccination rates are limited by vaccine supply.

Approval speed has nothing to do with it.
Money hoarding doesn't directly affect other people in a fiat system; remember money is fake, we can just make more of it. Hoarding it is a deflationary pressure and is combated by inflating again. (this is called functional finance and of course isn't 100% true, you do have to reclaim the hoard through taxes or something eventually)

Rich people do things like own Amazon rather than own a huge pile of money; this makes them rich because a whole lot of other people are willing to give them money. This also doesn't directly affect you, but at least it indirectly affects you differently.
Why? It would have helped me a lot when I was younger if more “successful” people shared this info.
Lets relax. RocketLab is a nice company, and I like them but they are playing in a different failed.

They have not 'gone reusable' they have slowly started to work on re-usability.

And a rocket that remotely competes in the area that this article address will not be done for years yet.

In practice, its only SpaceX. But its gone get worse from here for Europe. Starship by itself, and RocketLab and BO will both have reusable rockets before Europe. And RelativitySpace likely too.
Do they usually give 3 days lead time? That's what gets my attention here.
Reminds me of my favorite scene from The Wire when the New Day Co-op is having a meeting and Stringer Bell grabs his secretary's notebook and screams at him "you're taking notes at a criminal conspiracy?!"
Also important to remember that the WIV had ongoing research in bat coronaviruses. Now that isn't unusual after SARS, but it does slightly make the theory more plausible.
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I would absolutely love to find a software position with 24-32 hour week, but I have not heard of such a thing, short of going out on your own and freelancing. No employer I know of (in software field, I don't want to go work retail) would consider allowing employees to work part time.

I have considered contracting or even freelancing too, but I've been a W2 worker my entire career. I'd have to look into how to do this.
Annke cameras to a Windows box running Blue Iris.

Blue Iris has a steep learning curve, but there's helpful YouTube videos. You can do anything with Blue Iris. The only bummer is that it requires Windows.
Think of it from a perspective of game theory and geopolitics. You have an epidemic raging in your country that has led to lockdowns, casualties and severe economic damage. Now you have two options:

1. Warn the world, lock your borders down, suffer economic damage whilst the rest of the world will prevent your citizens from entering their countries and can prepare for a proper response. Experience a setback on the stage of geopolitics and a loss of soft power.

2. Don't warn the world, suppress free flow of information, impose internal travel bans to stop the virus from spreading within your country, let your citizens carry the virus to the rest of the world, be the party with asymmetrical information advantage, exploit the situation to further strengthen your position on the global chessboard of geopolitics and expand your soft power.

What people in the West tend to forget is that Chinese strategic thinking is older than most Western civilisations. Chinese rulers study Chinese philosophy deeply, whereas Western rulers have little philosophical education. Chinese rulers think fundamentally different from Western rulers and have asymmetrical information advantage in politics as well: hardly anyone in the West really understands Chinese philosophy as it requires you to learn the language to grasp it fully; but it is easy to understand what motivates Western politics.

This situation reminds me of one of the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

Disturb the water and catch a fish (渾水摸魚／混水摸魚)

Create confusion and exploit it to further one's own goals.
Have you got a source for this? Would really appreciate it.
It doesn't help that "Technical Writer" is now an incredibly rare job title, it was one of the first in a long line of specializations that were pushed on to general developers. As you mentioned, they were never allocated the extra time but also don't have the training and experience that technical writers once did. It was also a very poor target for outsourcing.

The specializations common on a team even 20 years ago was much closure to the "Surgical Team" model from the mythical man month than what we have today.
My partner, who is 32 with only minor underlying health issues, received her first jab yesterday. I'm obviously pleased that she will shortly have some degree of protection both for her sake and for our daughter and I, since my partner is the only one who has to leave the house for work.

However, at the same time, I can't help feel that we've jumped the queue slightly. The EU is experiencing another wave which will doubtlessly culminate in thousands of deaths, the majority will be from people older or with much more serious health complications than my partner.

I'm kinda sick of reading these debates about who ordered what and when under what conditions. There is a complete lack of compassion, we should be doing what we can to help those countries who still have older people unvaccinated. We can wait another couple of months before our holidays to Blackpool and Stalyvegas.
I'd encourage you to check out the ESP-32. It's not that much more money and supports more features (BLE, actual hardware encryption, etc.)
Mainstream media shouting "discredited", "already debunked!", "fringe", "conspiracy theory", "xenophobic" in unison last time Tom Cotton brought this up was a sign for me that there is actually something to investigate here.

- https://archive.vn/TG8zN#selection-999.29-999.84

- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/17/business/media/coronaviru...

- https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-conspiracy-theories/

- https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/483354-sen-cotton-repeat...

- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/02/republican-senat...

- https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/tom-cotton-coronavir...

- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tom-cotton-coronavirus-china_...

- https://www.factcheck.org/2020/02/baseless-conspiracy-theori...
That's a weird comment. Plenty of people are rich by your definition (could easily buy a house) but don't do it because it makes no sense financially.
Most good investors are better off renting and getting higher returns in the stock market.
Renting also allows you to move very quickly and you don't spend your time fixing things (i let my landlord handle it all)
Only so many hours in a day. Perhaps setting up and operating a blogging platform isn't how they'd prefer to use their time.

When I ran my own business, I had the skills to do everything myself: accounting, order fulfillment, everything. I created a kick-ass system that saved me hours of work for things like calculating and disbursing royalty checks (it was a publishing business). Sure, it was better than off-the-shelf software, but I would have been able to dedicate a lot more time to the core of my business—the part where I was creating truly unique value—if I had hired an accountant, or at least used off-the-shelf software.
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First time home buyers are completely boxed out right now. There are people sitting on down payments waiting this out.
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Then what will I do with my Remedy programming knowledge?! (I don't cry it back) Funny thing is that when we changed from Remedy to another system we continued to use the Remedy name for the new system to avoid confusions by the end users. Actually we called it RemedyHD. :)
What sort of rental property are we talking about? Single family home rentals I can see as getting more popular, but I wouldn't think a 200 unit apartment in OC to be much different than one in LA in terms of demand these days. IMO it's in OC, ventura, and san bernardino county that I see way more lax mask usage than in LA county, as well as more crowded restaurants due to a less strict health department.
Why are people so defensive of any criticism of EU? There are a lot of good things that come out of EU, their vaccine program is a complete shitshow. Europeans should observe that and shed light on it.

The social media is full to the brim with "EU exported because they're nice guys" including the top comment on HN.
Most queries don't require further action.

You can glean the information you were looking for from the results themselves. This is particularly true when you use google as a spell checker.
I don't find that compelling. Our own US scientists specifically stated they did not see the biological markers of tampering, and I don't see any reason we shouldn't be trusting them. I think there are a lot of people who want to believe China is evil incarnate and things are just as black and white as that. I think that's a mental shortcut with easy emotional payout. I would encourage you to read the link.

Here is a direct link to some gain of function research being done at the lab for anyone interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2258702/

Relevant line in abstract:

> In this study, we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2 molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat.
Or as explained above it doesn't make sense to buy since it is cheaper to rent.
Yeah with the current tech it isn't really worth it to print stuff unless its like an entire army and you would be ok not using GW models. However, in the future I'm betting this will change and It will be much cheaper to print the models at home or have someone you know do it!
> passively try to avoid the game altogether

Can't be done, you're avoiding yourself into a ~3/100 game.
>Things worked out for you, but you have no further passion or inclination to improve the world? No problems you could set yourself to solving?

And why should they? I'm no fan of trust fund babies who coast by on life, but really, why does anyone have to justify their lives by doing something to improve the world? What are you and I accomplishing right now?

Maybe it's just the severe burnout talking, but I for one would love to just stop everything and exist for a while with no tangible goals or requirements of me. Besides that, what good is a person who did the leanFIRE thing really supposed to do? The whole idea is to live cheaply, they don't have a lot of money to invest in making the world better. They have all the time in the world, sure, but if you're putting 40+ hours into "making the world better" (Whatever that means to you) then are you really retired? Or are you just doing the same thing as everyone else but living a much more meager life for the sake of it.
https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-europe-inno...

Here’s the CEO of AZ explaining why the three month extra time was important.
>do you have something specific in mind?

First - protect the AD and authentication infrastructure from a black start event.

I'd have an offline physical machine, no matter how old, that was a viable backup domain controller. I would have a stack of hard drives for it, and a copy of clonezilla. Every so often, clone the hard drive, boot the replacement, and sync it with the domain, then turn it off.

For the truly paranoid, do this in each location. Keep the machine and drives in a safe.

Test the black start backups on a temporary network built from spare hardware. Note that if you boot a Windows machine, it might adapt itself to the hardware and cause issues, so discard that image, and regenerate it.

In a black start event, you could turn off all the outside networks, and start with the old AD server, and restore from backups.

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Any Virtualization or SAN layers should have administrative credentials that are unused for anything else, and only written down on pieces of paper, never scanned or typed in.

All servers should have saved images in offline, unencrypted hard drives, in a safe.

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The main thing then is to get periodic offline unencrypted backups of the systems and data in a safe.

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So, if the system is breached, there is at least a way to restore to the last backup, and you have some confidence it actually works.
He did not. But Einstein was still far more driven by experimental results (that is to say, by physical reality) than Wolfram is.
> I tend to keep interviewing or lets call it networking.

Do you not find interviewing is super expensive in terms of time? My last interview was a four-day trip and about 40 hours of prep time before that.

If I interviewed more than once or twice a year it'd be an enormous time sink. Maybe it pays off for you because you think the networking benefits are so high?
I recently won the IPO lottery--went from nearly zero net wealth to a solid seven figure net wealth. I could buy a house in the bay area and give up > 50% of my cash for it, or I could give up 15-25% of my net wealth with a down payment on a a mortgage and pay (PITI) 110% or more of what I could pay in rent for a similar home.

Or I could continue renting and put that 15% - > 50% of my net worth in appreciating assets and income producing investments. Even better: I could move my family to a place where people aren't paying $2M for a home that's worth $250k.

The housing market here is suited best for people with absolutely no money sense at all, or those VHNWI and UHNWI who can buy into genuine investment grade real estate out here. It makes zero sense for the vast majority of people to buy here, especially people who more or less win a lottery with some options from a company that makes an exit. In almost every case their money would be put to better use renting here and investing elsewhere (assuming they're tied down here, e.g., due to work).
Why is this embargoed until a Thursday; isn't "patch Tuesday" the usual mantra? That's the downtime window where I work as a result.
Even better is don't marry that person to begin with. Let them go off and enjoy their life with someone they're better suited to share life with.
The EU decided to spend 750 billion euro of money it does not have (on credit - see [0]) for post-Covid recovery, but at the same time decided to save as much as possible on vaccines. I think that 'penny wise, pound foolish' applies. It would be unfair to Israel if they paid extra surcharge for their vaccines and later were told by European authorities "sorry, we will confiscate them, bad luck."

If we instead paid some 10 extra euro per dose, it would have added up to about 1 per cent of the planned recovery fund - and an extra factory or two could have been built during last autumn to start cranking out the vaccines by millions as soon as approved.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/eu-agrees-on-750-billion-euro-recovery...
Always like when Twitter threads that are supposed to be sources of "truth" says stuff like this:

> "Meanwhile in March 2020, President Trump tried unsuccessfully to steal BioNTech from Germany"

They tried to buy the company. Not sure when "Buy" became "Steal"

> "Trump seemed to be in no hurry to sign Pfizer purchase contracts. "

He then links to an article about how they weren't rushing to buy additional vaccines on top of the 100 million already purchased. So, again, highly misleading. Not buying additional vaccines just became "in no hurry to sign Pfizer purchase contracts"
I, like many others, would truly like to be pointed to resources that can help me understand what would lead bio scientists to this conclusion.

Make no mistake, I am super well aware that I lack all the grounding to understand the explanation.

But can you point me in the right direction? The context surrounding what you are saying must be learnable. At least to some level.
From what I've read, you can't grow enough legumes to fix the needed amount of nitrogen for high intensity agriculture. The Haber process sustains a sizable fraction of the world's animal population.
> they botched multiple other things but on this they got it right

This was the single most important thing to get right since 1945, by a large margin.

As a EU citizen I must say that the multiple layered structure of the EU is not worse than any other one in normal times but it was a disaster in these exceptional times. Too many indirections, nobody responsible for anything, the people in charge of the vaccination procurement not there because of elections.
Thank you for these pointers. I agree. It's one of those tools that, if you have that problem, you know exactly why you need it.

This solves this issue: https://github.com/minio/minio-py/issues/829. MinIO is an S3 compatible object storage software. https://min.io/

Thanks again. I'll improve the documentation.
It's amazing how much ridicule I took for seriously suggesting this theory last year. My friends twisted and exaggerated the extent of my claims (implying I thought it was an intentional action on China's part, or an engineered virus, and not a result of mundane research + accidental containment failure), and called me a crazy conspiracy theorist.

I had been reading every journal article I could get my hands on about the virus since February, but of course how could my interpretation be trustworthy? I'm no expert, or anything. If something I read in a journal article contradicted something on the news, the latter always seemed to "win".

After all that, now that the lab thing is on the mainstream news, I'm afraid to even bring it up with my friends. They can figure it out for themselves.
Again: No, the UK had a binding contract with AZ since May already.

"However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing “the development of a dedicated supply chain for the U.K.,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said."

Quote is from this article: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-key-differences-between-...