skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are looking at this with hindsight.

I wasn't when I criticized it the day I heard it. It was obviously not right.

> Later on aerosole scientists made the correct analysis that the more important path was to prevent the small droplets from infected people spreading over shirt distances

(I quoted this just because I laughed at 'shirt distances' in this context.)

> Was it malicious? Unlikely.

Was using his authority to say something absolutely unproven and implausible malicious? Or just extremely obviously going to have negative consequences which he ignored?

> the trump administration [...] Fauci and the CDC and the scientists are not the fall guy here.

Fauci and the WHO both go out of their way to say things that they can't know. Sure, Trump is also awful, but that's not relevant to our "scientists" overstepping. At this point Fauci is a politician. Better than some, but still.
> What good is financial progress if most of it goes to a minority and much of the population can not make things better because they cannot even vote?

Indeed. Or look at malnutrition or child mortality among blacks in the US South after the War to Kick Slavers In the Balls. Both went up. Or murder and crime rates in South Africa post apartheid. Went up. Or the total lack of economic improvement in Ireland after kicking the Brits out. No one cares now and no one cares then.

People would rather be miserably poor and ruled by a ruling class that they identify with than have higher living standards and be ruled by an out group.
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Really sad to see.

I still see no realistic alternative for the "distributed decent wifi at a reasonably SMB scale" wireless product though. Miraki I guess is as close as it gets, but then you are locked in 100% cloud and it's certainly not remotely the same price point.

I am relegating Unify to manage my APs and (some) switches for ease of use - while I enjoy CLI fun, it gets old doing routine stuff the for the 100th time.

Hopefully another company really steps up in this space, because I can't imagine having to go back to the dark days of individually managed APs and all that.
BayStar exec says Microsoft 'guaranteed' SCO investment

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2820340/baystar-exec-s...

They offered to underwrite a 50 million dollar investment in a lawsuit and helped them raise 10s of millions more to fund what they knew enough to know was a felony pump and dump scam and a criminal attack on their competitors.

There isn't much daylight between what they did and a restaurateur paying the mafia to burn their competitor out of business if the mafia employed arsonists so incompetent they tried to effect their crime in broad daylight with zippos.

Keep in mind that while people are talking about the new and improved Microsoft that current ceo Satya Nadella joined Microsoft in 1992 whereas this whole SCO debacle begins 10 years later while he was working in a leadership role within Microsoft.

The criminal culture never left Microsoft and their current leadership is at best tolerant of criminal acts.
It’s so convenient!
On this subject, does anyone know what is up with the reddit sub, r/ubiquiti? Seems to be run by u/briellie. She(?) seems like a really toxic person with some kind of business relationship with Ubiquiti like a reseller or something.

The Reddit sub seems like they are actively trying to suppress discussion of this issue. There's some allegations of censorship on the sub, but I'm not seeing it... which might actually just be confirmation that they are censoring. I don't know.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economi...

> The argument against increasing the minimum wage often relies on what I call “economism”—the misleading application of basic lessons from Economics 101 to real-world problems, creating the illusion of consensus and reducing a complex topic to a simple, open-and-shut case....

> [discussion of economic research that shows no consensus if increasing minimum wage empirically leads to greater unemployment]

> Even if a higher minimum wage does cause some people to lose their jobs, that cost has to be balanced against the benefit of greater earnings for other low-income workers. A study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that a $10.10 minimum would reduce employment by 500,000 jobs but would increase incomes for most poor families, moving 900,000 people above the poverty line. Similarly, a recent paper by the economist Arindrajit Dube finds that a 10 percent raise in the minimum wage should reduce the number of families living in poverty by around 2 percent to 3 percent. The economists polled in the 2013 Chicago Booth study thought that increasing the minimum wage would be a good idea because its potential impact on employment would be outweighed by the benefits to people who were still able to find jobs. Raising the minimum wage would also reduce inequality by narrowing the pay gap between low-income and higher-income workers.

> In short, whether the minimum wage should be increased (or eliminated) is a complicated question. The economic research is difficult to parse, and arguments often turn on sophisticated econometric details. Any change in the minimum wage would have different effects on different groups of people, and should also be compared with other policies that could help the working poor—such as the negative income tax (a cash grant to low-income households, similar to today’s Earned Income Tax Credit) favored by Milton Friedman, or the guaranteed minimum income that Friedrich Hayek assumed would exist.
Michio Kaku aLiEn ExPeRt
As long as you're okay with it being known that your word is worthless.
Hmm, now I want a font renderer that does a physical simulation of ink.

The font built for AR/VR legibility is fascinating too.
I greatly preferred TouchWiz to stock Android UI. It's a matter of preference.
FWIW, I think Unity/Unreal can provide that feedback loop to really enjoy building games. There's still plenty of opportunity for mathematics at the scripting level, and the advantage is you won't spend days or weeks trying to draw a square in OpenGL. I took that path and vastly prefer the engine approach.
I would simply just save as much as you can right now to give yourself more runway, see a therapist, maybe even take a medical leave of absence for burnout (which IS a thing and is protected, sometimes you get paid as well), and set a time you will leave.

In 8 months you can certainly find another job, but more likely you’ll want to spend a little time decompressing. Don’t worry too much about it, software developers are still in very good demand.
All of Touchstone's patents would have been transferred to Silicon Labs, and they still own them despite discontinuing all the parts. The founders would probably find it very hard to try again.
Microsoft removed the file type manager in Vista(?), so it's no longer as simple to change what software opens arbitrary file extensions. You now need to have a file with the extension you want to change the default for, use 'open with', and check the 'use by default' button. If you want to change a bunch of file types by copy/ pasting exe path, sorry, you can't do that without editing the registry. And the new method of changing programs that open groups of file types (ie documents or html), the program you're running needs to be registered as something that can do so, or it won't appear in the list. Want to change all image formats except gif (jpg, png, tiff, bmp, wmf, emf, and so on) to a different image viewer? Your options are to change them all then change gif back, or to change them individually.

I think there's a location in the new settings for listing all file type associations, but it still doesn't allow copy/pasting paths for multiple fast modifications. If you want to change the name of a file type as it appears in the file type column in explorer, or want to change the icon used for a type of file to something other than that of the application used to open it, that's no longer possible without editing the registry.
"A man with an unusually tiny brain manages to live an entirely normal life despite his condition, which was caused by a fluid build-up in his skull.

Scans of the 44-year-old man's brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue"

An article goes on to say that he was tested at an IQ of 75, below normal but not disabled; he was employed as a civil servant, and married with children.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150712092909if_/http://www.new...
That will be a beautiful and practical design
I think this might be spot on. Simulators tend to have extremely steep learning curves and turn off a lot of people. MSFS2020 is trying to capture the casual market too, which inherently means lowering that entry barrier.

It's a fantastic game though, and the satellite imagery AI magic they've done is outstanding.
Ya I did some research and it's not bad at all. And ruckus is pretty good with their firmware options.

In fact I'm buying two new R710s to replace my very old UAC AP Pros. Was going to get the new AP 6 LR but after UIs current woes (and them dropping support for my APs way too early) I'm done with them.
wrong! you have to use the postgres driver
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The US govt is heavily calibrated on the side of minority political factions in order to protect minorities from “oppressive” majority rule. It’s annoying when it gets in the way of the majority but also fundamental to how the US operates. What recent events tell me is that we’re looking to the federal government to do more than it is/was meant to do. If that’s dated so be it but I dont understand why states have to wait around for the federal government to solve healthcare.
public information became public?
Do you mind sharing more detail? He’s quite a character.
I think you have to choose between easy and fast in this case. A separate dedicated memory controller that all of the cores are connected to that handles all of the cache would make this problem a lot easier, but would defeat the purpose of the L1 cache.
Is this actually an Austrian version? Per other threads, the dump included "Austriaia", which was "Austria", but didn't include "Australia". Also the country code for Australia is +61, and for Austria it's +43.
The current CEO of Microsoft was an executive VP with then 10 years of work with Microsoft at the beginning of the scandal as well it seems a strange ask to for us to imagine that an executive who looked the other way during criminal conspiracy is supposed to be leading the new more ethical Microsoft.
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Whatever data types are available in the programming language of choice here; Rust.
"What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?" ??? is that not the prompt
Thanks! :) Will fix it after work.
He's a total charlatan. A flim flam man
Ask HN: What do you dislike about your current mouse?
I have been pondering over my optical mouse.Since, it's demise after supporting me for so many years. It was sad we had to part away. But, since then I have been researching about mouses and I feel I am unable to find the one which I need? What about you?
found it a minute later on btdb. The data is really not interesting. It's like a 2021 version of a phonebook, that was common when I was younger. Where it becomes a slight bit dangerous, is that names and sometimes birthdates and emails are linked to it.

username and SHA/MD5 password dumps are more interesting to analyze though.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26694974
The way I see it there are only two ways to perfectly invalidate a cache.

The first is to only cache the results of pure functions whose arguments can be perfectly equality-checked. But if your arguments aren't trivial to compare, this can incur some overhead even on cache hits. It also doesn't work for a stateful system, because not all relevant information gets passed in as arguments.

So the second way is to track every possible mutation to any data in the system, associate each piece of data with all caches that depend on it, and "push" invalidations to those caches when something changes. In the context of a front-end app, this is what MobX does. Salsa is a Rust library that does something similar and is used by rust-analyzer. Broadly this falls under the term "reactivity", though I've seen the word used to describe several different related concepts.

Most of the invalidation strategies people use in practice are imperfect and ad-hoc and depend on domain knowledge. Often you get a version of #2, but done manually instead of automatically: "I know that when X happens, we need to bust cache Y, so I'll manually code that behavior". This is the "hard" version that the adage refers to.
thank you for bringing value to the world and supporting free things! i think without pdfs in new era of lockdowns we cant proceed anymore online activities where pdf now is new passport - pass by ticket to anything! just have to keep my eye on phone battery
I wish it was available in such so one could use it with Inkscape
After Elon got a pass for his "pedo guy" comment and a slap on the wrist for his 420 joke, it's pretty clear no one could reasonably expect anything he says to be truthful.
Pixel is basically irrelevant.
> Update: I’m writing a text book right now. I can tell you that publishers do not bend over backwards to accommodate non-standard tool choices

I think GP is specifically talking about super famous/lucrative writers, not writers in general. (This isn't meant as a slight at all, to be clear; I'm nowhere near George R. R. Martin-levels of acclaim in my field either!)
People build things with Excel because they already have it installed on their office computers. They don't have to file an expense report to pay for a license. They don't have to wrangle IT, beg their manager, or fight with the security team for permission to get it installed.

It doesn't hurt that a wide variety of white-collar workers are already familiar with Excel and stand to gain a great deal of leverage across their job with every small investment in learning about its features, but the incumbent advantage of Excel being universally available, without question or complaint, cannot be overstated.
Yeah for example, Elon has done a lot of great stuff with Space X for example, but the shit he says about boring company and public transit, it's so wildly out of touch with reality, wrong and stupid, it's an embarrassment.
> before the universe became transparent to the cosmic background radiation (<1M years after the Big Bang)

There were millions of years when the universe was transparent and room temperature [1].

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journa...
do you just suggest to simply sue Elon Musk?? The guy who is above all regulations and who is trying to save the world??
You are missing the point. The CDC and WHO believed (incorrectly) that N95 masks did not provide any benefit to a healthy population when the number of infections were concentrated in healthcare facilities. You can't pick and choose only part of the message and claim maliciousness. The whole perspective is important.

I also was arguing with people on Facebook weeks before the CDC and who changed their position and I predicted masks would become mandatory. But that was my personal opinion and not proof that Fauci acted in bad faith. You and are I anecdotal data points with no responsibility to anybody
. Nobody got it "right" but the scientists were at least putting the effort in the right direction instead of right wing politicians.

Typing on a mobile without my glasses so autocorrect will have its day!
I’ve owned 5 iPhones so far and never seen this Siri button.
It looks like this article is from 2014; I'm not sure if he was still writing them, but we probably were at least still pretending he was!
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It is the Australian version (although I accidentally downloaded that Austrian data first). I turned the phone numbers into local Australian numbers without the international code, where mobile numbers are always 04?? ??? ???.
Sorry, I accidentally posted my comment before I finished it. Now I finished it with an edit.

To your point, his tweets seem to be entirely criticizing liberals; I don't see him criticizing conservatives. I'm not saying criticizing liberals is bad or that he should be criticizing conservatives. I'm saying that someone who spends all their time criticizing liberals and repeating right-leaning talking points is right leaning.
Flu shots are taken every year, so we do know the effects of those (it's okay). In this case it depends what kind of vaccine each one is.
And Troff in 1972. And probably plenty before that....
The money comes from somewhere. You can make it direct or you can make it indirect, but it is still coming from one bank account or another.

Essentially, the US is footing the bill for the world. If you look at overseas pharmacies, PReP has been available (as are many drugs) at very cheap prices for quite a while now. Some countries just ignore the drug patents and go on their merry way. Our current method of accounting inside the US has people pay into insurance, which then pays out for these particular drugs.
It's not that Samsung n' co is copying Apple, it's that Apple is making the right design and tech choices for the right reasons and Samsung is figuring this out too and making the same choices.
> tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.

Samsung bought more ads, maybe?
Yes. Quite many of these phones without headphone jack or replaceable battery are, in fact, not waterproof. Removing a "niche feature" such as a headphone jack for a niche feature (no quotes) like waterproofing seems like a bad excuse to plug the DRM hole, save cost and sell bluetooth headphones, to be honest.
Apple has never had a dedicated Siri button.

Also, it's a phone dialer - like the functionality of a phone dialer has been well defined since the early 2000's (also having used PalmOS, webOS, Windows Mobile 6 and 7, Early Android, and iOS from 2012 on I've never desired additional functionality here), so like what makes a phone dialer "like 10 years ahead"? - I'm not trying to snark, it's a genuine question.
Actually the whole different people learn with different senses has been disproved in neuroscience. It's a myth that holds itself persistently in education. There is a very good article about this: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3817
I just got out of a bath where I was using my phone...
Typically the green color is zinc chromate which is used to prevent or reduce corrosion on aluminum parts
Should we roll a dice to see which side of the criminal activity MS is on this time?
After reading the article: no he doesn't, he uses a modern computer for internet, mail and taxes.
Is this satire? I hope it is. I hope that when you enter a number into the field; gigantic text appears on the screen in 150pt font saying "HAVEN'T YOU LEARNED ANYTHING???"
>By definition, it is not a conspiracy if it is legal.

That might be your personal definition, but a common definition is: "a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful"

>...The only reason you don't see much of that yet is that it hasn't been needed

Contrary to what advocates claim, people have been looking at grid energy storage for decades and it isn't as simple as they claim. So far the only noticeable thing that has been able to implemented has been pumped hydro.

It is possible new grid storage technologies will be designed/implemented in the coming decades, but it will be a challenge. One estimate is that for Germany to rely solely on solar and wind would require about 6,000 pumped storage plants which is literally 183 times their current capacity. This is why Bill Gates is investing in energy storage companies and 4th gen nuclear.
Life is an illusion and We do not have any choice in our actions. Just like how the planets and stars do their work, we do ours and makes us no different from non-living things.
They forgot to update the site now that Tesla has turned profits.

Also they should also update the post about the 500k Teslas/year. 185K in Q121 places Tesla right inside 500k/year territory.
yeah not going to use any search tool where i need to enter my number ... you could just post the data by area codes..... just create a bland UI that lists all area codes ..let user click into the area code and then on the next page list all the phone numbers in that area code that have been affected.

I'd use that but not searching by phone number.
There are limits to what a study can show. It's hard to measure its effects on the unemployment rate due to the mobility of labour. We don't have an experimental control where we can see what unemployment rates are like without a minimum wage anywhere in the world, and that would be the only way to actually provide something approaching proof that minimum wage increases the unemployment rate.

But what has been demonstrated suggests that minimum wage decreases job growth:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160410035745/http://economics....

And this is exactly what economic theory would suggest.

Basic supply and demand theory tells us that the minimum wage, to the extent that it has an effect, harms wage growth. In the absence of the ability to conduct controlled experiments to prove definitively its effect one way or another, we should opt to trust basic economy theory.

>>Dube finds that a 10 percent raise in the minimum wage should reduce the number of families living in poverty by around 2 percent to 3 percent.

He hasn't shown anything. These studies are at best suggestive, and based on some amount of conjecture by the study authors. They also have difficulty measuring long-term effects, which in any case of any anti-market intervention that redirects profit for investors, to give workers above market wages, while redirecting private sector income to the larger roll of welfare recipients, will be negative for wage growth.

I am not going to believe that a centrally imposed price floor, that is universally considered harmful, and a source of deadweight losses, in economics, just happens to be beneficial in its one application that has been most heavily politicized.
Based on username/comment, let me ask, what is next?

Because the platform integration and ease of administration, no one else has and it’s great for simple networks.
Yeah, in the Python world there's WeasyPrint for PDF out in the wild as well. It's quite slick, but it's a harder sell because of Python, which corporate types seem to think is bad hacker central.

https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint