skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the link. (As an aside, the usage of the phrase "COVID-19 virus" in the paper really triggers me :P) Not sure if you were just sharing information or if there was an implication that it's at odds with what I said, but just to be explicit I consider that to confirm what I said above.

> It's still endemic today, but most of us get infected as youths which provides some immunity later in life.

Right! That's why it's really a great analogy for SARS-2. I've been trying to get people to understand for awhile now that unlike say a really bad flu pandemic [flu has a bi-modal death distribution], SARS-2 kills the very elderly and the very sickly, but doesn't touch the very young. That means that once it's more-or-less fully spread through the population (as it has been doing the last 1.5 years or so), we're basically done with COVID-19 mortality forever.

Why? Because of exactly that reason: children will get exposed to SARS-2 young the same way they get exposed to the other circulating non-SARS hCoVs. And like any infection, once infected and recovered immunological memory persists for decades upon decades. Memory B/T cells hang around, ready and waiting to respond to the characteristic antigen when presented with them in the future.
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My mother was told that she should not use so many big words around me. Evidently, my vocabulary was a problem for the one-size-fits-all classroom.
We had a president that addressed this but people didn't like that he sent 'nasty' tweets. then his successor overturned the order and we all celebrated.
Google (if you're not a work) "Anilingus".
The union is trying to exercise power as well, I have no problem with Elon saying that, and that it is a far cry from... actual anti union tactics. Preventing propaganda campaigns, threats, lies, etc shouldn’t be lumped in with making a straightforward argument against unions — when that point is reached i think union power has gotten too strong and i no longer support it.
Does ARMv9 SystemReady mean the decoupling of OSes from drivers?
With Intel based systems, the OS and the hardware are independent from each other. You can boot into you OS then install drivers to match your hardware. Updating hardware means installing new drivers.

Right now with ARM devices, engineers must build OS images with the drivers embedded. Updates to the OS invole re-building that image.

I assume this is why it's so hard to simply "install" ARM Linux or Windows on any ARM based device. OEMs must create Windows/Linux ARM images with those drivers embedded.

I also assume it's the reason mobile phone vendors provide such short OS update support for Android devices. It must be intensive to continuously rebuild complete Android images for old devices.

Listening to the presentation given by Arm, it sounds like SystemReady in ARMv9 aims to add hardware discovery to their platform, allowing the OS to be shipped separately to the drivers.

Am I interpreting this correctly? If that's the case, isn't that a massive deal with game changing implications?
> It's literally a crime done right in front of the police, with official records and signatures for you to be prosecuted.

How does the party know they have been wronged? Are they notified that someone has been given access to their browsing history?
My house had a problem since the cable came in on one corner of my house, and my office was on the other side. Browsing was ok but things like video calls suffered, at least until I went with a Unifi BeaconHD.
One nugget of wisdom is that if you are decently intelligent, most of your failure to understand “complex” topics is really due to poor quality explanations from other people. Few engineers are clear writers. Buy books, sort though university course syllabi, watch lectures. That is, consume materials meant for teaching beginners.

For consuming non-beginner material, it’s okay to read a blog post and not fully understand everything. Things will click together over time.
> If the file extension is .txt, I always expect it to be opened as plain text. The file extension is, rightly or wrongly[0], the metadata declaring the file type — nobody would consider it reasonable for an .exe to remain executable if the extension is changed to .txt, after all.

That statement is quite wrong and shows a good dose of ignorance. To start off in UNIX systems the extension means nothing regarding whether a file is an executable or not. All it takes is a +x flag and a file format (header, magic number) that can be executed.

Also, file extensions mean nothing. In fact, a popular and very basic trick to fool clueless users to run malware (and one which any anti-malware tool checks) is to sneak executables with a different extension, because it only means something to clueless users.

And a file with a txt file extensions means nothing at all. The only thing that matters is the file content and it's file permissions.
I work in edtech, and I have a child who did remote school for the last 1/3 of kindergarten and the first 2/3 (and counting) of first grade.

Although the article talks about the issue of first grade readiness, I think the bigger problem schools are going to face is that there will be an enormous range of returning students.

Some students will have had very little academic exposure (due to lack of technology/broadband/area for learning) and some students will have had their education supplemented by their parents. The impact of these supplements can be tremendous, since they are personalized to the specific student. Also, students have more spare time out of school, since Zoom school takes up fewer hours than regular school (no bus ride, shorter lunch, no time spent lining up to wash hands or getting backpacks).

Schools will have to decide how they want to deal with the great disparities that they will see next fall (across all grade levels). My guess is there will be much less stigma attached to repeating a grade than in normal times. I hope this is the case, because it would not be in the best interest of under-performing students to pass them along to the next grade if they're not ready.
When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?
This does sound truly awful!

If we're going for a truly minimal, Unix-style, modular program though, why not abandon the focus on lines and have it operate only on a single character? You could have it accept text as a parameter, and return the edited text as the result so then you could write multi-character strings by piping together multiple invocations of the program!
So basically, if someone gets raped and gets HIV we can just blame them for not fighting back enough?

If that is the question, it's based on some abhorrent moral assumptions.
Isn't moving into an already occupied unit trespassing?
Hi, Adam here from Pagedjs. Pagedjs is MIT. Mathjax is Apache 2.0 and isn't part of our work :) Wonderful as it is...we can't claim credit for it! (We Love MathJax - https://github.com/MathJax/MathJax)
Also, foil-backed insulation [0]. I finally figured out they insulated the hell out of my house with this stuff.

Works amazingly on heating and cooling bills, but it's a pretty solid wall to radio waves.

[0] https://www.ibhs.co.uk/foil-backed-mineral-wool-50mm-thick-x...
Thanks!

Yes I know what you mean - it doesn’t work well in certain browsers, devices etc. Aimed at desktop users and Chrome in particular (I saw a bug in Safari version). The aim is less to be a readable pdf in-browser, but rather a high quality pdf after exporting to pdf. The in browser print preview is just a nice side effect (but I might actually reuse this for other projects as I like it quite a bit!).

I think the issue with the toc is that it’s dynamically created; so while I was able to use responsive web design for the rest, it didn’t work so well for the toc. I’ll have a look at it though :) I think there may be a way to get it to work
The article recognizes it, which I should have pointed out (on phone), but as far as addressing it there is only this line:

> Except in all his later writings, he has relentlessly refused to pay attention to those increases.

No examples are given. The next claim about moving the goalposts also is unsubstantiated. It might be true but I don't see where Hickle had ever moved the goalpost from $7.40.

I don't have a dog in this race. If you feel like I am somehow mistaken then please point it out, preferably without attacking my character. Of course you are under no obligation.
There isn’t a way to use solar power for propulsion energy. The issue isn’t an electrical source, the problem is emitting mass.
Not at all. It is clearly not targeting one person. It simply means we will change how we pay if unionized. Is it allowed?
I'm very confused with the PDF appreciation comments. I have to read lots of PDF textbooks and reference documents for school and the experience is grating, especially trying to navigate a document with upwards of 1000 pages on the Chrome PDF reader or Adobe Acrobat on a laptop. Trying to manipulate a tiny scrollbar with a laptop touchpad is very frustrating and using gesture scrolling is tedious for a large document when you have to flip around to various pages. Perhaps I've been doing something wrong, any thoughts?
I got asked those kind of question "integral of 1/x" during interview with big tech (Microsoft) and Wallstreet (Morgan stanley, goldman sach).

But to be fair at Wallstreet you are likely to work with quants and have to do integral :)
What do you use instead of these constructs?
He's allowed to say anti-union things. He's not allowed to make threats. Even if he didn't mean it to be one, it reasonably looks like one to employees.

See https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d45833ef7a1 for the actual language. A snippet:

"The General Counsel argues that to remedy fully CEO
Musk’s unlawful May 20, 2018 tweet, which coercively
threatened that employees would lose their stock options
if they selected the Union as their representative, the
Board should order the Respondent to have Musk delete
that tweet and to post a notice addressing that violation at
its facilities nationwide. Consistent with our recent decision in FDRLST Media, LLC, we shall order the Respondent to direct Musk to delete the unlawful tweet from the
@elonmusk Twitter account and to take appropriate steps
to ensure that Musk complies with the directive."
Byebye Americas cup and f1, hello solar drag racing
The irony of course is that one of the reasons we would know that historical tyrants were tyrants is precisely because of similar studies of art and literature of historical periods.
Seeing Like a Finite State Machine
And slapping .net on everything.
Microsoft collects a sizable amount of patent money from Android phone manufacturers to this day.
Landmark brain cancer vaccine passes first phase of human trials
"you" is clearly "you workers" and not a single person in this context, and no, threatening more people doesn't make it more legal.
Okay, but what's stopping him from fighting for that? Between his initial offending tweet, and the clarification tweet that you just shared, he makes it sound like it's important to him that his employees have stock options.

He could have said that he/Tesla have been trying to get those included but UAW refuses. Instead, he just says, "Well they usually don't, so I mean it's your call if you want to lose them or not, /shrug."

If he cared, he'd put in the effort. Instead, he's just citing precedent in the form of a vague threat instead of being the "cool CEO" people make him out to be and trying to do some good.
I was addressing "attackers might have gained control of the update infrastructure allowing them to push out malicious firmware to your devices."

In my case, no, they cannot push anything to my devices. Obviously, I could pull down compromised firmware. But that's always a risk with software that I don't personally verify, which is like 99.9% of software.

As a side note: obviously this security incident doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence in how they run their systems, but at no point has it been alleged that Ubquiti's firmware updates have been tampered with.
> You know about the filibuster right?

standard Dem excuse for being impotent and/or complicit
I don't understand either. The lingering files left over after I deleted a .app would always require a third party tool to gather and clean, and even then, I wouldn't be sure, and would then find missing preferences files. I don't have that problem with the Windows uninstaller.
> Corporate landlords won't be able to lobby quite so fiercely against new construction, upzoning and rent controls.

This sounds like a good thing to me. Why will it turn out badly?
I mean, being rude against the "uncool people" (whoever he thinks that is today) is a big part of his "cool CEO" brand, consequences be damned.
They don't get paid to make the modern web usable. They get paid to do what their project managers tell them. I see this first hand everyday. I've tried to fight it. I've tried to prioritize performance, usability, etc. It's not a priority for a lot of companies. At my company, the priority is delivering features that the sales team need to close a new customer.
Seems to indicate the status of the commenter.
Interesting that the UK-based Independent did this reporting without mentioning that the NHS still hasn't issued approval for Truvada to be provided outside of trial programs.
Worth noting that no one pays $1400 a month. Their insurance covers it, just like insurance covers you in Australia or Germany or Canada or anywhere else.
Understood. (And thanks for the data!)
It's hard to say definitively how old this data is due to this being a partial breach, but at one time I had two separate login email addresses for facebook.

Email address A was a gmail address and is a single dictionary word. I moved away from it as a login email due to the tendency of people to blindly spam it and it being used as a throwaway email address when people sign up for accounts. At this point I've had to purge a half dozen accounts people created on Facebook using my gmail address. The most recent one was created 4 months ago. Due to a rapid succession of logins (South Africa and United States) geometrically far apart, it was flagged and disabled.

I started using a different email address for my Facebook login a little less than 2 years ago. It is a custom domain name.

Neither showed up in the Have I Been Pwned lookup tool under this Facebook breech.
I don't remember when I last sent an SMS. 99% of my SMS messages are various notifications, reminders, and 2fa codes. The remaining 1% is spam.
Feels very much like a channeling of Churchill's 'Democracy is the worst form of government' ditty, except as applied to HTML and PDF. PDF is horrible. But it's not 'as horrible' as HTML (with the rather loomingly large caveat that this is has very little to do with the formats and everything to do with what your average HTML dev ends up making, and only applies to the job of reading significant chunks of in-depth materials).

As a format, yes, what the fuck is everybody talking about? PDF is a disaster and should be killed off, HTML is great.
Yeah, this is almost certainly not the case any way you want to frame the question and define a 'bit being mined'.

You'd really have to twist some strange language to attribute distributed global computation to SV because they may own or have invented certain technologies to even begin to argue that.

Just think of how expensive SV is in general. It doesn't make sense.
Or, as Anatole France wrote, "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal loaves of bread"
If the practice of changing payment schedule legal?
> The next thing I want to do is reflash my Unifi APs with OpenWRT

My understanding is that this doesn't work anymore because Ubiquiti started signing firmware. Your link also goes to a blank page.
The lookup doesn't tell you anything more than someone exists in a breech. You'd still have to have the data itself.

If you have the data itself, then lookup is as simple as 'grep' or 'ctrl-f'

So anyone who has the means to compromise someone they're looking up by having the data doesn't need the HaveIBeenPwned tool in the first place.

Moot point, IMHO.
Many things can be a text messaging service or an email digest if that helps you think outside of the box.
And as someone else who's kids did this:

You end up with no books that are an appropriate reading challenge but also developmentally appropriate, and a kid who is really bored in school and not using the time to build good study and homework habits.

I think it's a neat party trick to have a kid who is 4 and a fluent reader, and that it has some utility... but I might emphasize different things if I had it to do over again.

At the same time, calling out math problems to the back seat was a way that I kept kids busy during road trips, and I wouldn't change that at all :D
>>I guess my question is in what way in this situation is investment in real estate a positive thing for the average person?

A higher volume of investment into real estate will increase the value of land, so land-consuming real estate like Single Family Houses will go up in price.

In contrast, the cost of units in very dense developments, like high rises, will be dominated by building costs, not land prices, so their price would mostly stay constant as real estate investment increases, if all other factors were controlled for, and assuming no major market-freedom-inhibiting distortions of the construction industry via government regulations or organized crime.

Anyway, what goes down in price with rising supply is not the cost of buying real estate. It's the cost of renting it. If a real estate market has regulations that discourage investment, and suddenly those were repealed, and the market saw a flurry of construction, you'd also expect the purchase price of units in dense developments (where land is a minor cost input) to come down, as units available for purchase become less scarce, and that scarcity premium disappears.
"Alternately, if the dye for a given hue or color came from something rare or foreign or difficult to process (for instance, in all three cases, Tyrian or royal purple, which came from the murex sea snails – if you have ever wondered why no country has purple as a national color this is why, before synthetic dyes, coloring your flags and uniforms purple would have been bonkers expensive), then it was going to be expensive and rare and there just wasn’t much you could do about that."

The wearing of Tyrian purple clothes (made from the murex snails) was just banned for commoners in Rome, and its production was seriously disrupted if not stopped after the fall of Constantinople, to the extent that soon after that Roman Catholic Cardinals were commanded to wear red instead of purple garments, which they had formerly been treated to. This extraordinarily profitable business in dye is why Byzantium is so often coloured purple in video games like Civilization.
I will look into this and add it in (if possible), please do check back in a couple of weeks (maximum).

Would you be able to expand on what you mean (sorry I’m being dense), otherwise I will Google it tomorrow

Thanks for the kind words
Ask HN: Why Are the Interior Surfaces of Aircraft Painted Green?
Why are the insides of aircraft surfaces painted that bilious green color? Is it an anti-corrosion thing? Or is it for some other reason?

https://glasair-owners.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/08_test_fitting_GlaStar_Aux_Tank_.jpg

(strange link: seems to work only with copy and paste)
Truly the company with the best name and shittiest business model (post 2003).

It's too bad they ended up going that way. We used SCO OpenServer back in the late 90s and early 00s because it was a UNIX that ran on consumer PC equipment. That was a really big deal for installs in rural and remote sites where accessing custom hardware from Sun or SGI or whoever might've been tricky.

It was an interesting time, because seemingly overnight SCO went from being the company that made UNIX for the little guy into the biggest heels on the internet. We migrated most of our customers over to Red Hat and Postgres (from OpenServer/Informix), but still had some SCO sites running when I moved on in 2006ish. I can't imagine anyone moving back now. Linux killed them, and after how they behaved it's hard to shed a tear.
> What if the state thinks it's stupid to not only serve white people?

The state doesn't think that it's "stupid" to only serve white people; it thinks that it's evil to only serve white people. Therefore the state makes that illegal. (And rightly so. Had it thought -- or, as you say, when it did think -- the opposite, then it was the state that was evil.)

The state also seems to (at least to) some tiny extent think that it's bad to contribute to (or by inaction to allow) economic power becoming concentrated in ever fewer hands, and therefore tries to avoid doing that by limiting your freedom to aggravate this concentration.

You don't seem to have a cogent counter-argument; what you're spewing is just simplistic libertarian rah-rah.

> Places that practice the kind of racism you are talking about will be the subject of ridicule and will face economic stagnation.

Yeah, right. That's why the USA kept doing precisely that for at least another century after the civil war. (Or, arguably, is still doing it.) The view you're proclaiming is hilariously Pollyanna. (That often seems to go hand-in-hand with simplistic libertarian rah-rah.)
> any requests coming from a Worker will have the CF-Worker header identifying the zone which sent the request. If a customer suspects abusive requests coming from Workers, they should report it to us.

What happens if you receive a report of abusive behavior from a Worker? Would you rate limit the specific Worker, or would there be any impact on the larger Cloudflare account of the Worker's owner?

For instance, if we have a Worker that connects to an arbitrary endpoint based on user-generated parameters, or some vulnerability is found (in the JS code for the Worker) that allows this to happen, and it ends up being used for abusive behavior, would we have recourse to fix the vulnerability, or would action be taken immediately? Would our larger account, or our unrelated Workers, be at risk of being taken offline?
You're right, and I've added some defensive language, but please don't get distracted from the main point, which is that we had an opportunity to reduce the spread of a contagious cancer in people of all sexes, genders, and orientations, and yet we got into stupid fights instead of doing it quickly.
Weather Balloons
Mine's only slightly larger than that (mostly by virtue of having 3.5 levels, not by X-Y size), but the original plaster walls attenuate the hell out of 5GHz signals. I have two APs, one in the basement and one on the second floor and even with that, I'm considering adding two more inside and a dedicated one outside to serve the patio/BBQ area as I can readily tell the speed difference to internal file and backup servers if I'm in the same room as an AP vs on another floor or outside.

Make no mistake, it still "works" with just one, only slower.
Tesla owners asking what happens if 'full self driving' isn't real
This is actually McCullough's main thesis as far as I can tell ("we didn't study drugs enough and jumped straight to vaccine"), so it's interesting to hear it corroborated.
Woo Hoo! I did it after 4 tries. I'll redo my resume and send it over!
In case you missed it, pagedown implements pagedjs afaik
Will be true eventually, but Shah Jahan’s works include the Taj Mahal which is one of the signal achievements of mankind.
McCullough recently testified before the Texas state senate: https://youtu.be/QAHi3lX3oGM

He argued that drugs can and do significantly reduce hospitalization. He also claimed that literally nobody was stuffing drugs to reduce hospitalization, which is a strong claim but alarming if true.