skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The wave has already started, there are plenty antivaxxers out there who would rather die than take it. US uptake of the vaccine will be 70% max because of the nonbelievers and antiscience people that form the core of Trump's cadre. There's still plenty people left to kill and I bet we will hit at least 600,000 (aka another 50000) by the end of the year. There absolutely will be a 4th wave.
Complainer: 'Homelessness is a mental health problem, they shouldn't be arrested for sleeping and shitting on the sidewalk.'

Me: 'Please go ahead and convince that homeless person to go to a Doctor's office, after you set up the appointment, and then follow up to make sure they take their medicine every day.'

Complainer: 'Well, that is the job of a social worker, not me'

Me: 'Are you going to go hire the social worker and let them know that they need to do this?'

Complainer: 'That is the government's job, not mine'

Answer: 'So you are going to vote for someone who says they will fix this, and that is about all you are going to do?'

Complainer: 'I'm very busy'
Through all of history, charity has never been enough to solve those issues. It would be wrong to think that your charity alone is enough to solve those problems.

However, while the solutions to those problems aren't being implemented, charity can help soften the blow. It would be correct to think that your charity helps somewhat, but much, much more needs to be done.

Get involved with charity, but also get involved in policy at all levels, local to federal.

To give an example about why this is important, several places I've lived have criminalized things like addiction, homelessness, feeding people who need food, and community gardens.

It was local and state activism that made so that if an overdose was called in via 911, everyone who helped the victim didn't get arrested as a result. That stopped the trend of people not getting help for overdoses, as well as disturbing trends like overdose victims being left on the side of the road.

Local and state activism helped get affordable housing measures passed, as well.
Great game. Picked the original Transport Tycoon up as a kid back around 2000. However I've been following OpenTTD since my teens and now recently started playing online when time permits. This is a no-frills game and is a lot of fun in multiplayer mode.
The same way we deal with speed-of-light delay on earth: CDNs, asynchronous protocols like email, or just ignoring it when we can get away with it (e.g. "instant" messaging). SSH might be a bit tricky, but just pretend your system on mars is a production server and send it a tested bash file (using any of your favorite automation tools).
Only if you're savings is in USD. If you have the foresight to see the impending crisis you would also have the foresight to exit USD well before it happens. Savings isn't just cash.

The way I see it playing out is the government is going to try to print prosperity. Foreign governments stop buying our debt and move on to a new reserve currency without the US. If the US is willing to use force to try to maintain USD reserve status things get really ugly. Domestically this is a world of hurt for middle and low income classes. Any country that is preparing for this eventuality is going to do better. But, all countries are playing the same monetary debasement game. Just a few countries are increasing their purchase of gold and decreasing their purchase of US debt.
Pedantic point.

Question remains...
The whole idea of an all encompassing touch interface in a car is a terrible idea. Humans are incredibly adept at manipulating buttons, knobs, etc., and can do so by relying on muscle memory and without looking at the item they're trying to manipulate, which is simply not the case for touchscreens. Tesla and other car manufacturers are pushing touchscreens b/c it's cheaper to create software that gets displayed on a screen glued to the dash than to design, create, iterate, and install multiple plastic/meta bits.

I don't think it's a coincidence that Foxconn is trying to get into the car making game. In 20-30 years cars will probably be just like today's phones: generic pieces of glued glass sandwiching a battery and Lego-like hardware bits that are available off-the-shelf for any "manufacturer". This obviously sucks for the consumer since you'll be left with less options, less innovation and more conformity; basically Apple's 1984 commercial coming to a dealer lot near you!
This article reads like a longform version of why statistical power/effect size is important but doesn't mention it by name, only alluding to it. I suspect there would be much less of a replication crisis if, instead of just focusing on statistical significance, there was also a focus on effect size, or both.
I see something different in there.

F(condition1,

Condition2)

Is worse than

F(

Condition1,

Condition2

)

The problem isn't tabs or spaces, it's trying to align to the length of the function name instead of adding a new line
"This document formally establishes the Protocol Police. It defines the body and sets out what aspects of IETF protocols they will police."

"In the beginning was the RFC, and the network was with the RFC, and the RFC was with the network. Through the RFC all things were made; without the RFC nothing was made that has been made. In the network was life, and that life was the light of all the INTERNET. Thou shalt not deviate from the path set out in the RFCs or else thou shall be scattered over the data plane."

"Using powerful machine-learning mechanisms for threat analysis, the Protocol Police will identify networks that are likely to fail to comply with this requirement. This process is known as Heuristic Internet Policing (HIP). Networks identified in this way will be disciplined by the Protocol Police with TCP RSTs. Let it be known: the Protocol Police always shoot from the HIP."

"Before the Protocol Police, there was no security. The Police have arrived. All your networks are belong to us."
It is tougher, but how tough a job is has little to do with the pay.

It's all about supply/demand ratio, which is higher for hardware engineers. Hence they get paid less. There are simply far fewer HW jobs than SW ones. While there are more SW engineers, it doesn't make up for the delta in number of jobs available.

Even within the SW world, I've jumped around jobs of varying difficulty. The tougher jobs did not pay more.
There is absolutely no way we will get vaccine update like Israel, there are far too many antivaxxers in the states for that to happen. They will just catch it sometime between now and year's end I will guess.
As far as I know and recall from the years I've been using Mail.app, it does not download external images by default.
Ahh, there's the real reason. So why do the VCs want fiat and not crypto returns?
Verbosity of code is more of a go thing these days:

hasThing := false
for _, v := range stuff {
if checkForThing(v) {
hasThing = true
break
}
}
if !hasThing {
return false
}

Java:

if !stuff.stream().anyMatch(v -> checkForThing(v)) {
return false;
}

In the 2020s, loops are the new "goto", too much boiler-plate and ways to subtly be incorrect, much safer to use higher-level collection methods.
How do you know? Together with low TTL it seems plausible. But I don't understand how you can know it this fast.
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I wouldn’t apologise. I strongly respect the social rules of hacker news but they are by no means perfect and tend to break down in the face of a well calibrated troll.

This particular variant is the verbose non sequitur anti-pattern. It’s effective because it generally can’t be identified at a glance. It requires a lot of contextualised reading. This means it gets few down votes, the canonical sign of disapproval here.
The guy is doing his best trying to eradicate from the gene pool the kind of people receptive to arguments like his. In other words, he's doing God's work.
Why? After the current bubble collapses, this will no longer be a problem.
> reduce the market and therefore increase prices

Why is that a problem?

> if you start limiting the people, the ones remaining will most likely be the rich

Why is that a problem?
Someone tested [0] and the result agrees with you. And this Gmail help article [1] elaborates on the scope of protection, which is equivalent to "IP address and HTTP headers":

> Google scans images for signs of suspicious content before you receive them.

> These scans make images safer because:

> - Senders can’t use image loading to get information about your computer or location.

> - Senders can't use the image to set or read cookies in your browser.

> - Gmail checks the images for known harmful software.
Sometimes, senders may know whether you've opened an email that has an image. Gmail scans every message for suspicious content. If Gmail thinks that a sender or message is suspicious, images aren’t shown and you’ll be asked if you want to see the images.".

###

Personally, I think this is quite silly, because I routinely disclose my IP address and HTTP headers without considering it particularly sensitive, but I don't want senders to know that their their email messages have been opened.

[0] https://blog.filippo.io/how-the-new-gmail-image-proxy-works-...

[1] https://support.google.com/mail/answer/145919?hl=en-GB
They effectively are doing this, including with IPFS: https://dweb.archive.org/details/home

I'm not sure what the current state is though. And IPFS is basically just a protocol for storage, it doesn't ensure / encourage storage in any way - that's the point of filecoin.
They could have done all those things but still retained backwards compatibility. Consider how WPF was introduced as a complete replacement for WinForms. This didn't mean WinForms stopped working! You can run both under the same .net version and you can use most recent C# version (and all other libraries) with both.

It is great that MS delivered a ground-up rewrite of ASP.NET. There is no reason this should cause the old ASP.NET framework to stop working. They could exist in parallel just like WPF and WinForms - one for new code, one for legacy code. Old libraries should just keep working by default.
It's weird that it's even possible for someplace to be able to schedule the first dose and not the second. I noticed that with my local Smith's when I was vaccine hunting, too - I could pick a date for the first dose no problem, but nothing available for the second.

What gives? You'd think it'd be the other way around if anything.
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This idea that people are actually going hungry due to poverty in the US is absurd. A full day's worth of calories can be had for less than $3. And I'm not just talking about going to McDonalds and ordering off the dollar menu, which is certainly an option occasionally. I mean real food. https://www.upstart.com/blog/lowest-cost-per-calorie-foods

And in fact, it is firmly established that it's the poorest people in America who tend to be the fattest. And what free school lunches often solve is not hunger but neglect. There are lots of shitty parents who don't care enough to deposit lunch money in the school account or pack lunch for their kid, or who make appalling dietary choices for their children.

I wish people would have a little more skepticism and apply some independent common sense when consuming statistics. People getting food from food banks or consuming free lunch doesn't mean that they are otherwise going hungry. It means they are accepting something offered for free. There are myriad, complicated reasons why those patterns would change. But it's a strong, unjustified conclusion to say it's because they would otherwise go hungry.
> I write a lot of software for my job (although it’s not my title) and I’ve been thinking of trying for pure software jobs even if the work is more boring (I do semiconductor R&D)

This sounds like me in a past life. I assure you: It's worth the change. (Often) Easier work. Paid more. Treated better. Nicer work environment. It's worth it even if the pay were the same.

Also, with SW roles in your resume, you can then find jobs outside the semiconductor industry. Lots more options available to you.
everything down at MS: email, teams, even Bing. Seems like a DNS issue. The intervals between outages seem to be decreasing. :(

Edit: maybe not Bing.
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LG appears to pull out of money-losing smartphone business
Super Crunch (1986)
The term you are looking for is "pass by reference".

Perl does not have pass by reference, you have to use pointers if you want to do it. It will even go so far as to duplicate an entire array or hash you pass to a function, which can surprise novice Perl programmers when they build a giant data structure and start passing it around only to discover their program running slowly. Or worse, finding their changes to the structure being undone when the function exits.
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“Many politicians have been acting like these things don't exist while ordering more and more stringent lockdowns, giving passing condolences at best, and it borders on negligence. There needs to be a balance. Yes, avoiding the chance of death matters for you and those around you, but what is it worth if you're miserably suicidal and have lost hope as a result of it?”

I personally am very happy not to have to make decisions in this situation. Unless you have dumb luck (the pandemic is not as bad as thought originally but there was no way you could have known that) either you will get heat because businesses are dying or you will get heat because people are dying. Or both. It pretty easy to criticize what’s going on but how can you make decisions with very little input data and dire consequences either way?

Us techies want people to believe us on tech matters because we are subject matter experts but it seems we are not willing to believe what scientists in multiple countries are recommending because somehow we know better. Brazil clearly shows that ignoring the pandemic is not exactly a recipe for success. So what’s a leader to do?

One reasonable thing would be to keep businesses open as much as possible while having super strict masking and disinfection requirements. But somehow there is this correlation between people wanting businesses to be open and at the same time not wanting masks. Reminds me of the abortion situation. Abortion opponents also up often oppose sex education and contraception. So they oppose the one thing that would help their cause the most.
That page says Azure DNS is all good. Seems wrong.
GitHub Actions and Packages is experiencing degraded performance
LibreNet will strictly enforce non-commercial membership only. Special high-voltage zapping hardware for non-compliance. Lifetime bans. Minimum sentences for advertisers.
I personally love Mimestream. Its a native Gmail client
gasp /s

I can totally understand the flow thing--less flow means longer, more annoying shower.

I've found that the soft white LED bulbs are a tolerable replacement for full spectrum incandescent. I stick with LED because I'm lazy and I don't have to change them as frequently.

However, when the LED bulbs DO go out they do the flickering thing which is maddening. I'd prefer incandescent's total failure to produce light over the flickering fail mode any day of the week.
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We don't need no people, we need fewer people. A lot of our problems would be less pronounced of we simply reduced their scale.

https://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/
This raises a giant red flag for me. Storage is storage. This is not like hash mining, which is based on probabilities. You either have the data or you don't. If you have the data, even partially, this should be useful to the system. I can conceive of no reason why a reasonably designed distributed storage system would have such insane requirements.
How does this work, if you can spare a hand-wavy explanation? If the perceived time between events varies by observer, and if for every observer there is a precise threshold at which events become casually disjoint, naively I would imagine there to always be disagreement.
Are arguing that the majority of those gains didn't go to the wealthy?
If you take a look at the top storage providers, there's dozens who are providing 10 PB+. These are folks that have invested millions to earn FileCoin.

https://stats.filecoin.io/d/z6FtI92Zz/filecoin-chain-stats?o...

Moreover, it's greatly disingenuous to claim that this system lets casual users let their HD space given the system requirements are so high.
Ironically this technique was used in phishing for MS Office 365 credentials (users of which often use MS Outlook):
https://www.avanan.com/blog/zerofont-phishing-attack

Rendering in Outlooks changes from time to time - it is worth to check if this workaround is still required.
End companies, themselves. Any inventory that shows up gets overbought immediately. Two companies I know have x10 the microcontrollers they need for the year because they overbought when they could.

If they pushed those microcontrollers back right now, they'd make quite a nice profit. But they won't.

Instead, those companies will hit the tax implications starting in December and then will try to push their overbought inventory. Of course, at that point everybody will be trying to push their inventory and the prices will crash.
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If I switch, it will need to be to something that works on more than just macOS, and nonfree software will be excluded from consideration.