skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that fossils are incredibly statistically rare. It is highly unlikely we could pick the right geological location over that time scale? How do you know where a continent is going to be in 10's of millions of years? Perhaps we could map out where plates are moving, but are we accurate enough to avoid tectonic plate subduction, erosion, volcanoes, floods, ice ages...? I think we take the statistical rarity of fossils for granted because they permeate culture: the chances of something being fossilized for hundreds of millions of years are practically nil. But not zero.

Here's the article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/08/arroganc...
> I’m not saying we punish the user, but rather find a way to minimize availability.

In 200 years history of drug suppression literally everything has been tried.

And yet, even in a high security prison, drugs are highly available.

If it can't be done in a max-security prison, how do you think it can work for a whole society?

What method of restricting supply has not been tried. The US has literally invaded other country to try to destroy supply bases. The military as whole division, billions spent on intercepting submarines.

Absurd high cost have been put on a dealer that is captured.

What is your solution to actually restrict supply in a meaningful way?
They copy the whole text of web pages that are linked in the HN posts. So totally a mass breach of copyright.

If you are afraid of being sued, you certainly should not do something like this.

On the upside, there is probably not much provable damage a publisher could ask to be repaired. So they probably are only liable to pay for the legal expenses of whoever sues them.
in Taiwan, it's about the same. arrive in the country and quarantine for two weeks at your own expense, at a quarantine hotel. I think it's a good policy, however I think it's excessive. but however seems to be working as covid is non-existent here.
Regarding #2, I was in Shanghai and Beijing in late 2019. I had a lot of discomfort first landing in Beijing; Shanghai's haze was not as bad but it still shows up in pictures. I imagine this is what the USA's coal country used to feel like when it was in active swing.
YSK about Tiger Cruises, where family can come aboard the ship to see what day to day life is like.

https://www.defense.gov/observe/photo-gallery/igphoto/200118...
There's some evidence that this is actually dangerous. Getting repeat vaccines can confuse your immune system.

In the UK, there's data showing 3x to 4x the rate of adverse effects from the vaccine for people who already have the antibodies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZcQ3xVDSR8&t=690s
It would have helped if they compared Dvorak to Colemak mod dh variant. It addresses many of the issues raised here by moving D below T and H below N, and moving the more rare K and G as left-right motions.
Yet, if you want to pass a technical interview, that's the game. If you would like to introspect, having a large number of passes before you changed course was unnecessary.

I also interviewed and received job offers after burning out at startups, i listened to the advice to spend 6 weeks on hacker rank and top coder. I passed all my technical interviews. I was also coding on two personal open source projects, but practical cussing and interview coding are 90 pct different as you say.

I don't know if i will succeed at having impact at a large company. Tell you in 6 months. But i am iterating fast and following advice of the people around me.

You didn't mention the effect of being unemployable because your standards are going up. This is an occupational hazard of having more experience. Sorry about that, there are things you can't unsee . It happens to everyone, and an underdiscussed reason there are more young coders. Good luck.
It's just something he heard on Joe Rogan.
Until roughly 1800, per capita wealth was roughly stagnant. Since then, it's increased roughly 50 times. Maybe more controversially, I'd say we're nowhere near the limits of further development to even greater wealth: technology is a long way from physical limits (e.g. compare biology to human tech), our access to resources has barely begun (e.g. solar power and resources from space).

How do you look at this history and think the right way to approach it is as a fight over who gets what part of an existing pie? That was the standard conceptualization in the beginning! It can't be the key to the 50x change. The recent headwinds against equality have also been a period of relative stagnation in productivity growth. Shouldn't we look really earnestly into how the hell progress happened in the first place?

Yes, we also have a big problem in that poverty should not exist in a society this rich. But this is genuinely a first-world problem. Job 1 is to not screw up what got us here in the first place.
Actually they did notice extra blood clots during the trials, but didn't think it was statistically significant [0] (15 blood clots versus 10 in the placebo group, in a trial of 20k people).

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/health/johnson-vaccine-blood-...
"US soon being able to just stack depleted uranium telephone poles in orbit to protect it's dependencies"

Rods from God is actually real? Thought it was a failed research project?
For a lot of people with a lot of power, finding a way to expand domestic security laws and general state power is not ruining your country, but instead a good way of preventing social change you don't want.

Also, the domestic defence industry is really the best way to transfer money from government coffers directly towards the pockets of an arbitrary person.
Very hard agree. People still haven't gotten over the CDC not recommending masks because they didn't want to create a shortage for the medical community. The CDC is not some PR firm, communicate what the science is saying and let someone else worry about supply-chain issues.
Yes, it's been successful at creating the illusion that as long as I'm in Apple's garden all is well. Meanwhile extremely profitable scams (for both Apple and the scammer) remain in the store.
It's good to hear perspectives like these, thanks for sharing. I hear a lot of damning things about this kind of training from a lot of different directions, but what you're talking about sounds sensible and healthy.
Wasn't that kinda the idea with the Github arctic code vault?
I not bullish on the West - it’s being replaced by other cultures quicker than it can adapt.

However the West still has a lot to offer the world from mRNA to SpaceX to Seneca. Frankly, China’s success had come from copying western civilization and while the west may not survive, the spark will endure. Just elsewhere.
You are only looking at people a short time after vaccination. Anyone in the population who had a clot prior to being vaccinated or who will get a clot later this year have not been counted.
> side effect

To be clear, we haven't determined that it's actually a side effect. That's why they've stopped, to get a better handle on what actually happened, and what to do about it.

It could be related to the vaccine, it could not be. It could be 1 in a million, it could be 1 in 100k.
Because both give you antibodies, but only the vaccine has that microchip
The Ming dynasty (late 1300 - mid 1600 ish) started well but for very unclear and contentious reasons ended ship based trade (famously burning records and ships - including ones that may or may not - probably not - reached America). They did turn inwards - but that was fairly fine - China at 1400 was at the technological peak, life was pretty good for the average peasant, frankly it was about as good as it ever got before industrialisation.

Like the T-Shirt says, when you are this good, why try harder.

The most advanced civilisation on the planet simply sat back in 1400, and no-one could do anything about it because the place was one fairly unified political system.

(yes, wars rebellions etc, but one China - maybe broken at times but always seeing itself as one, not competing to beat the other part but competing to unify again.

Probably it's fair to say that China always fought itself, and Europe fought each other.

(There is also something about how China unified and grew in waves related to the latest horse invaders. A sort of unified and strong when the invaders attacked, weaker when the threat retreated. Once gunpowder was invented that process was effectively over - you could mow down horse archers happily all day. So again, China had no external threats so it could turn inwards. And take all of this as a massive over-simplification but it's interesting to realise the end of the horse invaders coincided with gunpowder and the turning inwards)
To solve the problem, Burger-G contracted with a software consultant and commissioned a piece of software. The goal of the software was to replace the managers and tell the employees what to do in a more controllable way. Manna version 1.0 was born.

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
> They don't care about whether you've already recovered from covid

Why? Aren't the resulting antibodies the same as those acquired from the vaccine?
Of course several million people coming from poverty have had good outcomes via education. Heck, I moved myself from a 3rd world country to a first world country. But for the vast majority college education is inaccessible. Even the state sponsored free primary education is pretty much inaccessible with absent teachers and barely functioning schools.

BTW, Malaysia is a middle income country. Visit some of the displaced tribal communities in India and you will have a different perspective.

Half the women in this Indian state are illiterate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_In_Bihar

There are 2M college graduates in a population of 100M. That's almost 1/3 the size of US population.
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Once i was given what I call a "brogrammer" code test. I looked at it, said not interested in brogrammer env. Fast forward 4 years, person I knew became VP. He asked what I thought.

I laid it out to him, that brogrammers are collective tards that cant think on their own, BUT they are good at things like code interviews. I was hired as director. The 2 people who said no cause I said no to their brogramming crap. I personally let go in 4 weeks. 2 years later, things were fixed, I got a fat check, and moved on.

Lesson? Uncle Bob and his elk are creating problems that you can be paid to solve. However Uncle bob and crew are great at brainwashing.
I believed it before I got the vaccine, but now my head hurts if I try to think about it too hard
...which was of largely academic interest when it was DVRs, but is now a pants-on-fire emergency with the "advent" of Linux-powered pocket spy devices masquerading as telephones - with huge consequences for ordinary, non-nerd people.

The stakes for software freedom have never been higher.
I understand the frustration over random interviews. I would say tho if you keep getting data alg questions to just bite the bullet and practice them. It is the advice I'd give myself
US military always carries all the shit they use from US, so that effect would be rather miniscule on the "enemy soil".
You had me until "Arrogant new wealth is 100x better"

getting murdered vs getting aggressive cancer
Easily coordinate meetings across multiple zones with TimeAndDate
I figured someone like Pew would've run a poll there but perhaps it's too dangerous to do so?
Trial lawyers are salivating over all kinds of constitutional and civil rights infringement. I can't wait to see them go to town on the woke employers mandating experimental vaccines on the sheep.
And BSD + Patents
seems like they were all young women. so let’s say young women make up 1/4 of those vaccinated.

for them it’s more like 1/250k
Terro has worked well for me on the east coast, but was pretty unimpressive in southern California. I assumed it was probably the decentralized Argentine megacolony thing, but we could conceivably have had splintering colonies. The only things that sort of worked were physical barriers and tightly sealing all our food. We even had an incident with a peanut butter jar, though making sure to screw the lid down seems to have prevented repeats. It was an old, porous house, so really blocking them was tough, and we never fully succeeded. We were convinced we had multiple colonies inside our walls.

One trick with Terro: the liquid can be messy if you're not careful. Honestly it seems to wander out: maybe ants are tracking it out? Anyway, it helps to sit the thing inside a ziploc bag, with a bridge of paper towel or something to help the ants find it. It makes cleanup way easier.
Siri leaked the date a few hours before the official announcement. https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1381994219972222977
I've had good luck with Azure KeyVault.
> it would be interesting to know if this story is representative of the U.S. education or one of the worst examples

This shocked my friends who are teachers in New York. Note that this is a private school [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Church_School
Yes we do? The mRNA vaccines cause your body to produce the coronavirus spike protein. That is the beauty of an mRNA vaccine – the cure literally cannot be worse than the disease, because the cure is just a subset of the disease. Anything these mRNA vaccines do to your gametes would also be done (and worse) by COVID-19 itself, so... definitely get vaxxed with an mRNA vaccine if you're worried about long-tail risk. Also this is the J&J vaccine which is viral vector, not mRNA (Moderna/Pfizer).
I don't know if it's true but during a video talk there was a story that a team of googlers were secretly given their own feedback ratings and they didn't hire themselves.

https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=534
Also Linus: GPL V3 is a fine license.

Overall Linus Torvalds did not like how V3 was forced onto 'unsuspecting' GPL v2 users due to the 'or later' license assignment.
What are your criticisms of Google secrets manager? It works well for me, but it's the only one I've used so I don't know much about the competition.
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Or how the sound from the noise generators would slightly change depending on the ambient temperature affecting the analog circuitry.
The fatality rate for this adverse event was almost 30% with the similar Astra Zeneca vaccine. Fuck your vaccine propaganda. Nobody in my family will be getting this vaccine.
I can see you are being downvoted but this is literally how this works. People install things and click rapidly thru the startup screens. These apps generally get legal consent from everyone who is billed, they just either didn't read it or forgot to cancel.
I think you are right. Hawkins mentions this in the book, with the example of holding your breath. Your neocortex can override the older brain in certain circumstances.

I would be really interested to really understand the mechanism here. Is the neocortex convincing the old brain of things, or is it outright lying to the old brain via false signals it knows the old brain will fall for.

Like in the case of dieting to lose weight, is the "conversation" like some cartoon:

Old brain: I am hungry. Where is food?

New brain: You don't need food right now. If you don't eat now, you will be more attractive soon. This will help you find a mate.

Old brain: Not eat means find mate???

New brain: Yes, yes, not eat means find mate. Good old brain.
Unity 3D world connected to the Algorand blockchain [tutorial]
My mom was also not thrilled when her union (she works for Canada Post) made it mandatory for them to carry tracking devices
I'd say Korea is actually winning the cultural war. K-pop has taken the world by storm. Hollywood is in decline, if you'll notice, good movies are harder to come by nowadays.
> truck drivers are being tracked routinely and nobody makes a big fuss about that.

I know a number of truck drivers and they _hate_ it. Routing software is imperfect, accidents happen that have to be detoured, and every detour is another grilling by management who is staring you down like you're an inbred imbecile and asking "Why did you deviate?" They often well know why, but the procedure is clear. You just don't hear about it from truckers because the job is mercurial - turnover is high because the conditions suck, and its a lower item in a laundry list of grievances that truckers have.

And if I'm frank; A lot of people don't hear about it on this forum because they move in a different economic circle.

Being constantly overwatched and second-guessed is demeaning. It ruins work-place dignity, ensures there is no sense of trust between labor and leadership, and removes any feelings of agency from the laborer. As with any data-collecting system, it will also be relentlessly gamed.

Worse, you can have your cake and eat it too. You almost never need momentary data like this to check-and-balance your workplace. Why track drivers relentlessly when you can do statistical data analysis on order completion, fuel consumption, route times, and other models that allow you to average out all the chaos?

Results will speak for themselves, relationships will pay off. The solution to this 'problem' already exists, it's engaging with your workforce and focusing on results. It is bad. It's dehumanization in the workplace. The system worked just fine when people clocked in, clocked out, and the manager looked and said, "Yep, that hall is clean."

I wouldn't accept a keylogger, or strict grilling of my web history. I wouldn't accept being sleuthed on by my manager either. Humans deserve a base level of dignity in the work-place.
The developer is a user; in fact the whole point of the GPLv2 is that it should be the case that users CAN be developers. GPLv3 puts restrictions on what a USER can do with the software; it's analogous to the "software cannot be used for evil" or "this software cannot be used in tanks" clauses on other licenses.

And as Linus is arguing, it's perhaps a perfectly FINE license, but it is NOT the GPLv2 and it has different aims and desires: and he gives examples where if the kernel had the "and any other version" the GPLv3 could be used to do exactly what the GPLv2 is supposed to prevent - someone taking the code and modifying it and distributing it in a way so that he can't use the modifications.
So we gonna end up using mask and social distancing and not gathering indoors until the dawn of humanity? Genuine question.
There is even a precedent of the FSF doing this, without a takeover. The FSF published a new version (1.3) of the GFDL license specifically to allow Wikipedia to relicense its text (that was licensed as "GFDL version X or above") to a CreativeCommons license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_FDL#Compatibility_with_Cre...
They might be talking about actual forged cards heh. In my country, people started doing them, fake stamps and all, so they switched to checking QR codes that link to approved labs' websites. Ridiculous, but at 40 Euros per test that you need every time, probably profitable.
While I understand this to a degree - this still pretends the long-term risks of covid are zero or less than the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

It is a two sided equation.
And how exactly are they going to blockchain-ify the coporation's interactions with other normal corporations?
I picked up on that phrase too, and it made me laugh.

I've worked in places where often interviewers seemed more interested in proving how smart they were - and particularly how much smarter than the candidate they were - than in assessing whether or not the candidate is suitable for the job. It smacks of insecurity.

My current company, regardless of how good or bad a candidate is, everyone knows that they are to be treated with respect and kindness, and they also know that if they don't treat the candidates well they're going to get a bollocking for it.

First impressions definitely cut both ways, and word travels. If you treat candidates like crap don't be surprised if your stream of applicants dries up. Unless you're a FAANG you really can't get away with that sort of behaviour.
Automotive electronics have changed a lot since 1989, your Honda won't even be using a CAN bus.
I don't watch podcast.
Thank you. Some of the poorest people I know are deeply moral. Indeed a poorly run home is the largest predictor - and too little (or too much) money does magnify the problem, poverty isn’t synonymous with crime.
Remember, the App Store offers you the most secure, curated, and safe experience you can ever have with your Apple devices.

Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Each app update is checked and approved by an Apple employee. It's not like some automated process which you can game left and right. Each app on the App Store is guaranteed, thanks to the strict review process, to adhere to a minimum standard of quality which is higher than competing app markets are offering.

You can trust Apple's judgement on the content that is published on the App Store.
While that might be true (you should still provide links to stats if you're making claims), people on fentanyl are not walking around and spreading it to others. Those are more self-inflicted than catching from someone else while buying groceries.
A puppeteer script could solve that problem.

You could have her phone ping a webhook (via Shortcuts on iPhone, for example) when she enters her work location, which then fires the puppeteer script to sign into the web page and punch the virtual time clock. And of course the reverse when she leaves.
> (It's much easier to get corporate approval for $20/mo and then slowly increase that than to try to get approval for $300/mo out of the gate).

Might be the case for you, but definitely not true everywhere. Both of those numbers are well under the threshold for "needs more approval" at lot of companies.
> I use ARC pointers for long-lived shared object (Database connections pool, mailer...)

Does that mean you basically enforce sequential database reads? Seems like a bottleneck if your server is concurrent
I'm no attorney, but were I in charge of representing the plaintiff and you presented logs showing your facilities manager's locations throughout the day of the incident, my first question would be something like "how does this prove he verified the parking lot was clear?"

It's the same issue. Knowing where the janitor was is not the same as knowing whether she did her job. Knowing where your facilities manager was is not the same as knowing whether he did his.

Like I said, IANAL. I have no idea how well that would hold up in court. Regardless, I'm confident security cameras would be at least just as effective for defending your business in cases like this.
This must be an Onion News article. Because right off the bat CDC cannot tell me an American Citizen with inalienable rights to not gather. As the law stands today. If you don't like the law, change it.
Well, In the US a taco salad comes housed on a crunchy flour shell that looks like coffee filter so let us not judge.
Yeah, I had some questions about whether I should still get my second dose having had COVID after the first dose. Would it potentially cause any health concerns? Did I even need it? Should that dose instead become a first dose for someone else? Most of the guidance I found was the medical equivalent of "shrug, go ahead and get the second dose", so I did. Hope you're able to get yours soon!
I'm not a power vim user but sticking to the default keybinds on Dvorak isn't so bad. JK are still right next to each other, and HL are on the right index and pinky, respectively, so the basic spatial relationships between the keys are somewhat preserved.

I find that remapping shortcuts is generally not worth it. Yeah, undo/cut/copy/paste are weird and that sucks, but it's better than fighting every application you ever use, on every machine, including machines you SSH into, until you die.

For gaming, on the other hand, mixed up keybinds are intolerable. I just switch back to QWERTY for that.