skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's gaslighty to say that a client that does not use SMS is not an SMS client?
If you compare a P100 to a P95 mask, the first thing you'll notice is the fitment. P100 are designed to actually fit your face, and fitment tests are a part of proper deployment.

I've been wearing a 3M 7503 the whole pandemic, modded to remove the check valves. It fits much more comfortably than any N95 junk (no crap behind my ears, no tight elastic on my head, etc), which is why I had originally gotten it for work around the house. I can easily tell if it's sitting a bit weird on my face and is leaking because it feels different on my skin.

In addition to being P100, I like it because it doesn't fog up my glasses. The biggest issue is that I'll tend to get condensation on the inside of the mask, and wearing it for long periods it will start to pool. I'll get condensation on an unmodded 7503 as well though (although it will be outside the outflow valve and drip on the ground), which is probably a consequence of having a higher thermal mass than mere filter material like an N95.

It's a tragedy that we're still stuck in the PPE dark ages over a year into the pandemic, with "insights" like stacking two junk masks to increase their effectiveness. Herds of people are never intelligent, but if one political team hadn't hitched their wagon to personal irresponsbility, I think we could have been having much more productive conversations.
Power Grid gives a turn order advantage to players who make less income.

Dominion is a deckbuilding game where you earn victory points by buying and keeping junk cards in your deck, so your deck gets worse as you score increases.

Suburbia reduces your income progressively as your population (score) increases (which also forces players to balance the two).

A number of games including Terra Mystica give turn order advantage to whoever passed their turn first in the previous round.

There are, of course, many more games that don't have such a mechanic, but rely on balancing the relative rewards of the various moves such that early turns are less about taking a lead and more about setting up which paths to victory you can attempt in later rounds, so the skill is in setting up a path that you're able to execute well and then executing it well.
I used to record programs of radio for my C64. We had a radio station that had a computer show and would broadcast software. :)

Edit: The software that was broadcasted was usually made by listeners or shareware. I.e. it was not illegal software.
> something that is often not addressed

I don't know a single person that likes lockdowns, say, yet the majority of people I know support lockdowns.

We are doing the whole spiel, light lockdown - hard lockdown - light lockdown, for a year now, it has become quite obvious how bad lockdowns are. How do you assume otherwise?
https://www.geogebra.org/m/k8ysfasj
Property rights are complicated and have an enormous amount of tech debt acquired over centuries of legal history.

(IANAL but I am an active provider of housing)
In Support of Richard Stallman
Feel the Future: A Sensory Hacking Contest
If we are asking the big questions, it's worth considering what the macro-economic impact would be if taxation was ended, and the government funded itself solely through printing money. The discourse is all about lowering the tax burden on the rich so they can innovate. But my intuition is without taxes, the rich would be hit harder with inflation than the middle class. So even a strong progressive taxation system can be seen as a giveaway to the rich.
Please don’t upvote this nonsense. Harmala alkaloids are found in tobacco, not coffee.
These two possibilities are not mutually exclusive.

While your guess about the thought processes of the originator may well be correct, it is still the case that the result, "Mongita", is ① unambiguously Spanish and ② unambiguously pronounced in Spanish as [monxita], which is a real Spanish word, the diminutive of the common word monja, meaning "nun". But [monxita] is spelled "monjita".

The result is that what may well have been an incorrect application of the diminutive suffix (the correct result would be "Monguito") produced a misspelling of "monjita". It's just as clearly misspelled Spanish as "Ke keres aser?" or "yerba maté", if not more so. So you can expect most Spanish speakers to read it as ridiculing the literacy of an unspecified person—more so if they also know English, given that "mongo" has been an English word used for ridiculing someone's intelligence for many generations.
The carbon in coal was previously sequestered underground and not part of the current carbon cycle. By burning all of that coal, oil, and natural gas we un-sequestered all of that carbon. So even if we replanted all of the forests there are still many gigatons of extra carbon in the atmosphere.

It's "short term" because the plants will release the carbon back into the atmosphere in a few decades.

So to combat climate change we need ways to sequester the carbon that will keep it out of the atmosphere permanently. There are no good solutions for this currently. Maybe at some point someone will figure out a way to economically create massive pure diamonds using CO2 from the atmosphere with renewable energy so we could use them as building materials or something. Thanks to the laws of thermodynamics we'll have to invest something like all of the energy we produced using fossil fuels to fix this problem. We can cheat a bit by going to a stable form instead of making it straight up crude oil again, but it's still an almost unfathomable amount of energy we're going to need. And our politicians still arguing if it is a good idea to stop digging the hole, and fighting tooth and nail against it. There are no jobs on a dead planet.
The data-over-sound library that I implemented (ggwave) and use in this example implements a modified DTMF protocol. Instead of only 2 tones, I use variable number of tones (usually 6) + error correction.

In r2t2, I use a single-tone encoding, since the buzzer can emit just a single frequency.
https://www.casanz.org.au/wp-content/uploads/fsqm-files/free...
Conversely I know a young couple in Indiana who have no idea how they’re going to feed themselves each week. There are always examples of abuse to point to, but for many people the safety net is a wet paper bag at best.
The valid use cases for non SQL databases can be counted on one hand.

Not sure this project understands that
You can change it to 20/100k if you wish, it doesn't really make a difference.

SD case counts per 1M on selected dates:

Jul 15 2020 - 463

Aug 15 2020 - 725

Sep 15 2020 - ~1800

Doubling in a month seems like a spike to me.
The fact you want to "properly review them at a later point in time" seems to suggest a lack of confidence in the kernel review process.

Basically, yes. The kernel review process does not catch 100% of intentionally introduced security flaws. It isn't perfect, and I don't think anyone is claiming that it is perfect. Whenever there's an indication that a group has been intentionally introducing security flaws, it is just common sense to go back and put a higher bar on reviewing it for security.
> Maybe it would be helpful to use the term other than “safety”? Is there a synonym for a psychological safety that would get cross what you’re thinking about better?

Trust. Psychological safety is (real) trust between members of the team and the people who impact the team (e.g. managers or executives or whoever). It's trusting the people around you so you feel free to be yourself, to propose off-the-wall but potentially terrible ideas without being thought less of, to be open about flaws and failures, to try to stretch yourself beyond what you think you are capable of because you trust that the people around you will support you.

It isn't having a secure job or even a happy one. I was once on a team with a shitty director and severely understaffed in a very unsexy, low-paying industry. I did not enjoy my place in the organization. But we had psychological safety on our team. In our scrum team the tech lead/manager was amazing. He protected us from above, he trusted us, he was honest about the situation, and he had a passion for building a great team and growing his people. When someone made a big mistake in prod, he taught that person how to correct the mistake as an opportunity for growth while the entire team supported them (but didn't do it for them, because we trusted that person). The job sucked and within 2 years the entire team had quit. But not a single person even thought about leaving until that team lead left and the culture of trust left with him. Psychological safety is related to happiness in that teams with it tend to also have happy employees - but it creates happiness, not the other way around.

Psychological safety is often hard to have when the job is unstable (it probably feels unstable because of a lack of trust somewhere), but a startup is a great example of where you can have both trust and an unstable job.
>I have yet to see blockchain provide any tangible value

What do you define as tangible value? I'm not a crypto bro, but I can see the potential in blockchain, specifically the building blocks nature of smart contracts. A global, decentralized, API that runs on its own "currency" and anyone can interact and build upon, that sounds pretty valuable to me.
Why assume lack of sleep is the cause? Why not reverse it, that dementia causes people to sleep less?

The study makes it clear that it's an association. It never says it's an assertion of directional causality.
> There's a reason why there's a Conservapedia.

Conservapedia is nothing short of batshit crazy unhinged lunacy. Have you ever even looked on it?

"Simply put, E=mc² is liberal claptrap."

Literal quote: https://conservapedia.com/E%3Dmc%C2%B2

You are citing a source that considers Einstein's theories of relativity as examples of liberal bias.

If that's not batshit crazy unhinged lunacy then I don't know what is.

The rest of the site is hardly any better.
In PostgreSQL community, the most successful patches follow a pattern sorta like this:

* Email the hackers list about intentions, ensure you aren't overlooking obvious things. The more core maintainers know and understand what you're doing the more likely you are to be met with critical support. (Hopefully this part is obvious!)

* Code patch: Prepare the work surface: clean up, refactor, debug, extend, whatever it takes to facilitate easy integration of upcoming feature patches, but preserves existing functionality. The code is internally pretty clean but not necessarily primed to go the direction you want.

* Code patches: Plan diffs for human review and validation: Scope and volume matter! Your additions join existing development; plan to maintain your additions against a moving codebase throughout the integration process.
I wonder if epidemiologists have confidence taken in account in their modesls. Probably but still.. it seems such a natural social bounce after extreme fear then lower rates..
I was born poor. One american idea that does resonate with me after coming to USA is that a lot of poor people do not see themselves as poor. While their struggles are real they do not see themselves as losers but rather see themselves as strugglers who will eventually make it some day. They make life better for themselves and others. That was the case with my family. We lived in a house whose floor was basically painted with cowdung, roof leaked, we could not afford meat and we borrowed newspapers from others to read. Yet, not once we would call ourselves poor and demand that someone else take care of us. It would be insulting for our pride.

A lot of well off people in India and USA automatically think of poor people as losers or without agency. They then propose that government must help them. Guess what, other than a small fraction of poor people most DO NOT want that help. They would rather prefer to do what they want to do. Poor people do not want your food, clothing and shelter, they have their own desires. We can not possibly know what they are.

India is an extremely social country and lockdowns have much bigger costs for people. If people are angry and fed up and willing to risk their lives, I can understand. I do not think assurance of food or money per month will keep them indoors.

What we need is some humility to recognize that just because someone else has less money than we do, that does not reduce their self worth or gives us the right to know "what they need".

PS. Shortage of food was not a problem in India during last lockdown it is not a problem today either. Food Corporation of India has a record stockpile of rice right now.
The Cost of a Sixth Seat
>Wimbledon in the 3rd tier.
"Only took nine years" to get back in to the league. Getting promotion on ** merit. Not buying a place.

Then eventually beating the Franchise and watching them get relegated. Sweet sweet justice.

Now with a fans funded new stadium.

Football is beautiful. Even on a wet cold night in stoke.
I expressed a similar opinion while discussing with my friends. Indians don't get a nuanced message. Given the sheer size of Indian (mostly uncivilized) population and its vast geography it's close to impossible to have a middle ground measure. The message from the top must be crystal clear and enforced with iron hammer. If the message/measure contains even an iota of nuance it'll get lost among 1.3B people. If that's not enough we have information pathways (Twitter/FB/WA) that are particularly optimized to spread misinformation at the speed of light.

Even when it was 100% evident that the second wave was fully on politicians conducted campaigning rallies, allowed religious gathering of millions, movie halls were running at 100% and so on. The time to contain was then; now it's all about damange control and pray.
I don't think it insinuates a causal relationship.

I interpret "30% more likely" as the same as "associated with a 30% increase," which is what the article claims.
An exciton has been imaged for the first time ever
Do you know the difference between dynamic and embedded binaries?
> The IRB of University of Minnesota reviewed the procedures of the experiment and determined that this is not human research.

I'm not sure how it affects things, but I think it's important to clarify that they did not obtain the IRB-exempt letter in advance of doing the research, but after the ethically questionable actions had already been taken:

The IRB of UMN reviewed the study and determined that this is not human research (a formal IRB exempt letter was obtained). Throughout the study, we honestly did not think this is human research, so we did not apply for an IRB approval in the beginning. ... We would like to thank the people who suggested us to talk to IRB after seeing the paper abstract.

https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/clarifications-hc....
I think Reddit is the broadest example, because it's evidence of both outcomes due to the diversity in moderation policy between subs.

Some can tolerate a steady influx of bad actors: some fall apart. There's probably a valid paper in there somewhere.
If you have root you could decrypt the traffic on the fly, and block any data that is not necessary for basic functionality. Maybe even run squid locally, and configure it there. I doubt that's what they meant, and it would take a bit of reverse engineering, but would be kind of fun.
> That's right, but a company in a state selling to a state gov isn't engaging in interstate commerce.

A company commercially gathering data that is not exclusively limited to data on in-state activities of in-state residents from (transitively) exclusively in-state sources, and selling it, is engaging in interstate commerce.
And the more I think about what I wrote, I don't think it scales to the kernel. I'd love to be wrong.
I don't see how this solves any problems. Ok, so you have a NFT with a license on the blockchain. Now what? You still have to go to amazon.com / kobo.com / [wherever].com and plug your license in to download your book. They still control the keys to the castle.
Maybe the 'Do Easy' strategy helps a drug user to cope with the low dopamine levels during the hangover period, i.e. when not high.
If your income hasn't increased, that HELOC is just another mechanism that will force you out of your property if you spend it and can't repay it.
Ooops. I thought editorializing was bad so I just reposted the link as I saw it on tuxrurls.com and added Linux in front of it to give context. I agree it would have deserved a better title. My bad.
Signal isn't going to actually do it, they know how that would end, they're just playing the FUD game in the other direction. Which I am 100% on board with.
Anyone who reads Spanish fluently will react to the misspelling "Mongita"—whether with distaste, amusement, pity, or defensiveness—long before they have time to think through the possible motivations of the MongoDB developers.
> Without a hard shoulder, broken down cars have nowhere safe to stop and must stop in a lane of traffic.

Sounds absolutely insane and lethal when you write it down doesn't it?
In fairness to the study, it's only claiming an association, not a causal link.
Statement from UMN CS&E on Linux Kernel Research
We need to find a compensating activity so people don't think about eating.
It can be a double win, less consumption and more social activity / bond.
I learned from the video you can launch VS code from within WSL with "code ."

That's really useful. I like it.
I'm lucky to be able to get almost all of my meat from local, pasture-only sources (no feeder lots or anything like that). There are alternatives to abstaining from meat. The more we support them, the more widely available they will become.
“We determined after careful evaluation of the potential outcomes that the time wasted by kernel maintainers was, in total, sufficiently low that no significant impact would occur over a multi-day time scale.”

If I can come up with the scientific paper gibberish for that in real-time, and I don’t even write science papers, then these people who understand how to navigate an ethical review board process surely know how to massage an unpleasant truth into dry and dusty wording.

I think that they just screwed up and missed the word “precious” in editing, and thus got caught being dismissive and snide towards their experiment’s participants. Without that word, it’s a plausible enough paragraph. With it, it’s no longer plausibly innocent.
There are tons of chicken farmers in the world who love to exchange their chickens for the US dollars. However, the same farmers don't want to sell their chickens for Zimbabwian dollars. USD has the world reserve currency status, that's why MMT folks want to print money to spend on fiscal policy. Third world countries don't have this luxury.
This is unsettling if you’re locked into the Apple ID ecosystem does anyone know if you lose all your iCloud backups and photos if your Apple ID is terminated?
In March 2020 he left the Microsoft board. While Bill Gates wasn't involved in daily operation, he didn't really leave Microsoft until a year ago.
Wow. That is a flagrant violation of research ethics by everyone involved. UMN needs to halt anything even close to human subjects research until they get their IRB back under control, who knows what else is going on on campus that has not received prior approval. Utter disaster.
IMO the 7500's are more comfortable than the simple medical masks that pull on your ears, or simple N95's that squish your head. But I wouldn't want to wear mine for a long shift, because it gets a bit stuffy having removed the check valves.

Also, half face respirators get much lighter and easier to breathe when you swap out the chemical cartridges for P100-only puffball filters (eg 2297).

I'm looking forward to seeing how the sleek fabric ones feel, after the pandemic is over and I just need to thwart surveillance cameras.
I am writing a datasource for my product, so that data can be rendered in Grafana. I distribute my product to customer. Do I need to open source my datasource code as well?
Not with that attitude it's not.

It's not that they can't afford it - it's that they're unwilling to actually leverage the wealth of their country to do it. I seriously don't understand the thinking that resources are still so scarce that an entire country like India somehow can't afford to meet the basic needs of its people (let alone the US). If the resources exist you figure out how to get them to the people that need them. Not doing this is how you get unrest, a massive rise in crime and eventually coups, wars, etc. Democracy and capitalism are not givens - they are very much still experiments that can and do fail.
Ignoring your gratuitous insults in the last paragraph...

> Happy, wealthy, comfortable, safe people who believe a bright future is in store do not take to the streets, burn buildings down, and get into large scale fights with their local police force. They don't throw bricks through coffee shop windows, hang out in tear gas clouds, or crowd up during a pandemic.

Yeah, see, they could be wealthy, and still not safe because of skin color. That's the point of the George Floyd protests. If you see people like yourself getting shot by police for reasons that seem absurd, over and over, you don't feel safe. You don't believe in a bright future. You aren't happy. And economics has very little to do with it.
Well, that is what happened in the case of SolarWinds -- legit signatures on the dll that was modified early in the supply-chain. :-(
I know Apple added in a nice easy to manage place for subscriptions, but maybe a confirmation pop up if it hasn't been used in 2 billing cycles or something. At least the first time it has a lapse in usage. At the same time you could report that you didnt realize you had that subscription and that could trigger the Apple fraud team to look into that app.

I would add that problems with fake reviews is a problem that needs solving across the internet.
I wonder if Elon Musk has the "short sleep" genes?

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc...
Here is what I have learned as a founder/manager who has built a team of 20 people so far (mix b/w remote and in-person, and hired and fired/lost a few along the way):

1. People who care about their work, get shit done and if their jobs are not time bound (e.g. Support), it doesn't matter whether they work from home or not. Even for roles where time sometimes is important (SLA etc), people with good ethics wouldn't be an issue remotely.

2. People who care but require a lot of guidance/supervision (may be entry level etc) are usually a little better off working in person closely with their peers and seniors so they can learn faster. They could transition to WFH/remote once they are up to speed. But early days, they are better off with their team in person. My 2 cents.

3. People who care BUT are doing the wrong job in the team/company. They are better off doing something else. They will fail whether working from home or in person. But they try and give it a shot genuinely. Still doesn't matter. Remote or in person.

4. People who don't care much, just want a job etc wouldn't matter whether are in person or remote. I have hired someone recently who just didn't give a shit (my fault for not seeing that during the hiring). he worked from office. didn't get shit done. Multiple rounds of feedback. He worked from home. Didn't get shit done. Didn't matter. He lasted 2 months which was a stretch.
LOL!!!

The loopholes that this bill leaves unclosed make this entire bill just another dog-and-pony-show.

This is just for show, not to affect any type of meaningful change.

Making the SALE of ALL location data illegal, to any 3rd party, would more than suffice. This proposal is just a song and dance for the generally uneducated and uninformed populace.

The government will simply purchase the data from another government...

...YOU KNOW LIKE THEY DO NOW WITH THE 5 EYES PROGRAM...

Useless pandering. They suck.