skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not saying that there is no possible sample bias from the survey, but it is the best data that we have. I'm not aware of it being an issue for our users in general. Some folks do say things about this from time to time, but it seems like largely hobbyists and open source folks with strong opinions, rather than large corporate users or even most open source users.

> As a user running `cargo update` should be enough and the versions increase.

They would not increase, because that would be a major version change. To do that, you'd have to go into your Cargo.toml and change the version number there. This would also be true of all of your dependencies. Major versions, while Rust can have two of many of them in tree (but notably, not ones that wrap C libraries, for example...) can still work, but like, then you have two copies until the long tail of your dependencies updates, and maybe by the time that happens, it's bumped again in your code.

> So this is a critique because I do actually care about this

I totally believe this! It's also possible that I am not right, just my take on what you're saying, that's all :)
What annoys me is that there is no easy way to change DNS servers. Try on IOS, or Android and you'll find it such a hassle being hidden within other scary network settings. Windows you need to click through five different features and not forgetting that DNS is an alien word to most. Try and explain it in the simplest of ways such as "a phone book for computers" you've just bored the subject to death

I use OpenNIC and know how to navigate around my router. However for my mother, that's a whole different story.
The faulty digital clock problem
And yet I really don't remember any discussion at all about how flu season was going to be nonexistent this winter in the media. No discussion about how if we socially distance flu deaths would drop almost 97% (22000 -> 600).

I guess no one decided to write a news story about it cause it was so predictable, dog bites man and all.
Or....(and without any conspiracy theories - never mind MOST conspiracy theories of the last 30 years have entirely become true - conspiracy TRUTHS).

Everything that was flu was labeled as COVID since doctors, hospitals and medical professions were PAID a bounty on COVID.

Multiple this by PCR testing being 99% fraudulent due to high cycle counts which enable cold viruses and even flu viruses to to test positive because you've reached the "noise floor" of the test at 10-15 cycles (most testing was done with 30-40 cycles). This helped "fulfill" the bounties and take all the attention away from conventional diseases both infective and others like heart disease, cancer, etc. (which got counted as COVID as well, just like traffic accidents and other definitely-not-COVID deaths that occurred).

The same bounty system shut down the entire surveillance system for flu as well as because non-essential workers included anything not COVID related or providing shallowly defined "essential" services.
I try to stick to one main project (https://issueembed.dev/) but do allow myself to indulge in one or two other ones when I need a break.

I also try to have my environment setup automated and some level of testing so that if I do switch between projects, I am not wasting time on regression or environment setup. This may be best practice but it is very easy to not bother with in a side project.

It used to be a free for all and I'd have a lot of different projects working on at different stages but I'd rarely finish anything or get it to a stage I was happy with. I now just track any other ideas I have in a Trello board and look at it occasionally to get inspiration.
That doesn’t seem like an empirical question at all. Whether it’s a good thing depends on what you value.
See my reply to sister comment
QtConsole is actively maintained. I don't use it but I do like it a lot.
"It is good practice to always use the SameSite directive with cookies as this provides protection against CSRF attacks."

"As an added bonus, many of the mitigations on this page can be applied at the proxy server (CSP, HSTS, HPKP) or network level (better server proxying to remove the need for CORS), and only the CSRF and XSS protections really need to be added to the application."

If I add a line to the localhost-bound forward proxy that the aplication uses so that "SameSite" is added to every cookie, then it appears the second statement is misleading.

As a user, I rely on a (forward) proxy. Much easier for me to focus on the proxy than trying to make sure every application^1 is doing the right things.

Both parties to an HTTP transaction can use proxies to execute mitigations. And as the author states, the ones he is mentioning are only some of the possibilities.

1. Especially ones that we do not compile from source and are distributed by "tech" companies that rely on online advertising as their main source of revenue. We users are not their customers, we are the guinea pigs.
Begs the obvious question: could you intentionally infect someone with a mild, greedy virus to displace a more dangerous one?
"MHRA shows that rare clots from the vaccine occur at a rate of 0.8 per 100,000 for the 30-to-39 age band"

"over-55 population, [] the relative risk of clots is 0.4 per 100,000" [1]

[1]https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-28/britai...
The order doesn't matter, but you prob want to be available for comments/replies in case the launch goes particularly well, so do them 1 at a time.

Twitter feels pretty irrelevant to me, unless you have a massive amount of followers. Don't use Twitter to promote PH or the others, because you'll get banned or penalized.

I'd generally launch first on the platform where you have more experience, if any. Unless you want/have to test your launch, in which case choose the 2nd and use any learnings for the 1st.
Twitter Q1 2021 Earnings [pdf]
Yeah, I haven't lived in the sticks for some years and EV chargers might be more widespread than I thought. Rural folks still love their ICE cars though for sure
The normal flu can be pretty bad. In 2018 the spike in total deaths in TX and surrounding states were between a third and a half of the covid spike in those regions. Masks might have been a good idea in 2018 and I hope they become part of our culture at least when you think you might be coming down with something. You know, that first day of a cold when you are telling yourself its allergies or drainage. Shutting down stores makes less sense.
From Russia with Sorrow: A Family Looks Back (1981)
Flexport's CEO wrote children's book about ship that got stuck in Suez Canal
That could be because the chili molecule has polarity and clumps together in fatty environments, like meat sauces and yoghurt. Conversely it gets dispersed by water. That recipe probably has a bit less fat than what your usual meaty one has, so less chili goes further :)
There are quite obviously consequences, but perhaps not for the people who are in a position to ensure the containers don't fall overboard? Somebody is certainly losing money here.
"We found out that we have no process for confirming that we're applying the correct fertilizer to the soil in question, and accidentally salted the earth of a small patch of flowers during the test. While not ideal, the damage is small and contained and repairs are underway."
To anchor discussion, prior to the rise of intermodal shipping containers in the '60s & '70s, cargo was shipped as breakbulk cargo. Losses from theft and damage were considerably reduced by switching from breakbulk cargo to shipping containers. Not the same as losing stuff over the side, but still a regular and somewhat predictable expense.

One anecdote I remember from Levinson's book is about a scottish whisky distiller exporting to the US being very excited about being able to ship whisky in a giant stainless steel vessel inside a container instead of shipping individual bottles inside wooden crates (imagine the theft during loading/unloading...).

That said, shipping containers were not adopted because they reduced theft and damage (consequently the cost of insuring cargo), they were adopted because they offered much lower costs to shippers (after enough investment in ships and ports and cranes and trucks and changes to transport regulation to provide the infrastructure to move containers around efficiently without double-handling them or unloading and repacking them for technical/labour/regulatory reasons).

Marc Levinson's book _The Box_ about the history of the shipping container is worth a read -- https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th...
I didn't say any of that.
This is amazing. I can think of several relatives who would absolutely love something like this over struggling with a touchscreen.
I see ships being overloaded a good problem to have. The more countries trade with eachother, the less reason they have to fight wars with eachother.
This pre-print (edit : now published apparently!) argued that the likelihood of clots from Covid was still higher than AZ vaccines https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.19.21253980v.... Fauci agreed with their conclusions (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vaccine-blood-clots-risk-...) but disagreed with the aspects of this study that looked at mRNA vaccines and blood clots (but hasn't given reasons why he disagrees with this aspect).
I love it when an org can be so transparent.
Like GP I'm a very happy pcmanfm user most of the time, but I use spacefm sometimes and I know it has split window as an option. Not trying to convince you to leave dolphin, just mentioning in case you like exploring.
> The problem is that if you control for the right parameters the expected outcome is worse, possibly by multiple orders of magnitude, than that of being infected with covid.

How come? COVID infections have a high probability of causing blood clots.
From WinAmp to Reaper, what an interesting career.
I’m 100% sure that “MOST” conspiracy theories of the last 30 years have not been proven true.
I believe the startup mentioned was Forecast, which was acquired by Microsoft and then nuked without (AFAICT) the tech actually landing in any MS product. Maybe it was just threatening Expedia or something...
Why? Amazon relies on AWS and Amazon's in-the-trenches experience no doubt helps shape AWS.

Ebay and Paypal split, but Paypal was worth a lot more than Ebay at the time and now it is worth ~10x as much.
The polite society he refers to which originated this standard is the English gentry, with whom American political culture has much more in common than either the Latin aristocracies you mention or the Gallic working class.

In America there is a tension between Jacksonian public man populism of the type you allude to and gentrified politesse of southern planters and northern merchants. In short, you’re both right.
I guess within the features I use its been a better experience. i use it as a NAS and DVR. The snapshotting and change reversion features have saved me a few times where engineering employees have messed up their files.

Thanks for the point about NFS though.
I wonder what advantages, if any, Reaper has over Ardour.
> Has anyone asked the gig workers how they feel about this? Do they want to be W2 employees?

They don't. They had a survey and that's why Prop 22 passed.
Dealing with Difficult Software Engineers
The built-in UPS feature is very cool.
I do all of these but it doesn't help. Part of the problem is that some colleagues can't work from home and to be "fair", everyone has to go into the office.
Who said anything about liking or disliking the taste of meat? If you're vegan, you don't want to eat meat, for whatever reason. What sense does it make to then pretend to eat meat anyway?

If you like meat so much you just have to have it, then what sense does it make to be vegan? Be flexitarian. Eat meat once a year, every Easter Sunday. Eat vegentarian. I don't know! But at least accept the fact that you can't stand being vegan because you really want to eat meat and dairy.

For me, anyone who eats pretend-meat or pretend-dairy is a pretend-vegan. If you're going to go off meat to save the planet, or because you think meat is murder, then stick to your own morality and go without anything that is in any way "like" meat. Otherwise, you're just advertising the need to eat meat and justifying everyone else to keep eating it and ignore your pleas for the environment and the baby calves.

If you tell me "I'm vegan, but I have to eat something like cheese", the easiest thing for me to reply is "I'm not vegan and I have to eat cheese". It just makes a joke of the whole idea of being vegan.
Yes but most cigarettes are not menthols. And a good portion of the people I know who smoke hate menthols... so there's that anecdote. I only know one person who smokes menthols, and the rest just smoke regular cigarettes and did not start by smoking menthols.
"Nutjobs" is still a bit harsh, no? :) I do know a fair number of people who fall into the first category (but unfortunately, know far more in the second category).
Great overview with a minor nit-pick; it's Cross-Origin Resource Sharing rather than Request Sharing. It describes a server's willingness to share its resources across origins. The client's request isn't the thing being shared.
Is there a list of what exactly was lost? Does anyone actively seek out and salvage this sunken treasure? I hate to think of another Garfield Phone thing in the future with something more dangerous.

https://time.com/5561165/garfield-phones-france/
Looks like a refocusing on the full-time program.

Doesn't seem _too_ surprising, given how many part-time programs (ie, Coursera) have struggled to retain users distracted by jobs and life.

I hope they figure it out. 4-year university education for everyone is a broken model, and students deserve a cheaper path that doesn't eat half a decade of their life.
My sister wrote & defended her PhD thesis disproving this intuitive but wrong connection. Plenty of states happily trade with their enemies during wars. So war does not necessarily stop trade. And thus trade is no prophylactic to war.
States are most likely to cut off trade during war in very long wars - which are no longer possible between nuclear powers.

http://mariya.gr/research.htm

If you have counter-arguments other than "But, but, but that FEELS wrong", i am sure she'd like to hear them, her email is on the site"
C++ Lambda Expressions for Beginners
Anyone with knowledge know if this is isolated to lambda falling behind their peers, or the industry itself starting to turn away from hiring boot camp grads?
What happens when the blockchain does not reflect the actual legal situation of ownership? For example, assuming a classic blockchain model where my property deed is given to me as a private key, and I have to sign the transaction to transfer the property, what happens when I lose the key and yet the city has expropriated my lot to build a park? This seems to require the authorities to have some kind of master key or ability to retroactively edit the blockchain. Which negates much of the security advantage of a blockchain model?
In my experience, Reaper seems to be a favorite of a lot of mastering engineers these days. I don't know any producers/mixers who use it to craft songs. I haven't looked deep enough to say why that is. As I understand it, Reaper is generally full featured and competent with no loss of any fidelity. I think it's flexibility of audio routing and excellent conversion algorithms may be a reason so many mastering engineers turn to it.

Where it's going to differ (and you could say lack) is in the support, integration with other technologies, and unique design features that certain DAWs have chosen to specialize in. Reaper seems to be right down the middle and not specialize in any notable way or offer something that other DAWs do not.

For example, Ableton Live (a full-featured DAW that you can do every part of the production process in) has been designed from the ground up to primarily be a performance tool. It's features prioritize stability of audio, flow, ease of use, speed, and the ability to do powerful gestures with a minimal effort, all without stopping playback of the audio at any point. It's favored by musicians who want to improvise or get an idea as fast as possible and with minimal fuss.

In contrast, A DAW like Pro Tools is rich with features that allow for ultra-detailed tracking, editing, and mixing. It's very powerful in these areas, but lacking when it comes to sequencing or doing anything that favors electronic music.

Logic, on the other hand, is a jack-of-all DAW that sits right in the middle. It also comes with an exceptional array of plugins and instruments and a sizeable sample and loop library to get people started who don't already own a large collection of third-party tools. A great beginners DAW that you would never have to feel like you're missing out on by using.

Each of these DAWs have their niche uses. Reaper seems bland or undefined in this sense.
Before the pandemic WFH means I saw my friends and family far far more often - work with them during the day, more time to hang out, travel with them. And even co workers we’d arrange to work at a cafe or park. I socialized far more then at any office
Be aware: contractors and other workers fall into this category of "gig workers" - this will end 1099-based work as well.
Someone responded with a good question but then deleted it: Aren't you allowed to disagree with your doctor?

Sure, in the sense that you can get second opinions if you're extra concerned about the topic.

If you're pregnant or have a blood clotting issue, by all means get a first and second opinion if you're worried about getting the vaccine.

But don't think that you are more qualified than medical professionals to understand the risks and side effects (unless of course you are a medical professional).
Physicians don't exactly do the research better than you do. They accept the standard line from their decades-old schooling, or CDC bulletins, or hospital administrators as gospel truth, and may occasionally update their priors in a year after attending a conference.

In the general case, a physician is obviously better than a patient in terms of being informed.

On the margin, however, a well-researched patient will almost always be better informed than a physician accustomed to the average patient. This is particularly relevant to the ~130 IQ HN populace.
Actually, sorry, I should have said 'grated' instead of 'ground'.

When I do it, I actually use a rotary cheesegrater in the finest setting (i.e. something like this: www.thebakerskitchen.net/images/products/detail/811642026798.jpg). This makes the nuts come out soft and flakey.

But, yes, presumably a food processor should be ok too.
Confirmed working now
What drives are people buying these days for moderate-load / high reliability RAID?
Can you reference an efficient process to remove"umm"s and "uhh" of audio? I just edited a video and this audio microediting was really laborious.
Really? The U.S. was founded on a war with its primary trading partner.
Oh, god, this. Specifically simple appliances that are designed to be repaired.
It depends on what you consider stealth. This is the equivalent of someone social engineering their way into a building by looking like an employee. Are they using stealth? By the definition of the word, I think so.

> Anyways. This isn't 'stealthy'. Not at all. It's hardly the bare minimum.

It's using techniques to encourage people and systems overlook it when it's noticed. I think that qualifies.
Never heard of a right-sizing before. The linguistic hurdles of execs will never cease to amaze me!
Are those from Infineon->Intel->Apple modem lineage or is that a different team?
Also of note:

> One immediate change, however, is that we are pausing new enrollment in our part-time programs.

This all surprised me a little since I imagined schools like this would be doing well, pandemic job losses and expanded unemployment ought to make for a great market of prospective students. I guess it hasn’t been that simple.
The author also links to a similar assessment in the Gnome community, which I find really interesting.

With Gnome we can see the interest went down after Gnome 3 was released. Many people like me ran away from it scared by the usability problems and unreliability of the extension system. And Gnome kept the same complained-about interface until today, and the project never picked up the pace it had before.

While KDE4 was also seen as a big failure during its release (many bugs!), the biggest issue was simply bugs: not so many people complaining about the direction of the project, although these people probably existed. The project was able to fix the biggest issues and keep moving on (although KDE is still quite famous for being buggier than some of the alternatives), and now they have a community that can probably be described as "healthier than before", and certainly much better when you compare to what's happening to Gnome.

Disclosure: I use Cinnamon.
As Linux laptop user, I'm bemused when the competition gets worse.

Maybe Linux on Apple Silicon will be the best of both worlds in a few years --- I think the dedicated porting effort will more than succeed and will get something more polished than Linux on Intel macs ever was.
BTW, Weil is pronounced VAY.
Just a thought — the trick might be trying to be less of a germaphobe to build up your immune system (not medical advice).
Marketplace Inequality
I’d say yes, but with more work, non-zero startup costs, and not easily scalable for a hobbyist. Interacting with the physical world is the whole point, but it means you can’t just copy/share/publish a digital file and solve the problem for someone else.

As an example (which it’s debatable if you’d consider it “useful”), I was able to build USB adapters for vintage game controllers. It was a fun project, and I used the results for a while.
The recent National Academies study for the Department of State seemed to not think it is ultrasonic: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Ha...

Some kind of pulsed RF/microwave seemed to be the most likely?
Your awareness on flu testing is an indication of the limits of your knowledge, not a lack of testing. Others in this discussion have provided links with hard data on testing from the CDC for the US. For a world-wide picture, FluNet w/ GISRS also provide data on testing.

These form the basis of overall infection estimates. If you are interested in the methodology of those estimates, here is the CDC overviews, complete with citations for the primary research that informed the creation of their models: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm#e...
I have to wonder if all issues with Apple's software quality are due to Apple redirecting resources to gracefully handling the Apple silicon transfer.
> On the margin, however, a well-researched patient will almost always be better informed than a physician accustomed to the average patient. This is particularly relevant to the ~130 IQ HN populace.

It's quite dangerous and egotistical to think that you are in that group, though. When most people think they're a better than average driver, many are bound to be wrong.

If you think you're right about something and the doctor is wrong, get a second opinion. Don't assume you know better than a medical professional.
The "Deep" part ia to realize what this really means in terms of limitations of ML/NN!
Totally anecdotal from an employer perspective, but I haven't seen any companies turning away from bootcamp grads.
I love Reaper, Avid Pro Tools is too much for my purposes and all the other free or low cost DAWs didn't feel right. The $60 non-commercial license is a bargain.
How do you fix them? That seems really hard!
Shhh, don't spoil the socialist utopia with reality.
In 'most of the world', especially the English-speaking / metric-using parts, the word 'tonne' is used to clearly and immediately make it clear we're using the metric unit for 1000kg.

The article itself used the word 'tonne' as it was written by / for people that use metric.

'Ton' is a word with myriad meanings, none sensible.