skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my case, I don’t care for the metrics - the stats have never interested me, be they on my site’s analytics or on social accounts - but I get very addicted to the comments. I only go on Twitter for like 5 minutes a week because it’s very difficult for me not to reply to people, and when I do my mind gets consumed by thoughts about them replying back and how I’ll respond to that, etc. I spent two hours painting a fence last weekend, and for most of that time I was simply daydreaming about imagined responses to a single subtweet. What a waste!

I don’t have any social media apps or notifications on my phone, so it’s not like I’m constantly picking it up and seeing or awaiting responses. Instead I’m just wasting my brain power imagining arguments with strangers.
I've had plenty of recruiters that could ignore silly resume mistakes and find gem candidates. I've also hired candidates with horrible resumes, and it's never been a problem.

Evaluate a candidate based on their experience and qualifications, everything else is just to satisfy our own egos.
I live in Asheville NC, and apparently all of the gas stations in the local area are out of gas due to this. Seems like panic buying happened the second the local news began reporting on the pipeline hack. I'm just happy we didn't run out during the weekend at least. We're a big tourist spot, and most of them drive in, so it would have been extra awkward to strand them here.

FWIW, I've seen some locals on FB talking about being unable to drive to doctors appts / the vet / work - and in every case so far - other locals have volunteered to drive them. Will definitely be awkward if the good Samaritans run out of gas too though. I suppose the few drivers of electric vehicles are about to become really popular with their friends and neighbors.
A Feather in Her Cap
After someone died, it's ok to revere a person. Generally, it's unhealthy to put alive people on pedestals too.
The last straw for me was receiving and obviously used (and gross) $800 kitchen appliance. They took the return but I took my business to the manufacturer.

I basically only buy books from Amazon now, and even there I don’t think they make print-on-demand obvious enough, and I won’t buy print-on-demand if the book is otherwise available because I’ve gotten too many bad printings.

The last time I posted about it here people defended Amazon because of their return policies. Well, the printing errors aren’t always immediately obvious. One reference book o purchased was missing a page but had a duplicate of the previous page. When printing errors are obvious, I feel like either Amazon is trying to see if I’ll complain or they’re trying to get me to do their QC.

And even if they don’t make me return the bad one... waiting another day or two isn’t great. I’d rather wait three days knowing I have to wait three days than wait one day, have to contact Amazon, and wait one more day.

I have a kindle, and I love it, and I buy books for it. I have Prime mostly because when I was buying a lot it made sense and now I sometimes watch Prime Video. But anything else is just too much work to read through fake reviews and worry about counterfeits or used goods masquerading as new.
Disconnected payments and cash transfers have long been a thing.

Crypto in this sense is just a novel indirect payments system. Currency control is a red herring.
Redis and RocksDB seem to have an interesting baby, Does anyone uses it?
Why would you go to the bother of producing a website and then shut other people out of it just because you're asleep. Even worse is assuming that because it's their bedtime, they have no right to think they can use the website.

So many assumptions. It reminds me of my ethnic mother's command, "I'm cold. Go and put a jumper on."
That's a pretty vague assertion. I definitely I know autistic people who just eat nothing but macaroni and cheese or something with tons of choice available to them. I don't think culture is forcing people into these problems.

One of the theories around autism and eating is that it's related to alexthymia, which also prevents you from feeling your own emotions, but also impairs non-emotional perception like hunger or digestive signals. I've heard theories such as that this could be caused by poor filtering autistic people have of information within their body and general information overload.

I've also heard the theory that autistic people having sensory abnormalities can have unusual food preferences that can lead them to have poor diets and that can cause other health issues. I've even seen this happen indirectly where somebody avoided buying chicken breast because they can't handle the sliminess while preparing it. Not only have I seen this repeatedly both online and in life experience it's something I sometimes see openly defended on the grounds that an autistic person forcing down a balanced diet may be tortoruous depending on the nature of their issues. This is one of those "hmm, perhaps some of these people may have some problems and maybe not everything is a cultural construct" moments I had that really formed these experiences.

Generally autism also correlates to low executive functioning which itself correlates to poor weight control and diet.
Creepy alien robot man sails the seas thanks to unethical labor practices.
Actually I'm interested in any tool that saves me from writing code. I much prefer working at the symbolic level because as soon as I open a regular IDE I start thinking about my programming language instead of the problem I'm working on. I don't program full time any more so it's not a subconscious process, and really I would like the computer to do the work of translating my symbolic concept into syntactically correct language. If it works well, I don't really care that it's proprietary.
Why the editorial in the title (currently "Atlas, a (hopefully) better engineering IDE")?

Page title is "A better engineering tool". Hard to say exactly what it is.. a competitor to Mathematica maybe? But it's not an IDE in the way most software developers would understand an IDE
> A third of the active cases involved people who had had two vaccine doses, the country's news agency said.

> The rest had either had a single dose or were unvaccinated.

So ~66% of the cases were from partially or unvaccinated people.
> The gaming industry has been playing the same card movie studios play

FWIW, the mobile games industry takes a different route. Unfortunately the media loves to shit on them while not being too hard on how the AAA movie-like industries operate.
Put yourself in the shoes of business. Well, like the oil company now in USA.

Lets say you haven't learn the lesson of backup importance.

Your business has stopped. Your ONLY way to recover and restore revenue stream is to get the data. You are aware that paying ransom may or may NOT work.

Now, what do you do?

The suggestions (cut the attackers revenue stream) may sound very right, correct and whatnot. But think of the side that is held as hostage.
I see your point, but Engineers should not have to worry about dB schema changes breaking anything. The contract they provide externally is via APIs. The BI team slurping up dB binlogs must not create an expectation of support from engineers.
It is an emergency authorization vaccine. We haven't had the full trials. No one can honestly claim these are safe long term. In fact, they don't. The manufacturers do not assume any liability for you choosing to consume their experimental product.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...
I mean, yes, it's not only intelligence, but also willingness to put up with bullshit, but "isn't smartness" is going too far. It IS taxing on brain.
There is another solution already heavily in us across the UK, US and Australia: https://www.goodsamapp.org/

According to their homepage, 1.5m users globally.
> To be fair, that's a little disingenuous given that Musk was literally tweeting denials at press time.

Tesla says that Musk's tweets about autopilot are disconnected from reality:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-a...

So why would and why should anyone else take his tweets seriously?
I thought many people with mild symptoms got long covid, too.
It is difficult to write a strong referral for someone you do not know.
Swift has a pretty nice measurements package built in https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/measure...
There are no laws against worker co-ops. They are just a pretty inefficient way of running a business in that it's difficult if not impossible in most cases to raise sufficient capital. This is particularly true of software companies, where firms with 20 or 30 employees raise tens of millions of dollars. There is no conceivable way the employees would be able to put up that kind of money by themselves.

It's why many existing co-ops such as Bob's Red Mill were founded, funded, and built by capitalists but later gifted to the employees once mature.
It still boggles my mind that (at least from what I've read), there was direct remote connectivity into Colonial's infra...Not that this excuses DarkSide at all, I'm sure they must be terrified at the ramifications of what they've caused.
Weird to see Thunderbird for Mac and Windows perform so differently. Anyone knows what’s up with that?

(And what about Linux?)
Lol. I can’t quite tell if this is real or a spoof. Perfect.
Some Russian security "researchers" are going to be arrested the moment they set foot on US or Canadian soil for attending some conference or are going to be detained in transit. That's how it happens. Like it happened to the Huawei CFO. Some others are going to find their accounts frozen.
The Elm programming language ecosystem has the great "elm-units" library, which prevents one from mixing illogical units, and it produces logical unit combinations:

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/ianmackenzie/elm-units...

...which is used in other packages where unit type safety is important, such as elm-geometry:

https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/ianmackenzie/elm-geome...
>I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.

Stephen Jay Gould, "Wide hats and narrow minds" New Scientist 8 March 1979, p. 777. Reprinted in The Panda's Thumb, p. 151.
"Only the manufacturer"?

You mean the company that scaled up production to hundreds of millions of doses, ran clinical trials in dozens of countries for tens of thousands of patients, put together all the regulatory documentation for dozens of countries, including negotiations with regulators, then developed a worldwide logistics system to get the vaccine where it's needed. And did all that with few stumbles in less than a year.

So yeah, they are "just the manufacturer".
and should the us let immigrants in that match the current us demographic or the global demographic ? If global demographic, then eventually the us will be similar to the global demographic. If not, what point in time should the us demographic be frozen ?
What about remote workers, should they have the us demographic or the global demographic?
Autopilot also includes the less-capable levels, not just FSD. For example, Enhanced Autopilot uses Autosteer and TACC which are both mentioned in the article.
Maybe a "nazi sympathizer" would be a better term.

It is interesting you bring in Flat Earthers. What do they have in common with Nazis? Anything? I think there is something. It is the message "Don't use your brain to come up with answers just adopt our doctrine as faith".
> Maybe the coal-rollers are freaking out and looking into buying a Prius. Time to buy Honda futures!

FWIW, the Prius is made by Toyota, not Honda.
this comment should show up on my program
> we should respect their choices

Honestly, why should I do that?

I would if their choices only affected themselves. People have a right to control their own destiny. But their choices affect me, and, more importantly, those I care about. So no, I don't respect anyone's "choice" to be an unvaccinated asshole, increasing the chance that people I care about will die. I don't respect the "choice" to aide a foreign microbe in evolving in its ability to hurt me and our species.

Why are we thinking of this as some sort of delicate "choice" we need to respect, instead of recognizing it for what it is? Treason.
If you track each and every mutation as a variant, then here are thousands of them. Changes in the spike protein have the largest effect though, so we track those specifically, and clusters of changes to the spike protein are what get official designation as variants. Because that’s what we care about.
The article says that it couldn't have been in autopilot because autopilot requires lane markings for it to be activated and that area has no lane markings. It's nothing to do with software versions.
Pfizer (and Fosun) is also the distributor, ran the trials, and handled much of the public/regulator/media facing communications. As such, the Pfizer branding is not surprising.

Production is a multi-step process involving both Pfizer and BioNTech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer%E2%80%93BioNTech_COVID-...
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True, thanx
Hm, I wonder if anyone’s tried to popularize an alternative inflation measure to CPI that either discounts hedonic adjustments, or tries to be more “honest” about it somehow, perhaps by trying to measure relative user happiness or something (though that’d be super shaky).
> Evaluate a candidate based on their experience and qualifications

Well, as I said I typically hire in design and product, so "proven ability to produce high-quality written content" is often an important qualification.
The evidence is right there in their own blog post.

They are a distributor of the ETI Thermapen and nothing more except 'good friends' with the owners of ETI and that they have contributed design ideas to some versions of the Thermapen. Just as any distributor does. Note how they try to make it sound like they have some sort of ownership of the product, but the only thing they have ownership of is the Thermoworks name and a contract with ETI to be the sole US distributor.

What in their blog post makes you think they have the right to claim copyright infringement for someone selling a Thermapen they bought directly from ETI?
We're all so used to modern abstractions, libraries, data-driven engines, general solutions. We can afford them now. The developers of these old games couldn't, they were forced to do more with less. The results are absolutely fascinating. There's a certain quality that seems to have been lost over time as computing resources available to developers have improved.
You want websites to cater to a stupid outlier usecases like yours?
Just saying, I'd rather have kids be addicted to games than drugs. At least there's a high possibility you can recover game addiction without major effects to your health. And you learn very abstract things in games you can use IRL too.
Thank You, that is what I needed to hear and it sounds reasonable, what sort of proteins does it produce? Just the spiked ones or longer strands like DNA? Could You also offer up another TL;DR answer as to why the booster seems to present significantly more side effects? Thanks
That article is explaining that it's particularly worrying that some variants do have changes to the spike protein, not that this is common (it isn't).

Mutation causes random changes, the selection process eliminates those that render the mutated version less fit. The focus on the spike is because most random changes to the spike also make it useless, the virus becomes impotent. Such mutations won't thrive of course, and so we hardly see them at all, but they are happening.

In contrast, many random changes elsewhere might not prevent the virus from working. They might say, make it less able to survive outside a body, which would give it a disadvantage against variants that don't have that change, but if they also mean the immune system of a previous host doesn't recognise them, that's a big advantage to counteract that. We see lots of these variants because they "work", but since the spike is the same existing vaccines ought to be effective.

So this is why it made sense to focus on the spike, even though as this article shows it isn't a magical panacea.
Yes, I gave up on Amazon recently because their outsourced customer service has become so bad.

Unlike generic customer service, they used to solve problems.

Now they simply go through the motions of appearing to solve problems.

It’s really evident when a company’s customer service priorities change in this direction.
TBF that mobile machine aggressively puts apps to sleep and has other techniques to avoid consuming power. A laptop doesn’t bother in the interest of a different experience.
I can't just walk in.

That said I know several people that have had it. Some elderly with existing conditions. Worst case was my aunt who got pneumonia from it. She's in her mid sixties and diabetic. She was in the hospital for a week.

Was in the emergency room with my son a few months back, not overflowing or anything, but I wasn't there to track Covid cases.
> The NES didn't have a framebuffer either

The NES does have two nametables that perform a similar role, though. Instead of storing a 256x240 array of pixels, they store a 32x20 array of tile indices, each describing an 8x8 pixel tile. Once the CPU has written to the nametables, it can do something else while the PPU draws an entire frame.

Whereas on the 2600, the CPU needs to step in every few scanlines or it can't draw a 2D image at all!
Curious as to how long does it take for the transmission to reach earth. Where can I learn that?
The numbers the author gives for patreon are blatantly false though. There's a few posts down in the thread of people like me who are wondering where those numbers come from.
Perhaps because the perpetrators have been identified as a ransomware gang from the CIS states?
I disagree; while fancy stylings can be excessive, being able to use things like screenshots, headings, and tables is very useful. Sure you can do images and tables through attachments, but that adds extra steps which are inconvenient.
It's nice to see this. I've been interested since the mid-2000s and haven't seen any breakdowns or examples of hedonic adjustments. Anyone have any other references?
It happened to me. The name of the purchaser came up in a Google search as an employee of Thermoworks.
The energy density of nuclear batteries is astounding. Per the linked spec sheet, at 2.8W/kg and 17y mission duration, that's about 417,000Wh/kg. By comparison a lithium ion battery has 250Wh/kg.
Unit conversion is not the issue. It's strong typing the values themselves so that you don't actually plug in a value in feet that was thought to be in meters. This means each numeric value must have it's own type (or equivalent strong compiler or runtime backed constraints).

So instead of float, we have (eg) float_meters, float_feet and so on.
We're not overseas though, we're in the US where we get 15-25 vacation days a year. So an extra 5-10 days each time you crunch is pretty significant. Also this is extra vacation. I get the equation is still in favor of the employer but whatever, I thought it was fair, because of my next point:

I loved working on games! It wasn't bad at all doing this back in my 20s. You're doing something you love! With amazing people who also love games! I learned so much back in this period. I was able to tackle super hard challenges and really work on a huge variety of really interesting problems. Why would you not want to work extra hard if you have this kind of opportunity where you also love the work?
Brute force robotic safecracker [video]
I've always thought of it as some metric of public trust. If you trust the suppliers and government to step up and be honest about the situation you're currently in and how they're going to get out of it, you're less likely to feel the need to hoard things during a supply shortage. For most people it's about predictability, and trust in a system is a key part of predictability.
21h https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
> Im social distancing, wearing a mask doing all the things necessary

Those things are emergency measures, that are important, but not anywhere near as effective as vaccines are. They stop things from rapidly spiraling out of control so instead they just slowly spiral. Its a holding action, one with a pretty high cost, not a solution.

> that has been rushed through trials

They've had the same amount of safety testing as other vaccines. With the rollout, they've probably had more real world testing than many vaccines.

> So please dont call me horrible and selfish

You're taking an action that threatens the lives of other people based on fears about personal safety that don't seem based in reality (at least for the pfizer vaccine. If you want to argue that the blood clots for AZ are scary regardless of their rarity, fine by all means).

Most people use the term selfish to describe someone who puts their own well being ahead of the group even when their concerns for personal safety are valid. If their concerns are largely made up, i can't help but think the adjective fits.
> It's also concerning that there is evidence that while people who have been vaccinated are much less likely to be infected. If they do get infected, they are more likely to be infected with one of the variants than unvaccinated

That's not "concerning"...it's a truism. You've made those people immune to the wild-type strain. If they're going to get infected, it's going to be to a variant. You're still missing the denominator (i.e. how often does it happen?) and the most important question: how serious is it when they do get infected?

So far, the answers are "not often", and "not serious", respectively.
There are some pretty significant leaps here, where are these questions coming from? If someone were to say "no, that's not how it works" what would you do? What evidence (and please be specific, none of this "they went to fast" non-answer) would convince you?
Honestly I'm using Thunderbird only because of two things:

- Plain Text Mode

and

- uBlock Origin Extension is available (that can block also embedded JS)

People underestimate the attack vector of emails. I'm glad those scammers haven't figured out (at least until now) how XSS could work in Gecko with XUL. Heap spraying could easily be a thing, given that MS Outlook also still uses their outdated rendering engine.
It's interesting the compare dev salaries, but are folks aware of how high executive compensation at gaming companies, much less FANG companies, is?
Book summary: one up on Wall Street
I do own a much older generation Thermapen - the automatic switch is failing, so I need to open it up and fix it... but I do find it a useful tool.

For the HN angle, my understanding on how these devices get such a fast reading is to have a decent calibration of the thermal mass of the probe tip, some reasonably quick and precisely timed readings and then using some math to interpolate the exponential curve to predict what the probe temperature is. After a few seconds thermal equilibrium is reached, but it is likely you've already been looking at something close to the final value.

[edit] after doodling on paper, not sure it is necessary to know the thermal mass of the probe. Time to do some experiments!