skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it interesting that the people who screamed "trust/listen to the CDC!" the loudest when the CDC's position was "everyone wear your mask and stay home as much as you can" are now the ones looking hardest for reasons to ignore/downplay/criticize the CDC's guidance.
Regarding #1, did you ever notice how the "dark pattern" that article was about got reverted shortly after that, except not on DuckDuckGo which still contains that "dark pattern"?
duckduckgo's ads are not exactly a beacon of quality either, so I wouldn't trust them necessarily to not let something like this through. Install adblockers for everyone you know.
Emphatically agreed. Particularly in our increasingly-polarized and dehumanized culture, smiles are worth saving. Masks definitely do have costs. Severe costs for children at school with new teachers/strangers.
Oh, I see what you're saying. Yes, that's true at this point in time, but I don't think that's what anthonygd was arguing. They were complaining about the act of personally wearing a mask without a scientific basis.
"You have to qualify for the expanded unemployment benefits" is exactly the point. The criteria for qualification causes a disparity between the experimental group and the control group, which invalidates the experiment.
> There’s reasons for wearing masks (or not), but the decision to wear one (or not) typically has nothing to do with reason.

It spreads so poorly outdoors (this has been abundantly documented), especially if your exposure to someone is brief, that the main reason is a combination of virtue signaling, hygiene theater, and because it makes you feel safer.
I adore this magazine, it consistently makes me happy
But Pascal was and still is super-fast to compile. And Pascal was pretty powerful back then and is even more powerful now.

Rust made design choices even beyond the complexity of LLVM that make its compiles slow.
I can see how you’d like that deal as a remote employee, but do you really think the company is going to hire you if they can hire someone locally for the same price? The only way this makes sense is if the local market is completely tapped out.
Why is it suspect? It's huge news, and will affect businesses, events, weddings, vacation, personal life for the millions of people who have still been taking public health and the CDC seriously. It's news. And I don't think it's surprising that they would have the scoop around the same time.
There has been an apparent turn in the present culture-war-type rhetoric to distrusting people because they admit their mistakes, but somehow heaping more praise on those who double down on their falsehoods. Really curious how that comes about.
Biden signs executive order aimed at shoring up US cybersecurity
Having used some kind of adblocking, on all devices, for as long as I can remember, I realize I live in an alternate universe where all these scams don't exist [0].

If at some point adblocking is defeated I'm up for a very difficult crash landing into reality.

[0]: almost; top results can be scams of course; but it's rare.
"and then sold at a huge profit."

I don't think musk/tesla has sold a single btc..
Is social pressure really a particularly smart way to make decisions? We're talking about a "Feature" of human behavior that evolved during a time when we were living as nomadic hunter/gatherers. Social isolation from your tribe might have cost you your life.

Fast forward to 2020. It's the exact opposite. We live in a society with billions of people. Who cares if someone saw you crossing the sidewalk gave you a bad look? Odds are that will be the last interaction with them for the rest of your life.
As someone with a similar career start as yourself, there's a certain amount of maturity that comes with age and often that matters a lot more than technical capability.

I think all of us "late-bloomers" see a fast rise typically as we already have a host of other hard-to-train skills that we bring to the table.
I think the idea is that the size of the grants remains roughly the same (or, you know, it's 1/4 of the size but lasts only 1 year). You're right that if they increased it, you could see that as just doing a bit of a risk trade-off. But my impression is that they aren't? And so it's just a comp decrease (albeit a more minor one the more stable the company's stock is).

Of all things in the equity world this certainly doesn't seem especially evil, but what I can't stand is the half-hearted framings of this as good for employees. If you're deciding you want to keep more equity for yourselves, fucking say so.
I got an ad for ebay. followed by 3 results. The ad should be more clearly marked but I don't see any scams here.

[1] https://www.thebalancesmb.com/how-to-find-your-ein-4768994

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/employer-identification...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employer_Identification_Number
At some point though, if everything is solid, known, accepted scientific fact, there’s not much room for the “fi” in sci-fi.
We can't assume any particular environment inside a VM; we don't own the "distribution", or really anything other than init itself, including libraries. We could make something work, but it'd be more effort than what we do now, which is just some trivial straight-line Rust code, in an init that was going to be Rust anyways.

We wrote a little more about this here:

https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/
Lucky us, writing FEXPRs was not a documented feature in the Lisp 1 manual from 1960.
> I worry this carrot isn’t tied to an adequate stick

If most of the new cases start to be among the unvaccinated, that could make for a stick.
Anecdotally, dozens of people in my social circle (aged 30-50) reported that the worst vaccine side effects were (1) a sore arm and (2) 24-48 hours of sleepy brain fog (even after the second dose). Among first and second degree connections on Facebook, I know of exactly two people who experienced the full gamut of flu-like symptoms, such as fever, chills, and whole-body aches for a day or two. Take this with a grain of salt, but I'd estimate an upper bound of 10% for "moderately unpleasant" side effects among young-ish, moderately healthy individuals.
Digital Ocean is always a good bet for an affordable yet reliable server.

Or Netlify or Cloudflare Pages for static content. Both offer server less functions for a fee as well.
Maybe you're not spending enough money. I'm sure Google's AI suspension bot doesn't go around suspending their top spenders (account wise), even if it has high confidence there's a breach.
>Crypto advocates want democratization of currency. Well here ya go - whales can easily manipulate the system.

But on the bright side, guess what?

With every open system 'manipulation' attempt, the market gets smarter & more resilient to such.
By “theoretical people” I think you’re referring to a very sizable portion of the population.
This might work for your personal system, but in the corporate environment, what's to keep someone with legitimate system access from emptying the wallets periodically and blaming an advanced persistent threat? It would be better to do the same system with standard bank transactions, and just provide a promise to not prosecute people who make contact after pwning your company.
What would wearing a mask in relatively safe conditions add to the collective trauma of the past year?
That’s cute.

You would have to crash the crypto market by 95% for years to have any affect on miners and ongoing investment into chips, which is a small small portion of chip demand.

Good luck imagining this is related.
Like what kind of mask? In heavy industry or manufacturing environments, I can assure you that nearly all are wearing N95s or surgical masks, and they all cause real issues with safety glasses fogging. It's been a huge problem, alleviated some with the Uvex wipes.
Yes both may be subject to some amount of political influence, but one is run by career infectious disease experts and one is run by career spies...
I would fix perhaps by the new web browser doing:

- Document scripts are restricted, and can be customized and spoofed (or fully disabled) by the user.

- Whether or not a link can be opened, and whether or not it is asked, depends on user settings. If it is configured to ask, it does so for both known and unknown URI schemes.

- Known and unknown schemes are both considered different origins; they do not redirect to about:blank (unless it is a scheme which is handled by rendering a document, which happens to redirect to about:blank, but it does not normally do this).

- Scripts cannot detect such prompts, and only one can be displayed at a time. One key combination can be used to prevent further prompts; even if a way is found, only one will work anyways.

And many other improvements, because existing web browsers are bad in a lot of ways.
I have observed that Syncthing-fork improvements eventually end up in official repo. Sometimes it takes few months, but it happens.
Just realised I probably haven't seen DuckDuckGo's ads due to my adblocker. The downvotes for my original comment seems justified from what I read. Thanks for enlightening me.
I heard about it being reverted, but I have seen far too many people, myself included, click the links at the top thinking they're the first result when they're not. This article on ads offering gov services has some great examples in it.

Remember when Google highlighted ads in different colours? Like the garish pink and green from way back in 2001: https://edge45.co.uk/blog/google-adwords-evolution-timeline/ (scroll down to see it near the bottom)

Look at how they intentionally tried to differentiate the ad from the rest of the search results: large swaths of white space separate the top sponsored ads from the rest of the search results even in a time when monitors were smaller, with clearly different link and background colours, etc.

I wonder if anybody's built a browser plugin to provide Google search results pages that look like they used to back in 2001? ;-)
Get a roll of stickers that say you're vaccinated? There's a lot available, and it's not too obtrusive.
Yes, but when it's illegal, it's much easier to quickly identify the law breaker before the trouble starts.
As a European I'm quite surprised how deep the conspiracy theories and suspicions against the state go in the US. You don't need tp take everything at face value, but to be so suspicious of essential institutions like the CDC seems crazy to me. Except for a vocal but tiny minority there's a lot of trust in the institutions of the EU and (Western) Europe, where citizrns at most worry about incompetence, not malicious manipulation. On the contrary societal trust in the US seems immensely low.
> Marketing is no more inherently trustworthy than any other form of communication.

It's less trustworthy. A simple example of trustworthy form of communication is instant messaging with people I know. I have friends who are knowledgeable about all kinds of subjects and I absolutely trust them several orders of magnitude more than any random marketing material out there. If a friend tells me they had a great experience with some product or service, I believe them.
The point is that whatever you would need to make Mars habitable could _directly apply_ to keeping Earth habitable at orders of magnitude less difficulty.

Imagine trying to build up population centers at the bottom of the ocean in order to have a backup plan for some nuclear winter on the surface. You could just build your hermetically-sealed, closed-system things on the ground! They'd work just as well (absent, I guess, the getting nuked part). Mars is that, plus you gotta actually get over there to send resources for the first couple hundred years.
Ethereum’s Co-Founder Vitalik Buterin Donates over $1B to Charities
It's hard to say, certainly some investigations have appeared political, but in US terms there is distrust against "public attorneys" rather than against judges (and Italy permits one to change career between the two).

But what I meant to say is that one political side have complained about judges for 30 years, which has impacted the public opinion.

See the effects Trump has had on institutional trust in the US, and make it last 5 mandates.
I hope my thinking on this is overly pessimistic but I think wearing masks is going to be perhaps the biggest lightning rod in America for a while. It’s going to act as a proxy issue for many other sociopolitical and psychological issues that will be channeled into this conflict.

I think the perhaps the best advice is entirely cliche. We are going to need to respect other people’s choices and try to be as patient and kind as we can.
I think the belligerence comes from the fact that multiple people were killed during confrontations with anti-mask individuals.

I certainly sympathize with your experience. I behaved very similarly and got yelled at once or twice for not wearing a mask outside. But at no point was I worried that they were going to pull a gun on me. Meanwhile, people making close to minimum wage with minimal (if any) health benefits had to put up with the anti-mask zealots just so they could pay their rent and keep food on the table.
Was in Florida in March. Few masks anywhere. Almost none at bars and restaurants. It was nice to experience "normal" again. Some retail stores had "please wear a mask" signs up and I'd say the shoppers were about 70% compliant.
The other issue is drivers. Nvidia is definitely out since the drivers have not been updated in many years.
Sure, but what you're basically saying is "what Musk did isn't illegal because the thing he did it against isn't considered a security"

You may be technically correct, doesn't make it any less sketch or immoral
Security professionals need to start getting serious about demanding physical write-enable switches to all embedded systems, so malware won't survive a reboot.

Backup media must be append-only unless a physical write-enable switch is pressed.

Physical write-enable switches used to be standard.

I'm not buying the crazy argument that remote update is necessary to remove malware installed using remote update.
I get "Get An IRS EIN Number Here - Online IRS EIN Application ein-gov-online.com" and "Employer ID Number App - Edit, Sign, Print, Fill Online irs-form-ss-4.com".

On Bing.com I get https://www.irs-tax-ein-number.com, https://irs.usa-taxid.com, https://ein-gov-online.com/irs-ein/application, and https://www.irs-ein-tax-id.com
Apparently they did pay the random, which surprises me.
Don't worry. If anything goes wrong (like a hacker stealing everybody's coins), they can just rollback the transaction. That's not a new thing for ethereum, to just rollback transactions. Lol.

For the uninitiated read about the dao hack and the debate that ensued. Basically, they just rolled back the transaction, just like a bank.
Tennessee passes name, image, likeness law for college athletes
As an employee this opens a few uncomfortable discussions. If your comp is heavy on equity, you may find yourself facing a paycut next year. For many engineers this could easily be a sudden 50% paycut during performance reviews. If a company chooses not to refresh your grant at the same level in 2-3 years time, then you'll have had plenty of warning to leave or for you and the company to figure things out.

The problem with a 1 year grant is that it provides an unstable compensation target, for a public company most employees will prefer cash to shares that may be up or down 15% at year end.
or more space for other things, say thicker battery
It’s not that it is all over the news nor that they all had the news at roughly the same time; it’s that they apparently released news saying the CDC said so before the CDC actually publicly said so.
What exactly was reverted? Google search results look like the screenshot in that article for me.
> being forced to pay penetration testers

Hardware write-enable switches on the drives are 2 or 3 cents.
Great product. I only stopped using it because it has no iOS app.

It was surprisingly able to punch through firewalls in some cases where Tailscale couldn’t (even though both use UPnP and similar stuff).
Most places are probably going to hover around 60-75%.
A family can spread it to their child, who brings it to school and then home to their family. I agree the chances are lower, but even if the kids themselves don't have severe cases or bad outcomes, if they have any symptoms they are probably spreading it to the rest of their household.
Nope. Check out Singapore’s latest cluster. Multiple fully vaccinated people infected (9 at last count) who are spreading it to others.
You're being downvoted, but it's abundantly clear that at least some view masking as a moral or intellectual signal, and this "othering" is certain to have some impact, either personally or socially.

Furthermore, just as many warned in the early days of the lockdowns that extended lockdown may induce unhealthy behavior—which is evidenced in significantly higher suicide, mental illness, drug abuse, and so on—there are certain to be some undesirable side-effects of vaccinated mask wearing. What those would amount to is not known, but certainly deserves to be explored and expressed.

Why it has been left to the fringe skeptics to dive into these n-th order consequences—some real; some imagined—in the presence of the greatest minds of our times is, quite frankly, deeply disturbing.

It seems the world has transformed everyone into reactionaries, while it should be patently obvious that we should all strive to be rational in these complicated times.

This speaks very poorly for what we've built over millennia, and leaves the lessons of history to floresce in the corners while everyone goes to war with their chosen side.
> But probably not AAA gaming, since gaming on Linux is a tough proposition even in the best of circumstances.

Just in case that's unknown to you or to other readers: It's really not true. Have a look at https://www.protondb.com/ - Linux is excellent for gaming, even AAA gaming. The PI processor just would be too weak either way, and not being x86 would prevent the games from running directly. Maybe that incompatibility and not having proprietary games compiled for ARM available is what you meant? That would need something like https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86, which actually seems to work way better than expected.
You can't buy gas that isn't there. Anti-gouging laws simply result in no gas available.
I like to think such people are actually normal, and we all suffer from some kind of brain damage that we could fix somehow.
Exactly! It has to start somewhere. I’ve been trying to be that guy. Downtown Seattle area is the same as OP described, although just barely starting to see more people go without masks outside. My wife even said so herself: she’ll stop wearing a mask “when most other people do”. A lot of people are probably thinking the same thing.
Stripe's last round was at like $100B. There's some growth being missed out on, sure, but I'm not sure for how many people that's gonna net out to be millions.
The CDC guidelines are for individuals. As fully vaccinated individuals, you and I are safe to not wear a mask outdoors and indoors. But safe to go maskless indoors is not the same thing as free to go maskless indoors. That is up to the prevailing jurisdictional policy. As the CDC itself states, "[F]ully vaccinated people can resume activities without wearing a mask or physically distancing, except where required by federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial laws, rules, and regulations, including local business and workplace guidance."

So the problem still exists of what communities will do, if anything, to protect their citizens, both those who are vaccinated and those who are not? One response to that is to just let people do what they want and let the chips fall as they may. Another response is for communities to be proactive iff there is a local outbreak, with the aim of preventing it from getting even worse. The option of leaving it up to businesses to individually decide to protect their customers or not seems untenable. A business will be just be asking for trouble to take it upon itself to verify which customers have been vaccinated or not.
You are spot on. In fact my account had been inactive for almost a year when I got the suspension notice.

Also, while active, I stopped accepting any of their automatic “improvement” suggestions, as they inevitably lead to increase spending, but almost never to better conversion.

If I ever need to advertise with Google again, I’ll probably need to go through an agency and pay quite a bit extra.
Thanks for the great response! Very informative. I assumed I was way simplifying the problem. It seems like what works for my small remote only startup is not even close to what you need for a large in-person org running who-knows-what software.
I love writing one liner parsers in Elixir when I’m bored. Pipes and pattern matching for the win!!
That certainly is an idea.
I believe it was the placement of the favicon in regular search results that was reverted because it appeared in the same place as the word "Ad" in the ad.
When you set up a folder to sync, you can choose the 'Folder Type' under the 'Advanced' tab. This sets up that folder to do bi-directional sync or not.
Might be time to dust off the old memory palace technique
You can look at attrition though, and I thought that was still pretty bad for amazon?
Computer Vision can be used for facial recognition in surveillance applications. Sentiment analysis for ad targeting. Fraud detection to harass and profile the poor and groups the state considers enemies. And all of them gather massive datasets that can be stolen or sold and used for less than savory purposes. https://algorithmwatch.org/en/syri-netherlands-algorithm/
By opening the economy to vaccinated people, the non-vaccinated ones have a large incentive to get vaccinated.
I have hit "instance has execceded rate limit" or some such error message when trying to use Nitter.
Looks like Tesla is getting into the renewable fuel credit market:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-renewable-fuel-credits...

Probably means his tweets are nothing but greenwashing.
But the older members of the household can be vaccinated.
I'm most saddened by the people who spend their time writing plugins for Notion / Roam (and to a lesser degree, Obsidian), providing extra value for free to a non-free product that will profit off the free labor. (or rather, I'm saddened that companies like Roam are so willing to exploit community engagement for a profit)

Time would be better spent contributing to an open source alternative like Athens!
A collapse of humanity won't happen from the earth warming a couple of degrees though.
permafrost methane release
Amazon does targeted comp 2 years in the future. While in theory the company may act to make people whole in a given year. This will practically occur via dive and saves or truly exceptional circumstances such as the stock suddenly dropping 2-4x and new hire grants effectively becoming non-competitive.
The isotope in question is plutonium 244 which isn't known to be produced in appreciable quantities by nuclear weapons testing or nuclear reactors.