skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a guarantee, but eating good foods and exercising protects most people from dying from COVID-19. Even among the the older cohort, most of the dead have had co-morbid conditions such as obesity. Relatively few patients with normal blood sugar levels and insulin responses have died.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm
If this is the case, then paying the ransom will turn out to be a stupid idea.

If the threat was to release sensitive information, surely the firm would be asking the attackers for details of the sensitive information they claim to have.

If the attackers come back with nothing then it was just a bluff.

However if the attackers come back with real information
then paying the ransom is just stupid, as the attacker still have the sensitive information and can repeat the payment demands ad infinitum.
Not literally, no, as you need an init program that performs certain steps first which bash can't do. But once those few operations are done you can pass execution off to a script.

It looks like your init is running the gamut of typical linux init steps: handling signals, spawning processes, handling TTYs, running typical system start-up commands. Then it gathers host and network metrics, reports results, and operates as some kind of websocket server? All of that other stuff should live in a separate dedicated program that the init script runs. Unless I missed something and that's not possible?
Well, of course; having demonstrated the existence of at least one fire brigade, actually containing a blaze is best left as an exercise for your graduate students.
I just hope white vaccine resistors get what they deserve. We absolutely should not let them be among us without proof of vaccine.

But I am also hoping this convinces all the Black people, Latinx, and people of color, who might have vaccine hesitancy for totally understandable reasons that it is safe.
Thank you for noticing this.

This is a media blitz, and one may wonder why there are prepared, published stories about CDC guidance that hadn't yet even been published.

I'm sure there are many rational reasons for this. One, indeed, is particularly salient.
Assuming a para-terraforming model there might not be a need to cater for a planetary scale removal I suppose.
Apply!

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/y-combinator/jobs/7D3d...
I am not being defensive here. As you know, I am starting to question things too. hence this post. Just to make sure that you know my reasons:

1. Filtering based on interest in animals (and not just dog or cat)

2. I am not sure if I understand this one. What feature of the app are you referring at?

3. Do you mean dating and pet adoption? If so, we are addressing all the needs of a pet owner. We also have a lost/found pet alert. If you are a pet owner, you love your pet, you want your partner to love them and you want to find them if you lose them. You may have questions about your pets, vet recommendations, etc. So, all we are addressing in the app are related to pets and their owners.

4. The app is currently free to download and use. Revenue will be through subscriptions for dating service and ads in any section of the app. We plan to donate 10% of the revenue to shelters and rescues which is a big incentive for animal lovers.
Better to use Saxon-JS, an XSLT3/XPath3 interpreter implemented in JavaScript, running in-browser or on NodeJS.
It's okay to do harmless things for political reasons, and bad to do harmful things for political reasons.

It's ridiculous to try to turn that into a claim of hypocrisy and that everything is just politics.
>centralizes everything
>is still useless
>basically centralizes everything so it can become useless
Just so we're clear, there are no "sponsored results" on Google. There are results, and there are ads. It matters because if you lose the distinction you will lose the ability to remember what "sponsored results" were. On Yahoo! search, all of the results were paid. You paid more for a higher position. This dubious service was provided by Overture, and every search engine except Google was a customer of Overture's technology. The service that Google provides is specifically not paid results placement.
This place is one hell of a trip. Are you for real?
If your glasses fog up from wearing a mask, your mask is ineffective.

Get a better mask that actually seals around your face.
This being a democracy, and this sort of thing going on for well over a decade, it must be "the will of the people".
Procrastination Is More Than “I Don’t Want to Do It”
I hear this statement a lot and don't get it. Of course masks are politicized. Everything in modern day society is political in some way or another, since everything can be interpreted to suit some political ideology or another.
What do they deserve?
I'd be fine with it not matching exactly. I'm willing to pay some amount of opportunity cost in lost comp elsewhere as an investment in the company. I'd just like the ROI on that investment to not be like 5-10x worse than a VC's.
Program have majors business flow, happy paths, that would be rivers of transformations. Then small affluents attach to it as branches appears.

Not so far fetched but I’m not sure you need a new language to support that.
You could press a button and get this view. But I think the idea is to build with always this view on sight ? I have no idea.
For me: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-c...

When this changes or it's been a year I'll consider it.
A track record of fast internal promotions also sends an incredibly strong signal to your future employers though. Much stronger than if you change companies into each promotion.

Then when you advertise success to your next employer and deliver on it when you get there you are going to stand out from your peers with not a lot of effort.

Also "gets promoted quickly" usually makes people completely fail to notice that my resume doesn't have a degree/education attached to it.
"10% chance of releasing the magic smoke" made me laugh out loud.

Off topic-ish, but maybe someone here would know... I have a 2013 macbook pro. It's still great for coding but recently I got into Blender, and now I understand why you might want an external GPU. Is that a possibility for such an old laptop? I couldn't find any definitive information on how to go about buying one, and setting it up.
I literally just saw this on the HN front page:

> Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27150407

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2021/05/13/ads-are-im...

Yet another example.
Cool, maybe we can find the truth about Anthony Wiener now.
How bad he really was and what was covered up to save who.
Continuing to wear a mask yourself is harmless, but trying to make everyone else continue wearing masks is harmful.
Why is it that iOS Safari was the first to support date inputs back in 2007, but desktop Safari, using the same engine, still doesn’t support it some 14 years later?
DuckDuckGo shows me three scams in the ads at the top of the page when I search "employer ID number".
One of the things I use notion for is to centralize my trackings:

- tv, movie and actors from trakt.tv;

- books from gooodreads

- anime and manga from anilist

The reason is that: I can make better notes, I can add extra data/properties, easier to organize in a kanban or other visualizations. But now, if I add more movies on my trakt, I run a script to export to CSV, and then have to import the new rows into Notion. With this, now my exports can add the new rows and update the data.
The likelihood of the virus becoming endemic is very high which pushes the probability much closer to 100% for everyone.
I can't judge your cynicism, but I can say it's quite suspect that media outlets—apparently—behaved as the mouthpiece of the state:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27145446
For some people the goalposts are moving faster than the speed of light.

The goal was to flatten the curve. Remember that? Flatten. The. Curve.

Is the curve not flat? How much flatter do you want it to be before returning to normal life? Do you want literally 0.000% risk?
I hate that there is no easy way to block or report a bad ad on google… don’t like that 30 minute ad in a 5 minutes video? too bad… don’t like that adult content ad on the middle of your daughter video? too bad.. not that you can use a different platform anyway
Ceres is believed to have more water in it then Earth's oceans. Ceres is huge, of course, and we probably can't redirect it.

But deorbiting more amenable bodies into Mars from the numerous comets that impinge on our solar system is achievable. And of course if there's water somewhere, then there's water almost everywhere (which there is - if nothing else there's a huge amount of it in Saturn's rings).

The point is, what you can do terraforming Mars, is quite different to anything you could do to Earth, because you can't just freely cause some cataclysmic events here.

EDIT: The other key point is all this work is largely fire-and-forget once you know how. An automated solar reflector probe can be launched and happily continue causing some body to outgas for years, with no human intervention at all.
I remember peeking around the Gecko codebase when Firefox got popular - and yeah, it was pretty gnarly. I remember seeing related .cpp files in the same directory using different naming conventions, for example.

I’m told Gecko is a lot better now though.
Wow. You just made me realize that I don't (can't?) do that anymore. I used to have the exact same ability though high school. I would remember where on the page I read something or wrote a note, then during English exams I would find a quote by flipping through pages while looking only on the spot of each page I expected the quote to be on.

I can't really picture things in my head as an image, yet I think very spatially. For me it is not an image, but shapes that I can feel. I design 3d models by feeling them in my mind, where I can feel my way around the model to find problems with my design etc.
the difference is that in companies without the formal process, you have to ask for your promotion/raise.

Seems a lot of engineers aren't comfortable with that. I'd just like to say that patio11 is 100% correct about profit vs cost centers. Working at such a company in a profit center let my double my salary after 6 months and again after another 6 months.

That would never happen in a company with a formalized review process.
There are very few people who can't tolerate the RNA-based coronavirus vaccines. For severely immuno-compromised people, the vaccines may not be effective.[1] People who are going to have their immune systems suppressed for a transplant apparently present some problems, but can be vaccinated before the transplant or weeks afterward.

That's a nice feature of the RNA-based vaccines.

[1] https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/coronavirus-disea...
They are not the same, but they are institutions with a lot of similarities (NSA, CDC, NASA, IRS). They largely receive funding the same way, and are answerable to the same people (congress, White House). There is some similarities to how the heads of these organizations are determined and how the heads of these organizations are fired.

In startup speak the organizations have the same VC and share many board members.
> I feel like we've entered a social media era where only the flawless and speaking within socially acceptable Overton window are given a chance.

It has nothing to do with flawless. Nobody is flawless. Even if they were, half the things people are now being condemned for aren't even rooted in fact.

You can't attack someone like Assange for revealing official misconduct. That's against the rules, and unsympathetic. But you can attack him for <something else>. The something else is irrelevant. It's only the proffered reason for the attack, not the real one.
Even TV ads? In my country they're forced to say "consult a doctor if symptoms persist" and they already compress that as much as humanly possible. No mention of side effects at all.
I highly doubt many here take the CDC's word at face value. What appears as consensus is really a tragedy of the commons -- that one person thinks everyone else will consider the CDC's announcements as gospel that they express positivity and optimism, when what they are really celebrating is the re-opening of public life itself, i.e., that restaurants, etc. will open back up and feel "normal" again.
Oh no, so its now a guessing game just like picking the right audio output on a computer?
Benefit of asking nicely instead of demanding. Texas folks are (anecdotally) very resistive to authority.
I wish we could return to a time when people didn't care if you wore a mask or not, and EVERYTHING was not so politicized.
Flu also causes pneumonia, and they're listed together, so they're talking about flu and flu-related pneumonia.

Everything in these numbers is connected to covid. That's the point.

It's not my statement. You don't have to jump through hoops to indict me for linking.
How to work out how many people use your product 6 months after they sign up
I got a thinking. Tesla sold CO2 emission right which is a considerable amount of revenue for them. Then, they traded their car with bitcoin which is a very inefficient use CO2. Thinking about this, I think Tesla should have had to buy CO2 emission right rather selling it based on where that bitcoin was mined or transaction processed.
Absolutely. Google's making ads look like search results [1], but let's bring up an example from the early-to-mid 2000s [2] because that's extra relevant here when today's relevant search engines put ads confusingly at the top of your search results. The ad isn't a "sponsored result" but it's fair to say the results are sponsored (and confusingly so).

1. https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/23/squint-and-youll-click-it/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media_Native
"The Pacific Ocean is a major repository of plutonium released from atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons. Both global fallout from plutonium released to the stratosphere as well as close-in fallout from the troposphere contributed to the present levels of plutonium in seawater and sediment of the Pacific Ocean." [2001: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S156948600...]

Now that is fresh. NPR's article fails to tell us how we can tell 'space' Pu from 'test' Pu. It further confounds the issue by calling it 'freshly Made Plutonium From Outer Space' then stating that fresh means 'arrived on Earth within the last 10 million years'. Bad science article.
The autofocus system is different, though, and it matters for things like sports. The system housed in the optical viewfinder is faster than the one used in the live view sensors (which are comparable R5 and canons DSLRs as you state). The battery difference is also huge and very significant for professionals. A 5d lasts like 900 shots, an R5 lasts 300 shots. A pro will be switching batteries on an R5 a ton and will have to pack more in the bag, even with an extended battery grip, compared to a 5d or a 1d which has this grip essentially built into the body already (hence the size). No matter how far sensor technology marches forward, having to keep the sensor active and a small screen running in the viewfinder is going to use a lot of battery, compared to looking at the light in front of you through a prism, which uses none of course.
When did we rely on that? Before, if I went to any business and told them I wasn't vaccinated, they would reply "Okay? So what? Sorry?". And school asked for documentation of the vaccines they wanted.
That part of the movie, about the moon landing history being purposely witheld from kids, just devastated me.
Diffraction is a property of light, it still happens in vacuum. The air turbulence can cause image degradation, but it requires many meters of it to become noticeable and is a complete non issue within tens of millimeters inside the camera.

The main reason for the improvements in quality - closer (and for some - larger as well) mount allows more freedom for lens designs, leading to previously impossible approaches. Another change - with photographer never seeing a direct image from lens (only a processed one via EVF or back LCD) - the abberations that can be easily corrected in post can remain less corrected by lens design, allowing better correction of other parameters within the same constraints.
Maybe Muldoon just has a policy against returning the calls of a full-time anti-Google mouthpiece that is literally funded by DuckDuckGo. It really bugs me how HN acts so skeptically about most topics but falls hook, line, and sinker for every astroturf campaign that comes along.
I used Resilio fairly unhappily for years and their Mac client would incessantly lock up and they've never fixed it.

Switched to Syncthing something like 2 years ago and it has been solid for me across Mac and Linux so far.

And I do moderately crazy things like using it to sync git repos to create replicas across multiple machines instead of manually using git across 5 machines and a hundred or so repos.

Only complaint is that initial synchronization is really slow.
Early stage startups should be showering employees with high risk equity and paying less cash compensation. This saves the company money and allows them to hire better talent. Having highly skilled engineers/bizops/designers/sales staff who are incentivized to make the company successful is a huge win.
I don't really understand what problem they're trying to solve. Contacts don't really wear out if they are tightened correctly and there was definitely no need for this on the 3-phase side of the driveline.
But you add induction coils like this and you're nearly going to need a medium as big as the motor itself to transfer that energy over an air gap.

It's also dumb to say 'no wear, we removed the last interface!!'. The motor is full of bearings. It actually seems to have twice as many bearings as a normal motor. So yes, you will need to replace all those bearings and it will be a right pain compared to just tightening a bolt for each of the phases.
You mean before the pandemic? I don't know how to make sense of this comment.

The reason for the pandemic is poor institutional response for ultimately political reasons. I'm not sure de-politicizing a situation where an entire civilization has endured collective trauma is going to be easy. Don't the Stoics propose to work within your means and not to wish impossible things?
Why doesn’t some industrious individual purchase an entire town roughly 50miles from midtown Manhattan, owning say a 5 mile radius, and install a high speed rail (150MPH straight into Grand Central - no stops) 20min from Grand Central to the terminus, and then 10min from there to anywhere in the 5 mile radius. Now you can offer housing with a 30min commute to midtown. Only portions of Manhattan can offer that level of commuting convenience. Do the numbers not work out? Is this something that would only work in China, where the right of way, and land at the terminus could be acquired all at the same time without individual property owners trying to extract maximum value? Does a completely underground hyperloop resolve this land/right of way problem, reducing the entrepreneur to only having to acquire land at the terminus?
I looked into getting an eGPU for a Macbook in 2013. Thunderbolt 2 has the bandwidth to make it possible, but it's not ideal and will cost performance.

More critically, at least in 2013, the docks you needed cost thousands of dollars—and made more sense to just get a separate desktop PC. I don't know if the situation has changed since then—there are more eGPUs out there but it's all for Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 2 is more niche and thus may be more expensive.
I'm curious where in Arizona. Cities have been hit hardest because of population density and interactions, so it's somewhat more reasonable for cities to be more concerned.

> the waiter asked me if we could put back our mask so she could hand us our plate

I get the feeling behind this, but it's also silly. Either you're outdoors and the risk is already pretty low, or you're indoors, and 30s of exposure won't be a big deal, especially when it's not like everyone is wearing N95 respirators and aerosols are a bigger concern than we used to think.
When I first started with my current company, old IE support was driven by our customer’s IT departments not having other browsers installed.

We’re now sort of unofficially NOT supporting IE 11 in so much as new features don’t get tested until someone complains.

What’s been interesting is that all of our government employees’ IT do have Chrome, Edge Chromium, and sometimes even FF installed, but the individual users are still trying to use IE11, and often will not accept “you must use one of the other browsers that you have available” as an option.

We’ve even gotten support tickets from customers about “broken features” which then acknowledged in their email that “they tried in Chrome and it worked”. One incident even acknowledged they had to use Chrome for other internal apps, but preferred to use ours in IE.

We SHOULD be pulling our support fully for it, because literally every customer has their choice of browser installed.

But users are so used to their IE they refuse to use anything else, and my boss seems to be happy accommodating that.
As the Atlantic noted recently [0] there are many who see masks and safety measures due to COVID as part of their political identity. Likes guns to some, the masks, more critically the forcing of others to wear masks and abide by certain precautions, has become a weapon in politics. My distrust of the masks, and friction at being forced to wear one, really comes from that distrust of those who are forcing me; they are forcing me for politics, not for health and safety.
I know there's a small section of people who will defend big tech under any and all circumstances but really?

"I'm unsure if the competition have solved this problem that I tried and verified they don't have." Just seems like a pretty terrible defense of a big tech company that definitely hasn't solved that problem that they absolutely do have and know it will defraud people.

Remember the old days when google had their ads clearly and obviously marked, off to the side of your search results so as to minimize the potential for confusing ads with results? Yeah they decided there was more money in shaking down people to claim top spot when people specifically search for them. You search for coke, the top result is pepsi if they pay google. Pay google so people get what they search for. Make it more likely to click on the paid ad than the search result for the exact same thing. People getting ripped off is collateral damage, not worth sacrificing shakedown proceeds to avoid actively helping fraud. It stinks to high heaven and Google employees know this.

"We haven't fixed their grift. That fixing it might impact ours is totally unrelated." --Google
The CDC is not law enforcement. The talent it attracts, its mission statement, its mode of operation are all different. The statements of fact they release pertain to public health with no human adversarial motives. The research they use to substantiate their claims can be peer reviewed, duplicated and critiqued.
This presumes that early employees are getting a fair shake. In many cases they are being sold a lottery ticket with a value of only a few thousand dollars even when the company sells/IPOs.
Why do you want your software on-prem and be responsible for deployment and monitoring,”?
Non mining nodes are programmed to follow the longest chain. That's so they are: readers. They are not writers. They act like slave nodes in a database. They have insignificant power in the grand scheme of things.
Why would you need to do it on a planetary scale?

Just the soil colonists will be using is all you need.
This is 100% normal. Press is informed under embargo to assure information goes out quickly and widely once the information is ready/ public. Nothing nefarious about it.