skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> their vaccine appointment website

It would have been even better if they did the "your ticket is reserved" with a countdown to give you time to fill the form.
Mostly because the world is different now. Information and science was sparse then. We now have a strong body of evidence that masks help significantly with reducing the spread of at least some types of pathogens. However, I wouldn't shock me if we went back to no masks again. But it wouldn't shock me if they remained around on some level, either. Before 2020, in the US at least, it was bizarre to see someone wearing them. That has changed.
Bitcoin Mining and the Case for More Energy
Danish intelligence allowing the NSA to use one of their facilities? I wouldn't say the US was not involved in this one...
Yeah, I'm never going back and if they want me to go back I will quit too. This is the new normal and productivity has shown that there is zero necessity for people to come to an office. It's all perfectly viable to WFH.

- stress free working if I actually want to get stuff done

- no open office or any obnoxious sounds just me in my room and I can make whatever sounds I want

- don't have to pretend to work hard, just get stufff done and don't be a slacker and I can literally be productive 1/2 days and relax/be async 2/3 days because I can focus very well. No complaints whatsoever from stakeholders or the business.

- not being hyper alert of how I look or what I wear, just my top needs to look presentable when in an meeting with camera on and can wear sweatpants and no shoes or whatever is comfortable without dress code

- can fix the temperature to the exact degree I want it

- no social interactions whatsoever. no "get togethers", Friday drinks with people I don't like, barely any casual conversation just straight to the point business and that's it

- no morning talk or "how was your weekend" NPC tier conversations for the sake of conversing just a daily stand-up (we actually sit) hyper-focused on work and that's it

- eat whenever i want whatever i want no more sandwiches in a box or overpriced canteen food, bake french eggs for lunch or make a soup. Fitness during a break. Take a walk whilst being in a "meeting"

- no commute whatsoever, can practically roll out of bed into my chair if i wanted to

- not ONE colleague seen at the coffee machine or when getting water no SMALL TALK OR STARING of colleagues begging for me to say hi and them to ramble about their kids or whatever uninspiring thing they did in the weekend. I have friends and colleagues. I don't want to socialize with these colleagues, I wouldn't even think about small talking with them in a bar why force it in an office?

And best of all no SJW office politics whatsoever. All of that seem to have disappeared with WFH. Just get stuff done, get paid and that's it. I'm never going back to the or any office.
When will they learn to just not touch what works? I clicked "update" and now I have to chase settings how to get back to the old UI. The new one is just annoying.
Had a video come up as age restricted forcing me to sign into watch. It was a cooking video, they added some form of alcohol to the dish at one point..

I mean, I get it, but it still feels ridiculous.
You can always abuse gdb as a repl with a programmer and a spare static buffer.
Aren't there some credit cards that can create virtual numbers?

Just give them a virtual number and then disable it right after registering. Then have your free trial, and only if you decide to actually subscribe, change it to a credit card number that is active.

Businesses should not be unscrupulously trying to make money off people who forgot about the product during their free trial.
I used to listen to a bunch of podcasts on my commute to and from work, and thought I was a big podcast person. As soon as we went to remote work, I stopped listening because I realized that I only "like" podcasts when there is literally nothing else to do while sitting in my car. I would listen to at least 1 podcast episode a day pre-pandemic to not having listened to a full podcast episode once in the last year.
Five bosses? I'm genuinely curious how this works
>- You cannot leave before a specified time.
>- You cannot arrive after a specified time.

this is what gets me. i already finished my stuff for the day, i want to go home to do something -- nope, can't. you have to stay until you clock in 8h.

need to arrive later? sucks to be you, you have to clock 8h no matter what, so now you are staying at the office until late hours.

WFH means i can just finish work and relax. if anyone needs me, they can ping me on slack, send me an email, or even call me.
The Argument for a Carbon Price
It's interesting that you mention work life balance, when the majority of your points are really in the "life" section.
I haven’t heard of NEET before, so I looked it up.

NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", refers to a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training
I think this is on topic but would something like https://ameliorated.info/index.html be a better idea to get rid of any bloatware and help address any privacy issues?

I haven't personally used it but a friend of recommended it to me.

Anyone else have any experience with AME Windows?
Yep... that was a bit stressful
"I am bad at file management therefore, the paradigm must be wrong. Break the paradigm, turn everything over to priavcy-hating third-party search monetization machines so I don't know have to admit I'm bad at file management."

No thanks.
Completely useless, yes. The tabs are now semi-transparent on Windows, which is annoying and doesn't help anything.

I guess there's an option somewhere to set opacity to 100% but I'm not ready to spend 30 minutes to hunt it down.
Why Isn't 1 a Prime Number?
How to send and receive emails in automation tests
A company outsourced some work to India. They wanted to add a few forms to their application for managing roughly the tuple (name,surname,medicine taken). A few weeks later, the first release came in. It contained everything to manage the tuple (name of medicine taken, surname of medicine taken). I stopped worrying about India about that time.

Don't get me wrong, there are smart people in India. But if you're outsourcing for cheaper labor, you're not getting these smart people.
> Why would they go to software when there's plenty of tried and tested low-tech solutions

To kill more people, whilst taking even lower risks themselves.

They probably wouldn't write the software themselves -- they'd get it from e.g. some supportive dictatorship

(With "them", I'm personally not thinking about the talibans, but other groups)
So you're choosing work productivity/efficiency over hobbies, family and friends and feel work isn't the primary focus in your life?
At what point do we say "Fine, stay inside and live your life as a hermit, but the rest of us are returning to normal."? I feel like these neurotic people have way too much clout and are holding back reopening progress.
It's a really great concept, and the embedded world is crying out for more solutions like this.

However, I'd be very, very hesitant to develop anything significant on this platform. At the very least I'd want to have a. the tooling to run unit tests / simulations of my programs on the PC before deploying and b. a clear migration path for if they went bust.

Their value add is the infrastructure around deployment, so why is their language closed source?

I really like the Balena.io approach - the whole platform is open, so if they do go bust you could run it yourself, but they provide real value in running the infrastructure - so it makes loads of sense to pay them.
Don’t forget uBlock Origin.
TBH I thought this was obvious.

The name "Songbird" was previously used by Mozilla, a large, well-known and fairly wealthy organization which is still around and has a world-famous product. It therefore probably has trademarks on the name. Debian, famously, had to maintain its own forks of Firefox and Thunderbird for many years because the Mozilla terms of use on the names and icons were incompatible with the Debian IP guidelines.

Mozilla itself, as I pointed out, had to change the name of what is now its flagship product _twice_ because other software companies used and owned the names: Phoenix is a brand of PC BIOS, Firebird is a database.

Mozilla _might_ have released the name as the product is dead, but it would be foolhardy to rely on this.

If the new project succeeds and prospers, then Mozilla will notice, and as Mozilla had the name first, the new project will have to change it. This is a pain and can be detrimental to awareness, community etc.

Songbird was a high-profile product at the time. As a user of Netscape and Mozilla products since 1996, I ran it myself for a while. (I decided it was way too bulky for a media player.) Thus I am surprised it has been so forgotten so quickly, as apparently have Mozilla's repeated forced name-changes.
Are you, by chance, using Brave? I've noticed that recently with Brave as well. Didn't seem to happen in Chrome even when viewing the same videos on the same machine.
To be clear, the pentagon for the last 70 years has kept a tight lip on any UFO information, and is only now creating a report after forced compliance.

Even the stuff Harry Reid did a while back was fought against by the pentagon.

Their position seems to be, anything we don't know that is in our airspace is a threat, and none of it is the public's business
What an ignorant thing to post.
They have around 1 billion MAU. So the hundreds of millions over 18 are all paedos?

For my sins I’ve wasted many an hour on Tiktok and it’s usually funny videos, memes and other mindless content so you’ve obviously not even seen it.

Honestly, people should need a license to comment on the internet nowadays.... Jeez.
I recently did a write up [1] of the Lithuanian vaccine certificate after finding a flaw on it.

What impressed me was that the verification was done fully offline in a privacy preserving way

[1] https://tadas.varanauskas.lt/posts/forging-lithuanian-vaccin...
why can't mozilla give me tab groups and improved lockwise?

Lockwise is seriously awful and needs an overhaul.
macOS has a lot of this too. It’s weird Apple seems to get a pass but Microsoft gets attacked. (Ads in start is a huge problem though).
It should be just one service to disable
https://files.grid.in.th/vKeXJQ.png

It looks close, but details and behavior are a bit off. For example:

- Firefox context menu does not respect system's dark mode

- Different horizontal and vertical margins between items

- Different font rendering (e.g. text looks bolder)

- Different right caret icon

For behavior difference, for example: when navigating sub-menu items, macOS uses cursor velocity and cursor direction to determine if user is trying to go to submenu and immediately dismiss it if user is not. Firefox context menu uses a delay to archive similar effect. (To test this: open a sub-menu in a context menu, then move the cursor up. macOS native menu dismiss immediately, where old Firefox has a small delay before it is dismissed.)
I'm guessing elisp...
Show HN: What popular startup sites looked like when they launched
Hi HN,

I’m super excited to share my weekend project here and I really hope you find it inspirational and useful.

I've spent most of Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK (Memorial day weekend for those in the US) going through Wayback machine and Web archive to create a timeline of how popular startup websites have evolved over time since their launch.

As the (now) famous quote from Reid Hoffman goes: "If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you have launched too late."

Hope this helps inspire more founders to just get out their and start building.

I'm going to continue to add more startups weekly to the database. Please feel free to share any suggestions or sites that should be included. P.s You can even submit your own site to be featured :)

This is the first version of the project and I’m aiming to add new features in the coming weeks (maybe an e-book?), and also regularly update the database so any kind of feedback will be greatly appreciated!

Built with no-code using Webflow.

You can check out the site here: https://famousfirstwebsites.com
They're not a horrendous idea. This is forked off of the script that I've been using for years. All of the settings it touches are very clear since each change it makes is configured right up front.

I purposely disable SmartScreen because I don't need information about applications I'm running shipped off to Microsoft. Setting the current network to private is handy after a first-time install since Windows often doesn't prompt and defaults to public.
But on that very same wikipedia page you can see it took less than a year for both intel and AMD to release openCL 2.0 drivers, yet nvidia didn't even start evaluating that for years.

Then again, it sounds like OpenCL 2.0 required some flexibility the nvidia drivers or hardware wasn't able to provide.

It's pretty hard to speculate to which degree nvidia was intentionally sandbagging here, and to which degree it really was stuck.

However, it's a member of khronos, and it's hard to believe they as such a major manufacturer could not have either said beforehand that the spec was a problem or simply complied with it; as both AMD and intel did.

Also, given CUDA's success it's all rather convenient for nVidia - at the very least it looks like they didn't mind leveraging their market position for continued market dominance, even if it's unclear whether that was an intentionally anti-competitive aim from the get go, or simply a fortunate happenstance they didn't try to avoid.

Then again; with antitrust enforcement mostly remaining in vaporware mode it's a little hard to blame them.
It seems to me that the "way people are built" these days is just a lack of discipline. We have grown up soft and effortlessly, and we did not grow the tools to cope with self regulation as it was never necessary. I don't see how "accepting" this behavior does anything to solve it.

Ostracization is a valid social regulation for enforcing certain qualities in a society and it's not always wrong to use it.
Any reasons D never caught on more? No big tech company anchor behind it?
are there any schematics available?
The article begins with saying there are two ways to discuss morality: phenomenological morality, and evolutionary morality, but many (most?) comments here are of the format, “morality is Darwinian” like it’s a panacea for the whole discussion. It’s really the much less important side of the discussion. Just because we evolved doesn’t mean we don’t genuinely prefer certain conscious experiences to others.
It's Happening. Arm Server CPUs Are Coming to the Data Center
That is totally cool with me. As long as I would be able to be fully remote in the same company.

What I need for that is high quality audio and video for meetings.

Do you think that is possible?
Agreed. I can't only imagine what would happen to these people if they had to face any actual adversity, given what had happened to them in the face of staying at home in the most comfortable civilization that had ever existed.

In reality though, I suspect most of them are fine. This is just the result of a subculture that celebrates being a victim. Anything that can signal as suffering and weakness is somehow warped into a desirable trait because it triggers the wildly overstimulated empathy response, and leads to attention.
The same thing can't be said about doing laundry. If they are doing the laundry at home like they said, you are sitting and watching the machine, you are starting it and letting it do its thing.

And besides that, laundry is going to have to be done regardless, so its not like they would be saving time by commuting to work instead. The laundry will still be waiting when they get home.
A blue sign does not an elite maketh.
If you think your current culture gives you a productivity advantage, and the way you’ve cultivated that culture is very in-person, wouldn’t you worry about losing it?

As much as it can be corporate BS, I do think there are companies that have a culture that gives them an edge over the competition.

I worked at one place where the culture was very much about treating everyone as valuable contributors regardless of level, and pretty much every Friday you could chat with the CEO (and most of the VPs) over beers if you felt like it. As a junior it made a huge difference in how much mental energy I put into innovating and helping others succeed. Just as an example, I could see that kind of thing being hard to maintain in a remote context with thousands of employees.
I work for a very political company but have a high, broad-in-scope role. The politics have gone to eleven. I think most employees who think politics has _diminished_ in the last year are just demonstrating how remote can lower your ability to read the room.
I had to google the word 'mollycoddling' and now feel the urge to use this word in conversation. Perhaps popularizing this fun term will help to de-virtue-ize this phenomenon!
> Dictatorship, form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.

No, this isn't what I was describing, and isn't the same thing as a one-party state. There were important limitations on central power that were respected throughout the entire period of PRI rule; notably the restriction that a president couldn't serve for more than one term, which since the Mexican Revolution has never been broken.

"Dictatorship" to "liberal democracy" is a spectrum, and Mexico for most of the 20th century was not at either of the endpoints.
tldr: Simply explained without demonstrations:
Quaternions are hypercomplex numbers of the form

w + xi + yj + zk

Where w, x, y, and z are real and i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = -1 and ij = k, ji = -k, jk = i, kj = -i, ki = j, ik = -j.

Being u = (x, y, z) = xi + yj + zk a unitary vector parallel to a rotation axis, it is possible rotate any vector q with a theta arc around u by doing:

pqp'

where p = cos(theta/2) + sin(theta/2)u and p' = cos(theta/2) - sin(theta/2)u .
The author describes their research agenda below. It sounds like they expect alien civilization to exactly mirror human civilization:

"detecting city lights on the night side of planets that orbit distant stars or the telltale mark of reflected light from planet-wide solar-collecting arrays or the distinctive sign of industrial chemicals in a planet’s atmosphere. All of these “technosignatures,” should we find evidence of them, will be small effects. If we do detect such things, you better believe that my colleagues and I will go to extraordinary lengths to eliminate every possible source of error and every possible alternative explanation. This will take time and careful effort."
You might be thinking of Privacy [0].

[0] https://privacy.com/
What are the most prohibited words and phrases in digital marketing writing?
The 1%, that was the excuse to delete my live bookmarks feature. Which was fine in a way because addons took its place, but that further pushed the 1-3% of users that knew about it to almost certainly doom it to 0.1% over time. No discoverability at all.
Why we chose and why we don’t switch away from TypeScript?
Yup! Pretty much - the AI can steer you in directions that are somewhat new and might get you unstuck. In fact, some people have said told me that the creativity generation is the best part of Wordblot
This article is not an NYTimes writer telling you to go get a mouth guard from a sporting goods shop. It’s about experts in otolaryngology studying the effectiveness of appliances that are colloquially called mouth guards. Otolaryngology is a significant component of sleep medicine, and the primary one of the mechanics of sleep apnea. None of this article is advice to circumvent that expertise.
Are you sure this change doesn't break Invidious as well? How will Invidious access those videos if it needs to sign in to do it?
Thanks for the details and context! Now it makes lot of sense to me.

I wonder if they should decouple solution to payments (to utility etc.,) from the identity.

As for the payments, I believe it's better to expand an existing solution than build one from ground up. iDEAL for example, is a proven solution that's been in use in Netherlands for a while now. And since it's based on IBAN that's understood by all (?) the EU banks I guess it's worth expanding iDEAL to pan EU.
> service that absolutely should not be disabled unless you want your machine to get owned.

SmartScreen sends all your file hashes and unique computer info to Microsoft. If you're not stepping into weird links and running weird executables it's really not doing much for you.
The best quote I've got on UFOs is from Leroy Chiao, a former ISS commander.

"Probably some sort of secret military program" [0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1eWnHHMrck&t=30s
Commute time is one of the biggest factors on your quality of life. Increasing your commute time has been to shown to:

- decrease your number of friends

- increase your likelihood of divorce

- increase your over all mortality

And then with kids the reality is you have this 3-4 hour window when you can see them each day. Not to mention the struggles for shared and single parenting.

The curtain has been pulled back and it's going to be a lot harder to justify the kind of rigidity that existed before the pandemic.
nice work. the coinbase one points to robinhood though but otherwise hope this project grows
This is borderline retro encabulator talk.
Not sure why you are downvoted.

Health officials in US have done a phenomenal job showing how incompetent they were during this crisis. From initial downplay, then the mask fiasco, then trying to covering up the lab leak hypothesis, and of course politicizing the vaccine release timeline, they have blood on their hands. Then to say we need to blindly trust them on what they are saying on safety profile of the vaccine, its completely crazy. And through it all they never said we are sorry.

I will never trust US Health Authorities anymore. Period.
I guarantee you that they are decimated by trauama on the daily and hide behind thin veneers of "just do it".
Agreed, and the resources that a commute consumes (time, wear and tear on a vehicle, fuel, mental reserves either sitting in traffic or dealing with other people on public transportation, etc) are not considered in compensation...

Your most valuable resource, time, which can be neither replenished nor its true quantity known, is being wasted for very little gain.
> From my observations, people with commitments (family, partners, pets .. etc.) prefer to work from home while single people prefer to go to the office.

I also have seen the opposite.

Some folks with family want to work from office, so that kids can play loud without interrupting and when coming home it's clearly family time.

And I living alone like the flexibility. Got a new partner? - I work from their place. Want to visit some friends/family in a different town? I work from there. Want to hang out with some friends? I work from their office.

Very individual choices.
If someone had a celestial database, and a telescope, how accurately could one determine their position on earth using this device? Assuming no GPS satellites are available.