skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They never had any trust to violate, only a strange (and completely incorrect) sense that they knew more than the engineers who built the OS in the first place.

So regardless of the metrics that support such practice, and casting aside the thousands of people that have routinely seen benefit from the practice, Windows can't be optimized further by the end-user?

As someone who has never encountered a well optimized Microsoft product, and as someone who has routinely had to modify their off-the-shell installs, color me suspicious.

(Agreed, the shady practices and over-zealous disabling of services should stop; but come on -- the end user occasionally understands what they need to do better than the engineer that sold them a generic tool to facilitate generic computer-enabled work.)
People have the cause and effect backwards in my opinion. You know why "binge drinking" isn't a problem in Germany, except for when the Australians turn up for Oktoberfest? It's because you can just buy a beer on the side of the road with your currywurst, and drink it without being hassled. If you act up, you get arrested for acting up. Try openly having a few beers in the park in Australia or the US, you'll be run out by the constabulary, or at the least they'll make you empty it in the trash. When you treat people like naughty children and bake into your culture the idea that drinking is itself an anti-social behaviour that always leads to fighting and dickheaddery, then that's how they act.
The BBC is a state broadcaster, not just a news agency. It has social goals.
It takes a vote by the community (the ones I live in) to enact new rules.

If I had that many terrible neighbors I'd want to move regardless
> What’s awful about VSCode? Genuinely curious.

- palpably slow on a recent 16-inch high-specced MBP

- does a lot of extra distracting stuff that can’t be easily turned off (I know I opened a .java file, I don’t need you to open an extra tab that takes focus to tell me I don’t have a Java extension installed. I especially don’t need you to try and launch several Java-related daemons that you know I don’t have and then also put up some notifications about failure to find them)
Is the flu much of a problem this year? I thought the flu infection rate was way down due to social distancing and lockdowns. The comparison you are suggesting might not be an accurate one.
There are a couple folks that forked scantailor. I'm not sure the status of those. Here are a couple:
https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
https://github.com/trufanov-nok/scantailor-universal
Do you have any justification for that claim?

Seems to me that Apple has invested a lot in this line of processors over many years and have been in the position to use their own processors in their macs when Intel faltered. That's an enormous win for them. Where's the part where give away anything to their competitors in order to get faster processors?
That's all well and good, but Seychelles is the most vaccinated country on earth, got the Chinese vaccine, and had another COVID surge, leading to a Chinese authority advising them to give everyone a THIRD DOSE of the vaccine.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56992121
They're adjusting gasoline prices by a gasoline-specific index as their "inflation estimate". Basically dividing one average gasoline price by a slightly different average gasoline price.

Unsurprisingly this results in a flat line.
Yes, as did the person I responded to.
This looks like it has a shot at being a better developer experience than Relay while still encouraging the use of nested queries (unlike clients like Apollo and urql). Nice.
Not unlike real acorns.
Xiaomi’s 200 W phone charger goes from 0-100% in 8 minutes
Many have gone California sober [0] - moving away from alcohol to cannabis and psychedlics as a way to be more healthy and sustainable

[0] https://www.addictionresource.net/blog/california-sober/
I’m a security engineer.

To get over the hump, there’s a large amount of cost center and infra spending, and then basically exclusive focus on tech debt-like activities for a few quarters to get everything in place. If the cost was manageable, imagine being on the receiving end of the attitudes you, or hopefully not you but some of your coworkers put towards helping implement these changes as the infra fixes cross so many departments.

That’s snark aside, just a candid take.

If it was fixable like that, the other issue is IOT doesn’t really have a standard platform to build on that’s secure. The equip leaves a factory in Shenzhen and like who is patch managing that? The producer in China? That activity goes on behind the scenes at company by a security team.

Good news is MSFT and AWS are starting to deploy COTS IoT operating systems to help fix.

So: crazy tech debt to fix, hard patch/support problems, and then (unmentioned) is ICS pay for security engineers is a About half of market, so talent problems abound.
linny: slaughter everyone who's paid for genocide here and refuses to stop
> Skype isn't using your bandwidth for other people's calls.

Skype used your bandwith for other people's calls for years and years. Look up the old settings on blocking your device from becoming a "supernode". Back in the day as university IT people, we had to set a registry key on all of our windows machines, or they would become the relay server for dozens of international Skype calls.

That feature is no longer part of Skype, but it very much was a thing.
scantailor will get you most of the way there. the original project is dead but there are a few forks on github. It has been a while since I did any serious scanning so I can't remember which version I used.
https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
https://github.com/trufanov-nok/scantailor-universal
Not parent, but I think it's pretty clear (at least) mRNA vaccines have not had "[testing] similar to other medications of a similar type," because they are quite novel and the first of their kind that has been approved for widespread use. (Aka they had testing, but not as strong historical real-world testing as others)

As for the other available vaccines, I'm not as familiar, but they seem more tested (although less efficient afaik). Although they also have their risks, especially for younger people, which one may want to factor in their risk/cost analysis.
I tried that a few years ago, but within months they overrode my update preferences and policies.json file to force push an update that broke functionality I use. That and some other really annoying decisions are why I never recommend Firefox to anyone any more. I grudgingly use it as the current least worst option but would love to bail if there were options.
Next up: inflation-adjusted price of gold, adjusted against a gold price index.
Both of those linked projects had large US defense companies involved (Raytheon and Boeing) in development and manufacturing.
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These implementations of difference and slerp aren't accounting for geometric double-cover. You want to do a dot-product check first to make sure you're in the same "hemisphere"
I feel hung over whether I drink one beer or six, it doesn't really change. I don't even feel any 'buzz' if I drink one beer, mixed drink or glass of wine, but will just feel bad for the next 12-hours.
unless you really want to do it for fun, they have almost certainly been scanned and put online by someone else. Archive.org has several https://archive.org/search.php?query=national%20geographic
> you should not expect people to behave badly

I've never been disappointed expecting people to behave quite badly.
no, the nazis have an addiction to genocide. y'all gonna learn to stop real quick real soon on way or the other, your choice
I just wanted to clarify: Are these positions remote or remote for now?

Thank you
One of these "attacks" pops up every three days and I get that if data is exfiltrated then the problem is not the same.

Even exfiltration seems less dire in these recent cases than it would in other industries. If anything, beef carcasses seem less likely to require HIPAA or PCI compliance than gasoline deliveries...
>> Who wants an automotive monoculture?

> Clearly, the market.

If all you can buy is golf pants but you want tough jeans, would you go bottomless or buy the golf pants?

Cars I would buy instantly:

* a car with an electric engine that goes no faster than 80mph while retaining dynamics and that does not come with a million gadgets (as in "electric engine, all else analog"). Please, also in a variant with enough space to fit me, my wife, the kid and the dog. Still, no mandatory audio-visual indoor entertainment for the dog, please.

* a car optimized for DIY repairs (I live in southern Morocco, getting an OBD2-scan at my authorized Nissan dealer was $30 - or 300 small bread or 75kg of flour or 3 days of work for a cop who just started work. A friend's Porsche Cayenne needs to be towed 12h northwards just for the inspection by an authorized dealer).

I don't see them on the market.
First it's gasoline (transport being the biggest cause of greenhouse gases in the US), now it's beef.

If this were a movie, I'd suspect climate terrorists.
Why don't we have a branch of the government that is purely cyber defense? I know a bunch of you are going to say NSA, but we all know that they are more occupied with offense and that they don't have great interests to patch things because then they give up weapons that they have.
I was wondering about this earlier, part of me wonders if the opposite is true, that the only way to prevent cyberwar is a nuclear like MAD arrangement.
it's weird how people go from denying conspiracies, to outlandishily admitting they were never wrong
I asked myself - what is so secret about my medical records. Who cares if I have giut or high blood pressure. Now if I had syphilis when I was 23 - that I would like private. I imagine there are things many women would want secret as well, but by and large who cares.
Why not have the NHS ask the patient what details they want hidden. Bearing in mind this is only to be seen by other doctors that the same patient approves of on that same item by item basis.
I suspect that the doctors have fought long and hard to insist on this absolute secrecy because they have a vexted interest = this is where their money comes from and they do not want any sprt of competition from other doctors or even online doctors in India or Canada cutting into their pie.
Hmm, no, I don't think it will.

GPS spoofers start off feeding you exactly the same data as the GPS satellites, then start diverging exactly as if you were slowly turning in a different direction.

Ergo, this will not work at all.
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Entrepreneur-founder with technical skills in modern JS technologies. Although I have worked with core engineers, such as the inventor of JavaScript and browser developers; I never worked as a core engineer but always under marketing. Consider myself a JS protyper, UX-UI developer; but one that have a wider view of what happens with servers, client and HTTP networking.

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* http://www.mgalli.com/

Example of server-rendered graphics:

* http://vanessaoliveirapsi.psc.br/about (the HTML template is rendered by a headless browser in the backend)

Back-end for this project? Yes, Docker, NodeJS. But keep in mind that it is an MVP. Therefore, from the procuct perspective, it lives to test hypothesis and not with the goal of scaling.

Now, regarding technical writing and articles:

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Hydrogen is viable anytime you need (or want) a chemical fuel.
Regulations usually carry a fixed cost, regardless of scale, so the easiest way to reduce their impact on margins is to consolidate. Big businesses are often in favor of regulations because they create moats which small businesses cannot cross.
It seems like calories would add up pretty quick, especially when you throw beer into the mix. Do you have any trouble with weight? Or is that you eat a lot less food to compensate? I suppose to some extent a cocktail in hand on the couch substitutes for snacks.
I'm working on Textita. Phone verify any app or service using a Temporary Phone Number to receive SMS verification code online. https://textita.com
You might enjoy this amazing talk. I've linked to a part when the next 20 seconds of explanation turns the amazing up to 11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er_lLvkklsk&t=1436s
Again, just because it's possible that there's more to cover doesn't make it true.

I don't see how the pace of understanding is important. It presumes that we are somehow getting closer to the "truth", the absolute nature of reality. That is not how science works. It says nothing of "truth"

OK, you can argue semantic all you want, but science is pretty much the closest thing we have to 'truth'.

The acceleration of the last couple hundred years only says that we are getting better at refining the current model to match current testing capabilities, but it doesn't make the model impervious to some bit of information we could discovery that destroys its entire validity.

No. Newton's Law isn't invalidated just because we came up with relativity. It's useful enough that we still use it to calculate orbit and teach students and do a kazillion things with it.

It is incorrect to assume that one day in the future that some new theory will destroy our previous understanding and invalidate everything we know.
and not the only thing the nazis need to adjust, like their fucking genocidal issues
75% seemed to be from immune people (from that nature article that showcased the maths). It's curious to me a 50%(correct me if I'm wrong) efficiency vaccine would work at 75%. I guess they had some natural immunity already?

EDIT: Nevermind, it would work anyway because the vaccines prevent more dangerous effects. So if you vaccinate at-risk people, ofc your deaths would lower
I'm using the Lepton fix. That might work for you:-

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/tree/photon-styl...
Older people drink significantly less than the young. By age 65, more than half Americans are teetotalers.
Even on Mac OS, when you go to "About This Mac" -> "System Report", you only see the iBranding and not the generation (I see "6-Core Intel Core i7" on mine for example).
How bad is Google Photos’ compression anyway?
So keep doing them on weekends or evenings if that works best for you. WFH gives you the option of doing them at other times if that meets your needs better.
You're right, looks like I grabbed that too quickly. They were citing for standard drinks/pours.
People (probably those with controlling interests in sugar cane/beet industry) have been trying unsuccessfully to find/prove any sort of real deleterious effect from aspartame specifically, and lower-calory sweeteners in general for about 50 years now, so I think we can say they're fine.
Thanks. I'll look that up. I used to have a setting tweaked so that the dock size was 1px or something like that. Trying both of these might help.
Back in the EFNet days pretty much everyone just banned .ru, .br, .se, .no, and a few others because it was all takeover attempts all the time.
If the goal of excluding gas from the inflation analysis is to eliminate its volatile pricing, understanding its relationship to inflation should use the same exclusion to calculate inflation, and a moving average could smooth the volatility for a clearer trend line. The methodology used here essentially provides no meaningful information as the chart clearly shows. The only way that visualization is accurate is if the huge spike in average gas prices coincided with a huge spike in general inflation measures (it didn’t) or a huge reduction in gas expenses as a proportion of spending (which didn’t occur).
What are ulterior motives you see here?
> Well, this is a problem that FSF created. They tried to unilaterally appoint RMS to the steering committee and were forced to renege when most of GCC's top contributors threatened to walk away from the project.

Do you have a source for this? The story appears to be the opposite - RMS was on the steering committee list since 2012 and was removed earlier this year by the rest of the steering committee as a reaction to RMS being put back as a FSF board member. https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235091.html
Let's hope to see more studies like this. Here in Hong Kong there is a prevailing public view of the vaccines being too new and created too quickly esp the mRNA ones. Public don't understand that mRNA was decades in the making and is engineered which is why available so quickly. The cultivated traditional vaccines took a little longer due to process. But maybe now people will understand the importance of herd immunity because until that is achieved world wide then this pandemic will stay with us. I worry it will be like tuberculosis and hang around amongst the poor and dense populations, further reducing their chances for good quality of life in places with large populations,high density, and prevailing poverty.
Unfortunately, dates can be deceptively messy. Formatting as 2021-01-02 instead of 2021/01/02 may not seem like a big deal, until you try to parse them back. Then this happens:

const a = new Date("2021/01/02"); // Sat Jan 02 2021 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
const b = new Date("2021-01-02"); // Fri Jan 01 2021 16:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

Date library authors have been bit hard because date parsing is hard, and they thought it would be easier to let the Date constructor do the job... only to find out via bug reports about the nasty obscurities of the date parsing rabbit hole.
Yeah, vaccine denial is a spectrum and not all of the concerns are easily dismissed nonsense, even if the far end of it is.

My experience in talking to vaccine-hesitant people is that the most important thing is honesty, including honesty about what we don't know, what various authorities (e.g. the WHO) got wrong, the actual magnitude of both the risks (e.g. comparing long Covid to VAERS data), the science backing/not backing various regulations (6 ft is a guess based on the inverse square law and honestly kinda suspect, etc.), and discussion over how the risks are not evenly distributed in all populations.

There's plenty of room in there for questioning things and I say that as someone who got fully vaccinated as soon as possible. Lately I've been spending some of my time trying to help various vaccine-hesitant online populations better understand the actual science on the subject and what we do/don't know.

I find that some of the most prominent misconceptions are things like assuming that the vaccinations are 100% effective (Sinovac is what, maybe 60%?) or that mRNA vaccines are "gene therapy" (only in the sense that all viruses are, and at least the vaccine goes away in ~3 days instead of replicating inside you).

Better resources that explain what we do and don't know focused on those points specifically and accessible to a lay audience would probably help the most people, preferably linking to scientific papers and primary sources to let the more scientifically minded dig in.

After all, many people are not going to believe you if you tell them the vaccines are 100% safe. But they might believe you if you're honest that there are 1 in a million risks that are better on average than taking the same risk with a Covid infection and that the damn virus is likely to exist at least within outbreaks if not in community spread for several more years and talk about how the profile for long Covid vs. long-term vaccine side-effects is similar, but you get a smaller exposure from the vaccine because it breaks down and goes away. And if somehow it doesn't, someone posted the sequences on Github so it could be tested for specifically if that ever became necessary.
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I'd put money (a few thousand USD) up against anyone who can fool me that I'm playing on my rig when I'm not. It's a very simple rig. Because that'd be valuable if I ever lost and I'd collect up until I did.
Yeah, branding themselves as the "Hadoop company" made it difficult to get on board with Spark, etc. If they had branded themselves as the "big data company," it would have been far easier to move with the market.

There is probably a business-school case study there for branding yourself with the problem area rather than a single solution, esp. in fast-moving domains such as tech.