skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "nobody visibly cared, then some people cared more loudly, then everyone cared" pattern exists in essentially everything.

Climate change, opioid addiction, police murders, genocide in China, microplastics, childhood obesity, #metoo, whatever other thing.

That's just how society works. There are a billion different things happening every day, at any given moment some are gaining attention and some are losing attention. Everybody will care about the most popular one for a while, some laws might get passed or someone might go to jail or get elected or give a speech, and then it'll fade from the mainstream news and daily conversation will move on to the next issue.

This isn't some coordinated conspiracy, this is the pattern of how literally every issue ebbs and flows in attention.
That's likely no longer true. The updated guidance for Pfizer (which originally had colder storage requirements than Moderna) is:

"undiluted, thawed Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine vials to be stored in the refrigerator at 2°C to 8°C (35°F to 46°F) for up to 1 month. Previously, thawed, undiluted vaccine vials could be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days."

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-brie...
Then I have a easy solution, split China in ten countries.

Of course, per capita is not the only criteria to be considered but, those who emit the most per capita and profited the most from fossil fuels should be an example to the world.
They virus "survives" much shorter time in a vaccinated body hence less chance of tranmission to a new host.

That time is however not zero.

Furthermore, you can carry the virus outside your body.
London and Switzerland seeking to dodge G7 global minimum tax
It's entirely self-consistent to believe that the FDA shouldn't be a gatekeeper over what people can try, and also belive that as long as they maintain that gatekeeper role and don't just approve everything non-toxic then it's harmful for them to approve one specific drug that has no effect. If they purport to be a trusted signal of what works and what doesn't, then their approval is an endorsement, and in this case that endorsement is passing off noise as signal.
I saw a press release from the Singapore health authority that they have extended the time allowed for these vaccines to be stored in regular refrigeration. It doesn't sound unlikely that this time would be extended further until the requirement for ultra low temperatures is no longer needed?

https://www.hsa.gov.sg/announcements/press-release/pfizervac...
I would like to see the dataset the NYT article is using because if they're comparing a HOUSE versus say an apartment that's an apples to oranges comparison. If they did a head to head with renting a house versus buying a house then this would be more fair.
It's institutional decay. Pumping money into a decaying institution doesn't fix it. Other actions are needed.
I don't think there is a justification for the idea that 90s "C++" was going to be substantially different from C. You can call the C files C++ and be pretty much correct. Speculatively ... the OSS community would have converged on the C part of C++. That is the well understood part.
CSS Grid Generator, supporting implicit grid and auto placed areas
> We aren't even at the half way point of the year and this is already the end of the years session?

We have a part-time legislature. The other half of the year lets our politicians earn a living outside politics (as well as politick--it's an election year.)

Our Governor is powerful. If an emergency arises, I believe the Assembly and Senate can be called back into session. But that's rarely required.
Unlikely, but not impossible. That is how I would describe my thinking when not on medication. Worrying about if I ran over someone without realizing it is an exact worry I have had.
You are quite obviously purposely misleading people, no one is obliged to be so credulous.
Wasn’t perfect, but “enough” of a success.

Notice you cherry picking only the negative quotes…

I’d be shocked, and annoyed, if those fees continue in the future as the infra scales up
Do you feel the same about access to HCQ and Ivermectin?
This is great. Work-from-home is a huge cost of living increase that workers need to be compensated for.

Also, The US tax code needs to bring back the home office deduction for W2 Employees.
I think it’s tough to assign value like this. People argued that the internet had no real value for basically all of the late 90s.
It seems a lot of the marketing for PC cases and hardware is targeted at young teenage boys 10-16. I wanted to buy a computer case for my mom, and I couldn't find an affordable one without a window on the side.

IMO it can look nice if it's done subtly. I definitely don't want fast animated LEDs on my computer, I think that would just make it harder to concentrate.
The misallocation of resources into crypto mining also now has real-world implications. GPUs and other chips being unavailable, for example.
Everything I have read from manufacturers who bring their manufacturing back to the US and automate it say that Chinese manufacturing issues has to do with competence and training, and that you have to constantly watch for quality issues.
The same company that thinks bitcoin needs to be kept to a few kilobytes per second is going to give El Salvidor internet? Let's not get carried away with the promises and propaganda, anyone can sell the future. These are the same people that thought it was better to make a fragile and complicated second layer over the course of the last seven years rather than increase the block size to more than 1 MB every 10 minutes. I don't know why anyone would pay attention to them other than not realizing they've been sucked in to a /r/bitcoin bubble where anything reasonable comment is deleted.
> I am always amused by the limited world view

Its funny that you say that and then present a 1 dimensional view of the world.

Haven't really addressed my point just running around the issues trying desperately to shift the goalpost. Address my actual point or don't waste my time.
If real, this guy has contracting jobs. He's probably not an employee in any of those companies.
We were asked at my company to indicate our wfh preferences for the future so we can plan real estate (we re a big intl bank).

As soon as the result in each team came out, managers were talking abt who s engaged (0 wfh) vs who's not (4-5 days wfh).

I dont care, I put 0 to increase my popularity upstairs as it cost me nothing at all, but you cant help to wonder if companies are sincere in asking people to choose. Just dont ask if you dont want it to happen.
I wrote a (much less fancy) cellular automata program I called "evol" [0]. It simulates organisms on a flat grid. They have opcodes which are randomly permutated from time to time. If they can collect enough energy, they split; if they lose too much, they die. Having more opcodes costs more energy. There is no hinting or designing; everything starts with a simple "MOVE_RANDOM".

If you leave the program running long enough, they do actually evolve different behavior. Specifically, they will learn to recognize that there are other lifeforms in a direction and then move the opposite direction, reducing competition over the fixed amount of energy in a cell. You can actually see the population density rise when this happens. Since the grid wraps, you will generally get them "flowing" in one direction, cooperatively.

The world is simple and boring and it doesn't have graphics. Also, since the naive "Dna"/opcodes I chose use branching and random number generation, it's very slow and can't be simulated on a GPU.

Fun project nevertheless. The last few months, I've been slowly rewriting it in Rust and adding more stuff like terrain height. Haven't published the Rust version yet as it's incomplete—got hung up on the poor state of its terminal libraries.

[0] https://github.com/ehbar/evol
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But, but, but... that requires actual work
My work want to force me to update my PERSONAL phone because apple do not support very old Iphone anymore. ( they gave me another phone for work stuff, 2FA and what not... )

this old phone works really well still. I do not conduct any work related activities on it. But they see it as a attack vector I guess?
I'd expect a certain amount of posturing from both employees and employers regarding this.

I.e., it's a point of contention, and there's an incentive to bluff. Each side wants to make the other side fear the consequences of demanding more than the labor market will bear.
“WOP” and “Wapp” are as different from each other as as “can’t” and “cunt”.
ok then, nobody was using auto_ptr in the 90s.
Matterport does this and uses it for real estate listings all the time.

https://matterport.com/gallery/bclm-tollhouse

The "dollhouse" view is really handy for being able to get a sense of the space.
When normal money has failed good luck finding a wall charger to get into your Bitcoin wallet. Or more precisely the thing that makes electricity and computer hardware cheap and which is a prerequisite for crypto is a functional economic system. It is unlikely that a functional economic system will stay a whilst there is at the same time a collapse in fiat and a subsequent rise in crypto. It feels like wishful thinking.
Because where I live the weather is awful for half the year and a car is the only reasonable way to get around.
Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right
Physiology and Artificial Intelligence
This is an open project that anyone can join. We are practically testing the Theory of Emotionally Conditioned Consciousness (TEСC) to see if it is suitable as a basis for a strong AI

For more information, go to the website and take a look at http://open-mind.top/
this is pretty much the same thing as saying that "guns kills people" is nonsensical because there are many non equivalent ways a gun could be involved in killing someone
I would buy an oculus quest 2 today if they removed the Facebook account requirement.
I don't know but it could be something as simple as a reserved memory space that you write to.

They have a ROM that can be read to retrieve the the JEDEC and XMP Profiles, so perhaps there's some I/O there?
Perhaps, but how is this different from any other soft-skill? A manager with poor reading comprehension who can't do their job unless they require every single person they manage to be physically available seems to be just as ill-suited for their job as an engineer who is incapable of working on a team, or data scientist unable to present their results in a comprehensible way to stake-holders.

Seems to me that remote-work has been a bit of a reckoning for managers, in the sense that our societal work environments have been tailored in a way that unnecessarily hampers employee well-being and productivity, all to cover up the fact that many managers are lacking in some soft-skills that are critical to actual management.
Shouldn't renting always be cheaper on principle? Why pay to rent when you could pay an equivalent mortgage?

And if you can't afford your own home, logically you could only afford renting if it was cheaper.

I don't really understand housing economics, but this seems like it makes sense.
I think there's a market for remote ops engineers for bootstrapped or single-founder companies. At conferences I keep hearing that such small companies strive, or at least are profitable, but their biggest business risk is a system going down and only one person knowing the ins and outs. At least for those where the founder is also the developer. They don't want to hire somebody full- or even part time either. I had a contract with one such developer to act as ops backup. My "work", and I put that in quotes because most was getting paid for experience, was to make sure I understand their systems, have logins on all, added to their monitoring alert system. Monthly fixed fee. Every couple of months I had to restart a server (everything was redundant already), discuss new systems (but not build them), review new documentation. I could imagine specializing in that with 5-10 clients can be an overall relaxing job.
Lumbar fusion (S1, L5, L4) to treat collapsing vertebrae.

Facetectomy, etc. to treat cervical bone spurs.
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Fiat currency of course never being used in those.

Cryptocurrencies are an object of value due to scarcity alone. In that sense, it is no different from various rare materials.

The difference with fiat is that governments mandate that it be legal tender, that al who do business must accept it but I am left to wonder, what if I were to open a store and accept bitcoins and euros, as I must operating in an area where euros are legal tender, — what if I simply make the price in euros so much higher than that in bitcoins that no one would ever pay in euros over bitcoins.

Is this legal? can the government tell me how to set my own prices for different currencies?
And what is the average salary of a developer in Berlin? Because I happen to know it's about that range. And it does pay the rent, and there isn't much better option. So, dude, this apparently are very good salaries for Berlin.
> Fiat is backed by weapons.

This is one of the most hilarious misunderstandings of how monetization works. Is someone from the army going to come shoot me if I charge too many USD for a hamburger?
statistically speaking drunk drivers (as a total) cause less incidents of sober drivers (as a total)
I would rather die than be more dependent on technocrats than medieval peasants were on their lords. Quantity != quality.
> you just can't

Sorry, that's not an argument.
That’s changing; we have strong anti-government groups on both the right and left. People identify with the mythology of America, but not the state.

We were literally 5 minutes from a guillotine event just 6 months ago. Those people didn’t go away and they only radicalized a lot of the left to oppose them (gun sales have been persistently high and all indications are that the strong majority of purchasers over the last year have been on the left).

The real danger is the far-right and far-left have a whole lot in common around economic conditions and the labor market. They just disagree about the cause. So the culture war is stoked to make sure they never find common ground.
Does CPB actually has anything to say here?

No. They deliver forecasts and analysis for government policy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureau_for_Economic_Policy_Ana...
There's some... apps on this server
Amazon could become a good place to start as a junior moving on to a proper remote work at Google/Microsoft/Facebook/etc.
What's wrong with the payment process in your country? Where I am it's as easy as paying any invoice I get from a credit card company or I can by with debit card.

Also in my country, in Europe, Klarna is mentioned more and more in news articles about consumer debt and predatory lending, so I think their market share among people who keep credit card balances is increasing. They have stopped or kept pending unusually large purchases by me pending a credit check, but they could probably do a lot more to not get a reputation as lumped together with the most predatory consumer loan banks.
I admittedly find this attitude perplexing.

My pulse is far less private to me than my email or messages. Same with my medical history. I get that there would be situations where someone might want to hide certain conditions or histories, but for the average person, wouldn't having one's medical data leaked be a lot less harmful than having one's messages leaked?
Case/component lighting has been a thing for at least 20 years. 20 years ago it was cold cathode tubes lighting your case. For about the past 10 years RGB lighting has pretty hard to avoid if you wanted to build your own PC.
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> You don't solve inefficiency problems by gutting the budget

You don't solve them by throwing more money at the fire either. The budget has consistently risen YoY pretty much as long as I've been alive.

> money is being spent to its maximal potential

Historically countries that prioritize military (ex. North Korea) over education and other domestic programs do not succeed against countries with more balanced budgets. We will have to compete with brain drain if academics and entrepreneurs realize they can live better lives elsewhere. We have to be able to offer a country worth defending in order to convince people with good ideas that they should be defending us.

> then there's more capital that can be raised.

By raising taxes? Who would willingly want to pay more taxes to a government that isn't competent enough to safely defend its own land with the largest military in known history?

> Who are you that I or anyone here should care what you personally believe

An American citizen who can vote which qualifies me just as much as the next guy.

> hardly even old enough to drink.

Old enough to serve, old enough to pay taxes, and old enough to be drafted, which qualifies me to have a say even more. Unless you want to argue that I should be able to choose whether my tax money goes to inefficient institutions, in which case I would certainly agree in having that choice.

But I think you would agree that everyone should get a say in where their money is spent.

> general ethos driving China's debt-driven expansion

If China was serious about challenging the US any time soon it would be making serious strides to decouple its economy from the Western world, which so far has not happened and doesn't appear to be on the horizon. In fact I would argue the US's trade war is the closest we've come to forcing a division, but it appears that things are just going to go back to normal now, and China is willing to continue having the US as its largest customer.

China is obviously undergoing large scale economic growth and citizens everywhere are climbing up the poverty ladder, but that's not a sign of war nor should it be a pretense for one. Get back to me when Chinese aircraft carriers (when they build more, anyways) are sitting off the coast of NYC. Until then, this is just strongman bluffing. Every country in that region has a history of human rights abuses. Why is China the only one that we think will force us to conform to their ideals?
The state of RGB is such a nightmare, and I am very glad OpenRGB exists.

If I wanted to control all LEDs on my relatively new "Gaming" PC (Windows 10), I'd normally need software from Gigabyte for the GPU (which straight up doesn't work [0]), Ducky for the keyboard, a no-name Corsair knockoff software where the name escapes me for the mouse, actual Corsair software for the fans, and NZXT for the AIO.

All of them are not only proprietary, they also use a ton of resources and often times cannot be run in parallel, presumably because they try to talk to the same devices (but never all of them!) - analog to an I2C device that only allows one process to access it at a time. Difference being, there is nothing stopping me from trying - everything will just freeze.

It's fascinating - for something as simple as a bunch of LEDs, these companies must have spent millions of developer hours to produce such heaping piles of garbage - and OpenRGB proves all of them wrong.

[0] If anyone knows of a way to control at least the LED backlight on a Gigabyte Auorus XTREME 3080 (ideally the little LCD as well) - please let me know - OpenRGB can't do it. The Gigabyte software is so unbelievably broken that it doesn't even recognize the GPU, and I feel like I've tried every workaround under the sun. I am unfortunately not very well versed in the Windows world.
People flagged down your BS, you're such a victim too. But I did you a favor and vouched for your comment.

These were two completely separate situations. The fun part in the "slurish meme" ban is that it was some ancient comment, that I believe was made before they even implemented their hate speech policy. Someone was just going through my history to look for comments I could get banned for when I was voicing my opinions on local, mundane politics that were completely irrelevant to anyone except people who live in my area.

That's not what happened. Someone said "I think X because Y" and I said "Z is also Y, and yet Z is a bad thing". That is not comparing X to Z.
That’s not how drug development works at all as there are too many variables to just compare mass of the doses.

How much of each nano particle makes it into the cell?

How much actually get transcribed?

How much get excreted outside the cell?

How responsive is the immune system to each modified spike protein segment?

It’s like comparing lines of code - “oh this routine is 800 lines and the other is 500, so the 800 line one is more complex”.
Various valued materials that are valued only for their rarity are similarly unbacked, and also mined.
Based on LinkedIn searches, Qualcomm disbanded their general-purpose silicon IP division in Raleigh/Durham before the pandemic. So the question is, have they acquihired a team elsewhere to replace them, perhaps with more RISC-V knowledge? If not, you can infer they probably aren't seriously competing in this space.
>The idea that every able bodied person has to work is not supposed to be the way our society functions; at least not in the last 100,000 years.

What? I was under the impression that particularly in agrarian societies, everyone who was able to work, worked. Are you saying that surpluses allowed for a large class of people to just not work at all?
Trading floor is an entirely different environment from the majority of other open office concepts and related jobs out there.

It’s more akin to an SOC or other Ops centers, where the open floor and resulting info flow is crucial to the perma on-call nature of those work patterns.
IIRC they errored on the side of “let’s put in extra mRNA so if some degrades before administration there will still be enough left.”

It might be to blame for more intensely reported side effects.
This is a salary in Berlin for an inexperienced bootcamp graduate. For new arrivals the rents in the city have reached at least 1-1.5k EUR per month long time ago.
Currency collapses happen all the time without bringing down the electrical grid/internet.
This is exactly what I don’t understand about the doomsday crowd. How exactly do they plan on using crypto amidst worldwide pandemonium?
If you haven't seen any data of reduced transmission it is because you are intentionally avoiding it.

Look ay the case numbers in the nations that are vaccinating at a high rate, if you don't know how to draw appropriate conclusions from that data then obviously you are not interested in forming an honest opinion.

The evidence is just sitting out there, everywhere, you don't even need a proper study.. although there are also many of those!
It's all about how you use it. With a generic driver like OpenRGB, it might be easier to make the RGB blinkenlights on your hardware respond to stuff you might want to monitor in the background but not distract too much from whatever is being displayed on your screen. System load, temperatures, notifications (e.g. incoming mail), whatever you think is best.
No, but someone from the police will show up if you don't pay your taxes in USD.
TL;DR: the author is super committed to wearing a timepiece.
Yes, technically if you have free traffic between your storage blocks and your Plex instance then the excess scanning won’t affect you, but I’m using B2.
> I wanted to buy a computer case for my mom, and I couldn't find an affordable one without a window on the side.

I had the same problem when I went to upgrade my server chassis. Fortunately the side panels on the chassis I settled for were interchangeable so I could swap the glass around to the rear facing side and hide it.