skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Does that mean it's ok for everyone to assume they have this kind of immunity and not practice safe sex? Crazy.

It is a personal responsibility of the participants. When people have natural (no rubber) sex it is none of anybody else's business to control how they do it, except if there is intentional spreading of disease. You have to prove bad intent to harm or spread disease, then you are right that intervention is justified. Without that, forcing condoms on everybody having sex is an autocratic policy that should have no place in civil democratic society. You can politely suggest getting tested and using condoms though.

> Except that the people who don't get vaccinated overlap with the people who refuse all of the other mitigations -- many antivax people are also anti-mask, anti-social distancing, anti-lockdown, etc.

That may be. Reasonableness of these positions depends highly on actual local health situation. These people are not always wrong as you seem to imply.

> bizarre process: 1) "natural immunity" vs "vaccine immunity"

It's simple: natural immunity is something you get without powerful interests being in control; vaccine is subjecting your health into hands of some other party. Some people do not want to their health to be controlled by powerful interests/institutions in general, some just in case of vaccines. It's perfectly valid and respectable personal stance. It does not matter whether it's scientific, almost no society is run by science, scientists or scientific consensus. We use rather political process and respect individual freedoms even if those are unscientific (religion, refusing transfusion, refusing vaccines, etc.)
I had a pretty rough time between the years 2004 and 2016. I dropped out of college for a career track I dreamt about since childhood and I didn't know what to do with my life. I had no job experience and the recession hit also.

If you live in a small country, where everyone is related on average 2.5 degrees away to a random person, it's pretty hard to get a job if you don't have any family connections. After several years I managed to get a warehouse and courier job through a crazy family connection with some boss of a firm. I enrolled in college again in 2010 and then went to work abroad to gain some credibility in my field. The job abroad was paid well, but soul-crushing, so a few months ago I found a job in my field at home for half the salary.

I never played any videogames.
I don't disagree much overall but in my experience cheap or sale drives can beat 15 per TB.
Interesting. This contradicts the prevailing HN sentiment that WFH increases productivity because there's less time spent socializing or dealing with distractions.
Same with me.

This program allows me to turn the LEDs off, so if you like me have lots of shiny LEDs you wish never were there, this is probably exactly what you’re looking for ;)
As a happily married man in his late 20s, I really stress not doing this. You skip an entire small lifetime of not finding someone and growing up through your young adulthood, waiting for things to improve for you as a man (read: for women to finally come around because of divorce, settling, or their biological clock ticking) and I'd argue things at that point would be more difficult.

Because you then have established so much of who you are independent of the interactions between yourself and a who-would-be spouse, there's a greater chance that you'll have even more to disagree over.

You're only creating more difficulties for yourself. Beyond the intricacies of a crystallized person, there's a smaller dating pool, it's more difficult to get pregnant, you have a greater difficulty acquiring assets not having another person you're working together through life with.

Yes, those women in their 20s will want to date you, but if you're in your 30s, you're effectively dating a kid. They absolutely do not have the same experiences you will have at that point in time unless you did no personal growth for a decade.
> Eventually we ended up with a notion that everyone should go to college and this has been buttressed with government support but what if this idea is wrong?

The mistake was assuming "going to college" was the goal and not "learning something useful." Too many kids spend years of their life and earnings studying completely useless degrees.

> Maybe the incentives focused universities on creating more "education" so they could rake in the cash made readily available through government subsidies targeting those who could not complete STEM degrees.

Nail, head, yep.
They're correlated with instability. I'd agree hyper inflation is a cause of instability. 2-3% isn't.
According to IMF you'll own nothing and be happy™
And it’s working ok now? Do you know how the network support is?
Are You Ready for Risk Quantification?
Background: someone (the author of the linked commit) bought the company that owns the Freenode domains and attempted to take control from the network’s volunteer staff. In response, most of the significant communities that were using Freenode moved to libera.chat.
If the universe will never leak any information about its origins, then those origins cannot affect us in any way, ever. This doesn't make any such hypothesis less likely, but it makes them irrelevant to us.
> helps with a likely contributor to Alzheimer's

There is no evidence, and plenty of failed trials, to indicate that Amyloid plaque is a cause of Alzheimers.
I understand what the post is saying. I see this as an example of censorship (by Google in this case) being a GOOD thing. This caused me to wonder about how a decentralized platform would handle similar circumstances.
It's constantly funded with taxes... why would you want a bunch of money sitting around losing value to inflation?
Are you in a field where you need to work onsite or can you work remotely?
Google is not backed by a blockchain.

And as someone who has worked in the blockchain space for a long time, it’s pretty much unanimously agreed in the space that the cost of inevitably protecting bad actors is worth the value in protecting good actors. Good and bad are subjective there, but for better or worse the blockchain isn’t.
I had a similar event happen with a product that cost $11.99 and they offered a $10 amazon gift card if I reviewed it. I did like the product and left a review, and they emailed me a gift card a week later. I was quite surprised. How does the business side of that work?
> I don’t understand why disparities in expertise would have an effect on this? Some people take longer to complete a task, others take less, the task is a value, you pay for the work output.

In programming (and in tech in general) the more a developer has experience the more he will be productive by a factor that can go in the hundreds. I can probably could not resolve a off by one error in a nodeJS code base because I know neither node nor js, but a mediocre full time node js dev could easily.
This is correct. Those "warranty void if broken" stickers are only worth as much as they mislead people into not bothering to push for warranty claims. (and if it's on something that's not a "consumer good")
Favorite Ideas from FHIR DevDays
The companion git repo is fascinating.
https://github.com/probabilist-us/contact-rabbit

Trying to reverse engineer indirect infection.

This is useful for seeding propaganda and any other virally driven phenomena by modeling gathered exploratory behavior of a user.
Mac addresses are useless for security purposes. There really is no right solution using a Pi, everything is on the SD card and there is no encryption possible. It’s a bit too open.
Was this in CA? Because CA is a “right to work” state, which means fire at will, at any time. A signed offer that doesn’t include explicit contractual guarantees in the case of termination is worthless.
It does. And while I like SES, it doesn't scale terribly well (in contrast to proper spreadsheet software). I did have a nice little stock dashboard using Yahoo!'s API about a decade ago paired with my purchases and such. I also made a nice little tax calculator and a few other things, I found it very useful (and used emacs lisp) for those kinds of programs. But the kind of scale that I've often seen Excel used for in businesses were a poor fit for it. Plus, good luck convincing non-technical managers (here I mean all kinds including financial managers and such) to use Emacs as a daily use tool. It's happened before, but it's not an easy sell.
Yeah so thats the thing. You are just immediately assuming that you are right and everyone who disagrees is wrong and a horrible person. Personally, I see people obsessed with gender identity as being wrong, anti-truth, anti science, disingenuous, etc.

So thats my point : I don't want google to give me the truth, I want it to give me the internet, warts and all. I don't want google to gatekeep the information I have access to. Lol I remember everyone being in a tizzy when net neutrality gor the axe cause ISPs would start gatekeeping. But if a wholesome company like google does it its in pursuit of truth.
I buy the first, not the second. Retailers often charge consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs) for preferential placement in aisle and carry no risk on inventory. The bigger the retailer (eg. bestbuy, walmart), the more likely they can assume no risk on inventory with a full return policy to the CPG. Best Buy just rents out space on their store floor to individual brands.
> If you have some cluster of traits that don't hurt you, then imho they're just traits, not a disorder

Even more relevant is that some things could be cliff disorders, where it is actually beneficial till it actually falls over some point.

Like Icarus flying, but takes him too close to the sun.

Being obsessive about details making things or being paranoid about what you eat are probably great things to start with, but overrides its own utility at some point.
The client is currently GPLv3 https://gitlab.com/wildland/wildland-client/-/blob/master/CO... but I don't see any repo for their website, nor the standard, whitepaper, whatever else, and their bootstrap and tutorial repos are All Rights Reserved
It might have more in common with that old (IBM?) too DataExplorer, later OpenDX iirc.
I think you're misunderstanding what the instruction (or similar ones that others have mentioned) would do. It's a specialized permutation function; every bit in the input is preserved, just in a different position. Your version doesn't have that property at all, and would indeed not be very useful.
I freaked a bunch of FBI agents out a while back by Base64 encoding a photo of an FBI logo and writing that to the Eth chain. They have massive concerns around this regarding data exfiltration. The cost of removing the data, once written to a chain, is essentially equal to the market cap of the coin for that chain.
Sorry, it is uncommon to have contract in US for Jobs? Or is this Tech specific ?

Edit: I had to look it up. US is indeed very business friendly..... May be a little too friendly.
Anecdotally, the "price" is closer to 50+ mil, not 1 bil. Hopefully that will change for the better in my lifetime.
Dating isn't fun. At least it isn't for me as a middle aged divorce.

I get matches, I meet interesting people and go on dates and the process is just emotionally exhausting.

I would rather put in time into my job, or my friends, or my hobbies. If I can meet someone who wants to be part of my life, fantastic. If not, I will live until I don't.
I would call it tempered (forced to compromise on it's nicer features, like representation, to save core ones, like turnover of power) rather than failed (when even core features are no longer present).

Even if you consider two-party system as failed multiparty one, it has advantage of being already past that bifurcation point. And, considering that alternative route is death of parliamentarianism, it's a nice advantage.

Yes, same failure can happen in two-party system, but chances are different - 'usurper' party has to fight against single opponent, rather than against multiple smaller ones. Question of 'whenever opposition can unite' is trivially true if opposition consists of single party.
In right to work states you can, because the definition of right to work is inexplicably that you can be fired at will without any justification needed.
The middle ground is the SSO reauth interval, where companies can decide that for greater security they’ll made you reauth every 8 hours, daily, weekly etc to balance it against user pain. Companies do this today already.
> Alarm bells should have been raised among us developers when Apple suddenly asked everyone to shell out $99 for the "privilege" of making an app available on the "App Store", and treated it as something normal. And later, more so, when Apple demanded a percentage cut too on every sale you make from your app.

I'm not sure where the "suddenly" comes from. It's not as if there was a time before the fee where developers could ship apps for iOS. There's been a developer program as long as there has been an App Store. For that matter, there was a much more expensive developer programs for the Mac before iOS was even a thing. I remember paying somewhere between $1500 and $3000 when we were writing Mac software in the early aughts.
The size of the federal government, as measured by employees per capita, is smaller than it was in 1950.
Previous company I worked at had a policy that you needed to include a photo of yourself with the current date written with any PW reset request, but of course that doesn't work as well at a 2000 person company as at a 100 person startup where IT knows everyone's face.

Plus that's still vulnerable to googling photos of the employee you're impersonating and photoshopping a piece of paper with the date.
Because regulation, even when well-meaning, acts as a barrier to entry and keeps competitors from even getting off the ground. Stifling small companies stagnates the industry and smothers innovation.

You can play whack a mole with their bad behavior, but large companies can come up with new dark patterns way faster than you can regulate them with precise and well thought out regulation. You just end up with entrenched interests and an ossified industry.

That's not even touching on regulatory capture.
Thats true but interregnum period between the old bell and the new bell brought us a great deal of innovation and positive changes to communications.
You don't undo a harm by trying to erase it. If the porn has been created/recorded the ex has a copy and could upload it to non-block chain locations. Once he shares it it has been decentralized.

There was never a way to undo porn video you made when you were younger.
> However, if "Data Transfer" is relevant, and I can't tell if it is or isn't, uploading my backup data is free but retrieving 10TB would cost $922! Is that right?

That's right. AWS charges offensive prices for bandwidth.

There are alternate methods to get data out for about half the price, or you can try your luck on using lightsail and if they don't decide it's a ToS violation you could get the transfer costs to around $50.
Could be different in your country, but here in Norway there wouldn't be an invoice in the box.
The whole idea is that payment is totally separate. Email invoice or separate invoice per post, unless you pay immediately when ordering.

The shop you ordered from does not know or care how the transaction is done between you and Klarna.
Also, there may be blue-state vs red-state rivalry going on. OP basically moved from blue to red and is liking it.
Mods can bump any article they find interesting. I've also seen 0 point articles get to the top and fall like lightning from downvotes, or disappear when flagged.
> Different thing. "I told you so" is a smug, nasty statement

I agree. The fact that the parent feels like his warning were ignored and his voice was unheard is a cause for frustration.

Having a postmortem process after each incident would prevent such frustration.

> A postmortem is a clinical, reasoned, and scientific review.

I'm well aware of this.
Org-mode allows it as well.

https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-spreadsheet-lisp-...

I've only dabbled with it, I am guessing for anything really substantial it would be quite slow compared to e.g. Excel.
The break them up and fix them approach actually worked wonders for the end consumers in Bell, Standard Oil, etc…
There's also fmean() which is for floats:

>>> data = (1_000_000_000.1, 1.1) * 50_000
>>> statistics.fmean(data)
500000000.6

Implementation at https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/6df926f1c46eb6db7b5dc... .
> Employees with children living at home increased hours workedmore than those without children at home, and suffered a bigger decline in productivity than thosewithout children.

This tells you all you need to know about the study. You can't analyse the relative effectiveness of working from home and working in the office when you're conflating "remote work" with "trying to get something done on your laptop on the kitchen table while working from home due to the pandemic, while your two early-primary-school-aged kids, who you are simultaneously trying to home-school due to the pandemic, are running amok in the lounge room."
Numbers, enter, numbers, operation. That's about it, nice and simple. Programming in RPL was a lot of fun, sadly my HP-48G was lost to water damage (lost a bunch of things from that leaky roof). I still have my 32SII from college when a class required non-programmable calculators. Of course, it is programmable but they didn't know that (and I didn't use it) but it was easier to slip that out and stick with RPN than get used to a TI scientific calculator again.
Regulating the quality of repair is a separate issue from sourcing parts. The hospital and their insurance company will be well inclined to make sure that repairs are done properly, but we should let the people who own the chair (and some oversight board) decide policy for those repairs, not equipment manufacturers who have a vested interest in selling new equipment.
Again, you're making a speculative "for the greater good" argument. That's all fine and well, but that's a different question as to whether my personal risk outweighs the benefit or not.

We already have the situation that vector-virus COVID vaccines are likely deadlier to younger women than the virus itself. Of course, having all these women vaccinated may well have saved more lives in total, but it would still be immoral to recommend it to them, if their personal risk from the vaccination is higher than from the virus.

> When masks come off there will be a sharp uptick in unvaccinated people getting covid and dying...

In relative terms, but probably not in absolute terms.

> ...the current majority of people that get covid and die are the unvaccinated by a large, large margin.

That's neither here nor there. If you vaccinated 90% of the population, at an idealized 90% efficacy, half the COVID deaths would be in the vaccinated group. What does that tell you about individual risk? Nothing, because it doesn't take into account prevalence in a population that is 90% vaccinated.

I don't doubt that the vaccine is effective, but the absolute risk reduction, for my age group, at current prevalance is probably around 1% (like in the trials). In Israel, the vaccination rate is below 60%, but prevalence is close to zero.
I don’t understand. Why did this freak out a bunch of FBI agents?
And right below this story there's a link to how Amazon got provisions that would have affected them removed from a bill that actually passed the Senate[1].

Discussing 5 separate bills sponsored by Democrats in the house like they might actually go anywhere seems ludicrous.

1.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/09/amazon-...
> Personally I don't think so. Every time I download and install from an Windows ISO it seems worse.

I’ve just been in a dark pit while trying to get a thunderbolt to sfp+ adapter working with ESXi. I ended up updating it via Windows but also tested it in various Ubuntu versions and macOS.

Both Windows and Ubuntu install processes were great compared to my very distant memory of install processes - Windows was finicky about the state of the drive it went onto and didn’t want to be on an external drive, but that was it.

The application Microsoft has made for creating boot disks is really nice. Apple in particular could learn a thing or two.

Drivers though, my god. If the driver isn’t signed by Microsoft, it is a horror in Windows.

Never got the dongle going in Esxi, it worked perfectly out the box for Apple and nearly the same for Ubuntu (though has to be unplugged and replugged after a reboot, and required manual config of mtu and network parameters. DHCP wouldn’t stick).

I got full functionality from Windows after a series of driver updates, interspaced with firmware updates and removal of security checks.
Price per TB
Sure. Here's an example of blatantly incorrect font rendering due to (what I assume is) floating point error in macOS: https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/971825249464475648
I think it will change faster than that. The acceleration to electric vehicles has gone far gayer than I ever imagined possible thanks largely to Tesla. Solar and wind have also taken off in a way I would have never expected a decade ago.
Why not. Don't see any reason why that equipment shouldn't be free as well.
Was there a change in circumstances that prompted the shift you describe?
> They seem fond of instant ramen, so I guess maybe they're partially prepared.

For an early death

They're already in their early-mid 30s, what outcome do you think is going to happen to make them even less integrated into society?
Casey’s are fairly stuffed with links. The format is generally: main article; multiple sets of links to other articles; funny tweets. He might be more mindful these days of how many links he includes, because at the beginning he seemed quite alarmed that many readers couldn’t see the whole email without a jump.
I'm not talking about the "big picture" on the scale of the entire company, but more just my team and possibly the 2 or 3 teams we work most closely with.

If half the team is wfh it just seems like those in the office will be in the loop more consistently, especially if the team lead is also in the office. There's a lot of questions I feel comfortable asking casually if the person I want to ask is nearby but not by sending them an email or during a meeting.
Oh! I thought your brother was in the Navy :-)
Perfect example. Had the exact aame experience. As someone who leans more right wing, I call it left skewed, but yes you are right it is not necessarily purely left aligned, or even at all. It feels like just any controversial opinion just gets obliterated by their ranking algorithm (in the case if covid I would bet a million dollars there was manual intervention in the name of public health tho)
How you're perceived isn't always going to be the same as how you are, and people make judgements quickly. Actions only come naturally through repeated practice, barring a naturally lucky few, and dating requires a whole different set of actions than in other relationships.

You might also quite reasonably be confident in your professional and personal-friend lives, but be lacking some of that confidence in dating, since you haven't done it for years. These aren't transferable domains for a lot of people.

I was on dating sites and apps for several years before I started having any luck finding much, much less something serious, and every moment of it was valuable practice in an area that didn't come naturally to me at all. My career situation also improved throughout those years, sometimes faster than my dating skills, and I quickly learned that having a nicer car did me 0 favors while I was still uncomfortable on a date in the first place. None of that professional practice applied - was I going to talk about load balancers and HA strategies on the date?