skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a scene in the Digha Nikaya where the Buddha says there's nothing particularly wrong with having a lot of money, as long as you spend it. The more lavishly, the better. If you spend it, that circulates the wealth and creates jobs. Potentially exciting jobs doing fun, fulfilling things that wouldn't be possible any other way. A couple thousand years ago that was making beautiful things, but making rockets is perhaps not so different?

By contrast, if you just hoard it, Warren Buffett style, none of that wealth is doing anybody any good.
I Created a Computer Vision Based Rabbit Deterrence System
I don't understand VDBossche's assertions - he seems to say that there isn't a single case of population level benefit from vaccination campaigns. But we have seen massive benefit from mass vaccination against Polio, Smallpox, Measles, Mumps, Diptheria and many more. This is on a par with arguing that gravity doesn't make things fall down.

It's worth noting that Delta appears to have emerged in India when and where there was very little vaccination - on the other hand there were a truck load of infections. This is how mutations happen; many cases occur... a mutation may appear and if we are unlucky it may spread. The key part for me is the "many cases occur" part - if the pandemic is brought undercontrol in the sense of few cases happening then there will be less mutations.
I listened to an interview with the head of the German regulatory body overseeing recommendations for vaccinations. He said that we have never seen side effects of all vaccinations beyond 2 to 3 months. Compare with sinuous venous trombosis risk which was uncovered despite being a 1 in 100,000 risk.
That actually aligns nicely with parents comment about maintenance. I work on a maintenance team and I'm constantly toeing the burn-out line. At best the system works as well as it did before, but that's really it. Sure we tweak it here and there, but otherwise it's hard work with no real visible changes.
Python3, signal free, multi-threading safe, mid-function Timeout
Nasty Hack for creating a multi-threading safe timeout.
> As someone who lives in New York and has been vaccinated for months, should I worry about this? It seems like the answer to that question is no, I shouldn't.

No, you shouldn't be worried because you're vaccinated and living in an area of the country that's largely vaccinated. (Even if we don't reach herd immunity, 60% or 70% vaccination rates will protect you more than 30% vaccination rates).

On the other hand: Arkansas has a 35% vaccination rate and is already spiking. There are large swaths of this country which have straight up refused to get vaccinated and they're about to get what's coming for them...

The "Delta" storm has arrived on our shores. We've got one last good push (since it takes over a month to get vaccinated) before the Delta wave washes over our country. Its basically inevitable at this point (not even 70% or 80% vaccination rates will prevent the Delta-based pandemic), but we can at least vaccinate as many as possible to help mitigate the damage.
Agreed. They should have communicated better initially.
"why not take it from the truly "useless" industries like entertainment, cosmetics, toys, or luxury cars"

I couldn't be more pro-Billionaire Astronauts, but at the same time there is danger in them spending their money and influence on things that may not work.

If they had gone out and bought more cars, yachts, and real estate, that's money that goes into mature industries with efficient supply chains that support the livelihoods of many people.

You can look at a billion dollar yacht and say, "What a waste", but the shipwrights, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and welders who built the yacht, not to mention the crew that steers, maintains, and cleans it probably don't think it was a waste, nor do the people who work in the industries that provide the materials for it.
First precision breeding of sugarcane with CRISPR-Cas9
If ssm-session-manager-plugin gives you a shell, then it should not be too hard to extend Tramp to use it directly. (I know nothing about ssm-session-manager-plugin.)

Tramp does not need scp to transfer files, it can just as easily multiplex them over the shell connection by using base64 or uu encoding.
The actual numbers in India are alleged to be an order of magnitude higher than the official numbers. There have been articles like [1] trying to estimate the actual numbers. The OP is likewise citing an article that's saying actual numbers are six times higher. I do not have access to the cited article to say more.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/25/world/asia/in...
That would imply that the individual in question cannot imagine any incentive to work other than the profit motive, which in my eyes is not only an extremely depressing notion to contemplate, but also one that falls apart very rapidly if you consider that human society predates capitalism by thousands of years, and that even within capitalist society itself there are countless examples of the opposite.
And changing values around what children are for. The idea that children are things to be cherished and invested in (emotionally and economically) is a relatively new idea. Historically children were economic producers for the household, rather than an economic sink.
It's my initial reaction too, but if I stop to think of Firefox as a huge, difficult-to-manage project where each feature costs dev resources and increases security risk, FTP support is probably the feature I wouldn't mind removed right next to the Pocket integration.
Link to 15m Video, where the autor explains how he developed the system
I definitely wasn't built to have a purpose.

I took a 3-year early retirement and didn't do anything for anyone but myself and loved every minute of it. I watched TV, went to the movies, read books, went to the gym, rode my bicycle, and that was it. Had no need for anything else.

If I could do that without having a job, I'd happily do it for the rest of my life with no problems.
Meanwhile, I can't install Netflix on my 2016 iPad Mini because it's stuck on iOS 12 and the Netflix app requires iOS 13.

So much for Apple "lifetime support", half of the store apps you want to use can't be installed anymore. If you don't have an iTunes backup, you're SoL.
It is not an open source product anymore.
Source is available, but this is not the same thing.

This is what OSI had to say about it:
https://opensource.org/node/1099

"The Elastic projects were offered under the Apache license. Outside contributors donated time and energy with the understanding that their work was going towards the greater good, the public software commons. Now, instead, their contributions are embedded in a proprietary product. If they want to enjoy the fruits of their own and their co-contributors’ labor, they have to agree to a proprietary license or fork."

"Elastic’s current business model is inconsistent with what open source licenses are designed to do. Its current business desires are what proprietary licenses (which includes source available) are designed for."
That's not how the study measures it, it uses low-end plans as a standard for all countries. If you were to take high-end plans then you'd see prices drop across the board. I pay 26$/2GB with Fizz so that's accurate.

EDIT : I'm wrong, it looks at revenue.
I retired 1 month prior to Covid, road it out and then moved to a new city across the country. I've been busy mostly every day, have lost 25 lbs, and have never looked back at having a full time job. My philosophy is: set goals and you will exceed them.
> Except everywhere I see the media is reporting that 99% of infections are amongst the unvaccinated.

Maybe they do this five paragraphs down. I almost never see this mentioned within the same paragraph as the "highly infectious" claim, which is always at the very top of the story.

> It’s not clear to me what point you’re trying to make by insisting that it is significantly less dangerous to the vaccinated that isn’t being made by every news outlet and government agency that I have been following.

Two things:

1) I am not "insisting"...I'm providing data. Nobody should believe me blindly. I am nobody.

2) If you already know these facts, great! Most people don't.

ok, three things:

3) I'm not sure why you're so prickly about the fact that I'm sharing factual information.
This article makes me really sad. I know this is just my perspective, but this person isn't living -- they're just existing. What are they striving for? Consuming media?
> It doesn't let you watch movies, nor does it provide any kind of back end for serving video.

You just killed my dream of starting a unicorn and filing to SEC for a FFLX ticker
So take time off? I fail to see how this is a problem for you.
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"Clearly, several people (including me) think that you did imply it"

Wow. Several people on the internet think something.

Is that a large enough sample size?
Another anecdote, I definitely notice a lack of sleep on my rest days. It's annoying.
It’s a terrible protocol not built for the modern internet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a URL containing “ftp” that isn’t prefixed by http://
It's technically true, but also hard to do in reality.

Right now, I barely have time to make coffee before my first meeting. My energy levels after sitting at the computer for 8+ hours are not great. The moments where the weather is "just right" for a lot of activities are severely hampered by the time I must be by the computer.

I know, because I'm way behind on firewood again. There are some mornings where the weather would be OK for it, but they usually don't fall on Saturday for some reason. Or we have plans to go on a camping trip that Saturday, so again I skip that task.

This adds up for each instance of those things. (I've seen it take weeks to build something simple... while unemployed I took on much bigger projects over much shorter time frames.)

Sure, I agree that during your working career seek out jobs that don't overly impede your autonomy. But if you can wipe out 40 hours every week that is doing so, suddenly you have much more freedom.

With that freedom, you spend each day, all day, choosing among the things you want to be doing. While working, it's much harder to take a couple of hours in the evening or your precious weekends, and splitting them up into all the things you want to do, and many of them get left behind.
Here’s the current top article under latest updates for COVID in the NYTimes.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/13/world/covid-variant-...

Besides the headline, here are some other phrases in it pointing out the difference in impact on the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

> the recommendations of health experts, even as the virus’s Delta variant and other mutations fuel outbreaks in areas where vaccination rates are below the national average.

> Public health experts have said that a strong vaccination effort is critical for the United States to outrun the virus
>There are plenty of scientific studies with just 50 or 100 people, but you need to keep the small numbers in mind.

The converse also needs to be held in mind as well. Very large studies are more likely to display statistically significant findings. Your p-value is really just a test of your sample size, so as the study grows your p-value tends to shrink. Get a large enough sample and you'll almost always find statistical significance. Just referencing a p-value isn't enough, it needs to be read in the context of the study size (whether large or small).

Edit: For those downvoting, here is a much better and eloquent explanation:

https://twitter.com/daniela_witten/status/131218095960997478...
Guide to Continuity of Government [pdf]
Apparently not, or the legal team doesn't communicate well internally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ojccls/reddit_o...
> … "and mostly just cause problems for legitimate users."

This is so true right here. The crackers who break the DRM just find it an amusing puzzle to solve, and the pirates who use what the crackers create never suffer the annoying side effects of the DRM thanks to the crackers work. Legitimate buyers on the other hand have to deal with situations where their paid for game literally won't run for them without a crack being installed because of DRM or broken-by-design anti-cheats.

(I know this from first-hand experience. Some of my paid games run fine after DRM removal cracks are applied, despite breaking in various fun ways prior to that.)
I think Firefox has ~5% of our user base. It's hard to justify running separate tests for it anymore. I wish they'd just become a privacy-focused Chromium fork because I don't see them crawling back to a meaningful marketshare at this rate.

(Yeah I know multiple implementations and all that, but we don't have many people running FreeBSD just to give Linux some competition.)
I found this series of articles from Sound On Sound to be fantastic, covers a lot of ground at reasonably technical level: https://www.soundonsound.com/series/synth-secrets
Well hopefully you surround yourself with a smallish circle of people who care about you! But yes all your high school / college classmates / coworkers are off living their lives and not thinking about you.
I suppose it depends on how you define "high culture," but when Disney is making Marvel Cinematic Universe movies grossing past $2.7 billion, I think it's fair to say superhero comics have become something.
I used to have a major stutter when my family moved states while I was in 5th grade. I was in New England with a Southern accent and teased because I also liked reading. I pretty much shut up after an especially embarrassing stutter on the word "collapse" during my turn to read aloud. Even the teacher laughed.

Punching my bully in the head months later gave me "cred" and my stutter lessened. In my brief stint in college, I decided to take a public speaking course because I had aspirations to be a rapper. What kind of musician performs with their back to their audience? (Sia, apparently)

All this to say, I've learned to live with my stutter. I have to pause and think about what I want to say sometimes but the way I manage it has been so fluid that I almost don't notice it. Most people I meet have no idea.

That said, I feel for everyone who has yet ANOTHER thing to think about on top of just being a decent human being traversing through life with other human beings.
Goods which, presumably, appear into existence through pure magic.
I'm actually ok with this. I'm happy to have it open those links in my dedicated tool just like it does with bittorrent links, etc.
Email Forwarding Is Bad: Why you should never forward email
A drop in the ocean compared to the amount of fiat currency laundered through high street banks in London every year.
It's also important to understand that entropy lies at the end of all roads (metaphorical, as well as concrete).

That entropy has a way of sneaking up on you
Show HN: Color-Accented Themes for Alfred Inspired by macOS Monterey
If you using OneDrive as a backup, it is not designed for that. You need to use the service that are specialized for backups which BackBlaze is the right product for it. OneDrive is mainly a online storage/vault with syncing capabilities. If you have a thousands of file to backup to OneDrive, you will have a problem since OneDrive need to upload everything that you want to backup to. Imagine 500,000 files that OneDrive have to upload for the backup, that will take a while. Their upload speed is not that great which is why they are not designed for backup.
> Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support

And it fucking sucks. It consistently fails to load, or stalls even at low quality. Even replaying a video often fails despite it already being in memory. And it degrades picture and video quality much more than other sharing sites. And all that without the convenient playback controls you can usually find. I don't understand how people put up with it
When I listen to or read a media report on Delta “sweeping through country XYZ”, it seems to me that the media is breathlessly trying to generate clicks and views.

The (apparent) reality that Delta appears to have a lower IFR and that hospitalization rate for vaccinated people for Alpha or Delta is extremely low do not seem to get the same level of coverage as context for the click/view-generating reporting.
I linked and quoted the top “Latest Updates” article in the NYTimes under their Coronavirus section.

What you say you’ve never seen is literally what they’ve done.
> Let the parents pay for them, not me.

This can also be said about schools.
I noticed the same thing when I stopped working ft. I was surprisingly bad at predicting my own interests and what would make me feel happy day to day.

It was almost as if I didn’t know myself, and in retrospect I suppose that was true.

After several years I’ve started working again but in my own way (roci.dev). I’m a lot better at predicting what activities will feel good, and managing my time so that end of day/week I feel deeply good about how it was spent.

Strongly recommend ^ approach of “rolling with it” for several years and trying not to pass judgement with you conscious mind on where your unconscious is taking you.

Best of luck getting to know yourself.
It is tribalism at work. Like if one takes a nuanced opinion and says "Maybe if loads of people are not dying and there's going to be no end to COVID, we should not lockdown again and again forever" You are then "them". The irrational COVID is a hoax, anti-vaxers, and get downvoted.

Unfortunately well educated knowledgeable people are falling prey to this tribalism as well. I don't view a pandemic as at all political. There's a balance as to what amount of financial, social, and loss of liberty pain we should take versus the harm COVID 19 causes. And there should be a healthy debate about that, and opinions should change with statistics coming out and changing conditions. Meaning hardline anti-vaxers should probably soften up a bit as the vaccines have been shown to be extremely effective and safe and hardline lock down the world adherents should look at the dramatic drop in deaths and hospitalizations, and compare the risk of COVID with other risks we take in our life like driving.
Here's a good explanation of why FTL causes causality issues.

http://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2016/8/25/why-ftl-implies-ti...

The sonar example works only if everything is traveling in roughly the same frame of reference. You're not accounting for relativity and its effects on space and time in your analogy.
I had backblaze on a laptop that was stolen. The thief uploaded all of their criminal activities to my backblaze account. I was able to inform five federal agencies on their wrongdoings as a result.

Thanks Backblaze for adding the forever hold feature! You helped prevent more victims of a very bad human.
Comparing to sonar isn't valid since objects at subsonic and supersonic speeds still obey the rule that 1 + 1 = 2. For high velocities, this rule is no longer true and you need to resort to using a spacetime diagram to compute velocities.

If you draw a tachyon on a spacetime diagram going faster than the speed of light, you can create situations where the tachyon travels back in time for certain observers.

> AFAICS if information can travel at >c, then physical objects traveling at >c doesn't violate causality

If information can travel faster than c, then you can create situations where it's also violating causality.
Similar to business writing - in any correspondence you need to put your hard request in the first sentence after your introductory salutation. Be very explicit what you need and the following paragraph should provide details that expand on it, enabling strategies. Lastly, justification or selling if warranted.

The five C's also help:
Clear, concise, correct, courteous and considerate.
Wow.

"...he had climbed the Alps and the double pass of Mont Ventoux, explaining how he had subsisted on cider, melon and prosciutto..."

https://www.bikeradar.com/news/lachlan-morton-completes-alt-....
Indeed. The very distinct feature of initial SARS-COV-2 was that people had extremely large viral load, yet little symptoms (when compared to other regular viruses). Even if the virus evolves towards larger viral load, this does not mean that it will be more lethal.
Well, if the fans are spinning, it heats up, power is drained, and the CPU usage is fine... it's gotta be the GPU. There's only so many things in the system that can use power and generate heat, after all.

I don't know enough about MBPs of that age, but I'd guess they have discrete GPUs and it's those are running. I wonder if you'd be better off disabling GPU optimizations, or if there's a codec issue of some kind.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Media/Formats/W...
Good point. Lower prices for buyers or higher profit margin for Sony?
This is an excellent resource! I recommend starting here as a beginner.
Will AI Replace Programmers?
In the UK there are some communities with relatively low vaccination rates and it's shooting through them like wildfire. It's not a huge number of people in absolute numbers, but pretty rough on those communities.

Hospital admissions are also skewing a lot younger. Fortunately even if they do get hospitalised younger people are still less likely to die.

Still, deaths are happening. My wife is in health care and she hears stories of people swearing blind Coronavirus doesn't exist and that vaccines are a conspiracy, while dying of it.
Academics make their whole careers from being cited.
I'm not saying we shouldn't have any space programs, but given the urgency of climate change who in their right mind thinks space tourism for the masses is a good idea?
Honestly I'm still not used to the new tab style that was introduced last time. 90 seems fine, but not much to get excited about from the user perspective.
Having the browser explicitly prompt for cookies is neither necessary nor sufficient to do what strong, consistently-enforced privacy laws can do, because the browser can't tell a tracking cookie (which needs a prompt) apart from a settings cookie (which does not).
Not disagreeing about CA prices, legendarily bad, But also haven't needed mobile data at all, least use in years because WFH (used not even a GB in a year maybe) and publicly available wifi in so many areas.
I've had many vaccines before, I'm not opposed to vaccines. I'm opposed to this particular vaccines because:

* There are reports of dangerous side effects after taking it.

* It's a new vaccine and the effects of the spike proteins it forces your body to produce have been found in places we were told they wouldn't be found.

* No long term studies have been done, even though lipids from the vaccine have been found in reproductive tissues (we don't know what this means yet).

* The vaccine is still only under emergency use authorization.

* I'm not in a high risk category, high risk people should be vaccinated if they're the ones primarily at risk?

* People are being pressured and coerced into taking it even though they are scared to do so. This is wrong, people should feel comfortable to take it, not as if it's their duty to mankind to protect elderly people (who could just take the vaccine).
The vaccine is new, but the mRNA delivery system has been in the pipeline for decades, with other treatments actively undergoing the normal, slow FDA process[1].

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/11/10/the-story-of-mrna-how-a-...
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The countries that use mobile data a ton are traditionally ones where net infrastructure is weaker, mobile data is just a better option, same as SMS pervasive in NA versus other continents being more into chat apps because their cell networks were so spotty
Even though its about webaudio, webaudio uses virtual analog so this book isn't just great for learning webaudio but great for learning the details of analog subtractive synthesis in the browser. https://webaudioapi.com/book/