skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most engineers in Poland prefer anything BUT full time employment, so all-in the tax for engineering work is like 8.5%/19% with a ~$120/mo mandatory health insurance. They'd rather get hired as freelancers and pay less taxes (and burn less money contributing to the broken social security system).
We did have had horseradish and mustard, so not completely devoid of spicyness, but certainly not as pervasive as today.
> My understanding is that this is a relatively new and perhaps highly understudied phenomenon

It is neither relatively new or understudied. Everyone's favourite "anti-vaxxer", the Godfather of the "Anti-Vaxx Movement", Andrew Wakefield has been saying so for some time.

Vaccines: Their Safety, Effectiveness, and Risks
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbkS7FXQ1321h9H5HdbwP...
>...so we really need to cut even more

This is the whole pitch of the green movement.
Reduce emissions at whatever cost, they completely miss the point that we (the humans on this planet) dont know how to do this. Its not about what we should do its about figuring out how and until we know how there is not much point in making peoples life harder and make them feel bad for doing what they have to do. Or make placebo progress like biofuel and other nonsense.

The earth overshoot day in 2021 is on July 29. Its not hard to figure out that we are nowhere near sustainable and all the proposed cuts and implemented policies did so far is insignificantly reduce the GROWTH of global emissions.

We need real solutions, technological progress of the magnitude of the last 100 years or something like that to make any relevant difference. Not telling people how bad they are for the environment and how they can feel better by doing mostly useless stuff like carefully separating trash for the recycling-fraud industry.
Dreaming of a Final Theory. RIP
Not that I am a fan of gvt control, but why don’t modern IDs have a QR code containing the key attributes signed using PKI, and perhaps a link to a photo from a gvt website? That would make it unfalsifiable, without the person checking the ID needing to be an expert, they could just use a gvt issued app.
I read "Dreams of a Final Theory" as a child, and have been contemplating some of the philosophical questions posed therein ever since. RIP.
> No, viruses do not have metal catalysis (correct me if I’m wrong)

RNA viruses would generally have an RdRp polymerase which requires a metal ion.
That's rather a surprise to me, given the lack of recognition of post-viral fatigue!
How can you tell? Plus, even if they're not as sophisticated yet, all it takes is some marketing oxygen-wasters to say that they could improve profits/conversions/etc by 1% by capturing ID information for this to become reality.
Right. And implementing their own SMB server (smbd) allowed them to do these "bad things"? What is the evidence that they did anything like that?

Anyway, how about a much simpler explanation: Apple doesn't want to get stuck with a viral license that might open them to lawsuits and force them to open up their proprietary code they want to keep closed source? GPL doesn't work for everyone and there is nothing wrong about that. To suggest that anyone who rejects GPL plans something "bad" is naive and immature.
I think he's wrong about reflectivity on passports too. My European passport picture page is extremely reflective - it's hard to read anything on it at the wrong angles, and the reflective holograms make my picture very hard to see. The photo is printed with very low contrast and uses an online user-supplied photo, too!
I would buy an iphone today if they warent so restricted.
Isn't there a simpler solution to this... Just don't sign in!
I also met a fellow student who was working on this too years ago. Not sure how far e got. to be honest I think he was just to reluctant to graduate and get a real job so kept finding ways to stay at uni.
On the other hand, caffeine is a vaso-constrictor which reduces blood supply to the brain. This is very old news and replicated many times from even 1935. What are the effects of this? To go full forward we have https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.450708v1.... (July 2 2021) "Our findings unveil that conventional daily caffeine
intake does not provide sufficient time to clear up psychoactive compounds and restore cerebral responses, even after 36 hours of abstinence. They also suggest investigating consequences of a paraxanthine accumulation during daily caffeine intake."

As an avid coffee drinker I'd like to feel able to agree with your conclusion but I'll limit the amount wagered.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19219847/

Coffee has a lot of other components such as polyphenols which generally have a beneficial effect. May be that this counteracts the possible negative consequences of caffeine under certain conditions.
I think it's silly that people feel this is related to privacy. No, no one is under any illusion that this reduces google's knowledge of you. But rah rah, bang the privacy drum! Privacy is the only possible reason! The dummies need to be informed that google and privacy don't get along!

Bah, I'm getting cranky tonight. I'll log off. Good luck with the privacy fight. I mean that genuinely; I don't think anyone really cares, beyond posting a few comments on message boards. Duckduckgo is a nice alternative, but how many programmers actually use it to find answers to programming questions? And even if a few do, I really don't get what the privacy crap is all about here.

Google added a feature that we can use to do neutral searches. That's awesome, and they deserve praise for it. But nooooo, the privacy is the ultimate altar.
I'm not aware of similarities with other infections. Care to cite sources?
Yes and yes. Its getting ridiculous..
I have a nokia 800 tough with 4G. I bought after an experiment of living without internet at home. At the time I was using a 3310 with 3G. The experiment lasted 6 months and ended a month or two before Covid strike.
It a practice platform for when the tech catches up with the dream. Anyone who isn’t excited by augmented reality tech is just.... I dunno... bored of life?
Look up BN-350.

It's 1960s tech, but still delivered 31 million gallons/day plus electricity up until 1999.
> How did we collectively get to this point of not giving a damn about anything?

- works on my machine

- you need to build new features, not refactor / optimize what’s already there

- etc
Security; e.g. if trouble kicks off it helps to both identify people who may have left the scene, and warn entrants that facility is in use.
The NFP I work for has used this extensively - thanks Google!

A few years ago we did a bunch of short free "hour of code" courses with a few different block flavours:

https://groklearning.com/hoc/

(search for blockly)
you're about 3 orders of magnitude off.
Dreams of a Final Theory was one of the most influential texts that motivated me into theoretical high energy physics. Sad.
Mate is ridiculously popular in IT and hacker circles in Germany. Drinks (like a sparkling lemonade) based on it have been around since the 1920s.
I believe the first example is specifically a reddit problem, due to something they did with their date data.

I always search reddit for reviews and at some point, even though the result says "5 days ago" on Google, the result is actually years old when clicking through to reddit.
I disagree with what you stated explicitly. But from the nuance of what you stated, maybe we are in agreement.

A structure of a firm does not NECESSARILY align with all stakeholders.

That doesn't mean that there are not firms designed by their founders and leaders to be more moral than that.
Oh definitely it takes more effort than Sci-Hub. Should've mentioned that in the post.

For a single paper, googling for the pdf, failing that, searching for author page / institutional repo doesn't take much effort. A few minutes, I'd guess.

That still becomes prohibitive for >10 papers sought. Then you need institutional access, something like Sci-Hub, or a lot of patience.

Mailing works as a last resort option.

Honestly, part of the reason i jump through such hoops is to justify not including a paper. I have institutional access and all these options. If none of that suffices, I feel justified in considering the alleged article as not part of the scientific record.
My hypothesis is that COVID leads to a Gaussian distribution in reduction in general neurological function, and that we will see a bell curve distribution reduction in e.g. general IQ.

Can you please propose a "randomized, longitudinal, controlled trials" one might conduct to figure that out?

Preferably, one which would pass an IRB review. We can't randomly infect 10,000 ethnic minorities with COVID19 anymore, which I think what you're suggesting. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the Nuremberg Trials took care of that for us.

Short of something like that, we work from mixed methods evidence.

As a footnote, a year isn't a long time in the world of research. That's sometimes quite literally how long it takes from when you apply for a grant to when funding lands in your account. And you're asking about a phenomenon which often occurs months later.
> Self hosting is better when it's done in community, (...) are a good way to create a resilient Internet while not giving away your rights to capitalist companies.

If you take away this political (?) tone you'll remember that being dependent of government have the same issues. Or being dependent of a group of friends. Or your family.

Anytime you rely on somebody to hold your data, you have to trust that it won't disappear on purpose or by accident. And both things can happen.

And, yes, it's hard to deal with everything by yourself. Chose wisely whether you're being cautious and paranoic.
That was a lot more interesting than I thought it'd be. I can see the appeal of living like that but it's not for me, give me a house anyday!
This was originally a rendering bug, but one which turned out to be a massive improvement and so has been kept as a feature: https://developers.google.com/blockly/guides/app-integration...
I'd build stuff for old machines all day, were I paid for it just as good as I am to work on, as they sometimes say, webfeces.
Depending on your views, you can't directly say what you're thinking about certain topics at HN. You need to dance around the issue. Pose questions, give them rope and allow proponents of those ideals to provide their rationales. Once revealed, you can examine these topics.

Perhaps for those who haven't been down these rabbit holes repeatedly, it appears as assumption. The rationales you see may not have been provided explicitly or scrutinized. It can be a bit long-form and tedious, but it is part of assuming good faith.

Consider how your post above might appear to someone who takes an idealistic view of these activist movements. They might not be aware of the Marxist influences. Even if they are, they might genuinely believe that Marxist movements do not result in centralization of power. It is easy to overlook these points.
You mean some, it is not the majority. And often viral, not bacterial.

The flu have this effect for sure.

The issue is that those cognitive disfunctions hit young people who were not hospitalized, or hospitalized only for safety (monitoring them with oxy at the ready). I know of one professionnal classical dancer, 26, who cannot coordinate following Covid, and was luckily already near the end of her career. But still, for some trade, this might be an issue, especially if Covid become as endemic as the flu
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Something about the letter 'z' always screams out to me as a forgotten marker of 90s-00s culture. Really, any substitution for the letter 's' these days feels almost _antiquated_.
I agree with the sibling comments that you should have the environment name in the resource name - that way you can directly know whether the host you're connected to/the monitoring alert/etc. are prod or not.
DDG does not forward user data (IP etc) to bing AFAIK. I see it as a reverse proxy to bing.
> If your car is unsafe, you could kill someone. If you sideload an app on your phone, that only affects you.

If there is no authority / safety-check over the apps, potentially thousands could lost millions from new wave of scams. Some sort of oversight has to be in place for devices with that much personal data. In the worst case scenario, Apple could get sued for that.
> Public bike systems should really not require an app.

<advocate representee="Devil">The web makes for second-rate UIs, especially on mobile platforms. With that in mind, you're going to want to develop iOS and Android apps. Given that, why bother making a mobile web UI as well?</advocate>
"the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), later renamed to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL)"

Nice resource, but I thought a URL is one form of URI, another being a URN.
The russian salted fish appears to be very different from garum.

With Balyk you salt the fish-flesh to make it dry out and to conserve it. Then you eat the dry fish. Do i see that right?

With garum you salt the fish to drive a fishy liquid out of it then you ferment this liquid. The end product is the fermented fish-juice which is used as a condiment.

Both involves fish and salt but they appear to be very different beasts.

About how offputing garum is: obviously it wasn’t offputting for the romans. They consumed huge ammounts of it. That doesn’t necessarily means that the production wasn’t offputting. After all it is basically letting a pile of fish rot in a controlled manner. By all accounts i have read they produced it at industrial scale outside of the cities not in people’s homes.

The other problem one might run into is that the exact art of the process needs reverse engineering. Imagine if all you would read about cheese making is a few paragraphs. Further imagine that you have never eaten cheese nor you know anyone who has ever did. Good luck figuring out where to start making chesse, let alone if what you got at the end is good cheese. This means that while real garum was definietly not offputting to romans, the process of experimenting with producing it now might be. And at the end you might end up with something weird and you won’t know if you just haven’t acquired a taste for it, or if perhaps it went off so badly that not even a roman would consume it.
How is light to be modulated with these? They're not going to use PWM, are they? I'm pretty tired of seeing displays that exhibit visible flicker when a camera is pointed at them, especially as flicker imperceptible to the human eye can still be migranogenic.
Same. Best purchase in a long time. Can’t believe I was wondering if it would be worth it.

The VR UI paradigms are really nice.
Not very much different, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayak for a list of issues with only one nuclear related facility for example.

Regarding the else you have just written about... It's just so minuscule comparing to the real issues USSR and it's citizens had that I don't even know what to say about it. Just read some trustworthy books or even wikipedia about economics situation in late USSR and forget all you've just said. You literally don't give a shit about some fancy robots and nuclear disasters in some distant places when you have close to nothing to eat and nothing to put on.
And also "boof" and "crap" commands for moving items in and out of the the other side of the parens.
All I can say is that humanity, outside of Asia, has consistently had "all I can say" responses. It's a preventable slow-motion train wreck.

I could be wrong, but there's no reason to believe delta and gamma are the last mutations we'll see. COVID was astronomically cheaper to exterminate pre-mutation, and astronomically cheaper before it spread. At each point, people wished things weren't that bad, only they turned out to be worse.
Ahh, I could only see the truncated version on the site.

Though that's the reason they claim to have picked that group, as they were using biobank data they likely already knew the rates before the study started. Picking the lowest cohort from the get go is almost more sketchy.
It's called elitism, and by far one of the most toxic elements of the tech community imho
Possibly this is not a great analogy but if there was just one car company in the world for example Ford, I don't think cars would be as versatile or as commonly adopted.

Therefore I'm seeing any progress on the part of multiple companies signaling that this is more than just a one-off.

Another example would be the very early handheld iPad predecessors (Palm Pilot). Look like nothing was going to happen there. But after several failures it started to take hold.
From my anecdotal experience working with those cards, they'll fail and brick early into your brute force attempt anyway.

The card can use the date in the certificate provided to approximate the current date, and will remember the last good date it saw, so you can't just decide to change the date and do another x years old check. AFAIK there is no "rate limit" for those.
I wish I could toggle that switch per requests.

In some case I want result relative to my location, or other info, and in other circumstances I want generic results. In some case I want result sorted by most recent first, and others I don't care or want the oldest info. In some case I want results in my mother language and others I want English results as well. Etc. etc.

My feeling is that google provides far too few search adjustment knobs and is spoon feeding me with what google thinks that would be relevant for me.

The strange thing is that all major search engine are just copying google's behavior on this aspect.
The weakest point in any system is the incompetent person with admin privileges.
I tend to agree with this pattern as long as the commands you're running let you explicitly state which environment you're running these commands against so there's never any confusion by the human running the commands or the human reviewing CI logs.

With Kubernetes / Helm you can have all of your resources named the same in each environment, each with their own set of same named env vars that follow what you've described but whenever you do anything that interacts with your cluster you can add a `-n prod` namespace flag so that each environment runs in its own isolated namespace.

Also for good measure it's not a bad idea IMO to add _dev, _test, _prod to the name of your database just as a double identifier. It still meshes well with the strategy of using a DATABASE_URL. I like using the full URL instead of just using the DATABASE_HOST since the password will be different across environments and I'd rather only have to set 1 env var instead of 2+.

In a sibling comment someone mentioned this pattern doesn't work for monitoring in different environments but it does work. You can set an APP_ENV env var and then filter based on that. The same thing applies for logging. You can tag / filter your logs on the APP_ENV too.
(Not OP) Viral infection can have this effect. The flu for sure, but also the varicella virus (i think this is the translation?) do too. West Nile virus also?

Its definitly not the majority of viruses, and i'm not sure bacterial (benefit of the doubt here). Don't tell me you never exagerate a little :P
Given the benefits to local ecosystems and carbon removal, why don’t we subsidize them the way we do wheat and beef and all sorts of things that have negative effects?
Influenza can trigger numerous issues.

My mother ended up on anti-seizure tablets after the last flu outbreak having spent five days in intensive care.

The flu brought on a fit and hypo-natremia. It took months before she could walk properly again.

Our success against infectious diseases has left a generation or two with insufficient fear of them.

I’ve seen people catch a bad cold on Wednesday and be dead from pneumonia on Sunday.

The impact from Covid isn’t new. It’s just a rediscovery of why we spent the twentieth century on an all out war against infectious diseases and septicaemia.
We're well on the path of universal, always connected, high-speed devices with cheap data. Software is also surging in sophistication and complexity. I really don't see why most applications cannot be truly self-hosted (which means your own device or hardware, not a VPS or colocated) these days, except for video.

I can only speculate that the abysmal state of self-hosted software for the general public is because there is not enough money to be made in terms of recurring subscriptions or constant inflow of data.
These UAPs love to troll US Navy pilots but seem otherwise not at all interested in communicating.
Probably to be able to connect at all, even if only for messaging, email, and phone calls. Hey, it's a mobile network terminal, you've got to have some network access there!

They are retiring 3G like mad, and even 2G towers are getting fewer and farther between (although it's likely that 2G/GPRS/EDGE will never truly go down).
How can we as a community contribute to it catching on?
I think it's interesting to think about adding elements to what we experience in reality via AR.

Versus importing elements from reality into a VR experience.

Based on your comments I would say one of the big advantages of importing from reality into VR would be to be able to move around without colliding into physical objects in the real world.
Green Wave: https://www.greenwave.org/
Project Bike Rack
As long as there is no connection tracking you can send whatever crap you want, including replayed packets from the middle of a connection, perhaps even huge packets with a syn flag ... As long as the accounting happens before a firewall performs basic TCP sanity checks you're going to pay for it
A large reason is likely to double dip on the EV subsidies. Scoop 200,000 x $7,500 subsidies under the name 'Ford', then another fraction of 200,000 x $7,500 as partial owner and supplier under the name 'Rivian'
Thanks, I don't want to seem like I'm shilling with any of my comments. This is Kanso, a relaxing game that invites the player to slowdown and find a moment of Zen:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1454650/Kanso/
A number of reasons. FWIW, I was trained in a Tibetan tradition.

- I had from the beginning espoused a non-religious view of Buddhism. About 20 years in, my teacher stated that Buddhism was definitely religious, and that devotional practices like pujas were non-optional. I didn't like it, but if you take on a teacher, it behoves you to at least try to go along with the teaching - which I did.

- I learned some things about Tibetan history that were the opposite of my earlier, naive beliefs. Pre-communist Tibet was not Shangri-La.

- While I never practiced tantra, the tradition was tantric; I eventually learned some important things about tantra that I found unacceptably obnoxious. I can't go into detail, because I don't want to undermine anyone else's commitment to tantra.

- The group that I had been involved with gradually changed, I became an outsider, and things got difficult. Friends in the group cut me off.

- The behaviour of Buddhist nationalists in places like Myanmar and Srilanka towards non-Buddhist minorities appalled me - this was the tipping point.

- I did my back in through long sitting sessions. The amount of my life that I had spent sitting was beginning to look like heavy expenditure for no obvious gain (I wasn't making much progress).

These are my reasons; they don't apply to anyone else, and I don't deprecate Buddhism or Buddhists. I just gradually came to see that I'm no longer one of them.

There is a great deal that I integrated from Buddhism. It remains the basis for my morality, and my world-view is still largely based on Buddhist thought. But I no longer do any kind of formal practice, and I don't identify as a Buddhist.
This is largely because Tesla is supply constrained and they’ve chosen to prioritise fulfilling of orders in the USA which are more profitable. When Berlin Model Y production kicks off at the end of the year, the story might well change.

At the end of the day, regional sales numbers are irrelevant. The number that matters is global sales.