skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if I told you...

Then I would be validated in my belief that your reading comprehension is poor? Or do you truly believe that the caves were formed a mere 46K years ago?
Stripe offers self serve customer portals for managing subscriptions out of the box with their Billing offering, plus checkout pages, so it’s super quick to integrate Stripe into your own project now with minimal boilerplate.
It’s crazy to me that we’ve allowed leaded gasoline in general aviation for this long. The price of rebuilding all general aviation engines to take lower octane fuel (or possibly ethanol, which has very high octane but a few caveats) has got to be FAR less than the public/mental health burden of allowing leaded avgas.
His name is John Birges Sr., not Harvey.
I'm not sure what you are saying. You plant a wide range of pollinator and native trees designed to offer roosting and nesting space for birds, bats and insects. etc. Wy jump straight to wolves?
Thank you, this is something for my grandmother, who finally thinks about swallowing her pride, but gaining some independence again.
> But if I could choose between employing someone full-time for a month (especially somewhere with low cost of living like India or Eastern Europe) and buying flights and a hotel room for a weekend, I think I'd choose the former.

A month's worth of a bad programmer's time might be worth a lot less than meeting motivated good software engineers at a conference and potentially turning one or two into contributors.
Discussions around these studies always start from the same fallacy. As far as weight loss is concerned it doesn't matter how you eat what matters is calories. You can lose weight on a time restricted schedule or you can gain weight depending on the quantity of food
It’s legal for them to do so, I just think they’re bad people for doing it.

Attempting to slow down the de-carbonization of our transit because your company bet wrong is just evil, no way around it.
Does this mean if you cannot speak or type, and thus use your face as password, you have no protection against this type of self incrimination
I'm almost just on HN so I can't talk about other places. But the few times I get downvotes I would like to know why somebody voted me down.
A Second Person in France May Have Caught Deadly Prion Disease from Lab Exposure
Headline is misleading, it would be better to say 'why Delta is so much more transmissable'

According to the UK govt's own figures, the 28 day case fatility rate is 2.0% for the Alpha variant, and 0.3% for the Delta variant.

See page 8:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

OK it may be that hospital treatment and vaccination (of the vulnerable) have greatly improved the CFR, but as of now mortality risk of the Delta variant is rather more modest compared to some earlier variants.
More like Web of Trust with reputation scores.
If you read the article it tells you that only 1% of the earth's habitable land has human development on it. There's plenty of space for nature to thrive, and it does.

The big problem for me is externalities that affect that untouched world. Industrial and agricultural runoff, different pesticides and things like that.
If the computer can easily underclock when idle... why stop doing that?
Censorship Jack, king of censorship messaging.
Did you evacuate? Where to?
I understand your point, but saving others from themselves is paternalism writ large. It's not to be taken lightly.

Anyway, the COVID death rates right now are bellow diabetes, smoking [1], etc. On a purely "save people from themselves" COVID ranks really low right now.

You could argue that the vaccine is a small cost to save a person (vs. the cost of banning soda or smoking), but that's pretty paternalistic.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal...
Sadly I cannot tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
Yes. Let webapp developers have their Chrome-only "web" (what's left of it anyway), and us others the web we used to love for ... web stuff.

As freelancer/WFHer, I'm already using Chromium for the unavoidable Teams, G-whatever-its-called-now, Zoom, or other videochat/collaboration app anyway and can run these as sandboxed Electron app right now just as well. Or even better since these type of apps tend to require frequent updates of both the browser and loaded JavaScript code due to living on the edge of browser APIs, release-early-and-often, ads, "telemetry", or whatever.

While on the way out, please advertise script-heavy sites, preferably with an "application/html" media type for content negotiation and/or proper metadata for search engines, to spare me bulk loading tons of JavaScript when accidentally visiting your page just to leave on the spot anyway. It's appalling browsers had to disable basic HTTP features such as caching because everything can and will be used for fingerprinting. AFAIU, both FF and Safari deliberately chose not to implement the worst offenders in WHATWG's JS API landscape for that reason. Worse, any "cure" for fingerprinting is bound to benefit Google even more as the only ones to receive sensor data of each and every contact individuals make with public information.

"It's dead, Tim"
imagine the bullshit people submit when there's no moderation.
Flexible computer processor is the most powerful plastic chip yet
I'm saying that those who question masks (what the article is about) have a leg to stand on. Those who question the COVID vaccines do not, in terms of data or quality studies.
When it comes to odds in mammalian species, you can't but help be reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Cal Almond business water usage is an outrage, agree there!
Just wait another 46,000 years and it will rebuild itself in a certain sense.
> Careful and transparent collection of scientific information is essential

Sure, I agree. But they make it sound like this is a global issue. But that is not true, and they know it. Nothing and nobody stops these scientists to check blood samples/animals/whatnot all over the world.

The only country in the world that does not allow an open and transparent research into the origin of the pandemic is China - and yet these scientists are afraid to call the Chinese government out for it. I find this very disingenuous.
> a slave collar

for real? because you have to go into the Settings app to turn off wifi permanently? Sometimes you people are delusional.
I've thought about that too. The problem is, my company would likely fire me if they were to find out that I was applying elsewhere. So far I haven't found anything that looks much better. The closest thing I found was an Android dev position with InnaMed. I am tempted to apply, but the commute would suck. Plus my home life doesn't really allow me to commit enough time to get up to speed. For now I'm looking at internal postings, although I don't see very many opportunities here either.
I remember this article being very influential to me when I read it over a decade ago. This entry in particular resonated with my younger self:

> I find one meeting can sometimes affect a whole day. A meeting commonly blows at least half a day, by breaking up a morning or afternoon. But in addition there's sometimes a cascading effect. If I know the afternoon is going to be broken up, I'm slightly less likely to start something ambitious in the morning. I know this may sound oversensitive, but if you're a maker, think of your own case.

Over the years as I've gone back and forth between IC and management, adjusted my working schedule after having kids, and generally improved my self-control habits, I no longer identify with this part of the essay.

In retrospect, this essay told me what I wanted to hear at the time: That I was a maker and that my managers just didn't understand that my lack of productivity was actually their fault for scheduling a single 1-hour meeting in the middle of the day. I thought meetings should be someone else's job, not mine, and I ate up every excuse to despise them. This essay included.

The reality was that my company at the time didn't have an excessive number of meetings, nor were they poorly run. Some companies really do have a ridiculous number of poorly-run meetings, but it's not the norm at well-run engineering companies in my experience. (If your company is all meetings and no work, it's time to change jobs).

Eventually I started making an effort to get back into the groove quickly after interruptions. When I get back to my desk, I pause for a moment and make a deliberate effort to recall where I left off. I decide what I'm going to work on before I unlock the screen. I resist the urge to pull up my e-mail or HN or Twitter or Instagram for "just a few minutes" before getting back to work. And to my surprise, it worked! If I put some minimal effort into it, I can get right back into the task I was working on, even complex ones like debugging complicated programs.

PG talking about "spirits" dictating our productivity now reminds me of a famous quote that has been attributed to various authors at different times:

> I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.
Indeed, and even if someone wasn't interested in the historical value of what was lost, there's still the matter of the process failure that allowed it to happen (or covered up that it was happening, depending on your level of cynicism).
Besides provider sometimes have strange port rules it's not uncommon for them to forcefully change your IP from time to time, even if there is an open connection. It tends to happen at night and it tends to be a forceful disconnect from your router to the outside world for <5min.

At least I ran into this frequently (multiple times a week, I really need to fix my sleep cycle).
"It is time to turn down the heat of the rhetoric and turn up the light of scientific inquiry if we are to be better prepared to stem the next pandemic, whenever it comes and wherever it begins. "

This statement sounds very disingenuous. Science should look at all aspects of the virus and consider if it leaked from a laboratory, in addition to other means of transmission. Dismissing one as simply "rhetoric" is antithetical to science.
Pfizer says 2021 Covid-19 vaccine sales to top $33.5 bln, sees need for boosters
Here's how we do it:

- Get rid of as many standing meetings as you can, and then get rid of more of them (1 a week is max)

- At the end of every standing meeting, ask the group "Do we still need this meeting?"

- If you feel you need a regular standup, do it on slack/whatever-you-use instead and asynchronous

- The non-makers still need to be able to communicate with the makers, provide a clear chain of communication so that the smallest number of makers are disturbed in an ad-hoc fashion, preferably only 1 (usually a tech lead / engineering manager)
I am not American but I wonder why this is an issue. I can understand refusing to do so when passing through customs but this person was accused of a crime. Shouldn't law enforcement be allowed to check inside the laptop for evidence of his involvement? I mean if the government comes in and arrest me at my home they are allowed by warrant to enter my home. Why should a laptop be any different?
> I didn't originate this conversation so I can't speak for the original commenter, but it seems to me it's worth pausing for thought when a billion people are due to receive a medical intervention of a type that has never been used before.

Sure... but what makes you think the scientific and medical community haven't done the equivalent of this?

> I'm not opting to defend against that risk but nor do I think the calculus is as obvious as you are making out.

Then how would you describe the calculus? I know what COVID-19 infection numbers and statistics are, at least within some +-% differential.

But I have no knowledge or evidence of any future problem with the COVID-19 vaccine. Why would I accept a known and severe risk against an unknown risk with unknown severity?

So, could you expand on the less obvious aspects of the calculus here? If there's knew information I want to know.

> On the one hand I am very, very glad the vaccines are available because they seem to be significantly suppressing infection numbers and keeping people out of hospital. On the other hand I believe that individuals should not be coerced by their employer into receiving a vaccine.

I think it's a tough subject, but just as someone shouldn't be coerced by their employer into receiving a vaccine, I'm not sure others should be coerced into having to share space with someone who is willingly unvaccinated from a contagious disease. How do you reconcile that?

> Which people?

Take the total number of people who are now anti-vax, subtract those who became anti-vax before 2020. That remaining population.

> People have been questioning the safety of vaccine delivery mechanisms for at least 20 years.

And what has come of it? Billions of people around the world have received vaccines, untold lives have been saved, we've eliminated insane diseases like SmallPox and Polio... but now I'm supposed to side with the anti-vax people because why exactly? What did the medical and science community do to lose my trust? I guess you could argue the funding of gain of function research in Wuhan (where the virus almost certainly originated from), but that's not going to undo the cumulative history of medicine that has been wildly successful for me.
> 2 grams per gallon

I’m from a fully metric land, is the above a common way to express a ratio? It certainly stuck out to me but it’s a pretty tidy measure.
What if I told you that your reading comprehension or attention to detail may also not be on point? What if I didn't say in that comment that they were formed a mere 46k years ago, but that they existed?
>Seems they could have made the items they wanted to guide users towards free or cheaper

What they should have done is first hand out a month of free coupons for local french books/movies/books/music and then once everyone used their coupons they can decide for themselves whether they want to spend their culture pass balance on that.
Not really, this is like a full-on boilerplate with multiple JS frameworks, templates and all while Laravel is really just a PHP web framework (from my understanding). If someone created a boilerplate SaaS product with Laravel, I think that would be more comparable.
Under they assumption they're guilty:

If they had remorse? Very little.

If they believed the big lies and/or felt a superiority complex? Seems likely to me.

I'll note that with the pretext of the individual being guilty I've already disqualified someone smart enough to not commit nor record evidence of having committed a crime.
In my opinion, that mechanism didn't survive the transition to online. Or rather, it survived all too well; it grew fangs and learned how to breathe fire.

In an in-person peer group, there are a lot more subtle gradations in disapproval. "Dude, that's not cool!" is very different from looking at someone askance. Overt signals require everyone else present to take a position on something. Subtle ones don't.

Being downvoted on a Facebook peer group of teens is an overt signal. Everyone is going to take sides. It's not that it doesn't happen in person, it's just that online it makes everything into a Big Deal. That produces bland communities with fear-based conformity.

To do better, you'd need something that can support richer communication, allowing for more nuance. One possibility that comes to mind is emojis -- a group can (and does) form its own vocabulary based on emoji-only responses that may only have meaning within a group. But they can serve the purpose. If I were a teen, or more active in social forums, I might know if that's already happening.
There was a misunderstanding here, I'm also for the vaccine requirement. However, I am also questioning "what can an employer mandate?"

There's something to be said about where the enforcement is coming from and how it's being applied.
Biden warns cyber attacks could lead to a “real shooting war”
Macros are extremely powerful, and like all really powerful things, they’re very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with… we’re lucky that the Phoenix team are some very capable wizards!
> The FCC has 5 seats that are traditionally occupied by partisan representatives

Its law that they have a limit of 3 per party, the tradition is that they are always of the two major parties, and that the Senate caucus of the party who doesn’t hold the White House has the dominant role in directing the nomination of the members of their party. Since they are also Senate confirmed, and given the existence of the filibuster even when not in divided government, there some strong teeth to that tradition, though conceivably with sufficient support in the Senate a Democratic President could fill vacancies (with 3 Democratic incumbents), with, say, Socialists or Greens rather than Republicans.
How did you enter the data into the machine if you cannot interact with it?
Huh, I just deployed one yesterday. And I'm looking at the Vultr "deploy instance" page right now and it's showing both the $2.50/mo and $3.50/mo options, at least in the "New York (NJ)" location.
These aren't engineers, they are programmers.

Engineering isn't about coding, coding is simply a tool to achieve results. If your organization managed to silo it's engineers into ticket-coder orgs, there's something wrong with your company.
If you're reading an article with a title "Much more than you ever wanted to know about..." then you can't claim you haven't been warned. For people that can't deal with it there's always twitter (and insane people that publish a full-size article as a thread of 285 tweets, God bless thread aggregators).
Familiar with these. Did you watch the video I posted about climate anxiety fashions?
> it won't even let you opt out unless you're on a paid plan

kinda ironic how this paints ipv4-only with a premium flair
Unless you are in a jurisdiction which offers ranked choice voting, then this is equivalent to throwing your vote away and then being surprised when nobody wants it. Also, and orthogonally, eliding the distinctions between the two main parties over a systemic issue that arises out of the constitutional structure means that a party can be incentivized to discourage you from voting by pandering to your dissatisfaction using sockpuppets.
There are a couple issues I see with this model.

1) Credentialing is super slow in medicine and probably quite expensive. It will take your provider months to come online.

2) If you aren’t paying high at 65-70% of billable rates you will have trouble finding providers that want to go through all that hassle when they can just work more hours at their regular job.

3) It’s not clear to me that you are doing anything different than what a regular private practice would do. Everyone is full online now post pandemic so they are mostly limited by availability of clinicians. They could hire parts time folks and offer the same deal I think many just choose not to. You would get stuck with all the compliance costs and little actual revenue.
Huh? What makes you think I'm questioning COVID-19 vaccines more than other things? My general approach is to be cautious around putting anything in the body that humans haven't been doing for thousands of years, although to live in the modern world makes that difficult, sometimes mere years has to be enough.
There was a good discussion of that topic here, of all places:

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19410631&cid=61625009

Basically, it seems to have a very minor impact. There is existing precedent for being forced to vaccinate, though I prefer it be used as a very last resort because I think that being forced to do a thing makes more people oppose it and I'd rather see more light and less heat in the vaccine discussions.

There are real risks to vaccines, but according to VAERS data, they're orders of magnitude smaller than those of the virus itself. If one isn't concerned by a 2% mortality from Covid, it seems absurd to me to worry about a ~0.0002% chance of vaccine injury.

If you were playing an RPG and got a magic item that let you roll 1d1000 every time you died and escape death on every roll but a natural 1, you'd think that was OP. This is effectively what the vaccine is, so it makes no sense to avoid vaccination.
The answer is no for any detectable or significant population size. If one in million gets something unexpected, it does not matter.

All mRNA vaccine is gone from the body in few days. Usually, the immune response comes within days or weeks.

Theoretically, there is always a change that vaccination triggers some slowly developing auto-immune disease, but that could be triggered by COVID-19 as well (they have the same mRNA). I would be more worried about Long-COVID symptoms. They might be a sign of something chronic for a significant fraction of the population.
The Elixir/Phoenix forums are a genuinely delightful place. Can’t recommend them enough. Great mix of beginner questions and best-practice discussions, and commenters tend to be quite knowledgeable and very friendly.
Placebo-Controlled Trials of Covid-19 Vaccines — Why We Still Need Them[1].

Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized[2]:

> Tens of thousands of people who volunteered to be in studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines are still participating in follow-up research. But some key questions won't be easily answered, because many people who had been in the placebo group have now opted to take the vaccine.

Pfizer and BioNTech speed up timeline for offering Covid-19 vaccine to placebo volunteers[3]:

> Pfizer and its partner BioNTech plan to offer their Covid-19 vaccine to any clinical trial volunteer who received placebo by March 1, several months earlier than initially planned.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2033538

[2]: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/9691430...

[3]: https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/01/pfizer-and-biontech-spee...
I've thought about somehow creating a raspberry pi that sits between usb devices and snitches on data transfer that is not expected? It could be really hard to do, and probably easy for a device to mask (only attempt attacks when other file operations are happening)
It's actually crazy how late this was. Because customers don't like to see forty surcharges, you have an incentive to bundle relatively cheap things most or all customers want.

What gets bundled and what doesn't is somewhat† a matter of company preference. And once IPv4 exhaustion was on the horizon, charging IPv4 separately made a lot of sense yet very few providers did it.

† The EU hates "hidden fees". If your product claims to cost €100 but actually there's no way to only buy the €100 product, you need "delivery" for €25 more because there's no practical way to avoid getting it delivered - that's not legal. Likewise if you claim it costs €100 but there's no way to pay cash, and all card payments have a 5% surcharge, you're going to either have to eat that surcharge, or advertise the price including the card surcharge.
Are there any security risks with using a public IP address though? I also use EduRoam at a Dutch university, should I treat it as sceptically as a coffee-shop WiFi? (Assuming it’s marked as a public network). Also, shouldn’t your university’s firewall stop such a Logitech driver sending data (if it’s an uncommon port)?

After reading up about public IP addresses I realised that my (Dutch) ISP has also provided me a public IP... and that the Netherlands has a lot more IP addresses per capita than most European countries.[1]

1. https://www.ripe.net/participate/meetings/roundtable/january...
This seems more of a consequence of not having a social safety net. Other countries were able to shut down.
This is why jobs like lifeguard or airport security frequently rotate workers during a shift.
I mean, if you're that concerned, adenovirus (J&J, AZ) and inactivated (Sinopharm) also exist.