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All: please don't take HN threads into tedious flamewar on eternal flamewar topics. "Vax versus antivax" is one of the most tedious of them all. If you're tempted to post angrily about how wrong and bad the other side is, please inhibit that impulse. If your comment was going to repeat something we've all heard many times before, please don't post it.

Obviously the vax theme is topical in this case—that makes this a good chance to apply discernment and distinguish between thoughtful, substantive comments and shallow, dismissive ones. As that is what we all should be doing on HN anyway, practice is good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
FSF call for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot
I'm going to start doing this.
I wonder... could this help the anaconda sat solver that increasingly seems to get stuck on even modest package lists these days?

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Remove the daily generation of inflationary money from the global economy and stop abusing our mother earth with this flawed idea of the forever expanding GDP. Return to moderate living and actually have time to enjoy what nature has to offer without highly industrial vehicles, boats and all kinds of wasteful things which require large industrial complexes and infrastructure. The world needs more wondering and less greed driven market leaders. The profit of a few is destroying the earth and reducing the quality of life - who really wants to slave labor every day without gaining the ability to have long periods just to travel, explore and admire the beautiful landscapes earth has to offer? If we only would reduce and not increase our list of must haves - we might actually start living instead of just existing to pay taxes and pay the ever increasing monthly bills. The rat race to our extinction has to stop. Everywhere where people stop fiddling with nature, recovery starts showing. Stop building dams, stop mega structures, stop generating the need to use industrial scale weekend flights -throwing massive amounts of extra heat in our airspace - for what? To briefly escape the labor intensive life as designed by our rulers. Did you have a choice not to need inflationary money systems? Money which banks -effortlessly- create every night in databases as mere numbers which keep on abusing you and the earth that we are trying to kill as fast as possible?
I'd also add ncdu - which is really great when you need to easily see what's eating up disk space.

jq is also super nice when you have to parse json data.

I also like powerlevel10k: https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
Something I didn't appreciate until I started taxi driving was Arizona's Zero-tolerance DUI enforcement. A lot of people get screwed with Zero Tolerance (that is, they're not actually impaired but get cited for DUI anyways) but it does motivate people who go out drinking to not take a chance. (Edit: there are drunks who desperately need to be taken off the road, and there are people who don't have a drinking problem but get arrested anyways, such as ↓↓↓)

One fellow who I think got screwed was the passenger I picked up at the police substation next to the casino near central Scottsdale. He said the cop was right behind him when he pulled into the convenience store on his way home from the bar. "Do you know why I pulled you over?" (asking for a confession). No. Headlights were off. It was twilight, my passenger said he protested that his car had automatic headlights. Cop didn't care. The passenger said he'd had 3 beers during happy hour, & blew a 0.04 (legal) but got arrested anyways. I picked him up at the substation at 1am or 2am iirc. He was looking at a huge bill that might've been avoided if his vehicle's computer was just a little more aggressive about turning the headlights on sooner: Legal fees, tow fees, etc. (A public defender later told me "never take a breathalizer, have them take you for a blood test.")

The taxi company I used to drive for had a "free rides back" program. Customers would order their taxi from the bar and request a free ride back from the scheduler. The next day they'd call the company and get a ride from their home back to the bar. It was not frictionless, but it worked pretty well, and people did take advantage of it.

Here's a newswire about the company's program (2011) https://www.newswire.com/this-labor-day-discount-cab-offers/...

Drivers would be paid the standard rate for contract fares: $1.50/mile, less $0.50 for the company's fee iirc (minimum $5.50). There may have been some kind of government grant/program that paid some the program's costs?

"Also available to the Phoenix and Tucson areas is the Discount Cab Free Ride Back program. This program gives drivers a free ride back to their own vehicles." - https://arizonaduiservices.com/dui/alternative-driving-servi...

In the post-Uber downsizing they sold the old taxi yard to Waste Management (for $4 million, iirc). Looking now, the company seems to have given up on "taxis" entirely, and now focuses on other types of transportation. I do see VIP taxi and some of the others are still going.

I'm out of the transportation industry now. If you've read this far, I refer you to my recent comment about how taxi driving helped me learn about "talking to strangers": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27835024
This article makes a generalized claim that pedestrians and cyclists are losing out on some sort of reclaimed roadways, but I don’t see any numbers in here to support that. It seems a lot of supposition that people are driving more so that must mean that pedestrians and cyclists are losing out. I am an avid cyclist, and I think if cyclists are losing anything it’s their ability to ride a bicycle safely in traffic. It infuriates me when I see cyclist running traffic lights, darting in between moving traffic, and generally pretending like the laws don’t exist.

If Pedestrians, vehicles, and bicycles are to occupy the same space, then there needs to be greater rules and accountability for all. Bike lanes are wonderful. Sidewalks are fantastic. However none of this will matter unless people follow the rules and respect each other.
Will you be able to see different things on each of the monitors or will some of the displays show the same thing (e.g. mirrored mode)? Having multiple monitors is meaningless if they are just displaying the same thing.
mgh = mv² is experimentally disproven in the ballistics lab experiments I mentioned.
If they can ask for your COVID vaccine status, they can ask for your other vaccines, your HIV status, they can ask for the results of your latest colonoscopy, your blood pressure, your blood sugar, all in the name of a "healthy workplace."
The code in a PDF reader executes when reading a PDF. So, things like evince, Preview.app and their dependencies. These things may have bugs that can be vectors of attack.

(Not sure if your question meant code inside a PDF? If so, you'll find that PDFs can contain JavaScript which is executed when opened.)
Apple staff quit because of the company's stance against remote working
Sometimes, it's so difficult to not be full of bitter spite and hatred for humanity when viewpoints like yours exist.

Whales lay dying in fishing nets which trap any and all, their companions watch on, suffocating in our acidic oceans, or choking on a plastic bag, sea birds flying hundreds of miles just to be able to feed on scraps, leaving their nests alone nearly the whole day at the mercy of God, delicate insects burnt to a crisp by gender-reveal forest fires, the very cliched polar bear stands on his tiny piece of ice looking in all four directions for a hint of food, a herd of wild elephants gathers in a circle looking down at their pathetic, poached brethren hunted for a small piece of white sticking out of their heads, turtles being turned into mince meat just to make guitar picks, insects being squished to make colored goo, chickens shitting themselves in fear as they're beheading is up next, all while a know-nothing bloviates self-importantly about AI and Singularity and things he has little understanding of. A shame.
No, You Can’t
Yeah, I don't think mine have ever felt like a serrated blade going through my leg, as another comment here mentioned, so probably not quite as bad. But it's definitely bad enough that I can't use the leg properly and it seems to manifest when I move my leg just wrong somehow, even in bed.

The trick to pull the tip of my foot backwards really helped a lot because then I don't have to try to stand or anything.

I've never had a cramp like that in water, thankfully.
Isnt antitrust one of the hottest issues right now? What with FB and Google just buying all their conpetition
Yes, I monitor about 1000 servers in Digital Ocean in New York, London and Singapore. Only New York went down for about 1 hour and a couple of hours later the global DNS system in DO went down as well for about 15 min. They initially didn't made any update in their Status page
I had read that the balls actually accelerated the growth of algae underneath, but this puts forth a very serious concern and that is plastic. I didn’t realize these were all made of plastic, I guess that just never entered my mind. Are there other materials that they could be made out of? Ceramic?
Fun "large number handling" facts:

- GMP has limits (compare e.g. https://gmplib.org/list-archives/gmp-discuss/2004-April/0011...). 2^31 limbs of 64 bit each means you cannot process numbers larger than ~2^37 bits (2^34 bytes = 16 GiB) with the standard mpz functions.

- Multiplication of large number is its own science, with different algorithms optimal at different sizes. (https://gmplib.org/manual/Multiplication-Algorithms)
Meh. In C, everything is a pointer, in Haskell everything is a monad.

Regarding effects, I found Koka to be a breath of fresh air: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why
I couldn't agree more. More and more lately I've felt like the Altavista days. I know the information I'm looking for is out there, it's just not in the Google results page, which is plastered with unreadable stuff (paywalls, content farms), crap "content cards" in the results page, and sneakier and sneakier ads.

I'm not sure what the beginning of the end was for Google Search, but I think the day where they changed the ad background to white is a good candidate.

Google Search used to be like Chrome or Gmail - we know its wrong in the long term, but it's hard to stop using it because it just works so well.

But these days, not anymore. Search is a lot less sticky, and it is their golden goose they are messing with here.
Here is why this is a bad hypothetical:

1) You are assuming that the current set of vaccines will stop the spread of this disease. This is already in doubt due to break away strains. In fact, it's possible that the currently vaccinated will be more susceptible to spread the new strains. This week's mask mandate was all about the vaccinated spreading the delta strain and having more viral load in their nose .
Naturally gained immunity is know to offer more protection from being reinfected with the virus. People that carry antibodies because they had the disease are more resilient because their immune system recognizes the virus by more than just the spike protein.

2. You are assuming 22,000,000 would otherwise get infected with Covid. This is not necessarily true. Young people don't get sick. Herd immunity, therapeutics and better future treatments make this unlikely.

3. We don't know the long term effects of the vaccine yet, thus can't make an ultimate call on the actual comparative rates of deaths. Hypothetically, what if the vaccine reduces life expectancy by 10 years, of millions of people.
Would it still be better than natural herd immunity.
Some of us have had first hand experience with communism, it does not "remain to be seen" for everyone, just those who don't know.
What the Sears catalog provided, in addition to a way to choose items, was a curated list of items that were chosen to be good (or good enough) in they category. Amazon is more of an unregulated flea market.
Looks like black type on a white background in my browser (other than the author name). Highlighted text is white text on dark red background. Seems readable to me.
I work in software engineering, and it's frankly annoying to deal with the always camera off people in zoom meetings. Usually it's well correlated with bad audio too and you have to strain to understand them. I don't want to make an argument about it because they are usually rare, but if any of my 1:1 teammates was always video off then I would bring it up to them.

Get a good A/V setup people, you have the technical ability and it's one of your main job interfaces. At the very least use a wired headphone setup and microphone so we don't play walkie talkie games as echo cancellation mutes one of us dynamically and your bluetooth headset adds 100ms random delays and a lower bit rate of audio. Also do ethernet to remove the delays and packet drops from wifi.
Makes things taste better. Garlic's tasty and full of oil. The flavour of the garlic infuses into the oil.

Depends on what you plan to cook though, probably wouldn't add it if I was planning on cooking pancakes or something. But a stirfry or anything like that.
Room 641A was known in the hacker community and proven to exist via a lawsuit by the EFF in 2006, 7 years before Snowden entered the picture.
I believe parted won't issue TRIM for whole disk/partition after erasing partition table or partition. Possibly mkfs.xfs issues TRIM? I don't know.

Anyway, what they should at least is just issue `blkdiscard /dev/sdb`, or betterly Secure Erase (on SATA) or Sanitize (on NVMe).
> “… could it be if people have more money for discretionary spending there could be more businesses to service them?”

This would be true if people did have more money for discretionary spending, but increasing the minimum wage has shown to decrease their total compensation. I don’t know how reliable the following article is but the summary expands on a few reasons on how this happens.

https://hbr.org/2021/06/research-when-a-higher-minimum-wage-...

> “… (employees) are just going to take whatever's available”

This is why it’s important to increase the opportunities available for them. More wealth creation means more wealth. I will get back to you on the citation for this.
The biggest cause of inflation is talking about inflation. If people believe it will happen, it will. Otherwise, it won’t. So, uh, let’s not about it, OK? ;)

Also we all experience inflation differently and our past experiences influence our expectations. The things I look at are already highly inflated (electronics, cars, housing, restaurants). Those are not everything. But I bet readers of this Website most often look at those same things …
But we were told to get vaccinated to protect others. Get vaccinated so you can visit your grandparents. Now we are getting a different message. This is why people develop doubts that the authorities have any real idea what they are talking about.
This is not a useful statement without including what the effectiveness endpoint is. The mRNA vaccines were miraculously effective against even symptomatic COVID due to the high antibody titers they generated but that was just a bonus. Their main objective has always been to prevent hospitalization and death. They continue to reduce these outcomes by >90% and there is no indication of this T-cell based immunity decreasing.

The Hill is a useless clickbait rag.
To get your data offsite, swap one of your photo drives with a safe deposit box … I think I pay about 50$ per year at BofA. It’s handy for a few bar drives and for critical important docs.
I will work for anyone doing anything for $125,000 per year. And remember, not everyone can be a coder for $300,000 per year. I'm talking about being a server at a restaurant, working in a warehouse, and jobs like that. You say those jobs don't pay that much because they are not that valuable? Ha, fine. See where that gets your company when you can't hire anyone. I bet those workers will look a LOT more valuable then.

Why should I work to make the rich richer? Does Jeff Bezos really need another $100 billion, while his warehouse workers make, what, $15 per hour, and every single person is measured the entire time, even taking a sh-t during their break? They fire women for being pregnant. Instead of fixing the air conditioning in a warehouse, they just lined up ambulances to bring warehouse employees to the hospital if they passed out because of the heat.

I'll lower my compensation demands only when you completely open your books to me. If I see that while I make $21K per year in Los Angeles working at a restaurant, you're making $20 million per year, then f you, I ain't working for you. If I see your books and you are making $350,000 per year, then ok, I'll lower my compensation demands. But f-ck you, I'm not going to make starvation wages when you make that kind of money of $20 million per year, or like that, anyways.

You say that I'll starve or get tossed out of my house if I don't work? Well, f you, you're also going to have the same thing happen to you if nobody wants to work for you. Let's all die together, sounds good to me. Otherwise, don't be so f-ing greedy.

Business owners can afford it. You are just too greedy and want more, more, more for yourself so that you can show off to everyone how great you are. Color me not impressed. Get your stupid little robot servers. We're not going to be able to afford going to your business anyways, since we are not working for money, so you'll still starve anyways, even with your damn robots.

Let's get the tax rate back up to 80 or 90% on the top tax bracket people, like it was from the 1940's to 1985, when the USA was doing a LOT better, in terms of infrastructure, equity in wages, CEO's not making 300 times the average worker, etc.
That makes sense, but I have a hunch that the majority of people that work at Apple (at least in the US, and not say the actual manufacturing plants [thats probably outsourced to many companies in asia]) don't need to work with expensive hardware for their day to day work.

The reality of the situation, globally, is that the commercial real estate market was showing signs of rolling over prior to the pandemic (as well as many other markets), and the bailoutistan operations since sept 2019 repo market intervention continue to enable a lot of the paper of CRE that has/is used as collateral (and rehypothicated many times over) to put alot of entities exposed to it on life support…

However it does nothing for cashflows in the CRE that no longer exist, which is why the situation will continue to get worse with out continuously increasing the interventions in markets, and the forces that influence behavior in those markets (i.e NYT posts shilling someones cornered book to try and get peoples behaviors/preferences to change).

Arguably, there has been a long shift to remote work going on since the 90's. Anecdote: My dad has been working from home not too long after P&G sold his division to HP and then to BT, and I have been for 5 years prior to march 2020 (and continue to do so today).
My grandfather worked in a Coopermill and you had to be a member of the union. If you tried to leave the union, as a few people tried, your legs got broken. Unions can be effective, but not if you forced everyone to join it.
Probably even more information of that nature is hidden in Facebook Groups where it was never searchable in the first place.
Studied or researched is not that reassuring given the replication crisis. There's a big difference between academia and real world use.
Just because the author brought race into it doesn't justify it.
> and you knowingly transmit it to another individual without telling them, I think that is a criminal act

It's very easy to protect yourself from sex with people who may be HIV-positive. Don't have sex with them or use condoms.
Pinterest is the worst as you cannot see the results without registering… How can it be a relevant search result! Fortunately -site:pinterest.com make it useable.
jq is great for a quick pretty print of json too, just

<run some command that outputs json> | jq .

and you'll get nice color pretty printed output. 90% of the time I use jq it's just to pretty print like this.
I think the federal government is a good example of what happens when you have a union that protects bad employees. It’s very hard to get fired from the government, because the union protects the bad with the good. A great example are the rubber rooms where they have to put bad teachers because the union forbids them from being fired.

Unions had their day, now they are just slush funds and protections for bad people.
insure vs ensure is another one I've commonly seen. As in "please insure that <some task> is complete".
> The vaccination rate for vericella (Chickenpox) is over 90%

Certainly not in the older generations. I never had a chickenpox vaccine. They didn't exist when I was a child. I have had chickenpox though.
We should build wildlife for people. hahaha
If you like/use jq and work with html, yq is it’s counterpart. Dyff is in a similar realm.
The US government has mostly retreated from corporate oversight.

1) Mergers are often denied in the US, but once a company is large enough, there's no breakup.

The Bell breakup didn't really help, as some of the Baby Bells later merged into AT&T, though alernate equipment mfgs. and long-distance providers emerged.

2) The US govt. is reluctant to assess serious penalities against large companies because of the layoffs at Arthur Andersen in 2002 due to the Enron scandal.

Also, the SEC will only initiate cases where the trial is affordable and predictable, partly because of the Countrywide scandal where the founder had comparable resources to the US govt., and ended up settling. The case went on from 2008 to 2016.

(The SEC has actually sent letters to large companies asking them to not pay legal fees for executives - pretty desperate.)

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/Decade/arthur-andersen-busin...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/babybells.asp

3) As banks become bigger, they become "too big to fail." Wells Fargo should have been shutdown after admitting millions of counts of fraud against account holders in a systemic effort to increase fees to move their stock price.
"The researchers filled a syringe with sodium and potassium, a mixture that is liquid at room temperature, and placed it in a vacuum chamber. They then used the syringe to form droplets of the metal mixture and exposed them to small amounts of water vapour."

Why will it react slowly under these conditions? As I understand it this is just NaK + water (in vapour form), why isn't the reaction just as fast?
I think I get phosphenes and never had the word for it. I can more or less elicit them on demand by closing my eyes, relax and let them cross slightly. A stroby concentric circle set ensues for a few seconds. Always the same pattern. Red.
there are published papers stating exactly this; one of the first google hits i've got states 54% in a realistic comparison. if they're 2x off the mark it's still a worst-case break even.

https://www.avere.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/englisch_St...
There are vaccines required to attend public school, but if your parents just say "I refuse" they are not going to kick you out. These hard-core antivaxxers are pretty small in number though.
The overlooked superpower of mRNA vaccines
Please don't take HN threads into tedious partisan flamewar. It's predictable and therefore boring, and inevitably turns nasty. We're trying to avoid that kind of thing here. I know the GP started it, but there's a difference between dipping a toe and jumping in.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's what Uncapped Games, Front Giant, Dreamhaven, Lightforge, Bonfire, etc. are.
Quick look at financials, they lost $25M in trailing 12 months, lost $14M in the previous year, lost $10M in the year before.

How is Duolingo supposed to become profitable?

How is a $6.5B valuation justified?
Clever carpentry helps bees fix wild honeycombs