skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I don't actually think you're dumb, or that your comment is dumb. I wrote the sibling comment to this one to point out that it's just as easy to degrade discussion with bad comments as with downvotes. I'm sure you can think of many more offensive/asinine comments that you've seen on over the years.)

A downvote says 'I dislike this, and I don't think it's worthy of any more time.' Yes, it's tough on the writer of the comment in that they have to infer the reason something was unpopular, and that inference might not be correct. But that's how it is in the real world. Look at it from the point of view of a busker trying out songs on the sidewalk. Some people stop and listen, some give money, some just express dislike without articulating why, a few are actively hostile.

There's a widespread assumption on HN that any discourse is an improvement on no discourse. It isn't. If I harbor a toxic dislike for you, I can erect a giant billboard saying 'motohagiography is a bad person', and abuse preconceptions about discourse to turn people against you. There are also any number of semantic tactics for doing the same sort of thing, and some people actively weaponize such tactics.
Desk, monitors, keyboard, mouse, external hard drive, and other things that go on a desk. I'm certainly not going to tear all that down every evening and set it back up every day.

Plus a separate office means a door to keep out noise, room for bookshelves and other office items, and the ability to just "put things down" without having to spend time cleaning off the kitchen table before dinner.

Any setup other than having a specific office for work is, in my opinion, sub-optimal. Sure, you can make due... but you could make due with a poor environment in an office building too... but why would you? You can't compare the setup in an office building to a much worse environment at home and then say "home is cheaper". For a like-for-like comparison, it costs the employee more to work from home.
> Also, you should take care to disable compression when encrypting with OpenZFS.

This is new to me, why?
As I said, no single device solution can provide this benefit.

And even having a spare doesn’t help if you don’t sync.
This is great, just shared it with my partner. Definitely eye opening to the danger.
I wonder if there'd be some value in an automated throwable PFD launcher as an early response -- launch a pfd out over the top of the probable victim, and slowly tow it in to a shallow ramp.
I haven’t played in too long, thanks for the reminder to jump back in.
This guy says veracrypt is tough, even tougher than LUKS:

https://blog.elcomsoft.com/2021/06/breaking-veracrypt-obtain...

Disk encryption is generally in XTS mode, and not authenticated. That’s not limited to veracrypt.
Tesla auto-pilot keeps confusing moon with traffic light then slowing down
I definitely can relate to Point 4. I think one way of countering this is to focus on a platform versus the base technologies. In particular, I am thinking along the lines of doing development work with the likes of Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics or SAP. The years of experience are valued more and the rate of change is inherently slower. The obvious downside is that the development work itself may not be as interesting but that can be mitigated somewhat on the projects one takes on within these platforms.
Imo what would be even better for commuters and cities would be a push towards ebikes. They go 25mph, most traffic in rush hour goes 16mph so you can beat that if you can squeeze by or have a bike lane. Most have a range of like 20 miles at least, and iirc the average car commute in the U.S. is 5-7 miles one way so these vehicles can cover most commutes. Ebikes are more tolerable to biking in inclimate weather than regular bikes as well. You don't get sweaty biking in the heat, and in the rain or snow you can actually gear up without risk of sweat building and soaking up your rain or snow gear from the inside as you huff and puff on a normal bike. If enough people are inclined to ebike commute, there will be more political support for more bike lanes, even services like plows and salting of the bike lanes over the winter, or even cheap shades over the lanes to keep off rain or sun.

The big barrier of ebikes is their cost. If you want one that isn't aliexpress tier with questionable batteries that might explode, you are going to drop money that could buy you a pretty decent used honda that is way more practical, probably $1500-2000. Plus there is the issue of theft and insuring these from theft or accidents. I'm not sure if theft would be covered by renters insurance or if you'd need a separate policy, it might even depend where the bike was stolen.

If the government is willing to give new EV car buyers $7000, they should give that same stipend to ebike buyers who would be able to get any top of the line model for free with money left over with that amount of subsidy. Not only do you get most of the benefits of electric commuting like with an EV, but you don't have to deal with the congestion that a car sized vehicle like an EV carrying one person at a time brings.
Or capitalism. No test exists that tells one from the other.
Interestingly, the ransom note made the same factual error, calling the explosive TNT instead of dynamite. "If exploded this bomb contains enough TNT to severely damage Harrahs across the street. This should give you some idea of the amount of TNT contained within this box. It is full of TNT."

(You can read the full thing at https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/august/a...)

That's part of why they tried decapitating the device with a shaped charge. TNT isn't as easy to set off as dynamite is. According to a different account I read, if it had, as advertised, been TNT (and there weren't a few loose sticks in the top), that plan would have had a decent chance of working.
They are coming to Serbia, shit will happen!
City spaces are deserts of concrete, steel, glass and asphalt. With the exceptions of a few parks and gardens within. Why not reintroduce at least parts of the destroyed ecosystems back into these artificial deserts?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/health/cdc-mask-guidance-vacc...

There are many more breakthrough cases with the delta variant. That said, the vaccines are still very good at combatting serious illness:

We continue to estimate that the risk of a breakthrough
infection with symptom upon exposure to the Delta variant
is reduced by seven-fold. The reduction of 20-fold for
hospitalizations, and deaths," Walensky said during
Tuesday's briefing.
New car sales might tip in two years, but that’s a small fraction of cars on the road. The average car on the road is over a decade old.

In fact, if people stop buying non-EV’s entirely, that might eventually slow down EV adoption since existing car owners will be unable to trade in their vehicles to buy EV’s.
If you look at the numbers, you're significantly less likely to be infected if you've been vaccinated, and hospitalization rates are 95% lower. The fact that we're seeing a good number of people infected after vaccination is classic Bayes theorem.

If we could get 70% of the population vaccinated we could be done with this and move on with our lives.
Why don't we also add a basketball free throw component so we can filter out those that have bad hand eye coordination?
> B.) Due to the PREP Act, they are completely immune from lawsuits arising from any form of complications arising from those vaccines.

I feel like (B) is true, but framed in such a way to get a specific [negative] reaction.

People hurt by any COVID-19 vaccine are still entitled to compensation for that injury. Essentially the US Government provides a liability shield, wherein the damages/liability is transferred to a specific government fund, because it is considered in the greater public good to have companies make vaccines at all.

This is done via the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program[0] which is easier/cheaper to win than normal civil court and pays attorneys fees on a win. This is funded via a specific tax on all vaccine sales that is earmarked for only this purpose.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Vaccine_Injury_Compen...
Was libre studio a distro? I’m trying to figure it out but your store is gone.
Perhaps I misunderstand your idea, but this clustering sounds like exactly the thing to drive polarization. Put me in my comfortable bubble where I only see content and comments from like-minded people, and I'll be increasingly unable to understand where people outside the bubble are coming from. The only thing I see about those people is ragebait about how awful and stupid they're being this week, written by other people I agree with. Even if I start on the edge of a cluster or in the overlap between two clusters, the feed will likely drive me towards one or the other.

That's how I feel with YouTube's aggressive recommendation system -- I watch a funny Bill Burr comedy clip, and YouTube knows there is some overlap between "Bill Burr fans" and "men's rights advocates", and now I get a bunch of recommendations for Jordan Peterson stuff and if I click one of those then its next recommendations want to take me down the MRA/incel rabbit hole. It's a radicalization pipeline where I touch some innocent surface-level stuff and YouTube goes, "hmm, well, of the people who liked that, our most highly-engaged users who click through videos all day long REALLY like THIS" and wants me to become that person.
I wonder if the exec in question would be fine with an “oh sorry about that” if someone blew up the cemetery where his grandparents are buried?

Yet another case where the fine needs to be a percentage of revenue.
The problem with the argument is that it assumes the only thing we can do to determine the validity of a claim is to evaluate how convinced certain other people are that the claim is true. He argues that, because scientists in 1975 were (supposedly) as convinced that global cooling was real as scientists today are convinced that global warming is real, we have no other means of determining whether either of these claims are true. Presumably he would also say that, because people before the Copernican Revolution were equally convinced of the heliocentric model as people after the Copernican Revolution were convinced of the geocentric model, we have no means whatsoever of determining whether either claim is true.
The name for what you're talking about is Hypnic Jerk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnic_jerk
The guidance to remask indoors yesterday could be related. But yeah, let's see that data and data from blood titers between these two groups. Press should be asking for timelines on when this is expected to be released.
The temptation is there, but AFAIK most learning materials are good to call out that processes are for concurrency needs, and a genserver is an abstraction on top of that to help with certain things, like synchronization.
There's kind of a swindle going on here. Before, if you were the NYT, and someone wanted to target your audience, they'd have to come to you (and honestly you'd prob get ripped off by the NYT).

Now, you don't need to go to the NYT. NYT's users are tracked, you just have to set up the right targeting on one of the big ad platforms and you reach that same audience for a fraction of the cost.
> B. If one doesn’t take the vaccine, one’s chances of dying or being disabled for years or permanently are much higher.

But for a young person with no co-morbidities, that chance is still basically 0%.

> C. If one doesn’t take the vaccine there is a significant chance they give the virus to someone else, killing them.

Even if others have taken the vaccine themselves? Either that particular risk is negligible if the vaccine works, or the vaccine doesn't work.
> it seems like a fourth obvious solution would require significant changes to the incentives for politicians

Politicians are choosen. By people like you and me. Obviously (to me) you and me like to look the other way, trying to ignore serious problems as long as possible. YOLO.
> We clearly don't, though. As a citizen you can be entirely unvaccinated and live a completely normal life.

You seem to be arguing technicalities without addressing my point. We have lots and lots of vaccine regulation that ensures that virtually all citizens are immune to diseases like measles, hep, diphtheria, etc... No, it's not absolute, and I don't believe I claimed it was. All policy requires careful tuning.

So let's include covid in the same regime. You agree with that part, right?
The parallels don’t quite line up, as in this case, they could be issued official cables that have a condom integrated/soldered on. Maybe in a special colour to remind you that these are “secure” cables.

It’d be like your internal corporate email client not even letting you send mail out to external addresses.

Sure, you could intentionally set up IMAP with an untrusted client and then send such messages (and likewise, you could intentionally bring some other insecure cable with you); but someone doing that would likely have a visible pattern of doing that, long before they actually get spearphished—one that could be noticed and reprimanded.

Of course, ideally, you’d make using the insecure clients / cables impossible, by giving the “other end” a proprietary shape that only the secure client/cable fits with.

(Maybe they could design a little adapter that could be semi-permanently socketed into a phone’s USB-C/Lightning port, turning it into something proprietary that only their secure cable has the male end for? I’m assuming here they still need a data connection — with a different special cable — for device maintenance; otherwise you could just make that little socketed-on adapter be the condom.)
That's very possible since he has a strong mathematics background, and has learned to think abstractly.
> We’re a new London-based consumer technology company on a mission to remove barriers between people and the technology we all use.

What was the problem with headphones?
Connecting GPT-3 to Clubhouse Social App with JavaScript and Google Deep Voice
Hand soldering a WLCSP package (2018)
> What is "much higher" in a number?

I'm not sure about the booster dose, Delta or any other variants, but the Pfizer Vaccine has been consistently shown in several studies to reduce COVID mortality by 99%, so that number is currently ~100
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Humans should do what humans are good at and come up with technological solutions to this. Maybe a small waistband flotation device that inflates via a CO2 cartridge once your fitbit recognizes that you're not breathing normally, giving you enough buoyancy to stop panicking and get to shore?
yes, for machinists if they get a cut and have hiv all work needs to stop and the area needs to be sanitized
Yes it is, very much so. You need to know your needs well to maximize your purchase, but for us it was cheaper than a Leaf to buy and it works exquisitely. I only hoped Toyota had never bet on Hydrogen for everyone, and ended up with zero-emissions in the hands of no one.
seems trivially resolvable for respectable email providers, just don't change your ipv6 source address.
If I'm forced to work in an office, and some of my colleagues don't want to get vaccinated or tested regularly, I WANT them to get fired. It is a workplace safety issue for everyone forced to work in an enclosed area.
I agree with all your points, although I'm lucky that where I'm working today, #3 is not an issue, but it has been before.

I absolutely agree with #2. I definitely got demoralized over the years when I realized even if I did a good job, the project could fail in so many other ways, often due to decisions much higher up in the chain.

All these issues are harder to live with as you mature. You can live with them a bit more when you're young since you're still naive and may not be aware of them or even care.
Many newer models of laptops, especially those being deployed in the enterprise have the ability to reset the BIOS locked out as well, to prevent explicitly the attacks suggested in the OP.
I didn't say they shouldn't be able to profit. Just that the profit should be limited.
Many states don’t have non-medical exemptions for vaccine requirements.
> a MASSIVE public health issue

Its not. Its the kind of topic made for karma farming on social media.
I can't find a source for that claim. Considering it costs California $80k to house a prisoner, 60k for a tent in a parking lot doesn't pass the smell test.
There are laws prohibiting kids from getting access to or drinking alcohol. No such laws exist for soda. Soda has a huge negative impact on young children, whereas alcohol doesn't. I'm discontinuing this conversation as you clearly have maligned intentions as evident by your uncharitable interpretations of my points.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I was going to mention that, but I'm actually not 100% sure if it's the same thing. Maybe it is? Either way, I definitely occasionally experience hypnic jerks and sudden vertigo-ish feelings when I'm right on the edge of falling asleep.
Whenever I control or can influence a meeting time, I find the earliest time of day I can. That way, whatever time is left in the workday, it's mine to focus on whatever project is at hand.
That sentence in the wikipedia article doesn't cite any sources to support the claim that lead acetate was used in paint. It only links to the article for lead acetate. It's unfortunate but common on wikipedia, and in this case serves only to perpetuate the myth of "sweet paint chips".
I’ve only not been able to get on the phone with someone once in my entire career (OpenAI I’m still crying on the inside). I feel like there is value here for engineers if we only have to do a single tech screen to get to an on-site otherwise I’m not sure what the benefit is. Is this supposed to help folks “test in” to the industry? Perhaps it could help with the systemic bias in this industry which is worthwhile and maybe that’s enough of a value prop for their pivotal but I’m skeptical.
So would you rather have your taxes increased so that it is from the government?

Would you not be making the same statement if it was a federally funded, just with a word replaced?
It's not owed to you, but it is still best practice to do so.
I’m in a situation where I paid every month during COVID, didn’t pocket any savings, didn’t milk the system in any way. I can’t move because rent is up 35% in my area and I can’t buy because it’s insane.

But you know what? I rather be in this situation than worrying about the end of the govt feeding bottle, so I’m not complaining. 20 million homeless would probably trash the market too and my investments would go to shit, so really I just wish everyone the best.
One of the things I love about being a developer is the sheer variety of tech adjacent jobs. I've been a developer for about two decades (in my mid 40s). In the last half decade I've worked through some other adjacent careers.

Since 2016, I have:

* been a startup CTO (a pre-seed startup)
* a technical trainer (to help pay for, well, eating, as I was building the startup
* an engineering manager (player-coach, too small a team for me to only do people things)
* developer advocate (writing, speaking, documented, example apps)
* book author (don't do this for the money, but writing deeply on a technical or engineering related topic is a fantastic experience, as it forces you to justify things that you might have been handwavey about in your mind)

All of these involved some programming, but none of them were 40+ hr/week of development. This is one of the other reasons to love software development.

I know a few developers in their 50s and 60s that are programming near full time. Some have moved from company to company, but a lot more have hunkered down at a place where:

* the work is steady, but not glamorous
* they trust the management

That's where I suspect many of the older devs have gone: to quiet, safe jobs where they can do their work and trust their management to do theirs.
Did you not actually read that article? The title is "Lead Paint, Sweet It Ain't", and its entire purpose is to debunk the myth of sweet tasting paint.

Even there, the claims that lead paint sometimes contained small amounts of lead acetate are unsupported. It's true that heavy metal salts have a long history of use as siccatives in oil-based finishes, but the vast majority of lead-based driers were the oxides, because they could serve double duty as pigments. And even if lead acetate were to be used in paint, it wouldn't taste sweet, because it would be bound in the polymer matrix (as your article points out), and there wouldn't be enough of it anyway. Look at the SDS for any oil based finish, and you'll see that metallic diers are added in just tiny amounts.

Regardless, I have never seen historical or scientific evidence that suggests lead acetate was used in any significant amount in paint. If you know of such evidence, I would genuinely love to see it.
https "solves" Internet security, your bad of you don't use it.
This article should have been a tweet: "Hey guys I bought a Bluetooth keyboard and it lets me type stuff! #hacktheplanet"
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021
The reason I use safari is because it is the closest to a 'web browser', it doesn't have service workers, it doesn't support PWAs. The amount I have to turn off before it is usable is just less.
The same can be said about the "making it far enough to be an L6 at a well known tech company" barrier. Actually, I believe this is a better qualification in terms of capacity, since it's more selective.
Ironically, many of them already believe that. Conspiracy-theory beliefs (i.e., evidence-free conclusions) are a symptom of underlying mental illness, which inhibits critical thinking skills. As such, they have no problem holding completely contradictory viewpoints.
That's an amazing justification. I'm going to use that next time I go on a “throwing bricks at windows” spree.
To be fair, this is a standard corporate bullshit. Heck, our bank has almost exactly same values, also 5 in total, and the fact they showed up after series of fines from regulators re fuckups here and there, everywhere, just underlines they are created by marketing team, just in this case more inward focused one.

Nobody sane obviously buys that bullcrap, not the people who come up with it, not the management, shareholders, stock holders, employees, nobody. So we can entirely ignore this, its not meant literally, or in any other serious way.
This direct link will 404: https://app.cinny.in/login

But if you go to the homepage (index.html) and click on Login it will do the weird little SPA routing thing and load the page correctly.

I'm guessing netlify needs to route every URL path to the index.html?

SPA apps have just fundamentally broken the web.
> I also sometimes get this weird perceptual thing where objects look huge, again, normally while in a dark room.

Does this happen in total black ?
I sometimes (really rarely, like once or twice a year) have a strange « feeling » at night while in my bed without any source of light : I can distinctively see the objects around me.

The twist is : I’m heavily myopic and even with my glasses (which I don’t wear at night) I can’t see anything in the darkness. So there is no way I could distinctly see things with their contours in the darkness.

It only happened in places I know, so I can’t know if my brain is making my bedroom up or if I really see something, or if it’s a combination.
> We clearly don't, though. As a citizen you can be entirely unvaccinated and live a completely normal life.

This is only because the majority of the populace is vaccinated against polio, measles. If the majority of the population was also unvaccinated, these viruses would make life not fun. Most of us live a very sheltered life and have never directly experienced living with measles or polio.
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