skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the area had a number of large summer events -- sounds like stuff like a county fair and large concerts? If vaccination offers 95% protection in the course of typical daily life, it's not that surprising that one in twenty people will get infected after a series of large public gatherings. It's like everyone looked at that 95% effectiveness number and decided that it's 100% bulletproof protection. The fact that so few were hospitalized (and only one of those hospitalized was vaccinated) is a positive sign.
You're describing people as if they are selfish and don't care about the future of humanity. That's not what this is. This is a tragedy of the commons. Virtually no single person has the power to combat climate change. If I could make a meaningful difference, I would happily trade my comfortable existence to save the planet. But I can't. Nothing I do will make a difference. So why should I reduce my carbon foot print or make any other sacrifice, when the world will be just the same with or without my sacrifice?

And there you go, a few billion people thinking like me and suddenly this group has real (negative) impact.
Like nearly everything from the media, it's a lie designed for clicks.
If it can tell you forgot the semicolon it probably can do without it, so why doesn’t it? ;)
We passed the climate change tipping point years ago. These investors are attempting to profit by selling a false hope. Since nothing can be done, stop whining.
Yes but it will take time.
I know of some HSBC teams who have gone full remote. It was meant to be experimental, but management has been really satisfied with the metrics so it's a permanent thing. Some banks are embracing it, even if not fully.
Anonymous advice: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want your name on?
I don't know about Lunatic, but there's a bunch of Rust actor frameworks that run on many machines. I think I saw one that supported moving an actors between machines

For example, Kay https://github.com/aeplay/kay (used in https://aeplay.org/citybound)

I'm less sure about Axiom https://docs.rs/axiom/0.2.1/axiom/

And then there is Bastion https://crates.io/crates/bastion that I think allows moving an actor to another machine
I still have their Simpson's package for MacOS 7 macs... The Itchy and Scratchy one is the best.

There was also a Windows (3.x) version.
> In the U.K. newspapers talk about Meredith Kercher.

Maybe sometimes, but Knox's name makes up the vast majority of headlines. Here are just three major UK publications, and see how little Kercher is mentioned in her own search results...

The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/meredith-kercher

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/meredithkercher

The Metro: https://metro.co.uk/tag/meredith-kercher/

That must be very hard for Amanda to deal with, her article was surprisingly calm despite the many reasons to be angry about this continued media hype.
I have a family member that works at a company like that, they do basic skills training and then try to match the people with jobs. They end up mostly with people that were desperate for a job, meaning their disorder was bad enough they couldn't find one on their own. For those seeking engineering jobs, they usually are fairly skilled workers, but the deficits in other areas are extreme. People that would show up to the office smelling like they hadn't showered in a month.

So at least in the case of this one company, it seems they are selecting not only for neurodivergence, but also for prior inability to get/hold down a job. I think for the companies that are considering hiring, it is a cheaper way to test potential employees than the normal hiring process would be. They get a free trial and can start the person at a lower payscale if promising, so they can benefit if the resourcing company manages to get a couple of the people to a hirable state.

I would suspect there are also neurodivergent people who are more functional hired through the normal process, although maybe that varies by company. Certainly they're relatively common at FAANGs.
curl http://foo.com?x=1&rm -rf ~/
I'm curious, what type of application would require printing strings over 2GB in size?
I think the honest truth is that the government could not give less of a shit about coverage on Assange. It's such a hilariously marginal story, and doesn't play badly with their base. That's ignoring the fact that 99.9% of news is covid related anyway far outshining any really bad press.
I'd prefer that the browser be taken out of the equation completely.

The web browser is becoming just a shitty operating system, largely controlled by unaccountable megacorps who are primarily interested not in empowering users but in tracking them and serving them ads.
I'm far from an expert either!

The important thing is that the sea of electrons in metals are able to interact with EM waves coherently, so phase is conserved, so the classic ray optics happens, an that's why we can see things in a mirror, while in case of a white non-mirror surface we have the absorption-emission, and in that case the emitted photons are going everywhere, so we just see a big homogeneous surface.

> I take it that this interaction between photons and plasmons is equivalent to the changing of energy states of electrons and the release of photons as electrons fall to lower states.

Yes, except "better", because it keeps the phase.

> band gap

So there's the optical band gap and the electric. (The electric is required for charge transport, so it's sometimes also called transport gap.)

So a cloth is an insulator, in an insulator the band gap is pretty big. The incoming photon does not lead to transport, but it leads to optical excitation. And then an emission of a photon with a lower energy.

In some instances the relatively high energy of the incoming photon gets converted through various radiationless processes into other forms of energy. For example molecular rotation and vibration (usually photons in the infrared and microwave range do this to matter). These also lead to at least one quantum number change [as every interaction in a quantum theory must], but in case of UV or visible light the electron getting excited and jumping to a higher atomic orbital shell is in an atom that's bound in a molecule. The incoming EM field wave is not high energy enough to "penetrate into" the atom, it interacts with the whole sum of the EM field of the molecule. (And the energy basically gets transferred into the molecular bond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet%E2%80%93visible_sp... )

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_band
I’ve implemented GDPR compliance and found the law and associated guidance quite clear.
It's down to trust. Google has a financial incentive to stalk people, has demonstrated that they are willing to use dark patterns to make people act against their own interest when it comes to privacy and their current data processing consent flow (supposedly for GDPR compliance) doesn't actually comply with it.

Let's say you were hiring for a security guard for a bank. You have 2 candidates.

One is a former bank robber, isn't particularly wealthy (so has an financial incentive to rob again) but totally claims he is trustworthy and will no longer rob banks.

The other has no bank-robbing history and happens to have other sources of income meaning they don't have a financial incentive to rob the bank.

Morals or laws around hiring former offenders aside, which one do you pick?

Sure, you can keep a close watch on the ex bank-robber to prevent future incidents just like you can decompile and reverse-engineer Google Authenticator's every update (and do so preemptively before installing said updates), or you can just go with an option that has no demonstrated history of being malicious and has little incentive to do so.
Fluence P2P computing with WASM and pi calculus
Deploy wasm for logic, call off chain apis with adapters, orchestrate with pi calculus based language. All tolology execution flows and data items capture origins in signed form to allow to built security in low trust environment. Discovery and registry are built on kademalia and signed dht, and trust chains in future.
I'll be honest: I do think frying pan popcorn legitimately tastes better. That said, it can't be argued it's far easier to use the machine.
> the sound that was recorded and post processed at the time and released is the correct one

that's a fun angle - what is the "correct" sound?

a different way to define the "correct" sound could be to claim that experience of listening to the band playing live is the one true correct "sound". In principle you could try to approximately recreate that live sound using a live beatles cover band or some kind of computer simulated beatles [+].

but that perspective of "correct" being a live listening experience ignores the contribution of production to the end product that was shipped & listened to, as you're advocating for.

[+] e.g. try to simulate the sound of all the instruments and the vocals from first principles or something, perhaps fitting them to the actual recordings using some belief about the observation model & error model of how the true sounds would have gotten recorded/distorted/mangled/mixed into the recorded sounds, using the standard equipment and techniques of the day. now we've turned the problem into an arbitrarily hard ill-defined inverse problem, so we can probably make it sound like however we want depending on what assumptions we make, so arguably this is a weird and overly complex way of producing one of many possible remixes or reinterpretations.
> So, what should I do to keep myself safe online?

You may not be able to keep yourself online at all. Turning off the internet is part of the script for dealing with unrest.

If you can, try to setup a way to dial-up a foreign ISP with a modem. xs4all used to be a goto provider for this, but other comments say they're shutting down their dial-up service October 1. Might be useful as an available target to test with though.

Sometimes it's less expensive for outside countries to call you than for you to call out, but a quick look shows rates to Tunisia to be quite high, so probably figure out where is the least expensive to call, and then see if you can find a dial-up ISP there, and see it you can get a connection. Landline is obviously preferred here, but expense might be too great.

POP3 + TLS email with GPG if you can make it happen and a contact outside the country to help would work the best. International calling could get cut off too, of course, but it might be done later. And calling internationally might get you put on a list, so there's that, too.

Good luck and stay safe.
Yeah, I’d seen the beta, but it looked like an early effort shortly abandoned - it didn’t inspire a lot of confidence.

Edit: although giving it a second glance, it looks like there’ve been a few updates:
https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea...

The US can extradite UK citizens for US crimes committed in the UK, but not vice-versa.
Disclaimer: I know nothing about Tunisia.

If we believe your assessment that you're not worried about your physical safety, there's little you should worry about your "online" safety. Realistically, a government can't go Big Brother online while people enjoy their freedom in the real world - how would that work?

The one thing I can think of is if you frequently write opinions that the majority of Tunisians disagree with - it doesn't matter whether they're pro- or anti-government, if things get heated, people will search for targets to fix their rage on. People, people can be the worst. So try not to post too many incendiary opinions and keep them far from your real identity.

Also (it should be obvious to you by now, but) don't put too much weight on the opinions of people who can't spell your ruling party's name. (Yes, that includes this comment!) If I had a dime every time someone said "Get out of South Korea ASAP because there's going to be a war!" ...
Diagnostic details so you can see the innocuous process steps that led to a failure/error :) It's entirely possible that a certain value/step early in the process is what ended up resulting in a breakage way later in the process. At least, in my experience that has been the case for all kinds of software/services.
Who are they going to sell them to? Aquaman?
Mine are discoverable with a few jumps. I find it the appropriate amount of indirection to make sure people actually feel motivated enough to.

It’s worked well. Gotten a handful of really high quality interactions.
I read your latest post about linters and not liking ceremony involved in setting up eslint. Have you tried deno lint by any chance?

https://github.com/denoland/deno_lint

You can use it via the deno binary as well.

I don't use LinkedIn so I couldn't contact you there. Maybe adding an email on your site would be nice alternative.
Yarn did change this, but then it was rolled back, because too many things depended on actual files being there.

So now a project has to explicitly opt-in to Yarn pnp.
Mine's a bookmarklet.
Yes, just rebuild society instead. Simple.
I live in the US and I travel a lot, so I guess you can cite me as well when I say the idea that Tunisia is anything like the West is Lloyd thinking he has a chance with Mary. I mean it's really nice that your nation is stumbling toward a functioning democracy and all it took was a guy on fire and bunch of assassinations but get real lol
> China has around 1/5'th of the emissions per capita compared to western countries. It's western countries that are a threat to the environment.

China has roughly twice the per capita CO2 emissions of the UK, France or Italy (about 10 tonnes per capita to 5). It’s 2019 level of 10.1 tonnes per capita is significantly than higher the European average of 6.6 tonnes, but less than the US average of 17.6 tonnes.

Source on Chinese CO2 emissions: https://rhg.com/research/chinas-emissions-surpass-developed-...
Let's not throw baby out with bathwater. This kind of thinking has been so harmful for social cohesion, and we need a cohesive society if we're going to have a prayer of handling the worst problems we've ever faced as a species in a way that future generations will be remotely proud of.
Only one data point but the local Amazon warehouse I worked at for a while has a Target warehouse about a mile away that pays ~20% more for similar work. People were leaving for them in droves, including management.

I'm sure the competitiveness varies wildly in different areas though.
Mining job comparison over slack channels?

That seems pretty out there.
Note that Raspberry Pi OS also has a 64-bit beta version, and it's been extremely stable for me for months now.
The treaty of Nanjing which gave HK to the UK was made between the Queen of England and the Emperor of China. The Republic of China was the successor state to the empire. The present official Chinese copy of the treaty is kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Historically, the People's republic of China had to lobby the UN quite hard to take over the treaties and privileges (UN security council membership) which the Republic had assumed.
That's actually kind of the point.

Managers have been pretty much in control of the narrative about what's happening underneath them when relaying to up the chain, and therefore they could overstate their own self importance -- when really it was the people under them that came up with the ideas, found the savings, made the efficiency gains happen... etc etc. (There are many managers that are good, but there are a god awful lot that are bad.)

So now in 2021, people have figured out they like having their own private bathroom, and a 43" monitor on their desk (because the company won't pay for it), and not doing the brutal commutes anymore.

The reality of the employee's true monetary value in a company is becoming starker and starker by the day.
Not only that. Amazon also seems to have no idea what they sell shoe wise.

Bought winter boots from them. So not sure on what size to get, because you should buy those larger. I also have wide feet too but they only offer them in M not E or wider. I don't know the brand yet, so no knowledge on how they fit vs size listed. Finally ordered after research online.

Instead of the size I ordered, a 10 M, I get a 10 AA. It doesn't fit obviously as it's too narrow. Contact support and ask them what to do. They assure me I should get them exchanged and they will add a note to the warehouse to make extra sure I get the 10 M and not accidentally a 10 AA again. Days later I get 10 AAs again... Same chat with support who probably laugh to themselves at the stupid customer 'note to the warehouse haha' (do they actually do this? Would any overworked/underpaid warehouse worker even look at that?). I have to cancel the order and order a new pair in 11 M, which if I actually get that means they're gonna be too large. Luckily an 11 AA arrived. Go figure.
Download https://tails.boum.org/ and put it on a thumb drive. Keep the drive somewhere safe.

If you use any cryptocurrencies, put them in a cold wallet and encrypt + hide your keyphrase (not on the usb drive, somewhere that's safe and away from where you are).

After that... keep your head down and don't make yourself a target!

One additional note, even though you said you're not worried about your physical safety -- set up meeting points with your loved ones away from your home in case something should happen and you can't get back there. If someone runs into trouble and can't communicate, it can be helpful to know where to meet up (same suggestion I'd give to someone moving somewhere with lots of natural disasters, fwiw)
It’s better, but I still would love to see the amount of vomitus reduced when templates are involved.
> Edit: I'm not worried about my physical safety, I'm just asking about protecting my privacy online if the government decides to go full on Big Brother.

What makes you think it hasn't already?
this is awesome, seems to be a good use case for using IPFS decentralized storage, either for copies of the big sqllite db dump file, or (as an alternative) for the individual wiki articles "snapshots"

i think it would be easier to keep it in sync with original wiki using the second option, where each article in static.wiki is synced with original wikipedia pages and updated individually, vs. updating the huge sqllite dump on every change in the originals

then the sqllite will be only holding metadata and links to static (and may be version controlled) versions of individual static pages/article snapshots, so the size will be much smaller and easier to distribute on ipfs

Edit: looks like there is similar effort in the works, to put wiki on ipfs https://blog.ipfs.io/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
Don't we have robots that take out the trash? The garbage trucks pickup the garbage and put it in the truck.

Also, the vacuum now empties itself
I don’t take it at all as the threat you portray it as.

Instead, it is a sage warning — I fear the man who has nothing left to lose.

Let’s be honest, our society has major cracks at the seams, and it is prudent to be worried about the ripping social fabric leading to worsening unrest, and, ultimately violence. (Apologies for the terribly mixed metaphors)
We have no hope of facing those problems if our social cohesion is so fragile that it can't even handle calling an article out as clickbait.
I have been thinking of using FTS5 with SQLite to search emails. Not close of 43 GB ofc, so I would probably not have any major performance problems, but still is FTS5 any good? Or should I look into other solutions?
Did The Beatles ever play Sgt Pepper's live? I'm too young to remember, but I think that was from after they stopped playing live.
It's a raw bus? It's like an operating systems idea of a network stack being to hand all software raw ethernet access. It is an obvious concurrency disaster once you have more than one application trying to access it, the data transmitted and control handed over is entirely opaque to the operating system (god knows what monitor vendors sneak over DDC) and most importantly all of these are absurdly low level implementation details that are subject to change.

For all you know, they don't even need DDC beyond the initial EDID setup and multiplex the I2C hardware to do something else and can't physically provide this interface anymore.
An album is only mixed for whatever technology is available at the time. The moment you convert an old vinyl record to cassette tape it has already deviated from what was "correct". The same goes for CDs, 5.1, Atmos and whatever else will show up in the future.

In fact if the Sgt Pepper recording that sounds so right to you is in stereo (which has been the default version since 1968), you yourself aren't listening to the original canonical one.
> My mom would make popcorn in a frying pan. The machine is sooo much easier.

But perhaps not as much fun, particularly if you forget to put the lid on?

> It seems I spent half my childhood washing dishes by hand. Ugh.

Yes, I remember that when I left home to go to university, the very first thing my parents did was to buy a dishwasher.

Mind you, I don't have one today - kitchen too small, and I don't like bending down to fill/empty it.
If you think that this is the failure of American experiment, you are deeply ignorant of the liberal human rights infested democracy in which you either live or do not live.
Thanks for making me aware of a new data structure !
What happened with Elasticsearch?
i am not a beatles fan, i have no idea. presumably they played it live (or the component parts of it) during recording.

if they never played it live, it makes the idea of regarding the live sound as the "true" sound even more absurd.
If you do receive a vaccine, the overwhelming evidence is that the case will be dramatically less dangerous.

Let’s call herd immunity what it is - human sacrifice..
If no: I recently launched https://4dayweek.io/ Software jobs with a better work-life balance :)
A bug elsewhere could lead to this
The only scenario I could see 150 feet of Bruce Schneiers old cryptography books adding value at this point is if they have his notes in them.
> what are we losing now?

Book published without DRM and the death of first sale doctrine?

Try giving away some "used" kindle books.
Does this actually give us a “ better idea why athletes who did objectively better, as in won silver versus bronze, might appear less happy” as claimed by the marketing professor running the study? How does this test the upward/downward comparison hypothesis?

I’m very ready to accept that image recognition can help support the idea that third place winners are happier than second place, but I don’t see how that helps tell us why at all.
These statistics don't take into account consumption based emissions, only production based emissions (except oil production, I believe). Western countries have outsourced their production to developing countries (which looks nice for them on emission graphs), but their consumption based emissions are steadily rising. If you take into account trade of goods as well as production of goods, it's not as nice of a picture as those graphs would have you believe.
perhaps its that they just asked for how they feel and not any records
Using console.log() debugging in Visual Studio Code
"There were five hospitalizations in the subset: one in an unvaccinated person with underlying medical conditions and four in fully vaccinated people"

I think you have vaccination status backwards among the hospitalized.
Yes, because yellow journalism making a comeback means that somehow the readers fault for distrusting the journalists... Classic GN shilling
ML systems don’t make decisions.

I feel like a lot of comments about what ML will do start with a misunderstanding of what ML actually is.

Saying ML will make a CEO’s decisions is like saying Excel will make CEO’s decisions. Neither is anything more than a system for keeping track of correlations.