skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if it was a dorito crumb, shouldn't a screen be able to withstand that? Now if was like a marble or ball bearing or a pen or something sure but closing the lid on a CRUMB should not break a screen. People eat near their computers all the time, take them to cafes etc.
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As far as I know there isn’t any serious scientific evidence for long covid, especially in previously healthy persons.
(No one upvoted my post, so I didn't bother checking the threads, sorry for the delayed response).

This was on an 8-bit microcontroller, so it was compiled to a left-shift into the carry bit, then a left-shift from the carry bit into a register that contained a 0x00.
We should upgrade our IDs, as many people are not aware suspicious people are trying to take advantage of their personal information.
Your default name is the one you get from your parents, but there are all sorts of personal or professional reasons to change it, and it used to be standard for women to change their names at least once in a lifetime.
Same. I get lost in researching everyone else's file organization and other workflow methods. I always feel like mine is a dog's breakfast, scattered across many incongruent, un-coordinated drives, clouds, shares, etc.
> I wish we as a culture/society, acknowledged the luck and timing factor more as a factor in career development.

How's this?

I'm a self taught programmer who did not start to learn programming til I was in my 40s. It was not super easy to get my first full time job.

One day, I went to a tech meet up. Got a t shirt.

Six months later, I wore that t shirt to a hiring fair. Someone recognized the t shirt because he was at that meet up too. We started talking. I end up joining the start up he worked for.

Two years later I'm looking to leave and start job hunting but completely fail on my first phone technical interview. Decide to study some more "interview questions" before applying to another job.

Find out the next month our start up is in acquisition discussions with Big Tech Co. Decide to stop job hunting.

The acquisition happens. I now work for Big Tech Co. They never would have hired me if I had applied cold for the job. I'm doing well there.

So, the secret to my success: a t shirt and flubbing an interview.
I hate your tacit attack on the left, but you're right. This is someone building a CV at the expense of a community. They should be ashamed.
To add to this like - having internal legal counsel take on a litigation cases would be like hiring SAP developers full time to do an SAP ERP implementation. Consultants/contractors are great for episodic projects (even if they span multiple years).
10% gain in productivity =/= 10% gain in compensation, most people already have a chair/desk so replacing their function does not automatically make it cheaper. Seems like you're doing more of a math problem instead of applying this to actual people.
It’s a really powerful article, and it’s hard to argue with any of it. What a nightmare it must be to have what happened to Amanda Knox happen to you. A totally innocent person, who was not only imprisoned for years for a crime she had nothing to do with, but also had her name dragged in the mud by the global press for years. To such an extent that most casual observers still think she had something to do with the crime.

It’s clear that the filmmakers have no legal obligation to Knox (and she acknowledges as much in the article), but I think it is equally clear that they have a moral obligation to not slander her using a thinly veiled fictional character.

It’s a shame too, because the real “Amanda Knox saga” would make for a much more interesting movie: what is it like to have your roomate murdered, your life destroyed, and your identity robbed from you by the global tabloid press? That’s the real Amanda Knox story.
Glass is weird. Improperly annealed glass can spontaneously break due to little more than atmospheric oxygen and water. Its breaking stress is a function of time, but on a human timescale: seconds to days!

Check out the lower figure on page 9:
https://glassproperties.com/references/MechPropHandouts.pdf
Thing is most press runs on ads and the art that IBM perfected and apple copied is pulling ads from negative publications. So if a story absolutely needs to be published and you still want to keep ads, you have to come up with a way.
We cared enough about 3,000 dying in NY that we slashed and burned our civil liberties.

We kinda-sorta care about 600,000 deaths and counting around the country... enough to ruin small businesses, but little enough to eventually relent and spread COVID more... and I guess see-saw periodically while people bitch and moan about wearing a mask. :D
I dunno, what's new? There are people out there who advocate war. That is even worse than being unvaccinated, and yet such people often end up in positions of power.

And people with weak immune systems are living in constant danger anyway. They have weak immune systems.
Litigation (court stuff) is almost always outsourced to law firms. The reason is that it's a different kind of practice than day-to-day corporate stuff (contracts, acquisitions, regulatory compliance) which is primarily done in house. Another major reason is the economics - generally, court cases are not always expected, and "lumpy" in timing (for example, you can have a few hearings back to back, and then spend months without court cases). So it's not usually efficient for companies to have in-house litigators. In addition, once litigation starts, you need a very big team to handle the work (pretty commonly, 10+ lawyers working full time on a tech case during pre-trial and trial). Companies don't like big payrolls.

Source: am litigator.
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How is this different from any other behavior?

Being obese makes you more susceptible to most communicable diseases, colds, and flus, yet I don't see anyone calling for Doritos to be banned and those with a BMI over 30 to be restricted from participating in society.

At some point, you have to take personal responsibility. You cannot offload every single one of your personal health concerns on to the rest of the population.
It wouldn't surprise me to see humanity go extinct a few hundred years from now.
Without access to specialized knowledge, like being an expert in a subject, users will either check the authority/standing of the speaker, the emotional appeal of an argument, or the underlying logic of it.

In my simple way of putting it - creating a website, or creating a post, and then having it disseminated is dirt cheap today. You can get an article on a news website, having it referenced by a youtube channel, have that sent to a twitter feed.

That alone is sufficient to discuss an increase in the volume of content being created - however, that volume also gets disseminated as fast as it is created, which is what accounts for the speed.

This is also without looking into the fact that people tend to use superficial traits to assess whether information is credible online.

"Yet, research shows that people rarely engage in effortful information evaluation tasks, opting instead to base decisions on factors like web site design and navigability. Fogg et al. (2003), ... They argue that because web users do not often spend a long time at any given site, they likely develop quick strategies for assessing credibility."

From: Credibility and trust of information in online environments: The use of cognitive heuristics, (Miriam J.MetzgerAndrew J.Flanagin)

So a good looking website, with content that purports to be endorsed by known authorities, and hits the right cultural blind spots for its audience will get past their filters.
I had similar questions when it came to the film Sully. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sully_(film)

In that film they portray the NTSB investigators as trying to paint the pilot in a bad light during the investigation. According to the folks involved in the investigation, including the pilot, this never happened.

These are real people, they don't have the reach or voice of a movie, what happens when someone decides to portray them unfairly?

Legally I don't think there's anything to be done, there would be too many bizarre second order effects if you simply couldn't portray someone without their permission. At the same time it seems morally questionable to not involve them, specifically if their voice is so much smaller than the medium.
B-tree Path Hints
I believe Data General AViiON mainframes used m88k CPUs. One came through a used computer shop I worked at in the early 2000s.
Sass/Scss let you nest media queries inside of selectors years ago.
Ugh, I could never. I love my spine way too much to do this.

This is just asking for back problems.
Most people do (myself included, I just put everything on Backblaze or Google Drive), it's just that HN isn't most people.
These are great points, but I think it's crucial to include the second part (which you did) about how to harness luck and randomness. Too often I see people go "these guys were just lucky, it's all chance," and I think that leads to unnecessary defeatism and missed opportunities.
I don’t understand why you say musk fans aren’t any better.

If you’re going to be a fan of someone, why not someone who is transitioning the world to sustainable energy and trying to make humanity a multi-planetary species?
I, for one, hate wearing masks. I do it if I'm required or am sick and not otherwise. In the winter glasses + hat + longer hair make it really difficult to get a mask on-off (not to mention extra fogging up glasses, which can be dangerous in some situations) and in the hot summers it quickly can cause overheating. It's also so depressing to not see people's faces outside of a small familial or maybe social bubble.

Not everything is politically motivated.
Really? Because in places like Colorado and Montana the Californians who sold their parents' house to move there and start their 'lifestyle business' is so old it's beyond a cliché. Maybe substitute 'inherit' for 'gifted'?
This summer I forgot the PIN of my iPad, because I didn’t use it during all summer. And it’s only 6 digits. I had, however, made note of the PIN elsewhere so I was able to unlock it. I have similarly forgotten PINs and passwords in the past that I didn’t use for a while. I recommend unlocking your safe at a regular interval, so that you remember the combination, if it uses a code lock. And even if it’s a key lock it’s probably a good idea to do it too, so you know where the key is.
Haven't there been campaigns to ban sugary drinks?
I would say that the vast majority of "real mathematicians" could not use such a proof system either - this is one of the major obstacles stopping the adoption of proof systems or proof assistants in the mathematical community. I think that even at the moment, what proof systems can prove is far far ahead of what regular users can easily express in those proof systems, and there really needs to be some programming language / human-computer-interaction work or research to bridge the gap there.
I was stating what was probably the court's opinion, not necessarily my own.

But to answer your question, consumers can be harmed through loss of choice, as Amazon forces out other businesses.

I'd also caution against focusing exclusively on harm to consumers. The harm to businesses is just as real, and something governments are justified in trying to prevent. Their citizens, business-owner and consumer alike, will not thrive in an environment where a handful of companies dominate, crushing or absorbing any competitors through underhanded means. Businesses and consumers do not live in separate worlds.
Survival of the fittest. Maybe stop complaining and start identifying your genetic specialization
Might I suggest you make an actual attempt to wrestle with the issues the article presents.
Right, if they have to fact check anything, it seems like they'd have to fact check everything, and then if Facebook is capable and required to fact check every single thing on it's platform and arbitrate the truth it's like they'd have to be some kind of omniscient truth knower.

If they aren't in some privileged position of truth holding all you've got is facebook applying its narrative layer on top of everyone else's narrative layer. You're exactly where you started.

I guess a better way to say this is that I think the idea that Facebook is capable of arbitrating the truth is at its core, philosophically, a nonsense proposition.
I'm also having a weird issue related to the screen on a M1 Macbook Pro. Every other month, the screen randomly turns blank. The backlight still works, and every time the laptop opens it flickers for a couple of seconds with a bit of the image visible, so it seems that the screen itself is still working.

After a few days, it randomly works again after a reboot. But never immediately. I suspect something with the GPU, as a Shadertoy visit once triggered it.

The issue is irreparable. Once it gets into repair, and I've lost my laptop for a few weeks, it will randomly work again after a few days and they'll say there's nothing wrong.
"users who shut their MacBook screen onto a keyboard with a bunch of Doritos crumbs stuck in it"

Wow, they're that fragile?

"Modern materials are complex and display counter-intuitive failure modes" == "We're using really cheap materials, and it will surprise you how fragile and breakable they are"
I certainly wouldn't call it the next stage of evolution, but it does seem to be increasing in prevalence with at least some of the cause lying in genetics: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/...

I am curious to see how the population changes over time as a result of increased freedoms for women. It's only really been a couple generations so far (and only in some countries), but now that women and men are on more equal footing when choosing a partner (and both sexes are more likely to settle outside their hometown) you end up with a lot more pairings that match career status and to some extent intelligence.

There's definitely going to be (on average) a difference in offspring between an MIT dude that married his secretary and one that married someone also from MIT, and for all we know the former may be healthier, especially as you extend this N generations. Of course that's a drop in the bucket relative to overall population size, but I think the effect could exist across various societal groupings.
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What is Elton John's name and who owns it?
> different php versions

How do you do that one? Last time I tried (granted, a long time ago), apache-mod-php was hardcoded into a single php version, and you couldn't have different versions of it on apache either.

I always classified php as one of the most problematic languages that need containment. There's not only that hard dependency on the version, but the language also has a global configuration storage that, last time I used it, can not be overloaded.
> Still while it is a losers pay country the costs are moderate (limited value assigned to access and therefore limited fees) and are in any case peanuts for FB. Also the industrialized cease-and-desist-letter law companies are unlikely to take these type of lawsuits.

That may not be true. Amazon dropped its arbitration clause because of the cost of filing fees after some attorneys mass filed disputes over a few issues (with the Echo, I believe).

If these are obviously losing cases for Facebook, they may stand to lose much more.
By certain over-zealous governments, yes. Michael Bloomberg, I'm looking at you.

There is also a big difference between making sugary drinks expensive/banned and locking people that consume sugary drinks into their houses.
>Thus "vaccine sceptics" don't impact only themselves but can cause effects on others

It goes both way, mandatary vaccine don't impact only themselves but can cause effects on others.

It certainly impact people who do not want to be vaccinated.
Oh please, she was an accused murderer. There was no sure proof she did it, nor that she was innocent, so she was cleared. Notably she lied in court several times.

She benefitted from the media attention to make money for herself and she is now publishing an essay she was not asked to do in which she tries to make many moral "who is the victim" points (of course claiming she is the victim).

You could argue she should have been granted anonymity but I cannot see her as a helpless victim.
Homes with majors issues like that have been extremely rare in our experience. When they come up, we've been able to catch them early (at least so far). In the future situation where we miss it, we have some back stops with our scope of work agreements. We would be okay eating losses in a lot of situations, to your point about taking a portfolio approach, and then updating our approach to avoid repeating those mistakes. This was something that worked well at Opendoor (buying/selling houses), where I previously worked.

We haven't met service professionals who have the capability to do that directly, but doing so delivers a much, much better homeowner experience.
$700k, really? For 7 weeks?

Must be nice.
Ask HN: My country may be in the midst of a coup – how should I get prepared?
I'm sure some of your heard about what's happening in my country, Tunisia. (tldr: the president made some 'unconstitutional' moves to thwart rampant corruption. Five days later, everything seems fine ... for now).

Even though it seems the president is keeping his promise on freedom of speech, I don't think it would be extravagant to get prepared for the worse.

So, what should I do to keep myself safe online?

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.

P.S.: I tried to submit this question with a throwaway account, for obvious reasons, was told to "please slow down".
I think you've got the wrong end of the discussion, there.

If you can't or don't want to turn you CRT off... then what's the next best thing for avoiding burn-in?

Send it a black signal, or send it a bright signal?

It's the black signal, because it charges the screen less. Charging the screen is what causes burn in. If you charge it less you get less burn in.

> Arguing that CRTs could display true black

Nobody argued this. Where did you think you read this? I said 'show a black image'. Send it a black signal. It's the minimum signal you can send it without turning it off.
> In a more practical sense, I'd say no, because there's not easy places to apply basic programming skills.

I'd argue that the reason there aren't many places to apply programming skill is because most people don't know programming. If you know almost everyone knows basic programming then you can build out public API's for almost every service taking code, and that would deliver tremendous value to everyone and coding would suddenly become a must for all people to learn since it helps so much.

But as is we spend trillions of dollars worth of programmer man hours trying to build out non-programming API's for doing simple tasks and wouldn't be needed if the target audience just had minimal levels of programming knowledge.
This is drivel. The idea that we'll eventually worry too much about Covid and other similar viruses that we'll have a new infrastructure which'll be as useless and ineffective as the TSA is just plainly disingenuous.

Anyhow, anyone who advocates for defunding schools instead of advocating for fixing them thinks that capitalism works, so it shouldn't surprise us that the author would suggest that the logical consequence of A is Q.
Java was a Sun product, but that didn't keep Sun alive
Sort of the New Coke theory of CPUs. I like it.

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For anyone who wasn't there: In the 80s, Coca-Cola had lost its crown. Pepsi was the most popular soft drink, at least in the USA. Coca-Cola responded by changing their recipe, to great fanfare.

It's often held up as one of American business's greatest failures. People hated New Coke, and later that year they brought back the old formula, under the name Coca-Cola Classic.

I think that that summary of the story misses an important point, though. After the dust had settled. Coke had regained its crown, and has held it ever since. So, while New Coke itself failed on the market, the event's long-term influence on the company's financial outcomes was overwhelmingly positive. To the extent that some people have claimed that the whole thing was just an exceptionally clever PR stunt.
> Many, if not most, people would not call any of those fields hard unless they were forced to practice it.

That's interesting – and very different from my experience. As I said in the GP, among people I know, pretty much no one would bat an eye at any of those statements; I'd expect more responses of "well, of course" than of "I disagree".

Maybe that's (sub?) culturally specific, though? I reside in the US – do you mind saying where you've lived when observing that people would not call those fields hard?
It helps but it's near impossible to get it to stay that way
Their privacy suggestions are basically the best around and packaged in a pleasant UX.
crev is an open-source framework trying to fix this, using a web-of-trust approach to reviews: https://github.com/crev-dev/

Currently only available for Cargo, Rust's package manager, but more integrative are being developed.
>You cannot offload every single one of your personal health concerns on to the rest of the population.

I'm not from the US but this also a very good sum up why the US will never ever have universal health care
Yup! Plenty. I even dated one for a couple months, trying to give her the benefit of the doubt. She actually ended it over something I said (not even did) jokingly, that was equally as ridiculous as this fig wasp thing. I sure did dodge that bullet.
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https://trimread.org/articles/12
Did they block search completely or only Ctrl-F? Firefox and Chrome also have Ctrl-G and / that start the search.
Slightly off topic. My iphone screen cracks every year. Case no case. It just happens. I used to have a flip phone - left it in the snow for a week after I dropped it 30ft off a ski slope. No broken screen. After finding it, it turned on and even had power. These cracking screens are by design.
This is true. A screen that cracks for no reason, will usually only have a hairline crack or crack under the LCD (which apple will fix under warranty). I have seen it and it's barely noticeable.

We have deployed over 100 of the M1's in our ORG so my sample size is small, but of those 100's I have yet to repair a screen of an M1 that mysteriously cracked. We do apple care repairs on-site. With that said, I have seen most cracked screens come from shutting something (usually a writing utensil )in between the keyboard and screen. But's it's not our place to assume how it was cracked. Only that it is and it looks as if something hit it. Obviously, this is a simple explanation, but a screen that cracks on it's own won't look like it was smashed with a hammer.
They do, in fact, have this option now. https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387146/amazon-display-c...
>she is now publishing an essay she was not asked to do in which she tries to make many moral "who is the victim" points (of course claiming she is the victim)

So? Is that a bad thing?
Great. I worked for a governmental agency and they started migrating away from oracle. It was a gargantuan task but it was supposed to save them a whole lot of money. Oracle is a greedy company whose innovation pace has dropped significantly. Their success lies in locked in clients who have to overpay for their services.
Ask HN: CompSci or SoftEngi?
In the U.S computer science is a far more popular degree. Supposedly it focuses more on the theoretical aspects of computer software and algorithms than Software Engineer does.

From research Software Engineering is less math intensive and affordable in some areas.

Any thoughts on the validity of the education and employment opportunities?