skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m going to call out some BS in this thread. If you work at Google or Facebook you can get a job elsewhere which likely pays similar if not more than your current position. I know lots who have done it and are happier.

We are talking as if Google and Facebook doing something will cause everyone else to do something. Some companies will, others won’t. Reality is, a lot of us are sick of COVID and quarantine and masks and not seeing friends and family and just want it to stop dominating our lives.

I was sick with COVID in April and it was a bad few days. I was then re-infected approximately 10 months later and it was even worse. I have severe medical anxiety and the best decision I made for myself was to get the vaccine.

You can make your own personal choice but other people don’t need to cater to you. Many of us have been personally affected by COVID and our freedom means we don’t need to put up with BS anymore.

I won’t support government mandated vaccines, but I will support individual companies making this decision.

If you, a tech worker at FAANG, truly can’t find another job in this hot market.. then we can start talking about welfare in this country and how most don’t make 500K at FAANG and get totally fucked over by the lack of support from their government. Never mind the complete wreck of an economy the last year was.
I haven’t seen the movie so I have no idea, but I can’t but quote from the article itself:

“..is the character based on me actually innocent?

Turns out, she asked the killer to help her get rid of her roommate. She didn’t mean for him to kill her, but her request indirectly led to the murder. How do you think that impacts my reputation?
I continue to be accused of “knowing something I’m not revealing,” of “having been involved somehow, even if I didn’t plunge the knife.” So Tom McCarthy’s fictionalized version of me is just the tabloid conspiracy guilter version of me.”
Are we tracking every other pump/refinery/ICE vehicle burning up as well?
Can't HPE stock a bunch of Itanium systems in some warehouse, just to be able to claim they are still selling them? Doesn't matter that Intel isn't producing chips anymore?
I didn’t know much about this from the contractors’ perspective. This Atlantic article [1] seems like a decent overview for anyone else interested.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210705021438if_/https://www.th...
First -- I think the person you quoted is just wrong, it's not a feature at all.

Google "cm! 5 inches" or "cm 5 inches", or even "5 inches to cm" or "5 inches cm" and you get exactly the same result in all cases. The exclamation point isn't a feature, it's irrelevant.

But to answer your question more broadly: basic search syntax is documented here [1]. But then everything else -- like calculator or conversion functionality or snippets -- just falls under the broader umbrella of Google trying to give you answers directly whenever possible, rather than just links. And that isn't documented, first, because it's changing/improving constantly, and second, there's just too many custom features like that for any consumer to ever keep track of, so what would even be the point?

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en
Huh. I had this happen to my M1 within a month of buying it. I was totally mystified as I woke up in the morning and it had been sitting on some thick carpet over night and suddenly there was a crack in it. I took it in and they said I must have caused the damage. I still haven't repaired it for months, as it was quite expensive and I was just assigned a new work laptop and was strapped for cash.

I've had plenty of Macbooks before that have taken a lot of abuse, but this was just bizarre.
When docker first arrived, people were confused about how to use it. I remember seeing lots of people putting an ssh daemon in their containers!?! I like the s6-overlay approach, it's pragmatic.

I haven't been using containers as much lately, but I wonder if s6-overlay's approach could be used to justify including a database into the container with an application. Is that a good idea?
I understand that it's "precision engineering"; and, that the result is a fragile product (they are not mutually exclusive concepts).

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fragile

I think you're also describing something that is "easily broken or destroyed".

Maybe Apple's superior precision engineering results in a product that is too fragile for their Dorito-eating users. Maybe they could apply that engineering to make devices with better durability.
"The GDPR was adopted on 14 April 2016 and became enforceable beginning 25 May 2018."

They had two years from when the law was made.
In Mexico high schools we have a class that is called "Greek/Latin Ethimology" (Etimologías Grecolatinas, and most people in high school go through this book: https://www.amazon.com.mx/ETIMOLOGIAS-GRECOLATINAS-DEL-ESPA%...)

There's a huge amount of influence of Greek in Spanish, so I am not surprised idioms are shared as well. (Spanish is kind of amazing in that it has Latin and Greek roots, but also has a lot of Arabic words like Ojalá, Camisa, azúcar, guitarra, blusa, pantalon, fulano, rehen, tarea, etc...
I was referring to the "moral obligation" not to take someone's story and make it a different story for the sake of a profit, which the original poster was referring to as a "moral obligation". An alternative perspective is the "moral obligation" to ones employees and shareholders. What is a "moral obligation" is a matter of perspective.

I try to avoid a lot of documentaries and "historical" films because of these conflicting sentiments. Going into seeing a film, you know that profit, in most cases, is the end goal.
I’d have said we’re the only animals who eat for enjoyment (without having proof of that). Or did I miss the joke here?
> I don’t see how giving a handful of individuals $5-$10 per month each, Patreon-style, is a good value

It's not, this is why microtransactions are so important for us to make colloquial.
I have an old Apple Cinema Display downstairs in my workout room. I was disassembling a squat rack and stupidly let one of the tall pieces fall down, right into the monitor. Granted, the collision was ultimately between the hard plastic top and the monitor glass but the only "damage" was a streak of plastic I scraped off.
If it's a desktop workstation with lots of expensive development tools installed or a delicate toolchain (especially one in a lab), why spend the time and effort wiping the thing just to reinstall all of the same stuff over again? It might even be a shared computer. I remember my help desk summer job, I worked at a hot desk that was staffed 24/7 so the same computers were used by first, second, and third shift. There were a lot of things that had to be logged into (mainframes, customer email accounts, etc) and not all of the desktops covered the same customers so it would have been a nightmare to handle all of the images and configurations. Whenever a configuration had to change, they would make a new backup to cover that specific desktop in case it died.
Strange story of family that can't access $6M in crypto from Ethereum presale
I haven't stress tested an M1 yet, but you can try this. With nothing else running. Load up the CPU with YES outputting to /dev/null. This should bring CPU usage to 100%. Then open several games of chess, make it CPU vs CPU and make them full screen. See if you experience the same issue.

$yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null & yes > /dev/null &
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It’s horrible that you can’t choose not to become a public figure. You have rights which someone else can get rid of by giving you enough attention.
Haven’t read the blog post but in her tweet thread last night, Knox spoils how the movie ends —- and also, based on the trailer, the movie theme seems to be much more about American-dad-out-of-America than the media and justice issues surrounding the real case.

Spoiler tweet: https://twitter.com/amandaknox/status/1420872227277262852?s=...
A main difference in this research is that it's very difficult to actually measure the levels of neutralizing antibodies. Traditional antibody tests aren't able to tell if you have high neutralizing antibody levels yet, as a BSL3 lab is needed to perform these experiments with live virus. Antibody levels aren't always a clear indication of level of immunity, so this was still an open question with COVID.

This study has serious implications for a recommendation for a third dose. It was known for a while that a 3rd dose increases levels of neutralizing antibodies, but this study now ties that increase to a significant boost in immunity which has implications for the new variants like Delta. It means that likely we don't need to wait 3-6 months for approval for a new strain specific booster. We can just use the doses we already have to bump up the neutralizing antibody level.

It also has implications for how long the 2-dose or 1-dose regimens are good for, since it has been known that the neutralizing antibody level does tend to dip after around 6-9 months, so this gives more evidence for the benefit of getting a booster after around 6 months to keep neutralizing antibody levels high.
If we're talking about GDPR, it came into effect on 25 May 2018, after being adopted by the European Parliament on 14 April 2016.

That's two years, one month, and 11 days for implementation. Those additional days are days after it was published in the EU's Official Journal. It's not EU's fault that companies waited until 2018 to give a fuck about it.
> There is currently no good reason other than historical precedent and religion to believe that mind is separate from body

A bit ironic, because the only reason you think this is because of the historical development of positivism and the complete ignorance of its shortcomings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positivism
If you adjust for population growth and the growth of the games, it's clear that we should be giving medals to more than just the top three. And the results have gotten even closer. When I see someone like Torri Huske miss a medal by a hundredths of seconds, I think that something is just wrong.

There should be medals going down much lower in the results.
It’s not a vehicle.
In my experience nobody fretted about grades and minor grading issues more than the folks who had high marks.

The burden of perfection (or close to it) is pretty brutal.

Among other topics the film Gattaca seemed to address that issue.
I agree that they're mutually exclusive. It's not necessarily a good thing. I think pretty much all capitalists, as people, have some sense of moral obligation. That's not to say that the two concepts necessarily overlap, or that the world wouldn't be a better place if they were somehow forced to. I think it isn't controversial, as a matter of philosophy, to say that capitalism (as distinct from its observed consequences) is not connected to morality one way or another, any more than bubblesort has a moral value.
There are covid idiots everywhere. Met one today in Switzerland, refuses to wear a mask and of course will not get vaccinated. I don't have a problem if someone doesn't want to vaccinate, it's their choice but if they refuse to wear a mask and are getting fake vaccination certificates I have a problem with them. At least observe the general rules put in place to protect others.
My eyes, reading ahead, tried to read this as "give them three seconds to respond". Perhaps they were reading as far ahead as the rest of your comment.
there's a YouTube video of someone making uranium glass that had this exact issue come up. Very interesting to see in practice
The Scotsman story: https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/craig-murray-to-begin-ja...
I really think doing contracting and changing jobs every year for the first ten years of my tech career (receiving a raise and promotion every time) was the biggest single factor to my success. It ensured progression and allowed the dice to be rerolled, which is a great way to think about it.
You being obese doesn't infect my child of being obese. You not being vaccinated can infect my child and cause LongCovid

How far to enforce this and where the limit is and how to balance the different rights is a big debate happening on which I didn't make any claim.

"You all can get vaccinated" however isn't enough, if nobody is being vaccinated. On a vaccination rate of 95% restrictions can't be upheld anymore as well. Where the point is between those I don't know.
That depends. I’ve found that, while creating an account on an iOS device, providing a phone number isn’t required, but while creating an account via a desktop browser, it is.

It will probably depend on other factors as well such as IP, country, …
Is there a UK equivalent of a "Presidential Pardon"? Seems like the only remaining way for some future PM to try and fix this.
In the shell I'm writing you get a preview of what the command is before it's sent so its definitely possible to write better shells. It's not POSIX though and there will always lie the problem. You might build a better shell but few will use it
> It's worse than that [...] it makes their entire European business last year overall unprofitable

How's that a bad thing under the assumption that they behaved in an illegal way? Fines are supposed to hurt, and this fine won't bankrupt Amazon.
You'd think that if this was a legit defense they would use it in court, instead of "There has been no data breach, and no customer data has been exposed to any third party" clinging to anything irrelevant, as I'm sure they don't hire incompetent lawyers waiting for an online poster to come up with a solution

I think GDPR discussions are always heated on the 'EU vs US' line because of different approach to trust in the govt. In the EU people tend to (surprisingly maybe) trust politicians more because they at least want to be re-elected and distrust corporations/billionaires because they want to increase profit. In the US, I think, it's different, there is a distrust in the government because they are here to get us and more trust (surprisingly maybe) in corporations/billionaires because they are just like me working hard to earn money
> But I don't think she has a choice.

Some countries recognize a "right to be forgotten". This is a good example of where such laws can help. She doesn't currently have a choice because many Western countries don't recognize this right. This is something that could change.
Well, I see a lot of that stuff in the media, yes. This is new technology, so of course we're watching it closely. Have you never seen coverage of a pipeline rupture, or an oil train derailment? I certainly have... it's generally a pretty big deal.
Imagining myself approaching the contractor end: why do I need this? There's more work than I can hire people to do, right now; and this looks a lot like "commit to an open ended job, unseen, for a fixed price."

NFI what happened to it, but I recall hearing of a Lowe's "official" effort to try to assemble something like this; they theoretically have the resources to find and keep good relationships with local stables of contractors; but in practice.. no, that's not gonna happen, its gonna be a boondoggle.

But where's your "have a beer with these guys" level of trust in someone's crew? You're proxying that to the homeowners, so I'm curious what you plan to do there, especially as it grows past personal relationship scales.
>At least that’s just entertainment

I'm not convinced people see it that way, and as far as the director, he seemed to think his 'entertainment' was in fact accurate, or at least said so / was incentivized to do so.

Meanwhile the people who are depicted, you likely wont ever hear from.
"Look they got vaccinated and still got Covid!"

And people still die with seatbelts. If these people were around 100 years ago we'd still be suffering from polio.
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At some point, I'm planning on using webaudio as a starting point to implement a JUCE like framework with VST and AU support. The webaudio code is already in servo so doing this might not be too bad.
It demonstrates a business opportunity they're not taking advantage of. They don't have to cater to SMS any more. Sell long form blogging as a premium feature.
You can always build more houses, start new cities, its not a real problem. But a million dollars brought in, goes directly into the economy from a foreign investor, makes a country rich. Trading something that is low skill to make, into money that can be spent on all kinds of infrastructure and technology. So my only take on this is that how that invest money is spent by that country if its a net positive or negative. If it goes to a corrupt circle at the top, and bankers, then obviously its not benefitting the economy as it should.
> It alarms me the number of people I see just slam their laptops shut.

You can thank Hollywood movies for teaching people how to slam shut your laptop's lid (without saving your work or quitting apps, ever!)

I'm serious. Every time it happens in a movie, which happens every single time when someone is supposed to end some work and close the laptop lid, - I want to ask: dear producers, directors and actors, do you do this in real life? Honest?
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"The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine on 28 July, draws on data from almost 11,500 fully vaccinated health-care workers...testing between late January and late April 2021 identified 39 workers who had become infected with SARS-CoV-2 despite being fully vaccinated. All had mild symptoms or none at all..."

TL;DR the Pfizer vaccine works, essentially 100% of the time as far as severe cases go, more than 99% never getting it at all. I'm glad they're doing the rest of this research, but this part is what I personally am most concerned with.
> Author proposes to use a graph structure between components, getting rid of entities-component duality. Proposes to use pointers which allows calling into any component and process then all required components.

This is far from ideal, and is equivalent to a very naive implementation of ECS. Having the user have to use pointers is not ergonomic, and the random access of secondary components via those pointers destroys the caching benefits of data-oriented design. Having a memory pool don't automatically give optimal cache usage, only if you have very little data.

Most modern ECS frameworks solve the issues you mention by allowing systems that "query" more than one component at a time, not requiring a lookup. For example:

system<Position, Velocity>().each([](auto p, auto v) {
p.x += v.x;
p.y += v.y;
});

This is supported by lots of mainstream ECS libraries already. It doesn't require lookups inside the System's hot loop, doesn't require random memory access via pointers, and also doesn't require managing/cleaning up those pointers.

The nice thing about keeping Entities as opaque handlers is that a "System Iterator" is able to abstract away the issues mentioned and implementation becomes a mere detail. An ECS library could even use the implementation the GitHub wiki link suggested, since ECS is currently abstract enough to allow it, because of the opaque handlers.
Wikipedia says that HP stopped accepting orders for Itanium systems on dec. 31 2020.
I'm not really worried about my physical safety; there's no way this can devolve into a full on war; I just need to protect my online privacy.

Also, we're in the middle of pandemic lock-down and leaving is not an option.
I won't claim to know the right answer to these questions, from any standpoint. My point is that these are the questions that should be raised in this kind of discussion, instead of asserting "simple is better, let's throw out everything".
I'll never get a glass top table after a friend's coffee table did the same. Yeah it was likely chipped or damaged or abused by years of coasters and glasses and controllers and books dropped on it, but one day we were minding our own business in the kitchen when we heard an unholy crash, come to find the tabletop in shards on the living room floor.
Summarized conclusions of the original complaint [1]:

2.2.3.1 claims that Amazon does not disclose anything proving they intend to get consent from their users to process their behavoural data for ad targeting purposes

2.2.3.2 is a rebuttal against one potential line of defense from Amazon. This defense is "We have to collect/use data because this is precised in our contract with our users and so we need to respect this contract". The rebuttal is that the main goal of the contract is a marketplace to buy/sell goods. Ad targeting is not essential to fulfill this goal and it is not something that can be considered as reasonable user expectations

2.2.3.3 It says that Amazon does not explicitly states that it's in its legitimate interest to process data and do ad targeting. It then refers to section 2.1.3 which shows that Amazon could not claim legitimate interest anyway. Section 2.1.3 is too complicated for me as it quotes a lot of precedent rulings in European law to prove it can't be legitimate interest

Please keep in mind that it is the complaint, I don't have details on the ruling of today

[1] https://gafam.laquadrature.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/20...
Not unless their job involves activities which could spread HIV.

This is true for jobs where there’s a meaningful risk: when I worked a research institute, I had mandatory vaccines which they provided for anyone with access to the labs, even the IT people. They aren’t allowed to ask for your medical history in most cases (military pilots, etc. have exemptions where it’s a job requirement) but they can require proof of vaccination as long as it doesn’t include medical details.
So the big question - did those people who showed high levels of antibodies after vaccination have a) more symptoms from vaccination, b) less symptoms, or c) no correlation?

I had zero symptoms. I'd really like to know if that means my antibodies kicked ass, or were non-existent to create any kind of fever, etc.
> You being obese doesn't infect my child of being obese.

I wrote:

> Being obese makes you more susceptible to most communicable diseases, colds, and flus

I didn't say an obese person can infect others with obesity. I said they make it more likely that others will get infected with communicable diseases, colds, and flus.

Exactly the same situation with the vaccinated and COVID.
I think they might be talking more about when you are in a “golden handcuff” situation due to RSU appreciation. For example right now because of appreciation I don’t think I could find another job willing to beat my current comp (except maybe in finance which I don’t really want to do). That may still be the case when my grants run out, especially if they appreciate more. In that case you have to just suck it up and accept that you are not inherently deserving of that level of comp

I know many more extreme examples where friends working at startups hit it big. No, a 25 year old SWE is not going to be able to job hop to another job paying them $1m/y right out of the gate
Urban Canada, so I would be a bit surprised if the responses would be all that different from the US. I have spent most of my adult life in education and recreation though, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm seeing particular biases.
Not they are not. They are public records in most. Luxembourg is one of the few exceptions.

They might not be available online but can be ordered from the court clerk (which is the case here in Finland for example) but the 2 largest EU countries (Germany and France) has them online for free.

Though as most European countries are not using a case law system the actual value of getting these is not that important for lawyers etc.
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Ha! That explains why I never heard back from him in my emails.

Freddy, do you mind reaching out to me at radim@pii-tools.com? I'd like to discuss options of support / partnership, for the (formerly) PrivacyTools.
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