skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true. I only need to do it, say, 70% of the time. But on my phone, I only need to do it 0% of the time.
Revenue != net profit; how on earth so many people are continuously mistaking it?
Sometimes indeed people make something that supposed to be a button, but it's impossible to guess that it's button.

But this tip is more about links I'd say, or maybe controls in slide gallery and stuff like that
Yeah, it was like 1-5 minute prep, leave the room as it's being administered, and then check back later
Because some people have witnessed rushed vaccines first hand, some have the the test subject of other vaccines. Sometimes this doesn’t go well (see anthrax vax). So some of us want to wait to allow others to be the test subject. You definitely can’t count on a Dr telling you something is safe, it didn’t work out for us in the military there either.
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From my experience, compared to other industries, absolutely.
In my opinion, this type of surveillance is completely unacceptable on an industrial or state scale. I believe that everyone has the right to free movement and life, guaranteed by the state Constitution. If you think that you can be manipulated, then you can become part of the observation of this panopticon. If not, then you should start watching the observer. The Chinese dictatorial regime of social credit looks frightening. Even installing a security system from https://ajax.systems/ I inadvertently think about the fact that they may start following me.
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Yes, but the massive economies of scale in chip manufacturing and software compatibility would most likely have doomed Alpha and PA-RISC in any case.
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Every good backup practitioner has an origin story. That one time they lost data to a clicking HDD, or to a scratched CD, or to a typo. The pain of never getting that data back. Galvanizing pain that catalyzed a resolution never to lose data again.

Never trust someone (including yourself) to truly look after your data unless they know this pain first hand.
I was trying to add a service that wasn't included yet and the preview of the ToS document was overlaid by huge versions of the graphic assets found on the original URL, so that the document was unreadable and it was impossible for me to mark the salient parts.

Edit: opened an issue on their Github, adding another document from a different site worked very well
so you recreate bootstrap with tailwinds... we've come full circle.
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That is exactly why I am against “point based” immigration whatever that means. It essentially translates to saying we only bring in wealthy immigrants. Both Canada and NZ have similar problems, their point based immigration system disproportionately favor more financially well off class of people, in many cases the investor class loophole basically allows to buy citizenship. Add to that the number of immigrants is federally controlled, the government has no say in where the incoming immigrants settle which in many cases end up being big cities such as Toronto or Vancouver.

And then the international student visa scheme. Many universities basically use them as their lifeline. Concordia University in Montreal for example has over 50% of their registered students being international.

I am in much more favour of the old system where the applicant applies through a provincial (state) immigration and each state gets to set their quota. Once approved the immigrant has to settle in the province they apply for and live there for certain number of years. This allowed even distribution and not put pressure on already tight housing supply in major big cities such as Toronto. But the federal government in Canada in 2015 removed this provincial cap and instead introduced a point based lottery system where both the lottery cap and applicant selection through point score threshold is done by the federal government.

EDIT: Also the point based system allows abuse in countries where we’ll connected people can basically buy “accredited” credentials such as relevant accredited experience in professions. I know someone who doesn’t know a thing about welding, but they moved here with credentials. Government has no way to verify these accreditation in many cases for many countries.
I am reasonably certain that they earned more than $1B by using this targeting information... Their ad network is quite small as just $28 billion annually, but it seems unlikely that purchase history wouldnt uplift value more than 4%.
I emphatically do not accept your definition. Politics is the mechanism for controlling and administering force used to preserve the peaceful cooperation of human society. My whole point is that the political and the social has been conflated.
those last 5 sentences made me question If you were making a satirical post... ;)
So are these reports all imaginary, or are they all the very old, or is it OK to ignore huge numbers of deaths because everyone is being pressured to take the vaccine, or what? You seem to be arguing all of these things simultaneously. Are you aware of the under-reporting rates on VAERS? Do you recall that this thread started with me talking about vaccines being not worth the risk for people who are not old?

I don't care what the CDC or other government agencies think, because I don't trust them, obviously. That's why I'm citing actual data instead of some argument by authority.

Edit: this paper goes into some detail looking at each of your objections and concludes the signal is real:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IAzK4a58a7M4ajHKOpqe-9KD9Pd...

In particular it separates increase in reporting from increased awareness (concluded to be ~20%) from the rest of the signal, and also does age stratification.
Note, the post is an interview with the head of Transparency International, who got data from 1.4 million transactions from the main land and mortgate registries in Ontario.

The article isn't just some opinion about "foreign buyers," with racist undertones, there is a real pattern and data.

They found Toronto matches matches markets around the world that real estate is being bought by companies, with cash, and through unregulated lenders. Given their general agenda, they have conflated holding companies with all foreign companies, and they are suspicious of private enterprise in general, but as a stopped clock they appear right on this issue.

Their transparency issue is real money laundering for a change instead of capital flight, and even though I don't care much for their usual agenda, for them to criticize the housing market in Canada is accurate.

Casual BBQ conversations in Toronto are as likely to be about real estate prices as they are to talk about how many of the neighbourhood businesses are foreign money laundering operations. It's an open secret, and most milenials are priced out of the cities they grew up in. Not only are investment banks churing real estate (see Blackrock buying homes search) with Fed driven liquidity, Canada's political parties forfeited their national focus, and instead spend their time courting foreign leaders and their diaspora networks to get dodgy campaign funding sources and voting blocs. The parties realized it's easier to raise money from and pay off constituencies to stay in power in foreign countries to work votes here because there is no transparency once aid, loans, financing, and other money vehicles leave the country.

The logic appears to be, "why should our globally elite and governing classes be subject to the opinions of working class people we disagree with in these mere nations when we can just import people and money dependent on our policies, both from educated and wealthy and poor dependent classes, and then manage them to keep us power." It's post-national policy. The parties run offense by calling everyone they disagree with racists, and the whole thing is absolutely rotten. A big part of that is attracting capital flight from other countries into assets like real estate and lax beneficial owner enforcement and turning a blind eye to it in return for political support.
You are describing supervenience, in theory of mind it’s called anomalous monism. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/anomalous-monism/
"currently available only for US and Canada Firefox releases." I live elsewhere.
> you may not realize how accurate that is because the amount that will end up being paid is far far less after all the bribing

Sources? (Actually curious if there is some published statistics)

Bureaucracy with all it's faults still has quite a lot of checks and balances that have to add up so I wonder how many appeal results are there that are not as interesting as the first fines reported
Because you're not reacting immediately. You're watching something move over a second or longer and hitting the button when they line up.

To prove it's not reaction time, you could even close your eyes for the last half second. And someone could do this on a trick they just learned and don't have muscle memory for.

> nor is it logically possible for the duration of a trial to be negative.

Yet hitting the button early for a trick with a small window of frames happens constantly. That by itself should show it's not a matter of reaction time.
"The lack of a decent payment infrastructure leads to pathologies.... When paying for items is a hassle, it's easier to just use Amazon who have stored your credit card already - so we get a huge ecommerce monopoly."
We've reached a point where you can't scroll through Twitter without "CW: Food" popping up on the feed, as if posting your lunch is now offensive to people.

Speaking out against this absurdity is treated as "fatphobic"

It's both baffling and sad.
How are the size of these fines determined?
Higher supply would mean lower prices. By definition affordability issues and supply issues are the same barring some kind of regulatory capture or abuse of credit.
When I was taking calculus classes, and struggling, a tutor helped me immensely in the exact same way; explaining both practical applications and often the historical context around the method he was teaching me.
We wrote quant code that had to run on all architectures... for the HFT team [1], unfortunately, including a long drawn out debacle supporting Solaris 5.7 for an absurdly long time. Other members of my team were looking at IBM architectures as well, mostly because IBM were throwing money at us to use their kit.

[1] high frequency, not necessarily low latency, for some defintion of the word 'high'.
I am that "external consultant".

I have recommended buying a huge piece of tin to run SQL Server on as a valid, cost-effective solution to a performance problem. Currently, EPYC CPUs are great value for money, programmers are expensive, and some workloads are too time-consuming to tune.

The customer implemented the change, and it worked.

I have also recommend a reduction in size of a too big SQL Server coupled with some judicious optimisation to reduce the load dramatically. Even expensive programmers can spend a few days of their precious time fixing glaring query issues.

The customer implemented this change also, and it also delivered the promised benefits.

I have the before-and-after metrics to prove that there was a huge benefit in both cases.

In both cases the issues were ongoing, had caused drastic outages, and the internal staff were not capable of resolving the issues on their own.

To be honest, 99% of my job is just to be the outsider that's not playing politics and not stuck in a narrow job description. I'm told to "fix it", so that's what I do. The internal staff have "roles and responsibilities", and they fight with other teams more than they cooperate. Some people actively hate each other. I come in as the neutral party and for a brief shining moment I can get everybody to row in the same direction.
Did I say it grows linearly? What’s your point here?
Re: downvotes, some more info:

> How to extinguish a lithium-ion battery fire

> Let’s cut right to the chase. Despite their name, lithium-ion batteries used in consumer products do not contain any actual lithium metal. Therefore, a Class D fire extinguisher is not to be used to fight a lithium-ion battery fire. Class D fire extinguishers, which contain dry powder, are intended for combustible metal fires only. Since lithium-ion batteries aren’t made with metallic lithium, a Class D dry powder extinguisher would not be effective.

> So, what kind of fire extinguisher should you use in this scenario? Lithium-ion batteries are considered a Class B fire, so a standard ABC or BC dry chemical fire extinguisher should be used. Class B is the classification given to flammable liquids. Lithium-ion batteries contain liquid electrolytes that provide a conductive pathway, so the batteries receive a B fire classification.

>> https://resources.impactfireservices.com/how-do-you-put-out-...
Hi h0p3. Thank you. You made my day.

Reviewing your friends list, I agree we're in the same flock. Tangent: I'd love ready access to my personal metrics on HN. Like maybe star or highlight posts from users I've upvoted before. Would definitely like feeds, akin reddit's multireddit feature, so I could easily follow my friend's comments.

I poked around your site, read some of your posts. I think you're a good person who's really trying to be present for your loved ones.

Peace.
Whilst I get the author's point, I think he's addressing something as it is a fact when rather it's more like "clever" (maybe not the right adjective) copywriting.

For example, with startups, "our service is not for people who hate making money" would exist for the same purpose.

Ps- I get angry after eating like shit on Saturday, too. Try running for 30mins Sunday morning. You might just find yourself doing something better with that extra energy.
As other comments subtly point out, this is a slippery slope. I don't know any folks who are neurodivergent who desire their traits. I have ADHD and while it's a minor blessing it's mostly a major, horrible curse.

There's no amount of drugs, psychology or rehabilitation that will "fix me", to the best of current human knowledge. Sure, it's nice that society might be taking steps to accommodate me, but I'd rather just be a "normal" person.

This is in stark contrast to folks for whom drugs, psychology and rehabilitation is proven to fix their problems.

Should society be understanding and accommodating of people who don't fit the traditional mold? Of course. But should we pave a path for people to double-down on problematic behavior? I'm not so sure.
Imagine if it was cheaper to buy a house and service the mortgage on it, than to rent. In such a case, is the rental market still a great thing?

Yes I agree some rentals are necessary given the practical nature of the housing system. But once they become the cause of people being unable to afford to buy their own home it is an issue that needs addressing.
It's worse than that. Almost all of Amazon's profit comes from AWS and its US business, but this fine is entirely a cost due to its retail business in the EU.

The operating income of Amazon's international retail business in 2020 was just $700m, it makes their entire European business last year overall unprofitable.
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> How much can an organization be fined for a GDPR violation? The GDPR allows the EU's Data Protection Authorities to issue fines of up to €20 million ($24.1 million) or 4% of annual global turnover (whichever is higher).
It doesn't say a word about devs. This could probably use a title change. It's gonna make everyone defensive.
Speaking from my experience - I had the exact problem. Quitting caffeine helped me a LOT. My heart rate went down and anxiety problems became almost non-existent.

If you have problems relaxing, please give Yoga Nidra a try - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLJu3wQA1Ko
While the author does have a point about the silliness of putting a content warning RE a controversial author's name and work being mentioned, I don't think this is quite right:

> At its core, the content warning is nothing more than a form of censorship.

Who is the censor in this case? The only person who can "censor" the work after reading a content warning is the reader themselves. You could call such a decision overly sensitive on the part of the reader but I don't think it meets the definition of censorship.
Yep, there are two different 5K panels on iMacs, off the top of my head LG and Samsung, and the LG one does have slight transient burn in.

It's not "true" burn-in (like CRTs or OLED) as it goes away after a bit but it's fairly easy to trigger with the current trend of very white/light grey designs in macOS, the easiest way to notice it is move from a whitish area to a mid grey one (Daring Fireball is a great example of that problematic grey).

I also have been unlucky on that draw on my 2015 iMac. I barely noticed it at first but newer macOS versions have made it very noticeable sadly. One more reason to run Aerial ;)
Luxembourg's government revenue is approx $33 billion.

This fine is about 10 days worth of Luxembourg government revenue.
Yup. If everyone used Stripe, I'm sure things would be better.

My point wasn't that there's no tech which makes payment easier. There is. My point is that there's no standard; as a result there are many different technologies and providers, none of which have dominance; as a result, I still have to fill in my cc details for the majority of websites where I purchase something. (Not for the majority of purchases - because I make most purchases on one website, Amazon. But then we're back to my point about pathologies.)
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The best hospitals tend to be location in cities. And non-wealthy suburban areas also tend to have mediocre schools.
BTW: I purchased and read the book banned by the American Booksellers Association a couple of weeks ago: The bestseller that they apologized for sending out in their sample box, saying that sending this well-reviewed book was an "act of violence." I enjoyed it. But then again, I also liked "Chaos Monkeys" which I also read when it first came out, having been well reviewed in The New York Times.

The author of this essay is correct. These content warnings aren't meant to help anyone--they're simply virtue signaling.

> But an article about the fastest-selling books in history? What the hell could trigger even the most skittish soul in a piece like that?

The "trigger" terminology was developed when treating people who survived battlefield traumas. It's offensive to me that it's been culturally-appropriated to apply to overly sensitive college students and other too-fragile people.
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The grand plan of VLIW might not have worked out anyway, but I always wondered what would have happened, if Intel had moved the Itanic to current process nodes, even without huge modifications. By the transistor count, it could probably be power-efficient enough to drive mobile phones.

Also, on the time of its peak, the Itanium did perform quite well, I wonder what it could deliver, if it would be grown to use all of modern production processes.

Maybe VLIW cannot be made to work, but I do think that Intel missed the boat by not providing cheap development systems to enthusiasts. Like a PC-compatible motherboard with an Itanium for like 500$. The Linux crowd would have picked it up gladly. Instead, it was only available as espensive hardware, which reduced the potential developer audience (both from the availability of the development resource itself as in the target market).

The post mentions, that everyone picks up the new Apple Silicon processors, because they are nice. They certainly are, but the big point is, that a compatible ARM system can be picked up for as little as $35, the Raspberry Pi and its friends. And while Apple hardware isn't low-cost, it is increadibly cheap in comparison to the Itanium systems of that time.
Oooh now let's talk about PointCast. Who remembers when the future of the Internet was push?

https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/
Usually in way that doesn't hurt the company or make it change it's behavior
I've never worked from bed. Not out of duty to my employer. But because I want my bed to be associated with relaxation. I can't be the only one.
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it is being run in ring0 on each intel CPU, and is doing the intel management engine. Most probably you have more running instances of multics than linux.
Nope.

I think that our industry (maybe true for all industries) has a very skewed idea of what constitutes "happy."

It was not a voluntary retirement. I love working, and have skills that could earn companies millions of dollars.

It's just that the industry made it quite clear, very quickly, that I am not welcome (you see, I'm -how shall I put this- "chronologically-challenged." I'm older than 35).

So I found a few folks that can't afford nice things, and I'm working with them.

Feel free to check out my work. I manage to stay busy.
For a certain size of customer this problem does go away, and I think this commitment from GCP is an attempt to confirm that.

As a counterpoint, we've had no issues with GCP and have found it to be a better product than the alternatives for what we want. We have an account manager, have received lots of support from Google in setting up, have been able to trial products in closed alpha before release, and haven't been hit by any meaningful deprecations. We also have a contract with SLAs that do not let Google arbitrarily cut us off. Obviously they still could, but at least it would be in explicit violation of a contract.

Also something that is rarely cited as a plus point: we are not a Google competitor, and one of our major partners considered it a significant benefit of using us that we did not host on Amazon services. There are an increasing number of businesses who may see some value in not hosting on AWS.
Yeah you have to look with your eyes and not your cursor
I remember going to college eager to learn and explore ideas that were _different_ than mine. I grew up at the poverty line, in one of the top 10 wealthiest towns in America. Naturally they were very white and also any taint from anything immoral was covered up. If I hadn't had such an open mind, I'd still be living in that bubble.

I don't think I'd have the same experience today nor would I have been set up to open my mind to issues because "warnings."
The counter-argument is that it’s often unclear why a control is disabled, and an error message can help you figure that out.

Even if you label a field “required”, what if the user accidentally skips it without noticing? Specifically highlighting the error might be more obvious than having the user scan the whole form for something that looks wrong.
> Of course this argument completely falls apart when you know how vaccine development works, but it's an argument that genuinely only applies to this specific group of vaccines.

So if this is true then there should be no testing period right? We should know out the gate if a vaccine is safe or not right? Clearly this is incorrect.

If you like testing vaccines, join the military. Then let’s see after you’re injected with various chemicals and get a 100% disability from it if you feel the same way and attempt to force others into your line of thought.
three chefs can dip their fingers in a steel bowl tasting batter and agree it's the best cake they ever had.

getting it to walmart is where the chefs get bored and turn one amazing night into years of backlog refinement