skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is funded by profits of their actions like a private entity.

The USPS is an independent agency of the federal government receiving no taxpayer funding (except for services like postage purchased by other government agencies) that is funded by its own operational revenues.

The parts of the Fed that aren't the Board of Governors aren't really like that, either, though.

> an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the President or anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the board of governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.

The first and third are the typical things that define “independent” federal agencies, the second is true of some of them (e.g., USPS).

The structure and composition of the Fed is special though, even in that context, but “private” seems to be misleading behind a false dichotomy.

It is kind of (though this term is charged because of the role corporatism played in the fascist public ideology, though the term is much older and not generally associated with authoritarianism), something of a corporatist institution in and by which state and private power are aligned.
"8 kHz audio" usually implies that each sample is an 8-bit or 16-bit value. In the on/off case it's just a 1-bit value.
yes she can dress how she want, but youtube can disable monetizing her videos. thats how it works
If a container shares the same kernel with the host OS, how can Docker containers run in different OSes? Are people saying that what Docker containers really are "Docker VMs"?
Our Tesla Model 3 Hasn't Delivered Big Savings in Maintenance Costs
A billion answers, got it. Thank you for your informative and helpful contribution.
Would a sufficiently advanced civilization really settle for communication that crawls at the speed of light though?

And before you say "anything faster than light is impossible": it's impossible according to our current understanding of physics. How much that understanding aligns with reality, especially with relation to quantum mechanics, is debatable.
This groups of people do not just imply that

> Isn’t implying that the test can’t tell the difference between flu and covid?

they are strongly convinced that this is the case, quoting papers or research showing that in some rare cases with some methods you could have tests which could sometimes confuse Covid with other Corona Viruses (not flu, completely ignoring that this might not apply to the tests they are speaking about or that the probabilities are negligible.)

I had to realize that the majority of people (which haven't studied something where they had to learn it) do not understand stochastic at all, but believe they have some basic understanding of probabilities (which they don't have).

Furthermore it's not uncommon for people to reject truth which do not fit into their world view.

Not to long ago I realized that a relative of mine does not understand the difference between false positives and false negatives and that they are not equally likely. They knew the (fast, non PCR) test can be wrong and as such believed it can be equally wrong in all directions including false positives. So because it was confirmed that the test have many false negative they believed that they also must have many false positives and as such the increase in cases must be because of this false positives...

I tried to reach out to them and explain them that false positives and false negatives are not the same and just because something can likely fail in one way
it doesn't mean it will also fail likely in another way. But I completely failed to reach them, they insisted on their opinion being correct and went very fast into a defensive mode where it's impossible to reach them no matter what how reasonable and convincing your arguments are.
I mean, I get that. As a throwaway novelty gadget it seems fun enough to splurge $50 on. My first reaction was "oh cool, someone made one of those game emulator in a box things and added designer flourishes, seems like a fun Kickstarter". And then I saw the $179 and was like wtf. My friends would probably see this and just ask why not get a Switch or Steam Deck or old Vita. Even a generic android NES emu for nostalgia.

Remember those single game portable consoles you could get in the early 2000s, like there was battleship and random Atari clones? That's what I thought this was, with a few more silly diversions. It just seems like it'd hold an adult's attention for all of 5-10 minutes. Not worth $179.

If I wanted actual indie games that are worth my time, Steam has a much more enticing selection.

But, I didn't realize there was designer cache behind it. That's worth nothing to me but valuable to some people I guess.
Jeremy Vine on the genius of Boris Johnson's calculated chaos
1 billion and 1 now. And I listened to the whole thing!
I have a friend who posts once in a blue moon. When he posts, it's usually the first thing on my feed, even many days later. My wife's cousin posts batshit stuff multiple times a day. I fail to see how a strict timeline won't result in my stream being more looney?
Do you mean more like compelling a supporter of Nazism to bake a Jewish wedding cake? The donning of Nazi political symbols is not a religion, but it could be considered a political position.
100% with you on the last sentence. I have listened to a few podcasts about Data Mesh by Thoughtworks people and the similarities to pushing Microservices are striking. There might be some benefit to this but the operational and mental overhead first and foremost ensures billable hours for consultancies.
I find the advertising to content ratio is a decent clue as well.
BEADS?!
Trucks have ground clearance, their bumpers are still at a side-crash-bar level. Minivans also weigh nearly as much as most trucks. Typically more than a light duty truck.

This study and the title of this post obviously state that Large Vehicles == More Pedestrian Deaths. Be it a minivan, Tesla, Truck, or whatever.

Everyone in this thread finger-pointing at their perceived cultural enemies identities is straight up moronic
Such a sad commentary that you so blithely assume that if it's on a government website then it's not misinformation. Across the ages, governments have been the most heinous purveyors of misinformation, and are the biggest misinformation threats to humanity. Ergo the 1st Amendment.
Good to know. I guess Google/Facebook/Twitter will stop censoring speech on their services then.
> And a lawsuit seems like a poor way to resolve this.

How else do you suppose we handle a conflict between the actual application of state law and a widespread interpretation of rights under the Federal Constitution?

> Do you really want the person whom you sued, who now hates, you making your website?

The lawsuit brought here was a “pre-enforcement challenge” by the web design company against the State because (per the suit) they are afraid that, were they to offer wedding-related services, they would be in danger of enforcement action by the State to unless they provided services which violate their sincerely-held religious beliefs.

It is not a suit by someone who wanted a website built (and if it had been, that suit would be seeking civil damages for alleged unlawful discrimination, not to have the unlawful discriminator compelled to create a website.)
This is heavily location-dependent. I grew up one province over, and currently live in Alberta, Canada. Depending on how far one takes the term "modified" (which I take to mean anything not road-legal), it could literally be every other car in the province.

I'm sure half the people reading this won't agree, and chalk it up to confirmation bias. But between tinted front driver / passenger windows, license plate "covers" that attempt to defeat speed cameras, lift kits (leading to bumpers above maximum height), improperly-aimed aftermarket lights, and more, I'd be surprised if it was less than 40% of the vehicles on the road.
With regards to the VAERS data, it’s simply a matter of numbers. 140m people vaccinated, almost all of them older than 18, and all of them in a short time period. A disproportionate percentage of whom are elderly, by the way. Some of them are going to die after getting a shot for no particular reason.

As far as the miscarriage bit - somewhere between 15-25% of pregnancies end in a miscarriage. 4.4m pregnancies a year, 366k pregnancies a month, 33m women in the us of peak childbearing age, that means that in any given month ~1% of women discover they are pregnant. Most miscarriages happen in the first 12 weeks so we can roughly assume 3% of peak childbearing age women are within their first 12 weeks at any given moment. About 40% of that original group of women has had at least 1 shot, which works out to 2.2m/mo and 73k/day. 3% of 73k means that 2200 first trimester women every day got a shot. Every day, ~400-500 of those women will go on to miscarry at some point within their first trimester. Surely some reasonable percentage of those people will have that happen within a few days - if we say they’re all at the median of 6 weeks along, they have a 17% chance of miscarrying within a week, which means every day you have 7-8 women who get a vaccine shot and miscarry within a week.

This is all obviously an estimation, but the math works. In reality the odds of miscarrying drop as you approach 12 weeks, so if anything, the odds of miscarrying within a week at six weeks is HIGHER than within the following two week.

EDIT:I didn’t even think about the fact that unless you’re getting thr j&j you need two shots, so that’s two chances for a miscarriage within a week, so adjust appropriately .
The highlight of Rick Astley on reddit was when he got rickrolled.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_fe...
This is precisely what Copilot does, regularly.
As Safari is unavailable for Windows, there's no reason to mention it. IE11 users are Windows users, so Safari is unavailable to them.
Exactly: While Biden will own this unwelcome distinction, former president Donald Trump staged this disaster last year by barring most immigrants sponsored by their family members from entering the United States. This caused 120,000 family green card slots to go unused.
> Once you create a fact checking entity, it will decide for itself what are object truths

okay, so what? What do you think a court does? The guy who reads the meter at the water sanitation plant or someone who hands out parking tickets?

A fact checker is nothing but an institution with the authority to adjudicate on some questions which are relevant for the maintenance of the platform, no different from any other authority that manages public conduct. Where is the problem?

And of course fact-checkers are not unaccountable. Like in this case their behavior itself is topic of public discourse.
I have no idea why people lift their trucks to the extreme - I don't own a truck or understand the culture well, although I am familiar with the vehicles to some extent. My take is that most people who lift their trucks do it more for looks or status than for practical reasons. Having a small amount of lift and larger wheels with offroad tires probably does help with practical capability. You can see this with newer trucks that manufacturers produce in offroad trims (example https://www.ford.com/trucks/f150/models/f150-tremor/). But larger lifts are indeed impractical for offroad capability since they would alter your center of gravity and other aspects. Most serious offroad vehicles have good clearance but not extreme clearance, since they are also accounting for numerous other factors to give the vehicle reliability, safety, and offroad capability.
Just to add some contrast to this $20k figure and Watham's comments about the upside, I've published several small books that get very good reviews but haven't sold a lot of copies. I self published on Amazon as an eBook and then Print on Demand. My profits have totaled less than $1,000 in a couple years. My problems are likely that I don't have an audience built and Amazon rank is terrible until you have sales.

If you're not in it _just_ for the money though, go for it. It's extremely satisfying.

My most popular book is actual a book about how I self published. Publish Your Ebook by Joel Dare.
Let's be real... this isn't an iPod/Dropbox moment.

This is every bit as pretentious as it seems, and literally requires a high price attached to it for it's target market...

But that's ok! It's no different than a ton of other fields that thrive on a certain level of ironic pricing.

It's no different than paying $500 for foam slippers that retailed for $75 that claim to be designed as affordable footwear for the masses and intentionally look as weird as physically possible(Foam Runner)

Or spending $200 dollars on a literal clay brick: https://stockx.com/supreme-clay-brick-red.

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This is like the tech version of a Supreme collab. People are even geeking out over Panic being involved in the comments here.

Ironically a lot of the people I can picture buying this also look down on that type of thing, but it's all coming from the same roots.
Facebook is censoring because politicians who are also murmuring about tech antitrust are demanding that they do. They're just trying to survive the rage cycle.

edit: So since they don't have any overarching philosophy about what to censor, some of the choices they make are overzealous or bizarre.
Have you studied what happened with the Spanish flu and eviction crisis and how millions more people died because of lack of access to proper housing?
To be fair, I don't think your soldier example is a counterexample. You would have created a better army if you could sufficiently motivate them without using yourself. If you do use yourself, you suddenly become an even bigger vulnerability for the army. If you end up getting killed, the entire motivation leaves the army right in the middle of the battle.

It doesn't mean you are a bad leader if you do it, merely that a better leader might have seen a different path and gotten a better result.
> you will find plenty of ... "proof" there.

Unfortunately, I think this is true but not realized.

I found out that my brother was "going to do his own research" on the COVID-19 vaccines, which really is just code for, "I'm going to look online at sources in my echo chamber." (Because how many people really do their own research by talking with virologists, epidemiologists, etc.?)

It wasn't until he had some social pressure and the death of two acquaintances that he decided it was important to go get vaccinated.
There is a body of people who do this: 535 of them. We elect them. Their job is to write laws that set up what can and cannot be done. Write to them.
Some people do legitimately stink though.
True. That can also be a chicken or egg thing. It might be good to grandfather existing people and set the bar higher for people being born now. They do this for all sorts of jr driver restrictions, like number of minors I'm the car (that transition happened around the time I started driving).
So like heading, course, angle, direction, vector, and other terms that make more sense?
That is interesting. Some shots appear to have been done with modern equipment, like a new iPhone. In some shots the backgrounds give off that deep dream vibe.

Presumably all older media will eventually get updated to whatever contemporary standard exists. For example, the entire series of Saved by the Bell in 4k using the latest AI.

I wonder how long until we have 2D media that is turned into fully 3D experiences where you can go into the scenes and watch them from any angle.

Or to go further, the characters are aware of your presence and will go off script based on your actions. Seems almost within reach.
No, he's happily married.
There’s no comments in here yet, but I cant possibly read the article. Guess Ill go check Slack.
Why were they unable to? Is there some sort of Amazon corporate firewall that prevents access to Google services?
Peaked at #1

https://www.billboard.com/music/rick-astley/chart-history/HS...
Do we?

The vast majority of our computing infrastructure is not actively and forensicly monitored; vulns are either actively patched out, accidently patched out, or 'reset' when services/servers are rolled (often due to "misbehaviour", be it a desktop by a user or a server by a tech), leaving no trace that they were exploited. The vast majority of vendors and sysadmins are incentivised not to reveal that they had an exploit, often by reclassification (exploit -> bug), failure to inform, or refusal to detect.

I think this is what the parent meant by "I'd assert that a good fraction of exploits are never caught/analyzed.".

Afaict as an outsider we account for this with honeypots, which should give us some kind of estimation at least.
It is a culture problem, and worse than that -- it's a talent problem. Everyone knows that the world wants and needs ten times as many talented coders as are available, and the vast majority of the time, it just has to get by with untalented ones. In cyber security, the problem is far worse. I would believe if the demand were a hundred times the supply. Big, important, sexy-on-a-resume organizations have a hard time getting enough cyber security talent to be actually effective. God help people who process meat or transport oil for a living.

My guess is that the reason it's a culture problem is that it's a talent problem. Some big, scary thing that no one knows how to effectively solve is going to result in everyone working to avoid blame rather than solve the problem. And organizations that have to get by with extremely bottom feeder security talent wind up with extremely bottom feeder security knowhow, processes, and intuition.

If you can figure out a way to effectively productize defensive security, that seems to me like a great way to print money. Unfortunately, the problem is that your customers are not good at thinking about security and can't afford to be (and are distracted by trying to solve their actual business problems), and your adversaries are extremely resourceful, persistent, and motivated. Even when great tools are out there, people often fail to use them or break the security in some silly way. For example, in theory, keeping systems patched is a solved problem -- use one of the automated patch managers out there. In practice, doing so correctly is a pretty tall order for a lot of people, and isn't actually easier than creating and carefully following an effective manual procedure. And in actual practice, the problem never was putting in the effort to get to the systems and run the updates, and it never was setting up a patch manager -- organizations getting caught by these common CVEs often do neither. The problem all along was knowing that patching is important important, not just one of a hundred security checkboxes that you'll never check all of. I really don't know how you would productize that. (And in actual actual practice, sometimes patch managers get hacked. Most meaningful security problems sound stupid but are actually hard.)

There have been many efforts over the years at making security idiot-proof in some domain or another, some more successful than others. If you see an angle, I very much encourage you to go for it. Just remember to test your solution on quality idiots. And remember that you are competing with charlatans to sell real medicine to idiots.
It's quite enjoyable to develop in cutting-edge tech: React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, Serverless, VSCode, etc. You are now in component paradigm with typing and styled with utility class for the frontend. Fully build in static mode so no need to have a dynamic server to serve your frontend: better performance, secure, cheaper. You can also deploy at each commit to preview your front.

Thanks to cutting-edge tech, you can deploy your backend in one command and the same thing to provision your cloud infrastructure (also in one command). With Serverless, everything scale based on your traffic, you don't need to worry about over/under provision with little maintenance.

I was a web developer in 2010 and the developer experience wasn't the same. You need to rent a server, SSH to the server, install OS dependencies, install a firewall, install a webserver, install a database, log management, monitoring, etc. and still, I didn't talk about your application and business logic. Launching a SaaS in 2010 has been extremely painful.

It seems there are a lot of dependencies but every dependency is integrated into Nextless.js for a reason. It's just the bare minimum to build a high-quality SaaS product in 2021.

Nextless.js speeds up development for your SaaS with UI components, authentication, subscription, form management with developer experience in mind: type checking, linter, code formatter, editor configuration.

Not only Nextless.js will help you to build your SaaS, but it also takes care of your production environment by leveraging serverless.

On the contrary, using all these dependencies, remove a lot of burden from you and give you more time to focus on your business. No need to be an Ops engineer or UI/UX designer anymore for a small SaaS.

Still not convince? You aren't dealing with these dependencies directly, a lot of them work under the hood and Nextless.js are taking care of them. So, no need to worry about these dependencies yourself and Nextless will receive updates. You just need to focus on the things that make your SaaS unique and grow your business.

PS: Sorry for this long response ;) I started with one paragraph and make a short response. But, I end up with this huge text and I hope it responds to your questions.
I wonder if the quality of the movie will have to be calculated.

Especially considering this is by far the worst MCU film.
And as xckd is always relevant, if you go forward 3 comics you get one referencing rickrolling!

https://xkcd.com/573/
The lesson I take from that story is you should avoid dirty easter eggs, but innocent silly ones still seem fine to me.
How to Buy Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon
I remember the same story.
sadly the AWS gui is horrifically slow in Firefox
Most people that want to see the algorithm want that knowledge to use it for their own ends. They are forgetting about the second-order effects where literally everyone will also be doing that, and then they are gaming each other instead of "The Algorithm".
I did something similar back in the late `80s when I decided to leave Los Angeles after living there for about 15 years, but weather was not the only criteria I looked into.

I also looked into cost of housing, wages, employment, acres of public land, annual rainfall, proximity to nuke plants, air and water quality, crime rates, taxes, schools.

It took me a long time to gather the data I wanted to review. Back then I bought an "US Alamanac" to help with my research and it was a great resource.