skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Your reply to my quoted text was not germane to said text and its context."

Now you're just making things up.

"And if saving lives is not a "clear and compelling benefit" for you"

Again, you're using appeal to emotion, which is not a solid argument.

"Frankly, I don't think you're doing a great job examining your own position."

That's my opinion of you as well.

"Looking back, you have really contributed very little constructive content to this discussion"

I feel I have contributed more that you simply by questioning your unsupported suggested restrictions. I guess that makes sense that you're from the UK, with all the other odd restrictions. You are arguing about something that doesn't even affect you!

Way to cherry pick from your article. You can see that article doesn't support an outright ban and shows that technology has been making improvements to survivability. I don't want a ban in the US, and quite frankly, your opinion on the matter is moot.

"A bigger, heavier vehicle provides better crash protection than a smaller, lighter one, assuming no other differences."

"Large vehicles aren't as big a threat to people in small vehicles as they used to be."
Training is one thing. Regurgitating chunks verbatim without attribution is another.
So you're the LPB!

https://web.archive.org/web/20050214193844/http://archive.ga...
I wouldn't worry about DRM. Think of shared copies as free advertising.
100 ping is no small amount, especially with skill games where almost everyone is trying their best. Assuming you're talking about TF the Quake mod here.

Not that I advocate for wireless mice but modern gaming wireless mice do not suffer from lag issues
Do you walk 8h a day then? Or do you somehow sit sometimes? How do you sit with the treadmill there under your desk?

Do you wear shoes while walking? Do you typically wear shoes indoors then?
Take your vaccine and go kill yourself with it you.

You people will rue the day.
Some good examples, at least in my opinion:

* Jim Whitehurst (RedHat)

* Andy Grove (Intel)

* David Packard and Bill Hewlett (HP)

There are many more but they don't tend to show up in the news. They are people you meet or work for.
Try to write a commercial OS that can compete with IOS, Windows or Linux. I doubt it is much easier, there are so many features people expect from a modern OS.

The point is that when you compete with the best in the world in any area then it will be hard to win. Low level code is only easy when low level code isn't an important part of your product. For example backends to web apps, you don't write any low level code for them. The networking is handled via application server frameworks, the data storage is handled via pre packaged database programs so you don't even have to open a file etc. It isn't low level, it is just high level glue code between different libraries. This works just fine since you aren't trying to compete using low level code, so using off the shelf products without almost any code written by you is fine. But when your product requires you to compete using low level code then it is really hard.
You give people too much credit.

Tuskegee experiment cast a very long shadow and contributes a significant reason for the racial divide in vaccination rates for covid. No research needed, the bias is built into cultural memory.
Rotten Tomatoes is the epitome of why trusting expert ratings on their own is a bad idea. The number of times that the tomatometer is wildly off the general perception is insane, enough to make the tomatometer largely useless for myself at lease.

It certainly does seem, though, that a company with Google's prowess in search, NLP, ML, algorithms, categorisation and the like should be able to do a lot better, even if the problem is incredibly difficult.

My only explanation is that it doesn't suit the business needs of Google to do so.
No background in vaccines.
You need to add brackets...

The audience for these fruit problems don't 'do' typical multiplication-first arithmetic.
SARS-CoV-2 Lambda variant exhibits higher infectivity and immune resistance
Haha! That's it!
CDC is a communist cult.

Fuck everyone that supports the CDC or any of their bio-terrorists including Josef Mengele himself, Fauci.

Don't be surprised if it mysteriously burns down in the future.
Hide like counts on Twitter and karma points on Reddit with uBlock Origin
I have better things to do than critical reading of every crackpot theory.
You can sars-cov-2 my fucking dick in your ass.

Go fuck yourself liberal fuck.
I agree, But advertising agencies which offer advertisements without tracking are negligible because their competition produces more conversion so obviously advertisers flock to them. Services like ethical ads are available only to select large open-source projects as the advertisers target niche audience.

Affiliate links when the content isn't exactly a review of the said product/book (to avoid conflict of interest) do work in this context to some extent. But the current referral system is a mess with each product/service tying up with different middlemen or having their own system, arbitrary approval, payment issues, publishers gaming the system etc.

I have started to track the need-gap for 'Single referral system for all services' on my problem validation platform[1].

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/274-single-referral-system-for-...
In its current form RAW is just a messy bag of proprietary format each vendor do slightly differently. In a perfect world, vendors would have create a standard
What is useEffect()?, How does it work? & Why should we use useEffect()?
> My money's on yes, but this isn't settled until SCOTUS says so.

there are more countries in the world than the United States, and most of the world's developers live outside of the United States

copyright only works because the Berne Convention was more or less universally agreed between governments

most countries won't pay any attention to what the US Supreme Court decides
I don't think that problem solves itself if they get rid of algo ranking. Misinformation on WhatsApp chats have literally lead to multiple lynchings, and it can't possible be said to stem from any algorithm promoted the content out of order.

I'm clearly against the HN grain here but I actually think these companies do have a civic duty to actively dampen viral spread of information; there are plenty of clear cases where it is leading to Pizzarias being shot up, and almost no cases where I've seen viral information rapidly propagating on these networks is valuable.
Short checklist to decide when to useReducer and useState hook in the components
When I found out I was working from home a few years ago, I bought a used Steel Case Leap
for about $200. Since then, I’ve probably sat in that chair for at least 5000 hours.

It’s easily worth every penny.

The same logic for busing a bed should apply to home office ergonomics. You’re going to spend eight hours per day with both. Invest!
> we're already compromising how available all information is and it's necessary to have a functioning society

I would call that a functioning prison. Not a society.

Freedom is extremism in a world of tyranny
The Slate rewrite looks much better than the previous version. It was a big step for them to remove Immutable, which had to happen given the state of that project (which, incidentally, got new maintainers last week). I'm not surprised it's rolling steady now. It's good that Ian delegated smoothly. I wondered how he did that rewrite while simultaneously working at Segment as a cofounder…

I agree that Slate is nicer than ProseMirror with a more standard code style, the fact that it's not scattered among a bunch of repos, and that it's written in TypeScript. And it's not great that ProseMirror seems to have a bus factor = 1, maybe 2 or 3. That's not the case with Slate right currently, right?

It's remarkable you built cocalc with Slate. And the virtualization. Really big work.
Verge is long form tabloid
Since Rick Astley was a Stock, Aitken and Waterman product, not that much, I'm afraid. Stock, Aitkan and Waterman are the writers - and most likely have other credits related tot the song, so most of the money goes to them.
What I'm surprised by is that a decade later we don't have better off-camera raw to jpeg conversion tools (or at least I haven't used any great ones).

It should be possible to feed a bunch of raw files to a program and get back a) the exact same jpeg that the camera would have produced and/or b) an even better jpeg than the camera would have produced, given the significantly greater hardware resources available.
Expanding even more, given a relatively stable exposure bracketed burst shot, we should be able to get a very good hdr jpeg from two or three raw photos.

note that I'm talking about doing all of this automatically. of course we can get a great jpeg from a raw with some quick work in lightroom, but that shouldn't be necessary for many images.
Well, I could have written it as "one," but most people find that pretentious.
Most people haven't played Quake/UT/CS competitively.

Btw, with modern games 30ms isn't just one full event/server tick behind. Multiplayer shootets do have 100 or higher tick rates now, so 30 would be more like 3 cycles behind
Except that every corporate BYOD user is syncing all of their photos effectively unencrypted (including work related stuff) to iCloud, as well as all of their work chats (also effectively unencrypted) to iCloud Backup via their personal Apple ID.

Pretending that all of the work stuff happens on the work laptop is a bit silly.
Most of them already do, personally, I use SublimeLinter for SublimeText, and LSP support.

But linters work with hand crafted static rules, which is good and the idea is not to replace them. The idea is to used big data techniques to find unwritten rules based on commit histories, the idea being that we are more likely to remove bad code than good code. So if your code looks like code that is often removed, is is most likely bad, even if it doesn't match an explicitely written anti-pattern.
Part of it is probably cost. The average new pickup truck that is sold in the US costs just over $50K, while the most expensive versions of the Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna minivans come in under $50K. The average new truck probably has relatively more electronic safety features at those price points (things like collision avoidance) as well as cameras suited to driving a bigger vehicle that can also tow big things.
Article suggests that my premiums drop by 90%, otherwise this phrase is meaningless, worse than the Geico 15% tag line:

> having much clearer access is one way that smart contracts could save consumers 10 times more money than they do today.

How does an insurer become strongly capitalized through smart contracts? The example is for a bidding market for insurance, not how it lowers any costs for the insurer or decreases their risks relative to capital on hand. The following sentence that supposedly explains it isn’t even coherent:

> It seems reasonable to assume that a free market price where all parties in the world have the opportunity to bid will be much much cheaper than a centralized large corporation that is likely lock you into some sort of monopolistic relationship by throwing large amounts of paperwork and requirements at you.

I expect a policy to cost less, in any market, than a large company. If I could buy State Farm for the price of my car insurance premium, I surely would.
What op links actually describes a different issue than what is in the post.
What I got from the article, instead, is the following:

If entities could be IDs to which components are connected, or containers holding components. Either case has disadvantages.

If entities hold components, then iterating over components means iterating over entities, which slows down all systems. A rare type of component still degrades with adding entities.

If instead components link to entities, and you want multiple components to interact, then these interactions slow down the system because of multiple lookups that need to be done.

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.

I am not entirely sure if this would solve all problems, but this seems to be the proposal. It seems setting up the graph dynamically would be quite the task, though. For example, I don't immediately see how to guard against cyclic behavior and too many calls into a single component etc.
those all have distinct but specific meanings. Attitude refers to a collection of those terms, specifically as they relate to the frame of reference (the ground, in nearly all cases)
https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35933/what-is-t...
> vaccine material

There is no single "vaccine material" and pretending there is this single magic completely disappearing thing in all vaccines is disingenuous at best.

Also, just because something disappear from the body does not mean that it will have long lasting impacts (of course that is the point, where the gained immunity is a positive impact, but there could also be negative)
> The level of distrust in the government these days goes well beyond what the founders had in mind

I am pretty sure that the maximum level of distrust of government the founders had in mind included powder and musket ball.

We're nowhere there yet.
Exactly this. After lots of trial and error I’ve found it easier to build better engines by extracting and abstracting the common elements from my game development process than focusing solely on engine development. Really can’t describe how much my productivity has gone up since I switched my focus by adding constraints to my development process and narrowing my focus to more parochial problems instead of always pondering the general/wider abstractions. It seems that abstractions are the natural consequence of focusing on a narrow and concrete problem, but people instead try to directly jump to the wider abstract space without any bounds or constraints set, and eventually overwhelming themselves.
Good the main issue with jokes is they're the text equivalent of a Meme pic or "look what I did" type post. Easy to consume content with little actual meat. They attract upvotes easily when accepted because of that lack of substance.

Without a culture that rejects them, they, by nature, rapidly overwhelm most communities in content if a voting system is present.
The 99.5% of dead people that weren’t vaccinated. This isn’t difficult.
Yes, many scenarios I've played through in my head after awakening at 2am.

For this particular example, it's not the information uptake that's the problem, it's the obvious unwillingness to put any effort into even hearing it out.

And, yes, I still consider that I could be the problem, but upon many a midnight consideration, I've decided that I have to break this particular egg in order to find that out.
No Paint: Summer 2021
Warrior Eros
So you say, but is there really? What about hate speech? Should that go there? If not, now we need to decide what is and isn't hate speech, which is itself contentious. And material "deemed indecent" could also be newsworthy, so it's not really simple to apply even this standard. It's a pretty clear trend: every supposed "free speech platform" ends up having to have active content moderation to actually make it a site anybody would want to use, and many of them still languish in obscurity or eventually shut down because it turns out most people don't want to hang out with the people who were too unpleasant for the mainstream sites to want them.

Actually, once you start to probe, I think you'll find people disagree in degrees, even though most people consider their lines in the sand clear and commonsensical.
x=3,y=8,z=1
x=4,y=5,z=1
x=5,y=4,z=1
x=8,y=3,z=1
These are the only solutions.
I walk around 4 hours per day. Yesterday was 4 hours 13 minutes, 22k steps, 5.96 miles. It seems like a short distance for that many steps, but it's because you tend not to take huge strides.

I'll usually do 10k steps in the morning, take a break and sit and eat lunch and rest for a bit, then finish another 10k steps.

The treadmill has rear wheels, and I roll it back out of the way of my desk, then roll my chair back to my desk, when I want to sit.

I don't wear shoes while walking or indoors. If I start getting foot problems, I might get a pair of indoor shoes.
Sounds like it’s not a bug but working as intended
The sad irony of the link is that it no longer rickrolls anyone because of the mandatory pre-roll ad. You have plenty of time to see what video you're about to see.
Pedestrian fatalities are rising in the US
People do leverage Facebook's claims when they align with their own. You are probably right in that it doesn't directly change anyone's opinion that disagrees.

However, it does reinforce confirmation bias. Those that align with Facebook's viewpoint will be less likely to listen to other user's opposing viewpoints as the feel emboldened that they viewpoint has some official support.

So I think it has an indirect effect in that it weakens user to user influence.
> But that's for events that can be planned in advance, right?

Not planned, but an unconscious reaction or muscle memory. There isn't enough time to think about something and then trigger your muscles to move. It's got to be second nature to hit that level of "reaction time".
To be more specific:

https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#:~:t...

> You agree that any and all content.. that you provide to the public Network... is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Technically a lot of people who copy from Stack Overflow are breaking CC BY-SA 4.0 since it requires attribution AND requires distributing code that uses it under the same license ( I think - I am not your lawyer) :

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. So this is nothing to great.
Brokers Sought for $78M of Bitcoin Seized in Finnish Drug Bust
Talk about bad value. Online only handheld for 180 dollars is way too much
I think consensus would be to try something out before you buy it, there are those who prefer a $60 Ikea chair to a $1600 Aeron.

I'm OK either way, my cat is sleeping on the Ikea chair, she won't touch the Aeron, so I get the leftovers.
> In this case, you are misrepresenting the argument I'm trying to convey by comparing it to something

Ah, i see where the confusion came in. You don't know what misrepresent means.

Misrepresent means to say someone said X when they really said Y.

To compare something is to say, someone said X (when they really truly did), and I think that X is similar or equivalent to Y due to reason Z.

The key difference is I'm not saying the other person said Y, I'm saying that i think its equivalent. I'm not making claims about the other person's beliefs, i'm making claims about my own beliefs about what they said. An on looker can clearly distinguish what are my beliefs and what the original person's beliefs are, and judge for themselves. In a misrepresentation they can't honestly tell where the original person's belief end and the new person's beliefs start. See the difference?

> by comparing it to something that is proven without a shadow of a doubt

That is generally how argument ad absurdum works (well usually the negation of something proven beyond a shadow of a doubt). Which is very different from a strawman.

If the conclusion wasn't proven false beyond a shadow of a doubt, it would hardly be fitting to call it absurd

> You absolutely do need more evidence to conclude with high probability that the covid vaccines are safe long-term

Yes, i was dismissing your evidence as stupid (i.e. the existence of some unnamed person somewhere believing a proposition having any bearing on the truth of the proposition), not the need for evidence in general.

> What is this patently false position you speak of?

The absurd concludion that the earth is flat. (Its more clear in context)

> You should definitely go read up on what a strawman argument is

You just quoted it at me. I stand by my statement. A priori, "saying that you can apply this logic to anything" cannot be a strawman since there is no misrepresentation involved which is a neccesary condition for it to be a strawman, according to the definition you just quoted.

> I have many friends who are immunologists and pharmaceutical scientists who know about the history of mRNA vaccines...

Really now? Its basically a meme at this point to use a line like this when talking about race relations (e.g. "i'm not racist, i have black friends!"). I'm not sure why you think this would be anymore compelling in a different context.

> One of the vaccine types (hint: adenovirus vectored) has an instance that has approval for use by EMA

Which one? The covid adenovirus ones are emergency approval, which to be clear, is still an approval, but i thought the bar you had was approval without caveats. The ebola one also has caveats - "Zabdeno has been authorised under ‘exceptional circumstances’. This is because it has not been possible to obtain complete information about Zabdeno for scientific and ethical reasons." - https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/zabdeno

Is there an adenovirus based vaccine i don't know about that has full approval?
It matters not, the web with all it’s features creates subpar UX experiences. That, or scrubs are entering frontend en masse.
You can use Gumroad. You can add watermark (IIRC it based on customer's email) and customer will get book updates for free. You can also send email to the customers when you have a new version.
This is the issue with “hybrid” work. You either live somewhere where you can afford an office, or somewhere where the commute is bearable. Living somewhere where you have a dedicated office and the commute isn’t hell is a very expensive proposition in most American cities.
The Berkeley paths are one of the treasures of the city. Even after walking them for 30 years I still find new ones.

It's hard not to feel admiration for the people that thought of adding paths with public rights of way to new neighborhoods before houses were even built. They envisioned a future of people walking through about and discovering the hidden corners of their fully built city. I sometimes feel we've lost the civic vision that animated much of America in the 1800s and early 1900s.
They did studies with cricket players. They foind that it took 200ms for players to start responding to a change in the balls trajectory.

Not to successfully hit the ball, but just to start to make an adjustment to their swing.
In Cal Newport's latest book what he winds up suggesting is pretty much Jira.

Which is amusing to anyone who has worked with such systems for 10+ years. Yes they improve things, but well, there are still loads of issues with where old knowledge is and so on.

Of course it's in a wiki, the current one, or the old one, or maybe in Sharepoint....
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2011/07/01/police-do-not-feed-be...

Pretty stupid.
Yep! I walk regularly on calls and during pairing sessions. Google meet is pretty good at noise cancelling. My coworkers say they can't even hear the treadmill. Heavy breathing isn't really an issue for me at 2.5km/hour. I'll have to dig up our standing desk dimensions, but there is no problem there for me or my partner. I'm 6', she's 5'8", and we both have different standing desks and different treadmills. There would be no issue with the desk height or width, but you should measure your own setup if you're thinking of doing the same.