skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is implying that default mail-in voting was a way to get Democrats elected in the first place.

No it isn't. Don't be obtuse.

Challenging elections integrity in the courts are what insure the process is transparent and followed in the first place.

Filing dozens of frivolous lawsuits and aggressively pressuring state government officials to help overturn election results isn't normal.

Democrats got unlucky on the retirement / death draw

https://www.npr.org/sections/death-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg/20...

[1/6 was] not a coup by any stretch of the imagination (no weapons)

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/977879589/yes-capitol-rioters...

I get it that you are not familiar with Bush v. Gore

Yup, this is the first I've heard of George Bush and Al Gore. Thanks for letting me know about them.

It's easy to pick a random clown in a camp and then zoom 1000x to paint a bad picture

Sure. I agree with that. I'm not claiming that this is the official platform of the GOP, simply that it's a radical and dangerous element of society that Trump and his wing of the party are actively cultivating by continuing to promote lies.

And the "voter suppression" are a joke

Sure. They didn't work in the end, but they made it a lot closer than it would have been. The new ones may work or they may not, but we shouldn't tolerate any voter suppression in America.

showing ID with proof of your address

No one is opposed to requiring an ID to vote. The For the People Act included a voter ID provision, with alternative documents such as utility bills allowable as a fallback.

If you want to require IDs without that fallback, how about we make federal voting IDs available to everyone in the country at no cost and with minimal hassle or time investment? If the intent isn't voter suppression, this should be perfectly agreeable.
> Is there really enough data in gif search patterns to be monitizeable?

*Yes*
I wish I could find the study, but back in December there was a study indicating that frontline medical workers working directly with COVID patients every day and wearing N95 masks were more likely to have been infected by social contact outside of work then at work. I remember the day because it's when I went and bought KN95 masks.
Looks like against delta the vaccines could have as low as 39% efficacy against preventing symptomatic COVID.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/23/delta-variant-pfizer-covid-v...
I've been running Arch on multiple machines for 10 years at this point. Been through the systemd transition. In my experience there is very little breakage, and it's easier to deal with than a huge upgrade every 6 months or more.

I'm guessing Valve will not deploy Arch packages directly to the Deck, but instead do weekly/monthly releases that are properly QA'd. It should be very smooth while giving them flexibility to deploy the patches they didn't upstream yet.
I know I am supposed to by sympathetic, but if youve left the bay area and been out in the rral world, you would know that most people do not save at all.

I used to sell RVs. I would say less than 20% of our clients could actually afford their purchase. By that I mean, people all ready in debt, but trying to max out their spending because having something leftover after bills and debts would be a waste.
I really liked Fedora. The only reason I switched to ubuntu was to keep the graphics card drivers up to date and supported.
It might be a bit counterintuitive, but higher fatality rate (SARS, ebola) actually limits the virus' transmissivity, making them harder to spread.
I will plug my Firefox addon here which builds on this Firefox’s feature. Basically the add-on remembers the websites for which the user wants to enforce/unenforce browser fonts.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enforce-brows...
We've crossed the threshold - more than half of all counties in the US are losing population. Almost all of the growth happened in the most heavily populated counties. That's amazing to think about.
It's the baseline "I am knowledgeable about IT" certificate.. a great starting off point.
im not fragile, you can say something we can talk this out. why so downvoted eh?
This RPS article adds nothing to that original PC Gamer piece. From the RPS article:

> PC Gamer got the scoop on this. Valve designer Lawrence Yang told them: "So, Arch Linux, one of the main reasons - there's a couple - but the main reason is the rolling updates of Arch allows us to have more rapid development for SteamOS 3.0. We were making a bunch of updates and changes to specifically make sure that things work well for Steam Deck, and Arch just ended up being a better choice for them."
Both US and EU countries kept vaccine production patents for profit effectively allowing the world to go unvaccinated and the mutations to go rampart. India a vaccine production behemoth but also others asked, begged but to deaf ears. Helping other countries looks like a US and EU issue.
Your complaints are disconnected from reality. Vaccines aren't being hoarded. It takes time to set up export and delivery cold chains with all of the necessary quality and safety checks. Giving people spoiled vaccines would be worse than no vaccines.
Its not gonna get you a software job.

But if you wanna get into the data center, go for it.

I knew too many people thinking they'd become devops with an A+ and its just not worth it that way.

But just getting in the door, no matter the small the role is a win.
would this help? (disclaimer: i wrote the addon)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28165179
> …to be honest I think many at Apple behind this decision are likely pretty surprised by the blowback.

If Apple is surprised by the blowback, it’s entirely Apple’s fault because it didn’t engage with many outside experts on the privacy front.

I recall reading either in Alex Stamos’s tweets or Matthew Green’s tweets that Apple was invited before for discussions related to handling CSAM, but it didn’t participate.

Secretiveness is helpful to keep an advantage, but I can’t believe that Apple is incapable of engaging with knowledgeable people outside with legal agreements to keep things under wraps.

This blowback is well deserved for the way Apple operates. And I’m writing this as a disappointed Apple ecosystem user.
I think my country (France) and dr Raoult has its share of responsibility. Let’s not even talk about China’s responsibility in this mess.
In many cases, none of these makes a difference at all. You may have 3 apps that need the most important permission (so what if it has unnecessary access to gists, when it has and needs full access to private repos) that you use on a single computer with a password manager. Either way, you need to reset the password/key if it becomes compromised.

Still, it's good to be in the habit of doing this, because sometimes you do need it.
> "In the UK, however, https://twitter.com/mayoroflondon/status/982906526334668800 is a line crossed for me."

"“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone',”" - said UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2016. ( https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-too-t... )
Some old school guys will give you an entry level job on the spot if you have an A+ and come across as literate.
I'm sorry it offends you, but if you listen to a decent explanation it makes much better sense. There's more to it than printed material (definition of pornography). It's photographic evidence of a crime scene.
same here. Firefox pulling out from websql is the reason I stopped from using it and recommending it. If the standard wasn't good enough, it should have been improved and refined, not thrown out.
To not have lasting immunity to the same strain is anti-science. We already know that people who were previously infected by covid are immune to many different variants. To think otherwise would be illogical. Even SARS patients from 2003 have immunity to SARS 18 years later.
I've heard rumours from people-in-the-know that Giphy had some Hollywood connections and got a backroom covenant-not-to-sue from most, but not all, of the major rightsholders - I assume their argument is that widespread use of classic movie GIFs doesn't harm sales, and they'd be in a position to encourage people to use GIFs from current releases - which in-turn drives box-office revenue, so that's the likely explanation.
Aside: I've never attempted to leverage it, but I did get it. If you're considering getting it, you can get a host of certifications while doing your bachelors at WGU. I'm a horrific "studier" and their content got me through multiple certifications without problems. I don't work there, only studied.
> Why is this different?

Because the big shiny text that people pay $10,000 for says "Autopilot". Between the name and the large price tag, it conveys that it's higher than L2 autonomy. Putting in the fine print that it's not, doesn't change things.
He’s saying that she usually drinks in moderation, isn’t he? Doesn’t seem like a “yikes” statement, unless I’m reading it incorrectly.
Malaysia is a great place to be. Software is probably around the top 5% of salaries; many people in gov will never make as much money as a "senior developer", and even accountants get paid half as much.

Tech in SE Asia is very exciting, probably similar to the 17th century colonialism. You have three major powers: US, China, and Germany who are all competing for the local market.

US tech seems isolated; even Amazon hasn't stepped far outside its borders. But the tech reaches here, especially Google, Microsoft, 500 Startups. Americans seem to come in with this impression that America is the best, which may be true from a salary standpoint, but not technologically.

China is extremely hard working and tries to get into everything. Companies like Huawei, Alibaba, and ZTE try to dig themselves deep like Oracle does, but they have the innovation rates of Google.

Germany/Rocket Internet goes into markets before other companies can. Companies like Lazada grow 10%/week (even when valued at $1B). They get acquired by companies like Alibaba who look to expand but don't want to deal with shit like building infrastructure from scratch in a place that doesn't have full roads or use credit cards. Those companies just want to hire 5000 people a billion dollars. German startups are risky and die often, so you'll often see a lot of Germans from these dead startups doing their own or bouncing around other SE Asian startups and consultants. They're probably the best in the world at execution, but in terms of customer discovery, America still wins hands down.

There are some interesting other "colonists" like UK, Korea and Japan. Korea has solved many of its own problems and SE Asia is a really large consumer market. Japan and UK are also developed in that internal investments will probably bring minimal returns, so a lot of funding these past few weeks have been coming in for "emerging markets" like SEA.

Tech level is surprisingly not terrible... I think Malaysia is technologically a little ahead of Portugal and Australia, even though the Australian education system is a lot better and salaries are 3 times higher.
The price point is attractive but this is more than a clever insight into optimizing for different use cases.

Previous attempts at these batteries have run into a lot of operational problems and have had trouble keeping the batteries up and running long enough for them to be useful. There's a lot of novel engineering and chemistry that's gone into operationalizing the system.
Automating Smart Contract Development with Docker
Even if they did release packages directly, it is trivial to create automatic snapshots that should breakage occur, relevant system directories can be reverted.
Myself and other “enthusiasts” wanted to know how certain functionality was implemented in a commercial application, so I wrote this. I was taking about a month off from work for a winter break and spent 2 weeks deep diving and reverse engineering the initial PoC, and some time off and on over the next 2 months or so refining it. So far it’s been an invaluable tool for this enthusiast community.
This title is editorialized to be misleading. It’s specifically the nose not in general. It does not mean the viral load in the lungs is the same.

And studies indicate vaccinated ppl may stay infectious a shorter timespan.
I would say, given a static audience of 1 million people, that user engagement goes down the more you advertise (if 1/4 of my feed is ads, that's 25% less actual content to interact with).

TikTok and Instagram have been able to grow larger and larger audiences despite the pressure of ads (and honestly I know when I tried TikTok last there weren't any ads yet, I wonder what portion of an hour is taken up by ads and how long is it til it reaches television levels of ~25%) - as long as audience growth outpaces users losing interest, you can keep introducing ads, but you can't do it forever.
You can have a folder that's g+rwx and just give everyone different accounts for things like git. That's the reason these things exist.
> A bunch of people are making speculative claims that Apple is doing this to enable encryption of data in iCloud, but there's no reason to believe that's true. Apple certainly hasn't mentioned it.

There is nothing surprising here. Apple never mentions things unless it’s ready for release or is just about to be released. It’s just how Apple works.
Regarding putting in all the additional control flow edges:
more edges mean fewer optimizations. That's not zero cost.
I am an overthinker, and I know that ideas are cheap; they're driven as much by emotion as thought, and if my observations are not received in the intended spirit, it's not necessarily worth it to keep pushing.

What has consistently helped in winning trust when providing feedback is pairing any concern with either a qualification (blocker/aesthetic/security), a solution, or both. Then, you not only expose the thought process behind your perspective that they've missed something - with which your audience may not agree, but can judge in earnestness - but also your intention to help and support their vision.
> developers at Apple will still know that the system is being used for something other than CSAM.

Will the next generation's developers call them out for that? Or will they be given justification to accept it?

We're inching towards 1984 with these big tech monopolies. It was one thing for Snowden to reveal the secret agreements the government imposes upon tech companies. It's entirely another for privately run businesses to capitulate, and thus excuse politicians from needing to make intelligence-gathering a public issue.

Whatever backroom discussions are occuring about this topic need to come into public view. This just doesn't make sense on the surface. The government can't have access to secretly monitor everything on the internet. It's too much power for too few, ripe for abuse by bad actors, etc. There must be another way that involves an informed citizenry. I don't care how uninformed we've shown ourselves to be in the last decade. We should press forward on informing regardless.
Yeah, he's saying she's too serious of a person to get drunk, that didn't strike me at all; that's easily corroborated by people that know her.
Plot reminds me of Malaysia Airlines flight 370.
That's a straw-man. "Indefinitely with no clear, achievable exit criteria" isn't what I said.

A lot of countries have done masking as a default during flu season, without the massive chorus of whining from dipshits about it. Social distancing and lockdowns are obviously a bigger deal but this stuff could be targeted and less extreme than we've had to, pre-vaccine. The vaccine clearly reduces the severity of the spread even if it doesn't eliminate the possibility.

The word "endemic" is doing a lot of work in these kind of posts. It's quite compatible with absolutely ghastly public health outcomes, and frankly we don't know how bad it's going to get. You can spout cliches about "free societies" and "accepting the risk" and "moving forward with normal life" until you're blue in the face (maybe literally?) but maybe the normal life we're talking about down that path involves a order-of-magnitude increase in Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia.

I hope y'all enjoy changing diapers.
> that's arguably why the j&j had a much lower rate than Pfizer, as it was tested amongst test pools with different variants circulating.

J&J was tested in populations that didn't have the SA variant, and Pfizer was tested in populations that did (in addition to the other combinations you mentioned). Tests were done worldwide and we had natural experiments due to different tests in different time in different (relatively) isolated populations.

That effect exists, but only covers a small percentage of the difference in efficacy.
> People drive to work all the time staring at their phones and only glancing up at the road every few seconds.

Do you know people who drive like this? Driving this way is (a) very illegal and (b) recklessly endangering other people. I doubt it's especially common, at least in most of the US.
Unfortunately there is increasingly more data that shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not benign in children.

For example this rather early analysis from 2020 included more than 2,000 children who got infected. 10.6% of infants under 1 year of age had severe or critical symptoms. All of these infants survived but a small number of infants in the United States have died following diagnosis with COVID-19 even then before Delta (or even Lambda and other variants).

https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/ea...

I have rolled too many d10 not to worry a lot about this.
No, Arch uses recent kernel and releases packages significantly quicker than what is available on Ubuntu/Fedora. I'd like to say I've been running Arch for 4 years now and any breaking change was directly due to my own action(s). With them largely in control of the OS, I doubt there would ever be a breaking change that could not be quickly reverted via adequate snapshots and ability to boot a backup root file image.
Everyone[0] has a car, is sedentary, and has cheap, fast, and easy access to a huge variety of high-calorie foods?

[0] not literally
I'm not an expert here but it may be time for white box no name mobile phones that come with nothing that we have to set up ourselves. My second computer was the first time I downloaded from both kernel and kerneli and rolled my first Linux Kernel based gnu system....
>fully remote code monkey, and you may be surprised to find out that the "best people" aren't code monkeys.

Very curious that you have loaded it with the assumption that "remote" implies being a "code monkey".

>they have not blown FAANG companies "right tout of the water".

Sure no one is saying it ll happen overnight. Curious reasoning again, by the way.

>a very small percentage of people put remote work as their number 1

Very curious again, because even in HN there were a lot of stories where people are willing to even resign, to keep the freedom that they discovered with not having to work in strict constraints.
That’s not at all how hashes work here.
No, not if such breakage causes data loss and damage.

Edit: Did everyone replying here forget we're talking about an embedded device, a game console, before responding? It behooves Valve to do QA above and beyond what Arch has done is what I'm saying. Valve wouldn't want to take the chance of just passing on upstream Arch directly. Devices may end up bricked, customers upset, etc. Testing is good actually. Furthermore, their hardware may not even be something Arch tests on, so it could literally brick the device if they just passed through updates.
Delta is apparently pretty risky to kids. And kids are at risk from long-COVID.

Why they are doing in person school and fighting over mask mandates I'll never understand. Even if children suffered no ill effects, they'll act as disease vectors for adults and breakthrough cases.
Absolutely not what? Did you accidentally the bottle?
I can see how 'inadvised' and 'regret' could refer to further projection of blame, but the author is dead, and that's not how it reads to me.
That this has been normalized is grotesque. That the focus has shifted to mere cases, even in small numbers as a justification for draconian, personal freedom-ignoring lockdowns in this paranoid, absurdly overreaching way is not something that any normal person should applaud or defend. Simply imagine the extrapolation of these tendencies moving forward into the future, for any government anywhere, using lockdowns as a justification for all sorts of things and always using the "somebody think of the children"-like argument of, "but if it ambiguously saves even one life, it's justified".
Tangentially related:

If you use Firefox’s feature that allows one to turn off website fonts, I wrote an addon which builds on this feature.

Firefox’s stock feature is all-or-nothing. The add-on remembers the websites for which the user wants to enforce/unenforce browser fonts.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enforce-brows...
Tim Cook about Privacy (2016) in light of Apple's recent CSAM announcement
My telephone told me I get Covid immediately upon vaccination /s

* this is a joke reflecting how’s the childhood game of telephone can be easily translated to “consensus says”
As far as I can tell, there are many numbers. Unfortunately, they are contradictory.
Maybe I should add more text in support of the parent comment's point. When I read "UK and Australian governments are just two prime examples of waving terrorism and pedobear banners," my first thought was: all the while _protecting_ monsters like Savile.

I see push for CSAM as an alignment of powers in the form of "The Baptist and Bootlegger." The well meaning moral campaigners are a tool for folks who seek to surveil and control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists
Yeah, that would be even more consistent with the idea that there's a combination of natural resistance (if not immunity) from the first form of the virus (I think you can get again) as well as resistance for vaccination. It's not going to be 33% + 45% because there'd be overlap in the categories, but that's probably a pretty high rate of resistance.

Couple that with the fact that the Swedes aren't acting completely stupid and are doing a pretty good job of voluntary distancing (not to mention border control) and it seems like the numbers are pretty easily explained. Quite the cost to get there...
Yes! I'm not sure how that changes what I'm saying. If you don't trust the server, it can give you a malicious ISO, too.

Or are you saying that you audit the bits of the ISO yourself before burning it?
Without more details if be inclined to blame "almost identical" as the culprit (not an expert):

Making all your meals 5% bigger would cause a weight gain of nearly 10lbs/yr, and the kind of switch in diet that can happen naturally with age (especially including eating out more with friends) can make it hard to spot incremental changes.

Moreover, a lot of exercise doesn't actually do much for weight loss (it's still immensely beneficial for your health; please don't stop). To counteract the aforementioned 10lbs/yr you'd have to walk an extra ~20 minutes per day. It isn't all that much per se, but if your exercise were 20 minutes of something high intensity and an hour of something low intensity every single day (a lot more than most people get) it'd still be a noticeable demand on your time -- enough that I don't think you'd call the extra exercise level "nearly identical."

It's also possible less visible culprits exist if you're used to average weight gains/losses of under a pound per month as a function of your diet/activity. E.g., iirc fidgiting and tapping your feet consumes nearly a pound per month in calories, and that doesn't seem like the kind of thing you'd recognize stopping/starting over a timespan of decades.
I don't know the internals of clang very well, but everything I have heard second hand (and third hand) makes me think that its approach to modeling exceptions isn't very good.