skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I just found a few others like it. I'll still contend it's a great way to bar people from a conversation because it means nothing to the majority. Which seems like a bizarre choice for a topic called "accessibility".
On one hand, you are arguing that you pay less because you keep your original agreements in place. On the other, you are complaining that Apple is doing the same.
Perhaps epilepsy was a bad choice. How about for cardiac arrest, stroke, or any number of undiagnosed medical conditions that could cause someone to create dangerous/fatal conditions outside of their control?
Have you tried all of the different versions of Firefox? Beta, focus, nightly?
Interesting how much of human mating falls under a small number of brands controlled by a single company.

Also funny how problematized dating outside of those approved channels has become.

It is, ultimately, monopoly control over human reproduction.
That was a long standing question of mine: Are people who build their careers around building experiments that mislead others (as a lot of psychological experiments do) more truthful in their papers?
At least in this case the answer seems to be no.
I like your line reasoning… but the problem with video conferencing isn’t really technical- IMO it’s all about the User experience (UX). Zoom by far beats the competition in this regard. It’s UI could be better but compared the mess of competitors it’s far more straightforward … just my opinion…
I'm ignorant in this domain, but wouldn't it be up to the structural engineer to make sure the plans are sound? I always thought that architects dream it up and engineers are responsible for the physics.
Note that your link describes support for the vaccine being withdrawn after causing autoimmunity in a non-negligible number of people. Anti-vaxxers don't typically go out and get a new and unnecessary vaccine, so I don't see how the complaints could be described as such.

What's interesting is that the type of autoimmune effects described are pretty similar to chronic lyme, suggesting that antibodies/B-cells produced either naturally or after exposure to the vaccine (binding to one of the surface proteins on the bacteria) may have a negative biological effect in some percentage of people.
vmladenov has it right, follow that link. I get it, it made sense once I actually counted out the letters. Still an awkward way to choose to communicate with other people.
The highlights here point out that much of that added work specifically for "git rebase" to use caches across merges is still left to do, but it will be an additional benefit presumably in a future version.
> The size of gas stations is increasing as “mom and pop” stops give way to massive fueling sites owned by supermarket chains hoping to lure in shoppers with cheap gas.

> Electric charging presents an existential threat to those gas stations. About 80% of EV charging is done at home, and it currently takes at least 20 minutes to fast charge an EV, far longer than anyone would ever want to spend in a gas station.

So, most new gas stations are to lure people into grocery stores, where the average trip takes ~41 minutes [1]. But EVs are existential threat to this model because it takes 20 minutes to fast charge one?

[1] https://spendmenot.com/blog/grocery-shopping-statistics/
>I'll fight for YIMBY policy til the bitter end

Man I'd just move if I lived somewhere like that. In fact, I did. There's infrastructure, dense housing, etc. I can select exactly what I want in the "affordability, amenities, commute" triangle and am supper happy with what I have. I also pretty much just walked in and filled out the application for my current apartment. There are condos around here that I can afford and I'm thinking about buying one soon. The trip to my parent's isn't too too long so I still visit them (and they visit me) a few times a month.

Let the NIMBYs have their crappy low density neighborhoods with half their neighbors living on their lawns. Don't be the man raging against the machine.
If the "in-group" think themselves clever (or whatever thinking gets you to spell "accessibility" in such a manner), they should use a text expansion utility so that their tender fingertips can be preserved, while at the same time saving the rest of us from having to translate. I'd bet money most folks that type ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ aren't typing each character by hand. Or maybe they are, and they're just better people than I am. :-)
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Great! I will take a look :)
Yay Zorin is awesome
Teams is superior to Zoom... I don't understand why anyone uses Zoom, it's trash and compromised
Useless? It explains the error you're making.
As far as I know, that is the deal.
Scottish Government seeks to make many emergency coronavirus powers permanent
I don’t know, insects have been doing pretty well for a long time, and only one large group of insects that we know of has ever gone extinct, even during the absolutely horrific Permian-Triassic extinction event.

I know as humans our impulse is to “do something about it”, but I think insects are gonna be fine.
> until COVID mutates into something less deadly perhaps.

How do we know that that hasn't already happened? If we don't know, when will we know?
Seems like it could also be mechanical. There are gigantic Diesel engines that have pistons capable of each absorbing this kind of energy. Have a little bit of gas or water near the target and there will be quite an expansion.

Also a "thermonuclear internal combustion engine" is kind of retro-futuristic and cool.
How would you compare this to svelte?
no, just comments that draw conclusions based off conjecture.
Your clients by definition don't have strong feelings on the format for a resume and accept what you tell them.

You writing countless articles about what you think doesn't preclude the idea that people out there think differently.

Meanwhile I've personally seen it in hiring committees in every job I've worked for about 15 years now. I actively shut down that line of thinking in said committees (from both directions), and it's not difficult to do because you get a group of five people or so together in a committee and that's normally enough for there to be differing opinions on the matter. "Look, even in this small group, of people we've hired and trust to make good hiring decisions, there's mutually exclusive ideas on what you're 'supposed to do'. So obviously we throw out both ideas and accept whatever in this case since it's completely orthogonal".

I personally take your approach since it's around 75%/25%, and the numbers work in favor, but there's absolutely the other camp out there.
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Meanwhile, $20M is peanuts for movie that only charges $10/ticket
> moving to Puerto Rico under Act 20/22

That's quite out of scope of the California thread though, as it is a much more complex situation. Income in PR is not subject to US taxation (even federal) so it's quite unlike moving in or out of a state like California.
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-16.htm...
Other big services sometimes solve this problem by creating a data center in EU for European customers (DataDog, 1password, etc.). I don’t know how feasible could that be in Zoom’s case technically, but if they see a threat of losing customers because of GDPR they might dedicate such resources.
Recent and related:

Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28200288 - Aug 2021 (159 comments)
The 'I Bought a House at 21' Clickbait Cottage Industry
I wouldn't call it 'advertising', but I do mention it in FIRE subreddits every now and then. r/financialindependence is (understandably) super strict about self promotion, but the existing users mention the site in comments there. Thank you!
Yes, it would be great if someone with this experience can chime in, especially since Phoenix has CRDTs built-in.
Lexical Similarity
This is amazing! But then...

“It gives the US a lab capability to study burning plasmas and high-energy physics relevant for [nuclear weapons] stewardship,”

Are you freaking kidding me? How about solving the energy crisis required to reverse climate change? Nope. More bombs :(
It's not possible in the most cases - unless you have the exact same version of the compiler that was used and you can figure out the build settings that were used (especially optimizations, but also stuff like include order), you can't recreate the assembler code from pseudo / C code.

Modernizations are especially tricky. Modern compilers can do all sort of weird magic, sometimes combining two or more lines of code into one instruction. Old school compilers don't optimize much which is part of why performance-critical parts of game engines were written in Assembler for a long time.

Not to mention that some stuff you can do in Assembler has no equivalent in higher-level code (e.g. dealing with raw stack frames), and even Assembler to byte code is nowhere near 1:1 reversible.
This should answer most questions:

http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
Yes, the energy equivalent of McDonald's Cheeseburger dietary calories.

From a blob of matter about 100 microns across and over a timespan of less than a nanosecond.

Obviously, once (or IF) they get this thing to be repeatable and then scalable, it will become a big deal.
Thank you! I think there always an abstraction bias that makes webdev frameworks so coupled with HTML.

Great to hear that you liked!
While I totally agree that it is necessary for the problems we have today, I disagree that it's obviously bad or necessarily creates many of these problems.
the article submitted reflects a paucity of knowledge regarding the Coronavirus
I'm not sure I follow. Whether or not the typeface is eligible for copyright, the pricing model and terms of use are at the discretion of the font creator.
There's some truth to this, but it doesn't paint the full picture. In high-demand areas it's the land that's valuable, not the structures on the land. If Palo Alto, say, were upzoned prices wouldn't fall. Developers would love to buy that land and develop it.

That's not to say that literally every single neighborhood would benefit from upzoning, but the areas most in need of upzoning do have this property.

Yet homeowners oppose it. This suggests that their arguments against zoning are sincere. People genuinely do not want more density in their neighborhoods. It's not entirely a cynical ploy to boost home values.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying for the opposite on this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If this was a thing, then any software you buy on windows should work on Mac and Linux, and any titles for PlayStation should work on Xbox etc. I don’t know that I’m opposed per se, but it also seems like a system one could game. It’s also never been the case in software.
The early versions of uTorrent were on the order of 80KB in size, it really was amazing. BitTorrent the company re-skinned it as BitTorrent the software and offered both versions for a few years, differing only by icons and colors, but fans held to strong opinions about which was technically better.
It is true that the code was hard to maintain and extend though.
Target at least isn’t quite as bad and they do seem to vet their partner sellers a lot better than the other marketplaces. They also make it very clear it’s a partner instead of hiding it like Amazon does.
> These are all things you should be doing anyway if you're moving so it's not a particularly high bar to meet.

Not really. There's no legitimate reason one would have to sell all property in a state when moving out, for example. I should be able to keep them as rental units as long as I legitimately live in some different state.

A friend had to even sell off some empty undeveloped land to fend off California taxes, even though there was no way he could be claimed to live there, it was just empty land!
That's how you tend to get better business ideas aswell
Chez and SBCL (counting the open source ones) are doing fine, and have just better compilers. SBCL optimizations are trivial to improve, Chez not so.
NW is running low as well, so don't count on it. We're getting less snow each year, so the spring/summer melts aren't contributing nearly as much as it used to. I've been to about 20 different reservoirs (I like to fly drones there) around the state in recent weeks, and they are all way below average. Some places they're having to remove the docked boats or they'll be sitting on dirt and rocks soon.

> The area has struggled with water scarcity for years – but this year has been unlike any other. Amid a historic drought, in May the federal government cut off all irrigation to farmers for the first time in more than a century, in an effort to conserve water for the endangered fish that also share this landscape. The move sparked fear and concern among farmers, some of whom have protested the decision, and put an already challenging way of life in doubt.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/05/drought-...

> The couple's well is among potentially hundreds that have dried up in recent weeks in an area near the Oregon-California border suffering through a historic drought, leaving homes with no running water just a few months after the federal government shut off irrigation to hundreds of the region's farmers for the first time ever.

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/survive-wells-dr...

This water problem isn't happening in a vacuum.
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Sure, I meant if that rigor was applied to the whole software industry, not selectively, exactly as you say. And that level of rigor is applied sometimes. The most rigorous example I know of is the Space Shuttle guidance system (I think that was it; I read about it twenty years ago). Two independent teams write two entirely separate programs, and then in practice (again, from memory) two versions of program A run, and if they disagree program B is the tie breaker.

Also their QA process was completely adversarial. Finding a bug was a major success for QA, and a major failure for the dev team. They found something crazy like 1 bug per million lines of code.
Palantir bought $50M in gold bars in August as cash pile grows
That statement's horribly misleading. The desktop versions (eg. windows or mac) aren't, but the web versions are.
I think we're well past the period of a new framework every week - at least in a "real world" sense. Nearly all companies will settle on react or vue these days with a long tail choosing others, but this is no different than any other part of software development - lots of different databases, web frameworks, auth libraries etc all exist as well and are used.

Most of these "new" frameworks are more because someone wanted to scratch an itch or solve a specific problem they had, and frontend code simply lends itself well to being open sourced. If you don't like the new js tools that are made, just ignore them.
It depends on the game; for something like CS:GO or Overwatch, an integrated GPU @ 1080p is fine. For something like Cyberpunk, Apex Legends, or Call of Duty, its really not enough for an enjoyable experience.
On safetyism in general I really like the "safety third" post by Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame. People who criticize safety culture get harshly shamed as immoral and irresponsible, but in reality there are always trade-offs to consider. We should keep our minds open and not assume that contrarian statements are ideologically driven.

https://mikerowe.com/2020/03/walk-me-through-this-safety-thi...
The boosters in question are not at this time. Same as other shot.

It's confusing because Pfizer was touting they could modify boosters for variants months ago.
No. Pfizer indicated it could develop and begin mass-producing a variant-specific booster within 100 days, if a third dose of the original vaccine is ineffective. [0] But the plan is to use the existing stock.

I'd feel a lot safer if Pfizer started developing a polyvalent booster with mRNA for all significant variants.

0. http://ctmirror.org/2021/08/13/pfizer-ceo-to-public-just-tru...
Quite the contrary, you can find good ride along videos on YouTube. They show how Waymo handles more difficult situations and how the system has improved.
Sales Are Hard
Re your first paragraph, sure, and I'm fine with that. But the following analogy is quite off.

Go read their manifesto: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/docs/cr...

Specifically the section titled "Clarity".

> Things ought to work in an intuitive way.

Spoiler alert, they most certainly do not. There's nothing intuitive about being completely unable of knowing the practical effects of something as simple as equipping a piece of armor or a shield or allocating a point to STR vs DEX. I gave an example in another comment of how other games do provide information when comparing between options so you can intuit their effects. I have faith they'll get there, though. I believe they'll gain many more players if they can, too. :) I'm sure I'll be back in a year or two after they improve the gameplay more.
Would you please stop posting this sort of low-information, snarky/ranty comment? You've been doing it a lot, unfortunately, and it's not within either the spirit or the letter of the rules here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I recommend almost anything else at all other than Zoom.

As a security researcher that has reported a number of issues to Zoom, I can say without reservation they are one of the most security negligent companies I ever worked with.

It was evident after multiple calls with their team they didn't employ anyone strong technically in their US offices and had no idea how to translate security issues, even obvious ones like DNS takeover, to their (I assume China based) eng teams.

The software was designed without security as even a thought as many researchers have demonstrated. To this day the clients expect administrative access for no reason. I refuse to install them and tolerate the webapp when people insist on Zoom.

A friend and I compiled this list to consider.

https://gist.github.com/dacruz21/dd2480f195f5b48a9ab7af8b41c...
I expect some fonts to be free, but I do not expect all fonts to be free. The former is because we have become dependent upon fonts through the use of technology, and having restrictive licenses upon all fonts would inhibit the use of technology. The latter is because I have no desire to dictate the terms that font creators use.

That being said, I don't have high expectations or great needs of fonts since legibility is the most important criteria. Fonts are tools to differentiate the structure of a document. In most cases, the design of a document is less relevant.
Right, all your programs cover HPV vaccines for the under 26 market. Medicaid and ACA doesn't cover HPV vaccines for people over 26. The over 26 population is 70% of the US population?
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Well, classical Euclidean geometry relies on the parallel postulate, although it can't itself be proven. Abstract mathematicians have put together alternate non-euclidean geometries that are consistent but don't rely on the parallel postulate - kind of along the same lines as Nelson here "rejecting" induction just to see what would happen. I've always wondered what might happen if you "allowed", in the same sense, a square root to be a real rather than imaginary number. Maybe nothing, but I always wondered why nobody ever tried.
whats the purpose of conscience in this planet? purpose is not necessary, though one could say discovery is a purpose, boldly go where no man has gone before
> cost more for lower specs

That's in part because of economy of scale, but also another major factor IMHO is the subsidizing by other revenue sources (App Store commissions in case of Apple/Google, advertising/essentially spyware in the case of some others).
> If you want to know about California tax law, and you have three options:

This is missing the best and most appropriate option:

D) Consult with tax accountant/lawyer very familiar with California.

If non-trivial money is involved, anything else is playing with fire.
/s? If not, your definition of "trivial" is... unusual. The technology needed actually is trivial. The cost, on the other hand, is very much non-trivial.
Because iPhone hardware is not that bad, and iOS is not that bad. If there is a procedure to "jailbreak" a device without risking breaking it and voiding your warranty, as it's the case with most Android phones, I would get one.

I don't either think that closing down the device is good for Apple: people that nowadays are not so expert will continue to use iPhone locked down as they are, people that wants to hack them they always find a way anyway, and with opening up the devices you would attract the power users that nowadays mostly uses Android.

And if you ask why Apple should bother of doing something to attract the power users that are a minority, the answer is because these are the users that recommends which phone to buy to less expert family members and friends and provide support to them.
The definition of a dietary calorie (kilo-calorie) is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of water by 1 degree Celcius.

So the kettle math is actually quite straightforwards.
No, the initial conversation was in LinkedIn private message. The OP would have had no reason to use "coded language that obscures my intent in public" at the time that they wrote that message (which was long before they decided to screenshot and publicise it)
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Derek does a great job of explaining how YouTube shifted away from a subscription-based feed to a recommendation-based one.

Ironically, to combat the distractive/addictive tendencies this promotes, I use a browser extension[0] to hide recommendations and only browse my subscriptions feed.

0: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/df-tube-distractio...
jelly mode made me long for beryl again
I think you're confused on several points: the vaccine was approved following extensive safety tests but the lawsuits caused the manufacturer to decide it was not worth manufacturing. The U.S. regulators consistently found no connection between the vaccine and the complaints, so the _scientific_ side worked but the legal / business side let public safety down.

Similarly, it's no secret that companies have a vested interest in promoting their products but it's not like Pfizer says “Trust us, we employ doctors!” and the FDA says “Sounds great, no need to check!”. Each step of that process involves peer-reviewed publications, public data releases, and reviews by panels of scientific experts. It is quite valid to say that companies need to be strictly regulated to keep everyone honest but we don't have any indication that this has been happening and anyone who thinks the process is just a large pharma company waving money at doctors to buy silence really needs to learn how cut-throat academic competition is — the career benefits to being the first to report that plot would be huge! Remember also that this happens in many different countries around the world so that hypothetical conspiracy needs to be kept secrete by a multinational group of hundreds or even thousands of people.
Some can, if you wash them. Puts a damper in the easy disposal that folks are accustomed to, though.
You might want to read about heat pumps.

They pump the heat you know. From colder outside into warmer inside. And they use (electricity that is) the fraction of heat energy that they pump in.

So 100W electric heater gives you 100W of heat inside, but 100W heat pump can bring in 300W of heat from outside. So it's 300% more efficient at heating the inside of the house.
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I like to intentionally go after the small bugs which other people have put off because they seem to be relatively high-effort. I like the idea that I can focus on something that's bothering some people (occasionally and indefinitely) and make it never bother anyone again.