skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The McDonald’s coffee lawsuit was not frivolous[1][2]. The company served coffee at extremely dangerous temperatures. The claimant had severe third degree burns and only wanted McDonald’s to pay for her medical expenses. McDonald’s had a least 700 complaints about the problem before the lawsuit and did nothing until after the lawsuit. Please stop repeating corporate propaganda.

[1] https://youtu.be/s_jaU5V9FUg

[2] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/12/16/13971482/...
Why them? I suppose why not. I am in the position right now to help. I wasn’t before. This is the current crisis so I thought I try and educate myself to see what can be done.
Indeed the world has a lot of problems. If I can help solve just a tiny fraction of the issues, that’s great.
Goals, Problems, Solutions
It's probably true that better nutrition reduces conflict but it would be a stretch to say that lies at the root of the Arab - Israeli conflict.
Yep, last summer I knew more people in my friend group that had lyme disease than people with covid.
You have to maintain and replace all infrastructure eventually. Maintenance should be part of the project calculation and how items are maintained should also be part of that. Additionally how things are maintained needs to be updated to go with new technologies and methods.

I see this with for example the public transport in Zürich, Switzerland. Some of the light rail is very old but they are maintenance revisions done on them and things are continuously improved or replaced. Same goes for the tracks which have to be pulled out of the streets every few years and replaced. How this is done has improved tremendously over the years and materials of the track have also changed.

Another example are the electric busses that used to have a gasoline backup generator. These have now all been replaced with batteries as they became small and efficient enough to replace the generator.

Letting the bus run until it's dead will end up costing more than keeping it in good working condition.
But then I wont get any notifications at all, I need other notifications I just don't need one stickied to my screen trying to force me to update.
I've been running this for the last 5 hours, since I saw the posting. Thankfully, in arch it's just part of the aur.

Frankly, it's awesome. It's literally every single thing I dislike about Spotify fixed. There are no podcasts, I can search, there's no social senselessness anymore.. I'm thrilled.

The only problem I have is that eventually it just gobbles CPU. Having it open and doing nothing seems to take ~4% of my CPU, and while playing a constant 7.2%. Frankly, I assume this is decoding, but I haven't traced yet. Eventually it spun out of control and pegged one CPU at ~90%, which a quick restart fixed. All of this is to say it's an incredible project - I'm not going back to the old client.
What happens if you have a 4K screen, is there 2x, 3x, 4x integer scaling built in?
The McDonald's coffee case is often cited this way, but I think a spilled a coffee that causes third-degree burns and necessitates skin grafts is probably too hot.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restau...
Noisy text file littered with mail header, lists of names, commit hashes and branch names, file names, commit messages and the only emphasised aspect being hyperlinks which stick out like a sore thumb vs. a well formatted blog post with clear headings, easy to read font, diagrams for architectural changes, code examples and even an animated GIF.

Yeah, I know which one I'm choosing (the latter).
I love the project and have it bookmarked. Your progress has been remarkable! I'm not sure what I'm going to use it for yet, but I really want to for something!
Since when being selfish is a problem ? Anyone has a tendency to better solve a problem when it's "his problem" rather than waiting someone does it for him.
“Traumatizing”

‘This memory will never be erased from my mind”
People have worn masks for all of those things.
Have you ever set foot in an Asian country? (Or at least seem videos, pictures, media from one?).
I've even witnessed mask wearing within the Asian communities in my (western) country.

Long before covid mask wearing has been an insanely common thing to do when you're sick.
PureBasic switches to a C backend
Reminds me of the utter hell it was to discover the test machine had bad RAM.
If they don't pay the bill/pay off the financed phone then TMobile will attempt to collect, sell the account off to collections, and report the account as delinquent to the credit bureaus. Having the customers SSN is basically required for those activities.

A post paid phone plan is a revolving line of credit - just like a credit card.
I am glad you persevered. I’ve been working on a language for 3 years now and sometimes I lose faith. It’s good to know that sometimes, projects can be finished (or at least shipped ;)
SerenityOS has implemented its own TLS 1.2 client from scratch (no server side support so far), currently with TLS_RSA_ and TLS_DHE_RSA_ only, and AES-CBC and AES-GCM only (software table driven AES, software GCM, naive CBC padding handling, nothing is constant time).

It does not even pretend to be secure so far (intentionally accepts self signed certs), but if they ever want to make it secure, that would be a big task.

For compatibility, they really should implement ECDHE with NIST P-256, because that is what most of the internet uses and what they support means they always fallback to no-PFS.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Userland/...
Facts about the 4-day week that you should know
I'm not disagreeing with you (because I don't know the original 'points' of neovim and I've never used it) but plain vim now (as of v8 I think) supports 'async stuff'. I'm sure neovim has other benefits to some, but that alone at least I think is no longer one.
Trivia. The timetable, or Working Table, for all London Underground train movements is here https://tfl.gov.uk/corporate/publications-and-reports/workin...
I posted ~8 months ago (albeit on an anonymous forum) that those really stupid 5g conspiracy theories might be a coverup for the privacy implications of 5g (my meta conspiracy theory if you will.)
It's not just charging. You can pretty much connect it to any device in a second without waiting for a minute for bluetooth connection. Maybe airpod is good for single person use who has very limited devices which are all Apple, but I own multiple non Apple devices. Even though all have bluetooth, bluetooth is much more error prone than 3.5mm jack.
>After the initial wave China was covid free

I don't believe this for one second.
Maybe there's an echo of it in agile "personas" analysis of user needs. (Something I am equally sceptical about btw: not the analysis, the value of personification)
KEXP World Goth Day
News feeds (RSS/Atom) are a fabulous technology. They’re not dead but this is the most recent cut in the killing of the Open Web with “death by a thousand cuts”¹.

After the killing of Google Reader, the really big blow was when Mozilla (the closest we have to a “champion for the open web”) removed the built-in feed preview feature and subscription UI from Firefox 64²³. While this wasn’t a major problem for users like me who can install an add-on, it meant that the discoverability of news feeds was no longer there.

This followed the trend over the past decade for web publishers to hide or not make it obvious that news feeds are available, e.g., many WordPress blogs automatically make news feeds available but unless the reader knows (from experience) about news feeds, there’s no obvious way to discover that they’re available.

All these changes will mean that new users of the Web will never know that news feeds exist – other than the restricted feeds provided by the walled gardens of large corporations – and the number of news feed users will continue to shrink.

Twenty years ago, when Microsoft were the large corporation trying to kill open web protocols and protocols (and Google weren’t evil), influential web developers and designers such as Jeffrey Zeldman banded together to create the Web Standards Project⁴⁵ to promote the openness and accessibility of the Web. They were largely successful in this goal (and closed shop in 2010) but without the existence of some organisation that keeps up this sort of advocacy, it will be the large corporations who control the direction and pace of change of the Web. This will be in the interests of their own profits – not the users.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi

2. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/

3. https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod... feeds/

4. https://www.webstandards.org/

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Standards_Project
Microsoft wants to use Ethereum blockchain to fight piracy
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28204077
> It's the exact same sunk cost fallacy that a previous games industry generation said C/C++ would never beat hand-tuned Assembly and it wasn't worth trying.

C/C++ hasn't beat the performance of hand-tuned assembly - it has simply gotten close enough that the cost of hand-tuned assembly is not worth it in most cases.
In addition to the Pfizer/Valneva vaccine mentioned in the article, there is also one from Sanofi in development: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-020-0183-8

https://www.bc.cas.cz/en/news/news-detail/5483-a-new-lyme-va...
Because:

Others like myself want to disappear into a dark room and code for hours on end.

Is the antithesis of working out business requirements / design etc so you have something to code?

I find the coding part of my job is about 5-10% of the actual job, mostly, it's working out what needs to be done, how I might go about it, and how to manage complexity.

It's rare that can be all done without input from others. I don't think I'd get very far if I just coded in a dark room for hours on end.
> But why do there have to be six kinds of knowing?

Because Buddhists love lists! Why is the path "eightfold"? Why are there four "noble truths"? Why are there 6 paramitas?

These lists are study aids - they help you to memorise the teaching, and repeat it accurately. They are not meant to be taken as metaphysical statements about reality.

> we also know what is real

Oh, do we? I think you might have trouble finding many physicists that agree with you. Truth and reality are slippery concepts. Someone who is not given to thinking about these things might take the view that it's pretty obvious what is real and what is true.

I think that outlook is rather arrogant.
I wonder if all the hoopla is because mastodon / the fediverse are finally receiving some (deserved) traction? The accounts count does not seem to show a new regime (https://the-federation.info/) but maybe there are more reliable indicators?

In any case, sorting out conflicts of interest, business models, competing visions etc about the fediverse is a task that is still almost 100% for the future, as being niche and unknown does not put much pressure.

The issue of a "local or global timeline" is imho but the thin edge of a wedge: the current open source fediverse projects largely emulate the surveillance platforms (indiscriminately copying the good and the bad). That is extremely limiting and ultimately self-defeating. The open source fediverse can, must (and most likely in due course will) redefine the meaning of social platforms so as to undo the damage done by the first generations. Godspeed
Many of the clothes we donate to charity end up dumped in landfill
Vaccination doesn't "defeat" regular COVID as well (right?).

You can still get COVID when vaccinated. The symptoms you get are less intense, and therefore transmission is less likely (though definitely still possible).
It might be downvotes because the op didn’t read the article, which isn’t about a vaccine (the article says there was one but it was discontinued) but about the Lyme equivalent of PREP
https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/faq.html

> Will Windows be supported?

> There are no plans to support Windows.
Huh??? That's not how I recall it.
It's easy to be sarcastic about him, but be fair. What he was moving architecture away from wasn't so much beauty as it was random slums for most people and beautiful comfort for the 1%.

It's easy to look at the hundred-year-old apartments and see the beauty, but that suffers from survivor bias.
FYI my understanding is that, in London at least, cabs aren't allowed to operated with a broken card reader; if that happens to you, tell them that you have no cash and either it will suddenly magically work or you'll get a free ride (this has happened to me).
Correct. The ELISA test is as reliable as a coin toss. It was also never meant to be used for diagnosis, only for research.
>What is it about RSS in particular, but also tech in general, that makes Googlers incapable of listening to the what people are telling them?

"Data driven decision making." The real death of any piece of proprietary or centrally maintained software is the addition of telemetry. The actual death comes much later.
> But why do there have to be six kinds of knowing? What if there are 14 kinds? What if there are only two?

There aren't really six, it's just that that's the best way to describe it for those who wish to understand it better. You can chop it up however you wish, and hopefully with the intention of making it clear for someone since this is, after all, a teaching.

Certainly, if you actually read Buddhist texts you'll notice that they do a lot of re-chopping into different numbers as required. The map is not the terrain, models aren't reality, things can be described in many ways etcetera etcetera.

> It's nice that it works for you, but it isn't a real thing

You know that Buddhists are nominalists, right?
On Mojave, there is an option to disable automatic macOS upgrade checks (not sure about Catalina/Big Sur). I only get nagged for security updates, though I believe you can disable those as well.
How did the heavy industry influence the water table ?

I guess they used a lot of water from wells, lowering the water table ?
Yes and what is worse is China will get access to the natural resources at a fraction of what US spent in Afghanistan all these years. More discussion in this podcast episode: https://jingle.fm/p/tabadlabs-dragon-road-1570336991/s01-e08...
Integer scaling is in development and 2x mode is available via the display settings application. It's not mature yet, and most assets don't have 2x versions. But we'll get there eventually. :^)
BMWs get flat tires too
'All' of the (three or so?) neovim plugins I've come across wanting to use, and found Ah damn, 'neovim' in the name, work just fine in vanilla vim, FYI.

I don't know how much (or if anything) a plugin has to do to support it, but there's some kind of python RPC thing that allows it. IME it's been install that once, and neovim plugins 'just work'. (But I have only found/tried ones that explicitly mention it.)

(Edit, this: https://github.com/roxma/vim-hug-neovim-rpc)
> Down here, there’s no space for heavy machinery, so all the rubble had to be shifted by hand

I wonder, if the engineering train couldn't fit a small loader, something like Avant (perhaps E6 for being electric for confined spaces), though I'm sure there exist some smaller ones too.

Or maybe engineering train could be fitted with a HIAB style thing..
> Even "classic 90s" OS's like Windows CE used the pattern of headerbars with a few key widgets that could be easily accessed via touch

That's because it was made from the start for PDAs with touch screens. This is a desktop computer OS, and although I can entertain the notion that someone out there might be smudging a touch screen connected to their Unix workstation, I don't see why everyone else should accommodate this weird and ergonomically unsound input method at the expense of screen estate.

Also, whether they could be easily accessed really depends on the device and input method. Using Pocket PCs without a stylus was certainly no fun.
Hardly. IIRC, he's dead.
This appears to show that the mean IQ of pandemic cohorts is down by nearly 20 points to around 80, compared to the pre-pandemic testing averaging IQ of 100. This is almost impossible to believe, unless perhaps "social distancing" is just extremely devastating to early childhood education--is there any other previous studies showing such a drastic impact on isolated children though?
My experience with ticks: Closer to the home is where you're going to find the small ones. I've had two on me. First one was easy to spot it looked like a freckle on my knee. The second one I felt the bite (thought it was an itch) and it was on my inner thigh. Not sure if I would have noticed the second one if it wasn't for its haphazard bite. Both latched on when I was in / near the garden.
That was not my complaint.
Projection, much?

The blog post states that the person has experienced a steady long-term degradation in the quality OS X delivers for them. I understand the failed upgrade was just the final straw before posting this writ.

And as a bystander, the post didn't even register as particularly harsh to me. It's what you write when you've seen things go down hill and you just hit another drop. Seems perfectly appropriate to me.
Maybe something like this https://www.wizzy.com/wizzy/simd/ ?
The core of the kernel is actually pretty small and very well understood and maintained.

If your company needs to write drivers for some hardware you produce, there are often specific subsystems to target with have their own maintainers and documentation.

Where things get really ugly is when a company decides to cook their own linux platform and they change tons of stuff without always understanding what they are doing.

I guess early android would be a good example of that...
> why would it be two different cards?

For me contactless is my phone or watch.
Are satellite phones an option for privacy?
Take a closer look - SerenityOS doesn't reject all modern stuff. The kernel has plenty of modern security mitigations (pledge(), unveil()), and there is basic high DPI support already.
Internationalization and accessibility are very consumer product focused features, which is not what the project caters to at this time.
True, there is onus is on the organization to setup processes to handle all this. However it is not all that surprising these things gets missed , like i said if the process is not repeated frequent enough any organization memory is likely to loose track of it . no different from human memory really.
If you care about Podcasts, don't listen to them on Spotify, ever. Spotify's plan is to build a walled garden around them.

Spotify promotes podcasts and buys exclusives so desperately, because their plan is to grow their audience to a too-big-to-fail size, so they start dictating their own terms. Every remaining use of RSS is a business opportunity.
If you want to be a polite DNS resolver operator, root servers from B to G allow zone transfer, so you can just host the root zone locally. This way none of the typos or other bogus requests will leave your network.
I played it a few years ago and it was really not ready, just full of bugs and lagging all the way. But I'll give it another shot, because I really like supporting open source games!
This is a bullshit study. IQ measurement among 1-year olds is less reliable than astrology.

And even if it weren’t, they were wearing masks when interacting with these toddlers, which, at this age, makes a lot of difference in how well you can elicit the response you want from them.

An IQ of 80 is borderline pathological. There is no way for something of this magnitude to happen, on average no less, without violence, substance abuse, or similar.
“Google Groups kills…”

“In other news, the sky is blue and grass is green”
Wtf, I was reading at 2½yo (but learned calculus at 16-17)
Thanks for the feedback!

Regarding online boards - they provide a really nice overview, but you need to watch the number of cards carefully. Once the individual columns start being scrollable, this is usually the point where things start to get hard to find (which column should I scroll? Plus the multi-line narrow titles are difficult to quickly skim through, etc.)

Also, archiving cards usually means they get hidden somewhere, completely outside the flow of the columns => you don't do this much with things you might need again => the columns stay long and unreadable.

So while the birds-eye view provided by boards is great in some circumstances, there are scenarios where they get unreadable quickly (like they did for me/our team in the past).
Desk: https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/119694/Realspace-Mage...

Chair:
https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/877226/Realspace-Mode...

I bought both at the start of the pandemic when I abruptly started working from home, and I thought it might be temporary (still working from home). I think both were slightly cheaper than what is listed, but I don’t clearly remember. Overall the desk works well. It is a little hard to raise with everything on my desk, but not a big deal. The biggest thing is I wish the lowest setting is an inch or two lower. The chair is pretty horrible for me. While the seat itself is farily comofortable, the seat depth is too large for me. The back has a very aggressive default reclining position, which I hate. I have been thinking about replacing both (especially the chair), however waiting until life settles down a little bit first.
Contactless is not less secure than magstripe. I don't know where you got that from.

You can't make a fake contactless card, because each card has a private key that you can't extract. But it's trivial to make a fake magnetic stripe card.

One type of fraud with EU credit cards works like this: Criminal collects credit card numbers and pins by adding a hidden magnetic stripe reader to an ATM and a video camera, then create a fake magnetic card, and then withdraw money with fake card + PIN somewhere abroad where magnetic stripes are still allowed.

For this reason, my bank disables withdrawals from abroad by default, and you need to manually enable world wide payments in the online banking app.
Linux upgrades don't fail that catastrofically. For example, a Linux upgrade can fail in a way where the GUI is not operable, but you log in into the console and fix it. Worst case scenario you log in in single user mode and fix it. Worse case scenario the kernel doesn't boot, you chroot from a live CD and you fix it. Everything is fixable.

The problem with macOS, or Windows, is that they are proprietary operating systems, if something goes wrong, the only way to fix it is to reinstall everything, that to me is not an acceptable fix.
Sending Troops again.

You and I are common people. We can't do anything.
That's a very tight integration with JS&TS! Are you compiling into TS and then to JS? Or is it more of a decoupled process that was set up for the type-checking (like how tsconfig and babel works together)? When I was trying out ReasonML a few years back (and being unfamiliar with OCaml) I ran into some problems with bridging across types.

I checked out https://github.com/imba/typescript-imba-plugin for a bit and I'm still quite lost. Love to learn more!

Also, what is the cross-file refactorings in the tooling? Thanks!
The Spotify API doesn't support private API keys, so you need to create your own OAuth App and then authorize it for yourself.
We need to immediately rise up and oppose all lockdown, social distancing, vaccine mandates (which add stress to the population) and mask measures. The collateral damage from our COVID response is civilization-destroying. Enough is enough.