skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your tiger analogy is a bit ridiculous unless you give people the ability to carry around a force field and laser defense system for free that gives them practical immunity to death or dismemberment by tiger.

At this point we have the tools we need to be safe against COVID. Any adult that wants to get can vaccinated. Kids are under such low risk that they don't need to be vaccinated. The 2009 H1N1 flu killed 3 times as many children as COVID so far, and in half the time! Yet we didn't lock down, shut down schools, or torture our little children with masks during that pandemic. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2009/12/making-s...

If you're immunocompromised or otherwise vulnerable even with the vaccine, then it is up to you to take extra precautions because COVID will be around forever.

COVID is not the equivalent of a population of tigers running rampant through our community. It's time for the fearmongering to stop and for us to get back to normal. And hospitals may need to adapt. Even during the height of the delta surge, data I've seen suggests that 80% or more of ICU beds are filled by non-COVID patients. Our hospitals are so designed for efficiency and cost reduction that we are incapable of handling surges of any kind, including ones that increase our ICU utilization by at most 25%. I see that more as a failure of our hospital systems than anything else.
Terrestrial vegetation is part of the planet's natural carbon cycle, i.e. forest fires are normal, expected, and necessary. Unlike oil and coal which hasn't historically extracted itself from deep underground to combust in the atmosphere.

It escapes me how anyone can consider it for long-term carbon storage/offsetting of excess atmospheric co2 derived from fossil fuels.
Either SF or LA
Move to SF or LA
But you only have the option of sending unstructured, untyped bytes over the pipe, which means you waste CPU cycles parsing and validating at each stage. And all data has a type, so you may as well have strong typing in your shell.

HTTP ate everybody else's lunch mainly because corporate firewalls closed off competing protocols' ports but kept port 80 open.
Somewhat surprised that there are still people out there who use "su". Most of the people I know use "sudo" instead.

(and "sudo" has -s option to start up the shell as su does.)
Only because this is true, they are willing to spend $X,000 in tuition. If the bar is low, the reward would be too.
"Helped create" is accurate. S-100 and CP/M systems like those from Vector Graphic ruled the nascent PC industry in the 1970s before the rise of motherboard-based systems like the Apple II, and DOS started life as a CP/M clone, with largely compatible system call numbers. Even the Apple II ended up running CP/M as well via Microsoft's (!) Softcard.

Perhaps it's a bit like giving deserved credit to Al Gore for (among other things) the Supercomputer Network Study Act and the High Performance Computing and Communications act, as well as the "information superhighway" term.

I wonder if it would have been possible, as the article suggests, for more of the S-100 and CP/M companies to move to ISA and DOS (and x86) while keeping prices competitive with IBM and Apple?
Maintaining and improving core systems is what entire large teams in Google's Ads, Search, Core, etc. teams do, and yes, they get promotion for it. It's often not very sexy work, but it is recognized.

It's really the consumer-facing & consumer hardware teams that have this novelty-seeking-promotion problem, IMHO. (I've worked on both)
This is why you should never buy devices that have to be tethered to a company's servers.

Logitech Harmony remote users just learned this the hard way too. It means you can be ripped off at any moment. People need to stop voting for this offensive BS.

Speaking of offensive: Two posts closer together than an hour and 10 minutes is "too fast" for this bullshit forum. Talk about offensive: They let you type out a question, comment, or reply and THEN say, NO, YOU CAN'T POST.

First of all, fuck you HN. Second, FUCK YOU MORE for deliberately WASTING PEOPLE'S TIME by letting them invoke the comment function when you know you're not going to let them post. Unbelievable.
I mean you're more than welcome to share your opinion and/or be offended. I don't get why it's gotta be a generalized "triggered liberal" thing or w.e. - just seems so unproductive towards any end. If you want the language to stop, making it an us vs them thing doesn't appear to be a successful strategy.

If you're just memeing then carry on. It doesn't really bother me, I just never really understand the call-to-political-arms mentality for this kinda stuff, because it doesn't really change how people talk in my experience - it only changes who they talk to, which I think is counter-productive for society. A society built on private chatrooms is just putting everyone deeper into their own echo chamber.
In another universe, the Post Office manages the email services, too. Sigh ...
Bad news is that they do and are.

I mean it's basically the same kind of people that turned a word that simply meant 'delayed' into a slur.
Globals are bad in general. Things should be as specific as they can be. If you were playing a tetris game and suddenly wanted to upgrade it and make it a DUALING side-by-side tetris game, then all your state is going to collide. It would have been better to define your <Tetris> tag to have it's own state.

It goes further than that, but essentially it's all about maintaining a context for a thing. I have a patient, that has meds and records etc, I need to keep that contained to one place so that I can have a SECOND patient at the same time (if I am writing an EHR for example). The original "UI of the web" was Open a thing, edit a thing, save and close a thing. And all of that was like 6 full page refreshes.

More apps should be like Trello, for example, where you can just edit a lot of state on lots of different objects super quickly. Globals don't work well for that.
Cool animation. I would be interested in seeing it by latitudes of localities (not aggregate state level).
What else is language dictated by if not the people who use it?
Having had first-hand experiences with the disappointments that are endemic to pharma...I wouldn't say this has significantly elevated my hopefulness, but this is definitely a very interesting lead. Most interesting is that the drug (mastitinib) doesn't seem to have been rejected for human use previously due to safety reasons, but rather study design/execution and efficacy reasons (treating mast cell tumors and amyotophic lateral sclerosis, respectively). Apparently the drug is used with success treating mast cell tumors in dogs.

Perhaps this is the next Tamiflu?
... Does that mean that CoronaVac and Covaxin might eventually prove better than current vaccines widely available in the US?
But is it okay for a company to mislead kids into thinking that learning the violin will make them money?
what name did I call someone? I strive to specifically not use ad hominem-type insults when discussing things, and I don't see it here?

should I just stop posting any thoughts I have that run contrary to the general sphere of accepted thought here? should I take downvotes to mean "we don't want to hear what you have to say"? if I post something that others find disagreeable and reply to it saying as such, should I just abstain from responding?
> and on NTFS those are super slow

Usually it's less to do with NTFS and more to do with Windows Defender Real Time Protection, which murders build times because it synchronously scans files before letting applications open them.

You can disable on a per-folder basis, and it will change your quality of life drastically.
It would be a different process, not a different thread. For example executing GCC from a proprietary IDE doesn't seem to be a problem.
certbot does not officially support binary packages on Linux, so you have three choices for supported releases: snap, docker, or pip (best effort). If I’m not already using docker for the site (spoiler: I’m not) then why the fuck would I install docker if I’m not willing to install snap?
i do not think so, here in washington Weyerhaeuser is selling off large sections of old logging land because the trees are growing much slower than they did historically at these locations, that coupled with increased fire risk, its easier to just divest. based on that, we cant use historical stats to project the success of the project.

if you want cheap land, you can get a full 640 acre parcel(one square mile) for ~$500-600k, they even have roads on them.
Neat idea!

A couple of nits:

Looking at the recommended page duedilly.io/asset/ZOM
"Posts that are not bold have been removed/deleted on Reddit" -> "Posts that are bold have been removed/deleted on Reddit"

DD is not defined (one would have to go to the main page) and it is not a well known acronym.
It's not a "hard" paywall - their paywall is very easy to get around. I use the uMatrix browser extension, which disables JavaScript and cookies from third-party domains, and the full text of the article is displayed to me. This also works for many other sites, like the NY Times and Washington Post.
I agree. Wikipedia "watered down" the meaning of "conspiracy theory" so that it could be used in situations it couldn't before. In effect, defending its use in closing off argument and discussion.

Anytime you have an event or situation upon which origin or cause people have varied takes, some explanations might seem more probable than others. That doesn't make the others "conspiracy theories", it just makes them less probable possibilities. It's sometimes even used when the true probabilities aren't even known.
I see, and I agree completely!
Googler, opinions are my own. I work in payments.

Caesar leaving was interesting for sure, and he just announced a new fintech startup yesterday. https://www.arbo.works/
I can't speak to why he left or what he's doing now, but I wish I did know. :)

Also, it's important to remember how big Google payments is. As the article says, Bill Ready has 3700 people reporting to him that do a lot more than the Google Pay app (which lots of people are talking about here). We do a lot of things.
> It also reflects the non-recoverable portion of the cost to most users

And then people wonder why I'm never buying anything digital. That's the reason. Buying digital makes your continued access to the thing dependent on your account being not banned and the servers being up. In other words, even if you "own" it, you're still at the mercy of the seller. But if you bought something on a physical medium (or torrented), no one could take it away from you.
guess the downvotes are from folks that dont understand how forests work? :)
It's possible that mandatory vaccination is not the optimal strategy. But authoritatively branding it a public health risk is not something anyone is in a position to do with the info available.
You are allowed to do that(as far as I understand scraping legality), but google/amazon/facebook are also well within their rights to blacklist your IPs, or implement other methods to prevent scraping of their IP(intellectual property in this case).
Well when you take into account GST, income tax their employees pay, corporate tax, payroll tax, import&export duties (and every business up and down the supply chain has the exact same tax burden), there is not a lot left over for the business or the employees.

The reason businesses exist is for creating profitable returns on capital investments. W/o profit, you simply do not have jobs in the first place.
> That's the reason the "you're not the customer" line is just a distraction.

I don't think it is. If Facebook wasn't coming from a place such as that, then we wouldn't necessarily see them act like this. It's not just about size.

> Facebook has treaties with governments and follow laws when it's less costly than breaking them.

So do most large companies, but they don't all act the same to their customers. Apple may be guilty of other ways of mistreating their customers, but to my knowledge they're mostly innocent of this specific brand of it, and anything you want to attribute to Facebook's size that you can't attribute to any of the other tech big 5[1] should be examined for whether that's really the relevant underlying cause.

1: https://www.fastcompany.com/90651160/facebook-is-now-the-fif...
You can disable Google services on Android. There's literally a button to do that if you know where to look.
Accidental advertisement for both?
If companies want you to install certain apps on a phone, then they should be paying for the phone. It's that simple.

I had a crazy boss 15 years ago who read our email. I learned after that to separate work and personal email. The same should be true for devices.
you know what they mean, don't be dense.
"The power to define is the most important power that we have. He is master who can define." -Stokely Carmichael

So the question is crucial. It is lost within most debates and within most legal judgments, yet it is the foundation of argument. Muzzy definitions provoke disagreement without the participants' understanding.

Clear definitions are the bedrock of reasonable conclusions. The article doesn't specify the answer either. It appears to enter into a circular argument: that because "woke" leftist white people habitually get the nod, they do here too. There is something fundamentally wrong here but I cannot put my finger on it.
I was doing the amortized cost of owning a car the other day and it’s pretty terrible:
50 gas, 75 car insurance, 20 maintenance, 100 amortized cost, 40 excise tax.

That’s around 300 a month for a no frills Honda HRV.

The way I amortized was 20k over 15 years, maintenance is oil change and tire rotation
With WebAssembly, it's running in a separate virtual machine. If that didn't insulate it, there would be no reason for the AGPL.
"How it works: to be eligible for the leaderboard, traders must have at least 5 live posts (i.e. non-duplicated or grayed out on their page) and have posted about at least 3 unique tickers. The horizons used are 1 week for short term, 1 month for medium term, and 1 year for long term -- however, these are simply measurements and do not reflect the trades that these individuals actually did. It simply mimicks a simple strategy of trading when they post."

1. I would like to know exactly how long a user has been on Twitter. I would like to filter out all users that joined after GME rebellion. It might help identify the hedge fund guys whom are their just to pump, and dump? I am not that familiar with Twitter's api, but felt after the publicity, most professionals would ruin the group.
Now assume that Moore's law stays healthy and in a few decades we're carrying around dojo-equivalent smart phones. Or implants. What do our apps do with all that compute? Detailed convincing AR, accurate real-time translation, identify almost any object in sight, turing-test passing answering machine. We'll be carrying around neural-net training hardware that is different than the stuff between our ears, often worse but sometimes much better. A cyber brain. Scary af.
> You seem to have read a lot into what I wrote.

My apologies, then. That part of the answer was in response to the general reaction to what I meant to be an uncontroversial statement. I should have clarified that it wasn't yours.
Google is right to cut remote workers' pay. The alternative is inequity
How would you prevent a Cambridge analytica style data "breach"?
Can one sue an employer for a detrimental environment at one's own residence? Even if this isn't a company town out in the hills?
I sprinkle printf's OR use my 'xlog' logging function which can be configured to use more restricted parameters.

Mainly I use the 'xlog' function. I can then wander about the logging file (using a text-editor for navigation) looking at various 'befores' and 'afters'.

I use a bit-mapped variable 'debug' which allows or disallows the logging statements accordingly.

For example, in an emulator, with debug only configured for floppy-disk-controller logging, and looking at the floppy-disk controller code, we might see:

xlog (FDC,
"sdma_getdatareg: disk_data: fd_byte_ptr:%04X bytes_to_xfer= %4X data:%02X\n",
fdcd->fd_byte_ptr, fdcd->bytes_to_xfer, data);

which would be logged, and

xlog (INFO, "RESETTING %s\n", MACHINE_NAME);

which would not.

As for using 'gdb', I tend to use that only when I have no clue, or a wrong clue, where the code is breaking down.

I tend to leave the logging code around if it's not particularly obstructive or long-winded as I can switch it out at will by setting 'debug' to zero.
Received an email too.
> BB10's implementation of this was the best... you couldn't even copy paste between the work space and the personal space.

Whether you think that's the best might depend on whether you're a an employee or employer. As an employee, I could see that being really annoying if someone pasted me a recreational link at work but I want to view it outside of a work context. For an employer that sounds like a nice way to keep data from leaking quite as easily though.
https://www.safari-is-the-new-ie.com/
Now I'm just curious which area is considered ruralish (assuming it is outside Williamson). There's a ton of buildable land left in Middle TN since there aren't too many natural boundaries, I've always found that interesting when looking at the possible density.

I know it is a bit seasonal and all and anecdotal but prices are stabilizing in several TN areas where it was growing XX%, we'll see I guess.
The article says they’ll be replacing battery modules. Usually a battery pack has several modules.

Might be infeasible to repair the modules, though.
From his friend Emerson:

There was somewhat military in his nature not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise. It cost him nothing to say No; indeed, he found it much easier than to say Yes. It seemed as if his first instinct on hearing a proposition was to controvert it, so impatient was he of the limitations of our daily thought. This habit, of course, is a little chilling to the social affections; and though the companion would in the end acquit him of any malice or untruth, yet it mars conversation. Hence, no equal companion stood in affectionate relations with one so pure and guileless. “I love Henry,” said one of his friends, “but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/08/thoreau...
Most forests do not burn.
The implication of expressing a concern is that it is related to what is being done.

Otherwise why post it here? I doubt you’d claim that your ‘concern’ is irrelevant to this topic.

It’s an innuendo intended to imply a likelyhood of future wrongdoing.

It works like this: ‘What guarantee do we have that he won’t hit his wife after we leave?’

Obviously this is a way of suggesting that the man will hit his wife, phrased as a question to facilitate the same kind of denial that you are using here.
Is the price of silver higher than it was when the Hunt brothers tried to corner it forty-odd years ago?
Whoever runs the company is currently taking it all. Not the gov’t or employees.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...
The Secret Lives of Mosquitoes
I wish I had your optimism. All I expect are better ways to deliver targeted advertising.
Just think of it as like paying to see a movie. I bought a $10 app once, used it for what it was for, and now several phones later, I don't know or care what's happened to it. I got my value out of it and don't need to hoard every possession I "buy".

Remember people who used to have a huge collection of video tapes or CDs? They hardly used them for anything except decoration of their living room. Hoarding old crap that you never use isn't the best use of money.

Physical things can readily be taken away in divorces and debt recovery or less common things like police seizure if you're suspected of a crime. The world's richest man had half his wealth taken like that. Property rights aren't as secure as you think.
I'm not an employer, but the value to me is work-life separation, since I don't want to deal with 2 smartphones.

Of course employers have varying security concern levels. Mine (Google) does have particularly high concerns, but you know it's not one size fits all.
fuck off. im not getting anymore flu shots or covid shots. and im definitely not wearing a mask. I only exclusively go to places that let you in the door with a mask on and then you can immediately take it off.
If you're looking to work with someone on this, reach out here: revoh98186 at kibwot.com (temporary email). I'm a fullstack dev with an interest in finance/trading and scouting for a side project.
Another workaround: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

Also for Firefox despite the URL name, which is the one I use.
One notion that I have had is that the rocks star wall street trader might often be someone who has just been lucky 4 or 5 times in a row. If you assume that had actual insight on one trade and got lucky the other times you can attribute their success to mostly luck pretty easily. If you have a large enough pool of traders, the talisman traders are probabilistically inevitable.
This seems... kind of pointless? You'd expect the fingerprint to be fully determined by the OS/browser combination, since TLS is implemented entirely in software. But you can already get both pieces of information through the user-agent, so what's the point?
Reminds of the Anne McCaffrey Crystal Singer series where crystals were mined for use in their space-faring technology. Each crystal was unique and would be tuned to a particular use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Singer
Googler here.

All indications pointed towards no remote option, but that switched a few months ago. Most people in software engineering roles have decent access to full time remote options, especially if they are willing to change orgs. I don't know a single case in my org (hundreds of people) who had a rejected remote application.
I don't think it is missed, at least personally, my thoughts are: "When will it stop?". If the argument is interest rates / incentives, then there really doesn't seem to be much turning back unless there are serious wage increases. The response seems to be "It won't stop."...just like housing always goes up in price (except when it doesn't).
If we removed those incentives, companies would just give the rest to executives.

https://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-surged-14-i...
To repeat what I've said several times now (how can I be more clear?), the risk of vaccine escape does not imply a particular public health policy. There is no procedure that tells us what policy we should choose based on vaccine escape risk, because it isn't the only consideration. It is irresponsible to make authoritative pronouncements on a complex public health policy issue when you're completely fixated on one particular risk. Unless you're willing to describe EVERY possible action as a public health risk, in which case you should be honest and upfront about the obscure, misleading choice of language.
Point taken, thanks for raising it. I could definitely see some newer sites have that issue that require local teams until critical mass is hit. I guess the sites I tend to work with are already very well established, so people I've seen apply have all been accepted (of the ones I know).