skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They can through browser fingerprinting, yes. Canvas/webgl/fonts/IP/accelerometer/every other web api basically

> If I can...

You can! Install Firefox, Multi account containers (add-on by Mozilla), and Temporary Containers (third party addon). You can configure Temporary Containers to spawn a new container for every tab, or every google tab, etc. Each container is like a new browser session. It can clear the data of a closed container after 15 minutes.
It wasn't full time (which I guess I failed to mention). They could only offer 20 hours a week. Also the hourly rate was lower, I don't want to say how much to avoid doxing myself since some people from that company hang on hacker news.

You're talking about median income but not expenses. Have you considered rent/housing costs? Health care? Car repair? Basic utility costs? Saving for retirement? Paying off debt? Especially in the light of recent inflation? As one example, my car is 24 years old, its falling apart, but with used car prices right now its pretty daunting to consider replacing it.

And my taxes are quite high - mostly SALT stuff, which is pretty regressive. For federal, around that income level you have to be careful not to exceed 400% FPL since you may lose the ACA subsidy and thus owe thousands more. ACA plans are _not_ cheap.

Sure I could move to a VLCOL area. If I can rent or find house, in good shape, in a non-blighted area. Not sure if you've ever driven across the middle USA, but it isn't generally the most pleasant place. And if I want to buy I have to get a mortgage, which isn't easy in the US if you are self employed and _especially_ if you have low income. Probably impossible right now actually.

Have you ever tried living on even 20 hours a week at $40 per hour, in the US? If not, I encourage you to try, especially now. The US is just not a friendly place for people working hourly on low wage, most people doing this are just struggling, which is why I think my 3rd world comparison is still valid.
I found your answer very insightful. Did you research this professionally?
But we really do have less actual journalists. As a profession they've been gutted by internet and social media.
I did not understand the last sentence. If I solve the captchas, get the search results and then do the cleanup, it'll just continuously ask for the captchas and that's the only added pain, no? Will they be able to conclude if all the requests are coming from the same user?
I am working 40h in a Middle European country and think that a lot of my working time is wasted.

Somewhere between 20h and 30h and a 4 day working week would be best for performance imo
Nest of Asian giant hornets found and destroyed in WA State
I'm sure the UK voting to remove itself from the rest of Europe with the 2016 Brexit referendum hasn't helped the situation.

One of the big selling points of Brexit was the promise of stronger UK borders.

Brexit has certainly delivered on that front with the UK now finding itself well and truly isolated from the rest of Europe.
You are right to put "knew" in quotes, as Democritus' speculation had no more support than Thales' "all is water", the four elements, the bodily humors or the celestial spheres. Knowledge lies at least as much in the justification of a fact as it does in the proposition itself.
You should try being in one of the rooms, it's extremely creepy haha. Apparently my poor Quest 2 experience was due to me being a n00b, but when you roll into a room with 5-10 avatars bopping around and you can hear conversations between 4th graders and suddenly realize you're 'alone' with them, it gets extremely uncomfortable. I'm not saying it's a rational response, but I never said a word while I was on there, boxed the thing up after a few hours and shipped it back to Facebook.
Cannot confirm. My local farmer's market in London is stronger than ever, and two new ones opened up at walking distance from my house in the last year.

Working from home and allowing people to sneak out of work on a Wednesday noon to buy groceries was a boon for farmers' markets.

Places with cheap products and places with good products are striving. COVID is accelerating the death of shops that sell bad products at high prices.
They were more commonly known at the end as BHS (unless you happened to live in the center of Edinburgh where the large British Home Stores shown in the article dominates Princes Street). They were a very mid-tier department store, better than say Woolworths but a lot worse than John Lewis. It's not especially surprising that they went bust, but it was not helped when the last owner infamously flogged off the assets, loaded the stores with debt, then awarded his wife an enormous one-off dividend.

Edit: The Philip Green dividend debacle. I forgot that the cheque was not only enormous, but was tax free because his wife resides in Monaco. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/oct/21/executivesa... Many of the statements in that article haven't aged well.
If Britain’s leaders had decided not to have lockdowns, they would most likely still be in business as well. The distinction matters, because when evaluating lockdowns it’s important to realize that there are heavy costs.
Interesting to see what goes into an ORM library - but as others note, in my experience learning SQL ends up being better. The things that ORMs make easy are already pretty straightforward, and when you get to more advanced queries, the ORM ends up getting in the way and/or in order to use the ORM properly you have to understand SQL deeply anyways.

For learning SQL, my favorite resource to get started:

Become a SELECT star!
https://wizardzines.com/zines/sql/

followed by

The Best Medium-Hard Data Analyst SQL Interview Questions
https://quip.com/2gwZArKuWk7W
This website and its astroturfed opinions are a sad joke.
I prefer reading.
Its not an egalitarian society and there is a caste system. That has nothing to do with the utility of the tax policy and velocity of money.

Not sure what answer you wanted.
Hah. A heat-averse relative used to travel several blocks north and east in Washington, DC, going from department store to department store. But the stores she used in the 1950s were already closing before 1980. At this point, Macy's is the last real department store in downtown Washington.
I think that is something that if you have done it before, it is easy but as someone who has never done this have no clue.

I mean I have a lot of local businesses that I frequent, but I deal with employees only. I can ask my server what problems they are facing but not really sure. Every business I know already has a website, social media page, etc.

I had luck meeting various business owners via networking events organized by Chamber of Commerce once. Maybe that's what I need to focus on.
> UK towns are historically car unfriendly

What’s the alternative? Most town centres were planned in previous centuries. Councils can’t save the high street by tearing down the medieval streets and rebuilding them so they’re more like US cities. Besides, most towns have park and ride for precisely this reason.
Caveat: I'm speaking from a US perspective.

In today's hypercompetitive, multinational world, capitalism is indeed the sole goal of society, to enable those who work to make massive amounts of money, to do more and more. Even China, a quite communistic country, has fully embraced capitalism in terms of it's international dealings.

The culture issues we have in the US are largely a result of the hyper-rich influencing things in such a way that work itself becomes such a pride point, that those who are unable to work in the framework that society provides are called lazy and worthless, even when those people may flourish under a system with different constraints. Forcing some people to work jobs they have zero passion for, instead of allowing them to have a basic security net such that they can seek their own path in this life, is cruel. I have ADHD and it has so far been physically impossible to focus on something that doesn't somehow "grip" my focus, and I don't really control what things do so. So the vast majority of work out there is not something I can do and be successful, as the additional mental effort to even come close to focusing drains every bit of my being and makes me absolutely dreadfully miserable. If this is the path of capitalism for myself and countless others, then it needs serious reform.
>Win-1 is file explorer, Win-2 is web browser, Win-3 is email, etc...

Is this something you set up natively in windows? Or are you using AHK?
What it’s like to die from Covid-19
I'm sure Amazon also would much prefer if Lambda variant didn't spread as much as Delta.
EU moves to reintroduce Covid travel curbs on U.S. -diplomats
You live somewhere where people on the crosswalk don’t have right of way? That’s interesting. Where I live you have right of way on the crosswalk if you demonstrate intent to cross. There’s pretty much zero chance for the driver to not be liable in case of an accident.
As someone who has been through a long, complex migration... very interesting company idea! Kudos.
Comcast uses /64 for the WAN network and will give you up to a /60 routed prefix for LAN-side networks.
This is from the same airline that wants to charge their flight attendants $200/month for not getting the vaccine even though many attendants have been developing blood clots because of the vaccine and high altitude?

Fuck em. Fuck the vax. Fuck the pass. Fuck everyone who supports this shit.
Not true. slice() clones-and-drops the array, but not the objects inside.
> I've never been to Naples, but I have been to Rome, and to my tastebuds, even US-cooked Neapolitan pizza is better than Roman pizza.

I think Dar Poeta is excellent, though it's halfway between Roman and Neapolitan. And Roman-style Al Taglio is a phenomenal thing when done right.
That's understandable, a lot of exploit seekers use those features to find exploits e.g. "powered by [cms with known exploit]", Google (and Bing) are definitely are more prone to showing you a captcha for those searches, especially if you're looking beyond the first page.
I got lucky as an early employee (first engineering hire) who got stock rather than options. I’m not sure how typical it is but I think they didn’t switch to option grants until about a year after I started, though granted they we’re still quite small probably sub-20 employees at that time.

I’m very relieved not to be holding options. I got kind of burned by them on my first job. I was forced to sell on the secondary market as they were expiring and I wasn’t willing to take that bet (which was the right choice given the information I had at the time IMO) but they IPO’d a year or so later and are currently sitting at ~4x the price I got. Still, I’m lucky to have walked away with anything.
If your customers are in Europe, GDPR mandates they be able to get their data out (data portability). Services likes this would be wise to lean on regulatory requirements, and report vendors who attempt to prevent customers exporting their data (while encouraging them to support an API for data export).
I'm amused when I see all the hoops folks jump thru to solve 'memory reference bugs'. Garbage collectors 'leak' if you forget to null a reference in scope after you're done with it. Those null pointers can fault if used afterward.

Its as much work to use a garbage collector efficiently as it is to allocate and delete your own memory. And with about the same bugs. It's been problematic from the start.

Not a fan of automatic systems to 'manage' memory. Overhead for automatic systems create lag, latency and bloat.
I'm old-fashioned, and create code that has strict ownership of allocated memory by subsystem. If a module that allocates also frees, leaks become negligible. If references are not shared but accessed formally, nulls become returned errors etc.

Discipline is hard, but leaky buggy garbage-collecting behemoths are hard to live with too.
London councils, with their predatory parking restrictions are helping to stifle the high street further.
Well you are on HN where you have to have downs or be on the spectrum to respond. Dang should be coming in and scrubbing this comment for having too much emotion.

That is unless you are rich. Rich people get priority on this message board.

I genuinely hope dangs family gets raped
Those facilities are also typically running three shifts, whereas you seem to be implying it is common for individuals to be working.. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Furthermore, pretty much no one is now going to turn up your company name in a search--at least unless maybe you pay enough to turn up in paid search.
> As has been repeatedly reported, masks are primarily to keep the infected from infecting others, and again, there is a mountain of evidence that this is the case.

I might not be seeing the same mountain of evidence that you are. The first couple studies I looked at in the metastudy you linked to in the original comment in this thread (hairdressers and navy ship) were not convincing (they were quite loose, as I commented on) and the second study you linked to seemed to assume that stopping droplets slows the spread, but doesn't offer evidence of how relevant stopping droplets actually is (there's data saying that covid spreads through aerosols just as well if not more than droplets [0], like in restaurants where people were not seated closely, etc.)

I just don't see the effectiveness of cloth masks as proven. Where am I going wrong in my thinking?

[0] https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-aeroso...
The European total was 145 cases of myocarditis on 177 million vaccinations. Assuming 2 vaccinations per person, that's 145 cases in 88.5 million people or a 0,00016% chance. That's less than 1 in 600.000 not the 3000 you claim.

And even then, a very big majority of the myocarditis cases were mild enough to go away on their own. Only 5 people died from it and all were elderly with other pre-existing conditions.
Parents of teens who stole $1M in Bitcoin sued by alleged victim
I wish it was true, still, when I look at authentication done with devise, there is extensive monkeypatching done (probably caused by poor design in Devise itself, but still).

> This is a bit of a hyperbole statement wouldn't you agree?

I'm not sure, I see many small problems that slowly leads to what the Ruby community is now.
That being said, if you look at how many things ActiveSupport monkeypatches, "thousands cuts" it's not an understatement: https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/main/activesupport/lib/a...
I think I went into a BHS in Aberdeen in the early 1980s - that was it, clearly left a deep impression.
The irony is that those merchants were the Amazon of their day, bringing a wider range of choices and quality to cities they served.
Based on the number of deaths, a very large percentage of people have already had COVID.

Given that there is a non-0% chance of death or harm from taking the vaccine, why should they then get vaccinated? They are already less of a risk to themselves and others than someone who has been vaccinated.
Long term it seems pretty straightforward.

It is almost certain COVID will become endemic, and no known form of immunity whether from vaccination or prior infection confers sufficient permanent immunity against infection to stop re-infection but prior immunity (from vaccine or prior infection) does greatly reduce the chances that your infection will give you serious illness.

You assumption therefore should be that over the rest of your life you will get COVID multiple times.

The question then is whether you want your first infection to be with or without prior immunity. If you want that first time to be with prior immunity get vaccinated as that is the only known way to get immunity before your first infection.
This is one of those situations where having the conversation in person would be way easier. I have no idea why this point is not landing lol.
I left Facebook a few years ago, and started creating larger iMessage groups for friend groups and family. I create shared iCloud albums of photos for vacations and send the links around. It's a little more work but the interactions are now much more personal.
I wouldn't expect Brexit to make any difference to department store sales.
I think most health policy decisionmakers would happily accept a positive test result for covid in place of a vaccination as long as this science is replicated by other parties.
I hadn't seen that. I personally don't have any problems with Wix as a platform, and if people want to use it, then that is great!

But I do think that customers ought to be able to have a choice in the vendors they use. They should be able to choose the right platform for their needs, which will change over time. We want to help facilitate that.
"Phoenix also now includes swoosh by default for mailer support and a new phx.gen.notifier task for generating a notifier for sending email along with a dev mailbox for local development."

Crap. I literally just built this out for a personal Phoenix project two weeks ago (using Bamboo instead of Swoosh because I could get it working for SES more easily). Guess I'll see about adopting the official and probably far better solution. Since there are also published upgrade steps. CURSE YOU FOR BEING SO HELPFUL, PHOENIX DEVS!
> a much less clickbait title should have been chosen

It is not clickbait, (if true) this is just a fact.
21-year-old tells WSJ he was behind T-Mobile hack
I wish they covered more technical detail into how and with what tools the image was generated. Anyone know?
"Fundamental" is a direction of research in physics.
> Webb, with a mirror as tall as a two-story building and a protective shield the size of a tennis court

What kind of launch vehicle are they going to be using for that?
We're not talking about graduates not able to solve theoretical exercises. These graduates might well be able to solve an on-paper algorithms exercise like that, after all their teaching and assessment was all theoretical.

The problem is they don't know how to actually compile and run a "Hello World" program, or write and run any kind of program on a physical computer, because they never had to do it as part of their computer science education.
"The City does not use helicopters to treat residential areas."

So how is that true?

Let's just think about helicopters spraying Manhattan with a ... sanitizer? The idea is insane. People read this on Facebook and think it might be true, so what else will they believe?
The study appears to be reporting at least a further 50% reduction in risk for previously infected people who get a vaccine.

One might debate whether the probabilities involved are so low as to be irrelevant, but the study absolutely supports the existence of a benefit.
They also have modules that alter explorer as well (though I don't find them terribly useful). As an "old fogey" in the computer world Classic Shell is one of the first things I install on any Windows machine I set up for myself.
> The PROBLEM is that people then say "oh well then to protect myself better against COVID19 what I should do is get infected

Both approaches carry risk, yet your statement presents as if the risk of vaccination is 0. And also excludes the idea that opting not to be vaccinated is a legitimate choice for the millions and millions of “cases” that have already been infected.
"Travel like Delta" would be subtle enough I think.
Don't forget the totally legitimate sites selling software licences.
Just a heads up for anyone confused about 169.254.1.1: 169.254.0.0/16 is the link-local address block for IPv4, but link-local addressing is rarely used in IPv4. OTOH, the fe80::/10 address block on IPv6 is widely known since link-local addresses are mandated by the standard.
YouTube’s Plan to Showcase Credible Health Information Is Flawed
Thank you! You've piqued my curiosity: are there any migrations that have been particularly painful for you? (Where might we have been able to help? What made them painful?)
Some folks are looking for any excuse to not get the vaccine.
That's just default Windows functionality, the numbers correspond to the order of items on the task bar.
> This feels like an irresponsible title on behalf of the author

The title describes the content of the article. I think people should be treated as adults (esp. on HN). We should be able to discuss Covid-19 science and data without always fearing misinterpretation from anti-vaxxers.
There are some diseases it is not true for. Mostly ones that attack parts of the immune system (eg. Measles). Probably wouldn't be true for HIV either.
I keep a notebook of random HN comments that break the rules, but dang allows it. He only allows this for rich spoiled cunts for some reason, so I plan on exposing the cunt dang for his hypocrisy.

I genuinely hope his family gets raped.
Global warming begets more warming, new paleoclimate study finds
Hi Chris

Excited to see in this thread you joining fly.io

Can talk about what (if) any plans exist to make deploying Phoenix apps at fly easier.

Said another way, I’d love to click a button to deploy my app to be (a) globally distributed, (b) managed global database, (c) managed operating systems, (d) managed dns.

Basically heroku for Phoenix (and more)
BTC isn't the only option if you are using crypto. Especially in emerging markets, stablecoins seem to be a popular choice.
I don't imagine some central command – I understand Gramsci's concept of cultural hegemony and Marx's base/superstructure dialectic. The American people are completely bought into the imperial line, but they still need to be oriented, thus the massive increase in anti-China rhetoric from State Dept affiliated media outlets.
It's the sad irony of collectivism. When you remove all concept of individual ownership and accountability in the name of universal equality, you've effectively destroyed the individual as a unit and just turned them into another resource to be taken advantage of, nominally for the good of the whole, but in reality for the good of the ruling party.
What the study says is out of 20k people that had the vaccine or previous infection only 200 got reinfected and nobody died. Yes in the 200 there were more vaccinated but imaging how many people died from the first round of infections. How the people who were sick are much more cautious and wear masks than vaccinated. None of this is adjusted for (ie they don’t ask a sample of the groups a question how often do you wear mask, all they needed to do was ask from 300 people from both groups and you could adjust for risky behaviors and I bet the effect would be much smaller). In any case both vaccine and previous infection provides plenty of protection.
I bought lots of kitchenware from John Lewis over the years because I simply don't trust Amazon to sell me anything that touches food.
Anybody who enjoys this should check out the book “Team Topologies”. There’s a lot of depth in this whole team interaction patterns which the book brings to life.
The point is, this was not based in fact. There was no such plan ever, especially with helicopters. Someone generated the bullshit, and we have to spend energy disputing it.
Also, "a narang" -> "an orange".
If you want to play without spending too much money or time, yo always can get a chinese DVB-T USB receiver or similar with a RTL chip.
It cost less than 50 bucks and usually works well without too much configuration AFAIK. Don't expect an incredible SNR or wideband, but it's pretty good for tinkering.
You're going to love this: U+FE18 ︘ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL RIGHT WHITE LENTICULAR BRAKCET: bracket is spelled incorrectly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Anomalies
IP and other fingerprinting techniques are enough to identify you
The courts are a joke. Lawyers from opposing side regularly and systematically conspire to resolve cases in their interests, not in those of their clients. The system is broken beyond repair.
This doesn't appear anywhere in the link from the link I provided for the SN light curves.

https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0104382