skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah this argument comes up constantly. Sure Apple does a lot of nasty stuff that should be banned. But when I look around at the rest of the market, everyone else is doing the exact same things but 10x worse.

I think Apple cops most of the blame for being the most recognizable name despite having the least planned obsolescence of the OEMs.
Oh. Thank you for pointing that out. Edited.
Yes, and likely got things done before leaving for the day.
This is hilarious. You're actually comparing two different computers.

A pull tab does not weigh 8oz more than a dab of glue. I don't get why someone would try to argue as much.
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You do sound like you're courting burnout. My question would be, to what extent do you HAVE TO. What people are missing (it seems) is that they're not serious, because they don't understand that you HAVE TO, that any other course of action is pretty much impossible.

There's your danger sign, right there. It's not even the realistic plausibility of shifting down a gear (and for what? dooming yourself to never be able to run top speed again, who's to say you won't keep doing that, shifting down over and over to no avail, and then be working some shit job at 80 years old, just as miserable, never able to escape?)

Did I just do your mental voice there?

It's not even the realistic plausibility. It's THAT MENTAL VOICE and the pressure you're putting on, allowing no wavering from the path. I put it to you that it's possible that mental voice is unhealthy and not a reality thing. 'Cos that's the one I had, which is why I can do it on command. But I learned I wasn't being reality-based.
You could also use something like Node.js or Deno.
Here’s the tl;dr:

“The world will likely exceed 1.5C between 2026 and 2042 in scenarios where emissions are not rapidly reduced, with a central estimate of between 2030 and 2032.

The 2C threshold will likely be exceeded between 2034 and 2052 in the highest emissions scenario, with a median year of 2043.

In a scenario of modest mitigation – where emissions remain close to current levels – the 2C threshold would be exceeded between 2038 and 2072, with a median of 2052.”
Ask HN: How do I best limit legal/regulatory overhead in the USA?
I have a business, I have customers. I would like to receive money for my services and report my income as is proper.

However I am very afraid about frivolous lawsuits and legal/regulatofy expenses that many C corps (and others) face in the USA.

What are my options for protecting myself and limiting expenses and risk?

Thanks!
It’s worth putting the discussion of “at what cost” in the open.

The cost-benefit analysis for forcing vaccinations and enforcing masking would also seem to follow. Teachers by and large don’t want their asymptomatic students to infect them, and thereby induce them to infect their elders, church members, etc, so moving on-line was completely rational to them for their own preservation.

We can usually see a car coming, and drive more or less safely. Covid’s a wild one in that you can’t see it coming, maybe you only get a little sick, maybe you get so sick you feel like you get hit by a car, and maybe you die. It’s confounding because it doesn’t fit the tidy buckets we prefer. And you can get it without leaving the house if other people come in. Different kind of risk than driving or crossing the street.

We also simply have higher expectations of health now. Spanish flu ripped through in an era where people on average expected a lot less health and longevity. Our valuation criteria have changed immensely in 100 years.
The favourite trick of misinformation purveyors is stripping away context.

Then they can hide behind equivocation.

Risk is risk! Even manifest risk is risk!
San Francisco's Millennium Tower fix halted after further sinking observed
Went to watch Beavis and Butthead on Amazon and it had no music videos... They were all edited out. How is that remotely acceptable?
Apple choses which price to charge for a battery replacement. Their profit margin is whatever they choose unless other people are replacing it too.
Thank you! We have actually heard this from quite a few people. We now know of at least four companies that have at one point or another built their reporting systems in a similar way.
From your same paper.

>These findings suggest that among persons with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection, full vaccination provides additional protection against reinfection

What "2.34 times" is referencing is two groups had COVID-19 but one of them got the vaccine as well. In which case the COVID-19 + Vaccine group has less chance of reinfection compared to those who only had COVID-19.

The original article does mention that COVID-19 + infection does provide more protection as well I believe.
In the abstract:

major hurdles, including high costs, remain before this technology can be widely deployed and play a key role in tackling climate change.

Major. Major, Major Challenges. CCS, (lets put the capture prt to one side and focus on Storage) is well proven as a gas field injection method to increase yield: Fugitive gas from fracking is a huge problem. Persisting injection, down into olivine or other rocks (basically, encouraging the CO2 to convert to carbonate solid) or into pressure depth as clathrate (I know methane clathrate is a thing, I assume CO2 does similar things but I could be wrong).. this is still really not at-scale simple.

A major Australian CCS project has continually reported failure to meet its goals, such that its had to pay massive fines to the WA government because of un-met Carbon offset benefit... which I bet partly helped 'justify' the investment on the gas field.
I've burnt myself out mentally with manual labor jobs. Treeplanting at max effort in an eighty day season. Took a week before I could have conversations longer than a sentence. The mental burn out from office work felt very similar but lasted longer, perhaps because I'm just older.
I have Android tablets from 2014 and an ipad air 2 from 2014. The Android tablets haven't seen any updates since 2016 and are unusably slow while the iPad air 2 still gets the latest updates on day one with the brand new ipads and feels perfectly usable and sees daily use.
True story: Some years ago, a consulting assignment involved analyzing a bunch of data saved on a slow as molasses NAS using SAS's data format. The work was CPU intensive but IO throughput was the bottleneck. The analysis was close to being embarrassingly parallelizable[1] given an appropriate partitioning of the data.

The only thing installed on the remote system I was given access to via RDP was SAS whose macro facility tends to be cumbersome. Since the original CSV files were also stored on the same NAS, I asked if could have any programming language installed in my home directory (there was absolutely no way for me to upload anything, the system had no internet access other than to allow RDP, and I wasn't going to violate any rules.

The sysadmin head read BOFH for career development in the 90s, so, the answer was a solid no. I had to only use what was available on the system. The problem was simple: Each run took about two days: Start the thing at 7 am one day so you can hope to have the results before 4 pm two days later kind of thing. That's when I remembered `cscript`.

Using that, built a "thing" that orchestrated the copying of data in 100 GB chunks to `%TEMP%` which was still on the precious 256 GB SSD :-), launching multiple jobs etc. Task manager screenshots: https://www.nu42.com/2013/12/happiness-is-making-most-out-of...

In less than a week, jobs were running in four hours. sysadmin remained happily oblivious. Had to explain what I had done to the rest of the group.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
Default install Gnome2 Ubuntus, pre-PulseAudio, were the only desktop Linux distros I've used, before or after, from the "it just works" end of the spectrum and with a full-featured DE, that didn't leave me wishing I'd started with something minimalist and built it up to where I needed it instead. Some time around when they got GUI wifi tools to mostly not suck, near the end of that time period, was their peak.
To be honest this is sooner than I had thought.
I always get AppleCare. I treat my computers well, but ride them hard. They are running hot, maybe 14-16 hours a day.

They earn their keep.

I’ll be getting an M1X/M2, when those come out.
> he has gone off the deep end since the Spotify deal.

Can you explain? I’m genuinely curious by what you mean.
It's plausible.

A lot of Debian packages come from small projects, often ones with a single developer. Before 2007, there weren't a lot of options for public source control -- GitHub didn't exist yet, SourceForge's CVS/SVN hosting was a pain to work with, and hosting it yourself was even more of a pain. Many of these small projects were probably only available as release tarballs, so that's what Debian built from.
> If you're going to question my honesty…

The questioning is a response to your comment.

Do you seriously think that Apple’s second hash function could be ‘return true’?
The sense of scale is fascinating.

Each facility will have a goal of scrubbing 1 million tons of CO2/yr.

However, we currently emit 30+ Billion tons of CO2/yr.
The point is that they don't need to get an image on your phone. They can just choose one they know is there.
It should be noted that “almost all” is a probability term, meaning that (under a uniform probability measure on the 0-1 interval), the probability that a randomly chosen number is rational is 0. The probability that that a randomly chosen number is irrational is 1.
I think about this a lot about one of Japan's indices: Nikkei 225. It peaked in 1989 (~33k) and has not yet recovered since their crash (currently ~27k)(ignoring inflation, just value)
But they also have to do the repairs. When they make it harder they increase their costs.
and further OP would never have been able to squeeze $10k of repairs/replacements out of an original $3k? outlay.
Spices and Meat. Flawed opinions about the use of spices in Early Modern Europe
The original hate on this was very much justified for the reasons you listed. But these days they now have prompts explaining this and how to resolve it as well as a battery status page you can check any time.
I’m guessing this automatically purchases stock based on how much time you spent on your phone, instead of a set interval.
You are trying to not trigger autoimmune disorders. Someone recovered from covid with potentially three additional shots is at greater risk for autoimmune reactions.
I'm 33 right now. If I want to, I'll have the ability to functionally retire (which really means "maybe go do a startup, or consult for companies that interest me", granted, I like what I do) by 50. Because I make spectacularly good money for this country and because I'm moderately careful with my money. And if I drop dead tomorrow? There are things I'll wish I'll have finished, and things that I'll wish that I'd done, but a lot fewer than if I'd locked myself in a closet in my twenties and thirties to "grind".

You're talking about "grinding"--you get that that's grinding your psyche and your personality too, right? I'm going to be very blunt with you: do you think, with the attitude you're expressing, do you think you will be a person people want to be around once you're "free"? Because dude. You sound miserable.

The journey can be worth it if you can pace yourself. But you've decided destination uber alles, it sounds like, so I can only wish you good luck.
Guess you don’t understand default choice, huh?

Choosing not to choose commits you to the status quo: risk of COVID hospitalisation/death.
jsc is primarily a test binary, so it isn't super functional as a general purpose utility.

It is nice to have basic JS functionality on the terminal without installing node, but it has fairly limited functionality
Yep, true. Having a resume that stretches back to when the recruiter was watching Teletubbies makes it super apparent.
It seems like most of his criticisms are around the efficacy of the vaccine past 6 months? Even if the vaccine only grants up to 6 months of protection, why would that be an argument not to approve it? If anything, it sounds like we should approve it an encourage booster shots every 6 months.
The Beavis and Butthead music video thing is a decades old problem, unfortunately. The DVDs were like that too. Something about failing to obtain the music video rights for the show outside of its original airing.

The only reasonable option is to pirate.
Building a mini Hoover Dam hydroelectric project
Batteries won't wear out in a year, and battery wear from normal use is not always covered by warranty. You're going to be paying for it in 90% of cases.
Cute, but, as I noted elsewhere[1], these kinds of solutions require that you know that you are dealing with text that contains Turkish.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28287136
It’s either that or they have trouble saying “no” to meetings.
When Apple sells yet again another record amount of iPhones next quarter which device should we move to?

Fundamentally this illustrates that software has become too inherently intrusive. What’s the solution tho that could ever be mainstream?

The other issue is that software has become too complicated and too many (potentially) bad things are happening in the background. How can the layperson fight back?
I tried to pay BTC for a very small electronics purchase recently and the payment processor BitPay literally demanded passport information
Digital detox: Can taking a break from tech improve your well-being?
Monthly meetings, Tesla-worshippers only. Also some UFO abductees and orgone-believers. Also Boeing engineers and radio hams. http://amasci.com/freenrg/oldmeet.html
Nobody has a right to be heard. He has a right to speak. People like Rogan have a megaphone and are choosing who to give it to. Would you choose Alex Jones?
Poor mans "What is my IP"

curl -I https://en.wikipedia.org|sed -n "/^x-client-ip: /{s/.*: //p;}"
From the article:

> As crucial as it may be to improve the technology, it will be equally important to compel industries and governments “to treat CO2 as a waste product,” he says, and therefore pay to clean it up.

This is really the key. Once this is implemented, loads of effort/money/research will flow into this field.

It already has a politically popular slogan, "polluter pays".

But in any case, it seems obvious that DAC is required to avoid bad outcomes. We've already pumped gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere. We could just leave it there and deal with the problems, but it seems far better to actively remove it and get our atmospheric ppm down to what we saw ~150 years ago.
JuSt MaKe YoUr OwN pAyMeNt PrOcEsSoR aNd StArT yOuR oWn BaNk!

So sick of that argument...

A 'free' society means people being 'free' to make decisions that are within their rights and don't break the law.
Looking at things through a consequentialist soda straw like that is a terrible way to make decisions -- it is like trying to decide if I will drive or walk solely based on the number of birds I might kill. Decisions are much larger than this single aspect.

Some people hearing a crazy idea might adopt it. Some might criticize it. Some might learn how crazy ideas work. Some might adopt it for a little while, then reject it, and be wiser through the experience. Someone who goes on a crusade to fix this one falsehood might be exposed to it. You cannot know what all effects the sum of a discussion has.

But I can certainly tell you this: censorship doesn't work. It didn't work in ancient Rome. It didn't work in the Holy Roman Empire. It didn't work in Soviet Russia. It doesn't work in Communist China. It's not working right now for vaccine disinformation. Driving crazy ideas underground does not make them disappear, and it does not make them unpopular -- it makes them spread without criticism. And in fact, telling people they can't do something generally makes them want to do it. It appears to work for a little while, but I cannot think of a single historical case in which this actually worked out. Somehow the banned ideas always seem to survive beyond the death of the regime that banned them.

We will always have crazy ideas. We will always have crazy people that buy them. Depriving them of respectability is perhaps a little helpful, but opens up a different danger: just who gets to decide what and who is crazy? I didn't vote for you, and I didn't vote for Spotify either.
https://www.informationliberation.com/files/deaths-of-despai...

It stops at 2017, but the trend is holding still in 2021, so, if the world is truly magical and better than any other time in history, why are we killing ourselves?

Maybe I'm wrong, but it certainly seems like there is a problem, while a bunch of people in priveledged positions tell the rest of us to be happy.
peer review or not, when reading you have to:

* determine whether the numbers are intentionally fudged.

* read the methods and results and check for possible systematic errors.

* see if the data supports the conclusions of the authors.

* make sure you understand the limits and implications of what the authors claim.

as a layperson, I can't really do this for biology. so inevitably, I give things a quick once-over, come up with questions and look to the people I trust for answers or contradictory data. so it's basically an ad-hoc peer review.
If you're playing Russian Roulette, you probably still rather have that first exposure be the vaccine and then take the chances of breakthrough as opposed to the first exposure being the virus itself.
How do they put up with laws like this? I guess they use VPNs?
Double amusing because I see this same nonsense on HN regularly. We should really just ban politics and other bullshit from the site and not look back, because it's nothing but a blight upon it. Look at which stories garner the most discussions (other than "so and so passed away"). Trump? OnlyFans? "Coronavirus is here to stay forever"? Come on, you're either baiting or you're being baited.

Intellectual curiosity my ass.
the whole purpose of a preprint is to confer with others having experience or specialty regarding the subject of thesis. Noone knows it all, or has a perfect version of the contemporary facts. peer review is quality control
I bought an iMac from their store for $1400 (15 years ago). Invested big in their software. The HD was unreliable from day 1. Three months after their warranty expired, the screen started crapping out. Hundreds of people complained of it on their forums; the response was erasing the complaints. Two years later they admitted the problem.
I think this kind of defeatism really feeds the public's lax attitude toward privacy.

Yes, the iPhone and Apple products are very popular. And they will probably continue to grow. Does that mean we just accept anything they do, antithetical to one of their core promises to their customers?

Or do we make a big deal about it so everyone sees what's happening and what the implications are?
More and More Humans Are Growing an Extra Artery, Showing We're Still Evolving
Not all risks are the same, either in probability, or expected value, or avoidability or cost to mitigate. You're just trying to hand wave away the argument.

The cost-benefit of a mask compared with the cost-benefit of never leaving your home. You sure these two scenarios are equal?
GrapheneOS on Pixel 4 has been a dream, as has Elementary OS on an XPS 13 is similarly great.

WebUSB installer for graphene is a game changer, it made the process incredibly easy. Also it seems most apps work fine without Play services.

Synology Photos is a great local icloud photos replacement.

I made the switch this past weekend. Aside from the impact on my wallet and hassle of needing to sell my Apple equipment, it was surprisingly painless.
On mobile it is under Settings,Accessibility, Simplified View.
Let's say two dollars exist in the world. Your stock is worth one of them in 2000. I quadruple the money that exists in the world to 8 dollars by 2020. The market says your stock is worth two dollars in 2020. Did you lose value, gain value, or stay the same?

For more thought experiments compare your stock value to coffee or a Big Mac.

https://inflationchart.com/spx-in-coffee/?show_adjuster=1&lo...

https://inflationchart.com/spx-in-bigmac/?show_adjuster=1&lo...

Essentially no gain, it's all paper, your purchasing power stayed exactly the same even invested in one of the greatest "bull run" stock markets of all time.
> Forums shouldn't be policing content

Why not?
"It seems that I'm not a senior software engineer"

Please define senior software engineer. Everywhere has vastly different definitions. You likely fit one of them.
Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship
It's not perfect, but there's some use to it, are you saying we should not collect and analyze adverse reactions after vaccination?

The reported adverse reactions are very serious and only occurred after the vaccine a lot of times in an otherwise healthy individual.

It should be used as a canary of safety and each report should be evaluated to see if the vaccine is the causation, especially when the individual was healthy.

Ignoring reports of adverse reactions is not proper science. Sure, we could dismiss ALL of the reports as coincidences, but is that right?

VAERS also states the data is under-reported, because not all side effects are reported to VAERS. This means for all false reports there could be true side effects not reported, this evens out the cases to some extent.

> You could get the vaccine, and then days later, you get diarrhea, or a headache, or a charlie horse in your calf,

Look at the side effects listed, it's full paralysis, death, miscarriages, etc. These are serious events that should be looked into. Those are much more rare cases than a "headache", or "diarrhea". Headaches are not reported to VAERS.
Why would we want to be reminded of the current state of the world.
To underscore this, there's a specific meaning to 'you will have to stop', and it isn't 'you will choose to not work as hard, you will lose motivation'.

You will BREAK. You will be unable to think. The think no work. You no work. Not be fix thing today. Or tormorwo. blah.

Plenty of people in this HN post who are flirting with this. It's a natural outcome of motivation so strong that you'll push yourself to the limit, without flinching or weakening. I don't know where everyone else gets that. Childhood stuff? Social conditioning? Most people don't have it that bad. Most companies aren't SV unicorns.

Success on the grand scale, rides on the back of people like this. Some of them don't break, and some do. If you do, you will break. Not your will, not your motivation… your MIND breaks and you can't think. And then it's the months or years of down-time. You burned out.
These models were problematic but I have a hunch with this many issues there may be a separate variable like problems w the power supply or the power itself (spikes, dips, etc). Bad power can wreck electronics.
Apple is the only device I know of doing on-device scanning.
I suppose so, but reluctantly.

My actual choices are to labor aggressively in the hopes of some day entering the investor class that doesn't need to labor for survival, or to do less labor and hope socialism builds me a safety net before I run out of funds.

If there's another option, I'd like to hear it, but I'm already pretty far down the capitalist route.

Also, the pandemic has really shattered any illusion that we could all work together to achieve any sort of universal good, which probably makes capitalism a better bet.
The best advice for you is that you need to take your questions and concerns to a US business attorney. You won’t get good legal advice in a forum like this.
Debate, Dissent, and Protest on Reddit
What's "naïve" is you or anyone else thinking they have the power to "nudge people into better patterns", which is exactly what the kind of behavior you're promoting attempts to accomplish.

You can't, and you never will. Culture evolves slowly, and humans even slower.