skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Instead of having blanket lockdowns for everyone, reserve certain hours or days for at-risk people. A few of the stores near me, like Target and Wal-Mart, were closed from 7-9 am every day unless you were a senior citizen. That seems like a better solution than restaurants and non-essential stores being forced to close down 24/7.

I went to a local mall a few days ago, and the amount of stores that went out of business because of the lockdowns is rediculous. I wouldn't be suprised if the whole mall has to close down soon, there's no way it's profitable to keep it running with 2-3 snack vendors and a couple of barber shops / nail salons being the major businesses left.
Nobody makes these kinds of arguments about why payment processors are afraid of Ebay selling potentially stolen goods or Amazon selling (lots of) potentially counterfeit merchandise. Or rather, they don't have to, because payment processors are perfectly willing to turn a blind eye to those kinds of crime. And before you say it's about risk to children, the global market is perfectly willing to do business with companies that continually have child slavery scandals.

Yes, there are legal risks involved, but at the end of the day, the main reason why sex work gets hit so much harder than any other type of legal enterprise is because the people in charge see nothing to be gained by standing up for sex workers.
Good.
When there are fewer applicants, each applicant will perform better.
When each applicant becomes better- they will be more a hacker— less a tech geeker.
When each applicant is a hacker- the industry can only thrive.
When each applicant is a tech geeker- the industry can only collapse.

As Xah Lee says, we need less tech geekers. More hackers.
This is a scientific certainty.

tech geeker: (noun) A programer nerd who are ignorant of social sciences yet persistently loud of his opinions on many social issues related to programing, such as language popularity, pros and cons of GUI, software engineering practices, software license issues, IT industry practices, ethics of corporations.
I definitely don't think we have a definitive answer yet.

I think one day you might be able to get a good definitiveish answer. For instance, you can assume that everyone gets covid in the "no measures" case, and extrapolate death rates using serosurveillance to get the portion of the population infected in reality. Once Covid is "over" you can see the number of people who died in reality.

There will always be all sorts of errors in such an estimate. From bad data, to things like death rate depending on your assumptions about variants, vaccines, and the make up of the population. But once we get the "how we did in the end numbers" it's plausible that we can make some sort of comparison to "how we could have done".
First I’d heard of his van.

https://th-thumbnailer.cdn-si-edu.com/rekkCs19MYWKZoUdhij7dy...
TekSavvy is 95% hampered by the fact that they run on other uncooperative providers' last mile and middle mile infrastructure (Telus, Bell, Shaw, etc). The 3rd parties only give them the barest minium of cooperation which the federal government forces them to give.

They are for the most part not what you would call a facilities based ISP. It's not a choice I would make, operating an ISP, because it totally removes from your control and the ability to know what's really going on with the last and middle mile segments to your customers.

I'm sure that if somebody gave the owners of TekSavvy 400 million dollars and they went to hire GPON last mile experts and build their own networks in sufficiently population-dense parts of Canada, they would do pretty good with it. But that seems unlikely.
The vehicles popping in and out was improved pretty dramatically in fsd beta 9. Seems unfair not to mention that so I’m guessing you were unaware.
Pfizer has a lot of supporters.
Funny for a corporation that is making substantial profits from our taxes.
Even funnier that no other treatments are even given to pacients - only this unique solution. Humanity has become a strange place.
Is there really this shortage?
Then why are there all these data science tech geekers on Instagram and linked in?
Tell me I'm not the only one who thinks the graphic in the middle of the logo resembles something other than anything space-related?
for better or worse the risk of 'random' luck the system failed means Tesla stats should be 10x or better than human driver.

A marginal improvement is not going to cut it.
The United States government broadcasted, several times, to all US citizens or what have ye in Afghanistan, to LEAVE the country, months ago.

The fact that they did not listen to the government, months ago, how can that be the fault of anyone but themselves?

I'll admit I'm not as well versed in the Vietnam war, but I don't think anything close to that happened during Saigon.
This is a form of shadow banning and it’s more common than you think. As a matter of fact, HN and Reddit do this too.

If HN/Reddit think that you are posting promotions, *HN silently censors your post, claims it was posted*
I don’t think this is accurate. However, almost every person I knew in school that I would have described as a bully I knew growing up became a cop for some part of their life.

So, I’d say from my perspective and experience, it’s likely a job that is probably attractive to bullies, as opposed a job that is creating them.
macOS do some clever scheduling, but I don't know is it improves performance, Maybe mainly improves power efficiency at user idle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27182244
Yes, it wasn’t a phased withdrawal.

We stranded children and likely tens of thousands of citizens and our allies.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-24/students...

That’s not including our Afghan allies. Who we also gave up (addresses, biometric data, etc)

https://nypost.com/2021/08/27/taliban-kill-squad-hunting-afg...

Emboldened our enemies, provided tens of billions in weapons, were also flying tens of thousands of unvetted afghans to random places throughout the country.

Frankly, I think we will see mass casualties in the next few days. I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a few US planes with marines shot down. I hope I’m wrong.

At the very least, after we leave I suspect there will be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands killed. Many will be US citizens unless we have some agreement.
May I ask, purely out of curiosity, where do you see does Emacs need to be? From social, cultural, technical or any other point of view that you are thinking, and why so.
TekSavvy's blog/newsletter is usually an interesting read.

https://blogs.teksavvy.com/topic/choice-words
JSON is not highlighting any color
> The need for such a daring mission reeks of failure.

Uh, yeah, we lost the war and signed a surrender agreement to the enemy leader who we freed from prison for that express purpose last year. What do you expect it to smell like?
No. It’s not important enough, and I can get most of the same news elsewhere.
Shadow moderation became the norm ages ago to deal with spam. You can debate about its limits but somebody with a hardline position smacks of somebody who has never dealed with the real world issues but is cocksure about how things should be done.
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Would it be OK to ask you to drop contact info best way to reach out to you? Email perhaps?
I usually only feed birds during unseasonable weather (either unseasonably cold, or a rare snow which I figure covers much of the ground where they'd usually find food). The rest of the time I presume they can find food on their own. Surprisingly, it takes only a couple of days before dozens of birds find the food.

I put out a birdbath when we had an unusual heat wave, but didn't see any birds using it, though we had some squirrels stop by in the daytime, and a raccoon family visited at night to get a drink.
Fort Collins, Colorado. Decent climate, not too humid, mountains nearby. Not too large, but Denver's an hour away if you want a big-city ballet company or a children's hospital or a major airport. (And when you don't want those things, all those people aren't in your face.) College town. Some tech scene.
If they would jump at it ... why is the ARM version of Windows OEM only?
Way back when my mother mentioned the most common intruder is going to be your daughters boyfriend. Or your drunk neighbor.
Every fool is an expert these days
Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) sold off their entire Unix business to Caldera, and renamed itself Tarantella (it was later acquired by Sun). Caldera renamed itself The SCO Group (TSG) and started lawsuits.
If you move daemons from enabled to disabled, then you’ve taken an extra step. The difficulty is not in remembering to do it once, and daemons are a simple example. The difficulty is in always remembering, especially for trickier changes. But sure, if everyone always remembers, then it’s fine :)

I don’t think reversing what you just did is as trivial as it should be. For a git-based workflow to work well, it should be as simple as reverting a commit.

Setting up a VM from scratch is where Ansible is great. A CI/CD that recreates the VM and applies the config would work really well with automatic git deployment, but that’s generally not how people use it.
Thank you for not revealing the years of either. I’m curious to replicate your experience.
To complement the Pharo recommendation, I would also recommend cuis smalltalk.

It also forked from squeak, but went on an aggressive diet, shedding much complexity in the base image, and modularising (using git) much of the rest.

Smalltalk newcomers may find cuis is easier to "digest" and get to grips with. Having used pharo and squeak myself, I find myself preferring cuis for more serious development. YMMV.

- full instructions on install & first steps at
[main cuis repo](https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev)

- ["The Cuis Book"](https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/index.html)

- [cuis docs repo](https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Learning-Cuis)

- [cuis related repos on github](https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=1&q=cuis-smalltalk&s=upda...)
>Reality - there was a period where the icloud backups created backups that apple did not have access to.

If my memory serves me correct iCloud Backup was designed as such since Day 1 ( iOS 5 ) so Apple could help its customer when they loss their phone. Is there any links to suggest Apple changed their Backup access?
Why useless? Obviously they're different things but the negative effects of lockdowns and other restrictions aren't obvious and direct. There will be chain effects on economic activity, wealth, and all the human life and happiness than comes with those. There are pros and cons of both ways. Just like mitigation of climate change, it's a balance. Anyone who sees it as obviously right and wrong isn't thinking.
For the people on the ground doing the dirty work on the US’s behalf? Yes.

This war went on for 20 years because nobody knew wtf victory meant, and nobody had the cohones to take the press hit for “losing”.
In fairness, there's no shortage of schadenfreude in the opposing echo chambers too. Plenty of obnoxious vaccine advocates suffering untimely deaths, miscarriages, strokes, etc.
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Praise be to the Science Ministry, in the name of authority we pray for the facts.
I think that scenario speaks to the importance of training, regular knowledge sharing sessions, pair programming, and the like. I've found myself in the opposite situation, where the team refuses to use a language feature that will make life significantly easier out of consideration for some hypothetical clueless graduate.

Addressing a skill gap technically seems a bit short sighted compared to addressing it culturally. Especially because most weird language features don't actually require you to be smart to understand them; they're just unfamiliar.
NP Complete 3rd Grade Math Problems (2018)
The Taliban has billions in American military equipment all the way up to black hawk helicopters in their possession at this point and many American servicemen and Afghan civilians have died. Many more are likely hostages or will be killed in the weeks to come. Meanwhile were seeing finger pointing and few at the top ranks taking accountability. Pretty bad scenario in terms of an exit. Its not the act of pulling out, its the execution that frankly could not have gone worse.
I used an intel macbook pro with an older version of Mac Os that had lots of background processes and features disabled just to get the performance I wanted.

My M1 Air was noticeably faster even with spotlight indexing and a massive build inside a virtual machine out of the box.
FSD beta 9 which 1) you have to pay 10k for and 2) only a few dozen people are eligible for. Seems like if this is a real problem they should fix in the product that everyone has or stop people from using it
Arch Linux is great, and Mac OS is way way better than Windows. Mac is not private, it is convenient and based on Unix; which is why I like it. My main set up is a linux box running Gardua Linux. When Asahi Linux get's more stable I will virtualize my Mac hardware and use Linux full time. Gaming is not really an issue on Linux for me anymore. Most of my library works and I code more than I do anything else.
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as game developer, That's awesome :)
It's not the news. It's the commentary. Mostly sane, which is getting harder and harder to find. (And sometimes harder and harder to find here...)
On how things seem to currently stand in Canada:

TekSavvy, and other "independents", are reliant on the incumbent telcos and cablecos for physical infrastructure. They independents can access this infrastructure by paying a fee regulated by the CRTC (~FCC).

The independents say that the currently approved fee for access to FTTH is too high, and that they cannot offer high-bandwidth services in a profitable manner over incumbent last-mile infrastructure.

Teksavvy's various regulatory submissions:

* https://www.teksavvy.com/policies/regulatory/regulatory-subm...
For comparison, the surface of the sun is about a seventh of a watt per square centimeter.
Deadliness is important here, not contagiousness. Both covid and alcoholism are deadly; and scientific consensus says both can be stopped if we abstain from some small things we enjoy
An unfortunately very anti certain-narratives title.

Thank you gc.ca for covering something with hard fact. Living in another country with statistically provable damage driven by recent policy (that by scale is demonstrably larger than the benefit) it's a difficult position to hold even with data as you will be called alarmist, heartless or nonsensical.

It's very unfortunate to read this, I wonder does anyone know does Canada's policy on marijuana at all correlate with this recent problem (akin to Scotland thinking relaxing drugs policy wouldn't be making things worse) or is this driven by other causes?

(Genuine question sorry, did some quick googling but I must be getting tired I'm getting conflicting information)
This is great.

In the industrial era, the phrase 'waste heat' became widely used. In fact, in many cases it's actually 'wasted heat'. I'd bet we can remember old, and find many new, ways to conserve energy costs.
I heard this dude once claimed that lisp could've prevented 9/11. This seems like an elaboration on that claim! Javascript is kinda Lisp already and your glue languages do have their fair share of weirdness. Every industry and everything humans do is gluing crap together. The carpenter doesn't create his own synthetic wood or dig iron ore to make his own needles. He glues crap that was dug and cut with glued stuff.
It is also a sad part of human psychology that it took this to get Afghanistan back in the headlines. The level of horror has probably been pretty constant from when the troops rolled in to now.

It isn't like this level of failure is a sudden and radical surprise when it comes to Afghanistan. It is clear at this point that the US hasn't been doing anything useful there for the last 20 years.
This is really useful :)
Architecture is much more than we realize: Structure Eats Strategy
Am I the only person who reads this and thinks maybe random private citizens shouldn't be playing at soldier in foreign sovereign countries? A bunch of people extra-judicially with no legal standing or authority invaded another country, did God knows what and left. And thats a good thing.

Would this be covered in a similar way if a bunch of heavily armed Taliban members invaded Texas to extract some people who had given them intelligence and worked for them, I seriously doubt it. Even if they saved some pregnant members of their group and cradled a few children.

I know "we" are the good guys and they are the bad guys (sarcasm there folks) but this is weird. I feel there is some crazy mind control weirdness going on. I know thats what propaganda is but the level of group think on Afghanistan is impressive.

Maybe countries should have some right to run their own shit free from other countries, maybe we should call it self determination or something.
> Same issue BTW with bitlocker on windows. People DO NOT save those recovery keys, even if they should. Microsoft added a way to force a backup into an account admins and others would have access to, thank goodness, because otherwise users there would be hosed as well.

I know someone that got a drive recovered once and they had no idea what BitLocker is. They were pretty happy to have the key saved in their MS account.
Maybe it is.[1][2] The social influence effects are quite large.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article/52/6/692/4082179

[2] https://drugabuse.com/blog/alcohol-is-addictive-but-is-it-al...
Pretty much.
For some absurd reason, none of the time leading up to this pullout was used to extract billions of dollars of weapons and military assets (much of which was classified technology). Those weapons/assets were practically gift wrapped for the Taliban.
The Taliban, in turn keeps what they want, and sells the rest to Russia, China, or just other terrorist organizations.

>But it’s too expensive to exfiltrate those things
Well, then dip into the thousands of pounds of explosives you’re leaving behind to render them inert. The way the Taliban dipped into those same explosives to kill 100 people this week.
Oh man. There's a bigger story behind Tim Kennedy's Pineapple Express media tour and lets just say the special operations community is not amused.

Pineapple Express was sloppy, done for media attention, and resulted in a day long halt for REAL SIV's at one of the gates, all because Tim was chasing clout. Don't take my word for it. SF folks have been plenty vocal on social.

Tim tried to bring in six buses of people. Out of the passengers only 4 people were actually following SIV protocol, the rest were just hangers on trying to get out of the country. This caused a backlash and a crack down halting processing at one of the gates being used as kind of a rat line.

That's what happens when the media pays attention to B team show boats and civilians are none the wiser because the real professionals don't air their laundry. This time it went over the line and guys are going public.
So then why are all other sources showing much lower infection rates?

I can't find what the date ranges are for John Hopkins' data. OurWorldInData says Feb 2020-Aug 27, 2021. The CDC link from GP says February 2020–May 2021.
Eric Clapton's 'This Has Gotta Stop' Appears to Take on Covid Vaxx
That's the geostationary view of the gulf.

Here's the "floater" that stays overhead of the storm as it comes ashore:

https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater.php?stormid=AL...
If Apple doesn't obey China's laws, they can't operate there. Also, why do you want to force your ideals onto Chinese people? Flip it around. If China forced their ideals on the US, would you find that okay? Is the difference that we're right and they're not? Objectively? Is it that they commit human rights atrocities? The US has done the same, just typically outside of its own borders.
I don't think comparing software to buildings is always apt.

If a building collapses, it's likely that people will die.

The consequences of failing software can be mere annoyances depending on the context of its use.

Obviously certain industries that use software have much more dire consequences of failure though (eg. large machinery, transport, health care).

I think one could come up with all sorts of analogies that fit or don't fit, such as, applying a similar argument to door locks. Why should it be legal to use ordinary keyed locks on houses when they are so easy to circumvent with basic lockpicks?
Should Facebook block every lie? Where exactly does that line fall? How, anyway, do you distinguish with certainty between a lie and a misunderstanding?
They’ve got it compiling on MacOS in the past few days. The link also mentions that it’s now compiling on Windows too. It references 0.9.0, but maybe pre-compiled binaries will appear for 0.8.0.

https://github.com/vegastrike/Vega-Strike-Engine-Source/issu...
My understanding of Mean World Syndrome was that it is related to what gets shown in the news. The news media get more eyeballs and engagement when they focus on bad things happening in a community. This can lead people to believe that only bad things are happening, or that more bad things are happening than before.

The book Factfulness makes a pretty good case that people generally think the world is falling apart but that objectively the world is currently in better shape than any other period of history.

As far as a controlled experiment - this is anecdotal, but I tend to feel less safe outside at night if I have been spending more time inside watching the news or consuming social media. I tend to feel more safe outside at night when I have been spending time disconnected from those trying to tell me how the world is.
I'm not precisely sure why you are getting downvoted, but worth noting the abuse is well-documented. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/th...

[2] https://twitter.com/marykarrlit/status/992735594060148737
Teksavvy is actually building out their own FTTH around the town/city they're headquartered in:

* https://www.teksavvy.com/in-the-news/2021-press-releases/tek...

* https://mobilesyrup.com/2021/08/03/teksavvy-launches-fibre-n...

In the same vein: given the condo boom in Toronto/GTA, there are companies whose 'niche' is that they run fibre to various developments, pre- and post-construction, and offer high-speed Internet:

* https://www.canadianbusiness.com/innovation/condo-owners-are...

* https://www.beanfield.com/residential/

* https://www.fibrestream.ca
It seems to be a popular idea that he was some sort of major figure in the development of the A-bomb.

Hindsight completely scrambles history.
I said there are people who would say that. Whether I am one is not the point.
No. I've never paid for any digital media.
The sun emits about 63 megawatts per square meter (6300 watts/cm^2):

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/climatescience/energybala...

Were you perhaps thinking of the intensity of sunlight reaching the top of Earth's atmosphere?
It is censorship. Calling it shadow banning doesn't make it okay. Bigger and bigger groups of citizens are revolting over censorship: Bill Maher and tons of Americans. This builds a revolt against Facebook
Canadian here - I don't know of any data that addresses your question about marijuana, and I'm not even really sure what that data would look like. Could you give an example of data on this topic that might be interesting?

My gut feeling is probably not, legalizing marijuana definitely made marijuana more popular, but I haven't seen any reason to believe it's increasing the popularity of still illegal drugs or alcohol (the sources of these deaths). If anything I would expect that it competes with them (but again have no data to back that up).
I think the point is that the text makes it seem like you have something consuming the same amount of power as 3 refrigerators in your pocket.