skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For this, tough action for them and their allies did make sense just like it does for CCP at this point.

But why? Would you still support this if the punishment cost you your job? Meanwhile, does this disincentivize the CIA from stirring conflict in another region? I think that biggest weakness with American foreign policy is that it's incapable of distinguishing between geopolitical interests and humanitarian interests. As a result, we aren't particularly good at advancing either.
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Seligman also ordered the UC Board of Regents to void its 2018 approval of the Upper Hearst project and to decertify the supplemental environmental impact report. Cal must redo the SEIR to address certain issues, including how student enrollment increases have affected noise, housing and displacement in Berkeley, the judge ruled.

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But Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods and the city of Berkeley sued, stating the SEIR was inadequate and did not comply with CEQA, the state’s environmental law. The city complained that the university was trying to sneak a huge growth in student enrollment into the SEIR without examining its impacts and the costs to Berkeley for providing emergency services. In 2005, in a long-range development plan, UC Berkeley had said it only anticipated increasing student enrollment by 1,650 people by 2020. But as the state legislature reduced funding to the UC system, the Regents ordered certain campuses, including Cal, to add more students to bring in income. In 2019, UC Berkeley said enrollment had gone up by 11,285 students.

In 2020-21, student enrollment was 42,035 students.

Berkeley sued in 2019 but dropped the suit when the City Council voted on July 13 to enter into an $83 million agreement with UC Berkeley. Cal will pay Berkeley $4.1 million a year over the next 16 years for its use of city services in exchange for Berkeley dropping its opposition to the new 2021 long-range development plan and environmental impact report.

That left Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods to pursue its case against UC Berkeley.

“The city could have negotiated a much better deal for Berkeley had they waited for this judgment,” Bokovoy wrote in a press release. “As it is they sold taxpayers short with a ‘pennies on the dollar’ annual payment and no enforceable commitments to build housing and mitigate impacts.”

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> The group stated that enrollment should be capped until there's new housing. They also simultaneously argued that a housing project shouldn't move forward. Isn't that circular logic?

I'm not sure what specific housing project you're referring to, but this article is entirely consistent. Even so, they could be arguing that Berkeley shouldn't expand without increased housing and they could also be against UC Berkeley's proposed solutions to increase housing (say due to NIMBYism). In that case, it would not be contradictory or circular. They would just be against UC Berkeley's proposed solutions.

So no I really still would say their position is entirely consistent. They don't want Berkeley to change in certain ways. They think that UC Berkeley's increased enrolment requires those same certain changes. Hence they're against the enrolment. The logic makes sense and is frankly quite straight-forward.
It is strange that there isn’t more overlap between tech software monitoring and metrics products and industrial historians and HMI products. Osisoft was purchased by Aveva/Schneider for 5 billion despite them already owning citect, wonderware, and probably 6 other historian products.

The industrial historians solve the same problems - collect data at nodes that might have intermittent connectivity, send to a centralized server/service that can handle lots of data, and allow users to plot it.

I wonder if we’ll start to see more open source monitoring on the factory floor. While it will be easy for a product to work as well as industrial offerings, maybe their value is in the long term support (usually close to a decade) and supporter upgrade paths.
I could be ok with all those Apple "features" if only they give me the power to disable them, if I want. This could make the difference between keep me as customer or not.
I have a 2kg tunsgsten sphere. Also deeply viscerally satisfying to hold, and makes a great party trick.
Expected. Threads like these turn into a wasteland of downvotes for a reason.

China is a superpower. Superpowers have units dedicated to information warfare. Some of these units deal with controlling discourse and sentiment. HN is a fairly prominent public forum within the tech industry. China wants global influence, particular in the technology sector.

It's reasonable to assume they probably have some fairly clever downvote rings here that are well hidden.
This has already happened. Chen Quanguo was party secretary in Tibet during a major crackdown there and in 2016 transferred to be party secretary of Xinjiang where he led a very similar campaign of severe repression. He remains party secretary there.

You can read about this any number of places including https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch...
It's going to be a flash and a poof though. I don't think it's going to go down 10% a year for 10 years or something. I do think it may drop 50-70% in one day/week, which makes miners shut down, which causes a full collapse.
I think it's because the other parts of the virus are more likely to change over time, because there's lots of neutral mutations available: changes which don't affect fitness but do affect antibody response. The RBD by contrast is much more constrained: most mutations there result in a virus which can no longer infect cells, so it's much less likely to change (though of course any mutations which increase its effectiveness will be heavily selected for). This I think was one of the main reasons the spike protein was targeted by the mRNA viruses.
Tibet was a sovereign country foe hundreds of years until it was invaded. It is currently occupied against its will.

If someone believes Tibet to still be an occupied country rather than a part of China, it wouldn't be accurate to call Tibetans a minority.
> What the hell is that money going towards?

Probably a really expensive dustpan for all the salt that people throw at them.
Yeah, but they call them a "minority" within their very own country (Tibet, occupied since 1950).
> using GPUs creates a self serving cycle: Difficulty goes up, more GPUs are bought to counteract that, repeat. This isn’t helped my the monetary reward for doing so.

Not quite. Price continues to go up, courtesy of Tether, which makes the mining rewards more valuable. This encourages new miners to join the network which pushes difficulty higher, until the difficulty level rises such that every unit of output costs more to produce than its worth. Then it's no longer profitable to mine.

But again, Tether has no choice but to keep things pumping.
There is a better solution: the government reins in corporations that are creating a problem for the world. Once upon a time that was a non-controversial idea.
Looks like I missed your remark on sections.

I'm not sure about Reader view, but <section> does nothing for screen readers as it comes to headings. It doesn't start a new nesting level. You can label a section and this way mark it as a landmark to a screen reader, but that's something you can do on any element.

Meanwhile, developers trying to keep up incidentally may use <section> in an effort to produce more semantic value over a <div>, but they all use it incorrectly. Perhaps because just understanding how to use it correctly seems impossible. Or, better said, it has no function at all:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2021/07/16/section.html
A main reason why so many in the West have taken part in the protests against China is ideological: Tibetan Buddhism, deftly spun by the Dalai Lama, is a major point of reference of the New Age hedonist spirituality which is becoming the predominant form of ideology today. Our fascination with Tibet makes it into a mythic place upon which we project our dreams. When people mourn the loss of the authentic Tibetan way of life, they don’t care about real Tibetans: they want Tibetans to be authentically spiritual on behalf of us so we can continue with our crazy consumerism.https://mondediplo.com/2008/05/09tibet
That's a very useful guarantee, I agree, but it's not a good enough reason to not have "try" as a syntax.
> While the producers of the Netflix film did contact Bob Ross Inc. twice, in late August and October 2020, each request arrived replete with a confounding lack of transparency. At no time did they pose specific questions to Bob Ross Inc. or ask for any form of rebuttal to specific assertions they had decided to include in the film. Nor was it stated that they had a distribution deal with Netflix.

"They asked us to provide our input, but we snubbed them assuming they were nobodies without an audience"

> After seeing media reports about the film’s summer release, Bob Ross Inc. attempted to reach out to the filmmakers in May 2021 to offer comment. They did not return calls or emails

The hubris shoe is on the other foot now, eh?
There are most likely other posters who see things from the opposite perspective.
How are crypto currencies changing that?
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There were early talks but I believe this only recently became official. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
The israeli data has issues because it was during the initial surge of delta which was predominantly in cities with high vaccination rates, which drives the VE down if you compare it against the population-wide ratio of vaccinated to unvaccinated.

Most studies of VE also do statistical modelling of how many of the unvaccinated have been infected and are actually recovered. This was the case of the CDC study from yesterday which had the headline number of only 66% efficacy against delta, but if you dig into the data they didn't test for antibodies or anything but modeled viral spread and had a 95% CI on that number of 26% to 84%.

That is literally garbage data.

The actual value could be closer to the higher end due to them underestimating community spread (pretty plausible) and due to selection effects where their unvaccinated population was higher risk for prior infection than they thought.

I thought that study might change my mind on the situation since they had done a much better job than the Israeli data on controlling for age, comorbidities, etc. But when you get down to it the VE data was still crap. And the mention of waning immunity seemed to be just tacked on with no supporting evidence other than the lower number VE number against delta.

Similarly, its now been found that the studies which equated similar Ct values to viral load are bad because there's less culturable virus in vaccinated individuals, and the Ct values drop faster which indicates vaccinated individuals are producing more viral debris at peak Ct and clearing the virus faster. So they would therefore be expected to have less transmission. Since they're staying out of the hospital and Ct values correlate somewhat with symptom severity that also suggests less transmission (the people who wind up hospitalized most likely transmit more before they get there).

Then there's that silly study out of China which found the odd result that viral-load-as-measured-by-Ct where 1,000 times higher against delta than against original Wuhan strain data from the pandemic when measured at the onset of symptomology (so not peak data, not average data, and compared against the earliest PCR results against the original pre-D614G virus). That quietly disappeared from scientific discussions, but the media keeps on citing it as the truth without any qualifications.

We know that vaccination reduced actual transmission and attack rates against Alpha and its very likely that it does the same against Delta. No data has contradicted that yet.

And I can't explain why so many scientists are so eager to undermine the message of vaccine efficacy. I guess they think it'll be easier to get vaccinated people to mask up than it is to get the unvaccinated to get vaccinated, and some of them are presumably just as addicted to bad news on facebook and twitter as the rest of the population is.
My solution: use any tried and tested model from other countries that have better, cheaper healthcare.

Your solution: a free market where you as the consumer can make your own health choices, of which you are not qualified to understand unless you went to medical school, and expect to pay the lowest cost for things you may need to prevent your own death (we all know price gouging in life or death situations is never a thing). Good luck with that.

Just so you know, unlike your car, you can’t just go buy a new life when you can’t afford to put in a new transmission.
Pro tip: needing to make up a scenario of Nazis usually means you're creating a straw man.

Spotify is well within their rights to pick and choose who to platform. I, personally, think de-platforming is counterproductive. Conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones may be trash human beings, but I don't think Spotify having Rogan's interview with him -- which by the way is a lot of Jones looking insane, and Joe challenging him every step of the way -- is in any way equivalent to "Spotify supports Alex Jones." Censoring people just pushes them to echo chambers.
I had a neighbor a few years back who was a retired mechanical eng & machinist and as a retirement gift someone gave him a calibrated high percision gauge block set. There was some weird brain tingle I would get handling them, I think simply due to the extreme percision of them, I wonder if the sensation from handling the cube is similar?
This is made more difficult by the fact that Tibetans tend to have biological adaptations to life at that altitude which Han Chinese lack.
I don't doubt that it's usable in the areas where Apple cares to make it so.

But as the comments make clear, it's all about the number of 9s in the reliability. If they're 99.9% reliable, that means 1 out of 1000 data points are wrong. You will definitely hit a wrong one. If it's 99.9999%, then it's 1 out of 1,000,000. You might not. Adding those last few 9s are incredibly costly.
Big Ouch on that 2k phone
If I'm putting 90% of the value, why don't I just add another 10% and buy the property outright? Are there restrictions on who can buy a house/apartment in Korea?
> Firefox can't do anything regarding relevance. It's not an engineering problem, they can't push their browser, they have no reach.

I don't think that's true, considering they became popular originally though features and overall program quality. I wasn't using it and recommending it to (and/or installing it for) everyone I knew back in the Phoenix/Firebird/FF1.x days because of advertising or whatever, but because it was excellent and solved a lot of problems for people, and that exact mechanism is how they gained a foothold to begin with—every power-user and nerd was doing exactly what I was, and pushing everyone who'd listen to switch to Firefox.

There are other ways to gain relevance, obviously (say, promoting your browser prominently on your search engine) but simply being better than alternatives definitely can work. The proof is that it already did, for Firefox in particular, once.
Any good resources (or even search term hints) you could recommend on the more modern/async approaches? I’d love to read about them.
ok sure, replace arab with black then. This whole thread is about poor treatment of ethnic minorities, and the point of the comment I replied to is that we wouldn't tolerate forced sterilization of an ethnic minority group from a country like Israel. My response was that Israel has already done this, and we all seemed to tolerate it just fine.
Real estate does something. If everything else goes to crap, I have a place to build my home. My home has a pretty high base value. If full banking collapse and we go back to trading, I would trade my house for a LOT of apples.

What does BTC do for me? It's a number on a screen. Much like a NFT.. it has no actual value on it's own. In a zombie apoc, no one is trading you food for BTC.
> Does the USB-C port drive an external monitor supporting a Linux desktop

Yes, they call it "convergence": https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-desktop-convergence/.

> Will people buy the “all USA parts” version, given that it is more than twice as expensive?

Some people reported receiving their Librem 5 USA, so probably yes. See also: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque....
Personally I'd define a Senior Software Developer in terms of whether you need your hand held to work, or whether you're doing the hand holding.

Knowledge of a specific niche, domain, or technology doesn't really define you as a Senior: your ability to research most problems and figure out solutions relatively independently does.
But sir, if you keep exploiting the poor you're only naturally selecting for a meaner hungrier mob.

With seriousness.
I've never used Discord for gaming, but I've used it extensively in the maker hobby for various groups. I don't see it as being well aligned for business use, and any changes to make it better aligned for business use would damage it's ability to serve hobbyists (and gamers). I don't think this is a good move.
> the imperial family were also devout Buddhists.

That is mostly a political gesture to rule Tibet under the qing empire.
I have a similar attitude of procrastination and overplanning. My solution is to go really aggressively overboard with the planning, I create big outlines of all the necessary steps, in a fractal way, until I arrive at all these small things that can be assembled later. Then I start with the ones that promise some fun, and fill in the rest.

Having said that, a lot of that doesn't get completed still. Procrastination isn't always bad, it can also tell you that something isn't actually necessary or promising. So if that sets in after the first steps, I'll happily abandon the project.

Usually projects that include external feedback or motivation won't get abandoned that easily, obviously.
Of course big oil has its share of immorality, but it's not like we never knew that poisonous smoke comes out of the back of our cars, right?

Again, going back to forests and trees, one could also say the sugar industry is deceptive, or that big tech is, or that big telecom is, etc. So clearly there's a pattern, and companies are all run by people, who are motivated by accumulation of wealth. In other words, the negative factors of the system are intrinsically a part of the system, because greed is, for better or for worse, built into it (it's quite literally the driving force for capitalist economic activity).

What I'm saying is that it doesn't really matter whether "companies lying" or "blaming the victim" is the "correct" position, the crude reality is simply that dishonest things happen as a direct negative side effect of a core principle that we as a society agreed to adopt. Pragmatically speaking, the question then becomes one of: a) what can I personally do to "surgically remove" the negative side effects of this core principle, b) if I can't, to what extent do I "care" in the dilemma between participating in a rotten system vs selfishly enjoying my life or, c) when all hope is lost, how do I take cover when shit inevitably hits the fan

It's my impression that most people have lost hope on a), are in denial about b)[0] and have no clue about c).

[0] https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/upton_sinclair_138285
Guess we will just fantasize about it in song then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg

The future is bright: wheels in space, underwater trains, and everyone gets a spandex jacket.
You can do it pretty much anywere. But yeah, Eastern Europe or SE Asia would be easier then Western Europe.

If you wan't similar culture, go for Eastern Europe capital cities. In Belgrade where I am from you can get 10gbps internet at home where there is fiber, if no fiber then 200-300mbps cable.

In Thailand and Bali I also experienced very good 4g internet and good fiber optic cable net.
Apply some affordable gold leaf on it after thorough solvent cleaning, and rub it in so it bonds with the surface.
> "shark attacks on submarine cables"

I thought this was a euphemism for something but, no, an actual thing: https://www.forbes.com/sites/melissacristinamarquez/2020/07/...

Who'd have thought...
Full disk encryption (FDE). You provide the password at boot and either you can or can't decrypt (typically the key itself is derived from the password). You can also do this without FDE by doing the same thing but keeping the password around in memory if you're trying to avoid prompting them.

Modern machines work slightly differently. The key material is stored in a TPM which is a separate processor & dedicated memory that is purpose built to withstand physical and electrical attacks. Apple devices specifically have a complicated key wrapping scheme (protected by your pincode or password) to make certain files accessible/inaccessible depending on the policy defined (available after first unlock, available only when unlocked, available always, & a fourth one I forget). Your password is just used for protecting the underlying keys but the device actually generates strong key material that's used to protect all on-disk contents regardless of a password being present IIRC.

If you're talking about the password database for local login & whatnot, that was available without even having FDE by using PBKDF2 or similar to securely hash the password. That way you only store the hash & leaking that file doesn't mean that someone can reverse that back to get your password.
Projects – Music Technology at MIT
Anecdata: my buddy's sister (Han) got a job in Tibet, dressing up as a Tibetan for tourists. He jokes, the Westerners can't tell one from the other, so they walk around in "traditional" Tibetan garb, smiling, looking happy. That's their job.
Western Digital downgrading components of existing SSD under same SKU
Do you work on the Lumberyard engine? lol
> Windows 1.0 in 1985 did not have...overlapping windows.

Actually Windows 1.0 did have overlapping windows.

They just weren't the default style for application windows.

But there were popup windows that overlapped other windows on the screen. These were typically used for dialog and message boxes, for example the End Session message box midway through that filfre.net article.

There was nothing stopping anyone from using a popup-style window for their application, and adding a titlebar so you could move it around on the screen. It just wasn't the custom, and people would think your app was weird if it did that. And on a typical system of the day (no GPU!), dragging your window around on the screen would perform rather poorly.
Congrats on the System76 laptop! I'm excited for you. My advice would be to keep Pop OS in place at least until you're feeling confident. It's a good distro that you can use forever, but part of the fun of being a Linux user is freedom to explore and try things.

Do you have a community/destination to go for help if/when you need it? I would imagine you shouldn't need much unless you like to leave the beaten path, but it's always good to have some idea.
Oh that makes more sense. Id like to retract my previous more inflammatory baseless accusation.
Wondering why companies chose to locate where house prices are so high that their employees cannot afford to buy?
I got the big one from Midwest Tungston, about $700. Well worth it.

I love letting people hold it. I call it my heavy ball.
Would the downvoters care to share their perspective, and/or evidence to the contrary?
I don’t think that's entirely correct. While you can't ask the OS to tween the values, nothing prevents you from doing that, other than likely a reduced frame rate.

See this demo: http://stewd.io/pong/

It's still not 100% smooth, but it seems slightly better and demonstrates the ability to manually tween values. Similar performance in both Chrome and Safari.