skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious about PA firewalls. The product descriptions claim “Machine Learning” based routing/firewalls. What does that even mean? I’m a bit skeptical about AI being used in a firewall. Can someone help me understand why I should consider this instead of running pfsense on a Netgate appliance?
Chickenpox is no longer endemic in the sense that covid proponents say covid will be. Chickenpox has am effective vaccine, get that and you don’t get chickenpox. Vaccination has substantially reduced it and could eliminate it in local areas.

Endemicity proponents argue it will be like the common cold. But that’s unproven. Endemic just means “present”. Malaria is endemic, dengue is endemic. HIV is endemic in certain areas and groups. The word itself tells you nothing.

Absent restrictions and even with vaccinations you’d expect most people to get a covid infection 1x per year or two. Same way we generally do with other coronaviruses. The hope is that SARS-Cov-2 is just like any other coronavirus and with immunity won’t cause long run issues upon repeat reinfection.

We’ll find out the answer by 2024 or so.
When 99% of people realise that they've essentially been scammed by the reserve banks, the backlash is going to be massive. There will be discussions about asset seizures and wealth redistribution. That's just a matter of time now. The cryptocurrency crowd knows this and wants this. They're helping to accelerate this. Guess what asset is hard to seize?

The masterplan is this: Let the banks mess things up, ruin people's trust in their governments and in capitalism, you move to a country that's unlikely to fall to communism, HODL your crypto, then wait it out then watch your crypto price moon as capitalists desperately try to flee into crypto to protect their wealth while their home countries fall to communism.
> JOSS (Journal of Open Source Software) has managed to get articles indexed by Google Scholar [rescience_gscholar]. They publish their costs [joss_costs]: $275 Crossref membership, DOIs: $1/paper:

>> Assuming a publication rate of 200 papers per year this works out at ~$4.75 per paper

> [joss_costs]: https://joss.theoj.org/about#costs

^^ from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24517711 & this log of my non- markdown non- W3C Web Annotation threaded comments with URIs: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-24517711
But we don't need money, the government can tell us exactly what to do and where to go work, so that way we can run the economy at 100% efficiency. /s
Yup that's what I was thinking of, appreciate you digging up the article detailing my point.
This one honestly reads more like a “we fucked up let’s call it a feature in an obscure technical amendment”.
Note emergency vehicles get crashed into a LOT because they are often parked in strange places, driving in in extreme ways, etc.
It does say that this applies if they are damaging themselves by being selfless. If you only read the titles you may be missing some nice and nuanced commentary there.
Well then why should I believe the set of arguments from the federalist papers over the counterpoints in the anti-federalist ones, then? The reason I ask you to summarize is because you're the one claiming their existence should change my views, and that they show that democracy has to fail.

The civil war sure seems like a bigger failure of a state than anything we've seen in Western Europe since the world wars. The "irreconcilable moral difference" was known when the constitution was being created, so punting on it is a pretty giant red flag to me about the ultimate wisdom of the founders, and about the constitution as something we should revere - we should change it constantly as situations change.
> Humans do not get permanent antibodies from the vaccines. They get antibodies from getting infected.

Weird, I've yet to get chicken pox/shingles, mumps, polio etc despite being vaccinated against them as a child. And I still catch the flu regularly despite having already had it.
The laws are definitely backwards here. It should be illegal to collect this info unnecessarily instead of mandatory.
This.. This is exactly what I was thinking. Well put. The complexity it would add the Linux kernel code base would probably, inadvertently, create more security issues. The more code, the larger the attack scope. In general, as a security researcher, I would tell people to let hardware do most of the lifting when possible as software being involved usually means introducing a higher probability of bugs/vulnerabilities.
When learning to juggle I used a similar exercise: draw a square in the air with one hand, a triangle with the other. Another was to touch my thumb to my fingers in different patterns with each hand. Different people have wildly varying levels of difficulty with these exercises. If you find it too hard/easy just keep modifying until you find some version that is doable but hard and practice that.
Yestercode. When writing C, C++ or other text-based languages, I often comment out the code I'm replacing or reworking and write the new stuff just above or below it. The old code is right there for reference.

I've also found it useful to use github in the browser. When writing a feature for the 2nd or 3rd time because the previous wasn't good enough to merge to master, I'll pull up the commits from a previous effort. That readily shows the changes I made last time I tried to do this. Maybe it's odd to be looking at an old diff rather than either version of code but it can be helpful at times.

Someone once told me that Simulink had a visual diff tool, but they were threatened by N.I. for infringing a patent so the feature spontaneously disappeared in one release without notice. (or maybe I have the companies reversed) It might be back by now.
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Not hard to verify in some weird vacuum where completely pointless albeit simple sounding things are done to validate random conjectures, yes.
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Repealing the mandate would be doing something about it.
Whoa. I had no idea. Thanks for informing me! That's so weird. I had always assumed that the curved front surface of the eye was the lens.
That's the problem.

There aren't any anymore. Everything is out of China.

I've been using some cheaper ARM stuff, but I can't verify Pine's supply chains either, beyond "Erratic." So unlikely to be as close to forced labor as Apple's are, especially during new product season.
There's always been lobbying though, what's different today?
When will people understand that what’s wrong with censorship isn’t what information is or isn’t being censored, it’s the act itself.

It would just be better if people like you just admitted you don’t believe in free speech. It’s a philosophical argument that just goes over your heads.
If i was in your position I would read up on Ayurveda and the Gita. Ayurveda will strongly recommend a change to your diet and environment, to change your gut brain connection and the GIta will give you great advice.
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You'd be amazed how much cheaper it is to have a human do it than pay for automation. But also, law/contract required the data to be accurate (so there were 3 people, at minimum, entering the exact same data and records would be flagged if any of the 3 did not match). OCR, at the time (and even now), is highly unreliable with human handwriting. Not that I disagree with your statement, automation would have been nice. And though I like to think we want humans doing higher-level things, a lot of the people there were happy to get decent pay and not have to think for their day job.
I’m surprised Stack Overflow doesn’t have a CSP that would prevent this.
Broadly speaking, there are 3 types of media web: documents, interactive documents, applications. The Web is great for the first two and not so great for the last one.

The difference between interactive documents and applications is that users will reuse applications so they need to be snappy to leverage muscle memory. There should be no delay going to another screen, even if there's a delay in updating the data in it (due to latency) and that's where, IMO, there's a huge opportunity for improvement.
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Just the cost of porting one single Dockerfile to anything else is bigger than the Docker licence cost for 1 year.
Apple's Notary API Down Again
After many hours debugging our build system to get notarizing working, Apple finally admits their API is down. We're trying to get a hot-fix out of the door, I guess that's not happening.

Maybe a fun exercise for HackerNews: I you were given the chance to redesign the notarization system of MacOS, what would it look like?

Status page: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
At AWS most team are pretty independent so it's hard to give a definitive answer. That being said I never met L4 SDEs working a lot more than 40 hours. Some team will experience crunch before reInvent but even then more than 60 hours (or even 60 hours honestly) would be unheard of for me.

There is OnCall duty which can be a pain from time to time but it really depends on your product.

TLDR: Your team's work-life balance usually defines your work-life balance. Never met anyone working 60 hours but that anecdotal.
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I just ordered a DIY kit from them yesterday. One of the really big factor for me would be a decent battery life. Can I suggest the framework team to also post a base power config for Linux?
One can only be bombarded with Medium popups and other modern web annoyances for so long… I typically gain more from the comments than the articles themselves, but YMMV.
I think you have some kind of strange internal experience to lead you to think that flying and travel is the cause of most of the world's social and cultural problems. Surely flying contributes a fair amount to greenhouse emissions.

I'm sure recreational flying is the cause of cultural oppression in China and the middle east, the cause of ISIS, of the rise of authoritarian regimes in eastern Europe and the US, etc.

And if you are going to try to tie that back to environmental, you'd have to make a big stretch on some of those issues.
I used this book as a gentle theory introduction:
https://www.amazon.com/Edlys-Music-Theory-Practical-People/d...

Ideally you'd do this alongside a teacher or someone who knows more so you can bounce questions and applications off of.

There may be better theory books out now, I haven't kept up.
Instant.nvim: A collaborative editing plugin for Neovim written in Lua
States will allow users to add driver’s license and state IDs to Apple Wallet
It isn't slower per se. The 'idiomatic' and imperative part aren't equivalent; 'idiomatic' performs unnecessary work.

The real problem is the existence of the overhead isn't obvious from the code.
Show HN: I built a physics-affected Unity3D game to teach kids math
> What is there even to start up with?

For starters, the seventy-nine start-ups profiled in the article.
Yes, at some point one has to wonder whether this is intentional. But it could also just be a product of cognitive dissonance which makes people read or understand something that has no basis in reality
Reamde is basically gun porn (in the same way Seveneves was orbital dynamics porn) with a protracted hostage situation for plot tension and some videogaming/spy craft stuff thrown in for flavor. Not really sci-fi IMO.
Per the article we already know 3-dose of Pfizer does not offer a decade of prevention. What the article states is that it offers a level of protection similar to when one first completes the two-dose regimen, so we don't have to wait a decade to know.

All we know is that an additional dose does increase your protection, but it doesn't necessarily give you a decade of protection since there were people who got the 3rd dose and still got COVID.
In the works! We're setting up the infrastructure now to be able to ship and provide support outside the US and Canada. The hardware itself is certified for most markets.
Recently listened to a podcast[0] on how to have these conversations in a constructive way.

It's jam packed with information. Hope it helps.

[0] https://youarenotsosmart.com/2021/08/23/yanss-213-how-to-imp...
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Probably no better example of this than /r/bitcoin
Pruism, Framework, System76 - I think it's less about whether the market is big enough, but more about other effects that allow you to survive in smaller niches.

I think today it is just became cheaper for sample companies to offer laptops that can compete with the big names. The Clevo machines of old looked really bad next to a MacBook, today, while still less nice, they are flat and light and minimal as well.
Going out in the public naked is actually accepted in some parts of the world and it is a lot 'closer' than you think.

For instance, go to one of the beaches right in Barcelona, topless. Another example, go to Baker Beach in SF, topless and bottomless. A third example, go to beaches in some of the Greek islands, topless and bottomless.

Another example, in the summer, do you see men go around topless?

Yet another example, go to bathhouses in Turkey or Japan.

Yet another example, go to your local gym's locker room.

Yet another example, all those tribal peoples that you read about. Many of them were topless and were often bottomless.

Yet another example. Go to the Folsom Street Parade or Bay to Breakers in SF.

How is this endangering anyone other than your prudishness that you want to impose on others?
Assume a spherical cow in a vacuum...
> If your team is using their tools daily since years, and you decide to change to a different one just to avoid a small license fee, that feels hypocritical

From engineer's perspective the difference between a free tool and a "small fee" (in most companies) is not money. It's the fact that you now have to jump through provisioning hoops and ask for permission to use the tool. The difference in flexibility is enormous.
Blog post for a competing platform criticizing the effectiveness of the market leader in the space.

It's a widely known trend that more tech-savvy consumer audiences tend to employ more tracking countermeasures.

The sales message in the post claims GA is cookie-based, which isn't entirely true. Cookies are one complementary component of tracking within the Google stack, but not the only one. Depending on your account type, GA deployment, and reporting method, you can achieve reporting results that are not solely cookie-based.

The over-simplification is for sales purposes.
Since the daily cases are now up to where they were before the vaccine. Its pretty clear the original promise of the vaccine has been a giant failure. And serious erosion of trust with major medical and political implications.

A more sensible approach would be have the at risk group vaccinate. And let the young and strong opt for natural immunity, which it turns out is superior and much more longer lasting anyway.

In any case, since, viruses prey on the weak with compromised immune systems. This should be compared to a nation wide weight loss program. Eating healthy, proper sleep and dental health, and managing stress levels.

Instead we got lockdowns with gyms shutdown, and people
forced to sit inside away from the sun, scared and stressed.
By making Django templates and rendering them with the view the backend dev created. Django's original architecture handles this exact separation of concerns. A view creates a context dictionary (which is equivalent to a JSON response) and then the template is rendered with the context before being returned with the response to the client.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.2/ref/class-based-views/...

This pattern seems to have declined in popularity, but it can really win in speed and simplicity over a frontend/API split.