skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is Nicolas. I'd welcome to get your proposed fixed so we can fix both Iron Bank and the other issues you mentioned here. Do remember that I'm not the one mandating FIPS validation. You know, there is a concept called cybersecurity.
This is a solid observation albeit one I think most people come to eventually. For the most part once you have already dealt with the spectrum of tools, the new ones just aren't different enough to be worth killing yourself to keep up with. Know what they do, and what they are good and bad at if you are in the position to be making relevant decisions, but actually learning them just isn't that big of a deal.
uBlock Origin review
With school starting over here this week and next for most kids there is going to be a lot of pressure on a very weak government to open up vaccination to 12-15 year-olds. I am betting they are going to allow it, if only to be seen as actually trying to get ahead of something instead of enduring another month or two of reacting (and reacting poorly if past results provide any hints) to unexpected events.
How could a big bank like Lehman Brothers with their highly paid risk analysis people fail?

How could Rome fall?

The sun never set on the British Empire.

Both me and my partner were very close to joining the apple eco system because we felt completely betrayed by G, now I'm researching alternative OS to flash my phone. We both abandoned Google search and browsers. The only FAANG I'm not actively avoiding is Netflix.
The change is for clearing individual cookies. You can still clear cookies per site.
I'd be shocked if the face-capture technology here wasn't actually about tightening surveillance over public transport.
To be clear, I am not gone nor was I asked to leave. In fact, I was asked to stay. I do have a clearance as well and yes sorry I didn't let us get locked into Pivotal like you did and cost taxpayer millions.
"I can't know what your business goals are, what your uptime metrics are, or who your users are"

Do you... work for the same company? Draw your paycheck from the same revenue stream?

If you're just a black box provider of undifferentiated compute/storage why the heck are we paying you? We can buy that from a dozen cloud PaaS providers.
I'm inclined to agree that it doesn't affect Perdue's guilt. Though, what people are bothered by is that ~$5B doesn't align with the outcome, which I'm also inclined to agree with. I think if you accept my rationalization above then that could leave open a remaining $5B that is owed by participating physicians.
Lol. I am selling my used mouse pad for $1T USD. Will someone buy it though?
This is not quite a misconception, but there’s some nuance that’s worth writing about.

A lot of plants will harm or kill you if you eat them too. The difference is that plants are less ephemeral, so we see more of them more often, and some of the more dangerous ones (e.g. poison ivy) are introduced to most people pretty early. There’s very little education about fungi at all, unless it’s self-directed, so the knowledge on how to ID safe species is just not as present in US culture.

I have read (no links, sorry) that the deadly ratio of wild plants is higher than that of wild mushrooms. Most plants like most mushrooms are considered to be “inedible,” meaning they won’t kill you but you won’t want to try and eat them either (flavor, texture). We don’t go around trying to eat maple leaves or grass because they don’t taste good and we just learned early to not try to eat them. This knowledge about mushrooms is lacking.

A carrot is easy to identify because it’s generally found on a store shelf, or was grown from a labeled seed packet. Try to find them in the wild, and you’re met with the deadliest common plant in the USA, Water Hemlock.

There are a number of safe mushroom species with good ID characteristics and no dangerous lookalikes, and a good number of them are considered to be choice edibles. If you can ID a particular pre-determined leafy green in the wild (which might be harder than you think) then you can do the same for a particular pre-determined mushroom species.
Of course Andrew did his best to get KR locked in to PCF which is now taking us 2 years to walk away from. Well done friend.
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If you walk into a lions den, you pretend to be a lion. You don't complain that it's not a birds nest.

Meaning women do not know what it is they're getting into. The ones that are successful rarely if at all cite sexism until well after their career has been established.

Before you take this as me being some moron that thinks all women are stupid, they're not. I've had plenty of women managers that knew their shit and ran their part of the company really well. It's the naive women (who aren't driven by money) that tend to fall into the trap of anything remotely corrective of their action by a man is interpreted as sexism or an affront.
Early in my career I worked for a small company that was acquired by an obnoxiously large megacorp (about 40k employees). The business unit we were merged into was run by a retired Army general. His divisions beneath him were run by retired Colonels and so on down the line until they got to former Captains, Lieutenants, and if no other choice former enlisted.

Over a year or two what started to happen was when former small-corp people came up for promotion, they were evaluated for former military service, and then if they didn't have any (the majority of the company) they were silently rejected for promotion and another person from either big-corp or outside were brought in who just happened to fit precisely into this giant chain of command under "the general".

To get even more ridiculous, in some cases extremely experienced and capable former small-corp managers were replaced by "a guy I knew from officer's school" who turned out to be a failed JAG officer (military lawyer) -- as one of many examples. In another case a technical software manager was replaced with a former helicopter pilot with a (previously known) very bad drinking problem and never showed up to work but who "had served together in Bosnia".

Still I worked hard there and sort of didn't believe the situation and there were other working benefits I enjoyed (lots of travel). When it came time for my own promotion my boss (former Senior enlisted) set me up to replace him with no other candidates. I was turned down and for lack of another candidate they selected a former Jr. enlisted who had been dishonorably discharged, had active ethics investigations against him in the company, and spent most of his work days surfing Facebook. Oh, when he got the position they also gave him a corporate award for work that I and my team had done.

Lesson learned, I resigned the next day. Now I look for these kind of mindless institutional hierarchies as red flags to either not take a job or to move on quickly once I discover it.
There are a lot of claims in the article besides COVID policy effectiveness, for starters. They present the racism of the MAGA movement through a single debunked anecdote, rather than hate crime statistics. Policy brutality is presented not as a reality which has numbers and history but as an event that happened one time to one man, etc.

As for COVID data, it would be foolish to claim that the data we have is perfect. After all, we had a seemingly official policy of “if we don’t do tests more, we won’t have more cases” for the first month of the spread in the US. And without a doubt, there are people with stuff to gain by artificially inflating the numbers (incendiary media, etc) and artificially suppressing them (governors, etc). But, I think it’s also difficult to form a coherent claim that the data available is, in aggregate, completely bogus. If you slap an error bar of even 20% on the case numbers, I don’t think my ultimate interpretation of that would not change very much, but YMMV
They matter because if the ones you mention are divided equally among everyone, then the previously unimportant ones become the real bargaining chips.
Is that a formal warning as part of an informed consent disclosure? If so, the disclosure doc would be online and useful to many.
"Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels."

--Prez
One of my observations coming from Bangladesh, where policing is pretty inadequate, is that criminal law is really there to prevent the growth of organized crime. So you have to think about crime as a system not in terms of individuals. Harsh punishment may not deter a given criminal. But it may well make it hard to recruit dozens of low level people to engage in low value illegal activity that adds up to something significant.
One of the big benefits of protos is that you have a language-agnostic schema that can evolve safely and backwards compatibly.

I'd love for some team to join that with better performance as it seems like it's possible from what this project has done.
Exactly. For the life of me, I can't see how some people are so logically impaired that they couldn't work that out for themselves.

But then again, my brother bought a mobile phone but kept it switched off unless he wanted to talk to somebody.
There never was anything called Zyclon-D so this is not a thing. There was Zyklon (later renamed Zyklon A) and Zyklon B, the latter was renamed Cyanosil somewhere in the '70s and might still be produced. The active ingredient for all was hydrogen cyanide which is still used for fumigation purposes. It was also used in the USA for execution purposes and might soon be used for that purpose again, at least in Arizona [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/arizona-executions-business-healt...
You should tell me what those issues are.
GNOME team believes that convergence between classic desktop and mobile environment is a process that takes place right now. And thus it's completely fine and justified to abandon the desktop paradigm that majority of people is familiar with and promote this weird hybrid - because GNOME actually behaves and works like neither desktop nor mobile. Of course there's nothing wrong with trying to bring novelty, new fresh ideas - some might be really good but a valid criticism should be taken into account. Especially when it's been piling up for a while.

Anyway, unlike with Windows the choice is possible on Linux distributions. You can try KDE/Plasma, Budgie, Cinnamon, lightweight Xfce or MATE, or other more advanced solutions like one of tiling window managers. But if for whatever reasons you still wanna stick with GNOME, you can "patch" it with extensions that may give you Windows-like programs menu, desktop icons (the lack of these in GNOME Shell is often bring up as one of the worst offenses), a proper taskbar or dock, more customization for tray icons and notifications or even tweaked animations. It takes time but results are satisfying. Some distributions like Manjaro Linux offer ready to use layouts which are setting up necessary extensions to mimic behavior of other OSes, while on other you need to work through this alone.

GNOME in current form can be "tamed" but if you really want yo make your workflow "yours" or bring familiarity to Linux distribution, then KDE/Plasma customization would be best solution. Here you can have an example what can be done: https://youtu.be/2GYT7BK41zk
Rest assured, I do
This reminded me of Rich Hickey's "on becoming a better developer": https://gist.github.com/prakhar1989/1b0a2c9849b2e1e912fb
'by reducing the amount of disease spread in the community'

We were told the vaccine would reduce severity of symptoms thus lightening burden on hospital beds. You claim it reduces transmission, though the studies on that are not complete. Let's keep the public health speculation about transmission based on peer reviewed studies rather than arm waving speculation.
Coming from industrial control code in C where if you get it wrong somebody might die, solidity is safe, predictable, and expressive with well defined limitations, caveats and isms lol. It’s all a matter of perspective. If you take a craftsman’s approach to code and documentation, solidity is actually not bad at all. It’s all about letting the data structures do the heavy lifting, avoiding loops like the plague ( not a universal opinion), and writing expressively and clearly.
I'm no computer scientist, but there must be an Amdahl's Law equivalent for limits on speedup through X?
How is serialization and de-serialization faster than compiled formats with just spend? If you update many if the fields some more than once, the overhead would be higher?
> The EMA says, after 177 million total Pfizer doses were given out, 283 inflammation cases were reported. And after 20 million Moderna doses, 38 inflammation cases were reported. While five of the European cases saw someone die, the EMA says these were all in older people or those with other conditions. The cases were most commonly found in men under 40 and within 10 days of a second dose. The majority of those recovered quickly with the normal treatments for myocarditis and pericarditis as well as rest.

So there was a total 321 people under the age of 40 that got the heart inflammation side effect, with almost all of them recovering from it (only 5 died). That's after 197 million doses.

This is EU data from the EMA.

Now for Covid, granted now I'm switching to US data (from the CDC), there's been:

0-4 yr: 1421
5 - 17 yr: 2361
18 - 49 yr: 57120

hospitalizations due to Covid. That's a total of 60902 younger people that needed hospitalization (granted this includes 40 - 49 yr old, while the EMA data is under 40, but even just the 0-4 year old group shows a lot more Covid related hospitalization than heart inflammation due to vaccines. There's also 25 reported death from Covid in the under 18.

With Covid though, it is hard to know what the denominator is, like we don't know if that's out of 20 million people exposed to Covid, or 200 million, etc. That makes it a little harder to compare, thought my guess is there is probably less than 197 million under 49yr old in the US that got exposed to Covid, since the population count under 49 year is 210 million, so that would mean almost everyone under 49 yr would have been exposed to Covid, which I find unlikely. Which would make the data for Covid even worse proportionally to the vaccines.

Almost all vaccines ever have some rare side effects, all drugs do really, people even die from simple things like peanut butter or honey. The thing is, Covid has much worse effects, so it's a matter of risk mitigation. You can make your own risk assessment based on the data, I feel its pretty one-sided with Covid being a much higher risk of being hospitalized and dying from it, even if you are under 18, and definitely if you are 18 to 40 year old. You can decide for yourself, but also consider that under 18 put over 18 at risk as well, so that's another consideration to take into account when choosing if to get vaccinated or not.
Be careful: some people who are in other matters Very Very Smart will then insist you're flashing a 'white power' symbol.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/media/jeopardy-h...
every time I go to target in the metreon, I see someone shoplifting a substantial amount of merch.

every. single. time.

usually what I see is someone with a roller luggage fill it up and then calmly walk out the door
"Critically important features"
Well,I guess if they can wait a few months, were they really "critical"? I mean, maybe use a word like "important"? Can Apple please stop using max adjective in every situation? It just waters down the meaning of these words to the point that we no longer have a word that means "critical" anymore.
That delivery company also has a union which could've been negotiated for.
Nice. I read about these cool new systems all the time, but have to end up waiting for some reagent company to start producing them after they resolve all the IP stuff. A lot of commercial and academic labs don't have access to the facilities/resources needed to produce the enzymes.
Another shameless plug:

I just made a awesome-type list of tools that can be used for creating interactive mathematics (and physics) visualizations like we see here. Feel free to add tools that i forgot to mention.

https://github.com/ubavic/awesome-interactive-math-tools
> Lake Louise criteria

That's a lovely place in Aberta. Why this name? This is evidently due to the criteria emerging from the International Hypoxia Symposium, which took place in Lake Louise in February 2015.
When you say working hard, what does that mean? Not checking HN every other hour? Or working more hours per week?
The answer to this is simpler than it seems: instead of dedicating your compatibility efforts toward a monolithic OS that runs everything, dedicate them toward make the VM/shim layer so transparent “Grandpa” doesn’t have to know it’s an implementation detail.

In contrast with the earlier comment about how poorly Apple fares on backcompat: they have twice (thrice, actually, counting 68k->PPC) successfully made breaking platform changes where old software kept working with no required intervention by users or even knowledge it was happening.

Not everyone has been happy with Apple’s deprecation strategy, but there’s no technical reason MS couldn’t use their subsystem prowess to gradually move old technologies out of the core OS into sandboxed environments.

The reason they don’t is partly cultural—the compatibility at all costs trope is real—but I think it’s mostly a combination of lack of motivation and a recognition that the ecosystem produces a lot of abandonware that would quickly show seams.
Calm: Getting their first 1000 customers
> The need to earn money incentivizes people to work on things that are useful to others.

No, it does not. The need to earn money incentivizes people to work on things that allow them to extract money from others. This sometimes happens to line up with "useful", and there's probably even a positive correlation overall, but they're not remotely the same thing.
No he means the 'code' that runs Google in the business / HR sense is not version controlled and reviewed. So when it changes to something he disagrees with like the pillow purchase being disallowed he can't see or take part in the discussion that led to that change.
I believe none. Partially vaxed were not included in the data:

> Fully vaccinated adolescents with COVID-19–associated hospitalizations were defined as those who had received a second vaccine dose ≥14 days before a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result associated with their hospitalization. Adolescents whose positive SARS-CoV-2 test date was ≥14 days after a single dose through <14 days after a second dose were considered partially vaccinated and were not included in rates; adolescents who had received a single dose of vaccine <14 days before the positive SARS-CoV-2 test result were also not included in rates.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7036e2.htm
"child safety features" ... forced invasion of privacy more like it
The thing here is to understand the vm. If you understand the machine and environment the machine runs on, its really not complex at all. It’s a lot like writing c or assembly for a well designed microcontroller.
When you say 4 weeks, do you mean 20 days off because there's typically 5 work days in a week or do you mean 30 days?
Personally, I can't smoke pot. I get very nervous, and can't wait until it's out of my system.

But I have worked with many frequent users who smoked daily, and their job. They didn't mind doing terrible jobs.

I'm suprised people arn't talking about habitual pot smokers vs. occasional. If used to smoking--it's no big deal.

Same with alcohol. An alcoholic can drive perfectly well at .08, or a bit higher. An occasional drinker probally shouldn't be drinking and driving.

I heard TX takes into account tolerance when prosecuting DUI's.
Regarding renewiltord's law.

Physician heal thyself.

> If you click the disclosure triangle for one of the entries, you see… well, basically nothing about the site data. And there are no delete buttons for individual cookies. The only button is "Clear data", an all or nothing option.

Site guidelines suggest that you ought to assume good faith on the part of your conversational partners and responsd courteously to the good faith interpretation of their words.

I suggest you have simply misunderstood what people are complaining about.
I'm pretty happy with Ubiquity's hardware, but if it has anything to do with their cloud based software it's gonna be a hard pass due to the increased security risk. It's a shame too, since cloud based services make device admin so convenient.
Norway is apparently recommending only one dose for 12-15 at this time, citing the increased risk of myocarditis after the 2nd dose.

https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1433567858273882112
Are you advocating for personal accountability in corporate governance and management? If someone is committing fraud, they could be arrested. But a good deal of this is negligence because requiring education to start a business is silly. For the most part, the system works. Why would an employee put up with it? They have no better opportunities you say? Let’s focus on that end then.
Cryptocurrency promoter [Glenn Arcaro] pleads guilty in $2B fraud [BitConnect]
Early in my career I saw that front-end was a whac-a-mole in which libraries and frameworks to pick up. It was so stress-inducing for me that I decided to focus completely on the backend. Sure, in Melbourne this has been a financial detriment (fullstack out-earning backend development), but the stress levels have far outweighed it personaly.
Show HN: A Custom Lisp in C
The most botched and nonsensical feature announcement ever.

> Here's an extremely sophisticated mechanism that has insane negative potential ramifications for our users and our brand, but that's ok because it's all in the name of catching pedos.

> PS: And pedos can turn off this mechanism with one toggle.

Since this sounds too idiotic to be real, people conclude it must be evil, by Occam's Razor.

I have a deeper fear: That it's actually that idiotic.
Safari is also generally trending in the right way, while Chrome is headed in the wrong way.
I can't find the methodology of that survey but if its not controlled for demographics it may oversample the vaccinated population.

And kids count and I really mean 100%. Also, if 20 year olds only have an 80% rate due to less vaccine uptake it'll still spread in that subpopulation of the UK and the near 100% vaccination rate of 80 year olds doesn't affect that spread because 80 years old aren't at the nightclubs where 20 year olds are spreading the virus.

Also obviously if kids under 16 in the UK only have a seropositivity of ~20% due to no vaccination then the virus will happily spread in that reservoir, particularly through the schools where kids are in close proximity to hundreds of other kids, before "hopping back" into adults. Much like a reservoir species (which incidentally is the reason why eradication of this virus is impossible)
At the risk of showing how much I live in a bubble: Yes? How else would you do it? Not understanding seems like a great way to at best get caught flat footed and and worst unintentionally do something illegal.
They’re already lobbying for more policing and stricter sentencing, this is free PR from a gullible press, who won’t check to see that many of the store closures were previously announced with different reasoning given.
"Because real programmers only need void*".
Do people not just start taking forever PTO, a week or two at a time, instead of quitting?

Or take a sabbatical or maternity/paternity leave and just never come back?