skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quarantine has never been strictly for sick people. It is for people who might possibly be infected. You can see this in the etymolgy of the word "quarantine": it refers to the forty days (quarantena in Venetian) that people arriving by ship were required to wait on board before disembarking in Venice during the time of the plague. The whole idea is to wait for the full incubation period of a pathogen, to make sure someone is not infected, before letting them out in the general society.

In contrast, when someone is separated from society because they are known to be infected, that is called "isolation."
> You ask me for funding for a project. I give you funding, in cash or in kind, and I get (partial) ownership of the project. If it does OK, I get some money. If it does better than that, I get more money. If it does badly, I don't get much money.

That’s venture capitalism which is just one of the many different types of investing. Buying pianos in order to lend them out is another type of investing.
and i am being downvoted for some reason ? sometimes i do not understand this community
Isolated incidents of local police terrorism do not count.

Didn't we already rule out the 1960's? That type of political violence really doesn't exist here anymore. Your perception of the country notwithstanding.
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Both major parties have promoted these policies. The party in charge has been very effective over the past decade creating an immense atmosphere of fear and envy; the Opposition party believe there are too many votes to lose by not addressing this and have sacrificed a lot of their previously progressive stances to match the tempo of the right-wing. Besides both sides of government, the people pushing it are morning TV show hosts and, naturally, the Murdoch media. There are PLENTY of dissenting voices, typically on the grassroots level or among arts/media industries, but few of them are empowered to match the ferocity with which these other entities will go after them. Police raid journalists' offices and homes at worst, relentlessly harass them in the news or cover them in defamation lawsuits at best. There are a lot of Australians who do not want this current situation, a lot more who are afraid and misguided, and a small but influential fraction protecting their self-interests at the expense of the rest of us. If that summarises things.
i would say this. how about we use crypto to pay for a vps. then install tor on it and over that, an email server.

i can imagine this being not a difficult endeavour
JS is used for fingerprinting and very often to load additional trackers.
> What would you gain by going through the build steps manually by yourself?

To know your enemy, you must become your enemy - Sun Tzu, "The Art of War".

Developers as well as operators should read Sun Tzu and take what they read to heed. To know what you're running it makes sense to know what you're installing. While this still leaves open the chance of the actual code being riddled with nasty bits it at least removes the chance of the Ansible playbook or dockerfile adding something "extra".
Probably some N-Gate got ze Covid. Shit happens. Crowd fappens.
So bumble says upfront EXACTLY how they are different (woman message men first), and now they are being sued for discrimination?

Clownish.
Stealth edit on the grandparent of this comment. Why do that? It make me go from the assumption of good faith to the other thing.
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Doesn't follow. Why do they "have to"?

Counter-example: people within a single ethnicity have a huge range of reactions to policies (based on all sorts of things, whether or not genetic).
> I did say it was worth doing

it is not worth anyone's time
On every modern (past few decades) platform, the mouse cursor is a hardware sprite with a dedicated, optimized, *fast* path thru every layer of the stack, just to shave off a few ms of user-perceived latency. Grab a window and shake it violently, you'll notice it lags a few pixels behind the cursor - that's the magic in action.

In some places there's no room left for unnecessary abstractions, I can imagine most of the code touching mouse / cursor handling is in that category.
>I'm not coming at this from any political position.

Saying that after your previous paragraphs doesn't erase the political content of that previous paragraphs.
I always read libreboot as "lib reboot".
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Because doom and gloom clickbait means money.
The best justifiable use case I’ve seen for building site that also functions without JS is accessibility in the section 508 sense. It’s been a few years though so perhaps new standards have emerged for this purpose.
A lot of meetings suck to be frank but if it is important then your best bet would be to prepare ahead of the meeting in terms of some of the questions you want to ask. Also sharing your views might be a good option as well. You can also ask your colleagues if they feel the same way and potentially change the meeting ritual.
You just restated the belief as if the reason is self-evident. What's the reason? Security? Even displaying a JPEG has had security vulnerabilities. You can't really seem to escape that just by not executing code. And no PDFs too, I guess, because they contain code?
It would be a contempt of Parliament to either request or agree to such an arrangement [1]. If you have definitive evidence of this having happened in the recent past, you really should pass it on to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.

[1] https://erskinemay.parliament.uk/section/5023/corruption-or-...
Then what if the craps bets get really big, or all the numbers connected to the bank account get really big?
Long time FastMail user. Never got a straight answer on privacy so moved to Tutanota for now. Much better, end to end encryption- nice clients too.

FastMail seems to have automated default address collection, backup of drafts & deleted email, ability to archive email. With no at rest encryption this could be possibly used for data mining too.

This new law is the last straw. So far they have not bothered to address the issue. Till few years back FM used to be awesome but feel they have not moved with time.
you should share your optimism with the million(s) starving in Africa due to extreme drought. also don't forget to put the IPCC in copy, i'm sure the scientists that devoted their life on the subject are interested on your views.
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I'm extremely sceptical that climate engineering is gonna help: Mitigating continued CO2 emissions is VASTLY more expensive than reducing emissions themselves (in every scenario I've seen so far), and we had 4 decades (!!) to do anything about the emissions but nothing happened.

I see no reason to assume that governments are suddenly going to spend significant parts of GDP on climate engineering if they could not be arsed to spend a tiny fraction of that on mitigation so far :(
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If Imgur support HTTP-headers to get part of the image (byte range), then you can implement SQLite into the image.

“Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster”:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27016630
Sorry to be this guy but Axel is a name and axle is the rotating shaft.
What concerns me about almost all of the Solar Radiation Management (SRM) proposals is that they don't address the root issue of high Greenhouse Gas (GHG) concentrations.

This means that we would have to continue them indefinitely, forever, without fail. (I'm assuming that we would just use the SRM measures to continue with business as usual, but having seen our progress against GHG emissions so far, that doesn't seem an unfair assumption.)

And should we fail to do so then the protective effect would dissipate leaving us with full solar radiation on a planet with presumably much higher GHG concentrations. This would not only cause temperatures to soar to hitherto unseen heights, but to do so in an incredibly rapid manner.

It's not clear that our ecosystems would be able to withstand such a drastic and sudden change.
Even Norway had lots of cases tracked to people breaking quarantine, after which police started checking up on them. I’d say an argument for not enforcing the quarantine in the hottest phase of a pandemic is in effect allowing such events to compromize things. Maybe you can argue for that, but we need to at least be clear on this detail.
Look up the definition of genocide. Mass killing is not a requirement.
I've had similar thoughts on this.

In sports, most people accept that genetics plays a huge role (if you want to play in the NBA, having tall genes certainly helps a lot). Why wouldn't they also matter for intellectual pursuits? If the effect of genes is something we can easily see with our own eyes - arm length, bone width, etc. - we have no difficulty accepting it, but if we can't see it - certain type of brain structure, certain hormone profile that favours some activites over others, etc. - we want to believe that genes don't play a role.

Besides, the role of the genes can also be a second order effect. The book Sports Gene by David Eppstein tells a story of sled racing dogs that were bred for motivation to run (apparently it can be bred). Naturally dogs that like running also want to train more and become better at it. Could it be that the motivation to do things like mathematics or programming are also heavily influenced by genetics?
Commodore should have been updating their custom chips at a much faster rate. The AGA should have been ready in 1988 or 1989, and the blitter should have been four times faster instead of twice as fast. I don't know if the problem was lack of investment, or what.
Mine was when I rewrote some application code to be processed within postgres to send a few thousand sms's (the logic to decide who should get them was the slow part + amount of data involved). It went from about 45 minutes to less than 1 minute. Was an amazing feeling to see the sms table filled up with the correct data - I also thought something was broken since we just accepted that those runs were normally supposed to be slow.
> clang concept error messages prove that it can be done right too

Clang concepts error messages are longer that the same error message without concepts.

99% of the error in both cases is just garbage.
Has anyone done a fan-edit of the last two films into a single, tighter version?

It worked really well taking the Hobbit trilogy down to a single watchable movie.
What can they break that normal corporate investors couldn't?

Requiring a percentage of collateral doesn't do anything to stop stupid investments. If the investment itself is harmful, then 10% reserve means you're still doing 90% as much damage.
Does that include the lobbyist's cut, or would you go directly to the MP? But how much do you really gain from buying a single MP?
You don't have to take all of it. If you can either vent off energy in a harmless direction or decide to reflect a significant portion back at the sun, it's not a problem.

Besides, whatever the power conversion technology is, it's unlikely to be anywhere near 100% efficient. That means you need to be getting rid of thermal energy in large quantities anyway. As long as you're at least pointing that away from Earth, it's a win.
Perhaps it's to reduce overhead in troubleshooting questions for those who 'just want it to run' rather than be curious about the nature of it.
They have binary and library files in /etc. This bothers my sense of order! Not that modern filesystem layouts don't disagree with me in many places also.
What's the difference in UX between email and IM if it is using Matrix protocol? They're even adding threading.
Sure, because "literally all countries" made themselves dependent on China economically and so are more or less forced to go along with it. But I personally am not.
AU needs to be stopped. Resources should be put to this.
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That seems like an incredibly cheap feature. The mouse pointer png probably costs a lot more than the shake detector.
For anyone that read the code at the end of this article and was wondering what the spaceship / flying saucer operator <=> was doing in a C++ program, I found a write up on this on stack overflow page:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/47466459/164234

According to that, this was added in C++20 and means

> There’s a new three-way comparison operator, <=>. The expression a <=> b returns an object that compares <0 if a < b, compares >0 if a > b, and compares ==0 if a and b are equal/equivalent.

I first saw this in Perl a long time ago and according to Wikipedia it is in Perl, Ruby, Apache Groovy, PHP, Eclipse Ceylon as well as C++ now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-way_comparison
You are mistaking extending special rights to minority groups with citizens rights. We have been increasing minority rights as fast as possible with removing all the protections from dictatorships in the name of, I don't even know what.

>Post WW1 didn't erode rights, it actually increased them. Post

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition_Act_of_1918

>Post WW2, the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act

And on and on. There are libraries written about this, but no one cares because there has been a bi-partisan consensus that citizen's rights need to be curtailed.
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I feel like the sentence “the censorship … is trivial and easily worked around” isn’t as hopeful as it sounds like. Isn’t it bad to have to work around censorship? Or maybe I’m reading too much into it.
existing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453012
> in reality it sounds to me like the kind of technicalities that wouldn't really pass the reasoning of a human judge

Yes, only big companies can successfully "hack" the law based on its letter, see e.g. tax evasion.
> Seems to be gone from the internet

It was a PR post written to rile a user base without knowledge of the financial system or securities law.

Unfortunately, it made it into regulatory and political channels and is backfiring massively. (If the general counsel and CEO of a $70bn exchange pretend to be this clueless, there are almost certainly deeper problems at the company.)
Modern Unix file system layout come later, with (4.2?) BSD.
> Private minecraft servers as a service doesn't exist yet ?

They do but, afaik, there's no "spin up and down" ones that charge you for usage; they're all "$X per month" fixed cost.

(Although looking at the costs these days, they're not that much higher than this would cost you for even a medium-sized world.)
Here is a visual, physics-based simulation of the flood: https://youtu.be/KC8dnmILOBg

I find interesting how the fact that molasses is a non-Newtonian fluid helps explaining its behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Newtonian_fluid
You can hide behind a planet
One of the founders said on twitter (don't remember when exactly, but less than a year I think) thay they were cash flow positive.
Any source, extra info or further insight on that last bit?

Comes to mind: "Be the change you want to see in the world, and get paid for it"
I ran Minecraft on spot instances when we used to play in university, complete with automatic terraform+ansible provisioning and automatic saves/backups in S3. Never used Fargate but I doubt it can beat spot instance pricing. More than half my bill was network traffic.
Because in such schemes, tracking peoples' movements is the actual intent, collecting fees is just a nice side-effect.
MPs typically move in packs ("areas" or "currents", that may or may not be officially organized around a thinktank or club), so buying the right MP you can actually move several of them. And then your representative goes and trades favors with the colleagues in government - "I'll vote for your controversial legislation if you pull that other lever over there". Representative democracy is a big sausage factory: in go blood and guts, out comes "edible" rules that society will live on.
This is something I've observed cross-platform (Windows, macOS and Linux) across both nVidia and AMD machines with updated drivers. Actually try it.

Get your favourite Qt program, resize the window like a madman and watch your CPU usage launch into the stratosphere.
Not sure if you’re truly always that pedantic or if you are some sort of troll.
Good for you that you enjoy something different, but I doubt anyone thinks “I think this is innovative, but let me check with maydup first because he knows it all”.
I'm OK with StartTLS. What I think is missing is a DNS record that mail servers cache for a long time, similar to HSTS that says you MUST use encryption for this domain. Probably also a variation to the record to say to validate the cert chain. This would align with an existing capability in postfix that allows you to specify which domains must be encrypted, or mandatory cert chain validation and to what level. At least I think this would be the easiest path to a better security stance and probably the simplest to implement given the myriad of email servers, clients and client libraries. Perfect is the enemy of good, or so they say. Below is from postfix. There are many more options.

smtp_tls_policy_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/tls_policy

example.net secure match=example.net:.example.net
anotherexample.net may match=anotherexample.com:.anotherexample.com
>Become like what?

[...]

>Would tens of thousands of deaths [...]

Like that.

It's absolutely insane to see young, Australian people completely embrace the Covid propaganda and totalitarian nonsense.
Say what you want about boomers, but at least they used to be somewhat cool in their 20s, during the 70s. Having unprotected sex, doing drugs, having long hair, listening to rock'n'roll, protesting the wars.

In Australia we have 25-year-old boomers, scared of absolutely everything, and cheering on the government to govern us even harder. A complete nightmare.
Yeah, my sense of what is "right" is stuck in Sunos 4.x, as that is what I learned on.
They could already be subject to those risks without getting the benefits.

But yes, DeFi seems to me mostly zero sum gambling where the risks are shifted around until nobody understands the system any more which naturally means that there is no risk any more.
As a self-taught web developer switching careers in his 30's I was interested to learn more about deliberate practice. I remember my extreme disappointment when I found out that it's only applicable to well-developed fields where there are established pedagogical practices. It's not that the common-given advice "just build stuff" isn't true, I just wanted to take the extra mile and choose projects in order to maximize my personal growth.

Finding someone who went through the extra mile to research for ways to apply DP in the relatively unexplored territory is such a breath of fresh air so, thank you for this!
Does the equation not also depend on non-damage-related costs for roads? How much of the total cost of a road arises from resurfacing costs? If a large portion of the costs are unrelated to repairing damage (initial construction, drainage, cabling, signage, traffic management, monitoring, probably a host of others), then it could still make sense to charge cars nearly as much as trucks.

I don’t have the data to argue either way.
I'm the author. I didn't find that this hit HN until I woke up this morning and saw it here so missed out on replying to comments until now.
But can it run k8s /s
Perhaps if we made plastic more reflective, then the Great Pacific Garbage Patch could cool down Earth.
Memory B-cells, not antibodies.
cheap coal electricity for the environment? i assume you are joking?
I always had an inkling that the "talent is overrated" argument (that a certain amount deliberate practice is sufficient to achieve mastery) is something of a tautology: only those talented individuals, who are capable of such a rigorous training routine, will achieve mastery.
This is more like a tutorial than a product though, with code examples in Rust. "How to write an android emulator from scratch in C" would appeal to a slightly different audience.
Apparently it only happens in incognito.

As for downvotes, just ignore them, there are pitchforks everywhere, not worthy to even spend one second thinking about.
Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.
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> it's a true three star experience

Out of how many stars total?
You say that, but even if all trackers disappeared today, everybody and their alt account would still be complaining on HN about javascript omnipresence, "why are you using React when you could do this serverside" and what not.

(And if you agree with telling people they're doing their development wrong by using JS for anything less than an in-browser implementation of Starcraft, you're painting yourself as the arbiter of what is and isn't appropriate -- please don't.)

Hating trackers is rational. The JS hate on HN, is not.
You're right from a financial standpoint, but I wonder if from a psychological standpoint, it is easier for humans to start doing something new than it is to stop doing something they have been doing for a long time?
Half-precision floating-point arithmetic on Intel chips
It would be horribly slow though.
Meh, none of that is socialism. Those things also happen in capitalist societies so I guess we could also say that those things are capitalism... it seems that to you there is no distinction between capitalism and socialism.

Also, your source is bad. It is like saying that you read something in a book... Which book?
You can host Minecraft servers for free on Oracle Cloud’s “Always Free” tier [1] now that they’ve added free ARM cores. You get 4 cores and 24GB(!) of RAM to assign to up to 4 VMs - more than enough for a server for friends or family.

[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
All these half assed solutions perpetuate the idea that we can stay on our exponential quest for growth/energy and just find "solutions" later.

Climate change is only a small part of the equation; pollution, deforestation, destruction of biodiversity, &c. are all equally problematic. As long as we produce and consume more and more we won't get away from the inevitable.

At some point we'll run out of half assed solutions and we'll have to face the consequences. So yeah, make the clouds brighter and paint the rooftops of buildings white, I'm sure it'll help a loooot.
It depends on what you think the purpose of Bitcoin is. In my mind Bitcoin is digital gold. It's not really convenient to pay for McDo in gold, so I would hold my gold in a bank and pay with fractions of my gold certificates. If I want, I can go to the bank and exchange my certificates for the actual bullions.