skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I honestly believe that my eyes enemy is various light sources besides sun (e.g. office lights). And they always come from many different angles, so it's impossible to put glossy screen to avoid them all. Matte would diffuse them good enough.

I mean, I see your point, and agree with it. I just think probability of that happening is less than office/cafe/window lights.
Default behaviour to send back data to mozilla and run studies WHICH THEY ALREADY ABUSED BEFORE https://www.zdnet.com/article/privacy-touting-mozilla-caught...

edit downvote me to oblivion if you must. I too weep for the mozilla of the olden days. The inarguably good guys winnning their fight david vs goliath style against the evil Mircosoft empire. Sadly, those games are gone.
You are ignoring two very important facts:

1. I can choose to not smoke and eat healthy which gives me a reasonable chance to not die of those.

2. 650k number is _despite_ closing down half the world and washing hands every hour or two, wearing masks and hospitals working at 200% capacity.
For example, requiring almost everyone to get a vaccine? That's not new. That's been happening for decades.

The only difference is there's a new vaccine that needs to be rolled out to everyone, as quickly as possible.

Most people get their mandatory vaccines as children, in a staggered way.

Because of the current situation, it's happening all at once, and the restrictions that enforce the vaccine are also being changed, based on the age of the people required to get the vaccine. What am I missing here?
You could also argue that the civil war was about restoring bodily autonomy to a group of people who had been enslaved and forced against their will by corporations and governments.
Like many (but not all) GOP actions lately, this appears to be entirely symbolic -- a way to show their base that they're "doing things," even if those things will be immediately struck down as blatantly violating the First Amendment.

As the article says:

> "The rule’s future, however, is uncertain. It’s likely to face legal challenges from critics, and unlike the recent Texas abortion ban, it’s not tailored to evade judicial scrutiny. A judge blocked Florida’s social media law in June, saying it 'compels providers to host speech that violates their standards.'"
Oh my freedom - minor pesky detail as it is - needs to be completely suppressed indefinitely because you're literally a delusional paranoid who can no longer process reality because awwwwww, it's too scawey. Freedom and laws and common decency and general cognitive abilities are only okay unless half of us became deranged with baseless paranoia and become convinced that a minority of people are turning the world into a hellscape no matter how blatantly and demonstrably illogical it is, in which case screw it all, we're doing a 180 and becoming a perpetual police state where everyone hates each other's guts.

Keep goose stepping towards "safety"...sounds fun!!!
YC Startup insurance provider Vouch raises $90M, now valued at $550M
Introducing: SQLite3 Support in WebContainers
> Maybe the right answer is a mixture. Use a dedicated Chromebook in guest mode for financial transactions/bill paying/banking (high security, low privacy from Google) and something akin to a text-based browser on an open source OS for everything else.

The part about the chromebook is actually good advice, given the good security hardening of chromebooks from the moment they boot.
People need to stop thinking critically and accept what they're told so they can get back to a normal that is not at all normal but actually the 'new normal.'
Fathom: Privacy Law Compliance
How boring that they're selling it as a lot. I would've loved to see what the individual cars would end up going for.
Debian still has that.
This is really fun! I'm not sure of the practicality (particularly with the QR demo, my boxes don't turn bright blue like yours apparently do, so its pretty invisible to a scanner) but if it looks cool then that's reason enough in itself
As far as I can tell market regulations can either

1 - apply to all market participants
2 - apply to some market participants but not others
3 - have no regulations at all

I say that regulations should apply to conventional finance and crypto, because anything else would be giving an unfair advantage to some market participants, so I'm arguing for 1.

The crypto bros are saying that they don't want financial regulations to apply to them, because they don't want to, but they still want regulations to apply to conventional finance, so they are arguing for 2.

What is your position exactly? Because sometimes it seems that you want 3, but it's hard to tell from your confused rhetoric.
> since less common words tend to be more important for meaning.

Exactly. Errors with proper nouns are usually more problematic than errors with stop words, yet they're weighted equally in the WER calculation. Ie, deleting "Bob" and "but" both count as a deletion of the same degree according to WER, but we as humans know that deleting "Bob" is potentially a lot more problematic than deleting "but".
Our C-levels use the exact same open offices as the rest of us
It's been over two years since I looked at it, but from memory I wanted a 8 KiB key pair that I could engrave. One was to be the public key that would be scannable, the other was the private key that would be kept in a safety deposit box.

The practical limit was 3KiB for the qr code and there was some metadata in the key I didn't want to lose. I can't remember if it was the private or public key that was giving me the most trouble. But the idea of just having something to point your phone at on a wall and read a signed message from me wasn't practical.
The US did a half-assed clear up. They dumped tons of radioactive waste into a crater on Runit Island and capped it in concrete, which is now deteriorating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island
The upside of Delta is it is quickly burning through the anti-vax crowd, and should peak before EOY assuming no other variant takes hold.
And that's what I meant by "and in fact if we had yearly COVID vaccines those arguments would be moot there as well" - in a few years the "it's rushed" argument (which I understand to be a misunderstanding of the vaccine approval process - just because it usually takes a process two decades to complete doesn't means it's less trustworthy if it completes in a year under different circumstances) stops holding water.
Indeed. People who raise this argument tend to ignore the fact that the most important impact of the vaccine is the systemic protection it offers against the irresponsibility of individual choice.

The vaccine does not in fact guarantee person X will not be infected or hospitalized. Widespread vaccination does result in systemic reduction in community spread.

Ponder that.
Used Vivaldi for a while albeit on Windows. Dropped it because it broke constantly a game I was playing in browser. Likely due to some high refresh rate and trying to use multiple screens and play video on other one... Strange thing is haven't seen this on Firefox or Opera with same use pattern...
he went and got it all done up at the all night printer real fancy, it was his baby, but no he's not going to go through the pain of running a spellchecker, he's still a man dangit!

on edit: the hippy night guy at the printer place seems literate, he read it, but guess what - he has the same silly spelling errors as Jerry!
OSHA limits workplace exposure to some smoking products like CO (which can motivate employer policies on smoking that restrict the behavior); many states have more specific limits on workplace smoking. These reduce the employability of unwilling or unable to restrain their smoking.
When was it common to prevent people from entering a restaurant unless they were vaccinated with a vaccine that itself had only been developed 15 months prior?
(physicist here). I think monktastic1 mostly nailed it, I just want to add some further clarifications.

Take the electron double-slit experiment. Suppose no human checks which slit the electron goes through, but the "which-path" information leaks out into the environment somehow. The interference fringes will be destroyed anyway (called "environmental decoherence").

This is usually framed by saying "oh look, the environment measured the system". In fact, what happened is that (1) you prepared what you believed to be an electron beam in a coherent superposition; (2) you left it open to the environment; (3) you used quantum theory to model the system-plus-environment and predicted that you would not see interference fringes when you check; (4) YOU observed the dots on the glass plate and confirmed that there were no interference fringes. The whole story is told in terms of what YOU believed, expected, and finally what you saw. That is QBism's whole point.

Put it another way: in QBism wavefunctions just ARE sets of probability assignments to certain actual events that could be observed. And probabilities are human constructions: we invented them to help us reason about our expectations. So, without humans (or other beings capable of reasoning about expectations), there are no probabilities, hence no wavefunctions either. But stuff still happens, even when there's nobody around to see it or assign probabilities to it.

The key conceptual leap is separating "wavefunction" completely from "reality". There's more to quantum physics than just the wavefunctions -- the reality lies in the events that happen, not in the quantum state itself.
It's understandable to take this perspective; it's the perspective a CFO might need to take, but it leaves out a bunch of things.

At one company I was at we had a lack of computer storage for our developers to work. They were constantly deleting work they'd produced in order to make more room. - I won't say the work product to safe the company some face). The employees begged me (the sys-admin) to buy more storage for them, so I planned out a nice storage array that would handle their needs, be reliable, network available, easy for me to manage, backup, etc.

I took it to the CEO and he and the CFO wanted to know how many more work units the developers would produce if we got them this. The CEO went further, saying he didn't care how long it took for developers to develop- they were paid a salary.

I was so flabbergasted that they didn't care about productivity or about employee comfort.

Back to this conversation... 20-30k is a lot of money certainly, but let's look at the full comparison. I don't know how much you pay your knowledge workers, but let's assume a round number of $100k, so then yes, we need them to be 15-30% more productive. I actually do think you can get them to be at least 20% more productive, and then you have some secondary benefits of employees feeling better, etc.

But that's also talking in extremes.. Private offices vs Open-Plan. What about cubicles? Cubicles where you have at least 3 walls are not private offices, but give you more of the benefits of one than open space.

You might find that cubicles cost, say 5-7% in lost floorspace, but that's paltry compared to private offices.

> if you did a survey I’m sure you find waking up to go to work in the morning is pretty unpopular too.

Yes, and many companies are moving to remote work for knowledge workers, and many don't have set work hours, for just this reason. Some people are morning people, but others aren't.

The modern office is designed around a type of person: A morning person, an extrovert, and someone with no kinds of sensory or attention issues.
> When you skip the vaccine you are now putting others at risk.

When you skip the flu vaccine you put others at risk. In a normal year 40k people die of the flu in the US.

At what point do we draw what lines?

I'm not suggesting what that point is. Just that we slow down, think about it, and understand the tradeoff. There is no perfect answer.

There is also the element of the co-founding factors. Things like heart disease. Many of the co-founding factors, though not all, are repercussions of lifestyle (e.g., most heart disease is the result of many years of unhealthy eating).

We don't force people to eat healthy which would avoid a significant amount of disease and related factors in COVID deaths.

I realize this is not all cases... and I'm attempting to push thoughts forward rather than state my own ideas. Thinking this stuff through in depth is important. Seeing folks on the other side is important.
>Lots of folks are just too coddled and unwilling to take a risk, even for the greater good.

I'm not sure how you arrived here from my comment. If I was willing to dox myself you'd see that I have probably taken more risks for 'the greater good'™ than you or even most folks on this site. But those days are over, and this whole situation is setting off all of my finely tuned alarm bells.

You should spend less time stereotyping and more time attempting to understand others.

Letting others do as they please is also a risk 'for the greater good', by the way.
The one thing I have learned from the pandemic is that remote work is even better than an office. I save three hours a day in commute time, it is always quiet, the food is way better, if I am feeling unwell I can simply take an aspirin and lie down, if I stayed up too late watching Rick and Morty or had a really heavy lunch, I can grab a cat nap and nobody cares. I've never been happier or more productive - silence and no commute being the key factors.
It is builds up on top of Xerox PARC ideas regarding REPL and OS integration.

UNIX systems could offer similar integration, via IPC mechanisms, KParts and DBus like communication, exposing shared libraries directly into the shell and structured data.

Where it fails down is lack of standardization across the landscape, so that everything actually works together.
Thinking of going full remote? That seems dismal.
I know this shouldn't be made fun of, and as a German I am very upset about it. But: "Pimmelgate" is an awesome name.

Also, don't politicians know about the Streisand effect? If they hadn't raided this guy, nobody would know about the Tweet, and nobody would care one bit. Ethics and law aside, this was just a very dumb move.
It sounds like your dad had some sense to him!

Personally, I’m capable of deep focus but also easily distracted. In some sense it almost physically hurts to be pulled out of that focus. When it happens too often, I’m “scared” to try and get back in.

Putting me in an open floor (as has happened repeatedly in the last decade) is certainly not the key to maximizing my impact.
Vivaldi is the best browser on Android, but Firefox is king on Win/Mac/Linux.
So vscode product team should laugh at themselves?

Do you get how ridiculous GGP is now?
Yeah, definitely blame unvaccinated people instead of our broken healthcare system. That makes 100% sense /s
The aside on DESQview really took me back. When I got my first PC in 1991, I was pointed towards DESQview for my needs, which was to be able to run multiple text-mode applications without the overhead of a fancy GUI (a not-unreasonable desire for a 25Mhz 386). When I finally gave in and started running Windows for some graphics programs, it ran in a DESQview window.
SMART Health is the technology, using data from WHO's covax program, which was pushed down to public health units via govt health ministries and departments.

A teardown of the tech applied in Quebec was posted on HN several weeks ago.
Since the change there have been a number of doctors willing to grant medical exemptions to any who want them. [0] It isn't as much of an impediment as it appears.

[0] https://calmatters.org/health/2020/09/california-doctor-scho...
I'm not interested in physicist/philosophers. Only in the people who run design, set up, and run the experiments.

You're watching a bunch of people with strong opinions about what QM theory implies for the real world. I come from a different direction: I'm recognizing that most of my intuitions about physics, which come from large particles (classically modelled atoms), are just completely and totally useless. And that ncludes the temporal ordering of events.
Getting back on the sliding saddle for the Concept2 Fall Team Challenge
Every Linux distro uses the Linux kernel and that's not a problem just like Chromium is not a problem for the various browsers that use it.

Chromium is entirely open source.
Here's what the "conspiracy" (1) sounds like :

What the system does right now :

- Everybody nation has an electronic record/QR code + "vaccine" passport

- They all use the same data exchange standard

- They are then interconnected for verification purposes when people travel. <- we're here right now

Where people who are against it fear it'll lead :

- They need to be connected to classical biometric ID's (passports, cards) to check for fakes <- in development

- You now have a de facto standardised worldwide ID / Health data system

- You can now bolt a system to control movement of people (Canada is doing this right now)

- You can bolt on it a worldwide financial credit system

- You can bolt on it a worldwide social credit system

- You can now slowly erase nations state and replace them with services issued by global corporate operators.

Result : Global crypto-fascist corporatist state, next to Russia, China, India, and a few others.

(1) Calling it a conspiracy is a misnomer, as it's been widely published in public prospective policy documents by various large NGO's and think tanks, such as the Global Redesign Plan 2010 by the WEF (now rebranded Grand Reset). Various "Stakeholder capitalism" proposals by other large ones, etc.
It's not a consparicy also because a lot of random people know about it and think it's a good thing. It's rather a set of policies a lot of powerful people want to see implemented
This is fantastic. I love seeing things like this and the framework laptop starting to emerge. Even if it's clearly just a niche market thing, it's awesome to see some pushback against disposable everything.
There are ancient texts that describe Patanjali's yoga and the reason behind it.
The president does not have the legal authority to make such a general mandate. Congress might be able to do so, but congress works slowly and this needs to happen as soon as possible.

Like it or not, that is the system we have in the US.
People lining the hallways waiting is not the norm in American healthcare
none of those things are dumb, but I agree that they are minor
Should that be the precedent for all communicable disease going forward? What about the common cold your child gave me that caused me to miss work? Will you be liable for that?
I love designing programs, programming and everything around it, it's my job. I constantly jumping back and forth between being worried that I won't be able to do this in the foreseeable future and realizing that these systems don't solve the problems I'm solving.
And your point is you think Dentists (or Kissinger) should be presumed to be good at choosing a CEO?
This port of busybox might also suit your needs: https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32
Nicer chair, better equipment, work from couch, work from bed, work from basement on hot days, etc.
The open-office concept was designed by executives who have their own private offices.

As an introvert, working in an open office was a daily struggle for me. I have never worked in a private office before the pandemic, and I have seen the tremendous shift in productivity. Open offices are particularly disruptive for any activity that requires focus (programming, planning, writing...). I am glad that we have more choices now of companies that would hire people remote or work in hybrid mode.
HyperOffice’s WorkMap.ai is now an AI resource allocation, & scheduling engine
aside from the trade-off discussion above, it looks like you also have opinions about the constitutionality of this move

it is, of course, totally okay to have an opinion on that, but an opinion does not necessarily grant decision power, or even veto power, so ultimately you aren't the one who gets to decide what constitutes a right, and you aren't the one who gets to decide what constitutes a violation or an infringement of a right

I'm not trying to slam you here, because I am also not the one who gets to decide that -- I'm just one of hundreds of millions of Americans, the majority of which do not have a problem with this move

now, of course, if someone/you believes this move is an unconstitutional violation of rights, they/you can bring it to SCOTUS, who will let them/you know if they/you are right

and if SCOTUS does ultimately say that this specific mandate is unconstitutional, then of course I agree with you that such a decision should be respected unless and until We The People change the constitution, which would be okay, too
They undoubtedly lead to more efficient collaboration, just as they also undoubtedly lead to less efficient focused work. The reason you don’t really get a choice these days in how you want to tune the floor layout is undoubtedly down to economics. Office space costs more than it used to, and as the service sector grows, so does the demand for skilled labor performed in front of a desk (along with demand for places to put those desks).
It sounds like you don't have any idea how the reporting here actually works.
> Smoking kills 500,000 people per year in the US

And federal law, state law, and often employer policies restrict exposing other people to your smoking in the workplace
Yes, but its usually obvious which one is meant, so you don't bother saying under what operation. Option is a monad under the same concatenation as Array, just think of them as arrays that always have length 0 or 1.
Your numbers are being used to lie: You only have to get the MMR vaccine once. But you'll have to get the covid vaccines over and over and over. Just four covid jabs would make these events equally likely. But it's most likely that more than four will be required.
Safe browsing sends data to google.
We bought an Instant Pot-brand air fryer. I love the thing entirely except for the buttons. They are not real buttons, just some sort of touch sensor but they sometimes just cannot detect a finger. You'd think that maybe the surface was dirty but it works just as bad when it's just been cleaned off and hands are washed. I beginning to think that the actual sensors are not aligned perfectly with the labels or that they are set to ignore someone pressing with their whole finger instead of the just the tip.
It foundational to C++, period. Even in Turbo C++ 1.0 for MS-DOS released in 1992 or thereabouts.

The fact that many still think it only came with C++11 or whatever "modern C++" is where the problem lies.
https://archive.md/fz2xN

http://web.archive.org/web/20210910154656/https://www.nytime...
At this point, long term side effects would be known about: "History tells us that severe side effects are extremely rare, and if they do occur, they usually happen within the first two months"

https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/how-do-we-know-covid-19...
Please, enlighten me.
LOL. Unfortunately what people say that you can hear can affect your team because of product interactions. And people tend to talk about other things than work. Additionally, they are often wrong which requires correction.
What were the flashes of light seen during Mexico’s recent earthquake?
In case anybody has doubts about this:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22141...
Apple Music Now Uses Shazam Technology to Pay Rights Holders in DJ Mixes
> I'm not sure how you arrived here from my comment. If I was willing to dox myself you'd see that I have probably taken more risks for 'the greater good'™ than you or even most folks on this site. But those days are over, and this whole situation is setting off all of my finely tuned alarm bells.

Thank you for your service.

In comparison, it seems to me the least I can do is get vaccinated, which is a tiny risk compared to the great deeds you have done.

You've inspired me, sir.