skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I totally agree that it's not about explaining stuff.

I do acknowledge the massive PR campaign on this front making things confusing for people. I have my doubts about it being effective in itself. There feels like a baseline assumption (stuff like "well it's my stuff" or "taxes are annoying") that end up getting re-inforced through those campaigns.

Maybe the real solution is nuking every op-ed page of the face of the planet.
I agree with you, mostly.

But if we're going to nitpick about the acronym, it's only the "R" bit that refers to the mirror/prism, the "SL" bit is separate to that. A "plain old digital camera" is an example of a Digital Single Lens camera. It just doesn't do the "Reflex" trick of sending the image to the viewfinder(/autofocus/lightsensor) with a mirror/prism.

(I'm out of my camera historical terminology depth here, but I'm assuming there "SL" bit made it onto the common use SLR acronym to differentiate from cameras where the viewfinder had it's own lens, and didn't use the same "single" lens that the optical path to the film used.)
That paper refers to a different magnet. The press release refers to milestone that was achieved a few days ago and has not yet been published. Their goal announced three years ago was to build the magnet and demo it this Summer. Let's just say they squeaked in under the wire since traditionally Summer ends in the US on the first Monday of September. (Unless you want to go with the equinox.)
What is a shadow ban?
It’s one of those things. Until Amazon does this to you, you will love that company no matter how many people they will screw over.

Mind you this company basically is a monopoly in multiple domains. I’m afraid of the world where we align with the villain on something only because it’s convenient for us.
It's interesting how people completely forget the early attempts and false starts at things.

There was a brief period of time when I thought the iPhone had bombed.

I'd heard that after launching iTunes, Apple was coming out with a phone in conjunction with Cingular, the media was in a frenzy, and I wonder how many people remember it today:

https://macdailynews.com/2005/09/07/apple_motorola_cingular_...

A comment on the above article from "Jeff":

"$250 for a friggin phone? Not on your life. I’ll stay with my cheap Nokia."

I looked at it in a Cingular store, went "meh" and moved on.
And a lot better societal outcomes. Unwanted babies suck and end up having bad lives, negatively affecting their parents’ lives as well.
The Black Death was in Europe for every year from 1346 and 1671 it was only extremely deadly from 1346 to 1353. COVID could mutate in to a much worse variety over that timeframe. Modern medicine can do quite a bit, but it doesn’t handle true plages very well beyond social distancing.

If the only way to actually slow transmission was the equivalent of biosafety level 4 or 5 and 1/2 of all infected die without significant medical care, everything falls apart. Even just an unusually long incubation period could be devastating.
Everything has become politicized. For example some kid manning the FDA Twitter account rage tweeted something to the effect of stop taking livestock drug.

FDA who has billions of dollars in annual budget should know very well Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug approved by FDA and manufactured for humans. The drug is so effective it came into use for veterinary uses as well.
In addition to anti parasitic properties it also happens be an effective antiviral for some viruses. And recent studies in vitro have demonstrated its effectiveness.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016635422...

The politics made this is lightning rod in modern medicine and split the camps into two. The NIH CDC and other politically charged agencies can set aside their tribal attitudes and commence a clinical study and let science demonstrate what’s effective and what’s not.

https://twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839?s=20
You're welcome here in the U.S. It's not perfect but there are places you can escape this madness.
Overtime has to be approved by supervisors. Officers can’t just decide to arrest someone with 1 minute to go before the end of each shift to pad their paycheck. They have to find another officer to hand off the arrest processing if they don’t have enough time remaining in their shift. Source: California police officer married to my sibling.

Also I think tptacek’s core point holds. Scarcity is the civilian’s best friend: scarcity of LEOs, scarcity of their shift hours, and scarcity of their time to collect some info which has absolutely zero bearing on their current case.

No doubt some LAPD gang unit officers may request this data more frequently from suspected gang members (even if it doesn’t sound like an optional request), but I tend to think tptacek’s suggestion that this article could have been better written by informing the reader when they are legally obligated to comply with police requests and when they can be denied without increasing any legal liability.
> but the abuse potential is massive.

How so? We don't have to create a system in which it is legal to shoot someone in the head and then claim they asked you to do it. Have it be a medical procedure that must be done in a hospital by government certified doctors. You can even require a psych evaluation before it becomes an option.

I can understand there being some gray area in which it isn't clear that the person has all their faculties to the point they can request it, but that shouldn't stop us from creating a system that works for all the obvious cases.
> A Prius' battery consists of 28 Panasonic nickel-metal hydride modules.

Toyota is not producing its own batteries anyway.

And the battery manufacturing plant is not actually the biggest difficulty. The problem is that every battery produce has multiple partners and are already scaling as fast as they can and are already oversubscribed.

The same goes for lithium and other materials producers. The amount of battery factories in planning or being built is outstripping the amount of lithium, graphite projects being in development and the amount of materials production.

Of course you can increase above your initial planning, but for Toyota to remain in the same leadership position it would have to in 2025 say 'we are gone 5-10x' our plans. And that is certainty not easy to do.
That the most expensive parts of the plant would be quickly destroyed by neutron irradiation is another.

That it would cost overwhelmingly more than solar+storage is what will ultimately kill it. Someday. Many more $B will be spent first.
The Supreme Court case in New York involved non-essential secular activity being treated as less important than religious activity. If you can’t go to church, then liquor stores don’t need to be open.
A negligible number of lives. All terrorist attacks in US history combined resulted in less than three days worth of COVID-19 deaths.
Do you have a reason to believe capital deployed to fusion would have been deployed to solar? And if so, why do you think it would make a difference, given the market feedback loop going on with solar driving down costs?

Edit: also, your comments seem to be incredibly negative on fusion, would you mind disclosing if you have any solar or wind connected conflicts of interest?
I recently flew to Australia, and from experience I can tell you virtually nobody knows about these laws being changes. The one discussed here, the new "hacking" powers given to the government, the money being paid to Murdoch by FB and Google.

The very vast majority of Aussies have no clue about any of it, and the media is keeping silent.
> Notably, the recommended way to run sqlc also requires Docker.

This isn't accurate. sqlc is a self-contained binary and does not have any dependencies. Docker is one of the many ways to install and run it, but it is not required. (author of sqlc)
I knew COBOL was still in use, but this is astounding:

> The Bank of New York Mellon in 2012 found it had 112,500 individual COBOL programs, constituting almost 350 million lines;

Could that really be true? Can anyone provide some context to make that make sense?
Bring back Ellen Pao!
> basically the same excuse that was given for preventing the abolishment of slavery.

Histrionic sophistry alert
I don't think that's misleading at all. As far as I know, women aren't eligible for the GM as opposed to WGM title.
These paycheck-to-paycheck middle class people are not poor. They live rather high on the hog. It's your neighbor with his and hers new cars, and a ski boat on a trailer in the driveway. No matter what their income, they spend it all.

You can feel sorry for them if you like, but I don't.
In the US:

>As of 2021, only estates valued at $11.70 million or more are subject to federal estate tax.

No sympathy for people who think that sort of windfall from their parents should somehow be untouchable.
So many people in this discussion take sides. The only thing I see, is divergence. APIs will now evolve separately, and compatibility will break soon. I think this competition and diversification will be good for innovation in search. But it’s also going to be confusing for a while. If you use Elasticsearch in Amazon, you better decide very quickly whether you want to hitch your wagon to the OpenSearch future. Migrating is going to be a pain in a year or two.
Sometimes you see an argument that's based on one or even two bad facts such that it poisons all the fruits that come from it. It's a bit like a math exam where you start by making an error in the formula and then go from there. Garbage in, garbage out.

That's not what I see with your comment. Instead I see regurgitation of base right-wing propaganda that's basically wrong at every step with superficial Google searches.

I'll pick a few:

1. The paper I cited looks at what happened to low, median and high percentile workers over those years. You'd know that if you looked;

2. You argue what constitutes the middle class has been devalued by immigration from Latin America. There are many ways to show this to be false. I'll pick just one: the number of people with college degrees [1]. Oh, what the hell, I'll pick a second: the rise of dual-income households [2].

3. Despite your assertions around immigration from Latin America, Asian immigrants actually outnumber Hispanics [3].

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...

[2]: https://www.pewresearch.org/ft_dual-income-households-1960-2...

[3]: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/20/facts-on-u-s...
Another way to think about this is via the effects achievable with transcranial magnetic stimulation. A TMS machine generates fields on the order of 1T at the magnet, and rather less in the brain.

From this, you can get all kinds of interesting phenomena: phosphenes, temporary “lesions”, and even facilitation of some behaviors.
Amazon is working on a fully open version that you can fork, edit and host yourself. Elastic closed their product and is changing their client libraries to not support the open version. In fact, this whole thing started because Elastic got envious of Amazons revenue, which is not quite the open source spirit.

I mean, I get why Elastic is not happy. But in this case, neither intent is pure, but at least the result on the Amazon side is.
Face masks for Covid pass their largest test yet
There are other reasons people want to get abortions, such as knowing they can't provide for the child or give them a safe/stable household. Adoption is rare, and the foster system in most countries absolutely ruins kids. So those aren't good alternatives.
That works fine until someone else camps out in the stall where you stashed your notes.
Because the red states are being subsidized by the very blue states they claim are ruining the country.

The red states are basically adult children complaining about their parents interfering in their lives while living rent-free in the basement.
Why would most companies need to migrate if they're happy with the features in a past version? Why not stick with it (assuming there are no major security flaws?)
If production costs rise exponentially with reactor size then the exponential power gain with size isn’t very impressive.
> If you don't have literally $1M in assets you get taxed zero

It's actually $11.7 million now.
Breakthrough cases in those fully vaccinated accounted for 11,906 cases in Utah, 645 hospitalizations and 64 deaths. Of fully vaccinated residents, about 0.8% have tested positive for COVID-19. Of those vaccinated cases, 0.04% have required hospitalization and 0.004% have died, state data shows.

The latest deaths include:

A Cache County woman between the ages of 25 and 44, who was hospitalized when she died.
A Davis County woman, 65-84, hospitalized.
Two Davis County men, 65-84, hospitalized.
A Davis County man, older than 85, hospitalized.
A Davis County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
Two Utah County men, 25-44, one of whom was hospitalized and one who was not.
A Utah County man, 65-84, hospitalized.
Two Salt Lake County women, 65-84, one of whom was hospitalized and one who was a long-term care resident.
Two Salt Lake County men, 65-84, one of whom was not hospitalized and one who was a long-term care resident.
A Salt Lake County man, older than 85, not hospitalized.
Two Washington County men, 45-64, hospitalized.
Two Washington County men, 65-84, one of whom was hospitalized and one who was not.
A Washington County woman, 65-84, hospitalized.
A Washington County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
A Washington County woman, older than 85, hospitalized.
A Box Elder County woman, 45-64, hospitalized.
A Uintah County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
A Weber County man, 65-84, hospitalized.
A Sevier County woman, older than 85, hospitalized.
A Beaver County man, 45-64, hospitalized.
A Sanpete County man, 65-84, hospitalized.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50236606/utah-confirms-4657-new-...
> Very few people (at least in my experience) think that assisted suicide itself is bad, but the abuse potential is massive.

Many terminally ill people receive substandard palliative care, and want assisted suicide – it seems likely that at least some wouldn't want it any more (or might never have sought it in the first place) if their palliative care was better.

What are the ethics of saying to people "we aren't going to do anything to fix the substandard palliative care you are receiving, but we are happy to help you kill yourself"?
They're literally keeping the source open. Call Amazon out for other stuff, not this. Enough with this good vs. evil attitude. People and companies are more complex than that and have varied interests. They do not fall neatly into one camp or the other.
MacOS filesystem is utf-8 strings with valid Unicode glyphs that are pinned to a certain revision of Unicode.
quite a few streams are people practicing coding interviews or discussing how to get through interviews.
Well the fundamental issue you’re describing is that if you want a job, you have to be able to perform some sort of valuable function. Which you could rephrase as if you want to extract value from society, you need to be able to contribute value to it. There has never been a time when this was easier to do. If you want to compete for high value positions, you’re free to do so. If you want capital to invest in your skills, an essentially unlimited quantity of it is available to you. If you want to contribute a minimum level of value, you will only face a trivial level of competition for employment. If you want to contribute no value at all, the state will still provide for your welfare by taxing the value that everybody else provides.

You’re right that most of these pathways require some level of work, but that’s not a valid thing to complain about. Without the systems or society has established, it would require a lot more work, in return for much less reward, and the consequences of failing would actually be serious. There has never been a more prosperous time to live, and your complaint that you still have to do work and that people don’t value you as much as you think they should is frankly just whining. Our modern society doesn’t resemble a serfdom on any meaningful level, and no matter what system you think would be capable of improving things further, you’ll still have to confront the reality that there will always be people better at navigating it than you are.
> Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans.

Says a lot. Even if some steps are missing, the plot thickens as every information is released.
I think most people can see both sides of this conflict. But, as you yourself pointed out at the end of your comment, finding a side to pick quickly is important.
There is no need worry about that. Extreme high cost will suffice. It could never come within 10x fission cost. You might notice people are not breaking down doors to build fission plants.
Failing that, just look at the second or minute indication on a nearby clock, modulo the number of options in your choice. You probably don't know exactly what time it is, so the clock's LSD is basically a 1d10 roll.
>> That said I wish Elastic had chosen a better license and I wish they wouldn't charge for basic security options like SAML, RBAC, and encryption.

What better licenses or monetization strategy would have allowed them to charge enterprises who use it for more commercial purposes, and allow the individuals/casual users to use it for free?
I don't think this should reasonably be pinned on engineer remuneration. If you were advertising for "top performance tuning experts", it's fair they may not get them. But every criticism regarding root issues with the site (dark patterns pushing the app, AMP pages that don't load any content, loading screens that don't load anything, pages that almost seem deliberately broken) are really not the sort of things you associate with someone who "worked hard on performance but wasn't skilled enough". I would generally expect if they doubled their rates they'd get better ad targeting and investments in a range of places that aren't "faster websites".
> It changed who could write it, too. COBOL democratized coding; companies could take everyday people and train them to be useful COBOL programmers in a few months, and to become experts in a year or two. This was crucial given that companies desperately needed more warm bodies to write software.

> “You could pick people up out of the street,” says Jon Pyke, a British coder who learned COBOL back in the 1960s, “and basically and teach them how to do it.”

Well then. This does seem to suggest a solution...

Honestly, this article kind of makes me want to learn COBOL. In my fantasy, the employers desperation somehow makes it a low-stress job, like they know they don't have time for BS, they have to prioritize the most important things and just let you do your job. And they'd be so grateful.
People say all sorts of things, but if they don't commit to writing directions down, how are people supposed to know what the person really wanted? Also, someone might say one thing, until death becomes immanent, and then they realize they want something else.
Some things that work for me:

- keep good magazines laying around places where you would normally reach for your phone (near the couch, desk, bed, and let's be honest the bathroom)

- play a musical instrument

- walk my dog

- slow transportation (traveling by foot or bicycle)

- surfing and basketball
> But in this case, neither intent is pure, but at least the result on the Amazon side is.

Indeed. Amazon may be doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, but that's still better than doing the wrong thing for the wrong reasons, which is what Elastic did.
My father worked on old cars in his garage after work and on the weekends. On the weekend, friends would flow through for a chat and to help out a bit. Sometimes a friend would bring over one of their own projects. Dad's shop was a minor social hub. He never seemed to finish any of his projects, but I'm not sure that was the point. He wanted something to work on during his spare time.

This isn't for everyone, of course. He had loads of money sunk into tools and he needed a house with a shop (larger than a garage.) He did get some return by flipping some of his projects.
Do you have citations for the numbers you provided? Thanks! (I’m genuinely asking because it never occurred to me that you can track the amount of a private medical procedures occurrence across states and stuff…)
>SSDs are probably the absolute bellweather of this, since their early forms held mere kilobytes

You are three orders of magnitude wrong, first commercial SSDs were in the ballpark of HDD capacity and perfectly sufficient for OS install (~1990).

>instead of trashy ones with a 20-mile range

again even EV1 had over 100 miles range, first electric cars in 1910 had 30–40 miles range.
Reddit does what it does very well. Any community that gets past a certain size is going to suffer the same problems. A lot of front page subs like /r/funny or whatever are overwhelmed with noise. The specialty communities around a game or hobby or industry are frequently great. Invaluable in some cases.
The family and her all realize how lucky she is to be alive today. I don't disagree with people who make the choice to just do palliative care, and I don't disagree with those who choose to fight.
>>I could have structured what I said better

I think this is the take-away. I'm sorry for your loss, and I suspect that it has made this topic much closer and realer for you than many other people. Whereas we are all familiar with insensitive assholes.

It can be challenging to know how to best approach a situation where you think some one is being rude, without also opening yourself up for blame (or verbal abuse), in a calm and constructive manner. Even assuming good faith it would be very easy to see your original un-edited remark as some one curiously gawking at another person's tragedy.

I can see that this situation is upsetting for you. It might help to reframe this by recognizing that calm, thoughtful, and articulate communication is difficult.
From Seattle:

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...

https://kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/data/vaccinatio...

The county is 73/27 vax/unvax vs cases 32/68 vax/unvax, hosp 13/87 vax/unvax and death 30/70 vax/unvax. This is further confounded by age, as younger tend to be more unvax and have less risk of covid complications.

Obviously, this is data we know. What we don't know is how well vax will hold in the future, as the virus mutates.
The Sensory Neuron as a Transformer
> Breakthrough cases in those fully vaccinated accounted for 11,906 cases in Utah, 645 hospitalizations and 64 deaths. Of fully vaccinated residents, about 0.8% have tested positive for COVID-19.

And are there unvaccinated numbers available as well?