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You've been posting a ton of flamebait and unsubstantive comments. That's destructive of what this site is for and we ban accounts that do it. In fact - you've done almost nothing but post like that. I had to scroll back a long way in your comment history to see something that wasn't unsubstantive.

If you keep doing it, we will ban you. If you don't want to be banned on HN, please stop all of that now and review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and start using the site as intended. Here's the basic idea: if you have a substantive point, make it thoughtfully; if not, please don't comment until you do.
> BSD world

Pledge/unveil are openbsd-specific. Freebsd has capsicum which, like seccomp (mentioned else-thread) is much more complex and flexible.

Pledge/unveil are manifestly more successful, being used pervasively (though not really by programs which do not primarily target openbsd). Seccomp and capsicum are barely used at all (likely due to their higher complexity), and capsicum usage was even removed from a few freebsd utilities. At the same time, there have been some valid criticisms of pledge/unveil by capsicum people; IIRC something to do with its restrictions not persisting following an exec?
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Crazy idea: viral densification of housing

In the city I live in, the government turns a blind eye to secondary suites. If I buy a house, renovate a secondary suites and then rent it out with a special condition: if the renter buys a house I will give them 50% of the rent paid if they setup the same arrangement.

Depending on the local conditions, the doubling time can be like 3 years.

It'll be tricky to make the contracts enforceable, but I suspect it's possible. It'd be nice to live in a world where housing wasn't scarce.
I don't know if the polls are rigged, that's certainly possible, but why do you believe that they are?
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“It depends” is always right but which function is better for arbitrary, unknown data?

At least the arithmetic mean is fine for Gaussian distributions, and coneys a sense about the data even on non-Gaussian ones. but the median doesn’t even work at all on some common distributions like scores of very difficult exams (where median=0)

For the mean, at least every data point contributes to the final value.

Just my 2c
I don't want to flamebait by giving examples, but this is my issue with a lot of advocacy.

The True Believers try to push a radical/extreme set of changes. These changes have some level of adoption, but not as large as the True Believers want. There's a pushback by the general populace against the change. Moderates in the movement subsequently attempt to push smaller change, but get attacked from both sides: the True Believers for not believing strongly enough, and the populace for being associated with the changes.

I get really frustrated by basically every part of this cycle, especially when I agree the issue needs fixing. I understand _why_ it happens, but I sure wish it didn't.
Arecibo was distance limited by the Earth's rotation speed, since radar returns had to make it back before the target shifted out of the telescopes steerability window. As the Moon is tidally locked - that long stare limitation remains.
It sounds good but I find this framing uncomfortable because tax is not a penalty. Overweight people pay a penalty in a significant decrease in their quality of life, yes. That is not a tax though - tax is a contribution to society, and a decrease in one persons quality of life is not a contribution.
As outlined in the post, this Chrome extension follows the concept from an old waitbutwhy blog post[1] from 2014.

[1]: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
Yes but it even one vaccinated person gets COVID it means the whole vaccine is useless!!!11!

Ugh. The antivax stance on HN makes me think wbole of the banned Reddit antivaxx subs moved here.
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Being fat isn't contagious. While it does increase medical load, it doesn't cause the people you meet at the restaurant to also increase medical load.

We aren't stopping restaurant and party access as some kind of punishment for the unvaxxed. It's because this is one of the major vectors for disease transmission.
Looks like they have branches in 25 countries, which is pretty nice, but they don't have quite as much as I'd have expected in Europe. Does anyone else have another suggestion for a good international bank?
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Probably also the largest user community and widest distribution.
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on just this subject.
Monthly magazines, etc.
So it didn't happen?
Ask HN: What are your opinions on modern BASIC dialects?
I’ve been programming professionally for over a decade with both “business” and “hacker” languages.

Although I’m not unhappy with what I’ve been using, I have developed an interest in BASIC after I was introduced PureBasic and AppGameKit (DarkBASIC).

I’m wondering about your experiences and feelings about today’s BASIC languages.
Also hyperbole, dotnet supported other platforms years ago via mono.
> I guess I don't see where your argument about societal costs doesn't become a slippery slope.

Your admitting this, why even bring up your points if you know they dont matter? There's no reason to argue this point
> why would they want to increase demand?

1. It's not mostly about the demand, but about maintaining good working relations with systems manufacturers.

2. Increased demand is not a daily thing. Positive reviews and manufacturer interests would likely hold for a while, effecting the next production planning cycle or what-not.

3. Counteract effects quelling demand.

4. They could theoretically avoid letting prices drop if demand is strong.
Then you could mail him one of those licenses no?
I guess Taliban and cartel money is just more profitable to manage.
I get the feeling I could write a long list with everything religious groups have done to help the poor - from the abolition of slavery, to Sikh Gurudwaras providing food, to groups like “Christians Against Poverty” campaigning against excessive interest on payday loans - but somehow none of that would count.
Mmmm - I thought the problem was that the risk profile is it's not linear? So like, if enough people have it, they swamp emergency rooms, and suddenly, a lot more people are dying than would be dying at a lower incidence rate. So from a public health perspective, you're not really looking at 'how likely is this to kill people' but rather, 'how likely is this to crash an already fragile medical system' and thereby cause a lot of people to die.

I think the point about COVID is that if everybody just ignored it, this is absolutely what would happen, and case fatality rates could get pretty high.
That’s the wrong framing.

Vaccines have several effects. Frequently they prevent you from getting serious symptoms (or any symptoms at all) after contact with the virus. Often they reduce the time span during which you are infectious, sometimes they mean you aren’t infectious at all after contact with the virus. Sometimes (very rarely) they have no effect at all.

Only that last point can reasonably be framed as the vaccine not being perfect.

Other than that the vaccines work astonishingly well, even with delta. Them still making it possible for you to be infectious after contact with the virus doesn’t really change that.
theres a track record of bullshit get skinny stuff. there isnt a history of marketing vaccines for profit.
Not to take away from the rest of what you said, but I don’t think SOAP was _still_ popular in 1996. I don’t think it had become popular yet. I don’t think I even heard of SOAP before 1999 or 2000. I’m not a trend setter or anything, but if it was popular, I probably would have at least heard of it.
I appreciate that you find it scary but that is to a large extent what it's like where the rubber meets the road. Pejorative political labels do get tossed around too easily, but there are are also honest-to-goodness violent neo-nazis and other fascists that go far beyond shitposting into planning and carrying out violent acts. Sadly, some of those people infiltrate law enforcement or the military. They're not hiding around every corner, but there are quite a lot of them and they are not all like the clowns that get themselves arrested in really obvious ways.
No doubt it's annoying, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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This company reached out to me a few years ago. They promised mid-range 6 figures and said a few people who worked in the intelligence community already worked there. I reached out to a few friends and they told me not to take the job. I'm happy I didn't.
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>importance of graphing data before analyzing it

Very discouraging if one is trying to analyze data algorithmically. Often when faced with a problem in statistics, the answer is: "Look at the graph and use intuition!".
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Yes, it's very aligned! Thank you for the positive comment, that's an angle I didn't look before.
> add = +
> Try doing that in C.

Function pointers. They are abused to no avail in C programs. It has the original callback hell, not JS. (And that is mainly because C has no proper way for abstractions)
These takes did not age well.

Buybacks are a logical way to distribute profits back to shareholders so the attack on them was always a bit off. The biggest knock on them was probably that companies had lots of debt which made these not worth the risk - but given the interest rates and inflation all debts have been easier than ever to pay back.
I have asked this in the past, but how do people actually read formulae and text using non-standard operators like this article? When you encounter the text `a ⊗ b = a ⊙ f b` how do you read this in your mind?

In these simple examples it's easy enough to ignore, but in more realistic code that I've seen it's impossible for me to follow until I invent arbitrary names for these operators.
> People do road trips in their cars for vacation in part because it's so convenient to be able to bring a whole carload of food, luggage, and camping gear with you.

On a decent rail infrastructure you can run car-carriers like in the Euro Tunnel between UK and Continental Europe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurotunnel_Shuttle). These things are big enough to accomodate cars and even buses, with people being able to walk around outside of their car.
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>>> due to lack of migrant workers to exploit

What's your solution to this? Replacing migrant workers with locals by quadrupling the price of fruit? Or allowing more migrants in?

FWIW my family worked as day laborers and it wasn't viewed as exploitation but as a chance to stay in America and become legal. It was better than where they came from. My grandfather ended up becoming a translator and negotiator for the union, but he never had a bad word to say about how America had treated him.
They aren't comparing apples and apples. CAE occured at all for vaccine, vs. 120+ day stay in hospital for covid.

And of course they removed those with comorbidities, who are exactly the ones who are worse affected by covid than the vaccine.

Lies, damn lies and statistics?
Alan Kay said that the best way to invent the future it's imagining and work the steps backwards. So I would probably imagine what's an 250mm acquisition and start writing notes of how one would look like and then imagine all the steps back to the present.
You can create your own notes and coins but it's illegal because they want to maintain the artificial scarcity. The whole idea of fiat currency depends on people trusting that artificial scarcity will be maintained by the government.
I'd assume that for some of the major players to spend time developing a canned nostalgia feature, you are probably right. For example, my father only shares old photos because Google told him to look at them. I find it kind of depressing.
Food prep takes time. Even if we abandon looking at it as as a strictly energy in energy out situation, we probably still recognize that healthier foods take more time than unhealthy foods.
What's the advantage of doing this with a filled aperture vs using synthetic aperture with satellites?
I thought this was referring to the seemingly tragic killing of a man and some of his family who the military claims was planning to drive a bomb up to the airport. I'm not claiming the US has not committed war crimes in Afghanistan
> Produce is expensive per calorie,

Thats kind of the point of eating fresh food, your filled with less calories. you eat less, your at a healthy weight.

That not the stuff getting people fat. Look how many calories are in mcdonals burgers. People are getting fat becasue they're uneducated. They drink sodas, sweet teas, eat candy and excessive alcohol
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I‘m not anti-vax, got vaccinated twice but I also have a health condition that was made worse by the second round and it took me 3 months to get back where I was. At times I was thinking checking myself into hospital to get support dealing with the fallout. Talking to a specialist who sees lots of people like me (with not so standard immune systems) she confirmed that my experience was not uncommon at all.

Here in Germany we have digitally signed vax certificates & photo ids but still count a PCR positive proven infection confirmed by a doctor as equivalent.

I struggle to understand any concerns in the US - considering the general state of IDs and certificates - about treating one infection like one shot. It makes no medical and no proof sense. And however good and generally safe a shot is it is still a medical procedure and medical ethics apply.

The argument that one shot is enough sends the wrong message should be dwarfed by concerns what message is sent by ignoring globally recognized insights and medical ethics.
Goroutines make sense for Go, but it is a bit much to say goroutines > async. Nothing is free and in this case FFI hurts and boy does it hurt in Golang. Python strives off of C code.
The audience for this dump is people who are willing and able to do that sort of filtering.
That security key thing threw me and was so frustrating. I have an older iphone so unintuitively, I have to open the app and cancel the touch to login and then touch the "generate key" button because if I log in there is no "generate key" button and I have missed the boat by that point.
We’re going on two years. My three year old has never experienced normal school (or a real birthday party) and my eight year old doesn’t remember much about life before masks in schools.

I’m not going to experiment on my youngest to see what happens when an infant spends all day surrounded by masked people at daycare. I’m just not. If things don’t normalize here in Maryland by the time my wife’s done with maternity leave I’m moving to Florida or Texas.
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Since OP doesn't list any requirements, I'll throw one in.

I have a product where I need to display fullscreen Websites on a TV.

I started building a simple Android TV app to take advantage of the fact that non technical users can configure them more easily (wifi etc) and things are less likely to break (updates etc) but of course I don't like being dependent on their app store.

Anyone know any other hardware that is fairly cheap (since we literally just display a website) but also comes with ease of use for non technical folks?
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Thank you for sharing.

NOAA requiring a license for images of Earth is infuriating. Do they require other countries to get a license as well?
Are you ready for another 5 years of partial restrictions over a virus that's as deadly as the flu (after vaccination) for the chance we develop a vaccine that's even more effective than what we have today?
> A new study suggests that all living snakes evolved from a handful of species that survived the giant asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs and most other living things at the end of the Cretaceous.

I mean... didnt everything that is around today evolve from species that weren't wiped out?
Nice work!

One question - if I preorder basic plan, can I switch to more advanced plans later?
Myocarditis, in this circumstance, were cases reported in VAERS, which isn't a mild or asymptomatic condition -- it usually means hospitalization. Furthermore, the researchers who have been analyzing the rates are going back to the VAERS records and actually looking at the case data.

These are severe enough cases to require medical attention.
I think this is a very elaborate joke, though I was always surprised by some linear algebra algorithms that had a 'cooking recipe' feeling (looking at you svd) of 'loop enough time to get better results'...
MIME types are used all over the place:

1) web servers, browsers, proxies
2) graphical os shells
3) email

every file a webserver returns has a mime type in the header, and that is how the browser knows how to present it.
I have a commercial pilot rating and followed MCAS very closely (I was one of the few persons to say it would not be resolved for at least a year because of the number of engineering domains involved.)

The video is pretty good, especially the quantity of first-person interviews. The one of most interest to me was the engineer discussing the design issue with one external AoA sensor, and mgmt. refusal to acknowledge it - "group think."

External AoA sensors are vulnerable and can be damaged by bird strikes, mechanics ladders, jetways, etc.

I think it's light on the importance of filing FAA paperwork accurately, as that's one of the main oversight methods that the FAA uses. They did cover the other method, which is FAA contract inspection staff who are paid by the mfg. (Boeing paid a $2.5 billion FAA fine.)

Blaming foreign pilots has some validity, as the Indonesian NTSB assigned responsibility equally to pilots, mechanics and Boeing. However, not when there's no manual pages, available sims or annunciators, and MCAS is so severe that there is no time to recover immediately after takeoff.

Note that aerobatic pilots would have been able to roll inverted and save the plane, but airline pilots rarely practise airline acro. (Airline pilots are not test pilots, and most aren't acro pilots. Any passenger without a seat belt would suffer a neck injury though, but these were under 10,000 feet.)

There is one US airline company recovery procedure that does use an acro maneuver for stopping an uncommanded climb, basically a wingover:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingover
This was interesting:

> students who reported having sex with persons of the same sex or with both sexes (30.3%); and students who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (23.4%)

Assuming that most people who have sex with others of the same sex do so because they are gay (rather than e.g. because they are experimenting), this indicates that people who are in denial about being gay are more prone to suicide.
> have used at least in university

That’s showing a bit of bias.

Personally Ive been in the industry for roughly 20 years and I’ve yet to meet anyone IRL who has even dabbled in Haskell.

Basing your packaging-format on Haskell is a great way to alienate most Linux-users without a specialised university-education, and I’m wagering that’s a fairly big portion of desktop-Linux end-users.
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> 50% is just a random number that feels good to you. .... Getting to keep even $45 MM seems mighty generous of society

If their numbers are random, why aren't yours not random?
Could you give me both of those numbers as a percentage, and then compare it to the risk of, oh, let's say driving a car 100 miles in an urban area?
I doubt Mu is especially resistant. It was first detected in Colombia in January. The strains that will surface in 6 months will actually be resistant.
That seems wise but very hard to do - think about what I'll want to do 10 years from now. Do you have any advice to share? Because frankly I've never even considered the thought of not working in a technical role.
Toss the percentiles to the curb and just use a histogram.
You can do "lakehouse" just with Redshift, but in AWS pictures, you'll see Glue Jobs, Glue Elastic Views, Sagemaker, Aurora ... it's a huge mess.

With ra3 redshift, you pay storage cost of s3 for internal data as well, so unless you use the s3 with something else, I don't see much point in using spectrum.

Still, something like Snowflake works much better. They actually seem to have vision and not just "us too!" like AWS.
You're being incredibly argumentative and rude.
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How would you power it? A nuclear reactor?
But the in the screen capture of article, the user name is actually 'issac.asimov', i.e. the mime type does not immediately follow the dot.
There are problems (or parts of problems) that are more about behavior and others that are more about data. The latter of course is benefited by a FP mindset/language, but I wager that OOP is a better fit for the previous.

What OOP gives is a way to encapsulate some given part of a program, and make it a working little building block you can later reuse. It can contain mutable state, but is promised to be correct as only that class can touch it, it can be used as a slightly different version of a common interface, etc.

The two are not mutually exclusive at all.
This is a great news, fewer places that I have to create secret keys. I know this is a AWS blog post, but wish I can do similar thing with GCP (of course from GH).
No, it came from the beginning of the thread we are currently in. It’s what this thread is about.
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> masking and demasking when you enter restaurants

I've seen it, but this just seems silly. I think the way bars work is you walk in with a mask, take it off, and put it on when you go to the restroom?