skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it's a stretch to suggest that people will likely die from people saying that people don't need to get vaccinated because people will say natural immunity is 'better'.

In the US at least, vaccines have been widely available for months. You can literally get an appointment same day to receive the vaccine of your choice. 180 million people -- half the population -- are fully vaccinated. I don't think it's a stretch to conclude that at this point the people who have chosen not to get vaccinated are not going to be easily swayed. All of these people either a) know that COVID can be deadly and have decided to accept the risk, b) are so concerned/fearful about the vaccines that they will not consider them an option or c) are so crazy that no scientific data will influence their thinking.

In this context, the "but if you get COVID you could die" responses that seem to be quickly posted every single time there's a study about the strength and durability of natural immunity are just strange to me.
BMW has a nice fix for this. Paddle on the rear always shifts up, then there’s a paddle you press with your thumb that downshifts. Same thing on both sides you can downshift while turning the wheel by using your thumb on the top “paddle” instead of remembering which is left and which is right.
Do Australians have Freedom of Movement back yet?
Possibly this: https://mpetroff.net/2020/05/pre-calculated-line-breaks-for-...
Of course we got rid of slavery many years ago... We just call it different things now.
It's chock full of Microsoft's telemetry!
“Real artists ship”
Interesting. So, Qualcomm has forever basically relied on their GPU prowess to remain king of mass market mobile chips. Mali doesn't really compare.

As I remember (which may be wrong), AMD designed Adreno for Qualcomm. Also, they're apparently working with Samsung now to design a GPU for Exynos.

While not explicitly clear, wondering if this a potential play to compete directly with Qualcomm et al in that space, or purely server oriented.
> (Quiet, Lawyer) Watch your target carefully and, when the opportunity presents itself, go for the throat

The problem is that people tell themselves this is what they're going to do and never follow through. It's the perfect way to do absolutely nothing and convince yourself it's the right thing to do.
The $10k was his high end estimate. We thought we would try rolling the dice and see if we were getting anywhere. After the first $5k, it didn't look like we were going to luck out and end up on the low end.
Love it! I can punish my employees by setting this as a default search engine on their work laptops.
A firearm used for self defense needs to provide a balance of bullet energy transfer (correlated with threat cessation effectiveness), ease of use, ability to make attempts to fire on target successfully given extreme stress, little or no notice to prepare, and operating while thoroughly disoriented due to surprise.

Bullets which do not halt upon impact with the body but go through it with minimal damage do not stop the threat. The chances of this occurring decrease with caliber size increases and benefit from hollow point ammunition. Larger ammunition cartridges are heavy and bulky and you can't fit many bullets (=attempts) in a convenient cartridge.

The decision to use a firearm is never taken lightly by a normal person, and normal people can not fire on target under stress. It's a balance between bullet energy transfer which is correlated with threat cessation and ergonomics.

It's important to remember that a single shot will not stop most assailants. It's normal to have to fire 3-6 times with normal 9mm ammunition to stop someone intent on killing on you. Sometimes you get lucky with one, but it's not true most of the time. Many times gunshots are enough to subdue the threat without killing them.
You are comparing the USA, a developed country, purely to developing countries. I mean, ya, the USA does better than much poorer countries, but can’t compare to any other developed ones. And just because all developed countries don’t have a unified homogenous homicide rate doesn’t really provide any excuse why America does so much more poorly.
Amusing analogy. The postal service's unwillingness or inability to do just that has severely damaged their utility. If the USPS had a junk-filtering option I'd sign up tonight. Perversely, the postal system seems to embrace junk mail (e.g. if you sign up for address forwarding the USPS sends you a fat envelope full of junk mail as a "confirmation")
Love the idea. A little feedback: layout needs tweaking for mobile. FWIW: I'm on mobile Firefox for Android.
By that logic, we should also have grenades, missiles, and perhaps a tactical nuclear weapon at home, just in case. Probably won't need them, but who knows.

> I've owned guns for self protection in the same 40+ years and have never needed them for self-protection, but I also haven't needed any of the other above forms of insurance except the last which came in really handy when my apartment was hit by a natural disaster.

So what you're saying is that you don't need your guns, but the insurance did come in handy after all. Got it. I feel like you're making the parent's point for them.
Stuff that moves with the wheel is horrible. I’m in a turn, and I need to adjust anything (in my car, that’s phone and paddle shifting) and I need to chase them around in weird places. “Getting used to things getting harder” is a step back, not a premium experience worth paying those bucks for.
One reason is because TF supports many clouds and people like having skills that are not vendor specific
I'm talking about the pointless screen you have to dismiss to get to the login screen. The one that was introduced with windows 10 to make it look more like a smartphone.
HN is an open forum - there's nothing wrong with them hopping onto the thread: we aspire to debate ideas here, not kill the messenger.

I also cosign that it's very weird that after I tell you I'm black you ask me to go watch Youtube interviews.
The USA also has plenty of gun production capacity. Unless you really believe 25% of Americans own 20 guns each, there is a lot of winking and nudging that guns are going south for drugs coming north.
So what is the difference between ray and dapr ?
Forgot to mention it's a Radeon R9 270, quite old. Might want to upgrade to Radeon 6900 XT in the future if 8K monitor on macOS becomes possible
Again, yes. That is what some people believe. Maybe all these restrictions won't be in place forever, but some people believe that the government is setting precedent by putting them in place at all, and that they won't hesitate to do it again in the future in response to something far less serious.

Trust me, we all really hope we're wrong. But that's what we think.
I've never had a fire in my home, but I have been attacked in the street. If I had been armed, I expect it would have gone a lot worse for me than it did. I might not be alive to write this post had I had a gun on me then.

As you say, though, just another anecdote.
System-in-Package Thrives in the Shadows
AMD has demonstrated a strong desire and commitment to custom semiconductor designs beyond the traditional desktop, server, and mobile segments – this is best demonstrated in their multi-generational design wins in the recent few Playstation and XBox consoles. And there are more examples if we look a little further.
Eh, I take a dim view of the largely superficial reactions this patch set has garnered. The maintainers think their aesthetic concerns are more important than the Linux-using public getting access to this api. It doesn’t seem to me like years of debate have improved it, just delayed it.
Well, if Elon thinks it’s cool, doesn’t matter. Now we’ll see how many ordinary-but-very-well-off humans agree with him.
> Furthermore, i find US fascination with their theoretical ability to fight their government with small arms adorable and misguided.

You’d love reading about the US Revolution then! Big plot twist for ya. Can’t recommend enough!
HackerNews comments tend to build a contrarian narrative where the "young dynamic outsiders" are right and the "establishment" is crusty and old will be quickly superceded.

This dominates in fields where the specialists tend not to post here (molecular biology) and gets shot down rapidly in areas where there's more people with domain expertise present (semiconductor manufacturing).

It's a tech startup forum: the whole concept is based on this theory and the appeal depends heavily on ignoring the exceptionally high failure rate of start ups.
Well what does it mean? the words are pretty plain and clear. I've never worked in a place with a unlimited PTO policy, so I have no idea what it means and would need clarification. Most of us work in technology and understand that in most cases the devil is in the detail.
shareholders would rather lose only half of their investment then all of it. It's quite possible for a company to sell at a shareholder loss.

And of course, some sheareholders lost their stakes in this sale.

> Because the company’s obligations to its preferred shareholders exceeded the sale price, investors won’t be paid out in full, according to a document reviewed by Bloomberg.
It isn't a common occurrence. There are 330,000,000 people in the U.S. There are more lightning deaths (not strikes) than toddler-firearms killings.
Are there any countries where this EULA term isn’t enforceable?
Why? Anyone can assemble an equivalent from available open-source tools:

* Virtualbox
* Your favorite Linux distro
* Docker engine on the Linux VM
* Docker CLI on the Mac host
* A variety of filesystem sync solutions (I don’t remember their names but there are several)

Alternatively there’s also docker-machine.

The closed source app gets you the convenience of not having to set that all up. If you don’t like installing closed source apps you probably prefer to set things up yourself anyway. So what’s the problem?
Titans are falling
The D community is indeed fortunate in the quality of people attracted to it. My experience with Caltech's honor system is that if you expect people to behave honorably, they tend to fulfill those expectations. And they like it, and that tends to attract others who like that arrangement.

BTW, one of the reasons I hang out on HN and not other forums is because the members here tend to be decent. dang deserves a lot of credit for maintaining this atmosphere.
California fires: Blankets wrapped around biggest trees
I enjoy taking my month (20 days) off each year. I even have the opportunity to double it and take it at half pay if it suits. Work to live, not live to work.
>could charge Zuck criminally for anti-vax statements on Facebook

Care to elaborate? I'm out of the loop on this one.
Google maps vs tracking location at all times, though.
Cops were doing that without a warrant in the past. In 2012 it was ruled illegal by the courts. Here's a wired article.
https://www.wired.com/story/man-charged-with-theft-for-remov...
“True?”

No. I’ve never heard this before. It’s true that scientists don’t always write the clearest code, but Fortran, and even the style of Fortran typically written by engineers and physicists, is comparatively straightforward to read. It is named for FORmula TRANsator, after all. You will recognize the equations in the code. Fortran is inherently easier to read than C; it’s really not harder to read than Python. You can make it hard to read by doing complicated array indexing tricks, of course, and there are sometimes good reasons to resort to that.

And no one except other domain experts will ever have any interest in looking at your source. Why would they? No one except someone designing a website will ever want to try to figure out your CSS either.
The thesis you have been hammering this tiresome thread is that a company can't possibly sell for less than the amount that's been invested in it (with the implication that buyers will then be willing to pay more than they would otherwise if it's what it takes to meet that number, which is just weird), and the very example you were discussing in fact disproves your thesis. So.
When the marginal utility gained from investing somewhere else is better, of course.

You're getting all mixed up between normative ("should") claims, and descriptive ("is") claims. Is it good that people die by getting tangled in their bedsheets? No. Is it good that a toddler occasionally accidentally shoot someone? No. Should we spend time on either problem? No.
Great article and great job on the software!

Do you know if there's any of these calculators still around and available to purchase? I've always wanted to get my hands on a curta but One of these would be awesome too.
Who remembers waking into a store on the high street in Britain and seeing rows of different computer systems!

Sinclair Spectrums, BBC Model B and so on!

It was glorious!

It was so exciting as a kid!

Going to each of them and writing 3 lines of basic to print my name infinitely!

A truely golden age of discovery!
> hitting them hard -- in court -- when you are ready

Hitting them "hard" in a way that would be painful for them would be extremely unlikely in court. He hit them hard in a way that could actually impact their company's ability to retain and attract talented people. He also demonstrated some self respect in the process. I have to think that to many people that - combined with a giant megaphone for telling their story - is worth a lot more than a payout.
Renters are just as impacted by prop 13 as buyers, since landlords pass on the costs.
Again with the insults and dismissals. "Nativist"? "Fuck you, I got mine"?

I have no burden. I already stated: it would be far easier to restrict hiring for the very large, high-salary companies, than scaling out housing to accommodate for the yearly influx of tech works with explosive earnings.
Consider talking to chris hacken of nepa fiber: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13688595 , http://chrishacken.com/starting-an-internet-service-provider... .

Also, consider looking at https://godigitalmarin.org/ on what they've done.
I mean you responded to my comment that specifically focused on the contents of a YouTube channel. It's not too surprising that I am suggesting you go watch the content my post was speaking about.

You are disagreeing with my post without even having reviewed the content my post was citing and speaking about.
As someone who has recently started using Ruby for some personal projects - I agree.
I like the simplicity of it and that I can do simple command line one liners with it.
Very cool idea! Room for lots of improvement, keep working on it, I like the direction this is going.
Are you aware of the Seabed 2030 effort? I believe it’s entirely not for profit.

https://seabed2030.org/
Hmm, plenty of other architectures to go to if ARM gets hard to license, IMO. In fact, there are already plenty of people using RISC-V who would have otherwise used ARM. Not sure if it's even beneficial for the semiconductor industry having ARM the way it is right now.

I work in embedded systems and ARM doesn't offer much benefit to me, so maybe I'm biased.
The craziest part was how Windows Server 2012 included Windows 8 UI. The worst of both worlds.
Holy heck will you people give that shit a rest.

The PlayStation is a separate market and Sony has the mOnOpOlY.

The Switch is a separate market and Nintendo has the MoNoPoLy.

The Xbox is a separate market and Micro$oft has the m0n0p01y.
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Apple shareholder resolution calls for company to support right to repair
This is destroying the internet in the same way we raze neighborhoods to build skyscrapers. Yes, we destroying something real and valuable, and it sucks, but it's the inevitable march forward of human progress. Why shouldn't digital redevelopment work the same way as physical?
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Fantasies have power!
Hillsborough GOP member death from Covid-19 causes financial problems for party
> It only says the first Bay Area SFH law, in Berkeley, was championed by a guy who didn't allow property to be sold to blacks. This is not compelling evidence for SFH being a channel for racism in any subsequent cases across different cities.

You're underselling it. The first US single-family zoning law, not just first in the Bay Area.

Yes, maybe all of the subsequent single-family zoning laws that spread across the US were for totally different reasons than the first one. Personally I find that unlikely.
Pollen: The Book Is a Program
23 years and counting... I've taken one block of 6 months long service leave (1/2 pay) and will be taking another block of a couple of years.

It all depends upon what your priorities are. Mine are working to live, with a minimum of ratrace.
I think it's a lot easier to make a non-destructive positive case for cars, despite the number of people killed in car crashes every day, than it is to make the case for guns, which are devices specifically designed to injure and kill.
I think MAUI Blazor App + Blazor Website + shared libs is the way to go.
Enrollment algorithms are contributing to the crises of higher education
Exactly. He's basically arguing over a few dollars (PTO vs leave), and I'm guessing it's not because he needs the money.
Another ex-Atlassian here - this post sounds a world away from my experiences. I have narcolepsy, and I told my team, and everyone was super accommodating. On nights when I didn't sleep well (I also have epilepsy, and sleep deprivation can cause seizures), I'd just take the day off, or take a half-day. I never had anyone complain or make an issue of it - the other way round actually, sometimes I'd wfh and everyone would tell me that I didn't have to.

I worked in the US office for a while and I took heaps of leave - at least 6 or 7 weeks, but broken up into bits. I guess it depends on your manager, but for my office the sense was generally that you could just organise time off and put in a request, and it would be granted - at least for short holidays. If you wanted to take multiple weeks off, you were meant to discuss it with your manager and it could be denied, but from what I experienced, they would try to see how to make it work.

I actually ended up quitting because I got put under a bad manager, and that definitely is an issue - some people were promoted into management too early, and without enough training, and they weren't great at it. I know Atlassian had identified that as an issue that they were trying to solve, but I guess it's not that easy. Reading this article, it sounds like the poster probably had one of those managers.

But yea, when I left, there was this whole option to keep health insurance for a month or so after leaving (I didn't need it as I was going back to Australia, so I didn't pay that much attention). OP's experience sounds awful re: dealing with his wife's cancer and a poor manager, but I don't think his claims are entirely fair.
I teach college and I can tell you that most people don't type urls. Many don't even know how. I will tell them to go to an address like kahoot.it to play a review game and most of them just type kahoot and search. if they do actually type in a url they will type kahoot.com instead of what I told them to type which takes them to the site for creating kahoots not directly to playing them. (you can get there from .com but it isn't the quickest way)
Credit where credit is due CF is better than it used to be. Of course just like TF doesn't rollback CF will rollback and on an initial deploy you get in this weird state where you have to completely remove your stack to try again.

But it was significantly faster than it used to be. I never want to use it tho.
I wrote a commercial 3D game engine from scratch in C starting with just a bare bone OS on a console. It was a lot of fun actually. Not hard.
Sure, a very specialized type of programming, but quickly this will be offshored to Mechanical Turk. My gut tells me about 1-2% of developer talent is going into solving these kinds of problems, which quickly achieve good enough results, or are abandoned for traditional approaches.
> Only if you don’t take into account the changed circumstances.

How can you take those circumstances into account without knowing what leadership values in those circumstances? And anyway, how do you even know you have full information? Like, the point of leadership, in a very generic sense, is to distill the context that I don't need to worry about down into instructions at an appropriate level for me to act on. If they aren't doing that, then what are they doing?

> This is a point I explained to you earlier.

You may have attempted to communicate this. You did not succeed, as I still don't know where or when you tried to make this point.
Just like 114 is greater than 110. Just like 200 is greater than 110. Just like 110.1 is greater than 110.

Basic logic and basic math.

13.

Guess a number greater than than 10.
Must be 13. See I told you so.
Hahahahaha.

If you so believe it is 113, what happens if I share the link of a Lucid battery that says 110? Which do you believe then?

https://twitter.com/kristennetten/status/1438586256363966466...
I'm trained as a soldier but we still learned to de-escalate if possible.
One thing, you may want to talk about years rather than months. If you are saving them x0 million, ask for x million per year for 3 years.

10 mil for 3 years seems like a good ball park to me. Note, I do not have experience negotiating at this level

Consider getting someone with some experience in such negotiations on retainer
Factor of 20? Who's exaggerating now? If the linked incident happened on Monday, we could perhaps extrapolate that this happens perhaps once every four days, so that's a factor of four.

Seriously, though, maybe this is just a local colloquialism or language barrier thing, but to me, the phrase "everyday occurrence" doesn't mean "something that literally happens every day", it means "something that is common and happens often".
A programming language that doesn’t get big is a programming language that almost nobody use.
Because Canada is the closest country on earth to the US culturally and Australia and New Zealand are not far behind. Also, poverty tends to increase crime and CA/AU/NZ are closer to US economically as well, while Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and South Africa are far behind. If you want to pick one country to compare it to the US, it only makes sense to pick Canada. Argentina is very far down the list.

The main difference between Canada and US (and to a great extent Australia and New Zealand) are not cultural or economical. The main differences are in access to firearms. I fully expect Canada's murder rate to rise to US levels if US gun laws were adopted here.
Monotype acquires Hoefler&Co
Finally the US is defending itself
How is it demised? Shopify, Stripe and many new YC startups use it.
This will do nothing. CA has a low median property tax rate[1] of 0.74%, which allows rich elites and foreign speculators to buy empty lots of land and let them sit unused for decades while waiting for them to go up in value. This low property tax rate allows rich rent-seekers to buy up properties and then rent them out to people who can't get the big loans the landed aristocracy can. So we now have a record number of young people living with their parents, especially in expensive places like CA. Newsom is rich, as are his donors, as is Nancy Pelosi, and they have no interest in raising the property taxes of the mansions they live in and their investment properties they don't live in.

[1] http://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/property-tax-by-state
I thought SF had safeguards in place to prevent abusive workplaces like this when someone needs family leave?

Seems like there’s a lawsuit waiting to happen: https://www.alanadelmanlaw.com/th-family-and-medical-leave-r...