skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used a Tag Heuer Carrera as a watch for many years. Accuracy isn't perfect, but you adjust it maybe once every few months, so it also isn't an issue. And I really liked the see-through kind of mechanics and the strap.

But then came the Apple Watch, and now I wear that every day. It's a bit more convenient, tracks health data I like and is around 1/10th the price of a nice watch. The latter also means I don't take it off when I go to the playground or jump in the pool. There were some scratches on my previous Apple Watch, but before that really becomes an issue you want to buy a new model anyway for the extra features and better battery life. So in practical use I like it more than a "real" watch.
It also stands to reason that not developing a respiratory illness at all is better than having a better outcome when you do. Note that data that doesn't "stand to reason" is super interesting as science. There are a lot of such studies now; the Nature article cited above has a whole list of them. The authors' argument of "the myth" is basically "smoking is still bad because smokers have worse outcomes if they're hospitalized for COVID, also smoking is bad, mkay" which is just avoiding the point.

You and they are right that it is not clear whether smokers have an overall benefit or not with regards to the whole chain of causality from contracting COVID to hospitalization to "worse outcomes"
I don't know that, but judging from the amount of code I would say it's less likely than in Intel ME.
From the mission: "products that give you back the power to customize" and shipped w/Windows pre-installed.
As a matter of semantics, buildings, machinery, tools, computers, food, fuel, etc. aren't generally considered part of a manufacturer's supply chain (unless it's in the business of making those things, of course) - even though, as you correctly point out, they're just as necessary as the materials themselves. The "links" in the supply chain typically refer to the steps in going from raw materials to finished product - so a cotton farm would be one link in that company's supply chain, then the factory that turns that cotton into textiles, then the factory that turns those textiles into articles of clothing, then the retailer that sells those articles of clothing.

Semantics aside, I think it makes sense to focus on the labor standards around the harvesting of raw materials and the manufacture of the products themselves for two reasons. First, I assume that they're the most labor-intensive parts of the process. If you amortize the amount of labor needed to make a computer or industrial sewing machine (including mining the raw materials) over the number of articles of clothing they can be used to make, I bet the amount of labor used per end product is pretty negligible. Obviously I'd prefer if that labor isn't done by enslaved people, but I'd rather prioritize the more labor-intensive components. Second, my impression is that the clothing industry is distinctly awful with respect to the amount of slavery and sweatshop labor in its supply chains. Lots of the building materials, machinery, and food, and fuel used and consumed in the US are produced in the US to begin with. Food production in developing countries often uses slave labor, but at least there are reasonably effective ways to avoid that (e.g. by buying fair trade products). I'm sure the mining of raw materials for US-manufactured equipment often relies on slave labor, but again, I'd expect that's far less labor-intensive than food or textile production. Conversely, manufacturing clothing is highly labor-intensive, and when that labor occurs outside the US or EU it's pretty much guaranteed to be performed by people who are literally or effectively enslaved.

I'd love to support businesses whose operations are completely slavery-free, But I'm not sure that's even possible at this point - slave owners seem to have a monopoly on semiconductor manufacturing, for example. And I worry that too many people let perfect be the enemy of good, and throw up their hands and do nothing as a result.
> Importantly, it helped me overcome my fear that if I quit smoking, I wouldn’t be able to write anymore, since I’d always done the two activities together (today I tell writing students not to smoke at all, but if they must, not to smoke while writing, lest they prolong their addiction to protect their artistic production).

this.

psychological nicotine addiction has the uncanny ability to find the tiniest smidge of what-you-thought-was-dealt-with impostor syndrome buried deep within your soul, poke it with a stick and then chase you around with it with threats of total ruin, hoping you'll give in.

there's a famous book by allan carr called "the easyway to stop smoking." it can be a little silly at times, but it did have one idea i liked that basically boiled down to anthropomorphizing your nicotine addiction, imagining refusal to smoke as a way of starving it and then basking in the schadenfreude as it dies a slow, painful death.
The problem here is how SSB is used in practice; most content is not passed p2p, but through a single hub. This isn't part of the design, it just happens to be how they're bootstrapping right now. But it does mean that number of hops is not a good proxy for actual social closeness.
* Abortion is wrong in all cases (angers the liberals) but
* We need broad socialized healthcare, paid parental leave, etc to help the mothers (angers the conservatives)
* Money is contributing to systemic racism - let's get rid of it and just be good people
My hesitation is also the proposition: if everything for a community is stored on my phone, does that mean one person could post something illegal and now I have illegal material on my phone even if I never clicked a link to it? That's scary.
I wouldn't expect that to stay stable any more than doing the lifetime cost calculations for HIV initially and today. Cancers are increasingly being survived, usually with at least some additional lifelong health care requirements (which pharma will always be looking to expand upon) on top of the costs for a healthy individual.
My bad! I thought I had selected it.
Read the Nature article; it cites a large number of studies and dismisses them.
More like definitely killing 5 people to maybe catch a murder.
Old Street roundabout is 620 yards away from the City of London boundary
Data is clay. We are still struggling to make bricks. We are still very far from building a house out of it, much less a large building. And we're going to eventually find out that we can't make skyscrapers out of it at all.

Just like bricklayers haven't even remotely been replaced with robots, I doubt the data-mungers will be, either. We are probably on the cusp of a whole new generation of "data people" who will have careers that span a generation, and do nothing but sift through data.
You can look for yourself! Go to https://www.librarything.com/catalog/ddrucker/yourlibrary and select style E, then sort by ISBN so all the blanks are at the top!
Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image
Amazing? Terrifying. When people are desperate for junk food,what hope so they have for the future?
> Do you have a specific issue with the ratings?

A friend of mine recently said that Mexico was more "free" than the United States. I tried to find some analysis or discussion of this, and came across Freedom House, which rated Mexico quite poorly vs. the United States (other rankings or comparisons being irrelevant for this comment).

He was frustrated that I used some biased source to define "freedom" and challenged me to find and read the explanation they had for why Mexico was "less free" than the United States. I did so on the spot. I guess I encourage you to do so as well, as it is related to this discussion.

https://freedomhouse.org/country/mexico/freedom-net/2021

As far as I was concerned, he decisively won the argument and effectively dismantled any ability for me to use the Freedom House metrics in our discussion: "ironically" (but, in retrospect, kind of "as expected"), Freedom House has a completely different way of defining "freedom" than I do.

In particular, and to use some of the vernacular we use on the Internet in discussions of "freedom" with respect to things like "walled gardens": they seem to believe in "freedom from" rather than "freedom to". Freedom House cares deeply about "freedom from" even when it comes into direct conflict with "freedom to"; and in the article about Mexico, we see this in their premise that Mexico doesn't have freedom of the press... because another privacy citizen might kill you over it and get away with it due to the courts being shoddy? Is that really an argument that they are "less free" or is the issue in fact that they are "more free"?

As a tech example, I consider the Apple iPhone to be one of the least "free" platforms ever designed: it is explicitly built to restrict freedom of both users and developers to maximize Apple's profit and control both their intellectual property as well as that of their licensees.

However, assuming you believe that this also has the side effect of improving security or minimizing scams or whatever Apple claims (let's just assume it for a moment without trying to examine it deeply), I bet Freedom House would consider that extremely "free" because users would be able to go out about their business with relatively lower concern of being targeted by hackers or being stalked or whatever people tend to give up freedoms in order to prevent.

(You will see this same issue in their discussion of fake news and misinformation, on another thread here on Hacker News. I personally find the idea that the allowance of people saying incorrect things online makes people "less free" absurd and the idea that new attempts to restrict the ability to say incorrect things online is somehow "promising" for freedom to be a somewhat ridiculous parody of what the word "free" could possibly mean.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607451
Very exciting. Their site allowed me to configure mine with 54 HDMI ports. Will this come in some sort of octopus cable one USB-C split to 54 HDMIs? Can't wait to find out!
i find half the postings on most job site are just duplicates posted by recruiting companies who just rewrites the original company's post.
I guess a workaround for now (until someone designs a trackpoint keyboard that fits in the framework) could be Lenovo's bluetooth trackpoint keyboard, I use it with every laptop and it's been great
Ah yes, the old "it's not my job" excuse. Then why are you here acting like an authority on this stuff, when you very clearly don't have the slightest clue? I mean, is your actual job to make excuses for Google and shift the blame to everyone else for Google's misbehaviour?

The folks who actually care and work on non-Chrome browsers have been telling us for a decade that Google is not being a good faith player, and is creating an obvious browser engine mono culture. And instead of listening to them, you ignore them to defend Google instead.

You're the one who should get out of here, and educate yourself on this stuff first before you talk big about it. Go find out just what a mess WebRTC has been thanks to Google and its ever-shapeshifting "plan B" (and not just from Google's point of view). It helped kill two major browser engines already, and it certainly wasn't because they didn't try to work with Google to figure it out, or spend a lot of time trying to reverse-engineer it as it changed, or even just trying to import enough of Chromium into their own browsers to ship "plan B" themselves after Google remained silent.

And while I'd love to help you with your pet bugs, including such basic web functionality as "offloading large chunks of image processing to a web worker", I'm here diagnosing live web sites to find that Chrome shipped `event.path` before it was standardized, or haven't fixed three year old bugs with `text-underline-offset`: things that are breaking such hyper-advanced and unimportant functionality on the web as clicking on links and underlining text properly.

So tell me again how I'm wrong and Google's bugs don't affect other browsers. And how it's my fault that Google seems to ignore interop bug reports until they become issues on live pages, and then conveniently say "well, the web relies on this now, so you change the standards and your own browsers to follow suit now"? I guess I need to be flawless myself before I have any right to complain about their bad behaviour?

Do go on. Tell me more about your theories about what I and other Mozilla folks do with our time, and how Google and its defenders aren't making it harder for us to do what we'd really rather be doing for our users.
That's what I mean. Functions can't mutate anything, period- the assignment operator won't even parse, and calls to procedures are forbidden. But they can still close over state that is mutable one other contexts

The full implications of allowing this in closures have yet to be explored and I still need to make sure they won't break the guarantees I'm wanting to offer
> First of all, working in tech in the UK you can make $130,000 which is 3-4x the median annual salary.

That's not a common compensation at all. I think USA gives way more choices, at the very least finance, big tech and start-ups (that actually offer noticeable equity, unlike UK).
Reminds me of Windows' bowser.sys, which is not a misspelling of browser: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/archive/blogs/larryosterman...
Wow, for me finding this thread has been a revelation, I didn't know there were other people that liked the casio watches like I do. I had them as children, then as an adult I accidentally stumbled upon a green model at the Madrid flea market, I thought how amazing, this color is epic. Forgot about it for years, then was frustrated with smart watches and the time it would take to start a stopwatch, so I went on Amazon and bought a bunch of them so that I always have at least one that I can find at any time
No paywall: https://archive.ph/itqJH
I'm not OP, but I also have thousands of books (a little over 4100 at last count), so I guess my answers might be of interest.

1. I'm about 50 years old. (The furthest back my records go is 2004, when I was about 35 and the count was about 2300.)

2. Of the 4100 books in my catalogue (it's a CSV file, very high-tech), 1233 are fiction. Rough counts for some non-fiction subject areas: science 520, mathematics 420, philosophy 250, computing 220. Others with substantial numbers: religion 270 (I'm not religious, but I used to be and my wife still is), humour 240, history 210, children's books 180 (may be wrong; we don't always bother to record these and sometimes we get rid of them since children grow), reference works 110 (dictionaries, encyclopaedias, etc.), music 100, puzzles 100, poetry 100, language 100, books of essays 100, cookery 100 (these are mostly actual cookery books, which maybe don't really belong in the same list), biography 90, literature 90 (meaning literary criticism, books about books, that sort of thing; actual works of literature are mostly under "fiction"), politics 80, autobiography 75 ("biography" earlier excludes these), games 65 (this is things like chess books, not books that are somehow also games), education 65.

3. I think about 10% of the books are unread at any given time.
No. That's not what the letters say there. Even here you try straw man arguments. I was talking about science deniers. And about the world needing less of them instead of less people in general.
Pacific?
How often do governments give back powers they have been granted? I don’t think barrels can roll up hills.
Interview with Martin Ender (2018)
Do you drink alcohol, regularly? It's also very likely killing you slowly, and leading to a diminished quality of your later years.

People smoke for similar reasons to why people drink: it's social, there's a (pleasing to some) chemical component, it's habitual, and so on. For many, it's the cheapest way to manage to self-source some quick relief in their day.
ISBNs were only introduced in the 70s, and I have quite a lot of second hand books that predate its introduction. Even if a book does have an ISBN there are a significant number from before bar codes became ubiquitous so are slightly more annoying to scan.
I don't know why but literally every tax reduction proposal is basically, tax the rich less and burn a hole into the budget. Nobody is even thinking about the small guy when it comes to tax policy.
I don't know about that, the consensus on that seems to be leaning towards water NOT being wet.

https://www.debate.org/opinions/is-water-wet
Is there anything you picked up instead when you had the urge. I’ve never tried quitting, but I have ceased for up to a week (visiting family, etc.) and get incredibly agitated and fidgety after a day or so.
Well, they did recently put in a requirement that any writers eligible to be paid has to have 100 followers. I think the point was to make it to where only authors with a decent following are rewarded; what it's done is make everyone follow everyone and muddied the water so much that "number of followers" is a terrible metric now.
> What's not to understand about that?

Whats not to understand is the moral punchline of any of this, which is left completely unjustified, and is merely implied, without any reasons given.

Don't just say "They have a board seat". Instead say "They have a board seat, and are using that board seat for bad things X,Y, and Z, which have negative consequences A, B, and C".

Do you see how the corrected statement, actually gives people something to engage with, instead of someone merely asserting the amoral, unopinionated fact of "They have a board seat"?

If you actually make an argument, then other people can judge if they agree that things X, Y, and Z are bad, or they can judge if they agree or disagree with the consequences of A,B, and C.

But, when someone just says "They have a board seat", they are making a unopinionated factual statement, as opposed to actually justifying what the tweets intend to imply, which is that them having a board seat is bad for certain reasons which are unstated.

Unfortunately, though, I expect the reasons as for why the moral arguments are unstated, is because the person doesn't actually have any moral arguments. Instead, they likely just want to imply that certain things are wrong, without actually having to defend or give reasons as for why the things are at all bad.
> “It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk”

It's totally safe, trust us - we're scientists!

> “The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric Mers viruses,” the source said.

What could possibly go wrong?
Once you make peace with not being able to have bookshelf full of paper books that, books, which, if you are honest with yourself, you:

- will only read once

- simply want to keep to fill up the bookshelf to let other people know that you read a lot

- have no intention of lending to people

- have no people who could / would inherit them

then it's nice to not have so much clutter and convenience to read from one device and at night.

Yes, the DRM issue sucks for the Kindle, but, again, when you don't tend to re-read books or lend them then it's not that noticeable an issue.
Which 15 or 16 inch laptop you don't see keypad?
Do you mean Mission Control? That can be configured in Trackpad prefs to respond to 4 finger swipe-up instead.
You're not allowed, and people will be absolutely furious at you for doing it. Also drivers rear-ending you.
Best Buy has Sandisk units.
>>scanning your passport in an airline mobile app to book an international flight comes to mind

Why? Proof of ID would be required at boarding time, and by Security who simply verify the supplied info matches the actual ID, but does not actually scan and store the document (nor should they)

I am unclear what in a booking process would require a person to scan in your passport to book the travel?

How would this work if I am a corporate booker needing to book flights for others, do I need to maintain a copy of their ID's?

Your example is pretty flawed, as is most examples you will come up with because in reality there is no reason to have to upload your ID. It is draconian and should be resisted by everyone for any purpose
> It has all the standard pieces that have been used in the React ecosystem for years

Yes, that's the problem. It has ALL the pieces, whether you are using them, whether you understand them or not. For example, most projects will use either babel typescript. CRA? It has both and extra logic to switch between the two.

I feel like a better approach would be / have been an "open book" config where there is minimal starting point and it teaches you how to add the extra bits you want/need. That way it would be kept as simple as possible, and people using CRA would actually understand the tools they are using.
The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts to Mars
A game or competition like judo has a clear set of rules and outcome.

With regards to business there is so much more than short term benefit. For example, these cable companies monopolies had low customer satisfaction, and I believe firmly it damages their reputation on the long term. But short term thinking doesn't care for that. So it becomes a kind of game like who's the best functioning psychopath. Good luck playing that game if you're not a psychopath (there's a reason these are highly represented in e.g. Wall Street).

In my opinion the CEO of Qwest won. He stood for a principle, he decided with his heart. That's a winning move in a tough, heartless world. A noble sacrifice, like Obi Wan.
"Oh yes, smoking is very bad and only very bad people do it and they will die and you will live forever if you don't smoke. Is it a happy story now?
Please don't accuse me of "thinking" anything I didn't say."

Nobody accused you of any of that.
My experience is that everyone claims they want the ability to go to a coffee shop, but very few actually exercise it. Obviously some will, like you, but not most. And unfortunately the perception of need drives behavior more strongly than actual need. Same with “off road” vehicles and trucks, people buy things based on capability they’ll never exercise.

Personally I loved the idea of working from a coffee shop until I actually tried it. Then I found that the glamour of the idea was much more than the experience of trying to do focused work in a noisy environment on a cramped keyboard. So instead I do work in my office, and leave my laptop permanently closed and connected like the worlds most expensive Mac Mini.
The easiest way for couples to share expenses – replaces Venmo and spreadsheets
Relationships are changing. Couples are moving in together quicker and getting married later. Thus, creating a period in which two partners are combining their lives, yet staying financially separate. The first big financial pain point a couple experiences together is expense sharing.

I'm building Tandem because I experienced this problem first hand. I had heard from too many people that there was no platform to help them navigate their financial life TOGETHER (especially as dual earning partners are now the norm). Tandem is not meant preempt the dreaded "finance talk", it is not a joint account. It’s a simple way to automate the manual Venmo and spreadsheet you already use with accounts you already have. Tandem allows you to automate repeat expenses and pay your partner all right within the app. Truly putting expenses on autopilot.

I'd love to hear how you think about finances with your partner. And if this sounds remotely interesting, please sign up at the link.
That is a modern macbook
The dattobd [1] block device driver fills this gap. It basically implements point in time like behavior on Linux, with hooks similar to the ones that VSS provides. It is used in the Datto Linux backup agent in combination with the backup appliance [2], but it can be used stand alone as well (see readme).

Disclaimer: I'm a software engineer at Datto.

[1] https://github.com/datto/dattobd

[2] https://www.datto.com/products/siris