skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep thinking, even though I myself have gotten vaccinated against COVID-19, and I wish that as many people as possible get the vaccine too so we can have a chance of herd immunity, that in a way maybe a small small amount of people not getting vaccinated is good.

I think of this because I think, even though I trust the vaccine to be safe, what if there are unknown side-effects. In that way it is good that some people don’t get vaccinated. So that humanity still has some people that don’t get those side effects.

So in a way, it would be like a natural way for the human race as a whole, to continue existing, by some people not getting vaccinated and possibly being the ones that made the right choice after all.

Does that make sense? I think it does. Even though I believe in the vaccine. But I am talking about the bigger picture of the humanity as a whole over the whole course of its history. That it’s like a strategy that helps us survive by having us believe different things and therefore acting differently on the same information. And that sometimes one group of people is right, and usually it’s the majority group. But that this helps us survive those times when the minority is actually right.
I do think it’s counterproductive that it was even possible for people to use Bitcoin as an asset. I doubt that Satoshi foresaw Bitcoin billionaires.

Currencies have historically worked that they’re stable (ish). And to become rich you have to acquire more units. Not hope your units grow in value. If you expect appreciation then your currency is deflationary which makes it unsuitable for a currency.
I don't even know why. On my distro, there's nothing in it by default anyway.
Scuttlebutt: Decentralised, off-grid, mesh network and self-hosted social media
Different kinds of support requests are very different.

"Please don't ask as much of me in the future, I am at a breaking point"

"Please do more for me in the future, I am at a breaking point"

You see the difference in these two? In the first you ask for yourself to do less. In the second you ask for your partner to do more. The second often leads to your partner also burning out and then nobody has any capacity to spare creating a horrible situation.

The super power isn't the support part, but being able to live with less part. Demanding high living standards and thus high workload from your partner is the kryptonite.
I think you're going to get some shit, but I agree. Lock-step action is almost never the smartest solution, even if it may be the right one.
It is much more likely that Insurers will buy Congress and the Medicare age will go up and Republican states will opt out.
When I was in high school, I took photos and write posts on paper. Then I post them on Facebook when I got access to the internet (in timeframe of less than an hour in 2 days)
Fair. Particularly the point you make about Docker not being compatible with 16.04 - and, I will make the following confession - everything I said in that post applied to my work system - which is a linux laptop - and almost everything I do there is predicated on things like new python modules, new vscode innovations, new pandas releases - all sorts of things that don't really benefit from the latest and greatest. And, yes - as your OS gets older you need to start to rely on alternative repos like https://launchpad.net/~deadsnakes/+archive/ubuntu/ppa for important things. I guess the point I was trying to make is that I wish, and would pay for (or have my company pay for) distros that just kept everything packaged and running smoothly for 5 year cycles (10 years is probably a bit much, I'll grant you that), understanding that yes, when it comes to innovations like containerization or hypervisors - you might have to bite the bullet and move forward an OS release.

At home - I'm a MacOS user, and work very hard not to upgrade the to a new OS in the first month it's released, and am quite comfortable upgrading to a new laptop every 4-5 year.

So, I like new things for my personal environment. It's just my work environment that I want to stay the same for as long as possible.
It seems USA is excluded from the working holiday program

https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/w_holiday/index.html
$ echo hel$'\x70'
help
>Our police and prosecution ought to be enough review on its own.

They are not.

>Innocent man, 23, sues Arizona police for $1.5million after being arrested for MURDER and jailed for six days when Google's GPS tracker wrongly placed him at the scene of the 2018 crime

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7897319/Police-arre...
Yes the economic system is the worst when it goes unchecked in areas of market failure like health insurance in the US.
As arstechnica noted, the XPS 13 is not a great comparison point because the display is darker and has a lower resolution.
How the fuck does a single stitch cost that much money? It's not like the Australian government is paying $47k to hospitals under Medicare. Things just don't cost that much.
participation in society requires personal responsibility. Don’t want to be responsible? Don’t engage then. Not addressing the rest of that asinine comment.
Exactly. You need the boogie man. You can’t exactly nuke it .

It’s like NK and the US. They keep bellowing about their rockets, but they’ll never fire them.
In a rural area you buy a cheap building and buy all the tools. In an urban area, for most of these at least, you join a makerspace. Many urban makerspaces have hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tools.
Alabama is fifth highest in deaths per million by state, and I'd assume that this is simply an issue of birth rates. Combine that with a lot of poor drug addicts, and you have your answer.
at this point SoftBank seems somewhat like a crack addict willing to taking riskier and riskier bets in order to chase their initial high.
> I joined, planning on an 18-month stay (like my previous two gigs), but left, 27 years later.

> I made some effort to find new work, after leaving that company…

I'm curious why you left, if you want to share!
Many people in the US are still under the mistaken belief that we have "the best healthcare in the world"[1], and the only reason for that is the for-profit "free market". Essentially a blind faith in capitalism married with ignorance of the facts.

1. U.S. health-care system ranks last among 11 high-income countries, researchers say https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/05/global-healt...
Concussions in American Football
I think the post is really confused about what that advice is trying to talk about. It's not talking about programs which call system("sudo ..."), but rather programs which have privileges which want to run other programs. The behavior of system() is controlled by many environment variables, which means that it's tricky for such a program to be able to safely use system() without allowing for a security hole of using the privileged program to run another arbitrary program as root.
Anti-vax folks could infect and kill more than one person who did not want to die.

At this point how is it much different from hacking someone with a machete? Except then the person has a fighting chance.

Let’s not look beyond the extreme reality right now seeking to apply normal morality.
Shopping Geek? Avoid Online Hack And Online Scammers: https://www.hackerslist.co/shopping-geek-avoid-online-hack-a...
Having had a large-format e-book reader since March, I'm largely convinced that most of the unsuitability of reading to screens isn't document formats, but screens.

I picked up an Onxy BOOX Max Lumi, with a 13.3" 220 dpi grayscale display. It's virtually indistinguishable from paper in terms of print quality. Contrast is somewhat lower, though this increases readability under direct sunlight (lower glare). The frontlight makes indoor reading quite pleasant.

The device is large, and I thought it might be too big. My use case was reading older scanned-in journal articles without having to rely too much on in-page zoom and navigation, and to be able to read most books in a 2-up format. It excells at both.

It's also a remarkably effective Android tablet, almost too much so (I'd prefer fewer distractions).

But yeah: the reason that reading on desktops, laptops, and smartphones is such a poor experience has much less to do with digital file formats, and far more to do with displays and devices that are too cumbersome, poorly-sized, or poorly-suited to reading.

I could still see some improvements. I've yet to find a device that has good library manangement on the device itself. Many have far too little storage (the reMarkable inexplicably has only 16 GB total storage, most of that is utilised by the OS itself). I'd consider 128 GB a minimum and would be far more comforatable with a 512 GB -- 1 TB storage (books plus podcast audio downloads). Costs are low and falling.

My other principle concern is that many ebooks are very poorly designed, typeset, and structured for digital devices. This starts with filenames themselves, metadata, tables of contents, typography (I vastly prefer serif to sans serif fonts), and more. It's often much more aesthetically pleasing to read a scan of an older book than a direct-to-digital publication (though of course there are numerous exceptions in both cases).
Tunguska and Chelyabinsk were about 105 years apart, and it looks like there are roughly 40 people who lived through both on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe...

So, maybe two?
Hmm...I've worked in silicon valley (either there, or remote) for 25 years and have constantly run into brits.

The holiday thing isn't quite what it seems because while brits will write down the 1/2 day they took off to go to the dentist, Americans do not.

The racist/fascist thing is concerning, but the UK doesn't look so good these days either (Brexit, Boris, ...)

US seems to be doing like Churchill said : Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives
Covid death rate is 1 for every 477 people (US population / US covid deaths)... given that those deaths are not being distributed equally it's not surprising
Had two small kids in NYC and it was great. No driving and playgrounds everywhere. Museums to.

SF I'm with you. That city is just brutal on any family
This is a view that reduces humanity to ants, or bots, or Borg. Especially divorced from any particular ideology or necessity, what you are advocating is the treatment of individuals as disposable units, directed to die by a faceless and unaccountable power structure. That was the case with the Kamikaze, and it's the case with jihadis now. Interestingly, it only seems to happen in the service of totalitarian ideologies. Revolutionaries who advocate for human rights or democracy don't tend to obliterate themselves. They want to be around to take care of their families.

In short, your view doesn't just prioritize the group over the individual - it prioritizes the worst possible groups.
There should be, but this is an example of poorly-targeted regulation where (by design) it makes it easier for large incumbents to hire a team of consultants to manage red tape and smaller, leaner, and perhaps smarter players from appearing in the market due to only the made-up problem of compliance.

Large organizations can look out for themselves, Governments, in an ideal world, should entirely exist to serve the people and should also be comprised of them. The problem with elections is that it, by and large, dissuades competent people who would otherwise be good members of government and attracts among the worst kind of person who is hungry for power which lobbies play on to get their way.
The first and last time AIM was hacked
With those specs, I am almost scared of asking - how much did it cost?
how are things in the winter time?
> "Drive like everyone is trying to crash into you"

That advice (for cyclists) was also in one of Neal Stephenson's early novels, Zodiac... I've found it useful. Now I just get annoyed when drivers insist on yielding to pedestrians and cyclists when they don't need to, it would be faster if they didn't and they aren't blocking any other traffic. The driver feels like they've helped, I guess, but the pedestrians are not safer.
I tried to use ID.me, and learned that they only support Chrome and completely broke their MFA implementation[1]. I found their support page and submitted a message in June. I received messages in July and August saying it was still in the queue. No response since.

When I reported a compatibility issue with login.gov and Mobile Safari’s restrictions on WebAuthn which had shipped a few weeks earlier, I got a quick reply and they shipped the update within a month.

1. MFA using SMS returns an error code and a link to a support page which does not exist, FIDO (it gives an error immediately rather than triggering the standard dialog like every other site), and TOTP has the option to copy the secret disabled in the HTML.
Scuttlebutt does have some downsides, some documented in this interview with Joey Hess:

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-14-secure-scuttlebu...
The Dutch can use I Reveal My Attributes https://irma.app based on Idemix that allows revealing “Age above 13” https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/. Source at https://github.com/privacybydesign

Driving force Bart Jacobs won the 2021 Stevin Prize €2.5M for his work on privacy & security https://www.ru.nl/english/research/prizes-achievements/stevi...
Fascinating as the desktop computer and running Linux on it are, I find the blog's domain name (in Japanese, is it Katakana?) and HN's rendering of the URL even more riveting.
I've reassigned it to Ctrl+Shift+Alt+] because that is one of the key combinations I'll never press accidentally... or intentionally, for what it matters: what do I need this overaly for anyway? Also, it's also somehow easily memorizable, after all, I still remember it after 4 years since I've bought my NVidia graphics card.
No, Covid-19 is not America's Deadliest Pandemic
Truly. There's some standard approaches like beta-adjusting that can be done to put things on equal footing in different market regimes but it's only one part of what determines a stock's performance.

Testing for the significance of someone's average returns for example often can be rules of thumb. For example, given a return stream of a trading strategy, the Sharpe ratio (mean return/vol) is directly related to the t-stat of the mean return being different than 0 (mean ret / (vol/sqrt(n)). Several simplifying assumptions must be made about the distributions of returns that don't line up with reality to do the above but it's mostly a heuristic that will let you say "ah, the Sharpe is X over the last 5 years? That's significantly different enough than 0 for it to be tradeable."
I'm a big Mastodon supporter, and I like the idea of SSB but I just couldn't manage the storage/bandwidth/latency costs on my phone. I tried out Manyverse for a few weeks a few years back when my friends were using it but it took XX minutes to sync every time I opened up the app, and posts I saw were always days old and out of date. A very annoying user experience for a mobile application and eventually I just uninstalled it. (It actually reminded me of using Google Keep, another app that regularly locks me out of my notes to do "housekeeping" every few days—at least Manyverse has a good excuse!)
He mentions a reasonable reason as to why his wife can't get vaccinated sure, but that has no affect on him getting vaccinated. The enforcement might be heavy handed, but as you mentioned other places including the US have some sort of vaccine mandate and moving isn't going to solve the issue.
It's sad for the people that continue to believe the Vax'd politicians and Fox news / Other source pundits also Vax'd that there is a conspiracy. Sadly we won't see mass murder charges against said vax'd pundits. But you reap what your beliefs sew.
New Zealand could work if you're looking for a similar culture and like the outdoors. Might be hitting the budget if it's Auckland but somewhere like Christchurch might be easier. The smaller cities are cheaper still but not much of a social life, I'd save them for travelling or visits rather than being based there. Just be aware groceries and most domestic products are a ripoff compared to the US.
Article is behind paywall.
Also the light - I think I read that it was brighter than the Sun from some vantage points.

"duck and cover" which people tend to scoff at seemed to be exactly the correct approach as a schoolteacher saved their class that way.
True, but that has no bearing on facts. And I did use the word 'perhaps'.

The tragedy is people are dying there more than many other places in the US, so that begs the question as to why. Covering the issues up with sweet words or ignoring them doesn't help the next lot who'll become infected and those who are seriously ill and about to die.
Less than 2k probably.
It's the only way to read it.
Not as extreme, but I burned my hands on bacon grease a few years back and needed a trip to the ER and some bandages on both hands. When they were signing me out, I asked what care I was supposed to do for the bandages and they said to come back tomorrow and someone could show me.

A few weeks after, it was quite a surprise to receive a not one, but two pricey ER bills!

While the hospital ended up waiving the second visit, I imagine many people either pay it or go into debt especially since it required a couple of hours during business hours to sort out.
I keep thinking, even though I myself have gotten vaccinated against COVID-19, and I wish that as many people as possible get the vaccine to so we can have a chance of herd immunity, that in a way maybe a small small amount of people not getting vaccinated is good.

Imagine reading that sentence in a newspaper op-ed in 1956 but with the word "polio" in place of "COVID-19".
"How our refusal to get vaccinated has upended my family's life"
If you haven’t tried already and you’re interested, you might try filing a FOIA request for any documents that the company might have. The early days OSS / SSU documents are largely public information these days and when they’re not, it can be the result of an oversight that a request reviewer might notice if prompted. I don’t think much of anything from that era is currently considered to be sensitive information.
Isn't the "standard" shortcut for "go to line #" actually Ctrl+G?
why do capital letters even still exist? what’s the point really?
Stocks confer ownership. Is she spending government money at a company that she is a partial owner of?
Why do anti-vaxxers get a pass when it comes to “do no harm to others”?
Returns alone mean nothing to evaluate an investment strategy against an other. At the _very_ least you would need to compare with the same level of volatility.
According to Wikipedia's list[1], it's the strongest earthquake Australia has had since 1997, and that one was in a remote part of Western Australia.

"A Seismologist tells @abcmelbourne it’s the biggest earthquake Victoria has experienced since European settlement" [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Austral...
2. https://twitter.com/bridgerollo/status/1440467927140999174
What's the best e-ink display these days for reading?
The type of project most often found is Shell. The majority of code is something else.

The heros can be the one or two people on the project who make it happen. It doesn't need to be 10,000 developers, I would expect different silos to emerge with a group that large.
And what about people who haven't had a compelling reason to maintain a running comparative opinion of their local ERs, simply because they don't have a chronic condition that keeps sending them back to ERs?

OP's point is valid: it's reasonable to expect someone to look up information before deciding on, say, where to eat that evening. It's farcical to expect someone experiencing acute angina or stroke symptoms to inform themselves about their free-market healthcare options by looking up online reviews or whatever for local ERs.
The name as displayed on HN is the "real" domain name, it's a format called Punycode, used to allow Unicode domain names despite DNS only allowing a subset of ASCII characters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode
> 5,000 word whining screed where the author carefully dodges addressing the obvious solution

> So what will we do?

What you do is you get the fucking vaccine. Sometimes you have to bend a little for the betterment of the society you inhabit, it's always surprising to see literate and otherwise-intelligent people who completely miss that.
There is a logical idea behind it, of course! I didn't say it was snake oil anywhere. Kafka was even pretty novel 7 years ago when I started deploying it (although 0.9 was an enormous dumpster fire)

Today you also have Pulsar, Redpanda, Kinesis, PubSub, and NATS off the top of my head. You can do the same streaming patterns with all of them, with the exception of log compaction probably. It's an architecture so amazing that the world needs 6 redundant implementations. I think my OP implied something regarding that.
Good for you I guess. Virtually no one has the privilege of being able to just quit their their shitty job and take a risk like that but nice if you can.
I currently use a T440S, with Arch Linux, and fairly recently replaced batteries. I feel like I only get 5 hours or so. Although if I’m on my work computer, with my T440s open next to me and I’m lightly using it throughout the day then it easily lasts all day, with like 30-40% remaining at the end of the workday. My biggest beef is that the replacement batteries these days seem bad - even brand new Lenovo brand ones degrade really fast. My assumption is that they’re not being manufactured anymore, and so a “new” battery is actually new old stock and has been sitting around for years. I am tempted to upgrade to a newer laptop.
This is clearly unacceptable!

I only want in my phones Western-compliant censorship where we cannot talk about certain topics related to Covid, or criticize certain groups who hold power.
"pollux://"
Without covid the population change from births and deaths would’ve stayed nearly flat in 2020. Covid added 8-10k deaths (I couldn’t find a source to easily calculate this, sorry.)

Alabama isn’t alone, though; 25 states had the same problem last year. Here’s a map. https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/snapshot/2020-deaths-exce...
What? Who is arguing more speech = more freedom?

Speech restrictions limit the subject matter if speech, not the sheer volume of speech overall.

You also seem to be conflating the freedom to say what you want with the right to be listened to.
I recently walked away from well over 7 figures for this very reason. Its one of the best damn decisions I have ever made. So much happier now.
About the water part: Historically you are completely right, but with the crazy amount of global shipping in the 21st century, I think lots of sea impacts would be detected and/or sink a couple of ships. Take a look at vessel finder and you'll see that there are only a few areas where ships are really far apart.
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy_(archaeology)
Netgear MitM RCE: Mama Always Told Me Not to Trust Strangers Without Certificate
‘Blade Runner’ Studio Has Two Employees to Keep Franchise’s Timeline Organized
Rule of thumb I'm familiar with suggests that a Tunguska-scale event is rougly a once-a-century occurrance. Frequently scales inversely with size on a logarithmic basis (10x larger is 10x less frequent).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_event#Frequency_and_ris...