skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fundamentally it comes down to how much value you assign to a human life, other then your own.

The situation is not as simple as you make it out to be. There is a growing body of evidence that lockdowns and other restrictions are causing significant mental health problems, including depression and alcohol/drug abuse, increasing incidences of domestic violence, impacting the physical, intellectual, social and emotional development of children, and preventing individuals from accessing healthcare services, which will result in future deaths from undiagnosed and late-diagnosed disease.

Not taking these things into account in a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns and other restrictions is not sensible.

> Our main failure has been in obtaining sufficient vaccine supplies, early enough, and therefore dragging all of this out far longer then necessary.

Looking at countries with much higher vaccination rates, including Israel and Singapore, the vaccines are clearly not a panacea. The virus is becoming endemic (if it isn't already), which means that at some point very soon, policies aimed at 0 COVID will need to be revisited if the countries that have embraced these policies are to ever get back to anything resembling normal.

The vaccines are effective at preventing hospitalization and death, which is a very good thing. The challenge is that, thanks apparently to Delta, breakthroughs are more common than hoped for, vaccinated people can still transmit the virus, and for the most part the people who are being hospitalized and dying with breakthrough infections are the very same people who are at greatest risk when unvaccinated -- the elderly and people with comorbidities such as obesity and diabetes.

Should we just give up on the elderly and people who have comorbidities? Of course not. But again, we also need to be realistic in our cost-benefit analyses.
> Some people say that they think something is wrong with object-oriented programming, but can any alternative that is so hard to explain be better?

Personally, I think that OOP has the opposite program. Abstractions such as classes, encapsulation, polymorphism etc. are to some extent easier to explain than abstractions such as monads, at least coming from an imperative background. But on the other hand, they’re much more difficult to apply correctly. I know I was greatly confused by how to use these OOP concepts until I looked into Smalltalk, which was the first time I had actually seen these concepts used effectively. By contrast, once you understand them, it is basically impossible to apply monads ‘incorrectly’. (I’m not even sure what that would mean.)

I suppose you could counter that this is just because OOP concepts are often explained poorly. But I’m not convinced that OOP concepts are any less difficult than monads to explain well. At most, I suspect it is easier to give someone the illusion of understanding OOP.
Radar can absolutely detect stationary objects. Your vehicle moving at 50 mph means a stationary object is moving at 50 mph relative to your radar.
Interesting. I actually think that scarcity is the only thing that NFTs have. I almost think of them as the purest distillation of scarcity. Everyone knows you can get a perfect copy of a Vermeer done for $10k. Why is the real Vermeer worth more? Because the guy with the real Vermeer knows that while you can have the lighting and you can have the shadows, you can’t have the scarcity. And the concept of an NFT is just the end game of that line of thinking.
I'd actually be curious to see an analysis of this. All of my experience suggests that there is indeed a significant difference in employee quality and a substantial cost imposed by turnover, but I'd love to see some data to the contrary, i.e. that the "employee as interchangeable cog" model is defensible.
I find just directly using Emacs in Termux less clunky than orgzly honestly. Mobile in general is a bit clunky compared to a regular machine, at least for anything involving typing, but Termux Emacs is fine for quick notes.
Worse, it totally delivered positive revenue to the Treasury, until the Bush Administration reforms changed its rate structure amd required insane future benefits be prepaid an excessively long time in advance.
Any given collection will have all the staying power of a beanie baby. Everyone moves on to the next non-fungible thing.
Ping will still likely work. At least I can ping all my machines on my private network. However, I'm not able to ssh into it or anything else, because all traffic is dropped.

It all depends on firewall configuration, but I think you may unnecessarily scare people by suggesting they're wide open just because ping works.
I admit my view is somewhat cynical, but I feel compelled to ask: what has this "national conversation" achieved? Can you draw direct relationships between a choice between two actual candidates and how your change of vote affected anything related to police training? I ask this not to hear about hypotheticals or idealisms, but because the one instance of actual widespread law enforcement brutality that I have familiarity with (Brazil's military dictatorship years) only came to an end because of special circumstances surrounding specific political connections at the time, not because of any direct participation of the populace (in fact as part of the transition back to democracy, there was even a "compromise" amnesty law that shielded perpetrators of torture from charges).

I've read on numerous occasions how the US flavor of democracy is similarly not actually all that representative of the opinion of the masses (honestly, I have a hard time believing in any claim that the same political environment that passed Texas' recent abortion laws is a high functioning democracy).

I maintain my utilitarian position that reading about something in the news and talking about hypothetical candidates on some tech forum is nowhere near the same level of civic engagement as actually getting involved directly.

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with reading news and not engaging in civics as a reaction, but the comment that prompted this discussion was about the relationship between reacting to news and the bigger picture for each person individually, and I think that identifying when time is being wasted is a pretty good start towards redirecting energy to activities that one considers important. </two-cents>
It is a hassle (we have to wear masks indoors) but the Uni I work at has about 5 positive out of 5000 tests a day compared to the surrounding community which has about 50 positives out of 5000 tests.

We are doing in person instructions, athletics, all sorts of things and we are very very clean. They sent me and my whole unit home in the last academic year because I am a coder and we run a web site but we kept in person instruction going. No serious cases in students, faculty and staff so we are proud.
> The other thing NVidia could do is keep all their GPUs for themselves and mine crypto.

Who says they are not already doing that in some capacity?
>1. Doesn’t have to be the same legislation or regulation effort. It’s okay to say “crime penalties shouldn’t be dangerous” as a response to “people who impose penalties on others should be subject to their own penalties” -> “those penalties are dangerous”.

In other words, you're for extra-judicial punishment?

>2. Why should I care more about the extrajudicial punishment of cops more than the extrajudicial punishment of the people they abuse?

Because we as a society don't believe in "eye for an eye".

>3. One of the best pieces of political advice I ever got was “demand the impossible”. Anything less is selling short whatever compromise you can achieve and reframing your next attempt. It doesn’t mean you stick to your demand, it just means you start from your principles and adjust from there.

There's a limit to this, right? If you believe in a full communist revolution, "start from your principles" will get you absolutely nowhere, whereas advocating for some pro-social policies might actually do (eg. medicare expansion, free daycare).
The additional 12 bytes to store the v6 address might not be trivial to find as well (connection state tables in kernels, additional space in DBs). There's also MTU issues.
Crypto currency mining using integrated photonics
I think that's an important point, kind of secondary but related to this.

But police don't lay charges, prosecutors do.

Once law enforcement is involved, and you're the 'bad guy' in their purview, then the prosecutors will stack charges. Like a negotiation "Oh, and you have this other thing, the fake money - we'll drop that if you admit to resisting arrest" etc.. It's more of a tactical ploy that I think police officers use everywhere, more aggressively in the USA.

I think that's an artifact of prosecutor's mentality, than policing.

That's another big opportunity for reform.
Canada grants asylum to four people who hid Edward Snowden in Hong Kong
The venn diagram of crypto people who think NFTs are absolutely idiotic almost exactly matches the venn diagram of crypto people who haven't really dug in and tried to understand NFTS.
> will have all the staying power of a beanie baby.

You're making a future prediction about an entire category invoking a specific instance from physical collectibles. Have all physical collectibles been subject to the fate of beanie babies?
Here’s an amazing email from Hal Finney on proto-NFTs 1993-

https://imgur.com/a/UJpFjzx

I think people who have been in bitcoin for 10 years are more skeptical of NFTs because suddenly they’re framed as the ultimate crypto use case. And Eth is ultra sound money. And while there’s some interesting generative art (eg deafbeef) most of the industry is hyping NFTs for videogames.

There are better and more transformative use cases than just the “metaverse”.
Source? I can only see news about the crash, nothing about chip harvesting
I absolutely hate modern design that tries to get rid of all the "distractions". I have had a bunch of my favorite applications get MUCH worse due to hiding or elimination of key features in the name of making a simple slick design.
Related? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bu...
Here are but a few sources for some of the statements I made; there are plenty more:

Obesity and COVID hospitalizations:
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm

Waning VE of vaccines (many more studies available from the CDC and others too):
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...

Pfizer medicine and unethical trial on Nigerian children in 1996:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/11/pfizer-nigeria...

I particularly think the Wikileaks that shows more unethical, illegal attempts to get out of it are even more interesting: "But last year a US diplomatic cable uncovered by WikiLeaks revealed that Pfizer hired investigators to look for evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general in an effort to persuade him to drop the legal action."

Your son or you "thought" he had it. I had it. A positive COVID test, and antibody tests 8 and 9 months later. Not my imagination.

I recommend the vaccine for friends who have not had COVID, but that is their choice not mine. If I were in my twenties, healthy, and no comorbidities, I wouldn't personally get it. You only need to look at the chart of COVID deaths and hospitalizations by age bracket, and you can see that the risk is very low. Let's see if there are any issues 3 to 5 years from now. Unfortunately, Pfizer vaccinated their control group, so long-term safety studies will have to be restarted or done by others.

People with prior infection should be angry about not being allowed to have the same access as vaccinated people. The US State department accepts it for entry into the US, but a pizzeria owner needs to turn away natural immunity folk? You wonder why there's anger? Japan, Singapore, Norway, the UK, and Ireland are doing away with COVID restrictions, and for the most part, vaccine passports. The US is completely ignoring natural immunity outside of entry to the US. Weird.
The best is psql, really, learn to use it.
(2020)

About Lee Holloway of Cloudflare.
The First Set of Syncfusion .NET MAUI Controls
You don’t have to dig in to understand there is a distributed ledger saying you “own” a jpeg
OT, but whenever I think of bears eating things, I just imagine Yogi Bear saying "pic-a-nic baskets", and it makes me smile :)
i can’t tell if this is satire, but just for explicitness: this is nowhere near any level of acceptable mathematical rigor
Cue the standard quote about Bozo the Clown[1]. The fact that a bunch of people (idiot or non-idiot) have done a thing isn't itself positive evidence that that thing is good.

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?TheyLaughedAtEinstein
The same could be said for cryptocurrency as a whole. https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1399058952336277505
Because their products are used by over 2 billion people a day and according to their own research it's having a negative impact on a significant chunk of them.
If you don't mind my asking, what model flip phone did you settle on? I had one I really liked, but carriers are dropping support for the 3G network it uses, and it seems like all the 4G-compatible options either run Android or have issues with basic functionality like receiving calls. (Or both!)
No one you know uses Instagram and/or Whatsapp?
Starlink Fast Lane?
SpaceX is, lately, lofting satellites with laser links to other satellites, I assume pointing them at others leading and following in the same orbit, so they don't need to track.

An orbit near 70° inclination takes satellites over New York and London. This enables Starlink to deliver traffic between those spots several milliseconds ahead of literally anybody else. Similar should be possible between NY or Europe and Asian markets.

Banks have spent many tens of $millions on microwave towers to get financial data between NYC and CHI just a few ms ahead of competition stuck on fiber 30% slower.

I wonder, is SpaceX offering these low-latency connections to banks for the big bucks? And, charging even more not to offer the same to competitors, too? Would the FCC allow the latter?
In what way doesn't Ubiquity sorry it? I'm using only Ubiquity gear at home, and my network is fully IPv6.

My router is an Edgerouter by the way.

I do recall seeing some of the configuration wizard stuff not having options for IPv6 in the past, but that's just for initial configuration anyway. Once you are done with that you do everything from the config tree anyway.
Someone pointed out recently on NANOG the thing that probably killed a TON of IPv6 momentum was when they missed the deadline to get it included in Windows 95. Approximately no one was on the internet before then.

(Yes yes you nerds were, but most people weren't)
I used Atom before VSCode. I'm still in love with its minimalistic design and somehow font rendering in Atom better than in VSCode (still not sure why, I tried to play with settings and stuff, but nothing changed).
It was the first prominent Sublime Text alternative with JS that I use every day and quickly wrote my extensions, hack it and play with it.
There were even interesting decisions like a Rust-based rendering engine[1] using graphics without HTML and DOM (the same old problem with faster text rendering with web techs).

In my opinion, the ONE big thing that killed Atom was LSP[2]. VSCode was slightly better in everything, but good performance and LSP destroyed Atom and damaged all other editors (like Sublime).

But MS plays dirty here too. In VSCode, LSP works with many inner hacks. You can't get the same experience with LSP in other editors because some features are part of the editor, not just LSP. But I think LSP is excellent and use it in Emacs and Vim too. For Rust, it's maintained by the Rust team and the default "engine" for editors.

Anyway, I'm still using Atom today with a minimalistic theme and setup to edit markdown files with code and as a text editor with a friendly GUI overall.

1) https://github.com/atom-archive/xray

2) https://langserver.org/
Answer. Your iPhone is never actually off.
It's really impressive how fast it can kill a plant. Overwatering is the first thing that comes to mind tell me that their beloved plant is dying.
I mean, true 0 would mean the battery couldn't ever charge again. My iPhones have consistently always turned off when the indicator is on 1%, which of course is probably 5% of the actual battery.
It's the current scapegoat for 'disinformation', giving the government and all other propaganda peddlers a breather.
My favorite take-home assignment was from Signal.

They wanted me to code an http server that implements a REST api using "select" in Java in four hours.

I got half of it (the http server) done in eight hours and "failed" but I had a fun time doing it because I always wanted to learn how to write that kind of server and now I know more about how http works.

If I wasn't certain that I'd learn something from the experience I wouldn't have done it, but I was.
Hacktobetfest Starter Kit
Ironically, this makes spotting the security team’s phish-testing emails even easier, because they don’t have the warning header or middleman-obfuscated URLs.
Please don't block ttl exceeded packets... It will cause some very hard to troubleshoot network issues for someone somewhere sometime.
> This would have been more interesting if the author had traced where all the money being plowed into NFTs is coming from.

Not possible to trace where the money is coming from.

In fact, someone can "sell" an NFT to themself in a wash trade between two wallets they control. The last trade price of the NFT is now recorded as the transaction price, but it's possible that money never actually changed hands.

Want to have an expensive NFT? Just trade it to yourself for as much money as you have in your crypto wallet. You keep the money, you keep the NFT, but now everyone can see that someone "paid" a certain amount for it.
One of my favourite what ifs
https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
As I mentioned, I'm not criticizing the news reporters, I do respect what they do. This thread originated to talk about individual reactions to news. If you read aboud injustices and go out on the streets and protest and that actually makes a difference, more power to you. Though realistically speaking, I'm not sure movements like BLM are making much of a difference, unfortunately (I would love to be proven wrong here though!)
My theory is most people do not realize just how much of their "water" bill is actually sewage costs. Pumping clean water is nothing compared to sewage. Yet most cities present the water bill as a split cost between water and sewage.

We are on septic despite being 100meters from the border of tokyo. Our costs for quatery inspections, and a yearly pumping are about 220 dollars. In exchange our water bill is about 40dollars every two months, so twenty a month. This is half what we paid in Tokyo while using much less water.

Now compare to many water bills in the states where many towns have over built sewage systems and you often year families spending a hundred or more a month. I strongly suspect cities hide the cost of sewage behind the water supply charge. They run the departments as one and assume all supplied water is drained.
I had a principal engineer who wouldn’t use the term “best practices”. Instead, he called them “proven practices.” I’ve adopted that term myself, because it is much more accurate- there is a body of knowledge on how to build software well, but it’s a tool kit not an instruction manual.

There also really is software engineering that goes on- I work in an org that does extensive analysis, testing, and validation of firmware before it is rolled out. It’s a real thing. That being said, so is cranking out a CRUD web app with zero testing to make our PMs data collection tasks easier. It’s all on a continuum. The key trick for software “engineering” versus just development is knowing where in the continuum a given project needs to be and what tools are appropriate in that context.
>Which actually makes them a reasonable choice for this kind of thing if you plan on designing it once, sticking it on box somewhere and expect to be able to buy another in 5-8 years when it dies.

I used to think this way but technology moves at a breakneck speed sometimes that the old ways are outdated. I remember being excited for the Pi because it could play quake 3 and had 1080p playback. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18853 Now stuff like this exists. http://www.quakejs.com/ https://openarena.live/
> there is an entirely new world of opportunity ... any distributed form of ownership

That is what people say, but what I don't understand is what ownership is actually conferred with NFTs. The only "ownership" is the ability to transfer the NFT to another person, which simply gives them the ability to transfer it to another person (which sounds a bit MLMy).

For ownership to be worth more than that, you need a legal system and a legal contract ... so back to square one.
4. The scalpers are the same company that sells the tickets.
That extension is not safe / correct afaict.
Everything is framed as the ultimate crypto use case, because crypto doesn't have a use case. No one needs money capped at 8 transactions per second world-wide, which costs ever-increasing amounts of electricity to trade.

All of these things end up being an exercise in cryptocurrency people in a round-about way proclaiming to the world that they don't know what a thing is.

For example: NFTs are a great idea to people who have never read an undergrad definition of what art is.
Yeah it can be overwhelming fast. I have these little sticky traps in about half my pots and they work very well:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00GYBCZN4/

They are non-toxic since it's just sticky and I cut them in two so at 24 traps/9$ it's pretty inexpensive. You also get replacement sticky pads (not affiliated I just really love those).
Ask HN: What advice would you give a senior software engineering student?
> Scarcity is fundamental to any store of value. There are an infinite number of potential altcoins.
Signal is centralized and is an obvious target for surveillance so I would not even remotely rely on it.
Why do people want Picassos? Show them off, appear sophisticated, an investment, etc. Crypto Punks are something a wealthy segment of society likes and because they are graphical and fit neatly into an avatar, they become like an expensive watch except for the digital set. This phenomenon is not hard to understand.
Wait, did you just attempt to reframe the conversation under the axiom that "instagrammable" === "better"?
Can you name a scenario you think of for this purpose? I only see trying out hardware you may want, or just having it be good enough to stay as a temp semi-permanent solution to an issue you have.
The difference between an NFT and a tulip is that it's actually somewhat difficult to grow a tulip.
Retrospective: My Experience Writing Data Management at Scale
As soon as I see or hear the words "bitcoin", "blockchain" or any DeFi project for that matter, my brain automatically assigns the label "moron" to the person. It's like when I see a girl I like smoking. 10 to 0 in a milisecond. It's high-stakes gambling at least, total fraud at most.

It's not surprising that a lot of known MLM scammers in my country moved into DeFi.
This is what I rigged up a while back. You can really go crazy with an RPi based monitoring system but just automatically squirting a bit of water in every day works well in my experience. This will keep plants going for a couple of weeks even if some usually end up a bit dry at the end.

You could always rig up a transfer pump from another bucket if you need more total water.

https://bitmason.blogspot.com/2019/01/keeping-my-herbs-alive...