skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...to be a good way to prevent the transmission of an airborne disease, especially like Covid, which involves generally a lot of coughing."

But that's the point! COVID can be spread by asymptomatic individuals! No coughing! And it's spread by aerosol particles, not large droplets that would be stopped by the gauze masks from 1919. Or if you stay a few feet away from other people and washed your hands before you touched your face.

I've posted links before from pre-2019 about the effectiveness of masks and the difficulties in getting people to wear them consistently and correctly. I've posted links before to papers from May and June, 2020, discussing asymptomatic transmission. This (https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/20/epidemiolo...) is an article by an actual, honest-to-gosh epidemiologist saying, "I changed my mind on masks in March 2020, as testing capacity increased and it became clear how common asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic infection were (since aerosols were the likely vector)."

You can doubt anything you want. You can believe Dr. Murray is lying. You can believe I'm lying. You can believe everyone is lying to you. But you are going to have a difficult time convincing rational people with no better evidence than your opinion.
At this point, there's only two mobile OS players. All of these upstarts don't have enough market share to count (hopefully, just for now).

Nobody's family members use something other than iOS/Android. Maybe some of your friends do, but that's a small market.

With that established, just because one uses iOS/Android does not mean they are not about openess or security or privacy or whatever. It probably just means they are a human being that has only so much time in their life and they need a mobile device that works and operates with their friends and families. Just like why people continue to use FB/Twit/blah; that's where the people are.
For me it's a few things that keep me from fully embracing it, & largely the problem is perception, as others have noted.

1. I'm a small-time self hoster. I need/want to control access to geographic locations and using IPv4 makes that pretty easy. Last time I checked, IPv6 was just so wrong that it's no good to use at all, and most IPv6 addresses were "unknown" in origin.

2. I'm used to the pseudo security that a NAT gives. I hear (ad nausea) about how NAT gives you no security. The simple truth is that obscurity does give yet another layer of protection, especially for machines that you're busily configuring to become secure. Of course, a real sysadmin here will be able to scoff and laugh, but for this homebrew old timer it's true.

But also, there's the obfuscation of your IP address when you're behind a NAT. This is pretty important in these ad tracking days. AFAIK (which is almost zero), doesn't IPv6 give adware companies a very good fingerprint on you?

3. All those ICMPv6 messages sniffing (and snooping?) really don't fill me with joy joy happiness. The only recourse is to read some dead boring RFC that my poor overloaded brain doesn't really want to have anything to do with. With IPv4, if you don't want PING, you turn it off, with IPv6.... it's subtle.

4. Firewalls require two sets of independent entries for the same service.

So, IPv4 is an address space that's understood. IPv6 really does feel like a Godzillian monstrosity and a chore to type in: double colons between every number and it's in Hex? At least with IPv4 you can type the numbers in pretty rapidly on a numpad.

So, I know this answer will be unpopular, especially to professionals, but for everyone I've encountered that's turned it off, the above list is pretty accurate.

Every few years I search around for a true "IPv4 to IPv6 for noobs" and every time I only find "It's the same... with these gajillion subtle differences". So, yeah, perception is definitely an issue, but scoffing at NAT doesn't help uptake at all.
I really do try to be a good netizen, but it's hard.
(that said, I do have a mail server set up to use ipv6 and all is good... except for the lists of unknown sources who hammer away at its security all day, every day)
TDD Conference 2021 How TDD sensitized me to speed as a regular workplace habit?
Hourly rates are the least desirable way for freelancers to get paid. I understand that’s the norm but it’s not a good model because it emphasizes the wrong thing (time spent) and introduces the wrong incentives.

If you sell your time you should set up retainer agreements. That’s similar to what f/t employees do.

Better, charge based on business value. With my customers I ask them to list their pain points and issues and then assign priorities and value to those. We both know what the work is worth. Getting it done faster than expected usually means the work is more valuable.

We all use this model every day. When I eat a restaurant I pay for the meal, not the time. When I pay someone to mow my lawn I expect a flat price based on the work, not to pay by the hour.

If you and your customer working together can’t define the tasks, put them in order, and assign values to them then you’re not doing the necessary requirements gathering and analysis. That’s how so many freelancer engagements end up in failure, disappointment, anger, and legal mediation.
Also, I have no idea what actually happened in this case. But to speculate/generalize:

Your argument would have more weight if you'd give facts instead of speculating what could have happened.

What actually did happen?
As long as the timeframe scales with the size of the battery. A phone battery should be swappable in a few minutes. A car battery should be swappable in a day or two. They have to be heavily shielded in case of an accident.
Deaf Man Who Couldn't Hear Police Commands Was Tased and Spent 4 Months in Jail
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My grandparents and great grandparents all lived on 4+ acre properties in rural Louisiana. Not quite cottages, but a similar concept. They had 1100 - 1300sq foot homes but lived along the river and you could get to all of their houses without ever leaving River Road. They lived about 1 hour from the nearest city and were about halfway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans and had a gigantic community social group. They knew everyone in town and my folks knew everyone in their town through them. Hell, I know a lot of people in their hometown through them.

My parents own a 1600 sq foot house but live on a quarter acre lot and my dad has always regretted not purchasing an additional lot back when he purchased the land to build their house. They live in a suburb of New Orleans. They knew the neighbors and some of the people in the community who were from their hometowns.

I live in a 2400 sq foot house on a 1/5th of an acre lot and I am within a short drive from all the amenities of city life near Dallas. Can't say I know a whole lot of my neighbors. Everyone keeps to themselves.

Any time before second day shipping, if you had asked me if I wanted to live out on the land like my grandparents, I'd have looked at you like you had 3 heads.

Now though? I'd take it in a heartbeat. They had a garden that was over an acre. Trees filled with figs and oranges and pecans. A trellis built with railroad ties that was covered with grapes and blackberries and chayote depending on the time of the year. They always had enough root vegetables, cabbage, etc. to last through the winter months. No HOA to worry about, no zoning ordinances to mess with, you just live your life on your property.
Sure but cash in hand always trumps hidden costs for a majority of the people (if you're on HN, you're likely not working class majority - people who make below median income). If the European governments were actually serious about climate change vs mostly theatre, they'd figure out how to make public transportation cost less. The pricing of trains in Europe has always felt stupid to me
They're already successfully deployed in a subset of the Phoenix metro area, so not very mad, probably.
There's similar issues with possums in New Zealand, who also have no natural predators there and have flourished. New Zealand wants to eradicate them to save their native birds.

But what's interesting is: the same possum is extremely endangered in it's native habitat in Australia because of so many introduced predators.

So do you go to war to kill the invasive species, even if that contributes to their extinction?

Does it matter that as an invasive species, they might cause multiple species of birds to go extinct?

Lots of interesting ecological, biological, and ethical things to consider.
Is this because you specifically asked for a driverless permit? From the post,

> Cruise has had state authority to test autonomous vehicles on public roads with a safety driver since 2015 and authority to test autonomous vehicles without a driver since October 2020.

> Waymo has had state authority to test autonomous vehicles on public roads with a safety driver since 2014 and received a driverless testing permit in October 2018.
We have been running one for employees on and off since 2017.
With our roots at CoreOS and in the OpenShift org of Red Hat, we've got a solid amount of experience building distributed infrastructure in Go. We toyed around with the idea of using Rust, as the reliable software building darling du jour, but ultimately we felt like with this team, at this time, we would create a better product in Go.
> goods

Drugs. The term you are looking for is drug, because numerous studies have shown the effect on brain chemistry[2] and behavior[1] from social media addiction could be as bad as hard drugs.

[1] https://www.addictioncenter.com/news/2019/09/excessive-socia...

[2] https://neurogrow.com/what-social-media-does-to-your-brain/
I thought e-zines were long dead. I remember those distributed on floppy disks.
I feel the same way about woodwork, sure there's gimmicky creators but the reality of the hobby is nobody is getting rich or famous, selling pieces will barely cover material costs and having the fanciest gear won't necessarily give you a better finished piece.

Although epoxy river tables make me cringe everytime I see one...
So many smartphones with digitizers having dead zones after just four years....
Very true but Java devs tend to have limited perspective and flexibility. If you get rid of the cruft it’s a fine language.
Hmm, my experience in the US with CenturyLink Fiber's 6rd implementation suggests it's also slower than IPv4 (I went from ~900/900 to ~500/500 when I enabled it). I decided I could live with that, but it's still a little disappointing.
In your example, read the spring manual. You need the inference to help spring generate proxies for your service class. You could use cglib to remove this requirement but it's the way the spring API has been for ages. Also using an interface let's you easily mock things out and write dummy test implementations. Pretty valuable.
You're wrong twice over: Waymo and Cruise have been testing in SF for a long time, and so far neither has run anybody over.

Uber ran someone over, it turns out they were shockingly incompetent, and thankfully they don't have an AV program anymore.
Is CF open to hiring remotely, or are you guys only open to considering onsite applications?
I can think of no greater waste of human time or energy than these ridiculous Senate "hearings". It's just performance art, on all sides - they should just bring Yoko Ono in and call it a day.

The sad thing is that Senators usually call these hearings so they can make tough sound bites against naughty companies, but they usually just end up sounding like idiots (see the other comment about Sen. Blumenthal's "Finsta" nonsense).
In some way this feature reminded me of Android's song detection functionality which is also on by default and is constantly listening in the background [1].

So now tech companies normalized that:

- the mic is always on.

- the phone is always on, even when it's off. (thanks to AOP)

- devices are always online even when they are offline.(thanks to company-operated p2p networks like Find My or Sidewalk)

What could possibly go wrong?

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/7535326?hl=en
Changes quite a bit with getting sideswiped while walking around the roadway, my #1 fear as a pedestrian. Looked up some statistics and this is more common than getting hit while crossing the street. Two more things to figure out though:

- How often is an accident while walking along the roadway getting sideswiped, instead of just a full-on crash

- The equivalent of being run over by a car doesn't happen when falling 30 feet. I wonder how much this accounts for getting hurt as a pedestrian.

This is just what I thought of, it is also a threat to cars, but that would be offset more by the velocity of the car that got hit than it would be by the velocity of a pedestrian. (For example, a car that is going 25mph and gets rear-ended by a car going 30mph)

Also there is often hitting the brakes before collision. So it will be slower sometimes.
Did not know that’s how Find My worked - very interesting
This is something I can get behind, a fully functional phone, decently priced, that actually delivers in what it promises. And doesn't guilty people in buying it for the sake of "Privacy". I don't want to pay 2000 USD (or 800+) for a handicapped phone that could be amazing, but is not nearly close. Does anyone have flashed Calyx OS to it? (beta testers, or people with review units, as it is in pre-order now)
The ones I've bought haven't been terribly expensive. About half the price of Apple chargers. I daresay you don't want to go too cheap with chargers as they can overheat/pack up/damage things.
This might be what you want: https://babelmark.github.io/
"This org is kind of shitty. Sadly, I need to move on.". That's what the vast majority of people do. Unless there are clearly illegal acts, say withholding pay or physical endangerment, not sure why people would want to pick a public fight with their employer. It's a lose-lose proposition.
Evergrande misses second offshore bond payment
I wouldn't say it's a 'scam' exactly, but 'actually an alpha labeled as beta' is probably accurate.
This seems different to those examples because it works when the phone is powered off. AFAIK neither pick up nor touching the screen have ever done anything when the phone is powered off, only when it’s asleep.
That's a pretty great way to visualize the energy involved
Sen. Feinstein bill would require vaccine or negative test for domestic flights
Deckard: "It's artificial?"

Rachael: "Of course it is."
Covid-19's Impact on IPv6 Traffic
The phrase “best practice” is a sure fire way to signal “I don’t know what I’m talking about.” A lot of times these best practices are really good ideas. But misapplying them by rote can be more dangerous than ignoring them.
It is how the new feature works. The old feature did not work this way.
As far as I know he was banned more or less across the board - Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Snapchat, Shopify, Reddit and possibly others [1].

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/11/trump-b...
The efficacy is “recovering” because the vaccinated are acquiring natural immunity. The way you / sailorrooscout present it obscures that simple fact.
Sounds about right. No real difference from a human-driven Uber
It’s a great case of controlled opposition because so many people - HN included - think it’s serious.

This (and other prominent) companies are put in power by these people. It’s embarrassing that a community like HN is blind to this.
Senators are accountable to the people, Facebook is accountable to its shareholders.

It could be bozo the clown for all I care, but at least, someone is attempting to answer these questions on behalf of parents not technically capable enough to do something about this.
After I understood monads, I didn't write a short blog post about how simple they are. In fact, I took the opposite approach and am writing a ~500 page book about them :).

In seriousness, there's a lot that goes into appreciating a concept like a monad, especially if you want to combine the FP understanding with a rigorous mathematical understanding (monoid in a category of endofunctors approach). My new book is coming out next year with No Starch Press, and my goal is to give programmers a serious but doable introduction to abstract algebra, in the case that they care about this kind of stuff. Ping me if you want to read some early chapters and give feedback! orlandpm@gmail.com
That's all just protectionism. Or an attempt at it, because it's clearly not working in the software industry.

I am a graduate of such a school and it is a pain to even use that (earned and legally awarded) title in an international context because countries only recognise their own schools. Even in the EU, with its standardized EU-wide titles, you still can't use the "local" title of another country. Even if both titles are accredited to the same EU-title.

It's all status games and protectionism. And it's a silly war to fight, because no one thinks a "software engineer" is an accredited engineer anymore anyway.
Most of the people on this site have plenty of resources to buy into a lifestyle like the one you are describing. But for some reason they don't. To me, it seems likely that there are some serious drawbacks to that lifestyle that you're leaving our, which if further probed would change the equation.
Why? I'm not sure, let's schedule a meeting to discuss further
Yes. It's a very different permitting process. As you might expect, the bar is very high to jump from driverless testing to operating a driverless service available to the general public.

More info at the DMV's website (although it's a lot to digest): https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
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He obviously was hoping to become our vampire overlord.
As someone who has a liberal arts background, software engineering has a lot more in common with writing than most admit. Sure there is grammar and syntax but good writing can be as varied from William Shakespeare to Stephen King. Same with software writing.
Is there anything that would convince you?

I mean, the paper is saying that, as more women move into an occupation, pay for that occupation goes down.
Car screens are built to different tolerances than cell phones. In particular they must survive a much more harsh environment than most other consumer electronics. This is precisely why the first Tesla screens were so shocking in their size and so unreliable; when Elon Musk found out that he couldn’t get auto screens that large he demanded they use consumer screens, which yellowed and failed due to the heat cars are exposed to. Car screens and normal screens are not the same, at all.

This situation is exactly the same as the tractor example above. You’re taking a similar but different object built for different use cases and different financial and engineering constraints, and declaring that the outcome of one is predictive of another.
Yes, but...

...the analysis of one historian is just that. But the analysis of many historians is more likely to be true, and the consensus of the entire field, held for decades, is even more likely. Certainly more likely to be true than a popular conception primarily driven by comic books, Hollywood films, and popularizations written by non-historians.

It's also worth looking at the historian's analysis, and questioning what sources they have, what they're claiming to know, and how plausible it is for them to make those claims. If your analysis, let's say, starts and ends with "Plutarch said it, and we should trust Plutarch", well, when Plutarch wrote about Sparta and its peak, he was writing about time as distant to him as Elizabethan England is to us, and with no more first hand knowledge.
Now if someone could make a Timeline UI clone that would be perfect.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/10/epic-games-v-apple-judge-rea...

[Federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez] Rogers issued an injunction that said Apple will no longer be allowed to prohibit developers from providing links or other communications that direct users away from Apple in-app purchasing.
Margaret Hamilton coined the term. But then again, anyone who can keep a lunar lander from turning into a new crater probably has more right to that term than most of us.
I was curious what actually happened so looked it up -- looks like conservancy groups tried (and failed) to purchase the land to preserve it, and the land was logged despite the presence of the known endangered bird: "Eckelberry also saw the logging that cut down the trees used by the last Ivory-billed woodpecker"

40 years later a NWR was established on the land.

https://www.fws.gov/ivorybill/pdf/IBW%20Singer%20Tract%20Fac...
And I am reminded of Common People by Shatner

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cMXhWf0vE7c
No problem, if you want any further feedback, feel free to reach-out.
So is that a yes or no to parent's question?
Antibodies are produced by the immune system when needed, and the supply you have after an infection will wane over a couple months. What matters is whether your infection or vaccine trains your immune memory. With more training your body will have a better immune response, so you're better off vaccinated, whether or not you've had a prior infection.
People are always saying stuff like this and I don’t think they understand, if you wait for a stock price to reach a smaller multiple of revenue, you’re probably too late to the party to make any big gains, and it will be no better than throwing your money into some ETF. AMZN used to be what, 3000x revenue? Would you have advised people not to invest in it back then? How would that turn out?

At the end of the day, you can either sit on the side lines and criticize the prices, or you can jump in and make money.
In fairness, Amazon also charges for more than basic DDoS protection:

https://aws.amazon.com/shield/pricing/

but regardless, the EGRESS charges are what are absurd. The only logical reason for charging so much for data exiting is to make sure that you can't practically leave the AWS ecosystem.
My understanding is that while they didn't need to, it did help. Especially with variety and specific items, like meat, or grain for making beer. But in general it would help provide more than the bare minimum.

My grandpa remembers many urban people during the depression complaining about food, but unwilling to work a garden on a government plot.
Cloud Control provides a direct API to the primitive functions that underpin CloudFormation resources. So, if you look closely at what it's doing (hint: "desired state" parameter), Cloud Control is declarative on the resource side.

I don't think that replaces other AWS resource schedulers like Terraform and Pulumi, but it could, uh, embrace them into a more CloudFormation-oriented ecosystem, which is clever.
Also discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28710432
No, my first job was as an intern at IBM and my first non-intern computer job was in an AS/400 shop, and my last 2 years I've been an 'AWS Architect' and it's the same thing exactly - the guy with a good memory knows the entire IBM product line now knows all the obscure and bizarre AWS products. It's not just product certifications but even you end up building around arbitrary limits in the big company implementation rather than just modifying the open source code or adding glue layers to get what you want.

I have had to write weird proxies just because of some missing AWS features, and it made sense because, unlike the last twenty years of my computing career, I don't have the source code to all of the code running in the environment.
Um they get that data from being a monopoly and knowing when most people are looking up directions to or information about a location.

Sure, they might do some other stuff to expand the data but there's much more relevant data right in their first-party domain.