skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, yeah. If vaccines don't protect against virus spread... Fuck it, let people decide. Either take a vaccine or risk getting Covid in the wild.

Just make it so you can't use a hospital bed in that case. It's only fair to people who are actually forced to go to the hospital, as opposed to gambling for it.
'murica! Fuck you now do what we tell you!
Also interesting to note that each of the Nordic countries also has a vaccination rate higher than the US's: https://covid19.healthdata.org/finland?view=vaccinations&tab...
Vaccinations are not stopping. Men under 30 are given Pfizer.
Another side effect of this is someone like me is curious in going there just to use BTC for the fun of it. It would be interesting to know if there are other such tourist dollars as a side effect
There’s a market for people who want to work shorter workweeks. It’s not as crowded with employers as the “more common” market, but it’s there.

I can offer 0.5oz beers and if no one buys them, do I conclude there’s no market or a broken market for beer?
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Actually what happened with the 2010 swine flu vaccine was that people developed narcolepsy starting about a year after the first shots were administered (many of them to people who were never at particularly high risk from the swine flu itself). It took about another year after those symptoms first arose for authorities to acknowledge the link to Pandemrix.
Every lane change is a possible collision. I wonder if that was taken into account.
Well I mean "natural" as in the nature that created us.

https://www.healthline.com/health/womens-health/childbearing...

And then some science to back it up.
An example of a anti-meme "Diet soda is good for you"

If the above is true, what would be the emerging patterns in science, media and society?
So you don't give a shit about how their bad decisions affect the broader society we live in?
I think your analogy is incorrect. That would be like a shop-owner trying to sue someone who makes a lock-picking set for their model of locks.

At the end of the day, it is the owner of the account running this tool, and FB is saying "don't tell people how to use JS to auto-unfollow people or we'll sue you". It's an extreme measure.
A key aspect that RDBMS lack compared to NoSql is dynamism. Dynamic Relational is a draft RDBMS idea that intends to fill that niche. Unlike the NoSql movement, it tries to keep as many "traditional" RDBMS idioms as possible when adding dynamicness. It also allows one to "lock down" the schema incrementally as projects mature.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s...
Get an instant pot (a relatively new "smart" pressure cooker). I've been introducing my in-laws to their instant pot and it's hard for them to comprehend how fast it cooks. Mashed potatoes, steel cuts oats, lentils, all in about 10 minutes. The pot cooks everything.

My go-to lazy meal is 1 1/2 cups of rice and beans, a few cups of stock, a cup of salsa, extra flavoring as desired, whatever veggies and protein I have around, all thrown in the pot for 25 minutes. Then I take out the pot and put it in the fridge. That will last two people a few days. Very little prep for a massive amount of food.

You can also make yogurt overnight for maybe a 75% savings over store-bought.
Should probably say [2016]

> This post was originally published on December 5, 2016.
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Google collecting enough data to be used for this purpose is, in my opinion, not a good thing
Which is, by the way, still multiple orders of magnitude lower than the risk of myocarditis from catching COVID.
Yes, I've done this once. I was moving from the SW industry to another industry that doesn't pay nearly as well. I was asking for less than 1/5th of my salary, and they thought the number was too high. I offered my current salary to prove "we're both experiencing quite a bit of pain here..."
If it represents the sole method of communication by some government entity, I can see a case being made that every citizen has a right to a "read only" (maybe even read only, read once?) minimized level of access, at some explicit cost to the government entity using the platform (offloading liability from the company and onboarding accountability with the backing of law. )

Facebook is obviously not a utility, in the US at least. It's also not "just" a private entity. It's a novel thing for which we don't have an existing legal framework in which to capture all the nuanced uses, rights, responsibilities, and liabilities.

Facebook has taken on the role of managing the distribution of information to billions of people. It handles communications between groups and individuals. Given how critical those activities are to a healthy, liberal, free society, we should take steps to protect the rights and duties of individual users and platforms. Maybe we'll coalesce into a roughly cooperative country sometime in the future an accomplish that.
They lied to the judge:

"[R]emoving material from a cache without removing it from the hosting server would not prevent the direct infringement from occurring," Chhabria wrote.

That's just patently untrue.

A web site using Cloudflare's services isn't available to the Internet once Cloudflare stops providing services, until the site's hosting is meaningfully reconfigured.

You can't say it's just caching, because you can't access the site in any reasonably normal way via any method other than going through Cloudflare. That's just plain old bullshit.
Lack of imagination.

Step 1: Buy a lot of bitcoin.

Step 2: Convince/bribe the President of El Salvador to make bitcoin the legal tender.

Step 3: Bitcoin goes up because "OMG legal tender status" even though it is in a super minor country that was de facto using the USD as currency anyway.

Step 4: Sell your bitcoin at a profit due to the events of step 3.

Step 5: Who cares about what happens after step 4.
If its USD to USD in this case, why not mail a check? I wonder if you could even just scan a check and email it and use a mobile bank app to deposit a printed copy. Or even have the US relative log into the Salvadoran relatives bank account and do it all within the U.S.
What's the threshold for denialism? If I think climate change is man made but the threat is probably overblown until manhattan real estate prices start to come down, am I a denier?
Is this article trustworthy?
Can’t believe most of you fall for this. How can you care what your e-mail box receives? Why not create and publish from nickname, and violete the f out of fb, they can’t do a sh... And what can fb do to a limited company with no capital, when they tell them to go in court as much as they want?
I work with gcode on a day to day basis. I understand what the parent poster means about it being "assembly like", in that many of the common patterns of handwriting assembly language are employed when hand writing gcode. It has GOTO statements, lots of analogs for push and pop like behavior, and in some cases you are manipulating raw bits to deal with user input. It is interpreted into machine code as well, as is assembly.
He is maybe a bit mean, but his point is at least consistent. His whole thesis is that we don't have to reduce energy consumption but just find solutions so that we consume without ruining the enviromnet, or at least find the most impact we can have for reducing the damage right now - at least that is how I read it. And I think that is possibly the only sustainable approach, since it is going to be _very_ hard to convince 7 billion people to give up convenience. It just won't happen.
It's been more than a year since I last changed my wallpaper.
Haha touche, and entertaining story, though I'm sorry it happened to you!
I like specialized polls like this a lot. I think they are interesting.

That being said the scale is a bit weird. #4 is "serious damage to revenue" and #5 is "Resignations at the top like Uber". It seems like #5 could happen without 4 and visa versa. I know Uber's brand is not great but seems like Dara taking over was probably good for both short term and long term revenue.

The headline could also be written as "Over half of FB employees believe that only tech reporters interested/minor dip"
I'm not sure it's true. Crypto is very popular in Turkey too and you can easily sell your coins for fiat Turkish lira, withdraw the money to your bank account in seconds any time of the day and convert it to USD - no questions asked. Then you send that USD anywhere or withdraw it from a branch or an ATM(that supports USD, there are plenty).

Also, 45x the economy, 15x the population with significant percentage of it having at least one exchange account. No question asked when bringing money from abroad is the governments policy, strong EU, UK and US financial ties and integrations are in place with billions already laundered. The neighbouring Bulgaria, the police seized 200K Bitcoins and sold them at the previous bull market.

I know what you mean but El Salvador is a micro-wormhole. The value essentially comes from the publicity, they had something like 700 BTC last time I checked.

El Salvador is a storm in a teacup. One noisy storm though. Their president is a millennial who knows how to ride the hype train.
He's considering the odds of both getting covid, and then ending up in the hospital. There are more than 300mm people in the US, so your chances of both getting covid and then being hospitalized is < 1%. If you already have covid then it's closer to 7%.
Afaik that claim to fame originally came from the fact how it's really difficult to track down the real owner of a wallet.

With traditional bank accounts there's usually a whole circus of verifying your real identity involved that's directly tied to the account.

While getting a BC wallet involves none of that, heck, it can probably be automated to such a degree that asking the question "Who actually owns the wallet created by a bot?" could become an interesting legal conundrum.
I don’t doubt that diet soda is terrible for you. I would however like to point out that the particular study cited had 74 participants. This seems a bit low but to me, though I realize it may not be the only study showing some similar effects. I’d love to see a larger study.
The questions will still be asked at some point. Are you exchanging it for cash? If so, how are you getting the cash back to your home country? If to a local bank account, how do you transfer it back to the US (or another country) without raising flags?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28780285#28781120
This. If I'm chest deep in code (or other deep technical stuff) I can get about 6 hours of real work a day before my productivity nosedives. But that's maybe a once a week occurrence. The rest of the week is shorter bursts of productivity sprinkled between coordinating with teammates, other teams, etc.. I don't think actually shortening my work week would allow me to meaningfully be as productive with what I currently do. That being said, I WFH some of the time and I took like 30-40 min to vacuum my apartment and it had basically zero effect on my productivity.
Making simple meals takes just a few minutes.

My most common lunch is a salad that takes all of 5 minutes to chop the vegetables. My most common dinner is a bowl of steamed vegetables that takes seconds to throw in the microwave, and a baked potato that takes seconds to put in the toaster oven a half-hour ahead of time. Oatmeal or eggs for breakfast take five minutes or less too.

Unless you really work incredible hours, like a 16 to 24 hour medical shift or something, citing time as a reason not to prepare food is either looking for an excuse or way overshooting on the complexity needed.
Eh, I've mostly heard it used correctly in feminist articles. E.g. "The rise of the gig economy is forcing a lot of men to perform emotional labor for the first time."

The most interesting part of emotional labor to me is its connection to tipping culture in America. It's the reason why you usually tip a waiter but not a bus boy, and why you tip the room service person but not the delivery guy. The rule of thumb is: if someone's doing a job where they're expected to put on a smile even if their dog died that morning, they're eligible to get compensated via tips for that additional emotional labor.
Testing and prototyping.
Yes. For the simple reason that I own both a Mac and an iPhone. These devices are extremely similar in their capabilities, except I can download software directly on one, and the other is a captive market. There is a reason why the Mac App Store is a wasteland. Apple provides almost no value when it comes to distributing third party software. They only dominate on the iPhone because they are the only game in town.
I agree with this if your single, but if your a family every meal outside is 4 times the price and the time to prep the meal at home stays almost the same.
Why base it on time at all? If I can be as effective in 20 hours as my coworker is in 40 hours, why not just pay us the same salaries for the same value produced?

The fact I get stuff done twice as quickly shouldn't be a factor unless I choose to work 40 hours and do twice as much as him. Then I should be paid more.
>In order to avoid confusion, it requires more specific language than "poor working conditions". Perhaps "morally-injurious working conditions"?

A reasonable point. I guess it really depends on how you define "poor" in this context.

Whether you use adjectives like "poor", "morally-injurious", "stressful" or anything similar, the underlying idea is the same.

That said, I appreciate your take on this. It definitely helps to explicate my thought. Thanks!
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Moral of story: drink beer. Or water. Water works too.
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To be fair to them, they say it's the "most damaging" claim, not the most significant. Misleading advertisers is more damaging to Facebook than misleading users, unfortunately.
I'd much prefer a system that stopped my vehicle as smoothly as possible to one that I would rely on to autonomously brake for me.

I suspect that if all cars were fully autonomous, that we would have fewer collisions and fewer high-speed collisions simply because we wouldn't need to use traffic signals to push traffic along (and we'd have fewer traffic-stopping accidents).

A few months back, an older gentleman collided with my car on US 75 in Dallas while I was at a full stop. Would automatic braking have slowed him? Probably. Would he have collided with me at all if his car were driving autonomously? Probably not. He was distracted and took his eyes off the road, never seeing that the traffic ahead of him was at a complete stop. It took nearly 10 minutes for us to get off the road for a fender bender because nobody would allow us to get over. Traffic simply flowed around us despite the issue.

I suspect that within the next 50 years, driving at all in most major cities will require a special license, and it will become a civil rights issue for both those who don't know how to behave like adults but want the freedom to move about anyway, and those who simply do not want to be tracked by any entity.
One answer I can think of is if you caught covid and then got regeneron. A month later, after the regeneron wears off, you’d probably want to build up your body’s immunity.
Because the officials are fucking cretinoids who can't understand it.

I had Covid, had immunity, and no one gave a flying fuck. I had to follow the same procedures as everyone else. PCR tests up the ass, waste of money, travel blocks.

Half a year later I got the J&J vaccine and had a mild fever for a day (proving my previous infection worked for immunity, just imo). Yet I still wear a fucking mask and shit. At least I have a QR code that I can use to travel...and some countries don't accept J&J as a valid vaccine.

What a fucking joke.
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Don't have nordic study but here's NEJM Israeli one from the other day:

"In our study, definite or probable cases of myocarditis among persons between the ages of 16 and 19 years within 21 days after the second vaccine dose occurred in approximately 1 of 6637 male recipients"

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109730?query=re...
Here's my vaccine anecdata. My wife and I are at the age when everyone we know is starting to have kids. My wife and I got pregnant on the first try, and 3 of her other friends had similar easy success. All 4 unvaccinated. On the vaccinated side of her friends there are two miscarriages, one stillbirth, one who has been trying since June, one trying much longer than that, and one that we think has been trying for a while but hasn't announced it to the group.

If these were caveman times and those people were drinking from a different stream, we would tell them not to drink from it. 3/3 success stories vs. 3 traumatic failures and two or three infertility issues.
The ARC design (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3540 for details) uses surprisingly little yttrium. The superconductor is only about 1% of the tapes, and the tapes are only a faction of the coils, and the coils mass is just a fraction of the mass of the coil support structure. I think the total amount of yttrium will be in the tens of kilograms, if that.

I have a suspicion that this is being funded at all because the magnet technology would be useful in non-fusion contexts (hybrid electric aircraft, superconducting generators in wind turbines.)

In contrast, IIRC a single ARC reactor of that design would have 90 tonnes of beryllium (although that could be reduced by half if the secondary loop used a different molten salt.)
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Someone well-versed in assembly can still do much better than the compiler in many cases over reasonably small function. You could of course do better for large functions too, but at some point the cost becomes prohibitive: if you're going to do this, stick to a few hotspots which are as compact as possible.
Luckily in Haugen's senate appearance the subcommittee seemed to be in full bipartisan agreement that they had been lied to. I'm glad that they are finally starting to sufficiently wrap their heads around this issue to start doing something about it and holding FB to account.
That humans are naturally omnivores, eating both meat and plants, is not controversial in the slightest.
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I use a different set of platforms, but there are a couple of iOS programs I run under MacOS.

In general the experience is worse than using a real macos app but it as terrible than running in Web browser/electron (e.g. Slack, Spotify), or a macOS app that looks like it was written under duress by someone who didn’t give a shit (e.g. WhatsApp)
No, I don't think it's surprising and I'm glad it's there. But it's the reason that I was nervous about donating absent an affirmative response that ZSF would claim the money. It's nice they'd try to apply it to similar projects but I'd prefer it go to Zig or nothing (or I can donate to another project of my choice).
Yeah I think this is a more accurate portrayal of what I'm trying to say.
Perhaps the fumes made her too drunk to leave? Is that possible?
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Both the typical stock holder and crypto holder see a number on screen and hope it goes up. That's it. Most stock trading is done by algorithms, not even people.

A typical stock holder can never claim any underlying asset nor do they have voting rights, so you're really stretching.

The difference is simply in risk appetite. People are going to keep drinking Coca Cola at large scale so owning their stock is low risk. But also low return.

Crypto is high risk, extremely high return. There's a sizable chance to lose your money but a larger chance to get returns that are astronomical. I'm talking 5x - 10x in mere months.
People have been building V8 on musl for a while now, but it's not supported by upstream. Last time I've looked into it a couple years ago, such builds were also not particularly stable.
May draw lots of money if it is easy to exchange USD for BTC.
Most wealthy people do not end up with billions, and most of them end up with less than their parents had. While I don't disagree that they've used power and influence to suit their own ends, there's practically not a single person on that list who isn't a workaholic. I don't hold any of these people in high esteem but in my opinion, it's silly to suggest they haven't worked hard. Of course, they haven't worked a million times harder than anyone else, but they have "worked hard to earn their billions."
> Does it ever make sense to pay more SS tax, based on a present-value analysis?

Of course it does. Social Security is social, not individual. If you're a rich man - and a person who makes 160 KUSD / annum probably is - it makes a lot of sense to contribute more to social security, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.
It seems the number of myocarditis cases in Finland has been in the order of a few cases out of a few hundred thousand vaccinated in the specific demographic, so perhaps approximately one per 100,000, give or take.

That's still not far from 100 percent, and the 100 percent might be substantially more correct than "not 100 % safe" in terms of the impression it gives.

Of course nothing is actually 100 percent, in anything, ever, but sometimes it's practically close enough from an epidemiological point of view that some people probably find it easier to round things. Better than saying that there may be some rare risk of this or that, because some people are going to get hung up on that, and that might cause more harm than good.

Public communication about these kinds of risks is anything but easy to get right.
> The humiliation was when Sheila said she was best friends with Edna now.

The "now" is especially important. It implies the friendship they shared was never real. Sheila was just keeping her around while she waited for someone better to be friends with.
giving as a group activity feels weird as if without an audience these folks might just not be interested.
Considering how far away flashing lights can be sensed (in both humans and cars), that shouldn't be a problem.
This is impressive. But, those poor frogs.

Snark aside, it also doesn't say that much; Ali Wong's biggest laugh comes in large part from the fact that all her bits are arranged to build up to it. Ok!

If you're interested in this stuff, a good listen is Mike Birbiglia's "Working It Out" podcast, which is a little bit like Marc Maron's "WTF", but with an emphasis on workshopping bits in progress. Part of what makes it interested in this context is that Birbiglia is working out his next special (something that apparently takes years, which I guess shouldn't surprise me), and so talks a lot about the themes he's building jokes around and what he's trying to say overall.
Can autopilot even change lanes? It seems like that would be impossible to code for freeways in cities in California. You have to muscle your way into the lane and force people to back down or get hit or else they aren't ever letting you in.
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Depends on configuration. Setting up a failover where if the CDN/ cache fails or is removed, the request is routed to a live server is more than possible.
You should let the El Salvadoreans know about all these ideas, might save them a lot of trouble