skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Hospitals directly report to VAERS as well. We've had this system in place for a reason

Correct, and this is not the reason. You are misusing it.

> There's countless instances of healthy people dying right after the shot,

Calling BS on that, it's not "Countless", far from it. And it needs to be compared to the - far worse - risks of COVID.
This statement is dishonest scaremongering.
Except that when you signed up for a FB account you agreed to access the site on their terms, not yours.

And let's be honest, and I'm the last person to defend FB, but they are not likely to be going to be going after a lone user who has automated something for his own convenience with Selenium or whatever...

Once I decided I wanted to delete a lot of old email from a webmail account. There was no "select all" function so I wrote a one-liner in the javascript console of the browser. When that worked, I automated clicking the "delete" button, and then added a loop to do it over and over. This probably violated a TOS clause somehow, but nothing ever came of it.
This is pretty much the same philosophy behind writing effective peer-reviewed research publications in the scientific community. Not novel, but an excellent short and sweet post to put beginners in the right mindset.
See nvr219 comment above
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Green-Onions-Bunch/51259361?athbd...

Its not a sprout; its fresh.
What Is Vuetify?
No, it doesn't say that. It says it's on by default. Go read the support article.
May not be relevant for all beginners to vim, but this StackOverflow answer is really like (for lack of a better term) the Zen of vim (for beginners):

"Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi.":

It is the top answer to this question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1218390/what-is-your-mos...

Also check out the "A sobering thought paragraph" at the end.

Related to that, a plug by yours truly, for my own vi quickstart tutorial (including why it was written), is linked from this tweet:

"Why I teach vim" (the "I" there is someone else):

https://mobile.twitter.com/vasudevram/status/132791223088143...
> And it's not like they need to sell ads to make money.

Actually, they likely do need to sell ads if they want to keep Firefox alive.
Why do you assume that people critical of the vaccines aren't consuming scientific literature?

This source[1] cites the following from a dead link to the cdc website:

>Upon entering the cell’s cytoplasm, the mRNA redirects some of the cell’s protein production machinery (of which ribosomes are the workhorse) to begin producing viral spike proteins. The produced spike proteins are then incorporated into and “displayed” on the host cell’s outer membrane surface

If you want something meatier, here's a detailed source[2] discussing this very point, that because the spike protein is not manufactured with the rest of the virus, at least some S protein expression is expected at the cell surface from the vaccine, in contrast to a true covid infection. And this source links to multiple others on the same subject.

People seem to presume that any information which reflects negatively on the vaccines is automatically misinformation and/or argued in bad faith. Its incredibly toxic to productive discussion.

>The cell types that produce it and display it are exactly the same cell types that do it for every bit of foreign protein your immune system needs to protect against.

I'm not sure what you're implying here - that its normal for your cells to absorb foreign RNA and manufacture inflammatory proteins that are then expressed on cell walls and used to induce what is effectively an autoimmune response?

>There is nothing sneaky or take-over or unnatural about this process that happens all the time in your body.

I'm not saying anything about this is "sneaky" but injecting mRNA with the purpose of manufacturing inflammatory proteins is hardly "natural".

1. https://www.acepnow.com/article/how-the-covid-19-mrna-vaccin...

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25589-1
That special photo is really old by now. Today, you have to know where the wall was to know. Berlin has switched to LED-lighting for all new street lights.
Mozilla management promised they would diversify income in 2016. Mozilla management is a miserable failure.
Well put. I'm guessing there were no consequences, other than to lower your already low opinion of the company?
> I am asking if congressional-executive agreements have an exception in the rules.

Generally, no, not currently.

(“Fast track” authority for trade agreements includes, IIRC about the procedures associated with it, an exception for a specific subset of such agreements, but applies to agreements under guidelines and priorities set by Congress, which this agreement would not.)
Theosophy, like anthroposophy, has a bizarre cosmology that positions white Aryans as the pinnacle of human spirituality. Anthroposophy originated through a schism with the theosophists, and posits a form of reincarnation that includes a racial hierarchy in which those who live virtuous lives are reborn, first as "lesser races" (Africans, indigenous peoples, South Asians), and eventually as white people if they live virtuous lives. This derives from the theosophist conception of "root races". See [1] for more discussion on antisemitism in theosophy, and [2] for mention of an incident at a Waldorf school (which follow the tenets of anthroposophy) in which white schoolteachers apparently self-identified as all races because they believed they had "ascended" through all of them.

Oh, it's worth mentioning that another movement derived from theosophy, ariosophy, went on to form the basis of Nazi cosmology.

All of these movements originated in turn of the century Europe and largely reflect the values of the era. And all of them, particularly the anthroposophists, are extremely aggressive about reputation management and sanitizing their histories.

Ah, and one final point -- the founders of the organic food movement were students of Rudolf Steiner, the originator of anthroposophy, who popularized his own system of agriculture -- biodynamics. A lot of cultural norms and attitudes in modern alternative health and natural food circles began with anthroposophy, and theosophy, by extension -- including the anti-vaccination movement. Weleda, a natural skincare company founded by Steiner still operates today.

See [3] and [4] for some discussion of anthroposophist attitudes about vaccinations

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophical_mysticism#Blavats...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/education-28646118

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/21/rightwing-popu...

[4] https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s...
I doubt quoting MLK will change your mind, but considering what the Black community in America went through for 100’s of years; it’s worth consideration…

>Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

>Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

>The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

>The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

>The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

>We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

>Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

>Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

>The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

>In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

>He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

>History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

>Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
20 years ago, I visited SF as a tourist. At a BART station, some guy was wondering around asking for random improbable amounts of change "so he could get home." I probably gave him a quarter, but he saw some paper in my jacket pocket, reached in, and grabbed it. Then he realized it wasn't cash (just a map), and exclaimed "Oh, sir, your papers!" like I'd dropped them and he was helping me by finding them for me. I'm pretty sure he was high on something (or got fried by something that got him high). It was so ridiculous that it was more funny than anything else.

Never had anything like that happen to me, before or since.
I absolutely do not want to work for Google. There's an office near me, and the few times I've been considering another job, I explicitly decided not to even send an application there. It sounds kinda like a dead-end hellhole to be honest. So it's not just you.
Just know that there is a large majority of Americans that hold this view but don't speak up due to potential of being cancelled or fired.
>vertical farming and controlled environments!

Curious what this involves for you. Are you in an urban, rural, exurb, etc area? What are you growing?
To change a completely misunderstood citation into a new one that nobody will understand either:

> Unnecessary flexibility is the source of all evil

Just as with the original "premature", the word "unnecessary"is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and there's no way to state that rule that saves people from thinking before applying. Some times those 10x SLOC are really important and will save you; most times it's just a 90% waste ratio multiplied over your previous one.
This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799760
>management doesn't work for free.

Looks like they are very well paid. So much that they had to let go 250 engineers last year.
you missed my point. i'm arguing that coinbase is in the business of pushing their own politics, via cryptocurrency, which is very much a political thing at this point. yet, their workers can't discuss other politics. it's very ironic and hypocritical.

and yes, i think the members of NAACP would be pushing crypto if that's what they felt was a priority for their cause. i don't understand your logic?

edit: i believe that being apolitical is just as a political stance as being political.
> And I assume you're aware that "all the crap of AI / ML" is disable-able with a checkbox right?

Yeah, just like how "opting out" of Telemetry in Firefox & Windows truly means Firefox ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/mozilla-does-not-... ) & Windows ( https://old.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/o9zswt/disabling... ) honour them. Or like iPhones never send location data to Apple when you turn it off ( https://www.gsmarena.com/iphone_11_pro_devices_collect_locat... ). /s

If I am searching for a privacy first alternative to Apple Safari, it should be obvious that it is because I don't trust Apple.
Arguably most of BTC's energy usage is spent trying to lock transactions in a safe, distributed manner. How long until we get SpindleCoin? :P
It's the level of prefunding that's excessive. They need to fund retirement benefits for employees who have not yet been hired. https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume
Yah, i don't expect everyone to run their own server but luckily joinmastodon.org walks anyone through the process of finding a smaller instance.
> The business world runs on Excel.

(To take the most straightforward example.) Bill Gates did not write Excel. None of the programming or other actual, object level work involved in creating the value of Excel was done by Bills Gates, personally. It was done by programmers and other employees at Microsoft. Not even much, and not "obviously" even any, of the meta-level work of separating those who benefited from Excel from their money (nominally, and to a limited extent actually, to support those who did the object-level work) was done by Bill Gates. The question is what value Bill Gates produced, not his employees.
The first tweet has a link to the blog post.
> A multi-national agreement that raises corporate tax rates on US companies operating outside the US is pure win for the party currently in control of both the legislative and executive branch; it plays well with the electorate, it is easy to weaponize against your opponents,

...and Manchin and Sinema will oppose any changes or exceptions to filibuster rules for it despite (or because of) all that, so it won't happen.
crypto is political
We used Astronomer at my last job. Sure beats trying to run your own instance and the Astronomer team were fantastic.
firefix has had profiles for ages.. way longer than chrome have it..

it is just not proeminent in the interface..

you can access the profiles in "about:profiles"

You can also have a shortcut for "firefox.exe -p" and it will aks what profile you want when starting..

or create a shortcut to "firefox.exe -P "Profile Name"" and it will open automatically in the profile you define in the shortcut..
Oof. Agreed. Not a fan of that part.
Webstorm / intellij is amazing for productivity.
I see it as part of my internet civic duty to do what I can to prevent browser mono-culture and that is a large part of why I use Firefox.

Also it is an all around good browser.
Is it cocaine?
Is it correct that then the original DB and the snapshotted DB share those blocks on the file system which are unmodified?

Assume 1 row per block:
Original DB "A" has 2 rows, a snapshot "B" is created, "B" deletes one row and adds a new one.

Is it true that the row which "B" took over from "A" and left unmodified resides on the same block for "A" and "B", so that if the block gets corrupted, both databases will have to deal with that corrupt row?
Which also does nothing unless combined with method 4.
Always making things about politics is sign of a privilege, unprivileged people don't have the time and energy to constantly care about politics.

You can see this that the more privileged you are the more likely you are to vote, to petition and engage yourself etc.
Ads in my browser? What is this, Juno [0]?

Epiphany needs a noscript equivalent so I can retire FF.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno_Online_Services
Sounds like you can imagine the law permitting something horrific & ghastly.

I too can imagine that. But the restraints the law allowed to be imposed on our freedom sound absurd, sound outlandish to me now. We were in a situation that de-legitimizes the law & the legal system, and eventually we fixed that.

> Can you imagine being cut off from the phone system 40 years ago because you were selling answering machines?

Also, it was illegal to sell connecting equipment, sure, but AT&T didn't go nearly as far as what we see today. They didn't do anything this bad. The question posed wasn't about the legality or ability to interoperate, to make devices.

The question was about the reprecussion. Hush-A-Phone & other companies did not have their corporate phone numbers dropped, did not lose their ability to make phone calls when the started making a device AT&T didn't like. AT&T took them to court & tried to get them to stop making devices, but they didn't retaliate by kicking their corporate entity off the network. AT&T also didn't search for people using the phone system to talk about using other means of communication & kick them off the phone network (something we've seen repeatedly, recently with Mastodon, although those policies may/may not have been improved recently). Facebook is acting far more like a bully than AT&T did, in my view.
I vaguely remember Onivim looked quite nice on Linux. Have you tried that?

Vimr looks excellent on macOS though, I'll definitely give it a go.
You are suggesting that information was not existing before symbols?
The American Flag is a symbol for a set of ideas that we actually hold sacred. Call it a religion if you like.

I got one behind me. I put it up the day after Seditionists attacked The Capital. My uncle gave it to me after I returned from an actual war 20 years ago.

I think we got reasons to be proud. The Enlightenment was first conceived in goverment here. As a result of that awareness I read all the original European philosophers who made up that 17th century intellectual movement, and I have a deep appreciation for that wisdom and what it helped create. And I think the ideas within are worth defending. I can't speak to a Europeans relationship with his or her country, but there is a good reason both historically and ethically, that ours is so prominent, and I think that identity has been good for the country.

And honestly just as an observation it seems more benign to have a flag as a symbol that actually means something to people when there isn't a war or a soccer game, than only trotted out when there is one.
What is “classical white culture?” I’m not aware of any global culture associated with skin color. But feel free to enlighten me.
Someone should create a gofundme page for the guy to fight this nonsense in court.
In the UK you can actually legitimately get two passports if you can show you need it for work (I think it's typically for travelling to countries who don't like each other and won't let you in if you have stamps from the other one). I wonder if this would count.
It is based on the symbol set exchanged, so how is it independent?
And the insult to injury was the "will take 30 days to remove data".

I never accepted it. You force-upgraded me and opted in without consent. And then hang a 30 day window of data retention... If that's true at all.
My favorite thing about Firefox is containers. It also has a more generous addon policy, for instance the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension which Google won't allow on the Chrome store.
Japan, Germany, the UK, Netherlands can’t do it either. They have higher rates than the USPS, smaller service areas, and beg regulators to let them charge more because they struggle to make it profitable.
I think it’s more likely Hillary would have just flipped again.
If you think Britain has a “strong social net” then you are a total ignoramus
There’s actually a concept of tortious interference, which can make you liable for assisting other people in breaking a terms of service, even if you never broke it yourself.
Certain politics are relevant for certain companies.

This idea that because everything is touched by politics, you should be free to bring every aspect of politics into any organization is ridiculous.

Coinbase should be involved in the the political discourse surrounding crypto (and other finance-related) legislation. They should not be involved in the discourse surrounding a woman's right to abortion (just an example).

If you think crypto should be banned, you probably shouldn't work at Coinbase. On the other hand, your opinion on abortion should have no bearing on whether you work there. It has nothing to do with their company mission.
Charitably, “don’t want to be distracted by politics” means “the status quo works for me”. This doesn’t mean anyone at Coinbase is ill-intentioned, but given the status quo, there’s a lot of people it won’t work for.
>in the West a man can't be friends with a married woman

Nah, that's no longer true as of today. It used to be like that in the 60+ generation, but among younger people, it really depends on the partners involved.
NoScript. No need to thank me
We might as well call it what it is: troublemakers.

People that are so politically activist at work that they dis-proportionally impact the business. By sowing division, distracting from the work, spoiling morale. And sometimes worse, like stealing data or airing dirty laundry publicly.

I'm not going to touch the morality of it, I'm merely painting the picture of what it is.

There's more companies where this is an issue, Google had plenty such incidents, Basecamp, Facebook, the like.
Those threads weren't particularly active. They aren't even the most active threads in the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

That said, I can't claim that those threads didn't have more readers than other threads. But I can't say they they did either.

It also seems uniquely interesting that some people experienced the slowness but others did not.
Underground railroad working to free at-risk Afghans struggles to succeed
Came here just to mention Btrfs which does the same as ZFS in the sense that it is also COW by default.
> however I now realize that’s because Hacker News deletes the asterisks

You can escape asterisks with a backslash. \* => *
No consequences. I think my opinion truly hit the gutter when I got that boss from hell :).
I wrote a VT100 emulator in PostScript for NeWS in 1987! I worked for a company called Wedge Computer (ha ha!), who ported NeWS to the Mac II running A/UX, which needed a way to connect to Unix servers from NeWS without running a terminal emulator client remotely. It could passed vttest!

https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/tnterm.ps

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

Two versions of NeWS on Mac II Make Debut

https://books.google.nl/books?id=Cj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA...

Yep, Unix ran on Macs in 1988!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX
A Friendly Introduction to Principal Component Analysis
Sorry, I lack the privilege to read that article.
Yes. It must be a generational divide or something. I see so many 20 minute videos that could be a 5 minute read and they have tons of views. I don't get it.
> Sales and property taxes are regressive. Income tax with marginal tax brackets is progressive. This is a pretty simple concept.

Not true. Income taxes (as implemented in the US) have enormous blind spots that favor homeowners at the expense of renters: untaxed imputed rent and the capital gains tax exclusion for your main home. These undermine the claim that the income tax is more progressive than the property tax.

> Landlords will pass on the cost of property taxes to renters.

Not for the most part. The question is, when the property tax increases, how much of it is eaten by the landlord (in lower post-tax rent), and how much is a burden on the tenant (in higher gross rent due to reduced housing supply)? In California where supply is inelastic, I would argue that the low property tax is almost all a windfall to the landowner rather than the tenant.
Yes, this is too slow. You can definitely go faster with Django.
At least that shifts the dangerous legal-financial burden onto google's lawyers, if they want to fight a takedown request to remove an extension from the extension store.
I think a simple | > operator would be a worthy addition to the language and make day to day life a tiny bit nicer,
Every crypto bro was like 10.....
I think the fundamental issue with 10x is that a lot of people simply never met one. These guys tend to fly under the radar quite a bit. If you are in a tier 2 market or company, your chances of attracting one are close to nil. Because they are extremely valuable, they don't interview a lot and tend to hop between companies where they know people (or get fast tracked internally).

I remember someone laughing at the idea of 10x programmers. I asked him where he hired from and what's the compensation like. Turns out two high performers I had recently hired were from the same college he was trying to hire from. Of course, he had no chances of attracting anyone since my offer was ~3x what he was offering!