skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shaming does not work, otherwise FB would have no engineers at all; the fact that FB still exists is a proof it does not work, so what is the point?
Iceland stops using Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Apple orchards and pig farms go together. Apple sauce is considered to go well with roast pork.

In some parts, it is customary [citation needed] to run pigs in apple-orchards to scrump the windfall, and to feed younger pigs on the pulp left over from apple-pressing. I know pigs like to scrump fallen apples; I don't know if they get falling-over drunk. I'm not a country-boy.
I'm a Ham radio operator and when I hike I bring a Garmin InReach Mini. I might bring a portable too but just for fun, not with any expectations in terms of emergencies.

It's a much better tool for the job. And unlike personal locator beacons it can also handle short personal messages.
And it's far from $1000 (around $300 and the service from $15 monthly) and really portable. For real emergencies a PLB is arguably better (and doesn't require a paid subscription) but you have to be conscious to activate it. The Garmin can send regular breadcrumbs without triggering an emergency so they will at least know where you were headed. If you are conscious it also allows you to communicate with the rescue operators.

Ham radio is great but not meant to be reliable. It's about experimentation with technology and the sport of making long distance connections. It's not about a reliable rescue service even though it is very useful in emergencies.
We are on the same page. Nobody should ever be forced to take a medication they don't want. Some people ride motorcycles on the freeway, or do wingsuit jumps, or surf bigwaves, or ski the backcountry, or freesolo el Capitan. I guess it's more fun than getting a bad case of covid, but either way, more power to them.

The only point I'm making is that VAERS data by itself is negligible compared to the effects of covid itself. I understand that it can be frustrating to interact with 2-masks+3-jabs+forever-lockdown+kill-unvaxxed crowd, especially given the political power it wields in the real world, but IMHO the VAERS data does not make a strong case for passing on the vaccine.
> Why isn't it sufficient to tax the money when the owners of the corporation are trying to cash out through dividends or in some other way?

Because failing to tax capital formation in situ leads to all sorts of abuses.

Exhibit A: The entire security-based lending industry [0], which allows you to realize the benefit of appreciated stock price while retaining stock ownership and without triggering a taxable event

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/securitiesbased-lending...
>Dropping does not require energy. A drone-mothership will obviously take wind in account when dropping the dronelets. The video was not realistic in that regard because the drones would probably be folded for initial descent.

That already exists. It's called GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) and it has been obsoleted already by the GBU-53/B StormBreaker. Yet nobody is freaking out.

https://youtu.be/CxePhkdIo0o

https://youtu.be/hyaIrhGrCzo

Ohh and even a nice fictional animation: https://youtu.be/n8u0l_c2_NA
I think it's pretty clear that when people say "everything is political" the "everything" is scoped specifically to scenarios where there is a decision to make and people disagree on how to make that decision.

When someone says something like "meat is political" I don't think they mean that the physical substance on the dinner plate has this property, but rather that there are decisions to make that directly involve meat which people disagree about, and that politics is the (or at least one of the) processes by which decisions get made by groups of people when individuals in the group disagree.
> Your last argument could be reduced to "if evil happens to me, why not make it happen to others".

It's not evil. Taxes are not evil at all. I want a functioning government, including the services it provides.

There's a trendy concept that all taxes are evil, but rationally that doesn't hold any water at all.

> definitely not all money is productive and it can be easily wasted on worthless products and services. Taxing the tools to create value is not the same as taxing for example vodka.

This undermines the free market, and basic freedom. I judge for myself, knowing my situation, the best place to spend my money. Sometimes vodka has the highest ROI, and don't forget that the money goes to the store which then spends it again. Macroeconomically, even if I gave the liquor store owner money for nothing, I haven't burnt the money. It's in new hands ready to be spent again (and the rate of transactions has a major impact on the economy).

But yes, we still can make some judgments about what to tax, and investment in fact often gets a tax break.
I wasn't making a moral argument, I was making a practical one. The demand, in and of itself, means very little. Being notified may matter, but the fact that it was couched as a "demand" rather than a "request" is irrelevant. And the notice will only matter in so far as you are actually in breech of a contract or there is a tort or you are breaking a law. As you illustrated, it's primarily the ability to punish non-compliance that actually matters (via procedure, public relations, etc).

Through it all though, the fact that the other party demanded something of you instead of politely asked" or humbly requested is not really relevant. What matters is that you got notice. That's it.
It should. Then again WebCl existed 10 years ago to solve this problem but never took off because you needed vendor support for each device. So hacks like mapping matrix math to textures and back again is much more likely to work on the widest number of devices, which is why you see these libraries. With W3C support, JS GPU programming should be built into web browsers and we shouldn’t need such hacks to build high performance web apps.
The most interesting part is very similar to phosphorescence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence#Introduction Look at the figure 1A in the research paper https://www.pnas.org/content/118/3/e2018043118

Note that the diagram in Fig 1A is more complicated than the one in Wikipedia, because in this case the process involve some additional chemical steps.

If phosphorescence a chemical or a quantum phenomena? https://xkcd.com/435/

With some random search in Google I found this:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/triplet-state
It's somewhat relevant because the cause of phosphorescence and what is happening in this articles is caused by triplets. I want to highlight that if I'd want to ask more about these articles, in half of them I'd ask a Chemist and in the other half a Physicist. (In both cases, one that is specialized in these things that are between the fields.)
HN: "How dare Facebook ban this extension! All it does is let a computer do automatically what a user could already do on his own. Ridiculous!"

Also HN: "automated facial recognition is bad"
That’s a strong claim that is not common. Humans are generally considered to be the only animals capable of symbolic thought [1]. Information flows in far simpler systems than symbolic systems.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/magazine/hunting-for-the-...
Sounds to me like people will have to overthrow their governments to "go back to normal" anytime soon. The lack of normalcy increases the power of those imposing lockdowns and restrictions dramatically, and they aren't going to let go of that. There's no precedent for any government ever willingly ceding significant power. Just watch "V for Vendetta" - it's the same thing, except in the movie it was called the "St. Mary's virus". Incredible foresight.
I’m not sure why you think people who care about justice draw that energy from the same pool that motivates their work, as if it’s a zero-sum calculus. It isn’t. People who think about things systemically tend to apply that perspective in all of their practices. And that’s the value.
It is perfectly fine to discuss the adverse effects of vaccines, but it is not good faith to open the discussion with a conspiratorial tone. Billions of shots have been given. That is a tremendous amount of statistical power to discern problems. There are also millions of deaths from confirmed COVID alone. It helps no one to even hint that somehow the side effects of vaccines are comparable to the real disease.
"Late Marx is sharply opposed to, and incomparably more radical than, almost all that we know today as Marxism. "

Maybe not so many 10's of millions would die if Stalin and Mao chose to be more radical.
>Please provide some evidence, because I think only a narrow group of right-wing economists say that.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/18/156928675/epis...

no transcript unfortunately, but the summary seems to be that economists across the political spectrum agrees with it.

edit: listened to the podcast. the relevant section is at around 12:30. the reasoning seems to be that corporate taxes discourages corporations from reinvesting their profits, and if want corporate taxes because corporations are mostly owned by rich people, you should tax them directly.
Realistic, maybe not. But if we skip the whole funding part, fork out from v92, skip all new features and cherry-pick security patches and nothing but, then I'm in!
> that is actually how things work, and how they should work

I don't think so. Users simply don't have the power to negotiate these contracts. These "take it or leave it" deals are abusive. Especially since many times these platforms have network effects so strong you need to be part of them in order to not fail at life. Under these conditions, nobody can truly consent to anything. These "terms" should not even apply. Nobody even reads them, it doesn't matter what they say because it won't change the fact they need to be on Facebook because of family, work, school, whatever. They click "agree" not because they agree but because the sign up form won't submit if they don't.

So technology that lets us alter the deal is very much welcome indeed. They don't want us using this stuff but their permission is not necessary. Software is gonna interoperate with their site whether they want it or not. They should not even be able to find out that we're doing anything out of the ordinary. From their perspective, they should simply see a normal user agent issuing normal HTTP requests.

Adversarial interoperability. If they refuse to make the site work like we want it to, we'll do the work for them. This should be considered a form of legitimate self defense against their abuse.
In FF, I have an email window with different tabs for each email account. It would be a nightmare to switch through multiple windows to see all of my email.
Settings, history, and cookies is what a profile is.

If the browser tries to connect directly to google that's something else.
Another older terminal JS library that might interest people is https://www.masswerk.at/termlib/
My only point for VAERS is that there are instances of people reacting to the vaccine. Yes anecdotes should be verified, but they do exist as does the small chance of a reaction.

So that small reaction should be enough for people with immunity from a previous infection to say, "hey, that's my reason". Not that they need one :)
Look at TuiCss: https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss
Consider this scenario: you're writing some code that needs to run in an environment where some aspect of the standard library isn't an option (allocation, or whatever else)

Now you want to pull in a library

Does that library work in that constrained environment, or will it break in obvious or subtle ways?

In Rust, no_std is a first-class crate attribute. It's enforced inside the crate, and it tells your crate as much when on a dependency. It's impossible (as far as I know) to accidentally use a std crate from your no_std crate, and for a no_std crate to accidentally use something from std internally (or in its dependencies). You can search for a crate on crates.io, and it can have dependencies of its own and dependencies for those dependencies, and you can integrate it all into your project without having to dig into the source code or whatever else to try and find out whether it will fit this set of constraints. That's powerful.

In C you would have to either write everything yourself, read through all of your dependencies, or just cross your fingers.
Whenever these studies come up, it makes me wonder "how exactly are they defining task and multi-task here".

For example, driving involves keeping the car at a reasonable, avoiding obstacles on and off the road, deciding whether you need to turn soon, noticing the condition of the vehicle and related things. These could all be considered tasks and are indeed difficult to keep straight when one begins driving. But they can indeed be done together. And while it might be easier to somehow do each separately, the combined task of driving isn't possible without this "multitasking".

I understand that nearly everyone talking about multitasking here is referencing whether or not tasks at work can be efficiently combined. But I don't think that addresses the larger issues (what's a single task, when two tasks intersect, how can you not multitask, is the difficulty of "multitasking" a limitation of humans or is it that the task itself becomes inherently more difficult).
Please don't. Playing traps is bad chess and a waste of time that marks you as a noob. Learn traps so you can punish people who play them.
Ascaris Lumbricoides: Epidemiology, Laboratory Diagnosis and Treatment
Firefox: Dark pattern consent dialog invites users to share their location
10x developers are about as rare as 10x strong people.

They exist but you probably don't ever meet one. And there could be a lot more 10x people but most don't commit to it.
> the channels are controlled and watched

Do you think that ham radio couldn't be? Or isn't? What you really want is privacy, authz/authn concerns, and decentralization, it sounds like. And TCP/IP is about as useful as a "PHY" layer for your application as is ham radio.

Plus, solutions like what you're describing require a relative ease of use - unless you only want to talk to the 17 other people in your geographical area who have similar technical backgrounds.
git-bug, the one mentioned in the article here, has some documentation on its README of how well its importer/exporter tools support Github, Gitlab, Jira, and Launchpad: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

Most of the other such tools I've seen barely have the resources to import/export a single such API. git-issue only has Github import it looks like. https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

There's perceval which is designed to be a generic archival tool and supports lots of APIs, but only dumps them to source-specific formats and would still need a lot of work if you tried to use issues from different APIs together: https://github.com/chaoss/grimoirelab-perceval
I've never done this, but if you read stories by people who have, they appreciate not having 3,000 other tourists on the boat; just a few dozen or so, plus the crew members who don't talk to you.
I found the docs a better starting point:

https://docs.lucidarch.dev/

https://docs.lucidarch.dev/concept/

https://docs.lucidarch.dev/principles/

https://docs.lucidarch.dev/micro-vs-monolith/
Usually its obvious that the heirloom produce they are selling would be impossible to ship long distances. an heirloom tomato is amazingly fragile compared to a roma bred for shipping.
The message and content have always been inseparable.
Regulating Resiliency in Supply Chains
Bellard is obviously 10x (or 100x) engineer when you need to port Linux kernel to JavaScript or compute the longest Pi sequence.

But most jobs aren't like that and require a mixed skillset - problem solving, people skills, stress resistance etc. and it's entirely unclear how Bellard would fare there.
That's straightforward to work-around: arrange for an important industry meeting that's coincidentally in the same city as your weekend getaway.
It takes longer to enumerate all the chess maxims than you have to pay a whole speed chess game.
I genuinely feel like shaming and social ostracization should be way more commonly used. If suddenly you stop hanging out with friends who work at outfits like Facebook, if they stop being invited to dinners, are socially shunned, then I genuinely believe it will have a net positive effect.

The problem is that bad behavior is normalized and rationalized in our society, 'everyone needs a paycheck.' This legitimizes working for companies like this.
"unvaccinated people are not a risk" is factually wrong. The rest is basically gibberish. Good luck being unvaccinated with the COVID.
> Are other people starting to notice this at ELT becomes more populate than traditional ETL?

I invented ELT.

No, duh, of course not... But: I and my then-colleagues, other DW consultants, started noticing some time in the early-to-mid-00s that what we were doing didn't actually follow the order of the "ETL" acronym, and occasionally commented to each other along the lines of "shouldn't this be called 'ELT' to be more descriptive?". So I don't quite get the "starting to notice this at ELT becomes more popula[r]" bit -- this feels quite old to me. Before most of the meteoric rise of Python.
Trying to avoid proprietary things, where possible. Especially at the protocol/application layer.

Lora and other chirp based protocols are incredibly cool, and I've been playing with them
I've said this before and I will say it again, the whole "No, ...." style of headline is so condescending and confrontational that the people it needs to persuade aren't going to bother reading it.

Is it so hard to write a headline like "An explanation as to why antibodies are not better than vaccination"? Or something like that. Must journalists feel the need to talk down to people?
Ton Roosendaal: “Ads in Firefox...”
Still don’t quite get the DOS nostalgia. Individual games were good, but the whole ecosystem was finicky and crash-prone by the early- to mid-90s, not to mention deeply ugly (ALL CAPS console, lousy inconsistent GUIs, unnaturally short filenames, etc.). My friends and I couldn’t wait to run Unix, NeXTSTEP, hell even classic MacOS. We only ran DOS/Windows because that’s all we had. Though don’t get me wrong, we still had tons of fun and learned a lot.
Mark heard you and didn't notice your small "/s", and so he is forcing everybody back to office in 3 months

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10064865/Facebook-g...

"outage is blamed on people not being in the office"

One can imagine the smoking bottoms of the spine of the FB mid-management these days and the TC they would pay to any hire who is able to convincingly play a cloud reliability expert/architect.
This has only ever made sense when Django is not being used as a web framework. A person may want to use just the templating engine in a script, or the ORM in another framework. I could see how installing all of Django in those scenarios to use some small portion of it could be considered bloat.

It is imaginable that Django the web framework could be made up of sub-packages for the admin, templates, ORM, etc, but it was created at a time where Python package managers didn't really exist. Being a single package was (and probably still is) easier.
A whole lot of people take the “I lived through a real crisis…” then detail their life during the gas shortage or something.

Unfortunately most do not see anything as a crisis until a literal one of sufficient scale is upon us.
> The US approach also has logistical benefits. Simple categories of "vaccinated" and "unvaccinated" skip over the messy and difficult step of figuring out who has been infected and when.

And WHY is this difficult and messy? We made a herculean effort to push out a new medicine, but we can't do the same for natural immunity detection?

> Though opponents argue that mass vaccination is driven by "evil corporations" out for prodigious profits at all costs

Not that long ago they would rather you die than cover costs for pre-existing conditions (as one example). They are incentivized by profit, and saying otherwise is a fringe theory.
I don't think the user agents under discussion are the UAs sent by the Facebook browser, but rather the ones sent by Facebook's crawlers.

The Facebook browser is distributed across all of humanity, so it'd be expected to have legitimate activity during the outage.

The Facebook crawlers, however, are presumably all behind the blackholed Facebook network, so any request purporting to be from a Facebook crawler is likely up to no good.
As parent said, in international terms, you can effectively shift profits wherever you want, assuming a sufficiently large and non-physical business. Which led to this entire recent mess.

It was less of a problem when steel needed to be bought here, and goods needed to be sold here. Can't very well claim that here is actually there.

But with intangible goods, you can! Who's to say what the fair price of using Google Nigeria using Google's brand is?

Which led to a game of "Where to put the profits, without being too obvious about it?" Which led to a race to the bottom in tax rates to attract business.

Effectively, this base rate is good for major developed countries (who typically didn't need to have the lowest rates), international businesses (who had to play convoluted shell games, without ever knowing the true rules, to stay competitive), and even smaller or developing countries (who now don't have to cut their own throats to attract businesses).

Which is probably why an agreement happened. Nobody liked the old game, but it was a competitive necessity.
You apparently didn't understand what an APC is. APC is Antigen Presenting Cell. The entire purpose of that cell is to present bits of foreign protein to the rest of your immune system. It is full of foreign bits of protein because that is what it does. It is no more going to be hurt by presenting antigens than your neurons are hurt delivering electrical signals from sensory perceptions.

If you are going to cite literature at least understand what you're citing.
From the v93 release notes: "Introducing Firefox Suggest"
> Computational agents (...) conserve the ultimate scarce resource: our attention. Many systems seem to have computational power asymmetry as their fundamental principle: as little human contact on the system's side as possible; as much human contact on the user's side as possible.

That's the key thing nobody is telling people about the so-called "attention economy": it's whole point is to make things as inefficient as possible - because money is made on the friction. In order to make money off attention, companies need to capture it (thereby making you spend it on something else than what you wanted to). To make more money, they need that attention to last longer (thereby making you spend more time, and/or spend it more often, on things that make them money).

Seen this way, it's clear why services hate end-user automation: their whole business is causing the very friction the users would like to automate away.
> I would also hope that Facebook's infrastructure isn't so fragile that a small mutiny of a dozen employees could hold it hostage.

Oh my. At least in my time, which has involved some serious work at a majority of FAANG, I've never found a group smaller than three that couldn't drop at least half a day of downtime if they were well-motivated. As FB themselves noted in their somewhat anemic public postmortem, extreme premature optimization of security measures typically just delays recovery.
I do not know, but in Windows tests it performed about 30% worse than Blink (Chromium).