skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, what happened 10 years ago that made food as pricey as it is in a global pandemic today?
Well, take a look at e.g. slides 10 and 11 here: https://www.scribd.com/document/530328436/Slides-from-Peter-...
That is, adverse reactions from just the COVID vaccines completely dwarf all vaccines from VAERS' entire 31-year history.

The associated talk is here:
https://rumble.com/vnbv86-winning-the-war-against-therapeuti...

VAERS data is public. They even provide machine-parsable format.
For non-IDE workflow use the Gradle dependency management tool and task runner - you can use javac on its own but for any non-trivial application the command line arguments will get very long.
One minor point. Covid did not derail it, because Covid made housing market red hot. The pandemic made owning a house an extremely useful asset just from mental health pov.
> First of all, no private organisation can "recognize" a state. That is a privilege for states. Private organisations can only boycott (non-)states by not doing any business with said (non-)citizens. Why in the world Wikimedia do that, and how?

You apparently do not recognize that a private organization can recognize a state; I do.

What powerful entitites such as states recognize and not recognize is already quite meaningless; it is certainly meaningless what you and I do or do not recognize.

“Recognition” very often is unimpactful jabber of semantics. — Many of the states hat do not recognize Taiwan have business relations with it outside of the P.R.C. regardless.
Great Advice !
I want infinite stack.
Yesterday at Walmart i bought: shampoo, burger buns, ground coffee, and a bar of chocolate for $28. The cost of everything is ridiculous this these days.
> our operation has become brittle and subject to massive failures under the slightest pressure

I somehow notice a lot of this lately, in many different areas. I wonder if there isn't a common cause behind those. Is it just covid or something bigger?
I'm saying it doesn't add much to the news.
Oh, I didn't know that about locals!

Yeah, calling float and complex "supertypes" probably wasn't the best idea, but I couldn't think of a better explanation that wouldn't take too long to explain. I'll ponder about that one.

the getattr thing seems like a huge rabbit hole, I'm totally going to look into this. Thank you :)
The top result on the Play store for "Guitar Tuner" is GuitarTuna, which is around 200 MB in size if memory serves me well. The second result's reviews indicate that it's full of extremely disruptive ads.

So whatever Google is trying to do, for me it has disrupted that "market" by providing an easy-to-find, clean alternative.
Pilots should lose their medical certificate for 5 years if they refuse the vaccine. That way they’re not shopping between carriers for ones least likely to enforce the mandate, incentivizing carriers to loosen their stance as a way to accelerate hiring. However, the carriers should be required to compensate any pilot who has a medical issue due to the vaccine which results in a loss of medical certification.
No, but they want permission to use your microphone.
This COBOL shortage myth has been around since I was a kid. It wasn't true then, and isn't now.

The entire problem is that they don't pay well for what is supposedly a rare resource. And nobody wants to learn a dead language for peanuts.

Offer 500k/yr, and me and about 100 million other people will be learning COBOL starting tomorrow.
Did y'all read the guy's emails? Forget his legal problems...I'd kill myself from just the embarrassment if I was him
https://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/jdk-compatibility/over... talks about it a bit but I get the impression Scala is developed using the plain old OpenJDK so that seems like the safest option.
What is standard pitch?
Very confused. I heard about the pigeon net in rfc, when in good old day they sometimes could have fun. But cancer spotting.

Really not fake … ???
If there's no stack size limit, there's no stack overflow. And if there's no Stack Overflow where do we get our codez?
TLS Certificate Transparency logs let us assess Certificate Authorities
Kubernetes is a way to handle complexity with infrastructure and operations that is codified and implemented as a single standardized and portable solution. Much of what K8S does is replace what you would be doing manually or by tying together many other tools yourself.

That's completely different than taking a simple blogging site and turning it into some distributed monstrosity.
Disclosure: I used to work on Google Cloud.

I dunno, their A100 results took about 20-30 minutes on 8 x A100s [1]. 8xA100s is like $24/hr on GCP at on-demand rates [2]. So like $12/run.

The efficiency was okay but not linear, so if you were more cost constrained you might go with 1xA100 for $3/hr and have ~2.5hr training times.

Getting that performance out of a GPU is more challenging than getting access to the GPUs. All the major cloud providers offer them.

(Nit: GCP deployed the 40 GiB cards rather than the later 80 GiB parts, but let's ignore that).

but it often doesn't matter

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/DeepLearningExamples/tree/master/P...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/gpus-pricing
Money is not ideology

Being a "social construct" is not the same as being ideology.
Shh, don't use the "I" word, or you'll summon it.
I've been using Guitar Tuna for years. It's extremely effective and I don't really notice the ads.
Im avoiding travel until the airlines shake off the cobwebs from being mostly shut down during covid.
Well, why did you choose packages that change quickly and are poorly documented then? There are packages that, OTOH, have up to zero dependencies, and haven't changed in years; if you consider those stale, I guess nobody can help you.
Is it useful to have complex functions, rotations ?
Walking cane for plants!
Cool, but did they had 16? Or will they have 18? I use the newest Java version available.
Tarana's fiber-like FWA tech draws attention from BT, MTN, Wisper
What about accident?

In this case the person just shared a work anecdote that was relevant to the discussion, arguably.
Most musicians probably are using a clip on or chromatic tuner rather than their phone to be fair
It is not, based on the loopholes one has to jump through for basic support.
We focus on the negative, instead of the positive.

When I was born, HIV was a death sentence and pretty quick. Today it is something you live with, which when treated correctly can't even be detected, and a vaccine is being tested.

During my childhood it cost money for every minute you were on the phone, and we didn't have an internet connection at home. The best, newest information on many topics I had access to was a physical encyclopedia.

Today we have driven the cost of global video calls down to zero.

Between 1990 and 2015 we added a billion people and cut the number of those living in extreme poverty down by half. Of course this being a positive thing, nobody much noticed.
Trick to Automate Android App Versioning and Numbering Using MSAppCenter. No .sh
> but it’s also your employer’s right to mandate it and terminate you if you decline it

I don't believe any significant number of employers genuinely want to terminate employees who don't have it. They are being coerced into doing it by the Biden administration, which has actively proclaimed its desire and intention to do just that. This isn't the natural conclusion of free individuals exercising their rights, this is top-down authoritarianism.

If "public support is robust", then why are they actively suppressing news about the cause of this issue? Regardless of what you or I think, it sure seems like whoever is doing these things thinks that we're a hair's breadth away from large-scale rebellion and they don't dare let anyone know why this action was really done or how successful it has been.

> so far those actions have been adjudicated as lawful

This feels more like a dismissive dunk than an attempt at understanding, compassion, or logical argument. It says, we have the power to force you to do it, nobody cares what you think, so shut up and do as you're told or we're going to smash you and nobody will care. The only "rights" being exercised here are the self-proclaimed "rights" of the elite to jam any policy they want down everyone's throat and destroy them using aggressive force if they object or resist.

I am also willingly vaccinated. But I see that these vaccines are clearly much less effective than we were told and have more significant side-effects than anyone is willing to admit. I am against mandating them for anyone who doesn't decide they want one without coercion, and I am becoming increasingly appalled at how many of my fellow citizens are embracing authoritarian measures.
According to the indictment, he had a totally sane and realistic plan to do about 50 dead drops total for about $5M total
Anecdotally, our regular grocery bill increased from ~$150 to >$250 ($CAD) per week*. And that's with cutbacks on meats and snacks.

At this point our only saving grace is the rent increase freeze my province enacted due to COVID. I'm "saving" ~$100/month because of that.

* edit: this is over the past ~18 months we've seen this increase
COUNTRY1 could be Canada for all we know.
It means that reserves are lower at the end of the year than at the start.
So this opinion is a fairly popular one but I'm not sure there's any factual basis for it.

The idea is simple: there's little evolutionary pressure to adapt because technology and society can deal with issues that once would've been fatal.

There are a bunch of issues that still affect survivability though: recklessness, propensity for violence, inability to survive in modern society, addiction issues, mental health issues, etc. We can expect all of these to improve but go away entirely? That's less certain.

Even if you ignore mortality issues, the other side of natural selection is how many offspring you have and how many of them survive to have their own offspring. If a group with trait A has an average of 2 children each but trait B have an average of 3, it's not too many generations before B becomes dominant.

Evolution is also relatively slow and not smooth. We only identified DNA ~50 years ago and mapped the human genome in the last 10-15. It's a bit early to refute observational evidence.

Remember too that certain traits that were once advantageous can become a disadvantage or they only become a disadvantage in certain circumstances. Take the modern abundance of food. Some people have genes that predispose them to storing excess, others less so. 1000 years ago, that was probably an advantage. Now? Less so, both in terms of health effects related to, say, obesity, but also in terms of finding a mate and having offspring given changing societal standards for beauty (not universal of course).
OP does have a point but I think a better example is when google scrapes a truncated paragraph from a website and presents that.
Website seems to be down, but Archive link works: https://web.archive.org/web/20211011041410/https://andymatus...
JRE is like 44MB, JDK is 190MB. Difference is not 400 MB. And you get jshell, javac all the nice tools that I missed when some wise guys in distro or corp decided JRE is enough.
> they would consider weed sales illegal?

Weed is illegal under US law. Nothing meaningful about the federal prohibition on weed has changed for decades.

AFAICT all dispensaries are admitting federal crimes when they file federal tax returns. I believe the statute of limitations on controlled substances violations is 5 years, meaning dispensers are theoretically always under threat that the next administration will bring down the hammer and prosecute them for sales occurring today.
I was graduating from high school, they wanted to make getting non-cafeteria food as difficult as possible for me specifically
People haven't abandoned QWERTY on cell phones - we replaced physical keyboards with touch, but the keyboard itself is still there.

Furthermore, there are still smartphones and PDAs made with physical keyboards today, catering to niches where it makes sense. Some examples would be Unihertz Titan and Cosmo Communicator.
Right. Cereals are stockpiled in many countries.
That's true. They might even have a hard time even keeping it up for a couple of weeks if said institution doesn't even bother to respond to the twitter mob, just completely ignores them. Social media has a very short attention span, and if nothing new happens, they'll move on to something else to get outraged about.

It's still problematic that many people will lose their livelihood and have their careers damaged by this. Even if your current employer sides with you, having negative twitter mobs write about you might reduce your chances of landing the next job.

In order to make things better, I think we need to be more vocal and forceful in standing up to cancel culture. To actively reject it as a society. Just hoping that your current and future employers will maybe side with you, maybe that's a start, but it isn't enough.
Guitar Tuna is an excellent app with minimal distractions, simple and intuitive ui, and lets you calibrate, which can be invaluable. Tunes down to A1 with excellent bass presets. There are ads in the free version, and removing them / unlocking extras costs $12.99 .

Best way to filter apps I've found is to look for three things: domain appropriate pricing, high numbers of good (believable) reviews, and a lifetime greater than 12 months.

Very few crapware apps have all three at once - it also helps to ask relevant communities on enthusiast forums when it comes to craft - I've found great bubble level recommendations from a woodworking forum. Going to Twitter or social media comes in third, it's tough to get a good signal noise ratio from the hordes.

Eventually ai might be able to curate for quality, but having multiple social proxies can help in the meantime.
Banks have procedures and regulations that protect customers from those issues. In fact there's a lot of of secondary checks and offline reconciliation precisely to catch potential software errors.
Ideally you don't want prices to go down, less we get a deflationary spiral, you want more equal distribution AND inflation to be greater than the interest rate, which reduces Debt burden.

First time home buyers can put down 3% for conventional loan, provided it is not a jumbo loan maybe it should be more aggressive to advantage new entrants who haven't had housing debt during this remarkable rate decline (price increase) over last 40 years... I think we should invert the regressive taxes: prop 13, MITD (trump partly fixed) and capital gain exemption, others?
Maybe, but those I use didn have any trouble with any java release.

Using so called LTS without paying for it is in no way different from using latest. You get similarly tested software and no one to call if you need a security fix asap.
For those with the interest, but with less time or patience, I found that installing Arch on a "For messing around, I don't care if I accidentally brick it for a week" laptop was a pretty good way to quickly learn a lot more about how a typical Linux system is assembled.

There's no installer... the boot media just drops you into a live console, and then you're expected to follow the installation guide [1] to set up your disk, bootstrap the core system, select packages, and then do just enough manual configuration that your new machine will survive a reboot.

You'll probably spend the next week or so digging around the Arch Wiki [2] to figure out how to set up the remaining odds and ends. You're definitely not building the system from scratch, but you generally do need to understand more about where things live, how they're configured, and how to turn them on and off, which the wiki is very good at explaining. The stuff you learn here will absolutely come in handy when the same component is misbehaving on a Debian or Red Hat system.

And when you're done, not only are you left with a system that's completely usable (i.e. packages that can actually be upgraded), it'll be configured exactly the way you wanted. In my case, that "messing around" laptop is now my daily driver.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page (a great resource for Linux in general, not only Arch specific things)
You're assuming the downvotes are due to a difference of views, and not because your writing style hasn't found its home yet. It's not that most people disagree with the substance of your commentary - there's a comment with similar argument but with a different tone as yours, currently trending on this post - but that your writing has a natural resonance with the downvote button, similar to singing the perfect note to break a wine glass with sound.
Thanks for following up, which makes your earlier comments more useful for folks wondering about the present state of things
Right. COBOL is not some mythical ancient knowledge that can't be learned today. I'm pretty sure anyone who can learn Haskell can learn COBOL too, it's just a question of making them want to.
What do you mean by 'useful' here? Facebook goes down for half a day and everybody laughs. Take 'banks' down for the same amount of time and see what happens.
Turns out, this is what happens when you give everyone more money.

I'm not against a higher minimum wage. I'm less for these 'covid' checks that go out that a lot of people don't need. But, both of these things mean higher prices for everyone else.

For people upset at this comment: It's literally taught in ECON 101.
Whatsapp does allow it and this nicely allows anyone to create a small personal note taking area: just create a group chat with anyone else and then ask that person to leave again.
Too many people earning 6 figures these days. Companies figure that they can raise prices and consumers will absorb the costs.

Shampoo companies need to pay their software engineers 340k too. /s
Even preview features are production ready (I used them in production) . Just the api might change or it could be removed, but quality wise it is as good as it can be.
GitHub – anonaddy/anonaddy: Anonymous email forwarding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard)

Most people that tune by ear tune relatively, e.g. they tune each string to another string. If there's no standard reference then it'll sound fine but you can't play with anyone else who is tuned to the standard... Though many people can tune to a reference pitch as well without using a tuner.
Why would I need “machine learning” for this?
This should be done server-side and is a single line with most frameworks or web servers. It actually highlights the central issue here being frontend devs and practices trying to reach into the backend without any experience or knowledge, resulting in an over-complicated mess while solving no real problems.
60 Minutes report on synthetic media, deepfakes
> On NixOS installing any package is the same as reinstalling the operating system.

I've only ever noticed one difference: installing the bootloader only happens on nixos-install, not always on nixos-rebuild
OTTOMH,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muammar_Gaddafi?wprov=sfla1
Something like this they use for scooters in Taiwan?

https://youtu.be/6-ZCqeRSe3E

Could be useful to add some range quickly.

To be viable I'd think a couple key questions,1) How often do electric car drivers need this fast top-up? 2) How would this compare time to power vs pugging into a fast charge for 5 min 3) Could it deliver a significant vehicle cost saving reducing the main battery requirements?

Regarding the "charged with renewable energy in huge factories and distributed to remote swap stations." I would think getting the grid more green generally is the better and more realistic option.
I chose the most basic and common packages I could find (terser and rollup), and the changing, no longer valid command-line options I was talking about were command-line options of the npm package manager.
Fun with Integer Promotions in C
Here in Russia there've been many attempts to create a Russian-based programming language.

The only success story is the scripting language of 1C, the accounting software which is the de facto standard in organizations. It's very popular and there's many job offers for it. The use of Russian language is justified because it would be a pain to try translate all the legal and accounting-oriented terminology specific to Russia into English. Constantly switching between English keywords and Russian variable/class names would also be difficult.
Its really boils down to the diamond buying capacity of the male chimp.
Thankfully there are review articles to quickly get up to speed.
I took a break from my 3rd attempt at learning Node (which I have since abandoned permanently) to learn C and write my own software 3D renderer in it. I found this, to my surprise, a vastly simpler and more pleasant experience.
Not everything in a static webapp needs to be static, just push most static things to the CDN and render some things like "user details" on the client... it just works out so much simpler.
Customize Blazor TreeGrid Rows Using Templates
Not an agricultural economist, but I'd bet energy prices and extreme weather. Agriculture is pretty energy intensive, both directly for machinery and also because fossil fuels are used to make fertilizer.
Book Review: Thinking in Systems
Thank god TVs keep getting bigger so we can keep inflation down with hedonic adjustments.[0]

[0][https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/questions-and-ans...]

edit: Not that I love the AEI I think this is one of the most important pictures of the 21st century:
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cpichart2019....
Optimisation culture. Cut x cost by y%? Promotion! Everything collapses a few years later because there’s no buffers for anything? Who cares, those managers are already at their next job so it’s someone else’s fault!
Again, anti fragile does not mean unbreakable. Anti fragile systems are less likely to fail because they get stronger when subjected to reasonable stresses.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/the-best-exer...
> These systems aren't "survivors" - they're held together with a fragile weave of scripts, hacks, unsupported hardware and outdated knowledge.

It can be, depending on the system and who's complaining about it. Sometimes a fragile, buggy, mess of a legacy system is actually fragile and buggy, with failures causing downtime or lost business, and creaky processes slowing new development to a crawl. Sometimes it's just a system that has an unfamiliar or slightly less ergonomic developer experience, that uses older technologies that some developers don't want to learn. You have to look past the complaints and judge for yourself.
Bootable Disk Images of PDP-11 Unix V6, V7, 2.9BSD and 2.11BSD
The majority of packages in JS land change quickly and are poorly documented, unfortunately :(

There certainly are stable packages, but sometimes to do what you need to do there is no other option.
the big problem of js on backend is quite bad profiling of nodejs apps.
I wonder if ATC rerouting flights on routes that use more fuel, due to ATC staff shortages and military training on Friday, may have caused SW to elect to cancel more flights than other airlines. They’re on a very tight margin compared to less budget targeted carriers.
Leeching is a pretty strong word.

Childless people pay taxes that go toward the education, childcare subsidies and healthcare for your children.

Childless people often put more effort into their work or volunteering contributions which is of net benefit to society.

Childless people often help friends and family raise their children (free childcare/baby sitting).

Childless people also realise they won't have children to look after them in their old age and many plan to have enough in retirement to pay for the additional help they need.

Why do you think only childless people blabber about social justice?