skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you could do (scientists please feel free to correct me) is you basically separate days into two groups, 1/ days falling during mercury retro 2/ days falling during not-mercury retro (I think called direct motion). Then you look at the total LSEs/total days for each of the two groups and do a two-sample t-test...? Depending on the p-value you can conclude there is some correlation. Now for the fun part.. data acquisition. Anyone know a good source for tabulating LSEs/day?
"standard": https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/65606295.jpg
The title is misleading. Sending keystrokes isn't new. Both Firefox and Chrome have "keylogged" address bar tying for a long time to perform search suggestions. What's changed is that now Mozilla gets a copy too instead of just Google

(There's also the part about showing ads, which bleugh, but that's separate from the 'sending' part)
Basecamp's angry worker faction was demanding the company apologize for contributing to a white supremacist, genocidal culture... because some customer service folks had a funny customer name list that included names from all backgrounds.

That had absolutely nothing to do with basic dignity for marginalized groups. It was simply a grab for power and status. One of many. We who have been watching are very familiar with the game.

The framing of it as merely about basic dignity is deeply disingenuous, but is itself familiar and another part of the game. What about the dignity of customer service workers? Is it upholding their dignity to frivolously condemn them for a mildly immature in-joke that showed no racial bias and harmed no one?

Some of us, you will find, are not so easily played for fools.
The woke biggest fear is that people realize that only about 5-10% are woke so you can ignore them without much consequences no matter how much of a fuzz they make on twitter.

They try to make a fuzz here at HN as well but just like the real world they aren't the majority here either.
Doctors Caucus Letter Urging CDC to Acknowledge Covid-19 Natural Immunity
Ham equipment also seems quite large and bulky, based off every stock photo I’ve seen online, so I’m not quite sure how useful it’d be in a situation like an earthquake where you’d have to evacuate a building and take your possessions out by hand.
Fuck coinbase and their token casino, they are more of the old system bitcoin wants to replace
Iceland Joins Nordic Peers in Halting Moderna (mRNA) Covid Vaccinations
Exercise, maintain a good diet. Find a good hobby that consumes your attention and distracts you from work and phone notifications,
Hmm, interesting.

I don't object to the new definition- the old one explicitly calling out cowpox feels outdated as our medical technology has marched on.

You make a very good point though, depending on what definition of "vaccine" one used prior to 2020 the mRNA vaccines might not fall under it. And changing the meaning of the word doesn't magically change the properties of the things it refers to.
The thing I've always wanted (for both iOS and Android) is an "inactive folder". Any app in the inactive folder would be completely shut down when it's not being used. That means no location, no notifications, no network activity, no waking for anything. When the app is launched it can work normally and if I move it out of the inactive folder then it will behave like any other app.

For example, Uber. I only use Uber when I travel and I have notifications on because I want to know when my ride is arriving. But when I'm not travelling I would love to inactivate it completely. Likewise a weather app or bank apps. I don't want them doing anything if I'm not using them so I would like to leave it in that folder permanently. Then they can do what they need once I launch them.
The attitude that if someone doesn't overtly support your cause, that it means they are your enemy is a terrible one.
Isn't torture in a Russian prison a trope? I thought we were all on the assumption that there is widespread torture unless they could prove otherwise.
She isn’t calling you back man
And don’t forget that in the early part of our lives, where the Titanic sank was a great mystery with countless people hunting for its whereabouts.
Was at a meeting and people need going on about mobile hams being the only form of communications for a couple of weeks for small towns hit by hurricanes in Florida This was just a few years ago.

Basically a dude in a minivan shows up. Puts up a 50 cable. And he is it.

Lots of stories about how someone needed insulin and he would end up connecting to a random HAm in New York, who would email the right people and a few hours later Insulin arrived.

Mostly it was about how to prep a vehicle to have a weeks water , power and other supplies.
Was super cool.
Yes, it sounds it has less to do with depression and more with working through existential questions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_Psychotherapy_(boo...

or the buddhist notion not to waste time https://tricycle.org/magazine/how-not-waste-time/
The Covid Fable
Chromium also has search suggestions by Google per default.
(laughs)

OK dude.
Hmm, but the point of Git-LFS is to store large files outside the CAS so that they don't burden operations like `clone`. And Git-LFS does lots of magic.

Maybe to achieve what I've laid out, I really would need to write a Git extension a la Git-LFS. But then vanilla Git wouldn't be able to make full use of it, which undermines the purpose of using Git in the first place.

As an alternative, maybe I just commit the darn audio files to the repo.

• In relative terms, audio files grow smaller ever year.

• Large repository size isn't as critical for a music composition tool as it is for perpetually maintained software source code.

• I'm imagining a tool to prune edit history which would consolidate commits and potentially garbage collect audio files that become unreferenced.

I wish there was a way in vanilla Git to just associate a CAS object containing arbitrary bytes with a commit object, though.
Or I can just call you a cunt and wish the rape of your family while you are here trying to be cheeky when you are destroying the world.
I think the parent's point is that there's a lot of cellular infrastructure that needs power (and connectivity) for cellular communication to work. Point-to-point radio only needs power at either end, and when your radio runs on 13.8VDC, there are many convenient sources available.
A Quora clone on Rails 7 using some html template from themeforest i reckon... yeah, why not...
If any of your coworkers have threatened to stop you from existing you should call the police.
This is quite disturbing, see all those accounts created 30 minutes ago:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fancifulfiend

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=workersrights

- https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tesselator

I wonder what's going on with HN moderation.
I'm not sure why you think people who care about justice harass coworkers as a matter of course. It's strictly the opposite, in my (considerable) experience.
No, I don't know anyone at Basecamp.
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Why not take the debt to the grave? Debt doesn’t necessarily Have to come due as you can just tack the interest on top of it and or restructure as you wish to set the due date further away.
> crypto is political

Crypto isn't partisan. It's not beholden to the democratic or the republican party. Saying "something is political" is meaningless.
Very good 5 points with proviso that elite MBA not 'worth it' for everyone, but rather than its relevancy is/has been declining and will continue to be negatively correlated with technological advancement.
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Marginalized peoples are often not threatened overtly. They often cannot prove their case to the satisfaction of the not marginalized. For some groups, calling the police is the last thing they would do.
unlike comparison

Smallpox had a mortality varying from 33% to 17% according to what I read last [1]

Covid has a mortality rate of < 2% in the US mainly driven by the very old, and severe co-mordibities (diabetic+obese, immunocompromised, etc) that are in many cases annually killed off by influenza & pneumonia. That is why all-cause mortality hasn't shifted that much at the overall population level in the US.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/clinicians/clinical-disease.htm...
> A Conditional Marketing Authorization is not an Emergency Use Authorization. The European Medicines Agency even explain this.

Please provide a citation for this claim. My reading of the EMA page for Conditional Marketing Authorization states: "Its use is also intended for a public health emergency (e.g. a pandemic). _For these medicines, less comprehensive pharmaceutical and non-clinical data may also be accepted_".

The fact that less comprehensive farmaceutical data is accepted for CMA leads me to believe they are experimental.
At least part of what I'll be doing is migrating a bunch of infrastructure from Linode to OVH. Depending on how that goes, I may spend some time on other stuff.

One thing I am hoping to find some time to work on is a tool for helping me manage my huge collection of e-books. The basic idea is a sort of combination file-indexer / search engine, and a note-taking app. But with some very specific functionality designed around the way I prefer to do things, which is why I'm not just grabbing something like Calibre and using that.
>when it doesn't work it can be a real struggle to find out why.

Exactly like most GPGPU debugging then!
There's no reason you can't operate a fractional reserve lending operation with bitcoin. You also don't need a central bank or other authority either. It's as simple as taking a deposit and loaning out some of it. And hoping you get payments or more deposits before people want their deposits back.

There's even value in not taking deposits, but just loaning out founder/investor's capital. Although maybe that's just a weird deposit.

I'm not sure how to make deposits useful without lending out some of them, though. I guess just money is less likely to be stolen in a bank than under your pillow, but probably not in a cryptobank.
Kinda rich coming from someone that doesn't know the difference between blink and webkit
> Unfortunately, all major browsers now use a combined address and search bar. So, if you’re typing in the address of a sensitive website to go directly there, your keystrokes as you type will be sent to your default search engine and your search engine may be able to determine the website address you’re typing in manually.

That's why it's a good idea to split the search box in the Firefox settings. Ctrl-l takes you to the address bar which doesn't load any remote data, and ctrl-k takes you to the search box on the right, which does send keystrokes to the search engine.

Settings → Search → Add search bar in toolbar (check that box)

Also uncheck "Show search suggestions in address bar results"

Problem solved, for now.
None (it is a zero telemetry browser, which is easily verifiable). Instead there will be a paid Pro version.

https://browser.kagi.com/faq.html#business
Why not just not give out your call sign on the internet?
In Iceland 95% of the most at-risk over 60 year olds are fully vaccinated and over 90% of everyone over 16 is fully or partially vaccinated. Four people total have died of COVID-19 in Iceland since the beginning of the 2021, around 1/100,000.

The evidence for negative vaccine side effects also suggests they're most prevalent in the younger, healthier population least at risk from COVID, who are also the vast majority of the few remaining Icelanders not fully vaccinated.

Given all that, when considering the potential risk/benefit of offering Pfizer and Moderna or just Pfizer, the expected upside of continuing to offer Moderna if they have any reason for concern is very small indeed.
Genuinely asking because I never got this: how do you remove politics from your work if your work provides healthcare? Like what if you or your dependents want birth control or need an abortion or get a blood transfusion that happens to be from a black person or take hormone replacement therapy or take AIDS drugs or get a vaccine or whatever is the political medical controversy do jour?
Raspberry Pi Hosting Firm MiniNodes Grows Up Enough to Get a Proper Data Center
I don't know, more people celebrate Christmas compared to Pride month, but saying "Merry Christmas" can be seen as controversial. It's hard to imagine that "happy Pride month" is completly neutral.
Hammer, meet nail. This is it in one sentence.
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You are a cunt. How about that for avoiding reality?
I retired just barely over a year ago. I expected to take about a year just to recover from the stress that had built up over the years (only a few significant vacations) and accelerated at my last job (never more than a day or two at a time for 3.5 years). So I spent a lot of time doing absolutely nothing. I binge-watched several shows on TV, read a lot, played video games, etc. I kept up with my share of housework and parenting duties, but that's about it.

I always knew I couldn't live like that indefinitely. There are plenty of nasty disparaging comments here from kids who've clearly never worked long enough or hard enough or had a strong enough sense of responsibility to get that weary, but there is a tiny nugget of truth to some of what they say. Some structure and goals are necessary to stay sane IMO. Even during my idle period I mostly stuck to my routine. No sleeping in until noon, not bothering to get dressed, etc.

In the last couple of months, I've kind of come out of hibernation. I haven't started any major projects, but I've made several upgrades to the decor especially in my own room. There's even art on the walls. OK, one wall. ;) I refinished a couple of pieces of furniture. I've gotten into resin crafting, especially things that glow. At some point I expect I'll dabble a bit in 3D printing to complement that. When the pandemic conditions ease and my daughter (currently a senior in HS) is safely ensconced in college, I'll probably do a bit more traveling, but still mostly short activity-focused trips - e.g. hiking or snowboarding in mid-week, depending on the season.

I even have a couple of ideas for apps, completely unrelated to what I used to do professionally (distributed filesystems and such FWIW) and I absolutely will not get all wrapped up in all of the non-coding things that make professional development such a grind. Contrary to what the callow youth say, it's not necessary to push that hard to feel happy and fulfilled. People make themselves that way, but that's their choice and it's not mine any more. I'll write the code to do what I want it to do, probably publish it somewhere/somehow, but I'm not going to get tied down handling demands from over-entitled users.

So basically my life is getting back to almost what it was before, just a little bit better. Instead of getting crushed under the weight of responsibility at work, I spend the same part of each day doing a variety of things as the mood strikes me. When something starts to feel like a grind, I context switch. That freedom is IMO the whole point of retirement, and what any mentally healthy person should strive for.
I enjoyed reading "A mind at Play", Soni and Goodman. There are several of these kind of stories with colleagues. I also like how the book goes into his childhood, including using electrified fence to communicate with his farm neighbors!
> I wonder what's going on with HN moderation.

The front line is automatic software. Then there's us with stuff like flagging and downvoting. The rest is handled by a small team.
If it's all Python, why not use Prefect?
Unfortunately it's a discussion tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy where an arguer conflates two positions that share similarities, one modest and easy to defend (the "motte") and one much more controversial (the "bailey").[1] The arguer advances the controversial position, but when challenged, they insist that they are only advancing the more modest position
That doesn’t answer my question of what happens if someone transitions in a workplace. How do you do that non-politically? Dismissing the edge cases of marginalized people is kind of like… of course they’re edge cases. Marginalized people are edge cases by definition.
Are programs to organize volunteers to help with radio communications a bad idea? We have AROs and ARES and it seemed reasonable.

https://www.portlandoregon.gov/pbem/article/563294

https://www.multnomahares.org/

I think the idea is supporting the community in the event of a large scale disaster (specifically the big cascadia subduction zone earthquake).
The responsibility lies with the company, not the cogs who are there for a paycheck.
Here is a start: https://theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-t...
>I take it most people don't see your existence, as you are, as a political problem?

I want to point out that this is a perfect example of how absolutely mind numbing and toxic it is to interact with a lot of these "woke" types. OP made an benign comment ("I want to work at work, not worry about the political opinions of my coworkers.") and its taken in the maximally worst way possible. There's no nuance, and no room for debate or discussion, where you immediately assume that the people you interact with want you dead or worse (your "existence").
If you can’t prove something, there’s a strong possibility it’s not real. There’s a reason that we require proof when you accuse someone of wrongdoing.
At least as of 2 years ago, you could go to chrome://extensions, click a "Dev Mode' toggle in the top right, and sideload a downloaded crx (I know from installing https://adnauseam.io/ every time I had to use a Chromebook, it’s banned from the webstore for adding obfuscatory privacy enhancements designed as research by Daniel C. Howe and Helen Nissenbaum to gorhill's great µBlock Origin).
I was going to not read the whole thing based on your comment, but now I'm reassured
Have you ever had a date where the first thing someone talks about is something like having babies, or going on and on about their ex, or they want to know how much you make in the first 15 minutes? It is not a pleasant feeling, and makes it pretty clear what their priorities are (and aren’t). Namely that having some idea who YOU are and if they like you doesn’t really matter much.

If someone starts the interview process talking about about the vacation amounts (and not much else), that isn’t that different. Chances are at that point they don’t know folks on the team, and vice versa, they don’t know about the company (much), or what the job would likely look like, it may entail, or really much of anything.

It’s just weird, and a bit concerning, in the same way that someone might ask about perks and pay without even trying to understand any of those factors too. Because those factors matter too, a lot.

I’m not saying asking about vacation is a round file thing - rather I have seen, and can definitely imagine, scenarios where it is or would be a pretty major red flag.

If part of the general background comp discussion after someone has spent some
effort figuring things out, or as part of the initial listing? Of course, that’s not weird at all. And giving a pay range for a role is of course necessary to avoid people wasting their time.

So ‘it depends’
People seem to not very commonly have consistent value for individual freedoms. There is a lot of desiring freedom to do things they support and authoritarianism to make others do things they want. All the while protesting and defending falsely their values on either individualism or the public good.

There is not a lot of “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” or in general supporting freedom to do things one doesn’t like.
>a non profit offering ecosystem diversity

You mean mozilia where over 70% of their revenue is from google?

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/10/mozillas-revenue-jumped-to...
Andrew Yang: When I Ran for President, It Messed with My Head
Sure, there are definitely second and third order effects. Taxing shareholders may reduce the incomes of wealthy people, who have a higher savings rate, leading to a reduced national savings rate, higher interest rates and lower asset prices, which could cause some businesses to decide against doing certain investments that wouldn't have a high enough return (relative to the interest rate on that capital).

Since everything is tied together it's hard to reason through all of this. For companies making investment decisions the interest rate will obviously be one factor, but projected consumer demand will be another, and it's easy to imagine in some cases higher middle-class incomes and consumer demand might be more important than a lower interest rate for decisions around building new factories etc.

Obviously it's complex and I don't have a strongly-held opinion. But taking a historical perspective interest rates are near record lows and financial asset prices are at record highs. On those grounds policies that might nudge us back a little into where the economy has been operating for the past 50 years (regarding interest rates etc) seem less risky than ones that push us further away from our post-WWII historical experience.
The fact that the technology to produce monoclonal antibodies is older than the technology to produce mRNA vaccines.
Yeah I have. Containers just didn't fit into my workflow unfortunately. I found it more difficult to separate bookmarks/plugins etc..

For example I dont need every plugin I use for work while I browse the web & vice-versa.
From the comments I’m learning the obvious. There isn’t one approach because there isn’t one problem.

This was a success because I really understood what I was solving for.

Each scenario will change and the solution will too.

TLDR of the article; what do you want?
>the update nag screen that interrupts my work

If you're on Linux, exclude it from automatic updates in your package manager, and it won't interrupt you. On Windows, you should be able to set app.update.auto to false in about:config, but I don't know if that still works.
And what browser would that be? Mozilla keeps doing these things because they're desperately searching for a revenue stream that doesn't make them beholden to their biggest competitor. There aren't any other viable options because no one else knows of any better revenue streams for web browsers either
Lets say that coinbase said "We are fully political at work, we expect all of you to have conservative views!". Would that make you happier than their current apolitical stance?