skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You're also massively overstating the complexity of an X server. Writing X servers that are advanced enough to be usable is something a lot of individuals have done.

If so, why are we observing apparent shortage of developers to maintain the actual Xorg? I can't believe there are no people interested in maintaining it in the whole world. I thought it's so complex it just requires much more expertise and dedication than anybody is ready to invest.
Wealthy people will always be better off by definition, it shouldn't stop us from doing the right thing
Trust me - The showboating also saps morale.
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The int** is not dereferenced three times.

The cast says "treat this int* as an array of int*, then the first dereference says "give me the first element of that array", which gets you back the original int*.
Having an excellent with Infuse and macOS inbuilt SMB!
Americans can still spend a shitload of money if they have to, just do it on services - that way economy keeps going, there's still jobs going around plus we stop buying and hence making shit we don't really need.
On note is that they say their numbers to too small to note differences between the vaccines, but being a UK study it would seem likely to be predominantly the AZ vaccine which seems to have some potentially significant differences in effectiveness than the Pfizer/Moderna vaccine.
Children can still suffer under long COVID[1] and other complications that can occur with COVID.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7927578/
"Summer of freedom"

"Here we regain our freedom"

"There will not be a 4th wave"

That's what we were sold. Anyone who questioned it was called an antivax conspiracy theorist.

And the worst part is, the namecallers still think they're on the right/smart side even after miles of backpedaling.
The incentives are honestly difficult to correct.

I run an e-commerce business, and the reality is that a huge chunk of our customer base isn't reluctantly parting with their hard earned cash in order to meet a need but instead genuinely enjoy the anticipation and payoff that come with making a purchase.

I would go so far as to say that for the average consumer, spending money is only really seen as a loss in the few cases where the cost is high enough to cause immediate-term financial stress.
The only people who say this are those who don't consider long covid. Which is a terrible outcome and seems to indiscriminately chose who to effect (in the pool of non-hospitalized people) and not be rare at all (10-30%).

It's misleading to transfix on the died:"recovered" dichotomy. Recovered just means "not dead, not testing positive".

And there is a good chance that this virus is sowing the seeds of a massive wave of Parkinson's in the future. There is good evidence of some forms of Parkinsons having viral origin. COVID has mirrored most of the traits these suspect viruses have (gut, vagus nerve, lewy bodies)
Factorio in Lieu of Resumes
Not just on Venus; Buckminister Fuller proposed to build floating cities on earth:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere)
That makes everyone else in the country worse off.
> what would the Staff of Westfall be in a virtual coworking space? Could you beat up people with it?

You’re still limiting the question to the plane of content: the object’s physical (virtual) characteristics.

Consider the staff as it exists in the plane of expression: what is the person expressing by displaying the item? It would express that you play WoW, are an Alliance player, and play a caster of some sort. That might be a valuable ice breaker or conversation starter; a thing that helps people identify a shared experience or facet of their shared identity.

You have to see through the object’s simulated characteristics and into what the object’s existence means for it to have value. If the object doesn’t mean anything, then there’s not much point in moving it from space to space.
Why is it so hard to pick a niche?
>This is a non-sterilizing vaccine.

Unfortunately, it was being sold to the public like it was.

>Herd immunity against COVID-19 should be achieved by protecting people through vaccination, not by exposing them to the pathogen that causes the disease. Read the Director-General’s 12 October media briefing speech for more detail.

>Vaccines train our immune systems to create proteins that fight disease, known as ‘antibodies’, just as would happen when we are exposed to a disease but – crucially – vaccines work without making us sick. Vaccinated people are protected from getting the disease in question and passing on the pathogen, breaking any chains of transmission. Visit our webpage on COVID-19 and vaccines for more detail.

>To safely achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, a substantial proportion of a population would need to be vaccinated, lowering the overall amount of virus able to spread in the whole population. One of the aims with working towards herd immunity is to keep vulnerable groups who cannot get vaccinated (e.g. due to health conditions like allergic reactions to the vaccine) safe and protected from the disease. Read our Q&A on vaccines and immunization for more information.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/herd-immunity-lockd...

To nit-pick, it is not the vaccine effect take 5 days to kick in but that the vaccine trained immune response takes 5 days to kick in.

I would be interested in seeing how long it takes for natural trained immune response for someone who had Covid previously.

Maybe the best strategy for herd immunity would be to get double vaccinated to prevent serious effects then contract Covid to gain superior antibody response.
Until I got to the last line I assumed this was about safer transmission of hydrogen, not lift gas. Of course it would be uneconomic for pipelines to have 91.5% inert carrier gas but I wonder if you could use an inert refrigerant gas to make "non-flammable hydrogen mix" within piping that runs to consumers through non-zone-rated or even residential areas, and then refrigerate the gas at point of use, to leave a pure hydrogen stream? The refrigerant would just go around in a mostly-closed loop.

Incidentally, using 8.5% hydrogen as lift gas will make a gnat's fart of difference; the lift force is proportional to the difference in density between air and lift gas - both helium and hydrogen are way less dense than air.
I'm curious as to the actual parameters of the financing.
Oxygen leaking in is not an explosion risk. As noted, it takes 25% O / 75% H before it can ignite. Above 75% H it cannot.

With positive airflow around possible leaks, sufficient H2 to sustain a flame can be prevented. In a collision, gas released goes up and out of trouble.
The open source world will never converge to a single language, so the question is ill posed. Rust seems to have succeeded at becoming a mainstream language, Zig has yet to prove if it will ever be able to get there.
Like have the government tell people the maximum they can charge for a good?
Everytime I see hate crime, I read it as thought crime. If you're jailing asshats on social media, that's a never ending job that will soon end up with yourself in jail. Who hasn't said something insulting or disparaging, especially towards a public figure?
"Mandatory COVID vaccinations" has other aspects to it. Who makes it mandatory? Employers who may have a reason beyond public health for mandating, namely that they don't want a bunch of employees falling seriously ill at roughly the same time.
I'm planning to buy a framework when they start shipping to the UK. I looked into buying one in the US and getting it imported, but the additional costs were more than I wanted to pay.

I went through their website and chose my own customisation and there was an option which said 'None (bring your own)'. Windows included costed extra compared to this. I understood that it would be straightforward for me to run eg. Ubuntu on the machine.

"The Framework laptop is clearly designed with Windows in mind, and when I ordered mine, I did not see a Linux or "No OS" version, though. I do not believe that it's possible to use a 100% Free/Open Source operating system without binary blob drivers on the Framework at this time."

What does 'binary blob drivers' mean?
Back in the days of dial-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Accelerator_Plus used to help a bunch too.
Looks like an interesting project! But I feel like you are asking your users to put a lot of confidence in you to take everything you’re saying for granted. I’m not implying bad faith here, but privacy conscious people typically like to see a bit more detail and evidence of security, rather than general claims/statements.

For example, some things I’m wondering about and would like to know before considering giving the app a try:

* how exactly are you handling encryption? How do you avoid leakage of encryption keys/pass phrases through iOS device backups or other cases where your iOS account could be compromised?

* what does “end to end encryption” mean in this case? There is no sharing feature as far as I can tell, so it’s not about e2e encrypted communications. I assume in this case e2e means continuous encryption at all times (on device and remote) except when the user actually uses the app.

* how do you handle metadata? What’s the trade-off between ease of use (quickly finding photos or scrolling through my full photo collection) and encryption/security?

* how credible is a business model of €5/year/user for something that seems to require quite a bit of work to keep secure? Even if there’s no storage/server cost because you use iCloud storage, there’s still a substantial developer cost to have feature parity with similar photo storage apps and keep up with ever-changing App Store requirements and security developments.

Hope this helps to find out what your (potential) users care about and whether you could improve communication/marketing on those points :-)
While the risk of severe covid infection is lower in childred, it still exists and we would like to make it even smaller.
Again, a comparison to Oceania would be helpful here. ER presentations declined by a similar proportion there, but did not see the excess deaths.

Oceania largely managed to contain the virus until broad vaccination coverage was achieved in vulnerable populations. That would seem to be the most straightforward explanation for the lack of excess deaths in Oceania.
Even if the vaccines don't entirely curb transmission, they reduce it and reduce the risk of severe illness. While for an individual this might impact their decision making framework, I don't see how it should change the framework for public health officials.

> politicians from one side of the aisle sticking their fingers in their ears, closing their eyes, and shouting "Nah nah nah I can't hear you!"

Politicians on the other side of the aisle are attempting to ban any COVID prevention measures at all. I agree that vaccine mandates aren't the only tool available to us, but it's hard to argue with the mandates when there are people fighting against mandatory testing, mask wearing, and social distancing.
It seems that there are more articles with longer titles nowadays and having to truncate them sometimes leads to the title being mangled and "lost in translation." Should we expand it to say 100 characters? Every limit is arbitrary by nature of course. But it seems reasonable to me to expand it to at least 100 characters. Maybe there are UI/UX issues for the 80 character limitation that I am not aware of. Can't ever imagine it is a technical limitation.

In addition, I always feel reluctant to edit the titles down to 80 characters and often feel if I am "censorious". I don't want to be in the position of interpreting the true intent of the title when constricting it.
It might be your last point is the most significant, this is a psychological effect, not economic. From my basic understanding, economics often assumes rational actors, but humans are not always rational. Maybe those willing to pay more will get used to the new, higher price but what changes their actions is the implicit warning of "Hey, this has loads of sugar!". There might be a parallel here with cigarette sales, where both price rises and displaying warnings on packets were used to encourage people to quit.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 RetroPie gaming handheld
I'm sure you'll get customers, but I just don't understand people that go for things like this.

So I'm afraid of Apple scanning, and uploading unencrypted files I create on a closed-source (unable to verify anything) OS to a closed-source service I subscribe to. And my solution is to subscribe to a secondary closed-source service to mask my photos from the first service.

I'm sure people will rationalize this behavior, but it's just insanity to me.
> If it were easier to do the thing I want, I'd do it all the time. What I want is to be able to point to either a database with empty tables or an SQL file and fill in the tables correctly with bogus data while respecting all the constraints. I have not found a tool that does that.

I was thinking more of a virtual CSV file that you can query like a SQL table.

> Sometimes, I do not have a choice and have to use something like https://www.mockaroo.com/ or https://generatedata.com/ but then I have fiddle with stuff.

This is exactly the type of thing I was looking for, I will check them out. I do worry that each use case is too specific for a tool like this.

Thanks for the help.
> Unfortunately this will greatly increase the side effects from vaccination.

That's speculative, unless you have info that is not yet widely disseminated.
What was mentioned in the original comment is not learning, it is rewriting history. It's one thing to say, we now have the data to say that we need boosters, because after a while people are at risk again, and another thing to change the original story and say, we never said the vaccine prevents infection, we said it only prevents severe cases.

I think calling people "dogmatic idiots" is exactly what actually drives people away from these discussions.
> The reasons it escapes the kind of pitched battles waged by the media against Facebook is beyond me.

Because thinking of Facebook as a boogeymen that turns people into monsters requires thinking of their users not only as monstrous, but as helpless dupes, unable to resist being influenced by the medium they're using.

The media's overrepresentation on Twitter means that applying the same logic would require a level of introspection and self-awareness that would be difficult for most people, let alone journalists.

It's the same reason everyone overestimated early-2010s Twitter's userbase, when for a long period it had less active users than the Google+ stream alone (ie, not the auto-posting from Google products).
I am an American so I am used to gross. But I am working in the Balkans and I’ve learned that net salary is more commonly discussed here.
As someone who tested positive last Friday after being vaccinated back in March--I can say the symptoms I'm experiencing vs. some of my co-workers who just got full-on COVID are MUCH more mild. I've had a little congestion, some stuffiness, a head/neck ache, and a little upset-tummy. Some of my co-workers were out for weeks with the heavy flu-like symptoms and I'm sitting here wishing I could just clear my throat and go back to work.
Individual atoms and molecules are identical in a vacuum. Are they in context? They at least have quantum degrees of freedom, which is quite a lot. But whether that has functional value is tbd
> Why are people insisting on escalating restrictions further?

In most countries, that would be a huge reduction in restrictions.
> The daily standup may have done more than any other ritual to improve developer productivity.

In what universe did this happen? Certainly not ours.
Thanks.

The aria2 one didn't have an update since 2019 though.
> “People say nuclear is expensive in the West, but they forget to say it’s expensive because of interest rates,” Morin said.

It's still a valid criticism if:

- They could get those high interest rates from the return on other capital projects (nuclear less return than something else)

- All externalities are included in costs

We only have so much labor/material/energy available, and we do have to have some way of allocating them to the things with the most return. The big issue, obviously, is that tons and tons of negative externalities aren't priced in to most economic endeavors, that might make fission look a lot better. It might make it look a lot worse.

Personally I'm hoping Elon/Mackenzie/Gates/Buffet/etc decide to throw a few dozen billion at fusion. I think its time truly is nigh.

If you haven't watched this yet, it's definitely worth your time. Rather than being a super opinionated think-piece, it instead does a fantastic job walking the viewer through:

- high level nuclear fusion engineering performance curves / the engineering design contraint space

- the current state of nuclear fusion research (as of 5 years ago) and

- breaks down why some new smaller reactors will likely begin construction soon and counter-intuitively, the most recently started ones may be completed before a fusion reactor that first broke ground 25 years ago and is still very much being actively built

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4

Also worth noting that interesting things happen when you assume you can have "large" amounts of low-externality energy. Things like "we could use a ton of this energy to remove dispersed pollutants from the atmosphere/groundwater"... things which are very, very, very impractical if you have a limited amount of energy, or if your energy sources have their own negative externalities.
I agree that as a non-Googler, I don't get the video, that is all. No negative connotation toward your comment.
I assume you have to take the calls yourself, Mantis is only the software.
If you use Florida as a basis for risk, it's almost non existent last few weeks. Unless you're old, a fat, or have a preexisting risk is relatively low.
This is the winning strategy. There is no need for crew on cargo craft.
Out of curiosity: What is it about rust package management that you dislike (zig is due to get its package manager soon)
It's EUR not USD, looked like $5 showdown
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He didn't say any of the things you're accusing him of.
The interest is higher because the risk is higher, the capital costs to build the thing are massive so a loan that defaults would be a big problem. The question is who supplies the loan too, are they government backed in Russia and China? If yes I can imagine that the rates would be quite a bit lower, this kind of state support is illegal in the EU afaik. Most plants will be run as LTOs, at least in western countries favourable to nuclear, and then the interest costs matter less than you think anyway. Then it's pretty much the cheapest source of energy.
Yes they do something. They are used to override precedence, just as you would in a math expression. Array indexing has higher precedence than pointer dereferencing, and declarations follow the same precedence that you have in expressions.

int **p[123]; // p is array(123) of pointer to pointer to int

int *(*p)[123]; // p is a pointer to array(123) of pointer to int

Sometimes people find casts confusing because there is no identifier inside. But you can easily read it if you know where the identifier would be in an equivalent declaration.

Precedence is usually documented in a man page called operator. http://man.openbsd.org/operator
I seem to have a variant of aphantasia where I can conjure images through dint of will, but they immediately begin wildly revolving in space / mutating as if lacking any stable “camera angle”, then vanish entirely. No matter how hard I try, the images refuse to stay put or to persist in memory. Does any one else have this? / does _everyone_ else have this?
Right now we are only focusing on cloud servers. If things go well with the new ASH location, we will consider adding other products and services, such as dedicated root servers. But we will discuss this internally first before we make any announcements. --Katie, Marketing, Hetzner Online
We have to post our daily standup into a Slack channel, so it’s just a matter of posting my (planned) task list for the day. There’s no discussion, just something my manager reviews. I don’t really see the point but I play along anyways.
It’s a hard sell to say you feel like your heritage was cause for grief when you come from a superpower, and the richest country in the world. You may individually be not well off, but we’re talking about group properties.
"Microsoft for essentially "stealing" another company's product name"

Yeah...no. You should know better. If Facebook has trademarked "metaverse", then there would be a problem because consumers could potentially have a problem distinguishing competing virtual realities. Since "metaverse" is from Neal Stephenson's 1992 science fiction novel "Snow Crash" in the first place, I doubt Facebook or Microsoft has a real "intellectual property" claim on the word in the first place.

My viewpoint is that Microsoft using "metaverse" is a lot like both Kroger and Safeway using "meat". And that you can have physical property, or intellectual property, but not both.
New 3D FPS released for 1979 Atari 800
Hrm - I'd never considered long form blogging, I'm not sure what I'd write about.

Any suggestions?
Slovak group GMG released a full featured FPS for 40+ year old computer (64kb of ram, 1.79Mhz 6502)

Features:

- raycaster engine running at 25 - 30 FPS

- animated textures

- lighting system

- destroyable walls

- automap

- 3 enemy types

- final boss

game is fully playable in Altirra emulator

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRd3MucaRoU

homepage: https://atari8.dev/final_assault

discussion: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/326709-final-assault-new-g...
Google introduces mandatory 2-Step Verification for Google Accounts
IIRC, the evidence points towards the vaccine immunity being superior to immunity from infection.
There has been a nice YT video recently showing how Hetzner operates their DC and their servers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eo8nz_niiM

Was quite surprised that they use custom built server racks with their own custom-made mainboards delivered by OEMs. They even have their own long-term Fan testing rigs and custom HDD failure check setups.
Price controls on utilities in the US are extremely common and successful. There are good ways to implement price controls and there are bad ways. Also, there are just as many examples of bad outcomes when you treat markets which are inherently unfree (i.e utilites, where infrastructure is typically monopolized) as free markets.
Raise fossil fuel taxes until prices are so high that consumption starts going down. Simple and should be effective.
The cost of freedom isn’t nothing. Just as our predecessors had to sacrifice for World War II. We must sacrifice things to allow people to survive against the corona virus.

Edit:wording and clarification
Maybe it would make more sense to you, but not to most people I think. Electricity has much better uses than cryptocurrency.
(fact)
Over $50B tax payer dollars just to roll out the beta vaccine.

(speculation)
Indefinite updates are coming because it keeps you poor and others rich. There can be no ladder out of poverty like there was with capitalism in their new world they want to build.