skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An infectious disease doesn't care about any of that, it doesn't care what your political process is or where you draw the line. It's not a trade off of public health maximalism vs individual freedoms, it never is that simple. Every decision you make there trades someone else's individual freedom by increasing their risk of contracting the disease. Please let's stop dancing around that and trying to play politics here.

The only fool proof solution that exists is to totally quarantine people, but the grandparent post already took that off the table, so even if we wanted to have that discussion there is simply nowhere left for it to go. See what I mean here? This rhetoric doesn't do anything besides shut down the conversation.
humans are herd-creatures after all. They take repetition for relevance.
Why is sneering at a "secretary" relevant to maintaining integrity? Do you know they have no math or computing skills? Do you know they have no relevant background or educational experience from an earlier time in life? Do you know they were hired under false pretences lying about their experience instead of the employer knowing that they were inexperienced and paying them less, offering training, willing to take a chance, etc? Do you know they showed no interest in the subject outside a cash grab? Do you know the limit of their abilities was 'secretary' and that wasn't a job they took out of necessity for other reasons?

With what you said apparently being purely a reaction to a job title they had, it's not meritocratic maintaining integrity, it's "know your place" classism.
Interview significantly more people in way less time
I'm sure its mentioned in the privacy policy or else Wacom's legal team is completely incompetent.
> I'm not sure how much closer to describing your exact intent in English a language can get than:

> successfully_made_executable = system 'chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hasura'

> abort 'Failed making CLI executable' unless successfully_made_executable

I guess, but if I was writing scripts like this, I'd really want to write a helper method something like:

def system_or(cmd, fail_msg)
system cmd || abort fail_msg
end

# and then

system_or 'chmod +x /usr/local/bin/hasura', 'Failed making CLI executable'

Instead of having to write every single `system` call as boilerplate two liners with an immediate-throwaway local var.
Had not considered this - it's a good point. There is a lot of fortified food in the N American, possibly Western European diet which includes D3 (particularly for milk drinkers). But milk drinking is limited to particular gene families as I thought it was a (quite) recent mutation...
Still a shitty license:

> [For LTS Oracle JDK versions] security updates will be available for a total of three years. After that period, further use of the Oracle JDK in production requires a commercial license.

Apparently the business model is having commercial customers deploy Oracle JDK and suing them as soon as they forget to upgrade after three years.
One of my favourite articles about web history. Really does a good job of explaining how we went from fully self contained websites, to chronogical blogs, and eventually to interconnected blogging on social media, and finally the non-chrono, algorithmically determined timeline.
Are there any small (i.e. vulnerable to DDoS) service providers that aren't privacy and security centric?
That's super cool, does anyone know where to find the schematic?

Creating one from the simulator code would do it, but he states that it is an "an abstracted version of the Mind Grenade" so not sure if that means not exactly the original design
The tender is much lighter, and shorter, so it is at increased risk of derailment when running right at the front of the train.

Locomotives can of course run backwards for long distances if required, but generally they have two top speeds - a higher one for forward running and a lower one for backwards.
> "every organization's top priority" to keep them in the workforce.

I wait to hear a single anecdote about a company that prioritizes keeping staff over just hiring replacements.
Admix Raises $25M in Series B Funding
I mean… lots of people do. Personally, I've never bought from them; wouldn't really call it a boycott on my part, though.
2 and 3 certainly useful features and some day we'll have it in Cooklang.

As for 1. I had this before in spec:

> To modify the ingredient any other way, use parentheses.

> Add @onions{3}(finely chopped) to the mix...

After some testing, it turned out that it makes the overall cooking flow a bit convoluted. This modifier is an implicit step of the recipe. Imagine that we have this modified ingredient in the middle of a recipe. I have my frying pan full of things and next step is to add onions. But I suddenly realised that it's time to finely chop onions and I don't have time for that.

We can create these steps automatically and place them before everything else, but it may not be always the optimal way.

Here it was removed: https://github.com/cooklang/cooklang-org/commit/1bd2f54c3363...
I live in Europe. Most notable substitution for Nuclear is Green Russian gas. I see this decission each month in my heating bill.
Renewables is cool, but u know there is winters in Europe. As gas storages are not full here and our comrades from East wants to get nordstream2 certified, they are pressing with not delivering additional capabilities. As there are no serious alternatives still. I would be really happy if there would be enough capacity of decentralized green energy, but there are not.
Nuclear is one of patches what we have got in our hands to live thru Fussion and/or enough capacity trully green energy. All other is lyrics
Do you have any reason to believe this is the case?
>ROTFL. It's more like "with software, the patent is virtually always invalid." //

Yes, the establishment of prior art is particularly hard for software IMO, but that's mainly not an EPO issue (per the OP) as software patents in Europe are much more restricted compared to before the USPTO.

Your timing is broadly right IME, probably a bit generous for less complex areas (though it varies and EPO spend a bit longer).

Note that in part it's an industry issue - if software companies wanted to help them they can point out prior art before parents are granted (it's part of the process in EPO and USPTO jurisdictions).

>I'm sure there are people better than I am, but I can invalidate practically any software patent. //

EPO _granted_ patents? I'm highly doubtful you can do that in the normal search period (0.5-1.5 days).

If you want to argue that far more resources should be devoted to patent examination; that's possible but in EPO countries the balance seems about right -- countries have a hard job arguing for thousands more civil servants to save only a few (!?) court cases. In USPTO you need an overhaul of the court system, massive increase in examining staff I don't think we'll fix it.

All just my opinion of course.
Isn't the recommended way of distributing Java applications nowadays to bundle a custom JRE with it? Wasn't project jigsaw especially created to be able to just bundle libraries and/or classes the application requires instead of the whole JRE?
Japanese work round the clock in the cubical, Americans from their homes. Not particularly fair!
[I read the book years ago] Anyone who has been able to do anything measurable at a high level knows that talent is underrated. But "Talent is Underrated" would sell very few copies: who wants to have their hopes buried under a ton of reality?
Nazis didn't start at holocaust.
> You could get the current 1800W of energy out of a branch circuit with 15A at 120VDC and all the limitations/massive wires I described.

15A at 120VDC wouldn't require massive wires. I'm not sure why you think it's drastically different from 120VAC for wire sizing. If dropping 10% of the AC voltage is OK, dropping 10% of DC is presumably OK, too, and either is I * R. About 96 meters to drop 12V, or 48 meters out and back.

It's not a good idea for plenty of other reasons, but...
We hear this kind of minimization a lot when we want to talk about bad decisions made in the name of DEI.

If he was disinvited, it doesn't matter because he wasn't censured.

If he was censured, it doesn't matter because he wasn't fired.

If he was fired, it doesn't matter because he'll get another job.

If no one will give him another job, it doesn't matter because he deserved it.
Taiwan's enduring fascination with Japanese architecture
This is not a problem, it won't put the fire out.

The real danger is when going through a tunnel, the backdrauught from the exhaust hitting the tunnel causes a surge of flame into the cab. The crew must keep the fire doors closed.
Is there something like LLVM IR for GPUs?
You literally said "Wealth is money accumulated by getting others to voluntarily give it to you in return for valuable goods or services.", so are you saying that being the child of a billionaire means you are providing them the valuable service of being an heir? It seems like the barrier to entry to providing that "service" is pretty high, and society might want to regulate that market to make it more efficient.

It's true that the majority of the rich are considered self-made[0] (although one in three are not) but it's also true that children of rich parents are at an advantage compared to children of poor parents, meaning people don't get an equal start in life. One study estimates that "adult children tend to earn another $0.33 for every dollar their parents earn".[1]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/26/majority-of-the-worlds-riche...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/parents-determine-child-succ...
Strong disagree as someone who spent years on a cross-platform accelerated vector graphics library in industry. Dealing with API differences and differences in tooling (Metal's tooling is far behind RenderDoc for example) took an enormous amount of my time, time that could otherwise have been spent fixing bugs and adding features.
Yes, Tesco was basically open the whole time.
For most companies, unless you haven’t switched already, I assume this won’t matter. Why switch back from Azul or whatever unless there’s a strong reason to? Nothing is preventing Oracle from trying to monetize their JDK aggressively again.
WebGPU is the easy cross platform graphics you're requesting. It's vendor agnostic and not limited to the web. You can use WebGPU from native code and you won't need your own shader transpilers or abstraction layers. You will (soon) just work on any platform.
There’s a few of these types of shells floating about these days.

I personally use murex but Elvish seems popular too.
"Bitcoin is not used for ransomware and other cyber crime, it's traceable" - some crypto fans on social media
It's not so clear-cut, they're pouring a lot of resources into WebGPU and Safari.
Interesting, my email provider (not fastmail) was down this morning. First time it ever happened (or first time I noticed). It is up now.
Hegel's views on education seem to mirror policy (almost 1:1) in the U.S. Perhaps, if only because the Prussian education system was imported into our culture, by our Founding Robber Baron fathers.

Unfortunately, It'll be hard to go against his views, since they've been baked into almost every child's subconscious as "this is just how life is."
Maybe the harm increases prices overall, so you never know.

Take hassle free returns and credit card points. Both features look like pro-consumer policies but end up forcing all online retailers to bake the cost into their prices. At the end of the day consumers just get no choice on this cost.
>`local` is not in POSIX

So maybe it is about bash functions and not posix functions, because it's refencing features that exist in bash but not posix?
school districts perhaps
I could be wrong/naive but aren't most DDOS attackers using a bunch of cheap VMs on the cloud to create a distributed network to attack ? Can these providers not do a better job of identifying the culprits and shutting them down ? I doubt it is easy to create Distributed-DOS if access to cheap VMs are restricted.
Human beings have been living in europe for over 100,000 years. White skin doesn't seem to be older than a 10,000 years (see the skin analysis of the first briton). I don't think it would have taken so much time to evolve white skin had it really had the importance that is being attributed to it nowadays. I am very skeptical about its importance on preventing not only covid but also many other deseases.
For what it's worth, I do not believe that this is Apple's strategy. Squabbles with Khronos suffice to explain everything.
> Edit: since I'm now being 'corrected': look at the TDP for same-generation, same-product-tier NVIDIA and AMD cards. AMD's cards have always used more power for similar performance

Benchmarks disagree with that assertion:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3080-t...

RTX 3000 series has consistently worse perf/watt than their AMDs RX 6000 series peers
Public Domain: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov
> You're seeing this page because you tried to access MayVaneDay with a referer of "misc-stuff.terraaeon.com". This probably means Hacker News is at it again. This article keeps getting published at least once a year, and every time it brings with it a wave of attention from "techbros". These are beyond irritating to deal with. I don't have the extra mental energy to deal with unironic Node.js developers.

I wouldn't think Node.js would be associated with HN, seeing the criticism it gets here.
Wow, that's an amazing link for someone like me who loves cooking pizza!
RE: your last sentence. High dose supplementation of vitamin D should be done after consulting with your doctor (like you did). As a fat soluble vitamin, our bodies sometimes struggle to dispose of the excess. Therefore a person with "normal" vitamin D levels who begins supplementing at high levels is potentially risking some side effects. It's always good to be monitored in situations like those.

It seems you are doing exactly that, which is great.
Which is why the optimistic side of renewables needs to include the capital costs of whatever is providing the supply when solar and wind aren't.
Similarly, if you missed a part of what someone said, repeat back everything you did hear as part of the question. It confirms you were listening and avoids an excessively long or rephrased answered.

For example, "We reviewed <garbled> and found the events hadn't been logged." -> "You reviewed what and found the events hadn't been logged?"
The correct comparison is to Harvard's discrimination against Jews during the early 20th century, using "personal traits" to label them as less competitive applicants than they otherwise were.

Oh, would you look at that, Harvard is doing the same today to certain races under the guise of DEI.
Apple planning ‘pricey’ mixed reality device to launch as early as 2022
Shellcheck is great and is a standalone cli program, as well as a website if you don’t want to install it locally.
https://www.shellcheck.net/
Which is probably one of the counter-arguments driving the global consolidation toward services owned by megacorps. This, in turn, contributes to the smaller/independent alternatives to become more prone to this sort of situations. And the cycle begins again.
With how easy that was, I’m surprised we didn’t see more cursed Pentiums in the 90s.
> Normalcy bias is what makes people keep on eating dinner while a fire is visible at the side of the conference room or dance floor.

A better example of this is paying for your meal before leaving (There is a classic inquest that showed this killed many people at one restaurant in a shopping centre fire)

Like the plane, you know what to do but you can't break protocol.

Wikipedia isn't real clear if this is Normalcy bias or not. These are breaking taboos (not paying for meals, leaving you most valued possessions behind). Not sure how that fits in. I know I wouldn't break taboo because of another (false) fire alarm and I've heard the story of people dying.
Very interesting. Thank you for the follow-up. I'll do some more investigating into it.
Mirroring is different from what your parent comment talks about. Mirroring is simply about repeating, verbatim, the last part of what someone said. So as a response to your comment it might be something like "Conversation tactics."

Your parent comment seems to be talking more about summarising someone else's point in your own words, which is a deeper reflection on what someone means, and an even stronger signal that you're actively listening. (That summary is what gets you a "that's right" in the terminology of Voss. Mirroring is used to get your counterparty to expand on what they're saying, not just go "that's right.")
As an italian whonis very familiar with that kind of situa... good luck with that.
To be fair, you could trace these transactions, and any from the address that receives them. It seems much better to use Monero or something if you intend to be nefarious. This is probably just ill thought out.

edit: not a crypto fan personally.
Google do read your email though, so think I’d rather suffer the short term availability issues IMHO
He was uninvited. They fire professors who criticize American militarism and Israel. He got off light.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/10/14/mill-o14.html

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211012-david-millers-sac...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/30/if-we-...
I had a biz customer who had an early cable internet connection. ISP plugged their dumb modem directly into the hub and every PC had a public IP.

This was awesome for about 3 hours until the worms showed up - because Win98 didn't come with a firewall.
Oracle commit 98%+ to the OpenJDK project, that they finished open sourcing and opening up paid only features year to year, to the point where OracleJDK and OpenJDK are pretty much identical.

Contrary to their litigious image, they are more than great stewards of the ecosystem and they do undertake open-source.
Unfortunately due to the iOS 15 requirement this is non-starter for me and I'm sure many others who are boycotting the update due to Apple's privacy snafu. Fortunately you can re-export your app to support older versions of iOS.
They don't use cloud providers, they use botnets of compromised computers/IoT devices.
This would be true if Google is able to extract more value from behind your back privacy intrusions than they can extract from convincing people to pay some amount. This is reasonable because Google’s model detaches the consumer from the true cost they are paying, which will inevitably lead to higher costs paid.
Japan Keeps Clean
Speaking as a happy customer for many years: Thank you and hold on!
You have successfully proved that some crypto fans say things that are wrong.
I would agree with this and use python instead, but for uuhh "python problems with strings". IF you are 'blue sky' open, making new things, yes, sure. no BASH. But for things I built 8 years ago that are non-trivial, and I don't prioritize an entire rewrite, BASH works very well. And guess what, every two years that 8-years-ago just comes along with it. BASH is here to stay.
The supermarket chain Coop in Sweden was down longer than 2 days. They closed their shops during the ransomware attack.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57707530
Yeah, you should have a well-rounded set of defenses. I don't think anyone is saying vitamin-D is a silver bullet.
Please look up the size of individual H2O molecules (which are what you exhale, not water drops).
They are easy enough to remember for a few seconds if you need to configure it somewhere. I always ping 8.8.8.8 to verify my internet connectivity. I don't think people should underestimate how much IP addresses are entered manually on a daily basis.
This is a feature. The goal is to engage you with different/more content than you're aware of. The more time and content you consume from them, the more likely you are to keep paying.
In my view, WebGPU is the future of cross-platform graphics. I wrote about this and why we chose it for a game engine we're developing in Zig[0]

It's the one API that Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel can all agree on. Nvidia and AMD are silent, but it's on top of Metal/DirectX/Vulkan behind the scenes so they don't really need to care.

Today, Vulkan with MoltenVK (for Apple devices) has more _features_, but even that is not super clear-cut. For example, mesh shaders are supported on AMD cards in DirectX 12 but not Vulkan.

It's not just Apple who continues to push their own API, either. DirectX 13 is likely coming soon, and from what I understand Vulkan gets "ported" features after they land in DirectX.

If you want bleeding edge features, you're going to need to use the native API: Vulkan on Linux, DirectX on Windows, and Metal on Apple.

But if you just want the common denominator? WebGPU native isn't a bad choice IMO. And it being a cleaner API than Vulkan may mean you need less abstraction on top to work with it.

[0] https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/mach-engine-the-future-of-gra...
FIJI plugin?
I was speaking to TDP. The actual temperature the card runs at is highly dependent upon room temperature, how good the cooling solution is on the card, how well-ventilated the case is, and of course the workload. Just because windows says the GPU is "100"% doesn't mean it's using maximum power; I've had games that make the fans go crazy at "100%" and games that at "100%" the fans never leave their default.

Every vendor makes multiple tiers of a particular GPU and you generally get what you pay for, though with diminishing returns for someone who isn't looking to overclock to the edge and get a few extra FPS. Good vendors starting a tier or two above their budget tier tend to produce cards with thermal solutions that are fairly quiet at stock speeds/voltages when gaming in a properly ventilated case in a comfortably cool room.

On 1xxx series cards for example, MSI's Gaming X line come with an absolutely massive heatsink. I had an MSI 1060 Gaming X that was overclocked and fully loaded the fans weren't noticeable, much less loud, and I had a terribly ventilated case.

My current card is a 1070 ti, from a reputable manufacturer and it's a mid-tier card. I have a pretty aggressive fan curve on it because I want longevity (capacitor lifetime drops appreciably with temperature.) Even then, I almost never notice the fans, but I have upgraded to one of the most well-ventilated $100-ish cases.

Stay well clear of single fan GPUs if you intend to do any gaming or compute work beyond "very occasionally." The fan noise will drive you nuts and the card will quickly thermally throttle.

If you care about your GPU lasting, lower the fan shutoff point to be more like 35-40c instead of the usual 60c, or just set them to run at the minimum speed all the time. Fans are easy to replace; caps aren't...and a quality card, the fans should be nearly silent at minimum speed.
Oracle is such a scummy, useless company. Die already!
In TypeScript that is what interfaces are for.
I tried to develop a small RPG and immediately realized that the most difficult thing to get right is the story, and the second difficult one is the arts. And no wonder most of the Indie RPG (that I know) are of roguelike/roguelite. It's a blood sea.
Fastmail is great at reacting and transparently informing users. This is something I'd love to see "normalized" so users could efficiently assess service providers reliability.
Recent and related:

Fastmail, Runbox, and Posteo under DDoS extortion attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28968046 - Oct 2021 (123 comments)

Fastmail is having problems again - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28963609 - Oct 2021 (132 comments)

We're seeing an ongoing attack against our primary network provider - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28952954 - Oct 2021 (87 comments)
NearTalk – Chat with People Nearby
Creative, I like it!
Robert Bolton dedicates three chapters to this technique in People Skills (1979), highly recommended.
Similarly the VirtualBox plugin package Trojan horse.