skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the Unity asset store and I use it a lot for graphic assets. I intend to get back to Unity when I feel a little more competent and not feel like I need a whole bunch of third-party programming assets to do what I want to do.
I'm very shocked that paying for twitter like this does not automatically get you verified.

Is this not just listed as a feature? To be honest, I would pay 4.99 a month to get that blue check mark
If you're having trouble seeing the differences between the comparisons...
sorry for the snarky comment. Did not mean to offend and I take back the rudeness. That said, after doing 10 or so test queries in an incognito browser I still do not understand how the horizontal search results are any different than a vertical search.

The extra information is nice, but looking at stock tickers isn't my primary objective when searching online.
Isn't this assuming that there are enough developers worldwide to satisfy the demand in the US? I think the reality is that there are not and will not for a long time.
All information has been deemed misinformation; therefore all we'll be allowing from this point forward is paid advertising.

Enjoy your new reality, Citizen.
It's clearly not a serious comment, and I say this as someone who thinks there should be more workers' cooperatives in the tech industry.
Vaccines as we knew them for 60+ years were weakened versions of a disease causing agent injected via a needle.

These "vaccines" are MRNA snippets which hijack your body chemistry to produce proteins similar to the proteins of the disease agent. It is an entirely different mechanism, the only similarity is the needle.

Popular dictionaries actually updated their definition of a "vaccine" in 2021 to accommodate this change, but at the end of the day, just because it is administered via a needle, it is not the same and should not get the same mental associations of a hundred years of prior tech.
> This does not occur with ZFS as you have noticed

I'm not sure exactly what "This" refers to? Just wanted to note that a ZFS snapshot can be destroyed when the parent pool runs out of space too, but you don't need to allocate a volume.
Unless you've been infected already. Natural immunity is as good or better than the vaccine.
lol you are already being downvoted. lets watch this get flagged and/or disappear from the front page in real time...
The author is a contributor to vkd3d-proton. vkd3d is an implementation of Direct3D 12 on top of Vulkan, which is used in Wine and Proton to let you run D3D12 apps and games on Linux.

The intention of the article seems to be just to document his experience solving this problem, but it might be useful to anyone who finds themselves having to translate shaders from one language to another, which is disappointingly common in low-level cross-platform graphics programming, since every OS vendor likes to have their own shader language.
Apple decides which gasoline you're allowed to use, and charges a 30% tax on it.
Also, how many people copy/paste commands on the terminal that don’t understand without thinking about it? And do you review all the build scripts of software built from source? Let alone the proprietary driver that you install, who knows what they contain…

Really npm is not that much of a deal. The problem is more for CI machines that can get compromised but for workstations… they are already insecure
It was in the news. Here's an example: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article25411126...
The idea that vaccines provide full immunity is a misconception. No vaccine provides that. They all have different rates of breakthrough infections and protection. There's nothing particularly special about the covid vaccines, except that they were developed and tested in record time. And in case of the mRNA vaccines, it's a new technology for producing vaccines, obviously.
More likely, anything not published by the media is misinformation; all other quotes and statistics be damned.

Enjoy your return to the 80s, citizen.
"immunity" in the medical sense always meant "some resistance to" (as opposed to none at all) and never "total protection". Some other colloquial uses of the word (e.g. in legal) have always made this a bit difficult to understand outside the medical community. Cf. the "immune system" being a very active thing and not binary in practice.
Project-based creative shops are known for having lots of crunch time (long hours), and judging by Glassdoor reviews, Weta is no different.
There's a long-standing narrative here that acquisition by a foreign company is a loss for the local tech industry.
I can't emphasize the parent's comment enough. Being able to look through a set of results and then quickly get Google results if I don't find what I'm looking for are key to getting me to try any other search engine (For historical reference, this is how Excel killed Lotus 123 a few decades ago - by making it super easy to do Lotus exports from Excel so that people who tried Excel didn't feel like they were "trapped" into being outside of the Lotus 123 ecosystem at the time).

I saw the Google link you mentioned, but (at least on mobile) it didn't stand out. I would at least try doing a test where you put something super prominent up at the top of results: "Didn't find what you're looking for? Try your search on Google instead."
That URL says "This page isn't available" for me with any query, perhaps only because
I'm not logged in. For example:

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=News

Does that search (for "News") work for anyone?
This is absolutely false.

No vaccine is 100% effective at providing absolute immunity. Not the MMR. Not Polio. Nobody has claimed otherwise.

> Now it's been changed to "provides protection, but ooops that protection can wane over time and eventually disappear".

Hmm...just like the annual flu "vaccine", right?

And did you forget that other vaccines require boosters, too? Tetanus is an example. It just happens to last several years, rather than several months like a flu or COVID vaccine.

Not all antibodies are the same. We now know that COVID-fighting antibodies last a few months. It doesn't mean the vaccines themselves are weak, it means the antibodies our bodies create don't survive long.

So yeah, not only are you simply wrong, but you're arguing nothing more than semantics as if it's a valid criticism.
A charitable interpretation of GP would be that he referred to ending of restrictions (masks, testing, papers please, lockdowns etc.) after a vaccine becomes widely available. These hopes have certainly been raised by politicians in late 2020 and early 2021 ("just have to get herd immunity through the vaccine and we're done"[1]). However, the reality is that e.g. in Germany case numbers and incidence numbers are reaching new all-time-highs every day now despite 70-75 % of all people being vaccinated.

These hopes were probably based on experiences with "normal" vaccines, which are apt to eradicate diseases through sterile immunity (though there are a bunch of exceptions to this, it's not like we're getting rid of the flu and some other stuff by vaccinations [2]). However, we since learned that a vaccine providing sterile immunity against COVID-19 seems to be off the table (as none of them are), so herd immunity against COVID-19 will likely never be a thing and eradicating COVID-19 is just not possible.

[1] Herd immunity was THE talking point in early 2021 in Germany. Also, remember a few countries trying to get herd immunity by intentionally letting the virus spread (great britain cough cough)?

[2] Sterile immunity seems to be difficult with respiratory diseases (flu, covid, cold, pertussis come to mind). Naively I'd guess that's because the critters have some time to multiply on the surface of the airways and be infectious before the immune system gets a chance to nuke 'em. If that's the explanation though I'm kinda wondering why the herd immunity theory was so common, so it's probably more complicated than that.
I hope this will make more people wake up.
How often do people get flu shots?
That has been happening since the event I think. At least I noticed it back then. Funny thing is if you look up "Kyle Rittenhose" instead (or any other typo), FB would helpfully auto-correct to the right thing and show the results. They clearly didn't spend much time thinking about it.
The media is manipulated misinformation itself
> It is really shortage in devops/sysads that drives cloud

No, it's not. I've have never once met a company that went cloud because they couldn't find someone to rack and configure infrastructure. There's considerably more to building and running a data center than just hiring staff.
20 years ago I ported an app from Microsoft SQL server to Oracle as a new requirement from the incoming CTO equivalent. I was told the whole place was standardizing on Oracle as they had in house expertise. Turns out they didn’t and while the port was completed and successful they had no end of trouble managing it.

I’ve since ported a few apps in early development or production between Microsoft SQL server, MySQL and Postgres (in various directions) but nothing in prod in over 10 years
For a start, by opting out of as much of the "conveniences" that enable this bullshit to begin with. Easier said than done, but it's truly the most necessary step.
I assume Facebook is blocking searches for the name to prevent people from sending angry messages to random men with the same name as Kyle Rittenhouse.

At this point, I think everybody here knows someone who shares the same name with a criminal and has been mistreated for it. What Facebook is doing isn't ideal, but I don't think they are acting in malice.
That sounds pretty bad. You feel the pressure to take less vacation because things are busy at work.

In European workplace culture, the demands of the work tend to be immaterial to the amount of vacation you can take. If things are busy, it's up to your boss to figure out how to handle them while you are away. If they can't do that, it's seen as their failure, not yours. However, if your employer knows in advance that things will be busy, they have a limited ability to adjust the timing of your vacation, but they usually have to do that months in advance.
I think everybody knew he would walk on the murder charges before the trial even started. One of the charges against him is a weapons charge that he is most certainly going to be found guilty of.
Telco data is actually specifically protected specifically for this reason. It’s immune from third party doctrine, which is the whole, “the govt can ask someone else who has your data for it.”

Not sure how that exception is being handled in the Treasury case.
HP to Begin Pre-Loading WSL2 for Windows on Upcoming HP Workstations
He got it from Marc Benioff, who purchased in 1996. I'm assuming as a favor or private transaction, given that Richard and Marc know each other (from Salesforce) and the seed round.

https://www.protocol.com/you-dot-com-benioff
According to what law or precedent?
Well the similarity is what they do, not how they do it. Is an electric car not a car because it doesn't have a gas engine?
No vaccine has ever been 100% effective, and waning immunity has always been a common phenomenon. Some flu vaccines are only about 50% effective. Polio, tetanus, hepatitis, and smallpox vaccines have all required booster doses due to waning immunity.
idk why people had such strong feelings with so little evidence.

it's difficult because when people make up their minds too fast people don't want to be wrong and it becomes difficult, I guess.
Remember the Steele dossier that was all the rage 4 years ago? The foundation of Russian collusion? Now the FBI is arresting the authors for lying.

The media must maintain their monopoly on information and misinformation.
> I believe with Delta, the ratio is closer to 19:1.

I don’t doubt your statement but do you have any sources or articles about this? I’d like to learn more detail.
He’ll walk for the self defense, but he still showed up to a protest with an illegally-acquired weapon. This was also following him shooting two other people at the protest. It’s not like Rittenhouse is innocent.
Not sure why it got downvoted but there is a dead post below this from SoundandPicture

>Unity made a video about the acquisition titled "Bringing Weta Digital’s tools to all creators"

https://youtu.be/hRCFTWA6j-c
I recently had a 10-year tetanus booster and learned that it’s not known if they are necessary, but they don’t hurt (except for the sore arm), so they’re given at ten year intervals.

It’s really unclear what the goal is with this campaign. My wife and son recovered last year and has not received a Covid shot. When others in our family caught it 9 months later, they didn’t get sick, as expected, and had an appropriate and measurable antibody response.
The pandemic (finally) forced most companies to handle remote work, but remotely onboarding new employees is still terrible at most places.

What you've described will become common. Start a job in the flesh, get trained up and productive, then you're free to move. It will probably be harder for you to get promoted if you're working remotely, but you'll also be providing less value because you won't be there to help bring the new hires up to speed.

Companies that learn to onboard new employees remotely from the outset, efficiently and effectively, will have a monstrous competitive advantage in the coming years.
Can you email me@christine.website? I'd love to talk and poke the brain of an expert. Maybe even do an interview or something.
The difference is that influenza isn’t required to work, attend a concert, eat in NYC, ect. When the vaccine is so directly tied to your ability to participate in society, it becomes a concerning scenario because of conflicts of interest, ect. The pharmaceutical industry doesn’t have a great track record of doing what’s best for you, and frankly, neither does the government. See the opioid epidemic for exhibit A and the financial bailouts for exhibit B.
You can have a rifle at 17 in his state I believe

I doubt he'll get a weapon charge either. The curfew charge was already dropped too.

@ceejayoz, @croes, and others conveniently leave out that the two other people Kyle shot were the aggressors as well.
The Covington Catholic incident is calling....
I'm sorry that empathy seems to be an elusive concept for you. I hope that no one ever reaches out to you feeling bad and are greeted with a tone deaf bastardization of Monty Python

People don't want advice, judgement or cheering up, they want to feel that they matter; that their voice has been heard. Acknowledge that they may be in pain and they are justified in feeling the way that they do. They are not wrong or broken, they've had an understandable response to their circumstances. Don't wallow in it but meet them where they are and seek only to understand and listen.

If they let you in you can ask what you can do to help. If not, go whistle somewhere else.
Do you believe Grosskreutz would have been in his right to kill Rittenhouse after Rittenhouse shot him? If not, why not?
Sure, sure, and what's the reason why I am required to make you.com my default search engine before I'm permitted to even try it?

Also, we both know that it's absolutely NOT the only way. A user can change their default search engine through their settings. It's more steps, but it's certainly allowed. In case your company hasn't noticed yet, click "Settings" in Chrome, then "Manage Search Engines," then click "Add". Once you've added you.com, click "make default".
>Telling someone who is in emotional pain to buck up is invalidating and dismissive. Not only are you diminishing their feelings, you’re telling them that these feelings are part of their problem.

Or it's the result of a lifetime of learning about your own emotional reactions. If teaching is toxic, who can learn?
Corruption runs through the veins of corporations
Nah, don't think so. I don't know any other case of a name of an alleged criminal being blocked. I think it's because it is highly politicized case related to violence, and there would be some people praising what he did. So they just block it to be able to say "see, we fight promoting violence!"
Humans are misinformation now.
Not really. It’s the service’s papers and effects, which happen to contain information about you.

There’s obviously something very wrong here, but it’s a dead end to say no one can sell the government info about people. Need a different approach in the vein of outlawing crazy TOSs, keeping user ownership of their data even if used to make a service operate, right to be forgotten, etc.
The result is the same, though: train the immunity system by having it attacking a dummy version of pathogen. The only difference is that newer vaccines are more sophisticated and can cause less side effects while still training the immunity system to the same or even higher degree.
The parent made no claims about objectivity. If your 70+ years of richness and fullness has left you capable of complete honesty with yourself and others about your flaws, then congratulations, seriously. I guess you'll have to use your imagination to try to relate to the rest of us fools.
Sure....that must be why...
Those people attacked him prior. His weapon was not illegally acquired.

@jachee: You don't have to "transfer" a gun to carry it across state lines, only when you first buy it through the FFL.

@croes: being armed by itself is not a threat, if you point a gun at someone you are the aggressor and that person can defend themselves.

just because you "see" someone with a gun doesn't mean you can shoot them, if they aim it at you that's another story. the first aggressor matters.

@happytoexplain: no you would be wrong to try to restrain the man who is simply armed. if that state had a open carry law you would be in the wrong trying to confront him if he was not pointing it at you or others. there are plenty examples of both sides openly carrying at protests.
Is that to block awareness around what came out in the news recently, where the prosecution's key witness basically made the case for Kyle acting in self-defense? I did see that news headlines were whitewashing what was said (https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/09/media-desperately-white...) but if this is some kind of information curation/narrative shaping from Facebook, then that's pretty dark. On the other hand, maybe this is to address abuse pointed at Kyle Rittenhouse or other people sharing that name?
Climate change Earth has 11 years to avoid the worst scenarios
Speaking as personal anecdota:

>Google Play Pass[0] is basically the app equivalent of Spotify. One monthly or annual fee for access to a library of "hundreds" of apps.

At the risk of dating myself, this is not a way I/my social circle consumes 'apps'[0]. But by the same token, if I were to subscribe to a service like MSFT's GamePass[1] personally I would find the most value in a service with everything, and be annoyed at having to juggle multiple subscriptions. The multiple services make it difficult and expensive to enjoy a breadth and diversity of media, regardless of total amount/quality consumed. For instance, imagine how obnoxious Spotify would be if it broke up into different services by genre.

By extension, I'd always pay more than my current given subset of subscriptions for an 'everything' service.

> And movies, TV shows, and music can all be purchased a la carte, not just through streaming subscriptions.

Certainly, but back when I purchased such things a la cart I'd have no problem cross shopping redbox/blockbuster/amazon. Probably because I only ever have to engage one and that engagement ends after the transaction, until re-initiated by myself. Maybe it's a psychological hangup, shrug.

[0]Not that I 'consume' many apps, or interact with the stores often. I think of them (sans games, and novelties) as little more than glorified websites. An 'app', as I use my phone, is just a glorified gateway to either data delivery (e.g. Netflix) or other backend traditionally and adequately served via website (e.g. google calendar)

[1]Google Stadia manages to be the worst of both worlds here, trying to be a service that also requires a la carte purchasing, instead of one or the other.
You're getting lots of good feedback and these are your types of responses. I don't understand it.
Not being in the US I hadn’t heard of him.

Some context:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59216106

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53934109
I’ve added an activrecord interface to an existing schema (on sql server no less). A lot of overriding of it’s assumptions and sometimes preventing writes via active record but it is doable.
Not so sure about Banquiao, at it "took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when most people were busy with the "revolution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure

The "Cultural Revolution" began in 1966. In such a context an otherwise avoidable catastrophe may happen.

This Revolution followed the "Great Leap Forward" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward ), with famines. "In the subsequent famines of the early 1960s popularly attributed to the Great Leap Forward, Henan was one of the hardest hit and millions of lives were lost." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henan#Modern_Era .

Moreover all this came after a civil war and violent Japanese invasion, during which dams were bombed, causing "massive flooding in Henan" (same source).

In such a context and chain of events a nuclear reactor and its nearby spent fuel may cause some headaches.

Banqiao: predicting and adverting this catastrophe was possible, but given such a context nobody was able to do so.
https://archive.md/S40aW
I think this is an exaggeration. The Tor technology was originally invented by researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, who suggested that the system might be useful to Navy personnel among others. While Paul Syverson, one of those researchers, has remained involved with Tor since inventing it, no one from the Navy has ever publicly stated how or to what extent Tor is used by the military operationally.

Military researchers invent a lot of cool stuff, much of which theoretically could be useful to the military in some way, but you shouldn't take the military research pedigree as proof that something is necessarily useful for a particular application or threat model today, any more than being invented by people from a famous university means that a technology is good or is the best choice for some application.

A better case for the kind of considerations you mention might be found in infosec guidance that government agencies offer to other government agencies and contractors. For example, NSA has recommended that government agencies use AES to protect sensitive data, which doesn't mean that they think it's perfect (or would necessarily tell us if they knew of problems with it), but presumably puts some kind of cap on how bad it can be. I'm not aware of any government infosec authority that has publicly recommended that people inside the government use Tor.
They'd just nudge their other Five Eyes friends into sharing their copies.
Taking a step back from this specific extremely charged topic. I really hate the control that these companies have on public discourse. Not even a week ago there were articles about how facebook was used as a propaganda tool for the Vietnamese government? We really need to come up with a framework for how these communications platforms should be expected to moderate content and hold them to it.
The January 2019 definition (almost a year before COVID started booming) from Wiktionary:

https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=vaccine&oldid=51...

"(immunology) A substance given to stimulate the body's production of antibodies and provide immunity against a disease without causing the disease itself in the treatment, prepared from the agent that causes the disease, or a synthetic substitute."

In this context, I think the mRNA would satisfy the definition of "synthetic substitute".

In either case, this is merely semantics and it's the "GOTCHA!" you think it is.
Has a treatment for Alzheimer's been on pharmacy shelves for decades?