skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Good! Keep it up. Let things be, enough of this vaccine pass comrade BS.

You're going to get heavily downvoted, but I totally agree. The vaccine pass is a complete farce. I even have non-technical friends that have faked vaccine passes. For someone even remotely technical, it's trivial to Photoshop.

If only we had the same fervor when it comes to demonizing weight gain, we could save 10x more lives.
They use the greek alphabet to avoid stigmatising or politicizing the origins the various variants. They also pick names that are easy to remember and pronounce as opposed to the more technical names (ie. B.1.1.529).
It is here, I'm typing this on one right now. There are global supply chain issues, that doesn't make it vaporware or anything.

It was under $200 when the article was written. Again, supply chain issues.
Yep, you were the first to twig...
> 7. Astonishingly complete set of implicit data conversions. E.g. if X
is floating-point and S is a string, the assignment X = S works when S
= "2" and raises an exception (not PL/I terminology) when S = "A".

This seems like an extraordinarily bad idea.
The way Andy Tanenbaum tells the story is that he wanted to make sure that every student who got a copy of the operating systems book, would also get a copy of the source and binaries of MINIX. For this reason he insisted that the publisher, Prentice Hall, would deliver floppies with book.

Prentice Hall wasn't too keen on doing that but gave in. However, as it normally works with publishers, that also meant transfering the copyrights to them.

There is another part and that is that Andy Tanenbaum didn't consider MINIX a serious operating system. It was designed as a teaching aid. Until MINIX-3 he actively resisted adding complications, like a virtual memory system. So even with an open source license, it probably would have taken a fork and rebranding to turn it into a more serious operating system.

Finally, turning a micro-kernel system like MINIX into a modern unix system is far from trivial. So it is not clear how well an improved version of MINIX would have competed with *BSD.
While I agree with you in principle, in this specific case smokers have an advantage; it is harder for them to get covid. So here it is not exactly motivating to stop smoking.
"The peripheral drivers team needs to increase it's revenue."
Ah yes, repeat the evil dark web narrative. As if a VPS in Russia would get you into trouble. Criminals will be criminals, also if tor etc. wouldn't exist and non-criminals wouldn't get to be anonymous, too.
I listened to Sanjit speak at HackMIT several years ago. He is a really brilliant man and a real innovator. I'll definitely be investing in this IPO.
Repairing an HP 3478A Multimeter with a Hacksaw
I suppose some sort of element that supports various LMLs (Lightweight Markup Languages) could be useful. I don't think Markdown is all that great - there's still room for improvement.
> "And before you accuse me of shallow reasoning : why don't you come up with the graphs?"

Because that's irrelevant to my point? That sea level is rising or not, and specifically in The Netherlands at that, cannot reasonably be used as a proxy to decide whether or not we are globally starting to feel the consequence of global warming.

But here is a graph anyway: https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...

And here is another one: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/...

And here is a quote:
"The rate of sea level rise has accelerated
considerably relative to the pre-industrial era. Over the twentieth century,
global sea level increased at an average rate of about 2 mm yr–1, which
is substantially larger than the rate of the previous three millennia.
Furthermore, evidence now exists for additional acceleration during the
twentieth century" [2]

But I see you are pulling your climate facts from a website that states "The warming is beneficial for people and nature" and "Large-scale use of 'renewable' energy is bad for nature and the environment", so I don't really know why I am bothering arguing with you.

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49588416_Global_Sea...
Since we're imagining things, imagine a befuddled geriatric sock puppet president installed via fraud and controlled by a globalist cabal with a stated desire to depopulate the planet.

See how crazy that sounds?
It’s disturbing how poor the civics knowledge regarding multinational organisations remains in much of the world.

The relations between countries in general are dysfunctional, driven by politics and selfish interests, often corrupt, and dependent on power, why are we surprised when those same factors affect shared multinational organisations?
You mean @I-M-S
Almost always technical incompetence, I think.

At some level "compatibility" is correct. System 1 outputs binary data, system 2 takes that and turns it into JSON, system 3 encodes that in base64, system 4 turns that into QR codes, and system 4 was what was mandated for producing all of the organisation's QR codes.
If someone claims that WW2 was an elaborate hoax (to pick something uncontroversial), and you present them evidence, and they say "that's just your interpretation" - what would you think of that person?

Using "interpretation" and "pro-democratic" here is pretty dishonest. You can either contest the interpretation of those specific words of Peng Shuai using concrete arguments, or not say anything. Democracy isn't relevant when it comes to the facts - it doesn't matter how many votes a lie gets, it's still a lie.
I think many people (myself included) think of V7 plus virtual memory plus fast file system plus job control as the ultimate pure version of Unix. Add Berkeley sockets from 4.2 BSD and stop there. Most of the subsequent work including almost all Linux command line implementations have been perverting the Unix philosophy: simplicity and minimalism and greatest reusability first.

Shared object libraries are a bloatware feature from hell. "Hey everybody let's introduce shared libraries into system V so we can bloat them and introduce new bugs due to missing or incompatible libraries - how does that sound? Because we must squeeze the last drop out of every byte of RAM, that's Sooooooo important!
The keys were not leaked but the web interfaces that allowed generation of these certificates was left open and accessible.

Passes have been sold (through the clear web and the dark web) but many have also been revoked since. As far as I know, the certificates being sold right now are either someone else's certificate (for places that don't check your ID when you walk in) and certificates generated by people working for places that also give out legitimate certificates, such as some pharmacies and hospitals.
The old-school, prevents rickets/400 in milk is enough, is what was taught for decades. The new-school, take a few thousand a day and it prevents winter respiratory infections is quite newer and less spread out.

Personally, I stopped having the vast majority of colds during the winter since starting D a decade ago. One or two colds since, and both were over in a day. Definitely a significant life improvement.

There are several dominant threads pushing back here on a professionally done study about the benefits. So no, the important information is not as widespread as you claim.
ok, there are two different effects in action:

- creators are more likely to abandon or ignore projects that have low popularity or are completely unused
- creators are more likely to be burned out when there are piles of demands, requests, complaints etc
Freeze your credit report with the 3 main companies.
Good for you that you can afford grass-fed beef, but this doesn't scale at all.

The monocrops you mention as a problem are largely used to feed cattle today: about 80% of land used for agriculture produces feed for livestock, most of it single crops like corn and soy – despite only contributing to about a fifth of the calories we consume. And it's not like we can greatly expand production either, we already use about half of all habitable land for agriculture.
I would imagine there's a lot of overlap between places that use mainframes and places where anything unauthorized, let alone games, will get you fired.
edited my comment above
As a family we pick sports that we can all go together at the same time. Hiking, back country camping, skiing, windsurfing, swimming, soccer and kayaking so far in the past year. If we were active, I could see gaming be something else but I would choose board games first.
This is basically like saying if everyone had the ability to print their own USD, people wouldn’t need traditional jobs anymore.

The intrinsic value of cryptocurrency is basically zero. Even the scarcity factor doesn’t have much weight because it’s trivial to just create a new currency and “print” more. Unless the US government or some other government backs a coin, that’s just how it is.

So a “job” where people mine coins all day is producing absolutely nothing of value. If someone is making money in that situation, that means someone else is being scammed somehow.
Starbase setting the stage for ambitious 2022 launch campaign
This is really cool, but I wish someone would launch a product like this without trying to sell it as a depression aide or sleep helper. I'd probably be more inclined to purchase it if someone came right out and said "this is just a cool product I made, you're welcome to get one if you want."
>copious leisure is right around the corner, if we can just muster the political will! But it doesn't work out like that. We still work a lot.

I don't think we've ever mustered the political will to even give it a shot, so the fact that we work more than ever is not really a point against Kropotkin, IMO.
Completely agree, but you see this is like a 5 billion people driving a non stopping train, and it will go somewhere weather we like it or not, we can only help make it better

I don't like SPA, Electron, JavaScript in general, but the internet doesn't care

More on your comment, I can see what you say, someone not making a political controversial comment because it would mean losing money. But if we look at YouTube again, actually not every video is worth money, there is a lot of creativity and controversy still, more than before it

Every system is not perfect, and at the moment, by being, free a lot of people are not creating, or commenting or dev blog-posting, because they are not get paid for it, and they need to survive, so they have to invest their time on the 9to5, and after are to tired to investigate how can I profit by telling everyone "how did I do X interesting thing project"

Open source will probably see a bigger influx of money, there will be less friction to value people time

Like the time I just spent writing these comments for free!
How to Cope with Social Anxiety Worsened by the Pandemic and Holidays
> proves that the overall architecture is robust.

Not really. What it shows is the stark difference between two ideologies. The first camp contains people who believe in Postel's Law, "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others". The second camp has people who recognize that the current world is not a cooperative network of researchers: "all input is untrusted".

Krebs is absolutely in the second camp.
Apple’s computerized glasses will be as powerful as a Mac and launch next year
I doubt it's the perfect backup set-up, but I've been able to do regular restore tests.

I have a Synology NAS which has a Borg community package. I use BorgBase for remote backups, and have another local backup on one of the volumes in the NAS. I keep dailies for a week, monthlies for a year and three yearlies, with automatic pruning.

Once a year, I do my best to back-up my most important stuff on DVDs, but I'm not a very disciplined person. I keep them on a spindle, which is also probably bad practice.
A significant number of publicly traded companies — and not just new ones in tech - are tightly controlled by founding shareholders who have special shares. This is not an unusual practice even for public companies.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with taking your company public and retaining troll through special shares. Anyone who is able to do that massive built a pretty great company, otherwise the market would not support it.
Not every person or every culture has the same sets of values around gambling. Not every ethical philosophy thinks of gambling the same way. In many developed countries gambling is legal and regulated in many forms. Governments around the world spend a lot of energy deciding what the lines for regulating gambling is. When I see ethical takes like this, I feel like I'm missing a _lot_ of context. The Islamic world for example sees consumption of alcohol as a sin. Is this a Christian ethical take? What's the difference between markets and gambling in this ethical philosophy? Islamic states see any form of interest as sin after all.
Epsilon's no longer a variant of interest.[0] The WHO are going through the alphabet in order (skipping Nu and Xi).[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Epsilon_variant

[1] https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-varian...
Powerful enough for what? Get rid of regressive virtual machines and surveillance framework bloat and there's much less computation to be done. I'd love for the Free software mobile ecosystem the coalesce around lower power processors and resource-respecting languages.
There was a lady on a reddit sub who claimed she is working in a hospital and having cases of people overdosed with vitamin D that causes calcium to build up in the blood vessels.
I use this pattern in Django and I feel without ORM or query builder this will need 4 raw queries.

```
results = Foo.objects()...
if a:
results = results.filter(a=a)
if b:
results = results.filter(a=b)
```
> This implies...

No, it doesn't. Americans are more or less equally propagandized, but in different (and less transparent) ways.
> However, most people use such baublage to signify success and wealth, appropriately or not.

Do they? Maybe some do, but how do you know they aren’t just buying nicer stuff because they can afford to and it’s you know, nicer?

> I don't think it snobbish (inversely or otherwise) for me to think that this is a sad squandering of resource and a more than slightly horrid aspect of the human character.

I don’t see how people making fine watches is a ‘squandering of resources’. It’s also not obvious why you are attributing this ‘horrid aspect’ only to a stereotypical rich person.

Surely wearing a football shirt, cutting the labels of your clothes, wearing a chairman Mao suit, or a pair of Nike sneakers are all signalling status in one way or another.

Why are these things ok and watches are not? Why are expensive baubles more worthy of sneering than cheap ones?
I had no idea there was a name for this. I tried this in college (during an extended college strike, so no classes). Starting from a place of extreme isolation and (situational/seasonal) depression, attempting to integer overflow my sleep schedule left me absolutely messed up. I saw the light through my window for an hour a day, and the only time I left the room was to eat at the cafeteria, if my waking hours happened to align with their hours.

In the end, I wrapped around too far and achieved nothing.

For someone like me, I wouldn't recommend this. Because if you're like me, going to sleep on time isn't actually too difficult, provided:

1. You put real effort into going to bed on time, and

2. You're not in a situation where you're spiraling and afraid of facing the next day.
I would say at the very least that "low spec" is more accurate than "poverty spec." A financially comfortable hobbyist or developer might pick up a low spec device or three for testing or mucking about with. And someone who's really in poverty is probably not well-served by a poverty spec device that is poorly made and might break down in a couple of months or might be hampered to the extent of being no more than a toy. They might be much better off getting a decently specced used device.

To your larger question, the problem of why equating "poverty" with being bad is that as human beings we have the tendency of overgeneralizing negative characteristics, sometimes called the Horn Effect. A person is poor, and that's bad, and therefore the person themself is bad.
These names are for public consumption. The reality is a world of tens of thousands variants that are constantly evolving. The B.1.1.529 is from a computer program that names clusters of variants via a clustering algorithm.
Yet we tax vices.
> Interesting, I'm Canadian and we certainly didn't learn this. We certainly have learnt about embracing the multiple cultures around us. How we dont need to melting pot the cultures and we can peacefully coexist. We don't need to 'unify', the more we embrace each other's differences the better.

I wonder how much of that is simply for short term political gains. "Multi-Culturalism" is pretty new (and accompanied by increasingly out of control immigration quotas) and seems to be aimed at pandering to multiple ethnic enclaves.

I mean not that long ago wasn't the official policy to discriminate against anyone not deemed Canadian enough (the French or Natives for instance)?
From what I understand, individuals with naturally darker skin tend to be at greater risk from vitamin D deficiency. This is because naturally darker skin reduces the absorption of UV rays. I wonder to what extent vitamin D deficiency could be a contributing factor to the disparate impact that Covid-19 has had on different ethnic communities (at least in the United States). Is anyone aware of any studies done in this regard?
> Edit: Revealing dirty political ploys and get downvoted... I have no idea what HN readers are upholding now...

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I especially don't appreciate the guilt-tripping in your comment.
I'm a big user of AutoHotKey on Windows. How does this compare? I've been looking for a good Linux alternative for Autohotkey but there isn't one.
Here in Mexico the gov issued vaccination certificates always have errors.

People have resorted to downloading the PDF and "hacking it" (editing it in Acrobat).

Nobody ever actually checks whether the certificate is valid or not.
That's exactly right. I don't self-host the email (you can use any service that takes catch-alls like mailbox.org).

anything '@subdomain' gets forwarded to its respective family member's email.
Covid did motivate a few folks I know to start hiking, even without a government push.
Is your dad's place in a city? If so, your city may have a franchise agreement with local telecom providers that compel them to service any residential address in the city. If he's not in a city, there may be a county franchise agreement, although those are less likely to compel service at every address.

When you say the community he's living in, if that's an apartment community or some senior living community or condominum etc, those may be setup with a company or group ownership of the land and some of the structures, in which case it's really up to that management as to what telecom companies they accept and can get to provide services and under what terms.

But no, there's no general compulsory universal service for internet. You're closer to that for telephone and electricity. I don't think there are any areas in the US where there's competitive residential telephone wiring and there are few places with competitive cable wiring; it's capital intensive to network an area and it's hard to get a return on investment unless it attracts a lot of customers and it's hard to get people to switch if their current service is ok (or will be updated to be ok in response to another network overbuilding)

Depending on the size and composition of the community, it might be sensible to get a commercial internet connection and share it within the community, but that's probably a sizable effort as well.
Let’s build a global power grid (2015)
> It’s mostly the US that has an insane vacine policy.

3) PROFIT !!
>Everyone seems to think I am making a statement about GDP or economic systems when I say infinite growth but I am just speaking in broad strokes about human activity.

The saying you said is specifically about economic and GDP. Fair enough though if you didn't mean it.

>apitalism may be the only viable model for a world with serious scarcity, as I expect ours is to become in the mid to near term.

This is a pretty depthy subject. The failure of communism in 1989 has left many people, most of which who haven't lived under communism, to be quite upset. Many of these folks are now proposing some mixed system. This will ultimately fail as well. Capitalism is just the system in which works the best even despite its many drawbacks.

I think fundamentally when the gold standard was dropped. What everyone is yearning for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_credit It's a right-wing economic system but I bet with a ton of work we could make it work. The left wing often call this UBI.

>When adjusted for externalities, there's a possibility that GDP per capita in the OECD has been negative for multiple decades.

Debt adjust it as well and I bet it's in some serious trouble in many countries. Such is the debt cycle. Which is what social credit is designed around. Debt = money. It inherently is going to be managed in social credit.
Ive always wondered why companies do that. I've gotten adverts for Airbus and Lockheed Martin but I can assure you I am in no position to buy a fighter jet.
> "For x in y" is literally what we say when speaking as humans unlike that quote thing.

What about:

"Can you unload the truck?"

The current context gives us implied knowledge that we're talking about the items in the truck and where it's getting unloaded to, such as a warehouse if we're near a warehouse door. We only expand on that verbally when we need to such as "Can you throw out the empty boxes in the truck?".

I think this is why programming is nonintuitive, you have to include important steps with very precise words that often go unsaid. Even "throw out" wouldn't convert to the correct intent if a computer executed that statement as is. You would end up literally throwing the empty boxes out of the truck instead of putting them into a dumpster or garbage can (the likely intent based on this example).
My current take (not a virologist, doctor):

At this point, if you are not immunocompromised and you have the first vaccination and a booster. You should be able to easily recover regardless of the mutation(s). The virus would need to completely diverge from SARS-CoV-2 in order to fully defeat the countermeasures of the current vaccinations.
There is a beautiful movie by the same name. Go see it if you haven’t!

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0770802/
It’s $5.99 for a 12oz package, or ~$8/lb.
I have not tested this but it looks like it should work: https://github.com/Gryffindor8/Netflix-videos-downloader
The link you provided describes a simulation based on assumed vaccine effectiveness. It's also from 1 year ago. It doesn't seem to reflect any statistically backed insights into what's actually happened over the past year. Or am I missing something?
It is here, I am typing this on one right now...

The hardware is fine, it runs ssh and a browser, what else would I need in a laptop?
A parody I found of your friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_s5y9Ls83Q