skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is why with a $500000 machine the size of a building you get a contract so the manufacturer guarantees support, with upgrades to a current OS, for the lifetime of the machine.

Security is not the only reason you don’t want to be running Windows XP. New computers don’t run Windows XP, when this one falls over, are they going to look at eBay for a replacement?
I'm nearing 50. I remember first seeing the internet in '95 when I was able to read the Tour de France daily recaps instead of having to wait two-weeks for velonews to be printed.

I'm far from jaded about the internet, in fact, I'm very excited about what this next stage will bring.

Are you familiar with the S curve of innovation? (https://www.open.edu/openlearn/nature-environment/organisati...)

It seems like you almost know that when Web3 gets figured out, you'll get excited again. You don't have to be excited about what is happening every day.
If you want to get excited jump in and figure out what you'd like to see Web3 do, and build it (I'm assuming you're an engineer).
I don’t think this helps much. We know that mortality rate has not been incredibly high even for the original variant, but it managed to overwhelm the medical facilities of nations regardless. Unless the mortality rate drops dramatically, down to what’s observed with eg the flu, it’s still concerning.
I legitimately laughed out loud at this.
For the use cases you’re talking about, I prefer keyboard shortcuts.

No need to click search bar, or look at the search result list. One only needs to memorize, or setup, a keyboard shortcut like Ctrl+Shift+M, and with muscle memory it will consistently take well under 1 second. Search UX is slower, needs more clicks or key presses.
Do you have the “Show all folders” navigation sidebar option enabled? Can you share a screenshot? Do you have an MSA associated with your Windows user-account (even if you’re using a Local or Domain login)? I’m genuinely curious.
That article is garbage, full of randomly picked data points, not accounting for other variables, blatant misinterpretations and convenient omissions. Anti-vaxxers love posting it.
> Simplification is itself an act of intelligence.

For the people who simplified things (Einstein, Feynman, Newton). For anyone who never had to learn or have anything to do with the more complicated system before it was simplified, it most certainly isn't an act of intelligence.
Wait, wasn't that Cmd-L?
There is no way to eradicate covid everywhere, simultaneously or otherwise. It's now widely accepted that the virus continues to circulate even in vaccinated people.

Besides, you are not even going to vaccinate 100% of any western country, let alone all of them or the entire world.

Milder mutation are what is actually going to make the virus endemic, like it happened to the Spanish flu. Reports from the South African government seem to suggest that this variant is mild, although it's early to say.
Thanks a lot, I'll look into it act accordingly, depending on the cost. Please excuse my ignorance, but does LinkedIn really work?
Oh I absolutely agree with that statement. If you have someone in your place that is actually just documenting what everyone is doing and what everyone is doing is consistent, that's awesome! More power to them.

At my current place we do a lot through linters and automatic code formatting for example and we collectively agree on when and how to change the configs for that. Eliminates a whole class of "arguments" (X spaces vs. tabs anyone?) and it's relatively easy to "convert" new hires to it as well. They can either adapt to it, make a really good argument for changing the configs via a widely circulated PR or they aren't a cultural fit to us.

My point is that this guy usually isn't. In the vast majority of places I've been or seen it's the other version of him. I.e. the equivalent of the guy at the regulars table that edits Wikipedia to prove his point in a discussion.
Maybe countries with fewer vaccines also don't test as often?
So, the thing with Botswana is actually interesting, because those first cases were found in foreign diplomats who were visiting for a short time. Such a short time, that they probably could not have picked up the infection in the country, but had imported it:

https://africatimes.com/2021/11/28/botswana-says-covid-varia...

So the ground zero is somewhere else, and we just don't know yet.
Why did South Africa refuse more shipments of the vaccines on Nov 24th if your theory is correct?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-24/s-africa-...
Backpressure explained – the resisted flow of data through software
Right, lots of people have ongoing fantasies, which is basically the same thing, imagination. The only difference here is people are talking in public about their fantasies and enlisting others to help create and maintain them. And even that is not uncommon, people have used prostitutes this way forever. Perhaps video games have made sharing alternate imaginary realities more socially acceptable. These days you can imagine a fantasy world and actually create it in software and make it an actual reality.
Does this vaccine eradicate the virus? I’m vaccinated and boosted btw. I don’t think vaccines are going to make the virus go away. People vaccinated still carry load and spread it.
Liberture maintains a list of sites that sell DRM-free eBooks [1]

[1] https://www.libreture.com/bookshops/
Covid is currently endemic in New Zealand. Delta spreads too fast for their old strategies to work, and Omicron looks to be substantially worse.
Sorry, my attempt at sarcasm. I know it's a serious problem, but that wasn't Alex Jones' take on it.

Why Alex Jones? Because the person I was responding to sounded like him.
It's barely ever used nowadays though, whilst 30 years ago you'd hear it occasionally, similar to a gross, or things being referred to in yards. It's changed IMO.

I think it's part of how we've tended to remove dialect and en-gb terms as we've more intra-UK mixing and more non-UK born residents?
Alright. So for this to be dangerous to the cop, the criminal has to react violently to any risk of arrest. In that case, how would the criminal react to the inhabitants coming out? In any case, it seems reckless not to arrest them as it would risk someone's life.

Also, career criminals very rarely use violence to resist arrest. That is something that inexperienced or impulse criminals do. Any career criminal knows that using violence against the police will end up in a worse outcome than getting caught.

I would be interested to see a story where a criminal, in the comission of a crime, initiated deadly force against a policeman and was painted as a saint after their death or injury, leading to riots. This happens almost every day and no one cares about it.
Reminds me of my manager at a job a few years back. His standard was that any steps an on-call needs to take should be doable while they are drunk. You're waking people up in the middle of the night or they could be in who knows what sort of cognitive state. The runbook needs to be dead simple to follow. Mitigate now, fix it all up tomorrow when someone's awake and coherent.
I spent many, many years in jail. It was fascinating to look at all the types and styles of locks used and try to figure out how to defeat them. The locks on the cells are practically impossible to pick with anything available, IMO, but the bolt itself was easy to defeat. Every cell I've been in has been insanely simple to open once the secret was known, and the knowledge was passed between all the inmates over the years.

It is so common for people to let themselves out of their cells whenever they want that I almost never saw anyone disciplined for the infraction unless you did something dumb like walked up to a sleeping guard and spooked them.

Handcuffs are hilarious. The tiny little bendable pens they sold in the jail were the best way to open the handcuffs - you can just push the nib in and turn it. Tons of people would pop the locks on their cuffs as soon as a guard wasn't looking, but you'd generally need to keep them loose on your wrists so that they would visibly look secure. Again, the guards would just grumble if you took your cuffs off, not write you up for it.
Honestly I think it’s easier to cure Covid than western obesity.
Python has a lot of batteries included, but nearly everyone finds it necessary to bring in “requests.” And then once you have one pip package, what’s a few more?
Thanks mate, will take those into account. Asked the question already, but is LinkedIn really worth it?
> That said, there is a level of seniority at which "their problem" is "your problem.”

I’ve long decided that unless I have the significant stock options to show for it it’s delusional. It’s what the company wants you to think: to have all the emotional investment and none of the actual ownership benefits.
I haven’t had this issue in chrome or iOS but macOS safari I have had this issue with what I believe are JavaScript heavy sites like Facebook and Reddit’s new design. As soon as I log into Reddit, the problem disappears because I have settings set to use the old layout.
Like fusion, it’s always 10 years away from something practical
> It's not 66% of the stake that has to be good, it's 66% of anyone who has ever staked. In PoW, I only need to trust the miners of today to tell me the truth about what happened today.

I don't quite get that. As far as I understand it the "nothing at stake" problem works by a malicious party inducing a fork, one of which they double-spend in.
Since it's in the best interest for everyone else to mine both forks, you can force your double-spend fork to become the longest chain by only validating the double-spend fork.

This means you have to trust that nobody part of your current chain has double-spent in this way. But isn't this the same as in PoW where you have to trust that nobody has launched a 51% attack to disrupt the network in the past?

Also, can't you just prevent people from mining all forks? I.e. for becoming a validator you have to deposit X as a security beforehand and you can only earn at most X via staking (so it is in the history before you can attack with nothing at stake). If it is recognised that you mine on more than one fork at a time, you lose the security deposit you gave before the fork. X goes to the person who found the fork, incentivising that the mallicious fork is identified on all forks (miners on competing forks are incentivised to look at all forks and quickly add the mallicious fork detection for their own benefit). If you want to retrieve your security and money earned, you have to announce this on all forks (you immediatly seize to be a validator). You are only allowed to retrieve the funds, if it is confirmed on all forks, or the forks are sufficiently behind the longest chain. This allows everybody ample time to look for dual-fork work and also incentivizes rapid solution of forks.
The WHO likely doesn’t accept “some guy on YouTube says so” as “clear evidence”.
China is still doing mass lockdowns because they haven't actually eliminated it yet.
Sorry but shipping a crippled operating system at the expense of 99% of users that don't want to dig around and install two dozen utilities to make their computer usable is not good.

If you want to argue that anything pre-installed should be removable, that's fine, I agree with that. But arguing that an operating system shouldn't be allowed to pre-bundle basic utilities to play videos, view photos, and unzip files is completely absurd.
Which scientist was that? Medical doctors are not scientists.

Remember, the WHO said closing borders wouldn't help, and how dead wrong they were.
Rendering is the future and AWS won't win. Crypto based Render Token will
Yep. From what I’ve read we are waiting for the “common cold” version of Covid. Where it dominates, is an inconvenience, and we can just live with it.
> Being paged out of hours is as serious as a fucking heart attack.

As someone who is oncall regularly and had close ones getting heart attacks I find this offensive. But hey, at the same time I understand the need for hyperbole to grab attention, and generally I think people get offended too easily.

Other than that my feelings about oncall are complicated. Most everyone hates it as engineers, but as customers we expect systems to be online all the time and recover quickly if they fail. Managed properly, oncall is a necessity for many products that doesn't need to be too disruptive.
* When all you need is an unbounded stream of data that you need to traverse in order to do all these things.*

This is the part I was responding to.
The skipping of that letter of the Greek alphabet, after the WHO's blunder around the questions of Taiwan, was certainly not without interest.
My kid's school doesn't have windows that open. It's too new for that.
I haven't followed Australia's progress with COVID-19, so I hope these questions aren't too obvious or bothersome:

Were these single-digit infections all symptomatic, or were they detecting asymptomatic infections too? What is the false positive and false negative rate of the type of testing Australia is doing, and how many people were being tested during this time?

If some of the infections were asymptomatic, is it possible that some of them are false positives, and the fleeting encounter was also a false positive (either a false positive test, or that wasn't the true source of the infection) just due to random chance?
You can deal with line breaks. Is it the end of the world?
The CEOs of every Fortune 500 company (and many smaller ones too) are on-call 24/7.
“Kai” (chi / χ) is a different Greek letter than “ksai” (xi / ξ).
>one must keep moving to survive

Sharks?
There do exist viruses that have been virtually eradicated with vaccines, even if they weren't 100% effective (cf Polio). We probably won't eradicate Corona with the first gen vaccines, but that isn't the point anyway. The point ist that we should reduce it enough so that mutations are less likely.
> Well, sort of. Your yield isn't in dollars, it's in number of tokens.

Perhaps they should be more transparent about this, because I can end homelessness in the United States right now with $100 based on their reported APY.

The only people who are attracted to this misinformation are amateur investors, and I fear that is the whole point.
With the heat death of the universe, sure.
>Games are the last category of software you can still generally "buy" these days and get permanent access with a one-time payment.

This isn't even remotely true.

Almost every game seems to have an online element and won't run at all if you aren't on the latest version.
> It's kind of weird and a little unpleasant at first ...

One thing that helps is to warm up the water slightly so that it matches your body temperature.
> In our power to reconsider false and confusing terminology.

Is it? Framing a conversation through word connotation is a very powerful, and oft used, political tool. It isn't necessarily within your power to control it when stronger political and social forces are pushing it in other directions.
New Zealand seems to have abandoned that Zero Covid approach [0]

> Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged an end to the elimination strategy seven weeks into a lockdown that has failed to halt an outbreak of the Delta variant, announcing that restrictions would be gradually lifted in Auckland, the country’s largest city.

> “We’re transitioning from our current strategy into a new way of doing things,” Ms. Ardern told reporters. “With Delta, the return to zero is incredibly difficult, and our restrictions alone are not enough to achieve that quickly. In fact, for this outbreak, it’s clear that long periods of heavy restrictions has [sic] not got us to zero cases.”

> “What we have called a long tail, feels more like a tentacle that has been incredibly hard to shake.”

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag5ubS_EHWU
Amortized O(1) does not satisfy the specified requirements.
Rhino 3D allows you to type in anything you can do with the mouse. You just start typing, no shortcut first. It's feels like a beautiful marriage of powerful command line app and equally powerful and pretty UI.

I've been using it regularly since around 2002 and this functionality has always been core to its being. It makes discoverability hugely simple, just start typing what I want to do.

I've always wondered why more tools haven't had similar functionality. I'm glad to see the growing population of command palletes some 20 years later.
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Totally agree. I am 30 and already got 2 jabs. I will probably need to get 3rd in less than 6 months to be able to normally live (covid pass in Europe). Risk to person of my age is low even without vaccine. I got myself vaccinated only to help the society (and to get covid pass) but I do not feel that I am helping if they are wasting vaccines on people like me instead of sending them to people who actually need them. It is sad that this is official EU policy to require re vaccination of young people (official recommendation to member states is that vaccine is effective for 9 months for all ages).

Not to mention that climate in central Europe effectively stops virus from May to October so it will be way more efficient to vaccinate people in August and September.
No that's why I said there is no pressure to be severe. Killing hosts doesn't provide many benefits (unless you spread via people touching dead bodies such as Ebola).
Summary: PCR tests still work, certain therapies still work, and interestingly, they claim to already know that "Current vaccines remain effective against severe disease and death." while claiming to know basically nothing else (not even whether it is more transmissible).
Dr Angelique Coetzee, chairwoman of the South African Medical Association:

“It’s all speculation at this stage. It may be it’s highly transmissible, but so far the cases we are seeing are extremely mild,” she said. “Maybe two weeks from now I will have a different opinion, but this is what we are seeing. So are we seriously worried? No. We are concerned and we watch what’s happening. But for now we’re saying, ‘OK: there’s a whole hype out there. [We’re] not sure why.’”
Yeah, this is a great feature! I would like to have an option to move the menu into the into the window under the toolbar or floating like the spotlight window since it's a little less eye travel, but nonetheless it's very handy to have the ability to activate menu items without having a dedicated keyboard shortcut.
> It's hard to say how this will evolve but there's a lot of evolutionary pressure on viruses to become more transmissible and less deadly.

I'd like to think so but I fear there's no selective pressure with regards to decreased lethality for COVID-19. An infected person has already spread it far and wide by before they even develop symptoms – if they die after spreading, where's the pressure?

> Why less deadly? Because a virus that is too deadly will likely die. It's why the Spanish flu is now just H1N1.

The Spanish flu mutated into a deadlier strain first.
I recommend pulling a FOIA from ita.gov on vaccine redirection. Just ask for any documents related to redirection of aid to South African countries.
Denialism and lack of economic support.
Ask HN: Are there any profound Swift and AVFoundation paid courses?
I am interested to write my own iOS video editor. I couldn’t find any good and profound tutorials about how to use iOS’ AVFoundation and whiling ti pay for that. Anything out there that I could use?
Damn, I got goaded into this to "fix" my sleep apnea. Didn't really fix it, I still needed a cpap. I can breathe out my nose now, but it's always felt wrong. And my sense of smell sucks.
It actually doesn’t seem like that bad of an idea to me, at least under the assumption that you’re not going to maintain an entirely separate UI for the mobile and desktop apps (which would be ideal, but is incredibly expensive and tends to result in broken and missing features on one or both platforms even for companies with enormous budgets). I would argue that “reducing to the lowest common denominator” actually is one of the more reasonable solutions among the feasible options. It certainly isn’t a great solution to create a UI that is impossible to understand without tooltips and ship that UI to mobile devices without the tooltips!
In science, "we don't know yet" is on of the most useful statements you can make. It does two things of note:

1. Tells anyone that's paying attention that any speculation is just that, speculation, and
2. Tells people that while we don't have answers yet, those answers are being looked for.
You can read anything you want about the SR-71, but nothing compares to actually seeing it in person. It is my single favorite engineered object.

It's in the Dulles Air and Space museum. Go see it, if you can. You won't regret it.
Is there a reason for distilled water over, say, an in home RO? I always assumed it was to avoid potential bacteria, amoebas, etc.
I remember uninstalling it several times. I think office install also triggers the resurfacing of this once dormant malware.
Your kids school should have a good HVAC then which should run 24x7 and will have a fresh air intake which does the required number of air exchanges per hour. Add in some local air cleaners too.
Having read commentary of his on antitrust and economic issues, I think it’s entirely possible he just doesn’t understand.

Certainly that is the case in his commentary on economics.
Can you elaborate more on that? Legitimate question, I came across this a couple days ago on some other thread here on HN.
I don't understand the relationship you are suggesting between tooltips and feeling that you can try things without damaging the system.
On Windows, you could press ALT to navigate the menu bar: each menu item would have a letter underlined to tell you how to select it, and when you picked a letter the menu would expand and each new item would have an underlined item etc. So you quickly discover and commit to muscle memory that ALT + F + S would select File then Save. This worked for dialog pop-up options as well so you didn't have to click.

You can't do this on Mac? Why? I found this really jarring. I know on Mac you can press CTRL + F2 (add Fn key if you have one) to change the keyboard focus to the menus but it doesn't underline the letters that will work and you have to hit enter to open things so it's clunky.

The command palette is nice for discovery of lesser used commands and when there's lots of them but it's less predictable what keys you need to press to fuzzy search to the command you know is there and it doesn't teach your fingers the shortest key combo to trigger it.
Never used them myself but Livescribe pens do exactly this.
I’m having issues tapping on resized YouTube videos on my new iPhone 13 Pro.

Perhaps it’s related or perhaps I’m losing my mind.
Something I've been noticing lately is the disappearance of the “power user”.

Someone who's not a programer, but has learned lots of smart and efficient ways to getting their computer work done over the years. Shortcuts (keyboard or otherwise), click-hold-cmd-tab-drop or similar patterns, tags/labels for deep file organization, etc.

It seems like there's now a much wider gap between the smartphone tap-only user and the Vim/Terminal ubergeek with almost nothing in between.

I remember being floored by bureau in the 90s that completely automated their Photoshop and QuarkXPress workflow with AppleScript just by hitting the record button (not a single line of code written), folder actions, smart file placement and similar tricks.
I’m not aware of anyone agreeing to that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mobile UI that shows tooltips when you long press on a button.
I thought the lethality was just the immune system running havoc. If a virus could achieve it, it would remain symptom-less and just spread.
That statement hasn't been proven wrong.