skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have been perfecting their message for years in the background. I've watched it start as a very left wing thing, then they discovered that the "freedom" message really resonated with the right wing libertarians about 10 years ago. They have been spreading in that crowd since.

Make no mistake, they don't care about you or right/left wing. It might be right wing this time around, but only because they are still looking for a message that will appeal to the left wing as strongly.

The biggest spreaders seem to have a supplement store. Follow the money often works very well.
>However, I was taught from a young age that sexual promiscuity lacking precautions was a sure pathway to disease and possibly early death

Yes, because you grew up post-AIDs. Pre-AIDs, it was different.

If you grew up before AIDs, you would have been taught the greatest danger of promiscuous sex was unwanted pregnancy.
I presume you are being sarcastic. And you have every right to be - there are plenty of false prophets who can't predict the next recession.

The thing about Bitcoin and Tesla - I can find LOADS of people who believe it should crash. LOADS. But they keep going up. We should buy the book of the people who can explain them going up.
To add to that - younger children are really good with mask wearing in my experience - which is a big factor compared to the teenagers who ditch the mask as soon as no authority figure is in sight...or the adults with the maturity level of teenagers.
I'm now into my third year with Sailfish as my daily driver (Sony Xperia XA2 Plus) and can confirm it's first rate. And if you need an app that doesn't have a native Sailfish version, it'll almost certainly run the Android equivalent.
That's the way to go. On-call is bearable if you get paid for it. As a contractor who charged by the hour I was perfectly fine with sitting in useless meetings or fixing things at night that weren't even my fault. Doing this without extra compensation is just not OK.
Fair, but it still doesn't sound like the Chinese name ("shee")
It almost seems like according to this doctor, Oxymetazoline would be an acceptable treatment (as in, allow someone to get used to nose breathing at night for a long period of time).

I did have turbinate reduction recently, and it definitely gave me an improvement, but only about 30% I'd say. I no longer have 100% blocked nasal passages during the day, which I would during allergy season previously.

I have been using Oxymetazoline regularly, but I give myself a much smaller dose. Before nose spray and the procedure, in my case I would go to sleep with a partially clogged nose, and wake up with a fully clogged nose after a few hours. It was terrible, i'd have dreams of drowning and wake up gasping for breath. I sleep much better now. I don't experience a 'rebound affect' either.
Which variant is that again? All future variants? Must be tricky to get data on that. It's hard enough for reinfection with the Omicron variant and that actually exists in the wild. Death toll this week seems a little higher than your assertion of zero fatality rate would suggest is possible.

There's a difference between what we want to be true and reality. Our job is to minimise that difference.
People have different views about ethics. Fortunately, there is no truth of the matter, so anything goes as long as we're internally consistent.

I think ad revenue models are unethical. Promotion of extremist content is unethical. Privacy-invading data collection is unethical. Honestly, I think shitty content, in general, is unethical too.

On the other hand, I think it is ethical for an entrepreneuring developer to charge users $5 to bypass bad faith actors, at the (questionable) expense of "content creators". And I'd feel pretty good about paying the $5 too.
The area is so toxic, a few lead rounds is the least if concern.
Also possible that it incubated in someone for nearly a year. While reading Omicron news a couple days ago, there was mention of an immune-suppressed individual who was found positive 260 days after initial infection.
Actually getting condoms used to be a highly stigmatized pain in the ass back in the "caveman" days in large swaths of the world (especially in large swaths of the US). You came up in a very different environment.
Yeah but get your soil tested. Lead and arsenic are natural and there's nothing saying they aren't in your soil. Pollution from old lead paint or nearby roads is real.
What town/country?
> Open windows when it's above 50F / 10C (to give a healthy safety margin to the water pipes) and tell people to wear sweaters.

Yeah, please don't. There's a comfortable level somewhere above that, but at 10C I wouldn't be able to function in context of work / school. With worse circulation you just end up with your hands / feet feeling like they're constantly freezing. Some teachers thought that's a good idea, but I can tell you writing in gloves just gets annoying.
I don’t think that’s true at all – consider the surge in popularity of no-code tools these days. What would you call somebody using Zapier to hook two completely different systems up to talk to one another, if not a power user?
I used to prefer Uber/Ola over the humble auto rickshaw [1] mainly because of two reasons: cars are safer; and an air-conditioned car helps avoid pollution from traffic (which is quite high in Bangalore). Now I prefer auto rickshaws (at least for short distances) because they are well ventilated due to its door-less design. The back seat of an auto rickshaw is constantly braving the elements (sunlight, dust and wind) and is likely to be more germ free in this context. To make it even better, now these autos have a transparent plastic screen between the driver and riders, thereby isolating them from each other while being open to the environment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_rickshaw
God damn that was an annoying bug. Server-side validation not matching client-side. Hopefully you managed to log in eventually.
Ironically, if the text on this page used the correct HTML elements instead of cramming everything into a monospaced code block—which results in browsers not wrapping long lines—this email would be readable on narrow displays like mobile phones.

I get the argument that you shouldn’t bring down the experience for everyone just to accommodate the most limited imaginable scenario (80x22) when it comes to breaking code lines, but it’s pretty easy to just replace <pre> with <p> in the context of the LKML listings.
You should distinguish between "primary cause" and "primary spreaders" ("primary" because there is rarely only one). Does the virus starting in the wilds of Africa have any bearing on whether promiscuous sex helps spread it?
WHO was discredited at the very beginning of the pandemic when they said "nothing to worry about going on in China, we know because China says so".
No it's not: a book is generally read from cover to cover (at least fiction) while code is split amongst various files. One is free to read them in any order, which is the opposite of continuous text.
I don't understand. I can load YouTube.com in my mobile browser, go full screen, and then enter my home screen and I get picture in picture just fine. It works whether I'm Premium or not. I don't need a mobile app for it. What has YouTube broken here?

I will say that I cannot use picture in picture while browsing another site in Chrome. That sucks, but I don't think that is YouTube's choice, that's just how the browser works (sadly)
The sensible time to use bargaining power is before you lose it.
Australian Team, We get $20 per day (pre tax) oncall allowance, then time and 1/2 for any work done, time calculated to when you can go back to doing what you were previously. Generally works out to a minimum of 30 minutes overtime for any calls.

If you don't get 10 hours continuous break before the next work day, you fall into fatigue leave and either get paid overtime for the next days work or are stood down till you have had a 10 hr break.

Still doesn't stop our operations team being completely snowed with both workday and oncall work, but they can make a fairly good bonus wage out of it.
Other commenters are appropriately addressing the nature of other STDs and attitudes at the time.

Yes, they were more reckless because until then they pretty much could be (caveats for the risks already known, but those were equal opportunity offenders).

Your lessons on the dangers were based on those learned at this time. When it hit there was no understanding and it was frightening for all.
* If the market could build its way out of this, it already would have.*

Residential development isn’t a free market. The locals control who gets to build what. And very few locals want their single family home in the shadow of a new mid-arose condo.
All of those vaccines were created within weeks of the genetic sequence being released. The release dates you are referring to is only about regulatory oversight. Countries like the US and EU (and a long list of others) where Pfizer and Moderna targeted their sales are very careful to not allow the release of anything until they have evidence it works and is safe. For Sputnik V they released it before being sure it worked - which allowed them to release much faster, but there is a reason the rest of the world cried foul - even countries with few regulations didn't allow it to be used until more study was done - study that takes time.
"Here's one. I get paged for urgent fixes maybe three times per year. To staff all three shifts with senior engineers to cover for that would be enough to make the company unprofitable and lose many jobs. I don't much like being woken in the middle of the night for such things, but it's clearly necessary and not abusive."

Do you have to be always available or can you go somewhere without connection?
None of Geerts papers are peer reviewed or based on scientific research/data.

Stress doesn't cause mutations. Mutations happen because of genetics and whatever mutations increase their suvival end up being the mutations prevelent in society.

What viruses need though are willing hosts who aren't vaccinated who carry the virus, allow it to thrive and mutate and more importantly - those who spread it.

Blaming vaccinations is like blaming immune systems when the real issue is people who carry the disease and allow it to continue to spread.
Often it's not. I remember cleaning up MP3 headers from all the stupid 'downloaded from TUNEZ4U.blah - <real title>', weeding out tracks that were clipping or with their volume way too low. Or bad quality or weird codecs etc.. It was a lot of work!

Something like Spotify really makes it worth it then. Totally better than downloading and the convenience is easily worth the price.

I buy most of my ebooks as well as I like the sync between the Kindle app and the real Kindle. And most of them are well priced anyway.

For video the convenience argument worked well too with Netflix for a while but now that the landscape had fragmented so much the whole "paid content is more convenient" thing is under a lot of pressure. It's not even the price that's an issue as you can subscribe to most services by the month to see one thing. It's the hassle of signing up, cancelling and downloading all their separate apps. So there the downloaded content is becoming more convenient again.
Yeah, Car View is awful.
Bought it and it looks greater. However, I am wary due to the permissions where the extension "can read sensitive information."
I understand that there's probably no way around this, but still.
(Puts on gun owner hat.)

I suppose this is a useful analogy. Whatever society might think about my _intentions_ as a gun owner (conservatives will call me a protector, and liberals will call me a racist murderer) my _actions_ in reality reflect a deep caution that is appropriate to the nature of what firearms are. Storage, transport, use, disposal and maintenance of firearms all require a mindset focused on safety. So whatever my intentions, safety is always paramount.

Ignoring for a moment anyone’s interpretation of what gay men represented (conservatives would’ve called them the devil’s spawn, and liberals would have hailed them as heroes), isn’t it fair to expect that actions should have been focused on safety?

Consider another angle: plenty of grunts have gone on overseas deployments to exotic destinations which incidentally permitted/encouraged sex tourism. Wasn’t it common knowledge that STDs came part and parcel of such activities?
afaiu, in theory, immunity acquired through infection can be stronger than the one from vaccination. E.g. vaccination might prime your body for just one protein, whereas an infection would prime for several.

But it's not universally true, varies for different viruses, and also isn't fully understood whether it's the case for covid. So far seems like a safer and less miserable opinion to get vaccinated rather than get sick with covid.
RTFA. It's NIMBYism (the same as anywhere else) plus the towns being carved out of public lands. They can't build more.
Out of school in 2001 I wrote a web scraper in Python for a contract job.
Firefighters in the US typically work 24hr shifts, then have 48hr off, then repeat[1]. You could say they are 'on call' during that 24hr shift, of course they don't normally fight fires every minute of it (luckily), much of that time is spent doing things in the firehouse like maintenance, eating, etc.

1: https://firefighternow.com/firefighter-shift-schedules-and-w...
> First, I’d like to say that pager duty isn’t something we should treat like chronic pain or diabetes, where you just constantly manage symptoms and tend to flare-ups day and night. Being paged out of hours is as serious as a fucking heart attack. It should be RARE and taken SERIOUSLY. Resources should be mustered, product cycles should be reassigned, until the problem is fixed.

Having experienced both long-term chronic pain and long-term chronic on-call for some grumpy services, I find this comparison ... off-putting. On-call does not feel like it's even remotely close to as difficult.
I mean why spend money on anything not directly related to food, shelter, and health? Why spend extra to have aesthetically pleasing shelter rather than concrete blocks?

People buy what they want to buy. You criticize this and I’ll criticize that.
Aliendscapes – Alien Planet Generator
That is an interesting perspective. May I ask you what is you professional use of a computer and if it is programming - what kind of programming? I’m asking because I’m curious if environment drives habits/preferences.
Roman legionnaire in charge of rowers: "Men, I have good news, and bad. The good news is today is Sunday, a day of recreation. The bad news is, the Captain wants to go water skiing."

Ramming speed...
The larger form factor and the improved hardware design choices (no Touch Bar, et al) are just so sadly lacking from the M1, though.
Most significant digit first probably makes the most sense because you can immediately skip past the number after you identify the magnitude (the number of digits can be seen in the periphery of your vision without being read).
Some sort of social engineering I guess :(
If you have teams in Israel, you at least can cheat a bit on Sunday v.s Friday.

And having at least one daytime rotation agree that "well, you're expected to be on-call during business hours on Saturday" isn't nearly as crazy as "you can't relax at any time during the weekend".
"Getting paid 200k+ for a job that had on-call as part of stated duties (and thus baked into the comp) prior to accepting the offer is now working for free? There is hyperbole and then there is whatever this is."

The lawyers at my company go home at 5 and make way more. I know a doctor who gets paid somewhere around $1500 for every day he is on call. And when they actually call him he makes even more.
Things that every beginner web developer should know?
Thanks for sharing this.

I don't think I've seen this photo before, but I recognize the scene.

My uncle died from AIDS related causes in 1992. He looked a lot like David at the end.

AIDS is a horrific disease. It's amazing how different outcomes are for people with access to modern treatments.

I didn't know my uncle had AIDS until after his death. At the time, the stigma against people infected by the disease was so great that he moved across the country to live with my family, and they kept his diagnosis a secret until his passing.

I remember traveling with him on a road trip to California when I was 12. It was a great adventure, and I'm really happy we got to do something like that together.
It may not be practical for you, but you could try a hydroponic system like AeroGarden. I was given one last Christmas and grew lots of herbs (I've just moved and haven't unpacked it, but when I do the herbs will be coming out again).

AeroGarden is a pricy brand, but there are probably cheaper ones that do just as well.
In some places it's far too hot or cold most of the school year? Or inclement weather is common. Or students have severe alergies. Or there isn't enough space for school buildings to be designed that way. Or the local air/noise pollution is too great.

It seems to me like the ability to design a school like this would be the exception, not the rule.
Crested Butte was incorporated in 1880.

Crested Butte Mountain, the ski resort, opened in 1960.
I prefer the older type of instructions. They make you think - you need to plan out more of the build yourself, instead of just becoming a mindless brick assembly robot.

The 8860 instructions: https://bricks.argz.com/ins/8860-1
I believe he means it isn't in the South, but in the Southwest. The South in the US is actually southeast.

Note the capitalization.
Lead is present in the natural environment. Avoid it as much as you reasonably can, but it's impossible to eliminate it entirely from your diet.
idk, here are some ideas for on call must haves based on other talk about on call things:

- normal rotation has 5-8 people
- on call lasts for one week
- some institutional trigger (like an SLO) exists for changing team priorities when pages happen too often
- the culture around on call is empowering, not heroic/dysfunctional
- people can still carry on with normal life while on call (just keep your laptop in a backpack and don't get drunk)

At least some practices could help make it suck a bit less too:

- option for next day off after picking up a page (no questions asked)
- frequent pages (more than a couple per quarter) trigger discussions about how to improve code quality or fix bug hot spots
- during on call shift you can get a break from normal sprint work (do rewarding things that add value for the team)
- there's no fear about being on call since problems are rare and everyone knows how the software systems work
- if you're stuck while debugging on call there are more senior people you can page too to get help
- work on app monitoring/debugging a little bit of the year to make debugging and triage easier when things do come up
- ops team catches the page before your team to provide context and repro
- reverting or deploying fixes isn't stressful because the deployment is stable and fully automated

Do those seem reasonable? It doesn't seem like a radical idea that the team that wrote the bug has to get pulled into the call to help fix the problem. The anecdotes from this thread make it seem like a healthy on call is very much the exception not the norm though.
I feel like from a design and architecture point of view, building an application with the command line as a first class citizen will ensure that the application is well designed.
What happens when one person dies suddenly?
Ok, this is not what I thought you meant. I don't know how anyone can solve this problem in a constantly growing and evolving open-source ecosystem though.
It takes serious denialism to believe the covid vaccines are anywhere close to the effectiveness of polio vaccines.
> Why aren’t all new keyboards (or those other things DJs have on stage) simply software, maybe with a custom input device for easier live use?

there are some sounds that rely on certain electronic oddities from weird components that cannot easily be modeled in software. some Russian transistors that are used for the polivoks filters are some that I can think of off the top of my head.

personally, I've built a ton of software simulations of hardware equipment, but I still have a tx81z sitting around, and a rack full of eurorack gear. there are just some things I can't get quite right, and some weird things that I doubt I could ever reproduce[1].

we can't accurately model a SID chip in software or fpga due to its weird quirkiness under electrical load, some of the less sane chips are even harder. that's why there's such a demand for weird things that use older chips[2].

1. https://www.nonlinearcircuits.com/modules/p/brain-custard

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrZZiTpK3f0&t=112s
I wonder how many tech heads in here took the time to talk with SFPD police 1-on-1 to understand what is going on with them. Or maybe you just get your news from ideologically possessed publications?
LOL TikTok is worse. It lets you login with just a phone number and no password. I can actually log into the TikTok account of the previous owner of my phone number.
Probably because there would be no humans.
Colorado has 32 ski resorts and Vermont 26. I don't think you need to go to the backcountry to avoid the crowds, just to a smaller lift serviced mountain.
Any proof to support that accusation?
https://archive.md/1q3hv
Nonsense. Africa is miles ahead of many countries because they have been frought with epidemics. The South African variant is only called south African because they have the technology to do genomics on the strain to identify that it has mutated and there is a new mutation running around.
AirPlay kinda-sorta works from the YouTube player but it is glitchy as hell. It works way better from normal HTML5 videos.
Flower Turbines
nobody is enjoying this but:

- pseudo-science is not gonna help.

- we could be in a better place if we had the capacity to act as a group.

Where I live this was managed perhaps better than other places, not as well as it could have been.
But that wouldn't be cryptographically secure. Someone could deterministically predict my wallpaper for fuck's sake.
Wow it looks great, I had no idea it existed in a usable state. I though it was just the bones of Meego, I used Moblin on an N800, it was great sat the tine, it looks like a truly functional experience.
half a ms is still 2 samples missed:

44000 / 1sec / 1000ms

hopefully we have better latency than that!
Yeah I just want to suss out that picture in picture is indeed working just fine for iOS users as it is documented as working by Apple. Do other sites activate PiP reliably? Note that PiP on mobile has always required (stupidly so) that you be in full screen mode prior to activating it. In my own experience, making picture in picture trigger on iOS on my own video apps seems to be fleeting. Can someone on iOS check in on alternative video sites to see if PiP is triggering reliably?

I don't use iOS, if you say YouTube is treating it differently than Android and blocking said feature, that sucks and they should change that for sure. Just seems like there may be problems on Safari/iOS (and the underlying WebKit framework that all or most third party iOS browsers use) more than on other platforms/browsers
Covid viral loads in wastewater in Pretoria, South Africa
> just wear a sweater or a jacket.

Where I live my pipes will freeze and burst sometime in late December, but I won't find out until late February when the pipes start to thaw again.

I have a few HEPA air filters in my house. They work with whatever HVAC you have and make a difference.