skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't feel as if I'm arguing for "giving up on all the covid deaths". On the contrary in fact:

(1) likelihood of death decreases with the passing of time, because of improved treatment (and maybe testing also). So to minimize death, you want your exposure to be delayed as long as possible.

(2) there is reasonably convincing evidence that exposure level is significant in determining severity post-infection. Therefore you want to live within a community and with habits that keep you away from high exposure as much as possible.

So, the same strategies that slowdown exposure also help to reduce deaths
> It only fetches great movies with a rating > 6.7 on IMDb

We might end up missing some good movies. Maybe adding a choice would be better?
This is so fawning and… something like name-dropping.
Additionally there are a lot of devs who are from East Asia but started working in the US after undergrad or grad school. I'm sure there are many of them who would love to return to their home countries and work during the day time (for example, Vietnam timezone is currently a simple 12 hour difference from NYC tz). Even with a salary reduction they'd still come out ahead through lower taxes & the lower cost of living.

Additionally you could still hire devs from western backgrounds. While studying abroad my cookies have led to heavy advertising from turing.com, which seems to hire overseas US devs to work remote for US companies. There's plenty of American devs in Chiang Mai working on their stealth phase startup.

edit: It seems turing.com is wasting their ad budget, because they have a 4 hour overlap with US TZ requirement. Not sure why they're advertising to IP addresses coming from Asia.
You might not hear it often, but that doesn't mean it's barely used. English is spoken by more than just English people. I reckon I hear "score" used in the sense of twenty of something than I hear words you'd probably describe as more common, such as "laden" or "bereft."
Best RO (reverse osmosis) in 2021 for drinking clean water?
Epic’s Tim Sweeney Wants to Break Down Digital Walls in Gaming
Someone else is likely willing to be on call, though.
> As others said, French speakers parse "four-twenty-ten" as ninety.

But only 90 and 97-99 have "quatre vignt dix". 91-96 are written as "four-twenty-eleven" through "four-twenty-sixteen".

So you can't really avoid the complexity, because only half of the numbers in the 90s have '''90''' as part of the word.
Even a relatively light reading of the Annotated Specs for Eth2[1] and/or the Eth Org's Proof of Stake FAQs[2] suggests the designers (and independent implementer-teams who gave feedback to designers, who gave direction to the implementers... lather, rinse, repeat) understand it's important to consider the overall system "outside of the comfort zone".

[1] one such: https://github.com/ethereum/annotated-spec/blob/master/phase...

[2] https://eth.wiki/en/concepts/proof-of-stake-faqs
I think this is right. To me, there are a few reasons:

- there are more formal solutions available. I don’t need a macro for automated responses because Freshdesk does that for me.

- culture has moved toward seeing apps as smaller on average (except for MSFT) and not extensible. I think our attitudes toward mobile have had a big effect.

- a lot of people get as much utility as they expect out of their machines unmodified.
> you really want to encourage engineers to move around every 2-3 years

I have to disagree, I can say I honestly don't hit true full stride until ~1-2 yrs of working with a complex system. A big part of this people really don't like know how to make non-complex systems, and there's next to no incentive in it with the 12-18month new project/promotion cycle. (ie, long-termism is rarely the original writer's concern)

In my experience by the time i'm 2-3 years experience with a set of systems I'm many multiples more productive and informed than someone with ~0.5-1 yrs experience on it. And I'm able to tell product/support people exactly how the system behaves in its edges, and how it would hypothetically behave if modified for new features/logic.

So, plz managers consider allowing people to become true masters of a domain too.
Storing Passwords in PowerShell with Secret Management
> When did people become so helpless? I was offloading interactive workloads via X11 back in the 90s, and these days it’s to a near-instantly provisioned public cloud instance. If someone can’t get by in a pinch with vim and a command prompt, then I don’t particularly want them in my crew.

Well back in my day we had to timeshare the punch card machine and our punch cards only had zeros. Ones were too wasteful and anyone who asked for them would have been fed to the lusers.
And what does it go to if he gets called in?
That particular one is cmd-? So it’s pretty darn mnemonic. Pretty sure it’s also spelled out in the search bar of the Help menu bar item.
You assume the soil you have is "safe"
It’s fiction. If being ultra-wealthy was really miserable, people would exit it shortly after attaining it. This smells of trying to convince people that sleeping four to each bedroom and not having heat in the winter is somehow better.
This obviously isn't true. You can absolutely use legislation and fiscal policy to impact market prices. You're being incredibly reductionist and I'm not quite sure why, but if you read the article, you would have come across the case of Whistler, where they've effectively used policy to improve the availability of affordable housing.

Also, we're not talking about a commodity like smart fridges or something, we're talking about one of the fundamental human needs — shelter. Your frivolity is unnecessarily callous.
I had this done 15 years ago. For a few weeks it was life changing, then the proble, nostril went right back to 95% clogged. This is supposedly typical, but I’m sure YMMV. Glad yours didn’t regress!
There are a lot of people who want term limits. Even for their own candidates. I don't think we were ever supposed to have career congresspeople. Part of the problem is they start to lose touch with their constituents. I don't know the right length 2-4 for representatives and 1-2 for senators.
Cmd-, opens spotlight preferences while spotlight is open
Won't Amazon and Uber Eats step in to fill that gap? I sadly worry that technology will fill in the holes. When reading the article I was thinking to myself: "what if people who lived there could pool their collective cooking skills and offer up meals to their neighbors (letting their neighbors skip cooking, a need previously filled by local restaurants)."
> If heavy metals get through whatever food testing is done by the FDA

About that...

> In addition, the limited testing the FDA has done on spices has been focused on harmful bacteria, such as salmonella, not heavy metals, Ronholm says.
Hi HN!

I have worked on UXWizz (formerly userTrack) for the past 9 years to provide a way for individuals and web development agencies to get a varied suite of web/product analytics tools while maintaining data privacy by focusing solely on the self-hosted aspect. I know that recently many "privacy-friendly" analytics showed up, but few of those are self-hosted (truly private) and even fewer offer more than basic stats.

My broader goal with the project for the next year is to create various auxiliary tools (setup, backup, monitoring) to make self-hosting even easier that it is and accessible for non-technical people. I hope to be able to provide those auxiliary self-hosting tools available to be used in other projects too.

The pricing/licensing of the product is also something a bit uncommon, I decided to sell it as a lifetime license but with paid updates (to ensure project sustainability). Before you ask: I did consider open-sourcing the project, but after thinking about this for years I decided that this pricing method is the best way to make UXWizz as useful as possible. If you want something open-source, I know Matomo is a similar alternative (I never used it, so I can't attest how good it is), but many of their features are still behind a pay wall or only available in their cloud version.

Demo: https://dashboard.uxwizz.com/server/demoLogin.php

Features list: https://www.uxwizz.com/features

Docs: https://docs.uxwizz.com/

I am more than happy to answer any questions or to hear any remarks/things that I could improve!

Cristian
Those two things are in no way comparable.
legibility in bright lights of e-ink seems better than on glossy glass tablets?
Likewise - that's a mistake you'll only make once!
What I had read was that Cosmo used Mediatek, who was hostile to openness.
Ketchup is non-Newtonian (shear thinning) as is corn starch suspension (shear thickening).

Non-Newtonian liquids aren't rare. In fact, if we consider pure water to be a Newtonian fluid just about every fluid in nature is non-Newtonian.
Somehow this is connected to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367649
I had never thought of this until that thread, but our writing of numbers comes from Arabic, and Arabic is written from right to left. And from our western perspective numbers in Arabic being written left to right is backwards. But in fact, it's us who are backwards: Arabic is written from right to left, and numbers too... from the least significant to the most significant. But we took the numbers from Arabic and kept their left-to-right order and now write them from MSD to LSD...
> I remember the start when folks wiped down delivered groceries. Even isolated them for a few days.

I still isolate groceries for at least 6 hours, delivered or not. Still clean my hands or wear a glove when I touch something outside.

I haven't got sick since Covid appeared. I used to have pretty severe nasal allergies (or so doctors told me) at least once a month, I haven't had one episode since early 2020. This is a life-changer for me.

Same thing for the usual minor health issues such as cold, cough, sore throat. All gone.

So I keep my Covid routine, probably even if Covid goes away, it's not that much of an effort and the results have been spectacular.
I'm always interested in other alternate Internets. If you're feeling over the existing web there's always Gemini or DAT to conjure up those warm fuzzies of the early net.

- https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
- https://beakerbrowser.com/
If Prohibition could be passed in the USA, anything can be passed through the Convention IMO.
Over 3000 tons of maple syrup stolen. This is the craziest heist I have come across.
That's very nice. I really ought to make the switch to KDE, at least for a while to see what else I might be missing.
no buddy your idea sounds like unlimited vacation days, it is worse than the original method
Breakthroughs – Locally Testable Codes with Constant Rate, Distance, Locality
> 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!

Right, so don't do that. But, desktop and mobile are different platforms with different input devices, and designers should make use of both to create the best experience for users. There are certainly tradeoffs in terms of cost to implement versus value for users, and if the argument is "it will simply cost us too much money to implement tooltips" then I suppose that's up to the product manager or equivalent. But, "we can't have tooltips on desktop because the mobile version doesn't support them" is a non sequitor. If a UX person gave that as a reason, I'd have some questions for them.
"...You can install a blank disk in your Mac..."

Wat ?
So make empty houses (and AirBnB's) illegal (aka super taxed out the wazzoo). The people that live in a place should be able to say what they do and do not want in their town.
Houston is one of the most diverse cities in the US.
Some, you know, _actual benchmarks_ might be nice too. The claims are certainly possible, but somewhat hollow without evidence...
Thank you! Very helpful and as I read my experiences come alive.
At GaTech there was a professor whose research included a suspension that could stop bullets. The idea was to make flexible body armor.

It worked in the lab, but there was a problem keeping the suspension mixed
> My car has the same horsepower (or luggage space, or windshield size, or more seats, etc.) as a Porsche.

We agree.

Porsche and Apple base offers are overpriced, for what they actually offer.

A 959 pearl white it's one thing, but a Macan?

in this particular case the M1 is not comparable to a Porsche, but more to a luxury hotel that has a very tiny bathroom or a limit of one cup of coffee at breakfast.

When you consciously spend the kind of money a Mac costs, you really expect the best the money can buy.

> You may prefer Dell, and many people obviously do

You got it backwards though.

16gb of maximum RAM for a laptop in 2021 doesn't even match the Dell offering...

Imagine if the afore mentioned Porsche had a limiter that let you use only 50% of the accelerating power, unless you buy the more expensive "pro" model.
That is basically the same car, only with the limiter removed.

Anyway, nobody said anything on the ability Apple to make money, probably it says more on the people who buy macs than on Apple itself

The article simply says that the best laptop in the market can't have 16gb of maximum available RAM.
Which is true.
If you can "participate" in your "medicine" "without ingestion", then it ain't medicine.

Plants also don't have consciousness. Whoever told you that they do was lying to you.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-020-01579-w
Call centers and oncall are different. Oncall is "when Facebook suddenly stops working, who is responsible for figuring out why and fixing it". These systems often have SLAs (either internal or public) in minutes. Response (ack and log on) times for these can be 30 minutes for less relevant services, but some have 15, or even 1-5 minute response times for highly critical stuff.
x86 at least has movbe instructions these days for byte swapping loads/stores, so it's not the worse thing in the world.
What dodgy source? The torrentfreak article is just a rehash of the peer reviewed one, not the source.

The European Commission ordered a study on piracy, and not liking the conclusion hid its results for two years. It was only discovered when a part that did show that some piracy hurts sales was quoted, allowing people to dig into the full report and finding that piracy helped games, was neutral on books and music, and was bad for movies:

https://www.newsweek.com/secret-piracy-study-european-union-...
Surely not having to pay is wven more comfortable
I really love this idea, but it seems like on macOS, you can't use the left/right arrows to skip forward/backward. I did some testing and this appears to be a limitation of the HTML5 video player implemented in Safari, but it would be amazing if this functionality was added (along with other keyboard shortcuts).
He makes some other good points too though about not being able to see speeds that high and them being classified.

It is a cool story though, kinda hope it's true but it does sound a bit too epic to be true.
Amen.

As a music producer I've joined countless forums, FB groups, and game dev communities and not a single one of them has created any meaningful connections online for me. My own web site has done a far better job at connecting me with people that are really doing meaningful and motivated things in music, film, and game dev.

Because many of these communities turn into a competition for attention (even with the host site itself) and scams are rampant, I've backed off of doing anything but just posting my work without any calls to action at all. Business and my audience have been a lot less spammy and more focused since I pivoted to just posting my music without as much text as before.
I don't own a second home, for the record. I do think it would be difficult and have second order effects to ban AirBnB.

But, what about a tax on vacancies, rather than on revenue you get when renting it out? Incentivize people to keep their places filled?

I agree with the general sentiment that AirBnB has altered housing options for low income people for the worse. And, it seems inevitable.

Maybe we need to alter our perceptions of what housing is for people as well? Meaning, people need to start thinking of housing as temporary and governments can force people to open their vacancies to people in need of housing.

Perhaps a new law that makes it so empty vacant houses are available to house-less people? That would be interesting.
> If you are on the left, imagine the new constitution specifically forbidding abortion.

> If you are on the right, imagine it specifically forbidding private gun ownership.

What if it became a 3/5s compromise sort of deal? No more fights over guns (we get to keep ‘em) and no more fights over abortion (women decide). We have that sort of today, but what if it were specifically enshrined as a formal recognition that each side got something it wanted, rather than the current state where both sides are doing something the other side wants to compel them to stop.

Or even weirder thought experiment, what if both sides did a compromise that flipped both. “We’ll turn in all our guns if you have the babies”.

I’m not advocating either position. I just find the thought experiment of a Great Compromise around two issues like this interesting to ponder through.
Boats are tough. I have to bring my sailboat under two draw bridges each winter. It is always a little too exciting, especially if you are unlucky enough to get stuck between the bridges which are really close together!
No because it would couple the impact’s energy over a (much) larger area.
The arbiter of what someone's intentions were is that person. Who else would know what they are thinking inside their own head? People do not owe you an apology because you misinterpret their intentions. In fact, if you accuse someone of bad intentions where there were none, basic decency would suggest that the accuser is the one who owes an apology.

Of course, it's possible that someone lies about what their intentions are, in which case, sure demand an apology all you want. But it's not likely to be fruitful to continue interacting with someone who's deliberately trolling you.
Similar to what others have said try design technologist or front end engineer at Amazon/AWS. UX Designers do a little bit of development work, but more along the lines of functional wireframes from what Ive seen. Happy to make an internal referral or put you in touch with someone in the role if you want to chat. To echo others a lot of the amazon experience is based on org or team, but internal transfers are EZ after 30 days so its low risk IMO.

Im a principal at AWS whos worked across a few areas over the years.
I take issue with everything about nespresso machines. The quality/convenience is not worth the disgusting level of waste.

Is the coffee fine? Yes its fine, its not great but man are those machines so incredibly wasteful.
A Large Numbers Coincidence
It's still the weekend wherever you are if it's Saturday in North America
I love Hack! Thank you for all your work on this app. I bought it a couple years ago now.
Hard Drive? The world has moved to solid state, no wonder he is struggling!
On the other hand, modern countries who once used the US Constitution as a starting point for their own version no longer do, because ours is stuck two centuries back and there is no reason to believe we have the ability to change that.
> I put a couple Protecs on my luggage as tamper evidence devices so the TSA has to call me when they need to search it.

Does the TSA no longer open those locks with a grinder/bolt cutter?
Great idea, but it seems it does not work for basic static sites like those generated by SvelteKit (http://svekyll.com generated this site: https://webiphany.com). That's too bad.
Try the Amazon Music app (the non-unlimited version) and you'll find Shopify a masterwork of user-friendliness.
2 more weeks to flatten the curve
It’s a shame the board game really isn’t very fun to play at all. It’s such a thoughtful and faithful adaptation of a great video gams, but ends up being just a complex, stressful slog.
I don't think your view is representative of "Asia", or even Japan. Housing in Japan is by world standards extremely affordable and generally depreciates in value instead of appreciating, making it a terrible investment. If your town is "somewhat severely aged", that means the youth have already made the call to head for the cities and it's lack of jobs, not lack of affordable property, that's driving that. There are a couple of foreign-investor hotspot blips like newly trendy ski town Niseko, but for the vast majority of the country, prices are down, down, down. Many rural towns are now handing out essentially free houses because they've been abandoned (akiya), although the costs of renovating them into something livable are often considerable.
I do not desire to be beheaded. I do not derive pleasure from seeing others be beheaded. However, being beheaded is sometimes a part of the human experience. The world is a place that contains beheadings. It simply is.

The internet, in the absence of external manipulation, will tend to contain the whole world within it, including everything dark or unpleasant.
I want the internet to be a force for authenticity and disintermediation. I want it to be wild and anarchic and beautiful and dangerous. If that means I see a beheading occasionally, so be it.
The WHO is seeking a new treaty on handling future pandemics
"These days"? Hooking oncontextmenu and similar events to prevent copy/paste was a common technique in the 1990s and early 2000s. It's largely passed out of usage nowadays, as everyone's realized how ineffective it is.
Covid is actively being stopped from evolving however because of vaccines and because, you know, we don't just let infected people die. Deaths are usually in people with preexisting conditions. In this context , why will the virus evolve a milder version? It seems strict isolation of the infected might help
FWIW the original definition of "fuck you money" was enough money to be able to say "fuck you" to anyone, which I conservatively estimate at a few billion, but most likely more than that.

It seems these days to just mean "multiple millions", which reduces the utility of the term.
> If an organization thinks their systems should be available 24x7 they should staff people 24x7.

This is hard to do well. Ideally, you need an eng culture where things are well-documented and product development is regularly handed off between multiple time zones. Otherwise, what happens is that you just end up with product development happening in one time zone and an SRE or Ops team getting screwed over by changes they don't understand.
8880 Super Car (2010)
How hard is it for a program to disable UWF or write directly to the "immutable" partition? Is it still a single UAC popup away (or untrusted command in an admin terminal)?
I don’t really agree. All parties monitor the flow of preferences very carefully and this is an important means for the electorate to signal the need for change. Plus, not voting is not the same as voting differently.

We are also witnessing a significant shift to minor and independent parties, as voters are apparently becoming less affiliated with specific parties over time. Most people I know consider their vote carefully, even if they don’t vote the way I do.

In any case, while the Australian system is far from perfect, it does lend greater legitimacy to the incumbent government, and has the effect that if the government you personally voted for does something you don’t like, next time you’re more likely to vote differently.