skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, I apologize for reading that into your comment. The difference is that COVID is far more deadly than the flu and often requires intensive care, so the impact on families who lose family members as well as the health-care system as a whole is completely different. That's why I think that there's a stronger case to be made that getting vaccinated and wearing masks is a social responsibility. If everyone was vaccinated, then maybe it would actually be "just like the flu", but unfortunately we never got there.
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Particulates are bad, so while a mask outdoors may not matter for pandemic, it may be more than absolutely pointless.
Yes, it is complicated. And that is why you need the lawyer.
I thought the general consensus was that it doesn’t reduce your chance of infecting others much if you’re infected, but that it dramatically reduces the severity of your symptoms, and thus the load on the healthcare system, whereas non-n95 masks do little to protect you, but they’re effective in reducing the risk you infect others?
It's a shame the Linux is still "not there" to be a good replacement for Windows. I keep trying but having stupid issues all time, like my laptop is identified as a mobile device when connected to a Bluetooth multipoint headset so I can't connect to my phone and laptop in the same time :(
Scaling is awful and unfortunately simply there are no good drivers for certain hardware.

Windows 11 is awful, I went back to 10 within a week - screen flickering, stupid scrolling issues etc.
No way that works in Germany, pre existing conditions are not a thing in public insurance. And don't want people to suffer because of this. We are having de facto triage already so, and any vaccination mandates wont come before March, so again min. 3 months to get people vaccinated afterwards. Well, at least the Stiko (the German body recommending vaccines) realized that their decisions were too late. Let's see if that changes now.
You don't understand the enemy they are really fighting with. Social media is a challenge to the power of the legacy media in the US, and misinformation is their job (e.g. Iraq WMD's and Russiagate), damn it! These companies that wield social and political power in the US and their representatives in congress are fighting to weaken social media's legal liability shield for user generated content (forcing them to censor more) in order to preserve their dominance in the information marketplace. Social media companies are taking steps to crack down on this in order to head off this regulation. They don't give a shit about other countries because the legacy US media that are behind this don't serve that market, and by extension, don't care. And their default position is to just let anything go, because that is cheaper and drives engagement.
I left the company I was part-timing at because after college I realized I was the smartest one in the room; my boss thought some of the code I wrote was "brilliant" and for this reason did not let me improve/fix any of it, which led to the company shipping a broken product to some very annoyed customers.

If you are ever managing someone who is "your best employee" and they want to do something you think is useless, please ask them why and what the expected results will be. Also when you get that data, listen a little? If priorities clash do a balancing act: "If you can do X in Y time, do it. But if day D comes along, switch over to my priority".
I don't want to go back to the office
Apparently not: "Small Faraday cages with no conductors penetrating the shield do NOT need to be grounded."
You will still have to deal with outages (even if probably at a much lower rate). Just today I got a confirmation from AWS that the 1h outage that our production, multi-AZ RDS database suffered *three months ago* was due to an underlying failure in their storage subsystem. I didn't have to fix any SAN or fiber issue, true, but I lost hours puzzling and debugging things to understand why it failed, with no good answer (until today).
Omicron ‘astonishing to behold,’ says Hanage
At least it's a different set of biases from the usual ones in the us. It's more obvious what's missing.
This brings back memories of their 1990s shenanigans. I guess expecting ethical behaviour from them was always a pipe dream.
yandex is my go to now.
> Be careful what you are arguing that these trials show: whether masks, when worn properly, work, or whether mask mandates work.

The RCTs have been for masks themselves, not for mandates (this gets a little complicated because of compliance and intention-to-treat analysis, but it's basically true; the researchers were testing masks themselves, not rules surrounding masks). If the masks don't have strong evidence, I don't expect mandates to make the situation better.
Breaking Addons to be more compliant with a standard between other browsers - making things like TabTreeStyles not work.

Putting ads in the address bar: https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/7/22715179/firefox-suggest-...

Recording what you type in the address bar: https://today.in-24.com/technology/450296.html

Putting ads on the New Tab Page: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/31/firefox-with-ads-on-new-ta...

Randomly installing Addons for people: https://itsfoss.com/firefox-looking-glass-controversy/

Some times installing addons without permission to promote TV Shows: https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-slipped-a-mr-robot-promo-plugin-...

They last 5-6 years, Mozilla has made a number of baffling decisions. And most of their advancements just seem to be very 'me too, me too!' as they chase design decisions made by Google.
It’s because memory is generally byte addressable. The byte is the smallest chunk of data CPUs can index from memory. So endianness comes from how you order the bytes when accessing memory.

When dealing with low level hardware protocols bit endianness does become a thing.
I also use DDG by default. I only rarely go to google and more than half the time when I do, Google's results are no better. I find that usually adjusting my DDG query is more effective than trying Google.
Your comment perfectly illustrates the concerns that those of us who resisted mask mandates from the beginning hold.

From your comment I can infer that when you observe a person not wearing a mask, you make an immediate assumption about their political ideology.

I believe that this was the main purpose of mask mandates, not public health.
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I never disputed that vaccines mitigate effect of the virus. It's clear that they do, which will limit hospitalizations.

I am disputing that lockdowns have led to any discernable difference in outcomes over the long run in regards to case counts.

New Zealand may be the special case where they were able to actually completely halt inbound travel. But obviously their situation doesn't generalize.
Another thing about masks is that they're specially effective if the infected person is wearing one. Even if it's not perfect, it reduces the number of droplets and the distance the virus can travel.
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Can't agree more. I want products to be completed. I hate this constant change "because we have these people working full time and they need to be doing something to justify being paid". I want tools that empower me. I don't want a "service" bundled with everything either. I want products that don't need any form of ongoing support.

IMO modern mainstream operating systems are also a good example of this. An operating system has basically three jobs: abstract the hardware from application software, provide libraries for commonly used functions, like GUIs, and provide the user with some kind of environment/shell to run their applications in. But somehow, this shitshow of an industry has converged on needing to release a major update every year. Imagine being forced to come up with new features for, and release a major update of, a feature-complete product every time the planet completes a lap around its star just because the marketing department exists and demands that it so happens because reasons. Oh, and what if you run out of feature ideas? Then of course you redesign the UI! UI redesigns never get old.
Here you go:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/update...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/update...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...

and numerous others.

Why does it happen? I have no idea, and probably Microsoft doesn't either. Nevertheless, it means the update process is broken. After such a case you may feel like you have the alternative of either running unsecure system or losing your data, so you may even consider the first option. Except you can't unless you pay for the Enterprise version.
They claimed Rittenhouse shot someone who had their hands up and showed a picture. This was wrong for at least two reasons. First, they deceptively cropped the gun out of the image. Second, the video they refused to play clearly shows (contrary to the implication) that Grosskreutz wasn't shot until later when he pointed his gun.

Likewise, the videos shown on most media networks were very selectively edited to remove any bits that might hint at self defense.

Very few of the "Kyle is a murderer" crowd have seen the actual full-length, unedited videos of what happened.
There's no such text in the problem - see https://adventofcode.com/2021/day/1. That comment describes the solution, not the problem. The program's output is also annotated; you don't do that if you try to be fast, you already know what the output is gonna mean.
> When we are confident we are not hours away from a nationwide medical emergency

Huh? We've basically never been "hours away" from any sort of national emergency at any time during this pandemic, and that sort of unwarranted catastrophizing is what frustrates so many people.

Heck, my city, like many, does have easily understood, rational criteria for additional recommended interventions based on hospital intake rates. My only objection is that our local authorities have ignored their own criteria frequently by raising a stage level prematurely or by keeping at a high stage weeks and months after hospitalization rates have gone down.
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Logistics is also an issue at the national level. In practice travel bans aren’t completely effective so novel variants like Omicron will slip through national level travel bans outside of tiny island nations.

That isn’t to say slowing things down is useless, nor that quarantines are completely ineffective. It’s just that travel bans tend to have gaps and with a disease it only takes one.
I'm sure there are multiple parties who would love to see SpaceX going under.
Michael Hart's vision was for a future in which computing costs were dramatically lower, access and availability vastly higher. Presentation capabilities of the then-current era were far less a concern.

His goal was to create the digital files themselves, which once they existed in digital form could be endlessly replicated at no cost:

Michael decided there was nothing he could do, in the way of “normal computing,” that would repay the huge value of the computer time he had been given … so he had to create $100,000,000 worth of value in some other manner. An hour and 47 minutes later, he announced that the greatest value created by computers would not be computing, but would be the storage, retrieval, and searching of what was stored in our libraries.

He then proceeded to type in the “Declaration of Independence” and tried to send it to everyone on the networks … which can only be described today as a not so narrow miss at creating an early version of what was later called the “Internet Virus.”

A friendly dissuasion from this yielded the first posting of a document in electronic text, and Project Gutenberg was born as Michael stated that he had “earned” the $100,000,000 because a copy of the Declaration of Independence would eventually be an electronic fixture in the computer libraries of 100,000,000 of the computer users of the future.

In 1971, access would have required mainframe access, either on a line printer or via one of the early CRT-based computer terminals. This Seattle Computer Museum image shows the less-interesting side of the terminal:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/LCM_-_Xe...

(From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series)

Apparently the Tektronix 4010 was used with the SDS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Tektroni...

On an IBM platform (and possibly others), the IBM 2250, first released in 1964:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2250
> you might end up being barred from flying or buying a train ticket

I see. So essentially like an international terrorist on the US no fly list, just for regular people. Like maybe exposing a government official for sexual harassement, getting charged with spreading rumors and failing to comply with being dissapeared?
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> It contains many incantations meant to turn away disease-causing demons and there is also evidence of a long tradition of empiricism.
If forced to chose a location to do business, I have a feeling Hollywood would opt to pack up and relocate to China.

Their leaders don’t see anything other than the number of humans they can get in front of their movies, and 1.4 billion people is a whole lot more than 300ish million.
The recruiter argument against a fixed % is that they should be rewarded for their skill in negotiation.

In other words, let's say market rate for your programming skill is 150/hr. I'm your recruiter, and I make you an offer for 170/hr. You should be ecstatic. But what if you find out that I am billing the client for 1000/hr? Would you still be happy? Probably not - you'd feel you're being robbed, even though you are being paid above the market rate.

So should YOU be rewarded for my ability to negotiate the client's rate to 6x market rate?

I'm not saying this is fair or a good way to do business, but I'm just offering you the recruiter's mindset on this.
They own duck.com and it redirects to their site. They should just adopt "duck.com" as their main brand, which will inevitably get shortened to "Duck" in everyday conversation.

Then we can turn it into a verb. "Go Duck <term>"

They could even capitalize on the famous autocorrect substitutions: "Need an answer? Duck it!"
Why were so many window managers dependent on DOS back then? I get the impression that developers were stuck in a paradigm that using x86 meant the use of some form of DOS as a back-end.

Contrast to today, and there’s a post on HN every other week about implementing some hobby OS.
There is, just turn off Windows Updates.
And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?
Exactly. Like Vista was laying the table for 7.
At least HN would never censor and stop you from posting a video like this right? It sounds like he practiced his response with a team of lawyers and everything said was carefully scripted.
when their refusal to do so in the public sphere endangers others. indeed they do need to justify it.
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I've definitely noticed that my amateurish attempts to learn what biohackers do has given me unexpected insights into memetic warfare. As in biology, memes often have both a vector and a payload - the vector convinces a cell to allow in a foreign body, and the payload tells the cell what to use its resources for once it's being treated as friendly. These two are fairly independent, in biology for example one can remove all genetic information from a viral body (the vector) and replace it with one's own instructions (the payload). I think Dawkins' analogy of memes to genes has turned out to be much richer and predictive than it would have seemed at first, replicating information seems to follow similar dynamics no matter the medium.

To your question, I'm not sure I know the full story but I have a theory. If you're at all familiar with the public intellectual Jordan Peterson, you probably know of his polemics against 'Postmodern Neomarxism'[1]. Given that Peterson is a self-described american pragmatist, which defines truth more similarly to postmodernism than most schools of though, I wondered why he would hold such animosity to a philosophy so similar to his own. Someone did in fact ask him about this a while back. His answer was unfortunately rushed, but if I understood it correctly he believes pragmatism describes truth as 'what is most beneficial to believe' while postmodernism describes truth as 'the winner of a Darwinian conflict against other versions of truth'.

If that is an accurate description, then I think it's quite obvious: messages informed by a postmodern tradition are more 'sticky' because they have been selected for maximum sticky-ness, which is related to the wellbeing of the host but not identical. Competing messages have been selected for maximum benefit to the host, which is related to the ease with which they stick but is not identical.

[1]As an aside: a lot of readers would have had the mental equivalent of an immune response the moment the saw 'Jordan Peterson'. The use of the unflattering descriptor 'polemics' to describe him immediately thereafter is a deliberate attempt to modify the vector so as to convince those readers in particular to allow the message through regardless. Fans of Peterson would of course read on despite this, as they tend to engage in discussions involving him with friendly or unfriendly parties. Note that this use of language only affects the vector with which I delivered my idea, the payload relates to variance in memetic selection and is independent of how it is packaged. This is a very simple example of how I understand memetic warfare working - I hope our memetic immune systems are strengthened by this demonstration.
I suppose the FDA is also supposed to make sure our food isn't leaded?

These agencies seem to test one vector while ignoring everything else. I don't trust them.

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/your-herbs-and-s...
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Reminds me of the vaccine for the flu - where time and time again, I'm told by anti-vaxers that the flu vaccine doesn't work, they got the flu, and were fine.

Lest we forget that the flu killed millions of people a century ago, the vaccine likely reduced the chance you caught it, but still managed to catch the disease, and the reduction in severe symptoms when you get it.

I remember reading every year about someone who refused to vaccinate their kids, and one of the kids died from the flu.

Vaccines don't 100% prevent catching any virus. Especially fast mutating viruses.
Feedback Hub exists and has been useful to me on several occasions.
Why Hotwire in 2021
Can I help you with it just for fun? I'm not an engineer but somehow I'd love to help you! :) I added you on linkedin.
Digitised text is the essence of a book.

Hart's goal wasn't hardware. It was the (compartively) harder task of getting text into digital format.

Written language is highly presentation-independent.
Well I just guessed. So... we arrived at the correct answer through our interaction? :)
South Korea hopes to build sustainable floating city by 2025
And F* shitty Linux users with stupid names, horrid and unsecure desktop, and irrelevant topics.
We built this parallelized fluid simulation for a university course that uses OpenACC to compile for multithreaded CPU / GPU targets. It includes an interactive visual component using SFML that you can play around with.
The same is true for selling poisonous baby milk or wine.
They didn't say anything about "...for Windows." They said the only browser.
Unfortunately true. Microsoft support these days, even the paid support, is a complete trainwreck. We had cause to open 2 separate tickets for two separate issues lately. One of them was clearly a bug, has a community forum issue about it with oodles of data provided, and nearly a month in to the ticket I'm still getting 'try this configuration' style bullshit from some low-level tech. I would expect that for free, but for paid support?

The other issue is being handled by the DBA but it sounds like he's getting a similar treatment.
Planned Parenthood Says Hacker Compromised Information for 400k Patients
"privacy".

Uh huh. This will be applied unevenly. Pics that violate this that support one political cause will be allowed, pics that violate this that support the opposite will be banned.
Meta to mandate two-factor authentication for high-profile users
I think this is a product of the dominant echelon-based corporate culture. People get promoted from above, which typically means they get promoted by making their boss look good. Regardless of how good a job a manager is actually doing, if you can pretend like everything under their purview is an act of brilliance, they'll make sure you stick around.

This is why you end up in meetings with half the comments being about how "awesome" it is that somebody added a search box to a results page...
You can get bare metal instances without a hypervisor on EC2
Really? What does Google deserve when it nags me about switching to chrome whenever I use any of their pages from a browser that's not chrome?
Agreed, that is by far the most likely explanation.

What's interesting about his attempted "save" is that (aside from being pure speculation) it just comes off so... snide.

Basically what he's saying is: "Yeah, we kind of cut corners with those people, but you know what? They forced our hand - first by having lukewarm references, and second, for being so damned emotionally fragile and oversensitive to the implicit criticism of having this hard truth delivered to them."
Controlled CPU predictions, wow. That's a level of performance I've never even contemplated
Being able to see each others’ faces is pretty central to communication.
Lycos.

Bing.
The blog briefly touches on it, but what does the data attribute 'data-text' enable?

I'm kinda confused, I do some data visualization work professionally and I understand how overlay patterns on SVGs work with the 'fill' property and IDs but lost with what the 'content' property is actually doing.

Why is it necessary to replace the h1 text with identical text? What does 'content' enable? It seems unnecessary to replace the text with the same text right?
A guy did that? The news told me an SUV did it and it was an accident. Nothing to see here, move along.
I agree that a lot of browsers call it the "home page" or similar, but I don't think a lot of people call it that, so the term is ambiguous at best. How many people know that their browser has a Start Page (often customizable) and a Home Page (optional, pick a URL) in the first place?

Last time I had one, it was a big collection of work-related links, back when you could fit all the "important" documentation portals for a LAMP stack on one screen. :-)
"Almost as high" is a strange way to put it since its popularity has been dropping steadily over the last decade. And Edge market share is only going up.

Now that Firefox is no longer in the top 3 (in the Western market, further down world-wide), we can expect it to lose relevance even more quickly. Especially since Mozilla leadership has studiously avoided any effort to differentiate themselves from from Google/Chrome. They missed a huge chance to become The Privacy Browser that puts users in control of their web experience when Google and Facebook recently got all that bad press about privacy violations and monopolistic behavior.
Helicopters crash. I would not say routinely. But it's far less safe than a fixed-wing aircraft. There are serious safety issues with tens of thousands of VTOL craft zipping around in a city. You'd have one whacking into the side of an office tower or falling out the sky regularly. It already happens from time to time and we really only use them for medical evacuations and the police here. They're also expensive and hard to maintain.