skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other incentives than financial. A lot is based on group identity - many people have no idea about vaccines, pros or cons, and just follow what someone they respect says. If you don't have the same recommendation as their 'guru', you're either an industry shill or a conspiracy theorist depending on which way it goes.
Edited to preface: I'm not a lawyer, I'm mostly paraphrasing and translating the source below.

There are three cases where you can publish[1] a photo without consent:

- Person of special public interest (literally: person of contemporary history, this is an idiomatic term and sounds less strange in German), which means you can take a picture of a politician holding a speech or an artist doing a public performance or a CEO addressing employees. Important exception for professionals, but there are various rules one needs to be aware of, for instance you probably cannot take a photo of the same CEO buying new shoes or eating dinner at a restaurant.

- The photograph does not primarily depict the person. Your landscape photo would be fine, for example, and your street scene may or may not be. Apparently the test criterion is: is the picture materially changed if the person is removed? So a photo of a beach landscape is permissible, but not so much if there's people bathing in the foreground.

- The photo is of a public gathering: a public concert, a political rally, though this only applies if it's a photo of the gathering as a whole, and not specifically an individual in it.

So, yes, in the end it is a bit of a case of "I can't define it, but I know it when I see it". In practice, you just err on the side of caution, and it works out fine. E.g. I don't really worry about if when I take a photo of a friend outside and there's a few people in the background (due to rule #2).

Source (German): https://www.medienrecht-urheberrecht.de/fotorecht-bildrecht/...

[1] I'm not sure how the law handles the case of merely taking a photo and never publishing it, nor what exactly constitutes publishing, e.g. presumably showing holiday snaps at a family gathering does not constitute publishing
The social credit score (as most Westerners think of it) is a complete myth.

One of the top American experts on Chinese law, at Yale university, calls most Western reporting on the subject "social credit fan fiction."

There are various"social credit" systems in China, but the average person does not interact with them. They mostly exist to regulate businesses.

Individuals in China do not have a social credit score, and basically the only way to actually fall afoul of any social credit system is to break an existing law, and then fail to comply with a court order. Then, you might end up being barred from flying or buying a train ticket. But the idea that there's a number attached to every Chinese person that is constantly going up or down based on how they post online is just complete fiction.

As for "moral relativism," we really should not get into a petty, nationalist match about which country is worse than the other. The US has its own fair share of (arguably way worse) atrocities to answer for (see the entire Middle East over the last 20 years).
Maybe Pfizer should go back to the drawing board though.

The vaccines (on the U.S. market, at least) were never promoted as providing complete protection from Covid. It was about preventing serious illness and keeping people out of the hospital. As others have pointed out, they have been largely successful in those goals.

I'm not claiming the vaccines are perfect, but I think a large part of the population was under the impression that these vaccines were some sort of silver bullet that would end the virus in a few short months.

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It is an anecdote, not data. Simple math: if Pfizer says their vaccine is 90% effective at preventing severe disease then 10% of people are at risk of getting severe disease. Not everybody catches COVID (masks, distancing, etc. do reduce the risk significantly, it seems), so say that’s another 90% reduction for each. That means that 1 in 1000 people you talk to will get severe COVID even when fully vaccinated.

Keep in mind that the person you are replying to is here to tell the tale. It is unclear what the vaccine did or did not do but if I was in their shoes I would certainly be glad that I wasn’t facing that infection unvaccinated. That could very well have been the difference between severe and deadly COVID. The effectiveness numbers have been always quoted as against severe illness but I would much prefer to focus on effectiveness against hospitalization and death. It seems that all three vaccines authorized/approved in the US are effective against these two outcomes, more so than merely protecting against a severe case.

Also keep in mind that what a random stranger describes on the internet as “severe” could mean a variety of things. I have had some severe colds. I haven’t had one since the pandemic started due to social distancing and masks. Don’t panic. Get your shots (booster included) and keep an eye on the data.
I guess that’s useful for the crypto crowd who spend their entire day shilling on Twitter then. ;-)
>My patience

Well, that's you. People are different. For some people it is easier to read a thread than a blog post that might be poorly formatted too.
So impeding the speech of two people is a better outcome than impeding the speech of none? I don't get it.

>the situation in America where everyone is a fucking edgelord in their spare time

So don't read them, as easy as that.
His whole argument more or less hinges on the fact that the 3 services he picked only had AWS, GCP and Azure as options, and hence the big 3 are content to defend their market position. But that's not a done deal as things can change on a dime and the cloud vendors are being vigilant. Their 50-60% margin will be spent on developing more lock-in.

On one side you have Cloudflare. Cloudflare is the Apple of cloud. They're gunning for the big 3 by vertical integration and proprietary products and hence changing the way the market operates.

On the other side you have up-and-coming IAAS and MAAS providers chipping away at the margins. These are either commodity providers that cut the fat, or owners of DC and/or connectivity so has the synergy to undercut the cloud platforms. This plays into the open platform push such as cloud native / kubernetes.

It's almost certain that the cloud providers will lose marketshare in the IAAS space as they simply can't compete on cost. Regulation is also going to catch up to prevent cloud lock-in. So the only play these platforms have is to fight on scale and features which means continuous expansion on all fronts, including higher-level services.
> This is a big point for companies that are worried about running current Nix (which is fairly easy to segfault) on production machines as root.

Oh wow, wait till they find out what language the OS on their production machine is written in!
Seems like in the West we allow ourselves has a lot of "special cases". Maybe too many to bring to mind.
IMO fundamentals win long term, but I also think that company being hyped is often a self-fulfilling prophecy: they suddenly get crazy amounts of capital for free when they stock is high which they can use to for securing loans, transactions, salaries etc. to grow bigger and faster.
> This might happen, but Cloud vendors will fight tooth and nail to stop it from happening,

They are failing badly IMO. Most developers I know hate the whole experience of using AWS.

I can't complain much as I make good money by understanding their shit so others don't have to.

That said, I always find amazing how one of the largest companies in the world does not a have a UI with happy paths for simple common cases.

Most services are a hot mess of IAM, weird APIs, undocumented limitations and gotchas.
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Could you source that opinion? I’ve seen the exact opposite viewpoint propagating.
If my plants ever stop photosynethizing you best believe they're getting a beating
Wow! Compare this to Hollywood, always telling us how to think and behave but otherwise happy to turn a blind eye on Uighyrs etc if they can sell a few more tickets.
It's worth thinking about this in terms of the snowball metaphor.

What's the smallest/simplest/fastest version of your thing you can build that demonstrates that (a) you can make the thing work, and (b) people will pay for it?

Do that, then find customers who will commit to purchase, or investors who know enough about your space that they'll back you to keep working on it.

For hardware manufacturing in the consumer space, pre-orders (Kickstarter etc) are an ideal way to raise funds and prove demand.

For enterprise, you can get pre-commitments to purchase from customers, contingent on the concept working. E.g., Boom Aero came up with a design, then lined up purchase commitments from major airlines, then were able to use that to fundraise to get them through development. The incentive for the airline to commit to purchase is that they will be the first to have your product when it's ready.

For large-scale energy or telecoms innovation, you could build relationships with utilities companies, government bodies, etc - offer them priority access to your technology in exchange for purchase commitments backed by pre-payments or grants, which can then justify private investment.
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Just because there might be a grey area doesn't mean it's arbitrary.

99% of cases are going to be pretty clear.
Elasticsearch's cloud offering is a hot mess, didn't have a lot of confidence in how it was provisioned. We did a bake-off between ES Cloud, AWS Opensearch, and hosting our own cluster on AWS and the winner was... hosting our own (all things being equal we'd much rather go PaaS.) AWS Opensearch would have won out had it supported plugins which I understand they are working on.
I've no resolved this issue in the same way that other similar products do; I have added a "are you sure you want to read this" screen.

Problem resolved :-)
Batman cannot exist in the real world; Batman has to be a fiction. Lack of money is not.

I worked in the company where the owner set up something relatively mathematically trivial and burnt through £500,000 before he started to make a profit. He was born into wealth. I am several thousand pounds in debt to try to develop something which is far more technically sophisticated and generally useful to DB devs (may do a show HN), but getting anybody to notice it is difficult. Just developing it as I go deeper in debt is very difficult.

I tried to use it as a way of getting a job -- "please look at my project, it's neat!". The response? Hard to say, because nobody has asked me to demo it.

Not having easy, sufficient cash makes things incredibly hard. I'm talking from experience. I very much doubt you are.
> It could be life changing for them.

Sure, if it were fairly enforced, it might. But do we trust Twitter to fairly enforce it? Do they have a transparent, accountable process, with the right to appeal? Do they have a trustworthy track record for making fair decisons?
I've successfully used Microtik hardware, but they are pushing for their own non-free software stack (RouterOS) and while they support pfSense, it seems pfSense itself has some shady practices. OPNSense only works on x86 so far and Microtik hardware is mostly ARM.

I'd personally be interested in a hardware vendor supporting a free-software stack (but with an accessible price range), or an established software vendor (ideally a workers coop) maintaining an administration dashboard to setup on commodity hardware.
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In Croatia, the owner of the vehicle is responsible to identify the person driving. Otherwise, he pays a fixed fine.
Create a shortcut to firefox using the command

firefox -P

whenever you launch it you'll be presented with a dialog to pick a profile or create a new one.
> all the organizational effort.

Musicbrainz Picard helps a lot with that.
In fact, the way I read the chart, it rather proves that mask mandate were ineffective as there was no inflection point following the introduction of the mandate. Instead the two curves remained pretty much parallel, suggesting the evolution wasn't related to masks.
> Torrenting can cause a fragmenting issue...

It can, but the clients I use(d) had an option like 'preallocate space', or similar. Then it doesn't, at least not as much.
Here's one example: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001057625611.html
It says a lot that these articles are always quantified in dollars.
Let me guess now the US can take and interfere under the banner of "human right" because those global south savages can't manage their lands.
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I expected `A(x, y) = x * y + x`, in line with standard mathematical function notation.
It's been years since I had one, and when I did it was plain, static html only. So I don't have any personal recommendations.

But in case you weren't aware, there is a subreddit for startpages (because, of course there is), you might find some inspiration and ideas there:

https://old.reddit.com/r/startpages/
You may have missed the nuance between wanting to live in a state like China, and not boycotting all business with people from China.

In fact, people in China will likely reach the boiling point sooner if their economic "advantage" of lower salaries and cheaper production are brought to a level of their Western counterparts faster (which means, doing business with Chinese people).

Boycotting will do nothing to help them. Accepting them and letting them experience the benefits of a freer society will introduce more dissenting voices.

As for what world we live in, it's pretty much like that even in modern democracies (other than disappearing people, but they usually end up self-censoring or committing suicide themselves when the pressure from media is too high).
Bitcoin exists and hasn't left millions in abject poverty yet.

Maybe you are the one who is clueless?

Are there even any examples of deflation ruining things, apart from Krugman's babysitting exchange? I don't think we should hinge the faith of nations on that one story, which may as well have many other explanations besides the deflation theory.

You don't even know if BTC would increase by 10000% in 5 years, if the nation would run on it.

Also new currencies have been created a lot of times in the past, technically their value would also have been increasing by 10000% over night.

Economists have lots of different opinions, you can not simply appeal to "economists say x". There are economists advocating socialism and economists advocating capitalism, for example. There are even economists advocating Bitcoin.
Aruba Instant On. (It's owned by HP) The name is bit misleading though. Especially the first time it can take quite some time for devices to be fully updated and manageable.

Regarding support wise: I've had one malfunctioning switch (POE just stopped working) and it was replaced within 24 hours, so that's nice.
YC's stake is 7% (perhaps give or take 1-2% depending on the conditions at the time).

Good early-stage investors, especially YC, are experienced enough to know better than to damage the company's future prospects by screwing the cap table through taking too large a stake in the early stages. And now they have their Continuity fund and other programs to help growing companies, they'll work with the company to ensure that their fundraising strategy is optimal for the long term.
I think the biggest issue with cookie tin cans is that they usually don't close all the way around, because the lid or the box is always slightly oval and not round (they always "stick" just in two or three spots when opening), so it looks like there's a small gap around half the circumference long - far bigger than the wavelengths in question.

Square tin can works better because those seem to usually scratch on the corners. The smallest square tin can you can find should work best. A tin can sealed with adhesive cooper tape should work pretty well even if the copper tape is isolated by the paint on the can.
KatLang parser is executed as Blazor webassembly app on client side, therefore your entered KatLang code is not sent to the server. But I agree, it needs https, especially when KatLang supports operators like 'load' which can load KatLang code from other sources. Loading part is inspired from Prolog predicate consult.
Ok, I just had a quick look on the go. If 5 different fonts (families I suppose) are used it's definitely a red flag. Interesting on their side, then, to go such a route.
Onagers do not have slings.
PoW is an awful use of energy with close-to-zero wealth created. Wealth in the original sense of the word.

I see them as transferrable autographs, and would be down to own even small shares of my favourite artists' work, but their energy usage is untenable.
Removing capitalism doesn't have a great track record. Maybe the problem is more fundamental than capitalism.
+1 on frequency and consistency.. it's all about area under the curve. Even just doing a set of pushups before showering every day makes a huge difference vs. nothing at all.

Also worth internalizing: "diet determines size, exercise determines shape"
> We will understand that those people are the ONLY ones that stepped up to the task over 50 years to write this kind of software, organize standards bodies for their languages and platforms, get their software packaged as part of mainstream operating systems and out into the world, deal with patches from users, and help millions of other people make a living, enable the internet to happen, etc.

While my comment was written to be respectful, yours clearly wasn't. I'll politely point you Niklaus Wirth's work on Oberon as just one example of a giant blind spot in the popular consciousness. Once you learn a bit more about the many, many other systems that were built over the years, you can stop spreading a false narrative of heroism and supremacy.

> The answer will be: these people aren't doers - they are talkers.

Ok, now I am thoroughly done with your comment. Niklaus Wirth was anything but a "talker". Look what was built with Oberon and tell us more about how he was a "talker".

It's OK to not know things. But striking out in profound ignorance is completely unnecessary.
While I agree with your statement wholeheartedly, it's not as though milennials aren't any less emotionally stunted. A generation of latch-key kids, and absentee parents, has led to this.

But to the point of the article, zoom university fucking sucks.
For the record, it's not the anti-Rust sentiment which people find annoying, it's the treatment of programming languages as though they were football teams.

If you want to make a case against Rust, then let's get concrete: why is one Turing-complete compiled language that can make arbitrary syscalls not capable of compiling down to the same assembly as another?

That would be an interesting discussion; this is not.
Pumping crypto!
Nah, it's clear eusocial species are more fit. Soon comrades in China will engineer a better human, incapable of dissent, working tirelessly for the glory of the Party. This man will rapidly outcompete the silly mono-animal organisms and nation-state slime molds and usher in a great era of eternal harmony.
> Switch to other engines. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search are the ones I trust, and there's tons more.

This feels important to me, and at this point it actually feels like we have more choice than we have had in 15 years and we have a chance to change history.

If you are one of the many who have noticed that Google has declined in recent years you can start by just changing to DDG, or even Bing as default. (Use Google as fallback if you want and see if you realize the same as me: their results are just as broken. If you don't, you can consider yourself lucky for now and go back to Google, but at least keep this in mind as they start heating your frog pot as well ;-).

Do experiment with alternative engines: Kagi seems close to production ready now and search.marginalia.nu is just a delightful tour de force as to what can be done by a determined person!
Snowflake legit has some features Redshift doesn't, the killer one IMO being auto scaling for computing resources. That is really awesome for infrequent workloads.

Last week AWS uncovered Redshift Serverless, but still on technical preview.

Another point, Snowflake is just easier to use. I've seen young developers who knew a bit of database stuff setup and play with it with little help.

Redshift on the other hand is much more entrenched in the whole AWS mess and requires one to understand shit like VPCs, security groups, IAM, cloud watch, etc....
> if you introduce multiple theme, you are now responsible for ensuring that your content works in all themes.

Sounds like a good way to get people to never introduce multiple themes.
The law in question only concerns itself with publishing. It has accounted for the case you mention: It is explicitly allowed to publish photos that include people which have wandered into frame by chance and the main focus is some locality and not the person in question.
Most legal fictions can effectively be regarded a scam, if enough people don't buy into it(and by those who don't buy into it).

MtGox & Bitfinex & the Satoshi mystery should have been enough to end cryptocurrency's future as a security instrument. They weren't. There's more than 1 fool born every minute, I suppose.
I've always liked "left and metric left".
The simplest test you can make to verify that the microwave oven & biscuit tin can are good Faraday cages is to put your phone in one and try to call it - every time I did that in the past they failed to function as a Faraday cage.

Edit: clarification.
> censorship and persecution of the victims.

Having her "disappeared" by the government is a step far beyond what usually happens in the West, but suppression of the victims in some way is still an extremely big problem and is what the whole "#metoo" movement was about.
> life is much better net than it was under Bubonic Plague

With all due respect, that's whataboutism. Life is much better than it would be under Ebola, too, but the issue here is that overall quality of life has deteriorated for most humans over the last two years due to the restrictions and interventions related to Covid-19.

> Life in the UK, where vaccination rates are very high, is pretty much normal.

In the UK, but also in many other previously liberal democracies the following are happening at present:

- Freedom of association and freedom of assembly are being made conditional or removed.

- Freedom to travel is being made conditional or removed.

- Freedom to just take part in daily life, e.g. go shopping is being made conditional.

- Freedom to protest is being reduced or removed.

The rule sets under which all this is happening are capricious, changing frequently, based on mostly political considerations with only a sprinkling of scientific reasoning. This removes agency from each of us.

Whether one becomes subject to a restrictive rule by the accident of becoming infected is mostly outside the control of any one person. So this, too, removes agency from each of us.

I see entire countries descending into learned helplessness, while political elites flout the rules they make for others and exploit the urgency of procurement caused by the pandemic to enrich themselves.

This is not a world I want to live in. Improved acceptability of WFH doesn't come close to compensating for all the above.
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