skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccine is leaky. It doesn’t stop infection or transmission.

No one ever claimed it would, except for the anti-vax crowd. Infection, transmission, and immunity aren't binary, and over 99% of domain specialists are in agreement on that. So why would you open your post with that claim?
"I've convinced myself that this {is, is not} a good idea, now everybody has to agree with because I'm RIGHT!"

I cannot wear a mask, it fucks up my breathing badly. Neither side of the debate has room or time for me or those like me. I stayed out of the neighboring county for most of last year because of their mask mandate.
> Given the factors involved (private ownership of language resources, complex runtime putting minimum requirements on hardware, etc.), C and C++ might be the only two paths of least resistance for a critical era of the software industry.

Maybe! We'll never know. I just don't think that rewriting history to be "C people were doers" is giving any meaningful context to language development, or how much was getting done in languages that were significantly safer.
You're perfectly entitled to think that. You're not entitled to dig up my parents because of those beliefs, and if you do, you will rightly be locked up!
Rust is a memory safe systems programming language. As a systems programming language, it can be used in the same areas that C can (see Redox OS). I've seen quite a few Rust users online that have claimed that, because of that, it can be just as fast as C.
China seems to function pretty well, if that's your metric.
That browser is so 2008! Do you know what’s new? Microsoft Edge.

Newer is not always better... if only Microsoft (and the rest of Big Tech) would go back to 2008 or even earlier, when they were far less controlling.

Browsers detecting specific sites and acting differently on them, unless specifically requested to do so by the user, should be prohibited. Ditto for operating systems detecting specific applications. There needs to be a word for the equivalent of net neutrality, but applied to software and environments in general.
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Have you not seen the case-numbers in USA: 777,000 people dead from Covid.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+people+have+died+fr...
The laptops I give to my kids have always had Linux (Ubuntu) pre-loaded onto them. To my kids, these are just what normal computers look like. The school uses Chromebooks and Macs so far as I know, my kids have never seen Windows.
Microsoft can probably argue that they worked very hard to no longer be a monopolist, and as such can't be fined any longer.
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Not saying that there aren’t issues, but the fact that billions of people use Windows and don’t routinely have their profiles wiped out with every update points to a specific issue with your setup; not a systemic Windows problem.
Health emergencies or something like that. Though I think it'd be pretty straightforward to say "hey I was going to the hospital, overturn this ticket please" after the fact.
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Let's do our jobs properly to minimize the spread of the Omicron variant as possible; this will help our health works and researchers somehow.
Film trailers on youtube are particularly bad, especially as you not only get other companies simply rereleasing them with a logo over the top, but you get fake trailers polluting the results
It can reasonably be assumed that corpses on dedicated locations like cemetery should be protected while there are direct live connections (kids, partners). Lets say 100 years at most although it is probably overkill.

However, even today if you don't pay a parcel rent, cemetery can dig the corpse up and ditch it. Entire first generation of cryogenic people were lost due to this problem (grandkid didn't want to pay for grandpa for eternity in cryogenic coffin). So with all this in mind, it makes sense that after your are legally dead and lets say 1 year passed (to allow for the "return from the dead" cases we know happen), you should be considered dead nature. After that time, it becomes a matter of your relationship with the cemetery or other company and contract you have with them. If their "SLA" is that they will "own" it for you, then digging it up can be considered legally as a theft.

If you have culture that wants to keep dead forever, then that culture will find ways to manage it the official way I guess along with the laws on theft, and wont leave it to the little dwarfs to manage. You must keep in mind tho that each day number of dead people is rising and number of alive stays close to the same. Any civilization wanting to keep dead forever will have a lot of problems with this idea, unless it can find a way to teleport them to different dead dimension unrelated to us. Such advanced civilization will sure have much better way to preserve uniqness of each individual.
I strongly despise empty "we need to find a consensus" rhetoric

The simplest thing that might work is removing that attitude from the workplace culture.

It's not a preference worthy of accommodation.

Good luck.
Only decisions that survived appeal, though. All referees make mistakes now and then, but if appealed rulings repeatedly survive instant replay review, then it’s time to take a closer look at the rulebook, and consider why the outcome is surprising.
How about a friendly reminder about best practices. A very innocent statement, don't mean no harm by it. Just helping out a friend.

"Did you know that personal files can disappear just like that, just like that? Oh, I just noticed you are downloading Chrome. By the way, you sure those backups are working? You have backups, right? Just saying."
I chuckled a bit upon seeing those links but quickly realized that DDG gets its results from Bing and Altavista isn't around anymore.

However clean, possibly less bubbled browser, gets number over twice larger on the second link.
They destroyed the books to scan them. They cut the pages to send them to a scanner, and discarded them afterwards. It was a horrible tragedy.
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The idea of "ownership" NFT brings is a make-believe. I can believe I own anything, I can believe I own mona lisa, the only difference NFT brings is if other people agree, which is pure vanity and I can't care less.

But I wouldn't call it bad, once in a lifetime cash grab opportunity where you can create "scarcity" from you home, with a story of why people should own, no need to really produce anything.
> I was auto-upgraded to it a few weeks ago

The train wreck starts there. Who wants a system that auto upgrades itself without the user permission?
I myself had a full conversation with one of the bots that appears if you say "Metamask" before I realized that @meta2mask was not really a helpful support person from the internet, and was actually a scammer trying to get crypto seeds.
To be honest, I'm not sure there are many people left (certainly here on HN) who haven't already looked at the evidence themselves and come to one conclusion or another.

Thanks for the discussion though, always interesting to hear someone else's point of view, even more so when neither of us has any different facts to the other.
No people have gone through their life without catching the cold and very few without catching the flu at least once, despite having flu vaccines for a few decades now.

Not all viruses are the same, and sarscov2 is much more like cold/flu than polio.

Specifically, saracov2 has reservoirs in animals. Unless you had an effective vaccine that also works for cats, dogs, deer etc and the ability to actually deploy it (think wild deer all over the US), it’s here to stay.
When there's a memory related bug (or CVE) in a program written in C or C++, there's almost always some comment about how the Rust compiler would've caught it
No, there is no freedom to murder people no matter where you are. My freedom ends where yours begins.
> It reduces the chances of transmission

Check more recent studies. There is no difference in viral loads or likelihood of transmission in vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

> and reduces the effects of the virus when someone is infected.

Even that seems to be waning, because I know plenty of vaccinated people who got infected and had a much tougher time than I did (infection before vaccine was available). But with that being the only possible benefit at this point, it doesn't come close to the justification needed to mandate the vaccine.

> You said the vaccines are “seemingly” losing efficacy weekly. How do you know the same isn’t the case for natural antibodies?

Me personally? I just got an antibody test recently, and after 8 months they're still going strong. Overall? Studies have shown natural antibodies to be quite long-lasting, I believe the longest one I'd seen so far went out to 9 months post-infection with no meaningful drop.
Good question.

Excess mortality in the USA and the EU in 2020 were ~470k and ~580k deaths.

The population of the USA and the EU in Jan 2020 was ~329 and ~447 million.

The excess mortality in the USA and the EU in 2020 was ~143 vs ~129 excess deaths per 100.000 inhabitants.
The USA had ~10% more excess deaths per capita than the EU.

People living in the EU during 2020 had statistically a significantly better chance of not dying of COVID than people living in the USA, even though COVID hit the EU first, which gave the USA longer time to prepare.

This doesn't really answer your question, because the answer is very personal. Some people were really scared and preferred to trade some freedom for more safety. And well we have many examples of vocal famous people that traded off safety for freedom, and died of COVID. These people would have probably been better off had they lived in the EU, even if they would have been breaking the law and paying fines.
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That would probably be a trademark violation?
People will freak out about this, but I'm not worried. Search has this whack-a-mole find-the-pointer-to-the-pointer problem where unless you're going to up the state control at China levels it's essentially pointless.

If you can't find the torrent site, you Google enough to find a community that will link to it. If you can't, you ask on Twitter. Etc. Etc. It's never going to stop someone determined. Credible threats of jail-time may, but these minor changes by Google and others aren't going to change anything important.
Yep. There's a very strong correlation simply by political affiliation. This Washington Post columnist has some very telling graphs:

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1466261627074920452

Basically, the more urban and politically blue the county is, the more success they had against COVID, despite the fact that urban locations with higher density and more shared spaces have an intrinsic disadvantage in stopping the spread of disease.

By politicizing public health measures, they got outcomes split by political culture.
So is this a bot or a brand new user who decided to spill his frustration about society online and accepted the default username suggestion that Twitter offered him?
The same search for bing has 5000 results.
Unfortunately this was a situation where they decided to close all but the right most lane of I75 shortly after the 75/85 split, so I had no choice but to attempt this maneuver in stop and go traffic with very little warning.
If all phones were mandated to have a physically isolating means to disable their wireless chips, we could avoid this problem all together.
Yet more Microsoft Garbage.
No wonder The M$ CEO is cashing out his chips.
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> At least here in NY, USA - I have my vaccine passport checked very often

Also in NY (upstate). I can recall my passport being checked only once or twice since the beginning of the pandemic. I assume you're referring to NYC?
no thanks, yet another privacy violating app.
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These are multi billion dollar companies that siphon money from all sorts of avenues powered by people’s ability to use the web. It is in their interest to develop these browsers. But they don’t have to syphon even more money from people by doing so. I don’t agree with your assessment.
I'm not surprised at the sun workstation requirement. All those screenshots reminded me of CDE. Was it just repackaged Solaris stuff?

Edit. The answer is yes.
Years ago I wrote one as a side project, which I hosted on a desktop computer.

Now I just use the default browser start page, and periodically tweak my bookmarks bar. I make sure to turn off news articles / links, because I often get distracted by them when I'm trying to work.
Okay... but how is a text file an "ebook"? I'm not sure I understand it today, so I certainly will not blame anyone for not understanding it at the time ;-)
This is nonsense.

Vaccination did not stop measles or whooping cough, and has not even reduced their spread (only their symptoms) despite decades of availability.

Both of their vaccines are leaky - just like the Covid vaccine.
I don't know much him nor have I read that entire transcript, but one of the main jobs for a CEO is to set the direction and tone for a companies services. They can say/do whatever they want wrt free speech and their own messaging platform.
Should there be a chat bot for this? "Hey, I see you just shared a credential, I'll remind you in 5 minutes to delete it, if the message is not deleted I'll alert a member of the security team" kinda thing?
I hate the slow creep of video content everywhere. Especially in documentation. I can't ctrl-f a video looking for a keyword and never want to. Looking at you Hugging Face!

For reference: https://huggingface.co/transformers/preprocessing.html
The last time I used a daylight tank was in the mid '90s so maybe newer models are different, but I believe they are made out of black/dark plastic? Several right angle turns of black plastic provides multiple opportunities for a visible-light photon to be absorbed into a black body where it should be re-radiated as infrared (heat).

A hole/leak in the metal wall of a Faraday cage is going to be a lot more reflective and can easily act like a crude waveguide[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waveguide_%28radio_frequency%2...
One was already found guilty of abusing their OS near-monopoly on desktop.
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I built something in college that needed UL testing for RF emissions, and visited a facility in Long Island with a TEMPEST room about the size of my house. Was very memorable.

I also read an article this year by a guy that made his house radio-wave proof, because, he claimed, he was very sensitive to radio waves. It was WAY more involved than I would have guessed - for the same reasons discussed in this article and in this HN discussion. Nails and screws are a problem. Windows are a big problem. But still - how cool to be cut off from the onslaught of EM radiation.
Disk accesses were faster with 1571 drives than 1541s, for sure, and having a supported RAM expansion could cut down on the number of accesses needed to do anything. Similarly, GEOS 128 got away with fewer accesses as it could make use of the extra RAM available (although running GEOS 64 on a 128 would be no better than running it on a C64).

That GEOS 64 was "barely usable" was more a reflection of what the Commodore 64 could provide than anything else. And I think more people than not recognized that fact. The problem with PC/GEOS is that it arrived at a time when Microsoft was releasing Windows 3.0 and trying to strangle competition in that space. Had Berkeley started working on it much earlier and got it out the door in '88 or '89, it might have had better success than it did.
Funny thing about that is that the the international one, on May 1, is ultimately based on a strike in Chicago.

So the entire world celebrates Labour Day based on an event in the US, while the US alone uses a different date. And somehow that doesn't even seem that unusual to me; the US often is the first with a new idea, and as soon as others join in, they back down.
The % 15 is because they're using 'elif' or 'else if'; they only process each entry once and they exit the function when a successful comparison is made.

It's true that you could do this with something like:

result = ''
if x % 3 == 0: result += 'fizz'
if x % 5 == 0: result += 'buzz'
if result == '': result += str(x)
return result

to append fizz when for 15 and also continue processing and append buzz, but this requires an extra comparison to check that you did neither of those to print the number.
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I struggled most often with the self-review, questioning what I worked on the past 6 months and how it could be quantified. That's when I decided to track my work. I tried note-taking apps but was not convinced, especially because Klarna worked a lot around their Leadership Principles. Leadership principles are simple behavioral skills that you should follow when working at one of the companies having them at their core. You can find an overview of many companies offering these "guides" here: https://getworkrecognized.com/tools/career-ladders-explorer

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I think I'm one of the few who doesn't prefer dark mode.

The reason is Apple no longer offer a non-super-glare screen on their laptops any more. I bought an MBP about 10 years ago, and the choice between a "matte" screen or "make everything more difficult to see in every environmental condition except inside the Apple Store" screen. Obviously I went for matte.

In their infinite marketing wisdom, Apple has removed the matte option.
The article talks about 'cabinet curios' collected in the 1800's by amateurs. I remember the drug store downtown Iowa City, had a cabinet with 'indian bones' displayed among other things. The old guy was long gone but his collection remained on display.

Later I discovered a 'History of Johnson County' local vanity-press book published in 1882 that described the collecting! There were 50 to 100 'indian mounds' in the county, and one person's interview in the book told of digging them up. They'd find a burial in each one, curled up with arms around knees and facing West if I remember right. Anyway one of the skeletons was a particularly robust individual. That was the skull and jaw on display in the drug store! The guy claimed it came from some proto-man because of the enormous jaw. But who knows.

The drug store is long gone, the collection scattered to the four winds or discarded. The mounds long ago plowed over and no trace remaining (I've looked).
I don't understand where this black and white thinking is coming from. The vaccine is proven to reduce the risk of infection and reduce the risk of transmission and reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by a huge amount. This is well established, so I don't know what you're going on about.

When people are dying all over and our healthcare system is on the brink of collapse, why would you opt not to take the most basic precautions against making the crisis worse? I honestly cannot understand where this stubborn insistence on irresponsible behavior comes from.
> But regarding languages: k/q the issues with them is that they use x, y and z as keywords for the parameters. x is always the first parameter, y - second, z - third. In KatLang parameter names are not predefined keywords, you can pick almost any parameter names you like.

They aren't in q either: x can be redefined to whatever you like.

How does KatLang determine which argument is first? Is it merely the first free variable?
It's a book, and it's electronic
> health authorities, at least in the US, have never been clear on the exit criteria for ending interventions

"When we are confident we are not hours away from a nationwide medical emergency" is not easy to communicate. I'm sure if they literally said that, all the people complaining they have no clear exit criteria would loudly complain it is not clear; what, of course it isn't. If people knew all the details about how the pandemic will behave, they would have told you.
> I’m not sure what it’s called.

I call it "meme speak". It's the style of writing used on meme image captions or in tweets designed to generate the most number of shares and "likes".
That is exactly what I love about Windows 11 particularly. I don't have to deal the abdominations like Microsoft News, just a winget away. Don't like Edge?

winget uninstall -e "Microsoft.Edge"
Gutenberg project was an amazing finding for me in the 90s. It's a pity after bought the first kindle I almost totally forgot it.
When this started it was "2 Week to flatten the curve", and that 2 Weeks was not masking, it was stay at home, do not travel, do not interact, and DO NOT wear a mask. We were told to NOT wear masks, so much so the government was confiscating masks from businesses.
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> Orson Welles's The Third Man

I'm not sure if you were implying some kind of authorship but it was written by Graham Greene and directed by Carol Reed.
Or a guy mowing down a Christmas Parade in his car?
Windows releases always alternates between horrible and good enough. 11 will fester on some machines for a while like 8, Vista and ME did. Enterprise will stick to 10, and anyone who cares enough to fight dark patterns every time Windows update runs. 12 will likely be good enough for everyone to upgrade. 14 (they'll skip #13) will be garbo, 15 will be ok. Sun goes up, sun goes down.
At least this tone accurately conveys the seriousness of the average dev team and is more fun than “this error has been sent to an unmonitored Slack channel, if you want to scream into the void here’s a link to our community forums.”
Shouldn't your discussion on "natural order" consider the order numbers are spoken in? Which is mostly big endian.
Bug, feature, who knows.