skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Early data is always a bit iffy, but in the broad sense this is expected. The virus will mutate and over time the original vaccine will be less effective. This is going to end up like the flu where new vaccines will be continually developed and we’ll all get a shot every year. Like the “flu shot” that could be with a cocktail of different vaccines mixed together.

COVID is, unfortunately, not going away any time soon so it’s something we’re going to need to learn to live with long term.

For the time being COVID patients that also have or subsequent got the vaccine will be the best protected moving forward as more and more variants develop. Studies keep showing very strong immune response for these individuals given their bodies have developed a much broader protection. That’s the main portion of the population at this point that can reasonably and safely feel “immune” from the present mess.
Donald Trump grumpier after late Twitter night
Theres a strong correlation between the cost of a house and mortgage interest rates (which makes sense- most people set their budget based on a monthly payment, not on an overall purchase price). I wouldn't be surprised if there was a similar correlation for tuition costs (which have blown up over the last few decades)
This is why I drive a big truck. When egomaniacs can trick the government into allowing them to set their half baked creations loose on public roads using unknowing and unwilling third parties as test subjects, I want to be the dominant term in any and all conservation of momentum equations that may ensue.

As an aside, I’ve driven maybe 50,000 miles in my lifetime. Of those, 47,000+ are using pre-2005 vehicles with zero “advanced safety features”. However, I can recall two times in my driving career where I felt collision was imminent, and both of them occurred in the <5% of the time I was driving with “advanced safety features”. Yes, the computer was able to step in and avoid a collision, but it strikes me as odd that the only times I’ve needed it are when it’s available. In my opinion these new cars lull me into a false sense of security where I do not give appropriate attention to road conditions. Has anyone noticed the same? I fear that as the technology gets better and better people will pay less and less attention, putting more and more lives at risk when things inevitably go wrong.
Not to be contrary, but if your site is largely static and you're fronting it with Cloudfare, then you're essentially saying Cloudfare can handle load.

Not much revelation there, right?
What a great article, and how valuable to be reminded of the differences in human cultures that we (software developers) so often skip over because so many of us work embedded in anglo-centric contexts. I love being "forced" to realize how my initial response to RTL text ("that's just backwards!") is completely bogus, and there's nothing inherently more or less obvious about LTR or RTL.

We have similar issues in the world of music-related software, where so much is created entirely within the assumptions/defaults of western musical culture; it is gratifying to see that at least for page layout, browsers are doing a better (not perfect, but better) job of covering the whole world.
Amazon skirts a lot of consumer protection laws for the sake of profit.

Pill presses are regulated in Canada. [0]

If you bring one into the country the government wants you to register that fact with them.

Amazon.ca doesn't even try to hide the fact that they sell pill presses. [1]

They're branded as "vitamin supplement devices" but they're definitely, obviously, pill presses.

[0] https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/meeting-lega...

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=pill+press&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
> By now this has become a trope. "Researchers develop new treatment for {UNTREATED_DISEASE}" ... in mice.

And a twitter account:

https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice

https://jamesheathers.medium.com/in-mice-explained-77b61b598...
Abolish Yale
It is not a Raspberry Pi, but an Olimex Olinuxino A20 Lime 2 and a 30W solar panel: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html#hardware

But yes, web hosting, especially for small/mid traffic websites has become very cheap (in power consumption and in money), especially for static websites where CDNs can be used to serve assets and static content from edge caches. A full x86 server or PC is often total overkill and a little SBC sufficient instead.

It is a dual core CPU btw, to bring the average CPU load into perspective. A very interesting project as a prove of concept, also for others to adopt in countries with unstable electricity supply and/or in relation high electricity costs :).
I went to a private, Catholic high school. The teachers were paid less that public schools because some felt a calling to it, there's more autonomy and less BS than a public school, and parents were more engaged. 1/3 of students weren't Catholic; they were there for the academics.
False dichotomy. It's not nuclear or nothing; it's nuclear, renewables, or nothing. Nuclear is more expensive than going the renewable path. Start taxing CO2 enough and the world will switch to renewables, not to nuclear.
Signal Identification Guide
That's almost how much debt Argentina has.
My expectation is that the court will rule abortion bans are legal but the citizen enforcement schemes are not. So the bounty system won't stand but abortion will become illegal in much of the country.
We've doubled life expectancy by lowering the rates of early deaths.

Even in antiquity, healthy people lived to their 60s.

That might be the 70s or 80s now, but the quality of life at those ages isn't great - take a stroll to your local elderly home.
And yet the power Kellogg's has means that they can just find enough desperate people elsewhere to take their unlivable wage. It's a race to the bottom, and the end is a few massive companies all colluding to pay slave wages. See Amazon and Walmart for examples of this happening right now. People think that market will reach equilibrium, but don't realize that equilibrium will be reached with third world style factories with 12 hour days and dorms for the "employees" and nets outside the windows so they can't even die the way they want.
Its not clear to me that a general purpose autonomous car can be developed in a vaccum as you mention. Tesla has all the resources in the world to test with their own drivers on closed loops and using simulations however they choose to go this route and open themselves up to significant liability. Given the pace of development of other autonomous cars I think this may be the only viable approach.
CiviCRM? Might be a bit heavyweight.
Or twenty two centuries ago.

Even in Roman times healthy individuals lived to 60
Like the idea that health insurance isn’t a thing in Europe, it’s not the case everywhere.
If sufficient teachers were willing to do the work for current pay, then we would not be seeing 30 kids in a classroom.
Apple is designing much of the silicon. Measuring power usage is a core competency.
Agree with you, but that area in downtown San Jose is very weird to drive around given their light rail system.

Not defending Tesla for all of those mistakes, but as a human, it’s easy to end up going down the wrong lane.
The difficulty is that eventually you reach a level where there are no satisfying answers to this sort of question. There are a lot of interesting levels to explore between “why did aunt Minnie go to the hospital” and fundamental physical principles, but for things like “why do magnets repel?” (or “why do unlike charges attract?”), these questions are getting pretty close to the point where the only answer is “we don’t know, that’s just what we see happens when we watch the universe work.”

You can go farther and get stuff about the action in quantum electrodynamics, but these don’t really provide any more satisfying answers, they just lead to more questions like “why do systems follow trajectories of stationary action?” and “why is the lagrangian for electromagnetism what it is?”
Small technical nit: I love the dithered images and the retro feel, but their CSS should specify `image-rendering: pixelated` to make sure browsers don't interpolate the pixels.
It’s worth noting that you do not need cookies to store shopping cart details if you have a user account system. You can store their cart in a database and associate it with a user account.

A session based cookie can then be used to store your identity in a short term session, and the server can easily gather long-term storage on its own.

I think it’s a fair compromise to say “if you want to save this cart, please log in”, which satisfies opt-in data tracking in a user friendly way. You aren’t mandating a user account, but if you opt in you get something potentially useful.

My principle complaint about most of the discourse on this topic is that it is superficial. There are reasonable workarounds for most user-friendly tracking that allow for tacit opt-in via responsible and clear UX. The “hard parts” seem to generally concern the type of tracking that isn’t so clearly user-friendly, such as behavior tracking and PII collection, which is a conversation we should be having anyways without obfuscating the issue by pretending it’s about the easy stuff.
The big for profit schools sound like a big name but aren't. Like University of Phoenix.

The sad fact is: the typical American doesn't even do enough research to know if they are going to a private for profit school or a prestigious state school.

They are just happy they 'got into college', nonethewiser that the school they got into is a money trap.
"Free Software" generally refers specifically to GPL-licensed software, which one of many popular "open source" licenses. (GNU claims that their use of the word "Free" refers to freedom, not price.)

This (IMO, weird) debate seems to be around all kinds of open source projects.
Actually Omicron is exactly how COVID is going away. From what we know so far it is highly contagious, but also mild - which means it basically eliminates the need for vaccines. Give it two, three more months and the whole pandemic will be over. Also, sell Pfizer and Moderna stock now if you have any.
Most of this is either inaccurate or downright false.

The most valid point is that Microsoft keeps churning out new
UI frameworks that all seem to die quickly, with some still staying alive.

Running compilers in the command line on Windows has always been possible
and it is trivial these days.

That goes for both (MS) C++ or .Net.

Hitting F5 "build" is easier than using the command line.
That does not mean the command line in not well supported.

Visual Studio will generate a script you can use to build the
projects from the command line for your projects

Here is an example of a minimal Win32 app written in C
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/learnwin32/yo...

It is tiny and uses nearly no resources.
The code is about the same as it was 10 years ago.

Using Winforms with C# it is trivial to create a minimal Windows application
that is small and uses nearly no resources. (just but a button on the canvas, hit F5).

Any decent code editor can be easily adapted to work with the
C# or C++ Microsoft compilers for builds.

Visual Code offers deep support for C#
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/csharp

This article seems to outline how to get C# support in Sublime
(I am not a Sublime user so I dont know how well this works)
https://www.quora.com/How-do-use-sublime-text-editor-for-cod...
> long term ratio of serious accidents in self-driving vs human driving

Human driver as in: average driver, or best driver?
So I would guess the problem is WinUI3? I develop Windows GUI apps for fun in my spare time -- I've built some pretty big and complicated ones using WPF/C# and the issues described by the OP don't seem real. My machine is old as hell and my build times are mostly unnoticeable, for example.
Retirement accounts effectively mean you are managing a pension fund of one (or two, if a couple) which means the amortization benefits are absent and all of your payout modeling has to be around the worst case. People like us, assuming you are building out a retirement portfolio, would be much, much better off if legal constructs existed that made participation in a pension-like vehicle possible. Annuities as they exist today aren't a good answer due to questions around solvency and (lack of) government backing/enforcement.

A pension fund of one or two is very risky and so you need to take a lower withdrawal rate, especially if you find yourself starting your withdrawal in times of very high valuations.
How many more hardware configurations is Linux deployed on than MacOS? Would it be in the region of 3-4 orders of magnitude more hardware configurations?

How long has there been a power consumption focus in the linux kernel? The efforts to reduce power usage by the linux kernel pre-date PowerTOP’s first release and wiki tells me that was 2006.

Is Apple way ahead or is it just less popular?
What number of kids per class are the current policies aiming for?
I'll concede that native GUI development is tedious on pretty much every platform in existence. However, there was a golden age of Linux GUI programming that spanned from the mid 2000s to 2019, where you could spin up fantastic GTK interfaces in the span of a weekend afternoon. I still use GTK3 to make simple forms and utilities, and I reckon I will for quite a few more years; the workflow is flexible and straightforward, there's a ton of fantastic desktop widgets that work as well as they do on a touchscreen as they do with a mouse, and it was surprisingly extensible too. GTK4 has seemingly put that behind them to focus on a "write your app in this specific way or don't write it at all" ethos, but frankly I'm happy to stick with the prior toolkits. Maybe it sounds cheesy, but it really was my "ideal" GUI library for a while.
The `eval()` in the namedtuple factory function[1] makes it a bit kludgy, IMO.

[1]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.10/Lib/collections/...
I took the current “just show the time” behavior to be a mere PoC and commented with the expectation that OP or someone interested in replicating OP’s design would ultimately add either PTP or (s)NTP server functionality to make it actually a functional bit of infrastructure.

Thanks for teaching me about OCXO. I found this relevant write up: https://www.paulvdiyblogs.net/2020/07/a-high-precision-10mhz...
> Control group(s) were given vaccines after 14 days

"14" appears nowhere in your link. In reality, the trial recipients were unblinded and the placebo group received vaccines on March 1, when the trial began on July 27. Far more than 14 days.

- unblinding https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2776787

- phase 3 trial dates https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but despite having a paid off HELOC that can cover 42 months of current monthly expenditures, and several zero balance credit cards…

I don’t want to be relying on that if I lose my job.

Lines of credit can be taken away, and usually at the worst time.

So I’m happy to forego some returns on a moderate sized emergency fund in exchange for peace of mind.
More details about this that was not covered by Jalopnik as the owner who originally posted the video (and then removed it, probably under pressure):

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-beta-attempts-to...

The number of comments on that post blaming the owner rather than FSD Beta was kinda sad to read.
This is awesome. Vimium has been such a productivity boost that I actually dreaded leaving the browser. Now I can get that everywhere!
3. Scale

Scale helps a lot because you tend to get closer to average returns and closer to the statistical distribution of payout timelines.
> Private student loans often have very high rates, like credit cards.

Credit card rates are often something like 20%. Are student loan rates really that high?
I've lived on less. It's worse than being rich but not really that hard. Especially so when it comes with excellent benefits.
it's gotten out of hand imo. page load times take longer than when I was browsing the web on dialup in many cases.
You zing, but there's a grain of truth there, isn't it?

"Free" software began when RMS wanted to fix his printer and got locked out by Xerox. "Open" software was an attempt to woo business to use free software but (arguably) threw the baby out with the bathwater by eliminating the "virality" of the GPL et. al., which was kind of the whole point (of "Free" ethos.)

The whole Free vs. Open issue is effectively moot anyway since everybody uses proprietary closed systems. Even the FOSS folks use GitHub.
This may be tied to Vanguard: https://support-valorant.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...
Did you try clicking on your links?

For example, I clicked on: https://suppliers.fiscal.ca.gov/psc/psfpd1/SUPPLIER/ERP/c/ZZ... (your last link) and got this:

You must have cookies enabled in order to sign in to your PeopleSoft application.

Return to Sign In with cookies enabled.If your attempt fails, please contact your System Administrator.

Not really "good enough", is it?

And your "comprehensive annual fiscal report" that you're touting is for... the year ended in June 2019 (2.5 years ago). How is that useful?
Yes... but... realize that log4j2 was in beta releases at the time, being maintained by one developer as part of a "I want to redesign how it works".

As an open source developer working on a project that hadn't even been formally released, I'd be quite pleased to have someone else contributing the features that they found useful back upstream in an effort to make it a better project.

Yes, this is what jndi is supposed to do. Was it done as best as it could be? Probably not. But it isn't something that's only in log4j2

http://logback.qos.ch/manual/loggingSeparation.html#ContextJ...

https://dennis-xlc.gitbooks.io/the-logback-manual/content/en...

But I'm not going to fault a solo developer of some beta software in the world of 2013 for not rejecting a patch because every angle wasn't thought out.
Anybody have a solution to get hostname completion in Powershell?

ssh [letter][tab] gets me a list with my Zsh config. I looked briefly one time and couldn't find what I was looking for.

I have a fairly large SSH config file, and needing to open it to copy and paste hostnames from the file is the main reason I just use WSL.
We need good teachers for every subject for every student. That means paying them wages that are competitive with their other options. We are not going to meet national demand by relying on people who are "happy to make less, e.g. a dual-income couple, someone right out of college who needs resume experience, someone who's semi-retired and likes to work with kids, someone who doesn't exactly need the money but wants the benefits,"
ICANN should make a .solar extension with the caveat that you have to provide evidence yearly that all IPs mapped by the domain were running on solar power
Tiling window managers will generally give you re-bindable keys for any and all window navigation. In fact, for the emacs folk, there's already stumpwm, in which your window manager is configured and controlled from a running emacs instance.

Arbitrary text field input, not so much. Sounds like a project :)
ironic？ It's the literal raison d'être of the whole website.

It would be remotely similar to what you implied if the website was librariesandtoolstomakeblogs.com
UNIX was only free beer because AT&T wasn't allowed to sell it initially, the lawsuit against BSD and forbidding the Lion's commentary came rather fast as soon as they were allowed to take commercial advantage of their research work.
First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself
> Repeat it enough and the dogma gradually becomes a truth you can build anything on top of.

That's what people that don't understand it hope.
what do you know
https://youtu.be/fXqc_F3rm7k?t=204

enjoy
FSF and SFC take plenty of enforcement actions and are quite successful. You seem to be just spreading lawyer FUD.
What about insurance companies that need to predict weather disasters? Is that also more predictable than software?

If it's something harder to predict, is there a way you could put error bars around it? Granted premiums could get high as a result.
The ability to see flagged posts can be enabled in settings with the showdead option.
For letter-spacing Microsoft tried bringing Kashida[1] to CSS but it didn't work. Not sure why?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/i...
https://metacpan.org/pod/Bitcoin::Crypto

Camels have a long history of transporting wealth. So it isn't all quiet over at CPAN ;)
I think this is an important point that is often overlooked.

When we release code under a free software license, we are giving the software to the user, entirely. If you're using software that you own, not just merely have a license to, it is yours, be prepared to maintain it, and if you're not prepared to maintain it, maybe relying on free-as-in-freedom software is a bad decision for you.
The day we escape death will begin the descent into the longest dark age humanity will ever experience.

Death is necessary to allow new ideas and change to be brought into the world. Death is necessary to prevent wealth and power accumulating into fewer hands. Death is necessary for others to enjoy the right to bear and raise children.

EDIT: 2 minutes go by and this comment has already been downvoted 3+ times. At least respond before you downvote.
The top rate 12.3% only applies to income in excess of $600k for single and $1.2m for married. How is quoting this rate at all relevant for average people?

https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2020/2020-California-Tax-Rate-S...
You don't ignore complaints from systems you use for work. This isn't at all a political issue for engineers.
I recently switched to Fedora and discovered that it's straightforward to create native GUI apps for Linux these days: just use GTK+ with your choice of official binding (C, JavaScript, or Rust) and you're done. Things are well documented and generally easy to set up, at least in my limited experience.

Flatpaks make distribution a non-issue too.
> But I'm not sure I don't prefer it this way – a labour of love becomes a chore if you can't temporarily put it down when you're running low on love.

That is a very wise comment.
I’m glad this was written, because I know for a fact this wouldn’t be discussed at all if it was written by a Virginia Tech or University of Connecticut student
miners are supposed to be in it for the money
It's stronger than ever. Sure there's churn but to say it's broken is to challenge anyone making that claim to get along without it for any significant amount of time and continue their job, usages of the internet, and advantages thereof. I bet they will quickly revise their claim to some more specific aspect of open source.

Reading through the article the author doesn't seem be able to separate pay from success and uses anecdotes to support their point that open source is broken. They don't separate how any core library from a commercial company would have been any different in their security failures. This is like a poorly written first draft of a freshman research paper.
I don't have a response to the meat of the article, but I admit that the author is quite brave posting that as a Yale student in the Yale paper with their byline clearly at the bottom.
> From what we know so far it is highly contagious, but also mild - which means it basically eliminates the need for vaccines

Note that one strong theory for the "mild" cases is that it's infecting vaccinated (and previously infected) persons who have strong adaptive immune responses to severe disease.

This doesn't mean it eliminates the need for vaccines, since there are still billions of unvaccinated.
Can you explain what insta and twitter is for, if not self promotion?
They are saying my process isn't "rigorous" enough and needs to follow their complicated rules and ways of doing things, I don't think calling that bureaucratic is a false dichotomy.