skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're claiming that because most people vote Democrat, it must be a progressive utopia?

The Democrat party is barely a left-leaning party. You have famous national examples like AOC and Bernie who are very progressive, but by and large, most Democrats are happy to accede to corporate power and regressive policies when it actually matters. What is considered "radical left" here in America is basically centrist by the standards of the rest of the world.
Cargo bikes are more effective as a yuppie status symbol. It shows, "I could have spent this much on a car, but I chose to spend it on a bike instead."

Honestly, I don't really get it. I have a €50 used bike, a €100 used bike trailer, and for that matter, a €3000 used car, and don't see where a €1500 cargo bike, or €4000 e-Cargo Bike would bring into that mix. I regularly haul stuff in my bike trailer too. (And in the winter months, where it's dark, cold and wet, I just fall back on my damn car. I use it so little that I only have to fill up the 20L tank about once every 3 months.)
Endrift being unhappy with $10k-20k due to their current situation & cost of living is entirely different from the person I responded to claiming that "Analogue was hoping for a screaming deal on this software"

Analogue wasn't looking for SV contractors, they were looking for contractors in any location (in this case, a remote contractor). That Endrift happened to be located in SV changes their specific appetite for the offer, but doesn't make the offer unreasonable or disrespectful, either.
Doesn't matter. She has the needed skills, she gets to set the terms completely. "I want X to happen" and X doesn't happen? No deal. Pretty straightforward. I read all the chat logs and I can say she was much nicer than she probably had to be, honestly. In the end, she realized they wanted to delay mGBA development, that their deadlines were shifting (they wanted no commits for 6-months post release of a product that hasn't launched 2 years later), and that it ultimately wasn't worth her time to even further negotiations.

"All about me"-ism, what a complete crock. Made-up MBA word salad used to shame a person for daring to exercise a shred of self-respect and autonomy, instead of being treated like a doormat.

> Building a product is hard. It's also expensive... and empathize with the people they're working with a bit.

Sorry to be a hater, but I don't care. I'm not going to cry myself to sleep at night because there's one less "product" to consume in the world. One less thing in the world that has my name tucked away in a measly, legally-obligated "About this software" window nobody views, for work that will get thrown in a landfill and forgotten in less than a decade. Sound the alarms everybody, there's one less toy in the world! And if it wasn't for this entitled person, you would have had it faster, with one more feature, for the same cost: the most important things there are. I bawl at the thought.

No, I truly don't care that building your product is hard work or that you have thin margins. Because if I did, I'd own stock. Simple as that. So until then, all that hard product-building work? That sounds like your problem. Not my problem.
Isn't the concern with "more variants" that you'll get some which are resistant to the vaccine, which apparently this one already is?
the other cool thing about wolfram functions is that they really embrace the whole "content addressed function" idiom (like unison). code is data is a networked resource.
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I don’t think this indicates omicron is vaccine resistant.

But rather that the current vaccines aren’t effect for because omicron is substantially different from the original covid strain used to develop those vaccines.

The same thing happens every year with the flu.
It’s a pity you and your fellow travelers are destroying the world with your carbon emissions. Good thing you wear a mask tho.
That omicron is able to so easily infect people who have had and recovered from delta points to it being almost a different disease from the perspective of the immune system.
I often wonder how accurate the main inflation number is if numbers like this one are much higher.

I have made mental notes of consumer goods and food items having price increases of 20-100% over the past year with no retraction in sight. I question if the prevailing attitude towards food and energy are correct in there calculation given this exceptional environment.
Not word for word, but pretty close:
"...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially..."
New PS4 homebrew exploit points to similar PS5 hacks to come
Both the public and the private sector (depending on what power generation in your jurisdiction looks like) will do it if we started taxing carbon.
Ship Wreck Database
That’s interesting. Would taking a work call while running through Berlin and tripping also be a work injury?
> There is absolutely no chance to give a wrong format specifier and access the stack (like printf does via stdarg.h) in undefined ways. This is particularly true for multi-arch development where with printf you need to be careful about length specifiers, and you might not get a warning on your machine, but the next person will and it will crash there. I usually need to compile for a few times on multiple architectures to get the integer length correct, e.g., %u vs %lu vs. %llu vs. %zu.
>Depends on what you consider reasonable

Thank-you for acknowledging the subjectivity of Risk Tolerance.
You'd have to be way more alert, a well maintained car is rather predictable and won't throw itself around like that
I was not contradicting you, just expanding on my thoughts for what the relevant laws would need to be.
Ban the robots, but free the cargo e-bikes to cut traffic congestion in Toronto
Yeah, it's one of those things people like to claim because it makes us that little bit more unique.

I don't think I fully have it personally as I swear there's sometimes I van visualise something, but it's for like literally a second and it's gone - I only ever remember that happening before I slept.

Occasionally I do have dreams (that I remember) that are very vivid too.
Some folks at Delphix implemented a debugger based on mdb that's powered by drgn: https://github.com/delphix/sdb
I think that's in play either way--people need to tell or be told that their idea is actually technically challenging, unusually insightful into business or users, etc. Critics are silenced because there must be no way they've read patio11 if they're posting, etc. Capacity for mutually appreciative disagreement is low on HN.

The average business is not brilliant and yet is still not easy to execute long enough to succeed. Life is hard.
I currently use iTerm2. Why/when would I consider ditching it with this one?

The website has a list of things it can do. What specifically does iTerm2 not do that I need?

Unclear what specific problem this solves. I’d highly recommend making that clear front and center. Otherwise… my response is: “oh, another piece of software someone wrote. Maybe just for fun. That’s nice.”
I hope Ghidra and alternatives take their customers.
Good news: you can address that, if you're so inclined. https://www.united.com/ual/en/us/fly/company/global-citizens...
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Fair enough, that's good to know.
In my experience web developers don't get paid as much as data scientists, unfortunately. But I feel you.
I came here to say the same thing. There is such a large code base of C, its hard to imagine it being replaced.

Just think of how much Cobol is still out there
Autopsy of ex-NFL player, accused of killing six, shows 'unusually severe' CTE
How to walk from fixed to rotating section then?
Solar wind will push it out of L2 and into an orbit around the sun. This is already going to happen once JWT runs out of fuel to maintain its position.
PeekMessage and PulseEvent are convenience functions that should have never been written. I intentionally excluded PulseEvent from my posix port of WaitForMultipleObjects because it is inherently racy: https://github.com/NeoSmart/PEvents

(It can be enabled via a compile-time define because my OCD kept me from shipping an incomplete port.)
New Glenn is aiming to be human rated.

https://twitter.com/erdayastronaut/status/112658698305114112...
Altavista was great. I was #1 for Beanie Babies. All I had to do was put "Beanie Babies" 20,000 times on my front page in white-on-white text and Altavista would automatically know I was the #1 authority on small beanbag plushies.
There is literally ~90% more cases per day compared to 2 weeks ago in South Africa..
> A mild strain of covid that is contagious, leads to natural immunity and doesn’t require a vaccine is an absolute win win for the world.

There is absolutely no evidence for this variant being less pathogenic. It is quite likely that the milder outcomes observed with this variant so far are because of immunity generated by vaccines and prior infections.

The idea that this will make vaccines less essential is a fantasy.
The carriers are starting to turn off service to 3g, and older 4g devices at the end of this year. I couldn't guarantee that I'd be able to get another phone like I needed, so I'm coughing up the $100, and I'm simply resolving to never trust google with my money again.

Having them claim that I'm violating their promotion because they can't deliver the service promised by their coverage map is infuriating.
> or maybe like Parchive

par2 even has options for specifying level of redundancy. I've had good experience in recovering large corrupted files from an external drive - since then, I've incorporated it into the automated backups of my personal infrastructure.

https://github.com/Parchive/par2cmdline
Nice! Reminds me of rough.js stuff:

- https://roughjs.com/

- https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz

- https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough-notation

One comment: some items aren’t rendering properly on my safari (eg checkboxes)
Webb is going to the Sun-Earth L2 (about 1.5 million km from Earth), not the Earth-Moon L2 (which is about 61,000 km from the Moon and 445,000 km from the Earth.

https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/orbit.html
Windows in some shape or form
At this point I'm expecting this crap to be a thing until we have a winter of excess deaths at or below Pre-Covid levels. Once that is observed I think people will finally move on. It sounds like this is still going to result in deaths, so I am now expecting year three of this crap.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...

I think eventually that winter will come, but the process will be gradual and vaccines/antiviral treatments will only be able to accomplish so much in terms of mitigation.
I don't understand what you mean. If you are log jammed, you try to raise your prices to both defer non-essential customers and to expand your production capacity. That has nothing to do with monopolization. If you had 2000 companies all competing the price would not be flat, because that "competition" doesn't neccessarily mean there is more capacity. The packing companies are overwhelmed and are having a hard time finding workers. Do you expect them to just run at no profit or not price adjust based on the new demand surge? If you are backlogged that means you already have business that is not processed which feeds into your short term profits anyhow. It's no wonder you have increased profits when you already have a backlog of business and you've had to increase prices for the demand surge.
Because if you didn't need it you can just shut it down.

Lot harder to refund that new server that was just installed on the rack.
This is a great idea and I’d love a future with an explosion of paper websites. However, I’m saddened that after all the attention and clicks the annual revenue is only $3600. It really shows the difficulty of getting someone to pay for your service. I wonder if an alternate revenue model would have been more successful?
It doesn't hurt actually. During major incidents in my non-remote roles I was expected to be in the office and available for the duration of the active incident, even if I wasn't able to actively contribute (contrary to what folks may have seen on NCIS, having two people typing on the same keyboard is not actually helpful when fighting hackers :P )

As a remote worker I can be at home and present with my family, with short breaks for actual activity, and longer periods for active response. This is not speculation - I have been active on incident response in the last month while helping my kids with homework, side by side at my home office desk).
Here is the research paper suggesting this unconventional approach: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/52/14910
Raising -30C is "easier" than raising +30C
I'm a huge Linux fanboy, who thinks Apple is evil and a puppet of the Chinese government and judge you for using Mac, and I totally agree. Lunduke is big on anti-SJW fearmongering, which I think projects a lot into his points. (He inductively applies that to society at large, which is the reason he gave for voting for Trump in 2020 lol.)

He used to have really good "Linux sucks" videos, which were actually tongue-in-cheek celebrations of Linux's progress combined with legitimate griping about the platform's issues.

The last two, though, have been identical pearl-clutching and doomsaying. You articulated my thoughts about them exactly. "These bad things are happening! We might actually not be using this 1970s OS 20 years from now. Better OSes might exist by then. But they'll probably be worse though! BUT people will use them anyway. It's all over. D: But is it actually all over? Maybe not. c: Who knows? I'm really scared though. But at least gaming is perfect on Linux now and all the old problems it ever had are gone. Pardon me while I fire up DOSBox."
... or maybe we should stop closing hospitals during the pandemic?

[US Closing Hospitals At Record Pace During Pandemic - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz46ZQSRdRE)
Very hacky -- in both a good sense and a bad sense.

Seems like there are tons of SaaS & cloud service offerings which could be overloaded to do this.
Eg, why not just use resource Tags in AWS? they are key/value pairs.
Or, why not put your key-values in a json file and store them as a GitHub workflow artifact?
etc......
I am there with you. I've been watching this unfold for half of my life, and seems like EVERYTHING must go right for it to happen. The unfold is scary complex. I really, really, really, really want it to go right and worry.

On other hand, NASA has done this amazing thing with landing rovers on Mars flawlessly and those were incredibly complex processes with sophisticated pieces of engineering.

biting my nails here
That's the opposite side of Conway's law, but the real point is large organizations can be dysfunctional. Cloud computing lets customers bypass their organization's particular dysfunction.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23542718
> I will say it is kind of strange that Premium Connectivity has no data limit. If I could just figure out how to launch a personal hotspot from my Model 3, I could cut the cord with Comcast...

I think you just highlighted why they will likely never allow a personal hotspot from the car.

How many people would gladly drop their home internet connection if they could just tether to the car which is only $10/month for unlimited data? It would cost Tesla a fortune unless they charged a hefty premium for hotspotting.
https://www.michelthomas.com/learn-italian/#michel-thomas-it...

Check out some of the promos and make your own decision, but I highly recommend the above.
> Win32 on the other had usually caps everything at 260 total (MAX_FILE_LIMIT).

Nitpick: It’s MAX_PATH :) Also, there is a way around the limitation: prefix all (absolute) file paths with \\?\

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maximu...
> I've picked a startup based only on their business description, where I didn't know a single person, and it IPO'ed in about 18 months.

Anybody can do that once. If you could do it a hundred times in a row, or develop a science of picking startups, I might be more inclined to believe you.
I'm curious about the interplay of two items from their FAQ:

> 10. What if I do not renew my subscription?
If subscriptions are not renewed, you will lose access to the software on the day that a new subscription should have started. Please note that the software will stop working if not renewed.

> 13. I have an IDA perpetual license, when do I have to change to a subscription?
At the end of your current support period all renewals will be moved to the subscription model. We are offering our existing users an opportunity to pay only your current renewal price for your first year on the subscription plan.

So maybe I'm mistaken, but it sounds like they're trying to renege on perpetual licenses?
Correction: SOME OF the most vulnerable have already been removed from the sample set.

I'm still waiting on proper large scale studies as well, though. It'll probably be at least a week or two until we get that
You sperged pretty hard on “public,” but the point is that NT’s market share was a rounding error - let’s just say approximately everywhere, in every domain - until memory was cheap enough for the cost difference not to matter. It might’ve gone differently if Windows 9x were unable to log onto NT domains, or something, but it was perfectly usable (and was widely used) in business.

Your statement NT 4 fixed that, and it took off very well for everyone except cheapskates with rubbish PCs was counterfactual, but for the reason that those were the PCs businesses liked and wanted.
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I mostly agree with this, but I think it's more subtle.

Every game developer I've ever known, which is a good number, was a hard core gamer who loved games. Most of them really reduced it as they get older - not just because as you get older you just don't have the time or energy, but because doing something for work just kind of ruins it for most people.

That last bit is very common: my wife is a professional artist and doing that as her profession has just about ruined her interest in painting and drawing despite doing it for a lifetime. I was a hobby coder my entire life until mid-way through my career. Now although I sometimes do short stints, I gotta say, it is kind of ruined for me.

So, sure, you are probably right, but probably for the wrong reasons.

As for "unproductive hobbies" the reality is that all hobbies are basically unproductive. The stained glass artists I know struggle to give away their output because there's only so much anyone around them wants, but their hobby is to produce it. Ditto the painters, woodworkers, etc. Yes, these can give you practice with useful skills, but they're still basically generating a waste product, and if you try selling it, on average, you're just trying to mitigate your losses, piece work is almost never financially sound. This is all to say that one shouldn't view hobbies as "productive" or not, you should view them as providing benefits not directly related to the activity. Hiking, running, cycling, weightlifting - these are all "unproductive" but they are useful practices. Games aren't devoid of value in this sense - hand eye coordination, rapid tactical thinking, etc. are all skills you develop and maintain with practice.

That said, I'm 100% on board with you about the parasocial relationship thing, but to note the obvious, the real elephant in that particular room is social networking in all of its guises. Video games aren't even close, and, if anything, are probably closer to the "real relationship" end of the spectrum than any other online endeavor. I know many gamer groups who have transitioned to real life on multiple dimensions, far more than "hey these are the people i interacted with on Twitter" and other purely ephemeral constructs.
This is absolutely true and it is prevalent in the two forms of debate I participated in (lincoln-douglas and policy). But I think it is disingenuous to say that there is "little actual discussion involved."

Spreading is not intelligible to the layperson, and to the extent to which debate is about presenting ideas in a way that convinces a layperson, it is a failure. But there really is only so much that one can say in short 6 minute speech times. Talking faster, provided people can follow what is happening/read quickly, allows oftentimes for a more in-depth discussion than what was previously possible.
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> It just doesn't seem like a big deal to wear a mask

What about the fully vaccinated, boostered employees who work at these places? Should they also continue wearing masks despite being at virtually zero risk of major covid issues?

But yeah, no thanks. We didn't do masks in 2019 and we sure as heck shouldn't keep doing them going forward. Masks were a hack to get us to vaccines. They aren't something we should be keeping around anymore.
Open Source is a system of perfect logic built on the foundation of a few flawed assumption.

Flawed Assumptions:

#1) Companies are obligated to support Open Source but Open Source is not obligated to support them.

How many times have you heard this? Got a problem --- you fix it --- you've got the source.

#2) Everyone wants to be a software developer.

Not everyone has the time/talent available to find/fix your bugs. It is often only after a problem has occurred that individuals realize there may not be any good option for getting things fixed.

#3) No one cares about stability and longevity --- cause Open Source.

A "benevolent dictator for life" is not a sustainable business model. If Linus Torvald dies from COVID, who picks up his role and carries on? How long will it take them to be proficient?

Companies want/need answers to this for "mission critical" software. By design, Open Source often violates the basic reason corporations have for existing. OSS obviously has a role to play but I would carefully consider all aspects before making my business highly dependent upon it.
A public sector that requires a profit is not a public sector. To your point, we probably need democracy first, but the idea that money can’t be found without siphoning it from the essential workforce that drives to work (or drives for work) and increasingly lives pay check to pay check is just nonsense.
>The big question is whether the disease is genuinely milder, or whether the mild cases are just a consequence of the virus infecting people who are partially immune

The initial data says that even though South Africa has a much lower vaccination rate, omicron is mild.

From today:

> lack of high death and hospitalization rates, despite the fact that Omicron has spread at breakneck speed across the country and accounts for most of the infections over the past three weeks, is the most glaring difference.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-omicron-variant-south-afr...
We know Omicron can cause infections in people who have already been vaccinated or recovered from Delta; why would the reverse not be true?
The fundamental promise of the cloud was that it was going to be cheaper over time. That was 100% how it was sold back in the days. “We buy all the hardware to a fraction of the cost comparing to any private company”, and so on. Scale arguments. And “We manage the hardware and the platform so you can focus on features”. Today, Azure for instance motivates the high prices per request with things like security and compliance. I guess it is the same with other providers.