skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would think it be the other way around as it is much easier to accidentally damage aluminum than steel.
Creating a minimum viable product at a lower price point was the the whole magic behind the first Oculus. There had been better quality virtual reality headsets before that, but bringing the price all the way into the consumer range changed the game. You may prefer higher performing, top-of-the-line-computer-requiring, headsets at a higher price point but consumer VR is a new and fast growing market segment. Any company spending their effort on such a headset is likely to find a vanishing market, as the quality of cheaper wireless devices will improve much faster than high end ones.

Don't forget, the low end always eats the high end.
Uh, no.

Indonesia solved its Communist problem the only way they could, with rifles. Pre-corona, Indonesia was doing amazingly well politically and economically.

Japan had another method, their society simply rejected the increasing violence of Communist protesters. (Note that Japan has a current problem with some shadow network involved in their defense committees.)

There is nothing good about Communism, so stop being useful idiots. It has failed in every country where it was tried. (China is in the process of admitting it's Marxist anti-poverty narrative was a lie, with 1/3 of their adult population earning less than $140/month, and half of those earning nothing.)

Young men: if you don't have a purpose in life, talk to an older man about that. If you're playing video games in your mom's basement all day, there's much more to life.
The “news” can be considered an iceberg situation. What you see regarding discrimination are just the salacious ones that capture headlines. There’s so much day-to-day discrimination and sexism that doesn’t hit the papers. Consider that it took almost a decade if not more before we started hearing problems with Google execs which is one of the most likely companies where such problems are to grab headlines (executives being invoked being the salacious bit to grab headlines).
Not all work involves filling out TPS reports. A lot of workplaces have completely automated this aspect. And you should feel free to quit jobs that haven't for jobs that have; by doing so, you're making the economy more efficient.
> all the pages are all redacted

I'm not sure if I'm missing a joke here, those are easily legible.
Is that completely certain?

In the case of COVID-19, you can infect people before developing COVID-19 symptoms. Anecdotally, I believe that I contracted COVID-19 and infected some friends before I was even aware of the infection building up inside my body. You would only get symptoms when the body starts responding to the infection.

Now the question is: Can a virus exist that allows infection by close contact (e.g. talking to someone) but doesn't have severe symptoms? That is certainly the way I experienced COVID-19, but it is not a universal truth for the disease.
It is a young startup; the technical cofounder needs to code, there is nobody else to do it yet.
Some people aren't family oriented. They find more meaning in work and, despite the all of the attempts to devalue work in the blog and this response, it's ok. We don't have to judge people who make that choice because we prefer another.
I'd go so far as to say 77% is "good enough", ie. it's time to live with the virus and not change our ways because of it.
The cap table is not an official record, merely a presentation of data. The stock certificates themselves and the purchase agreements (or notes/safes) are the official record. So, edits or errors in cap tables (which happen a lot) are not such a big issue as to merit the use of a complicated blockchain solution.
I agree with the authoritarian part, but "imperial-minded"? How many countries has China invaded in the last 20-30-40 years? How many has the USA?

Not trying to use a "what-about-it" argument; I'm worried about China, but in terms of imperialism I'm much more worried about the USA, so I'm not sure if I prefer China stealing IP or the USA keeping that IP.

(An an aside, and mostly because I'm curious: are you from the USA? I feel like many people in the USA don't realize that in most countries the USA foreign policy isn't seen as something more virtuous than China...on the contrary, it's usually seen as worse. The USA's internal policy (human rights, democracy) is seen as better though)
It was film. Video is an electronic signal stored on tape (originally)
No one just "moves off" AWS. Once your apps are spaghetti coded with lambdas, buckets and all sorts of stuff, it's basically impossible to get off. More than likely, as you noticed, it will increase spending since multi-AZ/multi-region will become the norm.
That's too vague and inaccurate to be meaningful.

What people need is to be able to channel their energy into something productive, whether it be learning, hobbies, helping others in a meaningful way, or maybe some sort of self-improvement in terms of health.

I suppose you could put all of that under the vague umbrella of "work", but for the purpose of having a conversation that's not arguing about semantics, work is what most people do to generate an income to support their life goals and activities.

> Having gone through a handful of periods of a few months where I wasn’t working and was also not engaged in an existential struggle for survival, I have to disagree here.

I've also gone through a few such periods, in between jobs. Best time of my life. Even though I didn't accomplish a whole lot during it that you could put on paper and call work. Learned a few things, improved friendships, and did a little room remodel.
The author is a RETARD.
'During his [Vincent Bugliosi] eight years in the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, best known for prosecuting Charles Manson. He is also a best selling author.'

You don't get a 99% conviction rate by being honest, I would say this wouldn't be a great choice of person to put ANY faith in really. I MUCH prefer Colin McLaren's take, an ex police investigator who took on the "case" in his retirement as if it were any other cold case in his book, JFK: The Smoking Gun.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Bugliosi
[2] https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Smoking-Gun-Colin-McLaren/dp/1743...
What is the difference between this and a faq section?
“He had a deadline.”

He also had two young children to provide for on his own. That seems to be omitted from this story.
Inconveniently, the sun is a loud radio emitter, so it isn't possible to communicate with this probe when it's at a low phase angle with the sun.
Yes. Just like in that movie Sneakers
Can be anything.

But from my own experience: it might have to do with lack of energy.

It sounds like you are responsible for the decisions you make. If you don't have a lot of energy you don't have energy to deal with possible bad outcomes. That's when you start to overthink your decisions to protect you from energy loss in case you made the wrong choice.

So check your energy levels.

And if the responsibility is too much for you be honest about it. Involve others to make the decision.
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I'm not sure where the "gatekeeping" accusation comes from. In your original comment, you wrote:

> There are a number of ways that TypeScript's type-checking can be subverted at runtime, ... As a developer, in the case of an API change that violated my assumptions, I would personally prefer my applications to fail-hard at the point of the API call

I interpreted that to mean that you would prefer TypeScript's type system to be sound: If a function expects a Foo, you want a guarantee that you'll never get into the body of the function at runtime with an argument whose type isn't Foo.

I can understand that that seems like a fairly simple request. But when you dig into soundness, you discover that it is anything but. Optionally-typed languages like TypeScript are unsound by design because soundness is a difficult requirement with very severe trade-offs around interop, runtime performance, and usability. Making TypeScript sound would give you a language that felt very little like TypeScript does today.
I'm not really debating that ARR for hospitalisation (or worse) may be only a few percent on average, but the article you linked to doesn't help. If I understand it correctly they say: more people got infected (!) in the control group, but that's still a very low percentage of the entire group. Calculating the ARR in that case is only 'absolute' for the duration of the experiment right? That didn't age well at all, especially with newer variants, it's assumed most will eventually get infected, increasing the ARR. Then again de RRR for infection seems to drop by itself, which works the other way. So the conclusion of this paper is debatable at the least, and regardless it doesn't even cover what we were discussing, ARR for hospitalisation or worse.

I really was trying to answer your question regarding pushing mandates. Again I'm not saying I'm for them (here in the Netherlands we're staying away from mandates, for now at least). Individual efficacy (vs risk) is not the ONLY argument for mandates (actually I'd find that a less strong reason by itself even with a higher ARR), my argument would be the benefit for society as a whole. Sure, we should be able to make it through also without 100% vaccination rate, that's probably why mandates are less clearly on the table in places where it's high without mandates already.
How is not the parent comment a shallow reaction to the post, which was my point? It was the usual empty response that gets the top comment post and sets the tone for the thread.
The rule is likely that you have to keep wearing a mask indoors regardless of your vaccination status.
If I'm understanding you correctly, this is basically what we have with Typescript, and it's...fine, but it's not great. The difference between what you're suggesting and what Rust does is that in Rust the unsafety is lexically scoped - it concerns static code, not live data, so it can't escape the unsafe code block. Whereas in Typescript, as soon as you let an `any` flow back into the rest of the system, all bets are off.

ETA: If you're suggesting actually preventing the flow of Any-typed data out of the Any-typed blocks, well, that's going to make things pretty hard. Any-typed code wouldn't be able to call any "safe" code, because that safe code might do something like take its (presumably safe!) input and stash it away somewhere. Safe code wouldn't be able to access any unsafe data whatsoever - all calls into unsafe code would have to be completely procedural. It'd be painfully limiting.

I'll also add that it's not trivial at all to statically type a dynamically typed code base if it's exploiting that dynamism at all. "Just go back and add type annotations" could be a multi-engineer-year project requiring refactoring of huge chunks of the system. If you believe in static types, encouraging completely unprincipled dynamism at the language level for any reason besides backwards compatibility with existing dynamic code seems like a mistake.
Dark matter isn't really a theory, its the name of an observation. Not sure how it can be any more or less legit. The name doesn't try to explain what's happening. Its just describing the weirdness of the observations.

One thing that annoys me is the common description of dark matter as a single coherent theory of extra matter that can't be detected. Even wikipedia makes this mistake at the very beginning. But there are a lot of theories that try to explain it. None of which actually work yet. Once a theory that stands up is formed then the name will change.
Fortunately you have an android app, so you are able to use available statistics to estimate loss of earnings.

That may be enough to generate enough interest for you to find some form of "no win no fee" legal representation on a matter which I admittedly have no clue about.

Good luck!
I agree with your substantive criticism of the article.

> The only thing you can get out of this story is a huge warning about the implicit modus operandi of rationalism: the dangerous idea that you can deduct reality, from first principles summarily chosen from what seems common sense in XXI century America, and that the result of building a huge tower of these frail bases can somehow be substantial.

+1
The way I've implemented this is that the yubikey is on an extensible lanyard which is almost always around my neck. So while an evil actor could definitely unplug it to ruin my day, stealing it would be a tad bit more difficult :)

In any case, the primary idea here was not to prevent stealing the laptop, but to prevent walking away from the laptop without locking it.
60% of the time, it's all-green 100% of the time
And "I have nothing to hide!" type comments, from few voyeurists.
Not quite. Video is generally an electronic medium for moving pictures and can be sent over cables or radio waves from the camera to the TV, without touching a tape. A video signal can be recorded on a tape, but isn't necessarily.
That's fair. I do believe that in an ideal world, everyone's barrier to entry into any profession would be equal removing all factors except merit. While that's obviously not possible, I do think it's worthwhile to work towards that. I also think that it can be worthwhile to make it known to women that tech and other career paths are viable and not out of reach for them - as I'm sure some women just have never considered it just as I have never seriously considered becoming a nurse. However, I think that's where it should stop. Make it known that it's an option, make it so that if they choose to pursue it that it's no more difficult for them than it would be if they were a man, and then let it be.

Anything more and it becomes the individual(s) behind the movement projecting their desires onto others and is no different that the societal molding that's taken place for the past several decades.
Video can refer to non-digital media, see: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/video

It still doesn't say that video includes "film". You can make a video recording of a film of course, but that's different.

And even if it didn't, what did you think I meant? And how is that even relevant to the question?

It seems you were confused about something that used to be a very obvious distinction, that not too long ago no one would trip up on (the difference between "video" and "film"). It's not especially relevant of course, it was just weird.
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This is a good point.

Our classical line of conspiracy thinking may be "If the CIA was involved it means they killed him"

But maybe we are growing in our understanding that the world is very complicated, and that any number of actors could have been indirectly involved, with any number of motives, and that the 'final straw' may have been something a bit more simple, but facilitate by the complex web of weirdness.

It's very easy to believe that the CIA etc. wanted Castro's head and an invasion, and that they were upset JFK wasn't supportive, and that they took a lot of clandestine steps towards 'something'. It's even easier to believe that there were even rogue actors within the agency that either went to for for ideological purposes or maybe even by accident.

... and then the dominoes fell in an ugly way.

It'd be nice if some day we got to the bottom of this.
Nostalgia for the days of assembling your home computer.

My first home computer was a Sinclair ZX81. With the 16K RAM Pack which crashed the machine if it was wiggled even slightly - and now I have horrible flashbacks remembering a time when I spent a couple of hours typing in row upon row of hexadecimal (plus CRC check code for each line!) from the pages of a magazine to get a Space Invader type game on the ZX81. And then the RAM Pack crashed the machine before I could save to cassette tape - BOOM!

A high school friend of mine had a Compukit UK101 [0] which he assembled himself. Quite a quirky and bulky machine that was.

[0] http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/8099/Compukit-UK101/
The HPV vaccine is proven to prevent cervical, throat, and other cancers. Uptake outside of a few developed countries is woefully low considering the benefit.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009174352...
Zoomed out, it all looks grey, but zoomed in, you can kind of read it.
> in reality you spend so much time configuring and debugging that you rarely actually save any time.

Conversely, that's the sales pitch for minimalism. But the reality is that well-intentioned, thoughtful designers and users seem to end up spending most of their time building and using systems with a lot of complexity. If it really ended up costing them more time to use those systems, it begs the question of why we keep building them.
A weird dude acting alone seems entirely plausible and not surprising historically.
I can't make sense of this article. Did the dad stop working as much? Keep on working as much? Work more? The intro makes it seem like he learned to work less, but then the rest makes it seem like he didn't.
You get that we're talking about individual "responsibility" versus collective mass impact, yeah?

There aren't enough sufficiently-walking-friendly places to live at affordable enough rates to support most individuals in the United States going "welp, guess I'm not gonna drive". Devolving to individuals erases responsibility at levels where the necessary power actually exists.
Perhaps because it's not just for LLVM?

Given the comments in the repo README about it being a drop in replacement for the GNU linker, it looks like could be useful for several other scenarios too (but I defer to those who can explain this more clearly/correctly than I!)
Why do you think this is 'probable'? It's certainly possible, no doubts about that, but why do you believe there is a greater than 0.5 probability of it?
Is that true? Hunh, I was unaware. So a TB3 dock with DisplayPort is handling the display protocol? Is there a standard driver on the OS side?
It worked for Ongo Gablogian!
That's not work, that's life. The opposite of working is not idling, it is spending your time in activities that realize your self without being constrained by the survival struggle.
No, that's what you're saying - I'm not sure where your rephrasing comes from, as it doesn't correspond to anything I've written above.

I'm explicitly saying "it" [that is, forcing yourself to do things, like get in the sun, exercize, sleep less, better diet, etc.] does change something psysiologically, and does help, even in cases of non-situational depression.

The grandparent comment claimed that this helps only in cases of situational depression.
Right - something for studios, not the man on the street.
I’m trying to understand the problem here. If the website you’re on has some javascript that’s executing side channel attacks to uniquely identify you, why couldn’t they just use other fingerprinting techniques?
> Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylist want our apps to look a particular kind of fancy, he can configure some styling that will apply to all.

You should check out Cascading Style Sheets. They let you write your document semantically in HTML, and then it is styled by a separate document created by the company stylist.
That sucks - but I can attest that the Lenovo Thunderbolt dock is very solid (I have one of each generation).
> Personally, I know that I need a focus for my intellectual life.

Would your abilities feel stretched by being a cashier? How about a janitor? Waiter?

These jobs are what "work" actually is for most people. I think most people could go without doing those things.

Intellectual stimulation, or goals that stretch one's abilities, don't have to come from work (and for most people those things and "work" are hardly related at all). Therefore, saying we (as humans) "need" work is generally incorrect (at least for the reasons you stated) since most people don't even get what you say we "need" from work anyway.
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> but also, no you're not.

If you plan to replicate all of AWS I'd agree with you. But if all you need is a handful of servers, you could end up with better uptime doing it in-house just because you don't have all the moving parts that make AWS tick, reducing the chance for something to go wrong.

My bare-metal servers stayed up during both of the recent outages, not because I'm some kind of genius that's better than the AWS engineers but just because it's a dead simple stack that has zero moving parts and my project doesn't require anything more complex.
It's not shut down to the extent that it was last year, when they sent most of the workers (me) home. There is very little left in the semester to cancel. They did cancel my unit's holiday party though.

For the record, Cornell stayed open through much of the pandemic but had students submit to frequent testing. We had a minor outbreak at the start of the semester which caused them to put an indoor mask mandate into effect. Other than that the semester was relatively normal.

We went from having a handful of positive results to having 250+ positive results for a few days in a row which is why they pushed the panic button. So far it seems only students are affected, the positive rate for staff is still pretty low. I am planning on packing my laptop at end of day today and working from home tomorrow, although the campus is soon going to be a ghost town where there is nobody to get infected from.
Could someone give me a good pointer for Proof of Stake? Most of websites I can find are just bag of buzzword and totally useless.
(I decided that I wasn't going to get a reasonable discussion out of this guy at his suggestion that people disagreeing with him are "suffering from psychosis", and that appears to have been borne out so far.)
I remember growing up in grade school my friend's older brother was a very active contributer to FreeBSD. I remember being fascinated by the FreeBSD desktop they had running in the living room and this alternate universe of free software he was helping to create. I don't remember much other than his rants against windows (he thought it was terrible that people let their computers would do stuff like run CD-ROMs automatically on insert) and staring awestruck at some of his big-kid C/C++ files before me and and my friend went to tinker with our kiddie QBasic. But something about that ingrained in me a fascination with FreeBSD at an early age.
I just thought it was so incredibly cool. It ran so lean and cleanly. It was made by passionate nerds like my friend's big brother, volunteers driven by a desire to do things correctly, clearly, and simply. Something about it just seemed so awesome and right. But I didn't have a computer of my own to run it on. Years later I went on to be a Linux user but have often wondered about diving into FreeBSD due to some strange form of nostalgia and sentimentalism.
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> Taking badges out of the cloud reduces points of failure by several orders of magnitude.

I'm not convinced that's true, or at least certainly not an order of magnitude. Wouldn't a badge system hosted on-prem also need a user management system (database), a hosted management interface, have a dependency on the LAN, and need most of the same hardware? Such a system would also need to be running on a local server(s), which introduces points of failure around power continuity/surges, physical security, ongoing maintenance, etc.