skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If web3 was truly about owning your own identity it’d be way more about owning your own data as well. Not in the tokenised sense but in the actual sense of controlling access to it. Basically the data pods idea in Solid. Still decentralised, still using strong crypto for identity and sign in, you could even have the blockchain side of things optionally integrated if you really must.

The way things stand right now there are only incentives for people’s data to be hovered up, platforms to try to centralise and we’ll be back where we started quite quickly. See OpenSea and their issues with bots falsely minting NFTs en masse and their response to artists trying to report them. It’s web3 but is still user hostile.

Real ownership of your identity is ownership of your data.
It's not that American English uses singular for groups of people. It's that American English sees Apple as a singular corporate entity.

British English peers past the corporate veil to see the singular corporation as it's underlying people.
I love the modernization of classic (often difficult to use tools). Also check out:

* duf (df) replacement: https://github.com/muesli/duf

* sysz (better systemd browsing): https://github.com/joehillen/sysz
> The contract developer releasing the code is the problem, not verifying that is what is running.

In a trustless environment like defi, why would anyone other than the most gullible put their money in any smart contract that doesn't have open sourced code?

> When a company open sources some code, we assume and trust they are not keeping a separate, evil branch running in production unbeknownst to us.

We assume and trust because we have to. With crypto, you can trust and verify, as the Russians say.
Tech workers were not, by and large, the ones with political power in the bay area that locked the area down and prevented homes from being built.

There are other things wrong besides the housing crisis, but that's certainly a component of why people leave.
Microsoft is pushing the Control Panel aside in its latest Windows 11 updates
I think a lot of software engineers nowadays write server software, where they can often be somewhat allowed to be unconcerned with licenses [1], since the actual binary produced from the code lives on the server, and is typically not distributed outside the company.

As a result of this, I think there's this mass misunderstanding of how licenses work in the software engineering field.

[1] With the exception of AGPL if I understand correctly.
Again though on my framwork-ification point -- in our case, we have a full VPC setup, and jets actually allocates the VPC for us we just configure it in our application.rb file. I'm sure the serverless framework has something similar. Either way, we have gotten away with not having a dedicated devops person or persons because of how much the framework does for you.
From the article: this translates into vaccine effectiveness estimates against symptomatic Omicron infection of between 0% and 20% after two doses, and between 55% and 80% after a booster dose

What I'm wondering is: Is this due to the timing of a booster, since most boosters have been given in the last few months? Or is there some kind of cumulative impact on the immune system?

Eg, If I got a booster early, am I still as protected as they state above?
I guess for me it comes down to numbers. What does "fairly widespread" equate to? 50% of American corporate executives do this? 10%? 1%? Or are we talking about global executives at firms that net over $1B revenue per year?

It may seem nitpicky and yet I think the context and statistics matter—without it, I think we can fall into very binary discussions of people being corrupt or clean, bad or good.
It doesn't really seem that different.
Airbyte Engineer here.

I think some of the points made here about ETL scripts being just 'ETL scripts' are very relevant. Definitely been on the other side of the table arguing for a quick 3-hour script.

Having written plenty of ETL scripts - in Java with Hadoop/Spark, Python with Airflow and pure Bash - that later morphed into tech debt monsters, I think many people underestimate how quickly these can quickly snowball into proper products with actual requirements.

Unless one is extremely confident an ETL script will remain a non-critical good-to-have part of the stack, I believe evaluating and adopting a good ETL framework, especially one with pre-built integrations is good case of 'sharpening the axe before cutting the tree' and well worth the time.

We've been very careful to minimise Airbyte's learning curve. Starting up Airbyte is as easy as checking out the git repo and running 'docker compose up'. A UI allows users to select, configure and schedule jobs from a list of 120+ supported connectors. It's not uncommon to see users successfully using Airbyte within tens of mins.

If a connector is not supported, we offer a Python CDK that lets anyone develop their own connectors in a matter of hours. We have a commitment to supporting community contributed connectors so there is no worry about contributions going to waste.

Everything is open source, so anyone is free to deep as dive as they need or want to.

We also build in the open and have single-digit hour Slack response time on weekdays. Do check us out - https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte!
Austin is still fighting the updates to the building code after many many years which would have helped growth within the city itself. If Austin can keep building housing, then it might be ok.
Dealing with the GDPR costs money. Blocking the entire EU is free.

This started happening even before the GDPR was finalised.
Global GDP is irrelevant for US workers, the value of US exports has grown even as wages stagnated. At some point it just stops being about how much value is produced and becomes a question of how much value is captured.

If a factory produces 10x as many goods with the same number of workers the work those people are doing has increased in value. But, their unlikely to see a 10x wage increase.
The people who decide the spyware must be installed are likely so far removed from the actual spyware and the people who admin it as to have no knowledge or understanding of the distinction.
If they're equally influenced by their national governments, perhaps you can also direct us to ByteDance's own transparency report, so we can compare?
Those students are meaningless to Purdue financially. They can replace those students in a heartbeat.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. The Bay Area used to be a nice place for regular people to live. The successive waves of tech booms kind of ruined that and average quality of life has gone down for everyone except the very wealthy.

For our country as a whole it was never healthy to have so much of the tech industry concentrated in one small geographic area. We'll be better off in the long run to distribute it more widely, even if that makes it a bit harder to form a startup and recruit local employees.
"HTTP 451 Not available for legal reasons" is an established convention
I think it more depends on how you fall on the authoritarian/libertarian spectrum. As a libertarian myself, I certainly feel that my views are not welcome. I have often been accused of being a horrible person for holding a belief in what is essentially tolerance of intolerance, and voluntary cooperation.
What's the easiest way to dispose of your trash in San Francisco? Gift-wrap it and leave it on the front seat of your car!
How Exercise Affects Metabolism and Weight Loss
Most seed stage startups don't even surpass the free tier in my experience, and depending on the product this can be true for a lot of Series A startups as well.
I don't trust myself to manage a bitcoin wallet. How is this ever going to displace boring centralized banking? If someone uses my credit card without my permission, that's not my responsibility. That's a big feature.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591781.

I did that so the latter could be pinned to the top of the thread without being offtopic.
Going by https://explainxkcd.com/1987/ the problem seems to be half a dozen possible package managers that each manage their own python environment.

As a Linux user it was a bit weird, I use apt to install packages but for some reason I need pip for certain python packages? I barely use python so I am still not sure if there is anything ensuring that those don't conflict.
Interesting. Does this make every Chinese citizen in the United States an agent of a foreign power? (I suspect the answer is yes)

https://definitions.uslegal.com/a/agent-of-a-foreign-power/
Security firm Blumira discovers major new Log4j attack vector
Right, I'm sure a white-collar exec took kickbacks because poker is banned in some jurisdictions.

I agree that we massively overcriminalize things. But apologizing for a crook this way is just silly.

(Not to mention you're factually incorrect on some of this, universalizing the rest when it isn't universal, and generally being very hyperbolic.)
If you are in the US without any foothold in the EU you should not care. I do not understand why these US-only sites care at all about EU.

I am French so I do care very much about privacy, just do not understand these blocks.
Do you think it has no genuine use cases?
Turns out fact checking is hard and costs money. What's surprising is that Meta, which has capable staff and lots of money, can't seem to be bothered to do it properly.
I get the amount of pressure Meta and probably youtube were going through when discussions around vaccines were rampant, but the narrative only started to change once pressure was built up into top news sites. For example, the lab leak theory. Yes, it's inconclusive and so complicated that even if Wuhan's lab would be fully transparent, I doubt you would be able to fully connect the dots. Anyways, even those discussions were getting banned until major news articles decided it was okay to talk about and only because independent journalists had built so much pressure that they finally caved. I don't know about the right trade-offs in this space, but all of this is so transparently anti free speech and obviously rigged that it just doesn't feel right.
The news sources Glyph wants already exist but the mass market is uninterested, unwilling to pay for them. There are niche markets, people who are interested and willing and able to pay, and they do get serviced by tiny obscure outfits.

(e.g. SemiAccurate:

> Professional membership allows instant access to the entire site and all content. It includes immediate access to all news, analysis, and summaries of the news. It also includes access to all regularly published analysis, all news, white papers, and related materials. Pricing is $1,000 for a year’s worth of access. We do not offer refunds for cancellation or termination.

https://semiaccurate.com/subscribe/ )

So the problem is not that we can't do this, it's that nobody wants it at scale, there's no mass market for this sort of in-depth information.

FWIW I agree that a system of timelines (what Glyph calls "trackers") would likely be a very useful motif for interacting with news.

Bucky Fuller thought that we would just program all the data into (effectively) giant spreadsheets, do analysis and scenario planning, and the computer could work out the logistics for us. Automatic utopia.

Which brings me to my point: In order to get more people to ingest and make decisions based on all this data, we need to foster more free time. Automation should free people up to spend more time learning and communicating to improve governance (among other things.)
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Not everybody wants a wireless keyboard. The least desirable thing, to me, is probably the backlight. It's clearly toggle-able though, so should be fine.
American English generally uses singular for collective nouns. British English generally uses plural. There are exceptions (such as if the name itself is pluralised), but that's the general rule. Whether its "peering past the corporate veil" or not is neither here nor there, as they treat all collective nouns this way.
Biological taxonomy is largely arbitrary. From a practical perspective it has very similar characteristics, so not much is gained from distinguishing it.
Another question would be, what if someone got their first dose 6 weeks ago and their second one 2 weeks ago?
> This definitely looks like egregious and apparently intentional infringement, but violating the GPL is not violating a law in most countries; it's violating a license agreement.

If they're not following the license, then aren't they breaking copyright laws?
I am really struggling with this comparison. It's like comparing libre software with Terminator 3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
No, this particular thread started by v64 is precisely that comparing existing apps on the regular web to dapps is comparing apples and oranges. The use cases and guarantees are pretty darn different.
>It literally has no cost in any circumstance.

Correction: It has no cost for Mac buyers. Those are the circumstances.
I'm not surprised to see this happening. Quite a few friends of mine have moved to Montreal, precisely because they couldn't afford to live in Vancouver. I know folks in Toronto who have witnessed the same. A city can only absorb so much of the country's supply problem until it's overwhelmed by demand -- and then it turns into a "hot market" with all the drawbacks that entails.
If they swap it out, they have to build code which does exactly the same/ has the same interface. It can still be considered a "derived" work. I'm not a lawyer but that was what op meant.
Because in Haskell, you don't give the library permissions. It doesn't matter if the library had permissions to do something. The library is not an entity.

You give functions permissions on a fine-grained basis, permissions which are automatically derived. The specific function which has the bug didn't need network access. It just needed to look something up in the environment. That function would never have a type that gave it network access, that would be insane and a type error.
Have you tried avocado oil?
It's all fun and games until you swap AWS for Purdue Pharma and point people for doctors and suddenly there is an opium addiction epidemic. This shit has real consequences.
What changes have you felt?
I'd be pretty curious to know if there are many people working for the CCP in propaganda in the /r/china forum. The possibility of astroturfing makes it kind of impossible to know the truth. But, I will definitely give it a read.
> "Happy birthday" is public domain

Only after 2016. Before that you would have been on the hook for ~$700 per performance to warner media group.

Admittedly, in most "Private" settings, you'd be fine. The most common place to get flagged was in a restaurant where the waiters sing to you.

> you don't need to report things you buy online on your taxes

Ooof, I got some bad news for you, buddy. You ABSOLUTELY DO need to report any online purchase that does not charge you sales tax at time of payment. Most retailers will now do this (primarily because Amazon abused the shit out of this to give customers an additional ~10% off, and the IRS started handing out fines) but for things like: Craigslist, Ebay, Alibaba, etc - You better be reporting it, you little criminal you.
Which TP-Link switch do you use?
There is some of that: multi-decade hollowing out of the working class. Undermine their ability to negotiate wages by off-shoring their labor (manufacturing --white goods, for example) or importing cheap labor (services --meat processors, for example).

On the other hand, we had the 'Hoover' years and shanty towns and people out of jobs and people begging for scraps during the dustbowl and depression years but we still had the glue of civil society to hold us together. But now, the working man and working woman can't earn an honest day's wages and we've moved to a more laissez faire attitude to what happens on the street (It's okay to shit on the sidewalk, inject, threaten pedestrians, etc.) In the extreme, it's considered 'establishment' to want civility --but even mayor Breed is fed up with the BS from the BoS and their promoters.
I cannot fathom why the Kinesis keyboards don't have thumb shift by default.

At least it's customizable.
Note Gdpr is not only about cookies. It's about data collection.
Being able to get and erase your personal data from any website is quite a nice feature.
I prefer to do my own fact checking.
Maybe recency is not the sole factor: https://i.imgur.com/OzznuBa.png

edit: source: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.21267769v...
I got tired of PHP and Perl, so I tried bash (2018)
> We have to evacuate Taiwan, a population the size of LA, by boat.

While the Taiwan situation isn't great, this seems a bit of a leap. It also completely disregards the reality of a situation like that. You can't just relocate cutting-edge industry and a population of more than 23 million.
Well, as long as we tolerate it. To the extent Americans (and others) live in a democracy and can pass laws to address social harms this situation is entirely our own fault.
It's not very convincing if you don't have any experience with actually getting loans. A quick google showed me plenty of fast loan providers.
Just try buying a house in Austin right now and you'll see the impact.
For all intents and purposes the Bay has two parts. The places tourists visit and news org talk about (almost exclusively downtown SF and SOMA), and the places people actually live - like the sunset, mission, san jose, east bay, and the peninsula.

Most analysis does not go beyond the first part.

I'm not saying the second part is a utopia by any means, but you can carve out a more affordable and generally normal and happy life in the latter part pretty easily.

All said the traffic sucks (like all large metros), its still very expensive (particularly for families who can't live with roomates), childcare costs are high, etc.
> I think this is obviously false and hurts the credibility of the rest of this comment.

It is not OBVIOUSLY false.

Look at education costs relative to the cost of living. Consider that your only recourse to a decent salary is through higher education, since the middle class union job is dead (and REALLY dead for someone young since all the ones that do exist are held by older people that sold out the younger generation in successive union negotiations).

You really think housing is cheaper or better now? I'm assuming you live in silicon valley. The only thing built is "bigger and better" because that is MORE EXPENSIVE and people have to PAY MORE for it. Nobody builds 'affordable housing' which you are obliquely criticizing people for not choosing. There is no choice for 'affordable housing': all of it that exists is occupied. That's why there is a housing shortage and rental shortage in practically every major urban market.

And then there is health care...

Food has dropped in quality even if one argues it has maintained cost parity.

Jobs are far worse that they used to be. Like food, the number of jobs is cooked to seem the same, but the quality of the job is far worse, which leads me to...

A great deal of consumer cost advantages have been due to globalization/arbitrage of foreign near-slave-labor. The cost of better consumer goods is destruction of the middle class and US manufacturing.

All the major milestones of the happy capitalist worker's lifetime are all very very very much more expensive or worse.

All of these structural degradations to the US are being propped over with financing shenanigans such as low interest rates. The Pandemic is all that on steroids.

All those shenanigans are sensitive to disruption. COVID is pushing our currency manipulation/control to the brink.
Does anyone understand why a third dose of the same vaccine improves immunity to Omicron?

I'm willing to believe the empirical evidence that boosters make a meaningful difference, but I can't figure out intuitively why the same mRNA a third time helps to address this new spike.
A lot of other studies with better research say the opposite.

My take:

The amino acid profile in animal vs. plant proteins is the reason, with excess Methionine being the culprit. It's needed in greater quantities during your growth phase of life, not as much as you get older

Methionine increase homocysteine levels, leading to greater heart disease, and it's been implicated in cancer too (esp tumor growth)

Something called "recombinant Methioninase" is making the rounds in cancer research actually -- it lowers Methionine levels.

For the curious, my medline saved search

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=%22l+methionine+gamma+...
I own an advantage 2 and I will be smashing that pre-order button. I love my advantage2 so much, and this new 360 looks even better!
>> Anything you can't be deprived of is a thing that others are forced to provide you under state compulsion.

The state can’t take away my guns. The state doesn’t have to buy me any guns.
This situation is like lobbying: is it the people's voice in fungible action or is it mega-corporations funneling money directly into politicians pockets?

The answer is probably both, and any attempt to litigate it will probably be abused and lead to even more issues.
It needs the transportation network before the houses and it's too late for that.
Its one thing to dismiss it as anecdotal, its another thing to present the anecdote as the opposite of a rational conclusion.
Looks like they have added a builder for tokio::task[1] that will allow you to set a name. It's unstable at the moment so you would need to set the tokio_unstable cfg flag.

[1]: https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/blob/master/tokio/src/task...
For independent technical consulting for over a decade, I had only a small number of high-value clients, so I ended up dedicating a ThinkPad to each client.

I also had email account specific to each client, so that I could have a mail program on that ThinkPad access only the respective account.

There are many reasons to do one laptop per client (especially if you're WFH, not traveling), including not exposing personal and other-client stuff to whatever weird stuff is in the build environment of one client.

Another reason, though this never came up for me, is that there can be legal orders to permit inspection of the computer, online accounts, etc., including by computer forensics. If that happened for one client, that could be in conflict with your obligations to another client (as well as in conflict with your SO's private vacation photos, if they were on the same device). Being able to reassure that everything for a client was compartmentalized to certain devices and accounts might come in handy.

At one point, I even had color-coded labelmaker tape to help keep track of what was compartmentalized to what. And photos of the devices with the physical labeling on them, in case I ever needed to convey that I took it seriously.

(Related: One time, I had a hard drive fail such that (despite encryption) I couldn't do an approved wipe of it before disposal or warranty return. That client's compliance policies required that I physically destroy the drive platters, and ship the remnants to them via Registered Mail. It was a slightly fun/cool exercise, especially since the platters shattered nicely. And the neighborhood of $100 lost was well-invested in professionalism goodwill with a client who paid a few orders of magnitude of that amount over time.)

(In some ways, I'm now happy to no longer be running a consulting business, mainly because a predictable, consistent amount of money just appears in my bank account every couple weeks. :)
You are mistaken. All three terms have the same meaning.
We had that sort of thing in 'real property' too. Today most jurisdictions limit the supervision landlords can decide to implement over tenants (who in fact have a 'property right' in many cases over the property as well as the freeholder, and the right to 'peacefully enjoy' (without intrusion) their home) .

It seems like eventually the law will have to change so that these companies have to start treating users like tenants rather than serfs.