skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strictly speaking, "fossil" means "dug up".

That meaning's become confounded with the sense of "fossilised" as in "mineralised", but the original etymology referred to anything dug from the ground, hence coal as a fossil (that is, dug-from-the-Earth) fuel, a nomenclature later passed on to petroleum and natural gas.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/fossil

(I'd only discovered this myself recently.)
Another interesting article of his (that you may have already seen): https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
Foxconn's India unit Bharat FIH files for $663 mln domestic IPO
It took me nine months once to get a 3 -line change into production at Amazon (and this was in the early 00s) Yeah. Large corporations are crazy. It was change to a naughty words filter and that triggered all sorts of reviews.
High frequency signal processing is an obvious example of a case where an analogue computer can be superior under certain conditions. Say you want to detect when a signal has risen above a certain average magnitude over a particular time window. You can quite easily do that using a few op amps and passive components, even up to GHz frequency signals. To do the same thing digitally would require high end ADCs and either a very fast CPU or an FPGA. If your budget is tight then even frequencies of 1MHz might prove challenging to process digitally.

This is probably one of the reasons why analogue fly by wire flight control systems existed quite a way into the digital age. The original Su-27 had an analogue fly by wire flight control system, for example.
A better question might be why would the political class ever want an exit strategy for something that gives them perpetual emergency powers?
Doesn't the inclusion of the digital accuracy checkers then decrease the efficiency, and mean you might as well use a completely digital computer?
Just supposing here, but interfacing digital with analogue probably is a poor middle ground between the versatility and ubiquity of purely digital computers (countless existing systems exist to do whatever you want, with optimised algorithms and chips to work with) and purely analogue (presumably gain efficiency advantage by not having to cater to versatile use-cases).
'Heretics' was my favourite book the last time I reread the series, because it finally gave us a glimpse of a large and chaotic civilisation beyond the reach of the stultified empire. I agree that it took many rereadings to get there though.
How is mac UI "compromised by the existence of touchscreens", when there's not a single MacOS device with a touchscreen?

>IT companies were building tools to empower users and actually competed with each other fiercely.

Glorifying 90s feature factories? That's a new one.
"We do not recommend using our services to quit your job if you have a family or others are dependent for your monetary support."

now there is the problem :)

Well actually I'm fine with my job, just a merger from startup to mid-sized company with bad management that is really really annoying for a product owner... Also doubled team size and more important projects, but no raise. Time to go, but not in a hurry.
This happened to me when the small company that I worked at was acquired by a large company, too. Smallco's engineering definitely had some dysfunction that I was trying to work on: speeding up information from CI, increasing developer confidence, empowering juniors to make the smaller decisions independently, that sort of thing. Then on the acquisition we were told that the most important priority was to switch over to the largeco's infrastructure. Our product was a Linux desktop app, largeco didn't support desktop Linux. Smallco was on mercurial, largeco needed us to switch to git. Our CI would be switched off entirely on a given date.

I left to join another smallco (I admit that I was among the earliest smallco employees to leave post acquisition, but wasn't among the last). From what I hear, they did eventually finish the migration but didn't do anything about the other engineering problems, with the result that they took a significant hit on their already slow rate of executing on the roadmap and a competitor that was previously thought to be moribund is now at feature parity, and has gained enough share that bigco have to list it as a key part of the ecosystem that they support, right alongside the smallco software.

I do not know what lessons have been learned inside bigco about this situation. I do know that I was quite a dick about showing that we were focusing on the wrong problems and slowing the organisation down, and that this meant I wasn't effective in getting higher-up support for the necessary changes.
Pack 'n Plays are a Godsend. Whomever invented them is a saint, and every first-time parent should be issued one.
> the comment asking for evidence is flagged

The comment came from a banned account whose comments are dead by default and need to be vouched. Discussing that is as off-topic as discussing voting, and not surprisingly it’s just noise now.
...that they aren't really using effectively (for their own personal or political gain, or to combat the spread of the virus).

This conspiracy theory doesn't pass the laugh test.

I'd love for some governments to start wielding emergency powers in an effective way, even if it were just for graft, to show that they're not clueless.
In my mind the end game is either a natural mutation into something that isn't that big of a deal or a technology exmachnia.

Something like a vaccine agaisnt all coronaviruses or perhaps some other clever solution no one has thought of.

The longer this goes on the more Manhattan project we're going to get about it.

How long any of that takes I don't even have guesses for anymore.
The single slash was the first thing I saw, it jumped out to me before I saw anything else on the line. That's the value of experience.
There is an API for GPT-3.

GitHub copilot uses Codex, a descendent of GPT-3.
Depending on the country, you can find many public domain maps, scanned, in the Library of Congress.

Here's the famous 18th century Cassini map of France (first modern triangulated map, three generations of Cassinis worked on it)

https://www.loc.gov/item/gm72002942/

The LoC graciously scanned and hosts this copy. Arcanum also sells it:
https://maps.arcanum.com/en/map/europe-18century-firstsurvey...

You'll notice that the Arcanum map is scanned, tiled, and hosted as a modern web scrollable map.
Starlink's Speeds Are Declining in US, Ookla Finds
Is there any reason to believe being vaccinated means you're less of a breeding ground for variants? Surely it's not 100%, and if it's not, new variants will always come, including gradually evading vaccines, no?
Have you tried Turris routers?
Teams is the only application that consistently has trouble finding any audio devices because it decides to manage them itself, poorly, instead of relying on system defaults.

Audio works in every other application, but sometimes Teams just decides it can't find any audio interface. Or worse, it finds one but decides "It's not working" and refuses to use it.

Using Teams in the browser is then a possible solution.
> With countries having 50% vaccination rate, there's always place to brew new variants that might or not be resistant to vaccines and medicine.

Is it true that new variants are more likely to evolve among more unvaccinated people? US has had significantly more cases that South Africa (per 100k people) for most of the time. I assume mutations are more likely to happen in places with more cases. Not sure if vaccine plays a selective pressure on vaccine mutation (bad or otherwise).

https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=zaf&are...
What Are Droplets and Aerosols and How Far Do They Go? Historical Perspective
Unions in the private sector destroyed themselves. They bankrupted nearly every private domestic industry where they predominated.

That is what caused their membership rates to decline. They are now poised to take over the new bright spots of the US economy: Amazon and Tesla, and destroy these golden geese, for the short term benefit of their members, just as they did to the ones before them.

In the one sector where expenses are socialized, and thus which doesn't go bankrupt easily, they have gotten increasingly powerful.

Government social welfare spending has rapidly grown, at the behest of public sector unions who increasingly control the political system:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/social-spending-oecd-long...

A couple anecdotes illuminates the kind of power these unions wield:

New York has nearly 300,000 unionized public sector employees receiving over $100,000 a year:

https://archive.md/JnJQY

In California, emergency workers can retire at 55 with 90% of their pension, that averages $108,000 per year.

California now has $1 trillion in pension obligations for its unionized public sector workers.
That got me wondering how long it took social insects to evolve. Did we have massive colonies 66 million years ago? Appears so. [0]

[0] https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/32/2/406/1054064
Taking vitamin D is great and recommended for pretty much everyone, but the evidence for it being an effective prophylaxis against Covid-19 just isn't there[1]. By all means take it for general health reasons (I do too!) but don't expect it to provide you any specific protection.

[1] https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng187/evidence/evidence-rev...
> If we applied the same rigorous testing and verification processes in medicine to software, software development as we know it would definitely end.

Good.
The pattern of stories indicated that it was a thing that got attention, so people went digging for whatever they could find and push. You don't need a conspiracy for something to get way more attention than others.
I think that some blogs have email lists as discussion forum with each thread devoted to one post, but I can't come up with examples right now. If the email list archive is public, it might be the perfect solution.
road obstacles.

rock fall, tree, building.

Given that the road is occluded, this needs to be in the training data, if only for autonomous lane following.
Yes, I've noticed this in Germany also, it's great.
These kind of laws do not work since people believe what they want anyway. If it is forbidden then it must be a conspiracy against them, they see themselves as victims and soon after the blaming starts. Just because someone wanted to build a profile.

But on an EU level it is just disastrous because the EU doesn't have the competency to evaluate regional conflicts.

> widely condemned by the international community

Let's be honest, few people care about the opinion of said international community because that abstract group is not backed by anything.

> Olivér Várhelyi, has concluded that Inzko’s law is responsible for the current crisis.

What is really surprising that such a conclusion would even be heard.

Problem is now, after the kids came up with such rules, it is hard to take back without it to being seen as a denial of the crimes that happened.

I don't even have high expectations, but this incompetency is really damaging. This problem touches many other bad cases of legislation, rules for speech or against some forms of speech. Just stupid...
Use it in a browser. At least you can close the browser, and to be honest desktop Chrome seems to have better power management.

Of course, sometimes you then get the "Your browser is unsupported -- please use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome" message, whilst using Chrome...
open source did not stop Heartbleed. How about force commercial software companies to have 1 in 10 devs. dedicated to security with even a single feature ticket getting fixed by one of them resulting in a fine of ~5% of the yearly revenue.
| a parody on "мне по плечу"

As I native, I would assume that "мне по хрену"/"мне похрен" is an euphemism of the more rough variant "мне похуй" (it is up to my dick, same height as my dick).
You're too stressed, you need to start cooling down a couple of weeks _prior_ to starting your vacation so you can enjoy it properly.
The reason people use it is because either they don’t have a say in it or they legitimately never used anything better (such as Slack or the lesser-known competitors like Mattermost).

If your benchmark is Skype for Business or email then I guess Teams is indeed an upgrade, and Microsoft is betting on that.
> Another example is a trend in newer versions of GNOME and macOS where the title bar is fused with the toolbar.

It's not a new mac feature. It's an original mac feature:
https://i1.wp.com/lowendmac.com/wp-content/uploads/about.png
Yeah, this should not be calling `Deno.sleepSync`... this should be an `await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 220));`.
Yeah it's more like no leader can be caught making any mistake / taking any risk / any measure that goes towards freedom / normalcy, and so while the public doesn't demand it it won't happen. Hard to say where the public stands on this, though it was interesting reading a Reddit thread concerning lockdown measures being enacted in Ontario again, total 180 from the habitual Reddit opinion. So it might be coming, it's obvious people are tired and are ready to understand a one-sided policy is not sustainable.
As part of a generic defensive regimen, zinc + zinc ionophores (OTC options include Quercetin and the green tea extract EGCG) are worth a look, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016201342...

> Zinc can play a pathophysiological role in several diseases and can interfere in key processes of microbial growth. This evidence justifies the efforts in applying Zinc ionophores to restore Zinc homeostasis and treat bacterial/viral infections such as coronavirus diseases. Zinc ionophores increase the intracellular concentration of Zinc ions causing significant biological effects. This review provides, for the first time, an overview of the applications of the main Zinc ionophores in Zinc deficiency, infectious diseases, and in cancer, discussing the pharmacological and coordination properties of the Zinc ionophores.
Fosshost's Year-End Update
>Something like Teams or VS Code that get new features added all the time would not be possible anymore and would cost tons of money. And while security issues should not be taken lightly, I don't consider leaking my user agent to be as big of a problem as getting permanent damage from low-quality medical care.

It won't take years. We will have to train developers and create better tools. Then you will libraries and apps sandboxed, like we would not allow an IDE full access to the internet, or to the entire hard drive without permissions.

Say you get the task to build an RSS reader, you will have to choose:

1 use a language+standard library that is safe and the vendor offers some warranty

2 use an unsafe language or some unsafe libraries but you will have to take the risks and do the work to review and evaluate

3 in case you prefer open source you find a language and ecosystem where there is some foundation that even if it can't offer some warranty it accepts donations and contributions that are directly targeted on security, so you would have packages that would have a checkmark that was reviewed by a team.

So I would use a safe language(a GC one) with a trusted standard library, so now I can do the network requests to grab the XML files , parse them with the secure XML library and render the content in the safe Web View provided.

This means that the guys that give or sell me the XML library and the Web View will take the risk, but they can charge for their work. We would probably get smart developers using some extremely safe languages like math safe not Rust(safer then C safe) and this guys can write a maybe slower but 100% web view (maybe with less shiny animations).

Capitalism would be forced to invest in this safer tools and in training the developers, Microsoft ,Apple, Google will have to secure their unsafe OS and libraries but for sure it would not take 1 guy years to build an RSS reader that would not take over your data and send it to some hacker somewhere.
Did you read my original comment?

> When someone figures out how to custody financial assets on the blockchain (e.g. stocks, bonds, etc), then you can create exchanges that aren't regulated and are open 24-7.

The databases are outside of the purview of the state, so they're able to get around restrictions. Why can't you gamble online, depending on the state you're in? Why can't I send money to people in Iran? Why can't I invest in a start up if I'm not accredited?
Interesting, I hardly run into it in my personal bubble. Sure, it pops up here and there, but not much more than, say, VR when Occulous Rift was all the rage.

It's just enough to make me realize that it's something some people consider to be revolutionary, but not enough to tempt me into googling what it's all about (web3, specifically. I kinda know what NFTs and smart contracts are about, I think).
> I work as a sysadmin and everyday is an uphill battle to convince people to not do dumb shit like exposing endpoints to the public internet (without need).

I find it helpful to have standard low cost (certainly no monetary cost, but also little in the way of bureaucratical cost) solutions which remove the need.

E.G.

"I need to access this device's webpage from everywhere"

"Fine, go via this proxy which has oidc integration with our corporate identity, Here's the URL, let me know if there's any problems"

Doesn't always work, but it certainly reduces the fights.
Exactly. Developers aren’t stupid and most have experience with legitimately good tools - you’re not going to win them over with a pile of shit like Teams.

The target market for Teams however is one that’s often non-technical and has never used anything better, so for them Teams is an upgrade.
The pill just got approved so once manufacturing ramps up we should be good to go because they don’t target the spikes.

The real issue is variants arising in other parts of the world where healthcare access is not great.
Two Active Directory Bugs Lead to Easy Windows Domain Takeover
Did you read the article? Modules might be landfilled but the cars themselves are designed to be repaired, and being made from commodity parts use less finite resources. The issue is that most electronics are not diverted from landfill, not the idea of economic machines that require occasional servicing.

Regardless of the cost, most of your waste is not being diverted. China's manufacturing industry shouldn't be responsible for American/European waste mismanagement
As much as I love HN, it is an echo chamber on some topics. Also sometimes people are too afraid to post a contrary opinion for fear of getting voted down to oblivion, as such some threads just become full of 'me-too' type comments.

My wish is for more text centric HN-alike forums, which cover the topics that HN doesn't, but is populated by the same type of people that HN has - i.e. mostly polite and knowledgeable, with a desire to contribute to the discussion.

Reddit is not it, nor are any of the other forums I've found so far.
Isn't that rather normal that foreigners have to learn grammar more explicitly? Outside of teachers and people who studied Polish, nobody remembers what "przysłówek" is.
I try to translate another two popular German sayings that were not mentioned here before:

The first one is for the intellectuals:

- This is not tangent to me.

The second one is more difficult to translate. I try:

- This is not tangent to my ass.

- This does not touch my ass.

- This in an anus fly-by.
I don't think we're going anywhere until we have a real cure. You can have 10 vaccinations but if your immune system is shite they are not gonna amount to anything. And half of the world is still unvaccinated so even with our boosters we're not gonna end variants.
They aren't? Lockdowns are stupid and have affected mom and pop stores disproportionately, making the rich richer. Seems pretty effective to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/feb/03/amazon-re...
Israel begins fourth Covid-19 dose vaccine for people 60+ as Omicron surges
It's a matter of antibody levels. Antibody binding is worse for Omicron, so you need more of them. Booster shots provide you with such increased antibody levels.

Are they still gonna be high enough after a few months? Good question. Afaict, nobody knows yet.

(And this of course leaves aside the whole matter of T-cell immunity still providing protection against severe disease.)
I certainly agree with the idea of not being better in an absolute sense, not sure I agree with both use cases.
Graphics are built around digital representations of colours and shapes, Vectors are incredibly easy ways to represent 2d graphics, and are very easy to manipulate for digital computers. Polygons were quickly discovered as a memory efficient way of doing the same things in the 3d space. Analogue graphics representation or manipulation became outdated very quickly. For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxc3mKqKTk&ab_channel=VICET... shows how much old analogue machinery is required to replicate what could currently be done by most phones.
I don't know enough about your other possible use case to comment on it.
What is the name of that board?
Also French(From a Brits perspective, probably)

I fart in your general direction
One day they just completely fucked the ability to paste code. It worked flawlessly before and then suddenly it removes indenting, bugs out and doesn't let you exit the preformatted code block. It's so bugged, it's like they didn't even test it. They couldn't have, one day it literally worked fine and the next it was unusable and could be replicated every single time.

And why there isn't the ability to just delete the rich text formatting and write markdown I do not know. They can't build a bug free rich text editor or one with intuitive controls. It's the same problem I have with Jira, the rich text editor just does not work like it should.
There is nothing more out of touch than a news article about a tweet lol. What about this was “bizarre”?
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Omicron is basically the common cold when it comes to symptoms and deaths. Could be the real "vaccine".
Duckduckgo as much as i want to get away from Google, most my searches just fail and i end up in Google maybe its because of my localizatio n..
Have you seen how unnecessarily huge some controls are in the latest macOS redesign?
Their friends got way richer. The number of billionaires skyrocketed in the last 2 years.
That's only true for places like HN. For many places the article is distributed, a picture is common to be included.

I have seen another commenter say that the articles shared on social media often include an artist rendition. Those would definitely be clickbait.
Same in Poland. Warsaw is the default city.
They also used to be able to be set up standalone without controller (have one AP lite as well) but they removed that from their "apps" a while back (already set up APs keep working in standalone mode). This has caused me to make new AP deployments around the house using TP-Link Omada APs w/ OpenWRT firmware instead. Ubiquity is no longer worth the premium if they keep messing with the software side of things (although their hardware keeps working well).
There's nothing indicating vaccines do anything to stop or make variants less likely. Arguably they could make more virulent variants more likely to survive.
This is a great way to avoid ego conflicts. Now they can just refer to the software and say they follow best practice.
Well that's interesting because I was also talking to an acquaintance that is a mortician, a few months ago, and he said that anecdotes like this contain absolutely no valuable data at all and only help to sow misinformation.