skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So in terms of a government response do we care about data now or are we at the point where we just restrict liberties and mandate vaccines assuming the worst possible scenario every time something changes? I guess if we're lucky when the data shows they over reacted they might give some liberties back and hopefully the vaccine rollout won't result in too many adverse side effects. Common.. This is insanity.

I honestly don't know what you're arguing for here. I don't care if people take the vaccine or what the outcome of omicron is, my issue is with the government response given the data we have. The data supporting the use of vaccines to tackle omicron is extremely questionable. And that's not even mentioning the fact that it's already questionable enough to mandate COVID vaccines on healthy individuals given recent data suggesting those vaccinated have less robust immune responses to COVID and all of its potential future variants.
> We now disable user-added PPAs, as they often cause upgrade issues for users

Surely this doesn't mean what it sounds like at face value, because that would make Pop OS 21.10 unusable for me (am currently using 20.04 on two different machines).

There is a lot of software that isn't released through stable Debian channels
It also cost 5 to 30 EUR per query/person and takes several weeks.
I'm not sure what you are expecting that isn't a main feature of Apache.

I imagine you expect something like a CGI script with mod-rewrite, but your comment only actually requires plain Apache. A network rule of "if URL is requested reply with this data" is implemented by putting a file at the expected place.
I've started listening to audiobooks while playing American Truck Simulator weekends and evenings. It's like going on a road trip without leaving the house.
Can I hear the distant sound of Marley's Ghost rattling his chains?

Merry Xmas. :-)
At first I thought you meant to write fingers, then I realized your must have been referring to the truncated fingers, that is “finges”.

Did you just do that on your own without telling an adult? I totally did similar things.

I cut my thumb to the bone when I was 10 by whittling a stick towards myself, and I also have a fault line there now.
Yeah, some JavaScrit can be nice, but if your website stops working with all javascript being blocked, you should probably make a native program instead.

This is particularly important so that web scrapers and other automated tools that the Web relies on can work. Also accessibility tools.
I've been using F#, Giraffe, Fable.React/Feliz, and Fable.Remoting in production for the past four years. Fable enabled us to grow and maintain a stable team of people that work both server- and client-side. You can join our team without any prior javascript experience and we'll have you productive in days.

It does not and cannot take away the complexity of writing an SPA in React. If you want to write a high quality SPA in React using Fable, you'll still need React, webpack, ... expertise in the team.

I know that in theory we all write perfect apps and have test suites with 100% coverage that do not hinder us as we change the codebase. Reality is much different though. You are behind on a deadline, your spouse and kids are home with COVID, and the junior has made 20 changes that should've been in prod last week but aren't because you haven't had the chance to review them. This is where F# shines. Merge the shit code to prod (after maybe some manual testing :P). You will be able to refactor it later with relatively high confidence.

The interest on technical debt in F# is so much lower compared to any other language I've used in prod (C#, Typescript, Javascript, and PHP).
If he’s paying that much in taxes, he must have made a lot of money. Good for him. Others pony up, so he can too.
Biogen slashes Aduhelm price in half, foreshadows significant layoffs
That's what seems to get a bit weird as time passes. IIRC, they aim at being NT5.2 aka Windows 2003 compatible, but if they don't support newer driver models, that would rule out using any recent GPU, as nVidia doesn't exactly ship XP drivers for the RTX 3080. Curious what their current plans are for this issue.
>> The first two links specifically say there is not enough information to make a full determination. Public health policy shouldn't be based on "We don't really know, but maybe?

They say that up front but then go on to site some rather compelling results. Then they mention some of the failures - like giving it to people who are already on deaths doorstep and not being effective. They also mention that "observational studies" are ongoing, which also suggests there is hope.

>> Also it's not withholding information:

Proper nutritional guidelines are published all over the place, including recommended daily intake of vitamins, and we've known pretty much from the beginning that otherwise healthy people are much safer from COVID.

Nobody is reminding people of that in regard to Covid. ALL the messaging is "get the vaccine". I've said in other threads that I've had Covid, and that offers better protection than the vaccine, so why do people keep insisting that I should get it? The response (which is valid) is that it will offer even more protection, and that we should do everything we can to slow the spread. Well, if we want to do everything we can then why is "everything" restricted to just getting the vaccine? Where are the calls for people to keep in shape, lose weight, make sure they get good nutrition - in relation to preventing Covid?
As an extra layer of safety, buy the device on a credit card - in the UK you get Section 75 protection which is by law entitles you to a refund for defective/faulty/not as described products - similar to card networks' protections except it's the law and will succeed even in cases where a typical card dispute would fail.
I don't know, I got all three shots of Moderna (two doses at 1 month interval in the summer + booster last week):

1) first dose: nothing

2) second dose: some (minor) pain in the arm I received the shot, that lasted only the morning after I got the dose (that I got around 21:00, so I probably was sleeping when it began)

3) booster (half dose): same (a little stronger) pain in the arm, nothing relvant but this time it lasted a couple days + and it was accompanied by some - cannot really describe it - slight fogginess in my brain, again nothing serious, just the feeling of not being 100% prompt/reactive

Given that this time it was half dose, I tend to believe that while in July I was probably in a better overall status before the dose due to the season (or whatever).

Exactly the same happened to my wife (we had together all the shots).
Some months back I built http://keylight.us to use my second monitor as a light during video meetings.
This article strikes me as hopelessly naive. Filled with the same kind of 'new is better and solves everything' mentality I've seen in the JS community for years. There's no desire for maturity because nothing has ever matured. Even frameworks from huge companies go through radical internal paradigm shifts every 18 months. JS runs natively in the browser. The author implies compilation is required to deploy client-side rendered websites. Sass, Less, css grid, all claimed to 'solve' CSS for whatever the problem in the mind of the author happened to be. ... more of the same.

This article brings no hope that somethings has fundamentally changed in the community.
Maybe you should add contact info (email) to your profile? Who knows if then a person who is able to help reaches out to you.
I think in (most?) Europe is 112 since forever exactly because rotary phones.

(checking wikipedia [1] ...)

TIL It was also to permit physically blocking all the other numbers in public access rotary phones while leaving emergency calls enabled. Smart.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/112_(emergency_telephone_numbe...
How would you go about them? So far I rely on Mullvad, privacy badger, ublock and random user agent.
Good on whomever for making it a public service rather than a crap site filled with ads.
Rather naive expecting good behaviour on the internet unless it’s a heavily walled garden. We’ve had decades of experience to draw from…
I've been in the same boat. It's really, really tough, and even though it doesn't seem like it's even possible, it does get better.

Many things have already been said here, one I haven't seen is (basic!) Mindfulness - no psychotherapists or other psychos involved. Just self-paced, listen to a 5-min mp3 once or twice a day. This one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-practical-guide-finding... comes with a good free app (book is OK, but written by a professional, so not airy-fairy).

Unlike my vegan childless friends, I don't have the time to go on retreats or walk barefoot on moist grass, but I do have 5 mins to breathe in peace, in work breaks for instance. I'm not sold on Mindfulness as a cure for everything from obesity to cancer, but it sure helped me gain a new perspective on life.

The basic premise is, our minds have an autopilot of thought tape. These thoughts tend to gravitate to negative, angry, protective thoughts and emotions. It's not that hard to break that loop though. This "stream of consciousness" is not objective, but rather a very biased resampling of our experiences. With minimal training, you can recognise it and refocus it.

For example, I used to often fume about work annoyances on my way home from work, thinking about e-mails I received, or what I'd respond next time, etc. With some Mindfulness under my belt, I can just switch it off. Look out the window of the bus and genuinely enjoy not changing nappies right now. Or when that infuriating guy from sales sends you another e-mail, and your brain serves you the many angry memories of past interactions, recognise that, separate the memories from the e-mail that really just needs an "ok, I'll look into it" response, and you can get on with your life.

It doesn't make the world an easier place for you, but it helps you focus on the good bits that are already there. As a new parent, you probably don't have the time (or sufficient sleep) to pick up a new hobby, but 5 mins most days is feasible. And, chances are, you might discover there are nice moments in the day, when your mind isn't flooding you with memories of the bad stuff.

That, and also: when we had 1 child, my wife and I tried to look after them together, always. We now figured having some "you time", as others say, is invaluable. 2 hrs of looking after a child on your own, plus 2 hrs of time to yourself, is a huge difference. Just sit and chill and watch Netflix if that's your thing. Or do the weight lifting / running / skydiving in that time. Did wonders for me.
A user can delete cookies but can't change the fingerprint reliably. Fingerprints also are easier to secretly share between multiple conspiring parties. Using cookies is a legitimate and more-or-less civilized practice, fingerprints are by definition meant to spy on users against their will. Why do we have cookie warnings but no fingerprinting warnings? Browser fingerprinting should be strictly outlawed for non-police use and require a court order. It's more like eavesdropping rather than like cookies.
I'm the author. I'm not a Go developer though, can you give me an example I can reproduce for `go get` that doesn't work for you?

For the terminal, there's a few mechanisms, but environment variables are the catch-all there, yes (full list: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste...). Those do work for most cases, but it is absolutely not a hard guarantee for applications that actively ignore standard proxy configuration (handling that is very hard, and definitely out of scope here).

Go does generally observes `http_proxy` correctly by default in other cases I've tested, so this vert simple code from the test suite is automatically intercepted for example: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit-server/blob/maste.... Very happy to look into any failing cases you can share.
Are those mods? Cool, didn't know that! I'll definitely have to check it out. I remember that Death Rally had very cool mod tracks too (by Purple Motion if I'm not mistaken).
The QOI File Format Specification
Good to know, thanks for the confirmation!
Rather naive expecting good behaviour on the internet unless it’s a heavily walled garden. We’ve had decades of experience to draw from…

Also, it’s curious the developers made it possible to grope.
I did this too during lockdown. But now I realized that going for a walk while listening to audiobooks is better for my body.
Yeah, this was my immediate thought. In the UK it would be counted as a COVID death, so assuming South Africa are recording numbers similarly you would expect COVID deaths to be higher in the more immunocompromised population if anything.
Because of your comment I just looked at the source - yup tables.
And a spacer gif too https://news.ycombinator.com/s.gif
"This application requires JavaScript to run." /s
> Wouldn't this mean more deaths or am I missing something? Are COVID deaths in AIDS patients attributed to AIDS not COVID?

That's the thing, it's really hard to compare. There is no standardisation. You can have a person dying from AIDS counted as a COVID death. The other extreme is that someone with AIDS, in theory, could have a COVID infection for decades and be tested n times.
> It's so easy to look at someone else and judge them, and assume they're the victim of their own laziness rather than complicated people with complicated histories and complicated situations.

I understand what you mean from an emotional stand point, but isn't it odd we can think of someone crushing pick up size mountains of cans to make a buck as "lazy"?

In retrospect, your dad was obviously busting his butt and hustling to make some honest money as best he could, and that deserves our admiration.
Mike has anxiety.
I second this. It’s not open source, yes, but it’s a fair one-time payment. No subscription or anything!
A new children lullaby in the making
I think Oregon has the right idea. We did invent the bottle bill, so I guess that isn't a complete surprise. The redemption value is tied not to inflation, but to redemption rate. If it drops low enough, the deposit is increased. We started at 5 cents, and in 2015 the redemption rate had slipped down to 65%, so the deposit was doubled to 10 cents.
It will take a few months just to bring yourself up to speed on mouse/keyboard event bindings and how they interact in one specific browser and one operating system let alone all browsers and operating systems and mobile and that's without even thinking about rendering, templating, network operation wrappers, local storage, camera and sound APIs. The list goes on.

I've been doing this since literally IE 5.5 and I'm still learning new stuff all the time. The fact that you think you can learn all this in a few months is hilarious.
Has anybody from gnu explained what the reason might be? When its likely to come back up? Not able to access gnu's git savannah also.
The experiment that led to this file format (QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time) was discussed on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29328750
> Is the fix as easy as that Akamai creating a subsidiary in the EU?

The article has "Importantly, the Wiesbaden court appeared to accept that Akamai may have stored Cookiebot data on EU servers, and not in the U.S., which suggests Cookiebot’s agreement is with Akamai’s German affiliate."
The advantage of example.com is that its still served over HTTP, which is very helpful if you are trying to force a redirect for wifi login or 'out of quota' on a phone plan.
Usually 30-60 minutes day during the week, and more on the weekends. I've become more disciplined over the last few years. Prior to the pandemic, I was involved in several reading groups (reading a wide range of subjects, from theology to fiction), and that required a different approach to the material to keep track of what I was reading, and get the readings done "on time." Prior to that, I was still reading multiple days per week, but I tended to read in fits and bursts, rather than consistently, over the course of a year.
You mean OnStar's "Stolen Vehicle Slowdown" feature?
We are in a similar space, our tool (https://caido.io) is geared toward bug bounty hunters and pentesters. HTTP Toolkit looks great congrats to the dev! It seems to compete more with requestly (https://requestly.io/) than burp suite (https://portswigger.net/).
I agree with the concern regarding leaky abstractions, but ultimately the developers should still own their services and be on-call for it, e.g.

- On-call dev deploys a buggy change that messes up some transactional data. Product owner passes the complaints received by customer service. On-call dev rolls back the deployment, writes a script to fix the bad data, and then prepares a post-mortem.

- On-call dev and on-call dba are paged because the database for the service is slow. On-call dev checks the service metrics and logs, and confirms that this is not caused by a deployment nor abnormal traffic. On-call dba checks the database metrics and logs, and finds some runaway queries due to silly optimizer. On-call dba kills the runaway queries, and proposes to add an index hint. On-call dev agrees, works on it, and asks on-call dba to review the change.

- On-call sec is notified because of a new rce vulnerability. On-call sec comes up with the steps to identify and remedy the issue. All on-call devs are notified to follow the steps, to ensure that their services are not impacted.
Only in the same sense as making any usability improvement. Making car loans in general is also “a play to sell more cars.” There’s no point to such interpretation.
I don't know whether they can, but Microsoft tried to work around that by having (one of?) their German Azure DCs be managed bei Deutsche Telekom for exactly that reason: their relationship would be defined by a contract, but Microsoft does not own Telekom and thus can't send them a memo to ignore the contract.

I don't know the details, but I'm sure Microsoft considered whether it would be enough to just stick a "Microsoft Deutschland GmbH" label on it.
Key passages:

> Vagueness, mental fog, “underconfidence”, avoidance, evasion, blanking out, etc. are hallmarks of Ra. If cornered, a person embodying Ra will abruptly switch from blurry vagueness to anger and nihilism.

> Ra involves seeing abstract, impersonal institutions as more legitimate than individuals. For instance, I have the intuition that it is gross and degrading to pay an individual person to clean your house, but less so to hire a maid service, and still less so if a building that belongs to an institution hires a janitor. Institutions can have authority and legitimacy in a way that humans cannot; humans who serve institutions serve Ra.

> I remember being angry at a coworker, once, for attempting to sell a product to big pharma companies, because he was thinking of them too lightly, not appreciating the awesome majesty of the pharma companies that we were barely worthy to submit our ideas to. He seemed not to understand the unspoken “way of the world”, and that made me angry. That was classic Ra thinking on my part.

> Ra is involved in the sense of “everyone but me is in on the joke, there is a Thing that I don’t understand myself but is the most important Thing, and I must approximate or imitate or cargo-cult the Thing, and anybody who doesn’t is bad.” E.g. having the intuition that the power to make successful companies lies in things like “complex sales”, without understanding how complex sales works on a nuts-and-bolts level. If you just associate complex sales guys with power and success, if you have the feeling that they probably know how to become an insider even if you don’t, then you’re engaging in Ra thinking.

> There’s a disinclination to get specific about numbers or negotiations or goals or arguments. And then an angry sense that people who do get specific are “doing it wrong” or “bad people” and deserve harshness. An intuition that the really important things in life, the true “ways of the world”, are hidden or mysterious, always unspoken, and must be respected.
Astronomers Decided Where to Point NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
It was this way in radio, called wireless at the time, before the advent of the FCC and spectrum regulators.

If the FCC ever got regulatory hooks into the internet we’re done with web innovation.
Anyone with Architect in their title receives skepticism from me. I've turned down title changes that include it and I refuse to put it on my LinkedIn.
How will our warming climate stabilize? Scientists look to the distant past
Yes, there is nothing good or bad in it nor it's something new - we already experienced it in the form of `Atomic CSS` and other similar - it's just another swing of the pendulum, for some use cases it's good and will bring joy and fast development pace, for some use cases it's not good and will bring pain after honeymoon is over.
Matrix Rain in a tweet worth of Shell
Now that Safari blocks third-party cookies by default, most sites have adapted.
Julia is rather close, and you can use a combination of Latexify.jl + Symbolics.jl to automatically generate Latex representations of programs.
If you honestly believe this cause is worth a scorched earth approach, fair enough.

It‘s literally a scorched earth, because it will be pretty tricky to provide even gopher services to a global internet until we develop a TOR like alternative to TCP/IP.
48 Test positive for Covid on biggest cruise ship
I'm no genius. Just good search engine skills. Geek dad jumped in an started looking for answers and found reports where others had done this.
Meh. That all read as incredibly fallacious and dishonest. Are we hero worshiping him? I’m not. Does recognizing him as a person of the year hero worship him? Don’t think so. Hitler was times person of the year. It has to do with influence, good or bad…

Does falling under the sway of someone necessarily mean you accept their “self-aggrandizing world view and all the collateral it produces”…. No, it does not.

Does saying someone reminds you of your friends mom make you a misogynist… no.

Is it possible to be self-interested AND care about the public good. Yes!
I'm the author. Yes, I'm afraid automatic iOS interception isn't available yet, but it's definitely planned for the future! You can subscribe to the GitHub issue here for updates: https://github.com/httptoolkit/httptoolkit/issues/11

In the meantime it's still totally possible to intercept iOS devices, but you just have to do the initial setup manually unfortunately.
Probably by copy pasting example code?
My state it's all electronic now. I have a paper title for my records but the it's just a fascimile of the digital original. To complete the sale I'd need to bring it into the tax collectors office where they update the digital record and print a new paper title for the next owner or do it at a dealership.
It’s IANA directly: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved
Hum, if people are engaging, it's not a lecture. Discussions are much more effective than lectures.

What I've never seen is a comparison between a pure lecture (like it would be on video) and reading a book. Those two fit the same stage on an effective "get pointed to the content, get the raw content, refine it with people and the real world" learning process.

Now, about your question, I have no idea :)
> It was not the case many years ago, when they could become an American citizen by working hard enough.

I suspect you have an overly rose-tinted view of the past.
In my experience, that's common, but so is people jumping your fence to raid your cans before you've put them out. And, should you ever try to recoup the 'deposit' by going to the recycling center, you'll spend 1+ hour in line being hounded by homeless people to give them your cans.

All of it creates way more incentive to just throw your cans in the trash so you don't have to deal with any of that.