skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've used it a bit to make good looking splash screens / loading animations.

But trying to go "all in", animating every little aspect of intersection as some of the showcases do, isn't worth it. Hard to maintain, since you need someone good at after effects to make an effect every time something on the frontend changes. And few designers know AE. So quickly end up with some parts being fancily animated, and the rest dull, making the contrast jarring. And while the animations when clicking 5-stars or whatever look cool in a video, they are mostly artificial delays for the user getting on with their tasks.
I'm sorry, but I don't see who in their right mind could look at the current developer labour market and say that companies don't value them (us). Even in gamedev, where I worked most of my life (but not anymore) salaries are not *that* lower and crunchtime is not *that* more prevalent.
> The press will have to publish a new round of articles clarifying their prior wave of headlines. It might happen tomorrow, later this week, or some time next week, but it will happen. This result won’t stand.

Well since the doubling time of the omicron incidence seams to be below 2 days (worldwide result estimates between 1.4 and 2.2), even if it wasn't the case last Friday, Omicron has probably passed the 73% threshold since then so I don't think anyone would bother retracting their writings.
Up until very recently EPA-traktors were exempt from the yearly mandatory vehicle inspections of cars. This meant all controls were "in the field" where discovering the various changes can be hard.

It has been somewhat of a sport to find new sneaky ways to make the cars go fast and/or quickly lock and unlock the car with a hidden lever.

And most of the cars are in rural areas with little police presence. Outside of urban areas sweden is very sparsely populated. My parents live out in bum-fudge nowhere with something like 2 people per square km. Up there every other 15 year old has an EPA-traktor.
> What's the plan?

To prevent Canada's shitty health care system from being exposed.

We've got like half the capacity of the EU average and multiples less than the US...
Can't you also just drink less and less coffee?
I have a hard time believing the disappearing of the mega fauna is solely due to homo sapiens: if it was the case there should be a few pockets of them remaining in the world.

For example in western Europe bears were hunted to extinction before the middle ages, but you can still find bears in Russia and in the US.
I've had one for about 3 years since the 4k version originally came out and it hasn't missed a beat. Support has been good too, fully available dev builds and community interaction for getting more cutting edge (don't forget it's based on debinan) stuff like wireguard kernel support up and running etc (now all included in default builds)
> because that would predispose the legislator or the staffers supporting the legislator to think about what they could do to quash it.

Fwiw, I see only a downward trend in the effectiveness of governments larger than cities to contain or regulate technology. What is possible is changing too fast.
It is not definitive, it's anecdotal, among a totally different population (high rates of natural seropositivity, younger population, bad data).

Oxford Study of early Omicron in UK shows it's no different than Delta, but they cautioned that data is limited. [1]

The point is: while we might get lucky with Omicron, we don't have definitive data on it, ergo, we have to rely on our past experience with Alpha/Beta/Delta to inform policy.

And FYI what is 'definitive' is that we are 100% sure that it is 'much more transmissible' by about 3x.

If Omicron is 'as bad as Delta' - and - we knew it was 3x more transmissible - and we were not sure of it's legality - and the government didn't take decisive action, the resulting death would imply dereliction of duty on a criminal scale.

There are 10x more people who are 'pro vaccine' than 'anti' and the 'protests' over needless death would be much worse.

I am hopeful that Omicron will be less lethal but esp. with Xmas and 3x tranmissability, we have not choice but to take action.

[1] https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/article/2021-12-14-omicron-and...
Xbox – Chapter 1
Sure, but what about OP's point?

What if an engineer responded by harboring a grudge against all blockchain?

I mean, it would be unfortunate if that engineer decided not to donate to Scihub. But that exhausts my list of bad things that could happen due to such a grudge.
Of course he could make it better. Everybody can. The issue is if it makes sense. The only engineering science where improving something is (stil) cheap is SW. Although SW seems to be cursed and almost every improvement they make is a complete redesign.
555 is a cheap signal generator. It is very good at what he does. When you need a better one you can have a uC ( which you need to program and test) or a synthetiser ( which is more expensive). No need to thrash it just because it is old.
Where was that "get rid of the cynicism" post from a few days back?

Like always, truth is in the middle: be nice, but don't expect the world in return. Do things because you want to do them, not because they'll be appreciated. And some will apppreciate it, so stick with them.
Not all of them. Some of them just don’t offer photos of that area, even though they offer literally every other inch of the earth in at least SOME scan, a lot of these are missing.
Thank you for this detailed response.
Banning doesn't always means "changing the law so that it's outright impossible". Increasing enforcement, and making bending the law impractical is also a form of banning.

In Netherlands, there are scooters allowed to go in bike lanes, and their top speed is limited to 40 KM/H. Some people circumvent this by installing aftermarket clutch sets.

Police have portable dynos which fit into their trunks, and if they find that your scooter can go faster, the fine you and require you to un-modify your scooter and verify it with the police.

This enforcement is strict and is an effective way of "banning" circumvented scooters. I also think the same thing: Increase enforcement, make it impractical to have fast (EP)A-Tractors.
don't quote me on this but i think kodi/xbmc started back before smartphones weren't really a thing. people mostly had 1 desktop computer and they would watch movies on their monitor or with the computer plugged into the TV.

plex was made later on when having multiple devices (desktop, laptop, phone, tablet etc) was a bit more common, so now instead of having all your media stuck on one device you instead run it on a server and connect to that server using an app on each device.

so that's the fundamental difference between them anyway. one is mainly design to be used on 1 devices while the other is design to be used on many
Settle down, Ayn Rand. The law in obviously not working as intended due to change of the times (originally it was meant to make it easier for farmers to have an extra vehicle, not for inner city teenagers to cruise around). A revisiting and adjustment is in order.
Unlike in Deutschland only half of the Green Party members oppose Nukular Power.

10 years ago it was 101%.
It has nothing to do with it being "annoying" and therefore they want it banned. That's a stupid strawman, as someone that has been here that long you should know better than to discuss like that.

The point is that it's dangerous, potentially lethal, for them and others. That's why they want a ban. Not because of some authoritarian reflex..
Why would you want to cram 50 so called "smart" devices is the real question. Is your quality of life improved by having your lightbulbs and switch connected to the internet. Why do you need sensors at all?

My home is completely analog, like I even have to operate my windows blinds manually. I have lived in a totally connected and electrified house and I didn't view any improvement in my quality of life. Only downsides when the power grid had an issue.
Ha, just the way the parent commenter said “my faves are banned for one reason or another” suggests they don’t see them as being toxic. That made me curious.
could you maybe chill, no need to "pal"... lol?

> Why would it be only possible to cold start in the terminal

why do you ask me, do you know the command to start tsc "hot"? Please tell me?

> How on earth do you never impact a call site that isn’t the one you’re looking at immediately? The IDE is useless in this case

even if you've never used an IDE before, the whole idea is that it understands the concept of a project and does static check project-wide. I would call what you said a "ridiculous assumption", because of course IDE shows errors project-wide.

Actually speaking of which, good luck with project-wide errors that overflow your terminal buffer.

> I suggest you revisit your dev command…

the 2 secs is just an example, I don't do that stuff anymore, like you I'm just engaging in the conversation to project my opinions.

I would like to add that making a tsc alternative is a massive job & not proven possible so far, so the only room left for performance improvements is making alternative "transpilers". That's probably the answer to why these tools started as babel alternatives and not tsc alternatives
The 70% number was often mentioned when the original variant was still predominant end of last year. Alpha and Delta are just so much more transmissible. The vaccine was never said to prevent all infections by serious scientists
taking conference calls with those - bad idea. Really shitty microphone.
Europe where? In France the market for senior architects, SRE, DevOps, etc. is extremely hot on both sides - i recently went over a job search over a few months and got multiple very good proposals very quickly; and on the other side, i talk regularly with people involved in recruitment, and there are a lot of open unfilled senior positions. Heck, i get 2-3 recruiters with legitimate job offers weekly on LinkedIn.
This is from the same company that tried to peddle their snake oil at a legitimate security conference and got laughed at: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/compa...
How many people know what clade means, though?

I had a pretty rigorous and extensive course of biology in high school, we spent a lot of time poring over various details, but the word clade never even fell. (Granted, that was 1992-1996, so things might have changed.)

I only met the expression cladistics and clade much later in some popsci literature.
Since you’re kind enough to express a moderate opinion: do you have a comparison against C++?

The C++ “niche” seems to be no-performance-compromise, low-level-when-needed, high-level-sort-of, native compilation, seamless interop with C, and thus everything else. It is also very verbose, easy to shoot yourself in the foot, and requires a fair amount of proficiency to just use on a daily basis.

Can Rust be the replacement / successor?
This is true AFAIK. Growing up in a lower economic class, I'd engage in piracy simply because modern computers make it trivial. At first it was for entertainment, but over time it exposed me to programming. Piracy ended up being a gateway to building my career, so I'm thankful for that much. Even if it's kind of ironic.

I have and will gladly pay money for authors/developers that really get me excited, though consuming so much interesting content for free can make me pretty jaded. To a pirate, paying for certain software might as well be giving a donation.
Try pressing the center part and shifting your thumb around while holding it. (I tried it on an Atom tablet and the context menu popped up if I pressed the "leaf" parts or the buttons for too long.)
Someone I know has social anxiety. They told me that when they read about it and could finally give it a name, it really helped. Up to that point, they just felt like they were an oddball. They couldn't really explain to anyone, which made it feel like they couldn't get help or do anything constructive about it. Being able to name it lets you know that other people also have it. It can help you feel more "normal". It can help you research ways to work with it.

Of course, falling back on a diagnosed condition and using it as a crutch or an excuse for bad behaviour can be awful. I used to know a person with BPD, who absolutely loved being able to let herself off the hook for terrible behaviour. She would easily make friends, and sometimes would keep them for a few years. But eventually, one by one and sometimes in groups, they would cut her out of their lives because she was utterly toxic and selfish. So naming your problem can be positive or negative, but I think that depends on the nature of the problem.
As far as I know the US is the only country that for some reason doesn't think it matters if you are recovered. Israel, EU, others all seem to recognize it. Why the US does not, is not clear to me.
I've read the hoover dam is engineered to last at least 10,000 years, and much longer if 'properly maintained'.
> Users are spending way more time configuring, optimizing, and eventually breaking the whole thing than actually enjoying it.

When I used Kodi that was part of the appeal.

But then I had two Kodi boxes and media on a NAS and wanted them to sync played status. Eventually Emby with the Kodi Sync plugin was the way to do that instead of trying to share a database.

But then I got an Apple TV 4K, and the Emby app runs on that too, and now same as you it’s what I end up using.
Accupuncture and juice is pallatiative care but is accepted stupidly as treatment

Pallatiative care is making the choice to travel to end of the line. I am currently going through making that decision. If i do, bring on the tasty juices and accupuncture to make me feel relieved at the time. But i am not delusional, it's not treatment. It is not going to fix anything or even stall it
LottieLab lets you create and edit Lottie animations without having to deal with AE. I'm not an AE expert (which seems to be the bottleneck for creating these types of animations), so tools like these seem interesting.

https://lottielab.io
I'm such a fan of osmc. I used to run it on a raspberry pi, and then switched to their vero2 box when they released it.
> Was life expectancy in eastern block states worse if you correct for wealth?

I don't know. But I do know that people were much worse off economically in the USSR than in the US. This impacts longevity.

> They had pretty good doctors as far as I know.

I recall reading in a thread on Chernobyl where people who lived there at the time of the disaster were commenting. One comment stood out - root canals were free, but there was no anesthetic available. Having had a root canal myself, I can't imagine sitting in that chair for several hours getting drilled without anesthetic.
there are other theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book)
How do you even know it was COVID? It could have been any number of flu/cold? In feb 20 there was no way to get tested for it
I'm part of the LibreElec converts. Great package.
This is actually legally required. At least the easy part. Not the prominent part. But a 6pt link compared to a big button wouldn't fly legally.
MVC 6, was "never" released. As this answer[0] describes.

[0]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38109745
PDF can contain executable PostScript? That was new to me. I know the syntax is still PostScript, but without the programming language. Is there a nice description somewhere?
Decentralization.

Not: Web3, blockchain, or cryptocurrency

I mean actual online communications not requiring a server, account, or some Ponzi scheme.
i get what you are trying to say but its the old quantitative vs qualitative research discussion again and while I accept your opinion in the manner and the way you vaulue it, the reasoning is flawed from my perspective.

Psychoanalysis is only the tip of the freudian journey and i was not trying to say that everything he did on a cocain run was perfect or even valid.

What i was trying to say is that the scientific process for this has evolved and in reality what diffencietes science from pseudo science is methodology. Psychology is literally the method of the psyche (translated).

Even this mythbusters says: the difference between science and screwing around is to write it all down ;)
It's not that weird that people shift the borders given that Europe is not a real continent but rather constructed around ideas of "Western civilization". Is using it EU + close allies model really worse than drawing a border at the point where there starts to be too much non-Christian influence to bare?
How about requiring them to get a license to drive a car first? It's not going to fix everything, but at least requiring people to learn about road rules and take an exam before they are allowed to drive would be something that might help a little bit?
I like to read up on something first so that I can have an intelligent conversation with the doctor.
This is a good observation that I upvoted because it's very relevant. A lot of things look like cycles but have no oscillating dynamic, it's true.

But you could suppose that business cycles are caused by a build-up of bad debt. Things to well, debts can be paid, collateral gets worth more, more investment, etc. This can't go on forever and the reverse cycle then occurs, often as rates come up. Soros store about this and called it reflexivity.

Of course I'm not saying business cycles are definitely caused by this, there's probably more to it than that. But it's a common explanation.
> One concern with furlough-type schemes is that they keep people at "zombie" firms that the economy may be pivoting away from

That's a valid concern, but IMHO market forces can still correct for that ( if other companies are doing better they can provide better salaries which could entice employees at zombies to switch jobs), and there are limitations ( of time). And from what we saw during times of crises like pandemics, furlough schemes are drastically better than buggy localised unemployment schemes unfit for the scale of the labour shift, and checks in the mail, which heavily distorted the US labour market.
This is not true. Hospital beds/capita by nation [1]

Moreover, Canada's response to COVID has resulted in considerably fewer deaths, less than 40% the rate of the US.

While there are issues with the system overall, this isn't it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_hospital_...
My therapist hasn't done this, but I do find the decompression of therapy to usually reflect how valuable it was to me anyway.

Tracking my anxiety with Daylio has really helped as well. Gives me much better metrics for how my anxiety changes over time and with different medications. Hardest part has been keeping the scale consistent even when my baseline amount of anxiety seems to change.
> Back when I was a kid with no assets to my name piracy made some sense. However, now that I have the means to support creators, I do.

This is the most sensible argument I've heard for being anti-piracy. It is a matter of means, and I've had a similar experience with my approach to piracy.

I'd be interested to know more statistics about what demographics perform piracy and on what kinds of media.
MRE's are self-sufficient packets (almost - you need water) that you can hand out to people who have no other supplies or tools or equipment or perhaps shelter after a disaster and they'll be able to feed themselves a hot meal. Like, if there's a dozen starving people, then throwing a MRE box and a water canister out of a truck (the original article includes a photo of such distribution - https://archive.md/lu4zn/eafd5ec61f35e3afe34d6f7eab59c6ee12e...) and driving away to the next location is sufficient logistics, which is why it works for quick military resupply.

Dried beans and canned vegetables are great if you have a kitchen - you need a stove, you need a pot, you need a can opener, you need a bowl and a spoon/fork. MREs have everything included and will work even if you have a bunch of people who have run out of a burning house naked. It's a very niche advantage, of course, but a niche that may be relevant in disasters.

Also, if you do have a stove and vegetables and a dozen people, they have to stay together or return to get fed; but you can hand out MREs and each can go on their own separate ways immediately afterwards. Again, a specific niche for unusual circumstances, but both military and disasters can have events where this helps a lot.
I must say there is quite some beauty in the choice and structure of words here.
Hammond: Self-hosted vehicle expense tracking system with multiple users support
I'll check out Daylio, thank you for the boost!
Personally I hope they get banned, but for the opposite reason. Them only being able to do 30 km/h leads to insane queues on some 70 km/h roads I regularly use, with dangerous overtaking as a result.
I am facing taking the mountain of pills or die situation right now. I know what the underlying cause was but in reality it is irrelevant to anything now. The event happened and now i deal with the fallout. The cause was not predictable due to lifestyle or anything else. It was simply like being struck by lightening.

So why do i care about the cause again? I dont. it was a non reversible event
I don't think everyone shares _my_ dreams, which mostly don't involve Smalltalk images, but this seems quite feasible. And, from experience, making languages interoperate is a hassle, so "written in different languages" isn't all great.

In the particular case of Smalltalk, the operational(?) semantics of which are specified by a virtual machine, one can just compile targeting the virtual machine. c.f compiling Smalltalk and Java to the Self virtual machine, or all the compilers targeting the JVM nowadays.
What's the difference between a ruminant and an ungulate?
Stories of Your Life by Ted Chiang
Normal vodka is diluted industrial ethanol. A very diverse range of spirits are bottled from the same train tanker cars of industrial ethanol, optionally adulterated with flavoring and coloring. I used to have friends that ran a bottling plant for state-wide distribution of several hundred well-known brands. All of their alcohol came from ADM in bulk. Not all spirits are produced this way but the vast majority are. The quality of the ethanol stock is essentially identical.
if im on my laptop and i know what i want to watch ill use the file manager since its definitely a lot quicker, otherwise i usually open up jellyfin because so i can get a synopsis of the movie and see the ratings.

kodi is definitely a bit complex at the best of times though. trying to set up the home screen and menus exactly how you like it can be very tedious and using the jellyfin plugin is just adding another layer of complexity on top of all that.

im thinking i might just try a plain OS soon that opens jellyfin media player app on boot. it probably wouldn't be able to do as many things from the remote as kodi but maybe something like that KDE Connect that your using might be the way to go when i have to do anything complicated
Here are more up to date numbers from Denmark in English and Danish:
https://www.ssi.dk/-/media/cdn/files/covid19/omikron/statusr...

23038 Omicron cases in total.
On December 15 44.1% of confirmed cases were Omicron.

The last page has a comparison with Delta on hospitalizations.
It finds 1.4% of Delta infections led to hospitalizations compared to 0.5% for Omicron.
However, this could be due to the fact that most of the Omicron cases were reported in the last week, and haven't yet 'had the time' to lead to hospitalizations.

There's also a lot more infected who has received two or three doses compared to Delta.
> Forcing things on people is required of a functioning society.

The government's proper role is to prevent people from using force on each other. It is not forcing things that the government imagines are good for people on them.

For example, I believed for decades the advice from the government that margarine was better for me than eggs. That turned out to be backwards.