skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because procedure volume was down, so they canned people who they could. And then got caught off guard when demand increased again suddenly. Same thing happens over and over in manufacturing.
Check https://dancharblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/05/usb-c-gen2-bi-d... end of post links to DP and HDMI 2.1 switches
Interesting. I’m using Tailscale with the split dns feature and my hosts don’t appear to be in the transparency logs. So which feature needs to be enabled to get exposed like this?
Do you believe that the SSC post is primarily about pluralistic ignorance? Do you find that even the first few paragraphs of the post are at all consistent with this belief?

Maybe SSC is long because it's putting forth complex ideas. Ideas that some readers don't want to take the time to understand.

For those who want a few sentences they can chuck into one of the pre-existing boxes they formed at school, I agree SSC isn't very convenient for that.
Black holes and dark matter – are they one and the same?
Licensing: Metal Gear Solid 2, 3, & HD Collection to Be Removed from Storefronts
Then I’ll have to find some posts from the lawyers and articles leading up to the trial in 1386
I wonder if this will work for running Java GUI scientific apps (Gephi, Concept Explorer) that are pretty much impossible to get running correctly on Linux.
The server is happier this way as well, finally people have gotten off its lawn!
> Think about the caliber of people that man worked with every day.

Greatness by association is not a solid concept. It shows how lucky a person is to be surrounded by great people but in itself does not count as an evidence of his greatness.
But on the other hand, great research minds tend to cluster, thus his priors are above average.
I straight up deleted my WhatsApp and Facebook accounts when they announced those plans. Thankfully I was mostly able to move everyone I care about from WhatsApp to Signal. It's been smooth sailing ever since, and I'm step further from having a tech giant control my life.
Facebook/Meta is the worst company of the year, Yahoo Finance survey finds
Lol you read that very correctly, but please don't take the emotion either seriously or personally.

All your points are noted. Importing ODT files into Word makes a mess of formatting and layout. I've wasted many hours fixing documents. Linux doesn't like my graphics card, and on my previous hardware setup wouldn't recognise my ELP web cam, my Windows Phone, and for some inexplicable reason, my Ergodox keyboard.

Visual Studio is software for Windows - it won't work on Linux (I see no benefit in virtualising when I have so many other issues with Linux, plus the real or imagined perf impact of virtualisation - at age 50 I'm way past the place where I spend a week on a PC build just to see if I can - I know I can, I no longer want to).

Yes, there are vocal people behind every technology. I guess I'm just tired of hearing "Linux" as the panacea for all things Windows or Microsoft. I know Microsoft's history. Better than many, having used their stuff starting with MS DOS in '84, maybe '85, and having actually worked there.

You wrote -
If Windows works perfectly fine for you, then yes, Linux + VM doesn't make much sense. For the rest of us that are not fans of how Windows runs things, it's usually a last resort option and very few people use it.

You're absolutely correct in that statement. My problem with Linux isn't that. My problem is what a5aAqU did in his reply to my first comment. He suggested Linux even though my post made my preference clear. This happens almost every time I mention using and liking Microsoft products and technologies.

It's not something I'd ever consider doing to anyone saying they use/like Linux. I love when people get along, regardless of... well, anything. Diversity is beyond value. It's how we grow.

Apologies again, I did not mean to offend.
JWST Deployment Explorer
Would you say that the MVP code should be thrown away when building the actual product?
Good old email segmenting. It's become a real powerhouse for us. Figure out what groups of people you have, talk with a few to figure out what they want, build it and target those who match. We're not a startup however so this is more of a scale up strategy or if you already have access to a large number of users who trust you and want just send your emails to spam.
I have a friend in southern Ohio who is an ICU doc. They’ve been dealing with +140% occupancy for the last few weeks. Staff shortages in their hospital are due to people leaving the field entirely (either worn out, tired of patient abuse, or actually dead). Vaccine mandates had almost zero impact.
Agreed! The job got a lot worse and extracurricular demands shot up, so people quit. How do you get them back? Pay more.
I'm not saying that's your case, but this reminds me of a colleague of mine who was tasked with building a piece of code to calculate some metric related to the adjacency of faulty parts in a production batch.

He initially wrote an R script, but was extremely slow, so he started rewriting it in C. When I got involved, I found he was calculating this metric with N nested loops, rather than transforming his problem in something that was supported by an existing library or built-in function.

Once he rearranged the problem as a matrix multiplication plus some statistical commands, the R script was faster than the C program and also more readable.
Never accepted it. Moved to Signal. Didn't install WhatsApp when I upgraded my phone a few months ago. "unfriended" absolutely everyone on Facebook and manually destroyed all my Facebook activities going back to the creation of my account there. Absolutely all of it. The more difficult the process became, the more I realized how coercive they were in welding you into their network. I maintain an empty shell of an account filled with "creative" metadata due to some public groups and clubs that do not have the resources to manage their own presence online.

Suffice to say I did not respond well to the TOS change.
A possibility that I can see is simply that they want to add a bot API which is just a simple rest API and not E2E encrypted. And if they remove the E2EE that means FB will be able to read all messages for businesses using their bot API.

Correct me if I am wrong but my understanding is that to run a WhatsApp bot you currently basically need to run a version of the whole app.

No idea if my theory is correct but if it is I wonder why they won't just provide a good library which implrments their protocol, E2E encryption and everything.
Printing money really isn't that big a problem if you know how to take it back from the public(aka taxes).

In fact if you have a strong enough tax collection system, printing is actually good because it cleans up debt by inflating it, provides liquidity, and has other benefits.

You just need to pull it back from the public intelligently.
I got 2 of these emails. One CCPA and one GDPR, but the exact same boilerplate. So I knew it was sketchy. But I still wasted an hour of my time deciding whether to reply. Several of my colleagues in other small comapnies also received these emails. Multiply that by the thousands of emails they must have sent and that is a lot of time wasted. I believe some people even paid laywers to respond. So potentially a lot of money wasted as well.

The senders either they didn't realize the sort of time and waste of money this would cause, in which case they are idiots, or they did, in which case they are arseholes.

How did this get past the Princeton ethics board?

What if every researcher started spamming thousands of businesses without their consent?
Or rather, the models should be predicting faster expansion.

I think it’s safe to say the Universe is expanding at exactly the rate it should be.
Because people are worried. There have been too many bad omens recently.
MVPs hurt when you cut corners (don't write tests) and mock functionality, then show the result to the business.

Because often, they will like what they see and want to go full steam ahead, by which time it's too late to explain you actually need another couple of months to get to the position they thought you were already at.
Nurses and doctors already get pumped full of vaccines as part of their job requirement, so what makes this particular vaccine so special?
I've tried this on PopOS and unfortunately it was really unstable and couldn't start applications.
But otherwise I think the interface is already better and simpler than some other GUI frontends for wine.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29515307

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29557757
> community driven misinformation empire.

What do you mean by this?
Depends: President of what country exactly?
Where I live for some reason YouTube Kids is not available, which means that YouTube is effectively not available on my kids device. A workaround for me is to grab the videos and put them on my Plex server, which at the same time allows me to curate what they can listen to. And since Plex allows me to locally sync content to the tablet, at works quite well for road trips too without requiring a data connection.
You should think about it from the company's perspective: Why should they hire someone at twice the rate at which they can find very good people? As you say most remote companies pay either average or slightly above-average local market salaries as that's good enough for most developers to find these jobs attractive enough (since many prefer remote work) for the companies to fill up their hiring pipeline with lots of good candidates.

That said I think $250k is definitely possible for non entry-level positions if you bring strategically important knowledge into a company. If you e.g. work for a startup/scaleup/enterprise in given space go talk to other companies in the same space that want to break into the competitors market or pull off a similar business model. Then you can e.g. say "I helped company X to scale their backend infrastructure to support 100 MM customers and I'm looking for a position where I can apply that knowledge and help you do the same, while having more responsibility / ownership / decision power". That will make you more valuable to a company than saying "I'm a really good Golang programmer". It's all about selling you as an individual with very specific market knowledge that a company wants.
We have a moral obligation to stop using facebook products.

Ask yourself where do you draw the line? If you don’t think facebook has crossed it, then you don’t know enough about facebook.
Looks like a replacement for ye-olde PlayOnLinux, which if I ever move to Linux Desktop[0] was going to be something I would write my own tooling to replace[1].

It is not clear from looking over the website, but since bottles appear closely related to Flatpak I am wondering if they support being installed to a different path than the default. Flatpak doesn't allow you to do this in a piecemeal way[2], but it does allow you to set up more than one entire Flatpak environment to different paths[3]. I'm hoping bottles can at least manage that?

[0] There are dozens of tools on my list for this, mostly around application and container management.

[1] I am a very vocal critic of the way Linux Desktop does things, but Windows is becoming worse at an alarming rate so it will probably be the least-worst option in a few years.

[2] A regression from features we had in desktop OSs since the 80s.

[3] Not that any GUI frontend for it pays attention to that. sigh
I received one of these emails but, interestingly, whilst the email was about my personal blog, the email was sent to my work address, which is not listed on my blog. Implying they did a bit of manual work to figure out how to reach me? If so, I wonder whether whatever they did is itself covered by CCPA or GDPR? Idly considering whether to should send them a request that is near identical to the time-wasting, deceptive email they sent me?
You have accepted.
Show HN: A Chrome extension to generate markup link reference for current page
> Web3 would be the stake through the heart.

why? it seems to me that these new digital lands that are currently being dreamed up will be right next to the old-new ones of FB/Instagram/Google+. The old-old ones are either still where they used to be (eg. old school forums, IRC, blogs).

web3 at this point is basically a big sign put up next to an empty desert claiming "the future is built here" with a few shoddy tents selling wallet extensions for browsers, which you need if you want to buy sandcastles from the strange circus folks over there, between those dunes littered with old collectible cards.

if people who currently spend most of their time on "social media" start to spend some/all of their time in web3 land, that still doesn't mean much for the true old-old parts of the web. most users already have no idea of what the web was like ~20 years ago.
Hey, OP here. The site was down because it exceeded the API calls limit of the headless CMS I'm using.

I forgot to add some basic caching to the site, and it absolutely backfired when the "HN effect" happened on a Saturday while I was on a fishing trip. Perks of the modern like.

It's back up now, hope you enjoy the reading!
I haven't accepted it. Fortunately I don't have to use WhatsApp much.
Same experience here, I can't understand someone who's reaction to a totally random email without any credentials or actual lawsuit is to spend thousands of dollars on lawyers. Maybe I was lucky to not have the privilege to even consider paying for lawyers when I got my first ones of these and always defaulted to just emailing the person back which in 100% of cases cleared the issue.
Maybe. But we need hard evidence which we can examine before we reject the most logical explanation wrt who is fighting the invading forces. Obviously we expect that the bulk of the fighters are the invaded are resisting the invaders.
> meme stocks (like AMD, Nvidia, Tesla)

Uh. What is your definition of a meme stock?
Why on Earth are people still not getting vaccinated?
Other species won't necessarily thrive in a situation like that. You describe a fairly cold tolerant mix there, for instance.

Here in Michigan the species diversity of our forests has been declining due to disease. Elm, and now Ash and Beech have all been dramatically impacted by imported diseases.
An alternative scalable way is to switch from a full time job to becoming a freelancer/consultant and set your own rates.

In order to be able to land high paying projects as a consultant, you would need to showcase your skills somehow (open source, portfolio, etc...). This can happen later on though and as a start the easiest way would be to ask for referrals and make it known to your network that you're looking for consulting opportunities.

Making this transition though would imply that you'll need to think about it as a business instead of a job, and start cultivating new skills i.e. communication, marketing, sales, etc...
Thank you for adding the link, you are a life savior! Indeed it was the HN effect, but in a very weird way as I described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613528
Typo, I meant to say they are low now.
Your plan is to achieve technological progress through regulation? I'm very, very skeptical the result will be anything other than grinding progress to a halt.

Just take a look at at computing systems within highly regulated industries such as consumer banking or medicine. Do you find either inspiring? How about nuclear power plants still using technology from our grandparents' era because doing so was legislated?

I'd bet that if such regulations came to pass in a country or market, in 15 years the internet there will lag considerably behind the internet in freer places.
1541 people participated in the survey. 8% voted Meta as worst company. That means roughly 120 people think Meta is the worst company of the year.
...Admittedly I've been in smaller fintechs where that isn't a problem, but holy hell, why would anyone work somewhere where you couldn't even talk in the hallway? Insane.
I haven't used this software, but FWIW i almost never have to create isolated Wine (well, Wine-staging) environments. I've installed pretty much everything - applications, games, etc - on the default wine prefix and things tend to work just fine. Though i do have installed DXVK and VKD3D-Proton as well as the windows media framework files for games to work properly, but i do not see these as anything different to what i was doing on Windows anyway - including using DXVK to run some D3D9 games that were otherwise broken.

I think in general Wine and Wine-staging are good enough nowadays to not need game-specific hacks that affect the entire wine prefix anymore.
I meant to say low.
Tell meaningful stories and stop shouting
Hey, it's back up now, just so you know, it had nothing to do with the technology itself and a lot to do with me not doing a proper job at coding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29613528
Some people on HN start their link indexes at 1, some start them at 0. I, an intellectual, start them at -1.
Here’s a cheap and easier trick: find two easy remote jobs each paying $125k. There’s your $250k a year. You don’t need any particularly distinguished resume.

With the right job responsibilities, this is doable for a software engineer. If you can offset the two jobs a bit by time zone it’s even better.

But you better hurry, once people catch on that this is possible the supply of developers can quickly increase overnight, leading to a fall in salaries from oversupply.
Thank you for reporting it, should be back to normal now!
> during the 2021 March

I think you meant 2020 March?
Yes - I guess what we do as parents is prepare our children for the society they are going to enter and how to best do that depends on what that society is. Although I suspect other environments have different types of stresses, but perhaps less chronic ones. Many tribal societies have some sort of right of passage for males at adolescence which involves stress of some sort.
All a guess, but I think this impacts CI providers more than anything because they are running Xcode for arbitrary projects. If I were a CI provider I’d probably be nervous.

And also once Xcode is patched, all of our teams are going to have to update immediately and that wipes out a whole day of work.

But again, just guessing here.
Wise choice. I still have family and some friends there, but at some point ..
Signal did not exist when Facebook acquired WhatsApp though, did it?
95% of Ohio deaths were the unvaccinated.

Vaccine mandates clearly helped.

9 of 10 patients in Ohio hospitals are unvaccinated.

The issue with vaccine mandates is they weren't strict enough.
Except for the ones that aren't, but yes it's mostly a drop in.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#differences-in-default-beha...
So it's like saying "Everything that you say to XYZ business we can listen in on"? Would we accept that from our phone companies?

Does the term "business" include governments as well?
Add udev rule, to launch script when an input is connected:

ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="*/input/*", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/script.sh $devnode"
The pandemic caused the market to do well, due to the excess monetary and fiscal stimulus aimed at countering it.

Without the pandemic the market would be lower right now. Of course, the pendulum is about to swing the other way with both fiscal and monetary support ending.
DeviantArt notifies original artist about his own creation being sold as NFT
While I agree with the premise, I've seen this mindset get out of hand and stress people out. My anecdote involves a co-worker looking at our Azure metrics at all times of the day and having a mini panic attack when requests drop off or we get a an uptick of a few hundred milliseconds of response time. Most of this is due to scaling out and resolves itself in a short amount of time. Regardless, he's convinced something else is causing it and taking measures that actively make our code worse and less understandable all in the name of "performance".
No contract is formed in this case, but FB can just stop serving such a person if they don't agree to it, if it's easier for them to do so.
If you close and re-open the app, eventually the ToS popup doesn't show up and you can keep using the app.
People have been talking about building the metaverse since Neil Stevenson coined the term in Snow Crash in 1992.

> "Sorry, you've already lost. And Web3 is just a scam."

Generic dismissals like that aren't helpful.
Fuck bill gates the greedy elitist eugenecist.
https://archive.md/PhD5l
But it did prevent the index patient from becoming seriously ill (i.e. hospitalised). It most likely reduced the initial dose of all that got infected by patient-0 [0]. And it most likely prevent _any_ of the invected to become hospitalised either.

Now you can make the argument (or at least attempt to make this argument), that it would have been _better_ for patient-0 not to be vaccinated, because then, maybe, patient-0 would already have been sick and not at that party. Unfortunately this is the main problem of Covid in the first place: A significant portion of the downstream infections are generated before the onset of symptoms.

So yes, the vaccine didn't prevent much of the spread [1], but it still reduces the amount of strain put on the health care system. Somewhere upthread there was the question: "How do the few unvaccinated overwhelm the hospital system?" The answer is: We can't deal with 1% of society being in the hospital. So getting 5% of all unvaccinated there and having 20% unvaccinated is already too much!

Last year we managed, because we radically cut down on all interactions and delayed the spread that way. We _can_ do that again. But then this Christmas party just wouldn't have happened at all!

[0] Note this is still somewhat a conjecture, as actually getting clean data for this is nigh impossible.
[1] I'd still take the 30% reduction, but it's an upper bound and can still decrease. So yeah, let's call this "doesn't help slow down the spread"
I've noticed exactly the same change. My first guess would be that reviving a dead article/comment now requires more than one user to vouch for it.
That would be interesting, as an unbiased window into life back then (if any text still exist).

If the post gets 10 upvotes on HN it will automatically turn up on hn.lindylearn.io/years. It's like our collective library.
Does anyone know if the latency of this is good enough for realtime processing? I've been looking for something to transform guitar audio into MIDI for a synth for years, and all the commercial solutions are pretty poor. Best I've found is buying a guitar hero guitar which has MIDI out.
But if they pay more, they’ll need to keep paying more even after the crisis is past. Which is pretty much what hospitals are trying to avoid.
I think the outrageous thing here is that anyone develops for Mac specific platforms.
I think what they mean is nobody got vaxxed
I wonder how this compares to my favorite combo, Emacs+Evil+Sly.
> Your antiscientific rhetoric is bullshit.

I didn't read it that way.

> The issue with vaccine mandates is they weren't strict enough.

That was how I interpreted GP's statement.
"The facts don't care about your feelings" is the favourite (and rather witty) catchphrase of a certain political commentator. I think there's a lot of truth in that.
In 2016 the concern was about accessing other people's data through open APIs, not accessing your own data in your own apps. Moreover, the problem in 2016 was that a disingenuous company could exploit one user's account, under false pretences, to access their friends' data without any consent at all.

Having an open API doesn't mean you can't require authentication and authorization for requests, and having a link to something doesn't mean you have permission to access what's at the other end of that link.
FairFace: Face Attribute Dataset [pdf]
I think that they are commenting specifically on the reasons for the staff shortage, in response to the popular claim that people are quitting their jobs over the vaccine mandates.
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