skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is hard to make comparisons like this. I know that is a crappy answer. But geometry by far the most important characteristic. How thick is the overall blade stock? How thick is the knife behind the edge? Those two things will matter more than steel composition. Then you have heat treat. A great steel with a crappy heat treat is going to make for a lackluster knife.

But, regarding tungsten. There is a steel called Maxamet, and it is used in several knives by Spyderco. It should be noted that I am a Spyderco fanboy, so take my recommendation of this company with a grain of salt. I like them more than any other production knife company, perhaps to a fault. Anyways, Maxamet is run really hard, like 67 HRC. Most production companies will run their knives in the upper 50's so the knives roll instead of chip. Quality production companies (Spyderco, Benchmade, Hinderer, Chris Reeve, etc.) will run most of their steels to around 59-60 HRC. Maxamet can cut for a long, long time. This steel has 2.15% iron (which helps with attaining a higher hardness), 10% cobalt, 13% tungsten, and 6% vanadium. I can't think of another steel used in cutlery with as much tungsten as Maxamet. The cutting numbers from this steel are near the top of the charts. So Maxamet will blow MagnaCut out of the water when it comes to edge retention, but it was designed as a high speed tool steel. MagnaCut was designed to be a "jack of all trades, master of none". Steels like Maxamet require skill and some special tools as a sharpener. It's all about choosing the right steel for the job. Often tradeoffs are involved.

Steel chart - https://www.spyderco.com/edge-u-cation/steel-chart/

I will say that hard, thin knives have a reputation for chipping. Triple B Handmade Blades is a custom maker that focuses on maximizing cutting performance. So he uses high-carbide, high hardness, thin (like crazy thin) edges. You would think that his knives would shatter, but they do surprisingly well in his testing. Here's a short video of Rex 121 (has the highest percentage of carbide volume) heat treated to over 70 HRC. He is performing twisting cuts with a hard wood. At the end, the knife still cleanly cuts paper. You don't see/hear any chipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAPMXGvrJ1I
So which side are you talking about?

--- "Take away our constitutional freedoms."

Right now, who is ordering who to stay home, to not go to the gym, to church, to a restaurant, to a private gathering - by force of law - and even imposing curfews?

For context, these might be some of the most broad and assertive challenges ever made on constitutional freedoms.

--- "They preach a hypocritical sense of morality while inflicting violence on those who cannot defend themselves."

There is one group of people in America who are killing themselves at 6x the rate of other Americans, and about 20x the rate of people of other countries.

They have hypocritically 'blamed' (at least in terms of populism) the issue on policing, which is very demonstrably not a direct cause, requiring police to pull back in many areas, and now we see the result, a 150% increase in violence among those same poor and vulnerable communities, that were already extremely violent. The major increase in lives lost is directly measurable in the thousands.

The #1 cause of death among this group, is violence from their own group.

Not 'some other group' assaulting them.

--- "They use gerrymandering and political tricks to hold on to power"

One group is trying to give voting rights to huge numbers of non-citizens at every level of government, because that group feels the new voters would vote for them, which is in terms of raw numbers, the most gigantic form of election gerrymandering ever conceived.

--- "Because of their incompetence, we’ve become a laughingstock on the world stage. "

New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire etc. are some of the worst hit by COVID in terms of deaths per capita, as for 'laughing stock' the Governor went down on sexual assault allegations, and charges of misrepresenting COVID information. Despite the careless populist rhetoric of some political fools, frankly, there isn't much of a serious political pattern across the nation in terms of outcomes - there's a pretty big 'obesity' pattern, which correlates strongly with race, but it also points to an issue in America overall vis-a-vis the rest of the world (i.e. obesity). But that isn't really a politically 'sided' issue so much.

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I think you really did make the OP's point by pointing out how 'each side likes to blame the other' - I couldn't even fathom who you were talking about for sure.

However much I personally might support mask, separation and other restrictions, it's pretty oddly lacking in self awareness to talk about the 'Authoritarianism Of The Other Side' when literally politicians are ordering the most assertive transgressions of basic rights in history however legitimized or not.

As for Omicron ... we really don't know yet. Maybe this is the last real lockdown wave before lethality, treatments and vaccines provide enough protection.
Coupled with the depletion of deep aquifers, this situation means most farming west of the Mississippi river will probably vanish in our lifetimes.[0] We all need to start thinking much more creatively about how we're going to eat in the future.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/kansas-aqu...
Agreed, but I contend that this is a small share of the sites that use a frontend JS framework (which is to say that these frameworks are often used unnecessarily) and even those which genuinely need some serious JS could likely scale it back considerably to significant benefit. I say this as someone who usually argues in favor of the new and shiny.
That’s also called work.

I don’t want to work when I play games.
Correction, MOST USA states still allow non-compete clauses.
Oh totally! This is something I need to remind myself of:

People get angry because they care. I can find gratitude for that in the face of their anger.
Initially perhaps, but do we have good longer term data on how the sinovac holds up, given we're now saying Pfizer needs to be 3-monthly and Moderna is a much stronger dose? I think there was some over-selling of the mRNA vaccines that needs strong follow-up review given the state of the virus vs last year without vaccines with a more potent variant.
Ok, I don't know that much about SSRI's but I have a hard time believing that withdrawal symptoms (after 10 days of use) would be worse than a Covid case warranting treatment (= a serious one).

MABs not working on Omicron was new to me. Is that based on the vaccine's (in)efficacy against it?
seL4 was released as open-source in 2014. I know of the helicopter drone; have any other projects made use of seL4? If not, why not? My naive guess is that it's too hard to build on the project without introducing vulnerabilities and therefore negating the benefits of the kernel, but I'd love to be shown otherwise.
In most jurisdictions, copyright infringement isn't a crime, it is a civil tort, meaning you can be sued by the copyright holder for damages. Most big media copyright holders (MPAA/RIAA/etc) have a policy of only going after uploaders because it just isn't cost effective to go after downloaders for damages. A downloader can only be sued for the retail value of what they downloaded, while uploaders can be sued for the retail value of what they uploaded times the number of downloads. But this isn't codified in law, it is just corporate policy.
The Abbott test has two lines separated… if two then positive, if one then negative. You don’t even need to tell the colors apart.
You being convinced of something isn't really an argument.
Yes you're right, my bad, edited (switched the numbers around).
I believe a generalized version of this proposal is covered in RFC 3514.
I would have understood an IoT widget for the purpose of contact tracing but for this instead? ...
Wasn’t that generated from Haskell source rather than handwritten, after years of formal verification of not only the source but also the C code generator and the final machine code?
how about we use a pi-hole to send a webhook whenever a url is blocked and then we can use that hook to do the display art thing? that would be nice
Have designed and built apps for several high profile brands.

When you are big enough: apple occasionally send an engineer to share upcoming features, or nudge you in a direction they are keen to promote (2018 it was all AR) and at this point someone in C-Suite has a human contact to smooth out App Store BS.

So OP is correct in that it’s about size/apple seeing you as an asset and not a problem - they want those shiny family friendly releases for advertising material.

I used to think the App Store governance was a good idea. I no longer do.
Not only a feature but an idiom.
I do the same thing for my Kindle purchases. Luckily I have a Paperwhite whose serial number works with DeDRM to strip DRM for all my Kindle purchases (except Hindi books which are not downloadable for some reason).
Makes sense, the school lunches I had were so terrible we threw at least half of them away after the first bite. Didn't stop the already fat kids from being fat anyways, though.
They should be illegal no matter what? How would commerce function? How would one make a new business known? I hate ads too, but I don't think your extreme stance stands a chance at popularity.
Why is that? If you buy the game off Steam or something, this implies that the creators/publishers/platforms have gotten their due compensation. The cracks and files on ThePirateBay are done on a volunteer basis, meaning that it’s not costing the game developers any money.
You don't have to do that. Most banks have mobile deposit, and cheques are generally only used for larger sums of money.
If you want bargain basement processors with connectivity, Qualcomm is still selling many of the old CSR chips. The low end chips went for <$0.50 in volume and the power consumption was often barely worth measuring. We used to chuck them into products every time every time I lost an argument with the hardware team about whether 10-15 cents of BOM cost is worth 3 months of painful bringup.
Hm it's hard to believe these incidents were so long ago. They were very big news at the time, but I can understand that many people have never heard of them, or forgot.

I'm reading the recent book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends, which reviews all these incidents. I recommend it for anyone working in software!

Google isn't the main focus of the book, and it comes off looking significantly better than our government ...

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(1) China hacked Google in 2009, probably through sending phishing e-mails to employees, and was inside for months:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora

Apparently they were looking for the gmail accounts of political enemies, and one way to do that is just to hack the whole company ...

This led to two-factor authentication, and many more security measures.

(2) Snowden's leaks showed that the NSA hacked Google by tapping underwater cables, which at the time were full of unencrypted traffic:

https://www.theverge.com/2013/10/30/5046958/nsa-secretly-tap...

The motive was basically to collect all data in the world so we could hypothetically find out about the next 9/11.

(3) Here's a 2010 era account of a Google employee who was fired for stalking with his work credentials:

https://www.gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalke...

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So even if you're a big successful company, you're not likely to defend against the two most powerful governments in the world hacking you. (And this is OUTSIDE all the information you're compelled to reveal by law!)

Google did change many things in response to these incidents (like hiring hundreds of security engineers, Project Zero, etc.), but this is evidence of the point. If you collect a lot of valuable data, then you will need to spend a lot of money securing it, and you'll probably get hacked to some degree anyway.

Also it might be worthwhile to look at past Hacker News discussions on these topics:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1054791

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641378
I don't quite understand your question. To be infected, the virus must be able to enter your cells.

Against Delta, if you compare a vaccinated population with 2 doses of the mRNA vaccine against an equivalent unvaccinated population that ended up with 100 infections, with about 70 people having symptoms and 10 people with severe illness, you'd expect:

* 60 people who would have otherwise been infected to show no evidence of infection. That is, the vaccine is so strongly neutralizing that a large proportion of people that would otherwise be infected show no evidence of virtal replication at all.

* Another 30 people or so to end up infected, without symptoms. The virus replicated some in their cells, but the severity of the disease before an immune response was mounted was so low that it went unnoticed. Note that this number has not changed too much from the unvaccinated population.

* About 10 people with symptoms, of whom 1 has severe illness.

You could view this as mostly shifting severity "downwards" -- some people who would have been infected ending up not; some people who would have had symptoms instead just being infected; some people who would have had severe illness instead just having symptoms.

From a pure mechanical view: if an infected cell produces 1000 copies of the virus, ordinarily resulting in 50 other cells being infected... and antibodies from a vaccine glom up on spike proteins and reduce this 50 number to 10-- the virus still grows in your body, but the rest of your immune system has a whole lot longer to react before illness becomes severe. And this ignores other benefits from vaccination (earlier mobilization of immune system, T-cell mediated immunity, training of B cell lines to target spike proteins resulting in faster maturation of variant-specific antibodies, etc). So even if the antibody concentration and affinity isn't quite sufficient it's still a benefit.
Why would you report such a thing? Cut out the middleman.
It looks like JavaScript is almost at performance parity with Java now: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

That begs the immediate question: Why would anybody continue to hire Java developers?

I was thinking about that recently and two things came to mind:

* The JavaScript ecosystem is incredibly immature. You can deliver some amazingly supreme trash in this language and it will likely execute, most of the time. Nearly everybody is deathly afraid of the platform (the DOM) and requires the worlds largest frameworks merely to put text on a webpage, even though familiarity with the DOM is understanding just a few methods.

* Most Java developers are trained by schools.

After thinking through those two points I have to realize employers would rather burn money than train developers or pray and hope that with enough open source tools dependencies will compensate for the maturity gap.
If you're running a startup, I recommend reading this guide to structuring Django projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27605052
I just now checked Ubisoft's website and clicked on a random game. Yes, there is a big "BUY" button, but once I click it, I get a page that asks me what length of time I want to purchase a subscription for. So it's quite clear, at least for that one game, that what you are buying is a subscription to something, not a product that you get ownership of indefinitely.

The game sellers, if someone did actually try to make the "false advertising" argument, would probably argue that it's common knowledge that "buying" a game from their online store does not mean you get indefinite ownership. It would be an interesting case if anyone ever did try it.
There are other factors. Not every application of C has the same amount of exposure to security vulnerabilities.

On Github I see people rewriting simple UNIX utilties, e.g, cat, in some "safe" language, e.g., Rust. Yes, it is possible there could be some exploit based on an error in cat, maybe triggered by some malicious input that the user fails to detect, but this would not be a concern to the same degreee as errors in large, complex applications with network and other privileged access that are relatively new. For example, using C to write cat versus using C to write git.

Exposure to security vulnerabilities depends not only on the language used, but also when, where and how the application is used.
Most languages' built-in serialization has similar issues, e.g. Python pickle.
It's appalling to me that iOS developers still exist after all the hoops you have to jump through to get an iOS app out. I'm a web developer that got roped into developing and then publishing a react native app for android and iOS. The android process was relatively painless compared to the crap Apple has you do. For starters, you can't even produce an app build without running on iOS, so the company had to procure an old Mac just so we could compile. Once I got Xcode set up, I learn that I need to connect to an iPhone as a target device in order to build. Thank god for small companies and being able to get things done quick. Another hoop and painful 30-40 minute compile times later (for a relatively small app mind you, also caching didn't seem to help whatsoever cause even back to back compiles were still slow as hell), we finally get out a build out on TestFlight, only to wait an undisclosed amount of time for Apple's approval.

I realize these aren't issues if you're already drunk on the Apple Kool-aid and have the latest Mac with the latest iPhone. Then these barely seem like hurdles, but to someone who hasn't already sold their soul to Apple, publishing an iOS app should not be this difficult.
Is there any chance you misunderstood? They said they wouldn't feel bad morally about pirating things they had in fact already paid for? Does your ethics require you to stick to the letter of the terms and conditions including allowing people to keep your money and take back the value they promised you?
RSS + Pushover for custom notifications
I don't know why Google doesn’t offer a paid for ad free version. This would reduce their reliance on the ad industry and become more like a utility.
It seemed likely early on that the risks of vaccination exceeded the benefits for healthy young people, but the argument was they should get vaccinated anyway so they wouldn't be able to transmit the virus to someone more vulnerable. Now that it's clear vaccination doesn't prevent transmission, the argument for vaccinating healthy young people is pretty weak.
Yes there is a path forward. As others have said learn react +typescript. You might also want to pick up redux. Try to create performance visualisations with d3 as plotting data is a different ball game compared to your normal web development. More generally learn how to create great interactive visualisations. You can also look at other advanced techniques like crdts and their use in making shared text editors. Then you have some very serious chops. Best of luck, I hope to see another great engineer added to the delightful world of frontend development.
Thats what they do.

It also earns money from leases (tax event), while itself pays a lease to a subsidiary (tax deduction).

Who knows how the subsidiary is structured or returns money to shareholders or if it is located in a different jurisdiction with more favorable taxes.

Each subsidiary is different.

Each vehicle could theoretically be owned by a distinct subsidiary. Distributing vehicles in the best way to shield liability in the specific jurisdiction of operation.

I really do wonder how they return money to shareholders. It could just be all about the potential of returning money to shareholders and never doing so.
I use the Waking Up app. I don’t know if it meets the “proven claims” standard, but it presents a very intuitive framework. You are simply taking to time to notice the phenomenon of consciousness; the more time you spend in this state, the more nuanced it will become; and a guided meditation helps you stay on the tracks, so to speak, so that a fluency like that of language can develop naturally. I would be put off by anything more esoteric than Sam’s methodology.
> So the statement that COVID has a higher risk of myocarditis is still true.

Yes but it's misleading, and whether or not you want to argue it's deliberately so, is another debate. Are men under 40 who are considering Moderna (or don't even know what vax they're going to get since both are considered fairly equal) not worthy of being informed that their risk of myocarditis is actually potentially higher than if they got COVID? That doesn't make much sense to me, if it does to you then at what threshold would they be worthy of being informed that the blanket statement that's been being thrown around, doesn't actually apply to them? I seem to recall most people arguing that "COVID isn't actually that bad" not having an acceptable argument because while it's true for many people, for other groups of people, COVID actually is bad...
From the B2B side, demand is validated when multiple (>10) organizations are willing to schedule time (30 minutes) to watch your demo. That requires scheduling and team efforts. That’s when you know the pain is real.
That’s some “anxiety”. Up to a point it was understandable though :)
Pretty much. Trucks with snowmobiles on the bed or in a trailer typically are on ones ass If ahead of them.
I think they’ve done a pretty admirable job in trying to solve the privacy issues. The same thing that makes the product so effective is the same thing that makes it problematic, and I don’t really see a way to solve it. The TILE has the same issues with none of the best effort solutions, it’s just less of an abuse vector because it’s a worse product. These articles of “this can be misused” feels like really low hanging fruit.

Are there any solutions or ideas that are actually being suggested here?
IMO Kotlin and Go are only “popular” if you ignore Java’s massive scale.
That's a little different. Copyright, without any license involved, is very strict about the copying, how the copy gets made and where it's copied from. But if there's a license, things might get fuzzier.
It always struck me as bizarre that distracted driving is illegal, but it's fine to put giant billboards next to the freeway, specifically to attract your attention while you're driving.
Desktop users didn't need any of that.
It falls in the same category of WYSIWYG as http://abricotine.brrd.fr/
> The terms are not a negotiated contract

That doesn't mean they aren't a contract. They're simply a contract where your only options as the buyer are to buy or not to buy.

That said, a unilateral contract like this can be treated somewhat differently by courts. See below.

> removing the right to play a game you have bought with money because you haven’t played it “enough” (according to the vendor) may also be considered unreasonable.

As I posted in response to someone else upthread, it would be an interesting case if someone actually did try to take a game store to court on these grounds. Contract law does include general rules about reasonableness, and courts are more likely to apply them for unilateral contracts like these where one party does not have the opportunity to bargain.
In the NFT scenario , what would prevent people from sharing licenses?
Even if that position turns out to be correct, the argument is deeply flawed. It hinges on a "by definition" where the is no definition. That hand-wave is unsound. Java/The JVM has access to runtime performance information about how code is used that a compiler doesn't have access to. There is no reason it can't outperform C. More information available might lead to better results, and sometimes does.