skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming from an Intel Macbook user to migrated to the M1 Air and then eventually to the M1 Pro I have to say the current Apple Silicon Macs are excellent for productivity and casual use.

But for anyone interested in gaming you either get a console or need another gaming rig.
> This isn’t the fucking Disney channel, there’s no rule where I have to be jolly.

This made me laugh out loud, thanks for that. I wonder what rules your posts were breaking for it to be flagged?

It's true, there isn't a rule to be jolly, and I think you raise good points about the bus factor. What would happen if dang went away? Is there any universe where we can solve this bus factor such that it's decentralized or its capability grows naturally to another person?

For what it's worth, my last question might as well be rhetorical because Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. still hasn't solved moderation at scale, despite the vast pool of resources.
I have asked, romanced, and forced better process on different teams over the years and the fact is that some people just have never had anything better than chaos or bureaucracy and so they don’t know the level of accidental pain they’re carrying around until they get a taste of something better.

In a couple instances a former coworker told me after I left that the boss tried to walk back some of my changes and was surprised that the majority said no. Our theory is they thought I was being mean, rather than tough love.

I keep joking with my beer group that I am going to hire a personal trainer just to have them talk me through how they get people to do things that are good for them but painful in the short term. There is some fundamentally different thought processes between people who have never been “in shape” and those who aren’t now. I know my “reasons” are excuses and I know what the carrot tastes like. For some that carrot is too abstract and sounds maybe a little culty.
One problem that melted away was the compiler's 3 separate passes could be merged into one!

Also, the amount of code in the compiler increased enormously from the 80's to today.
Love it (as a parent)! And, wow, it sounds complicating (as a business owner)!

Wonder if there's an indie children's book writers guild you can tap into instead of having to go through publishers, which you can then print yourself from places like https://www.lulu.com/
But they aren't doing that; their Respects Your Freedom program is chock full of devices that run giant firmware blobs, which they conveniently ignore as long as they're on-device and not loaded from /lib/firmware, because as long as nobody notices they can keep believing they're living a blob-free life...

Things the FSF has explicitly incentivized:

- Moving firmware blobs from an obvious, inspectable place in the OS or bootloder to obscure firmware ROMs or Flash chips read by a convoluted process involving multiple CPUs, because somehow doing the latter makes it freedom-respecting? (Librem 5 story)

- Physically destroying optional hardware that currently cannot be used without blobs, so users are not tempted to use those blobs, regardless of whether free alternatives might appear in the future (spoiler alert: they did) (Stallman trying to get bunnie to permanently disable the GPU in the Novena free hardware/software laptop to get certified).
> I note this is happening right before Russia is (imo) about to invade Ukraine again.

“Again” implies that Russia had at some point stopped invading Ukraine, which is very much not the case.
Does anybody know when and why the word "take" has assumed such a significant non-standard usage online?
Basically this is exactly ehat they do. FBK (Anti-Corruption Fund) is declared ”extremist organization” in Russia for it discloses corruption among Russian gov-t and top administration. And Google is guilty of not removing information from/about FBK.
Feliz Natal :)
No they don't. The study that article references is hot garbage.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/dumpster-diving-in-vaers-do...
Zoho has a 1 dollar a year plan.
Well you conveniently skipped another very important country in the region.
> That, not surprisingly, isn’t something the city wants to highlight. Lining the walls around Uranus, attempting to make it less dead, is a project called “1000 years of Romanian Culture and Civilization,” which is comprised of hundreds of historical panels, none mentioning Ceaușescu.

It's even more stark inside the building. I remember doing a tour of it a few years back and the tour guide did his best to not mention Ceausescu or say anything not neutral. In his defense he looked about 22 and surely had a script. But it was very surreal.
Ahh that’s awesome then. I thought the JDK that shipped with android studio was x86. I’ll try the one adoptium.
Legal Drafting and Computer Programming
A couple of your examples can be handled by providing a reasonable accommodation/alternative because of established health condition. But the others…

> This type of work requires skills I do not have

Great, see this as an opportunity to develop new skills! Take it or quit/be fired.

> This type of work requires equipment that the company is not providing me

OK, either do it or quit/be fired.

> This type of work is not what I interviewed and hired for

OK, either do it or quit/be fired.

Making bad (but legal) decisions and fucking up a business isn’t (usually) a crime — if it is, lock me up! You may not like what your employer is telling you to do, but for the most part either do it or don’t.
They probably have to have a higher threshold to ban people on a thing like marketplace. It's very hard to sell anything without someone complaining sometimes. Sometimes the complainers are scammers.

And maybe they make money from it, so they don't want to kill the goose. I would also guess that heavy FB users are a terrific concentration of suckers.
Her essay on California's water system is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing about public works I have ever encountered.

http://archive.pov.org/thirst/holy-water/
It was more of a general question. Copilot seems to be software to undermine FOSS, and fits in a general pattern ie. the purchasing of github, VSCode (I'm learning Doom Emacs now). It's all the same things as the past 3 decades though. Nothing new, just new rat traps.
> There are plenty of issues, but there are also plenty of solutions. You're having issues sending because your netblock sucks and you don't have money for something better? Pay a few dollars to smarthost, for instance.

I do and outlook.com still gives a shit and doesn't accept incoming emails. There is also no way to get their attention for this issue, as they simply don't reply to complaints about that. How to solve issues like that?

> We should encourage MORE people to self-host email, not less. We should never just assume the monopolies are the best we can do.

That's something I can wholeheartedly agree with.
Jesus, let the man rest. It's Christmas Eve.
I am sick of this armchair quarterbacking.

The internet is flooded with people who think that we just can’t risk vaccinating people because some 4th or 5th order effect just might lead to disaster when the 11th or 15th wave of the virus comes around.

Most antiviral drugs work by attacking the RNA replication process because many viruses depend on RNA replication or related processes such as reverse transcription. On the other hand, the organism just uses RNA for making proteins and a few errors in protein synthesis are not going to end your life cycle.

Flooding your body with fake RNA nucleotides or nucleosides (like the Merck drug or AZT or the Famciclovir I gave to my cat) certainly impairs viral replication but it is not a great strategy. If the virus is 1000 bp long and it takes 10 mutations to really trash it you are going to have to replace 1% of your nucleotides/sides with fakes so we are talking a big pill.

The paxlovid approach is better because it prevents virus particle formation in one step. The nucleotide/side analog thing slowed down AIDS but it was protease inhibitors (in combination with the old drugs and other new drugs!) that turned it from a death sentence to a chronic disease.

I think you’d be crazy to take molnupiravir instead of paxlovid not because molnupiravir is bad, but because paxlovid has much better efficacy. Rather than rambling on about hypothetical hazards, that person twitter should be telling you that.
It’s really just average for L6 compensation and stock appreciation over the past 12-24 months. Look on levels.fyi.
There's no moving past covid until an exit plan is announced. If there isn't one, the only hope of moving past covid is resistance. If people stopped rushing for the latest vaccine, stopped getting tested regularly, even without symptoms, we would be past covid already.
There is such a boss in dark souls 3 but if you are offline an AI will play as the boss
Not necessarily Saudis but the so called "rebels". Turkey openly aided ISIS and other violent rebels in the region. I can tell you Turkey did not do this alone as a Nato member.
In Hoc Anno Domini (1949-2021)
We probably wouldn’t have a way to service it in earth orbit either. We needed a space shuttle to operate on Hubble. And using some other commenter’s estimate a 2nd JWST would cost 10% of the 10 billion USD price of the first one. A billion dollars is ballpark what it costed to launch a space shuttle. So even if we had the shuttle, would we fix the first one or just build & launch a second one?
Serious question: should we let this more infectious but less dangerous run its course to achieve natural immunity? What are the arguments for and against this strategy?

I know that if it is 5 times less likely to put people in hospitals but 10 times more transmissible then there will be 2 times more people in hospitals, but are there more arguments?
That's exactly right. A couple weeks ago I decided I'd scrape all the ice off the windows before starting my car.. and then off I went and immediately had to pull up at a bus stop 150m from where I started because the windshield totally fogged up and I couldn't see a thing. Winterland funland.
> Lending at 14% when [...] inflation is 18%

In the US, inflation is nearly at 7%, while savings accounts yield around 0.05%. Doesn't that mean Americans are discouraged from keeping money in savings accounts about the same amount as Turks are?
A good pair of wireless earbuds. I bought a pair of Galaxy Buds+ a few years back on Black Friday sale (think I paid 90 bucks or so), and I've enjoyed them so much, I didn't feel the need to upgrade them for the later models.

I bought my girlfriend a pair of Airpods to upgrade over her cheap Bluetooth earbuds, and it's a massive improvement as well. So I don't recommend any particular brand. Just get a good pair that works well with your phone, has decent battery life (at least eight hours between charges), and provides either ANC or good passive noise cancellation.

It's a real quality of life improvement for me to have these things that can be in my pocket all the time and can pull out any time I need a distraction for whatever I'm doing.

A good microphone on them is also a plus, as it allows people to hear me through my mask.
Hmm, am I wrong in this? I admittedly don't work on things of worldwide or nationwide of that scale so if my statement isn't accurate I like to learn from it. Thanks for any additional insight & explanation.
212 cases doesn't seem to be a lot. Does anyone know if it's legit? If they are burning left and right the 9s are going to leave soon.
They fall like dominoes. Where does the chain lead?
Your bank sided with the merchant? Normally they would at least try to argue the case and maybe lose it if the merchant's bank has better arguments or evidence, but straight up refusing to try? I'd just drop the bank and get a one that knows what the hell they are doing.
I've been running my own (and other) email servers for over 25 years. About four years ago I switched mine over from sendmail (with a bunch of add-ons like spamd/spamassassin, rbl, etc.) to mailinabox. Mailinabox is full-featured, secure, and reliable. It doesn't take anywhere near the level of effort required to maintain vs. other solutions.
Oxen and sled. Much safer than engines and wheels.
Taiwan (ROC) has been a separate country on the doorstep of China (PRC) for more than 70 years. This status quo could certainly continue another 70 years. This status quo could even outlast the PRC government.

I think the conclusion you should draw from this is the obvious one: China is not all powerful.
This is pure, distilled whataboutism.
Anandtech: How much performance improvement does DDR5 offer?
Erdogan may use Putin when it suits him, but when the interests no longer allies, he has no problems acting very much against Russia wishes. Like it was in the recent war between Armenia and Azerbaijan or when Turkey sells weapons to Ukraine.
Setapp.com is awesome for Mac users
Soyoustart for fair priced bare metal
Using sendgrid would seem to have similar or worse privacy implications to using gmail, outlook and their ilk.
Rocket engines could only be throttled down to certain power and manoeuvring thrusters would run out of propellant way before it reaches any orbit. Maybe something like electric propulsion can do it but it will take very long time to make it practical imho.
You’re going to have to lay down the logic behind this one for me. I am not getting it.
I see the article mentions “I didn't sign up for this” comments.

If you want rules against adverse changes to working conditions being imposed without negotiation and appropriate compensation, you need an employment contract that provides that. Which, in practice, means you need to be an independent contractor, an executive, or have a union.
What is an "Ottoman leader"?
An account at musicbrainz.org for easier tagging and organization for my music library - 4$ p. month.

I also value my Digital Ocean nodes, but they get torn up and down based on what I am doing.
My issues isn't just with regards to this paper, but with the general narratives that are being spun around weed. They're not objective IMO and there is some sort of societal pressure against seeking truth. That's how I feel with proponents of weed. Don't get me wrong - personally, Marijuana is a lot of fun but I'd want to not get carried away. I also believe in individual liberty and I don't condone banning weed.
> If US doesn't want to sell weaoons to Turkey

America is happy to sell to Turkey. Turkey wants to dual source. The U.S., reasonably, doesn’t want its latest stealth tech painted by Russian radars phoning home. Sometimes playing the middle ground helps. Sometimes it gets you a raw deal. In Turkey’s case, the people are losing.
Wish you best of luck!
If infection grants more generalized immunity, doesn’t that mean a tailored vaccine would do the same?
That may be true, but designing a mission based off that hypothetical is a bad idea. The reality is we currently don’t have the capability for humans to service satellites, and developing that capability would probably take years and cost >$100 million. And NASA can’t just decide to take on that endeavor, it would require congress and months of political bickering. JWST was designed for what is currently feasible and practical.
The groups that designates as extremist or terrorist include FBK and Projekt.media who exposing corruption and war crimes of Russia rulers and their oligarch walkets.
Does scrolling up break that site for anyone else?
I'm the total opposite. I'm so glad that when my phone get stolen or suddenly breaks (like my previous phone did), I can still drive my car, go home, make purchases, etc. and I'll only be locked out of services that (against my wishes) forced some phone based authentication.
"Friday we cap off the week by eating lunch together over Zoom"

How awful. I think you are trying to take the benefits of less social activity inspired remote workplaces and adding in forced. some social interaction. I would like to see this type of activity stopped.
According to ThousandEyes, the bigger outage though is TATA Communications server AS6453. That was down or at least having issues of some sort for 1 hr 11 min.
Breaking up a function doesn't always make it easier to follow. Instead it sends you bouncing around, trying to keep track of all the values passed back and forth. Some things you need to do are just complex because there's lot of complex rules and mathematics.
The Band-Aid Streisand effect
Wow, great spoiler hiding trick!
What about the 7-14 million Ukrainians Russia starved to death, do they count? Sure it happened a while ago but it happened and it was Russian aggressiveness that still reverberates today. Your attitude dismisses you from any and all future discussions on this matter. You have demonstrated that your are unfit to comment.
The constant onslaught of US "news" drumming up war on China and Russia is very scary. The production value of this site and the detail of its design are a problem. Reuters is a problem. This is indeed war propaganda. I do think the United States is on the offensive in this "cold war", and they they want it to be hot. United States foreign policy has historically been, let's say, less than helpful. I really do not believe China is a threat to the world.

What exactly is there to stand up to? Why not cooperate with China for mutual good? I believe Chinese leadership when they say all they want is a more multilateral world. US simply can't stop being world hegemon. Looking at the way people post both on this site and on Reddit about China, it's all same old Yellow Peril racism if you ask me. Really getting sick and tired of everyone just uncritically taking in US war propaganda and jumping on the war wagon.
Specially when someone else is paying.
Agreed - I think it would be interesting to see it by state/province (or even better some kernel smoothing) instead of country. Country size is kind of arbitrary, as some countries are very large and others are relatively small.
I think the applicant pool has a higher concentration of <any given negative> than the employee pool.

I posit that people with negative factors tend to apply/interview more per job start and probably have shorter average tenures [due to getting fired/managed out or quitting because they’re not getting their needs met].

We just experienced a 20-month disruption that caused certain previously latent negatives to be newly and massively amplified. Life’s also been harder than usual on many(most?) people. I’d be somewhat shocked if those negatives didn’t get concentrated into the applicant pool as well. To a hiring manager, that would be nearly indistinguishable from “remote work attracts bad apples at a higher rate”.

I’m quite pro-remote and think it’s going to end up overall wonderful that the tech world was forced into this massive, synchronized pre/post test. I also see employees who did well in the in-office structure struggle in the higher-discipline required remote model. Those employees are probably best served to return to in-office work.
I'm not suggesting that Covid and chicken pox are related as viruses. I'm merely pointing out one example of how long-term symptoms are not incompatible with immunity. We know that Covid causes long-term symptoms in some people. So it would be interesting to see whether the differential between natural immunity and vaccinated immunity (if there is one) is outweighed by the acute and long-term symptoms of active infection.
Pandemics aren't easy
Only if you treat it as a product that makes you money.
I would suffer financially greatly if it brought back my grandmother, she passed from COVID December of last year. I wish she had another year. She would have had a chance to meet her great grandson. But sure, complain about the numbers in your bank account some more.

Edit after being downvoted:
Sure, downvote me and don’t respond over my dead grandmother, coward.
> one of the greatest blunders in the history of public health policy

Is it a blunder when malice is involved?
That safesenders list thing sounds insane. How many companies add their own domain to that?
I thought it usually implies a Subject Matter Expert, rather than someone who dabbled too much in policy
why is the sun required for habitats.. plants can grow in artificial sunlight....

generational ships could spend entire decades in pockets with no sun...

all you need is the right raw materials, access to water and food, and fuel source to keep the uv lights working and the heater and oxygen pumping...
> Doesn't that mean Americans are discouraged from keeping money in savings accounts about the same amount as Turks are?

If you believe American inflation will remain there, yes. Few do. (Also, the Fed is tightening.)
> they proceeded to buy a domain for the top product name we were considering (canitake.com) within the first day

I understand this may be a meme, but did you actually take this as a serious red flag, and is this why you stopped working with them, or were there other factors?
>> personally I don't intend to retire but to continue working

The majority of people retire when they are forced to, not when they plan to. Everyone has a plan until life punches them in the mouth. The question is what does your life look like after that?
I believe what was GP was getting at is that even in a "convenience orbit", a repair mission would be very unlikely.
> If DoorDash obligates its employees to do this under the claim that it helps them perform their day jobs, then I fail to see how the visa could come into question.

If the mere claim is enough to ensure no questions about visa status, it creates an obvious giant hole to drive immigration fraud through.
My kids' mental health would be pretty heavily impacted by the death of their grandparents.

A pretty large number of kids are raised by "the old", too. https://www.prb.org/resources/more-u-s-children-raised-by-gr...
> You can create an account that has none of your personal information

Facebook pretends this is the case, but they use some dirty tricks to require personal information without explicitly requiring it.

In particular, if you create an account without a phone number, you'll find that within a day or two your account will inevitably be flagged for "suspicious" behavior, and you'll be required to enable two-factor-authentication with a valid phone number. (I assume the "suspicious" behavior here is your account existing without a phone number.)
Ships, aircraft, remote off-grid locations (for both power and heat), and portable tools would all benefit by carbon-neutral synfuels.

Batteries work in some of these cases, but not all.
> Isolating yourself from the world's largest economy isn't a winning economic policy.

If you're saying that Taiwan is isolating itself from China, then you are very wrong. Taiwan and China's economies are very intertwined. Taiwanese companies have had a large hand in the economic growth of China during the past generation.

It's a good reminder that countries can do quite well working with one another even if they're rivals. Hopefully this reality keeps hostilities in check.
¡Bon Nadal a tothom, HN!
You’re supposed to read the code, my dude. This is a hacker forum.
I don't think he claimed anybody died.
FWIW IMO: This should be marketed to the twitter croud, not the facebook crowd. I have no interest in writing journals for my friends and family, and even if I did, there won't be many who want to read what I write (in my personal network).

But I can see writing for folks with the same interests in tech, business, books or what not. So I am willing to open up my personal journals, but only to complete strangers (anonymously).
> $6 a month

Zoho has a $1/yr plan.