skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must be nice to live in your fictional alternative universe. First the massive propaganda, enforced by governments, media and tech companies is in favor of the vaccination. There is literally no mainstream media or government on earth I can think of that are pushing an anti-vaccine agenda.
Secondly if the vaccine worked, it would have stopped the epidemic already. It didn't made a dent even in countries with 90% vaccinated. This single fact should one think. And think again. The "anti-vaxxers" are the scapegoats of political and health policies that don't work.
Not GP, but two blogs I like are https://noahpinion.substack.com and https://braddelong.substack.com

Both authors are quite witty, so their blogs are eminently readable. They're also trained in economics (have PhDs in economics) and are econ professors, so I put a lot more stock in the stuff they write (useful heuristic, but some may disagree) than in lynalden's posts.

Economics is harder to separate from politics compared to other sciences, so it's especially useful to read multiple points of view and understand what the biases of authors lie/what the ongoing debates are. One thing I dislike about lynalden is her tendency to present as the one "true" economics Milton Friedman's monetarist theory of inflation, and doing so without explicitly calling out the hidden assumptions being made along the way or considering other theories of economics (e.g. Keynesian). OTOH, Noah and Brad can be categorized as Keynesian economists, so they present a more left-leaning view of the field of economics where the quantity theory of money is not accepted whole cloth.
Google search on iOS Safari prompts me to install Google app for every search. This alone drove me nuts and I switched to DDG.
Average smartphone is $160 in India, but many are much cheaper. A sim with two gigs of data is $0.33 cents.

A laptop and broadband connection are going to cost a lot more. A desktop is simply going to be out of reach for most of the poorer population.
Is there an alternative for Google Streetview (in maps)?
As was pointed out upthread: your theory about what Microsoft stood to gain from this license change was simply incorrect. I'm not sure what we're still discussing at this point.
> Undermining or opting out of society: Crypto, neo-reactionism, antiwork, anti-capitalism, even alternets like Gemini to a degree.

Most of these exist as negative reactions against existing ideologies and as such aren't really countercultures. Antiwork, anti-capitalism, they only exist because the thing they oppose (c.f. work and capitalism) exist. These cultures only exist as long their opposite cultures exist, no longer. They are just as mimetic as the dominant culture they oppose.

Gemini is a fun one because despite it having lots of people who want to participate in a counterculture, it uses the same infrastructure as the corporate internet they want to oppose.

A genuine counterculture would be orthogonal from the original culture, not the negative of it.
It's not negativity. You wrote an article showing you clearly don't understand at all what are the stakes or what you are doing.

What you did is a basic setup which was covered in O'Reilly's TCP/IP book back in 1996. World has changed since.

Please learn from the community here.
You’ll need to come up with a way of redistributing wealth without impacting price signals. Peoples net pay rate is a price signal. I’m not aware of any method of taxation that doesn’t affect price signals.
Full remote code execution in signal desktop via an node context enabled and an XSS in a react application, rendering user messages with __dangerouslySetInnerHTML. A similar XSS in the webview on mobile signal allowed at the very least, compromising all of the contacts and messages of the user.

I wouldn't take anything that Signal developers/founders say about their product or others' products security seriously.
There are some unfortunate subtleties to this. Coverage from most credit cards that offer rental car insurance is secondary to your personal vehicle insurance -- which means that your vehicle insurance premiums would be impacted by an incident. Only a few cards offer primary rental car insurance.

They also don't cover damage to other cars, only to the rental vehicle itself. That's back on your personal insurance again.

They also may not cover all types of rental vehicles, such as vans.
In recent years HN has becoming increasingly aggressive in it's climate denial. Not in the classic sense of denying that there is climate change at all, but generally holding these assumptions as a sacred:

- climate change is not happening in a meaningful way now.

- the future impacts of climate change are wildly overstated.

- all potential issues that may come up with climate change can be mitigated through technology.

Any comments that violate any of these assumptions will be aggressively downvoted or often times even flagged. I have alt accounts that have had the latter happen frequently and I know because the flagged comments are always unflagged on review (conveniently hours after the article is no longer on the front page, and the discussion is effectively over).

This tendency may have always been a part of this community, but it has become a bigger issue in recent years because it has been increasingly apparent that severe climate impacts are being felt "faster than expected" right now, there is absolutely existential risk at play (on both a civilization and species level), and that nothing short of immediate reduction of the use of hydrocarbons can prevent extreme impacts (i.e. no techno solution).

Personally I think this is largely because these ideas pose major challenges to the ideological foundations of most of the HN community. In general people are brought here out of a common interest in the future, and the belief that technology (specifically VC funded technology) can solve any problem out there.

Our current understanding of climate change and its impacts shake this ideological foundation and makes a lot of people uncomfortably in a very profound way. Their only way to react is to try to make it go away. Down voting and flagging comments happens precisely because these realities of climate change hit a bit to close to the bone.
Yes but a blower motor in a typical indoor air handler will draw less than 500 watts. The compressor on the outdoor unit will be more around 2500 watts with an initial in-rush of 20k+ watts.
The copyright ownership isn't the real flaw in your argument!
Milder winters mean huge swathes of the world where certain disease-ridden and economically disastrous pests like ticks and termites are currently walled out from due to the extreme cold in the winter are suddenly going to be much worse places to live.
Elasticsearch is actually using SecurityManager with quite thoroughly locked down policies; and it seems that this actually saved ES from being vulnerable to the RCE.

The irony is now that OpenJDK just recently decided to deprecate the SecurityManager in Java 17 and remove it in Java 18.

See also this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/rcmuir/status/1469730949810339843
"We know you have a copy of the key hidden somewhere, just tell us and we'll stop (insert bad thing)."

It's kind of hard to prove a negative.
Do you mean 1099 status?
This is why DDG should include a "!g"-button at the bottom of their first results page.

I'll switch to DDG as soon as they have it.
Statistical evidence is better than anecdotal evidence.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2019/home.htm
Also, so you'd rather have some of those people have no income as long as some luckier ones get more income?
I wish people did not disregard natural immunity. There are quite many who do. Anyways... for how long does natural immunity last?
Java used to have exactly this with security manager
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environmen...

Its been removed from the language because "it wasnt needed or used".
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/report-la-sheriff-halting-...

> L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva .. was briefed by the FBI about “the serious risks associated with allowing Fulgent to conduct COVID-19 testing,” ... the FBI advised him that information is likely to be shared with China, and that the FBI told him DNA data obtained is “not guaranteed to be safe and secure from foreign governments.”
Oh another Santa Barbara resident! I was initially a little confused reading this thread until I remembered our great regulations.
because I can't.
I don’t have an RSS reader that I use regularly and my email is a mess.
This paper essentially argues that the risk of myocarditis in under-40 males getting 2 shots is greater (perhaps much greater) than the risk of getting it from COVID. There have been similar studies before, but none (that I saw) broken down by age and sex like this.

It reads:

> Despite more myocarditis events occurring in older persons, the risk following COVID-19 vaccination was largely restricted to younger males aged less than 40 years, where the risks of myocarditis following vaccination and infection were similar. However, the notable exception was that in younger males receiving a second dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine, the risk of myocarditis was higher following vaccination than infection, with an additional 101 events estimated following a second dose of mRNA-1273 vaccine compared to 7 events following a positive SARS-CoV-2 test.

This guy made a graph of their data, which makes it a little more clear:

https://twitter.com/VPrasadMDMPH/status/1475145220618526729
(Late, I know -- a comment in this thread was referenced a few days later.) Yeah, 2008 was a banner year for the U.S. economy (not to mention the world economies). The economy was humming along so smoothly that, IIRC, McCain was able to take a vacation from his busy presidential campaign for a little rest and relaxation. And then Obama had to come along and ruin everything. Bummer! :(
No, there aren't. Knives dull over time; even the most durable steel formulations need sharpening eventually. Those ceramic knives are pretty robust, but they too will dull. More importantly, they're extremely brittle; my experience with them is that they chip very quickly and are really unsuitable for anything other than very light use. For your use, they might be ok, but I think you'd end up being annoyed when they break sooner than you want.

I recommend something from the Victorinox Fibrox line to folks like you who just want to cut stuff and not think about knifes. They're very sharp out of the box, quite durable, and will last a long long time before going dull. When they do, they're so cheap (like $25) that you could just get a new one rather than messing around with sharpening.
Because then you have a snowflake service with a non-standard environment and still haven't solved the problem for all the other services that are still on Mesos.
What does the total snow mass for the entire Northern Hemisphere have to do with parent's observation (especially since it explicitly excludes mountains, the subject of the parent's point)?

It's completely possible that the Northern Hemisphere also has more rainfall then ever before, would that mean that lake Mead isn't drying up right now?

I find it a bit hard that you're really posted that information in good faith given it would require an almost willful misunderstanding of what the parent is saying and how hemisphere wide observations completely miss essential regional variation in weather patterns.
Age of wonders 1 & 2 are what got me to stop play HOMM, same feel with better graphics
So if 5MB is considered large, why don't we just go back to instructing people to download all of Java or .NET to get the app needed to control their home (real), or generate a temp credit card number (real), designing a home (real).

I'm not saying that all sites need to migrate to SPAs but there is a HUGE market segment that has been replaced with a React SPA over custom apps that had to be downloaded. And now those same SPAs work in your phone and your computer.

HTML POST REDIRECT HTML is dead, get over it.
NZ was having trouble containing their last outbreak - it had got into the 'gangs', a part of their society that was particularly hard for the government to reach with containment action. So, controversially, they gave up. I suspect they were under a great deal of pressure from 'those who would see Covid win'.

Note that China is still keeping Covid at bay.
A right to exist for humans, to me, means a right not to have interference from others. But still, higher minimum wage means some people will have no income, and some other will have more income. How's that better?
The idea is that the real server has access to the encrypted/hashed version of the password so it can decrypt the communication (and so does the client as the user is entering the password). But a fake server would not have that and thus be unable to decrypt the communication.
A remotely-decent stainless kitchen knife on non-fiberous materials will last long enough that you don't really have to worry about it.
Especially for such soft materials as cheese and sausage.

Vegetables are the problem for sharpness, and meat-with-bones the problem for toughness, assuming careful handling.
So, yeah, with care to not bend it, a ceramic blade will do well on things like carrots, while a simpler stainless steel blade handles your cheese and sausages just fine.

But even then, a very simple high carbon blade with a simple automatic-angle-keeping sharpening tool (10~20$) only needs to not see the dishwasher and receive oiling before storage.
Which is basically the extend of "have an oiled sheath to store the blade in".
French Opinel makes cheap (5~15 $) (but rather practical) pocket knifes out of (traditionally) such carbon steel. The wooden grip is more sensitive to water than the blade, in my experience.
I didn’t especially enjoy this essay, but Goodbye To All That is a great (and pretty easy) read, which I’d highly recommend
Just can't rule out the technology just because it's slow and inefficient/ Rememeber the early days of internet
GNUStep is not related to OPENSTEP but to OpenStep.

OpenStep is the framework, available in a few places but including Windows NT and Solaris plus…

OPENSTEP is the desktop operating system based on Mach and BSD with the OpenStep framework.
Same for me here in northern Norway. The winters are milder, less snowy. It's clear as day to me and the people around me.
As I said, you don't have to have an "RSS reader", you can use your email client, such as Thunderbird. These feeds will not interfere with your emails, and they're displayed at the bottom of the sidebar.

I'm unsure how this is handled with other email clients, but in case you don't use any, you can visit the URLs in my first reply whenever you want; that or use the site's search functionality at the bottom.
It had both some of the elements of the first (deliberate) and much of the nonsense and mysticism of the second and third.

That was what was so childish about 2 and 3, and that childishness remained here. The role-swapping in service of allegory was annoying, as well.
Escaping the Trap of Efficiency
That graph in that tweet is included in the study's PDF. It's the very last page of the PDF and has more graphs too.

I wish the study's age group was more specific (the authors admit they don't have enough data for the 13-17 age group to make it more specific). Aka, I would like to see 10 year age group intervals. From other studies, the risks is highest in 16-24 if I remember right?

There's a study out of Public Health Ontario, ON, Canada which compares the risks depending upon the intervals between first and second dose.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.02.21267156v...
> How is that a usable advice?

Its not really advice, its an essential requirement if not getting pwnd is important to you. Expect to get pwnd eventually otherwise.
Do you run into any issues with your outgoing mail being marked as spam by the recipient? Particularly with GMail’s aggressive filtering?

I imagine 99% of outgoing Amazon SES traffic is transactional or marketing email for various online services. I worry this could make my personal emails look more like spam to the big providers. Or maybe it works out fine.
I mostly use the default web interface and /news link. I’ll also check my threads link a few times a day when I’m actively in a thread.

For researching a specific tech topic, I use algolia’s HN interface.
I always question myself about how much DDG can improve theirs results until the Bing backend becomes the problem.
I imagine one's DNA can't be too different from the cousin that agrees to share that kind of data?
My email “client” is HEY.com

After 30-ish years of email I finally found something good.
Haven't finished reading it yet, but it's been enlightening and thought-provoking: "The Essence of Software" by Daniel Jackson.
The UK makes available shared access licences in the 3.8 to 4.2 GHz band. These are power limited and location constrained, to manage interference with satellite earth stations.

You can get a license in this band and run your own private 5G network in it. There doesn't appear to be any concern from the UK aviation regulator (the CAA).

Perhaps they're able to achieve sufficient spatial separation from airports and their final approach paths, or perhaps they've found there aren't issues with the reduced transmit power available on these shared access licences? Nonetheless, it will be interesting to see if this 200 MHz guard really is insufficient in the US - at a certain point you need to consider if existing equipment needs to be replaced (like with the swapping of 800 and 700 MHz from digital TV to mobile, and the need for some people to put a band-stop filter onto their TV antenna feed to avoid interference from mobile networks).
No one here is forcing it upon anyone; the easy solution here is to have the app filter NSFW content by default and then force the user to manually enable it if they do want to engage with the content, which appeases both users. Trying to argue that having your hands tied isn't so bad because your feet are still free is a very slippery slope though, and it's not an argument that ends with anyone's platforms being better. It's especially not an argument when the platform owners have practically infinite resources and bigger fish to fry than "how hard is it to access porn on my iPhone". What we really need to do is take a long, hard look at the devices we have, and decide whether we are the ones who should control them, or third parties. Pretty much every other argument is a strawman.
This is more like ACLs, which are a completely different paradigm from capability-based security. An ACL system is based around specifying permissions for actions and such, whereas capability systems are based around reifying authority in an unforgeable way and passing the resulting tokens around.
> There are only about 2.5 hospital beds per 1000 in the US.

Wow that's really third world level of beds per inhabitants. In my country it's 6, and a bit more than the double (13.1) in Japan. No wonder Japan doesn't need to take harsh measures since the hospital capacity is able to deal with it.

For any US citizens or residents in this thread angry at non-vaccinated people, you should be angry against your government for under funding hospitals instead of your fellow citizens.
>there's not a single MacOS device with a touchscreen

The Touch Bar is a touchscreen. It’s on the current 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro and many previous-gen Macs.

Biggest problem is that I can’t use it without looking at it.

https://robservatory.com/the-fundamental-problem-with-the-to...
Any cheap or expensive knife that comes with one of those sheaves that have the sharpener built in will probably work well for your circumstances.
Visiting any URLs you posted tell me I need an RSS client.
> But I haven’t heard from you is that you have tried to adjust to the market.

Modern market seems to ask from programmers something other than programming. Peter Norvig in the interview to Lex Fridman mentioned that today software is made of building blocks from Internet, not designed from requirements as it used to. For some reasons companies prefer to endlessly lose in dependencies wars rather than have good arguments for why something is developed and something is taken from outside.

The OP problem is rather pervasive, there are some pretty good specialists who can't find a position in months and years because market requirements seems to be rather odd. People who obviously can program and have experience solving problems for business find themselves expected to know technologies du jour when those could be some questionable rehashes of ideas of previous years.

> if you want to get paid what programmers get paid these days

The problem is today's programmers are paid for knowing - preferably early - the hot technologies instead of analyzing and solving the problems with good tools. If a person has enough experience, he may understandably question the kind of a hamster race, so these modern technologies look poor for him.
has there been any reports of this effect occurring in people that are vaccinated?
I am 55. 39 years since I got my first programming job. I long ago lost my interest in production coding, but my coding skills are highly valued in the testing/training/consulting world.

Part of your problem is that the world expects guys of our age to have moved into leadership positions. For instance, I have two part-time consulting gigs right now where I do coding to get the kids started with certain test tools that they didn’t realize they should have created before I came along. I’m ostensibly coaching and training. But coding is a helpful part of that.

Another part of your problem is it sounds like you don’t know anyone. I got both my current gigs because former colleagues hired me. Socialize!
Remember kids: be careful writing sad things online, or else your iPhone-owning friends may not get to see it.
I've always been told life is lonely anyway, by the time you're in your mid thirties I think the average American for instance has like two close friends and dwindling family.

In my case every time I've tried to go with the flow I wind up resenting myself more than I like the people I'm keeping company with and always go back to marching to my own drum and shedding whatever social circle I've cobbled together.

I find that I enjoy my own time doing what I want and doing what I find stimulating more than I dislike the loneliness.

Very much to each their own though, it's obviously very personal and my way is definitely not the best for everyone, heck some of the time I'm not even sure it has been the best for me.
These games never stopped and are arguably better than ever. Just of the game designers you mentioned:

The Lead Designer of Civ 4 just released Old World. It's designed around reducing end game slowdown by limiting the number of orders you can place each turn, mechanically you play a series of leaders who can only give out so many orders and have to manage their dynasty, Crusader Kings style. An excellent game. https://mohawkgames.com/oldworld/

The designer of Fall From Heaven made Fallen Enchantress and I think a modern Star Control remake. Can't speak to their quality personally.

The designer of the original XCOM recently released Phoenix Point. Haven't tried this one yet but it's on my list.

Turn based tactics games in general are extremely popular. Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous has a HoMM2 style army battles built into the RPG campaign (though it's reportedly quite buggy and unbalanced...) The game overall is fantastic, and the party-level combat is also turn based if you like. Baldur's Gate 3 is turn based. Some personal favorites are all the Long War variants. XCOM 1 Long War, XCOM 2 Long War, and now XCOM 2 Long War of the Chosen.

Edit: If you're looking for something specifically like Fall From Heaven, I'd say give Endless Legend a try. It has a similar feel in the way it combines theme and mechanics. It came out in 2014 but it's still getting updates and content to this day.
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