skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Traditional vaccines" are by no means free of side effects. The smallpox vaccine is a live vaccine and causes much more severe side effects than mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, including myocarditis [1]. This risk was accepted since smallpox is incredibly dangerous.

Inactivated vaccines appear to be quite ineffective against severe COVID and I have read that experts are doubtful about long-term protection against severe cases as well.

One alternative might be recombinant protein vaccines like the one from Novavax. This one was just approved in the EU and apparently the phase-3 trial went well. Of course, rare side effects (like myocarditis in mRNA vaccines) can only be measured once at least a few million people have been vaccinated. Also the longevity of the protection is still unknown.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201967
So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java), then it gets compared to another programming language (C#), then it gets compared to a third one (C) and no one bats an eye. But when Rust is mentioned it's because of "fanboys". Yeah, sure.
Wow, are you sure you don't mean $500? I've seen vans going for $150/day this year, which is pretty rich compared to pre-covid.

We also had a tough time getting a large passenger van, waitlisted until the day before, but still managed to pay $1500 for 10 days.
Is there a *Nerf to Blender pipeline?
There are some important details missing here, but $3.3 million over 18 years is about $15k per month. Assuming that the 18 years are passed and he never paid a penny of support. Even if the guy had 5 kids that’s still $3000 a month per kid. Which raises the question: why isn’t there a cap to the amount someone has to pay for child support? Are analytical chemists so well compensated that they can afford $15k a month in child support?
Mortgages in 2008 were regulated too
I’d like a webhook so I can play a giant horn in my apartment to wake me up and take cover or run outside.
> The two-story Victorian structure known as Englander House was lifted onto large dollies and moved to its new home on Fulton Street after 139 years at 807 Franklin Street.

> The first time Englander House has been transported in over 50 years.

Huh?

Also it's not really his house. He doesn't live there. He buys and develops real estate and intends to turn this into apartments.
It kinda helps to have an EE background for anything embedded. Doing embedded stuff has always been a gritty experience since I started around 2000. I find Nordic tools fine, and they've been getting incrementally better. Either the VSCode plugin or Segger Studio works fine for development, and the devkits work fine.
I switched to DuckDuckGo gradually a few years ago, starting on iOS. I was fed up with Amp pages in Google search results—using DDG made them go away. As some other commenters have mentioned, for some queries it’s painfully obvious how bad the DDG results are, and for things like sports results it’s super convenient to have those Google embeds. But the vast majority of my searches go through DDG, and it’s fine. It’s nice that when I search for say some specific car model, I don’t start seeing YouTube recommended videos about reviews for that car later in the day (unless I explicitly search on YouTube).
True. Must have been a hole-in-the-wall local place if he actually booked it. I don't know why he wouldn't have pulled out the confirmation at the counter, either.
Tech jobs are about capturing externally-created value with network structures... if everyone had a tech job then where's the external value come from?
> This risk was accepted since smallpox is incredibly dangerous.

In particular, it was way more dangerous than COVID is. To figure out an acceptable level of side effects, wouldn't it be better to compare COVID to other diseases of a similar danger level?
You can always open a private window.
TEE (Intel SGX; AMD will have to follow suite to keep up). It’s unfortunate that this will most likely reverse the current trend of increased cross-architecture compatibility and ARM64 will probably get the short end of the stick unless something unexpected happens.

I’m not a fan at all of that kind of DRM. Cryptographically prohibiting the owner of the machine from inspecting what code is running on their machine is a different league than obfuscation but I’m pretty sure that’s where we’re heading regardless with DRM. PCs will become more like video game consoles in that sense.

Or of course, streaming cloud gaming, where your local machine is more of a thin client. In this case the NFT is really just a token you present to the proverbial gatekeeper every time
you want to play. So you can still be blocked, but at least you’ll have irrefutable proof of which games you paid for and have an obvious case in small-claims court.

Especially the former will probably mean I’ll just completely quit gaming altogether.
only Ethereum mainnet has "$60-$300 gas fees", which is multiple orders of magnitude higher than everything else. there are a couple of networks that would maintain their low transaction fees even at the same transaction size as Ethereum and marketcap.
You do, however, need color vision to tell that the control line changed from blue to red (which the instructions tell you to do to verify that the test is working correctly)
Wow... I wonder how much time does logging of all those tasks take time? I'm not sure if I could do it since I'm switching among tasks all of the time. Manual logging of activities does take some time but I guess it it more precise than application that comes with some fitness wristband.
Considering that package mgmt is a well solved problem, rewriting these tools for that in return for slow, bloated alternative sounds like a huge tradeoff to me. Fun and learning on the other hand, sure.
This isn't a single page site, it's a single HTML file site with multiple (logical) pages.
While that's indeed true, there's an easy way around it by joining their frequent renter club (whatever each one calls it). Bypass that desk entirely, go straight to car (in most locations, not all unfortunately). I'm no frequent renter, maybe once every other year, but still it works great.
That's the second chance pool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11657576
What the hell is that site.
First 3-D printed Habitat home in US arrives
> For context, these might be some of the most broad and assertive challenges ever made on constitutional freedoms.

The US has organized, in recent history, concentration camps based on the premise that national security was at stake.

More recently, the US employed secret prisons to torture people who were deemed persons of interest, both foreign and US citizens.

I'd figure that requiring basic personal higiene and public health measures, such as wearing a mask in public places to avoid spreading a disease which is already killed well over 800k US citizens, shouldn't even register as a concern regarding "constitutional freedoms". Yet, why is this only a concern, and the "most broad and assertive" one to boot, regarding constitutional rights in the US?
In that sense, Steam is not tied to a single hardware platform. They are a bit more platform agnostic and that means they can keep moving with the times. Steam doesn't require a custom steam PC using proprietary hardware.

A good example of these online store going down would be the Wii and Wii U/3DS stores. The Wii store is already gone - it lasted 13 years.

The Wii U/3DS stores will no longer accept any payments starting 18th January 2022 as a first step towards shutting the services down. Wii U is 9 years old, 3DS is 10 years old.

Only yesterday a friend of mine fired up his Xbox 360. While the online system is still running it is a question of how long until MS will simply drop the entire thing even if it is a very minor thing to run.
This website is incredibly suspect, being titled "The Funny Woof" and linking the image credits to an insecure / improperly secured site called scanpix instead of something that works.

No further comment. Kind of a strange and pointless story for a strange and pointless action.
> If C is used in 100 years it will only be because of inertia. Today there are better choices in the domain of low level systems programming languages.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but there's effectively zero real kernel work done in anything other than c and c++. Tons of well-known open source Rust/microkernel stuff exists here in public, but behind closed doors is where almost all firmware work is happening. When someone at Microsoft, Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc sits down to code firmware for billions of devices, it happens in c. I've never seen a serious proposal to switch to managed code at any of my jobs, either

I think we'll see more and more complex stuff move out of the kernel, but I don't think c is going the way of COBOL in the next 20 years at least. I'M definitely not going to start using Rust on my own, and it would take a pretty compelling case from management or a junior engineer to make me switch in the future.
This is fascinating. The dedication it takes to keep this up for 10 years is impressive.

Did you consider any existing apps before making your own? Are there any apps like this that are available for download?
I don't think that post was really about the amount of liability. I think it was questioning why the owner would ever be liable for any of it, rather than the driver being liable for all of it.
> The transfer was orchestrated by owner Tim Brown, a San Francisco real estate dealer [...] developing the original property into a 48-unit apartment building.

TL;DR^
In general, attackers can do anything. For example, they can find all the information about you through the Internet and take out what they need while you are not at home. In general, it's very sad. And I believe that this should not be. My husband and I talked and decided that we need to put an alarm system at home. And moreover, we decided to install Ajax because I read a lot of different articles and reviews and only good things were said about this company. I know that there is an application through which you can track everything and it is very convenient.
Snow, freezing temperatures, and the insulation snow provides against freezing temps, as well as knock-on effects on albedo, are all significant.

Kudzu, scourge of the South, is limited in its northward spread by the frost line. Those images you've seen of it overtopping trees, houses, and utility poles are real (and surreal).

And that's only one of the visible signs. Many invasive insect species, including both those that attack crops and those that spread disease, are limited in northerly spread by freezing temperatures. Rising temps means more northerly invasion.

Ground freezes further limit insect, animal, and plant invaders. It's not clear to me whether or not the northern Plains states will see more or less freezing, my guess is that temperature swings will likely be wide and uneven, and with less snow cover, fluctuate to a greater extent through the winter months. This could kill desired plants (as roots that were previously protected from freezing do in fact freeze), promote invasive species, simply wear and weather structures and roadbeds to a greater extend (more freeze-thaw cycles). Less snow means more dark earth and higher solar absorption, which would tend to accelerate warming trends. Positive feedbacks tend to be dangerous.

And climate instabilty may mean more "polar vortex" events, with weeks of 60F (18C) weather followed by -20F (-28C). Rains followed by freezes create ice, snows followed by rapid warming, increased melt and flooding. (All of course dependent on precipitation patterns.)

How all this washes out is hard to predict. I strongly advise against simply hand-waving the issue away as "people will have one less thing to complain about".

At the other end of the seasonal cycle, dryer summers and higher winds may also mean wildfires, something that's far rarer in the Plains states, but not unheard of. These did accompany the high-wind storm a week or so back, in which sustained winds of 80--100 mph were registered from Colorado to Minnesota, effectively not unlike a hurricane-on-land.
> Generally the owner of a vehicle is held ultimately responsible for anyone they permit to drive the vehicle.

But why? If I lend my neighbor my chainsaw, and he's unbeknownst to me a serial killer who murders someone with it, should I be liable for that too?
I was scrolling through to see if Kings Bounty got a shoutout in these comments. Glad I wasn't disappointed.

I've actually never played the HoMM games, but I played Kings Bounty a bunch as a kid and loved it. Totally underrated game!
Crystal is supposed to be fast, and type safe, with an easy syntax. This might help people try it, because they still can fall back on python, and get hooked.
the owner had to get nearly 15 separate permissions

The ambiguity of 'nearly' here is driving me mad. Why not say 14 permissions?
Please don’t do oppression Olympics. It’s just a wedge that benefits no one. We’re better off building bonds and acting in solidarity.

By the way, there’s a very high overlap between LGBTQIA+ and ADHD and autism (hi including me, I’m queer, I’m nonbinary, I’m grey-asexual, I’m ADHD and I’m autistic). And there’s a multiple generations of similar struggles among us.
They don't have ads where I live, and as a result they're about as fast as the counter.
> So, let me get this straight: We have a thread about a programming language (Java) (...)

No, you really don't. If you read the thread you're commenting on, you'll notice it's about C#.

The very first comment of the thread you're discussing in, and also the top post of this discussion, is, and I quote:

> It is quite interesting that most of the problems mentioned don't exist in recent version of C# on .NET Core, considering all the similarities of C# and Java. (...)

And somehow Rust fanboys parachute into the discussion to yet again talk about their hammer handling all nails and nail-like problems.
You can buy text books outside of school. Let's say I buy some OReilly or Manning e-books, and then they take them away from me. Whereas the physical copy for just a little bit extra remains mine for as long as the copy stays readable (centuries if given care)
> - BIFL quality items, like clothing from brands that will happily repair stuff if it breaks or send you replacement items if you can fix it yourself.

Can you list some items?

> - Skilled laborers/consultants of any kind. Plumbers, electricians, financial advisors, lawyers or specialized health personnel like manual therapists.

What's the best way to separate the reasonably priced experts from the overpriced crooks?
From the article:

"Israel’s laws regarding divorce and child support have faced previous criticism for being vague and unjust.

Director Sorin Luca, who is creating a documentary about Israel's divorce laws called "No Exit Order", purports that “A woman can easily put a travel ban on the father, with a demand for child support which can extend to the entire duration of the childhood.”
“Once a father has the order, he can be imprisoned for up to 21 days, whether he has the ability to pay or not – without any investigation of his finances. Men are expected to pay 100% or even more of their income to pay for their children,” Luca continues.
This seems a bit wrong-headed. All code ultimately runs CPU instructions, regardless of the language a program is written in. It doesn’t matter if the Java compiler or runtime is written in C, because CPUs don’t run C. The Java bytecode compiler might be written in C, but it ultimately emits CPU instructions.

When talking about performance you say that “there's literally nothing Java can do that C cannot because C can write Java” but other than the tautology that they are both Turing machines, your conclusion doesn’t follow.

The Java runtime dynamically optimises based on the currently executing code, but C compiles to static CPU instructions. A C program is statically optimised so it’s possible that some optimisations in C will perform worse than those in Java because Java knows more about the actual code paths taken at runtime, and this can change between executions.

For C to be able to optimise itself the same way that Java does, it would need its own heavyweight runtime and bytecode, like Java does (as I think you suggest). But C doesn’t actually have such a runtime, and although I’m certainly no expert on the C language spec, I assume it has all sorts of runtime guarantees and a memory model that would preclude arbitrarily rearranging the executable code at runtime, so it arguable that the resulting system wouldn’t actually be “C” if it did this.

Put another way: although Java is/was written in C, the way Java works is fundamentally different to C, and because of this, certain optimisations are available to Java that are not available to C.

(All of that said, in my experience C code is always faster than Java code, these days I use Go and Swift, and I’m very happy to have seen the back of the JVM.)
> Selling harmful things is profitable. Opposing harmful things is expensive. Because of this asymmetric warfare, and because we are human beings more concerned about other human beings than concepts like brand awareness, it seems like regulating the messaging in pubic spaces makes sense.

Nothing I stated made any sort of judgement about whether or not something should or should not be advertised. The original statement (quoted in my previous response) was that someone opposed to an advertisement was "not allowed" to oppose that promotion.

Quite frankly, nobody should be in charge of regulating the messaging. That sounds like top-down control which does nothing but solidify the positions of people/organizations that are already in power and can afford to lobby for such regulations. It's often known as regulatory capture.

There are clearly groups of people that "oppose harmful things" (which is quite vague, but I digress), and have carved out parts of the market that agree with them (e.g., organic foods) and are quite profitable.
Actually, I just read the chapter on open borders in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_for_Realists and he argues none of that is true. Open borders (more immigrants) actually increases wealth of the country letting them in, even refugees…
> Yes, gog doesn't have DRM but also expect me to use windows.

Wine exists.
Trustless trust doesn’t solve any problems here. Having your ownership of games notarized without someone central, does not mean you can access them. You need someone to enforce that.
That is misinformation. While I encourage everyone eligible to get vaccinated, the vaccines don't reliably prevent infection or transmission. The main benefit is in reducing severe symptoms. Likewise face masks only marginally reduce the risks of transmission in individual interactions. But since the virus is endemic it will never be "over". Everyone can expect to be exposed periodically. You can't expect people to wear masks forever.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
Every Covid self test I've ever used had two red lines for postive and one red line for negative. Why are there tests out there that need color vision?
I know at least one senior level exec that uses that feature. I had never heard of it before (and I use outlook).
It seems almost impossible to say if log4shell was bigger or more costly than Heartbleed or the Debian OpenSSL bug (there are probably still keys out there made with the damaged randomness). Log4shell is just in recent memory.
You can use your own domain.
I wonder why they didn’t use NFC. They could get away with a much simpler chip, or even a fully analog solution if they didn’t need the complexity of Bluetooth.

Seems like you could just about accomplish the same thing with a pair of NFC tokens, a photodiode, and some transistors. Basic components. Connect one of the two NFC chips to the coil depending on how much light is reflected off the test strip. When you scanned it with your phone the activated NFC chip would respond with a URL containing a unique ID which could be interpreted by the manufacturer.
I really don’t understand libertarians. You hate the idea of a government having any power that could theoretically/historically be used to oppress you, but when corporations do it, it should be celebrated.

Thank God it was IRS LLC that put me in their private prison for not paying my Land Ownership Subscription instead of the government.
That's a good point but odds are gmail won't be around in 20 years. The most popular email 20 years ago was aol later hotmail. Most popular search yahoo, altavista are gone. ICQ is mostly gone.

Myspace is gone. Facebook is dying slowly hopefully to be replaced with some form in the meta world.

To make it 18 years is special but it's going to take a lot of reinvention to keep up for the next 20 years. They have the best odds but so did myspace
One may not need to build an entire tree and then compare to another tree; the generation and comparison may go hand in hand to avoid building an actual vDOM.

It's DOM diffing anyway. It's still the "track and update dirty regions" logic of 8-bit game consoles, instead of the "redraw the whole screen from scratch" logic of modern game engines. DOM is not performant enough, and likely will never be, in its current shape.

Merging the vDOM-less transactional DOM update logic into the DOM standard could be nice, though.
Oh no that's a bummer. Well I think it's a smallish patch so easy to redo, but still.
> with your family in the background

Many conferencing programs allow you to set the background. Use a photo of a bookshelf and you're good to go!
I agree with your whole opinion on T&C's and abuse by companies, but they are still a contract, mostly because there is no "hard standard" in how a contract can be formed between two parties. Even a verbal agreement can be seen as a "contract" as much as a signed paper.
> Note that the first time you run Incoggo, you will need to enter your computer password.

That's a very understated way to say "we run stuff on your computer that require root privileges". It is explained later but there's no such thing as too many warnings about running 3rd party code under root on my computer.

> If you’re a very security-minded individual (or you use your computer for very sensitive tasks),

Who doesn't? Like, accessing my bank account? Accessing my email, where my bank account would sent 2FA/password reset? Uploading my ID photo to one of the dozens sites now that require that? I'm not sure we know each other well enough so I'd entrust you access to all that. Not even if that allows me to read Vanity Fair. I guess I'm one of those "very" individuals?

> Incoggo adds a file to your system’s sudoers.d folder that whitelists specific commands from requiring a sudo password to perform

Erm, does that mean any other tool would be free to use those commands under root now? Probably not the best idea.

> Incoggo also installs a trusted root certificate in your system keystore

Do I understand right that this gives it full untraceable MITM capability to any site I visit? I remember the government of Kazakhstan tried to do that to their citizens. They did it in a stupid way. They should have promised all citizens free access to Wall Street Journal.

> If these are show-stopper issues for you

Unfortunately, they kind of are.
Rust supports VLAs, Box<[T]> is pretty common in fact. It just doesn’t have a native way to alloc them on the stack.
This is a fantastic service. AmEx used to promote it reasonably heavily, but in the past few years I've rarely seen them mention it at all.
Building reactnative apps is time consuming because of the library and it’s dependencies. Native compile times are much faster.