skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"40W is doable" is honestly not what I expected from your comment (I got the impression of both less and it being the default), but then again you didn't say it was "good", just "better". Fair enough, but this achievable idle consumption is still double of the peak consumption of a mid-range laptop. Either way, thanks for putting a number to it!
How so? tDCS is considered very safe. Here is a good review:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5007190/
The Signal State[1] is a Zachlike in this vein.

[1] https://signalstate.io/
No need for CDN, if the connection is already setup and the server supports HTTP2 the files can be sent in parallel. TCP and SSL handshake back-n-forth will likely eat up the initial Atlantic latency. Also static content can be cached on the user device. And serving static content is well optimized in most web servers, so you do not need beefy hardware.
How is it "trying to like it" when you try to replace everything and re arrange the entire OS to your liking?

I think they just tried to convert it to Linux for 1 year and that didn't work, which as I said, that's expected, it might not be the OS for you and that's fine. We're lucky we have options, and we are all not the same.

As I said in the comments, macos is for people that can accept the trade offs, that can adapt to a more rigid and propietary system in exchange for something that just works and allows you to focus on your actual work, and not on tuning your computer as if it was a hobbies sports car.

Again, nothing wrong with that, I've been like that in the past. Now I just prefer things that just work and I don't have to waste my time maintaining. We are all not the same, thanks God.
Expectations have now changed.

This is, incidentally, a key issue in risk management: risk profiles and threat models are not a constant. The model is a reflection of reality, and if reality changes, the model should change with it.
I don't think, people are more willing to buy dreams, then reality... See star citizen..
So many mentions of VAERS too...

>While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases.
I left my IT job two years ago and things have worked out just fine. I've become a lecturer in further education which I really enjoy. I also lost 70lbs by changing my diet a bit and walking for 45 minutes a day. Good luck. It's a good idea to have something lined up. I had something temporary to pay the bills for six months then took it from there.
File system is a database. Spreadsheet is a database. And surely blockchain is also a database.
I'm definitely not someone who reads these types of articles often but this part definitely stood out to me. Are these analogies common? It seemed odd.
"Reducing the spread of covid 19" is not a thing in the vaccine context.

You are going to get it. Everyone is going to get it, probably repeatedly. France has vaccine passports out of the wazoo and 200k cases.

"Reducing the spread" of something implies that the spread is actually reduced at the macro level. It's irrelevant whether a single vaccinated person has a slightly reduced probability of transmitting the disease if _in aggregate_ everyone gets it anyway.

You may as well say that an umbrella helps prevent wet hair. Well yeah, but not in a blizzard. In a blizzard your hair is saturated anyway. No prevention has occurred.

"Vaccinate the world" doesn't solve covid. Vaccinated populations still get and transmit the virus. They're much better off of course because the individuals fight off the virus more effectively and their health systems function better.

But they still bloody get the virus, still provide a reservoir for mutations, etc.

If I had a quid for every totally nonsensical proclamation about "solving covid via xyz" I'd be a billionaire.
Same. Four year old daughter. I have no intention of getting her a Covid vax and I’ll move school districts if my liberal city (Berkeley) tries to mandate it.

My wife and I are both vaxxed and boosted but why would I shoot a drug into her that only claims to prevent severe disease, which is a very rare occurrence in kids.
I don't think it has to be 'either or'.

For example: iOS and Android are both mainstream and pretty much not compatible.
I never was a UI guy but the overall feeling described by the author hits close to home. As a developer I always wanted to write code as good/clean/elegant as all the cool people whose blog/videos/books I was consuming on a daily basis, with mixed results and unpaid over-time, trying to figure out the best abstractions and rewriting code over and over again. I was a poet, trying to write the perfect poem, it just so happened that my medium was a programming language.

I think many software developers who love what they do go through that kind of phase in their careers. I got over it after realizing that results come first and written code is not a weightless piece of art. All code is tied directly to the value it provides. The best codebases I worked on were far from perfect but they were owned by teams who had a clear understanding of the tradeoffs needed to be made at different places in the code. Business critical code, subject to continuous new additions/changes, was refactored multiple times per year and kept in a state close to what the poet in me craved in the past. But the value proposition for this was clear for everybody. On the the other hand many places in the code were far from that level because it didn't make any sense to invest that kind of effort everywhere.

> My hunch is this: folks can’t talk about real design systems problems because it will show their company as being dysfunctional and broken in some way. This looks bad for their company and hence looks bad for them.

I guess it's natural that people prefer to present and discuss their successes more than their failures. After so many years reading this types of blog posts my understanding is closer to 'Oh look at a big problem that we had and how we managed to solve it in an elegant way' instead of 'We have no problems whatsoever, we do everything perfect and this is one of those examples'.

> The ugly truth is that design systems work is not easy.

Design systems are basically UI frameworks. Building a framework, keeping it up to date and continuously evolving it is far from a simple task that can be done while also delivering new features on time using said framework. And as the system grows the complexity keeps on rising.

At many companies it's hard to justify the needed level of effort especially if they are not in the business of building frameworks or don't sit on a mountain of cash. A handful of talented people will dream of building something cool and will invest their time (and sanity) into this type of effort but they often bite off more than they can chew.
Khan academy, it’s free and I’ve always thought the pacing of the lessons to be good.
I agree to most of them. But i could imagine that we will find new ways to optimise AI systems, either for speed, accuracy or whatever.
So they finally gave in to the complaints about the name (https://lists.symlink.me/pipermail/weboob/2021-February/0016...). woob is excellent but unfortunately its very existence means there is a problem. Hopefully they will gain visibility and problematic services will adopt standard protocols
Sounds like Powershell to me. I'm down, as long as the syntax is as simple and terse as on UNIX-based systems and not what Microsoft did (were they paid by the character for flag names?)
>I’m not sure whether there actually have been intensive studies to long covid in children.

Study from September:

>Up to one in seven (14%) children and young people who caught SARS-CoV-2 may have symptoms linked to the virus 15 weeks later, suggest preliminary findings from the world’s largest study on long Covid in children, led by UCL and Public Health England researchers.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/sep/first-findings-worlds-la...
Thank you gilbertmpanga for your answer.
I was reading these attempts at better analogies, kept wondering why someone wasn’t making an analogy akin to writing or books, left to read the article, then came back and saw your comment.

Your analogy is much more apropos. Nothing was tampered with or “pulled” from another location, virtual or otherwise. Everything the reporter saw was already there and accessible (the public website), they just knew how to use their lens (browser) in a perfectly legal way to see it.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002...

> Expression of concern: Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19?

> The journal would like to alert readers to the fact that the Special Issue titled “COVID-19 Pandemic: Health impact and Novel research” including the article titled” Why are we vaccinating children against COVID-19?” are being rereviewed post-publication by an independent Editor and a new set of reviewers, due to concerns raised regarding the validity and scientific soundness of the content. Further updates will be provided to readers once the investigations have concluded.
s/elegant phrasing/corporate doublespeak

blah blah blah on 31st of February 1970 Google unanimously decided to terminate our access to their Translate API blah blah blah blah
Then why are vaccination rates correlated only to a reduction in COVID deaths and not a reduction in cases?
Beyond that, deaths lag behind hospitalizations by several weeks for obvious reasons -- most people who get sick enough to die from the virus will end up going to the hospital first.
There is a great podcast called Land of the Giants and they have a "season" about Netflix (as well as Amazon, Google, Apple); based on the information I learned there I would certainly say it was a risky pivot.
I might get downvoted but I want to answer you honestly:

It’s part of American folklore and culture, we do not always live up to our higher ideals but as Americans we take care of our own.

Yes possibly it’s national narcissism but there you have it.
I hate my work-provided MacBook SO. MUCH. I begged them to give me a ThinkPad with Linux instead, and it's been a litany of problems in the three months I've been using it. I did all my dev work on MacBooks between 2007-2013, but my experience this year has completely vindicated my decision to ditch the Mac at home and at work back then.

I see people in this thread complaining that Linux distros are unreliable, but my Linux machines don't do things like beachball for 20s at a time or have complete audio system crashes requiring reboot twice a week. (Always right before a videoconference! I missed fifteen minutes of a call last week scrambling to fetch another device because the audio subsystem died and the Mac decided it had to install updates for a half hour when it rebooted.)

It's not uncommon to see uptimes on my ThinkPads measured in months. The Mac? At least it boots fast. I have to restart it once or twice a week.

Reliability aside -- and I realize that everyone values ergonomic factors differently -- Linux is just a better choice in every regard for me and the kind of work that I do. Interactive performance is much better, the docker-based workflows everyone's using are so much faster when they're native, and there's no mismatch between Darwin's BSD userland and the Ubuntu/CentOS you're probably using in prod.
> What's the situation in Norway and other countries? Is hot air heating widely used?

Central heating of any kind is rare in Norway. There is widespread use of underfloor heating (either water borne or electric) in bathrooms. Its fairly common in living rooms too but definitely not the majority.

Most people use electric panel heaters and a wood burner. In the past we used quite a lot of paraffin burnt in a pot burner in the centre of the house which could keep most of my 130 m2 house warmer than we wanted. That's no longer allowed so I burn wood (compressed wood waste from sawmills).

> In what kinds of properties do you use air to air heat pumps?

All kinds of free standing houses, terraced houses. My next door neighbour has two, one for the ground floor and another for the bedrooms in the floor above.

The only thing holding me back from getting a heat pump is that the wiring in my house is not up to it so it would be a substantial extra cost to get that upgraded. That's not a problem for most UK houses or recently built Norwegian ones.

In this small town of 6000 people I think that probably one in four of the detached and semi-detached houses have air to air heat pumps.
You either did not read my comment, or do not understand Georgism or Geo-Libertarianism if you call it "Propertarianism", libertarianism encompasses a large range of economic models, you seem to only be familiar with the Ancap models where by homestead principle is the primary distribution of property.

Georgism / Geo-Libertarianism flows from Lockean philosophy of natural rights, concluding the premise of human equality alone implies that the benefits of natural resources be shared equally.
Working at a school, this is an awful and dangerous article.

Schools are very likely to become hyperspreaders with how little space there is between kids in class, and because the younger ones (grade 5 to 8) are still immature.

The students catch covid and (we've known this for a year) usually have mild to no symptoms, but they go on to infect their parents. The dark figure is very high.

> A study by the Helmholtz Centre Munich, for example, showed that the number of children with antibodies in their blood was six times higher than the cases reported by the Bavarian State Office for Health and Nutrition. [1]

I'm honestly baffled by how shortsighted the 'if it's not sick, it's not an issue' logic is. This does not work with Covid.

[1] https://www.br.de/nachrichten/wissen/faq-sind-kinder-tatsaec...
I just switched due to their bad communication around this issue. The import through 1Password‘s website worked well, the import through the native mac application was horribly broken. Either way, beware that LastPass‘ csv export does not include attachments. You need to move them manually.
That depends entirely on what you consider "messing up"

if it had put that leaf over some other leaves in the background that weren't captured well, would we have noticed? would it be a better photo?

What if it was meant to be a beautiful leaf photo? If you want an accurate representation of reality, the moment, etc, the majority of cellphone photos would be considered "messed up" imo
Generally true, although it's still a very rare exception if your energy is both green and could not reasonably have been used to reduce ongoing CO2e-intensive consumption. We still have a green energy shortage basically everywhere in the world (Iceland might be a rare exception, having green energy while not being conveniently near other countries without low-CO2e energy sources of their own).

I can use solar panels on my own roof to power an extravagant server, but it's still not really net zero (even if you would offset solar panel production and recycling) because they could have supplied to the still-very-fossil national grid if I hadn't been consuming it frivolously.

(Edit: I should maybe add that we don't all need to be saints all the time. My guilty pleasure is long showers, I enjoy those despite the power consumption being 10kW. I do better in other areas and vote with my wallet and ballot. I of course have no insight into what other energy choices you / OP / the reader makes so my comments are not meant as criticism towards any person.)
If you do this, this will break every program which takes text based filenames on command line.. which is most of ghem. It is an interesting idea, but I don't think it would be Unix anymore.
The Cat Eaters of Cameroon
Every nation strives to protect its own first and foremost (obviously there are exceptions where the leaders were bad or their interests diverged too much but in general it holds). People are valuable. Every institution in the US runs on them and their productive output.

What benefit does your continued existence, or some random farmer in India, or some random taxi driver in Chile confer the US vs some overweight middle manager who pays fat taxes on his 200k income and does his part to keep a local liquor store in business?

It might not pass western morals but the game theory side seems pretty obvious to me.
Anyone who's read even a handful of scientific articles in the biomed space can easily tell that this is a garbage paper in a garbage journal:
https://retractionwatch.com/2021/12/19/elsevier-subjects-ent...

Please flag this terrible post.
This is an interesting data point for folks designing demo pages. The API was discovered by playing with the demo page [1] according to a link from a link in the article

[1] https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2011/aug/06/translating-w...
A few months ago, I made an offer of $100 in one of the freelancing websites, for someone to set-up something like your configuration on one of my Digital Ocean instances. I asked for a few more apps to be installed (git, svn, etc). There were no takers :-)

I think a web site/service which lets you choose "apps" and spawns a VPS instance would be very useful and profitable (Think "ninite for VPS"). I started to work on this but never had the time to continue. With an Ansible/Chef/Puppet recipe, this should be relatively easy to do.
You should look into systemd-nspawn, VM experience without the overhead.
Yeah if a kid infects a parent, and that parent dies, that is an incredibly bad outcome for the kid.
You're right, but the damage is still done. As you say, people do listen to her. I'm not sure how that problem can be fixed.
I think something like this happened to me as well, but on the other end. I was not pushed in any direction and I struggled through life until my existence was threatened by a brain hemorrhage. I wrote a self-published book on the topic, it still needs work, but at least I finished it. https://www.scottrlarson.com/books/book-most-improved/

Something changed in me after that and I learned a new way of living with the help of the Constructive Living practice by David K. Reynolds and the works of James Allen.
libertarianism is about social and economic freedom, it stands opposite of authoritarianism, under both there are "right" economic concepts, such as the homestead principle, libertarians that support homestead principle are ancaps.

There are also "left" economic concepts such as Georgism, libertarians that support Georgism are Geo-Libertarians

We are all libertarians in that we believe strong centralized governments are antithesis of liberty
Companies with a promoter level score during the pandemic grew their business. There is a direct correlation between a promoter NPS and revenue growth. The percentage of companies that now provide a promoter level service is now over 20%, up from 13% before the pandemic. The percentage that are rated a detractor level score also grew to nearly 50%. These org’s revenues either shrank or stagnated. This is an existential issue for organizations, not a nuisance KPI.

Companies that are leaders in NPS are leaders in employee engagement. This post sounded pretty frustrated with an employer/contract…

NPS is a measure of past experiences, it isn’t a GPS navigation system to improvement. It is also 1 question, so it is the most simple to collect. However even this gets screwed up all the time. Interfaces such as a telephone where 10 can be measured as the first digit 1, or PIN pads where they are a nuisance to a customer when in a hurry to pay and missed when paying with NFC.

Understanding negative NPS is like understanding a traffic ticket with no other data. Why did I get a traffic ticket? Well, what did or didn’t you do and how fast were you doing it? Were you a jerk to the cop? Was the cop stressed by something else that day?

To be a leader in NPS is an organizational effort, not the result of divining an insight from a few survey answers. Ideally, customer journeys maps have been developed and problem areas are self evident before an NPS score arrives.
No, these are clearly very marginal academics ("independent consultants", seriously?) doing bad science.
Well, there are some arguments that forest fires are getting worse and worse because we're never allowing natural smaller fires to occur.

Don't know at all if that holds up to COVID but if getting the virus develops stronger imunity than getting the vaccine, maybe spreading the vaccination to countries that are way behind might be the right priority.
India orders investigation into Apple's in-app payments usage
Sensitivity of digital is amazing. You cant really get past ISO 400 on film without large compromises.

But, as for size, photo cameras sporting film smaller than 35 were rare. Yes Kodak had the advantax (?) system and some other weird cameras here and there, but the vast majority of consumer pictures were taken on 35mm.

As to the subjectivity of film, as I mentioned in the other post, most of the subjectivity came from what I called the “z” dimension, i.e exposure. There was little subjectivity about the enlargement itself.

That is to say, the subjectivity was largely limited to the contrast and brightness sliders of today. Anything else is far more difficult to do with film.

There is another advantage for digital, cost. Video was much more rare with film, and the video we’re talking about certainly would not exist.

But I think that’s the greatest advantage of film - it contains within it an inherent protection of the public’s privacy completely absent in our society today
> Wishing a malediction on any specific individual is questionable.

I didn't wish anything on anyone.
The science is murky on whether being vaccinated prevents being infectious. Others have pointed it out and are being flagged.

I took JNJ and boosted with Moderna I want people to choose to get vaxxed but as far as I can tell nobody is out there saying getting vaxxed will prevent you from spreading the disease.
Giving psychotic medications to children feels like a very dangerous experiment, kinda like climate change. I'm not that old, but in my educational period I've never seen or experience anyone who would be ADHD or for whom one would that they need to take some medication.

That being said, I come from a farm/vineyard and I've lived most of my life in a village, so my perception is certainly skewed. But I do know that you can't force a kid to do what they don't want to. I never liked vegetables so whenever we had a vegetable soup I didn't eat it, which made my mother angry. Her solution was, that I'm not allowed to leave the table until I eat everything that's on my plate. That gives you two options, either eat the food and be done with it... Or just sit there until the evening and then go to bed.

What I'm trying to say is, if a child is full of energy, go outside with them and let them run around, don't give them medication to suppress that energy.

I'm not certain what it's called but, it's better to prevent then to cure. It's better to prevent getting cancer then to cure cancer. Or in other words, would you rather prevent getting cancer or get cancer and then cure it?
Ah, greycat. Yeah I remember him from #debian on Freenode some 20 years ago. Smart, helpful fellow.
Thank you. For me if I had the choice between a fellow country person and some other random individual in the world I'd first look at their relative ages and if the difference is significant I'd pick the younger one.

But I've lived outside of my country for quite a big chunk of my life and don't really have a strong connection to our 'national identity', I don't have a flag and I don't care about our royal family.