skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto has not revolutionized payments for you. It's a revolution for me and other people making cross-border (EU-Ukraine, EU-USA, EU-Africa...) transfers. It's really problematic to make these transfers even today, when in theory everything should go smooth - but it almost never does. Bitcoin works reliably every time, quickly and cheaply. What's $15 network fee when I'm saving $135 compared to bank wire and never lose my money and the other side gets it the same day? And I'm not even talking about the currency conversion cost savings and reduction of exposure to currency moves - 5 days is enough to see small currencies crash to 10% of original value. Bitcoin usually won't crash to 10% in a day or two.

What you're listing as a downside is actually a upside - both sides are happy to cut out the 3rd party and replace it with two 2nd parties - the sender/recipient and the cryptocurrency exchange. It's less hard and cheaper than finding a common third party (also, finding a common party is impossible in some cases) and much more reliable/trustable in summary.

Yeah micro-payments and in-store payments are not revolutionized by BTC, but that does not mean BTC is useless.
Changing from film cameras to digital ones is exactly the sort of thing I wouldn’t call a pivot. Many of the components and skills are identical, but you are adding sensors and storage. That’s just the sort of adaption to an evolving market that any reasonable company should do.

A pivot suggests a sudden and radical change in course. Slack feels like one, companies that have switched from manufacturing to (apparently unrelated) software feel even more so.

I’d also say Nokia doesn’t feel like a pivot. They were a company that did anything internally for which they did not find adequate solutions on the market. They produced a lot of different things over the decades and the radio business is one that found external success and grew over time. Do we consider large conglomerates to have repeatedly pivoted as different portions of their business waxed and waned?
Bitrate over Bluetooth is more than sufficient for high quality audio. You won't get good audio out of trash speakers though.

Instead of downvoting, how about making an argument for why I'm incorrect
Well, for many sectors it wasn't even an arms race at all. It was just getting pwnd and not caring because the attackers basically stole the data and it didn't really disrupt your business. Now with ransomware the arms race part has started, and that's a good thing because it means the bar overall is higher.
Very nice, never too late to pivot

p.s. you could also add FanDuel to the list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FanDuel#History
Go read the summary in section 5, the style is pretty weird...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221475002...

(I bet you neither would have expected ammonium nitrate explosions getting mentioned in the article!)
i think you see this rarely discussed because its an issue that is rapidly declining in importance over time.

The trade off of either-this-US-kid-gets-it-or-that-Indian-adult-gets-it becomes less severe when availability of vaccines is going up everywhere rapidly.

Where vaccine availability is low, its not due to US hoarding but rather due to regional government policy constraints that wouldn't be alleviated if this-US-kid gave up their dose.

so, scarcity is certainly the case sometimes (like right now for Paxlovid) but not for general availability vaccines worldwide.
> That heats one 100m² room, doesn't it?

A lot of both Norwegian and UK homes have open plan main floors.

Just leave all the internal doors open. The average family home in the UK is less than 100 m2 all told. A pair of air to air heat pumps would easily heat the two floors.

And of course the UK really should insulate houses better.
Ahah looking at the logos triggered my frenchness, this things is from the motherland.
That's a very poor answer since giving any medicine to a child with risks exceeding the benefits so that someone else could benefit would violate the Hippocratic Oath.

Also, there aren't plenty of vaccines leftover worldwide. Vaccines would be going to poorer countries that have low vaccination rates if those vaccines weren't being used for children.
No, I’m implying that spending you more money can get you care faster.

Even Medicaid or Medicare patients in the US don’t wait 16 months for hip transplants.
Yes, I’d agree with that.
That is true if we are talking about high end speakers or headphones. I doubt that with AirPods or any other in ear headphones you can hear the difference. These devices are not only built to a cost (even if they are sold at absurd prices, at which you can buy a decent quality wired headphones), but limited by the very small dimensions, that not only have to house the speaker itself but also a battery, the bluetooth receiver, the amplifier, the wireless charge controller for the battery.
Even Anthony Fauci, hardly a COVID denier, recently explained on MSNBC that many of those hospitalizations of kids are incidentally COVID positive while the child is actually in the hospital for (his examples) things link appendicitis and a broken leg.

Furthermore why case counts are skyrocketing (literally the highest ever seen in the pandemic) hospitalizations are only up 14% and deaths are down 7%.

https://www.air.tv/watch?v=99n-gANuSf6pHQ8A_QQy1Q
Either a defective unit or the admin software doing something wrong. I've had many personal and work provided MacBook air/pros and never faced anything of this
Actually the biggest issue I've had has been related to the terrible keyboards they used to put in the 2018~2020 models
> This isn't a matter of picking who gets it and who doesn't.

I agree with everything except this. On a world wide level there are millions of unvaccinated adults.
But is there any real use case for that? For me I've only encountered this when something else went wrong, I'd rather have an error at that time than later trying to find out what this garbage is and how to remove it.

So why not give a mount option for this behavior?
This year I've learned a great deal by experimenting with game development. I've learned elixir, started to learn rust, and acquired a great many skills like distributed computing that I would never have touched in my day job. I hope I can continue spinning that flywheel for my self-inspiration.

Goals:
1. Continue building my web-based MMORPG https://firmament.kenny.wtf/
2. Get better at French (I'm an expat living in Geneva, CH. My language level is inexcusable.)
It seems that many are missing the point that vaccines do not appear to mitigate transmissibility of covid, only severity.
Spot on. I don't know what year people are talking about. I have used KDE the last 5 years and literally everything I have ever wanted to do has just worked.

No one can possibly have less patience for bullshit and things not working than me. At this point it is exactly why I can only use linux. I have barely thought about the OS the last 5 years.
You are touching on an important subject: COVID-19 is a global problem, not a set of disjoint local problems, and only a global plan of attack has any realistic chance of success. As long as things are bad in just one country and assuming normal connectivity between that one country and the rest of the world the next mutation is almost a sure thing. But even a global plan of attack is getting harder to implement every day. Yesterday the world saw almost 1.9 million new confirmed cases. Each of those is a potential breeding ground for new mutations.
Multi-frame noise reduction only gets you so far. Rotating objects for example present huge issues and result in their own artifacts. In the end there isn’t a free lunch, any system that improves resulting images is making trade offs.
It even claims to parse ls output correctly (see caveat): https://kellyjonbrazil.github.io/jc/docs/parsers/ls
Well to be fair, its incredible how far head to leaf technology has come.
I don’t believe it is. Vaccinated and unvaccinated spread COVID just as easily. Currently the narrative is that vaccinated people are better protected from the negative effects of COVID and hence less likely to land on IC.

Actually a Dutch academic doctor (Diederik Gommers) stated this week that most people on IC in The Netherlands have one thing in common: they’re overweight. This doctor is part of the Outbreak Management Team in The Netherlands that deals with the COVID situation. Being overweight might be a be better indicator to see how likely one is to end up on IC compared to vaccination status. As such this doctor is not in favor of a 2G society (unlike the Dutch government that wants to push 2G).

This whole policy is lunacy.

According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the reason for the push to vaccinate children is because emergency use authorization will be gone in March 2022 and if children get vaccinated before March then vaccine producers will not be liable for negative side-effects afterwards. I am not a lawyer so I can’t confirm if there’s truth in this statement.

Regardless, very few children will get negative side-effects from COVID, much more will get negative side-effects from mRNA vaccines (especially boys stand to get much more myocarditis cases).

I think our children are our future and I certainly won’t risk an experimental vaccine on my soon-to-be 5 year old, perfectly healthy, daughter. A vaccine that (from my POV) seems to be quite ineffective and for which we still don’t know if there will be any long-term (say 10+ years) negative effects.
There is a life beyond AWS. I host applications (including ones responsible for 10s of millions in revenue) on dedicated servers rented from Hetzner and OVH. Do not even do containers as my normal deployment is server per particular business (with standby) and the cost of renting a dedicated server comparatively to revenue is microscopic. CI/CD / setup from scratch / backup / restore is handled by a single bash script and has virtually zero administration overhead. For my model I see zero business benefits doing anything on cloud. I did some deployments on Azure due to a particular client requesting it but management overhead was way higher and do not even start on costs vs performance.
you do understand that libertarianism has no concept of corporations in the first place right? Corporations are government fictional entity created as a liability shield, so the fact you believe libertarians will create "biggest corporations takes all" shows your lack of understanding of libertarianism. The second the government creates a legal entity of corporations that government ceases to be libertarian.

>>Fascist dictatorship is the final state of numerous, maybe most starting points.

No, most nations will devolve to fascism as a direct result of trusted the concept of democracy too much, democracy naturally lend themselves to moving more and more power into the centralized control of the majority, at which point it is short step to fascism

This is something the left in the US gets wrong very often as attempts to nationalize more and more regulation and laws at the federal level, attempts to make more and more of our system "democratic".

Federalism with a strong constitution is the way to preserve liberty, and stave off fascism, 2 things the left in the US want to tear down
macOS WM philosophy sounds like Outlook email philosophy: it should behave like paper mail.

Worst philosophy ever. Instead of figuring out how new technology enables better solutions to current problems, their philosophy is to emulate current solutions instead.

This is why I prefer gmail over outlook, and Linux over macos.
It is like if there was a smaller written text in the ink, and using a microscope you can see what the ink really contains. It was never hidden.
I could be misinterpreting your statement, if so please let me know. My understanding is that force of will is developed by repetition and it can definitely be learned. [My life](https://www.scottrlarson.com/books/book-most-improved/) is a perfect example of that. A great book on the subject is "[Constructive Living](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/244742.Constructive_Livi...)" by David K. Reynolds.
> Where vaccine availability is low, its not due to US hoarding but rather due to regional government policy constraints that wouldn't be alleviated if this-US-kid gave up their dose.

Pharmaceutical companies would invest more in finding ways around regional constraints if they didn't have a free profit square by selling their vaccines in the US.
“Google cut us off—they’re the bad guys, not us. Blame them.”

…but with more elegant phrasing.
2 years on, still going strong with the BS.

Freedom and safety, story of the World
As a small company who spends $70-80k per year on Google's official Translate API, it's disappointing if Google allows this type of abuse to continue.

If they don't want to pay, they should be using a free open source alternative like https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
Do you think that's the majority of any significant group out there?

Get f@cking real.
I think the problem that the parent is alluding to is a different one: AFAIR Bluetooth has a high quality profile without microphone support
for music and the like, and a low quality profile for headsets with microphone support. Waiting for a call obviously requires using the low quality profile since you intend to use the microphone. (Take this with a grain of salt, my memory on this is fuzzy and I’m not an expert in this matter)
For a member of the US there is no limit as to how much more valuable a US resident life should be. If the choice is between saving a US citizen or a resident of another country, you must choose the US citizen.
It's more the point that studs are not the key failure point of structures in the event of a fire. It's not that your studs are igniting and burning down the structure from inside the walls. It's that other structural elements are becoming engaged. Attic and crawlspaces especially, though also often porches, patios, and other extensions.

See this IBHS wildfire structure ember test video:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IvbNOPSYyss
The fact that it's a dedicated physical host means that any of a dozen components could fail and bring the box down permanently. The hosting company would have to reassign or build a new server for the customer, which could take from an hour to a week (or more in a pandemic with scarce parts). It depends on their excess capacity and on the machine's specifications.

If it was one virtual machine I'd say, sure, just use one box, you can bring up a new one automated in 10 minutes. But if it's physical, it could either last 10 years without going down, or 10 weeks, you never know. Physical machines is precisely the time to use a distributed system as a hedge against expensive failures.

Another consideration is cost; at $1200/year you could just keep buying servers and Colo them. It's more work but you get more (old) hardware to play with.
They might prosecute, but I bet a jury would throw it out
I wake up and run early each day. Used to use wired headphones but decided in 2021 to try earbuds (not apple). Most mornings only one will pair so there I am unpairing and repairing several times before I run, I'm generally a calm person but have come quite close to rage destroying phone and airbuds in response. Bluetooth and I are not friends.
> hospitalizations are only up 14% and deaths are down 7%

For now. Let's see in three weeks from now, and let's hope that it stays that way. The differences in demographics between the populations that we have data on and the ones that are now affected are significant enough that I don't think we should party just yet.
I'm guessing the reason the video call is important is because that activates the microphone, which causes the bluetooth headset to go into HSP mode.
Didn't Figma start out as a drone company? Compared to that a lot of these seem like reaches
"Just use rsync" have the same problem as "don't use Discord". The alternatives are way less convenient, not as polished, not as pleasant. Thankfully there is nothing convenient, polished or pleasant about using crypto other than going around regulation.
From the environment perspective, it also really matters where that 70W comes from generation-wise. If you're in an area that primarily uses Nuclear or things like Wind, Solar, Hydro, or Geothermal, that 70W of electricity isn't going to be particularly bad for the environment compared to places where it comes from Oil, Coal, or Natural Gas plants.
It occurs to me that this feature might be better implemented as an optional element in a preview, giving authors the opportunity to choose between their own URL and the canonical one before publishing.

or HN should double check that the canonical URL connects and leads to the same content (checking for multiple schemes and localhost should be done anyway) (downside - now every post eats up two HTTP request/response cycles, one to parse for the canonical url and another to validate it)

or HN should use the author's URL but present a canoncial URL elsewhere when displaying the thread. (downsides, slightly more noise in the layout, no actual quality check.)
Very odd (or telling, at least) that this is getting downvoted. Of course there are all sorts of forces at play on what gets studied, what gets published once it’s studied, and what gets shared once it’s published. The scientific method has many tools to mitigate biases within itself/its practitioners. But as you say, the scientific method is a very, very small part of an enormous scientific apparatus that doesn’t (yet) have similar tools for mitigating these forces in itself.

A trivial example: It’s hard for non-native English speakers to get published in the world’s premiere journals because, well duh, they publish in English. Are we to conclude the scientific method can only be carried out to Nature’s standards in English? Obviously not.
Um, no? As examples show, "find -maxdepth" can do the same things, but safely. And in most cases, it'd still be one-liner, even if a longer one.
Housing cost will increase by another 10 percent.
I haven’t seen formal studies, but the anecdotal evidence I’ve seen is that children are getting lost by covid at the same rate as adults, but in absolute terms the symptoms are less severe as they start at higher baseline levels of energy, health, etc. but relative to their peers, the effects can still be quite significant.
I wonder how ideas like this oscillate through generations, as one generation imposes them on the next, and the next forgets.
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Unless the code hidden there is magically executed, this is just a way of hiding data, and not exactly a malware attack vector.

To make this work, you need to already run on the host the code that extracts the hidden malware and executes it, and at that point you have something that is detectable.
You still owe the money though? Do they just stop chasing you after a while?
I don't even think btc em increase.
American healthcare is actually pretty good for the middle class too.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/a-tale-of-2-...

” She later learned that, not only is Ibrance not covered in B.C., but the test that detected the return of her cancer isn't done anywhere in Canada.

"I always thought, it's crazy that my backup to save my life is another country," said McDonald.

"Then I found out that this other country — which I thought had a healthcare system that was so superior to the U.S. — doesn't test for the tumour marker that saved my life, and doesn't cover this drug that is responsible for pushing my cancer into remission after traditional chemotherapy failed to do that."”
If Telegram or Google users would pay for services, they wouldn’t treat them like the product being sold.
> And the load is still surprisingly low

Which means that you have some extremely unpopular services running...? :) /s

(Happy new year!)
I agree: There is no killer-app from the perspective of a first-world citizen.

For low-wage workers in developing countries the killer app is play2earn gaming.
It does, nano is super cheap and fast
Jobs will also look at your credit score, but for a retired person it can quickly become meaningless.
Google isn't entitled to get my personal data for free to, yet they do it anyway.
As I understand it that's not what neutralizing vaccine means (if it even is well defined). It means you will not get an infection when you are vaccinated, not that being vaccinated will last for a lifetime. This in contrast to leaky vaccines which make you less sick but still allow for infection and transmission. Since this vaccine does not target anything that causes diseases, it's there to make the tick detach, I don't see how neutralizing makes any sense to this vaccine.

>What does at risk of polio mean?

Going abroad to places where there is still polio for example. Checked again and apparently it's not a booster every 10 years but once after at least 10 years.
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Reducing length of infection (via vaccination) reduces the amount of time someone is contagious. This reduces the number of people they infect.

Initial viral load of exposure is a variable in infection severity, though, so it’s not without value.

These things can’t be reduced to binary answers.
This is quite interesting. Is `syn` just an interface to the Rust compiler's Rust parser or is it a completely separate implementation of the parser that works at compile-time?

Hopefully it's not the latter but then I wonder where the slowness comes from.
The risk to 5–11 year olds of the mRNA Covid vaccines is ~0, orders of magnitude lower than the (still very low compared to older adults) risk of Covid. These are incredibly safe vaccines. Out of ~9 million vaccinations, there have been ~100 "serious" adverse effects reported, most of those fever or vomiting but also e.g. 5 experiencing new-onset seizures and 11 with (recovered or recovering) myocarditis. 2 girls (5 and 6) with "complicated medical histories" in "fragile health" died after vaccination, and their deaths are being investigated but are not believed to be caused by the vaccine https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm705152a1.htm?s_cid=...

Among 12–17 year olds, the vaccines result in on the order 200x reduction in hospitalization. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm705152a3.htm?s_cid=...
So the libertarians are distinct from ancaps? If it involves capitalism in some way that means there is some kind of concentration of capital and thus inevitably corporations.
If vaccinated people are highly infections for 15 minutes less than unvaccinated, that's mitigation. Your statement is extreme (of course my example is silly, but your statement is almost certainly wrong in a meaningful way).
> People can't increase their conscientiousness through force of will…

Admittedly I don’t know the literature; but I increasingly hear that the so-called Big Five personality traits (of which conscientious is one) are regarded as more plastic than they once were. But perhaps it is simply, as you imply, isolating and substituting the behavioural components of the trait you wish to change. “Fake it ‘til you make it,” in a sense.
Are you not prioritized according to wealth if you can pay to skip the queue? Or as in the US, to require payment to even be in the queue.
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According to this source, it sounds like you're right.

https://mostechtips.com/how-to-fix-bluetooth-headset-poor-qu...

Personally I never use headsets for calls, but I also never make calls. I only use headphones for music (and would never touch airpods with a 10 foot pole)
I see few possible issues:
1) If this is some kind of hack to reduce the cost this means that Google can pull the plug to this at any given time
2) How many users are aware that this means that the content is sent to Google? Yes, there is a warning on the screen where you turn one the option but will the users see it?