skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've watched him since the start and his quality of advice has strongly declined since the pro-Ivermectin/Joe Rogan crowd started filling his comments with nonsense. He was great in March 2020 when it was clear governments were too slow to react. Nowadays he seems resigned to fatalism that "we're all just going to get it, nothing can be done".
Credit where credit's due, Apple put in a lot of effort into their Speakers. All the R&D from AirPod, HomePod went into speakers on Macbook and iMac. I am not even aware of any other laptop / PC that has any decent built in speakers.

Having said that they will need some time to test for their longevity. Apple has a history of blow out speakers within 3 years. Hopefully this is fixed with their newer design.
I agree with all of that but none of those verses use the term omniscient.

The idea of omniscience leads to paradoxes like the one above. Can you know what it is to be non omniscient and be omniscient.

I think God can choose to understand and know what He wants to know. If he chooses to forget sin, He can. Meaning the strict definition of omniscience would not apply.

I'm no theologian or philosopher so there is a good chance I'm simply missing something or don't understand these words.
I really hope Omicron is the strain that turns the virus into endemic and we can live with it as we live with the flu.
>end up really being worth it for China.

PRC air corridors are heavily congested - huge population concentrated on coastal regions + priority access for military aviation which also has to concentrate on coast for defense = massive delays for short hull trips that makes HSR come out ahead. Chinese military watchers occasionally joke that successfully invading TW and moving military aviation further out the 1st island chain would increase efficiency of domestic flights. Except there's probably some truth to it. Maintenance shouldn't be an issue, there's going to be low cost labour and extra infra capacity in PRC for a long time, even accounting for demographic concerns.
Has anyone tried immudb in production? What are some of immudb's performance characteristics? It'd be nice to know how it performs under various conditions: query per sec, database / table sizes, SQL join performance etc.

Also, what are the system requirements for immudb? What kind of machine would I need to run a medium to large website (say, 1TB of data, 5-25K qps, e.g. Wikipedia)?

It mentioned in the documentation that it can use S3 as its storage? Are there performance implications if you do this?
The framework proposed is to make sure that everyone on a project understands:

- WHY we’re doing anything
- WHAT success looks like
- WHO is responsible for doing it
- HOW they’re going to do it
- WHEN they’re going to do it
What do you do for sites with strange password requirements, like 12 character max or requiring you to use a very specific set of special characters?

I used to do what you described but my base password was rejected by far too many sites because of absurd (and insecure) requirements.
Because their family is there, or because there's better work there, or they like the weather better or any number of reasons.
Why do you need so much brightness in an indoor environment? Personally I've more frequently had the opposite problem, i.e. minimum brightness only going down to the 30-50 nits level, which is quite bright in dark-ish environments.
> Or "There is no such thing as god, but the world was clearly created". Oops again. Creation without a creator?

Is it possible to has have a creator but that creator not to be a god? For example, if we are living inside a simulation created by a software engineer, is that engineer our god?
> If you:

> Completed the primary series of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine over 6 months ago and are not boosted

> OR Completed the primary series of J&J over 2 months ago and are not boosted

> OR Are unvaccinated

So vaccinations received greater than 2-6 months prior are worthless in this context (still keeps you out of the hospital, doesn't reduce transmissibility).

This signals that the provided "immunity" is quite short-lived, moreso than any other vaccine I can recall. How unfortunate.
Going outside and observing the hyperobject of all the other living things, imagining it as well, and looking up at the sky in hopes of seeing other suns.
Although you make an ok point, you're greatly exaggerating FPS. I'm on a beautiful 1440p 144hz LG and I really only need 150fps. This still often requires less-than-ultra video settings even with a 3080 ti. There is a very small niche of competitive gamers who want 240hz at 1080p and the fps that justifies it.
Kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place. With the way case numbers are going, for everyone to strictly adhere to the old recommendations would necessitate pretty huge disruptions to essential services.
IRRC they usually roll new master keys periodically, which normally requires a firmware update to get an updated set model-specific decryption keys, which I believe they can blacklist if the drive is compromised. Feel free to correct me on this, I'm a bit rusty on the matter.

I haven't bought new movies lately, but I've been able to rip all the blu-rays I currently own with my old Blu-Ray drive.
The reason is that Win11 (and 10, and all the other "still in support" OSs) is still subject to constant change by MS --- including the automatic updates --- so it is quite a moving target to fight. In contrast, "EOL" OSs won't change any more and they start off not fighting you as much in the first place. They're also probably much simpler in many ways. I see many similarities between projects like this and the automotive tuning community; there's a lot of people interested in newer cars, but many of them prefer working on the old stuff (roughly 50s-70s).

That said, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Core exists, so maybe someone could run the UI from older Windows versions on it.
Megadeath? That’s a little extreme considering that the death rate has been tapering for some time.
On the other hand, the administration and CDC have been running propaganda the entire year, so this is nothing new. Expecting truth out of either of them about this is a lost cause.
I had a similar experience to OP. But the catalyst for me was the Mountain Meadows Massacre[1] which I was completely oblivious to until my mid-20s. It was quite a shock to learn that the church (which I thought was "God's perfect organization") had such an ugly past. The most disturbing part was how much effort the church put to hide and scrub events like this from its members and the rest of the world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows_Massacre
By defining Retina as 220PPI most options are excluded as 4K at 27" or 32" is common but more isn't. A look at what Apple calls Retina though shows that angular density is a much better definition. The initial presentation by Jobs was about angular resolution and the actual screens follow it. PPI ranges from 218 to 476 but angular density only between 57 to 92.

So if you set a 27" or 32" screen at a decent distance you get "Retina" quality. If you want the screen closer maybe not. Unfortunately the market for more than 4K isn't really yet here for various reasons. Maybe if 8K catches on as a media format we take the next step. At that point only if you want to set the screen so close you can't view it all at once will it be worth it to go higher.
I like this, it seems like the sort of thing I might do, except I would probably spend way too long extracting the actual text and attempting to produce a "better" pdf. I would probably fail, and end up back with what this article produced.
Eeehhhhh.

Hard to say right now. Hospitals in my state have just activated emergency protocols, because our surge is already exceeding Winter-2020 levels. This means that 20% of surgeries are going to be cancelled, and other such care is going to be officially rationed off. (BTW: We're at 90% adults vaccinated, but "70% to 80%" of the hospitalizations are unvaccinated individuals).

EDIT: To be clear: individual hospitals declare emergencies. Its not a state-wide declaration. Hospitals have begun to declare emergencies and activate hospital-specific rationing.

Omicron has been a bitch so far. It seems like it is causing hospitalizations in the unvaccinated population, maybe not at the same "rate" as Delta, but in high enough numbers that we're going to run out of hospital beds in my area.

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Elsewhere in the country... Florida's 300% rise in cases this past week has demonstrated that natural-immunity from Alpha/Delta was completely worthless vs Omicron.

Florida is well on its way to having a worse surge than it ever had before. It doesn't seem like we can natural-immunity our ways out of this.
Function one soundsystems are the crisp bomb
That's a fair point but doesn't really distract from the syntax being awkward for optionals. The if/else for errors matters less, at least to me, as there are already dedicated control-flow primitives for errors. [1]

[1] Which reminds me that the syntax for blocks-returning-values (named blocks) is really awkward. That might be the ugliest bit of syntax in the entire language:

const something = if(bar) foo else someblock: {
// stuff
break :someblock value_to_return;
};
> That’s not charity. That’s self interest, specially if I can save on taxes while I increase the value of my property.

You are evidently using a definition of charity that’s somehow related to the tax code. From context it should be clear that by charity I meant our obligation to love our fellow humans. And a person who neglects his own family to provide for another is doing evil not good. Get your own house in order first.

> Supporting those in need is always more important than supporting those who don’t need support.

This is a surprising claim. If you also find this exchange interesting please elaborate. I’d agree that it’s true in some cases, but universally? Ought parents always give away all their resources except what is required for their family’s basic subsistence?

> I don’t see how genetics are involved here. It’s been proven many times it has little relation with academic success. Growing up in a favourable environment to learning is a much more powerful predictor.

The tabula rasa position has been thoroughly discredited. That said, growing up in a favorable environment for learning is also very much dependent on one’s parents’ mating strategy. Please construe that broadly: where they choose to settle, etc.

> One important role of public universal schooling is to form an informed electorate that can operate a democracy. If the last few years didn’t teach us we have been failing at that, I can’t imagine what will.

On this we agree. I believe I articulated my position on why that might be. What’s yours?
You should be storing potentially GDPR-covered data encrypted with entity specific keys, which are destroyed when necessary.
Sorry, no, that was a confusing way of phrasing it.

The LastPass account that was almost-breached today uses the "password sharing" functionality to share passwords (to certain sites) with other people in the same org.

I was just explaining that the only reason why I have a LastPass account was to share passwords. (not the master password, obviously -- I was sharing passwords to other sites)

I typically use KeePass for all of my (site) passwords and keepass stores all of this in a local encrypted file.
I remember when people said that about alpha, and then delta, and now omicron...

When is it going to happen? The UK convinced itself alpha would give them herd immunity and stop future outbreaks. Then the same people came out to say ok now with delta in the UK we'll let it burn all summer and then be protected. And now the same people have the gall to say, ok ok this time omicron will be the one that gives us herd immunity.

It's time to call out this nonsense for the complete horseshit nonsense that it is.
I'm scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. So many debates about atheism, Catholicism, Mormons. Deep theological discussions. Discussions on "how to answer the original question". And then I see

>Tetris. Twice per day.

I applaud you in answering the question in a completely unexpected way. Never before in the history of theology has anyone introduced Teris AND kept it thematically appropriate.
Only if you use 8k$ Macs. Not for normal people.
I also found it difficult to shop for a monitor in the past couple of years I ended up going for this: https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/AORUS-FV43U#kf

My constraints were proper 4k (no compromised height resolution) -- the 4:3 ratio is nice but I was happy with most ratios. Overall at 43 inches it's big probably more suited for console gaming than PC but the 165Hz refresh rate makes it suitable for gaming.
> This has been my experience as well, and while I understand the desire for introductory "sales mode" type calls, I think it's progressed past that point to something nearly pathological.

I don't pay attention to unsolicited phone calls, so recruiters might as well be yelling at an empty chair when they call. My email is spam filtered, automatically sorted and tagged, so unsolicited recruiting goes directly to the trash. I've had a few really positive interactions that started via SMS and led to an accepted call from a recruiter.
If you know sqlite there is also a json extension for filtering. Here a link to the example section: https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html#examples_using_json_each_a...
Could you explain how Boris is being held directly accountable? And perhaps some decisions that might lead to some incredibly important benefit?
>"It's time to call out this nonsense for the complete horseshit nonsense that it is. "

This is not helpful. I understand that you disagree with the parent, but you could have ended your comment on a more constructive and helpful note.
Traditional Catholic here. I go to the "Mass of all time" every Sunday. I pray and read the daily texts of the mass. From time to time, I recite the Holy Rosary (which I find a wonderful contemplation method). I examine my conscience and confess my sins regularly. I also like to listen to recordings about the Saints of the Catholic Church - unbelievable people.

I appreciate a lot the traditional Catholic doctrine. It's wonderful to see its resurrection and many young priests motivated to preach it in the opposition to the old protestantized Church leaders.

I have been considering myself just as deist until I've learned how amazing is a Catholic philosophy. Did you know, for example, that Saint Thomas Aquinas found a way to determine if the creation have soul (like humans) or not (like animals)? Including extraterrestrial life!
I'm surprised more people didn't recognize the two generals problem.
Right, I found Audulus 3 much more intuitive when playing around (I have the iPad app). It was skeuomorphic in the sense that the components were little doodads you connect together, but, yeah, the patching and "space" was much more...softwareish?
Current US deaths is 815k, and increasing steadilly. At this rate it will hit 1Mdeath by the end of April
I _think_ you can rip it to a 4K UHD mp4 but it's been a while since I've done this. Tricky part is really compatibility, not sure if some of the apps I use to stream from NAS support MKV.
This is also somewhat usb-c in a nutshell. Not all ports or cables are made equally, and the spec very much allows that.
> You're also going to need to provide a citation that demonstrates that any harms from quarantines and lockdowns exceed the millions of additional deaths that they've likely prevented.

The harm of locking people down and preventing people from working is self-evident. Even if it was effective in dealing with COVID, clearly it isn’t as it is still here, it still violates individual sovereignty and the principle of consent of the governed.

Also 2 years on, these policies are no longer a reaction or short-term action. So the issue of sustainability is relevant. We’re in a situation where we either accept cyclical oppressive lockdowns, or just learn to live with it. Vaccination doesn’t really come into it as we don’t have a vaccine, just temporary protections which aren’t even fully effective.
More data (mine as well):

Monday, December 27, 2021 at 12:27 PM EST

Location INDIA

IP address 196.19.204.79
How about the ASUS 32" PA329CV?
Yes, and with the continued prevalence of novel strains they fail to hit a moving target.
Flu vaccines have a similar immunity cliff. Some HIV vaccines in trials also had similar rates, where the vaccine would need to be given once to several times a year. Some viruses are adapted, or are able to mutate, to avoid immune responses relatively rapidly compared to other viruses.
We are all going to get it. This isn't fatalism. It's just a statement of fact.

It's an endemic respiratory virus with multiple animal reservoirs, and there is no vaccine that provides sterilizing immunity. Elimination is a pipe dream.
I have been participating in a group for over ten years that studies the ideas of Gurdjieff.

It can be said to be spiritual, kind of a meta-religion. It is compatible with religions, and most participats practice something else as well.

From Gurdjieff my most important daily practice is "self-observation". I take on various aims to facilitate it. One example of such an aim could be "when walking, walk faster than normal". I try to meditate daily as well, but I am not so successful in that.

If you are interested, "In Search of the Miraculous" by Ouspensky is a good starting point.
Yes. Found this personal blog:

https://www.byrdie.com/botox-for-teeth-grinding

and scientific review paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5634354/
The site has failed under the load from HN. Here's a mirror http://web.archive.org/web/20211224205455/http://ifthisbetre...
!!! This makes 6 of us in this thread...

It's improbable that we were all phished years ago by the same group...

Was the LastPass extension hacked years ago (as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707325 ) and all of our master passwords were leaked/stolen, and someone just attempted to use them?
I remember when people said 240,000 American deaths were "a little extreme" when the IHME predicted it at the start of the pandemic.

Wake up--we are far closer to an actual megadeath of Americans than not.
Not knowing too much about monitors and trying to search for "I want a 24in monitor that looks somewhat similar to my macbook" has been kind of challenging. Especially when you're shopping online. So many variables to tweak, and I have no idea which matter and which don't. I just want something that looks good.
>"Omicron has been a bitch so far. It seems like it is causing hospitalizations in the unvaccinated population, maybe not at the same "rate" as Delta, but in high enough numbers that we're going to run out of hospital beds in my area. "

One of the problems seems to be that hospital staff are so expensive (because of their regulated monopoly) that we've been running with no spare capacity in normal times. Most other systems have 20% or more extra capacity.
Perhaps it's a filter to make sure they don't move further with a candidate who is not serious? And like most things...there are likely few good confluent reasons for it despite none of the reasons influencing eachother. Some that others have mentioned so far.
>Once you finish your medical education, you have the option to look for jobs that combine medicine and software.

This can be ungodly lucrative; and for the most part, recession proof. A software guy who just knows software isn't nearly as valuable as a software guy who has domain knowledge in a particular industry. Also, if you haven't noticed, in the US, they charge a lot for medical services.
I was raised in a fully evangelical tongue speaking, bible thumping, political shilling for george bush church, and I distinctly remember in bible school being made to accepet jesus into my heart as my savior over and over.

When I told the teachers I had already accepted him, they would make me do it again. Even at that young age (probably 6-8 years old) I was thinking logically, if accepting jesus as my savior gets me into heaven, why would I have to do it multiple times?

I'm a mystic now.
Can confirm that I've had more than a decade of very satisfying experience of using Dell displays. They have a very predictable menu and just work. Soundbar is a very good solution if you don't want speakers messing your desktop.
Ask HN: Thoughts on current freelance/fractional work platforms
Many of these abound but these are the problems I found that make them untrustworthy or unsavory to use (both as company and as freelancer):

- they don't focus on experienced talent which makes finding proven talent on these platforms a needle in haystack problem (upwork)

- the platform tries to be the middleman and take a cut of true freelancer rate (toptal)

- they'll make you jump through multiple screening hoops in their pursuit of top 1%/3% bs marketing (toptal + others)

You either spending a ton of time finding people and projects and sifting through low quality talent + low paid work or the platform will take a cut.

I keep thinking there must be room for a niche (small overall size) marketplace that focuses on proven (experienced) talent only as evident from their past companies/roles and does not try to dip into earnings.

What do you think?
The driver is really what manufacturers want to sell. We saw this with those awful 13xx by 768 screens no one wanted. They made loads of them and then had to sell them.

What I suspect is really going on is it's easier to overclock screens than it is to increase yield on high resolutions.
I think the word “unique” in the description is unnecessary. You can absolutely have a non-unique calling. Depending on how you categorise it though it may or may not sound unique.

It’s like the are we a monopoly question:

Google: we are not a monopoly in the advertising business. We have so much competition from billboards, tv ads, newspaper ads and other websites with their own ads.

Local restaurant: we totally are a monopoly. We are the only Italian-Korean fusion restaurant open after 11pm in this small town!
Isn't this the entire esports community though?

edit: This was intended to be a serious question. I thought the esports folks were mostly interested with minimizing input latency and maximizing framerate, to the exclusion of most other concerns. ESPN covers esports tournaments now, sometimes on the front page of espn.com, so I thought it was more popular than perhaps it is.