skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not different by exclusion. I largely agree with a lot of what you say there. Your reasons just aren't the most glaring issues from my perspective (which isn't a judgement call, just a different perspective).
Greetings from Wisconsin. We have one car that we use for trips, the other is just used locally. But even for just going somewhere in town, we have a rule: Make sure you're prepared to walk a mile if necessary.
Yeah I think it is mostly businesses that think this is a huge problem to solve to have identities matched across everything seamlessly.

Mostly what I care about is logins and payments which are addressed by password managers and form filling for credit cards. I just want a friction free experience for setting up an account, logging back into it, and maybe purchasing something.

And ideally I'd like to self-host, maybe with a service that looked like a NAS appliance hanging off a guest network on my router with a forwarded port through the firewall and some method for tracking my IP address (dyndns or similarish).

And ideally payments happen by a handshake between the service I run, the processor and the merchant in a way that my actual credit card details are never used. And for recurring payments I have the ability to just switch them off. Bringing all the control back to me and not leaking out reusable PII everywhere.

Of course corporations would aggressively hate that since it would destroy their business models of recurring payments for services the user is no longer using and the requirement of calling up the business and having to convince some phone operator that you really want to cancel.
I lived in Rochester. At least when I was up there, there may have been a hundred inches of snow in the year, but there was rarely fresh ice. This storm delivered a sheet of ice with snow on top, and because of the earlier rain, you couldn’t pre-treat the roads. How does the northeast deal with those conditions, other than people being smart enough to stay home? How do plows remove ice when the roads can’t be pretreated? I’m very, very open to the idea that VDOT is doing a bad job with winter road maintenance, but “more plows” isn’t a convincing improvement plan for the wintery mix seen here.
My last year of higher edu was remote and I really loved it in 80%

Finally I didn't have to waste time on commute and it was way easier to ignore doubtful profs/useless courses
and focus on the right things.

but yea, things may be harder if you don't know people you're studying with
> When I was a kid there was a big earthquake where I lived and my life was disrupted for a few weeks. Many decades later I still have latent trauma from that incident.

From the earthquake, or from the disruption?

It's an important distinction in the COVID case. Are kids being traumatized by having to attend school via Zoom, or are they being traumatized by living through a global pandemic?
> test it quickly

Yes, in your scenario the lack of testing stands out as the major opportunity for improvement. If a bug is so important that it's mentioned in a performance review, then it's important enough that there should be tests that would have caught it. Automated preferably, or manual if necessary.

And everyone involved with the software, from you on up and sideways, should be calling for this testing. It's clearly important / worthwhile!
Yeah I really hope they’ll learn to understand the infinite wisdom our government had during covid.
The feature that automatically submits samples for further analysis has been known to catch proprietary executable code, send it to the AV manufacturer's sandbox where it was promptly executed and leaked data from inside that infrastructure (MS), or give away some complex hacking campaign before the attackers have the chance to use the tools (Kaspersky).
Perhaps offtop, Is there at least 1 browser for Android that supports per-page zoom? Safari does it on iOS with a super simple setting, but the only way to increase font size in ANY of Android browsers is to increase scale in Accessibility which will break some websites with larger fonts. I feel like this is super basic feature that I can't find.
Unfortunately, through advances in medical technology, the 70 year olds who run the world right now will probably still be running the world in 30 years.
Ask HN: Which managed CI service do you recommend in 2022?
If you started a green field project today which managed CI service would you pick and why?
The reviews on the metamask chrome extension are pretty scary. And it has access to view all data on all sites you visit. Is there a better way?
But regular users have survived for a century with cars.

Most of them have, yes. But if you think the comparison apt, Mercedes doesn't want you opening the hood for probably good reason.
D does not compile to c, and has garbage collection.
'incredibly odd timing'. I pray that I live long enough to develop such equanimity, assuming you got ripped off.
At least they now have a really good incentive to really remove viruses !
Because people are experiencing long-term effects besides death.
The CDC actually has numbers: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/dashboard/vaccination-das... - it's about 50 % of adults and 50 % of children. So, uptake is roughly the same order of magnitude as the COVID vaccine. The logistics aren't dismal.

BTW, there's no evolutionary pressure for COVID to become like the common cold, let's not perpetuate that meme.
if anything I would think that person would write same code but without PR would lost the opportunity of having better quality. People are blind to own mistakes. I can't count how many times I would stare at a code not seeing something and other person would spot problem almost immediately.
> I love transit and want more of it, but the transit folks realized it's hard to compete with driving, so they've just given up entirely on making transit great. It's easier to ruin driving.

Seattle just opened light rail from Northgate to the U-District to Downtown this year. We will also have light rail from Downtown Seattle to Bellevue opening next year, and light rail to Redmond the year after that.

And the opening of light rail from Downtown to Capitol Hill to Husky Stadium a few years ago drove some pretty big changes in transit in Seattle.
Except that real solutions never seem to be on the table.

For example, how about atomizing school into pods of smaller numbers of students with teachers scattered around the district instead of 30+ students per teacher with 1000+ students crammed into a building or campus? This would be especially effective for the youngest students. And a "Covid Outbreak" would shut down less than a dozen students and a teacher for a week or two and be done with it.

But, you see, that would take money. And everybody likes to bitch about education but nobody wants to spend actual cash.

And, by the way, if you think its been bad on kids, the teachers have had it bad, too. Unlike the kids, the teachers had a much higher probability of dying. And they get the joy of being on the frontlines with the anti-vax idiots. Any teachers I know of who can exit have been running for the doors.
No. As the article explains, this uncertainty might explain at most a couple months of the initial response. It was very obvious, very early, that the risk to children was low and did not fit the age profile of the flu. Nearly all the debate around closing schools was in regards to their role as general transmission hubs (many argued that kids didn't even transmit COVID enough to worry about) and the risk to teachers. Nobody who was paying attention thought going to school was going to kill lots of kids relative to historically normal levels of child mortality.

If you're having a hard time remembering how things actually played out in 2020, just ask yourself: did you hear about pediatric wards filling up with COVID patients? No, you did not. You heard about an extremely rare multisystem inflammatory disorder and that's about it.
Yes. One was on-campus, and it wasn't ideal but he did OK with it. The other was all online and it didn't go well. He's taking time off now (working, not sitting idle) until he can be fully in-class, on campus.
It's been a while since I read the book, but I don't recall any scientific basis at all. Pure hoverboard.
The problem isn’t the kids getting sick, it’s the adults teaching them getting sick and dying. We’ve treated teachers like shit for so long that many are just saying “nope, not dying for a job” because they can go make more money doing literally anything else. We were scraping the bottom of the barrel even before Covid.

If kids education were really a priority, the right time to invest was 20 years ago. The system has been broken for a long time already.
> [0]https://youtu.be/h92Jy94UxTg

I've been on the Net for 27 years and this one of the best videos I've ever seen.

RIP John McAfee. You were a legend.
See also https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/home/current/solutions/v... seems clearly opt-in.
> As a manager or co-worker, if you reported "no progress" a few days in a row, I'd ask why not.

"Do you need help?" coming from someone in a position of power over you could be either a genuine question, or a veiled threat to improve your performance ("or else"), possibly even unintentionally veiled on the assumption that a "gentler" way of putting it will be less stressful. For me, it's anything but.

If a "do you need help" happened several times in a row, I'd be getting an anxiety attack every time I get pinged on Slack, and frantically polishing my CV in the assumption that I'll get found out and fired any day now, fairly or unfairly.

Yes, I am jaded about this. That's why I don't like daily status updates.
Web3 program for no code founders
"At least as it iterates, improvements occur that make the UX better and provide a more pleasant experience."

Certainly more interesting features get activated. But at least with my model, the error reporting got a lot more complicated and the input acceptance rate dropped considerably around the time the product turned 15 years old.
Are there any full artificial heart replacements that can be permanently implanted?
Seeing the lower face is important to reading emotion. The masks muffle speech as well. I wonder if children, especially in that critical 2-4 year-old period, will have stunted language and interpersonal skills. It's not right.
There appears to be a weird blind-spot when discussing COVID outcomes - anything short of death appears to be discounted or ignored. So hospital issues, long COVID, etc. just don't exist, so catching it either didn't matter or you're dead.

On a planet where that was true, that sort of reasoning would make sense. (As it does if you're trying to encourage other people to ignore risks.) What I don't understand is why so many people seem to view it that way.
The US is a major nuclear power and is one body that actively works to counter-balance nuclear proliferation in the world.
Similar read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Breath_Becomes_Air
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Can somebody explain the "won't eat vegetables" thing? The only place I've heard about this being a problem is in America.

And yet I've seen it on TV shows in both the U.K., and Australia.
Well I'll be damned, it looks like they have integration with this tool (from the post), very cool. Looks like I need to spin that container back up and track down what brings it to a grinding halt so I can finally fix it. Thank you!
> inetd style socket activation (iirc) forks a process for every connection.

inetd supports both process-per-connection and single process/multiple connections using the "nowait" and "wait" declarations, respectively. The former passes an accept'd socket, the latter passes the listening socket.
Shutting down or tolling chokepoints lowers the opportunity cost of alternatives.

I work for a big central business district employer. You can pay $150-250 a month to park or $75/week to take a motor coach bus from your suburban town. Those numbers drive behavior, and make for a better solution as folks who need flexibility can pay for it.
A satellite phone seems a simpler solution which is more reliable than Ham radio?
> There's plenty of evidence out there for this

You are completely moving the goalposts, I thought we were talking about internet services trying to prevent spam..not government snooping and subpoenas. Are you claiming the government's ability to collect data about you from Google is a good thing? I'm pretty confused.

> Again, you're not answering the question. What does the web administrator do if someone is creating fake accounts using a private key? If you're going to use third party systems you don't need blockchain to begin with.

You are not answering the question either, is this web administrator the government? Are they going to serve Google with a subpoena?

> I'm not sayin everyone using metamask can host their own server, I'm saying someone who isn't using a centralized entity anywhere can do it, by definition.

Ok fair enough, I'm not saying anybody will be using "no centralized entity anywhere", not totally sure what your point is. Using a centralized entity for A is equivalent to using it for A+B?
I also don't think it is much of a stretch, but I think it is too much of a stretch to include in reporting from the NYT. I'm not familiar with "THE MORNING NEWSLETTER", maybe it is more of an opinion section than actual journalism from the NYT?

Why not blame Tik-Tok, which rapidly increased in popularity among 12-17 year old females at pretty much the same time COVID was hitting?
I was 100% remote before the pandemic, but since the pandemic I enjoy it a lot less than before.
Er, I don't understand. You install bitwarden on your phone, you use it, never use a server. Not even required to have internet. The app isn't some crippled client, it can create a vault, encrypt the vault, edit the vault, etc. No cloud or server is required, only if it's useful for you to sync with other devices.

Seems weird to call it a dark pattern because they optionally provide a way to sync through a server to keep N clients in sync that's easier to use than trying to rsync between N clients. Having used rsync to keep a work computer, home computer, laptop, and 2 phones synced with a password DB (Keepass) for years, I greatly prefer the sync through server solution, but that's not forced on you.
Not OP but I would have an issue with that. I do not want to "copy" what is already there, because many things out there are just not good. Someone making a million basically doing nothing is bad, if most people have to work a few centuries to amass that wealth. Inequality is not good, not because everyone is equal, but because you are just using an unfair advantage.

I do not want to copy that. I do not want to support this way of living.

(Also, I do not think I'm whining. I'm in the top income bracket in my country, have some talent and was gifted with some brain at birth and healthiness. But, you know, most of these things are not my doing - I was lucky many times over, and often I see people working 100x harder than me not ending up nearly in the same spot. Is that a good society?)
This article is about the impact on kids of partially shutting down schools for two years due to covid. What part of the article is your comment responding to?
one day this code will end up on a small/home office router
Yes its an argument, yes its in a well known newspaper. That's not what "manufacturing consensus" means.
And you think these statistics cleanly extrapolate over the entire globe? Especially if you talk about the mRNA vaccines which are a bit tricky regarding storage conditions?
> Physiological addiction is more real

No it isn’t.

> in that your body forms a physical dependency on something that can kill you if you don't have it.

Yes, sometimes it can kill to withdraw without support. But that isn’t what makes something real or not.

> Mental addiction is treated entirely differently and is far less severe.

Is it? Can you support that claim? I’ve seen pot addicts ruin their lives and die. That doesn’t seem ‘far less severe’ to me.
You probably already realize this, but almost by definition, you can never be happy with this mindset.

Unless you're the richest person on Earth, there will always be someone with more money than you. Likewise, unless you're the poorest person on Earth, there will always be someone with less money than you.

So, if you find yourself between these two extremes, a change in viewpoint is the only thing that can get you out of this funk. I have several friends (no joke) who have become billionaires over the last few years. I've slipped into periods of jealousy, but it's taken some mulling to realize that I only want what I think they have. And what is that, exactly? More "stuff"? A bigger house? How are things going to really make me feel happy? Fact is, they won't, and they can't.

I can feed myself and my family. I am healthy (now, at least--for many years, I was not). I have shelter. I have friends who I care about and who care about me. If you have these things, you have wealth--or at least enough of it to be happy.
Is there really that much induced demand in rural interstate highways? They're congested rarely enough and still almost everywhere the standard 4 lane interstate can handle things without seeing demand fill the available capacity. Certain corridors see increased demand at times but that's because of the surrounding communities happening to grow (and thus need more goods delivered / ability to ship goods) more than the highways necessarily inducing that growth.

I understand that induced demand is a thing in sprawling metropolis where transport is the bottleneck preventing growth in certain areas, but this feels like a different situation.
If anything, questions like this would start piling on anxiety and pressure.
Yeah, garbage code was a little unfair.

I actually experimented with parallel fetching of multiple values out of a large persistent vector years ago, and saw nearly linear speed up for up to four fetches in parallel.

The code was awful and it would need to be a compiler generated thing for sure.
I think the lesson learned is really, "don't let people see you picking your nose because... reasons"
Software can be done at utterly stupid multiples of realtime at SD resolutions with only a few cores, depending on your quality target. Cores are very cheap

Fancy GPUs tend to support 8 or more HD streams, even consumer cards using patched drivers.

Then you have dedicated accelerator hardware, these can pack a tremendous amount of transcode into a tiny package. For example on AWS you have vt1 instances which support 8 (or 16?) simultaneous full HD/SD/QHD ladders at 2x realtime for around $200/mo.

In answer to your actual question, at least YouTube selectively transcodes using fancier/more specific methods according to the popularity of the content. They do the cheap thing in bulk and the high quality thing for the 1% of content folk actually watch
I don’t get how this is a “gotcha.” That’s like being shocked that people at Black Rock want to be paid in USD and not mutual funds, or employees at Exxon want to be paid in fiat instead of barrels of crude oil. Food, credit card bills, land lords, and utility services demand to be paid in USD regardless of the value of whatever commodity an employer trades.
Yes, I follow your reasoning. I buy the existence of a subtle, self perpetuating public attitude. It may emergently coordinate to the degree it is indistinguishable from an independant living entity. Once it is named, it will be seen and observed everywhere, and blamed for all manner of evils. It's the boogieman, in reality: a manifestation of all our collective fears.
You have your groups backwards. Those of us who homeschool (or whose children attend small, alternative private schools) understand fully that it takes a village. That's why we went to great pains to keep that village active, pandemic or no pandemic. Our specific community has accepted the additional risk to us adults in order to keep some level of normalcy for our children.

This article is about the other kids. The kindergartners who haven't seen a teacher's face in 24 months. The grade schoolers forced to eat outside in the cold. The high schoolers who unofficially "dropped out" when their schools closed and will never return to receive their diploma. Those kids have suffered greatly in the name of reducing risk to adults.
This is highly unlikely, similarly to claims that eating cruciferous vegetables will lead to gassy breast-fed babies. Breast milk isn't the distilled contents of the parent's stomach. In contrast, alcohol (for example) is a problem because it affects the parent's bloodstream, not because it fills their stomach.
In what way do kids have any sort of bargaining position? They hold no power to use as bargaining. They do no control whether or how they go to school.
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Most people who stop drinking alcohol are not ‘straight up executed’, so that seems like that’s a corner case too.
It does remind me of the Shoe Event Horizon. Except, what we have constructed with Proof of Work is probably more like The Paperclip Game, at the end of this we will be converting matter to energy to coins.
Thanks to you and cwkoss for the very constructive replies, that's what I was looking for. I was speaking broadly, the news about Norton just gave the chance to comment.

> Bitcoin is an environmental disgrace, Ethereum you could say is an environmental disgrace until they shut off mining later this year, but since the vast majority of cryptocurrencies don't use mining at all

Can you please elaborate on that? If that's the case then I've to read a bit more on the subject as I thought every cryptocurrency required powerful hardware (GPUs or ASICs) under intensive load, which of course translates in huge power demands.
The graph showing an almost 3x factor increase in power consumption in just one year looks worrying to me, however if you say there are other environment friendly means, that makes the matter interesting. What are however the chances that we can correct that factor in a immediate future?
Before vaccines the major concern was children as a vector for spreading it (especially because they were more often asymptomatic), anyone with school age kids know how quickly they spread illness.

There was some secondary concern of long-term side-effects ("long covid") cases in children as well, and I recall some talk of MIS-C and Kawasaki disease... but even early on those seemed fairly rare.
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