skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "problem" of federated systems is that it dilutes power across businesses and does not allow any single entity to control the ecosystem. This is a good thing, except that it makes it harder to fight head-to-head with trillion dollar companies that use messaging platforms as loss leaders.

Thing is, Signal has the exact same issue: the top post of this thread is about how people are feeling compelled to donate to Signal so that it does not rely on one kind benefactor. If people want to donate to Signal, why not donate/hedge a bit by donating to Matrix or to the Conversations (the best XMPP client) developers?

> Signal is the best available option imo for most people.

Signal is still centralized. It is "open source" only in name, as the client code was constantly out-of-date and it is basically impossible to fork it or run your own server. It has a very poor record cross-client vulnerabilities and it forces everyone to be dependent on the security of their smartphones. How many times do we have to re-learn not to put all of our eggs in the same basket?
>>I think you’re being far too kind in your interpretation. If one wishes to stop maintaining, all you must do is nothing.

This sounds like a gross misrepresentation of what happened.

It has been reported that the author of the colors and faker packages announced last year that he was no longer willing to do free work for Fortune500 companies.

He also proceeded to state quite publicly that either companies paid him for his work, or they should fork the project and maintain it themselves instead of taking advantage of everyone else's work.

After a year has passed, the author proceeded to release a couple of major versions that had a more artistic feel.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210704022108/https://github.co...

Source:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupt...

These packages are his circus, and his clowns run the act he chooses.

If anything, this update showcases the completely abhorrent security culture in place in these mega-companies, which literally ingest into their product line anything that they can find on GitHub without a shred of due diligence.
> Apple could theoretically attempt (or at least threaten) a hostile takeover of any of them.

If I were any of the carriers, I wouldn't worry about this in the slightest.

Apple attempting to gain ownership of a mobile carrier in order to impose it's will on the market would be met with incredibly harsh regulatory scrutiny.

Beyond that, there's a strategic reason Apple hasn't launched their own mobile offering. The minute Apple owns a particular mobile carrier, they would be pretty well cut off from the other mobile carriers, or they would have to negotiate deals that would probably be argued to be collusive trade practices.

The real solution is that the United States needs real data security and privacy laws that prevent network operators from reselling your usage history, location tracking, and other personal details. It's a national security issue at this point.
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> mitochondria organelles ... were once free swimming bacteria

Maybe same goes for cilia, centrioles, golgi body, nerve cells ..
I'm trying to decide if this is anything special or just sleight of hand.

I really do NOT know the figures, but I thought Tesla's only charged the cells to 80% and discharged to 20% to save battery life. If you are doing a one off test, you could go from 100%-0% to get 40% more battery life. And the article talks about fancy chemistries, but then says:

"As a proof of concept, however, the prototype pack used in the demonstration was powered by different cells. The capacity of more than 200 kilowatt-hours was provided by high-energy cobalt-nickel cells, while those intended for the Gemini line are still under development."

So they used what might be normal high capacity cells. Maybe their battery has fewer structural components so they can fit more cells in. Maybe Tesla uses a different chemistry for longer pack life.

It seems like anyone could get maybe 40% more range doing nothing at all by simply fully charging and fully depleting the cells, and if you took the highest possible energy density cells and shoved them in to the same space with less structural members, maybe you could get the rest of the range they claimed. In fact it seems like that's what they did.

But that's not an innovation if the pack will wear out in a year, or weaken the structure of the car.

Like I said I am just speculating here and I don't really know, but so far this doesn't actually seem like the company has anything special. I have a feeling that if Tesla wanted to, they could do the same thing for a single demo, but that they have competing engineering requirements that mean they don't do this in production.
Made me chuckle because that was mostly how last year went for me (Winnipeg). Only difference is that I still somehow plodded on in the obscene heat. One of the worst rides I had was started around 9 and I was completely cooked by the time I got back around 1-1:30.

The season last year was unusually long - my first big outdoor ride was gravel century in mid-March (metric of course) and my last ride was a race Nov 7th that I did in short sleeves. We had enough snow for fat biking a week later.

I can assure you, there has not been much walking around in short sleeves for the last month. We have barely seen temps warmer than -20C since Christmas. Reprieve arrives tomorrow with a balmy -2C (though hardly unusual).
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Or drag-and-drop an image into a README or any other form of text on the site (PR description, issue comment, etc)
I am from India too. People can learn.
> You've struck to the heart of the matter. Somehow, many people have been convinced, against all reason and science, that deciding against getting vaccinated is somehow antisocial.

Full disclosure: I am one of these people.

As it is, I view not getting the vaccine as anti social because the rate the unvaccinated are getting hospitalized at is tipping over our healthcare system. I might not feel this way if the unvaccinated were consistent and laid in the bed they made but it seems like a rare occurrence. What I am seeing is the unvaccinated being up all these claims about adverse affects and the rushed nature of the vaccine development combined with “possible” long term side effects. The same people then end up rushing to the hospital and taking all sorts of medical treatments that were also rushed or filling themselves with the random chemical of the week to stop covid(ivermectin and the hydrochloro something one).

It’s a negative externality that’s gotten too big to bear and I view the behavior as the same level of anti socialness as major polluters
https://deno.land/manual@v1.17.2/standard_library
It must have been while walking around outside or masked in the grocery store.
Same here. A test email to my google account indicates it passed DKIM.
Do you mean trained, licensed, experienced, and law abiding motorcycle riders, acting on reliable information? It's certainly a good question.

We do place limits on risking death in our society. I don't know if it can be based on objective criteria. We don't let people drive cars without seat belts, or attend school without certain vaccinations. Widespread exposure to a disease of the nature of COVID, under a flood of misinformation, had exactly zero advocates two years ago.

I don't have an answer, and was deliberately being a bit vague about whether I'm at peace with it or not. I'm willing to leave it at being on the fence.
Finally! I wonder how much would it cost me to have car ears transplanted!
I wonder what their budget looked like for the data operations? It might actually be seperable if it is only a few years old and doesn't appear to be that black yet.
Passing margins to children like

.parent > :not(:last-child) { margin-bottom: 10px }

can give easy spacing between different elements/components, while retaining same spacing.

No idea why, but this is one of my most loved use cases of CSS. It just feels... nice?
I keep seeing this comment that companies are making their millions 'off of open source libraries' and it's a catchy phrase but let's be real the big companies that are using faker JS are making an insignificant amount extra by using that library, there are alternatives to mock data, etc. A key feature of MIT style licenses is that you can do whatever the hell you want with it for free, use a more restrictive license if you don't want people making a bunch of money off your code. I feel bad for this maintainer but a good takeaway is probably to not do a bunch of work for free unless you see a path to income down the road from it.
Please note the word “following,” which does not mean “caused by.” The study was not designed to show causation, and it does not do so, the CDC’s irresponsible communication strategy notwithstanding.
Not surprised: $2.3B is chump change in semiconductor manufacturing especially if you're starting from scratch. Double that, add a zero, and wait 5-7 more years.
Duh, just look at the duckduckgo fiasco. Tech was the one area meritocracy was the norm and now that is changing. IMO resumes and tech interviews should be screened blindly without regard to name, sex, race or college.
He did, but he mentioned later there was on-call. So it's a 4 day facade, similar to unlimited vacation.
>Vaccines still lower disease severity.

Not for kids under 5. That's why it's not approved.

>And of course you don't want to infect your child with a disease

Breakthrough cases are so common now that the media refuses to use the term anymore. That (lack-of) "preventing-infection" efficacy is baked into the <5 study that showed no benefit.

>that has long term consequences which we are still learning about.

Why is this a valid concern, but potential long-term effects of the vaccines aren't? Especially the known risk of inflammation in still-growing bodies and especially in developing hearts.
I have autonomic-dysfunction, basically my nervous system malfunctions in (luckily) mild ways. I've noticed that if I go from an unhealthy lifestyle to suddenly living a healthy lifestyle there's often a period where I feel sick, pale, and faint.

Luckily this effect only lasts a few days for me but it's made me wonder if our bodies find ways around malfunctioning and then can't adjust quickly enough if the malfunction is reduced or removed.
Except if climate change involves burning down half the country because of a record hot and dry summer. We may not adapt half as well in that case.
Which trials are non-experimental? Or non-live, for that matter?
Or using globbing in zsh:

$ echo **/*.cfg

You can even order my most recently modified:

$ echo **/*.cfg(om)

`setopt EXTENDED_GLOB` needs to be on.
Testing is so you know if you have COVID and you don't go and spread it. And the reason you don't go and spread it is because hospitals have limited capacity - and healthcare workers haver limited energy - so we want to avoid people dying due to lack of proper medical care.

This has been the entire point of mitigation efforts from day one.
No, it’s that Omicron is both more infectious and has significant effect immune escape.
They already charge per kb. Look at the small print -- once you hit a certain amount of usage, you are drastically rate-limited. The only difference is that some months, when you don't hit your limit, you pay more per byte.
Hah yes it was
as an example look at the log4j mess. "Everything" in the Java world needs log4j updates, but some dependecy's dependencies pull in some specific version.

There you need the way to say "get the new version from 5 minutes ago" without waiting for all levels of the dependency hierachy. Especially as there were a bunch of emergency releases in short sequence and younhabe tonmake sure youbget zhe latest one.

Dependencies are a mess. NIH can't be the solution either, though.
The author never even said he was following semvar.
I think that sums it up pretty well: people would be more tolerant of the CDC changing their minds on things if it was clear how they arrived at their decisions in the first place and they say what data they base their decisions on and what the trade-offs are.

People will put up with just about anything if they think there's a good reason for it, but if instructions seem arbitrary then people tend to stop giving officials the benefit of the doubt.

Transparency can go along way towards maintaining public trust. I'd rather the CDC err on the side of over-sharing than the reverse.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-big-data-study-of-145...
I also like the fact that nobody seems to be concerned with the possible effects this virus could have long-term on the developmental growth of a child under 5… I think I would be much more concerned about that than the symptoms of the initial infection itself.

& for those who want to go “buhh we don’t know how duh vaccine will effect their developmental growth either” - I don’t have much to say to you other than I wish you had an education…
>Because COVID denial poisoned the well of information.

You sure it was "COVID denial" that poisoned the well of information and not:

1) Health officials lying about masks at the start of the pandemic
2) Government officials encouraging people to crowd into primary booths during the height of the pandemic to vote in the Democratic primary.
3) Health and government officials declaring that it was safe to attend riots and mass street protests, but not to go out for any other reasons.
4) That it was a racist conspiracy theory that COVID was created in a lab and not started by people eating bats in China.
5) That the vaccines were safe and effective, and that you couldn't get or spread COVID if you were vaccinated.
6) That vaccines would never be mandated.
7) That its absolutely essential that every receive(at least) a 3rd dose of the vaccine as a "booster" when even the most favorable studies show that "boosters" reduce the odds of serious illness and death only by fractions of a thousandth of a percentage point.

At this point the well contains no water at all - just poisons - and it isn't the skeptics who are responsible. At this point anyone who isn't skeptical about what they are being told by our Dear Leaders has their head buried deep in the sand.
99% of the US by land area is that bad; somewhat less so by population since NYC is navigable without a car and that's 8M people alone. There are approximately zero cities outside of New York where public transit is viable competition to cars.

Weather permitting, cycling is doable in some places. Most places however have narrow (or no!) bike lanes with automotive surface traffic moving at least 48kph and drivers having zero clue how to drive around bicycles. In urban areas there are usually cars parked directly next to the bike lane, with drivers opening doors into the bike lane. Many commercial delivery vehicles park in bike lanes as well; in the places where that is forbidden (fewer than you would think) the laws against it are typically unenforced.

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To give you an idea, I drive my 13y.o. daughter to school. It takes about 10 minutes. This is ridiculous. However the other options are:

- Walk (no place to leave bike near bus stop) a bit over 2km to nearest bus stop, take 45 minute bus ride.

- Bicycle along a road with 72kph speed limit; bike lane is not separated and is as narrow as 20cm(!!) in places with cars that are alternating between going above the speed-limit and stopped (with cars turning across traffic in gaps while stopped; I have personally witnessed 2 car vs car collisions where the two cars couldn't see each other due to stopped lane of traffic between them. A bicyclist would have been killed. Most bicyclists (including me) avoid this road, though enough travel on it for one to get hit by a car roughly annually (only 1 fatality in the past 3 years that I can remember though).

- Bicycle an extra 3km (6 vs 9), crossing the above death-trap road, but not cycling along it. This still travels along a road with a 72kph speed limit, but traffic is much lighter and shoulders are much wider. There is one intersection that is a bit nuts, but can be traversed by hopping off the bicycle and using the cross-walks.
Quitting cold turkey is bad. The only way I successfully did it was become very aware, used the same cup for getting it and cut down 1 cup a day every week until there were no more cups. I didn't get any headaches. When I quit cold turkey massive headaches for hours that required aspirin to function as a coder.
>So I'll ask the same question that I've yet to receive a concrete response to: How long is long enough before you'll trust the vaccine?

At this point it's not a matter of time in many cases, because it's already been shown in the data for certain demographics that the personal risk is not worth the personal benefit.
Look into Panspermia if you're not aware already. Hoyle and Wickramasinghe wrote a lot on this. I don't know how seriously it's regarded in the science world.
macOS Is Hot Garbage
No one expects a maintainer to purposely break their project. If he wanted to end it, he should have just sent a goodbye message signaling the end of his involvement with maintenance. This has been done many times before without incident. If he wanted to be paid, he should have either picked the appropriate license for his software from the start, or just changed it for future versions. The latter has also been done before with SugarCRM being one example

To be fair, Marak seems to be mentally unwell right now, which helps explain but doesn't condone his behavior

https://abc7ny.com/suspicious-package-queens-astoria-fire/64...
How could we be sure they aren't actually trying to cleanse evidence of high-level corruption and other crimes?
Not even decaf? Yes, the flavour isn’t the same and it still has some caffeine, but I still enjoy the flavour.
I mean pigs are already "conscious" on some level, I'm sure.
I don't know what makes you want to try to gaslight people on marak's behalf but this is a pretty poor attempt at doing so. He published a deliberately broken update with a non-breaking version number change to a package management ecosystem where the community expects to follow a semver-ish model where point updates do not break things. This is an abuse of trust, just like it would be if you said “I'm tired of cooking for everyone so I'm going to spit in the soup before serving it”.
If you end up with "X can open any file" that's something that's worth noting to a consumer. The sandbox capabilities don't have to be perfect in order to expose a scary situation.

Further, you can restrict a process to only open specific files in a number of ways on Linux, including based on path. There's room for improvement, though.
Well the article says that the battery capacity has gone from ~100kWh to ~200kWh… so I think they’re actually talking real increased battery capacity?
Stop spreading misinformation. Zero states are reporting 100% utilization of ICU or inpatient beds. Not even close. Most are reporting under 80% utilization currently.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend
I've been jumping back into desktop Linux in a big way just because of this. It may be a big step backwards in usability, but there's the satisfaction of knowing that what you've got does exactly what you want, and nothing more.
I could be wrong but I believe those valves are harvested for their cartilagenous (non-alive) components, their cells stripped, the valves throughly cleaned, and implanted in place. This is not quite the same as implanting an organ with live cells autonomously producing potential antigens on a daily basis
Indeed and crying for the little developer is of no help, the little coffee owner is liable for everything that gets sold, the kitchen cleanness and the good state of the food being packaged.
>how do you know that removing this one gene doesn't unlock consciousness?

i'm not the poster you're replying to, but for me the answer is this :

consciousness appears to me to be a constellation of traits rather than a trait itself that would be easily acquired with a genetic shift.

One could then say : 'What if the one we flip is the thing that finishes the constellation of traits that activates consciousness?' , and sadly I must confess that I believe that if that were to happen to an entity without sufficient communications methods that it would probably remain unknown and subject to whatever experiences whatever sensory organs it may have provides it, while we remain entirely unaware for some time.

Also, a point that I agree upon by the poster who replied to you with me ; we don't seem to hold conscious entities in very high regard -- only human ones.
Encouraging contributions for extensions supporting Postgres migrations – MigOps
> You have no idea what the long term effects of the vaccine are stop pretending like you do, it's ridiculous.

I didn't, in fact the opposite. You have no idea what the long term effects of covid are stop pretending like you do, it's ridiculous.

You're playing russian roulette and have the choice between two guns. One has 1000 chambers, the other has 1000000 chambers, and you are choosing the first one and acting like you are relying on statistics.
A large part of the wait is for the telescope to cool down, many of the instruments are likely to not function at all until they reach extremely cold temperatures. The other issue is that the complexity of the instruments means that without rigorous calibration any data gathered is likely to be completely useless noise. The calibration isn't as simple as turning a blurry image into a clear one.

Here's a whole list of calibration challenges that needs to be overcome: https://www.stsci.edu/~INS/2010CalWorkshop/mather.pdf
> yet the npm attack of today proves otherwise.

If you're referring to the colors package in NPM, that is not an attack at all nor did it proved what you think it proved. If anything, the colors package episode just showed that there are companies mindlessly ingesting dependencies without a shred of due diligence.
LM does offer part time arrangements, but it is not well known.
name any evidence whatsoever of this. this is a toxic viewpoint that conservatives seem to hold which is that liberals/antifa/others somehow "like" covid, or that governments somehow "want" to shut schools down. I see this viewpoint quite a bit and it is completely insane and not based in any reality at all.

for example, I have relatives who watch FOX news all day. they are convinced covid vaccines were created to kill people, for the purposes of "thinning the herd". the reason for this "thinning the herd", which they seem to believe is happening? despite most everyone they know including their whole extended family shaking their heads at their crazy facebook posts being vaccinated without any issue? is so that this would somehow pave the way for "communism". that's their whole worldview. so those are folks who think we're somehow all on board with covid being great, or something.
Okay, so, is there a relative comparison of available union pricing plans and their offered features and the cut they take per paycheck? We have this for AWS/GCP, and for app stores, so what’s the equivalent in tech unions?