skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corporate IT departments are still hiring like mad in northern Bavaria. It's nothing like SV or even quite as good as big US metro area IT money, but it's not bad - 30 days vacation is the norm (thank you, IG Metall!), on top of a ludicrous public holiday schedule (thank you, Catholic Church, I guess...) and frankly ridiculous sick leave policy (thank you, German government).
Is there any such thing as "procrastinating"?

Luke: Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.

Yoda: No. No different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.

Luke: All right, I'll give it a try.

Yoda: No. Try not. Do… or do not. There is no try.
I know, yet from my point of view that is a mistake, they think they learned, yet the npm attack of today proves otherwise.
When the WMF announced the creation of an endowment with the Tides Foundation in January 2016, on Wikipedia’s 15th birthday, its goal was to accumulate $100 million over 10 years, as “a permanent source of funding to ensure Wikipedia thrives for generations to come.”

Just five years later, the endowment passed $90 million, and the $100 million mark, now described as an “initial goal,” will be reached this year.

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/

Which partly explains Wikipedia's political stance.
He did say that
Very young kids won't be totally naive since some of their immune system comes from their mothers. (although the mom might need active antibodies for that)
> The dead body floating thing happened in 1 or 2 states.

Those were the worst hit states - UP and Bihar. What was observed during the second wave was not normal, something like that last happened in 1918 after the Spanish flu:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57068503
"This is not the first time bodies have floated up in rivers in India during a pandemic.

"The River Ganga was swollen with dead bodies", the famous Hindi language writer and poet, Suryakant Tripathi, better known as Nirala, wrote about the 1918 outbreak of Spanish flu in his village in a province which is now India's Uttar Pradesh state."
Thanks a lot for the explanation. I don’t have to agree with it to at least see where you are coming from.

Its too bad that my comment kicked off just the sort of nonproductive back-and-forth I was hoping to avoid with my phrasing (in the other threads, not in your comment). Sheesh.
Cool! This sounds like a great setup, better than mine (posted in a separate reply in this thread).

I've bookmarked your post for later ;), will have to go back and review in detail when time permits.
I log into Firefox Nightly and it syncs across all my Firefoxen.
A reference for why war can’t be stopped? Lol. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History
I have everything in zotero synched via webdav to my synology nas. All my bookmarks and docs. Zotero also keeps an offline copy + its as easy as clicking the button in whatever browser you are using.

You can also share this easily with other users
> I've kinda had a similar perspective until buckthorn. Buckthorn is essentially eradicating native Big Woods forest, transforming forest that comprises an open understory with high canopies into dense tangles of buckthorn that choke out anything else. It also leads to these boom-bust nitrogen cycles that wreak havoc on the soil.

Buckthorn is the devil's plant. IIRC, it's a hedge plant, and literally turns a forest into an impassible hedge.

> Maybe there's something that could be imported to keep it in check (I recall reading buckthorn has some kind of highly specialized moth or something that eats it in its native range) but regardless of why, it's a problem.

IIRC, they're close to approving something like that for garlic mustard (which kind of does the same thing as buckthorn, except on the forest floor, and often gets bad after you deal with buckthorn). They've had to do a lot of testing to make sure it's very specialized and doesn't cause another invasive pest problem.
I hate to reply to myself, but I wanted to say one other thing. When governments sell RF spectrum to companies, the expectation is that they become good stewards of the shared resource. The taxpayers are saying "you know, we think private industry can give us more value from our RF spectrum than the government", and this is their chance to prove that. What we didn't want was to enable a monopolist to nickel-and-dime the Internet to death.

I'm guessing the exact legal agreements didn't spell it out like this, but that's how I think of it. Only one company can use this finite resource at once, but just because they bought it doesn't mean there is no limit to what they can do with it.
The previous administration even attempted to prevent states from having net neutrality by claiming that disclaiming FCC authority was a prohibition on it. Yes, by attempting to claim FCC had no authority to regulate they also simultaneously claimed this prohibited states from regulating it.

The paradoxical was a direct reflection of the corruption within the FCC at the hands of the previous administration.
You're missing the third category: people like myself who absolutely love this kind of riddles and destroy them in a few minutes, without any significance on their actual work abilities.

I don't think I'm a bad engineer, but I'm certainly not the rock star you absolutely need for your team, but when it comes to this kind of “cleverness” tests, I'm really really good.

I've had the “Queen Killing Infidel Husbands" (with another name) in an interview last year and I aced it in a few minutes, and I didn't knew about "Pirate Coins", but when I read your comment HN said your comment was "35 minutes ago" and now it says "40 minutes" which means I googled the problem, figured out the solution and then found the correction online to see if I was right in less than 6 minutes, and so while I'm putting my son to bed!

It's really sad because there are many engineers much better at there job than me who will get rejected because of pointless tests like this…
Seems a bit pointless to ask. You want them to make up a story? "The data scientist's radio link degrades to static while he waits for the answer and all he hears is the letter 'l'". There.
Infinite loop causing Denial of Service in colors
It isn't an attack. He didn't do anything out of the range of his rights.
XMPP supports additional security if the server and client support it, however some of the extension proposals (XEPs) are deferred or experimental. My hope that the Special Interest Group (SIG) for encryption pulls these together into
new high-security client and high-security server profiles.

* https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0380.html - Explicit Message Encryption

* https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0429.html - Not a XEP really, but the formation of a SIG to explore a more robust end-to-end encryption support

* https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0420.html - Encrypting content specific to certain extensions

* https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0290.html - Digital signatures in XMPP
I don't want to have an app installed just for that. I'd prefer to do it over the web or contactless/dedicated smartcard system, by far.

Not to mention it locks out anything that isn't Android or iOS compatible. It's a niche market, but even Android was basically devoid of apps at one point because everyone was targeting the iPhone.
I have no idea how bookmarks I have but my plan is to eventually use them to remind me of things I want to make sure I want to cover in a book with quite a breadth, regarding health and health systems, that I hope to write some day.
I don't think "Vaxxed and done" people are saying your kids getting sick shouldn't feel stressful but rather covid poses a risk to children that is similar to or less than numerous other diseases and ailments we already faced. Just as schools weren't closed (or whatever precaution you'd like to put in here) for the flu or pneumonia there is no reason to close them for covid.
Most NFTs are pretty much a scam, but:

This is the kind of joke for people that think they are clever but don't really understand the situation. Its kind an ignorant position, reminds me of a 'brb downloading RAM' joke. Or sending someone a plastic Bitcoin. or Faxing dollar bills.

Someone made a web site, ok. Guess we don't need fancy Blogging platforms now.
Two weeks ago, I had never heard the word "liminal". Now, it seems to be the order of the day.
I prefer to use the grammatically correct and gender neutral latine/latines. That term seems to be embraced by Mexicans. Julieta Venegas is a proponent so is the show House of Flowers on Netflix. LatinX is just really awkward to say and doesn’t roll off the tongue in Spanish.
I'm a bit confused by the listed results. For example one mask is listed a KN95 and has a fail although filtering is stated as 99.87%. Isn't a KN95 specifically rated to hold at least 95% of particles of a certain size? Anything above is irrelevant as it holds up to the minimum requirement? Or is it 99.87% of 95% which I would still consider within margins of manufacturing variations.

A KN95 that filtered only 75% is something I would be concerned of. Additionally the fit in someones face can turn a good N99 mask into a useless mask which is also an important factor.
I cannot fathom why Russ bothered writing this. Npm is a dumpster fire, and below him.
Go pick up a copy of "Through our Enemies' Eyes." It's an account from a CIA agent who did extensive research on the events and circumstances that led up to 9/11 and the actors involved. His conclusion: It's not really about that at all; the answers are much more personal than that.
Mmmm I'm not so sure. There's a type of "quirky" that's really mainstream, like everyone does that, every startup does that. How about really not having that many features, and just doing the job perfectly and having that be it? Like in the original Latin sense, per-fect, carried out all the way through. Like really reliable, like use software tools from aerospace engineering to make a todo list app.

I like eating bacon, but I also like eating bread. Sometimes I want bread. Or bacon and bread in a BLT (bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich).
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I would be much more concerned about omicron. The flu is very unlikely to have any long term effects as long one keep an eye on the fever. We don't know about the long term effects of omicron.

What we do know about covid is for example fatigue and long term lung damage, both which can have very debilitating effects on health, wealth and social well being. Lung damage in particular can be hard to detect without doing an actually study after the infection.
To top that, cargo.io doesn't even have protection against crate squatting or namespace protection.
> And people "double vaxxed and boosted" still get it. And still die from it.

The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 91% effective in preventing the COVID-19 virus with symptoms in people age 16 and older. The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is 94% effective in preventing COVID-19 with symptoms. Janssen/Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. In clinical trials, this vaccine was 66% effective in preventing the COVID-19 virus with symptoms — as of 14 days after vaccination. The vaccine also was 85% effective at preventing severe disease with COVID-19 — at least 28 days after vaccination.

Source: The Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/i...

I'm not going to bother debunking the rest of that bullshit. Your statement is straight out of the anti-vaccine propaganda playbook. Shame on you for spreading FUD.
my bad.
Please e-mail me at maxime.caron@gmail.com if you are still interested.

My project is mostly about teaching reading and math to young children in a more effective way.
> And we don't know the long term psychological effects of wearing masks and social distancing.

It might turn you Japanese or Finnish.

Americans spend all their lives socially distanced anyway - it's called driving.
I've been working a four day week for over a decade, so can share some personal experiences.

I'm basically outputting the same amount of work at the same quality as before. As the article hints at, the consequence of working one day less is that it forces you to more aggressively reject distractions. Which not only was much easier than I expected, it's in fact enjoyable.

The deal is simple. We have sprints where it's clear what needs to be delivered every two weeks. Output-based work, not presence-based work. I generously reject or ignore anything else.

The way to do this is to dismiss meetings that do not contribute to your core tasks. Meetings are the true productivity killer. They cut up your day into useless snippets where you can't get anything done.

The trick to get rid of them is stupidly simple: flip the script. Right now, it's common culture that people can start as many meetings as they want and it's common courtesy for the invitees to attend, and if not, explain why.

I simply stopped complying with the expectation. I may not at all respond to the invite or give it a decline without reason. The default is no, and it's on you to convince me how the meeting is needed for me to deliver. Because my job is to deliver, not to sit in meetings. My time belongs to me and my manager, and nobody else. If you want a piece of it, have a good story.

I'm serious when I say this: not once in my decade of making this change have I ever been frowned upon, got into issues, had negative feedback or reviews due to clearing crap from my agenda. In fact, it earns respect. That is the key lesson: don't be afraid to defend your time and do not forget what you're at work for. I'm effectively only helping my employer by being more productive in the time that I work, how can anybody complain about that?

Same for overtime culture and managers sending emails at night or in the weekend. Their problem. Send a million, I won't read any of them.

Has this ever gotten me into trouble? No. Have they ever asked why I don't respond to weekend emails? No. But if they would, I'd tell them I couldn't read them because I was fucking my wife, and recommend they do the same.

Get this: work is making your manager look good, and never bad. That's the job. When you do this, you're already a top performer, as the standard is really very low. You can do all of this by rejecting nonsense, which is in your interest as well as your manager's interest.
I too took to donating through the app so that I could get the icon. My donations continue through their website, but it's also important to spread the word to folks like you that Signal needs funding to continue its mission!
When I've read about people quitting caffeine, it seems like half of people see no difference and half of them feel like their lives have improved.

I'm kind of thinking of stopping, only because it bothers me if I go on a trip or something and have to get caffeine to avoid headaches. Also, part of me wonders how caffeine is influencing me overall, if it's doing things I'm not aware of.

To be honest, the reason why I'm reluctant to try it is because I tea and coffee occupy this place that I can't quite find a replacement for, which is something interesting, low-calorie, and not a depressant. By "interesting" I might mean "artisanal" or "varietal", but I'm not even sure I mean anything that specific: I just mean, there's interesting variety, differences in products to try. Coffee and/or tea also are pretty low calorie if taken black (like I do), and unlike things like wine or beer, which are also artisanal in nature, don't act as depressants per se.

If there was something like coffee or tea, with lots of variety and skill involved, that kept me from consuming calories from other sources, and didn't have any kind of psychopharmacological effects, I could go to that. But I am not aware of anything like that.

Maybe I just need to rethink my perspective on it and what I could do to address those issues in other ways, but there are a lot of benefits to caffeinated beverages aside from the caffeine.
You also have the conspiracy theory that says that the most outlandish conspiracy theories are amplified much more than they naturally would be in an attempt to discredit all conspiracy theories. Which I do believe, myself.
No, it'll live and mutate in deer, rodents cats etc. Won't see herd immunity ever. Even this 'natural' vaccine won't distribute fast enough to outrun the pace of its mutations.
Remember when Visual Studio Code consumed 13% of one CPU core to blink the cursor?
Haha, love it. I wonder if the typo in this line was intentional:
> All transactions are manually entered by Roy to minimized mistakes.
> The current progressive focus on race and gender is new, and new is always better.

My feeling here is that these issues are not as pressing to progressives as conservatives think they are. Not surprisingly on this site, I only see these topics brought up from the conservative "anti-woke" perspective.

OP's submission history shows a pretty clear theme with these type of articles. I think an occasional discussion is fine but some users here insist on carrying out some sort of culture war here.

From the guidelines:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."
Small note on the methodology link: I thought it was a 404 dead link because when I opened it in a new tab it was a 404 (turns out it's a pop-up modal).

I don't think what's described in the methodology actually lines up with the result pages. In particular the methodology pop-up has sections about construction and smell, but I don't think I see them anywhere in the text of a particular mask review, i.e. it doesn't look like they're actually a part of what goes into a pass/fail score. Likewise there is a "Standard" field in the review that is pass/fail, but it's not explained in the methodology (I think this is basically a catch-all for "marketing fraud" where a manufacturer says something about their product that is just false?).

Nor is it described in the methodology what the pass/fail cutoff is.

But the sheer number of masks is definitely impressive.
Yes, and it's great, including self-hosting.
The problem posed by a pandemic is that harms affecting a small percentage of overall cases are nevertheless staggering in absolute terms.

Moreover, those who get better nevertheless contribute to the stresses that are stretching health care system and economy to its limits. These stresses cause second order harms to those having to go without care as resources are mobilized to support those who "will be fine."
South Pole scientists tell what it’s like to work at the bottom of the Earth
It is also the west vs China.

Although not Westerners against Chinese (my kids are welcome to play with the Chinese kids next door and the Chinese next door are just as welcome as any other neighbor to a garden party).

But it should be the world against crimes against humanity.

And then we Westerners will also have to clean up our own systems; that is just as important, but a smaller task.
Vaccines don't have long term effects.
It also did not help to have mass firings of doctors and nurses just as the new variant rolled in
The GP shouldn't have included that flamebait, but focusing on it just makes the thread worse. That's one reason the site guidelines say:

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you had a time machine and could rewrite the last few years of history such that "latin" took the place of "latinx", this opinion piece would be titled '"Latin" is lexical imperialism'. The "x" itself isn't the issue at hand, but rather that people feel they've been pressured to change how they identify in order to satisfy the goals of people wanting to promote the use of gender-inclusive language. There's no easy fix for that broader issue (which reads to me like a problem of building consensus around norms in society).
Sometimes we buy that argument, and sometimes we don't.

Take drunk driving, for example. We don't give people the freedom to do that. On the other hand, we do allow people to smoke and to eat unhealthily, both of which impose costs on the rest of us. So there seems to be a balance - we allow some behavior that impacts our personal freedoms, but not egregious impacts.

So: If someone doesn't get vaccinated, how bad is the impact to you? Given that vaccinated (and boosted) people can still get infected and spread the infection, how bad is the impact to your personal freedom to live a healthy and free life if someone doesn't get vaccinated?
I think you’re talking past the other poster. Not getting a vaccine is seen as an anti social action by the vaccine taking group. And not just in a “I blare music out loud on the subway” level but a “I leave piles of brush near my neighbors house during wildfire season” level

Society is generally hostile to behavior it views as being in the latter level of seriousness and talking about it over beers doesn’t generally make people more open to the idea that you are risking their lives
I am fascinated by this sort of thing. So many people perceive there to be some great American democratic republic tradition being aborated in recent years... but we didn't even get majoritarian democracy until the mid-20th century, and there was certainly not the sort of strong deference to the bill of rights historically that people seem to imagine.

I feel like this mythical conception of the history of America has been increasing with time.
> as soon as you know the taste of real coffee

De gustibus non disputandum est. I am one of those who tasted "real coffee". I read books about "real coffee", I bought equipment, I tried this and that, I went to coffee shops with stellar reviews (I live in NYC). I just apparently don't like what aficionados rave about. Instead, I used to love the ordinary Peet's coffee that I could buy in my office building. They don't sell it anymore, and I switched jobs anyway. Now I'm fine with Starbucks. I simply drink the coffee for the caffeine and not the taste. I guess 90% of the people do the same.
Could be. My step-dad was just telling me about his night shift at AT&T in the 70's doing operations for switching sytems. They would to 10 8's in a row b/c it was hard for them to stay on the night shift schedule over the weekends, so this just let them stretch the weekend. He really liked it.
I have chrome://settings/help and chrome://restart/ bookmarked with no issues.
we’re dealing in counterfactuals here, so we’ll never truly know. one possibility is that vaccine mandates brought a large portion of those on-the-fence in to get a vaccine sooner than later, at the cost of pushing others on-the-fence way far away from ever getting the vaccine. i.e. a short-term boost in vax numbers at the cost of long-term rates. maybe worth it, maybe not (there’s so many second order effects).

in any case, i have friends here in progressive seattle who were part of the “vaccinate and done” group back in Apr/May but once the governor used vaccine uptake as an excuse to enforce new mandates now say “i’ll get the booster once i know doing so means i get to go back to normal”. so mandates definitely do push a certain type of otherwise compliant person away from getting the vaccine. i only have anecdata, but i think it’s worth keeping an eye on that viewpoint. could this “vaccine and done” group grow into a “reject mandates (including boosters) and done” if the mandates prevent them from actually being “done”?