skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It protects against the "buggy piece of shit" but only in very specific cases, which depend entirely upon which state you live in. Most notably, it only applies to new cars. Some states require you to be out of a car for a total of 90 days in one calendar year, and/or have the same problem occur several times.

In several states, recalls don't count towards lemon law because it's a preventative measure, or only applies if the nature of the recall renders the car inoperable. Meaning, you can wait four years for a replacement of a potentially deadly airbag.

You can absolutely have a buggy piece of shit that can't be lemon law'ed.

Getting a car lemon law'ed is a nightmare. It's rare that you have a cut-and-dry case. Just ask people with those Ford Powershift transmissions in their Fiestas.

A warranty will ensure that someone doesn't have to pay to fix the buggy piece of shit, assuming the buggy shit isn't a wear item that the dealership can claim that the owner broke. But there's still the hassle of scheduling the fix, taking the car to the dealership, hoping they have transportation for you, etc.
> Anyone else feeling utterly lost and disillusioned by the tech industry in 2022?

Yeah, my interest in computers and computing is nearly dead. There’s just nothing “hot” and “new” I see that really interests me. Perhaps this is because with experience, computing have mostly lost that magical appeal that led me to strive to figure out “how does this work”.

Every now and then it’s revived, but it never lasts so to the inaccessibility of the things that interest me or because it’s ultimately useless.

I’ll hopefully be leaving the industry in not too long. The money is very nice, but I’m not FAANG, so it’s not quite enough to keep me entrapped.

Also, not that this hasn’t been the case for a while, but I realized programming as a profession is almost nothing like what drew me into it originally.
Going further, we've moved on from the un-vaccinated in general. My problem is that even though I live in a bubble with 100% vaccination rate among my relatives and friends (most of our kids are older), I can't quite make peace with just letting the un-vax'd kill one another off. And there seems to be no middle ground.
I don't mean this sarcastically, you're probably an better coder than this comment implies, but what you described is the mind's mental content that should motivate you to write "decent" code.

Do you only feel this motivation when you look back at old projects? Perhaps the improvement could be in organization (code-level or otherwise) such that you do not feel lost or confused looking at your old stuff.
Moxie Marlinspike has stepped down as CEO of Signal
This is the main part, https://www.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/mm6nad/bought_mobil...
Correction: is it better to suffer and die or not live at all? The vast majority of the 8 billion plus chickens slaughtered in the USA each year experience primarily pain and stress for their short lives.
The number 1 lesson I learned in laser safety class: do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I felt hoodwinked when it turned out when I'd designed in a class 1 (intrinsically safe, power limited) time-of-flight laser distance sensor and the purchasing department replaced it due to lack of availability for a 'superior' range class 2 (DO NOT STARE INTO BEAM for more than 0.25 seconds, intentionally suppressing your blink reflex can cause damage) sensor. Flags went up, every stakeholder was pulled in, we redid the risk assessment (aware of the temptation to fudge it to ship the equipment on time) and eventually allowed it after replacing a clear anodized part with a black anodized one and festooning the machine with "Do not stare into laser" stickers.

My roommate in college was a stagehand, we talked a bit about the safety and it appears the consideration is more on the scale of "We try not to shine the lasers in people's eyes" and less like "We have redundant, proven processes that ensure people cannot be harmed."

It feels like they've missed an important distinction between what's acceptable for your own purposes and what's acceptable risk to impose on someone else. Safety when messing about in your own backyard would often not pass OSHA requirements, that makes sense because it's your own risk and your own reward, this is ethically different an industrial scenario where you're forcing someone who's just trying to feed their family to endanger their eyes for someone else's profitability, similarly, concertgoers should and do assume that entertainment light shows are safe, while [some in] the entertainment industry take it much more casually.
Thanks for the suggestion. I just set up an in-app recurring donation to get my profile badge too
Might have also been an attempt to appear less of a target for that breed of self-serving administrators that seem to haunt certain other foundations in tech. And to keep reasonably humble people reasonably humble.
I don't see why that would be true if you just wear an N95 (or equivalent) mask indoors, or whenever you're in close proximity to others. Eventually, the spike will subside.

https://calmcovid.substack.com/p/youre-not-doomed-to-get-omi...
Net neutrality doesn’t even apply to mobile networks.
> How about really not having that many features, and just doing the job perfectly and having that be it?

There are a couple of problems with that I can think of.

1) A new product will never be perfect. No matter the resources put into it. It's just not possible. Reality is full of inconvenient details, and no one is good enough to get them all the first time around.

2) People need to want to try the product. And the words used to do that matter. Calling something a "task manager" vs "project manager" vs "Todo list" all have different implications even if the feature list is identical. Now add in the difficulty of getting people to see your product description, to begin with.

"Personalty" is one way to deal with 1 and 2 simultaneously. As much as we want the presentation not to matter, it does.
Some ideas deserve to be mocked.
This is violence?
There isn’t continuity between user names, for most users, so nobody can tell if the person they are responding to has demonstrated different behaviors or ideologies before

but it is still interesting how some people would parrot Q1 2020 rationale in Q1 2022 as if everything is the same for everyone else
I don’t think it’s about referring to the chat log in the long term, it’s just about not obligating people to constantly follow the chat.

I’d be fine with all chats being deleted after a month. But if I’m out one day I’d like to see my colleague’s message about the project I currently work on.
Please show me how to do `ls | grep -i old` in Python?

For a short while I was following https://github.com/matz/streem (from the original author of Ruby) with interest in possibly being adapted to superseed Bash. I have no idea how realistic that actually is.

I also use fish a lot, but it has a lot of it's own problems.

The thing about all these "shells" that really seperates them from Python (et all) is that they lookup commands from PATH and execute them directly. Anything else is simply not a shell language no matter how great it is at scripting.
I hope you will all recover!
That's fine but the booster has shown that it likely incurs much longer term stability to immune resistance to all current strains that we know about, including omicron. If you look up the history of vaccinations you will see similar results and why some are carefully spaced apart at certain intervals as they train the human immune system
The vaccines don't prevent anyone from spreading the virus. The CDC Director just said it.
I would love to see some video recording of this.
But what it got to do with vaccination? Children are going to still spread it whether they are vaccinated or not. There are some claims about vaccination reducing the load and therefore reducing infection of other people but I find it a very hard to control type of research and seeing so many vaccinated getting corona I don't think it is so significant in protecting other people and preventing spread. Maybe just a little bit, but how do you measure how much is the right amount in order to make kids getting the vaccination more beneficial overall than not?
These kinds of shenanigans are exactly the reason you shouldn't trust carriers with plain text data. People bash Apple for not adopting RCS over iMessage but it would just lead to more crap like this but for your text messages.
> Is the claim that everyone pushing Latinx is non-Latin?

As far as I can tell, that is exactly what the article claims - that Latinx was invented by and is being pushed by signallers only, and mostly non-Latin ones.
It also makes the transactions atomic and serialized!
So that is why people in Ohio love camping in the left lane. When driving in places like Utah, Montana, Dakotas, etc. 95% of people pass and get back in the slow lane. In Ohio and surrounding states, it seems like people have an aversion to the first lane and immediately jump to the middle lane if available or just persist in the fast lane after passing, even when the slow lane is empty. If people drove with a float:right mentality, wouldn't congestion be eased by allowing more efficient flow based on speed segregation and less unnecessary braking?
There has been little thought given to non-covid health and developmental issues caused by mitigations. My friends had to go to private school to get a school to accept a doctors note that their kid shouldn't wear masks because he's having a hard time with speech development. The kid already had covid--a low grade fever for two days.
An unsecured, 0% interest loan with a 50 year term may as well be a donation.
Sigh -It’s crazy that Apple spends so much time going after individual app devs for minor regulations but tolerates such egregious scams as this one..
Congressional District Mini Golf
Nah - that wouldn't work. Apple would just point out that they use networking gear made in China. Brilliant.
I 100% agree with you. You absolutely "can't resolve this kind of debate by simply saying "foreign bad" or "foreign good"

Imagine we discover an alien planet with no predators. Should we allow ecological merging, with reasonable expectation of large biodiversity loss. The problem is, the alien planet doesn't have a pesticides industry propped up around saying "foreign bad"

But I have no idea, and am not qualified to answer that hypothetical.
Not getting a transplant isn't comparable to being denied a hospital bed.

"Will only be stabilized in the ER"

In other words: they will be treated.

No one is saying we need to give the best treatments, or any kind of treatment that is scarce and competitive (like transplants) to unvaccinated people, but you're talking about refusing people any treatment and sending them out to die at home or on the streets. That's extremely cruel and certainly is not done anywhere in the US currently.
One flaw I note in the article, which is supposed to be all about charging efficiency:

Not once does the article cite a single figure on the actual charging efficiency achieved in any of its tests.

Yes, it does say that "47% more power" was used, but this is of course not the efficiency. It allows you to calculate the efficiency, which most people would screw up.

Not great.
Even questioning it gets articles flagged, case in point on this submission. I don't for a second believe that everyone is impartial, especially journalists. Behind the scenes, they do everything they can to tilt things in favor of their side and their ideology, even at the smallest degree.
Keto flu for me is really hard to cope with. Even a walk on flat terrain feels too much and I feel miserable for the few days it lasts (usually 4/5). But still I lack explosive energy even when I am fully keto adapted which is a problem because I really like Bouldering. That's why I stay more on the intermittent fasting and less strict about keto.

Finally, you are correct that increasing salt helps, but just barely for me.
Vile hatred? It's a joke website.

Also, if you truly believe in a technology and its future, doesn't "everyone hating it" just widen the inefficiency gap for some folks to make a bunch of money on a technology they are certain will be valuable one day?
OOo does not print on Tuesdays
Coffee snobs are leagues ahead in terms of snobbery of any other snobbery I know. And I am from a wine heavy culture, so born and raised in snobbery.

And your comment highlights everything that can be irritating about coffee enthusiasts. Every paragraph is quote-worthy. Almost climactic.

I don't know what has triggered such an elite-like culture in coffee but it never ceases to amaze/amuse.
Same. I was having PVCs, which felt like skipped beats, but it's actually a premature contraction (that you sometimes can't feel) that occurs between beats, so there's a compensatory pause, so it feels like there was a skipped beat.

I was having 20,000 a day. I was consuming a shit ton of caffeine (like 600 mg a day), and I quit cold turkey once I noticed the insane PVCs. The PVCs did reduce in the following months, but I still ended up having an ablation to get rid of them.

Maybe if I would have waited longer they would have gone away completely, I don't know.
Keep serverless functions packages' content under control with Serverless
Tell that to all the poor bastards now living with myocarditis.
A Letter to the Maintainer
It’s a popular word in undergraduate English departments. My friend in college told me his professor (jokingly) threatened to hand an “F” out to any paper that talked about the liminality of the text because of the sheer number of them he got every semester.
> If being a doctor had the same work:pay ratio as being a SW dev I think you'd have more smart people choosing that career. Health regulations and extra procedures certainly helped to discourage employment as well, but I think pay would help.

I just have the compulsive need as the son of a nurse, who is now dating a nurse: nurses could use the monetary incentive, too.

And I have to feel the vast amount of regulatory paperwork doctors (and other medical providers) have to go through is a constant nagging discouragement. I mean, I think that evolved for good reasons, to help create accountability to to ease care when the patient enters a different part of the system, but holy crap, it’s a lot of forms to fill out as a medical care worker.
You don’t have to worry about it if you solve real problems.

The cryptocurrency backlash is coming after a decade of salespeople showing up to make breathless pitches about a fantasy world where you need to pay up front for results they think they might be able to deliver if you give them enough money, but no guarantees.

(Remember the guy who mocked Dropbox? He existed but very clearly did not speak for even a majority of people here.)
It's not like it hasn't been done a million times.

So what is the added value in repeating this hate-fest every day?
In spite the title says it's anatomically posible, the article explain that a lot of parts of the description are not anatomically posible.
Are you referring to all the children that were mistakenly given the live poliovirus from the first round of polio vaccines?
That's my hope as well.

But that's somewhat tempered by reports of reproducibility crises in scientific / academic research.

I wish I had a better sense of the extent to which that matters for stories like this.
As a founder, the temptation is real, but anecdotally (anecdataly?) I'm so much more motivated on the work days I don't think the extra day matters. But, my company is not big enough to have enough sample data to prove it one way or the other.

Employees do take the extra free time into consideration when comparing offers, since we make offers that are competitive to a 40-hour offer.

Re: sneaky bit of work on the off day. We don't rely on it, or ask for it. We do have an on-call rotation that covers support and site issues on Fridays, but you're in that rotation once every 5 weeks or so.
That's right. Often called '9-80' and was pretty popular in aerospace.
Could this have not been avoided by using a fixed version in package.json E.g 5.5.3 rather than ^5.5.3?
Practically none. Tolkien went out of his way to avoid using constructed languages in his books, even going so far as to translate character names (‘Frodo’ is really Maura). When he does provide sentences, there is no effort to make them comprehensible to us; even today, there is no complete reference grammar of even his best attested languages. There is certainly no systematic attempt to teach another language, as seen in Shōgun
There is also the possibility that we will look back on history and realize how hysteria and media fearmongering drove human society to take wholly unnecessary measures and paved a path towards more authoritarianism, more surveillance, a financial crisis due to the government printing trillions of dollars which a lot of it is going into the stock market and driving up companies to insane valuations, creating a generation of software addicts due to the pandemic forcing teenagers to stay home and cope using their computers as opposed to going out and interacting with their peers in person, and a myriad of other problems that we do not yet see in the short-term.
I'm still really disappointed he didn't go for a more long term solution, federation:
https://matrix.org/blog/2020/01/02/on-privacy-versus-freedom
As far as I can tell from reading it, that claim is not made in the article [replying to your comment before you edited it].
Then allow me to coin an entirely new and original aphorism, let's call it Kibwen's Law:

"The plural of anecdote is not data."

The methodology of collecting anecdotes matters immensely. Merely collecting anecdotes based on whoever manages to comment in a random thread opens your collection process up to massive selection bias. In fact we even have a name for this process: a filter bubble. Every filter bubble in existence is the result of people assuming that not only is the population of their bubble representative of the average person (it's not), but also that people on either side of an issue will be equally likely to offer their anecdote (they're not).

Without rigorous collection methodology, anecdotes do not sum to data.

(Note that this comment says nothing about the broader topic of omicron severity; I don't have data, listen to people who do.)
> I got tired of copying and pasting the same classes between projects. The worse part was I'd add new features to the newer projects and when I would have to go back to work on something from a year or two ago I'd have to spend time backporting all the new code.

Why not create your own common library and publish it to a private repo? There's a lot of options between using a stranger's package and what you're describing.
bad editors hang on large files.

Others hang on large files without a newline in the first 100MB.

You don't just need to memmove, you need to put that data into a structure that can be edited.
Most things in matrix are namespaced. The official spec namespace is 'm', as in 'm.text', but you can extend it very liberally by just adding keys like 'com.github.mr_johnson22.matrix.foo'
Given how teacher's unions regularly protect sexual predators from firing, I'm not sure I want the same institution in tech protecting incompetent, malicious and/or predator co-workers.
I do bike through the city quite regularly. The city also has wonderful public transit. I’m not sure what more we actually need here, except 24/7 service on weekdays.
If Covid restrictions were as easy and inconsequential as seatbelts, I wouldn't have an issue doing it indefinitely. But they're not even close.
Check out the links in our post on this: https://blog.bit.io/we-have-a-four-day-work-week-and-you-sho...
>> brand cachet are invaluable.

This was much more a value when there was only a handful of companies in each cohort. Now there's 3 groups:

* YC~low number~ that I've heard of: Original signalling value

* YC~low number~ that I've never heard of: zombie

* YC~high number~ : new batch of spray and pray

This is unfair but my initial reaction
>>> Nevermind that. When pharma is buying up 50% or more of the ad time during your news programs how can you be expected to accurately cover stories involving them?

>> You can't. It's literally a conflict of interest.

> I guess the concept of advertising in media in general is literally a conflict of interest, right?

If you follow the logic of the GP and GGP to its conclusion, it's not much of an exaggeration to say that none of us common citizens can know anything about the world, because it's a contradiction for a adequately-funded media organization to exist that's also funded by no-one.

In the real world, there are methods for managing conflicts of interest like those caused by advertisers and other funding sources (things like firewalls within an organization, etc). They don't work absolutely perfectly, but do they work pretty well.
Those without insurance are quoted prices different than what insurance companies pay.

Even getting a price quote is often impossible.

Government should enforce the same pricing to all parties or allow everyone to get the same prices Medicare negotiated.
Hmm, I'd think that in a rhotic accent a word like "furlstrengths" or "fatherlands" would work better? In Japanese they sound like [ɸɯ̟ɾɯ̟ɾɯ̟sɯ̟tɯ̟ɾiĩsɯ̟] or [haɾɯ̟sɯ̟tɯ̟ɾiĩsɯ̟] and [hazaɾɯ̟randozɯ̟] respectively, rather than the native [fɚɹłstɹiŋθs] or [fɚɹłstɹiŋkθs] and [faðɚlændz]. Adjacent /rl/ pairs are a special challenge, there are multiple unvoiced fricatives that don't exist at all in Japanese, and consonant clusters totally violate Japanese phonotactics to the point where it's hard for Japanese people to even detect the presence of some of the consonants. By contrast Japanese [ɾaɾapaɾɯ̟za] is only slightly wrong, requiring a little bit more bilateral bypass on the voiced taps and a slight rounding of the ɯ̟ sound.

Some Japanese-American soldiers would be SOL tho.
No. You are the random guy and Opensea is the street. (And it’s not a picture/wife that you sell, is an NFT/certificate.)
What it's like to teach on Discord
These links are easy to mirror, they probably fit into a reasonably large SQLite file. Since the Web still allows decentralization, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. For example, the pirate bay is blocked in my country, yet I can still consult it on dozens of mirrors.
The WhatsApp sale also happened back in 2014. I don't think FB was especially well liked at that time, but they didn't have as bad a reputation as they do now. 7-8 years is a long time.
<Unpopular opinion>

If you think this is bad, wait until there is a recombinant variant that is a mix of Delta and Omicron. They are already calling it deltacron.

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Frankly, I don't know how much more the collective psychological fabric can withstand. So many are well-past their breaking point.

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Sending positive thoughts to all of you that we can continue to survive and persevere.

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Many of us don't have the option to just stop (as much as I'd like to). I've got a wife and two kids to provide for. My asthmatic mom just caught Covid. I'm past burnt out but I'm just showing up until I can't even do that anymore. I'd consider myself a pretty tough person normally but this thing has just broken me. I can't imagine how others are coping.

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Meanwhile I'm left thinking, how can we go on like this? How can I help others?
>if you’re doing so with no information or insight, you are just randomly guessing.

No you aren't. You are doing the empirically sound thing and accepting the null hypothesis, the baseline of being unvaccinated, in the absence of sufficient evidence that the long term effects of the vaccines are more beneficial than detrimental.
Because buyers hate scalpers.

Trying to placate buyers is exactly why Ford is doing this.