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The wiki link you posted is the only version mentioning his name prominently. Neither before (https://web.archive.org/web/20210530162316/https://en.wikipe...) nor after. So I wouldn't call it "scrubbing". It'd be like me putting my name in there and calling it scrubbing when the next person removes it.

I trust consensus I guess but I'm not an expert in any of this at all so my ability to verify anything is quite limited. I might have made a mistake here but I'm still not convinced he's trustworthy.
> Especially when the vaccine no longer prevents catching the virus or transmitting it.

The vaccines never stopped catching or transmission... they lessen the chances of you developing severe symptoms, your immune system still has to work.
HBO Max subscribers were up 4.4 million in Q4 2021, probably a good chunk of that due to Matrix 4.
I never associated an abattoir to air pollution (the more you know) but just doing some quick googling, it looks like this sensor would help exactly in measuring pollution from an abattoir!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402...

> All the HQ values exceeded the threshold value, set at the unity, implying that H2S, SO2 and NH3 are likely to cause adverse health effects in the area. Conclusively, continuous operation of this abattoir within the residential area can constitute a great environmental menace to the residents of the area and can result in complication to those with existing health challenge.

RE cost: I'm currently on a 3 month rental through https://ambilabs.com, but plan on renting longer, and possibly purchase down the line. I think purchase price is somewhere around $10,000+ with a $1000/yr fee. I got a special deal, but it's a few thousand dollars for a few months, definitely not cheap, but grade A service so far!
What about the mild discomfort of keeping your home at 19°C in the winter?
All in the name of business? It's a government rule that causing this? Pretty sure the airlines would love to not burn money holding a spot.
Posting on OF does imply consent to be seen naked. But since it doesn’t come with a license allowing redistribution, reposting those photos is never allowed. No gray area whatsoever.
> Dune for example should have been a weekly series

The movie is a trailer for the books.

It's as good as it could ever be, considering it was in the making for 40 years [0].

[0] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dune...
People die of rona. People die of flu. What is the problem? Far more people have died of flu than rona over the years. And since flu reporting is effectively suppressed no one will know how many died of it in the last 2 years.
And recycling that just gets diverted to landfill since China stopped taking it.
While I agree that Microsoft has every right to deny service to the developer, ban their account and remove all of their repos, that doesn't mean that Microsoft has the right to forcibly seize the developers IP.
Heads have only nominal control over any decently sized organisation. There are myriad ways in which people below can circumvent any restrictions placed.

A example from this issue would be how NSA used Danish intelligence to bypass restrictions placed by Congress.

The military tries hard to achieve this kind of alignment but even there it can be hard, a good historical example is Japanese Navy and army during second world war .
Bingo. There is a reason why pay at big tech is so high. I've never heard an ex-Google employee complain about the pay, but I've heard plenty complain about work-life balance.
Ask HN: Unable login into GitHub from Safari; works from Chrome
What’s unlawful for the NSA to collect is defined by US law, not EU law. I’m sure they could ask the US nicely, and the NSA may even pretend to listen to their complaints for a little bit :)
I do not think NPM altered a package, they unpublished the nonfunctional/infinite-loop version, so that the prior, functional, version (pushed by marak) becomes the "latest" version again
I've heard that the Wachowskis claimed that, but in what way is the Matrix's red pill similar to estrogen pills, or transexuality in general?
How do you deal with paywalled sites for your bookmark archive to preserve the current Internet?
I'm not seeing any such issue in Safari (macOS Monterey).
I think people will only accept 3d printed organs, pig and animal things are too controversial for some people.

I was listening to a podcast on the CBC about AI and consciousness, and the idea that humans are distinct from an animal (beastmachine, great name for a butcher shop btw) comes from Descartes, who we revere in philosophy (for fair reasons)..

I think we can't blame people for wanting to separate themselves from animals.
I would rather it be a last name of my choosing if I have to have one at all.
Paper straws are generally more energy and resource intensive than plastic straws.

The switch to paper straws was theoretically about eliminating single use plastics.

As someone who has done scientific surveys of beach flotsam: my personal feeling is that the switch to paper straws will change precisely nothing as far as global plastic pollution goes.
The way I take this is that, as a civilization, we don't know how to reliably produce a good union. Coordination is hard, especially when politics and money are involved, and there are some well-known common failure modes.

To me, "a good union" is a lot like "a sufficiently smart compiler". It'd be great, and I'd love to have one, but the unions we currently have are the best we've been able to make so far. We can see many cases where we could do better, but theory is significantly ahead of practice, people keep reinventing the wheel, etc.

I'm far from educated about the history of unions, and I'd be glad if anyone could correct me.
I sympathize. Our kid is in the next window (5-12) and it has been a grand relief to get him vaccinated but when everyone was excited that they were vaccinated we felt very left behind. We continue to be responsible with our behavior but we also have been relaxing and carefully opening up. You are not forgotten and lots of us still care. Hang on and best of luck!
> What's really the difference between "fork the repos and change the fork" and "seize and modify somebody else's IP without permission".

Ownership is the difference.

In the US, you get copyright on the code you write.

The MIT license waives certain rights to the code you own, but not all of them.

The developer gave Microsoft (and everybody else) the right to fork the code and do anything with the fork they liked when they chose the MIT license.

They did not give up every right to the code they owned.
They'd have to see it for themself?
title: s/Lair/Liar/
True, though, you could potentially buy land near downtown at single family home prices, which would help.

Also the same rules currently apply in Redondo Beach which is a little bit more expensive.
That's actually a pretty low marketing budget.

General practice amongst the box office geeks is to assume marketing is EQUAL to the production budget for a big blockbuster.
Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset: Linux-like OS for systems like 8086
If you are lucky the tracks for “Nosh Kosh” didn't fall exactly on top of the "Jerusalem Squares Question Bank Editor” tracks and you might be able to look at the disk with a scanning probe microscope and recover the original data.
> ... for the sake of the shareholders.

Now made even messier by the German government's 20% stake, which resulted from the Covid-induced necessity for a state bailout.
It's no The Thirteenth Floor
There are tons of tiny libraries that have gotten themselves into the dependency chain of popular libraries, and any attempt to remove them is treated as a turf war.

I've tried to remove single-line dependencies only to have the PR rejected by the creator of the tiny library who happens to contribute to the parent library.

IMO the Javascript ecosystem really needs a decent standard library to remove the inordinate amount of power granted to these these tiny library squatters who wrote 5 lines of code and a package.json file 10 years ago.
We used Windy to predict when we were likely to have north winds at Summit Station in Greenland. During north winds we weren't allowed to do certain activities (e.g. ride snomos) in order to reduce emissions at the NOAA air monitoring lab. Hilariously, when the NOAA weather station at Summit went down, the predictions got noticeably worse, which makes total sense. ECMWF seemed to have the best predictions of the available models.

What's great is that despite the complexity of the presentation, the data itself is a simple image (jpg, strangely?) and everything is just animated in javascript, so other than the scripts (which are cached), it doesn't download a huge amount of data.
Are there generally accepted marriage principles??
HBO is owned by Warner
I watched the movie via HBO Max. I’m sure that on one set of calculations (HBO), a good chunk of my monthly fee is assigned to the Matrix Resurrections account. But on another set of calculations (Warner Bros), I’m a negative because I would have likely gone to see it in a theater.

Nevermind that they are the same company.
I’m not sure I buy the sabotage claims.

Warner Brothers isn’t going to hand $200 million over to any single person and just be like “well, I guess we get what we get!”.
Github has a clickthrough license that probably gives them this right.

If you are of the legal opinion that one cannot simply wish away some fairly fundamental rights through something as blazé as a clickthrough license, then that's a problem: It means the even-worse-than-clickthrough FOSS licenses that handwave away merchantability surely have no legal standing either. Then, if you are also of the legal opinion that the relationship between FOSS author and FOSS user is a vendor/buyer one, then what Marek did is _illegal_. At which point Github/microsoft surely regain their right to intervene. You are usually allowed to attack someone if they are about to commit a murder, even if that act would in all other circumstances be a slam-dunk assault case.

You're now banking on the notion that the relationship between FOSS author and FOSS user is fundamentally not a vendor/buyer relationship even though github has a sponsors system, the FOSS license uses terms that relate to vendor/buyer relationships, and that nevertheless copyright law still does apply. That's possible, certainly, but that's a lot of coinflips that have to land correctly.
Can you share data source for 1B? This seems like it's 1-2 orders of magnitude off based on gut feel and I'd like to understand how I can be this far off.
Plenty of people. Part of the act of creation can be it's destruction https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/oct/14/banksy-...
I thought it was pretty good. Was only really disappointed that there weren't more groundbreakingly cool action sequences along the lines of what we got in 1 and 2. It's actually refreshing that it didn't do nonstop fan service like most reboots of hugely popular franchises. I respect the choices she made a lot.
It depends! One of my kids is a biochemist wrapping up his degree this semester in a vet-med lab (send job opportunities!). He's done one study with pigs, where they were developing new enteric vaccines. At the conclusion of the study there's nothing wrong with the pigs --- they're just hyper-vaccinated --- but without a place to send them, all they can do is euthanize. He spent a week or two trying to re-home the pigs, but he's at UIUC and there is no pig shortage in the area. You could have taken those pigs for free and ultimately butchered them.

Euthanizing research pigs seems especially difficult. I'm really into butchery --- invested in a butcher in the area --- and would happily attend a slaughter. But the circumstances attending euthanizing research pigs are tricky; the pigs are all in a common area, and they're social animals and know something's up when you put one of them down. It messed with the boy.
This is baseless fearmongering that has no place on Hacker News.

I think everyone needs to start asking why this story is suddenly making the rounds among mainstream media outlets during an election year in the U.S.
Do you know anyone who made $500k for a year and then took 4 years off to work on their research? I'd like to see what they managed to do with their time.
I would love for the country to split into tiny pieces. A Union of American States similar to the EU would strengthen our democracy. Freedom of movement and economic cooperation within the union would allow the market of political ideas to compete for your residency.

Recent history has shown that 535 people are no longer capable of controlling a $25 trillion dollar economy. Our success has defeated us. Break it up peacefully before it is too late.
Yeah it seems they knew it was awful and just kind of dumped it out.
Why Are More Companies Trying 4-Day Workweeks?
While it does not hurt to make a website responsive, putting my mobile in landscape mode solved the issue for me. Though I dislike the blue on dark cyan text and lack of TLSv1.2+.
I would guess a great many employees here imagine themselves as top-1% "captains of their industry" employees who are also master salary negotiators, have LinkedIn recruiters reaching out to them daily, have top-notch benefits and working conditions, and are therefore not the types of people who could possibly benefit from a union.
Yes, when I wrote 'private power', I really meant 'personal power'. Some of the worst cronyism is in so-called communist countries.
Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS make me feel like I can deploy just about anything in a way that will scale for a very long time.

Usually I put python and flask on top of that. Though I always feel like I should be switching to Django or possibly Go.

I've also been experimenting with Nix lately. That feels like it's going to be a way to do even smoother and more predictable deploys using the same stack.
The pandemic probably affected the production grievously.
Yeah at one point during one of tiresome chase scenes that was packed with gun play and slow-motion action, I recall one of the actors said “I hate bullets!”

Totally believable to me that the filmmakers just “dialed-it-in” for a pile of money without caring for the story. After all they were already “done” after the first movie. Too bad. Tragically, that same pile of money could have funded a dozen innovative new filmmakers and actors with fresh stories to tell.
Why aren't more companies trying?
A one in a million adverse effect is not in any way serious, even if it sometimes leads to death.

This is deeply irrational and highly antisocial behavior. It it disgusting and awful. Bodily autonomy is not that important, either.
They're still overbuilt in certain aspects, as are iPhones. I think the comparison is "doing much more than what you would think the bare minimum is".
Are you new to the area?

Because there is no reason to get internet from any of the big boys if you're in downtown Chicago. All you need is fiber to the big brick building next to McCormick Place, and there is fiber under every El track, in the old freight tunnels, along the Metra tracks, and just plain old every street.

https://silverip.com

This is probably the best of the dozen choices you have. When I lived downtown, I got gigabit internet for $15 a month.

You've got to be kidding me if you think you want Comcast.
What is it about primates that make them expensive?
Current Status of HIV-1 Vaccines
What would you charge them with? They claim the costs for things like licensing and services are legitimate. How do you prove they aren't? What is the correct charge for a licence or service except for what two companies agree?
Something like 5 or 10 years would work well. If an airline can't make the route work, they could then sell what's left of their slot to someone else - including to a cargo airline like DHL, FedEx, or even Amazon Air.

Under the current system, legacy carriers got their slots for free or very cheap so they do wasteful things to keep their slots. They've been using smaller than optimal planes for years, and since the pandemic started the empty planes thing has gotten more common.
Dissolution Event is different than debt.

If you wind the company down, you would/should try to make your investors 'as whole as possible'.

Debt implies that at some later date YC could come asking for their $375k back. A SAFE is not debt.

If your company is running and does not end up raising more money that SAFE should just sit there waiting for the day that you do (which may never come).
>I care about the nature of reality and the fate of humanity

i don't think you'll find that in a film
Where I live (TX) I would say less than 30% of the population is wearing masks, and the governor has gone so far as to mandate that mask mandates are illegal (using emergency powers, which creates a bit of circular reasoning and are quite likely not a legitimate order, but... that's beside the point for my personal decisions).

I was one of the very small percentage actually wearing US made N95 masks, and assuring they were sealing. Probably 1/2 of the mask wearers are using surgical masks and various other pointless masks which leave massive gaps all around the mask, and are likely no more functional than simply coughing/sneezing into ones elbow. The other half recently seems to be using KN95's, which I used myself for a while before N95's became common. But, the vast majority of the amazon/etc KN95's are significantly thinner, and are very hard to seal. Maybe the actual KN95's for the Asian markets are better (definitely some of the early ones I sourced were closer to the N95s) but I'm pretty sure the majority of the ones I see people wearing are nowhere near N95 effectiveness even if people are taping the nose areas to assure they stay sealed, and I can't remember the last time I saw that.

So, for the most part "cover your cough" is probably all that is being achieved outside of less than 5% of the population that is assuring quality masks and sealing them properly.

I refuse the play the social signaling game, so it leaves the question. Am I going to legitimately continue to spend $ buying good masks, to potentially protect a small subset of the population when ~95% of people are doing basically nothing, or am I legitimately trying to protect myself.

In the end, I will probably continue to wear a mask if I'm around my neighbor in his 90's, but like the decision to eat in a full restaurant (which was said to be 100% vaccinated) in an area full of foreign tourists. I think my risk profile is going to be less about stopping spread now, and just living my life. The US government has a party that blocks all attempts at instituting scientific reasoning (and the other is barely better) so I will look towards personally preparing for the next pandemic or the next bad strain, but I'm not going to count on the government managing to do anything but make decisions that are late and ineffective. The ~30-40% of the population that refuses to get vaccinated, and a government that can't manage to control the spread of disease across the border have sealed our fate. I came to the conclusion 6 months ago that it was only a matter of time before I got it because the vaccines were going to be bypassed sooner or later. Sure enough, it took ~2 months from the detection of the new strain until I got it.
Hold on - you’re saying that by using paper straws, you damage the earth even more than plastic ones? Plus they don’t even work? Why is this not all over the news!?
Yeah MagSafe and wireless charging car mount is fantastic (especially because it frees my lightning port for my aux cord ). But I am yet to see another use case where wireless charging convenience is worth the downsides.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-07/u-s-fligh...
Conversely, there's this well-worn pseudo-parable:

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.

Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”

The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.” So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. “The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”

To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.” So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”

To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.” So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”

To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”
Since the 90s the concept of the corporate drone has only increased. Swap out Neo in a cubicle for Amazon warehouse worker, and you've got "the Matrix is keeping you on a tighter leash now".

I find it very odd that people swear the themes wouldn't work today.
Cargo, fine.

Keeping pilots current and keeping planes in service? At least down to 10% slot use, I'd be surprised if that's a real issue.
It's no Existenz ;-)
This would be a local flagship airline with no international flights then?
Agreed, the robots fighting each other aspect was interesting, I perked up at that. In retrospect, it's a sensible prediction of how artificial consciousnesses would behave given resource constraints. It's a question that's ignored in the single-hive-mind view from so many other dystopian techno-futures.
The piece isn’t about high gas costs. The conclusion:

> Those are just a few ideas from someone who’s new to the field, and people are working on all of them already. But my basic point here is not to forget transaction costs. Lots of transaction costs aren’t paid in dollars — they’re paid in seconds of effort, in the mental cost of attention-switching, and in the hassle and stress of keeping things in mind. Web3 should focus on stuff that allows people to pay fewer of those costs, rather than stuff that forces them to pay more.
There's no maturation date on a SAFE. This is all in the "User Guide" YC publishes for these instruments. The text of the SAFE refers to it as a "converting security". I'm sure there's an important distinction to be made here, but for the purposes of this discussion: if you never raise a round, the issuer just gets their money back (if money is to be had after senior claims).
Why are you bringing up modifying his code? I haven't seen any indication that anyone did that.

Changing the metadata around a npm-stored package is something that npm should have every right to do. Same for changing the metadata about a GitHub project. Neither the npm registry entry nor the GitHub project settings are the copyrighted code.