skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doesnt this show that some country's dont plan ahead that much or different elements of Govt are too disconnected to work cohesively?

This can be a feature, not necessarily a bug.

There are plenty of examples of government central planning and cohesion going very wrong.
I have a great deal of sympathy for this argument, as one who sees speaking truth to power as one of the highest goods, and CBT (or the Buddhist concept of detachment) seems on its face a tool to pacify people - or better, to pacify themselves.

But in truth the emotional reactivity is itself a source of great suffering, and disables the person from taking real action anyway. In extreme cases, the reaction eclipses the original injustice entirely.

In the case of real indignity, what is better, to lose your shit and become angry, depressed, upset, for days or weeks, or to pause and recognize that its not about you, it's about them, and to consider what your options are for a response? Who is more powerful, the person who winces, and then stands up and speaks clearly and eloquently against the aggressor, or the person who crumbles?

CBT protects you from manipulation. Consider someone who's in emotional turmoil from something they've heard. Maybe they heard CRT is in their schools, or MS13 is moving into the house next door. Rather than encourage them to examine their emotions, and pause to examine the motive of the speaker, the speaker instead encourages the emotion further and offers "solutions" to these problems. It is a manipulation on a grand scale, and yields power. Or perhaps they've heard that racism is everywhere, all white are racists, all black people are victims, all men are violent. In this case the emotion is righteous indignation, greed, envy and an appeal to power, and is no less emotionally manipulative.
Antigen nose swabs are extremely unreliable, unfortunately. Barring public knowledge about this, the campaign could be ineffective at best or actively harm infection rate at worst.

Anecdotal: I was in my 3rd of 4th day of symptoms before I finally came up positive on antigen (at home and at testing sites; the test appeared to be the exact same). PCR showed it from day 0 but the results lag quite a bit especially right now in the US (it took 7-10 days for me to get the PCR back in early Jan).
What's the point?

If you have a fever and are coughing and sneezing - stay home!

If your fever is high or you are having trouble breathing - see a doctor.

If someone you spend a lot of time around is sick, wear a good mask and avoid people as much as possible for a few days to make sure you don't have it too.

Or, are we supposed to be testing asymptomatic people? If so, then we're going to need a lot more than four.
Do it...you can easily switch back to industry if you're not enjoying the phd. It'll be an opportunity to hang out with a whole set of new people.
What if you don't have symptoms, but know you were exposed to Covid? What if your symptoms are mild and you aren't even sure are caused by a communicable disease?

If I isolated every time I got the sniffles or was more tired than usual I'd be home a lot..
Convinced they're just going to do the Netflix/Stadia route with mobile etc. Sell a controller, use the device you already have and stream games running from azure.

Long term plan, obviously.
Yes what an absolute solid educational interactive, from presentation to code to writing and simplicity.

Additionally the code level, If you view the source you can see, nice clean, non-minified code that is clear and has no dependencies other than browser/render standards. The project simply has a base.js and a gps.js, base for common canvas tools and gps for the project/interactives.

Very nicely done and very refreshing to see and experience. We need to get back to this level, it was a simpler higher level with more innovation. Even HN's code is this way, partially why this site is great besides the contributors and curation.

Engineering/creative and good value creation is ultimately taking complexity and making it simple, this is right along those lines in every aspect.

Simple is beautiful and very difficult to achieve in a cluttered/distracting/dependency/minimal context overload world. This interactive nails it. Solid work Bartosz Ciechanowski!
I think it's as though you were the yellow figure standing in the landscape, and you were trying to position yourself on the map by going "Okay, the red landmark is quite close to me to the east, the blue landmark is a bit farther away to the north-west, and the green landmark is way over to the south-west. Now, where am I on the map?"
I'm using YouTube Premium and I also have the same repetitive recommendations. It also won't stop recommending me something on my homepage unless I click "do not show" or finally relent and click the video recommendation.
Is it? Seems like taking $1 from a million people would cost $.50+/person in administrative costs.
I think their point is "Appreciate what you have and get back to work!!"

Whether or not that is helpful is a different question!
Is it? This is an article stating that the blockchain (and by extension crypto) is a crappy technology by some random dude. It's not Biden who wrote it, it's some random dude.

So who exactly is limiting your freedom? If a random dude can limit your freedom with a mediocre Medium article, then I'm afraid you don't really have much freedom to start with.
USPS* is acting like a retailer and following patterns of distribution and logistics that have been in place for centuries. Not everything is about software..
Show HN: Podcash: easy financial support for new or not-yet-started podcasts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
I know it sounds dumb but I have always been super interested in Supply Chain and logistics networks and digital networks because of the fascinating graphs they produce and how complex and fascinating they are. I think your analogy is apt.
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> You do realise that we had right to repair in the 80's?

There was no such right in the 80s, any more than there is now.

In both times you could repair what you or repair people obtained the skill to do. There was no inherent, moral right, and no legal right, then or now.

Also in the 80's plenty of domestic appliances, cars, and tractors contained computers.

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/when-did-cars-get-comput...

https://www.haytalk.com/threads/what-year-did-the-computers-...
Anyone know if there's an easy way to get PCR tests in the US? I've got the at-home antigen kit, but if I actually think I have COVID, I want it registered somehow so the state counts me in their test numbers. And I want to actually know if I've had it and not get a false negative.
See this is irritating because of the people I know, the vast majority of electronically transferred dollars are from one family member or romantic partner to another. These people don't have the ability to adequately defend themselves from official letters saying they have to pay taxes on their mom supporting them through school or their boyfriend paying their insurance.
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Unlike web1 and web2, web3 is a grift. In contrast, this appears to be a genuinely innovative technology.
Informed delivery is just them leveraging the scanning and storing of the front and back of every piece of mail shipped in the US which they've been doing for over a decade and totally isn't creepy as hell...but yes. Singing up for this was amazingly easy. I think it took me under a minute to fill in and submit.

Instant page load and form submission processing.

No captcha checks.

No weird javascript address validators (half of them think my address is malformed).

No needlessly "cute" page design/graphics.

No problems with any of the slew of privacy and ad-blocking tools I have installed.

Filled in my address and email, clicked submit, done. Seconds later, I had an email from them confirming it.

This is proof that government can work just fine. Guarantee that if this had been a private contracted thing we would have ended up with some monstrosity of browser-choking javascript, needlessly cutesy page design, etc.

Can we please bring this sort of simplicity and efficiency to paying income tax / calculating withholdings and W4s? Or, FFS, everything the IRS does?

And how about a national ID system, please? We already have nearly 1% of the US population in such a system: the DoD's Common Access Card. Lessons learned from that could easily be applied to a national digital/physical ID card. The crap I (and especially my parents) had to go through to prove to my DMV that we were honest-to-god citizen and could have a RealID drivers license...which isn't actually useful for anything except getting on a plane or into a federal building...was insane. And embarrassing, for a "first world" nation in this day and age.
The military doesn't just need chips for cruise missiles and radars. There has actually been a big push the last 20 years to move a lot of systems to COTS architectures. An Arleigh Burke destroyer uses Xeon powered blade servers to run its Aegis combat system not some weird proprietary chip from the 80s.

The level of computerization and networking is going up in the military so the needs will only increase. Intel's CONUS fabs are a national security concern.
A patch applied to a singular work for the purposes of modifying it, I think the law could easily decide that the patch itself is a derivative work of the original. A derivative work does not have to contain anything of the original -- it just has to be made from it in some way.

However, something that it's own generic work or not copyrightable (like a block list) would then not be considered a derivative work.
> Not sure if USDS (U.S. Digital Services) team worked specifically on the covidtests.gov rollout

They did[1]:

> The United States Digital Service, which grew out of the effort to rescue healthcare.gov, is also assisting with the launch. "We have the best tech teams across our administration working hard to make this a success, and we think we're well positioned to do that,"

[1]: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/white-house-covid-test-we...
Apple's "solution" is not end-to-end encryption. They place their software agent in the communication path (as a man-in-the-middle) to report back on the content of the messages, circumventing the encryption. It's not enough to encrypt only part of the path; E2EE means only the sender and intended recipient(s) have access to the messages. Apple is neither, and yet they give themselves access to the messages; ergo their system is not encrypted from end to end.
The way I see it, an ad-blocker is like a bottle of white-out. Say you buy a book and take it home, inside the book you find ads on various pages so you take your bottle of white-out and mark them out. You haven't caused any copyright infringement because you're not redistributing your book that has the white-out on it.
I will probably make use of this, even if I do have a stockpile of tests. Why a stockpile?

My mother, whom I take care of and live with, has COPD. Despite being vaxxed and boosted, I worry about her contracting it. It would be incredibly easy for me to pass Omicron to her even if I was avoiding being in the same room with her, so I have developed a plan.

Essentially, I have a "bug out bag" in a storage unit, along with entertainment and other ways to keep me occupied. Should I come down with COVID, I am going to go to a motel (not a hotel, a motel, which circulates the air to the outside) and simply hide there, not letting the maids change anything, until the fever breaks. Five days after the fever is gone, I start using tests until I am "clear" on several consecutive tests (swabbed throat and nose). I found a grocery store which delivers food to be left outside of the door, I plan on asking them about motel deliveries (unusual I know).

At checkout time, I hose everything down with Lysol and pay for an extra day in the room, tell them not to let the maids in.

Anyway, I figure this prevents me from exposing people. I cannot figure out anything better that isn't "living in the National parks, catching rabbits and shivering in the cold" hermitage. Anyway, this is going to take a stack of tests to go through. I don't feel great about it, like I am hoarding, but I don't know what else can be done.
Are those tests hard to come by in the US? They sell those tests everywhere here where I am in Scandinavia in supermarkets and on gas stations. They are something like $5.
From my anecdotal experience these tests are no better than guessing. Plenty of people around me got sick and thought they have cold. Testing every day always negative. One person got considerably worse and had to go to hospital, rapid test still negative at hospital. The PCR however came positive. Now, because the hospital gets paid extra for treatment of Covid patients, we still don't know if that person really had Covid and hospital just faked the result to collect money. Apart from that one person, everyone got better after a couple of days. The unlucky person needed few more days but is fine as well now.
Hospital discharged him and said to come back if he gets considerably worse and was told to take acetaminophen.
Total joke.
Coming from a decidedly unsexy post-industrial Midwestern city, I was very surprised to learn that for all the wealth and splendor of California, most of the buildings here seem horribly impoverished.
A blockchain is one linear branch. Git is just a tree of them, but they're all blockchains.

The only other extremely important thing to understand about Git is that it has a way to name commits symbolically (branches and tags), and that those names can be changed, and that leads to understanding what a fast-forward and non-fast-forward change to a branch really is.
I don't think that a dealership in California will allow you to leave the lot without an insurance. You can't test drive it without a driving license too.
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Agreed, lead by example to save the children. Right?
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Given that the cdc reported 1.4 million cases in a day last week, and that only includes people who got tested, it's probably more like 3 million. That's 1% of the population getting infected per day. So yeah this checks out.
That's one way to put it! I'm not finding any comprehensive sources, but here's an example:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x8...

> Arm's market share in PC chips was about eight per cent during Q3 this year, climbing steadily from seven per cent in Q2, and up from only two per cent in Q3 2020, before Arm-compatible M1 Macs went on sale.

ARM is very much on the rise, but also still in the single digits, leaving plenty for x86.

https://futurecio.tech/intel-losing-share-to-amd-and-arm/

> 5% of the servers shipped in the third quarter of 2021 had an Arm CPU
This sounded far too intriguing to not google a bit. I'm guessing you're talking about this?

> J.R.R. Tolkien first tangled with copyright law in the mid-1960s when ACE Books discovered that the copyrights for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit had not been properly secured in the United States by his American publisher. ACE Books opportunistically published unauthorized paperback editions of those books in the United States. Until that time Tolkien’s books had only been available in hardback. Tolkien and his publishers reacted quickly by publishing their own authorized paperback editions, but in order to secure copyright in the United States again Tolkien was forced to revise both stories (thus confusing the issue of what is canonical in Middle-earth for his readers).

> There remained a question over the status of the ACE Books edition until several years ago, when a long-running complaint by the Tolkien Estate was finally settled with payment to the author’s heirs. Until that time some people in the entertainment and publishing industry argued that there was still a copyright “hole” pertaining to Tolkien’s works in the United States.

Source: https://middle-earth.xenite.org/why-are-some-people-sued-ove...
this sounds like an incentive to come into work while sick
I don't know. If they were so bent out of shape that Valve takes a cut of every sale, they could have stopped at any point before now. If anything would force people to use Microsoft's storefront it would have been a new well-reviewed Halo game, but nope, there it is for sale on Steam. And that makes sense to me -- withdrawing from the predominant PC storefront would be a gamble that might not pay off, as anyone who doesn't wish to buy direct from Microsoft is a loss of $60*0.7 = $42 that they could've won buy selling on Steam.

Maybe the calculus changes as they eat up publishers and grow their catalog, but traditionally Microsoft's storefronts haven't done particularly well.
It seems true to me that the easiest way to maintain a device is to build it well in the first place. This is quite challenging if your primary concern is cost. Most people who have ever purchased a Sony Vaio laptop can probably attest that they got great specs at a reasonable price, but every Sony Vaio laptop that I have purchased ended up with parts (the charger port, the power button, etc) falling off or minor components failing.

You probably noticed that in Paraguay at least, the problem you describe has some cultural roots. Disadvantaged communities have at times received free stuff that they either rejected, failed to care for, or altogether destroyed. It may be due to a sense of resentment for having received the gift, or perhaps they lacked sufficient buy-in to understand the market value of the free items. Sometimes, the free stuff does not actually fit the needs of the recipient. And usually, there is a sense of contempt from Paraguayan society at large no matter how the recipients respond (a la "look at these ungrateful paupers who don't dance for joy as we spend resources on them").

Furthermore, in Paraguay a gift given without strings attached is often doubted anyway, because it may be viewed as a means to manipulate the recipient by making them feel indebted. The smooth way to give someone a thing of value in Paraguay is to make them believe that they have somehow earned it due to preexisting factors, or alternatively to state an innocuous and clear expectation for how the gesture will be reciprocated in the future.

Anywhere you go, the recipient of a gift values the gift based on his or her own understanding and needs.

Look up the construction of houses in Itaguá for residents of the Chacarita for one example.

https://www.cronica.com.py/2015/07/23/cartes-les-regalo-una-...

I can't find the text right now, but I recall reading about houses built for indigenous folks in the Chaco. When representatives of the organization that had built the structures returned the following year, they saw that the recipients had dismantled the wooden doors and burnt them for warmth during the winter.

There's also the factor of theft, and sometimes the stolen items are surprising. The school in Cateura where the famous Recycled Orchestra came to be is one such case. At a certain point in time, they had been gifted many instruments (think Yamaha and Vincent Bach) but someone had broken in at night to uninstall and steal the school's only toilet.

There does exist some parts and repair infrastructure in many Latin American countries, as well as a secondary market for devices. There are challenges in finding parts that are neither counterfeit nor stolen, and in my experience the most capable technicians (in terms of tools and knowledge) tend to be located nearer to affluent communities. Traditional devices have a better chance of tapping into that extant marketplace than do purpose-built devices designed intentionally for the economically disadvantaged.
Stop giving these hacks money, it's fucking easy. I love Diablo 2, but the current Actiblizzard can go bankrupt before I enable their shitty practices and my purchase figures on some MBA's slide as a positive signal that customers are happy, let's keep doing what we're doing. Yes, that's what your $50 you've written off are doing.

It's not rocket science, especially in the current golden age of gaming, where there's plenty of excellent choice on indie, AA and some AAA publishers portfolio.

Yet people keep complaining and then lining up to buy the latest Battlefield and CoD and shitty remaster.
It seems to be an intentional soft launch
Art student politicians that don’t understand tech, plus Hanlon’s razor, and MI5, MI6 and the Met whispering in the cabinet’s ears and we get this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
A real monopoly in video gaming isn't nearly as valuable as it first seems.

Firstly, "video gaming" is really competing against things like reading a book, walking your dog, board games, etc., so it's not like Microsoft can just start jacking up prices and people will have nowhere to go with their time.

Secondly, creating and releasing new games has never been easier. So many small indie game companies are creating great games to compete with blockbusters like CoD and LoL, the ecosystem for game development is plenty healthy, with or without Activision belonging to Microsoft.

Thirdly, they haven't done what you're saying with the games they have released; you can play Minecraft on the Switch [0]. Maybe wait for Microsoft to actually do the thing you're worried about before criticizing them for it! They have had opportunities to be exclusive and they haven't taken them, so it's not so simple as to just assume they will no matter what.

I'm not worried about the industry, but I am cautiously optimistic about what Microsoft will be able to do with some IP that I've loved for most of my life.

[0] - https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/minecraft-switch/
Not sure you understand the point of big.LITTLE. It's about dealing with power and thermal constraints in the quest for more performance [1]. So was the transition to multicore processors, BTW [2]. These are the things hardware companies do when they have no other option. And as [2] points out, we software folks still don't have a good way to deal with it.

[1] https://armkeil.blob.core.windows.net/developer/Files/pdf/wh...

[2] https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-...

Alder Lake is about dealing with power and thermal constraints. Intel has finally pushed performance so far that they need to do this. The chips are benchmarking so well because of this move, not in spite of it.
It doesn't matter how big the penalties are, if your chance of getting caught is approximately zero. They keep jacking up the penalties for using a mobile phone behind the wheel, but everyone is still doing it. Big penalties without enforcement is just political theatre.
I am not aware of any ownership relations, overlap of board members or them interacting in a comparative manner. I am not aware that any in of the two companies the name giving family plays a significant role in day to day operations.
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It looks like they are including Puerto Rico (no federal income taxes)?
A month ago you could pick up as many as you wanted at almost any drug store, but now they're sold out everywhere, and disappear off the shelves as fast as they appear. It's the new toilet paper...
nice but could've put a bit more effort into this https://vpnlab.net/images/VPNLab.png
my school district has been short 2-300 teachers ALL YEAR. my kid didn't have a math teacher for the first few months, then got one, who proceeded to quit a few weeks later. now math class is watching YouTube videos about math. or it would be, but the district just went remote...
Is the term "calling out sick" regional or something? I've always said "calling in sick".