skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is too longwinded (and a Twitter thread ugh). I'll repeat an analogy I read somewhere else.

Everything in the universe moves at constant speed through (four-dimensional) spacetime. To simplify the analogy we'll just consider two dimensions: space (x-axis) and time (y-axis) with your spacetime vector being of constant length. At rest your spacetime vector is (0,1). You speed up to 10% of light speed and your spacetime vector is approximately (0.1, 9.99) so you're moving slightly slower through time.

What I like about this analogy is it constrains your space vector to the speed of light. Warp Bubble Andys like to pump negative values for energy and mass into equations to rationalize something they want to be true: that faster-than-light travel is possible. To me, this is just a fundamental lack of understanding about the domain of a function. Velocity is no different. I firmly believe it's bounded by [0,c). Values outside of that range just don't make sense are as such undefined. Garbage in, garbage out.
Are the front load Speed Queens also best in class? I can see a front loader in our future; they do use less water. The old-school Maytag, especially with the wife's insistence on an extra rinse, uses a lot.
https://archive.is/ga9hf
Do you have an alternative proposal to implementing income taxes then? Other than having the government have a record of every single transaction for everyone and automatically sending everyone with less than $x of incoming transactions a letter stating they do not owe income tax, I do not see a fair way of making sure people pay their taxes without having reporting and filing requirements.

The alternative is that the person that goes and gets a W-2 job for $600 has a mechanism which forces them to pay taxes, but the person that does odd jobs and gets paid here and there via an app has no mechanism to force them to pay taxes. How is that fair?
Intel has also been feeling the pain of vertical integration. Like with most things, double edged sword.

They fabricated their chips - not sure if they still do. Initially this was great, they owned the equipment and got things 'at cost'. However, they had trouble refining their tooling to get < 14nm for several generations.

This made them less competitive for a while, while having a pile of expenses a more lean design house wouldn't have. They'll surely be fine, but it's not the same sprint they've had for quite a while.
The 2.0 version of healthcare.gov is actually pretty good.

My bet is that it's probably using the same infrastructure and is built by the US Digital Service (https://www.usds.gov/) and/or 18F (https://18f.gsa.gov/)
I have a maytag washer/dryer that is a little over 2 years old. The frustrating part is they have "10 year warranty" stickers all over them. They dryer failed 3 times (different part each time) and I learned that the 10 year warranty ONLY covers the motor and the drum (big metal tube). Those are the 2 parts that never break. On the upside the machine is so incredibly simple I've been able to disassemble the entire thing and fix whatever is broken on my own, so keeping it up and running requires some handiness and some spare parts.
The author/s of Dev Utils have actually got a comparison! https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/
It's crazy these threshold dollar amounts seem to never increase.

$600 reporting requirement has been $600 forever it seems. It used to be my annual lawncare expense was less than $600/year. Now I pay roughly 2x-3x and it's over $600 so I am shouldered with this burden due to inflation/COL/time and a fixed IRS dollar amount.

Just like how cash transactions >$10,000 need to be filed with IRS. That was set in the '80s I believe, when $10,000 in cash was much more substantial. It's not increased with time so the reporting burden just becomes more burdensome. Pretty soon a trip to the ATM will trigger an IRS report.
I'm not really sure what welding has to do with any of this.

A cast iron pan at Wal-Mart is roughly the same price as a non-stick skillet and will outlast it by decades. Even if you don't want the Wal-Mart brand, you can buy Lodge, which is respected enough even by cast iron fanatics, and is cheaper even than mid range non stick or aluminum/steel skillets.
I daily drive it.

>Slow

But it's fast enough. Since you can use overlapping WMs you're not stuck staring at loading screens and can use other apps while you're waiting with no time spent switching. Android is heavy. It's way worse than people realize.

>Short battery life

You can fix this by adding an extra run level that uses RTCWake to sleep the phone when it's "locked" without missing notifications. I think a number of distros have added this.

Also you can swap out batteries unlike nearly every other phone. They even sell a charger. I have three that I cycle through.

>Buggy

IME it's better than Android now.
EDIT: Well, let me clarify this. You will have to tolerate some bugs, the EG-25 modem firmware is particularly bad. I use VOIP for MMS and voice because I don't trust the modem to behave. Everything else (the stuff the community actually controls) is better than Android though in my opinion.
Better to increase a little every year then to shock people with a big increase after a while. Also you can do it nicely, "hey, I'm raising my prices but since you are a good customer I'll give you the old price for the next six months", then invoice the new price but with a discount, that way the price increase might even build loyalty.
I recall using https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html for this feature, it did what it claimed to be able to do. It's a hack, but it really helps in the worst case scenarios.
IMO ramifications of AI fighters pilots would be more clear if writings focused on superhuman abilities to evade, which obliviates much of modern warfare underpinnings.

Superior mental performance + kinematic performance in purpose built drones that operate at highers Gs = shifting force balance towards offense since when measures becomes obsolete / unworkable. Anti air weapons work well when autonomous missile can arbitrage the performance limitations of meatbags. But without meatbags, the sweet spot performance envelope are a step up - fighter sized vehicles that can carry more sensors, more compute, larger engines and more fuel than smaller vehicles like missiles. It's dodging in bullettime made real.

Carriers can rationalize their existence currently because entire carrier group + air wings has enough countermeasures to defend against saturation attack from (for optimistic demonstration) 100 incoming fighters and their missiles. This limits threat to other large states. But if AI can evade most of the counter measures that you only need 10 drones to penetrate a carrier group bubble, and considering these are unmanned that can be sold to almost any country without need to sustain complex airforce institutions, then the entire notion of modern naval power from a few capable projection platform dies. Global security balance is going to be decided even more by local superiority when significant force projection from around the world becomes untenable.
It's telling that 20 years after 9/11 we're still taking our shoes off at airports yet we still don't have federally mandated sick leave despite being two years into a pandemic that has been more fatal than 9/11 by several orders of magnitude.
Modern computing is “post hardware”. That doesn't mean the hardware doesn't matter, or that changes to the hardware don't make a difference; it means describing the hardware is insufficient to describe computers, whereas describing the software is mostly sufficient.
Is apple part of society? How much have they paid in US taxes?
If they knew and did nothing that's bad but somehow I don't believe these people didn't care or didn't try to tell these people to behave.

In a company with thousand's of employees how can you expect a few people to be responsible for everybody, that's just absurd.

You come to a point where you've said and done all you can and nobody is listing. At that point you will make yourself very unhappy staying. This is why I think these people, who are genuine geeks, ultimate just left Blizzard and hoped the people they left in charge could bring it into the next generation.

Company is doing well but the brand has take quite the blow.
It does affect precision, but it also isn't needed that much in an area you travel over.
FWIW, I don't doubt you and don't necessarily feel the need to be convinced here. The GP however posited exactly these things though - so your response is probably better suited for their comment.
AOL/TimeWarner was a failure because because it valued AOL at $200B and TimeWarner at $164B. AOL was just way over-valued. It wasn't really an integration failure so much as paying too much for something. If Time Warner had bought AOL for $2B, it would have been fine. The problem is that they merged valuing AOL at 100x that when it wasn't worth it and later sold for $4.4B to Verizon.

Likewise, Yahoo/Verizon bought a lot of properties at inflated values. Tumblr wasn't worth $1.1B, but Yahoo wanted to buy one of the hot up-and-coming properties to feel relevant.

I think the big issue is the price one is paying and whether one has a plan for the purchase or if the purchase is more "but if I don't make a big move, what am I doing? I can't go wrong following trends, right?"

For example, AOL/TimeWarner was a situation of over-paying because TimeWarner was afraid that the internet was going to eat the world and they needed to stay relevant. AOL was so hot and it's easy to get swept up in the moment thinking "I need to get on board now or I'll miss it!" Likewise, Yahoo feared becoming irrelevant as Google took over the internet and thought buying Tumblr would make them the hip forward company once again.

Activision Blizard seems like a reasonable add-on for Microsoft. $69B isn't that much money for it given it would represent a P/E ratio of around 26. Apple's P/E is 30, Amazon 62, Microsoft 34, Google 26. So they aren't paying an absurd amount given Activision's profits. Even if they did no integration or strategy, Activision could simply continue doing its thing and contribute favorably to Microsoft's bottom line.

With a tiny bit of strategy, it seems clear Microsoft could get even more value out of the company. Maybe a few Xbox exclusive titles to push their console business. Maybe some stuff for their game streaming service.

If Disney has shown us something over the past few years, it's that owning IP that people like allows you to keep spinning new versions of that IP. Activision has lots of that kind of IP in the gaming space so Microsoft should be able to use that to its advantage.

I think there's a big difference between buying Activision at a price whose P/E ratio is better than your own and where there are clear strategies that could offer you even more value compared with the "omg, I'm getting left behind! I'll pay anything you want" panic purchases/mergers of other companies.
Antibodies are not long term, ever. They always degrade in the blood system.

...but that's also not the only type of immune response that a vaccine generates.

Vaccines cause the creation of b-cells, which retain the memory of this virus antigen and will re-create antibodies if the virus infects the host.

b-cell immunity is persistent - for years, and probably decades. But because it is very hard to measure (it resides in your bone marrow), it is therefor not often reported on.

Having said that, it is hard to imagine that a 4th booster significantly increases the number of anti-covid b-cells - let alone ones that can impart immunity against the newer variants.
A MacArthur Fellowship would be a good award for him.
Wasn’t My Cloud also hacked rather severely?
I'm sure they liked a large headline figure. They should have disclosed that the figures were global at the very least.
Given the insider hiring of Michael Cohen by AT&T I'd say there were other factors at play in that one
This example actually popped up in my Patent class. This is what I remembered.

You are allowed to create a copy (and thus also in printed form) of copyrighted material, _only_ for private and personal use. i.e you _must_ recreate it yourself.

As for selling a modified version, if it isn't modified enough than you still infringe copyright of the original author. With "enough" being something that needs to be defended in court if challenged.
Alright, but if you can use that ethos to argue that e-mail, Bittorrent and IRC are the future I'm going to look at you funny.
I try not to even have a "tone" when I saw that. Completely neutral. No implications.
Obligatory cartoon:

https://i.redd.it/ifb8agngc7dy.jpg

Anyone willing to make a UK version?
Sorry, I maybe muddied the waters by adding families... I meant the phrasing of "calling out sick" rather than "getting sick" – the latter is more accurate and the former has a minor implication that it's the fault of the worker. Getting sick happens to people, calling out sick is something people do.

There seems to be an undercurrent of bias that faults workers in a lot of reporting. Maybe it's confirmation bias on my part, but it doesn't make a lot of sense.
we copy all our pics locally to a NAS, and clone to a drive which we drop off at my parents twice a year; when we do the dropoff, we give them the latest backup drive and we take back their (less recent) drive.

so, requires a home nas, and two backup drives, and an offsite person,
I call this "the structure of impunity". The rich simply cannot accept to get poorer.
I'm not upset, I just think that particular argument doesn't support keeping the status quo. And because of that, I don't find it very convincing as an argument against making a change.

And I would prefer not to get into the details of who gets taxed or how to optimally structure a tax today.
Flight Data API
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0.0001% of the US workforce is 156 people. United Airlines alone had 3000 out with COVID simultaneously. That's not just some random worker lamenting; it was stated in an official memo by their CEO, linked to in the story.
This article is everything that's wrong with SQL.

How about just providing us access to the query plan and allowing users to directly modify it? It's like needing assembly language to optimize a really tight section of code but having that access blocked off.

Why do we have to rely on leakage to a higher level interface in order to manipulate the lower level details? Just give us manual access when we need it.
Well, given that the possible range to a cell tower is about 35 km / 20 mi (max, an absolute limitation of how the GSM/timing is done), it's very plausible that even if cell broadcast antennas are generally pointed down + flat with the horizon, you're gonna get some signal from some antenna in the distance.
the good old welfare queen argument?
Man, I was so bummed I didn't have to make an account and everything /s

I mean, for what it's worth, this gets high marks from me for ease of use and seems to be consistent with just about every advice you see surface here about getting your users through an ordering funnel. Of course the fact that the cost is 0 here makes it a simpler problem for them, but given that it is a gov't project I could have envisioned a lot, lot worse.
>Firefox takes 40 seconds to load

You might try experimenting with different configurations. With a lightweight X11 WM on PMOS Firefox takes ~10 seconds to load cold for me (and it's closer to 4 if I've just killed it.)
Bell Labs' Plan 9 research project looks to tomorrow (1990)
I think peak performance, even if it gets thermo-throttled quickly, is important. Web site JS parsing during loading is like that, and that's an essential function of my computer these days. And perhaps for bursty sections of AAA games as well.

But yes, it depends on the user.
This is on top of the 8 Home Rapid Antigen Tests per person per month that private insurance plans are now required to cover. (Check with your insurance provider for details as the roll out has been a bit chaotic) (Also not going into the issues of obtainability, fairness of paying out of pocket and waiting for reimbursement, Medicare and Medicaid not being included, etc.)
That's nonsense. So pedestrian fatalities go down because everyone is trapped inside. Does that count as lives saved?

If so then put a sentry in everyone's home and keep them there forever. Think of the lives saved!
About half of my friend circle has had it in the last two weeks (and no, not because we're passing it to each other). There had been one case of Covid in the whole group the entire rest of the pandemic.
Even if blockbusters like CoD aren't Microsoft (PC+Xbox) exclusive, the power of "play it first on GamePass" or "Plays best on Series X" is extremely compelling.

Streamers, influencers, and competitive players whose livelihoods are based on some of these games will almost be forced into playing on the platform that gives them an advantage, whether that's an extra couple weeks of access or slight optimizations.
Universities are kind of weird in the way USPS treats them. They won't sort the mail to dormitories by address like they would for an apartment building; instead they make the university do it. So part of the issue may be that the system is not coded to track each dorm room as an individual delivery point so they can't give each person an individual order limit even if they marked the addresses as residential.
I think "people who stay on it as a lifestyle" (how many is that, really?) are far less of a concern than the people who are stuck on it because even working 2-3 jobs isn't enough to climb out of poverty. Kroger and Walmart employees rely heavily on the social safety net, for example, and some of them are even homeless despite working (https://www.businessinsider.com/1-in-7-kroger-workers-homele...)
Also, interesting that the majority of them are duplicates.
You have to pay a fee to get on to the acceptable ads list, right?
>I am starting to wonder at the efficacy of the tests and is it that they just can't catch Omnicron as well? Are my kids really just sick with some other random thing despite dozens of people in our social circle getting COVID?

Ever since the vaccines came out and were implemented in full force, I am wondering what the purpose of testing even is. At least in the US, even the most restrictive locales have no intention of shutting down commerce to limit transmission. I do not know anyone who is not treating this coronavirus like any other, or the flu, or a rhino, or whatever other sicknesses normally go around.

My kids' daycare (or local government, not sure which is responsible) has a crazy policy of shutting down a class for 2 weeks if a covid case is detected. But not if any of the kids are sick with RSV/flu/rhino/noro/rota, etc. The daycare has not had any reports of covid for months. I am pretty sure all the parents are simply choosing to not get their kids tested because who can afford to drop their obligations for 2 weeks and also force all the other parents in class to do the same. Every single kid walking through those doors has a snotty nose, and surely at least 1 has had covid 19 over the past few months.
Exact same problem here. Takeouts just does not work for me.
Health officials in other countries have found it is much easier to detect omicron in the throat, and not the nose, with these antigen tests. This started with a big wave of people who were PCR positive but nose antigen negative. When swabbing the antigen in the throat, the false negative percentage dropped

Swab throat too during rapid COVID test, Israel's Health Ministry says

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Yes, that's what I think happens. The more sheltered we are, the more divorced from reality our thinking can be.
> A government-supported private telecommunications cartel

What's the point? Why not simply have a fair market with competition?

> Also, in Nova Scotia, a government-supported private electricity monopoly.

I think Quebec has the same no? That's actually one instance where I was told the government was doing a good job. My colleague told me he pays something like 0.05$ per Kw/h. That's insanely cheap. I assume Nova Scotia does the same.
> nothing of the extreme sort you could easily stumble upon

From your post, I divine that you don't really like porn much. I actually seek it out; but I've never "stumbled upon" anything more extreme than a model who looks as if she's 17. You don't find kiddieporn by stumbling around pornhub.
Not sure if USDS (U.S. Digital Services) team worked specifically on the covidtests.gov rollout, but USDS was largely borne out of the dev effort that rescued Healthcare.gov:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/07/the-s...

> The spectacular failure of Healthcare.gov at launch led to the creation of what came to be known as the Tech Surge, a group of Silicon Valley developers who rescued the website from disorganized contractors and bureaucratic mismanagement. That group gave rise to the U.S. Digital Service and, to a lesser extent, 18F, two government agencies now working to improve the state of federal technology
GE Honeywell was a huge one.

https://www.rferl.org/a/1096891.html
-- deleted -- wrote without sufficiently thinking. Something is certainly better than nothing, though I think this will come up short for a lot of families since it's limited to one residential address.
Lose-lose situation. If Microsoft talked shit about ATVI in the months leading up to the acquisition, people would accuse them of doing it in bad faith to hurt the share price and make the acquisition cheaper.
Animals also get covid - so there's little hope of preventing future variants at all.

The majority of covid infections on Earth are not in humans at all.
Plenty of love for UML :)

That's a good point that I omitted it. I was more thinking about things as the individual diagrams/views into the system (e.g. class diagrams, structure diagrams, sequence diagrams), and to me, UML seems more of a general superset collection of those individual views (and, importantly, agreement on what they are). While it contains many of the visualizations I mention, the visualizations themselves are more interesting to me than the general modeling language.

My list is definitely incomplete!
There is no need to trick query optimizer, just common sense and understanding of rdbms engine.

The query seems pretty standard and often occuring problem with nested queries. Every JOIN and nested query grows computation due to cartesian combination, so having your predicates as narrow and specific as possible is a must.

Also Nested Loop is a kiss of death for your query performance
Linux Apps don't benefit much from the fancy GPUs unless you're running eg wayland. If you're mostly using Xterm, muPDF, Firefox etc. the GPU on the original is plenty fast.
It's about literally looking at it (in 3D) and guessing the exact position on the 2D map, which is easier closer to the landmarks.

At least that's my interpretation.
No Where To Hide for people under police protection, eccentric people people with unconventional opinions, women or children.
Past discussions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20767183

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254
"in droves" isn't exactly a neutral expression, either. Says something about how they see workers.
Why not? Does the system think the dorms aren't residential addresses?
I wonder if I could configure a shortcut such as Win-D (dictation) to start recording, and to poll the Win key to stop recording when it is released.
I think you can generally reasonably be sure that you dont have it if you test negative on a rapid test, especially if you take multiple. The accuracy of the better ones (which is what we're getting in the US) looks to be about 80% for people who do have the virus. To me, you can trust that to say you dont have covid, especially if youre vaccinated.