skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have the same reaction to other common virus/cold vectors?

Hospitals and healthcare workers are partly overworked at this point because there is under staffing, a huge number quit or were otherwise laid off and decided no to come back. It's not a lack of space. The other side are the number of people going to the hospital in a panic because they have a cough and think they're going to die out of panic.

The level of FUD spread over COVID is palpable and exceeds the danger, and largely has since the beginning. EVERYONE is going to get COVID at some point. That is the scientific consensus. Trying to reach COVID zero or force everyone to lock down in perpetuity is anti-science. This is largely why GB, one of the more oppressed nations in terms of response has now completely rolled back govt restrictions/mandates.

Omicron (latest variant) is so virulent that it's massively spread, but the symptoms are less than a typical flu year. I went through it a few weeks ago, so did my fiance. She's fully vaxxed and got it worse than I did. I'm not vaxed for medical reasons. I've had worse cases of the flu. I realize I'm an N of 1, but there are a LOT of people with similar results. These include a lot of vaccinated elderly.

As to the breaking point... the 2018 flu season had many facilities overwhelmed... it's actually really typical. Why, because hospitals don't have a ton of excess staff sitting around doing nothing all day. They are staffed to 50-65% of expected typical capacity, because emergencies are typically regional, and some will travel to help. When the problem is everywhere, there's no slack. There's literally not much that can be done about that.

If you want to hermetically seal off your home, you are welcome to do so... but to force everyone else to do so because you have unrealistic expectations on the risks of walking outside your front door is not alright.
Well, it would be a typical enterprise installation. Presumably on-prem or some hybrid.
Great clickbait title -- Jeff Bezos himself likely will not defy death. Nor will we, just given our timeline.

However, even if it's funded by Bezos bucks, I will gladly accept any funding into anti-aging tech. These billionaires are providing far more funding to peers' theses than government grants currently for aging science.
I know I was just misunderstanding, but for 60 seconds I was skimming through the comments trying to grasp the gist of what software for 'living buildings' was all about, I thought it was some ecological concept. Anyway, I earned a living making desktop software until 2016; since 2016 I make Revit desktop plugins.
Maybe with an implanted chip that kills you if you didn’t manage to acquire the necessary time currency to live another minute.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
Are you trying to say x
"cryptocurrency boom" or "altcoin boom"? Because Bitcoin (BTC) is almost useless for payments.
Bill Gates did alright :P
Remittances to Argentinian citizens have nothing to do with capital controls put in place to prevent capital flight and exchange rate arbitrage, which involves money leaving Argentina, the opposite of remittances.

If an American wants to send money to someone in Argentina they have plenty of options that are cheaper and safer than Crypto: Wise, PayPal, Xoom, even Western Union.

If an Argentinian wants to evade capital control laws in their own country crypto may be their best option. Just calling it corrupt, as a foreigner, does not make it legal or ethical.
I'm sure if Mandarin were the default language, English speakers would quickly learn to recognize the character for "English" and be able to find/click it on a webpage without too much hassle.

Language comprehension is unnecessary when all you need to do is recognize a character.
Have you already looked into Zoho Office? https://www.zoho.com/office/

It may also help to design a minimum spec to fit your needs, so you don't exclude anything that could work for you, in searching for broader platform-to-platform matches.
I'd be happy to focus on the meat of the post, but for completeness, the answer to your question is "The one you run yourselves."
That seems like a uniquely American perspective.
Any specific reason? Why did you think it wouldn't last?
Seems it wasn't disabled in 2009

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a3ca86aea5079041488...
I work for a company that sells a niche desktop app for mining companies, called Aegis.[1]

Even if the company is planning to implement something web related in the near future, the business is on the desktop and there are no plans on taking it entirely to the web anytime soon. Mining companies prefer it that way, as internet connectivity is not something you can reliably find on site.

[1] https://iring.ca
Remember like a year and half ago when some of the most powerful people on the planet had their Twitter accounts hacked in some bitcoin scam and then the story just sort of went away without any real discussion about how dangerous that could have been if the hackers had different motivations (EDIT: there was an implied "and how to prevent that in the future" here)?
My first two guesses are usually AUDIO and RENTS if it helps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does it make you feel better to make others feel worse?
The internet infrastructure in Columbus isn't on par with a lot of the larger cities, and I think you'd have a hard time finding the speeds you're looking for, judging by what I've found - seems like there's some limited AT&T fiber, but it's not widespread. My service is reliable, though, and I haven't found bandwidth to be a problem as a full-remote employee.

Utilities are solid and seem much less suspect to outages compared to Seattle, a city I have a lot of experience living in. It's as though having more extreme weather more often ensures that the infrastructure is up to a certain rigor.

Roads are important here, and are well-maintained and addressed (e.g. expect trucks to be salting roads in anticipation for snow storms). Roads are also incredibly well-laid out in an inner/outer belt system that I miss when driving in other cities.
Not expecting any, and the model is probably too complicated for
outsiders to make substantial changes. But anyone is welcome and if the request is good I see no reason why we would not try to incorporate it.
At that point how is it differentiated from the incumbent product?

If you are running a serious fab you already have AMAT equipment anyway and there's probably good reasons to get the industry standard AMAT MES software.

Realistically, this software will probably continue not to exist because there are not many target customers in this "mini-fab" segment, and they are uniformly poor. That's not a great outlook for sales. If your software is any good, you want to market to the same segment AMAT does and go for the multi-million $ licensing fees.
@daolf and team: Congrats on this significant milestone and thank you for being so candid about your growth journey.

I'm a bootstrapping founder, have a question about your amazing blog. Love the scrolling table of contents on the left and title/cta that appear on the top as you scroll. Do you mind sharing what cms/theme you use for your blog?

Unless I missed it completely, a suggestion I have for your blog is to have a search feature.

That said, genuinely inspired by your story and grateful for your transparency on how you made it happen. All the best!
Re: payments - it depends on the country, but generally Stripe + PayPal + bank wires for larger/enterprise purchases. Alternatively, Braintree.

An altogether different option is to pay 2x the commission and use "full-service" reseller frontends like Digital River, PayProGlobal, etc. These are referred to as "registrators" and they used to be useful, because getting a merchant account and processing cards was a royal pain the ass. But now there's Stripe, so virtually no value in them. In fact, they tend to make thing more difficult to the clients than needed to justify their own existence (like requiring phone numbers, calling customers back to "verify" purchases and other artificial b/s like that).

Re: piracy protection - wildly depends on whom you ask. There is a camp of people that put minimum effort (literally a a single "if" check in the code) and embrace having their stuff cracked and hacked. The logic is that this acts as extra marketing and helps converting pirates (lol). There are also people who use packaged solutions like VMprotect and (previously) Armadillo. This tends to nip piracy in a bud, but creates issues with antivirus false positives. It also makes the software heavier and more fragile. There's also a middle ground of custom protection schemes that, if deployed wisely, can create 100x more headaches to crackers vs the effort spent on coding them in. Not that hard to do, but these aren't drop-ins, obviously.

Also, closely related, is the question of how the licensing works. Previously, most of the shareware used completely offline licensing using "keys" that were either hardcoded into the program or verified algorithmically (read, with elaborate checksums and such). This caused an emergence of keygens and it also fed credit card fraud with people smash-n-grabbing keys in bulk and then published them for the street cred. Surprisingly, a lot of shareware still uses this method and they still bitch and moan about the consequences. The alternative, obviously, is to use online activation. That is, what is sold is an activation token that can be swapped for a machine-specific license, via an exchange with the licensing server. This nearly completely eliminates the CC fraud and it allows for finer control over licensing. There are some drop-in solutions for this, but all of them are really quite basic and almost universally suck. However, the good news is that is fairly simple to roll out your own online licensing scheme in a matter of few work-days (assuming you know a bit of web backend and frontend).
The null pointer need not map to address zero exactly to cater to this sort of corner cases.
This is a completely absurd claim.

I make international payments regularly using things like Wise (formerly transferwise), and it’s far simpler than any crypto solution, and accepted by everyone.

And yes, I own some crypto and could use it if anyone was willing to take it.

The only case where it is simpler is there there are capital control, and in that case it is being used illegally.
How MIT OpenCourseWare became an educational resource to millions workdwide
Some people do not believe in "rising tides", if you believe it's a zero-sum game you will want to keep people poor to keep yourself wealthy.
Yes I'm talking about the former, as I don't distinguish between "philosopher" and "political philosopher." There are 5 branches of philosophy and Objectivism deals with them all in a hierarchical manner (meaning each builds from the level below). Politics is the 4th branch and, therefore, one of the least fundamental. It's also treated a bit more nuanced in philosophy vs how people tend to treat it colloquially. In philosophy, politics is the subject of how individuals interact socially. Colloquially people tend to think of politics as pertaining to government and policy, but those are practical implementation details; consequences of much more fundamental considerations.

"and I think you can make the case that raising a child can be substituted in for "designing a building" like in the Fountainhead as a responsibility someone chooses,"

No, I don't think you can make that case at all. Unfortunately you proceeded to refute that case and, in doing so, were refuting a straw-man of your own construction. There's nothing really to comment on because all of your conclusions were drawn from a false premise that you established yourself.

Raising a child is nothing like designing a building. They are completely distinct endeavours with their own requirements, challenges, rewards, levels of commitment and so forth. An architect, such as Howard Roark in The Fountainhead, may metaphorically equate one of his creations as being "like my child" but it would only be a loose comparison made to illustrate the level of attachment and care that he directs to the pursuit of that value.

"This dynamic is pretty hard to navigate with purely objectivist principles imo"

What, in your opinion, are "the objectivist principles?"

You're starting with a lot of false premises so if you'd like to give me your nutshell overview of what you think objectivism is then maybe I can understand why you think Objectvsm is ill-suited to parents. Objectvism positions itself as a philosophy for human beings living on this earth. It exists to provide you with a world view and a framework for living and getting the most out of life. Having and raising children is definitely an important part of being a human being. Many, perhaps most, humans value family and having a family and so if Objectivism can not guide parents then it would be unfit for its own stated purpose. I happen to think otherwise, having raised two children through to adult-hood as an Objectivist, following my understanding of "objectivist principles" and teaching them objectivist values.

So please, tell me what you consider to be "objectivist principles" so I can help clarify because in my opinion you don't seem to understand what Objectivism is all that well. But you do seem want to have an honest discussion and so I'm happy to provide clarification if you seek it.
Yes, I could run games and I also wrote some simpler demos where I for example could move a player around the screen using the joystick. So, it was fully functional.
I've only read a little about Bukowski, but when his name comes up, I'll wonder how much he was innately a drunk asshole and how much he had to play one because it was his brand, and your public demands what's on-brand, and, oh, you know, your mask becomes your face and all that.
And you can knock out multiples of 3 by adding digits.
The Steepest Places: In the Cordillera Central
What's this new thing that the nytimes does of ending articles titles with a full stop?
Why single out Bank of America? Nearly every single (big) bank will refuse to cash a check for non-customers. The days of taking a signed check to a local branch for cashing have been over for decades. I'd love to find out why this changed, I suspect it's because they can go after their own customers if a check turns out to be fraudulent but not some guy walking off the street.
I think you mean neurodegenerative diseases, not neurovegetative?
The screen is very low-res and the GPU is weak. This is why I don't have one.

If you don't care about pixels (seems common in PC-land), this is probably a good thing re: power consumption.

I look at text all day, every day, and want it to be high res. It's been high res on my Macs for half a decade, and my XPS is even better. I'll get one of these once they fix the screen.
Your application looks really nice. What framework are you using for the UI?
Why bother with piracy "protection"? You're not going to keep ahead of dedicated pirates. Focus on features and bug fixes rather than going after non-customers.

Every iota of effort spent going after pirates is effort not going into servicing existing customers or getting new ones.
What about Laserdisk?

You seem to be only choosing technologies that were exceptionally successful. An odd bias.

Most of them aren’t.
I never really dared to dig into electronics like this. I had a nack for breaking things when I did.

As an example, I purchased a Pentium machine back in the day. I had a feeling it was running too hot (or maybe I was trying to over-clock, I don't recall). But I decided to build a simple PCI card. So simple, in fact, that it just had a 12v case fan on it. I wired up the +12v pin and the ground pin to the 12v +/- of the fan. Then I plugged the PCI board into the PC. It worked! Except, it was now the only thing in the PC that worked.

After removing it, the machine no longer worked. I returned it to the shop I purchased it from and they informed me that I must have had a surge. Everything was destroyed. The CPU, the RAM, the Video card, it was all gone.
Used Mellanox cards go for $50-80 on eBay

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mellanox-MCX311A-XCAT-CX311A-Connec...
An activist investor is someone who buys into a company with the intent of reforming or changing it.

Maybe you really hate twitter, so you buy into it for $200 million and then use your power on the board to vote down anything good for twitter and vote for anything that is harmful.

Activist investors often don't act in line with financial interest, instead focusing on "activism" even if it costs money.
I can see that happening with a CISO, though, in many scenarios. Like if they presented a stark picture of current state and said that work needed to happen that would put planned revenue generating work on hold. And weren't willing to back down on the opinion that it was that critical.

I imagine they wouldn't want to cite differences of opinion on security posture as the reason for departing.
I don't think this finding challenges any of those assumptions. I think the explanation was that the relativistic jet for smaller blackholes located at galaxy centers is moving slow enough that the compressive effects of the jet are not overcome by the speed. The compression therefore helps with star formation since the jet isn't moving fast enough to disrupt that process.
Noted. I'd delete my comment, but it doesn't seem possible now.
Japan’s Monkey Queen Faces Challenge to Her Reign: Mating Season
Having come from Debian, Ubuntu, and Manjaro I settled on what feels like the last distro I will use on my own systems: NixOS. It's not so much better, it's so much different.

Every(ish) single package, every single line of configuration(ish) is under version control in a(couple) nix files. I share (most) of it between my systems. With flakes (and it's lockfile) it's a 100%(ish) deterministic system.

Downside: The language is arcane to me and the tooling is dogshit. Not that I could've made it any better, but running my config repo through entre to rebuild on every write to get some promiscuous error nobody has had before sucks major D.

Therefore I still have an Ubuntu container (because every desktop application targets Ubuntu) running with X11 forwarding for the few packages that aren't in nixpkgs that I wanna run.

I also don't use home-manager, but chezmoi for my dotfiles. Since I want my home configuration to work on MacOS and other distros I might SSH.

Atomic upgrades and downgrades are such a great feature I don't know how people can live without it now that I've experienced it.

Note: The default configuration NixOS gives you is also shit, out of the box they don't ship a system like you'd want to consume it (nixos-generate-config). An anecdotal example is that Avahi isn't installed by default, which means chromecasting won't work until you figure out that you need Avahi, i18n config is shit too.

So it's not all green grass, but definitely worth it, since every Nix line you write is an investment into making your experience better "forever" (I don't see NixOS going away anytime soon, very healthy activity on the project).

Now after praising NixOS for awhile, let's praise the developers of all packages that are compiled into the lovely distros you all use. For me the KDE team can't get enough praise, the software is so damn good.
This reminds me of OpenRefine:

https://openrefine.org/
"First US lunar rovers in decades may explore the moon in 2022"

Fixed that title for them. It's like China doesn't exist.
Ok, so once you've won how do you start a new game?
Auto incidents happen in relatively constrained scenarios, and the resulting damage can strongly imply the actions that led up to the incident. Not so with humans beefing over mundane matters.

My first thought is to re-tool the concept of self-defense, but this would require the acknowledgement that verbal abuse constitutes violence, which I am not sure many are willing to accept, and could get out of hand when it comes to what exactly "disproportionate retaliation" means in context.
Yes and no. I'm an employee so it doesn't really matter, but my side-project desktop apps pay well enough that I could live off them if I go for a student lifestyle (no pricey events, no restaurants, cooking yourself, cleaning yourself).

It was a long way. I started in the Pro Audio niche and initially supported Windows, Linux, Mac. Over time, I learned the hard way that supporting Apple's constantly changing OS is very expensive, plus Mac users tend to act the most entitled when stuff doesn't look or feel like their native OS. And Linux just never sold a license, instead I got lots of Open Source bitching. So eventually, I dropped Linux and Mac support, doubled down on the new Windows APIs and then things got nicely profitable. Price is one-off $299 for the regular app kit with perpetual updates (so far). People use the apps for making movie sound effects.
Sounds more like they are anti turbine. Where does someone put a turbine when it's at the end of its life?
The problem is that we live in an interconnected graph (society), and while you have done your part by getting vaccinated, others haven’t. And the people evaluating the evidence (experts) make recommendations to keep things closed.

Why are you not upset at the other group members who are not carrying their part of the workload? Unless we can remove them from society, the decisions have to be made including their behaviors and risk factors.
I guess that's another Url shortener for Archive Team [1] to backup

[1]:https://wiki.archiveteam.org/
WASM was explicitly designed to be easy to into native code. No production-ready WASM runtime is interpreting bytecode in hot code paths.
By this logic, one can't be anti-CCP without being anti-chinese.
> And yes, I own some crypto and could use it if anyone was willing to take it.

And if you're sending money to Argentinians, they would beg you for it, as otherwise your recipient would just receive a fraction of the USD you send because of the difference between the official rate the government enforce, and the real rate.

Read about Blue Dollar in Argentina and you'll realize you're very mistaken in your idea that Wise is the solution there.
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This argument might have made some sense in 2010 or 2011, when crypto was a new thing. But it's been over 12 years. Dropbox, iPhone, e-commerce were all successful products/business models in far fewer than 12 years after introduction.

It's fine to express skepticism when a new technology gets immediately dismissed by people who may lack foresight. It's harder to sustain that when over a decade goes by and the "new thing" is still struggling to deliver on its promises.
Wow, I need to check that out, thanks!
I'm downloading now, this looks really nice.
It's probably going to be interpreted as cynical b/c it's HN but I do honestly believe that solving heart function will be lot easier than solving cognitive decline, and a win on cognitive decline is huge news (hopefully not paired with not pig hearts, but it's a reasonable proof of concept).
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by apps, ADHD hysterical naked,
swiping through the Internet streets at dawn looking for an anger fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for ancient heavenly upvotes from the starry dynamo in the machinery of night...
To be fair, for most types of pollution, moving it "elsewhere" solves your problem.
The problem isn't so much missing pixels, its that bright satellites raise the noise floor of the image significantly, the more satellites in shot, the worse it is.

Its the same reason telescopes can't just "filter out" stuff like city lights and human radio sources.
I suggest you also add The Wandering Earth by the same author to your list, which is a collection eleven of his short fiction stories. I'd even go as far as say it's better to read it first before the trilogy.
It's funny, but I'd like to have the complement of that! I'm never cold in my torso, it's always only the arms and hands.
Dhall [1] [2] looks promising to me.

[1] http://dhall-lang.org/

[2] https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang