skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a zero sum game. That would be ignoring a host of reasons why some people do have fast Internet access, and others don't have any at all.

Finding an Internet connection on the market in the U.S. isn't equitable at all. Market consolidation and disparate regulations across the country are creating artificial scarcity which has little to do with the geography. That's just the U.S.

Then there's outside of the U.S. which is a wholly different ballgame. This is a U.S. enterprise providing access to the Internet to millions in other sovereign countries. Which doesn't sit well strategically with local stakeholders. India already has already refused giving a commercial license to Starlink.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/1/5/elon-musks-starli...

When we're talking "rural" areas outside of the Western countries, we're discussing areas which just don't have same level of development or wealth. Starlink costs 499 USD for equipment + 99 USD per month for a subscription. The average monthly salary in India was about 430 USD; add to that the urban-rural wage gap and you'll quickly conclude that Internet access via satellite is prohibitively expensive in India for millions.

And that's discounting the fact that hundreds of millions of people in these rural areas don't have proper access to the electricity grid to begin with.

It's not just India, is many other regions in the world where - unlike the U.S. or Europe - the economics, the lack of infrastructure or the politics just aren't favorable to ventures like this.

Sure, all of this might and likely will change and the next decade or two. But that's a big gamble to make. In the mean time, Starlink's profitability remains a large question mark.

You have to question whether Starlink is ultimately just playing a home match on Western markets where Internet access has become a commodity that fits in larger strategic interests of large capital investments. Starlink is a commercial venture after all, it only keeps winning if it gets to dot the roofs of millions with dishes. It's business model isn't fundamentally different from ground-based ISP's in that regard.

Perception matters, and regardless of how you spin this: outside of this online bubble, a large portion of humanity simply doesn't take kindly to the appropriation of a common good such as the night sky for profiteering.
More and more responsibility with no increase in pay. I have seen people take on all the responsibility of a position without getting a promotion with the excuse, “they aren’t ready yet.” Well, then they shouldn’t be doing the job full time then. It certainly seems like you are just making excuses not to pay someone.
Might even include zippers into that also.

Basically: reduce reuse recycle

The point being materials science gave us a lot of materials that are better performing for a lot of use cases.

Consider the amount of single use plastic in the medical field.
Whether it's harmful or not depends on the lifespan of the garment and whether or not that "natural" garment replaces enough throw-away garments to make it worthwhile.

Sure, it's totally possible for a well-made synthetic garment to last as long or longer than a natural one (many of our dead uncle's double knit polyester slacks are still kicking-it in a thrift store somewhere). But we're talking here about "fast fashion", which is entirely cheaply made garments that, by definition, have a short lifespan. These are typically synthetic fabrics or cotton/polyester blends.
Most of the hospitals near me are near capacity for ICU beds due to people refusing a free vaccination.

If I have a heart attack or car accident tomorrow, I’m at serious risk of not getting a bed and treatment.

If the anti-vac morons weren’t taking up so much space at the hospitals, I’d agree. But with numbers the way they are, “return to normal” is a pipe dream.
1. This isn’t the same virus as at the start of the pandemic.

2. There is a treatment protocol for COVID, unlike at the start of the pandemic.

3. There are now vaccines. There is now a large portion of the population that has vaccine immunity.

4. There is now a large portion of the population that has natural immunity.

5. It should be abundantly clear that case counts is no longer a meaningful metric.

6. Covid is a disease that has markedly different effects based upon the host’s age, medical condition, etc. There is no equivalent level of risk.

7. Most of the population, think working class and kids, cannot sustain continued lockdown conditions without serious mental/economic effects. They don’t have the privilege of the laptop class to just dial in from an office.

8. It should be clear that universally containing an aerosol virus like COVID is impossible. What is possible is targeted containment, I.e. keeping nursing homes under more precautions.

Re hospital capacity, Hospitals run close to their limit. I have been in and out of the medical system my whole life and can assure that delays, cancellations, etc are nothing new. Is there strain during the new waves? Of course. But these are waves and they will come and pass. As well perhaps firing unvaccinated nurses wasn’t a good idea? People can choose to isolate during the waves if they want, but if they feel they feel like they have no need to (vaccine immunity, natural immunity). And as a father of small children, I cannot in good conscience continue to deny them a childhood for a virus that they themselves have extremely little risk of. The human brain is only developing during its childhood years once.
Omicron is dominant.

Full vaccination is at about 65%, boosters are at about 25%, lower than much of Europe.
microEJ, Meadow Project, Android are such examples.
Ask HN: What web apps use WASM today?
> * You MUST be on Windows 10 21H2 or above. 21H2 cannot currently be updated to (yeah, it's because they are pushing Windows 11) so you need to download it as an ISO.

You can also force an upgrade using Group Policy:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/159624-how-specify-targe...

(this doesn’t work on the Home edition though)
describes me as well!
If you like to tinker with network devices heavy recommendation.

If you want something plug and play, I’d look elsewhere.
> I had to stop because [...] and depended on some WebGL 3D and game libraries.

There's a limitation of Elm hidden in there. If your code needs to interoperate with some JavaScript libraries, you need to define an Elm port for each action (i.e. define how Elm sends/receives "messages" to JS). If the Elm-JS messages are few, it's OK, but if not, the process is painful to code and slow to execute.
Ice Golf… or how to kill yourself accidentally
> Modern C projects are a breeze

So, where's the link to a modern C project that is a breeze to work with? Requirements are in the parent comment.
What about Microsoft? Do their employees get a pass because the company wasn’t included in Jim Cramer’s acronym? It seems odd to single Cramer’s stock picks out specifically. What about Philip Morris ex-employees? Palantir? HSBC or any other evil investment bank? I think those three have done far more evil, but you’ll consider their alumni because they are not specifically “FAANG”? So odd to single out five specific companies that are only associated with each other because a TV personality made an acronym out of them.
Can you go to the same social events or venues and drink non-alcoholic beverages? When colleagues would go to a bar I would drink a Coke.
There's people who are at risk of dying from COVID even when vaccinated. For many immunocompromised people, the vaccine has limited effect.
Here's the opposite "hard proof", CDC official: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidvi....

I've actually had a look at the document you pointed. It's very confusing. The last line of the report at page 7 states:

Rates of hospital admissions in the time range (8/nov - 5/dec):

- fully vaccinated: 493

- partially vaccinated + unvaccinated: 267

Rate per 100k admitted to hospital, same time range:

- fully vaccinated: 39

- partially vaccinated + unvaccinated: 208

I'm not sure how to reconcile the numbers above. Page 8 is a graph plotting the second metric (rate per 100k).
I don't know if the firmware on embedded controllers in currently ryf-certified laptops are open source, but that is the only source of "trick" I can see that could be currently explored to get ryf certification.

I've heard people saying things like "even a windows device could be ryf-certified if it was in ROM", but I see nothing even close to this when I look at currently ryf-certified devices. People are probably influenced by this: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurd... where a Purism engineer describes a "trick" to store a memory controller training firmware in ROM and run it on a "secondary processsor" so it can get Librem 5 ryf-certified; but to this day Librem 5 is still not certified and probably won't because of this specific issue.

Also there are the people who correctly question that ryf is silly because it accepts software without code available if it is in ROM and only runs on a secondary processor. I currently have no counter-argument to this and I think it would be great if FSF explained it clearly. Nevertheless, there are some reasonable points to consider that stance:

- AFAIK, the form of accepted code is only for "secondary processors" and can't take over the system or compromise it,

- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to maximally simplify it,

- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to implement more features in software that can be checked and

- having things in ROM forces manufacturers to be extra careful when implementing it.
It's always funny when someone brings their own biases and accuses you of doing so for stating fairly objective facts
> At this point, you’re either vaccinated, have been sick or are dead, so all good.

Or you’re too young for the vaccine.

Hospitalizations among 0-1 year olds are significantly up with Omicron. Even 1-14 year olds represent a sizable portion of hospitalizations in many states, presumably biased toward those in that age group too young for the vaccine.

Being a parent of young children is not great right now as Omicron gets worse for children and everyone else in the world seems to have given up on helping you reduce your risk of your young kids catching it.
Melatonin Isn’t a Sleeping Pill. Here’s How to Use It.
In my honest view this is a bad example. Axler is a professor of mathematics and editor of multiple undergraduate and graduate mathematics texts series. His supervisor’s supervisor was Paul Halmos.

His books are introductory in the context of mathematics courses. They are not introductory in applied mathematical sciences contexts.

There I would suggest, e.g., Boyd and Vandenberghe’s Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra [1], Meyer’s Matrix Analysis and Applied Linear Algebra [2], Golub and Van Loan’s Matrix Computations [3] etc.

> But the book doesn’t like determinants and isn’t focused on computing things around matrices [...].

This is purposeful.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/~boyd/vmls

[2] http://matrixanalysis.com

[3] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/cv/cvl_home/books
https://archive.is/1DhKt#selection-317.0-317.31
Yes, contrary to C myths, any language can have those primitives as Assembly libs, which ISO C also requires anyway.
I got married a year ago. That's what we do.

There's no reason to "prepare for divorce" when both my wife and I made a vow before God to each other til we die.

The problem is that alot of people don't mean it. They don't mean their vow "for worse, for sickness, for poorer until death do us part". People forget there is a 100% chance of worse, sickness, and poorer.
My setup I just have ansible deploy to a couple of hosts running Arch. Generally I just use OS packages and have ansible deploy appropriate configs then for some software where that's more hassle I use podman rootless containers. Such software includes e.g. Graylog, which wants particular versions of Elasticsearch and mongo, or postgres which requires a manual data migration for annual version upgrades

k8s and nomad are on my "maybe eventually later" list though.
there is a book by wes bush called "product-led growth: how to build a product that sells itself" [1] & also a great youtube channel [2]

you'll also like victor eduoh who nails the topic "product-led storytelling" i read his ahrefs blog & it was gold!

[1]: https://productled.com/book/
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/ProductLed/videos?view=0&sort=p&fl...
[3]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avictoreduoh.com+produ...
Do you have a blog or a website about your lifestyle? I would love to follow along!
Sadly, I’ve heard the same. That’s wage theft. And a good reason to do away with tipping and start paying wait staff a real living wage.
This appears to be fear-mongering and misinformation.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreamorris/2021/08/08/joe-rog...
The piece was fine. I'm just not a fan of the characterization that this is an old thing that gen x people don't appreciate it because it doesn't sell ads?

This is the most gen x thing I've seen all day, and don't worry the new generation is just as sick of this ad-infested internet as everyone else, we just didn't know there was another way.

It's... Naive, imagining that this kind of content doesn't exist anymore. It exists, peruse reddit for 5 mins and you will find a similar site. But now we have so many apps that bring real value to our lives, I think what people really miss is the feeling of the internet being a toy, rather than a mature system that has both value and consequences.
Death isn’t the only negative outcome.

Omicron has a higher propensity to infect the upper respiratory tract, which is less developed in young children.

You need to forget what you’ve heard about older variants and children. Look at the stats. More kids are being hospitalized in this wave and more deaths are occurring per capita in 0-14 year olds.

It’s not good.
When I got divorced, I would have happily paid a huge one-time settlement payment to my wife to avoid going through the whole process. I had a lot of high value assets from before, that did not appreciate much during our marriage. (In Canada, you only have to pay 50% of the increase in asset value from wedding day to separation day). I intimated this to my wife. She took that as a sign of weakness and dragged me through the courts (with encouragement from some social workers). At the end of the legal process she ended up getting a paltry sum (as compared to my initial offer). Also since our marriage lasted very small period of time, her alimony came out to be zero. My initial offer was 5x the amount she got in end. But I had to pay the lawyers a lot. I would have rather given that money to her. Also, by the time the whole process ended, my assets had significantly grown in value, so I had to liquidate a smaller amount to pay her share.
"weeks" is off by two orders of magnitude. Two years into the pandemic, less than 1% of the population in Taiwan and New Zealand have been infected. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
Even with the spike in covid, death rates per capita are lower now than when I was born. The world has never been safer!!
What's your assessment of the vaccines ability to reduce severity of infection and reduce the number of people who need hospitalization or even length of hospitalization?
Great comment. Am curious about smoking/tobacco consumption?
If you spent as much effort investigating as writing that comment you'd know the truth!
If that is your concern then yes get PoA set up. It will be orders of magnitude cheaper than a divorce and infinitely more customizable. The biggest benefit in the US is that you don’t pay estate tax on inheritance. That you can’t contract away. So either get married much later in life or have so much or so little money that it doesn’t matter.
Canada and the U.S. might be a better comparison (particularly prior to vaccination, since the US has a notably lower vaccination rate). Canada largely had stricter lockdowns than the US and had about a third of the death rate. The populations aren't identical but fairly comparable, and the most notable differences in 2020 were degree of restrictions, along with better support for people unable to work due to COVID in Canada.
I want multiple conflicting versions of Elasticsearch on the same host. My OS packages are built to support a single deployment. I could manually setup users, config files, systemd services, etc. for the second deployment, or I could just run them in containers, which is the lower effort option
Kiva sends me emails weekly, asking me to relend my funds as they get paid back. So the email is not the problem. In fact, I get emails from them every few days.

The thing that I wonder about Kiva is the "donate to Kiva" part. If you lend, and re-lend as money is paid back, and re-lend again, with the default "donate to Kiva" settings... eventually, after a couple of years, 100% of your money ends up in Kiva's hands and not a poor person.

But that said, I never expected to withdraw my money back.
So some background here for those who don't spend their days in tissue labs: tissues are sectioned in very thin (~5um) slices and put onto slides. At this point, they are uncolored. In order to see any tissue structures, you have to apply a stain to the slice. This is done by loading slides into a holder and dipping them into a series of different liquids. All stains have their own recipes, but it's not unusual to have something like this:

1. 5 minutes in distilled water
2. 2x 5 minutes in 70% ethanol
3. 5 minutes in 90% ethanol
4. 5 minutes in 100% ethanol
5. 10 minutes in stain #1
6. 3x dip in 100% ethanol
7. 10 minutes in stain #2
etc

so what labs usually have if they don't have an automated stainer is a long section of benchtop with a line of small glass or plastic buckets (kind of like small tupperware containers), each with a different fluid. The tech then uses a set of timers to move the slide holders from one to the other according to whatever recipe they're following. It's honestly not a terribly time-consuming process, you can do a lot of other stuff while you're in a five minute wash, and a little variability doesn't matter much (like if you're in a bucket for 5:10 instead of 5).

That all being said, an automated stainer is a super nice thing to have, because you get 40 minutes uninterrupted time to do other things instead of having to go move things around every couple of minutes. So a couple of hundred dollars for this 3d printer one might be really worth it!
Note though, that plain SecureBoot cannot prevent attacks like this. This is more of an area for BootGuard. The thing is, it's also not impenetrable and has its share of the flaws, same with Intel ME and similar technologies. If anything, it helps to hide the code from the watchful eye. Current security solutions are just a gimmick. It should be properly designed AND deployed in the actual hardware for that. What we currently have offers mostly protection for vendors and DRM, not the end users. It's broken by design.
> create-react-app (Which is a nightmare of needless complexity under a thin and very slow veneer of convenience).

No it’s not. create-react-app barely does anything except bootstrapping a project with sane defaults. It could improve on devDependencies but they don’t depend on a lot more that what you’d need to setup yourself anyway.
The report you just linked doesn't show the raw numbers of people in the hospital, it shows the proportionate rates, which is exactly what I just addressed.

Most people in the hospitals for Covid are vaccinated.

And I'm sorry, I thought this was a thread about Ireland?
Same goes for a child walking or using public transport to school, but almost everyone drives them. Endangering a child in a preventable way is now a socially punishable behavior
Whatever your take here - care to elaborate?
What if your body incubates the mutation to the next Greek letter and it is highly transmissible, our vaccines don’t work on it, AND it is more deadly?
True, but these are already established tools. So it evens out.
A quick Google finds lots of articles about it but I have nothing to add myself.

I.e. https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves...
British citizenship: £2m must-have for wealthy foreigners, few questions asked
Many (I suspect most but I only follow a few) epidemiologists are saying there's no stopping Omicron. It's more contagious than measles - if you're in a room with somebody who has it, you're exposed barring a properly fitted N95 mask. All of us will be exposed by mid February.

It's also many times less pathogenic than Delta, and it's a gift that nothing at present can outcompete it. I believe it's the version that will be endemic, if not than something very similar. So as someone who has spent too many months raging against people who refused to look at the facts of Delta - my mom missed essential surgery because the ICUs were crowded with antivax people, to add emotion to the mix - I'm onside that it's the time to start opening up, at least in jurisdictions where Omicron is 95%+ of cases and where hospitalizations have peaked.

The only thing I'm dreading is the smugness of the antimask/antivax crowd who will ignore the herculean effort that avoided complete collapse of the health system and just claim they were right all along. Preaching "floods don't exist!" to the exhausted people who are watching the river subside after slinging sandbags for three days.

edit: In the above I say I believe all of us will be exposed - not necessarily infected though.
MIT Professor Gang Chen: I was arrested under the DOJ’s China Initiative
https://archive.fo/Vtjbj
Shutting down borders works if and only if you're successfully implementing an elimination strategy. In North America and Europe it was pretty pointless, but it was absolutely useful in New Zealand, Australia, China and Hong Kong.
> Even if it were, just because "the meaning of something is obvious," it doesn't follow that the words are standard or even well-formed.

That's literally the linguistics definition of "standard or well-formed", so no.

> So I'm not really sure what is it exactly that you're trying to argue here.

Linguistics is a science, there are mathematical models that natural languages adhere to. Regardless of the social trappings around "standard"/acceptable speech, language really does follow mathematical laws. That's why these puzzles are meaningful and not just diversions for fun.
That was exactly one of the key worries expressed by Robert W Malone(quite relevant expert to say the least), who is not even anti-vaxx, but argued that people should have informed consent over their health, but the censors thought othervise.
I wouldn't say I am "okay with it" but definitely "tired of it".

Myself and my family all have the boosters. As long as transmission is high and masks are recommended we will wear masks. Other than that though, my preference would be that there are few other restrictions in place. What I am tired of is waiting for everyone else to get the vaccine and wear a mask. At this point it seems like a lost cause and not worth my effort to spend energy on.

I still have a lot of sympathy for healthcare workers and really anyone else that has to work in a highly public setting where they are at higher risk of exposure.
I like to open about 7-8 zombocom tabs about 1-3 seconds apart. Give it a try. You can do much more of anything.
On my tweaked Firefox profile, _⎽⎼—⎻⎺‾ renders as 3 different fonts (Courier New, IBM Plex Mono (my monospace font), and Segoe UI Symbol), with different widths and heights, some of which aren't even monospace. On a clean profile, it's only Courier New and Segoe UI Symbol. In both Firefox profiles, ⎺ renders higher than ‾ despite coming before it in order.

It might work on certain fonts and terminals. It's not a general solution for blogs IMO. Are we better off with terminals with first-class support for sub-cell graphics rather than text, considering people tend to hack in graphics in terminals (the various htop replacements with terminal graphs, and this)?