skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue a lot of people have already gone crazy and will do anything to avoid going back to normal and letting people live their lives. The obsession with the need for a "new normal" amongst some is really terrifying. There needs to be some targeted campaign to "deprogram" the people that have become obsessed with covid and make them move on. I'm serious about this, if we just pretend it will get better on it's own, there will continue to be these lingering theatrics - I don't want to see the world end up like air travel did.
My experience using Voidlinux, on a Raptor POWER9 system, has been excellent. The software support has just gotten better and better. It would be a shame to lose this momentum.

Affordability and availability are major pain points. I've shared my excitement about OpenPOWER with many and their excitement evaporates when they are told what a modest system costs.

I am strong believer in FOSS and fully open owner controlled hardware. I think this is far more important than it appears at first glance. It sounds like tinfoil hat stuff, but the reality is we're backed into a corner. The less control owners/users have, the more vulnerable they are.

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“Great! Other countries need to follow suit.”
Reading 101.
They're referring to the FSF's "Respects Your Freedoms" programme, a frankly absurd specification that encourages vendors to lock down closed source firmware into ROM rather than actually make it free. RYF doesn't care about the hardware designs themselves being open (no computer would qualify in that case), so they treat closed-source firmware ROM images as identical to closed-source hardware, which is fine. But store that firmware on some sort of RAM, or flashable ROM, and all of a sudden it's now closed-source firmware, which is bad.

The end result is that systems that are the most locked down are those which "Respects Your Freedoms".
I highly recommend the log of 100R's relatively recent passage across the Pacific where they put these ideas to practice, Busy Doing Nothing: https://100r.co/site/busy_doing_nothing.html
Yes, we've wasted two years of everybody's life. Let's not waste any more.
Polio and smallpox vaccines were non leaky. That's why we were able to eradicate it. COVID can't be eradicated until a non-leaky vaccine is developed. Google "leaky vaccines" if you don't know what they are.
Yes, surgical tool sets are often reusable after resterilization. But there is also a large volume of single-use products.
Ah thanks a lot. I asked because I had not heard of that abbreviation.
Linux on a 486SX
> No, I said that someone would "swoop in and profit from stabilizing some preventable chaos". You even fucking quoted me saying it!

If someone has stabilised the crisis then it isn't really a problem for the consumers. In this case, stabilising the crisis involves keeping the grid up and running in an emergency situation. There isn't any point sitting around thumbtwiddling watching a brownout happen, electricity grids often operate at speeds measured in either Hertz or 15 minute windows.

> isn't this definitionally a strawman? Why bother with this?

It'll help you explain yourself if you have some hints about how I am reading your comment. If I just say "explain further" to someone then it is unclear what they need to expand upon. Plus it makes my position clearer and I enjoy typing.

And the dude's comment isn't something I feel a need to answer. I'm not arguing in favour of the Texas electricity providers, I'm arguing that "they've got an incentive to give up and let the grid go dark" is a pretty extreme guess, is probably wrong and at a minimum needs real evidence to support it. Maximum profit probably isn't achieved if the grid goes down. It is much more likely that the incentives align to keep the grid running 24-7-365 with a high tolerance for outlier events and this outage was just run of the mill incompetence in the face of change.
hey, checked out your website. couldnt find any demo video. if there link for demo video can you please share. our problem is not just search but search + explore. but would love to check your demo to see if it suits us.
Pandemic fatigue + a very contagious variant that is less virulent. A lower rate of people are getting hospitalized (and often require a lower level of care), but the massive number of people getting infected is still driving high hospital utilization.

Omicron is being called 'mild', but it's not mild for a lot of people in absolute terms (even though it may be milder compared to what earlier variants might have been for that individual).
if there's no patents (which i dont know if true or not), you can read the paper, and reimplement it without looking at the source (provided you have the skills i suppose...).

But the effort probably isn't worth the cost of a license imho.
Because now there are no restrictions to speak of left and it can't go much worse. No ground for apocalyptic scenarios anymore.

Also, it's entirely up to people themselves if they want to be protected or not: Omicron is so transmissive, it doesn't matter for transmission if people are vaccinated or not - whatever impact it has on transmission is of little consequence - everyone is going to get infected, anyway (maybe a few weeks later but it doesn't matter at all).

On the other hand, vaccines are universally available, and free, for a very long time now.

Together it means that if you are unvaccinated, it's on one hand, only your own fault, and on the other hand, only your problem - effectively you no longer endanger anyone but yourself by staying unvaccinated (big difference from what it was a year ago).

Which means, there is no point for anyone but unvaccinated themselves suffering. If you got the vaccine, Omicron is about as dangerous as flu, and no one closes economy because of flu.

Almost all unvaccinated are Republicans and Democratic administration is in power...
I believe that Derw is a good candidate for this. It was announced last month. The creator intends to deliver a better interop with TypeScript/JS, and promises a more open mind (public development of the core language, allow private repositories, etc).

https://derw.substack.com/p/why-derw-an-elm-like-language-th...
Id have to have a valid excuse for not working, like a medical condition.

If the other party remarries I'm free, but I don't think anyone else is dumb enough to marry them.
Over 90% of the people in the hospitals are unvaccinated.
Unless you’re someone with a child under 5 who hasn’t been able to get vaccinated yet. My wife and I are fully vaccinated + booster but we are still choosing to be extra careful because our 4 year old can’t get vaccinated yet.

So it’s a little frustrating to hear people talk like this when not everyone can get vaccinated yet.
Of course, there is no free lunch. But nature dictates that if you want society to have workers in the future, women need to make a huge sacrifice.

So you can either worry about the small picture and employers losing a little freedom about who they have to employ. Or you can look at the big picture and realize that for women to maintain financial independence and still be incentivized to have kids, society needs to offer them something.
I think this is the new normal. Either open/close as soon as a more dangerous variant comes along (can happen with most of the Earth population unvaccinated). Or just let it be and get used to health system being on its knees on peak seasons and more vulnerable/unvaccinated dying of.
I agree, articles like this is what's wrong with the internet today. While I absolutely love zombo com, it does not merit a writeup and 2 minutes of my time to read said article
that's the beauty of it. You can get massive traffic nowadays without building backlinks like back in the day. by making "better" content. Google really pays attention to user-signals like CTR and bounce rate. Source: I've tested and gamed it a lot.
Why, bots are so useful for repetitive and manual tasks.
I literally just went to Zombocom last night (you can do anything there, after all). I can't help but stay for the full audio loop every time. It makes me so happy that the site is still up and functional after all this time. To me it's like a small link back to the past when the internet felt more fun.
> Yes, airships are expensive, inconvenient and slow, they leak helium and they require huge hangars and mooring masts, but that's far cry from "can't work".

"Can't work" is a pretty good effective compression of "work on the barest of technicality while being more expensive, slower, less flexible, and less reliable than pretty much all alternatives".

Also the Hindenburg was absolutely not able to take 100+ people across the atlantic, half of that was crew which you don't usually consider "taken over" as they have to fly back. So Hindenburg took 3 days to carry 72 passengers across the atlantic, needing 40 crew to do so, at a ticket price of $7460 (one way, in modern USD).

By comparison, bloody Concorde transported up to 128, with a crew of 3, in 3.5 hours, at lower prices.
We don't do that, mostly because many communities cargo cult C and C++, so unless you have a companies like Apple, Microsoft and Google stepping in and asserting "this is how we do it now if you want to play on our platform".

Arguably with their push for Swift and Java/Kotlin, Apple and Google are much forward than Microsoft on this matter, given that .NET tends to suffer from WinDev worshiping C++ and COM.

You can get that BASIC experience nowadays when playing with uLisp, MicroPython and similar environments for embedded platforms, most of them more powerful than 16-bit home computers.
I meant for Ireland, they have a good vaccination rate and lower hospitalization rate in the latest wave.

For US probably a couple more waves and it’ll go through the unvaccinated.
Cambridge University Sues MasterCard
launching a company doesn't have to take years to take off.

just build a scrappy mvp in a week & find people who are willing to pay for it.

you say you are great with automation & making bots. someone just coded up an nft bot & sold it in 17 days [1]

nft is all the rage so you might be able to cook something similar & sell it on microacquire [2] which helps a lot of saas get a modest exit (< billion-dollar exit)

you can build a bunch of micro-saas & sell it on microacquire. of course, it's harder than i'm making it to be but start. hopefully, you might strike gold!

i think web3/crypto/nfts is a good space to be in for bots so find a problem there or check forums like reddit/discord/twitter where people talk a lot about web3/nfts or acquisition marketplaces like microacquire to get ideas as what people are building

[1]: https://www.ryanckulp.com/buildsell30-hackathon-review/
[2]: https://microacquire.com
Maybe they want to practice. I installed proxmox and I'm pretty much set up, but my needs are pretty huble, just a couple of VMs and maybe containers in the near future.
Wow that's a really cool gig. I've always wanted to do a summer down there but as a software engineer I doubt there's much need for me. (I have visited the continent as a tourist)

What is your official job title down there?
The headline doesn't capture the remaining restrictions (although the article does). Masks are still required in shops, taxis, buses, trains. It's unclear for takeaway restaurants and chippers. All staff in those places will still need to wear masks. I assume bar and restaurant staff will also need to wear masks.

So really, the 8pm curfew on hospitality has been lifted but that was always silly in the first place.

While you can point to some successes, the Irish government has really failed with their approach to all of this. The next election will be interesting and I predict Sinn Féin will be elected.
Youngest kids aren’t eligible for vaccinations yet, are they? Sure they are in a lower risk group but if you have a 3 year old you likely don’t want all restrictions lifted quite yet.
Thanks - I saw that on the FP recently but didn't get a chance to read it.
I gave some (+5 years old) clothes to a family member's acquaintance. I'm glad to hear they even wear it to work sometimes.
Child death rate is basically 0
I tried Dvorak on Android eight or ten years ago and realized that my Dvorak skill would not transfer to a touchscreen, since it consisted entirely of muscle memory and I had no experience of looking at a keyboard that was labeled that way. That and the lack of glide typing (which I've come to rely on) made it useless to me.
That's coming from someone who is working from home, isn't it? There's also those of us who have exposure to the public and are reaching old ago, and we have lost all patience for the sunshine-and-unicorn crowd.
Saudi airstrikes in response to Houthi/Yemen/Iran attacks against UAE.

More info about the recent conflict here:

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/01/houthis-laun...
We have the same issue, but the person chose not to get vaccinated. Hopefully she makes it because she is otherwise a wonderful person but if it happens, well, we tried to tell her.
If we don't adopt X because it doesn't solve 100% of the problems, then we will never improve.
No improvements to ventilation standards? No changes to work culture that encourages "working through it" instead of briefly isolating?

Like we have massive infrastructure in place to prevent diseases like cholera from being a problem. We should do more to mitigate airborne transmission.
This. The PT one annoys the F out of me... but otherwise I'm over it. On PT though, I don't understand how people can't just put a mask on. SE Asia learned from SARS 1 and kept it up out of common sense, but nope, that's too much to ask here.

I'm triple vaxxed and had covid in December. I'm going to nightclubs, pubs, restaurants etc. because why not? Who knows what the next variants etc will bring, but really does feel like Omicron is a gift of some sort.
I don't get why almost all of the article talks about log4j when the vulnerability is in another piece of software and the connection to log4j is tenuous at best. Is this some attempt at misdirection or search engine marketing?
Why not? Look at all the upvotes it's getting.
While a programming language and ecosystem includes some of the culture, bad code and project structure IMO should not be blamed on C. Modern C projects are a breeze
My thoughts could not have been captured better than this.

This whole thing, like that flying wind-turbine thing or the solar road thing, is just bordering on plausible but so far away from feasible that one has to doubt the whole effort.

Its hard to imagine, in todays world of information at our fingertips that anyone could fool or misguide someone else, but as the current state of the world is, not only is a con job possible, but its getting easier and more profitable. The trick seems to be to be to make an idea, as I said above, bordering on the plausible but far away from feasible.
Ireland's Chief Medical Officer has stated this in interviews with the press. e.g. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/holohan-s...
Stop with this shit. It's not true. Most people in the hospitals for Covid are vaccinated. This is not an indictment against the vaccines, they prevent hospitalization, but the sheer number of vaccinated people still means they're the majority in the hospitals and ICUs, and the unvaccinated are a minority across the board.

If you disagree with this statement, then here's hard proof: See page 7 of this UK report (latest data) tracking the vaccination status of Covid hospitalizations and deaths: https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publication...
Let's see if they (or any country) drops the requirement to have a bio-medical-security-id, even if the remove the other governmental restrictions.
In my state it is about 57%: https://portal.ct.gov/Office-of-the-Governor/News/Press-Rele...
It isn't? I've never worked with Apple but they are pretty happy to cripple 3rd party smart watches to make their own look better. Or how big of frustrating mess it is to move data on/off an iOS device with iTunes vs. using iCloud. I've had a few friends get frustrated at moving tens of gigs of photos off an iPhone using USB and just give up and get iCloud to do it. It was already a problem for years for consumers even.

I really don't see how the article explains how Apple ended up in this situation. Rene seems to have completely forgotten or missed that iPad Pros with lightning were already capable of USB 3 speeds back in 2015. Over 6 years ago. There is NO need for a different connector, just a better controller. And yet they keep not doing it.
Is Delta still dominant in the US? First time I am checking the US Covid stats in months, and it seems like both deaths and hospitalizations in the US are rising. The opposite is true for most of Europe, where omicron cases are rising exponentiallly, but deaths and hospitalizations are falling flat.
This was a retaliatory strike in response to an attack by Houthis on UAE.

Recent info about what's going on:

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2022/01/houthis-laun...
Hospitalizations in some states have not been good in the omicron + delta wave.

Virginia, highest wave peak recorded, including ICU and ventilations: https://www.vdh.virginia.gov/coronavirus/see-the-numbers/cov...

New York, second highest wave peak and highest new admissions per day: https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summ...
Here's a fun youbtube video that covers this topic: https://youtu.be/Lf-8rEK63eg
Unless the entire pub went to the same house, that behaviour still sounds like a reduction in transmission risk
Well, at the time I felt it was clear that Google used this to push their brand, use the data for aggregated ad intelligence and would also utilize it to upsell into other products.

To say it's free, and then suddenly pull the carpet is something they may be able to do legally, but it is (hopefully) going to bring them the disaster they deserve. The cost of keeping those accounts at limited state and with locked features would be negligible compared to the loss in future revenue.
Which is why many that learn "my compiler C" than get surprised by what happens when their code runs somewhere else and then most likely blame the other compiler instead of blaming themselves by not learning the differences between ISO C and their daily compiler.
European Commission bug bounties for Free (Libre) and open source Software
In their benefits:

> Host a private server for you and your peers. Use it to play Minecraft together or chat together on Discord.

I don't think the documentation writer knows how discord works. There's no private/self-hosted option
These two problems (Windows and Office) are already solved - at least for a part of the population. On the other hand, avoiding Google completely is practically impossible.
Ask HN: What to do instead of drinking alcohol?
My social and entertainment life has involved alcohol for the last 10 years. There's been lots of alcohol and health related posts on HN in the last few days. As a result, I am going to stop drinking. It's worth noting I don't have a problem with alcohol or being around it.

For those of you who don't drink, how do you fill your Friday and Saturday nights?

FYI, I don't smoke or drink tea/coffee.
I mostly WFH, but have to visit government offices and construction sites. I have 2 kids in daycare though, so I might as well be living in a petri dish of viruses.
In hospital, or death, there are benefits a spouse gets that a partner doesn't. Visitation, property transfers, etc. It's possible to get contracts a power-of-attorney things but the marriage license has some special legal power (in USA)
Ever heard of Android?
I've moved to MXRoute, just started setting it up yesterday. E-mail is the easier part to solve (it'll cost a bit, but MXRoute has unlimited domains/accounts/aliases, compared to others who charge 'by seat'). The larger problem is Docs, Sheets, and Forms. They don't allow you to change the owner to a non-domain Gmail account. So the plan of creating a regular free Gmail account and then moving everything over won't work. They've put the road blocks at the right places to force people who notice this all too late into upgrades.
Why not use something like ZeroTier? I’ve seen a lot of people talking about Tailscale; I’ve been using ZeroTier to connect to my local NextCloud and it works great.
thank you, looks interesting. however, the stated goal (elm but easier interop with JS) is for me a bit hard to relate, as I think the boundary will always be more pronounced. but we’ll see where this one goes

my dream not-elm would start with a verbatim fork of elm, an RFC process for changing it, and a safe and powerful language extensions system inspired by Haskell
Ok now do the same for all the rest of the minorities. But wait they dont have presidents representing their communities. What you said makes no sense.
They open sourced the ISA in 2019.

https://openpowerfoundation.org/the-next-step-in-the-openpow...
I wonder how your programs do I/O if not with strings. Reading numbers from STDIN is the next thing after Hello World.

As another comment pointed out, C has many flaws unrelated to its standard library. Also check out https://eev.ee/blog/2016/12/01/lets-stop-copying-c/.

You know what's the main cause of dependency hell? Needing a library for every basic thing. Notice that mountains of dependencies are much less common in “batteries-included” languages.
Well there are people dying everyday for any number of reasons. About 10k per day in the US.

If you are at risk of dying from covid and you didn't get vaccinated it is kinda your fault now. And if you are vaccinated and dying from covid, well there is not much more you could have done.
Sounds like you might be using the free Google email forwarding feature outlined at https://domains.google/get-started/email/ To directly receive and send email from your custom domain Google upsells you to Google Workspaces https://domains.google/learn/how-to-use-email-forwarding/

Some other domain providers do offer email forwarding so its not exactly a Google exclusive.
You'll be taking up a hospital place for people who can't get vaccinated. That seems pretty dangerous.

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=30036474&goto=item%3Fi...
What was interesting at Power is that it used SDRAM at half the processor speed which made processing of data from memory faster unlike traditional PC when you read data in bursts.
"Now we have a digital counter in sync with the video signal."

This principle was maintained for many years until the homecomputer era came to an end. The CPU (and all the auxilliary chips) used to run in lock-step with the video signal.

The whole architecture of many games from that time was built around the position of the electron beam on the screen. We exploited that to switch video modes in the middle of the screen (text/graphics split screen), draw in the overscan area (raster bars) or multiply the number of hardware sprites by quickly alternating different sets at certain scanlines. The V-sync pause was a welcome rest and spent to calculate the game logic.

Another interesting consequence of this was that US homecomputer models ran at faster clock speeds than the Euro models because of the higher refresh rate of NTSC. With clock speeds in the single digit megahertz range the 60/50 ratio was not negligible. In Europe we did hw mods to add a switch that made the computer run at NTSC speed even if that meant no video. You had the choice: a fast computer with no output or a slow one with video.