skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The off-the-grid approach is indeed something that makes Briar and scuttlebutt somewhat similar.

What sets them apart is scuttlebutt's special concept of how it works as a social network, dissimilar to Briar.
Hospitalization rates for the vaccinated are an order of magnitude lower than the rates for the unvaccinated, and death rates more so.

However, even though I'm fully vaccinated and boosted so personally have no reason to fear COVID from the point of view of landing in the hospital or dying directly from COVID (and all my friends and family are in a similar position) it is still an indirect concern because the unvaccinated are taking up hospital resources that I might need.

Even in my county in the US, which has been in the bottom quarter for case, death, and hospitalization rates in my state, which has been in the bottom 5-10 states for all of those statistics for the entire pandemic, there are enough unvaccinated people in the hospital now with COVID that hospitals are almost unable to take new patients. Omicron looks like it is peaking here, so it will probably be OK to go ahead and have my heart attack or get hit by a drunk driver without worrying about whether I'll be able to get treatment, but there are a heck of a lot of places in the US right now where this is not the case.

The good news is that after omicron, enough of the unvaccinated will have some immunity via omicron that it should bring their hospitalization rates down enough that it is no longer a problem. That's when we reach the "it can be treated like a a cold or flu from a public health perspective" stage. A recent NTY covid briefing email looked at the data from places that are ahead of the US on the omicron curve, and that's what they concluded.
Netmaker repo owner here. Let us know if you have any questions and we can help out!
This is in context of all the experiences you'll miss out on.

If you are drinking so little that you are not getting hangovers (and you are older than say 35), then you are drinking so little you might as well substitute the alcohol for something non-alcoholic and do the same thing, because your experience will largely be the same as that of a sober person either way.
Googler, opinions are my own.

If the Chat team is ever able to get inline-threads out the door: https://chromeunboxed.com/google-chat-rooms-become-spaces, it should make rooms/spaces a much better experience.
Yes. Replace the corn with cows.
Not everything that is created on the internet is made special for you. Nobody is forcing you to read this, and clearly other people here enjoy the write up, so calling it "what's wrong with the internet today" seems... extreme
Not keen on their list of mind mapping tools. Here's the one I use which is excellent:

https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Home
The marriage tradition doesn't seem well suited to many modern relationships and people.
People now change jobs and relationships more than predecessor generations.
It's unfair to hold people to old standards designed for different societal norms.
I honestly wonder if the Fed knows that the only way out of the current predicament is to cause large scale inflation such that incomes and earnings "catch up" to asset prices. Playing the current situation forward a couple things could happen.

1. Asset prices stay elevated, rates rise but find equilibrium - those who own assets will get paid more, but those who rent or earn income from assets will have to give a greater share of their money to those who own. Millenials who as a generation only own 2% of assets will get locked out of asset ownership for another 10+ year economic cycle. Millenials find that they only start accumulating assets through inheritance - with the vast majority of the generation locked out of entrepreneurship and meaningful equity.

2. Inflation rises, asset prices relative to incomes fall. Retirees lose most of their wealth while income earners in the Millenial generation are able to buy into the economy through savings. Due to the imbalance in asset ownership millenials on the whole do not suffer from inflation, but benefit through higher wages. Retirees will suffer due to substantially reduced purchasing power over 10-20 years as inflation eats into their stored wealth.

3. Asset prices fall, wages don't rise - This looks like the deferred deleveraging of '08 Everyone takes a hit - with large bankruptcies wiping out asset prices and employment suffering during the downturn. The only positive is that wage earners would once again be able to buy into the economy.

Given this outlook inflation seems like the best choice for policy makers. I'd doubt that it's sustainable to have an entire generation get locked out of the economy.
Perhaps implement it as a touch button on the back plane of the motherboard rather than something completely internal? Or keep it as a jumper and leave case designers to decide where it goes, so it is just an extra thing to have a connector for like power and reset switches. For cases that don't support it, a switch could be put on an otherwise blank slot filler at the back of the case and connected the same way just like extra USB ports are (and extra serial/parallel ports used to be).
As well as Tox.

https://tox.chat
At this point, pretty much everyone has to participate in stocks in one way or another. We wouldn't have to do this if all the wealth wasn't going somewhere. If people aren't getting by unless there are multiple incomes and investments then they're being robbed at some level. Now the current advice is to throw your earnings into index funds. What next? Some kind of double-or-nothing grift?
Fractal Reef – Animating the Mandelbrot
The horrifying precedent is small numbers of people who do not always stand for election making highly consequential decisions for large numbers of people.

Stipulate that the current crop of names all have noble intent. Not taking swipes at anyone in view.

You've no guarantees of such going forward.

The current situation is Checkov's Gun[1]. At some point, if we don't enjoy a collective think on where this is going, there will be dismay.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chekhov's_gun
My condolences.

The pervasiveness of dying or suffering alone has exploded in the last two years. It is one of the worst fates.

Hopefully, this pandemic will have served to shock us to take better care of our seniors who have been neglected for too long.
People quit because their bosses are like you - utterly tone-deaf and focused solely on output.
Doesn't provide strto32 and strto64 though so you still need an ifdef.
ImageGlass added malware with this commit
People are betting US companies will outperform rest of the world by a huge margin, over the years US companies rely on huge influx of cheap money to sustain their growth. US stock market is propped up by a dozen of huge companies. About 75% of companies are valued below their 200 day average price, but you can’t see that looking at stock market. So what happens next is, growth of huge companies hits a wall. Take a look at Netflix price to get an idea how it looks like.

And as most of stock market is kept up by few companies, what happens if they start failing? US stock market crash.

Of course, that might happens soon, but it might be kept up for years. Bond yields are the key, they must not go down, not by a long shot.
Is 1% "many"?
Wireless Technology and Public Health
Yeah, one of the batteries I have for it is shot while the other holds an hour or two of charge under moderate use. Definitely keeping an eye on them.
If they’re buying a house together and don’t have at least a basic legal contract around that to cover this scenario - yikes.

There is a lot of existing precedent with marriage that can provide some of that, but it’s terrible. It is something though, no question about it.

Kids, child support and custody is handled separately (kinda) anyway, but if they didn’t already have that discussed or worked out, also yikes.
Danny is correct here. I was aware of it at the time (having been on Android 2012-2016), but won't leak any further details. I recommend taking the word of a highly credible person who has first hand knowledge over a thinly sourced article in the tech press.
This kind of context is very difficult for me to wrap my head around. So much so that it strikes me as a kind of artificial ennui, maybe even a kind of humblebragging. I'm open to changing my mind though, so I'd really like to hear explanations/clarifications that would help me understand this sentiment more.

In even my most over-resourced client, there is never a paucity of improvements to make. Ever.

My current working conclusion after seeing this many times and doing what I can to informally coach the ones expressing this kind of sentiment, is that there isn't a lack of meaningfulness, or purpose, or other lofty language. There is a lack of will to go outside of their comfort zone, very often due to non-technical factors. Or a lack of a sense of joy in the craft in even the smallest details and accomplishments. And that's okay. It's the reason we use specialization.

But let's not kid ourselves. I've yet to walk into a client that is so on top of their to do list much less wish list that there is nothing to improve. We also need to recognize there is also a substantial subset of people expressing this sentiment who dislike implementing some improvement without significant recognition, praise, and advancement; these are the ones who seek the big, splashy wins over the steady, incremental attention to craft that accumulate into the 20-year overnight successes.
Some discussion happened here (issue closed by owner):

https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/issues/1252

The malware (at the very least) makes the user's machine the exit node of a commercial proxy service, without users' knowledge or consent.

In the repo maintainer's own words (in a "privacy" menu setting that was enabled by default):

>"Share devide IP with Spider.com customers to pass traffic through your device."

>"Learn more about privacy policy at {0}. To opt out an option, you can uncheck it, then click 'Save' or 'Apply' button below. It will be disabled immediately."

https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass/blob/51f9f5eaa17f6fc42e...
TIPS: Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities

Backed by the United States Government, yield is some low percentage plus the inflation rate.
I had a 486DX laptop that I ran Linux on from about 1995-1999, I probably tossed it around 2001 when the battery was pretty dead and the HDD was dying.

In some ways that was some of the best times for Linux on the desktop in my experience. Windows and Mac were such an unreliable mess at that point that Linux seemed very competitive at the time. A lot of the advanced hardware integration in Win/Mac hadn’t happened yet and Linux was very lean and mean and reliable. Both KDE and Gnome appeared in 1997 IIRC and the desktop was decent even if some apps weren’t as good.

My machine was 75mhz, 12MB RAM, 250mb HDD, 800x600 color LCD that had poor refresh. It got me through most of my college CS programming projects, though I eventually built a Linux tower too. X was good on that laptop the first few years but was really slow by 1998.
Looking at those graphs, it does look like it's getting there for 15-44 years too, no?
I just remembered compiling an early 2.0.xx kernel on an old 386DX AT&T server that was given to me when I was a teenager in the 90s. It spent hours doing it and I loved watching gcc take several seconds to compile each file! I also recall that the hard drive in that thing must have weighed at least 40lbs. Those were fun days!

Here's an eBay item that is pretty much exactly what I had back then: https://www.ebay.com/itm/294597619526?mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=...
The poison is only generated with indeterminate values in objects with automatic storage duration (local variables on the stack). Padding bytes in other circumstances will have specific, valid values and can be compared. (An "indeterminate value" is an unspecified value or a trap representation, unsigned char does not permit trap representations, and unspecified values are "valid values".) Use of other unspecified values results in "unspecified behavior" which does not result in trimming the CFG.

I think the spec is written this way to codify how compilers are allowed to do liveness analysis... a local variable is marked as live when it is initialized, and if a variable is not live, its storage (registers or stack) may be used for other variables or temporary values. You then get UB because, for example, two comparisons may result in contradictory outcomes, because the value has been overwritten with garbage between the two comparisons. Or in a more modern compiler, you read from an uninitialized local variable, and the compiler trims the CFG.

Here's an example of what I'm thinking of:

int x, y;
// point A
if (condition) {
x = 5;
} else {
y = 10;
}
// point B

A compiler can realize that x and y can't both be live at the same time, and assign them to the same register or stack location. However, this means that if you read the value of x at point A and point B, but x is uninitialized, it will naturally have a different value each time you use it... because the value of Y is overwriting it!
I'm none of the three, amazingly.
With a super contageous aerosol spreading virus, pretty much they only way masks on PT will make any difference at all is if everyone wears well fitted N95 or better masks.

The cute cloth masks and disposable paper ones simply aren't going to make a difference in an enclosed space like a bus or subway. It is the worst kind of security theater, in that it makes people feel safer when they are not, and so more willing to take risks than they would have been otherwise.

Asking people to wear cloth masks on PT during covid is like asking them to wear a bandana while riding a bicycle.
Very curious to see what happens with the US housing / real estate market. I think stocks / equities are going to see a severe down turn this year and a good deal of money is going to leave the market. At the same time inflation is very high so sitting in cash is a loser as well albeit not as bad as riding the markets down. Will that money from the stock market go into real estate or will real estate crash too as the fed raises rates? Will remote work continue and in doing so will it reduce pricing on commercial business offices? Will business offices convert to condos? I have no idea but interested to hear any theories.
Sending Scientology into space is not what i call "Progress", Mormons would have been the better choice (at least they would travel to another planet), and not just making one more shi*y hollywood movie to promote their sect.
You really think things will improve by essentially wrapping entire Rust programs in a huge unsafe block?

Rust isn't targeting the NodeJS crowd at large. It is targeting the systems programming and C++ crowd. And spoken by someone who still has his C++98 hardcover by Stroustrup on his shelf, the alternatives in that space are not one iota easier. The fact that C++ does not mandate the use of smart pointers and requires external tools like Valgrind to find memory access bugs is the problem, not a compiler that tells you where you're wrong.

Security is a pain, but it's not a bug. If you want easier, go for a garbage-collected language—though they rarely help with multithreading faults.

Rust ain't fizzling. It's exactly where it needs to be, solving the kinds of problems it was designed for. There is no need for any one language to solve any and every kind of problem. Different tools for different tasks.
I use crDroid (https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-11-hlte-official-crdr...) and it is really good.
This article has a core point which is good: “in Rust the default is safe, and you have to opt-in to unsafety, but in C++ the default is unsafe, and you have to opt-in to safety”. I think it’s easy to argue for Rust using this construction, because, well, that’s the entire point why Rust was created.

But, it really doesn’t take a very long post to talk about this. The remainder goes off the rails, talking about “C++ apologists” (hint: if you’re being “fair”, pick words that are unlikely to cause people to be preemptively upset. This is not one of those words) and their stupid opinions. And the author just trashes them as being complete idiots, but it’s obvious that the arguments come from inexperience or strawmen, which just makes the overall thing not particularly convincing. Saying that the various UB finding tools were useless because you tried using them and didn’t get good results is stupid. Being smug about “people who use modern C++ clearly can’t do HFT, which is the thing that you said you were using C++ to do” is also insipid, just because you spotted the use of a shared_ptr somewhere and read how it’s not zero-cost. Modern C++ has other things in it, you know, many of which are zero-cost and significantly (but not entirely) safer; picking one thing and misrepresenting it does not make for a good refutation.

Anyways, coming from someone who writes a lot of C++ and would also like a lot of code to be migrated to Rust for good reasons, it’s a good idea to approach the tradeoffs honestly and without disdain for those who aren’t convinced yet. The core argument I mentioned above and the closing part of the article does do this…but there’s a lot in the middle that doesn’t, and it drags down the usefulness of the post.
FSF RYF certification carries very little weight.

If you care about not having backdoors in your hardware, RYF is not very relevant because it allows closed source hardware and firmware blobs.
My point here was death. The fact that there is no life threatening disease for 0-45yo on a statistical level in Europe. Death for this age group is lower than it was in 2017.

> Vaccinated people suffer much less from a course of infection than unvaccinated, in all age groups.

I don't know how you can measure that. And that's not how these vaccines have been sold. They were supposed to have 95% efficacy at lowering risk of getting COVID-19 compared with the control group.
We know now that is not the case as it does not help to control the epidemic (most vaxed countries with the highest cases). Transmission and contamination are not reduced with the vaccine.

So now we are told that it was never supposed to stop transmission, but miraculously, it makes your body handle the COVID better.

I don't know what data is used, but if you look for example in scotland (Page 44 https://publichealthscotland.scot/media/11223/22-01-19-covid...) There is no obvious difference between the vax or unvaxed in term of hospitalization or covid positivity (p.38) unvaxed even seem to do better.

This is health, people are always going to get sick, not just from COVID. We need to fight all diseases with the best weapons we got. Against Covid, vaccines are 1 weapon, so is anti-viral drugs, antibiotics anti inflammatory and anti coagulant.

But we should let each individual choose with his doctor what treatment he wants. And not guilt young children to take an experimental drug where we don't know the long term efficacy or side effects.
that's my point, though. they're nowhere near capacity and you're comparing it to solutions that are at capacity (DSL). just wait until they need to make more money and the system is capacity constrained.
The midwest has great soil because billions of organisms died millions of years ago in a shallow sea that covered most of the central united states today.
So there's only one true moral compass?
Presumably you can add an inlined array access function or macro in the header to do this for you.
If the difference was statistically significant, sure. But it isn't, is it?

~50% of the time, the vaccinated group will have more deaths by chance, even if the vaccine is safe - assuming either little to no community spread during the study, or a small study of young people.

All this result shows is that the vaccine isn't effective at preventing car crashes, which is something we already knew.
> And this speed is making both them and the land sick — cows are meant to eat grass, not the grains used to fatten them quickly.

I don't disagree with this part. My point is just that a) livestock are an enormously inefficient way of raising calories and b) that's taking into consideration the horrendous industrial meat system. The US raised 33 million cows to slaughter in 2019 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/194357/total-cattle-slau...). Converting those to be pasture raised would use a vast amount of land (1), a huge reduction of calories already being produced (unsustainably) from corn and soy, and require a lot of additional labor.

(1) https://www.omnicalculator.com/biology/cattle-per-acre -- I don't know if the defaults are generally applicable for the US, but let's say 0.33 cows per acre (which may be optimistic - see e.g. https://www.outdoorhappens.com/how-many-cows-per-acre-in-you...).

A cow raised fully on grass requires around 24 months. So, if the US wants to keep slaughtering 33 million cows per year, 66 million cows need to be alive at any one time. (https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is...)

So, minimum land use would be 3 x 66 million = 198,000,000. That's equivalent to the total land used right now for soy, corn AND cotton combined (https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2021/06-30-2021.php).
No? I'd rather they told us to change it every 30k.
That makes sense. It would indeed be simpler to make the buoyancy volume variable in that case.

I'm not sure though that fabrics exist which are both stretchable and can hold on well to small molecules like helium. (e.g. mylar can be stretched only 4% at most.) Maybe some type of "accordion" type connection between the bottom and top halves of the saucer-shaped balloon would work.
Enough with this fear mongering bullshit please, what are you trying to achieve, is it fun to spread panic? Show a proper statistically significant excess mortality, or stop talking about people dying.
Just looking at the Wikipedia page suggests that Polio outcomes are quite similar to COVID:

* 70% asymptomatic

* 25% minor symptoms with a 2 week recovery

* 0.5% chance of infecting central nervous system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polio
This is what I'm getting at. That is an enormous overkill for a single server, and exactly the problem with kubernetes: It drives so much complexity that you kind of need this type of heavy-duty enterprise grade solutions even in an area where you really shouldn't need it.

If it's just a single server, you're fine with logrotate and grep.
This gave me a chuckle:

> “Koozies, best known for keeping your beer warm.”
The comment you replied to is somewhat common factual description of events of someone who was fully vaccinated and still caught covid, which lead them to decide not to get booster shots in the future.

How's that "wrong" or ignorant?
The stock market valuation is essentially how much money will trickle up to the owners in the future. If owners expects to extract 10 years of productivity then that is a huge red flag, basically means that working isn't valued and instead all the value goes to the asset owners instead of the workers. So you can see the valuation multiple as the tax workers pays to asset owners, high taxes are bad for the economy.
Drawing Mushrooms with Vulkan
What? I have never used a kobo account, WiFi, or the store. Always just plugged into computer via usb and transferred files. No fancy folders or restrictions or anything. The ebook becomes a drag and drop HD.

This is true with my Kobo Forma as well as the last one I owned years ago. Forget the name.
I refer to these excessively risk averse people as "branch covidians".

It's dumb, corny, and not that funny, but it helps me appropriately pity them instead of being angry at them. Isolation can foster a negative feedback loop of excessive media consumption, and the media is filled with quantitatively illiterate mid-wits who grossly exaggerated the risk for healthy, non elderly people. Fear is the mind killer indeed.
This is the short-term panic-selling mentality my older relatives engaged in after 2008, and now they can't retire.