skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually dont buy AppleCare for my products, but I figured since this was a 1st gen AirPods Pro and they were so small AppleCare was justified this time. And boy am I glad I did, I've had my AirPods Pro replaced like five or six times now.

Issues I've experienced:

- Loud random static noise (usually for about .25 seconds). It's like someone screaming in your ear. I've experienced this now with TWO pairs.

- Noise canceling/transparency mode just stopping working when you touch them.

- "Hey Siri" just stopped responding (not usually a big deal, but that's usually how I make calls)

- One pair just stopped working entirely. Wouldn't charge or anything.

- Each ear would get out of sync until you took them out of your ears.

AirPods Pro are by far the worst Apple product that I purchased. I regret buying them. I suspect the regular AirPods don't have most of these issues since I think the issues were mostly related to feature specific to the Pros.

I can't imagine how angry I would be if I hadn't purchased AppleCare with them, so many defects.
>For a programming paradigm, it's required. A programming paradigm that is not used by many programmers is not successful paradigm. It's a failure or it hasn't succeeded yet.

No it's not that's just a made up assumption by you. Nix and BSD are currently not popular. Even linux at one point was not popular. There are thousands and thousands of examples in software where the technology isn't popular but very successful on every other metric. There are opposite examples where the technology is popular but pretty unsuccessful in every other metric.
There's no problem - ads exist which deliver revenue proportional to viewership which is a proxy to value-add.
This is an interesting idea, but I wonder what the effects would be on smaller or newer platforms. Would it cost say $5 for a post on Facebook, but only $1 for a post on my neighborhood's Nextdoor?

FWIW, I did some thinking about this general problem a while back, and my best idea so far is to make content artificially scarce, by limiting the number of users that can see a given post in a given period.

This has the nice property of not requiring expensive moderation, complex algorithms, or (as is the proposal here) usage charges.

More details here, if interested: https://danielcohen.dev/politics/technology/2021/01/15/socia...
Will you maintain that position when you find that a company upholds a horrifying law?
I like "workarounds become a reflex". This is a very succinct way of describing one of the causes of why people often claim to have no issues using something that universally has issues.

A great example is the gaming PC vs gaming console war. PC gamers often seem to refuse to admit there's untold little quirks you have to deal with when using a general-purpose operating system and modular hardware to play games. They don't notice the workarounds they are continuously employing, because it's become a reflex.
Yes, such a cruel and unusual punishment to have your groceries delivered directly to your door.
Seems my reply was possibly too on the nose of got flagged. Hopefully, you read it before it was removed.
I think you are making an important point here that I would love somebody to answer. Why is covid different than riding a motorcycle? Nobody is required to ride a motorcycle. We know for a fact, it's more dangerous than driving a car as a mode of transport. It's a person needlessly putting themselves in danger purely for their own reasons. Why is there no talk of denying a hospital bed to them? The same applies to obesity and a 1000 other things.
> It doesn't matter if vaccines lower that by ~90%...

1. Vaccines reduce the risk of death by more than 90%.

2. Given how effective vaccines are at preventing death, the extreme difference in per capita deaths between Florida and California is entirely attributable to the difference in vaccination rates.
A completely asymptomatic person isn’t coughing or sneezing up droplets, so there’s that.
I thought you could buy a RPI-in-keyboard...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSvHJ97d8n8
you can easily do tax loss harvesting on your own
Serious question: in general, does being a manager make you more likely to get fired or less? Heuristically I think "more likely" because why fire the front line workers doing the work when you can fire middle managers. However; I'm sure this thinking is missing quite a few important details.

Maybe having direct access to work politics provides an advantage? Maybe a manager is able to sacrifice others to avoid being fired themselves? Maybe taking credit and offloading blame is the name of the game?

Thanks in advance for any consideration of this question!
Well, no. You can deploy the same monolith to two different clusters with different resource configurations.

In fact, this is what you usually do with "worker" nodes that do background jobs.

And you can always have feature flags/environment variables to disable everything you don't need in a given cluster.
> I really wonder if you have the same approach to all other situations with fine print

This isn't a fine-print, it's literally in bold in the license file. I am not renting a car that says it might not run but they'll still charge me.

> If on line 37, page 409, of a car rental agreement that you sign, it states that if you are an hour late in returning your vehicle, the car rental company will kill your firstborn, and you sign this agreement, then it's on you, right?

This is a bad example because killing my firstborn is illegal. This is more akin to a car rental that charges and extreme late fee that is written on page 1.
I hadn't thought of that tradeoff. After testing just now, if you have a column named `.data` or `.env` those constructs work as if there was no such column, and actually in that case `mutate(df, b = .data + 1)` is an error.

Personally I'll happily take not being able to use those as column names if it means I can avoid always typing : before every in-data variable, but your comment gave me a better understanding of why it would be bad for some other person or scenario, perhaps where short term ease-of-use is lower on the list of priorities.

For your second example, it doesn't come up in R because a data frame column cannot be a function. Columns must be vectors (including lists) and you could have a vector where one or all elements are functions, but the column itself cannot not be a function (functions are not vectors), so there's no ambiguity there. To call a function stored in your data frame you'd have to access an element of the column, and any access method, e.g. `[[` or `$` would make the resulting set of characters invalid as the name of an object (without backticks, which would then disambiguate the intent)

df <- tibble(x = list(function(x) x + 1))
df %>%
mutate(y = x[[1]](3))

Separate from dplyr, in R when you use `(` to call a function it searches only for functions by that name.

log <- 3
log(1)
# 0

frog <- 3
frog(3)
# Error in frog(3) : could not find function "frog"

log <- function(x) x^2
log(1)
# 1
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS?location...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?location...

Yes, I'm ecstatic we pay a ton of taxes to have one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world. Well behind the EU and OECD averages. We've got 1/3 the doctors per capita of France FFS...

Now we get to continue to pay a ton of taxes to have a shitty healthcare system AND have business and travel restrictions. Good deal.

Know what else was part of the social contract? Things like freedom of travel, the ability to run a business without government interference... Now Canada's whole economy is a housing ponzi scheme and everyone I know is selling their businesses and/or leaving the country.
Wow, is this weird !

Just a couple hours ago, I've learned about this unfortunate (at best) terminology (as I fell for it too, though at least I knew that ITER wasn't ever supposed to produce electricity), straight from the website of the journalist that stumbled upon the issue (why no link from this blogpost to the original source ?), and was annoyed to see that it didn't seem to having been discussed in ITER discussions here...

http://news.newenergytimes.net/2017/10/06/the-iter-power-amp...
>I wouldn't suggest any of these places are 'devolving into police states'. [...]

>Because who incurs the cost of when you hurt yourself or others? The government!

Are you saying that a given regulation/policy doesn't contribute to a police state as long it's justified by "harm"?
Because Bitcoin has "no governance" they have to use kludgey "soft forks" to upgrade the protocol.
Hopefully then the companies are just as willing to pay fines for following illegal rules put in place without following the parliamentary process.
The health care system is overloaded due to shortages of employees wanting to work in healthcare while being mandated to take an experimental vaccine, shortages of labor due to inflation and people re-evaluating whether they want to be wage slaves, and shortages of health care professionals who are taking time off of work due to being sick and many claiming COVID-19 despite being triple vaccinated. Hospitals are also incentivized to inflate the issue of shortages to get more funding.
My understanding of the issue as it relates to Gemini is that the Gemini community is:

1. Largely using self-signed certificates on the servers. That gets you into the protocol, but doesn't really help with trust.

2. Using "trust on first use" (TOFU) in the clients, which doesn't scale. The clients have to know whether a particular cert is valid or not, and that means the user needs to manually verify or some trusted data source has to be distributed to clients. Manual verification turns into "yeah, yeah, just let me read the page" after a while. And a trusted data source is, well, hard to keep maintained, and even harder if it wasn't in the model from the start.

So TLS gets Gemini security, of a sort, but the way it's being used makes it less effective than it should be.
I ran a very similar experiment. I don't recall the exact dates, but something like 2016 - 2018, and left Wealthfront as a result. I was under the threshold that incurs management fees, but Wealthfront was outperformed by S&P, at least over my time frame.

I never held anything with them during a market downturn, so I do wonder what that might look like. Potentially the lower returns would be justified by the existence of a hedge or holdings in lower-risk assets.
The fed balance sheet is absolutely massive.[0] One item that usually surprises folks not familiar with the money market is that the Fed owns 2.5 trillion dollars worth of mortgage-backed securities. That's 2,500 times a billion dollars worth of Americans' mortgages. If you are a homeowner in the United States, it's a good bet that the Federal Reserve has played some part in the financing of your very own home.

This project of buying regular Americans' mortgages began during the Great Recession, when the government was willing to do whatever it takes to keep the economy from imploding more than eventually did anyway. You can buy a lot of homes with 2.5 trillion dollars! This is a great example of a temporary program that inevitably became permanent. How would you even sell 2.5 trillion dollars worth of anything? Who could buy it?

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/November-2021-...
Why should it be a personal choice? Living through this pandemic without getting vaccinated is at least as dangerous to public health as driving a car without wearing a seatbelt, and that is illegal.

Even if the vaccine did nothing to stop the spread of COVID (it does much more than nothing), it is still of vital importance to keeping ICUs free, which in turn is important for everyone.

Since your choice has an outsize effect on society, and since we have ample, overwhelming, incontrovertible evidence that the vaccine is safe and certainly hundreds of times safer than the disease, I see no reason why it shouldn't be considered mandatory.
I see the issue. I was reading it as a range vs a score.
> Even so, that is much better than I thought

I forget the source but survey's suggest the average american thinks if they catch covid they have like a 10% chance of dying. This is in some cases 1000x wrong. People are badly, badly mis-informed on how survivable covid is.

If people knew the actual statistics around covid severity, I don't think we'd be doing any of this at all.
There's a lot about economics I don't understand.

Could someone explain (or point me to a resource on) how raising rates helps to control / reduce inflation?
I've sometimes thought about going to some small village somewhere and teaching interested locals how to code and use computers. I would need small, cheap devices that I can just replace whenever they get lost/stolen. Also standardized enough that I don't have to spend a ton of time doing hardware support. If someone brought a >$20 fully-contained device to market then I could buy 20 of them and plan a 6 month trip abroad. Being not super-useful as general purpose machines is a bonus.

This idea's been kicking around in my head since the OLPC was announced, but nobody's delivered yet. Chromebooks are too expensive.
The study excluded previously PCR-positive individuals in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. So it's vaccinated and no prior exposure and unvaccinated and no prior exposure.

The infection rate 60 days post-vaccination were higher in the vaccine group.
Pays well, about $30 an hour on average, for as many hours as I want

What country are you in? Around here, interns still in college can earn more than that.
The needs of the many. Get the vaccine. It's safe and allows you to be part of society again.
If the vaccines reduce spread, the manufacturers would say so. I asked for such a claim from any one of them.

Edit:

>multiple studies by scientists in different countries is more reliable than marketing text from any specific manufacturer.

I agree. The problem is, no such marketing text exists.
> ...it's still very clear...

3-4% of the people having a risk of death would explain entirely the ~50% more per capita deaths in Florida.
Zim is a fantastic tool, the best in its class. So far - 2628 notes and counting.
Unfortunately there is no other job that enables you the high pay versus low barrier to enter the field.
Love where this is going. What are some of the key use case, or too early?

Also, what did you use to record the video, it looks really slick?
You can opt out of asset classes now. I moved out of Wealthfront to save money and try to DIY but so far I've had a really hard time doing it in terms of finding time to place the buy order during the workday and doing tax loss harvesting without wash sales.
Molds aren't cheap, but as someone who've been around while F0 was created it's not that imo. It's setting up the pipeline, shitty PCBs in batches of hundreds, fuckups with parts, etc.

If you do a couple of prototypes it's fine. If you want to make a thousand or two, you are in a world of pain.
And Matrix of course:

https://matrix.org/
https://element.io/
Oh, ha. Well, maybe that's even better as I don't think the OP appreciates how unusual it is to have someone take actual responsibility for their decisions, whether or not you agree with them.
The only reason Ukraine still has a government right now is because of NATO forces on the border. I think it would be foolish to believe Putin would have stopped at Crimea had it not been for that. I pray that we do not go to war with Russia over this, but I also know that the Ukrainian people are counting on us to defend their freedom. It is tough all around.
In the software world something that works roughly similarly (i.e. where a prototype is differentiated from production) is devops. If you are deploying a toy-project once, maybe you are not setting up a CI/CD pipeline, Terraform templates, Github team permissions, Github/Jira integration, etc etc. - you do all of these things only for "real" products.

But yeah, going from prototype to production with hardware is much, much harder, I agree with you.
> I'm not a medical or public health expert, it's not up to me to figure it out.

Those people don't have the right to tell you what to do. They are not politicians and they aren't elected. They can tell me to wear a mask for the rest of my life, but it is my right to say "nope".
> era of oversecuritization we've FUD'ed ourselves into

Are you referring to the OWASP living proof that sites are built insecurely? I strongly disagree with your characterization of the state of web security. We need a lot more, and we didn't get where we are through FUD but through actual exploits and billions in losses and frauds.
DevOps, cloud architecture/engineering.

⊂ "software development" (which the author hates) or what am I missing here?
I agree.

My sense is the government has silently taken this stance and that hospitals aren't at risk of collapse like they were a year or more ago. I also get the feeling the vaccinated have given up on the unvaccinated too just based on how rarely I now see posts on social media. It's like a tacit acceptance that if people are going to choose to die, so be it.

I actually wonder if this not caring is what will actually defuse this particular anti-vaxx movement. Or it'll just be the next vaccine and the Covid vaccine issues will be completely forgotten. I mean when was the last time you heard about vaccines causing autism?

what's interesting here is the underlying psychology that makes people susceptible to manipulation by thinking they're in the know on some Big Lie. This seems to be nothing new however and I can't help but think of this quote from Goebbels of all people [1]:

> “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

[1]: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/joseph-goebbels-on-the-...
I don't have an answer but something of a follow-up question: my theory on how to do this is to find a field where my stuff skills are very useful, but are a complement to the job rather than the job itself. I'm thinking of things like scientific / engineering / research endeavors where the ability to think through how to structure and work with large amounts of data in a maintainable way is a useful skill but the software itself is not the primary work product. Has anybody had success with this approach?
We are living in an era of unnatural selection
I have the feeling someone's going to put this game on blockchain with token rewards.
Well it kinda makes sense. The simpler a technology, the less moving parts, the less chances of failure
> You need a decade to actually functionally increase the supply of nurses and specialists.

Similar things were said for the vaccine.

There is so much gatekeeping in the medical community that is not totally necessary. A doctor or nurse that immigrates to the US from a different country which has better health care than we do cannot practice were without jumping through tons of hoops. That is a pretty straightforward way the government – in a state of national emergency mind you! – could instantly and functionally increase the supply of nurses and specialists.
What does an illegal rule (law) even mean? I'm an American so maybe I'm missing something from another country, but the two are one and the same as far as I know. If I needed to start making judgement calls on every law on whether it's illegal or not, that would be a wild way to live.
The DOJ antitrust lawsuit against Google
The decline seen when looking at case counts in the US. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us

7 day average is in decline, from a high of 800k daily cases to the current 600k cases.
>Why are poor people entitled to use a social network

probably because anyone should be entitled to participate in the digital commons and have a social and public life rather than considering that some sort of luxury. Unless we want to go back to the 19th century when we stuffed the peasants into workhouses and treat them like stunted peons with no need for a cultural life.

And that criticism does apply to deplatforming and censorship as well. The privatization of the public sphere is a disaster for any country that considers itself a Republic consisting of active, democratic citizens.
As far as I’m aware, you’re spreading a rumor by claiming there’s a link.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2SL1NJ

> FIFA is not aware of a rise in episodes of cardiac arrests… and no cases have been flagged in relation to individuals receiving a COVID vaccine.
https://github.com/floatinghotpot/cordova-admob-pro#license
State-Run Pre-K Resulted in Worse Educational, Behavioral Outcomes for Kids
I'm looking at the pie chart. If 75% of the tokens don't vote and 11 people own ~18% out of the voting 25% then those 11 effectively control the DAO.
Learning about the intricacies of the design and especially the deployment process, and then following the team's incredible badass successes has been one of the most heartwarming and inspiring experiences of this otherwise awful epoch. Bravo, and thank you, and can't wait to see the pictures.
While true, note that the effects of tax loss harvesting are really only significant for a few years after acquiring the asset (since stocks tend to go up over time), but you will pay the Wealthfront fee for the rest of your life (especially since they do direct indexing, which makes switching away complicated).

And fwiw, tax loss harvesting sounds complicated, but it really isn't that hard to do. If I notice stocks have gone down a lot recently, I'll hop into Vanguard, and swap anything that is underwater with another similar, but not identical fund. I have one for international and one for US stocks. Took me a few hours to get a system down, and now it's a few minutes to do the harvest once every few years.
Ah, that's nice, I hate sites that don't do that -- which includes the one I am currently forced to use. Hilariously, the mobile app allows using the fingerprint scanner instead of entering my password -- but still requires me to enter the 2FA code every time, which of course is on the same device, so it's not doing anything other than just wasting my time.

Don't use SMS 2FA, though.
You are certainly right, there's a certain appeal to the mystery!

I remember reading an article on the Minecraft wiki about how to achieve the slowest possible movement, which is of course a totally useless thing to do in game, but you could see someone had put a ton of thought into working out how to do it! And who's to say that your slow machine is less an expression of artistry than playing the game "right" and building castles!
A Tesla driver survived a 14-hour traffic jam with 50 miles of range to spare
Doesnt validate input as words,
> Based on seriousness of the case,....

incorrect its based on likely hood of survival. no point in wasting resources on a soon to be dead individual when you can save someone who actually has a chance.
What impact do you feel local ownership has on quality? Are we talking about the content that is played, the hosts, or the ads?
First google result: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116597

If you recover quicker, cough less, it'll obviously reduce transmission.
Huolongchushui
Not flagship. Non-OLED screen, single rear camera, no face recognition, smaller battery, etc.

GP's requirements were either a fingerprint sensor or headphone jack before switching.
I undertsand that half of the annual US police-on-civilian murders werent categorized as such for over 20 years. The US seems to have some incentives to hide this data as well.

I'm assuming most of the misdisclosed/undisclosed murders were gun deaths.