skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess, but it’s a heterogeneous dataset. They even discuss in this manuscript differences between how CA reports stuff compared with NY. (This is kind of a separate issue where CDC could have lead on data standardization, but not everyone in the US agrees about the Feds playing that role in this case; kind of a separate issue)

The CDC also has covidnet, which doesn’t have the data heterogeneity problem so much, but I’m not sure it has the vaccination status breakdown needed for this study. CDC has famously not done a good job breaking that down…
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covid-n...

Anyway, none of this is to say that they’re definitely not doing a cherry picking exercise, but at least one should read the paper and decide if the choices they make about data sources and analysis are reasonable. Not super productive to just immediately assume bad faith, IMO. Especially since the conclusions are consistent with research from other institutions/countries
I've wondered if twitter and similar sites (google news?) are not running afoul of any accessibility laws. I've wanted to apply ublock origin rules but twitter does not have any aria tags and all the CSS rules are auto-generated and compressed (obfuscated?) so it's hard to make any rules that don't rely on content
There seems to be an endless variety of Pointing Out / Rushen instructions in Dzogchen. Some work better than others for individual meditators. But personally I feel there's a strong placebo component to it as well. If you come in with a) good baseline concentration, b) an expectation of receiving real wisdom from a guru that you are in some awe of, you might be much more receptive than someone who stumbles into such a thing and treats it as another tourist attraction. The Pointing Out experience seems like a kind of hypnosis session; it matters how receptive you are at the moment.

Personally I don't think there's anything to the Dzogchen psychic connection its adherents claim you need to establish with a guru to experience the real thing. It's just woo woo influenced by Shaktipat from Hinduism.

In my opinion one of the best Western teachers is Loch Kelly. Although he doesn't call it Dzogchen, it seems to be pretty much the same thing and without the maddening obscurantism of Dzogchen texts translated to English. He has a lot of videos out but I liked this (paid) Vimeo course: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lochkellyhow/
It's OpenSeaDragon plus addons.
How is this a helpful conclusion? Getting disease-induced immunity only happens after you get a disease that will quite possibly kill or, if you’re younger, permanently disable you.

Regular vaccination poses no such risk.

The take home message should be clear: getting a vaccine is essential to staying safe, especially if you haven’t previously been infected. Even if you have been previously infected, the vaccine will reduce the chance that you get sick and pass the disease on to others.
We are so far from having “real” AI that it is amusing to me every time I read yet another article gushing over ML. ML is fundamentally pattern matching. It is impressive tech for what it does. But humans doesn’t need 1 million carefully tagged images of chairs or cars to work out what a chair or car is. Our understanding of what general intelligent is hasn’t progressed much since the last AI winter. The only real difference is that computers are much faster today, enabling old technology ideas to be fast enough today for practical use.
> surely worked against the key issue for Black voters of the time, which was civil rights.

It's not clear to me how salient the issue of civil rights in the south would have been to Blacks outside the south. The fact that they so readily joined a political coalition with labor-unions and lower-class whites suggests that issues other than racism would have been more relevant back in the day. It took a lot of raising-awareness to turn civil rights into something that could be addressed via the political process. (BTW, by and large, the "wealthy, urban population centers" disfavored by the electoral college were hotbeds of Progressive politics, which gave us great Civil Rights wins like, uh, eugenics. Or the modern focus on "white" political identity, replacing a far more intuitive celebration of national heritage (English, German, Eastern-European etc.). Back in the day, this was promoted as a way of fostering unity, but most people would of course disagree with this today. Progressive policymakers did basically zilch to oppose segregation and uplift Blacks; the issue was nowhere near their radar.)
If you mean selling their video delivery infrastructure as a commercial offering, there isn't much Netflix can do that isn't already covered by YouTube, which has a massive head start to boot.
REI Workers in Manhattan File to Form Company’s First Union
It costs less to stake, but it pays less too. Ethereum's staking rewards are an order of magnitude lower than its mining rewards.
A Living Wage for REI Greenvests
It’s more likely that the darker pigment contributed to the cracking rather than the other way around or whatever.
I wonder if there is a check similar to disk SMART status that could tell you the health of a used GPU?
I suppose so. If you're payment to an agent to carry out either task, the downstream complexity of the task is irrelevant because the difficulty to you is the same.
Not surprised, I did this a few years ago to travel between 2019-2020. Are they really capping cash comp at $160k after all the recent inflation? Didn't they remove "frugality" from the leadership principles?

The "golden handcuffs" stock vesting is what it is, but I think that when people burn out, they're probably more concerned with their personal situation than a 5-6 figure sum over 2-3 years.

It's also high-pressure work in high-CoL areas. IIRC, they're used to high turnover.
I'm not trying to convince anyone that crypto is 100% the future. I'm trying to convince people that it's not a total scam.

Between black and white there's gray.

You keep digging into that false dichotomy
Cool concept but it's kinda weird to list essential nutrients as nootropics.
Lots of high volume electronics, especially power electronics, still use through hole parts. They can use a cheap single-sided phenolic board with a single wave soldering pass. DIP packages are (usually) more expensive than SMT ones, but larger parts (power transistors, electrolytic caps, connectors) are usually cheaper and more robust in THT.
Interesting... this implies 64 bits per pixel. What format would that be, 16 bits per color RGBA?
I'd have more sympathy if it weren't "A review cannot be requested for this restriction." It's designed to be as brutal and draconian as possible. They chose this. It is guilty until proven innocent, with no recourse.

Sometimes I wonder if people will excuse anything Google does that hurts people and assume it is some sort of magic to not choose to do that.
bad design choices that show disrespect for the reasonable expectations of your users cause me to NOPE right outta sites and products all the time.

bugs not as much (unless it's a security product or someone who'd have access to my money).
You used to, never compromise with the mystery tramp, but now you realize he's not selling any alibis and say, "Would you like to make your next deal?"
God, I'm glad I stored all my files using quantum superpositions.
This is offered as a service? How do you find customers?
Unrolled: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1485784823641755648.html
> we now know that there was minimal to zero medical benefit to me getting this vaccine

This is not true and this very study shows that. The vaccine reduces the chance that you catch COVID and spread it to others.
Does your shell not tab-complete interfaces? Mine does, and is smart enough not to suggest up interfaces for `ifup` (so if I have a machine with a 10G card and a 1G onboard I make sure to keep the 1G interface disabled), but I don't know if that's one of my army of zsh plugins.

For me, it tends to be that only one interface of each type is ever live at a time, so I don't really even see it except as line noise 'til I have to care about it.
Companies are desperate for workers but can't find them. Why?
The conversation should be one way. By all means, experts should inform the general public but for pete sake don’t listen to them! I’m not going to put my API design to a vote among people who have no idea what an API is. That doesn’t mean that I have contempt for people who don’t know what an API is, just that they don’t have any meaningful input to give.
This isn’t as consistent as you’re making it seem. I added an add-in PCIe Ethernet adapter and it became enp5s0 while the on-board Realtek formerly known as enp5s0 got bumped to enp6s0.
Exactly what I've found. The concept is brilliant. The execution is user-hostile. I wish someone brilliant would take a good look at it for a long time, then head off into the tropics for a month while meditating on how to simplify it and/or make it more user-friendly, and return with something that is equal to Nix in concept but superior in execution and UX.
What’s stopping miners from going to Ethereum Classic once the switch happens? It seems like the obvious choice here. I know the hash function is slightly different, so maybe it’s not ideal but it only seems to have a few parameters tweaked. It’s not like ETC is a total shitcoin compared to most other coins on exchanges.

It feels unlikely that miners won’t find something to mine.
I disagree.

There is no good reason why one should strive for a piece of software
to be eternal.

It would be much better to say, well this is what we wanted to accomplish.
The program does a good job now.

Later it might be time to build something else.

You build a nice warm and cozy cabin in the woods, and you like it.
Keeps you warm and dry. Success.

Now 15 years later, the area is no longer in the woods, rather it is now
zoned within a city to have duplexes.

You can then think that you built such a great building that now
you need to remodel it into a duplex, and then a quadplex and
then a skyscraper.

I think saying "my cabin was very good, now I have to let go of it and
and build something else" is a much better approach.

It is nearly delusional to think that you will write a program that will
be good enough to be prepared for what the future brings.

We need ot let things die and build again.
I've got some early entries on there. For instance, this one from 12 years ago (https://allrgb.com/old-laser-printer)

I can answer any questions you've got
I hope they stick to it. It takes a long time to put down roots. People were dismissive of intellij and jetbrains, but look at them now.
This talk was from April 2021. 2009 is the year he got his PhD[2].

[2] https://jeffhammond.github.io/
`pkg` I'm guessing https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg&sektion=&n=1

Supports binary package installation and operates more similarly to apt
Beware that Hetzner is quick at blocking IPs, with zero recourse or explanation.

If they receive any kind of abuse report, they instantly put you on a 24h timer, but they won't show you contents of that message. If you do not respond in time, they will simply block the IP. What's strange is that I was using Cloudflare in front of Hetzner, but it seems that Cloudflare is ratting their users out and forwarding any abuse mail to the owners of "cloud protected" IPs, all without any notification or warning. Hetzner then sends you an email like "Please remove <sitename> from our network within the next 24 hours. This site violates 6.2 of Hetzner's terms and conditions.", where site in question is an obvious mirror/search engine of another social network.

What's perhaps more irritating is that Hetzner Cloud has a tiny LIFO queue of ipv4 addresses unique per customer, so you will get the same IP as soon as you release one. You can imagine what happens to a Rancher-managed k8s cluster with Hetzner node driver when one of those IPs gets a no-route: it will get stuck trying to re-deploy a failed node. Mine eventually fell apart though because I did not attend to it for a couple of years.

I'm now hosting from a proverbial garage (NixOS and cron) but proxying traffic through a cheap cloud VM, which saves me at least $1500/mo.
Am I understanding this correctly? FreeBSD y releases (x.y) are not snapshots of CURRENT, but rather are backports that are maintained separately from the really LTS x release?

I always assumed FreeBSD had a major release and then minor releases that were snapshots of CURRENT like Ubuntu's non-LTS releases were of Debian Unstable.
i love brian eno so much. one of my favorite musicians. such a unique voice. i don't always love everyting he does, but i trust his instincts enough that i am willing to go wherever he's leading.

i am a completist, i.e., for my favorite musicians, i try to get all their records. checking my music collection, i see that i have 31 eno records. i would guess that i am probably less than half-way done.

when you count all his solo records, and the ones he made when he was in roxy music, and the collaborations he's done with david byrne and robert fripp and other artists, and the weird one-off records like "headcandy" that were only released on macos CD-ROM format, and all the records he made to accompany museum exhibits ... well, you're just never going to get them all. there is always one you don't have yet. but i will keep trying!
The original Star Control was one of my favorite games. It came out when I was in college and my friends I spent many hours playing the Amiga version in our dorm room.

I happened to know a developer at Accolade who asked if I had any ideas for new ships in the sequel they were planning. I sent an email that seems to have inspired a couple of their ships. Here's a blog post I wrote up about it a few years ago:

https://daveschreiber.com/2016/03/17/my-small-role-in-star-c...
> the giver of free stuff owes you nothing beyond what was already given for free.

What they gave away for free included the promise "This will be free forever" (as linked in comments by others here).

> I don't think someone giving out free stuff owes me more?

But this isn't "more" then, is it? It's taking back what was already given.
I'm nowhere near an expert but an interested bystander. I find the SQL example easier to understand than the PRQL one.

... then I read the PRQL one again and again. It does read more like English and more like how people think.

PRQL is much more descriptive.

I quite like it.
>Ownership attestation is a pretty common service. Law companies do the same thing for home titles during real estate purchases, and there's definitely more than one provider of that service!

Sure, but now we're back to talking about properties of the good old common law legal system, which in some ways is already decentralized. It's not benefiting from anything provided by blockchains and crypto.

>If there were an equally trustworthy provider, or even a provider that offered better title insurance, why would people still use Opensea?

To me, it's the same reason everyone still uses Amazon. Blockchains don't change this dynamic.

>If Epic says "ownership of this digital thing gives you this other thing in game", imagine there are two ways to trade that digital thing: (1) within Epic's internal platform, or (2) on an open Blockchain.

Public blockchains do not provide any additional value here. The only important part is if there is consensus between the two parties to agree that the digital thing should mean something in both places. A public "trustless" blockchain is just noise as far as this goes. The whole thing doesn't work if there is no trust between the two parties to agree that token A should correspond to both item B and item C.

>Doesn't it stand to reason that (2) is a clearer ownership claim, with less control, and therefore more valuable? And if it's more valuable, then isn't Epic incentivized to sell their digital goods on Blockchain (and get better prices for them) than their internal platform?

I don't see how this is the case. If I'm not mistaken, you're talking about transferring an item from an Epic game to another game. That means Epic gets the initial payout for the item and the company making the other game gets nothing but still has to expend time and money supporting items that Epic got paid for. I can't see why they would agree to that.

The ownership claim also isn't clearer, both companies could still just decide to shut down their games simultaneously or retire those items and now you're left with nothing.
Interesting, this language reminds me a lot of Ecto[1] (the DSL "ORM" for Elixir).

It took a bit of getting used to but I'm coming to really enjoy Ecto and especially now that sqlite is fully supported, I'm finding myself using it in places I normally wouldn't have.

[1]: http://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html
Turns out trustlessness wasn't just aspirational
The great thing about being right, is it doesn't matter how many people were wrong. If you know you're right, never give in to the masses.

It's been enlightening to see how quick so many people are to dehumanize "the others" as soon as it becomes socially acceptable to do so. Psychology is fascinating.
Your hardware is reporting that peripherals have logically moved, so yeah, the names change? It's definitely not perfect, but also consider that this is in part to help manage larger fleets of systems, and if you have thirty of the same machine and you put thirty add-in PCIe ethernet cards into them, at least they'll all predictably change and so in your test lab (you got a test lab for this hypothetical fleet, right?) you'll know what your changes are causing and be able to roll out synchronized software changes to pick up on it.

We don't all have fleets of machines, of course, and systemd has functionality for disambiguation in a single-system environment where interfaces might appear and disappear sometimes. udev also has a mode where the interface is automatically named after its MAC rather than its physical location. It's not on by default on any Linux distro I know of, but it's just a flag IIRC.
Agreed that it's a good idea from that perspective. It doesn't help that Coinbase listed ETH2 as a separate asset in their app to represent staked yield producing Ethereum.

It can be adversarial. It's like the dark forest analogy that Dan Robinson coined: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2020/08/ethereum-is-a-dark-forest/
looks to be using open sea dragon [1] This is just a tiled map so any web mapping software would also work OpenLayers, Leaflet, Maplibre etc.

[1] https://openseadragon.github.io/
> Is there some conclusive recent benchmark about this. The post uses a 2014 post about ipv6 at Facebook, which I think is far from definitive today. Especially more since it "forgot" to mention that Facebook intended to enhance the "Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD." Did they succeed over these 8 years ?

I would not be surprised if there still were some cases where FreeBSD could do better. The network stack in particular has a vast amount of performance heuristics and tuning where you can just happen to hit the right or wrong side of some performance jump depending on your exact case, for example.

But to go from there to the network stack is more performant is puzzling. There are certainly cases where the Linux network stack is more performant than FreeBSD -- search for linux vs freebsd network performance and you'll find benchmark tests and complaints and anecdotes around the place including freebsd forums and mailing lists where FreeBSD is slower, and yet FreeBSD proponents would (rightly) say these are not proof Linux's network stack is faster and there might be all sorts of reasons for the differences. So you can't have it both ways.

Netflix uses FreeBSD for some things yes. Not sure if number of big internet corporations using an OS would be a favorable metric for FreeBSD either. Again you can't have it both ways. Netflix says FreeBSD is capable of performing well in that kind of environment, it does not say that it outperforms Linux in general or even in that environment. Any more than Google says the opposite.
I'm with you, my trust in society and authority changed so much with this epidemic.
I realized that state is a religion.
This doesn't appear to be the case with Omicron. It seems like everyone who has gotten it in the last couple of months has been vaccinated. At least half the people I know (almost all of which are vaccinated) have gotten it in this wave. I only knew 2 people that got it in the 1st wave before vaccines existed. I know it's more contagious now, but most people have had this same experience.
Nothing, except convincing other people to use their fork.
> it's hard to feel much more free than that these days

> You're on a schedule for sleep, meals and events, basically making no decisions, and without internet

Not judging, but... Pick one?
> in violation of the POSIX standard.

local is not in violation of the POSIX standard; it's listed there precisely because it's known extension. The behavior is unspecified; the shells are free to specify it.
How about Apache, Nginx, pulseaudio or ldapd?
Household income is always compared including all households; you can't exclude people who don't work as they are people in your country and how they live is important. No matter what income statistic you pick, on average, Americans earn significantly more than Europeans, even after taking benefits into account.

It is not illegal to build in a European style in most of the country; we have entire areas built in a similar style. Zoning is also not a fixed thing in the US; it is very common for zoning rules to change as the area grows. Most of the country is not the San Francisco Bay Area. Contrary to popular online belief, only 19% of Americans want to live in dense cities, so our cities actually mostly match people's preferences. Zoning and land use rules make it illegal to build American style cities in much of Europe as well, so far all you know, most Europeans would like American-style living they were allowed to have it. Here's a ridiculous example of some of your continent's NIMBYs not allowing a rural landowner to open a small restaurant [1]; the same sort of people are also opposed to building any form of suburban housing.

[1] https://archive.is/bAVOs
A better starting point would be a vps like DigitalOcean or Linode or Vultr. These days I’m not recommending anyone to use “cloud” (aws/azure/gcp) unless they have a specific need.
MS-DOS was pretty much finished there at the end. People still run the last version.
You probably wouldn't use DIP packages in most modern designs unless it's a low-volume part that you don't mind hand-soldering. However, DIP packages have been used for so long in so many things that the most common DIP ICs are going to continue to be manufactured for a very long time I think.

It would be interesting to know what the statistics are for the global production of various DIP package ICs. Presumably the production of the DIP variants of 555, TL074, and similar ICs peaked at some point and started to decline, but maybe not.

Apparently it's still economical to produce fairly specialized DIP chips, like reproductions of the 3340 [1] voltage controlled oscillator chip used in a lot of synthesizers. Low volume specialty chips tend to be more expensive, though, which I suppose justifies the costs associated with manufacturing.

[1] https://aisynthesis.com/product/alfa-3340-vco-ic/
I have no need for their product, but I really admire their website.

Warp speed. What a clever call to action! Pretty genius.

The animation showing different color schemes is really slick too.

Kudos to whomever made this.
Im just going to switch to mining XMR after the "Merge"
<puke>

Orright place to visit if you're in to that sort of thing, wouldn't want to live there, the heat and humidity are unbearable if you work in a workshop environment like I do.
Split panes (infinite amounts!) of the same doc? OK - here's my money.