skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah it's super convenient, I do it too. But like you I'm growing wary of putting all my eggs in one basket especially with how dysfunctional these large tech companies are getting and all the horror stories of account lockouts.

The one thing I'd miss about shifting to a local note taking program is just how easy it is to share / collaborate Google Docs with people. Click one button and there's a URL for it anyone can view or potentially edit, served instantly through their fast servers.
simple numbers show that unvaccinated get covid at higher rates and the number of hospitalizations is higher which puts strain on the hospitals. If something happens to me I dont want an unvaccinated taking a spot I need.
Good point. I would define that as slow lol
There's zero reason for policykit to be installed on multiuser systems or servers. This is just a part of bizarre obsession with "new tools" bullshit coming from RedHat and the inept software developers it accumulates.

The following should be the output of "find / -type f -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000" on a VM. If it is a container, you might need an "su" and/or "sudo" and maybe, if for some reason you are using a cron internal to the container (but why?!), crontab.

/usr/bin/chfn

/usr/bin/chage

/usr/bin/chsh

/usr/bin/sudo

/usr/bin/crontab

/usr/bin/su

/usr/bin/ssh-agent

/usr/bin/newgrp

/usr/bin/passwd
Right, for sure. I was thinking more like a wire or cable that physically connected the two devices. If the wire is connected, then they can share audio, else they can’t.
I was wondering how he ended up and the biography on Wikipedia is unclear on how his life may have improved after publishing his results. He published in 1978 and passed away fifteen years later. Other than a note that he joined The Party in 1991 there is no information on his last years.

I am not sure what to make of the information that is given. Does it imply he was treated poorly, even tortured, until 1991 when he relented?
The “unvaccinated hospitalisations” statistic is often somewhat fraudulent it seems. Please see this example here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/alberta-just-inadvertently-c...

It is caused by three factors primarily: (1) extreme asymmetric testing rates between the two groups of all patients; (2) inclusion of <14 day or even <21 day post-vaccination into the “unvaccinated” column; and (3) in some cases even the “unknown vaccination status” is amazingly included into the “unvaccinated” column.

The article above gives an example of 2. An example of 3 is here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=af76uwdGCM0

Number 2 essentially uses a proximal increase in vulnerability facilitated by the vaccination in order to sell more vaccinations. I am at a loss for words as to describing just how scandalous this is.
Can you give me an example of a scenario where you would be in favor of restriction like the ones that have been implemented?
Nope, Apple Music. You'd think if any music app worked properly with the AirPods it would be that.
No, but on a higher meta-level it is contagious. Obesity is more prevalent in societies where high-caloric foods are more readily available. Now I'm more libertarian leaning myself so I wouldn't actually advocate for this, but if we mandated a cap on calorie-per-serving for "foods", you'd see a drastic drop in the availability of high carbohydrate foods (particularly sugar) which would essentially cause forced sugar-withdrawal in most of the population.

A couple months later? Everyone's sugar-thermostats are reset, the lower-calorie food tastes nearly as good – if not better – and obesity rates would plummet.

However, since we don't/can't coordinate such a thing on a national level, everyone gets exposed to constantly increasing carb content in their food, and maintaining a lower calorie diet requires significantly more effort. I can speak from personal experience, I simulated this on a personal level when I moved to South Korea for 2 years where sugar is nearly non-existent. As a modestly thin person I lost an additional 15-20 pounds while I was there without having to work hard or suffer with worse-tasting food (well, I did experience sugar withdrawal for the first couple months).
AFAICT, Quebec was probably the only province to do the most effective thing to improve the health care system: increasing the wages of nurses. Only half-heartedly because it was a bonus not a raise, but it's a lot better than Ontario which is effectively reducing the wages of their nurses after inflation by legislatively capping raises to 1%.

Here's hoping it's a major election issue in Ontario this summer.
Maybe it makes sense. Maybe it doesn't. Regardless, those are the rules to be on the App Store. They are widely known and shouldn't have been a surprise or a source of frustration to anyone. If her entire business model was somehow built on Apple bending the rules for her and they failed to do so, that's on her. She should have anticipated these rules and worked within or around them as everyone else does.

If I ask you to take your shoes off before coming inside my house, and you tromp on in with your shoes still on and naively expect I'll just be cool with that, don't be surprised if I just kick you out of my house instead. And then don't expect anyone to care when you go protest in the public square about the injustice of me not letting you violate a rule I hold everyone (including myself) to.

(At any rate, didn't Apple actually reduce fees to 15% for smaller companies last year? Isn't that still in effect?)
* Edward Jones will do it for you for ~ 2%/yr, which is ridiculously high.

* Any of the big banks or brokerages will do it for less than Edward Jones.

* Almost any financial advisor will do it for about 1%/yr in fees(not ridiculously high, but not remotely cheap) or fee-based for a few hundred an hour with a 1st time setup of $4-10k, more than $10k is unreasonable.

* The robo advisors(of which their are dozens with basically identical products, generally charge 0.3%/yr, some like Vanguard include Financial Advisor services.

* At least one firm will do it for $200 first year and $100/yr after that, regardless of the balance of your accounts, and provide financial & tax planning/advice/etc included. They do require a little work on your part. I'm actively looking for more subscription based advisors like this, please PM me!

* Bogleheads.org will do it for free as long as you follow their template.
The Strange Sites Google Earth Can't Reveal
What Venus needs is not another lander, but an aerostat with syntethic aperture radar. All of this can be done in plain silicon, no one's forcing anyone to descend into the hell.

EDIT: or maybe forget the aerostat thing and just put a satellite in orbit already. With a SAR.
I miss the 80s. They lacked thin-skinned people, of which there are way too many nowadays.
Not sure where you're getting that idea. All of the parts are purchased, then assembled. There's really no tooling beyond what most electronics enthusiasts would have at home.
Giving Cash to Low-Income Mothers Increased Brain Activity in Their Babies
Tor seems to do okay in Russia. Maybe not stellar, but in practice, it seems to work fine. Same for Signal and all this other stuff.
It's actually not too bad to order custom pcbs now ($10 or less), but you do get raked over the coals if you need quality components in small quantities. Individual bulk caps can be several dollars.
> Thus, if a large part of the population remains unvaccinated, the virus has more room room to evolve than necessary given we have easy access to effective and safe vaccines.

Word was that Omicron diverged from an earlier version of covid in mice, over the course of about a year, then jumped into humans [0].

I think this detracts quite a bit from the point you were trying to make above, since we are not vaccinating mice, nor all the other animals that harbor covid such as bats, cats, dogs, primates, and deer [1].

Since we can't vaccinate or destroy all of the non-human hosts for this coronavirus, and the virus already has evolved in animals and made the jump to humans a couple of times, I don't agree that the point you made above is relevant.

[0] https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/covid-19-did-omicr...

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
Quebec: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30090689
Interesting thought, another reason to get to space.

With the internet and modern IT tools, authoritarian control over the populace is approaching turnkey. Well, it is, we just haven't had a strongman yet in the US (that wasn't an idiot).

The only defense is the speed of light. A question: at what amount of transit time from "the authority" to "the colony" does total information control fall apart? 1 light-minute? 1 light-hour? 1 light-day?

Nevertheless, space will be a whole new set of rules. The "authority" will be on Earth, and won't be able to think in terms of "space".
Hospital capacity is a technical problem and can be solved by building more hospitals, hiring more workers or changing the roles to allow nurses to handle more issues. The hospitals are meant to serve people, not the other way around. Covid didn't arrive overnight. If there are capacity issues they should be addressed independent of everything else.
For some reason this doesn't apply to snapdragon Chromebooks.

Something tells me there's something wrong, either with Android or with Google itself.
https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=107&name=2021_10_25_...
Somewhat? I like seeing various things that interest me. I often avoid the comments here as I find them to be toxic, and definitely “group thinky”. Contrary opinions are generally shit upon, even when there might be a good reason.

In the past 20 years I’ve had to reprogram myself to not read comments.
Many thanks for the post. My apologies for getting this wrong! It does make more sense that bookmarklets would not have the privilege necessary. It'd be nice to give them an escape hatch, a way to escalate: `javascript+user:alert(1+1);` But this ultimately feels a lot less pernicious & more understandable (as an oversight) than I'd made things out to be.

I think you've got the eye on the ball here, on where the really important issues are shaking down. Diving back into smaller-grained topics, I find it interesting how much focus the web request interception has gotten versus so many other topics of the Web Extensions clamp-down happening. I couldn't find any discussion of the removal of eval/dynamic code, for example (daggers of irony: the same rule Apple uses to forbid v8 on iOS), & opened what I believe is the first issue against that. https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/139 . The background tasks discussion is another important one: extensions no longer having most of the web platform accessible to them would be extremely limiting. Discussion here is active (if not totally hope inspiring), with proposals such as "Limited Event Pages" https://github.com/w3c/webextensions/issues/134 trying to move things into the right direction.
Not everyone is able to do that, for a number of reasons:

- not capable of using a mobile app or website for ordering

- low language proficiency

- not able to be at home to accept delivery during the day

- don’t have a means of payment compatible with online ordering

- live paycheck to paycheck and depend on going to the store “on demand” to make essential purchases (such as on payday). Often after normal delivery hours.
My first experience with Wealthfront was an IRA. After a short period (<year), I realized it was rather simplistic to take a predictable regular deposit and split it across a few ETFs to stay on track for their recommended portfolio. I ended up opening a taxable account to take advantage of tax-loss harvesting (materially more difficult to do myself). I'd be curious what proportion of their AUM sits under taxable vs retirement accounts.

Nonetheless (forgive the plug), I ended up building a simple app that would help me automate the thinking of balancing my portfolio. Here's an example using a Wealthfront-genereated portfolio (ETFs + targets): https://correctmyportfolio.com/scenario/share/YISu5jI3

Turns out figuring out where to optimize a portfolio to a target without selling, or other rules (like sell thresholds, cash buffers, etc.) is a bit more complicated than Excel would allow.
Thank you for pointing this out. I read about the offline "find my device" tracking feature once, which as I understand it works via some sort of Apple bluetooth mesh network, and I thought it applied to all devices with say recent software.

Which makes me wonder, does the feature work for all Apple laptops with say a recent OS?

edit:
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluet...

From the above story, it sounds like it works for all laptops with at least MacOS Catalina?
You have to consistently want to get out of the rut long enough to climb out. This length of time is (at least) proportional to the extent of the rut itself.
Proof of stake has a very specific definition. In Bitcoin, it's possible for a client to bootstrap with only knowledge of protocol rules. This is not possible in a proof of stake cryptocurrency, which also requires a trusted third party.
> If the people refusing to get vaccinated are willing to shoulder the risk themselves I have no problems with it.

This is the point: the people who are refusing to be vaccinated that have recovered from a prior infection are not at a higher risk of severe outcomes than the folks who got vaccinated and didn't have a previous infection [0].

So maybe if your definition of "should be vaccinated" is narrow enough, then maybe you can justify some kind of priority order for treatment. That's not a topic I'm going anywhere near though.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
<!-- DO HN STUFF HERE
<script>
if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") {
window.location = 'https://bbenchoff.github.io/images/Brogrammers.png'
}
</script>
-->

Nice.

As a non-brogrammer, a battery-powered, pocket Linux/BSD computer without a "phone" built into it that boots from SD card/USB stick is exactly what I am looking for.

No GUI required.

Willing to pay more than $15.
Something I've found annoying is if I'm using the airpods with my iPhone, and I'm chilling on the couch and decide to Chromecast, if I have already started chrome casting to the TV and then take my airpods out it will pause the show despite audio already going through TV?
You can't hold it and type at the same time, this device has to be sitting on a surface to type.
Are you suggesting that people rely on unprecedented medical advancements as a policy solution?
>You don't have a right to that transaction. The other party can withdraw for whatever reason

This is not always the case, even with hospitals in the US. Few markets are 100% laissez-faire in the US, and definitely not regulated industries like healthcare.

For example, if you are a hospital in the US that participates in Medicare, you must provide basic treatment to stabilize a patient with an emergency medical condition, or transfer the patient to another facility that can.

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMT...
BackboneJS is being actively maintained
Polyworld: An Artificial Life System and Computational Ecology
Maybe Putin should invent reasons justifying invading, like them having weapons of mass destruction. I've heard that works well.
Tesla FY2021 Earnings Result
Discussions would last days on the old phpBB boards. There wasn't that same pressure to spend all day on the same website. You'd make your post and visit every few days. This encouraged effort and reflection.

With reddit and other modern platforms, if it doesn't happen in the same 12 hours then it's old news.
Oh, I didn’t know about that.
FYI, Linus Tech Tips showcased one of their servers a year ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS1FcT93Qy8

Tl;dr 2-3 NVIDIA Quadros split up over hypervisor
Copying from a previous comment[1]:

The Rust compiler is both dog-slow and massive (both from a source and binaries perspective), and doesn't have a working incremental compilation mode yet, or support in-process hot-patching. There's no Rust REPL (hacks like papyrus don't count). Poor structural editing support. Integration with various editors/IDEs is lacking (e.g. there's no support for reporting possible performance issues with code constructs in any editor that I'm aware of, nor is there in-editor per-function disassembly or LLVM IR inspection, or borrow-checker lifetime annotation, no extract-function refactoring).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29925783
It would be lovely if there was a funded movement of drone ops that would specifically seek out and map areas goog earth doesnt cover...

What awesome about goog blurring out info is that goog provides the exact coords to map out...
We had obligatory census in Poland.

Truth be told, seeing the state of our governement, I fully expect all of it to leak out sooner or later. :|
As a critical care paramedic in a semi-rural area, most non-metropolitan hospitals are ill equipped to care for acute respiratory patients, and ship them to metropolitan hospitals.

To quote you: "Should the whole country pay for that", too?

Or maybe those metropolitan hospitals should say "sucks to be you", and let's just see how quickly those rural hospitals collapse under the weight.

My local ER, which is certainly not "in the most metropolitan of areas", which used to _never_ have a bed unavailable, has got to the point where ambulance crews _routinely_ (as in dozens of times, every single day) spend 2 to 6 HOURS with a patient in a hallway, "holding up a wall" (and unable to respond to calls in their community), until the ER can free a bed for them.

Anecdotal, I'm sure you'll scream. But "agenda-based sensationalism" is also entirely your opinion, too.
Putin Study (2008)
Isn’t the shortage of healthcare workers world wide? How does reducing the friction of moving into the US do anything but shift the problem around?
Thank you for your comment.

This is much needed on this website of cypherpunk idealism.
The average mortgage is held for 8 years so theoretically they’d just age out if the fed stopped buying more.
This implies the company has set itself up to do remote work well. Not every company has, not even through the pandemic. Many are still struggling to get back to the performance they were once at.

It isn’t always a power move, even if HN wants it to be; and yes, I realize that’s an unpopular opinion here.
I love this idea, especially the bookmarklet aspect of it. I'm interested to see where it goes.

I use a couple of bookmarklets, and they're really, really handy:

- One automatically takes me to the pkg.go.dev documentation of a Go library if I'm looking at, say, the GitHub page

- The other adds the current page I'm reading to my reading list, which is a mostly complete selection of stuff I've read on the internet - it does a similar thing by extracting titles and images and saving them into a CSV on a Git repo.

The one issue I have with bookmarklets is that, while they will sync across mobile and desktop versions of Firefox, the implementation on Firefox mobile feels a little clunky and cumbersome, and sometimes straight-up doesn't work.
That would be good. I did not notice it in the demo video either. This is a big feature so definitely call attention to it!
If you were infected with the original strain, you'd have had less immunity to Delta than if you were vaccinated. The exact same thing for Delta vs Omicron.

The mRNA vaccines give a broader immunization that covers more. That's not even up for debate, you're only pretending it is.

I hope your comment is sarcasm.
We're building PolyScale.ai[1] that solves the global latency challenges for apps using caching. Clearly that is a different proposition/architecture to database read-replicas, but if the use case is a fit, it's a powerful solution to a hard problem. PolyScale plugs into your existing database and maintains your transactionality and consistency (we automatically invalidate globally). DML queries pass through to the origin db and reads (SELECT’s, SHOW’s) get cached locally at the edge.

We move the database data and query compute closer to the end user for consistent 1ms query execution times at scale. It intelligently manages the cache for every individual SQL query so no configuration is needed, unless of course you want to set manual TTL’s.

1. https://www.polyscale.ai/
Someone lacks a sense of humor apparently. Given that Lisp's mass is very large I find it doubtful that it could break the C barrier any time soon.
Stop Brainstorming
Based on that reasoning we should ban free association because people randomly assault others occasionally too.
I think I haven't deposited since I last emptied my piggy bank as a kid, probably in the early 90s. And I've actually never in my life withdrawn over the counter, I was given an ATM only card sometime when I was deemed old enough to use it.
> This was over a year's time so not short lived by any means.

1 year of investment data is useless. An investor will be invested for their lifetime, we barely have decent data for 1 investor's invested lifetime(about 50 years). A decade comparison is arguably the bare minimum, you really want 20 years, as investments tend to be cyclical by a decade or so.
I wonder how the designers "knew" or hoped that the S/360 instruction set was achievable with that hardware/microcode design.

Was it sufficient to cover all the instructions? The floating point portion seems like a likely risk.

(Perhaps, more likely, the microcode drafts were co-written with hardware designs so they had less risk of a failure.)
Heh, I guess all those delays make sense with this kind of feeling of risk - you can bet that they re-checked everything 101 times and any piece that was even suspected of not working 100% as expected was replaced !
Losing big is easy
Your comment could not illustrate my point better if you had tried
You rewriting history? The vaccine was never said to be 100% effective. Stop trying to twist reality to face your own political views.
This is an awesome tool! I created my own promo in Blender for a personal site project* some time ago and it was a real pain getting the screen content to render accurately and contrast well off of the device. Do you have any concerns with consistency across different devices/GPUs since you're doing everything client-side? Nice to see the attention to detail you put into this.

* https://twitter.com/dannygarcia/status/1220401033064484864
A major criticism of the first wave of lockdowns was how it advantaged the big box stores. Walmart, because it sold groceries, was allowed to stay open, while smaller Walmart competitors were restricted to curbside shopping. I suspect this policy is largely a response to that criticism.
"we achieved the highest quarterly operating margin among all volume OEMs, based on the latest available data, demonstrating that EVs can be more profitable than combustion engine vehicles."
Personally no, I've seen an uptick of some pretty pissed off (and vulgar) comments which appear to be made to trigger San Francisco people. These comments are largely inoffensive as they are rapidly downvoted and these accounts banned.

One worrying trend i noticed tho, is the systematic pinning of such things on 'Russians'. I am appalled by this blatent scapegoating and how it has become a meme over the last few years. People casually jump on this idiotic red scare 2.0 conspiracy theory in full impunity.
I would recommend finding out how to execute a shell command in whatever editor you use, and then write a script that does the exporting with the settings you care about. Then bind a command in the editor to that renderer.

Not emacs but not that different either; I personally use tmux with Vim on the top pane, and a split with the command line on the bottom, and a workspace split with Apple Preview on the left. Here is a sample of it: https://i.imgur.com/oqss6SO.png

It's not for everyone, but I can't think in anything but Vim now.
By the same logic, just leave the thief and murderer as is because it is very unlikely any education will change their mind.