skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Write things down.

Any time you think of something that you wish to do or something you'd want to explore, write it down somewhere so you can come back to it. This might be a notepad, back of your hand, or your phone; it does not matter.

The next time you feel lethargic, look at that list and see if there is anything you'd like to do off of it.
This is true, but you have to realize there is a built-in tradeoff regarding specificity. The more "resilient" this approach is to being found out by a hash, the less specific the identification will be.
Source? Because the CDC disagrees https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/01/19/cdc-prior-c...
I think of it like USB A ports. You miss it for a few years. And then you don't. And the products generally continue to improve along other lines
I think in theory those techniques should still work in the sense that they give you the best prediction (for some definition of “best”) of the next point to test given all the previous information, but the more hyperparameters you can vary and the further you extrapolate from observations the more likely it is that something surprising happens. You should not expect a fancy tuning algorithm to anticipate surprises—they’re designed to do the opposite by exploiting predictable trends.
> Always the very rich people with iPhone 13 Max ....

Funnily enough, I can name numerous people who use iPhone 13 Pros/Pro Maxes, just bought this past year and are certainly making less than median wage.

Part of it is fashion, 'not appearing poor', and they may only know iOS due to a history of using it. So no, the very rich aren't the only ones buying iPhones. The stigma that they are phones for the wealthy should go, just as the idea that Android phones are for the poor.

Many people I know who make well more than three or four times what I do use a variety of Android devices.
They’ll be immutably non-existent because I won’t use the browser in that case, I pretty much don’t already due to Google’s ethical bankruptcy.

Notice how almost none of these updates gives the user more control over their computer, network utilization, or browser.

I’m still regularly trying to help Chrome users in my life understand the difference between being signed into Chrome and signed into Google.
I think everyone felt that about the skycranes on Mars too (like... both times).
Dankpods did a pretty good comparison of wired mic quality with wireless: https://youtu.be/N6Y_Q7RYmmY?t=315
Like the sibling commenter, I'm from Finland. The same applies to most of the Nordics though; I doubt my kids will ever see a check. People simply don't use them and cashing one would probably be quite difficult (not to mention expensive).
start with geminispace.info

enjoy the rabbit hole
This didn't happen all of a sudden in Sept 2021. The flu vaccine has always been about harm reduction and began seeing widespread civilian use in 2007-2008.
Not all companies, maybe some. I've never worked for such a company, I've always been provided with decent/powerful desktops and laptops as extra (for meetings). Last two jobs I got powerful machines (Xeon/9900KF, 32/64GB RAM, SSD + HDD, 2 monitors, etc.)
What is AMD kernel? The AMD graphics driver? Or is there a new x86_64 port to AMD CPUs? :)
> chronically sick includes "has a bit of high blood pressure".

The CDC says > 40% of US adults are obese (> 100 Million people!) and 13% of US adults have diabetes. If that's not a chronically sick population I don't know what is.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pdfs/data/statistics/national-d...
I believe it's mostly years of "creeping featuritis" but I don't really know the history in detail. Just read the sudoers(5) manpage and let the sense of hopelessness slowly overtake you.
Another similar annoyance: I'm on my phone using my AirPods and I wander in range (but still rooms away from) my Beats, which happen to be turned on. Even though I haven't taken my AirPods out of my ears, my phone switches over to my Beats. Why?

Surely the AirPods know they're still inserted and should be able to override any external switching cue. Also, the AirPods are still much closer to my phone than the Beats, so the signal should be stronger. Lastly, it's not like I just turned on the Beats, and they sent some sort of startup/activation signal. I literally just get home from a walk and my phone migrates to a different audio output. Maddening.
I nominate ISO and/or ANSI
Can or will?
On the other hand, forcing developers to use underpowered hardware forces them to confront the performance of what they are creating.
It's been awhile since I read about that study but didn't it determine that previous infection provided better resistance to infection than vaccination without a booster, but that vaccination provided better resistance to serious illness and death?

Either way I find it weird that the study clearly shows vaccination + infection provides the best protection yet people are using this to argue that they don't need a vaccination at all.
Thank you for posting this! Definitely had some concern about the IndexedDB leak, so good to know the new release is out (and has a fix for the issue) so I can update ASAP.
This, along with a large number of other trends related to COVID (including vaccine effectiveness), can be simply explained by immunity just not being very long lasting (4-6 months?). The Delta wave predates Omicron by around that much time.

I think when all the dust settles around COVID, we're going to learn that both vaccines and "natural immunity" last 3-6 months, and that explains almost all of the noise and confusion about what "works" and what doesn't. And that also suggests that "herd immunity" was never a realistic goal, whether by vaccines or infection. Maybe some future vaccine can be developed which targets a different signal and can last longer.
Some data have to be public for them to be audited by multiple independent parties. It is absolutely necessary for democracy to function. I don't see what harm can be done by someone knowing your name and address.
I don't think so. The parent said:

>[...] WASM is Java for the haters, so it sells much better at the bytecode shop.

Which means WASM was advertised as a new bytecode VM to replace Java.

What I'm saying is that, for these supposed Java haters, why did they choose to completely reinvent the bytecode VM when they could have just chosen Kotlin and not have to reinvent the wheel? It would fix most if not all of their concerns about Java.
>A great example is the gaming PC vs gaming console war.

Which war was that? A bunch of teenagers and man-children arguing online between PC vs console superiority is in no way a 'war' and is anything but a great example for "workarounds become a reflex". Online squabbles between rabid fanboys and brand loyalists should be left alone and not be used in logical debates.

>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.

I highly doubt your broad generalization is accurate. Do you have any sources for your claims? Every PC owner and gamer I know both online and IRL openly admits this hobby is not a smooth sailing endeavor. Again, I would love to see your sources for your claims, otherwise I feel HN is degrading into reddit where people make broad fact-less generalizations with no arguments and others upvote regardless because it gives them self-approval and dopamine hits.

>They don't notice the workarounds they are continuously employing, because it's become a reflex.

My personal example would be MacOS, when I, an outsider who never regularly used MacOS, point out various UX quirks that trip me up and cause issues for me rather than make my life easier as I was promised, I saw that everyone I know who is a long time user of MacOS got so used to the quirks that they formed some workarounds that turned into reflexes and just became part of the experience and not viewed as issue anymore but as tolerated and expected behavior. Basically for them MacOS is simpler because they already know the quirks and workarounds inside and out, not because it's objectively simpler than the alternatives. Same goes for long time users of Linux and Windows if you're coming from the other side.

So in the end it's not about one being objectively better than the other, it's about people always will have more issues with the things they don't know very well and be subjectively biased towards the things they already know and like. It's the nature of humanity.
iHeart is currently the number 1 podcast producer by a mile. And Cumulus is #8. iHeart is also heavily invested in smart speakers (as is TuneIn) and bought Triton Digital which was one of the top programmatic ad networks for audio. I think this article was written at an inflection point and now that digital listening is exploding, they are riding that wave pretty effectively.

http://analytics.podtrac.com/podcast-publisher-rankings
I am not at all claiming your arguments are not valid but
why is ITER claiming this then?

"ITER will generate 10 times more heat than used to start the fusion reaction."
https://fusionforenergy.europa.eu/iter/

Edit: I will half-answer or rephrase my own question so as to make clear, there are no hidden intentions behind it:-)

Why did ITER decide to present Qplasma as the core metric without using the metric, most would consider the critical to decide closeness to commercial viability? Would you agree
with experts that claim that a minimum Q of 100 is the minimum to target for commercial viability?
Nah. That's merely good work.

STS-107-Space Shuttle Columbia, that's checkmate.
Why does Vanguard sell you ETFs instead of keeping them for themselves?
HD Radio is what we're stuck with in the US, thanks to Ibiquity's lobbying efforts many years ago. The only hope is that somehow they could be forced to open it up into a free standard, because the chances of the industry spending money to adopt another digital standard are practically zero.
It's absolutely nonsensical, and it drives me crazy as well. I'm about to do something I told myself I'd never do, and just buy my own machine to use instead of my work-provided laptop...
What do you mean by "broader"? The mRNA vaccines present the original spike protein to your immune system. A viral infection exposes you to the spike protein as well as every other piece of the virus.
>in spaaaaace

in recognition of getting old(er), i wonder how many youngins even know there's a reference to be caught here.
nor profit - traditionally as a rule of thumb one doubles the price to cover that, and then again to cover retail markup
We need some good 'ol FOMO to encourage vaccination:

First month, it's free, second month, it costs $10, third month, it costs $100, fourth mount, $1000.
Yes and no, applications integrated with Polkit need to have privileges (usually by running as root). Polkit itself doesn't need any privileges since it's just a framework for programs that have elevated privileges to ask if a user is allowed to use them.

pkexec a program bundled with but not really part of Polkit is suid as the method it uses to gain elevated privileges rather than running a daemon.
No. Encryption is just one type of cryptography, used to make data unreadable without the secret key. Signatures are something else, used to prove that the holder of a secret signed the public data. Zero knowledge proofs are another, used to prove you know a secret without revealing it. It's a fascinating subject.
Data has been showing 80/20 vaxed/non vaxed hospitalizations for this new variant. How does that change your worldview?
12 years and counting - home, work and business notes - I've tried lots of others but this is still the best notetaking tool out there

* It never changes - the same user-inter face,the same muscle memory, for over a decade
* Pages are stored as plain text files and sub pages in sub folders - which means attachments are also in subfolders
* The index and todo list can be re-created from the files at any time
* Pages are saved as you type them
* As well as full text search, you get the ability to instantly search for page names
My point was that triple jabbing the worlds healthy 5-30 year olds will not move the needle on hospital demand. They are simply not vulnerable to the disease in a significant way.

So sure, let’s discuss unvaxxed/1 shot/2 shot/boosted splits, but in the relevant population. To focus on 20 year olds is a red herring.
There is very little substance on that page plus it's 18 months old and the other fact you posted isn't an incentive for hospitals. I really wonder if that's actually a thing.
Some countries are starting to ban smoking - look at New Zealand. Personally I am not against it specifically - if you are going to do some kind of extra harmful drug it might as well at least be one that is not so damn boring like Nicotine.

Obese people is a more complicated issue and I would argue that (at a societal level) it is an indicator of a larger social problem that is then causing the issue downstream just like other issues of addiction. I think we would be better off targeting that issue upstream.

That being said I do really like that in some countries (Japan, from what I hear) your general doctor can prescribe you basic things like "exercise". It must be painfully obvious to so many doctors out there that the best solution to some problems is to get the person actually moving more but instead they have to beat around the bush with after the fact duct tape type medical fixes.
I just had to explain to a bunch of project managers that developers cannot do docker-based workflows with a bunch of locally running cloud service emulators… with 8GB of RAM.

Watching those poor coders clicking around and typing was just painful. Multiple seconds to respond to any input.

Madness.
Why waste a bunch of bandwidth on 96 kHz when 44.1 is fine?
The Constitution calls for a census (Enumeration) every ten years. https://www.census.gov/history/pdf/Article_1_Section_2.pdf
"Gaming" isn't a single activity with a single threshold above which latency is unacceptable. Competitive FPS players will probably never find streaming latency acceptable. A child playing roblox probably always will. The rest of us land everywhere in between.

If you have a specific use and requirement you'll pretty much need to try a streaming game service and see how it goes. There are several of them these days and they often have free trials so it's not too ridiculous to just sign up with one and see.
Actually, "my" team's job is 1/2 asking the customer, and 1/2 not asking the customer so we can invent stuff they haven't thought of and ideally can't/won't think of.

I think the reason people aren't fully agreeing with you is that there's a lot of important stuff where a quick iterative cycle in front of a customer eliminates the possibility of high-value outcomes.
Tesla beats on earnings and revenue Q4
Imagine if we decided to calibrate against a currently-assumed nondescript stable, in field of view star (HD 84406) but later it turned out was part of a strange stellar phenomena that we couldn't forsee (and didn't have the science for) until later on.

I guess we can't win :)
> it's rather a race to the bottom in pricing with razor thin (or non-existent) margins

Isn't that the point of automation? Doesn't the saying go, "your margin is my opportunity"?
I don't think there are any businesses here who'd accept a check. Banks would probably do it for a fee, or at least require you deposit the money to your account.

Bills here are paid with bank transfer. It doesn't have to be done though online banking, but doing so is obviously easier.
I did nearly the same thing trying to get a knowledge base started for high speed digital circuit board design. I don't have much time to work on it these days though, so it's still light on content. I love how simple Zim is to work with and export to a static site but eventually it would be ideal to allow anyone to edit like a typical wiki.

https://wiki.shielddigitaldesign.com/
Pricing is mostly fixed for at least a year at a time by contracts with payers (insurance companies), or by Medicare fee schedules. Hospitals have almost no legal flexibility to dynamically adjust prices based on demand.
You are proportionately about as bad as the United States is in deaths right now.
Interestingly I see a form of #2 in the Clojure community whenever a newer Clojurist asks if a stable library is still maintained. The answer is usually yes, but it hasn't needed an update for a while. Sometimes even I have to double check.
> I don’t understand why people in the West are so anti-mask.

"anti-mask" has an implicit spin where it sounds like you're claiming a person is against the idea of anyone wearing a mask, but then often apply the label to a person who is perfectly fine with masks so long as the person wearing the mask is doing so of their own volition.

so i say split that category, and then the major categories might be more like "pro-universal-masking", "anti-universal-masking" (i.e. "individual choice"), and "anti-mask-wearing-in-public" (not only doesn't want to wear a mask, but doesn't want the people around them to be wearing a mask).
> When was the last time a driver update broke game on a console? Ever had to install support software to make a game work well with a particular controller? Issues with overlays and system feature integration? Unexpected performance loss due to weird configuration? Mysterious DRM malfunction issues? Windows Update gone wrong?

I agree (I don't get why people downvotes). My argument is that a quality PC does not have that problems. The fact that you can get a very cheap PC creates many of this situations. But I get into "No true Scotsman" territory with that logic. And that is why I agree with your arguments.
Does this not depend on the situation / requirement? I am sure brainstorming under duress can help in certain situations.
That video–wow! I'd love to try to recreate that in MockRocket and see how close I can get!

There are definitely some trade offs with doing it client side and even some nasty graphics driver bugs across devices (especially Intel integrated GPUs) that have taken quite a lot of work to figure out. For the most part it's worked out though and renders have been pretty consistent, both in my testing and from what customers have shared with me.

I do actually have server rendering built as well, and may enable it down the road for certain use cases, but it's much more expensive, especially because it needs real GPUs on cloud instances and those are obviously in very high demand these days on AWS and GCP.
If you have a sufficiently high security clearance you will find jobs based on basically that detail alone. Many of which pay much more than what those persons currently make (and yes they would represent a career change)

And yes retention is a constant problem for people in specialized training. But even in "grunt" jobs, if individuals are willing to work for a PMC they can make more money. The military trains electrical engineers, network engineers, security engineers, (even a few software engineers), medical doctors, materials scientists, psychologists, psychiatrists and more.

The officer corps is filled with people with advanced degrees and training. Most of them are in because of the benefits package they are guaranteed to get and pension. I once met a person who got their medical degree from the military and managed to retire debt free in their late 40s while pulling a military pension and was opening their own medical practice basically free of the debt worries that plagued most doctors (and was able to use their veteran status to get some nice loans to set up their business too).

This shocks people but some people actually ARE motivated by a sense of patriotism as well, and in the military it becomes possible to work on things that are basically impossible to do in the "real world". Not everyone is universally motivated by wealth so long as they hit a certain degree where they feel safe and secure in their livelihood and future.
I'm a divergent thinker and like to bounce ideas off other divergent thinkers, so I can work alone or with others, but/ ideally they need to be creative/ open

Once we have a list of ideas, then whittle the list down with the realist and pessimistic people of the group; until there's one obvious way forward or a couple of least worse ideas.

Generally most people are better at telling you what you can't do,
"This is the biggest point, imo. We don't all have to like the same things, we don't have to all use the same tools, we don't have to belong to the same communities. There's room on the web for all of us."

Exactly right.

Tech companies that rely directly or indirectly on the survival and expansion of web advertising, i.e., most of them, prefer a world where web users do not think independently.

It is easier to advertise on (and manipulate) a web where every participant likes the same things, uses the same tools, and belongs to the same communities.
The paperkey documentation.

https://www.jabberwocky.com/software/paperkey/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Paperkey

The paperkey tool will produce a human-readable text file that you can print out. I found that to be inconvenient and settled on QR codes instead. They're ubiquitous, machine-readable and have built-in error correction.
If your software is too perfect, almost always it needs new features. If it's too perfect and becomes popular then every user requests a new feature.

So, there is no such thing as a perfect software/library being done.
Spotify Is Removing Neil Young Songs After He Complains of ‘Misinformation’
Were there delays caused by it, though?
> However, we have a 30/70 split in number of covid hospitalizations, with 30 being vaccinated people, in countries where the split in the normal population is 90/10. This means that despite some unvaccinated people having had prior infection the vaccine reduces hospitalizations by 20x. Given this data the most effective strategy is to just vaccinate everyone without what is effectively a pointless distinction

No. This is wrong. As the parent noted, the CDC's own data shows that prior infection provides robust protection against severe disease. Both without vaccination:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm#F1_down

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm

As well as a substantial additional benefit after vaccination:

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7101a4.htm

> Previous COVID-19 illness was associated with reduced odds of severe outcomes (aOR = 0.27; 95% CI = 0.09–0.84).

Moreover, the CDC estimates that over 150M people in the US (out of a country of 330M) have had Covid:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

That's 45% of the US population (before Omicron). There's no rational way to characterize this as insignificant.
How about:

/etc/passed.root
/etc/shadow.root
/etc/group.root

I don't know if the handling of the "wheel" group should be any different. It's still enforced on OpenBSD for su.
...furthermore, it's heavily discriminatory.