skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
lol - I'm always fascinated with the fixation on guns in the US. Outside of a few urban areas with brain-dead local policies that exacerbate and end up promoting it, gun violence isn't much worse than other kinds of violence combined vs. other countries. Indeed in totality the US is probably below the other averages.

I mean is there still talk of banning people in London from having a steak knife on their person while in public? Take away guns and people will use other tools to carry out violence they might be intending.

Which is the real issue - people, not the tools/weapons. Fixating on tools is easier than those pesky humans, so I get why people tend to do that.

I think it was Heinlein that popularized "an armed society is a polite society" - turns out its more than mere theory or a pithy saying: https://neonnettle.com/features/1909-a-georgia-town-once-req...
Art was not being discussed afaik.
Do you know the name of it?
More likely, you've had contact with it but it did not cause any symptoms.

I don't think it is possible to avoid Coronavirus at this point. Unless someone had barricaded themselves in for the past 2 years they are likely to have had contact with the virus at this point.
You will get COVID at some point, and it won't be because you were careful, you forgot to wear a mask, or you encountered unvaccinated/unmasked people. It will be because this virus is endemic and at some point everyone will get it.

The idea that somehow getting or not getting COVID is due to level of diligence is absurd on its face.
I've been exposed to covid-positive people multiple times in my home (each time they found out they were positive after), no masking involved.

I get tested after each exposure and have yet to get it either.

Wearing masks and not catching covid is like wearing a bandana and not getting into a bike accident. It is an extremely contagious aerosolized virus that cloth masks simply aren't sufficient to stop.

Meanwhile, the effects of perpetual masking are obvious- harmful to deaf people, harmful to the development of speech and socialization in children, asthmatics and more.
It's a perfect split. /antiwork could be shaming nasty bosses, and /workreform is a productive name for where this could go.
Ivermectin has widely been used in various countries.
You can argue about the actual effectiveness, I think I remember a pre-print study being retracted.

But talking about that doesn't seem to be anywhere near the scale of dangerous public menace and should be banned.
It's still true outside the US.
I think the more fundamental advantage is on the dev side:

How do you reproducibly build that static binary in a dozen different developer's environments, and in CI?

In fact, containers kind of suck in prod environments.

For example:

- Kernel/binary mismatches break vDSO, and gettimeofday becomes 100x more expensive.

- Current apache can't run in Synology Docker any more, because they require a new kernel secure RNG (even for http).

- There's no reasonable built in story for persistent storage.

VM's and bare metal solved these issues long ago.
>requiring vaccination instead

Why not natural immunity instead?
You will pass out in 15 seconds no matter how calm you are. Then, after 4 minutes without oxygen you will begin to suffer brain damage. The oxygen generator the mask is connected to generally supplies about 15-20m of oxygen which is more than enough as it typically only takes 2-4 minutes for the emergency descent the pilot will do after loss of cabin pressure, this is of course, assuming the pilot is still conscious himself. There are numerous accidents where the pilots themselves delay putting on their oxygen masks with disastrous consequences, because your critical thinking and reasoning skills hit the floor within seconds.

The main point of the oxygen masks though is primarily to keep all passengers alert and ready as it is essential that at all times an evacuation can be performed in under 90 seconds. When the passengers are not able to reason correctly due to hypoxia, that's effectively impossible. This is what could kill you and your fellow passengers if you fail to put on your oxygen mask in a pressurization failure incident.

Which incident are you referring to with the oxygen generators igniting? Not this one I hope?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Airlines_Flight_592

> However, the NTSB quickly determined that just before takeoff, 144[15] expired chemical oxygen generators, each slightly larger than the size of a tennis ball can, had been placed in the cargo compartment in five boxes marked COMAT (company material) by ValuJet's maintenance contractor, SabreTech, in violation of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations forbidding the transport of hazardous materials in passenger aircraft cargo holds.

Because that's not exactly the fault of the ones that were installed on the plane itself.
Most of the time when people think backups they need faster than 24 hr turn around to restore - because it usually takes about that long to figure out they even need a backup, and most people don’t think ahead enough for 2 day recovery time to be useful for most use cases now a days.

If their local snapshots are dead too, or they look for it and realize they can’t find a copy of something they thought they had, it’s often because they needed that data right away and it wasn’t there when they went to get it. Hence ‘user expectations’.

That’s not in a catastrophic case (which rarely happens) that’s the ‘bob just realized he deleted the folder containing the key customer presentation last Friday’ or ‘mary just tried to open the contract copy she needed and it’s corrupted’.

If it’s a once in 10 or 100 year or whatever event, a 1-2 day turnaround is not unexpected and everything else is probably broken too. The file deleted or something got screwed up happens more often and slow response there grinds things to a halt - and causes a lot of stress knowing it’s not ‘solved’.
An interesting article. I was recently unimpressed by the new Virginia governor's first action to reaching the mandate on masks in schools. My county has elected to retain its own mask mandate.

At first blush a mask mandate is generally a public good. I keep my germs to myself, you keep yours too yourself, and we don't get the flu, or a cold, or COVID, whatever. And so for me despite not living wearing a mask I have been happy to anytime I'm near others.

The article makes a decent case that, at least for kids in schools, the science to support the utility of masks just isn't there. At first I found this surprising - how could it not be? At least it should help. But kids are in school, together, for 6+ hours a day. I barely wear my mask properly for two hours at a time and I understand how they work. Kids don't care, they're just doing what they're told, cargo cult style. Of course they won't be written perfectly, which reduces their effectiveness. But the idea that they don't help at all, or at least statistically so, is astonishing.

And the article provides evidence of that, cutting neighboring counties in Tennessee with similar vaccination rates where one had a 23% lower making rate, but similar spread. How can that be? Truly fascinating.

Much as we've seen the downside of forced closures and lockdowns, this article reminds us that there may be downsides for kids and masks. I wasn't open to this possibility previously. What could be the downside to putting on a mask? And the answer is, we just don't know. How can we follow the science if we don't have any research?

I continue to be glad to be a resident of the US, whose federalist system allows all these different jurisdictions to try different rules that may work better for them. It gives us a chance to study these differences and learn from them.

Really thought provoking article. While I wait for more studies, guess I'll keep wearing this mask around people. Can't hurt, right? Probably.
Yes, hence my use of the term "generalizable".
So long as they support and maintain their own code and accept responsibility for it.
Performance improvements in ASP.NET Core 6
See the text after Figure 4, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04272-x
Since I am not an expert astronomer (just a helpful computational person who has worked in the field) I can't give you a detailed ELI5, but they talk a lot about how it looks different from existing examples, and how to find more examples of this type (so you can do surveys; modern astronomers don't like to study one-offs, as they are biased, and instead prefer to accumulate a larger sample of instances).
Out of curiosity, what is your favorite UI to type in?
Amazon still shows as DDR2 being available from brands such as Tecmiyo and Kuesuny. With prime shipping even. You can even get DDR1 still. Now whether it's new memory or just recycled memory that's been repackaged I have no idea.
Some people don't have the travel bug. My dad sees the world as just going to work and making money and that's all he cares about.
I cut my sysadmin teeth doing tape work in early 2000s. It was quite fun but I don't miss changing tapes and ensuring that the FC tape loader library properly labeled them.
to be quite honest, it dit not. We are not there yet and if even get to the size of what elastic is today, we would be extremely glad :D
And managing dozens of apps on a giant VM using raw chroots and cgroups and your own scripting is desirable to Kubernetes?

I don't see what you win here. I don't want to have to write my own rolling updates, canary deployments, networking/traffic/load balancing scripts, configuration/secret management, dependency management, log aggregation, user management, etc.

I just spin up a Kubernetes cluster, create service accounts for my users, and let them use the k8s docs and declarative primitives to ship their code. If I'm lucky they are already familiar with the system from their last job, so they can bring expertise with them.
Missouri resident here. DOR (Department of Revenue is also the DMV in Missouri) wait times while long recently, haven't been anywhere as terrible as everyone makes it out to be. Appointments are available (can truly only speak for my local office, which is in the largest city in the state) and my wait time never exceeded fifteen minutes. Additionally, to process said paperwork only took five minutes when I was at the counter.

Each of the people at the DMV have been helpful for me when I got custom plates, titled a car, renewed my license, etc. Only one time did I have to make a trip home to get missing documentation due to extenuating circumstances.
I'm pretty sure most people over ~30 in the US were taught that was the correct form. Common usage has changed only very recently. At any rate, as long as using the feminine is fine, so's using the masculine. Some writers even use both, switching between them. Me, I much prefer the singular-they, because I don't think keeping masculine the standard is tenable or desirable, and I find writing that uses the feminine harder to read (because there's a vast body of existing writing that defaults to masculine and it's by far the bulk of all material I've read in my life, so if I see a feminine pronoun it throws me off for a second as my brain reflexively starts to try to figure out who exactly we're talking about—this is getting better as the practice is wider-spread, but c'mon, let's just use the singular-they) and because it doesn't tend to generate discussion about pronoun choice.

[EDIT] fixed a mis-labeling.
I second this. The article mentions how dubious it is that kids can wear their masks properly. I’ll site my own son who routinely pulls his down below his mouth and nose. I can imagine the stress on teachers who have to keep up appearances that masks are being enforced while also watching the kids in their class do anything but keep them on in an effective manner.
Yeah, SSD is not good for long term storage (like a copy of your tax documents from last year you might need in 5 years). The expense for size also makes it infeasible to copy ongoing roll up copies of everything which is one way of solving that.
Hey, you look exactly like your great great great great great grandfather!
[citation needed] Studies that don't use a model or beg the question? The Danish one that shows 3% effectiveness? Or the Bangladesh one that shows 11%?
I would love to hear more about this! Do you blog?
Business ideas don't have to come from seeking out a problem to solve
Luke-warm take I've been pondering: Business ideas don't have to come from seeking out a specific problem to solve, and they don't have to start out in a niche market.

Certain ideas just need to be well executed consistently to be successful. A few examples.

General interest content & newsletters like The Skimm, RocaNews, and The Hustle. You could argue they're solving the problem of people needing concise news updates. But I think they were successful more because they were well-written and engaging for a long period of time.

Kid's toys, like the Nugget Pillows or basically any trendy new toy that comes onto the market. There is definitely no shortage of kids toys. These succeed more because they're solid products paired with quality marketing.

Home goods products. These are usually just nice looking or nice-smelling things that people like to have around their homes and are willing to pay for.

Popular social media accounts like Friday Beers or any meme account. These accounts aren't solving a niche problem, they're just providing entertainment.

Sure, you can come up with a general problem that each of these solves. A meme account is a solution for boredom, or children's toys are a solution for kids needing to be entertained. But when the creators of these things generated the idea initially, were they really focusing hard on the question of: what niche-market problem can I solve? Or did they just come up with a good, simple product and execute it well?

Maybe being some form of entertainment or content is the common link with all these examples? Not totally sure. But overall, I think there are lots of exceptions and limitations to the common advice about generating business ideas. I'm sure there are some considerations I'm not thinking of.

If so, roast me.

(Originally posted this on my twitter account that I recently started: https://twitter.com/WoodworkStartup)
Your posts sound like schizo ramblings so I'm not going to be mean in case you are actually disabled.
Is “24x” better for you? The claim was that inflation has outstripped the rise in minimum wage. That claim was incorrect. Minimum wage has approximately doubled the inflation rate. It doesn’t matter how you write it.
Cost Models Are Contracts
Not the best example (IMHO):

>how concrete and mortar actually work

Would you tell Roman engineers how to deal with those?

(they actually invented it, and - for certain applications - their concrete is still superior to modern one)
This is actually a rare case where profits and the public good aligned.

Spotify did the right thing, for potentially the wrong reasons (Profit)
Might be said before, for other kind of jobs. It's something that the interviewer would really appreciate. A good advice to know if the interview is for F, A, A, N, or G.
Everyone.

It’s much easier to store tapes in a fire proof and water resistant safe than to find a fire and water resistant storage.

So you can keep you backups in disk, but last resort disaster recoveries should be on tape somewhere.

Gmail has tapes[1]. And they saved me their asses at least once. This can give you a hint of how important and how much use tapes get.

1 - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/03/01/goog...
I fear mental deterioration and degradation more than physical.

They're quite connected though.
Didn't Facebook had an internal employees only support system that was quick to respond a was encouraged to be used on friend and family issues?
We have jetpacks and we do not care
"let god sort em out" is just eugenics.
Their mention of air travel also makes me think of how the government brought in TSA checkpoints, but a company called Clear allows people to mostly bypass it for a fee. It would be nice if we didn't have these restrictions plus people finding ways to profit off of getting around them. Just get rid of both.
> Basically for some random reason, the thought pops into your head just how disastrous it would be if you failed at this thing you're being asked to do.

Like a driving test and the training with parents/adults beforehand.

Even with some judgmental/skittish passengers its the same.
I don't have a strong opinion either way, but it's great to see a study with accompanying data and reasonably human-readable documentation: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c04707
Sure but even then it's low compared to being a senior at FAANG and publicly traded startups, no? (ie $300k+ annually when RSUs are factored in) Especially when you factor in the job risk and lack of PTO (even ignoring lack of health insurance cause in many cases your spouse can cover that)

I personally would like to get to $175-$200 an hour as then it would truly be competitive with the above, but not sure how to get there
In other words, they exist to put others at potential risk.
That would probably be true if we lived somewhere with actual winters. My daughter's PE class is in the afternoon, and the lowest high-temperature we've had all winter is 63.
>generalizable across most industries.

I was trying to point out that it is not just industries, its literally life. This is anecdotal, but many of the teachers I personally know are anti-in person learning, but still willing to eat out a restaurant, which makes me question their true motives for remote learning.
To be fair Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at 150 years old. So you know, their awkward teen years are probably longer too. Just imagine having to listening to angsty rock music for 80 years
I picked up an LTO-5 drive a couple years ago and one thing I found (this is probably a good place to bring it up!) is that the software documentation for tape utilities and high-level overviews of the strategies employed to build and manage libraries of data on this model is pretty thin on the ground at this point. Completely understandable given how few people have tapes these days, but it also makes it a little tougher to pick up from scratch.

(And in particular the high-level overviews are important because tapes are wear items, you only have on the order-of a hundred or two (don't remember the exact figures) full tape reads before the tape wears out, so this is something you want to go into it knowing a strategy and not making it up as you go!)

Since it's complimentary to this discussion I'll link a few:

https://www.cyberciti.biz/hardware/unix-linux-basic-tape-man...

https://databasetutorialpoint.wordpress.com/to-know-more/how...

https://sites.google.com/site/linuxscooter/linux/backups/tap...

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/68115

That is, unfortunately, essentially the apex of LTO tape documentation in 2022, as far as I can tell.

Do note that in terms of tape standards, LTO-5 is an important threshold because that's where LTFS support got added, and that's the closest thing to a "normal" filesystem abstraction that's available for tape (sort of like packet-formatted CDRWs I guess, in the sense of presenting an abstraction over the raw seekable block device). There is also very little documentation on init, care, and feeding of LTFS iirc - and again, it would be nice to know any pitfalls that might cause shoeshining and tape death. Although I suppose in practice it's mostly going to get used more in a "multi session" scenario where you mostly aren't deleting files, you write till it's full and then maybe wipe the whole tape at once, and it's just a nice abstraction to allow the abstraction of "files" rather than sequential records (tape archives/TARs, in fact!) along an opaque track with no contextualization.
> So COBOL equivalent would have cost either 40 000$ or 400 000$ ? Is that what you mean?

If he didn't mean that, I will say, yes, that is correct. You could do things in VB in a day that teams of people in COBOL would take months to do. Many things in VB are basically impossible to do in COBOL.

For some perspective, the reason why many Medicare reforms in the U.S. are not able to be implemented is because the government is unable to actually modify the software. The code that figures out how to bill Medicare is 50 years old, has 8 million lines of code and 1.5 million lines of assembly [1].

Another high profile failure was when CA couldn't furlough state employees because they couldn't figure out how to update the software (a feature, not a bug, for many).

[1] https://www.programmableweb.com/news/how-usds-modernizing-me...
Sterilizing your environment might be actually counterproductive for your immune system. A better strategy is eat more healthy and do moderate exercises, especially during flu season.

Eventually you will come in to contact with a virus, unless you plan to remove all contact with people and animals.
Though you left your reasons why you think so implied ;)
She switched from cloth to paper and it did improve things somewhat; I think a lot of the effect is that it seals less on the side though, so the results of them requiring masks outside is that my daughter is wearing a less effective mask inside.
So you wants us to buy that badly designed NFT that's totally not yours based on the listing, and it will somehow make computer science inclusive.

My question is how would that work?
The link posted here is to a Supabase-specific landing page.

Their main home page doesn't mention Supabase: https://www.getmotoradmin.com/
I thought something among the lines. This would be a very good publicity stunt. I did not know about that metalised.wordpress.com wordpress page and I am an avid Heavy Metal listener. My first thought is, shit, I'm going to help this guy buy re-promoting his page. But then it landed on me... how good of a PR tactic this would be.
Glad to hear I am not the only one squandering my time doing this :) Might be a fun program to write. I find it’s often hard to guess more than the line prior to the win.
You have to reach out to their support, but it's absolutely possible. I did it myself with a five minute chat. It's just an 'Oculus' account at that point, like it was before the requirement.
I have never seen this go smoothly on a production server; it's always WAY slower than expected (if you use any significant amount of memory) and something always gets f'd up wrt the network connectivity, broken caches, etc.
I'm interested in the story of the digital nomad part. Certainly easier to start sailing once you get that part done. How did you guys become digital nomads and what exactly is it you guys do?
That is their whole point. As an alternative Captcha Method, they double the risk of false positives being abused by bots but likely due to anti-discrimination laws against the disabled, they are necessary. The solution: make them impossible to solve so you follow the law without exposing you to any risk of false positives. After all, who's gonna believe a cripple that googles captchas are impossible. Must be their fault, they are disabled after all!
Depends on your position as a male. Barack Obama got made fun of for a tan/beige suit he wore once.

Men get made fun of for what they wear all the time. So, I don’t get this argument that no one cares what men wear because we all certainly do. See mens wardrobe options vs womens. Compare the two - look at what is normal for one and normal for another. You’ll see one has far more selection than the other.
Because I've personally done it?
> If you think they have too much power in their Charter complain to that state.

Quite. I loudly support breaking up the megacorps and try to avoid depending on them, for what little I can do as a European citizen.
Wasm is probably close to this ideal
>"let god sort em out" is just eugenics.

LOL its not eugenics, its the same for every other infectious disease without a vaccine. Everyone will get omicron/some variant at some point.