skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please provide a link to the RCT measuring efficacy against Omikron.

> Except that we already know that the exact substance we're sticking in teens is safe in teens, because its half of the exact same thing as in the initial doses. So if your concern is safety, its fine, and if your concern is efficacy, well we have strong RCT evidence of efficacy.

My concern would be risk/benefit. As far as I'm aware, not everyone gets a half dose for the booster, but even then there's a risk for Myocarditis with the third dose, among other things. What is the additional risk reduction for an Omikron infection in a healthy young (male) teenager that has already been vaccinated with two doses? Is it really worth the risk of side-effects? There is no good data on this.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
They must not be using FCM. It's a shame that Google and Apple essentially mandate FCM / APNS to have reliable notifications. Though, I understand the need for battery saving, etc.
The original link (https://www.ghacks.net/2018/11/26/can-you-use-the-tor-browse...) is to a comment in the Ghacks article's comment section made by "Tor11.0 NetworkDisabled". The "Beginner" instructions in the comment do tell us to download a .zip file from Dropbox or ufile.io and unzip it into the Tor Browser folder, which is a little sketchy. The "Advanced" instructions are okay.
It's not precisely "self modifying code" but FYI various systems are starting to use LLVM to specialize code at runtime (aka "JIT"), including Postgres, which is written in old school C.

In the case of Postgres, the code is modified to precisely work for the particular SQL expression and for the particular table schema. This magic is on by default, which means 100 million+ computers are doing this right now. 25-40% speedups on certain queries.

This concept was first inspired in the 1990s by folks like Henry Massalin, and confirmed at Berkeley and elsewhere, but wasn't considered practical until LLVM came along.

Mic drop and mind blown.

https://severalnines.com/database-blog/overview-just-time-co...

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/jit-reason.html#JIT-...

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29....

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1994/6310.html
And the solution to this particular problem of Facebook tracking the crap outta everyone should be technical not organizational. Apps are already sandboxed from the system and each other. For example, each and every API apps could potentially use to share a tracking identifier with each other should be put behind a permission that an app can't get the current state of.

> but the real problem boils down to services being able to mandate what client you use

The underlying problem is that these threats to third-party client developers have teeth. The US government would happily enforce them it seems, paid for by people's taxes. In a saner world, a Facebook lawyer trying to sue someone who built a better Facebook app would be laughed out of the court building.
That should cost more but not 80x more.

Sure, you're paying the cost of some DBAs and SREs with that price. Still, seems too way above what it costs.
It is true but consider also that whoever made the first song with a new tech which became popular actually was the first to truly make it work well enough to make it popular.
It’s an RCT. What will those measurements contribute? In addition, it is likely the measured serum levels will be lower because they are used up.
I am now in 2 projects in parallel and most of the work time is consumed by meetings. Meetings eat up so much energy that I have none left to utilize the time-slots in between meetings to get things done.
I use Todoist for lists in general, but for my daily todo list I increasingly use Notability, a paper note app for the iPad.

This lets me break from a programmed structure and add scribbles, colours and diagrams.

Every night, I write the next day's todo list. I just amend the bottom of the page, and see what's left over from today. Some tasks get moved to the next day and others get ignored.

This follows the paper system I kept at my old job: one page per day, on line per task. Every day, I decide what to do with the previous day's tasks. It forces you to acknowledge delays and blockers.
They have records on you if you exist, and probably if you don't, too.
I like reading these sort of analysis, especially since as a writer I aspire to verisimilitude, even if I am terrible at it.

Too many writers either don't have the discipline or don't care about plot holes, which are often the size of moons. (I am looking at you, Star Trek)
I use Apple Reminders. I have a few lists:

- To do: Tasks I’ve decided to do some day. They are specific and actionable. They may or may not have a due date. These are things like filing taxes or forms, selling an appliance I don’t need anymore, etc.

- Maybe: This is where I dump anything I may or may not want to do, so I don’t forget. They could be tasks, ideas, desires, anything.

- Goals: This list contains 2-3 goals I’m working towards. Like learning a language, or growing my business. These are not tasks, but high level reminders.

- Habits: This list contains 5-10 things I want to do every day. Such as workout, swim, eat less oil, etc. these are not tasks, but high level reminders.

- Project-specific lists: These are multi-step projects I’m working on. Projects have a specific due date and deliverable, but usually multiple reminders or tasks I want to write down.

Each morning I review my lists to commit to 1-2 tasks I will accomplish for the day. Each week I review the lists and make adjustments, such as removing things from “Maybe” I don’t want to do, etc.
Sure, but a system like that would most likely require multiple independent variables to trigger - it there is no broadcast from Kremlin, if there is no broadcast from the military command, if all the satellites are offline or if they are broadcasting an all out launch sequence, AND the buzzer is off....then trigger the system. It wouldn't be just one radio station.
Classical antiquity also had different gender roles. I think the clash of cultures narration in the sense of nations is not helpful and could be an easy quick conclusion from the article. It must be made clear that it is part of a nationalistic narration that things are 'naturally' one way in 'our' culture. Ethics and moral need to be always be renegotiated and adjusted. Going back to the past is often not a good idea. Understanding that things can change is a good thing and should be motivating. However, examples of societies that moved towards multifaceted gender would be more encouraging.
>Where does this leave the people who want to use Facebook under Apple’s rules but refuse to sideload it?

You can use Safari

If Facebook pulled their app from the Apple App Store right now, would you be forced to use Android? You'd say they can't, because they'd lose the entire iOS marketshare, which is exactly the problem: Apple are forcing people to use their Apple App Store using their iOS monopoly power marketshare. Which is anti-competitive.
https://procrastinate.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
That's not true, it's based on Firefox ESR which does get security patches, just not new features between major versions.
How long do those NTCs take to reset? Maybe that explains why the breaker trips after I turn it back on after a power failure -- if those NTCs are still warm, they would not limit the inrush current.
>this is a table-stakes modification

Yup. Even the Neo Geo MiSTer core supports it because, like you said, it really is considered table stakes in the Neo Geo community and would be a ton of work to reproduce.
Okay, let's role play this. Here's my Python solution:

def square(n):
return n**2

As a well prepared candidate, it took me seconds to write this. What did this tell you about me? Did I do anything wrong and if yes, what did you expect to see instead? What does this score out of 10 and why?
Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most laptops.

So this malware that you had to clean off of those laptops would still not be possible, even for sideloaded apps.
Oh, I see. You meant "federal" government, I get it now (European here).
I used to visit to get new custom Firefox themes. Now
a days Firefox isn't that much customizable anymore so I don't visit if either.
I forgot my password to that account.
It's 2022 and we're about to rediscover something we know for 40 years already: mainframes have freaking performance.
I always felt that even if ABBAs songs might be catchy and perfectly put together, they lacked depth. They were shallow. They had very little to say to their fellow human beings except "I am super trooper dancing queen"
real virus
I’ve been really impressed with Kagi. For desktop search I find it easily the equal of Google if not better - it filters out the dreck much better than Google does. I’d tried Bing and DDG before but Kagi is the first one that hasn’t had me crawling back to Google within days.

For mobile search, unfortunately, it’s not there yet - Google has such a commanding lead in POIs, opening hours and the like.
Living languages and native languages are different things. A living language is just one that is actively used in the present. The majority of people using English in the world today did not learn it natively. To them, it makes no difference that there are native speakers of it in the UK and USA, etc. They learn it not because they care about them or wish to visit these places (although they might) but because English is (currently) the standard language for a variety of purposes such as science, just as Latin was in Newton's time.
The Manga Guide to Molecular biology.
Druid Meditation Primer
When comparing Sigfox to LoRa, they are not even that bad in terms of openness:
The Sigfox protocol specifications are public: https://build.sigfox.com/sigfox-device-radio-specifications
This is in contrast to LoRa, which remains a closed protocol (I am not talking about LoRaWAN, that part of the spec is open, but LoRa, i.e. the physical layer stuff).
So there really is a tradeoff here:
If you want an open wireless protocol compatible with many standard RF transceivers, but a proprietary backend and device library, go for Sigfox.
If you want a closed, proprietary wireless protocol that only works with Semtech chips, but an open backend, go for LoRa/LoRaWAN.
Artists and musicians specifically get a lot of social prestige. Similarly for actors.

That's part of why many people are willing to have a go at these careers despite the well-known abysmal earning expectations.

It's just a lot of very willing supply and rather limited demand that depresses monetary earnings for labour in these sectors.

Compare also pay and conditions for programmers in the games industry vs those working on in-house corporate CRUD applications.
I wouldn’t recommend nerdtree. It’s good at what it does, but what it does is not a thing that people should do.

Finding files is much faster with a fuzzy file finder, and displaying the file tree (which I think people typically need way less often) can be done by backgrounding the vim process to drop to the shell, running `tree`, and foregrounding again.
surprisingly little of value exists only in digital form. I can t think of a theorem that is not printer somewhere
It cannot be true that you never saw a single ad because brave cannot block first party ads and the probability that you never ever visited a site that uses 1st party ads is basically zero.
I don't want to make fun of the idea, because more people thinking about software as a tool they can influence is good, however the initial paragraph which says, paraphrased:

Giant corporation had $12 million software problem they had no process for flagging up and fixing properly, until an untrained employeed took it upon themselves to personally sort, seems like the bigger issue.

If that kind of thing can happen, the the user created app can be mismanaged into catastrophe as well from similar root causes.

And wouldn't we all be better off if having decent software tools to complete your tasks was just table stakes in modern corporate life, rather than something to write excitable stories about?
> Most days I can do somewhere between one and two hours of hard thinky work.

Wow. Once I start doing this kind of work I both have a hard time stopping (as I find working on such problems addictive, both in good ways and in bad) and feel like it takes at least a couple hours of loading state into my brain before I could even begin to be working "at speed" on a hard problem, which means I actively try to schedule my life such that I either can spend a solid zero hours in a day working on hard mental tasks ;P or make myself ready to work until dawn (at which point I simply feel bad I am still awake sometimes more than truly feel like I am ready to stop).
It would seem a mainline linux kernel can run everything apart from the camera on (Redmi 2) SnapDragon 410: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/MSM8916_Mainlining
Tell HN: Never launch your MVP while your domain is being transferred
I’m so frustrated. All excited about launching my MVP after a 2-week sprint, I was getting prepared to deploy it.

Few days earlier I decided to transfer my domains from Domain.com to GoDaddy. They say it takes 5-7 for the domains to transfer. Fast forward to yesterday, I finally deployed everything to Beanstalk and set up my Route53 records.

All I needed to do next was changing my domain’s NS records to point to AWS’s.As it turns out, it cannot be done while a domain is being transferred as per ICANN policy.

I asked Domain.com to try and expedite it, and they said that they’ve sent a Transfer Away Approval email - only it has never arrived. They’ve re-sent it couple more times - still nothing. Domain.com offer paid webmail services, but cannot make their own internal email system to work. Ridiculous.

Now my MVP launch is stuck for the next few days. So freaking frustrating.

BTW: It definitely proved out to be a good choice to transfer from Domain.com. Buy cheap, buy twice I guess.

Update:
Just got that email. 15 hours later.
Can you share that?
Banks that didn't carry out due diligence ought to be on the hook for any fraud. Anecdotally, sales of 'off the shelf' companies (dormant but already registered businesses) went through the roof at this time and any bank lending money to such an outfit, to my mind, was complicit in the fraud.

I do know of some viable businesses that manged to survive as a result of the lifeline that was offered but I also know of a few that were already on the ropes and all the grants and loans simply delayed the inevitable.

As a former Barclays business customer, I can also confirm that every resource was diverted to dishing out these bounce back loans - at the expense of regular businesses that simply needed basic banking services.

Would you believe it took me 6 weeks to get my business address changed?
I find that question valid for almost everything that's used for fingerprinting. Eg. Why is timezone available by default?

I wrote more but I sound like old man shouts at cloud. I've got ad and JavaScript blockers, but so much of the web is created sitting upon a mesh of invasive bullshit that it breaks easily.

Shakes fist at cloud anyway.
How do you measure if you are coding in the extension? I wonder if it counts activity (keystroke, mouse) or uf having the window focused (while grabbing a quick coffee, for instance) counts.
That's quite the story. It's a long read but worth it imo.
They are often inline with eth0. Sometimes they have a dedicated ilo/ipmi/etc, but if that's not connected it sticks ilo on eth0.

I once connected a server to a network and it wouldn't take the room's VGA KVM, so I started a dhcp server on my laptop to get onto the ipmi

63 leases were given out in a few seconds -- the lights-out (ilo, ipmi) that were on that network had never been configured, were just sat sending out dhcp requests and getting no response. The servers themselves were all statics, but nobody had bothered setting up the ilos. Most were of the age of a default password (ADMIN/ADMIN for supermicro for example)

Now this is on a private network with internet via a proxy, so fairly bad, but not catastrophic. It shows how easy it is to connect something to the internet accidently though.

Personally I put ilos on a dedicated vlan with an ACL blocking access to anywhere other than the management servers, it's not just incoming connections from the internet or from compromised machines behind your firewall, it's outgoing connections from the ilo too.
> I am never pestered to install crapware or malware and I don't have to be paranoid about it

You still wouldn’t need to be paranoid if sideloading became possible. Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.
I am mild hoarder. I browse Web and write this comment using Tor Browser on Android.

The thing I love about Tor Browser is such that when I end the session all tabs are gone. No more unlimited "interesting" tabs left opened for months. If I want to leave some information for later then I bookmark it in note app with a proper commentary why I would need it.
This is partly terminology confusion (in English) - the concept of a personal computer is not same thing as a Windows PC, the latter is just a bad implementation of the former and indeed usually not loved by its user.
It was an "announced" change but in a very confusing manner that caused a lot of problems and misunderstandings. My view on this failure in clear communication is summed up well by this guy (the entire post/comment section is worth a look though, it illustrates the confusion very well):

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/htmzrr/psa_disablin...

The folks at community.signalusers.org caught on before it was even implemented, but most people had no idea why signal was suddenly asking them for a pin and no idea what data was being collected when they gave it one, and no idea the data collection would still happen if they opted out.

Just look at this recent thread and how very very wrong so many people still are (confidently even):

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/q5tlg1/what_info_do...

The terrible communication, followed by the fact that their privacy policy was never updated (The very first sentence of which is an outright lie) are huge red flags. The nature of Signal makes it a valuable target. While I can't rule out simple incompetence, if signal has been handed a national security letter with a gag order and the state is on site collecting user's data Room 641A style, this kind of behavior could be explained as them telling their users not to trust them as loudly as they could. Wire would seem more trustworthy in that sense.

Ultimately though, the fact remains that the best way to keep your user's data safe is to never collect it in the first place. Signal could have given people an option to opt out of the data collection like many in the community had been asking them to and none of this would have been an issue. Since there are other apps that don't collect and store your name, photo, and lists of everyone you've been talking to I'd rather just stick to recommending those. I'll admit to still feeling a bit bitter about Signal though because I was a fan and the alternatives I've found aren't nearly as nice to use.
Am at the same point. Have been thinking about a variety of options
1. bidirectional pacts with self-hosting friend
2. creating a network and culture of self hosting techies that develop the skills to assist (money and documentation required here but more resilient than no 1)
3. investing in your kids.

Technically option 3 should be the best since it also engineers around generations (options 1 and 2 would roughly be locked to a narrower age group). But it also can be a double edge sword, what if they don’t like tech? Or if you overdo it with trying to make them interested in tech and self hosting and it backfires?

So yeah, no real solution yet. But I’d subscribe to that newsletter if there was one
Berkeley Bowl
Thicket, not tree – On Origami Classification, Part I
Which means everything is fine, then the ipmi switch port is shut down, and suddenly you're exposed in an unexpected fashion. It's not good. At least the password is no longer ADMIN/ADMIN on new kit, although I had one supermicro machine connected for me in India last week which was old enough that it was ADMIN/ADMIN
Regarding the breaker side, there are different characteristics available.

For example, I've switched the breaker of my workspace from B13 to C13, which both trip at above 13A (plus some) continuous, but C13 has a higher limit for short pulsed loads.

If you take a look here, you can see that a "B" breaker accepts 1 second of 5x load, while C allows for 1 second of 10x load, so up to 130A surge and more for shorter periods.
https://www.klocknermoeller.com/faz/faz.characteristics.htm
> Even being in the tech capital of the world, the school administration's views on technology and information access were so backwards. Our school basically didn't allow accessing any websites that weren't on some allowlist.

That sounds very big tech to me, exactly the model towards which Facebook et al. are moving.
This is a big misconception. Sideloading doesn’t imply that app isolation (sandboxing) is also going away, nor does it imply that any app would ever be able to trick the user into running it with escalated privileges (sudo/root) as is the case on most computers.

We’re not talking about going back to the old Windows security model where you were always one wrong click away from damaging other apps or the OS, or having your data stolen.
Musicology is not about how to create or play music. Music theory is part of it, but so is history, sociology etc.

And the comparison does not work even in context of original topic. The article from Beard linked from this blogpost (or blog post itself).
I don't think people who say they work 14 hours a day are lying. They just count in everything that is somehow related to their job, like reading about their business in the newspaper or thinking about work in the shower. And that's the crux of the matter, in jobs that don't have clearly assigned shifts or where attendance is measured, the boundaries between work and leisure become blurred. And then again, comparisons of who works how long are completely useless.
Many historians of mathematics are knowledgeable about mathematics but don’t really know how to practice history, which I think is worse. It leads to lots of bad practices like whiggishness.
Google believes ‘Android Tablets’ are ‘future of computing’
My friend asks what is it to love about it, he doesn’t get it?
It's funny you should say that about the redesign because I never had an account there, I was just a lurker and followed links to Deviantart. But at some point I remember the site being impossible to use and I just gave up, eventually I stopped following links to the site.

It's crazy to think they'd allow someone to make such a horrible design decision.
It explains why I'm up later.
I think of gender as a subjective feeling of identity. It correlates with sex most of the time: most men feel like they are men, and most women feel like they are women. That feeling is a cis identity. But for some people their subjective feeling of identity is just as obviously trans as for most people their cis identity is obvious. If you are cis, then you know what gender identity feels like. For trans people, it's just a different identity from their assigned gender at birth.