skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember when the internet was just a bunch of weirdos dialing in and communicating with each other / creating documents about subjects of mutual interest? Who should have been getting paid back then?

I feel like there are some IRC channels that owe me some dividends.
Yeah but it wouldn't be illegal if the rationale was that they had priced some gas discounts into the Toyota purchase price as part of the deal.
> My current peeve is when going to a restaurant and they have "the game" on full blast.

Get a TV-B-Gone.
Larry and Sergey have absolutely zero involvement in Google's daily activities (I don't think Sergey even comes around X any more, but might still hang around research once in a while).

Larry handed sundar effective control over Google when he promoted himself to Alphabet. Even 10 years ago, Larry lost interest in search (it was really sad for the search folks when they realized that). Larry picked sundar because sundar is a robot that makes money, and larry needs that money for his longterm mission.
Well, they have a pretty active subreddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/Vanced/ so you can see a few folks besides me championing it.

But ultimately, you can either examine the binary yourself or else trust them.

One point of note is that it does not automatically update. Whether you install it directly or use the manager app, there is always some manual process involved in updates. (The manager just notifies you when there is an update available.)
This is going to be good for the owners of the construction companies in the area and probably nobody else unless maybe owners of land that may go up in value.
> What's the source of a month shutdown?

It was in late January/early February of 2021 that the Purus plant shut down. I mean, it did that to upgrade the plant, and it caught back up later in 2021. And they fell behind schedule getting Marburg online in early 2021. So they had to rely on precursors shipping from Missouri during that time.

I tried to find a link, but it's non-trivial.

Not that it matters. The random distribution of plants in the US and EU and the easy of converting them over is not really that significant.

Israel had the faster vaccination rate because the government (cleverly) offered to turn the entire country into a sales/research tool and promised a ton of data transparency back to Pfizer. It's how some new variants moving through vaccinated populations get modeled.

The contract was purchasing the doses even if the FDA didn't approve them. Even if they made people frog people, the US government would pay Pfizer. They did turn down the US research money, but instead took money from Germany and China (technically, a "totally independent* Chinese company). And they walked back the "never took OWS money" line.

I'm not sure why "money up front" matters. If the US government commits to buy 100 million things from you for $2billion, it's trivial to get external or internal financing.

I was saying the worst case from writing a check to Pfizer was 2 billion.

> a 10 billion $ risk of funds taken from hospitals for COVID care that could need it, which paid for "operation Warp speed"

Look, the fact that instead of getting Congress to authorize additional money (which they would have) and instead proceeded to waste a bunch, try to (successfully?) skim off some for themselves and then fail at most administrative tasks because they tried to work around instead of through the bureaucracy was really bad. Buying vaccines of unknown quality in massive quantities was a good, if obvious, idea.

> I don't even know where your fraud argument comes from

Oh, it's a minor point. Most US regulations around contracts specify that the existence of the regulation is to prevent "waste, fraud or abuse". My only point is that, in an emergency, optimizing for reducing those over saving lives is a bad idea. Of course, we hope that we go back and prosecute those engaging in them after the fact.
Progress bar support would be really interesting - providing a neat way to add progress bars to shell scripts that do a bunch of work.

Not sure how to go about designing a CLI tool that adds progress bars to things that might involve executing other shell commands though - I guess "pv" is good prior art here.
I'm not owed content, I simply don't believe in copyright because it's impossible to actually restrict it practice. I base my morality on my conscience, not the law. I don't feel wrong at all to get information without paying to it.

"Information wants to be free" used to be part of the hacker ethos.
Pretty much everyone who clogged up the left lane in the '00s in their Prius is still doing the same thing today but in a Tacoma or 4Runner. The specific model of blind adoration may have changed but the fanboys still line the same pockets. If that is any indication Tesla will do just fine.
You used the words "snowflake" to describe someone who was trying to start a conversation, and I assume you would ascribe it to me as well (there are old Mickey Mouse cartoons I would call "jaw dropping" and I would probably have used similar hyperbole to describe racist stereotypes in more recent media or recently changed names of sports clubs). Yet you are the only one acting triggered and refusing to even talk through what they found so silly or offensive in other people's behavior.
Yep, the random people following you around every store you shop at, always double and triple checking up on you every 5 minutes, random people side-eyeing you everywhere you go but being nice to your face and you couldn't convince them that their actions qualified as racism if you held them before a 12-panel jury with video evidence and Jesus Christ as your prosecutor.

But they're not generally mean to you, they didn't kill you or anything, just made you feel unwelcome everywhere you go every day of your life always, and they did it so effortlessly they weren't even aware they were doing it.

That's deep south racism and it sucks so much because I didn't even have the tools to recognize what they were doing until I got away from it. Since it always happened to me, I just assumed that's the way people were.

Moving to the PNW and being treated as part of the background and not a circus side show was such an eye opener. I now think everyone should get away from their hometown for a few years at least once in their lives, because otherwise they may never know how much of what they take as normal is actually weird, evil, odd, or strange about their version of "normal".
This is especially true with Indian H1B's. A company I was doing work for complained that they were burned at least 3 times. They got someone else who wasn't the person they interviewed. Wasn't a big deal since they would let them go immediately. What's funny is folks were asking are you sure? The manager would say yes I'm sure, I'm Indian and I know who I spoke to during the interview and it wasn't this guy.
One reason is that mRNA vaccines can be developed much faster than traditional vaccines. So the idea is you have a better chance of "outrunning" a strain.
You're making my point for me. The US was capable of fighting multiple wars against the English without a campaign of dehumanization against all people of English descent, based on claims that the English were inherently and irredeemably savage and uncivilized.

I invite you to find a Disney movie with caricatures of English people that portrays them with exaggerated features, outlandish clothing, and speaking incomprehensibly, and where non-English people then dress and act like them as a goofy lark. The best I can think of is specific goofs on the English aristocracy at specific historical times (like revolutionary America) -- as opposed to American Indians, who were often shown to just be primitive barbarians, whether it was in the 1700s, 1800s or 1900s.
I once hired a guy who had no experience, but seemed like a good culture fit for our company and seemed very interested in learning.

We interviewed him and made e-mail communication a large part of the interview, because it is a critical part of our business. And his communication was great!

After hiring, a recurring problem we had was his e-mail to us and to customers were terrible. Bad grammar, bad spelling, uncorrected typos... It got so bad that we had to have someone review all e-mails he sent to customers.

We had regular "improvement plan" meetings with him, but after a year of paying him, we had to let him go. As part of the exit interview we went back and looked at his interview e-mails, and compared them with his current e-mails. So we asked him:

"During the interview, all your e-mails were great! Why was that?"

"My wife wrote all of those."

I guess we should have hired his wife!
On an adjacent note, my mother is someone who doesn't do any streaming—just regular old cable TV with constant commercials. I've asked her why she puts up with it and she just says the commercials give her a nice break to get up and go to the kitchen, the bathroom, do chores, etc. In reality, I think it's just inertia more than anything.

Recently though, she's been spending more time with my grandpa who streams everything. Last I talked to her, she said she felt very spoiled being able to watch whatever she wants, whenever she wants, with no ads. I'd tried explaining how great it is to her before, but I guess she had to live it to really understand how much better the other side is.

Blocking or avoiding ads in every facet of my life is almost a point of pride for me. I'm always alarmed when other people are just cool with it.
There's also the implicit agreement they won't malware you, but they already violated that one good and hard.
> Always makes me wonder how many dysfunctional companies are out there letting deadbeat remote employees collect paychecks and do as little work as possible because nobody cares enough to press the issue.

I can't imagine it's much worse than it was in the before-times. Wally has always been able to skate along with a certain amount of meeting-attending.
what makes you think so? how could the market for this be greater than the market for the covid vaccine? the number of people susceptible to covid is much greater than the number of people susceptible to HIV.
I think the timing is unrelated. There was a supreme court ruling in 2018 that paved the way.
If they terminate for fraud, they might be asked to prove it in some kind of wrongful termination claim, or risk being charged with libel or slander. Though the possibility might be remote, and the employer likely would prevail, the legal team and HR will not want to take any chance of having to spend time on that. They will want to take the lowest risk approach.
Don't use a phone number for 2FA, use what others have suggested here
I have felt this exact pain. I think I know the path to overcoming Microsoft Word in the legal world.

It will be a long road, but it will happen sooner or later. I think we can make it happen sooner.
Sounds like what the US Senate has become, unfortunately.
> using frog cells

Yep. Not to discredit their work obviously. Hopefully some good can come out of it for medicinal purposes.
Please remove your personal information and share a screenshot of that bill. That is the kind of thing that needs to go viral online so AT&T can be shamed. I've never heard of such a thing but they are a telecom, it doesn't surprise me.
What could possibly require you to take an unexpected 500 mile trip at short notice?
I'm pretty Laissez-Faire about things, but a recent interaction with gambling is making me reconsider:

My friend got a lot of free credits from the major sports books and wrote some code that he felt could generate a profit. We all threw in a little bit of money and let the program do what it does. Within a month we started doing 1k a day in profit on 3k wagered. Right as we approached 30k in profit, every major book limited our maximum wagers to pennies on the dollar, effectively making the system worthless.

So this product exists when the customer loses money, but ceases to exist when the customer makes money. It's sort of an odd product in that regard.
Full disclosure, I run ad blocker, I love my ad blocker.

I get what you're trying to say, but here's a counter example. I have a hobby of astrophography. I live in a rural area without many other people nearby interested in the stars, much less a highly technical hobby like astrophography.

Asking on message boards like cloudynights, or reddit gets you a lot of well meaning beginners offering advice outside of their skill level.

I'm currently building an observatory and I need input on which mount to use in my observatory. I don't have a good concept of what to buy for it as I've only dealt with really beginner mounts and I'm not a beginner anymore, and there's no astrophography retail stores within travel distance. Online advice is poor and hard to weed out those who are beginners meaning well and those who actually know what they're talking about.

However, to pull us back to what we're talking about here, I get a magazine for the industry called Sky and Telescope and it has ads. To me, ads are one of the best things about that magazine because it lets me know what options I have that I wouldn't otherwise be aware of, or have any way to compare.

Though to be fair, ads in a magazine don't spy on you, don't infect your computer, don't move and steal attention and don't follow you around. But I think there is a place for targeted, well behaved ads.
How?

Escape channel is called internet, not GPS. Obviously if your car has Internet and GPS, it can do it.

But if you had only starlink dish on your car, without GPS, I wouldn't be surprised if it was technically possible to track location to some degree of accuracy.
Three thoughts about this:

* This implicit agreement is too open to exploitation. Many people don't understand the depth of the tracking/ad ecosystem. If the full cost were explained to them, they might not agree to that exchange. I think I do understand it (well, probably it is worse than I expect, but whatever), but if the ad companies get to interpret this implicit relationship in the way that benefits them, then why can't I? I think the agreement should be explicit, and some sites do make it explicit -- they block people like me. Fair game! I'm sure they won't miss me, I can be quite annoying.

* I'm not sure I believe in this implicit agreement anyway. From the beginning, the design of the internet has been that information is sent to the browser, and then rendered in line with the client's needs. If I use elinks, lynx, or some graphical browser without javascript is that morally dubious? What if I'd like to minimize the amount of javascript I run, but selectively enable it as necessary, like umatrix?

* The underlying goal of the people placing the ads is not just to get something rendered on a screen somewhere, right? Their goal is to capture some attention. As you say, you don't read the ads. I could browse a while and train myself to ignore them too. At which point... the person who placed the ad still doesn't get what they wanted. At least if I block the ad, there's at least some chance that they'll detect that, and maybe the poor fool who paid for the placement can get a refund.
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you."

- Banksy
I understand where you're coming from. I did the same I still recommend Doom Emacs. It's excellent. Bare ones Emacs will probably take a lot more work than you anticipate.
There are some very cheap handheld FM radios. What's the problem?
I am not an expert, but there has been a lot of hope recently that because we have much better understanding of protein structure (e.g. https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/vaccines/tiny-tweak-behi...) and because mRNA allows us to tightly control the genetic sequence, there is hope we could target some part of the virus that _is_ well-conserved across variants. e.g.: https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/feature/preventin...
Server side tracking is already happening. It's not new or yet to be developed.
Well it got Trump into office didnt it?
https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-trump-campaign-strate...
https://www.channel4.com/news/topic/cambridge-analytica

But its not just twitter thats being manipulated and today we have algo's analysing everything making automated decisions, after all thats what cyber warfare is as discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29896985
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29872227
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/twitter-botnets-r...

Things have got even better now since this guardian article was written.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

Look at #PartyGate with Boris Johnson for a recent example. It does make changes, the police are now forced to investigate the Govt & politicians!

I dont think you realise how much people are manipulated consciously and subconsciously.
I sympathize with small creators and sites that rely on these kinds of money and are not obtrusive. It's just a test though. I will probably be back on adblocker by default.
It's correct to say it's been approved, but calling it "safe" is a bit strong. It has a lot of potential (common) side effects and it's really more of a drug of last resort or to treat something that isn't a human. If you take large overdoses, it can be toxic.
Personally I believe that even more important than picking boring technology is limiting the number of different technologies in your tech stack. That will allow you to collect more best practices, build better tooling and monitoring and develop operational experience in those few technologies than if it was spread across multiple similar stacks.

Example: React is great for starting with smaller and/or progressively enhanced websites, but if you were to develop a large monolithic SPA you might benefit more from something like Ember. However it would be better to use one stack which can cover both use-cases, so you should probably go with React for both, otherwise you'll forever be rewriting the same code for both stacks and figuring out build and tooling issues twice.

Another example: You might need a lightweight message queue for smaller background processing needs, and you might also need a proper distributed log. The former could be solved by any number of queues, while the latter calls for something like Kafka. If Kafka can also reasonably cover the first use-case you should try to use it for both.
yeah that was what it was like with my first job. Subsidiary of Accenture. Got set up in a hotel, had some training (that was kind of useless but whatever).

But I got so many spam emails from companies that sounded like a nightmare. Crappy corporate housing, getting sent anywhere, probably shady
Legal knows what they’re doing. Their entire purpose is ensuring the business is free from undue risk. Confronting this man as a liar could unravel a nice little bag of legal hurdles that end up with the company paying this person to settle X or Y claim.

Also, they confronted the evil, but the company had no reason to show their hand and they way they did it keeps them a bit safer from litigation.
I wonder if they edited "The Dambusters". In the American release, Guy Gibson's little black dog's name was overdubbed as "Trigger." The BBC version always aired the original name, which was NOT "Trigger."
My car has both options. I think the idea is you'd use the rearview mirror display primarily at night as an always-on display in place of the anti-glare polarization toggle that some rearview mirrors have, while using the center console for backing-up.

I prefer the center console. The rearview mirror is shaped and sized to display the small sliver that you can see out of the rear window which are tiny these days due to increased pillar width, and rounded back to improved crash safety and aerodynamics. The size and aspect ratio of the center console makes it much easier to see details, and doesn't have to compete with bright back-lighting from the sun. Increasing the size of the rearview mirror would be an option - don't know how big you can get before it starts impeding forward view (again, because the front roof slopes down more for aerodynamics than they did in the past).
There's some known HIV "bnAbs", or broadly neutralizing antibodies. The thing is, these are not the antibodies most humans develop in response to HIV.

Previous HIV vaccine attempts have only done a fair job at eliciting these broadly neutralizing responses. e.g. SAV001, a "whole killed" HIV vaccine, only produces broadly neutralizing antibodies in about a third of recipients (and less broadly neutralizing response in a much bigger fraction).

The mRNA approach, like some recombinant approaches, seeks to generate just portions of envelope protein to tailor the response to produce these bnAbs.
Are you saying that players are throwing games due to sports betting? Can you give an example? I'm not doubting you, I have never followed football so I have no idea, I'm just curious. Especially about your statement "...if you know where to look and how to look at things it all becomes clear(er)".
>Prohibition is ineffective and often does more harm than good

I don't believe this is true, though it is often parroted as so.

Effectiveness of prohibition is determined in large part on severity of punishments.

It is imperfect, and will always be. But it can absolutely work to minimize the behavior being targeted.
The cloud is too big for one winner
You risk saving 100% to save 30%.
Or, we could return some of this farmland back to it's natural state, plant trees and build out our carbon sync capabilities.
I live in the northern us. It was -3 F this morning
This is a great question, because I don't really like Reddit/Twitter/Hacker News/IRC/Discord, but I don't know where else to go.

I don't like Reddit's culture. Twitter seems like people shouting into the void. Hacker News attracts psuedointellectuals. IRC seems to have too many channels with 80% idling. Discord is for close friends but not great for discovery.

I want something like forums where I can post a topic, but also maybe chat to drop in and talk with folks if people are around and want to hang out.

I hate like/dislike systems and karma. I want to be able to say whatever I want within reason without some nerds downvoting something they disagree with. Old forums were great for this, because you had to actually read and think for yourself.

I think there are novel social platforms that could be explored, but I don't see anyone working on them.
Eh, sort of. They released a statement to give that impression but the wording was fairly weasely. They likely stopped using email content for directly targeting ads in Gmail, but there's almost no chance email content isn't being used to target people in other contexts.
I would find it useful to check whether the dishwasher is currently running. At least BSH has models without any indication outside where the dishwasher is fully hidden behind a frame.
> They have better things to do while running a 12-16 hour shift.

One way to view this is as a component of bedside manner. Some patients need to be educated (and perhaps won't need the card after certain things have been explained to them). Patients with hard-earned sensitivities need a little extra hand-holding. For example, people with phobias of needles need some extra hand-holding. The doctor/nurse doesn't "have better things to do" in that case -- most have training to mitigate the patient's anxiety in that situation. Why should this be different?