skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Bayesian probability leans heavily toward the vaccine being safe and the virus dangerous.

From what we are seeing the vaccine side effects are similar but considerably milder and short term, the virus sometimes has long term negative effects (lung capacity, fatigue, weakness, inability to concentrate…)
Why the world is saving too much money
I think that view is a little too simplistic. There are some powers you probably just shouldn't give to governments, ever. There are some powers that are fine to give to governments, because they're unlikely to be abused, because abusing them confers little benefit to the abuser.

Then there is a third class of power, where it's useful for the government to have it, but abuse of it can be really bad. So you need to make it really hard to abuse that power. Maybe using the power requires a lot of people to agree. Maybe a list of difficult-to-forge and difficult-to-abuse conditions need to be met before that power can be used. Maybe the power is designed so a lot about how it is used ends up being public, so people can audit its use. And so on.

But I think if there's a power that is likely to be abused by government, and really hard to put checks on that (ab)use, then the government just should not have that power, no matter how useful that power might be.

The problem with assuming that last bit isn't a big deal because they're the "good guys" is that even if they genuinely are the good guys, you never know who is going to get elected during the next cycle (or the next-next, or the next-next-next, or...). They might not be the good guys, but they still get to use that power, and certainly won't pass laws to take that power away.
And then everyone on the plane removes their mask completely while they eat, multiple times on an international flight. So yes, it was literally for no reason at all.
Filing reproducible issues is probably a good start and anybody can do it
Right but there's a noticeable difference between claiming millions of transactions per second on your blockchain home page and having around 5 in an audit. Sure transaction speed isn't always a good thing, and 5 tps might be very good, but then it should be marketed as such and with a slower speed than competitors, rather than say it broke a world record, maybe ?
I think i speak for many europeans when i say: We would be glad if Amazon, Google and Microsoft would leave and never come back.
Also check out BlenderBIM (I work on the umbrella organization it is part of) it has really comprehensive covering of IFC (using what they call native IFC authoring) including things as FM, hvac systems and 4D. It's fairly new so probably rough around the edges.

Regardless, invest a good deal of effort in open standards such as IFC. The proprietary tools really leave you in the dark about long term maintenance and data ownership.
Level 2 and Level 3 are not blocklists that are suitable for blocking on their own. They are punitive blocklists. They should only be used as part of a scoring system, such as SpamAssassin.

If your outbound mail is being blocked by some server just because your MTA is in one of those lists, it might be worth contacting the postmaster at the other end, and asking them either to drop those two lists, to use them only for spam-scoring, or to whitelist your MTA.
> I was always taught in school that you "crawl before you climb" - so on graphs x is crawling, y is climbing, on maps lat is crawling, lon is climbing.

What does this mean?
Are all those executables looking up their own location with argv[0] like in pretty much every C book and tutorial?
It's not a moot point because you wanna debug stuff :)

If things are looking weird or wrong on your display then you need to go back to your internal values to inspect what's wrong. When the internal value covary with th display values then this makes life significantly easier

Not to mention things have a tendency to blow up when you start testing in the southern hemisphere haha

That said.. I don't personally use any magic plotting packages. I just generate my own graphics with svg. It's quite easy and everything is debuggable
Order aside (I stick to geojson convention myself), I also prefer 'lng' to 'lon' due to the pronunciation. Longitude has an 'ong' sound, not an 'on' ...
jo immediately reminded me of httpie’s CLI syntax. Is it just a coincidence, or does httpie use jo under the hood?

Btw loving your new desktop app so far!
I think OP's claim is that even if someone breaks TLS, they only get the data from that cafe session. Finding an exploit in the not-yet-battle-hardened implementation of the cryptographic systems in popular blockchains could reveal private information that is recorded in a ledger "forever."
And never attribute to incompetence that which can be explained by hundreds of individually intelligent people optimizing for their own short term benefit (ie career growth).

We see this in the software industry all the time. Large organizations act inefficiently or against their own interests because large organizations don't actually have consciousness, instead their decisions emerge from the sum of a lot of little decisions and actions, each of which might be individually reasonable.

As an aside, I believe that's how large organizations can come to be evil even if the vast majority of members are not evil.
But before I managed to go to the postal office a few days later I was already searching for a replacement online.

While plausible, that sort of situation doesn't sound common enough that it should underpin the entire online advertising industry.

Even right after I have bought a graphics tablet I'm infinitely more likely to buy a graphics tablet tomorrow, compared to my parents who have never bought one in their lives, and never will.

But you're more likely still to buy another stylus, or art software, or an accessory, or physical art materials, etc. Why don't advertisers understand that?
I read this as essentially a single origin supercookie. So each origin (web site) has a unique public key for you, but it’s immutable.
> against bezos who ordered a far too large yacht against the shipyards recommendations (if that happened)

Lets be realistic, it's super unlikely that the shipyard would've ever brought this up with Bezos directly.
In theory, but often the level of freeness, and your access to democracy, depended on the color of your skin or your gender. (Which is still the case today, to a great extent, but it was even worse 30, 50, 70, 100, etc. years ago.)
I feel like some of these comments are autogenerated from some GPT3 running in the cloud.

Cryptography ensures that transaction amounts, sender, receiver are encrypted. There is no way to decrypt the data. You can verify the encrypted data without decrypting it. Everything works similar to Bitcoin but now you and others have no way of figuring out anything valuable by looking at the blockchain, because everything on the blockchain is just encrypted bytes.

Even the node that is the first one to receive all bytes has no idea who is sending, receiving and the amount. Everything is always encrypted.

When I create a transaction that includes my wallet address and the address that receiver gave me, once the transaction is made, the receiver cannot see the original address of my wallet, the 3rd party cannot see the amounts or addresses in the transaction and the receiver can move the money to a different address and I would have no way of figuring out that happened. Similarly, receiver can send me back the amount and I would have no idea from which wallet address it came.
Half Chess – Wordle for Chess
A person in category a probably also searched. The thing is just that a recent purchase isn’t a strong enough signal to not retarget. It’s a too big risk to take because the probable recent buyers are fewer so it’s not worth filtering them out. At least that’s my impression of how it works.
It’s been a while since I didn’t visited a website not mobile-ready… Hopefully reader-mode works as expected.
The moon is 3 days away from the Earth and its supply lines, versus the ~9 months it takes to travel to Mars.
I've studied blockchains a little bit but I don't understand how you can transfer funds between two wallets that you own without linking them. How would that be possible without either having some kind of zero sum proof (which none of the popular blockchains are using) or allowing an exploit which enables people to mint new tokens from thin air?
I don’t see a single incorrect statement in that post.
I agree with much of what's already said here.

1. Figure out the difference between your inherent and accidental complexity. The Cynefin framework can be a useful way of thinking about what types of complexity you have.

2. Attempt to reduce (or remove) the complexity at root before assuming you must model it. "The biggest tragedy in business is doing well that which should not be done at all." For example, we had an important user still on a legacy browser because they couldn't afford to upgrade their old laptop. Instead of adding a complicated legacy layer, we bought them a new laptop.

3. Think of the whole system, rather than just shifting the burden somewhere else within the system. This is why microservice architectures so often fail - engineers think they've reduced complexity because each service is so simple. Yet all they've done is move the complexity into the operational layer, where it's harder to deal with. Gerald Weinberg is a fun writer in this space.

4. In many organisations, a lot of people's salaries depend on their ability to add complexity, especially to processes but also to code. If you are working within such an organisation, you will have a Sysiphian task until you solve the organisational problem. Whether you can solve this problem depends on how much influence you have. This is why "skunkworks" projects so often work until they are re-integrated into the mainstream.

5. Once you've sorted out the organisational complexity, separated the inherent and accidental complexity, you'll be most of the way there. Keep reviewing and challenging everything. Complexity is a weed that just seems to grow unless you constantly tend to the garden.
That would make any Patreon also taxable, right?
Well, the bridge is designed in a way that allows it to be easily and safely dismantled.

The 2017 government promised to not dismantle it anymore, but 2022 government seems to disagree. The important part we're missing are the risk assessments from engineers involved in the project.

As far as I understand from reading the news, the 2017 promise was mostly given because at that time the local government had left the bridge covered in scaffolding for an excessively long time.
you could just truncate it at page (4k multiple) boundary. very hrad to prove intent
How specific is this book to C++? Would you still recommend it to someone who doesn’t work with C++?
It's easy to forget that Inkscape is run purely with volunteers, is a charity with 0 employees. I get that these problems are frustrating but maybe it would be more appropriate to wonder how is even possible that this project runs so well :D.
Some technical problems are outside our power. Mainly performance regression was introduced by gtk3. Which was a big blow to the whole project because it took 5years of work. And in the end, we discovered that technology is just slow and we need to migrate once again if we want to fix it.
Bugs are not ignored we just simply don't have enough manpower to fix them all
I suppose this will annoy (or employ) Bezos's yacht cleaning crew.
Author is full of big words but cannot obfuscate their lack of logic, which is pretty evident. For example in this quote first we say there is no utility, but then say maybe there is utility. This renders rest as meaningless big word soup.
"In that sense, NFTs offer nothing new within digital worlds, except perhaps that they turbocharge the ideology of capitalism (exchange value rules supreme). In the analogue world, NFTs have value only to the extent that bragging rights offer utility to those who care for them."
I'm a little unsure if I understand what you're asking for since you talk about personal branding and it makes me wonder if you're looking for an email sending/newsletter service rather than just an email hosting service.

For email hosting service, I don't think there are any email services specifically tailored or extra relevant to building personal brands. Things like a proclaimed security focus and ability to use your own domain are common features among many services. Fastmail, ProtonMail, Zoho Mail, etc.

If you actually mean you're looking for an email marketing/newsletter sending service, I personally use and have been happy with Mailerlite. It has reasonable price points (with a free tier), automation, lets you use your own domain, and lets you section subscribers into different tags easily. Deliverability is improved if you use your own domain rather than a generic free email (which Mailerlite does not recommend).
they absolutely are - you'll find plenty of voters in Europe who care about nothing other than immigration, for example.
Simple two-way serial between Raspberry Pi Pico and Pi (or PC)
You're also financially involved, akin to a franchisee or a "member" in an MLM, and make money on providing staking services on this blockchain. It's fine, but it's important to put your comments in context: you will always tend to defend your overweight investment in this pyramid, while I never heard of it til today.

One of your recent-ish blog article for instance, that contrast (commercial vs technical) with the Jepsen report: https://www.radstakes.com/post/airdrops-incoming-radstakes-p...

And your statement of the 2% fee you seem to take on every staking: https://www.radstakes.com/post/radstakes-year-end-report

This report will not help your business, but you should pressure RDX Works into doing a new one on the next version rather than convince us we didn't read properly some quite shocking things in the first one :s
Summary of each chapter from the Book:

https://www.seagnotes.com/index.html
>You may like or you may dislike Ulysses, and you are entitled to express your opinion of its merits or demerits, but you are not entitled to demand that it should be other than it is;

This is profound. Replace “Ulysses” with “X” and it holds true for much of the hate spreading today.
The nature approach sounds intriguing, any pointers on where to start or what to read?
A huge improvement by improving memory layout sounds fascinating. For example the described "pointer-heavy graph to something else" sounds like a transformation class that could in some cases be made in a compiler/tooling assisted way. I wish compilers (or other automated tooling) would help more with memory layout optimization. Anyone know if there's any interesting work going on in this area in the FP world (or outside, for that matter)?
Reddit is different (I'm not sure it was ever good), but by design from its origin and for the bulk of its life it was normie 4chan. It was aggressively offensive everywhere. Where it was political, it was way more aggressive than it is now, because it was barely moderated or moderated by psychopaths and perverts.

I don't get all of this Golden Age talk. I thought it was less boring when half of it was /b/, but the idea that it was apolitical is weird.
For I think 80% of the projects I worked on the admin panel was fine.

And when it wasn't, we just provided api's through DRF for users with elevated privilege, and some kind of CLI interface for people to use it.

Hell, even the DRF web interface is fine for people who know how to do REST queries.
To be honest, I don't think my fellow citizens have ever seen a rotten egg in their lives.

It does make for a nicer headline though. Also, probably only 7 people will actually show up.
In the same way that most people put the horizontal before the vertical for continuous cartesian stuff, but as soon as it's discrete, all hell breaks lose:

– Some like to think like a matrix then, usually with row, column.
– Some like to keep the continuous convention.
– Some like to split the difference.
Our trick was zipping the file and renaming it to have the original file extension again. You get some plausible deniability this way (which we ended up never needing to invoke)
> With benefit of hindsight, turns out there was never a risk of 10% of the population dying.

There's a 10-fold increase in deaths when those with COVID can't get the medical care they need.
This was my first thought. Leave it to businessinsider to not even question where these Dutch people are going to procure their rotten eggs, most of them have never seen one.
What about lingon? And cloudberries?
Sure, it doesn't have to do anything with the "the double dutch" tax evasion.
This is great especially if you're deep into the OOP way of building everything - Java, .NET, ... Really gives a whole another perspective.
Yeah. However coup you think it is, it’s fouler. I wouldn’t try to throw one, I would be to afraid to have it break in my hand and then have to live with that awful stench for more than 5 seconds.
Haven't we reached a point in programming with sufficient abstractions and syntax such that ordering of parameters shouldn't matter?
And then there's the example of P&G, or Unilever or some other FCMG company that stopped advertising and saw no change in their business

Bob Hoffman's take on advertising e.g. Advertising for Skeptics, is well worth reading - he's an ex-adman who thinks the ad industry and particularly the personalised ad industry is full of shit

When you look at the online ad industry it's reasonably clear that the people who are making the money are the ad tech companies and not the advertisers
I don’t understand humans with this anti business mania that has become popular these days.

Local shops sell products multiple times more expensive than Amazon does, so low quality that you have to replace them frequently, limited selection, bad customer service, bad return terms, expensive delivery …

Amazon has been a blessing to customers, and innovated a lot in this space.

I am not sure if I recall this explanation for existence of ultra rich people from PG. Today, a small group of software engineers can build valuable products that scale to millions or billions customers. The return to education and skills is all time high. They become rich, but also make most others better off too. I don’t think we should politicize it, become Luddites, throw eggs, or prefer a lose-lose outcome.

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I see strange comments in this post that don’t make sense. As for the quality of Amazon services, someone comments it’s poor. Fine, it’s an option, you may ignore it. The worth of companies is set by markets, others that apparently find it useful, hence the usage and valuation.

As for taxes, every person or small business I know hires accountants to minimize taxes legally. Tax evasion is illegal, and will be severely punished. There are nation states checking every aspect these big businesses to ensure they operate legally. Modify your tax code if you want (and be prepared for changes in businesses).

I think it’s well known that FAANG’s salaries are amongst highest in the market. These companies are careful, as poor treatment of people will be immediately all over media.

Finally, there is a comment: let’s tax the hell out of successful businesses anyways! Bizarre. Pure jealousy. It will not stop at ultra rich, will eventually engulf everyone and hamper innovation.
Here's one more file than you listed without BangPatterns enabled:

https://github.com/rainbyte/frag/blob/master/src/BitSet.hs

https://github.com/rainbyte/frag/blob/master/src/Command.hs

https://github.com/rainbyte/frag/blob/master/src/Curves.hs

BangPatterns is a normal language extension to have enabled, was this used heavily? (hint: it's not enabled on "every source file.") You listed two of 28 files there, I'm assuming to try to show that the vast majority of the code in that repository is in the IO monad? You went from "vast majority" from one file to now two files. I'm looking for objectivity here, as you seem to be into. Let's see some numbers. I think anyone that glances at that repo would need some convincing of your claims.

Render.hs is 211 of 5580 lines of Haskell in the repository, by the way.
Always with those conservative meteoric circles holding back society and thwarting progress!
I would love to know how many members of that team read the book cover-to-cover. I’m consistent surprised by how many developers invoke a particular methodology without having sone the work to understand it.

In particular, I’ve gone through very similar experiences where functional-programming was the silver bullet that secretly no one understood.
Sure. That kinda misses the point but you can think of it that way. And the mirror universe projection of lon/lat is not a great projection but you're free to choose what you want.

But maybe don't expose your projection in your API?
Any recommendations re: Weinberg and complexity? I've read his book on consulting, which was really well written.
Its our collective badge of shame. Where are the ancient texts? With a different mind set we could have a mobile device with the first x years of internet preloaded. I kinda like that theme: There are lots of things that could have happened with a different mind set. The network before Eternal September was rather revolutionary on its own.

If there is anything to learn for me it is that those who had the guts to think big never went big enough.

In the end everything is politics. Programmers [like many other fields] like to live in denial there so the closest thing to a constructive effort was the pirate party which did nothing. We gave the world corporate monstrosities that lobby out of self interest.

Who cares if your brain falls out.
I think what GP meant to say is "I would've taken that vaccine/booster to reduce the chance of suffering these six months".

It's a game of chance.

Digressing, some people suffer much more than others from the vaccines, and ditto from the disease. I've wondered whether they're the same. Is it the same unknown factor at work? Does suffering for days from the vaccines mean that you're someone who'd suffer for months from the disease, or even die?
The argument I think was never any concrete number of deaths. Our constitution (Germany) at least makes quantitative and qualitative arguments about human life difficult (epidemiology can still inform political decisions).

Normally the pandemic would have been considered an increased risk of life: restriction of basic freedom would have been cancelled by any court. However, we saw triage like situations in countries around us. At the beginning of the pandemic France supposingly had people dying in elderly care because the hospitals were overloaded. Italy and Portugal were close to a failure of their hospital system.

Now with many people vaccinated and omicron in the game the situation is different. But I also see this slowly acknowledged by political decision makers. This does not excuse the often really messy and not consistent, often randomly changing rules. There were prepared protocols for (influenca) pandemics but they were not enacted when the WHO announced the pandemic. We IMHO never got ahead of what was happening since.

I am currently having COVID being healthy and boostered, I am quite happy that I did not catch it earlier.
It's 2022, jealousy is fashionable. You're supposed to hate those who have more than you.
It's not anti business. It's anti ultra rich.

Business and the economy can function without incredible amounts of wealth concentrated into the hands of a few filthy rich people.
It’s possible to interact with dapps without going through a centralized server, for certain types of client hardware. Definitely not for mobile devices.