skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreeing with you but it's crazy to see people hand-wave "EBV is fine".

Everyone seems to have to go through life the hard way where "nothing is a problem don't overreact" until suddenly it's destroying your life and then it's too late.

EBV can turn to mono and once your body is making auto-antibodies you are screwed for a long time, maybe the rest of your life because your quality of life is just gone. It will keep coming back every time you get weakened.

How about VZV turning into shingles? If you ever had a shingles attack it will change your whole perspective for life on illness and pain. If you could eradicate VZV from your body to prevent that you most certainly should, EBV too.
So do the execs, for what it’s worth, who not only suffer from lockdowns, but also often are legally required to announce their trades in advance.

Frankly, I never found lockdowns to be really onerous at all. You can’t really time the market anyway.
Stuff in /sys/class changes all the time (maybe not so much on normal computers, but on semi-embedded ARM platforms they see to change a lot)
It’s incredibly exciting to watch Webb deploy. I was too young to remember Hubble but will definitely remember this.
I think it's more or less established that flying on a plane isn't a right in the US. That's part of why the 4th amendment challenges to the TSA haven't been effective.
> terrorists and misbehaving citizens are different - the citizen isn't doing it for a political purpose, while terrorists are.

There are plenty of US citizens that are motivated by politics to be violent on planes and either not care about hurting others, or deliberately hurt others.
I have an endorsement in bacon. It is my proudest endorsement.
Youtube has gotten terrible with up to five minute long ads.

Why the hell am I getting targeted?
Totally naive question here - can all this not be done automatically? It seems to me as if this is a largely manual process, and that's why it's going to take 3 months, no?
Including journalists and thorns in the side of govt. Well documented, but not promulgated by mass media.
Way before xbox, this has been their strategy since before they were making video games. Gunpei Yokoi, who came up with the idea (and practically nintendo's entire electronics division), called it "lateral thinking with withered technology" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Lateral_Thinking_...).
There's a third option: explicit opt-in of extensions, with better support for finding where .whatever() is defined. Gets you ergonomic helpers where they're beneficial, scoped to just the modules you pull them into. Too late for Ruby but this is how Rust traits work right?
Home Depot Employee Arrested for Swapping Cash with Counterfeit Money
Fun fact: Maples were introduced to Europe by China.
stock grants are given by dollar amounts, rather than by units - so if the stock price grew, you'd get fewer stock units!

Of course, while waiting on the vesting period, they grow, but those grants were made a while ago - contingent on your employment - which means the growth is part of the expectation of the compensation. After all, the stock _could_ drop during that period too, and you don't get extra cash compensation to, well, compensate.

Therefore, you cannot use the stock price growth to argue that they don't need inflationary wage adjustments.
> Performance reviews are garbage. They are not needed. They exist as a way for the capital-owning class to remind workers that they are seen as subhuman and will be thrown back on the streets the minute they are no longer seen by their masters as productive.

It really depends. I have never felt this way about a performance review. I like being informed about whether my manager and I both agree on what my job is. As an added bonus, the day after a good review is when you are least worried about losing your job and your livelihood. Honestly it seems like your beef is with the lack of social safety nets and not with performance reviews themselves.
Makes it sound like working in Amazon builds character, so you can know how good you have it elsewhere.

Which is a good idea in itself, but seems like it's best to just skip on that experience. Kind of like a type 2 kind of fun.

I've also heard of good experiences at Amazon, so maybe it's just particular organizations inside it that suffer a lot from this problem?
The first recorded appendectomy is in 1880. Probably the first major study conclusively indicating adverse consequences was published in 2014.

It did hold for a long time, until it didn't because we found scientific evidence that said the opposite. Are you really so confident that no such evidence could ever be found for anything else? There is so much we don't know about the human body.
Instacart worker hailed as hero after saving man during delivery
It's my new portmanteau of the week. Last week I saw "grimfutures" and adopted that.
Back then "made in Japan" was a stamp of quality, and "made in Taiwan" denoted crap.
How does Linus make money? - 2020 Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4
Just as I saw this link a notification popped up on my Pixel phone:

> Trending: "Turkey inflation rate"
> See search results

I've already put a lot of effort into purging as many categories of Google spam notifications from my phone as possible, but they just keep adding new categories that I have to track down and opt out of individually. And the only way to silence them from the notification itself is to block all notifications from that app/service.

I paid good money for this phone — just stop with the OS-integrated spam! It's a never ending game of spam whackamole with Google these days. I guess various product owners are incentivised to increase "engagement" or whatever, but right now they're just increasing my engagement with Apple's product pages.
My state (Washington) just hit its 700th day of the state of emergency as declared by the governor. This gives him the ability to do just about anything, so he's refusing to let it go.

Welcome to day 701 of 14 days to flatten the curve!
MIT scientists create super strong 2D polymer
Fireside Friday, February 4, 2022: On Blockchains
Read from "this weeks musing" down to the section on book recommendations.
Very small % of devs make $96K USD annually. Maybe $96K CAD.
>The System is Down

Strongbad's first techno song!

https://youtu.be/O4gqsuww6lw
The author is the author of lunar - https://lunar.fyi/ - an app for controlling screen brightness on external (and internal) screens on the Mac. He is trying to force the system to brighten the entire screen to the levels it will brighten light spots in an HDR video.
If you have shamans/priests/prophets interpreting for folks who believe without evidence, it overlaps with religious practice. The etymology of “religion”, as I understand it, is “re-link” or “tie back/with”, and that may be to the origin/past, or believers together, the distinction is not captured in the word’s composition. If to the origin, ie the creation, then it’s not the same league of religion as the ones that connect to human origins.

There is a real high level of “have faith” and crowds that have faith together do interesting things, especially when someone is passing the hat.

I don’t think we have the right word for it, the behaviors without the supernatural or notions of spirituality. Happy to learn I missed the better word to capture.
I doubt it. Retailers share lists of problem customers with other local store owners. If someone takes products at one store without paying, owners figure that they'll probably try to take products from another store nearby.
DHS has issued many thousands of traveller Redress Numbers. It's not that rare, Senator Ted Kennedy was probably the most famous person who had trouble with the nofly list.
"An extended warranty is an insurance policy"

Not at all, insurance company protects you from unpredictable events it has no control over - robberies, hurricanes, etc.

The manufacturer has complete
control over how long the products will last.

You know what we call selling protection from something you control? A racket.

"Nice Jewlery Store you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it"
I've found my induction stove to be way more consistent in cooking eggs (and well, most things, really) than when I had gas in the past. Also, not sure which induction you're looking at, but on my stove, when I remove the pan it turns off the power to that unit, and turns it back on when you put the pan back (within about a second or so, both ways), so when I do feel the need to remove the pan briefly, it's not any different than when I do it on gas.
Absolutely love that someone's trying to do this. I was scouting around for a way too [1]

I take 5 minutes to ride from home/office to a table in a nearby park to work from there for 1-2 hours. It's so healthy and invigorating, and the change of scenery can inspire creativity.

But it's hard to justify when nuances on the screen become imperceptible under bright sun light. 1-200 more nits would change that. And the 2021 16" MBPs are technically capable of up to 1600 nits!

[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/429798
Google gives regular raises and the raise curves were considerably higher this year than prior years. "Index raises to inflation" would mean lower pay for engineers here.
Thank you! Same here. I just found it very cumbersome to write CSS for my emails, so I had the idea to create this.
LOL, no. Apparently they didn’t feel that CHAZ in Seattle was an illegal occupation either.
I've already addressed that the language is simpler, but that doesn't always translate to easier to learn.

If the level of "learned a language" is just being able to write code then Go is easy. But writing an app and dealing with all of Go's oddities made it much more cumbersome for me.
I feel that a performance review cannot hurt you (unless they cut the worst n% of course). If they are giving you an honest assessment of how happy they are with you, you either know you're doing good and to stay the course or you know you're doing bad and to try something else. We've done yearly reviews in the last two places I worked (bonuses are also based on these reviews) and I like that cadence. It helps that I'm not too worried about getting fired without a fair shake, though.
Most of the time duckduckgo doesn’t even acknowledge quotations. I can’t tell if it’s because there aren’t results for when the query contains quotations or if they simply don’t acknowledge them most of the time. Either way it’s annoying and it makes me go back to google every time.
Classic example of this:

Sega Game Gear: full-color screen, $150, 4hr battery life

Nintendo Game Boy: monochromatic screen, $90, 30hr battery life
I always laugh when people talk about how the Apple way is the only safe way when Android has been doing this for years while also supporting alternate stores/sideloading. Your grandma is going to use the App Store regardless of whether alternate app stores exist, there's no concern here for that.
Oh my the persecution.
Linus' views on backcompat and glibc's have, let us say, not been entirely aligned over the years.

If the change fails at the kernel level but succeeds at the glibc level that might still be a net win overall, and given Ariadne as "instigator" here I'd be hopeful that she could convince musl to come along for the ride if that was how it had to happen. (assuming she thought that was a good idea in the first place, of course, I'm exploring counterfactuals here)
I have no patience or sympathy for those causing the issue to be raised. Add this reasonable-sounding rule, it will make things worse for everyone else.
Thanks, I'll give that a read.
Lockouts apply to every employee, including executives.
Definitely not very small. It's a bit above average but it's not uncommon at all.
I don’t sense the extra anger myself.
> Ruby convention is to add a ! when methods directly modify the object they're called on

No, Ruby convention is to add a “!” when there is a “less safe” version of an operation, for which a “more safe” version exists without a “!”.

Mutating versions of methods where a nonmutating version also exists are one common example, but not the only one, and mutating methods without a nonmutating counterpart don't get “!”.
Gifts of DNA tests are leading to more family surprises – and lawsuits
If anything this breaks is already broken on macOS the argument probably becomes rather simpler, indeed.
I really feel like I’m missing out. I never really check the feeds on LinkedIn.
Right, that would not be the same no-fly list concept though.
Starling visibility is due to how far up they are and only visible for a while after launch. Once they're in position you shouldn't be able to see them.
> Completely strange people downvote this comment. It is completely logical, and if you disagree with any of this- it is up to you to prove otherwise.

Technically, the burden of proof lies with the one making an assertion.

> Obviously it does make people uncomfortable talking like this

And people talking like this often get uncomfortable if someone doesn't accept their opinions as fact. People are weird in the most wonderful ways!

> I think the truth is a lot less interesting than people want to believe.

And also a lot more difficult to find than it seems, the nature of consciousness being what it is.
Talking about replicating this stuff misses the point.

Science can't survive if the answer to faking claims is to replicate every study. The reason is that replicating a study done in complete seriousness and honesty is hard and is not guaranteed to yield the same result. So "can't be replicated" shouldn't be a black mark - "was basically made up" should be a black mark.

And also, if faking stuff becomes standard with replication the main guard, an easy way to get points is announce the fake replication of a given study.
if you automated it, then what are all of these people going to do? all you automation people wanting to take away the jobs of all these people! this is why unions exist! ;-)
Why don’t you use an RSS reader now? As a maker of a news reader (https://sumi.news), I’m curious what was it that made Google Reader special.
Thanks for listening!

It was a great episode to make I'm always looking for devs with interesting backstories to share so if have any ideas shoot me a message.
I think my favorite summation is that Nintendo laughs about being second-rate all the way to the bank.

To Apple's disadvantage, only touch is a pretty terrible interface for a lot of video game genres, and also mobile pretty quickly became pay to win crapware.
One of my pro controllers also now has drift. It’s pretty disappointing compared to other console controllers …
Hostility to kids can exist exactly at the level that the kids will bear it. If they get beaten 10 times a day, they would clearly run away from home. If they get beaten 0.3 times a day they simply don't give enough of a shite to do anything about it.
Can this actually run on an 8086, or can it only cross compile for the 8086?
Colour me curious, but why do I need to sign in with twitter to use this? And if I do and you get c&d'd do I get blocked by twitter?

Edit: spelling
Did they get a salary increase? Or did their equity just go up like everyone else?

Executives tend to have salaries that are a fraction of total comp.
Tagref: Check cross-references in your code
I am awful at C so this comment should be considered merely an anecdote but I was -so- sad when I (having started learning on BDSi and NetBSD) needed to port a program to other systems and discovered strlcpy wasn't there. (damnit, Jim, I'm already a segfault generator when I try to perpetrate C, I need all the help I can get!)
At some point the courts are going to have to step in on these things.
In Russia 14 year olds face up to 9 years in prison for Minecraft Terrorism
> It amounts to ~6% of all of the company’s liabilities.

Too small to be a 'bank' that sells coffee.
My first job when I was in high school in 1977 paid $2.65/ hour
Bypass Paywalls Clean – An Open-Source Extension for Firefox/Chrome/Edge/Android
On Earth? Maybe. In deep space? Probably not.
I mean, it was the controller in an era of wired controllers.
A big part of the pull of HN is the opportunity to participate in live discussions happening around things that are on the front pages. The problem with 'how it's dealt with is that matters' is that it's essentially telling the LGBTQ person to come participate only after things have settled down or dealt with. By then the heat of the discussion is over, or the post has been shot down to the 3rd or 4th page. In some places, there is a practice of women cooking food and first all the males eat it while the women wait. Then after they finished, the women start eating. They are treated like second class citizens. Sensible places ban people who say being gay or LGBTQ is mental health issue. It's 2022.
When I started doing my research into the DX7 I pored over Dexed's source code to understand how its emulation worked. It was really amazing to discover what an interesting legacy its source code has! The bulk of Dexed's code is derived from Raph Levien's (hi Raph!) Music Synthesizer For Android (msfa). However there's additional code derived from Steffen Ohrendorf's ppplay[0], which in turn builds upon different people's research, reverse-engineering, and experimentation going back decades. Going through it, I really felt like I was looking at something organic built not just from, but upon the passion, and dedication of so many different talented people, over many years. Very cool!

[0] https://github.com/stohrendorf/ppplay
I agree that we shouldn't -make- it their responsibility but it's still worth asking in a case like this whether -this time- it's a better trade-off to do so anyway.
It has to be for the same reason that creating a one-off prototype of a new plastic widget involves a much more manual process than a scaled-up assembly line. This is the first time this process will be performed on a real James Webb in space, and between each calibration step, they'll need to verify the results are as modeled in theory and adjust or reiterate if not.
Note that 15% decrease in commission is 21% increase in revenue for the developer. For $4.99 you can drop to $3.99 and keep around the same proceed.
That's more about your interpretation than their intent, right? If it had said dirt-cheap or humble or hand-built or similar, then they've implied something they didn't deliver. The only time the word "humble" is used at all is in describing the architects.

My house is pretty standard. It would be a hovel for someone living in a palace but a palace to someone sharing a dirty apartment. I would describe my experience building it in terms of what I could or couldn't afford along the way relative to who I was and what I understood. Just as the author did.

So many comments on the HN story got caught up on what the reader was expecting from the link. It was modern and it was in the woods!
Those 30 year olds likely fell in love with those franchises when they were kids. i suspect Nintendo know this and see catering to kids as an investment.
It does specify "convicted" in the article, which seems like a sane bar to set.
We accept fewer immigrants now than before. Immigration has thus far kept the percentage change of population positive, despite the fact that the number of Green Cards issued had been declining even before the pandemic. The most recent census recorded one the lowest percentages of population growth. And our low population density indicates we have plenty of room.
It is dark by default.
Same news in Russian:

https://echo.msk.ru/news/2975336-echo.html

Coverage from 2020 on Newsweek:

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-minecraft-terrorism-building...

Wikipedia page with more details on this terrible case:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansk_affair
This seems to be Apple's design philosophy. I can't change the direction of my touch pad scrolling without affecting my mouse scrolling, I had to download a third party app for that. Their defaults are so stubborn, if you don't like it the way they believe it should be it's either annoying or impossible to change it.
WSL2 has made my life so much better that now I want to give it a hug.

(also, TIL, thank you)
Nah, but nice job whitewashing QE as anything but a massive upward wealth redistribution.

Instead, the bad CDOs and CDSs could have just been unwound one by one with investment banks eating the losses and a lot of rich people becoming poor. Sure some _actual_ banks might have needed a holiday or two but instead we got TARP and QE.
Nintendo targeted markets are mainly kids, retro and casual gamers. Due to pandemic the take up by casual gamers has been increasing rapidly and I'm not surprised if the majority of Switch recent sales are bought by this group. Add to the fact that Nintendo always has killer casual gaming accessories for examples Wii board for Wii and Wii U, and Ring Fit for Switch is the testament to their commitment to this group[1]. I hope they will re-introduce Wii board for the Switch, and a new Wii board and Ring Fit combo will be a blast for inside the house/indoor physical fitness and exercises.

[1]Why I’m using Nintendo Ring Fit to achieve my New Year’s resolution:

https://www.techradar.com/news/why-im-using-nintendo-ring-fi...
In a van down by the river.
I'm pretty sure I have seen it on both. As in both in docked and handheld mode. It's odd because I make sure the controllers are fully charged as well. It's not in all games either which makes me think it could be a games thing. But then I have seen it in Nintendo games which somewhat rules it out again.

It's odd. Not a dealbreaker but very noticeable when it happens.
I mean, it's literally the second sentence of the article we're discussing...

>The Mountain View, CA-based company will be raising the salaries of four execs from $650,000 to $1 million...
I bought the Switch in part because of portability, but almost never ended up using this way. I used to game a lot as a child and teenager but almost stopped entirely once my job involved sitting in front of a screen all day. But I still like playing some games I can pick up to kill half an hour here and there, completely casual.
The game selection, is perfect for this. Or a couple rounds of couch co-op. I have zero interest to play hyper competitive games with random people over the internet.
The Switch really brought back the fond memories I had when first being exposed to gaming, when I kept going to my neighbors home to play Super Nintendo games against each other
They brought back Advance Wars.

That's what introduced me to strategy games, nothing comes close.

Wargrove and Tiny Metal are both close, but ultimately less charming.
I don’t really see why something like the fees Apple is charging for Apple Pay should not fall under the purview of regulation. It’s a substantial rent imposed upon a huge fraction of commerce which will have an adverse effect on the affordability of goods.

It will result in payment processors passing on Apple’s fees to merchants. Payment processors already do not allow you to charge a higher fee to customers using a credit card normally, so merchants must pass on the cost of these fees to ALL customers regardless of payment method. This makes it of concern to more than Apple’s customers.
Indeed, they are total opposite. I wonder if these are the same people who show different faces. I wonder about these people on LinkedIn, either they are total hypocrites on LinkedIn, or they totally buy on the corporate BS. I'm not sure which is worse!

I've had a career change recently and I joined a big American corp. I wasn't familiar with this type of environment. The level of bullshit and hypocrisy there is amazing. Fortunately, nobody in my team is into that.
The reason why it acts this way is because of oled heat, power and burn in limits. On a microled display such limits wouldn’t occur nearly as much. HDR color in programming will mostly just be a bigger color value. All the other stuff is display by display model specific. We have such variation in sdr displays too, and most programmers never really think about the color profile of the display either.