skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my favorite things in life is the the feeling I get when I open something up to find a pcb populated with dip switches (or jumpers) that are clearly labeled on the pcb. This practice has most likely disappeared to save pcb space, but it feels great when you don't have to grep config files or search for a long lost manual pdf.
That’s a very negative view of humanity. Everyone I know, from phds to blue collar workers, have great things they aspire to, if only they had the time. You must hang out with real losers if that’s what you think is reality, or you must be listening to the media representations of the worst of us.
The claim that herd immunity is possible seems to imply some base efficacy rate, the actual value of which I agree is not important here. (Although maybe it doesn't. I really don't know.)

And it's true that the quotes come from early on in the pandemic.

However, the claim that it was randos on Twitter and not the experts - at any time - who purveyed the idea that the Covid vaccines would significantly prevent transmission - unlike flu vaccines - is contradicted by the quote from Fauci that I posted in response to the question: "who sold these ideas to the public?"
not even. like those MasterCard commercials, you could say it is, priceless...
Oh, universities are great! I'm not saying universities should stop existing or that they aren't important. They're very important! But we can't expect them to provide unlimited resources for free to anyone who is curious about something. They have to pick and choose who they fund, which means excluding the majority of possible Karikós. Perhaps just as bad, the mechanism consigns many of the most promising researchers to administrative tasks like grantwriting and personnel management instead of science. If you're a PI supervising 30 RAs you aren't going to spend a lot of time at the bench.

And most women who get a Ph.D. sacrifice the chance to have kids in their 20s in the process, which is a big deal for many of them; life isn't easy for "nontraditional" postdocs.

And 95% of people don't live in the US.

Finally, universities aren't omnipotent. Gang Chen, David Gelernter, Aaron Swartz, Steve Kurtz, Star Simpson, and Majid Shahriari were all affiliated with universities, and they were persecuted for their research anyway, resulting in their deaths in two cases.

Also, many of the measures I suggest would substantially ease the path of researchers who want to form a new institution to pool resources, such as a hackerspace or a mail-order DNA synthesis company.

So, I think giving people more freedom to pursue research as they see fit would substantially increase the amount of research that gets done, and so would placing more social value on it.
So what? It’s clearly not enough on its own.
Sure, if you wanna pay the DASH tax to a hundred patent holders. DASH doesn't even really hold much of a technological benefit anymore now that their's finally a standard for HLS-LL.
Or some service members playing a joke on the UFO community
You've linked to two traditional web sites. The first one is people sharing auto-generated art of themselves (which you can generate for free through numerous apps and websites), and the second is shilling NFTs.
If it’s not getting bought out what’s the point? There’s faster ways to make money.
Facebook’s $237.6B fall sets record for largest one-day value drop
You bought Tesla futures, which, according to you, is not allowed in your country, using crypto and you think this shows how "good" it is? You've literally just given anecdotal evidence of crypto being used to facilitate an illegal financial transaction.

Buying Tesla futures might seem innocent but you realise that means other types of illegal finance shenanigans, like money laundering, are also facilitated by the same process. Bad actors can use it to bypass regulation just like you did.
Source:
https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2022-01-14/montreal/le-dele...

And no, I don't agree. I'm for a universal vaccination mandate. The government isn't, however. The spokeswoman talking to CBC actually wouldn't answer any questions about their protest or goals, so all I have is speculation as to what they actually want.
California has A LOT of roads given its size, and density is focused in the big cities, so you have a lot of country roads to maintain with limited revenue to maintain them.

A lot of highways in California have warnings like "no services for 100 miles" and you won't encounter a lot of other vehicles (similar to Nevada and Oregon adjacent).
> A) there's more vaccinated in hospital per capita of late. Why aren't we demanding lockdowns again instead of just blaming the "unvaxxed" still

Do you have a source for this. This directly conflicts the data I've been seeing. e.g.: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page#daily — weekly hospitalizations peaking at 92/100k for vaccinated vs. 772/100k for unvaccinated.
You can’t seriously be claiming that a FetLife app vs the fetlife website is major innovation.
I think the most honest reply is that the open Internet does not exist in the western world. Read that again. All major traffic from MS, Netflix and so on is already very segregated. There are several locations were any provider can do QoS in layer 7.

And do not underestimate the power of carriers. They are the reason why you can not use mobiles on a plane.
I would encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated, but there were millions of people who got infected before there were any vaccines available. The vast majority of those recovered patients now have durable cellular immunity which will usually protect them against severe symptoms in subsequent reinfections.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/
If you code in Java, and like TUI (console type applications), then you might enjoy Jexer: https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer

I started Jexer in 2013, and off-and-on it's gotten better. I think my favorite part has been crossing paths with other terminal emulator ecosystem folks over the last few years. This release brings a few prettified effects inspired by other projects that you are all hopefully quite familiar with (notcurses, chafa, and vtm):

* Translucent windows, including images under/over each other and text.

* Animated/pulsing text

* Animated gifs

* A new XtermVideoPlayer example that uses ffmpeg/JavaCV to play movies inside a text-draggable window. (No audio though.)

* New button styles: round, diamond, left/right arrows. The button ends and shadows are drawn with images so specific font support is not required.

* A _much_ faster and _much_ higher quality sixel encoder.

* Different window border styles: single, double, none, and rounded corners.

* A femme theme option.

Some screenshots are posted here: https://twitter.com/AutumnMeowMeow/status/148922891703050240...

It's on maven and Sourceforge.

<dependency>
<groupId>com.gitlab.klamonte</groupId>
<artifactId>jexer</artifactId>
<version>1.6.0</version>
</dependency>

Terminals that are known to work include:

* xterm https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ - X11 - Linux

* contour https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour - OpenGL - Linux, OS/X, Windows

* foot https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot - Wayland - Linux, OS/X, Windows

* mintty https://github.com/mintty/mintty - Windows

* mlterm http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/ - X11 - Linux + others

* RLogin https://github.com/kmiya-culti/RLogin - Windows

* wezterm https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/ - OpenGL - Linux, OS/X, Windows
Apple makes some on the sale of hardware, but does not charge end users for software updates after then. Unlike google it actually supports that hardware. The support costs money.

You're right that unity wasn't a great example though. A better example would be the xbox, playstation, switch, etc.

The alternative model is you sell out your users, like google does.
I guess the same way as aurora serverless.
In general, RDS uses a seperate storage layer from the actual instances
so you can do vertical scale/upgrades with 0 downtime (either read replica goes down or replica becomes master)
>Which seems to be a contradiction.

The point was that each individual criticism of crypto (speed, instability, energy efficiency) brings a new solution which seemingly recreates an existing financial function or institution. This is the logical thing to do as it increases trust in crypto and speeds adoption. However, in the end, we have a crypto economy stabilized and supported by the exact institutions it was supposed to displace.
Hey, thanks for trying us out. And sorry about the bug(s)!

Let me get some solutions and will push an update to the app store (also for Android).
By these standards a brick is not "perfectly safe" because someone might get hit by one if it gets thrown out of the Empire State Building.
This bar is not low at all. Anything involving reward can cause addiction and harm. All of those things you cited are just methods of scheduling rewards. You level up every X amount of time, you get an item every Y amount of time.

These things are not some unforeseen emergent feature, they are deliberately designed. What makes it malicious is the behavior these rewards are designed to create.

An RPG using a leveling system to make sure you can't survive certain challenges until you've progressed enough is not malicious at all.

An RPG that pits players against each other, imposes the same leveling system on players, rates limit their progression with a timer and allows people to reset the timer by paying money essentially turns the game into a spending competition whose goal is to see who can pay some corporation the most money. Not to mention their blatant attempt to form habits in players by giving them daily login rewards and tasks.
Hardly greatness without which the innovation of an entire industry is being suppressed.
> okay so this is an unlawful protest that has a detrimental impact on residents, the environment, and local business.

The pearl-clutching about this protest has been something else.
I started an MVP a little along these lines.

The idea was a single page that showed all your AWS resources across all regions and all accounts.

The good thing was it ran purely in a browser via the AWS JavaScript APIs, so you did not need to create users or roles or give access to any third party - you just put the AWS key into the browser and it ran locally.

It's still there but effectively abandoned.

https://www.singlepagecloud.com
Adding onto this to say that the LA Sheriff's Department has less than zero credibility when it comes to any matter concerning either race or protests against police action. They literally have violent and racist gangs operating in that department. There is a reason why "Google LASD Gangs" has become a meme in LA and LA-centric circles of the internet. It is a known problem and almost no one in power is working to fix it.
That’s genius! Why didn’t I think to ask my wife to leave the matches out! Ha ha.
In France, between January 1st and 16th, vaccinated people accounted for 60% of the new hospitalizations. We, like most of Europe, have 90+% of adult population fully vaccinated, and are nowhere near "being done".
During the Great Recession, a vast increase in the money supply had no apparent impact in inflation. The idea that printing money is a primary driver of inflation may be outdated. I also think you're ignoring the dramatic and unexpected changes in demand (and some constraint in supply) caused by the pandemic.
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The people against this protest are literally for a closely aligned group of state and business interests to override private citizens' bodily and medical autonomy. It's hard to imagine something more fascist than the people against this protest.

I'm not even saying that to express support for the protestors, Fascism is a seductive ideology for a reason and it's currently exactly as popular as everyone thinks, it's just not confined to the 'other side'. It's getting increasingly absurd when someone labels people who, if they're doing anything wrong, are arguing for too many individual rights as fascists. People need to just accept that they're on the fascist side of the argument and proceed from there, acknowledging what their ideology does when it goes too far.
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I'm also suspecting the range on it is fairly limited under normal conditions.
I can walk to the nearest village in about 10 minutes, although it doesn't have much in the way of amenities.

The nearest city is about a 20 minute drive away. The region capital is about 30 minutes away. Lisbon & Porto are about 2.5 hours away each.

Anything I go to regularly is 20-40 minutes away.

The roads are of high quality and mostly empty. Petrol is about €1.80/litre, a return trip to Lisbon costs around €80 in fuel in my 2019 Suzuki with a 1 litre engine, plus around €20 in tolls assuming you take the motorway.
Cool site! I wish there was a way to show games which are both free and healthy.
I suspect it would be a small list, but still worth having.
i think there is overlap with descript, however i do think descript is transcript-first, and they focus on that level of control. I think video should be edited with a timeline as the core driver. I'm sure the right answer is somewhere in the middle, but I think having a robust timeline is important for video editing
I really hate the cryptocurrency discussions here.

We finally have internet money. No bankers or governments creating this, but nerds and algorithms creating currency and a whole transaction system, out of nothing. The thing lives 100% on the internet.

And all the complainers on "hacker" news bashing it to the ground. I used to check HN every day, but the "hacker" and "entrepreneur" stuff is getting thinner and thinner.

But hey, I said something positive about cryptocurrency, so do your thing.

edit: I see I'm here since 2010. Maybe 12 years is enough.
If you want F-Droid, Apple isn’t stopping you.
Terrestial roll out will also be slow because there is little financial incentive to do it.
I'd say that's a major distinction, not a minor nitpick at all.
I think the cat was out of the bag in a way on this one. Apple put in a good effort to stop abuse but the technology is in people hands now.
Maybe I haven't been looking at it the right way. I had figured you either had to train in a specialized area or have a slick presentation and pitch. The office probably gets a 25% productivity boost from having coffee delivered, and that boost is worth millions, but the coffee delivery person certainly can't charge proportionately to the value added. I had figured training was about the same way: in the gigs I've seen, you get paid like a classroom instructor, which is nowhere near as much as you would get as a dev. Clearly I've been looking in the wrong places. Heh.
Whether ads work or not is irrelevant. The ads must flow.
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> The overseas versions toned down the dialogue so that, while still biting, her words are overall clean.

This is a tricky one. If you translate it literally, it's really not that harsh at all as Japanese doesn't really use curse words in a similar way as English. The words are overall clean. So a translator always has to make a judgement call of "in which sense is this supposed to be true to the original" and how much of the language-associated-culture to bring into it.

There's many ways to skin a cat.
It probably would work fine, except that you'd be paying US cost of living (healthcare, rent, etc) while not on a US salary, so there doesn't seem to be a point - you're most likely burning money doing this and if you're hoping for a path to legalization, the issue is Congress can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

A lot of people do what you say, but for a few months at a time (within the terms of their visa), every 3-4 years. During those months you could maybe get rent a Manhattan apartment (on airbnb or something) and experience living in New York, visit national parks or other attractions, do some shopping, and after a few months (6 months is the legal limit I think) you've probably experienced most of what you need to know.
Elon Musk often makes contradictory statements. He's more recently said that Starlink has received 500,000 pre-orders and that, "Most likely, all of the initial 500k will receive service. More of a challenge when we get into the several million user range."

Some of this might be coming from real-world experience with the network and an update on previous incorrect assumptions. Part of it might be simply making bombastic claims.

Right now, Starlink hit around 100,000 customers with 1,700 satellites. With the full 12,000 satellites we'd then expect 700,000 customers. That might change given that the satellites aren't geostationary and they haven't launched in many countries, but to hit a million customers in the US, they'd need to increase the number of customers per satellite significantly. Maybe there are improvements they can make that we don't know about, but it seems like Starlink's advantages are in making cheap rockets and cheap satellites - which is very cool, but they likely don't have radio advantages.

Starlink is also thinking about an additional 20,000 satellites so it's possible that they'll just keep increasing the number of satellites. Still, if they're seeing linear gains, that's still a relatively small number of users even with 32,000 satellites (and even the 12,000 is 4-5 years away).

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210510/08050146767/elon-...
wETH wraps ETH, not SOL.
Citizen science can definitely be a thing, but it's going to have very different comparative advantages than anything based around established institutions, i.e. universities/research labs. It might well be that both of these are worthwhile problems to solve - they need not be exclusive.
I've found the opposite: it's often even hard to find out that some piece of knowledge might exist on the Internet.

I think it might(?) be better for math and things like that, but dig into social sciences or history or whatever, and often at a surprisingly shallow level you're going to have to go find some real books. eBooks fill some of the gap, but lots aren't there. Some stuff is rare (very niche) and can't even be found in newly-printed books, let alone online—used books and libraries are it. Some special collections—again, without even digging that deep, sometimes—become necessary and would require international travel to pursue (depending on where you live).

It's not hard to poke around a decent used book store or university library and find information that's simply nowhere online.
I agree with most all of that, and that it was largely unsurprising. When the mRNA shots were developed there was a tradeoff to be made (and BNT/Mod chose slightly different paths) on both amount of RNA and dosing schedule to minimize side effects while rapidly providing strong immunity (we're also lucky JJ and they all chose a stabilized prefusion Spike unlike ChAdOx etc). Boosters for T and B response in particular are common, but orders of magnitude higher antibodies are quite likely to help minimize Omicron effects (especially for first responders who received early Pfizer doses) and do appear to cause significant reductions in infection/symptomatic cases.[1] I would not have slowed down the testing or EUA, although manufacture was an issue early on. We didn't know when/if a significantly immune evading variant would arrive, and I feel fairly lucky with when Omicron arrived (after many of the most susceptible could be vaccinated). If it had arrived 8 months earlier, it would have been catastrophic.

I also feel that the WHO choices have not been very good. From down playing human transmission early in the pandemic to demanding that there not be boosters in order to speed up the multi-year process of vaccinating 4billion people by 40million doses, when Omicron was already spreading quickly. Honestly, prioritization in the developing world is more important. They seem more political than other sources.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788105
How many stablecoins have a market cap over a few million? If there was a repeatable formula we'd all be rich dude
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Amazon profits nearly double to $14.3B
I largely agree with you up until your last sentence. The mistake you're making is equating the government with the village. That is a fundamental mistake and failure that seems extremely widespread. Civil Society needs to address this problem.

Bastiat has a passage in the Law which touched on this, though he is specifically talking about socialists:

> Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
That actually sounds pretty interesting. Maybe I'll look into that for this summer. My concern would it feel too dark in the winter.
> horse dewormer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ivermectin

You are not being truthful, labeling ivermectin only a "horse dewormer". Ivermectin is used as an antiparasitic drug also for people. And not only as a dewormer, but also against lice and mites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivermectin
The problem with this theory is that if AWS ever faces a significant threat due to their bandwidth fees they'll probably end up lowering them even if it's at a loss for a while. I don't think AWS is at all threatened by other "kitchen sink" providers but by competitors providing better service for specific use cases.

Sendgrid vs SES, Auth0 vs Cognito, SNS vs Twilio.
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Some companies/APIs do this on purpose as one of the benefits of graphql is the self documenting nature. If you have a well secured schema this shouldn’t be a problem. If you are doing security through absurdity by having stuff in the schema you don’t want people to discover, you are going to have a bad time.
That's one thing I missed about programs from years ago - they don't try to take over the entire computer but stay unintrusive as helper/companion.
Spot has an almost idential service to this called Eco
https://spot.io/products/eco/

It reads your cost and usage report + AWS APIs and offers RI options for you to purchase or ignore.
What Eco is lacking is being a reseller like usage.ai and buying your unused RIs
> When it's indigenous people blocking a pipeline, the SWAT teams come out.

After how many court proceedings?
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I’ve never taken the argument to be that children are at grave risk. I think Fauci even said that the risk is minimal in particular with vaccines. “The with vaccines” will rub some folks the wrong way but the point remains: it’s about potential transmissions, asymptomatic transmissions at that. They so rarely even show symptoms that some are convinced that kids aren’t infectious but that’s the same nonsense we have today where people think they aren’t infectious because they got the vaccine. Add in tight conditions at schools and parents willing to send their kids to school sick, and it’s not ideal.
I have great things I aspire to, too, that I'm not actively working on. Instead I'm wasting my time getting flamed on some toxic website. I guess I'm a real loser! But I don't think I'm much worse than average. At least I don't beat my kids.

You can see what people do with total freedom by looking at retirees, the rich, the temporarily unemployed, people on disability, and NEETs. Some of them do the great things they aspire to. Most of them don't. I still think more freedom is a net good.