skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's clear that masking young, healthy adults who are tasked with the responsibility of rushing into oncoming bullets and missiles if need be, to mask themselves for going on now well into our third year of covid, which was never a particular threat for young people, is bad for morale. It's absurd and non-sensical.

No, what is absurd and nonsensical is the idea that soldiers can disobey orders that can directly compromise mission readiness. Sure, a 22 year old E-4 might not be likely to get seriously ill from covid, but there are plenty of enlisted soldiers, sailors, and airmen in their 40's and 50's who are more at risk. Having a few commanding officers or pilots or other key people end up being unavailable at a critical time can compromise the mission. It is a health countermeasure that is a minor inconvenience and not a difficult order to follow.

In the military there are many, many rules that might seem like they don't make sense but nevertheless are part of keeping discipline in the military. You can't wear your hat indoors. If you're driving on base and it's time for reverie you have to stop, get out of your car, and stand at attention. You're not allowed to drink alcohol on ships, even when you're off duty. How does it make sense for masking during a pandemic to be the hill to die on?
Here you go.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/06...
Well now I feel like an idiot for signing up. Is there any way to have ID.me delete all of my records? Or is that a lost cause?
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6007232A/en

The patent is for a circuit design to perform that algorithm in a single cycle. The algorithm was never patented, nor could it be.
> Soldiers who do not follow orders, even sometimes nonsensical ones, die or get others killed.

While this is true, it's also true that soldiers are not fools, and they know when they are in situations where they need to follow orders blindly or fail in the mission--and when they are not. And leaders who treat every situation as though it were the first kind, even when every soldier can plainly see it is a situation of the second kind, are not doing themselves or their units any favors.
Separation of Duties
Well, we're the ones allowing the patent scam to continue ...
Made a word game Word Hookup https://www.wordhookup.com. Haven’t had time to update it in 2 years but still get $100 on average.
It has come down over the last year from 500+ initially. finally getting down updating and reviving it.
It's not socialising if the other person has been sent to spy on you and is being paid to lie to you.
It shouldn't be, but the world of software patents is truly bizarre. I have several patents in my name that are completely meaningless to the point of being satirical (stuff like "system to show a list of options and dispatch and action to a web server", "validating information submitted in a web form and returning errors"). Each is 40+ pages of filing, complete with diagrams, and all of them approved. And we need to do it otherwise someone will sue us with an equally bogus patent and we will have no defense.
To me most significant is that the soldiers in the pic described as sheltering from gunfire behind a tank-trap thing were really combat engineers fixing to blow it up so equipment could be moved ashore faster.
Not to mention, ID.me is horrible.

Scanned my Driver's License at 200dpi.

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

Okay, 300dpi.

"Unable to find a face in the image you uploaded."

Huh.

Scan at 72dpi.

Success.

Scan back of DL at 72dpi.

"Unable to read barcode."

Scan back of DL at 200dpi.

"Unable to read barcode."

Scan at 300dpi.

Success.

What a shitshow.
Thingiverse link: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5213822
I'm the same way. I've tried the various tiling WMs over the years. To me the ideal is just letting me manage the windows myself, and then if you give me some keybindings to snap a window into a certain half or quadrant of the screen then life is real good.
Why didn't you read it as implicitly critical of modern managment? since slavery is almost universally agreed-upon to be wrong, any comparison of an institution to it is more likely to be a scathing criticism against the institution than a praise for slavery or any of its practitioners.

Edit : Considering that the author has written a book called "How To Manage Your Slaves" about Roman slave managment satirically in the style of modern self-help books, it's almost certain my interpretation above is a more correct lens to view his comparisons.
> But Pascal is not only old, it is antiquated.

You mean it is tried and tested and stable? Pascal has continued to evolve just as its counterpart C does today (it's actually a branding problem that makes people think Pascal hasn't evolved at all - there has been upgrades made to Pascal, which were released under different names that has resulted in this misunderstanding). It still remains one of the few languages that can match the performance of C (or even outperform it) while feeling simpler than C.
I am not a liar. Stop throwing around accusations and inform yourself.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/02/06...

Quote:
Spotify’s chief executive said it was Rogan’s decision to remove episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” from the platform following discussions with the company about “some of the content in his show, including his history of using some racially insensitive language.”
Does anyone know why the covers were usually like this in the 70s? They are so characteristic and replicated across many books that I bet there is some back story

EDIT: wrong decade there
> tricks related to mitochondrial health

Can you elaborate?
No, I used LCD displays.

I "rescued" a few pieces of hardware that were bound for the trash heap. Some were laptops, some were desktops....

I tossed some old photos up here:

https://imgur.com/a/GsXrM7M

I tried to show some of the cardboard prototypes too. (A good way to start!). They're roughly in order — my woodworking skills improved as well over the 17 or so years the photos span. I can think of at least two more MAME machines I build that I did not (quickly) find photos for....

I'll add, start simple. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. You can go CRT later (on MAME machine #10, ha ha).
I attempted to port an AVX-512 neural net code generator (it produces stand-alone C code for, say, ResNet-50) to RISC-V vector instructions... but the conversion was unexpectedly complicated. Too time consuming, so I abandoned the project. The variable-width vector instructions are awkward.
Exactly, the only lessons companies have learned from this is "How to survive, and thrive, from what should be a catastrophic failure".
Outside of HN, social media is absolutely flooded with it. Reddit is particularly awful.

There's a set few countries where if you post anything not explicitly negative about them, people come out of the wood works to post a few set phrases.
It's prorated, a portion is paid out every pay check starting from day 1. It's just like normal base cash compensation but they call it a sign on bonus to hack around the low max base comp.
I certainly agree that many local regulations and building codes are not there for engineering reasons, they're there for political and economic reasons that have nothing to do with good engineering.

But it's also true that any of those engineers who say that a particular regulation doesn't make technical sense, will be able to explain to you in detail why it doesn't make technical sense, based on the kind of theoretical and practical knowledge I described, the kind that is backed by well-tested models with excellent predictive capacity.
Color me skeptical. Are not some of the regulations around the exact state of the uniform less justified than mask mandates, in terms of maintaining unit effectiveness? I can't escape the notion that the main reason for the difficulty of this particular order is the politicized aspect of the mask and/or the vaccine. I'm willing to entertain other hypotheses but I'm not aware of any that fit the data better.
The compiler will do that for you and dividing by 2 is much clearer.
I'm hoping to reclaim my ICQ number!
But does distilled water make spikes in your freezer? If not, then it's not the water, it's the freezer environment.
This is a great point - the non-tech scaling aspect and intense customer focus contributes to the different culture.
On the other hand, I quit new world because it turned into a walking simulator.
On the other hand, competition has given us what, 6 covid vaccines of varying effectiveness, and in record time. What if only the least effective one was developed, and took 18 months?

The 1962 FDA effectiveness mandates have had the side effect of increasing drug development costs enormously, and that shuts down development of treatments for rare disorders.
It's absolutely not true that every order followed is an accomplishment. It may even be a crime.
thanks random internet person! in my infinite modesty however, i'll decline to boast about my many amazing and wonderful achievements. but y'know, just between you and me, i did once receive a canned award from my state senator AND my state congresscritter! with fake-signed certificate and everything! *puffed-chest*

notice that i'd made no reflexive or comparative claims. but comparatively speaking, thiel on a daily basis most assuredly looks at musk with full-on green-faced envy.
Spotify is good at helping me find non-mainstream electronic music.
Maybe when it comes to the baseband processor the user isn't the admin, I definitely would agree there. But on most android devices you can absolutely swap out the user space OS, I think this at least gives more control than the situation you describe, although from my understanding iOS is where the user isn't the admin. Android devices also let you install and run arbitrary software from what I'm aware
This is all I need. I use an app on macOS called sizeup that let's me do this. I can center a window for reading text on my larger display. Fullscreen a window without using the actual native full screen on macOS. Snap left, snap right, up down etc. It can also keep track of hardware profiles, so windows will restore to their bigger sizes and positions when I plug my laptop into a display.

https://s3.whalesalad.com/images/sizeup.png
The IRS has our PII, but lots of it is not in a big bucket, it's quite diffuse. If PII is dynamite (and it is) then we want it divided up in silos, with firewalls, and limited access where nobody has universal access. Ideally a lot of it is protected by differential privacy - if I am getting audited, the auditor only see's my returns and not my identity, and someone else gets only my identity.
Oh, ok. I miss having alternatives too.

If it kept up, I probably wouldn't be using Firefox now.
I clicked around a bit trying to find out who creates and runs Session.
And of course it's built by someone pushing a new crypto currency. That made me really really sad.
It's crazy.

"Defund the police!"

"Do you mean 'defund the police'?"

"Of course not!"
Edibles are great if you manage dosing well for how you want to feel and when. You can take doses of any amount remember, maybe even something like 3mg just to prevent nausea and night sweats if you're tapering down. Just gotta remember that it can take 30m-2 hours to kick in depending on gastric emptying and contents
I partially agree for battery because it's dangerous. But why also screen?
Can’t use the back button on mobile safari, annoying.
> I said "every" because even some of the best work science has done, General Relativity and the Standard Model, were to my understanding an incompatible set of theories.

If you insist on treating either one as though it were a fully fundamental theory, capable of explaining absolutely everything, then yes, they are not compatible.

But you don't have to treat either theory that way in order to make the claim I was making. Even if both of those theories end up being approximations to some more fundamental theory, it remains true that, within the domains in which they have been tested, they make accurate predictions to many decimal places and have been shown to be thoroughly reliable. Certainly in any situation in which you might have to bet your life on one of those theories, you are going to be well within the domain in which they have been thoroughly tested. And within those domains, there is no incompatibility between them.
Wordlix: A puzzle game to guess Posix API names
> A goal of allowing usernames will likely be to let people remain completely anonymous

> Even if you create a throwaway email account somewhere, it'll often be traceable back to you somehow.

I'm surprised to hear you say this considering your completely opposite stance in response to a comment of mine. I don't see how a throwaway email is any less anonymous than a username. In fact, I see it as more anonymous since I can generate these on the fly whereas I can't do this with usernames.
Yeah you're right, it seems like the article is misleading. Still, unless I'm reading it wrong it seems like the patent is just describing the hardware translation of this algorithm, it's not really adding anything new. It's still dubious to me.
Website designers: Please, for the love of God, stop breaking the "back" button.

PLEASE!
I mean, you don't have to use pretty much any of the listed "framework" components. They've just transitioned to official core support. You can just use the base Vue view library if you like, and plug in what bits you want from there. Maybe you don't want a router or vuex (hell, with provide/inject in Vue 3, you kinda don't even need it), so just... don't use them. And it remains very simple.

There's no hatred here, I really think you're projecting.
I want to preface this by saying I am not providing an opinion rather I am genuinely curious.

When Martin Shkreli bought the rights to Daraprim, some of his rhetoric about pharmaceutical industry sounded fair. He said that he is willing to send the drug for free to anyone who wrote to the company and he was essentially making the insurance companies pay the absurd price of the drug. He claimed no patient would ever financially suffer for the drug. He said the needed the money to pay for new research and better drugs and it was one of of lesser of evil thing he can do to R&D.

Ignoring the trickle down effect, if the government and Insurance companies in most cases ultimately pay for the price of medication wouldn't it be valid motivator to research rare diseases?
ah yes, i didn't mean to imply an email address specifically, just that the other username would be mostly equivalent, if slightly inferior, to the phone number.

i'm really glad that they're moving away from phone number as identity, and hopefully to fully anonymous, which they've rightly been criticized about up until this announcement.
If you activate signal on another phone it deactivates the old one.
It seems to be what is happening in Argentina.
I was 26 at the time, so I would guess not, but some of the code was problematic. It was very strange.
My experience here is that downvotes merely for going against "SV political leanings" never happen. Of course, plenty of outsiders like to complain about the "weird" HN politics. It's too liberal, or too conservative, or both. Ultimately, I find that there's at least some potential for tolerably good discussion that preserves intellectual curiosity, and that's what really matters. The techbros vs. anti-techbros tribal fight is just too boring, and that's where I see downvotes and flags all the time.
Why is price discrimination based on counterparty a desirable quality of a matching system?
Alternatively, a direct explanation:

a & b is the bits they have in common. If they both have a bit x, you should keep it, because the average of x and x is x.

a ^ b is the bits that only one of them have. You should halve these bits, because the average of x and 0 is x/2.
[backups] ... On a related note, it would be nice if online note/bookmarking tools had an option to send you a monthly email that aggregates your recent bookmarks.
Even if building your wealth didn't take it from somebody else, it still hadn't improved society.
Shows the fundamental importance of search/indexing instead of categorization IMO. Feels like they are onto something.
I learnt that much later. Apparently the current version of webpack that you get by following the official react project setup is missing certain polyfills!
> Are not some of the regulations around the exact state of the uniform are less justified than mask mandates, in terms of maintaining unit effectiveness?

Quite possibly, yes. My experience (which of course is limited: the military is very big--and it's also well out of date by now, as it's been quite some time since I was in the military) has been that in truly effective units, such "exact state of the uniform" regulations are not strictly enforced day to day, for that very reason: any time spent on enforcing them could be better spent on something of practical value for mission effectiveness. There are special contexts, of course: if you're attending a special military ceremony, your uniform will be expected to be immaculate, even if nobody enforces that day to day in your working environment. But that "special contexts" is the point: the regulations are interpreted according to context, in terms of the overall objective of mission effectiveness.
That's exactly how I feel too!

For MacOS, I love Rectangle, which is both great and open source:

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
I switched back to a flip phone, CDs, point and shoot digital camera, and I love it.

It's not always as convenient in the moment, but I find it has a positive effect on my relationships and mental health, and it saves me a bunch of money. And I have actual free time to spend on doing stuff like learning to play the piano.

Once you train yourself to recognize it, it's really scary - so many things in our modern lives are explicit traps - for a few moments of convenience (always made very easy), you burden your future self with a non-negligible amount of future work and entrust private details of your life to companies with a poor track record of keeping that data safe. So many things take only a few clicks to sign up, then you have to spend possibly hours on the phone later trying to cancel an account.
I was going to say the same thing. I set things up a particular way with an eye to easily clicking on partially hidden windows, and I usually have specific empty areas on each virtual desktop in the same place because you can place the cursor over the background and use the scroll wheel to change virtual desktops. Each desktop has it's own layout, but they all respect that one area is to be blank so I can easily put my mouse there and rotate between the desktops. It's silly, but it's incredibly useful.

But everyone is different, which is why I go for configurable over programs that expect you to work a particular way. KDE is very good about this.
Science and math are definitely good friends and so I'm sure lots of analogies between the two could be made, but I believe the comment was getting at the epistemological difference between 'proven' (the happy state in mathematics) and 'not contradicted by experimental evidence' (the happy state in science).
Really? Not that I particularly wanted to, but all I had to do was take a photo of the front and back using my iPhone and it went through without any problem.
How can a citation ring happen if papers are written one after another?
Flexbox Froggy is good, but I prefer Flexbox Zombies. It's got a better hint system, better graphics, and a story. https://mastery.games/flexboxzombies/
My understanding is that your profile username is made visible if:

- the person is in your own contact list

- you create a conversation with them

- you accept a conversation from them

see: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007459591
I noticed the following is in the middle of the article with no context that no one else is mentioning:

unsigned average(unsigned a, unsigned b)
{
return (a & b) + (a ^ b) / 2;
}

A quick sanity check of this

23 & 21 = 21

23 ^ 21 = 2

21 + 2 / 2 = 22 (order of operations)

I wonder why this is there. It seems the best solution but no one else is mentioning it. It also has no context near it. Nor is it stated correctly. It's just there on it's own.
What is a “boomerang promotion?” I’ve never heard of the term
I think it's purely based on you workflow. I'm a "maximizer," 99% of the time things are maximized on my desktop. A second tile (browser) is usually extremely temporary. Other stuff goes to other desktops.

So I general, my layout is highly consistent: just one tile.

For what it's worth, hiding the unimportant details in a web page can also be accomplished by zoom/scroll - but that's definitely not to say your approach is wrong. Different things for different people.
> You send a msg that only personA can decrypt

How are you going to do this without getting this person's public key? And how are you going to get their public key without asking signal?
Various groups are banning teachers from saying that someone is bad because of their race
Don't know if this is accurate but the entire online stock brokerage industry revenue appears to be about $14B.

That seems like a significantly lower upper bound to the market size here.

That said, what seems interesting here is to come up in advance with many potential arbitrages, and load them in advance for fulfillment if they occur. Risky but interesting than having to roll your own complex tool for this.

https://www.ibisworld.com/industry-statistics/market-size/on....
Let's discuss this idea on Cure Odyssey tomorrow!
The Making of Castlevania Symphony of the Night and Dracula X
I thought that was a joke at first but that's what's on the support link from Google. What. The. F.
Actually they are. No offense in any way, the IQ for being a soldier is between 84 and 90, it is illegal to enlist someone with a lower IQ and it is normal to send to NCO or officer school someone with higher (it depends how much higher). So yes, most soldiers need to be told what to do most of the time.
Because this is actually what is it after all - you take some pictures, melt them and cast new ones.
Now let us get rid of it, and not use a phone at all
Soldiers aren't in fear of their commanders when they don't polish their boots. They are in fear of their peers, who will put them in physical and mental hurt if they continue to screw up and make the rest of their peers suffer as a result of their actions. It's not always beatings either. Good luck continuing a military program like west point when every single cadet has decided to ostracize you and you don't have a single person to speak to at all. Good luck doing anything when you've been deprived of basic human functions like just speaking to someone.
* OpenBSD
Let's discuss this idea on Cure Odyssey tomorrow with Casey and other Gene Fixer regulars!
Ottawa Shifts to Aggressive Gear in Policing ‘Freedom Convoy’
Not sure if that is a troll or not.

CCP policy and behaviour towards Xinjiang shows a clear intent to eradicate Uighur culture, possibly the Uighur people, on the part of the CCP state. Simlilarly for Hong Kong, Tibet. A warcrime by an Australian soldier is being dealt with as a matter of military discipline.

There is no equivalency between the two. Pretending that a crime is equivalent to state genocide is classic "wolf warrior" trolling.

A better equivalency would be between what's happening with the Uighurs and what happened to Australia's first nation people in the nineteenth century. Modern China does have more than a little in common with those old European colonial empires.
Deleting media from chats doesn't relinquish space on iOS?
> When India went to stop the genocide and fight for liberation of Bangladesh, it was threatened with US naval might.

For others reading, while the parent is entitled to their opinion, that is a very pro-Indian description of events. IIRC, many believe India created the situation in order to split Pakistan in half.