skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I think you're right. A vaccine, legally, only has to prevent disease. That doesn't mean it has to cause your body to sterilize/kill the virus. That, and immunity is not an on/off thing but a scale in how much of a disease your body can prevent.

But then I'm confused because couldn't we then consider, for example, vitamin D a vaccine? It's more commonly understood as a prophylactic - but then what's the difference between a vaccine and a prophylactic?

Just that vaccines are traditionally meant to be made from dead viral agents?

EDIT: Okay I found the difference:

Here's the definition of vaccine from 2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20170221053411/https://dictionar...

And here's the definition right now: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vaccine

So, the definition changed from "[an innoculated bacterium/viral agent] that [prevents disease]", to "[any substance] that [produces antibodies]".

A prophylactic is "[any substance] that [prevents disease]".

Technically that still means a prophylactic is not a vaccine and vice versa because of the requirement that vaccines generate antibodies specifically.
Off the shelf vs. build your own is a trade off. Most organizations don't think through this trade off very well and hence both are anti-patterns because the result of the tradeoff can be bad either way.
Yep - this is what I've been using. Even Nylas Mail, which came before it
Part of this problem is there really isn't a layer 2 protocol for discovering the max MTU of a path. You have to use a higher protocol like ICMP to find it and then adjust your endpoint.

The Internet will work with large L3/L4 packets assuming the path is able to create fragments. The article talked about the kernel's ability to hold fragments but it wasn't clear to me how Internet fragmentation comes into play or whether the performance gain is lost when using this on the Internet versus a LAN.

Side tangent, this is one issue I have with the major cloud providers. Azure, AWS, et al all advertise high-bandwidth interfaces upwards of 100Gbps, but you can't saturate it anywhere near those rates with 1500 Byte packets from the Internet.
Miscommunication and mistakes don't rise to the level of deliberate "lying" - they would say "Our inspection tech made a mistake and thought there was thermal paste on the socket. We're sorry." and that would have explained the entire RMA situation. Then some blah blah about making it easier for customers to escalate to a manager, while not really reforming their processes.

Instead, this situation is much worse - they sold a known-broken refurbished-at-best motherboard as "open box" (fraud #1), and then rejected the return for fictitious reasons (fraud #2), likely because the RMA inspection tech saw that the motherboard was an unsellable piece of trash and had every incentive to make the customer eat it.

And I don't see how the Gigabyte sticker being there indicates it was not the board originally sent to GN. It's completely plausible that meets the requirements for "open box" at Newegg. And IIRC nowhere on the sticker does it say that the CPU socket is broken, rather that specific history was obtained by calling Gigabyte and asking.
I worked at a college and during the hiring process, they tried to coerce you to sign up to automatic payroll deductions for donations to the college itself. I believe it was an opt-in by default, and you had to explicitly opt out by filling out a paper form. I was kind of confused by the absurdity.
Shibboleth. The Geopolitics of Phonetics
So much this!

The use of localstorage here was absolutely fine - it puts the gameplay at the front and center.

This article is like an advertisement for useless cruft designed around monetizing a product, filled with things users fucking HATE, like forced signups and email spam.

I would have literally NEVER played it if it had required a signup, and it would had the dev taken the advice in this article.

My take away: This author is concerned primarily with his problems as a developer, and has not in any real way considered what users want, and why this product was successful. Further - he's using wordle as SEO to drive attention to his own pages. I find it off-putting at best, intentionally manipulative and insulting at worst.
I've learned the hard way that this is also dependent on the user's date format set on their computer in some libraries(iirc it was jquery ui date picker a few years back). its liberating when you decide to throw it all out and just use integers for all things not facing an end user.
Corporate Insecthood: The average corporation is considered an ant
> someone died

usually someone of note to the tech/HN community
How much of that space cargo is payload ready for a vehicle that hasn't been finalized in design yet? How long does it take to fit that cargo into that ship once it is finalized? Able to meet the 3x/week launch schedule?

It's obviously just a stat to make it sound impressive, but it is just totally impractical. I could easily say that with a launch every day, that capacity could be met in just 6 months! Fuck, with a measly 2 launches a day, we could do it this quarter!! Stats are sometimes meaningless, and when they are coming from this particular individual, they have to be taken with rather large grains of salt.
Yeah: it also seems to solve the issue of "people insist on the company stopping people from cheating by using modified clients with extra functionality" without turning the world into a DRM-ridden mess, with everyone's computers running random "anti-cheat" agents or slowly moving software into containers. The reality is that a lot of these games are designed more like shared arenas--such as a bowling alley or a skating rink--that you rent to play your game but explicitly don't own or even "tournaments" run by people who (in turn) rented the arena and have hired referees to police the game and make everything "fair", as you are on someone else's property or at someone else's event and so obviously wouldn't have carte blanche rights to modify the arena or control the rules... and so, as you say, game streaming is in some sense more intuitive / correct as it forms a consistent mental model of what is going on with ownership. As much as I would generally prefer to model many of these games like buying a board game--which you then own and can then play as you like with your friends, even if you disagree with the rules as described in the manual or even add/remove/change pieces--that just isn't the experience that these game companies are trying to build with their online matchmaking and the such.
Great question. There are two scenarios that are relevant for authorization:

1. Gating the operation (whether it's retrieving a single resource, or creating / updating / deleting a resource). In this scenario, the application does need to call the authorizer before performing the operation on the resource, but the relationship between the authorizer and the application is at "arms length".

2. Filtering a list of resources. In this scenario, the authorization system can help you by running what in OPA is known as a "partial evaluation", which returns an abstract syntax tree. Your code would then walk that tree and insert the proper where clauses (if you're talking to a SQL back-end). As you mentioned, by necessity, your application needs to work more closely with the authorizer.
Of course it is a precious resource. Any bytes wasted by bloated electron apps are bytes that your kernel cannot use for disk caches.

Pretty much every file I use daily is always in my disk cache, but they won't all fit there if I run a bunch of electron apps.
I've been reading the definitions of vaccine, and now I'm confused because it seems to technically have the same meaning as prophylactic - if not, then what's the difference between the two?
So I as a user am not allowed to get discounts on services by allowing companies to sell my data?

If my information is mine, then I have a right to do with it what I want, including giving it to a company so they can then sell it.

Just seems like you want to control how I am allowed to use my own data…
Fun, clickbaity title from another source:

“This rare frankenstein star wears the skin of its dead companion”

https://www.inverse.com/science/violent-white-dwarf-star-mer...
1Password already has this…
Don't put words in my mouth: I said your incredulity at people rings hollow - not your experience.

It's like a Tesla owner being surprised that people assume they bought a Tesla because it's an EV, when the real reason is because they love the seats and infotainment system. It should not be surpring to discover that a widely-held semtiment (right or wrong) is widely-held.
Thermochronologic constraints on the origin of the Great Unconformity
I may be wrong, but it made sense to me:

* Visiting site with HTTP, there's no expectation of encryption / comms security. So there's no need for warning.

* Visiting site with HTTPS, there's expectation of encryption / comms security, so please let me know if it's not working as intended or there are warning signs.

That being said, I'm at the crossroads of "little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Vast majority of my friends and family would not know HTTP is not encrypted... but they also won't even bother reading an experied cert warning and will just click to proceed.

(on a broader level, working in operations has underlined to me that default user behaviour with any modal dialog, window, warning, error, is to click everything until something works. There is no reason whatsoever to read or understand WHAT was clicked, or pay it any attention later, other than remembering which thing was clicked. It's an entirely binary world of "things that when you click them don't make it work" and "things that when you click them make things work". There is literally no other useful information for most users)
Arepas!
Please tell me how the US should have reacted to how they would have won the war while considering your moral principles.

Please explain this when you make comments like that.

And please also explain how many additional US soldiers (not to mention soldiers and civilians in China and other Asian nations) would you think acceptable to fight the war according to your moral principles.

If for example the Nazi put a single German child into the guard house of the synthetic fuel production facility, would you not destroy it?

Its easy to be critical, but please actually explain what your moral principles would have been and how you would have applied them. And can you make a credible case that these principles would have lead to less overall suffering.

I am gently curious what your logic is and what alternative strategy you would advocate.
US DOE to offer $6B to keep struggling nuclear reactors online
Cuetorials – Cue Language Tutorials
What advantages does pnpm have over yarn? I'm all on board with npm being problematic due to the security-design, but does pnpm solve that weakness better than yarn or provide other killer features?

PS - No testing framework in your list. Any reason?
Elon is banking on low launch costs creating lots of demand. Whether that pays off has to be seen: for conventional satellites the launch cost hasn't been the biggest factor by far, but we are now seeing more satellites that profit from low launch costs (mainly earth observation and internet services), and there are at least some projects in the pipeline for things that make sense to manufacture in space (like optical fiber). But demand takes time to materialize, and SpaceX has to somehow stay solvent until then.
Seems like it would be a fantastic feature for payment processors to provide scheduling! (and negotiating with subscription providers to operationalize that)

I dunno how many Bay Area SWEs/PMs can even grok such a lived experience, for them to prioritize it as a feature request.
There are benefits to not antagonising the population of the conquered kingdoms.

This is precisely what we follow in the modern world so should not be surprised.

In practice it is not honour but just practical unless you want to constantly engaged in conflict with your "new" citizens.
For some reason, every comment that suggests that this is a Russian hack has a green glow.
Completely absurd comment. Israel is a minnow in the semiconductor manufacturing industry and many fabs are located in Taiwan because Taiwanese people invented the foundry business.
This is what tptacek is talking about. If you have an account with a website that you have already verified, it’s possible for the website to authenticate you in a way that can’t be fooled like a person can. Basically it’s like 2FA that only works on the original website. Of course not every site has deployed this yet. But the solution exists.

If you don’t log in, or don’t have an account, though, it obviously can’t help you.
A salaried remote job is perfect for your skillset. You can get FTE market rate, but have plenty of leisure time.

You can try to convert they leisure time into more money, but I'd recommend putting it into yourself and something you enjoy. It's like halfway being "retired" while still making big money.
Thank you! A big reason I write and share these articles is to practice my communication skills, so feedback like this is well appreciated :)
If you interview for a couple of these position, you'll have a much better idea whether or not you are overselling yourself.

You might discover that you are overselling yourself, but only slightly. If that's the case you may be able to level-up that gap quickly.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ptr/fn.null.html
The harsh truth of video games programming
However, you must admit that canceling the program too soon is very on brand.
Networks are now as much censors as they are broadcasters. What they choose not to show (or redact) is just as important as what is shown in creating their viewpoint (narrative) of the world.
> Civilians were the war economy and civilians were legit targets for all nations in war.

That's not what the Geneva Conventions says.
Possibly as a control? Hard for the researchers to tell if the babies’ parents have already taught them the words associated with the presented objects.
What’s funny about this comment is how detached from reality it is.

If you round, approximately zero users of Electron apps know how to do what you’re talking about, and yet they continue to successfully use Electron apps across a variety of platforms.

The fact that you have to finely manage your system’s memory is a you thing, not an Electron thing. The two are entirely orthogonal.

Memory is not a precious resource, no matter how much you want to live in a world where your obsessive compulsion to manage it is reasonable.
> Content translated to English by a robot

That’s a pretty darn good translation!

[inserts appropriate Jennings jeopardy quote]
I provided quite a few links to video and audio evidence, reputable news media, and the Criminal Code. You provided weasel words and excuse-making. Quality debunking, friendo!
Magic: The Gathering NFT system Wizards of the Coast isn't having it
If you have "good" genes, presumably you had two parents both with desirable genes. I would imagine the pride comes from being proud of your parents each finding a procreation partner that had "good" genes.

Random chance and mutations are completely ignored of course.
> Frequently there _are_ greater fools.

That's the basic point of the theory! The tricky part is, at least on mass, humans are much worse at knowing where they are in the curve than they think they are...
The black bar is a mark of mourning and respect for someone in the technology community who has recently died. In this case, Lorinda Cherry, who did much work on early Unix at AT&T Bell Labs.

The tradition appears to date from 2009 based on HN archives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954#644981

dang on the concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26867411
Twitter’s new CEO is taking ‘a few weeks’ of parental leave
| I just don't trust online reviews from random internet people.

What we need is to be able to give extra weigth to reviews we can (somewhat) trust. This means that we need to start keeping "files" on each other, and we need a tool for looking up authors of messages and traversing chains of trust ...
Right?
I suspect you have those two significantly inverted, but that's just a SWAG.
Snow Crash which has been the inspiration for the name Metaverse. Just ordered it, while not using it I might at least stay a bit up-to-date
Check out our security doc [1], Privacy Policy [2], and Terms of Service [3] for this information.

[1] https://www.shortwave.com/docs/references/security/

[2] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/privacy-policy/

[3] https://www.shortwave.com/policies/terms-of-service/
That’s lovely! I hope you have a good day.
Love the Rich references.
I walk every day, and I get these results. I nearly always feel more energized, focused, and relaxed afterward. When I don't walk, I really notice the difference.
False choice; you have memory for both Electron apps and your kernel for disk caching.

Besides, with SSDs and NVMe your experience loading data from disk is plenty fast. Again, this is the future; I/O isn’t the bottleneck it once was.
This was the same era that Linode had the compromises listed. It's a pretty apples-to-apples comparison, though I agree it has been almost a decade since.
The idea that "breakfast was the most important meal" was created by cereals manufacturers: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfa...
> I could say that if you’re handling multilingual text, then you should damn well know how multilingual text works, that it’s not peripheral to your problem.

Trouble is, anyone using Unicode and accepting user inputs is effectively handling multilingual text, unless they explicitly filter it out. Which includes the vast majority of websites and even web-based user interfaces for standalone hardware.

> As far as I know, this is not solvable.

I am sure it is solvable in the sense that it is possible to make the behaviors less surprising and complicated without sacrificing people's ability to use right-to-left languages. There would have to be a discussion about underlying assumptions and real-life usage to achieve that, however.

Generally, though, I don't see legitimate use for ever reversing left-to-right languages when displayed to user. That's not what anyone would expect, not even the writers of right-to-left languages. And the myriad of malicious uses are kind of obvious. And the long-term effect of people abusing these will be websites banning more control characters, which will affect users of Arabic and Hebrew.

Also, with the way Unicode is being developed it is increasingly unclear what "plain text" even means these days. AFAIK, there isn't even a formal definition of that term. Maybe that's where the discussion should really start. What capabilities separate "plain text" from other things?
Hong Kong Beat the Speculators
Higher, and more strikes per merchant would mean the merchant is drop. $25 is the minimum. 1% used to be the minimum for what was acceptable per monthly volume, but now it's much less, I've seen guidelines on risky categories go to .5%.
Bluntly put, SSL Certificates exist (or at least are widely promoted and used in their current form) to protect the business models of a few very large corporations. Especially against parties like sleazy ISP's, who might love to (say) replace all the Google Ads on web pages which their customers view with new ads sold by the ISP.

Beyond that, it's all FUD, marketing, and hype. And at least 90% of any actual benefits to normal users of the web fall under "convenient side-effect of what the large corporations would have done anyway, for their own benefit".

[/cynic]
Security as Code
Now live with Joseph Katsioloudes @jkcso & @beardofedu Matthew Desmond!
I work at 1Password. Could you tell me a little more about this? I tested this in the latest version of 1Password 8 and when I'm creating or editing a password, I see a "Generate Password" button pop up beneath the password field. I can access it by either pressing the down arrow or tab. Does this not work on your end?
> Phrase “im proud of <something>” means nothing.

... yes it does. I'm proud of losing 5lbs and accomplishing a goal I set for myself. The feelings I have when I utter that statements are real, whether I act differently (beyond uttering it) to anyone about it or not.
I stopped using SSH keys to authenticate against GitHub years ago and switched to HTTPS authentication. It's super convenient to set up with the GitHub CLI: https://cli.github.com/manual/

Is there any advantage of using SSH keys to authenticate against GitHub?
It’s front and center on their own page: https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/video/watch-rocs-kamila-va...
It’s very telling that you’re ignoring half of my questions in every response.

> People with life savings in fiat that refuse to transition will be the clear losers.

Who is forcing them to transition? Is it the government? Why did the government change currencies to crypto, without aiding their citizens?

> Sadly, I think it will be elderly that do not understand crypto

What about normal people? What price and coin do you suggest I buy, and in what quantity to prepare myself for this future?

> So people don't desire to possess $1,000,000?

While I don’t deny that people like large numbers on their bank statement, the goal of owning so much currency is to exchange it for products and services. They don’t care if it’s USD or BTC, as long as everyone else accepts the same. What they will care about is when you tell them that you have to exchange fiat for BTC/etc at a volatile price with built-in deflationary mechanisms. Again, you’ve ignored my question about supply and how to sustainably on-ramp the entire world populace into crypto.
Not sure how many new users last colorways experiment has brought, but I think Mozilla should prioritize working on actual browser features to catch up with Chrome. There are still problems with chat/video conferencing apps, e.g. MS Teams, that work even on Safari. And there are smaller things too: https://wpt.fyi/compat2021?feature=summary
>You won't find many today who think buying pizza in BTC is a good idea.

Because the more you think about Bitcoin and the more you learn about how fiat works the more broken the world seems and Bitcoin becomes all that matters.

Despite being just numbers it's the only value in the world that real and you can truly own. You can't even truly own a house in most of the world.
I believe vaccines are a subset of prophylactics. For example, masks, condoms, etc would also be prophylactics.
Only if it’s Turing Complete.
> New diamond manufacturing processes include chemical vapor deposition, which would make integrating with fab processes pretty feasible.

That is honestly pretty freaking cool.
Yup, the major change has been the capital to get new fabs off the ground has become unimaginable. TSMC is practically the only game in town for chip manufactures ATM, everyone else that will fab 3rd party designs is way behind.

GlobalFoundries state of the art, for example, is a 12nm process. TSMC sits at 5nm, about 4 generations ahead.
To be fair I'm not familiar with the dropbox+1pass combo solution you're referring to, but I imagine that the people using that solution are in the minority and that by focusing on one unified solution and not spending time supporting an old one probably provides net positive experiences across their product.

I kind of agree that if it works and it's in place just leave it be, but if it needs maintenance time, support time, and even development time as the product evolves then I can see the "business folks" pushing for the removal of those features so the team can focus on what more people are using.