skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quit it with the straw man BS. You can overdose on any substance. Taking a medication is always going to be safer under supervision.

My issue is that the use of IVM got politicized and as a result the will of many doctors and patients was undermined. A large number of the people who took it illicitly did it so because pharmacies stopped filling valid prescriptions.

If you want to talk about safety: The same crowd bitching about IVM happened to be the people pushing a vaccine with much less data supporting its safety and questionable efficacy on people under 50.

Their logic:
- Mandate a new drug, using a new technology on the entire world, even though there were no real Phase III trials.

- Don’t look into prophylactic treatment options which are cheaper and known to be safe.

- Call anyone who studies anything else a conspiracy theorist and a quack

- Actively suppress peer reviewed articles that don’t follow the narrative. (Including refusing to publish or unpublishing work in major journals)
Another similar binary parsing language is 010 Editor’s Binary Templates [1]. I prefer it over Kaitai’s language because it reads more like a typical struct definition with control structures interspersed throughout.

[1] https://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/templates.html
Electric steering is power steering using electric motors instead of hydraulics. There is still a physical linkage and you can still steer the car with the power off.

On my 2014 Prius, the brakes use an electric pump to power the hydraulics. In normal operation, the computer handles the brakes, but there is a physical backup.

The throttle is completely by wire, because there is no more reliable way to run two electric motors and a gas engine together with an analog system.
Doesn't really seem like a bombshell or even a surprise. Or to cite the classic dead salmon study:

https://teenspecies.github.io/pdfs/NeuralCorrelates.pdf
love the product, highly recommend
My new uni roommate came in with Greens and we managed to compromise it down to "just" Blues after a week. Still have no idea how he didn't get kicked out of his first year lectures with that typewriter.
This is correct.

"Savings" are things that are produced but not consumed.
During "lockdown", consumption exceeded production. That means, globally, years of savings were consumed.

When savings are reduced, prosperity is reduced. Savings will have to be rebuilt to return to prosperity.
Nukes and the power to use them worldwide.
Global Chip Shortages Cast a Long Shadow with No End in Sight
My professor, Brian L. Stuart, was Inferno enthusiast and wrote a great small book on how it all works (We used it for class.) if you've read all of these his book might be interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Operating-Systems-Applicat...

(It's also pretty easily available online if you cannot afford or find the hard copy.)
Hm, since that link didn't work for me either, I switched my DNS from Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 to Google's 8.8.8.8 and that allowed me to view the page. Some weirdness going on there.
Here in California that LLC will cost you $800 per year just to exist, even if you sell nothing.
Sadly, one may need proprietary Nvidia drivers to do... anything.

I had three nvidia cards, and at least two of them needed an installation ISO patched with the binary drivers, otherwise, they didn't start at all, or they would crash after a very short time.
Librewolf is not primarily intended as the definite browser but a sane base template for easily customizable and extendable firefox builds.

The librewolf AUR package is a great starting point to make custom builds of firefox; between two json files in the settings repo you can tweak basically any relevant setting, bundle extensions (e.g. use custom forked ones without needing to either sign through Mozilla or disable security), search engines, use your own fxa/syncserver, handlers, branding, etc.

All in a git repo and you won't have to redo things next time you reinstall the browser or get a new machine (anyone else ever scratched their heads trying to recall that one about:config setting?)

Building and tweaking vanilla firefox yourself is quite an exercise. Librewolf makes it a breeze. The sane privacy-by-default standards is just the cherry on the top.

https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/settings
I agree, the actual question is, why don't run they point of cooking ads already?
I have found that Alexa does things randomly once a week or so, e.g. start playing music or responds to a question I didn't ask.

I would be concerned that Alexa would turn on the faucet silently without me knowing, potentially causing a flood.
Why do we give back?
Eh, I think you're being uncharitable. My 80 year old mother could definitely figure out how to hold down a button while turning the thing off and on. We've been living with some version of that reality for decades.
If you make it part of the deploy / build process and force programers to only use the subset of features supported by a type checker then you can benefit.
I just went through this in July of 2020. I worked at a company for 15 years as a software developer and switched. At my new company I'm now one of the domain experts and I was just promoted.

The biggest piece of advice I can offer is to use Anki. As you learn new pieces of domain knowledge throw the info into Anki. Then review your Anki deck daily. No one does and you will be shocked at how quickly you move up the domain knowledge ladder.

Good Luck
> That doesn't really answer OP's question, which is how everyone would turn those savings into goods/services.

You don't. Saving = not-spending = not getting goods and services. At least not at the present moment.

You save now to protect against future income risk (e.g., emergency fund) and future income needs (e.g., retirement). You convert savings to cash flow when non-savings (e.g., employment income) dries up.
> Privacy is not differentiation because it's invisible

Privacy could be a differentiation if Mozilla did not show again and again that they don't actually care about your privacy. It might not be enough, but currently they don't even have that.
Funding this lot for a start: https://nypost.com/2021/12/16/how-george-soros-funded-progre...
I don't know how much of an aficionado I am. I had a Dell keyboard that I purchased back in 1996 that lasted me for about 16 years. Loved it. Thing was a heavy brick and felt great. Then I wandered around through the various membrane keyboards for years, just using whatever came my way. When I needed a new one, I purchased a cheap Red Dragon keyboard. No numpad, but I never used it anyway, and it felt great. Bought a second one, and even though it was the exact same model, they changed the keycaps. So I did what any rational person who always forgets to return things does and bought a KVM switch. I will use this thing until it dies and then explore my options.
Not in this case apparently ;)
Whenever I hear the words “Bloomberg terminal” I get a mental image of a VT-series CRT and keyboard connected to a distant mainframe sitting off to the side of a room full of traders with men in suits waiting their turn to type in their queries.

I’ve assumed that it’s actually just software these days but it turns out that it also requires a specialized keyboard (which includes biometric authorization based on my quick skim of the webpage). It’s apparently $2000/month which is probably reasonable for those who need it and also a clear indication that I don't need it.
Look at the highest comment on that thread from car_analogy, he lays out a plausible scenario at what the consequences of Mozilla tracking downloads could be.
I would certainly call that another useful and valid perspective.

Again, the real thing is to make sure you don't accidentally flipflop between them without realizing it, because that leads to confusion. The mathematical definition isn't too hard, the definition I laid out isn't too hard, the definition you give isn't too hard, but the amount of confusion you can get from unknowingly switching between them is almost unbounded.
This feels akin to excessively auto-completing shells to me. It is pretty awesomely quick when you are starting, but it feels like it has to impact learning/muscle memory which gives you the accuracy and speed in the long-term. Maybe just the bias from learning without these things but I can't shake the feeling.
A router being down is potentially catastrophic for a household/business. Certainly more important (under most circumstances) than a microwave oven.
Yeah you're right, I think SNMP is based on UDP; I just meant you could use "raw" UDP datagrams to send one-way commands if you didn't want to use SNMP
The UN estimates that there are about 7.9 billion people, up from about 6 billion in 1999.

https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/population

https://www.unfpa.org/data/world-population-dashboard
Ask HN: Why is Safari the new IE?
Until the day it starts asking your support contract number…
Okinawans are Japanese, who overall absolutely want the support of the US.

Thankfully, the deeply racist and xenophobic Okinawans who don't want white men around their daughters and who lack the broader context of understanding how important their overal security is ... don't get entirely to make the call entirely themselves.

Or rather, if there were 'sovereign and independent' of both Japan and the US, they'd have to instantly reverse course and beg for the Americans and Japanese to come back in some form, lest they be completely controlled by China.
Congratulations and good luck for the switch! I did a similar switch about a year ago. I'm glad I did, but it's been challenging.

> Technically, I have no doubts to get things done

That's something which caught me a bit off-guard. All tools and systems are different. I find myself asking questions to the interns who know more than me. It's sometimes worrying (do I really deserve my title in the company...)

> How do I make "new friends" at work?

I'm just trying to be a nice guy, keep a positive attitude in all circumstances, help other people when I can. Generally, it takes a bit of patience to make friends. But eventually, you meet people whose personality somehow matches yours and you build a network of friends/allies within the company.

This is something I don't do enough because I'm introverted, but it's probably good to be pro-active in meeting new people in the company. Attend social events, talk to people during breaks and so on...
I do not see that reflected in the money supply. No wild swings there:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S
Do you happen to be hiring for customer support?
> Instead of real retirement plans, higher guaranteed social security.

This comes out in practice as PAYGO, or "pay as you go". A lot of countries use this model, and it goes bad quickly when tax receipts aren't enough to cover retirement outlays. With poor demographics in almost all large economies, PAYGO plans are going to cause a lot of pain in the next couple of decades.

> They have shifted nearly all the risk to the individual...

The risk comes down to 1. is either the individual, their employer, or the state investing for that individual's retirement and 2. how is that money invested.

The US has more than 150% of its GDP invested in retirement savings. Some of these savings are invested in equities. It has to go somewhere.
Well they'd be in prison for many years for knowingly creating and distributing a virus. So your wish is already a reality.
In the last 20 years, we've also added about two billion new people to the world, sitting at about 8B right now. 10B is the predicted max [1].

There, fixed it for you.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
> If you don’t like stocks keep it in bonds or cash.

This is disingenuous advice considering all financial vehicles for savers have been gutted. You can't even hedge inflation without the stock market (or real estate, if you can afford the buy-in).

Take a look at some historical CD rates. https://www.bankrate.com/banking/cds/historical-cd-interest-...
> I believe in this so much that I automatically assume any German software developer not wanting to use a US layout keyboard for his daily work is not working efficiently or not deep enough into it.

Is that fair? I’m not a German but from another N. European country. I have made my own keyboard config which I use for everything. But I also have a keybind to switch to a normal (or our own local layout) when somebody else is about to use my computer. So if I don’t forget to use it it would seem like I just use the regular keyboard layout.

My own config evolved like this: first I had two layouts for my own language and English/programming, respectively. But switching layouts became a pain in the neck in my latest local job where we chat in our own language, code in English, of course chat in English with our foreign consultants... so I had to make my keyboard config work with all three (native lang/English/programming). I’ve never tried to get used to the US layout but I would have to use the same layout switching approach since the US layout (even the international one) wouldn’t work well enough with my native language.

Can’t say that I appreciate this kind of judgement. What do you know about people’s personal setups? Well, unless they out of resentment just decide to explain like I just did. :)
I’ve talked about this with some of my fellow aficionados, that some things just have a spark, an ‘X’ factor and that despite some of those things not being your thing you can still appreciate the ‘X’ factor in them.
This can be well-made music, a mechanical device (headphones, watch, gun, car, keyboard), a TV show, a painting, a joke routine etc.

I have no name for them but there is a particular type of person that can see the ‘X’ factor in Illmatic, a Subaru boxer engine, an M4 assault rifle, a well-modded pair of headphones, a Rembrandt and a clever joke, despite not being into hip-hop, preferring electric cars, being pro gun control, mostly listening music in their car, preferring modern art, and never really being much for jokes.
Could always tax other things, like consumption, inheritance, or carbon emissions.
Can you recommend any particular sellers?

My oven stops working with some nonsensical error message when I try to use it above 350F, so I'm in the market for a new one.
Mechanical keyboard user (but non-fetishist) here.

For me, it's about comfort and perhaps a tinge of nostalgia. It feels good to type on and I like the audio and physical feedbacks.

That said, my whole process was: I just tried a couple of mechanical keyboards others had, and decided on one (Keychron K8). It works well enough for me, and I don't go sifting around online for the latest/greatest mechanical keyboard.
I work very fixed hours. If anyone needs me outside of that, fine... but I have an "online and working" start and end date, every day.

I've worked in start-ups where people come and go at random hours, including the founders. Consistency hasn't always been treated as a positive trait.

I'm a bit older now, I work in the enterprise, I WFH, I keep my set hours. Some in my current enterprise have "unlimited vacation". They tend to keep very inconsistent working schedules. It's a mixed org in that sense.

It started because I never wanted to miss my gym times. I work out before work but don't alter that schedule for anything.
On higher-end phones yes; I had a BlackBerry at the time which I believe had mini-USB. Most of my friends had feature phones at that point in time though, and those were notoriously nonstandard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_and_the_Pea
Now that you're actually in the process of upgrading, I suggest you take advantage of the fact that you're an actually-paying customer to slightly influence the retailer(s) you buy from.

"Can you show me only the non-smart appliances, please? Oh, you don't have any? Are you sure, can you ask the manager? Alright, I'm not interested in anything, have a nice day."

Sure, it doesn't mean very much on your own, but neither does voting - the value is in collective action. If everyone who specifically doesn't want a smart appliance, smart car, or smart TV makes a big deal about it, then manufacturers and retailers will start to notice.
Calculus isn’t something i use regularly as a software dev. I’ve never had to use derivatives or integrals. Even things like sin and cos are often abstracted away.

Meanwhile, discrete math is absolutely something you see in computer science. But, in my high school discrete was the course for people who didn’t like math, as an alternative to precalculus.

It would be much better if schools offered an AP Discrete math, and colleges were more lenient to students who are good the discrete math but for struggle with calculus.
Everything in society is about resolving those conflicts of freedom peaceably. Democracy is intended to ensure that in the worst case you've got at least 51% of people willing to sign on to the compromise, but if you wield that as a cudgel you'll just make everybody angry all the time. It cannot substitute for sincere discussion.

I've got my own fingers to point at who I believe is most responsible, and I don't believe that we'll make much progress until certain people choose to discuss things rather than treating their compatriots as enemies. But it's clear that doing so is an effective tactic for winning elections, especially if you can use the rules to your advantage.

So I'm afraid I don't know how to fix that. No system will be effective among people who consider themselves enemies.
Very late follow-up: https://twitter.com/aaronAcarr/status/1504619986580557829
I don't think "Agile" is responsible, but it is a supporting character here for sure. Let me give a little history from my perspective.

I got involved in that movement before the word "Agile" existed; I was really interested in the ideas coming from the Extreme Programming folks and had tried them out on a small project in 2000. All of the people I met early on really wanted to do software well; the question was how to do it well and responsively. Unit and acceptance tests were just part of the process [1], and Kent Beck also wrote Test Driven Development By Example [2] around then. So in my view there was strong early interest in quality.

But this was all happening during the rise of the internet, which changed people's expectations for software delivery. Previously, releasing every 18 months was seen as reasonable. Suddenly the web was changing people's expectations. (Although not as fast as you'd think; a consultant pal told me in 2004 that Weight Watchers still had an annual release cycle for their website.) Executives and managers were under pressure to deliver faster.

As I wrote about elsewhere [3], that created a need for Agile that was filled not by the humanistic culture and quality-oriented practices of my end of the Agile world, but by consultants and certification programs watering down the material until executives could slap some new labels on their same old bullshit and call it Agile.

It turns out that bullshit long predates Agile. If you go back to Royce's original 1970 paper on Waterfall [4], one of his big points is that it doesn't work. Why, then, did it become the predominant way to organize software projects? Because it feels good to managers. For most of the project, it gives them a feeling of control and competence. That feeling is false, as it just delays all of the real-world feedback until near the nominal end. But they can perform confidence and competence to their boss, which is vital in managerialist [5] organizations.

So I totally agree with you that Agile on average has mutated into a garbage pipeline. And that happened through a whole industry that produced manager-friendly process theater that threw out a quality focus and most of the Agile values, while using the Agile labels. But I think the real responsibility lies in our management culture and values, which both precedes Agile and whose harm extends well beyond it.

[1] http://www.extremeprogramming.org/map/loops.html

[2] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/test-driven-development...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20170923232057/http://agilefocus...

[4] https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/why-waterfall-was-a...

[5] See, e.g., https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/confronting-managerialism-9781...
The food supply in Europe has changed gigantically in recent decades. There are massive areas under glass, huge irrigation projects and challenges, and new shipping options (containers). The subsidy and production regimes have changed

This is not to say that the food supply is secure.
> the word literally has evolved, badly

How do you feel about the words "really" and "very"?

I never really understood this fad of harping on the metaphorical usage of "literally" - it's hardly a new development:

> The use of literally in a fashion that is hyperbolic or metaphoric is not new—evidence of this use dates back to 1769.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
For some reason, Firefox (and its variants) seems to attract an especially tough crowd. People will let Chrome hoover up every last bit of information about you but FF will get relentlessly pilloried for every minor decision.
In many respects Apple is not keeping up with Chrome and Firefox in terms of new features.

In particularly Apple is not supporting or poorly supporting features associated with "Progressive Web Applications" on mobile to prevent PWA's from competing with the app store on iOS.
I just went with the Breville Air Fryer Pro. It's a great toaster oven and doesn't connect to the network. Unfortunately even Breville's latest oven is now WiFi enabled.
Of course.

Mozilla is competing for the same talent as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Browsers are the most important software at those companies because most other software runs on them.

The Hacker News community doesn’t seem to appreciate the work Mozilla has done to establish web standards. I’ve experienced what it’s like to be stuck with IE6 and IE11 for a decade, holding back web projects at work. Firefox broke through that inertia and made Google, Amazon, Netflix and other companies possible. Essentially, Firefox made the whole “startup” wave Hacker News rides on possible (though much of that momentum transferred to the App Stores).
Reading HN comments about the stock market is like listening to a bunch of MBAs talk about software engineering.
Dactyl/Dactyl Manuform is concave. Even more, its shape is programmatically generated, so you can separate control curvature for each axis, stagger, etc. It is literally infinitely customizable.
Services love MFA because it makes it hard for user to share logins and therefore gets them to buy more seat licenses.
I wouldn't buy one. Especially at that price point. But I admit that a faucet which could reliably do things like "dispense 6 ounces of water" is kind of a neat idea. But I wouldn't want it tied to Amazon or anything like that. It'd need to be self-contained, with it's own computer, speaker, mic, voice analysis, no internet connection required, and a reliable failure mode that never interferes with the handle working. In other words, something which will never exist.
I wonder if there's ever been a study to determine how much the advent of a second standard computer monitor in (developers / accountants / lawyers) toolkits reduced the amount of paper waste generated by corporations each year.
Europe may starve if you don't.

Not all duties are moral. Some are merely practical.
I would think that OpenRA can use the Telsa coils (and other copyrighted elements) because it's a mod for Command & Conquer, which wouldn't be transferable to another project unrelated to C&C
I tried to parse C without a symbol table but failed