skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In fact, during the pandemic, many governments who enacted what you call ‘experiments’ were re-elected in landslides.

the governments had the media in their pockets from day 1 so of course the prevailing opinion would be they did well and would be reelected. just like Putin having great ratings in Russia.
The problem I have is that I have burned through many pairs of Levi’s in under a year of use for each pair. I’m not sure how long they’re supposed to last but that is my experience.

I don’t was my jeans, I wear them a couple days a week and let them sit for the other few days. I wash them about every 2 months (though washing does take a noticeable toll).

I’m not sure the “no true Levi’s” can apply to me however; I bought them from the official Levi’s store in Malmö.
Sounds like a great tagline: "All the support and drive of an open-source project at commercial prices!"
> Not sure why you're complaining about this. You elected those those folks. If they aren't doing it right, then elect someone else.

This kind of assumes that the system is actually/legitimately democratic, and overlooks that one vote has the consequence (in theory anyways) of determining decisions on thousands of sub-issues. We vote for people, not issues, and it's highly questionable the degree to which the people we vote for are sincere in their stated goals.

> It's what's called "representative democracy." I hear that it's been tried in a few places and has had some minor successes. /s

Depending on how one measures it, ignoring that we tend to measure such things heuristically, on a relative scale, and tend to not consider counterfactual causality.

> Beyond that, "democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried."[0]

It is an extremely popular meme (particularly lately, perhaps in part due to an extremely successful guerilla marketing campaign), but it would be interesting to know what is actually true.
Use whatever you're most familiar with that allows you to get the job done to a sufficient level of execution in a reasonable time. Otherwise, delegate, outsource, or reconsider why you're building it at all.
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The idea of gardening, playing golf, or travelling around looking at things is very unappealing to me.

I want to work. I have no plans to retire. If I do retire, it'll be because it became impossible for me to work anymore.
Windows has never been better. WSL2, wsl/g, android (hope it gets better store but you can side load), xbox gamepass, game bar, better security, better app store, powershell, windows terminal and of course all the other apps, games, onedrive locker..

sure quirks along the way but to me it’s been a fine experience..

i don’t tend to customize my iphone or mac either and just use the experience native and it’s been fine..

best times ever on all platforms. love new mac… love new surface pro 8. all great..
Zach from UBiome actually has the science background and was an adjunct professor at (I think) Berkeley.

With YC, they are judging companies at 10 minute interviews, I'm guessing they aren't able to do much due diligence.
Just something that stood out to me from the wording. Get some sleep, not much more immediate damage control you can do I'd say.
I didn’t believe in talent until after I spent over ten years trying to learn music, and then seeing 5 year-olds on YouTube doing stuff I can only dream of. True, some, perhaps most of it is hard work, but talent makes the process a lot easier.
Had those in Canada too. There seemed to be the medical based rules (distancing, limited occupancy, washing hands) which made sense. And then there were the "me too, more must be better" types. For example, closing down provincial parks seemed odd. These parks are not rabbit warrens; but no, you can't. Going for a walk down a trail in an urban woodland park where distancing is not an issue - nope. What is/was sorely lacking was a common (medical) sense approach to the rules and I think that's what tipped the scale for some (many?) folks that there was overreach with the lockdown rules.
According to the CDC, "whereas there is a wide range in antibody titers in response to infection with SARS-CoV-2, completion of a primary vaccine series, especially with mRNA vaccines, typically leads to a more consistent and higher-titer initial antibody response." [1]

It would seem strange if the vaccines are able to induce higher S protein antibody titers than a typical infection while producing an orders-of-magnitude lower level of S protein in the body (but perhaps I am wrong there -- the human immune system is full of counterintuitive and strange workings).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
Yeah, if you have a problem with it, you probably aren't applying to Facebook if you have other options (and if you can get a job at Facebook, you have other options).
That's because "being tracked" has many benefits for the user and very few downsides.
> I'm not sure the pandemic is solely or even largely responsible.

The article is literally reporting a major change in mental health metrics in teens as of a year into the pandemic. You honestly think social media/4-chan/reddit is the culprit? I think I'm starting to see why a million Americans are in a box today. There is a disconnect here.
Why? They’re both nagware using the same patterns to get users to make them the default browser. The only difference is that MS can put the notifications in the OS and Google can put the notifications on Search.

Same game, Firefox is just in the minor leagues because they don’t have valuable digital real estate in addition to the browser.
I'm waiting for them to fix all the broken crap in an sp1 release before I upgrade. I'm talking the basic stuff, like switching windows. It's beyond me that they broke this somehow. Or character map. What the hell.
Indeed. Drug use should be a medical or mental health problem, if it’s a problem at all. Not a legal problem.
It's called squeaky because it's always breaking
Do you also feel life is too short to wash your hands now and then?
> Which is a shame as these same corporates who have fleets of Apple Mac computers normally migrate annually about 6-9 months after each major annual MacOS release.

Those have a much longer support period, though. MacOS 11 works on any Mac from 2013 (or occasionally 2014) on. Windows 11 appears to require at least a Kaby Lake processor; those mostly showed up in mid 2017. Many corporates would still have Skylake or earlier machines knocking around; my work machine is a Skylake MacBook Pro, and that's in a large _software_ company.

This is particularly a problem because Intel has been in a bit of a rut; there's not that much difference between a Skylake chip from 2016 and an Ice Lake one from 2020, particularly on the desktop, so there are a lot of Skylakes still in circulation.

Which is all a bit odd, really; traditionally it has been the opposite. But as Apple's support periods have grown, Microsoft's seem to have shrunk.
Here's a demonstration showing some basic words. The syntax of it is pretty easy to grasp. I only know a little Spanish, but I was able to understand a number of the words I didn't know by looking at the gestures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZYDHYcUG8M
Look at it the other way around - you could have a different outage every single day and as long as that outage only impacted 4.3m users and they were different users each day, it would look like a once-a-year event to the average user.

They’re saying there’s a lot of leeway to break things (in a small way) at scale.
2019.

Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19871207
One can develop* what serves as the edifice[1] of a $1B hedge fund that handles signals, orders, trades, positions, and p&l, among other things, using a system not unlike this one.[2]

[1] Merriam Webster definition of edifice: a large abstract structure

[2] Source: Me

* Or inherit and maintain
It doesn't set a precedent though, it is just arbitrary beating of a scapegoat. So called "tough on crime" laws are a bad kneejerk idea but at least they are relatively consistent compared to "fuck this person in particular because I feel like it" of arbitrary example setting. The whole point of precedent being seen as a positive in law is because it makes legal outcomes more predictable.
I don't know if the energy required to heat a historical building from servers is 'good' from a Utilitarian viewpoint - the energy consumed to do this is surely greater than the amount of coal required to run some effective heaters and on the other hand if people aren't willing to fund green initiatives to keep the historical building going is it really worth the effort?

On the other hand if you can have a green energy project fund itself with bitcoin while being even slightly net positive then I think that's useful, if only because it'll increase funding to green energy producers and that's a good thing (more users should allow for the benefits of economy of scale).
So did anyone realize that Fauci is EIGHTY ONE ? He's older than both Biden and Trump.

I found this out like 2 months ago, after years of the pandemic !!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

I never gave it much thought, but if you had asked me, I'd probably say he was 65 or so
> Everything I do day-to-day is either stuff that I need to do to pay the bills and support my family

That's the universal trap.

> people like Feynman are born with a burning passion for learning that most people just don't have.

I am not sure about that. I'd say most people lose sight of their true passion. Mine happened to be programming, which now helps me pay my bills. But I'd be screwed if my true passion was drawing...

Wait, I used to love drawing, until I took drawing "lessons".

> Now, at halfway through my 50s, I would not be able to answer the standard interview question "what are you passionate about?"

I once heard this logic which did guide me a lot : if you were older (say 80), what would yo regret not having even tried ?
If you haven't even tried, let's try.
To be fair, I think Feynman applies this in sequence.

I.e Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize.

THEN
1. Write down the problem. 2. Think real hard. 3. Write the solution.

If a problem seems intractable, return to the first process.

Also, remember that Feynman also spent weeks at play with problems that interested him. Do that too. Be kind to yourself.
Lots of articles on this.. i suspect similar issues of security and performance for the reason mac deprecated that hardware too on current os.
You mean where there are not any good jobs?
You might consider trying something like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.

Steam's Proton compatibility layer has come a long way in the past couple of years. It supports most titles without any special configuration, including resource-hungry 3D games like Elden Ring and modded Fallout 4.
>I mean, if I want to be crass about it, I could ask you who's life you value more - your father or your son, your aunt or your niece?

That's an incredibly easy one, if I had kids it would be my kids over my parents, and I'm certain my parents would agree and be willing to sacrifice themselves to save their grandkids if it truly came to that. The fact that this apparently isn't the default moral calculus for most people (as shown by the pandemic response) is deeply troubling to me.
Gell-Mann probably had his tongue at least a little bit in his cheek when he said that: the two had a competitive relationship.

I always took it as a dig at the way Feynman liked to make out that ideas just came naturally to him, when in fact (as Murray would have known) Feynman had to put the work in the same as everyone else, even if he was a genius.
You have no interests you would pursue if you were free to spend your time as you wish? I enjoy my work, but there’s a dozen interests I can think of, off-hand, that I would happily enjoy before ever going back to work, given the option.
They forgot it in the list of skipped Windows versions, but didn't forget to skip it from the list of used versions!
HN has very strong views on crypto along the lines of it's all bad, so even fairly reasoned arguments (that may well be flawed) are downvoted into oblivion without a decent debate on the points. It's why I wish Crypto was just banned from HN - it is rarely a decent conversation here.
If you're up to trying some supplementation, after my Delta infection in October I took a PQQ-CoQ10-glutathione-NAC combo that my local store recommended, along with some straight NAC, and my lingering fatigue cleared up about a week after the illness had abated. There are lots of other long COVID recovery protocols out there which are pretty easy to find -- who knows how much of it is snake oil, but as long as what is recommended is safe, possibly taking some placebos is a minor risk to run for a chance at some relief IMO.
Chrome isn’t hawking a news platform on the new tab page with sponsored links, pushing you towards a co-branded VPN, or showing ads for random media properties.

Good lord Firefox has fallen from grace in search of revenue. I still use it as my daily driver but they’re killing the golden calf in an attempt to save it.
And where are you that you get corrupt cops acting in that manner?
How did the plugboard work? Is it literally 31 steps across (or down, or whichever way it was oriented) and you connected the bits in each step to locations that selected an operation?

Or was it more like microcode where you had to consider some contextual implementation details as well?
Now do the same but for Poles with the wrong religion: Judaism.
What if you go even further and pollute the data to such an extent that you start fitting into all buckets.

You could be male, female and any other gender, any race, any job, work as a CEO and a janitor, live both in Russia and the US.

You could probably do this to Google search.

Edit: Apparently somebody already built an extension which does exactly this for Facebook.
https://floorvandenberghe.be/derivedscrolling/
> Some then have it beaten out of them by a slow, routine, inhuman education system that crushes individual creativity.

...created by/for those who are trying to get it, not by those who did.
Please. The stock market went up an incredible amount over the course of the pandemic. Most retirees with any degree of savings profited immensely. The financial crisis didn't kill people's savings either, if you look at a graph of the S&P500. On top of that, these people are likely to own their home which means monthly expenditures are very low as rent/mortgage comprises the largest source of spending for most people.
Allowing for (even encouraging) downvotes without comment or explanation is an explicit goal of the site, which was designed by someone who was irritated with the clutter of superficial negative comments.

I'm not a mod; all I can do is cajole.
The firmware could see that the value was stuck at a constant, compare your outside temp to a local forecast, see that your internal temp continued to drop, or employ other strategies for determining bad sensor data. There's little incentive for Honeywell to add such functionality (cf the paradigm where you just call a professional who diagnoses your problem), but with libre software it might just scratch someone's itch at which point the functionality would be available to all. Libre software certainly isn't a panacea, but rather seemingly a necessary condition for embedded devices to not get stuck at whatever simplistic version of zip-source-control crapware they're shipped with.

By surveillance I'm referring to what would pass for "remote notifications" of system status (after the possible bad sensor was detected). The IoTrash solution would be to backhaul your system's data to a surveillance cloud, require you to sign up for email spam, install a bespoke app that would spam you with useless notifications, faux-consent to a ridiculous anti-privacy contract, etc. Whereas in the libre world, user-focused incentives are allowed to define functionality and that notification could be a simple single email.

Making the point in general, in order for complex software to not be some terrible black box, it needs to expose its internal state to users who want to see it. Libre software tends to do that (as many users are developers), while non-libre software tends to lock all that up and thus severely limits reliability xor complexity.
Depends on your use case

for me I use Unraid for my "production" home storage for 3 main reasons

1. It is easy to administer I dont want to have screw with it when I just want to watch a movie from my emby server, or get some file I am working on

2. It allows me to disparate disk sizes, and expand the storage at will. Something TrueNAS and other ZFS based system struggle with

3. The Docker interface is the easiest I have ever found

I want the "one click" service experience for my home services server. I do not want a package manager, or to ssh in to the server and start doing things.

That said i also run 2 other Storage servers that are TrueNAS, I use them for backups, and doing the things you talk about. However with TrueNAS I have to plan out my Storage like I would my enterprise arrays, a 5 year storage plan, and preallocate the space when I build the array, because expanding it after the fact is a pain in the a*. (an no I am not going to keep adding mirror pair vdev's)

That is the key here, use the correct tool for the job, and for a production server to run "home services" like emby, plex, gitea, paperless, SAMBA shares, Home Assistant, etc nothing IMO beats unraid, not even TrueNAS
A Utah town is running dry. Its solution stoked an age-old water war
Well at least you starred the project. I get recruitment spam and unwanted surveys from “researchers” on my GitHub emails all the time, having starred nothing related. The worst offender is Turing.com; they spammed emails of all my GitHub accounts repeatedly before I blackholed them, and their unsubscribe button seemed to be a “here’s a real human, please spam more” button. Shame on them and all their investors. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/turing/company_finan...
IMO the real evil of Twitter is that it went mainstream and is flawed. Flawed notably in the sense that volume defeats truth and discourse. 100k tweets is greater than the truth, meanwhile the 100k tweets is cheap and can be automated. Basically, Twitter makes astroturfing easy, and it makes it easy to be loud. After having gone mainstream, it is exploited through these flaws. So twitter helped to drown out these older communication channels, and replaced it with a field of very loud astroturf. To this extent I think Jack is correct regarding the centralization, but rose colored glasses on how twitter bots and good ol internet trolling have ruined discourse. (Trolling in the sense of asymmetric information warfare. I win when I can put out more falsehoods or misleading statements a magnitude faster than you can to refute them. While giving equal voice to all is noble, that is not twitter, and not really the internet anymore for some time now.. instead of the truth being found and debated, it is instead now drowned)
tl;dr : Restarting train schedule mid-day is too hard and unsafe. So we're sending them back to depot instead.
That's an interesting one. I've asked myself this question before, but it's a hard one to answer since we can't reset our age for scientific comparison. It worked pretty well for me, but I could see it going sideways for other personality types.
I would question if we still need to work on some of these topics. Particularly #1 and #3 that you bulleted, and your example.

Sometimes you can find the explanation and it is "totally fine", if your goal is to eliminate gender discrimination. This is only a problem if your goal is equality of outcome, independent of preference.

>Women have fewer years of of experience on average because of childcare.

It has been long shown that women desire to raise children more than men. Fixing this difference would require making both men and women do something other than what they want. For what purpose, so that the numbers are symmetrical?

>Men on average work higher paying jobs, male dominated fields are on average higher paying.

As long as these fields are open and non-discriminatory to women, there is no problem! Some fields do have discrimination issues, and we should focus on that, not try to fight the market demand for occupations.

>all this stuff and then forgetting about it makes it seem like it’s totally fine that 99 men and 1 woman are senior SWEs as long as the 1 woman makes the same pay.

If women don't want to be SWEs, this isn't a problem. Last I checked, there was a massive imbalance in computer science application and graduation rates. Last I checked, SW firms were tripping over themselves to hire and promote women.

At some point, you have to question the premise that numbers would be equal if you removed unequal barriers and discrimination. At some point, if your sole metric is equal numbers, you have to force men and women to do jobs that they don't want to.
A lot of his intellectual capacity seems to come from his ability to visualize a problem and make something difficult and complicated easier to conceptualize. He credits his dad with showing him how to visialize a problem, but he definitely refined the ability and trained his intuition for non-intuitive problems.
AFAIK there's no official corporate communication to that effect. The whole "windows 10 will be the last windows" thing can ultimately be traced back to something that a evangelist/dev said at a microsoft event. That didn't prevent tech blogs/media from parroting it far and wide though, so that's probably why you might have "remembered" it.
Sure.

We are told that an N95 with a vent is "ineffective" and prohibited, but someone wearing a bandana is OK. That at least was the guidance for a long time.

So based on this, the cloth masks, bandana's, gators etc need to BEAT an N95 with an exhalation valve to be considered effective.

Of course, it turns out that an N95 with an exhalation valve is VERY good at protecting the wearer, and AS GOOD as all these others at protecting others.

"The findings in this report are based on tests of 13 FFR models from 10 different manufacturers. These findings show that FFRs with an exhalation valve provide respiratory protection to the wearer and can also reduce particle emissions to levels similar to or better than those provided by surgical masks, procedure masks, or cloth face coverings."

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2021-107/default.html

"An N95 filtering facepiece respirator will protect you and provide source control to protect others. A NIOSH-approved N95 filtering facepiece respirator with an exhalation valve offers the same protection to the wearer as one that does not have a valve. As source control, findings from NIOSH research suggest that, even without covering the valve, N95 respirators with exhalation valves provide the same or better source control than surgical masks, procedure masks, cloth masks, or fabric coverings."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/respirator-use...

So, my elderly parents trying to fly United Airlines are BANNED from wearing a comfortable N95 with an exhalation valve that would do a GREAT job protecting them. Instead they are told to wear a surgical mask (which does relatively little by comparison to a well fit N95) especially on INHALATION, where a surgical mask often passes air long the sides. And they sit next to folks barely wearing a light cloth mask that may no almost nothing.

Again, why not let folks make their own decisions? Concerned? At high risk? Let my elderly parents wear an N95 with exhalation valve, they can wear that comfortably for 3-4 hours if needed. Instead it is this theatre just as you describe, but based on so little actual research (and so unwilling to change with new research) that it is crazy.