skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so basically in this case, they (OP, maybe the authors too) are considering the olfactory tissue "in the nose" to be part of the brain?

thats..... extremely ambiguous and explains why my understanding of this COVID phenomena has gone full circle, like where's the limit then? nerves that aren't a part of the head? or would they consider losing a sense of touch in your knee from a dull nerve to be "damage in the brain" as well.
I think if you could be a little more specific about what institutions think it's okay to discriminate against you in particular, it would really help.
Large, complex code written in C that has a wide API footprint will work with little or no modification among systems like GNU/Linux, Solaris and Mac OS.

The specification is online and people use it when coding, refer to it it in discussions and when filing bug reports.

2018 edition: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition...

It's been my experience that the maintainers of major FOSS projects take it seriously when something is reported as being at odds with POSIX.

I don't remember any recent "POSIX strictness battle"; you didn't just make that up, did you?

There was as struggle starting in the 1980's to deal with incompatibilities among large numbers of vendor-specific derivatives of Unix that were cropping up everywhere. Unix brand incompatibilities negatively affected the users, who wanted their programs (and skills) to transfer. That is more ancient history. In retrospect, it looks like the standardization effort was broadly successful.

POSIX is not exactly standing still; it has been amassing new interfaces, and vendors adapt them as specified.

When I started coding in Unix, gethostbyname was the way to resolve DNS; now you have getaddrinfo, which is more generic and can give you IPv6 and IPv4 results in the same call. Even in basic Unix functionality, there are new features: for instance, various "at" functions, like openat: open a file relative to a specified directory descriptor, rather than the current working directory. POSIX specified threads that work everywhere, shared memory that works everywhere and other things.

There is rather a struggle between "use latest stuff in POSIX" versus "have code work on older systems".

But, overall, POSIX is a huge relief.

POSIX is a big reason why you can take code written using Glibc and get it running on Musl. Or on Cygwin.

An alternative C library that has Glibc compatibility as its goal would be a lot more difficult to develop if it had to be based entirely on reverse engineering Glibc. The Glibc documentation isn't complete enough. (And, doh, that's because it expects you to refer to POSIX for the details.)
There's one difference though: back then there was a lot more uncertainty about just how bad things would get. When the curves were trending upwards, we didn't know how far they would go.

I read somewhere that the definition of a pandemic being over is not when it's not dangerous anymore, it's when it stops being unpredictable.
They make up some correlation to sell a daily stock news update. They have no idea why it went up. It hasn’t even recovered from yesterday. Day to day movement means nothing most of the time and the stock market is detached from how the average American experiences the economy anyway.
I am a software developer, have a paid professional plan, and am almost out of my "zaps".

Here are a two of my favorites:

* Non profit community organization wants to sell event tickets. Paypal Order -> Add row to spreadsheet for simple reporting -> Add/Update user in mailchimp with a tag so they don't get future emails asking to buy tickets again.

* Small client wants a gated webinar signup. Wordpress Contact Form -> Zapier Endpoint POST -> Add user to Zoom Registration -> Add/Update to mailchimp with a source tag -> Add row in spreadsheet

Could these be done without zapier? Sure. But using zapier we can create that within 30 minutes without a server, or even dealing with serverless. Even if someone had those workflows as a one click install for lambda workflow, I would rather use zapier than deal with any AWS overhead.

To everyone who thinks that "a webform to google docs" is the most common use case you are probably right. If you think that you could create the infrastructure to do that consistently with automatic retries, logging, error handling, keep on top of API changes from both ends, across dozens of clients, proper authorization and secret management, for cheaper than $50/month, then you are kidding yourself.
> ICE has been accused of performing large numbers of forced sterilizations within camps in US borders.

> https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/politics/immigration-customs-...

The hysterectomies weren't US or ICE policy, they were the result of poor oversight of one contract doctor who was committing malpractice.

https://theintercept.com/2021/05/20/ice-irwin-hysterectomies...

> ICE stopped sending immigrant women to Amin after the allegations of nonconsensual and unnecessary procedures came to light. The FBI is currently investigating Amin for a series of unnecessary, rough, or abusive procedures, according to a report in Prism by Tina Vásquez earlier this month.

Amin is the doctor.
There is a strong argument in favor of not locking people down, not closing the stores, not forbidding people to get together, etc. They are even stronger than anything you may think for private cars.

There is even an argument in favor of not requiring masks. It's a much weaker one, but the benefits are not large either because masks on the general population are not very effective against omicron.
He is playing a character.

Met him and he showed the opposite of what he was trying to sell his audience.

Claims he doesn't care about money then took a bunch of huge sponsorship deals. Claims he didn't want fame but went on to try to network with a guy from Hollywood claiming he could make him famous. Claims to love everyone, and given the chance he attacks people with deep anger. Has a massive massive ego, always brags about being alpha.

I donno, hes just not in any way who he claims to be.
The hypothesis that Volker killed inflation has been discredited. Inflation in the 80's, like today, was supply side from reliance on oil for energy. When natural gas replaced oil for energy production in the US, inflation came down.
Also the production of N95/KN95/CA-N95/P99 masks have been upscaled greatly and they are far more accessible and affordable than they were at the beginning of the pandemic.

I remember when the only N95s you could get were counterfeit masks selling for $50 a mask.
It is about liability not guilt. The end goal for a large part of the anti-racist movement are reparations.
My accusation is that the conversation memory works the same way as the BBQ party memory. You remember a skeleton. This subject was discussed, and things were said that gave me a feeling of ____. And a few more easily compressed details. The rest is interpolated. Imagine a language model the size of GPT-3 being trained on one particular person's manner of speaking and then given a one-paragraph summary of a conversation to get it started. Barring an audio recording or a transcript, who's to say that these weren't the words that were spoken?

Of course the engineer is tempted to test this by secretly recording a conversation and trying to trip up the perfect rememberer, a year later. But the non-geek life experience accumulated says don't go there.
That's a very reductive take on what OP said. We're talking about social science, not biology here, so the individual is the atomic unit. Individual=Indivisible.

You can talk about tendencies across a group, but cognition is inherently done on an individual level, even accounting for network effects.

OTOH if what you're saying is that large groups of people can tend to share the same psychoses, well, that's a totally different statement.
Around 2.4% of all global green house gas emissions, but responsible for 5% of global warming [1]. I wouldn't call it minuscule.

I think one of the reasons that aviation is so often in the spotlight in discussions about climate change is the existence of greener alternatives. Of course, those can't replace all flights, but they don't have to.
Add to that the fact that air travel has exploded in recent years before Corona, and you certainly have to ask yourself whether taking five weekend trips a year from Zurich to Hamburg really improves our standard of living so much that we should put up with the downsides of it.

Personally, of course, I also like to travel and I think flying is a great invention that brings countries and people closer. Nevertheless, you have to be a bit critical about whether every flight is really necessary.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200218-climate-change-h...
This is the "Decolonisation" statement on the Durham University math department's web site:

https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/mathematical-s...

As an example, from the section labeled "Suggestions and resources": "Consider giving short biographies of the mathematicians whose work you present in your modules. If in doing so you realise that they are almost entirely (or even completely) white and/or male, ask yourself why this is. See if you can find contributions to the field from mathematicians of other genders/ethnicities."

From some of the other comments here, maybe the original article gave the impression of coerced or repressed speech, but I don't see that in this statement. The section is labelled "Suggestions and resources". The quote above uses wording like "Consider giving", "ask yourself", "See if you can". The tone of the statement as a whole is similar.

I was a math professor for 38 years. I'm actually kind of opinionated about my teaching, and never cared for people telling me what to say or do. But there was nothing here that pushed my buttons - and in fact, some of the suggestions seemed pretty reasonable.
Is there any open source, embeddable alternatives or frameworks? I've got an ETL DSL that is fully serializable and I've been looking to create a UI tool for it.
The problem is that people have a limited amount of things they can care for. You bombard them with plastic straws bans, grocery bag bans, 100% gas taxes, diesel poisons, shaming flying and you amount to maybe 1% reduction in GHG.

Then when it come to bigger hitters, like industry, building insulation, agriculture etc. you will get exhausted and poorer people that just can't take it anymore. And then you end up with people thinking this is all so futile and so scared of the future that they don't want to even have kids anymore.
Space Perspective Unveils Interior Tourism Capsule Design
>It's not a question of chance, it was simply a matter of running some software, and being there first.

And yet many people were still not there, because you have to be a super nerd to even care about this stuff to begin with, never mind go through the bother of:

- Figuring out what "mining" actually is and why you should care

- Correctly running some random unproven open source code to do it

- Manage the wallet and figure out how to actually trade with somebody else

- Follow all the other super nerds who are doing this to make sure you're not doing it wrong

It goes on and on here, none of this stuff is obvious to people who weren't already familiar with what was going on here and had enough obscure cryptography knowledge to understand what anybody was even talking about. And it's still not obvious, most people "investing" in crypto still have no idea about any of this stuff. I'm not particularly interested in commenting on the founder's intent because it doesn't matter much here. The outcome is still going to be the same.

>I wonder how bitcoin would have fared had it not been released with the deflationary logic built in. I suspect it would have been pretty similar.

Well yes, because basically every other cryptocurrency including ETH still favors the HODLers for a lot of other reasons.
I would not consider myself a networking expert and I don't know if there's better sources out there, but NetworkChuck on YouTube has very informative and entertaining videos on what could be a very dry topic. At least for getting an overview of a topic, I find him to be a great source.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9x0AN7BWHpCDHSm9NiJFJQ
But if inflation is so high because we made way too many dollars (compared to Europe not making way too many euros), why has the dollar been strengthening against the euro?

Not saying you're clearly wrong, just that there are dynamics that I, at least, am not understanding.
Interesting that when this article was posted yesterday most of the comments said the exact opposite about B1M.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30983269
You're confusing magnetic tracks and optical tracks.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Stereo
The claim we were originally disputing was something like "abolish cars", but it seems you're walking that back considerably to "slower speed limits". The right answer IMO is "slower speed limits on streets AND more, higher throughput highways" so cars can get where they're going quickly and without using streets for bulk of their transit (thus increasing safety for pedestrians).

But this is an unpopular idea among anti-car people because it's insufficiently punitive toward drivers. Specifically, they often advocate for fewer, lower throughput highways even though that only pushes traffic out into the side streets, endangering pedestrians. (This isn't a straw man, I've had that debate with people in my own city about removing a major thoroughfare, essentially to spite drivers).
Often != always.
> You might say I "deserve" my current place in life. Nothing has been handed to me, and I'm unusually smart and hard working. But I believe that I was born smart, and I've always had a compulsion to work hard.

> I feel uncomfortable interacting with people of lower social classes.

I think these are the parts that one might read less as "a sign of empathy and humility", and skew more towards "superiority".

People who are known for their aptitude for empathy and humility are more likely to see people as individuals (rather than placing them into bins such as "people of lower social class"), and less likely to assume that their personal life experience is comprehensive enough to make definitive-sounding statements on pretty subjective matters (such as classifying themselves as "unusually smart", where "smart" is a contentious thing to quantify at the best of times, or saying "nothing has been handed to me", when it's rather likely they're the beneficiary of at least some amount of privilege). I think this is what codingdave is referring to.
The worst offenders are the ones who even put the logic in to let one know that they knew exactly what one meant, but instead of accepting it they purposely throw an error, and adding insult to injury, telling one what one should have provided.

Those people are psychopathic abusers, and for some bizarre reason seem to be drawn to computers. I haven't figured out why yet.
And the risk that Google AI decides you are not worthy, your account is deactivated and you loose access to this in the same second.

Centralization with no accountability besides blaming things on AI is problematic.
Growing up in Missouri there was no shortage of Lewis and Clark namesakes, memorials, material taught in school, etc. Granted, I would expect a disproportionate amount of that stuff in Missouri because the expedition began there and traveled along the river the state is named after, and Missouri has a big cultural focus on westward expansion (see the Gateway Arch). Still, my impression was always that their expedition is a staple of American cultural history.
It's starting to sound to me like you have no idea what Marxism is but you need a boogieman to complain about...
Even if that was literally all it could do, it would easily be worth $50/month for marketing teams.
Instead of reasoned & formula based models, now we have purely empirical models. See Wolfram's New Kind Of Science.
I think the future we are looking for kind of looks like this:

You leave your house and you either jump on an electric bike or a self driving car of some kind. A 1-person 3-wheeled pod car would be very efficient if you are alone.

You get to a local mini-airport where electric helicopters transport you to the airport. Or maybe you just take the car to the local airport. Depends on where you live.

You jump into a electric plan and fly the city center you want to go to, or you land and jump in a second electric plane (this will happen less often as technology improves).

And then you do that same thing backwards to get the your destination.
Unbelievable! It looks like the prog I made in 6th grade is on there. Gotta download into a VM to make sure it’s mine and not someone using the same name. I’ll update this thread when I know.
It depends on the company.

I work for a massive employer; my unit issued me a Windows laptop which is remotely managed but because I am a software dev they give me the "keys to the jeep" to log in as admin. There was that time they took away my Oracle JDK and told me to run Coretto but other than that I can install what I want.

People who work at Bloomberg on the other hand can't install anything that isn't on a short list.

On the other hand, I know somebody who works at a megabank in New York City who got permission (with some effort) to use an open source library that I posted to Github and pypi.
Are US hospitals/coroners not recording "from covid" and "with covid" separately? I've seen lots of anti-covid-prevention-measures people here in the UK make a big deal of this distinction as if nobody else had thought of it, but I've seen graphs based on official statistics which distinguish between the two groups in sources as mainstream as the BBC. At least here there's no need to estimate.
The efficacy drop is for symptomatic disease, but those symptoms can be merely a runny nose. It's protection from severe disease, hospitalization, and death that are far more pertinent.
This is it. Currently at a local manufacturing company, and their in-house software runs mostly open-source stuff. No major proprietary headache to deal with, it's not a tech company so I'm not dealing with the obnoxious meetings and calls; and since the software I maintain is internal, I don't have to deal with angry customers. Coworkers let me know if something needs to be better, and I make it so. Simple.

I would recommend anybody this approach.
It doesn't matter what you were referencing. As it's said a million times on HN, throwing out anecdotes is not data. If you have an problem with any of the specifics of how the CPI are calculated, then make it.
I should add that as a geek I ought to have a better ability to remember, say, computer code that I've written. But am I the only one who, going back to something I haven't touched for two years, has to re-learn my own code?
The neurons contributing to your sense of smell as well as your optic nerve are more or less considered part of your brain. Loss of smell is more or less a canary.
The question is how do you fix it?

If you don't understand the cause for it, then attempts to fix the not-cause may cause more or bigger problems in other parts of the economy.

This is in part complicated because there isn't necessarily one cause.

If it was caused simply because the supply chain shock from different spending habits of consumers from the pandemic, then that would sort itself out as the supply chain adapts to the different habits - going from just in time to just in case in many places.

If it was caused by an increase in energy prices, then increasing supply (and importantly, having the existing energy reserves be used).

(and so on)

The other side to this is the managing expectations. If you know that you can't fix it by just adding more oil to the market, then that data can be used to manage the expectations for all parts of the economy. "No, this isn't going to get better for some time" is a valid answer.
The UK's socialized medical system tracks the percentage of their population that already has Covid antibodies in their system, either via vaccination or a prior infection, or both.

As of a month ago, about 99% of their population has Covid antibodies. I doubt things are very different here.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
> Nowadays I'm a software dev and tech entrepreneur. At best, technology bores me. At worst, it terrifies me. Today's startups are solving the most boring problems imaginable. Gadgets are a snoozfest. Programming languages and frameworks seem to be running in circles.

You grew up.

The other part is that we are, in my opinion, coming out of a period of hyper growth and technical advancement where we were picking all the "low hanging fruit" of tech, which was exciting to see.

Now that, to one degree we're "done" with that, what's left is either the commoditisation of all of that (making existing more affordable and accessible) which is much less exciting, or companies desperately throwing shit at the wall to try and invent "the next iPhone", which can be quite depressing.
Same vibe by another ex-planet mu forum/xltronic/IDM guy https://liveanddawless.com/
The author here, I'm glad you loved it :D Yes, I'm using Balsamiq, it's a great tool! Sometimes I also use Excalidraw.com too
i've taken a clue from Jessica Livingston. she responded once to bad faith communicators by saying (not a quote): "i'm not inclined to engage with people who are purposefully trying to misunderstand me."

it both disengages you from the situation while also calling out the bad faith actors.
Closest thing I can point to in regards to screenshots: http://14forums.blogspot.com/2013/04/computing_6296.html
> headed towards restaurant analytics, impressions/views for menu items etc

Isn't all this already captured today? Restaurants can very easily keep track of what most people are ordering, what dishes are being sent back, etc.

I understand it would become easier to collect this data, but I'd be surprised if most (decent) restaurants don't already track popular dishes, table turnaround, etc.
I think it’s unfair to compare OS X to both Linux and windows. You’re basically double teaming. Also comes off as bias to have only cons for the software.
> More than a few of the men did end up needing treatment for syphilis, either for pre-existing problems or for ones picked up along the way from friendly Native American women.

This struck me as odd. "What? How did syphilis get to this part of the Americas already?"

Apparently syphilis was already in the Americas prior to European contact. Two schools of thought are that either Europeans already had syphilis but mistook the diverse symptoms for other diseases, or that Columbus and crew brought it back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_syphilis
Even slightly processed food has way more salt than we need, while caffeine & alcohol (the two most widely used drugs) have diuretic effects. Unless you prepare your food from scratch and keep the drugs to a minimum, you need additional water intake to counteract those things.

I have often woken up in the middle of the night dehydrated and felt horrible-- half a bottle/glass of water later and I'm usually able to sleep through at least one more full REM cycle.
Rule of thumb: if an equity market move is ever less than 1.5% in either direction, the headlines about why it happened are completely made up. Financial news has to assign a narrative even when there is none.
We used to call this a "blog-ring"
Yes, I wasn't saying it's a Wescam. It isn't clearly any of those models. I was just showing those as example.
Germany tried to privatise rail transport but kind-of half-assed it, so now you have a system which is basically the worst of both worlds: Not customer-centric at all, but at the same time investing more money in high-prestige projects (sometimes at the other end of the world) than in fixing the problems with badly maintained infrastructure at home.
if you want to indulge in this feeling more, read some Mark Fisher. Capitalist Realism, or Ghosts of My Life