skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This piece is promoting the use of Germicidal Ultraviolet Light:

https://ghdcenter.hms.harvard.edu/guv-lighting

> GUV can easily and silently kill half of the germs floating in indoor air every two minutes or less. It was developed and tested beginning in the 1930s using some of the same technology in fluorescent light fixtures. It is still commonly used in TB wards, as well as some major hospital systems and homeless shelters.

> There are three types of ultraviolet light rays: UVA, UVB and UVC. GUV uses UVC, which, unlike the UVA and UVB in sunlight, doesn’t cause skin cancer because it cannot sufficiently penetrate the skin. The conventional GUV technology could cause temporary eye irritation and therefore is mounted above people’s heads in rooms with ceilings around nine feet or higher. It is also best used alongside ceiling fans to make sure germs in a room are blown up into the zone where the GUV can render them harmless.

> Newer, commercially available GUV technologies are even safer for skin and do not irritate the eyes.

There's a big "but":

> A major barrier to wider use is that GUV technologies need to be expertly installed and require a set of technical skills different from what’s needed to improve a building’s ventilation and filtration systems (both of which are still critically important).

The piece concludes:

> GUV is commercially available right now, and building owners and operators should be encouraged to adopt it through subsidies and tax incentives.
As a dad (who tells dad jokes), she's illustrating the fact that nothing stops us from telling dad jokes. We are relentless.

"Hi, Relentless. I'm Dad."
I haven't noticed that, but I always rinse w/ water after using it.
I think I speak for a large majority of people here when I say:

What?
Unless you argue that all of the effluent-testing for Covid fragments is BS, there's a whole lot of asymptotic spread. Or a whole lots "nowhere near bad enough to be really noticeable or in hospital". This time, when the effluent spiked in Canada there wasn't a 5-10-day following spike in the hospitals and particularly not in the EU.

Two friends, older, got Covid in the last few weeks and had a rough 5+ day go of it. Nothing life threatening, just worst-flu-ever kind of bad. I would have thought that if lots of people were having similar weeks, the news would have noticed it and talked about it ad infinitum.
How did you generate the Visual Rust cover image? I love it.
The three line single binary compiler free blog
Dunno, but most contain alcohol which could have a negative effect, even after the ethanol itself is cleared.

Many are re-formulating to alcohol-free formulas, and I think it’s because they fear tobacco-style lawsuits from anyone that gets oral/throat cancers.
Storj is pretty useful. But, it's definitely an exception not the norm.
Money laundering? Shareholder lawsuit bringing in a forensic accountant would be interesting.
Highway warnings about traffic deaths may increase crashes
You hit the nail on the head. It provides a useful service to 'Mac' users. To literally every other OS user these files are considered bloat and slow the system down for everybody. Hell, linux users performing searches on these directories get duplicate results for every file a mac has touched.

I appreciate it may come across as a bit hostile towards the users, but in reality in a budget constrained environment where we cant make it perfect for everybody, we must make sacrifices to make the majority of users have a better experience. In my opinion mac users not having metadata of when a file was last modified pales in comparison to the rest of the business searches taking twice as long on samba shares.
Now I wish this site was Hacker Noose.
Interesting ! Been toying with the idea to move my "medium'ish" site to an OpenBSD stack currently on Ubuntu Linux 18 (can you get any more vanilla ?)

For no other reasons than:

1) I can (i'm the boss, and only employee :/)

2) OpenBSD, will always have a special place in my heart going back 20 years, trying to "share" our dialup modem on my 386 !

3) I also like going on vacation and not worry

4) That artwork :P

5) Just love the pure simplicity of it, everything "fits in your working mind"

6) I feel the older I get, the more I move to a graybeard-unix-mindset. Although I'm no way near as clever or component as the 'myth'.

I like to think the (ok my) "ultimate final destination" is me sitting on a mountain top with a netbook coding in a LISP in Emacs on OpenBSB.

Of course I might need some eye-candy so I will allow lolcat-bash-prompts for that color-req in my life.
*The final zen-state*

Now if I can only find a "DECENT" VPS host that offers any bsd default install options looking at you scaleway !
A New Financial System Will Be Built on Rollups
When apple sold Xserve the support was excellent. Once I called and they had the guy who wrote the code go into a server room and duplicate an unfinished problem while I was on the phone.

If they did go into this business seriously they’d probably do this again. That kind of support doesn’t scale for consumer products.
Already use fig in my Mac terminal and love the attention JetBrains IDEs are getting with plug-ins. Going to check this out when I need to fire up PyCharm for scheduled script maintenance.
But that tiny column width is horrible and totally unfriendly to those of us with oldster eyes who magnify every web page with their tiny fonts.
As was mentioned before.. People were using ARM servers before Apple had a ARM desktop.

So not being able to specifically use Apple silicon isn't a big deal.
The ones where it has not been successful at making their own chips using their own designs? Those fabs?
False? Did you mean true?

Terrible naming on that one...
Since TSMC reached 7nm and 5nm first (and it will be years before Intel reaches parity with 5nm technology, and TSMC is expected to reach 3nm by that point...), its obvious for us to be focused on what TSMC/Taiwan is doing that we in the USA aren't.

TSMC seems to have achieved a sizable technological lead over Intel, that will perpetuate for the next few years or even decade.
My Apple TV didn’t come with an HDMI cable. It’s required to work. The difference I guess is Apple don’t make the cable?
Humanity will end itself in a blaze of glory trying to break through the dimensional barrier to enter a new universe as our home reality approaches heat death. This heat death will occur billions of years early due to humanity overusing the resources.
Because, in this instance, the lion is not the one that launched an invasion. Particularly egregious, launching a pre-emptive war based on a flimsy premise of what Ukraine might do in the future.
How would you describe the political leanings of CNN?
Pixar, maybe?
Apples xserve was crazy reliable in my limited experience and I know of one in production at this time. Seems unwise, but there you go.
Just to add to your point, can one run their own bank with this?
> then stomp the computers, inevitably betray each other

Are you my friends?
No need to bother, there are plenty of people who will be doing this for you. Your contributions will be mere drops in the grotesque and offensive ocean.
Is that the right way to view it? If you believe Listerine isn't going anywhere, at that price you're making a reliable 7.5% return that should track with inflation. On something you presumably could sell just as easily as you bought. Doesn't sound that bad!
I was also looking into BSDs (FreeBSD and OpenBSD) as an alternative to Linux, but almost every package that I need is available for the top 3 OSs (Win, macOS, Linux) only.

For example, I didn't see vscode for BSD. And I'm worried that maintaining a BSD would be more of a hassle than even Arch Linux.
1. If the population seriously crashes, eventually the technology level will also crash. Once birth control and abortion are no longer technologically as easy as they are now, well, people still like having sex. So there's going to be a lot of kids again, once the tech to prevent them is not as ubiquitous as it is now.

2. Once the population craters, the resources available to each person go up. In that kind of environment, populations typically grow.

But:

3. This assumes that the reason the population crashes is people choosing not to have kids. If it crashes due to environmental reasons (estrogenoid pollution, say, making males less eager to have sex and less able to reproduce), then my arguments don't work.
>but has nothing to say about the origin or etymology of Tyskland, Niemcy

The Polish word Niemcy is peculiar: the word "Slavs" literally means "word people" while "Germans" literally means "mute/unintelligable people". I.e. the word originally meant something like "anyone we don't understand" (similar to the Greek word "barbarian" - someone who says bar-bar, some gibberish). Apparently, at some point the most common type of an unintelligable person you'd meet was someone from a Germanic tribe, so the word began to mean "Germanic". A few centuries ago the word still meant "Germanic" in Russian, people used it to refer to the Dutch and Swedes as well. I can guess Germans have been the most common type of a Germanic person in the last few centuries so the word's meaning was narrowed again and now exclusively means "German".

Tyskland and Deutschland stem from the same root teud- "people, folk", so it's literally "land of the people". Interestingly, the word was borrowed into Slavic and now means "foreigner, stranger" (Russian "chuzhoy", Czech "cizinec"). In Russian a derivation "chush" also means "gibberish" (we've come a full circle).
Yeah, for cargo they're absolutely insane - maybe in some rare cases they could replace cargo/heavy lift helicopters - but otherwise they don't have much in the way of advantages.
Good point on the pilots!

Also MacArthur’s pursuit of the North Koreans across the 38th parallel brought China directly into the war and precipitated a much, much larger conflict, and cost a great many American and UN Allie’s lives. It
got him (rightly, IMO) fired. But that was too late.

[https://www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and-features/mar...]

If everyone agrees that shooting at each other’s pilots isn’t a ‘direct conflict’, then it isn’t.

The US didn’t want to officially care to that level that Chinese jets (or troops) were killing US troops, because the US could waltz back home and Korea would be the one to take the hit. At least one of the parties could accept a failure, somewhat.

The stakes for Russia here (and especially for Putin), like when MacArthur crossed the 38th, are much, much higher for them. A well armed, actively hostile (well earned hostility or not), and aligned with the west Ukraine is right on their doorstep, with no meaningful geographic barriers. Historically a scary situation for Russia.

And Europe, which has a lot (depending on if we’re counting countries or $$) of influence over NATO and is nuclear armed themselves, is also existentially threatened by Russia doing what they are doing. Russia has a recent and very painful history with many of those countries. And even if the WW2 push west from Russia was precipitated by Nazi Germany, nothing they did afterwards left a warm and fuzzy feeling.

The hand wringing is because after a long period of peace that people became accustomed too, this is a real and present danger to a lot of folks livelihoods and safety even if nothing goes nuclear.

And this turns up the dial on stress in a way that no one can look at it and really be sure the other side wouldn’t go nuclear over the next step or two.

Would he be super stupid and self destructive? Yes.

But when in an information bubble and when threatened by existential threats is exactly when folks are most likely to do stupid and self destructive things.

Would you be willing to bet there is no (crazier) MacArthur, potentially one that has access to a nuke or dirty bomb or the like, in the power structure somewhere there, or even in Ukraine if you really looked?

Madmen need to be checked. Getting nuked is also terrible. Starting WW3? Just yikes.
sorry were you under the impression it updates without you asking? I am given a prompt if I would like to upgrade, and it has a list of component changes. Also, your car is likely updated at the dealership unless you specifically ask them not to update, in which case, you could just not do the tesla updates.
Yeah Vetoing is an option, although without testing I do not know how the mac clients would react on saving a file and its metadata was not allowed. Would the mac throw an error?

EDIT: I have had people say this to me before about windows and thumbs.db. But I personally have not seen this in the wild. Maybe its what old versions of windows did and people are still remembering this?
> And no, investing money for retirement is absolutely different from spending it on the retirement.

I've addressed this remark here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31107334
Yeah that's the one. I don't think it'd even work on my current card, as there's no raised lettering.
It isn't that his point isn't true, it's just that it is tautological. It's sort of like saying cars are more useful in country X than country Y because country x has roads. On the one hand: yes. On the other hand: it used to be that no country had roads, so obviously this is a problem with a solution. The country has roads, because it has cars.
This is a restrictive definition of the word 'tea' that is far from universal. Generally in common English usage 'tea' refers to any beverage that is a botanical infusion or plant used to make it. Saying this isn't tea is like saying that you can't call soy milk "milk" because it doesn't come from a cow.

It's good to question who benefits from this kind of insistence that other teas are not 'tea.'
How does this compare with Stripe Treasury (banking as a service)?
https://stripe.com/treasury
Aug 3, 2000 : https://www.zdnet.com/article/ms-moving-hotmail-to-win2000-s...

> It has been an ongoing sore spot for Microsoft that its highly trafficked Hotmail site runs atop not its own operating system, but the FreeBSD-Apache platform.

> Since it bought Hotmail at the end of 1997, Microsoft repeatedly promised that it would transition Hotmail to Windows NT, then Windows 2000. More than anything, Microsoft's desire was a matter of personal pride. What better way to prove its own contention that NT was just as scalable and robust as Unix than to run its complex, free, Web-based email infrastructure on it. According to the market watchers at Netcraft -- an Internet consultancy based in Bath in the UK -- Microsoft finally has commenced the long-awaited Hotmail migration.
I don't know how active the IRA is on HN, but there absolutely are state sponsored comments like those on the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
To put the wisdom of buying the royalty stream aside for a moment, why would a manufacturer abandon an iconic and profitable brand like Listerine after more than a century just to avoid paying royalties they've been paying during that entire time?
Lately I am enjoying Deutsche Welle in English the most as a non politically biased news source, much more so than BBC.
I hadn't looked for these before, but for people who need the extra oomph there are also Mac Studio rack mounts now: https://www.mk1manufacturing.com/Mac-Studio-c28/
Many stores also won't carry it due to shoplifting concerns. I've seen many drug stores with signs posted on the door that they carry only alcohol free Listerine.
Hey friends with kids. Tell me something positive about becoming a parent
Stoped used it due to hypogeusia:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogeusia
That is so shallow. Also, I feel exactly the same way.
That would obviously be a crime. As such one would think it would have been investigated and if evidence was found then be subsequently prosecuted. The lack of a case, to me at least, means there was not much evidence if any.

While I think what was alleged by is wife is horrific and definitely gets my blood boiling I also think it wise to not jump to conclusions or inferences until all evidence is heard.
We lost a decent number of planes to weather before we understood the dangers, and now we're pretty effective at avoiding them.

Not sure all can be mitigated, however.
Which is quite a different thing than what you said before. Just like one day I might be genetically closer to my brother than anyone else alive in the world, but he still wouldn't be my father.
National security is the sum total of the individual earned securities
of each citizen, including economic, political, social, health,
cultural, military and all sorts of security that pertain to the
identity we call a nation.

What these guys are talking about is something else. They are talking
about the security of the security services, their own self interests
and the status quo of enmeshed relations between three letter agencies
and a few captured tech giants.

On the contrary, the exact opposite is true. National security is best
served by a diverse, pluralistic, open, heterogeneous tech industry.
There is no reason intelligence needs cannot function properly with
such an ecosystem, but it would have to do so through the Rule of Law,
and systems of warrants that the incumbents have sought to bypass this
last 20 years.
Dude, the GP said they'd post "the most grotesque and offensive things." Please note the "AND offensive". And yet, you keep trying to deny that the GP's intent is to post offensive things?

> Right, it's not limited to being offensive, and even if it were, you can limit exposure.

What do you mean by limit exposure? How would the GP limit exposure of their grotesque and offensive tweets? And even if they did, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of their test? They are trying to increase exposure and see if Musk will limit exposure.

The GP is stating they will purposely offend people to test their suspicions of someone. They are willing to hurt (with words) innocent people to do this. You're calling this normal behavior. So if Musk takes over, it's okay to start calling black people the n word on Twitter to test Musk? I think that qualifies as "most offensive." And to call this testing behavior abnormal is deranged itself according to your words?

And some of your justifications are it's okay to do because Musk is the world's wealthiest individual and he's already offended others?

> It's a test of the word and motivation of not just a billionaire, but one of the world's wealthiest individuals - one who has publicly insulted and offended many people already.
There's an easy way to win this argument. Show me where I can easily find good cryptocurrency stuff that is not:

(1) Gambling (including "investing" in speculative non-corporeal assets)

(2) Scams (this includes misattributed art)

(3) Obvious mediocre junk created to cash in on a fad

I'm sure you can dig and find a couple of examples. The problem is that you have to dig. BBSes, the Internet, and the WWW protocol were instantly useful. One did not have to dig at all to find dozens to hundreds of legitimate use cases. We are in year 14 of cryptocurrency and you have to dig to find anything that is not a scam or crap.

For example here is the flagship of the NFT craze:

https://opensea.io/rankings

It speaks for itself.
Here's a better comparison: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MG10XU--yamaha-mg10x...

"10-channel Analog Mixer with 4 Microphone Preamps, 3 Dedicated Stereo Line Channels, 1 Aux Send, EQ, 1-knob Compressors, and Digital Effects"

$230. It's bigger and needs to plug into a wall. But TBH I can't think of an application for a battery powered mixer.
I use a rooted phone and a call recorder in magisk. It's been the only way I've found to record reliably since the last recorder I used stopped working.
> The sad part is that in many cases your prototype will be cheaper than the commercially available audio hardware.

Are you including those probably custom knurled knobs, buttons and sliders in that guesstimate too? Because those are the sort of things I'd expect to bring the cost up here. Heck, that beautifully finished aluminum case with its beveled edges alone is good chunk of money.
Well, they are not the cutting edge anymore, but are still a powerhouse.
> I'm missing some players of course, but generally speaking we in the Free World are definitely at a disadvantage and outnumbered by the hordes of people who desire strongmen and dictators.

Dunno if I agree with this particular line (but I do agree with most of your post). India is a democracy, there's many quite populous democracies and many who live under dictatorships do desire personal freedom on several levels even if there's not necessarily democratic institutions in their countries at present.
I'd never heard the term until a few years ago. They were just bad puns before that.
It wouldn't work: in theory you were indeed supposed to take one ballot for each candidate, but in practice some made a show to not pick some candidate, other took several papers..

I remember opening envelopes where several ballots for the same candidate were put together in the same envelope, a very bad idea as this meant that this envelope wasn't considered a valid vote..
One that I recently found out about is reconciliation from https://bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/a-game-that-intentionally-...
Airships seem really neat but it seems like nobody has been able to make the comeback with those.

For some reason the whole concept of an airship where it keeps itself in the air with creatively little effort seems like you should be able to something with that but they never seem to make it into a commercially viable product. Well outside some very specific uses.
This is the nice thing about having a large number of mostly identical devices deployed out there. Any problem is google-able and even with a vague description of symptoms, a plausible diagnosis and treatment can usually be predicted quickly.

It’s also why I like my mom’s old Toyota and hate my bicycle.
not understanding this argument. i'm not a synth manufacturer. korg and roland put out plenty of gear with great features for a lower price than this
They actually wrote a really open paper about the things they needed to do to migrate Hotmail onto Windows servers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021021164226/http://www.securi...
He did not say anything about cryptography.
> Reliable. It is for people who want something that is high quality and doesn't break.

My TE OP-1 synth has not really matched these adjectives.

One of the keyboard keys is misconstructed, so it’s on a hair trigger. The lightest brush will cause it to get set off. I have to replace the keyboard at some point to fix it. This should have been caught in QC.

It also undergoes fairly frequent software crashes (esp. for a musical instrument). I’ve crashed it at least 3 times doing random UI interactions.

Given that this is one of their flagship products, and a lot of people use adjectives like “reliable” and “quality” to describe it, I’m very skeptical that these descriptions are actually accurate when applied to other TE products.
I don't do this for a living and can't imagine how a statement like "your prototype will be cheaper than commercially available options" could be taken seriously by anyone.
> More broadly, what we call Germany (or India, or China, or Italy) today are recent fictions

I don't know about your other examples but the etymologic root of India is millinea old.

> that were ethnically diverse, and whose constituent populations would have identified more by their tribe than by their "country".

India was not politically united but ancient works like the Arthashastra make a distinction between Indian and foreign despite the diversity within India.

Greek city states frequently waged wars against each other but the Hellenes still saw themselves as distinct from barbarians.

If anything is a recent invention, it's the idea of a country as a nation state.
It did help—it got Trump elected. Tyvm.
The Switch has a bad exfat driver.
You formulated it clearer and better than I did.
When I first saw this I thought it was from Apple and was impressed by the transparency.