skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Postres is a tool. It can do many things, but the tool cannot run your entire business."

this is something majority of the decision makers pretend to don't understand (and sometimes really don't).
CCIE is still gold
I’m curious why you think no one here would want to hear it?
What does Gitkraken have that lazygit and tig don't have? The fundamental assumption here is that the the CLI doesn't have GUI's.
Hi Ed! Hope you're still kicking ass! I'll reach out!
I disagree with using time on page as a metric. If you can answer the question in half the time, good for your readers.

In many cases, people want the tl;dr only, so I try to give them that first.
Its only expensive because the regulations made it that way. I was buying a litre of unflavored pg+VG with the nicotine already mixed in (I got to pick my own flavors to mix in) and it coat me pennies on the dollar compared to buying a 100ml bottle of shitty premixed juice at the store. They put an end to that when they made shipping nicotine to consumers through the mail illegal.
Protocol buffers use code generation, but the format is not human readable. Also, the format is less expressive than a full grammar, and, in many cases completely unchecked. (It will often "successfully" deserialize data written for the wrong protobuf struct type, which produces random hex gibberish.)

Something like ~/.ssh/config is closer to what I am talking about.
People have various definition what they found plausible. Majority of researchers think path leading from bats through civets is plausible enough given the evidence.

As you said, Wuhan was only the first major population centre. First human patient or even first hundred patients could be from a small village that don't even have hospital nearby to have a hospitalisation and one or two elderly village dwellers dying because of "flu" wouldn't make anyone curious or cautious.

This virus could have evolved a lot in those first few patients because there selection pressure for improving human to human transmission was the strongest and there was a lot of low hanging fruit for the virus.
Conservatives are straight up reactionary, and are putting people's rights back decades, using any means necessary. For all of the mainstream Dems' failures in executing the will of their constituents, they aren't doing anything close to that.

If you see these things as equal, you should try to put the snark aside and engage the world in an honest way.
I am sidestepping this issue by replacing the fetus with something that is 100% human, so it doesn't matter if the foetus is or not.

As for it being an active action or not: if we instead were to leave the foetus in place, but remove all the connection to the uterus only, it would still die due to lack of nutrients.

You are right that the woman might have been involved with an activity that can cause babies, but then you can get into the weird arguments about liability to third-parties that do not exist at the time of the action, and the feotus in the end is no different (it does not live) as it would have if the woman had choosen to use other means, such as condoms or not had sex at all.
It's basically impossible to do a zero-downtime upgrade with an RDS. Systems that have zero-downtime upgrade "solve" this problem by not being relational (because it pushes the fault-tolerance to the query developer when they have to build their own relations across systems that are defined by API contract to not always be available).
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The discussion in there links court documents where they establish that he was selling lab animals.

https://wenshu.court.gov.cn/website/wenshu/181107ANFZ0BXSK4/...
I think the thing that’s at the root of most git issues is the lack of atomic commits. Most people I know commit at the “block of work” or “ticket” level. Once they have the thing they wanted done, they commit. It means that fundamentally they can’t cherry pick, and rebasing occurs on huge blocks of code instead of single lines.

It’s not there yet, but I kind of think git should be used the way I started using the save option when computers were less reliable. Type a sentence, save. Type another sentence, save.
It's called the Starter plan and here's the feature comparison matrix: https://mattermost.com/pricing/#compare-features. :)
Thanks for sharing the info. Super helpful!
She’s a scientist and a bat virus expert. One would expect her mind to gravitate towards what she saw as being the most plausible explanation. If a zoonotic jump had been overwhelmingly probable, why would the news have triggered the kind of reaction she later reported having?

Bear in mind that your analysis is predicated on the falsehood that the WIV had been set up in Wuhan because that was a bat virus hotspot. So you’ll need to revisit that line of reasoning.
It is a good guess. This is not about right or wrong. This is about the rest of us being force the religious views of a minority by people who figure out it's a great way to divide and control us this way.
It's a a pretty big step from "high similarity scores" to concluding that was the reason for failure. High is relative in this context, and the example sentences are arguably more similar to each other than to most other sentences (the definition of similarity I is another topic). From the vector similarity, we don't know much about the actual vector embeddings of the respective sentences, nor about how they impact the model as a whole. Obviously, something goes wrong for the given examples, but I don't think you can pin the problem down to one particular layer in a huge model like Dall-e.
> This is better served by a laptop for the majority of people, though as someone that uses an unconventional keyboard anyway, a laptop is somewhat less compelling (since it occupies a lot of space with a keyboard that I actively avoid using), I can certainly see the appeal of a tablet for that purpose.

I've switched to an Ergodox in early 2019 and I couldn't use a laptop since. MNT[1] is the only laptop manufacturer I know of, that is even trying to do anything about the absurdity of emulating 19th century typewriters; although the Planck-style ortholinear layout is not my type.

At one point I've been considering a tablet + a small foldable camera tripod + Corne-ish Zen[2] or similar; and a custom carrying case to fit all of these neatly. The tripod could also be useful for actual photography, and would put the screen at a reasonable height for actual work.

I'm having a difficult time finding decent tablet hardware though. I would ideally like to run OpenBSD on it!

[1]: https://mntmn.com/media/reform_md/2022-06-20-introducing-mnt...
[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/ErgoMechKeyboards/comments/jyht57/
I've been on HN a long time. I know how it usually goes to say anything at all about astrology.
Because I couldn’t not post
That battery life is impressive! Thunderbolt 4 and a better selection of ports than the MacBook Air M1, also.

But, as great as the screen is, looks like it falls short of the 12" MacBook screen. Same 8GB of RAM in the base model as the M1, but memory bandwidth not the same. And the processor isn't going to keep up.

I mean, it's nice, but I picked the base model M1 Air about a year ago for $750 - still seems like the laptop to beat, if you can live with MacOS.
Doesn't sound arbitrary to me. If something isn't contagious then there's no "automatic" effect on those around a person. If it is contagious, then the mere presence of the person can have a harmful effect.

It only seems arbitrary to me if I look at it from a narcissistic perspective.
just out of interest, what do you do with the offensive security knowledge?
My impression is that every cert seller markets as though the world believed "You dont know it, unless you're certified in it."

My impression is that the world actually believes "You can be certified in something without knowing it."

So at best, from an applicant / employee's perspective, certificates are a slightly stronger suggestion that you might know the thing you claim to know.

Which is a useless reinforcement for something for which you already have demonstrated experience via work history.

But might be useful for something for which you do not.
Webinars usually get CPEs in most prof orgs, so it's easy to just put on a webinar during lunch.

Also once or twice a year you can attend a conference and rack up all your CPEs.
I was given years ago a Asus Transformer tablet (don't have the exact model here) by a relative who bought it by mistake and couldn't use it, so I installed Debian Linux on it. For what I can recall, everything but the camera worked, including audio although it needed some post-install tweaking. WiFi, BT, battery management, detachable keyboard and all else worked out of the box. I also seem to recall that the camera was supported later, but I had no use for it and never tried to make it work again.
I didn't keep the tablet however ; that was like 4-5+ years ago and at that time the only way to have a working screen rotation was to use Gnome3, which with only 2GB RAM walked like molasses.
Interestingly in talking to a developer who worked in defense, they don’t say if you get your code wrong, people might die - they say the wrong people might die.
If you need zero downtime, you already in a field where NOTHING is a piece of cake. Not your network, not your computing, not your storage, and i haven't even talked about the human aspect of "zero downtime".
OTOH - given all the sorts of complete-facepalm mistakes that image recognition systems have been seen to make, and the incentives for an actual wartime enemy to "encourage" your "AI"-run weapon systems to screw up, and the consequences if they are successful...
You are going to move the natural gas to China?
> The whole concept of emission standards and carbon taxes only makes sense if it's applied and enforced globally and uniformly. If an extra tonne of CO2 costs $1 in U.S. and $0 in China, the incentive isn't to reduce pollution - the incentive is to move business to China.

Yeah, but the point is to get it in some places and then in other places later. Leading by example. Also, there are many things that can't be done abroad.

> Europe has been playing the blind green eye politics for a decade - all pretending to be green and environmentally friendly, while in fact largely replacing locally sourced coal with imported Russian gas.

I don't understand what you're saying because natural gas is much better than coal. This is pretty well known... The point is that it's temporary until actual renewables are rolled out.

You seem to want everything to be perfect already and hand-wave away any improvement whatsoever. I agree they're going way to slow but it's incorrect to say we've made no progress and that all of this is worthless.

It has to start somewhere.
Tools: Proxxon Mini Drill Press TBM115 / TBM220 (2009)
Panda extintion event.
But electricity from PV can power various biological systems, or produce chemicals that can be feed to chemoautotrophs.
I've thought about it, but teaching is such a long commitment. I almost signed up to be a teacher at my local community college in CS, but I just don't want to commit my schedule to something like that.

Maybe someday.
Transplants exist in all universal healthcare systems around the world. Due to the scarcity of donor organs and the cost, candidates for transplantation are heavily scrutinized to make sure the organ is used in the best way possible.

In relation to this article, part of the genetic engineering of the pig is to try to not just have a human not reject it, but possibly to end up having the pig heart be less likely to reject than a human heart.

If the chance of rejection can be reduced, that means fewer drugs over time, and lower cost to a universal healthcare system.

Also, reliable transplantation would reduce long term traditional healthcare costs. For example, in the US dialysis is basically the one procedure with universal healthcare. If kidney transplantation was readily available with a low risk of rejection it could actually save the US a lot of money at this point.
It's actually not too difficult in MySQL, in terms of the mechanical steps required. MySQL's built-in replication has always been logical replication, and they've made major ease-of-use improvements in recent years, for example:

* efficient binary data clone is a single command

* starting replication with GTID positioning is a single command

* data dictionary / metadata upgrades happen automatically when you start a newer-version mysqld

The hard part of major-version upgrades in MySQL is testing your application and workload, to ensure no deprecations/removals affect you, and checking for queries with performance regressions. Tools like Percona's pt-upgrade and ProxySQL's mirroring feature help a lot with this.
Who cares about screen refresh rate? It’s not a FPS, if’s a webservice for bookmarking. If they can stay under 100ms, everyone would be fine. 16ms is starting to flirt with the limitations of your eye, without even taking into account info processing
- read your writing aloud (it _really_ helps to improve it) when you review it

- just write and then edit - better to have written something (even if it's not great) and then make it better. Especially in writing perfect can be the enemy of good.

- step away - sometimes it helps to review your writing after maybe 1 hour or a day or a few days

- READ MORE - reading well written stuff really helps
All good writing is about narrative. What a compelling narrative means is different for a technical document and a mystery novel, but narrative is the bedrock.

So make sure that things are motivated, and try to not just tell the reader the facts, but take them on a journey such that they will wind up with the right facts AND the right mental model at the end of things.
> I wonder whether a carbon taxes with tariffs, from countries which don't have them, could solve this

That sounds perfect actually but how do you plan to actually check. China will can just lie, but I guess if they do get caught lying there can be penalties.
to add to this, if you dont actually use your SCUBA or first responder or pilot skills on a regular basis, those certs are worthless at best, and dangerous at worst.
As usual Aaranson’s plea is heart-felt and non-escalatory, so worth a 5min read, even if you totally disagree with him. And good comments in the discussion.
As a hiring manager, what is your course of action if someone doesn't have any of these? Do you reject a candidate due to a lack of certification?
They seem to me to be a totally separate group. They’re more fellow travellers with the “Bill Gates’s Plandemic” crowd.
As of now, it is the first chapter of that Wikipedia article.
Yes, we agree there is a cost motivator.

All games are apps. All games are expressions of art.

The price of removing all possibility of art in software, leads to an expression of some kind of software brutalism and UIs that only a niche of temperaments would be fine to work with (and feel from suckish to a torture for the rest).

Have you noticed that we could be talkning about almost the same but factor out the subject of the discussion and make it music?
> I always thought it was funny that I did the same job before and after the certs.

It’s often more advantageous for the company to have people with certs (it was with MCSE and such in the 90s anyway) - more MCSE etc on staff meant it was possible for the company to attain higher partnership levels with Microsoft which often meant more lucrative contracts and so on.

So while you may have been doing the same job as before, just by having the getting the certs you added more value to the business.
This is amazing to see how fast our security systems breakdown with modern tools.

I’m sure people’s bank accounts will regularly be emptied by deep fake audio and video in the next decade.
I'd say pretty confidently that Lenovo has done quite a bit of caring over the years. I've had a bunch of T-series ThinkPads that have been super good under Linux.
Sorry, as a non-American, I see the US has always been an imperialist nation that has encouraged regime changes whenever and wherever it felt its influence threatened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

I used to be a pro-American when I was a child blinded by US propaganda and television. Americans are heroes are what I always thought.!

Then the Iraq, Afghanistan wars, the coups in Libya and the Syrian War - encouraged via Obama's so-called 'moderate rapist rebels' completely changed my mind. What CNN said was completely different from what my Libyan and Syrian colleagues said. So Much Lying. It was around that time I did extensive reading of American history and realised I was a moron.
I’ve been using the catechism in everything I write throughout my PhD. It’s real a catechism for academia, it’s all about answering these questions in one way or another.

I just start with it and start adding bullet points to answer these questions, then I put more bullet points and expand in them, and so on until I have enough material. Then I map it to each section of w/e document I am writing.

It’s been one of the most useful things in I’ve ever learnt about. Came to learn about it from an IEEE webinar by a professor of power systems (Siddharth Suryanarayanan) that I stumbled upon via vEvents when COVID-19 lockdowns started. I presented a copy of it to my lab in my PhD, helped my lab-mates clarify things to their supervisor and write. It was super effective.
How do virtual tables compare with regular tables for performance?

I would assume SQLite has some optimisations for native tables (rather than reading the data from another virtual table backed file)?
What a bad headline. “Raises emission standards” sounds like a good thing, i.e. making the standard more strict, but actually the article is about Texas raising emission limits.
Do I need to remind you we had this thing called the Civil War over slavery?

Setting aside political posturing: Who cannot get an abortion today? Even in deep red states, if you're wealthy the same rules do not apply to you.
"Peace is not the answer," declared a philosopher.
> When you talk to the military you have to remember that many levels of military are regarded as drones that go through motions and that much of what goes on is assumed to be defined without critical thinking. When things deviate, they ask for directions from higher levels where critical thinking occurs.

This is the exact opposite to modern Western military doctrine. All levels are expected to exercise critical thinking when facing questions rife with nuance and subtlety. These range from how to employ complex weapons systems in tactical environments to abstract legal questions such as "Is this order lawful?".

At all levels, from officer to NCO to enlisted, troops are expected to employ a high level of flexibility and creativity in carrying out their orders, to be able to step up to cover the responsibilities of higher ranks if necessary, and to hold a high level of situational awareness.

Modern professional soldiers are not drones.

Frankly, I'd go so far as to say that ignorance displayed in your comment here should all but disqualify you from holding an opinion on military matters.
The authors are testing the idea the levels of vitamin D in blood cause differences in rheumatoid arthritis(RA).

They compare relations between genetic variant of both (Vit D and RA) and show no or very weak causal association. Therefore there us no evidence that Vit D is a treatment for RA. More likely an effect of RA.
It's not ad-hominem if it's true. I really don't have the energy to debunk every "argument" that is borne out of misunderstandings about basic biology.

The alternative hypothesis is not that a very dangerous zoonotic virus emerges in a specific area around Wuhan (which also isn't really the agreed upon origin anyway), but rather that it emerges anywhere and causes a pandemic. Your argument here is a basic misunderstanding about how random processes work. Our observation that Wuhan was the first epicenter of this pandemic already preconditions us to assume a pandemic-capable Virus emerged there in some form or another.

Such viruses are indeed rarities. But they exist and every once in a while they come into contact with Humans and cause a pandemic. However this is not the same likelihood as with the lab leak hypothesis, because collecting viruses for labs is an event that happens multiple orders of magnitude less often than contacts between animals and Humans. So while it is a rare coincidence that a lab would collect a killer virus when randomly collecting bat viruses, it is not so strange that every once in a while a novel pandemic virus makes the jump from animals to Humans somewhere in the world.
By that logic lets stop paying street sweepers and sanitation workers. See, their incenitives are mutually aligned with the interests of those who walk the streets, so there is no reason to "extract money".

Sure thing, but the article in question EXPLICITLY mentions "You should make a budget that supports having a good community, or you should find another line of work.", which means that one way or another funding is needed, unless you're comfortable with making someone read through kilobytes of drivel and spam in their free (or perhaps not so free) time.
A pilot's license can easily cost over $10k. I can't afford it right now but flying is a dream for me that I'm working towards.
From what I hear this is a problem in the movie industry as well. When you have a huge project that requires the work of hundreds of people spread across multiple years, and possibly multiple sub-contracting specialty companies, there's a lot of cracks for names to fall through.
This is talking about actual carcinogens, not CO2. Over 100,000 Americans die due to pollution every year, and it would be even higher if we didn't outsource our manufacturing. This is one of the reasons why China stopped accepting plastic waste imports. It's impossible to recycle lower grade plastic economically without causing a lot of health problems.
I quite like my work M1 Pro, but (to help coworkers with Mac problems while I was using a ThinkPad) I had an M1 Air 8GB from work for a while and I honestly found it really pretty bad because of the RAM limits. It seems like there's a floor against which MacOS bumps pretty hard if you want to use the machine for development-ish stuff and it reacts really poorly to memory starvation if you get ahead of yourself.

Having 16GB and up, though, an M1's fantastic. If I had to be resource constrained, though, I think I'd prefer something that handled Linux well.
If you want to know where Port-A-Goph went:

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/05/gopher-on-palm-pilot-and-...
I don’t really understand the link between your post and the article, but I might have a context free theory:

In the real world annoying people can only annoy so many people at once. On the internet everyone has to read when an annoying person is posting constantly into the group chat. Annoying people simply can take up more oxygen.

Now for the contextful thing: there are loads of communities that aren’t filled with assholes! Check out subreddits for some of your hobbies, maybe a discord/irc channel for something you like, a relatively small community… there are nice places on the web!