skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the first sentence I thought you were talking about fancier coffee - like buying freshly roasted specialty beans instead of coffee from the supermarket - turns out that you were talking about Starbucks.

Anyway, the specialty beans are worth paying extra for imo.
Is there a reason Phoenix (and Arizona in general) doesn’t use road/tarmac coatings to reflect the daytime heat?

https://reasonstobecheerful.world/reflective-white-streets-u...
Gp could dislike the taste and still enjoy the experience of the beverage overall, satisfying the condition of the original statement.

Also, it was probably written that way as a bit of a joke.
I'd argue you don't actually hate it if you enjoy it. Or in the case of addiction, you don't actually enjoy it, you're just addicted.
I doubt I can be productive at programming if I have to be interrupted every 20, 8 and 2 minutes to adjust my stance. Every time I tried that I failed. Should I keep trying?
> To toss in the requisite anecdata, my sister got pregnant this past fall. She was due for a booster but FUD about it hurting the baby swayed her mind. She got omicron in late December, post-covid complications nearly took her and the baby in late February, and she had to live in the hospital until she delivered in June.

The tricky thing with this though is that, what if there is an unknown side effect due to lack of research that could have hurt the baby (how many years of research have boosters had?), and she didn't experience that side effect but unwittingly chose a different evil?
When you can't get rid of signal, add noise.
Yes and this insanity is literally keeping large numbers of people from engaging in parts of society. Some conferences, meetups, and events still require attendees to be fully vaccinated with no testing option. I was unable to attend an event just last week for this reason. It's stunning.
I’m similar, but I would describe it as “I’ve never had a cup of coffee I could distinguish from any other cup of coffee.”

They all taste more or less the same to me. Maybe there are minor differences but if I’m not intentionally trying one cup right after a different one, I’m not going to notice. It all tastes like “coffee” to me. (I drink it hot and black. I can’t stand the taste of any coffee if it’s just warm.)
Probably body language. We are able to subconsciously read and give many clues, which helps fill in for the other missing stuff.
Some of them do, some of them don't. I think I first learned about it in 3rd grade or so.
Definitely check out Blackadder but I would highly recommend skipping the first series. They tried something, it really didn’t work and then they switched it up for the second series and absolutely nailed it.
"4. Developer console... Edit and resend any request" - there have been extensions for that in Chrome for a long time, though I don't know if they integrate with the developer tools/network tab itself. Agree it would be handy - I use the "replay" command in Chrome DevTools quite a bit, and if I need to modify it usually end up importing it into Postman (via the copy as cURL command, which I believe Firefox also supports).
Research in the US is slow because there is no money to be made from knowing how much head size affects intelligence and because we know that education, which can be monetized, has far greater effect anyway. Your political correctness bogeyman is not the source of the world's ills.
He takes most of the money, but the models are the one "bringing home the bacon", so to speak.
Nice TUI it seems
Putin's next (and final) gamble to break Ukraine's resistance
This is nothing like a subscription. I have a MacBook Pro that is over 8 years old and I'm still using it. It still works just as well at doing what it does as it did when I bought it.

I even have an old iPod touch that still does its thing just fine.
> It does look like there's about a 20-30% reduction of infection from random surveys of the population and from nucleocapsid seroprevalence assays; transmission-once-infected is very difficult to measure, but it would be surprising if it did not have some effect.

You are responding to a practical concern with a theoretical counter. But practically speaking the vaccine doesn't change the picture at all. The situation pre-vaccine was COVID was going to spread like wildfire after any lockdown attempt ended and everyone was going to be exposed to it. The situation post-vaccine, even with that reduction in infection rates, was the same.

Ditto speed, since this is an exponential process that reduction won't have an especially material effect on when everyone gets COVID.

We ran a natural experiment on this in Australia [0] - having a highly vaccinated population didn't appear to have any impact at all on COVID transmission rate or reach in who gets infected. The numbers are not convincing that the vaccine did anything for transmissions. The effect of personal protection seems to explain all the benefits of the vaccine.

[0] https://chrisbillington.net/COVID_NSW.html
The US is the only place where the word "Socialism" isn't used properly. The rest of the world understands it perfectly well.
Wow - awesome! Asimov’s review reads like every engineer’s nit-picking arguments (including my own!). In this case they are almost all strawman arguments, seemingly painting 1984 as a work of science and prediction. Asimov saying Asimov’s writing is great, and another style is bad.

Big Brother was not a person, but an immortal simulcrum of the party. Asimov ignores that and assumes that Big Brother is just an individual dictator that will die.

Pick a sentence in the second half, and think about whether Asimov is critiquing like an engineer or not.

1984 is not a book written as a coherent hard sci-fi novel, it is more akin to a allegorical fairytale where you need to pick up the concepts by implication.

Asimov is annoyed 1984 uses Stalin as a setting. That is like being annoyed that Asimov uses starships as a setting. The story is not the setting.
Right, I feel quite defensive of British comedy in general but there's no denying we produce a lot of godawful shite. I've never watched much Mr Bean but I've always mentally filed it in the same category as Mrs Brown's Boys or The Benny Hill Show.
"Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts), a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder."

That bears reading twice.
How’s that study disputed?

That study is not alone either. NEJM has similar studies too.

Your link seems to be an outlier. Denmark, UK, Scotland, and other provinces in Canada also show the same higher rates in boosted and fully vaxxed than unvaxxed. Walgreens data for US also shows this. Look at page 3 of:

https://www.walgreens.com/businesssolutions/covid-19-index.j...

Canadian government seroprevalence data also shows that between December 2021 and May 2022, there were at least 17.5 million infections. This is in a population of 38 million. This was despite extremely high vax rates.

So, how exactly did the vaccine prevent infection and transmission? Vaxxed folks were allowed to enjoy services with a false sense of security and spread Covid to others while unvaxxed folks were denied from society.

Please don’t resolve to ad hominem attacks on hacker news.
If you obfuscate client side javascript that is being served in a browser you should get banned from the internet
Be careful with Math.floor on negative numbers. It rounds -1.1 to -2. You probably want the new Math.trunc.
Don’t stress, use the right gear for the job
> and that's with 3 shots. i'm almost sure i would be in an ICU if i didn't get any shots.

How could we prove this hypothesis?
Are you trying to get devs to just give you feedback on the product? Or are you using dev testing as a marketing tool?
JetBrains is increasing pricing in October (for example $150 to $173 for All Products pack with that discount) but they announced this over three months in advance, on their blog and on Twitter, and are allowing everyone to prepay for around three years to lock in current rates.

good way to treat customers IMO.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/06/29/increased-subscri...
This is exactly what the Google Container add-on for Firefox protects against. It stops Google from tracking you across the web because your Google login does not exist when you visit other websites. It only exists within the container.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai...

Unfortunately, it does not have Mozilla’s “Recommended” seal of approval. I assume Mozilla cannot do this because Firefox development is funded by Google, so Mozilla has to tolerate Google’s tracking to some degree.

I’m still using this add-on because I cannot imagine my web browsing life without it.
If you want to replace 1password by a free (or cheaper) alternative, look at Bitwarden rather. The UX isn't as polished but otherwise it provides the same main features.
For shame if you watch Netflix.
In my opinion, it's really about whether or not one wants to pay particular attention to it or not, and that applies to coffee and other things.

If I want to sit down and enjoy a nice cup of coffee at the coffee shop, then of course I'll want something that's a bit more interesting than Maxwell House. But if it's a weekday and I'm just looking for something to drink with my breakfast before a Zoom meeting with Germany at some ungodly hour on the west coast, then just about anything that's dark and coffee-like will do.

It's the same thing with food, going to a fancy restaurant is about the food and experience itself, while going to Taco Bell is about satiating hunger in a perfectly acceptable way.
A deposit means you get it back when you return the material to a recycling facility. The Recycling levy in Canada is just charged on the sale, and that’s the end of it. If you choose to throw the battery in the ocean instead of the appropriate recycle bin, you get just as much money back.
There was a time my entire network was on Facebook. I decided I didn’t want to be anymore. I reached out to everyone who was important to me off Facebook. Within 12 months, I knew who I was actually important to too. Sure, some of them I now only speak to once or twice a year, compared to comments regularly on posts, but the interactions are much deeper and more meaningful than that superficial FB interactions.

It wasn’t easy. It was worth it. This isn’t for everyone, and depends in your own stage in life. Be safe, be strong, be happy.
Tati is great because he wrapped beautiful poetry into visual comedy.

Hulot is pure innocence, to make him exist solely for the visual sketches and actually unnecessary as demonstrated in playtime.

Tati really was there for the bliss he brought to audience, comedy was merely a way to achieve that.

The social commentary is also pretty strong, but not forced, only merely there for the ones the wishes to see it.

Atkinson touched this times to times, though.
They should recycle all the cardboard and packing materials then ship usually when shipping something already in a box. Box in a box with more paper/plastic. Thanks Amazon.
98% of the jokes in Blackadder are making fun of other people. I really don't find that axiom to be true
Google reveals plan for big change to Gmail. 19 days to object
Try The New Statesman for a hilarious sitcom that sits right between Mr. Bean and Yes, Minister.
Internet sucks in London, UK, yet to get 6.5mb/s or so called ‘Fibre’ internet. It’s 2022 and you can’t get a 200-500mbit plan in Zone 1 of London without going for a business fibre plan and pay a lots of money for digging if you don’t live in some apartment building. Even g.network and Hyperoptic have been digging around my house but my Mews house won’t get connected even while everyone in the Mews indicated interest
Ever tried a cup of Folgers decaf? I'm pretty similar, in that I don't think I've met very many cups of coffee that I wouldn't drii, but that stuff is horrible.
It's odd to try and enforce something like this through something as broad as a copyright clause on an open-source project. If it was restricted to commercial distributions of Rust a copyright restriction would make sense. Consumers could be confused into thinking it was officially connected to or endorsed by the Rust project which is really what copyright violations come down to legally.

Debian is open-source, open about the patches it applies and not in any way purporting it's the 'official' upstream Rust distribution or the patches are official upstream patches. I don't see how someone could make the argument the Debian project is somehow legally acting in bad faith with intent in a way that could either confuse consumers or cause financial damage and/or harm the Rust projects reputation.

To me claims like this just set a bad precedence in the open-source software ecosystem. The broadness of the clause has serious potential for abuse. It seems like a way to leverage the benefits of the open-source community while still protecting IP through copyright claims. That's how we ended up with the Oracle/Java debacle. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying the Rust project is just flat out evil like Oracle but the potential for abuse is there and definitely not in the spirit or intention of open-source software.
Big Basin: The History of Fire [video]
Maybe we should tax externalities of non-renewables more before we start taxing renewables?
I find Blackadder to be one of the greatest achievements in the history of television.

I’m still moved by just how wonderfully subversive it is. There was no need for that show to have anything close to the quality of writing it had over it’s run, especially when you watch the first couple of episodes. It could easily have run for years as a simple, meandering medieval sitcom that went nowhere. I’m so glad it ultimately went to so many places, across so many time periods, without it being an excuse for reusing the same old stories.
> Good grief. If you enjoy it then by definition it is not bad, it is good, even if it didn't cost you an arm and a leg and you got it at the grocery store or the diner.

I consider myself a slight coffee snob. I regularly browse /r/coffee, /r/espresso and /r/pourover, and also enjoy YouTube videos from well-known coffee snobs such as James Hoffmann.

Basically every opinion I have encountered in any of those channels concurs with your statement that it's about what you enjoy, and not how much it cost or where it came from. If anyone feels judged by coffee snobs (or wine snobs, or whatever) for their tastes, I suspect that comes more from a place of insecurity than actual experience of being judged.
Advertising isn’t always negative. For example it could alert you to new valuable products or services. Moreover if not FB then advertisers would just go somewhere else. It’s not like it’s the only option for ads.
Not so sure about Benny Hill. As an American, I couldn't see what the Brits found so funny about him. The keystone cop sequences of naked women chasing him, etc. and the silly situations he concocted (which required spoken language). Whereas Mr. Bean was truly universal situations and effectively no spoken words.
It sounds like he joined Starbucks decades ago. Maybe before they realized most people dont care about good coffee.
So without getting into whether we actually want that, how is that achievable?

In a sense, every house is unique, and land is certainly unique by it's location and also finite. There really are some number of acres within a particular distance of a city centre.

I guess my gut reaction is that your comment might be right (I am not sure) but strikes me as idealistic.
There is an alternate world view that says "if you're struggling to make yourself do X, its because you don't actually want to do X and you should figure out what it is you actually want to do". Going to a psychiatrist for drugs to help you do the thing you "don't actually want to do" goes against this world view.
"a giant corded impact drill used to drill into concrete, almost nobody needs that"

I had to rent one once to put a conduit through a concrete block wall reinforced with concrete fill and rebar. Not fun.
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They taste fine, as long as you toast them and don’t let them get freezerburned/use them quickly enough (within a week and a half) that you just refrigerate rather than freeze. Good buns (i.e. without processed ingredients or preservatives) generally only come in <=4 packs anyway; the 8 packs are mostly processed crap that can sit out for a couple weeks without going moldy.
This is a simple hack, but I just put everything that is recurring on a single credit card (auto insurance, cell phone, app subscriptions, etc)… it really strikes home to see how much your monthly nut is. It also helps to not have these charges buried in amongst Ubers, lattes, lunches, etc.
I used to believe that my reading shaped me despite me forgetting 90% of what I read, but I no longer believe it. Or at least, I have no good reason to believe it - it seems more wishful thinking.

I've even had experiences where I was profoundly affected by some interesting material, only to later realize that I had encountered that material (in a different book) less than a year prior. I hadn't ignored the material the first time, and had been affected by it then as well. I'm pretty sure it didn't shape me at all.

Whether to take notes or not depends on the purpose of reading nonfiction. When I read biographies, I'd like to get the bigger picture rather than the details - so if I do take notes, they are very sparse (e.g. summarizing the major points - perhaps 1-3 pages worth). With some other books I copy quotes of insightful points (e.g. reading The Demon Haunted World, I was struck by how critical he is of the behavior of many skeptics, and noted the irony that many skeptics had recommended the book).

But when it comes to potentially useful self help books: There's really no point in reading them if you don't take serious notes. They don't make for great reading, and may actually have useful material for you for life.

Books like Gladwell's: They're mostly for entertainment. It's fine not to take notes, although it's probably better to read fiction itself.
Completely agree! Plus, less trivially, there can be a bunch of different link weight settings (for an assumed distribution of inputs) that result in nearly-symmetric behaviors, and then that is multiplied by the permutation results you have just mentioned! So, it's complicated...
For desktop software and client-side Web applications, I wonder how much effort is made to test these products on a wide variety of configurations? Judging by how resource-intensive many applications are, it seems that many companies and teams are testing their products on high-end, top-of-the-line equipment and not on low-end configurations. What may perform acceptably on a brand new MacBook Pro (even an entry-level one with Apple's ARM chips and 16GB RAM is no slouch) may be sluggish on someone's four year old Chromebook bought on sale for $149. It's not just performance, but it's also factors such as screen resolution; there are still a large number of users on crappy 1366x768 displays, and these users are going to have a hard time using applications designed with higher-resolution displays in mind.

I'm not saying that all software must accommodate the low end, and I also believe there needs to be a reasonable cutoff (I don't expect software companies to support 20 year old PCs, even if they are still quite capable for non-Web tasks), but I have a feeling that there are unfortunately some companies and teams, even in the open source community, who ship based on their experiences working with high-end configurations, not taking low-end configurations into account.

For one of my side projects that I plan to release to the public once its complete, I have a "minimum viable computer," something in the class of a low-end Chromebook or a Raspberry Pi 4 with a limited amount of RAM (4GB max), that will be used to restrain myself, given that my daily driver is a high-end desktop.
I’ve read people have 7 +/- 2 “short term” memory slots. As you put it, registers. I know at times I seem like I’m going in circles with 8 or 9 facts/ideas trying to solve something that’s when I pause and make two smaller problems and then I can get through it.

Unfortunately there is no “fault” signal to engage the exception handler, I usually have to figure it out the hard way.
In LibreOffice, you can just use the formula

=IF(ISNUMBER(A1), A1, NUMBERVALUE(REGEX(A1, "[^0-9]", "", "g")))

to get the equivalent of the column C to paste special from.

No need to invoke any other languages or APIs. Just use the native cell functions.
Coaling Station A never fails to disappoint.
Time to switch to Windows? :o

Edit: I moved off Windows around 2005 followed by a decade of Linux and since then Mac.
> since the pandemic and WFH, I've started doing a lot of my 1:1s
while walking, voice only. I'd be really interested to know if
anyone else has started doing this?

Yes, +1 for this.

The pandemic made me unfit and put on weight. When I teach I pace
about, gesticulate, use the whiteboard lots and generally burn a ton
of calories. I really missed that. Desk-based admin or videoconf
meetings are down my can-do list now. Trying to reserve chair time for
coding.

I see other comments on "how do you take notes or send messages?"
Mobile speech-to-text and text-to-speech are on my radar, but far from
perfect results. I enjoyed the thread last week on throat mics and
bone conduction headphones, possibly very useful tech to use for
walking and working.
Presumably that has not been a primary concern, since other vaccines also have historically had regular boosters and haven’t seen that happen (referring to Tdap, rabies, or flu shots)

Flu vaccine has historically also been around 25-50% effective, and is still recommended and paid for by insurance, since the benefit is measured positively to you. So there is some precedent for disappointing numbers still being promoted for their small estimated benefits in net.
His "Wells, Hitler and the World-State" is probably better: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws
iPhone Firefox isn't really Firefox, it's still using Apple's Webkit engine (as does Chrome on iPhone).
From a throwaway because of the potential backlash...This paper is pure bull. They did a survey of 30k people and asked them about their experience and then said that the vaccine didn't cause anything and that we should trust our institutions. They didn't even have a control (unvaccinated) group! Just 30k vaccinated folks who responded to a survey about whether they perceived more/less bleeding, and such.

I'm actually working (as a computational mathematician) with an OBGYN and a few other doctors on a paper on this topic right now. We're using real data and a control and doing real Bayesian stats and all of that. But the tragic thing is, we don't need to get fancy. There's so much signal that the vaccine is bad for women's reproductive health that it really is obvious. I hope we can find an uncaptured journal to get it published in.

This paper is pure propaganda that's toeing the line about vaccine safety. It's idea laundering so they can later point to an article in "Science" showing that it's safe.

I'm so sad that Science (the journal) as fallen so far and is so captured.
French cars are fine (and German cars aren't what they used to be, I wouldn't buy a recent BMW) !
There were several posters on HN pointing out menstrual cycles anecdotes last year and they were largely down voted and possibly shadowbanned. You don't even need censors anymore when the majority decides what is acceptable thought.
I tend to avoid subscription services. But it means I watch more Asian drama than US TV. "Log in with your television provider?" What television provider?