skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps so, it'll be interesting to see. As for my opinion of what caused culture to change, I think there's a nice way to reshape the question in an identical way. There's the interesting issue of how a middle class individual may state that they can't have kids right now because of the cost. Yet a lower class individual will happily do so and make things work, one way or the other.

Obviously the middle class individuals could afford to have children and make it work if they genuinely wanted to do so, but it might be uncomfortable and require some sacrifice. So it all comes down to priorities. So the question isn't why people stopped having children, but why priorities shifted so radically away from what is ultimately the most fundamentally important responsibility of humanity?

In the US from 1960-1980 many things happened. And one of these was a precipitous decline in fertility rates, plummeting by about 50% to where it would roughly stay to present day. It's quite unfortunate so many things happened in such a short time frame, because it enables one to create a reasonably compelling case for nearly any argument, including the common economic and educational (though those have many issues outside of this time frame).

One thing that also happened during that period was a dramatic decline in religiosity. And IMO that left a vacuum for meaning in society. And that vacuum seems to have been filled, for most, by indulgent hedonism that would gradually transition into consumerism. Drugs, the "sexual revolution", and various other issues skyrocketed during this period. This would further transition into the endless pursuit of the ever more expensive next shiny thing, be those Jordans, iThing, or exotic/expensive selfies for social media image crafting.

And what could be more antithetical to this shift in values and priorities than doing something that "might be uncomfortable and require some sacrifice"? There's certainly nothing more rewarding or fulfilling than raising a family, but that reward comes at immense cost and time.

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Ok, I wanted to hit more on how this hypothesis can also work as a casual explanation for the commonly observed correlations (education, income, etc) related to lower birth rates, but this post is already getting far longer than intended.
Measure this stuff in decades. Once they catch up with the 17th century, things will look up a bit. They're still stuck in 641CE
Donate to a library or museum? Recycle otherwise would probably be your best options
BSS is the section of your program's address space where all the un/zero-initialized memory lives, so just a global std::array<u64, 1024> foo{}; would be placed in BSS by the compiler.
BSS is also usually not included in the actual executable size (as it's marked as NOLOAD in the linkerscript), and needs to be zero-initialized by the C runtime if you want to guarantee that .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.bss
To be clear you and the comment above are describing two different problems. "Water-Scrum-Fall" implies that too much planning was already done up front and the work is just divided into arbitrary 2 week milestones. You are describing a problem where product thinks they don't need to plan long term because they are using "agile". A good product team is somewhere in the middle. A long term user/product vision without getting too specific in implementation or feature priority so that the team can pivot as needed without eating too much cost (there is still a cost to a pivot).
Opportunities, choices and consequences. You got the opportunity to meet a partner and chose to start a family. Not everyone gets that opportunity in life, so either be happy with your choices or make different ones. But every choice comes with consequences.
Repurposed drugs don’t work for Covid19 (again)
This is exactly the job of the Scrum Master in the Agile process.

<insert meme of soldier protecting sleeping child>[0]

The SM is supposed to be part of the team, not part of management.

[0] https://pics.me.me/the-silent-protector-sales-department-man...
That mouse looks cool, I wish I could live without the Logitech hyperscroll wheel. But I can't unfortunately.
This was my immediate suggestion to her, and she is happy with this solution.

We still want to know why this step was necessary. After all, this disables a useful feature for the sake of preventing… what exactly?
Entertainment is a utility. You may not think so but millions of humans do.
Doom Emacs convert of about 4 years here, and Evil mode user for about 6 and I summarize my thoughts with: vim is the best text editor, it just happens that the best implementation is inside Emacs.
There would be cold vaccines if it were possible to produce effective ones, so it's not an argument against producing a highly effective vaccine.
Key flaw with this is the presumption that the required mutations are not already present in the population. Even if they are rare, it is a facile process for natural selection to make said set of mutations dominant. If a small amount of recombination (I don't know if this is occurring with COVID-19) or novel mutation is required, again, it's a fairly straight forward affair unless we're close to an eradication scenario. "Life finds a way", as they say.

I think the only reasonable response to the parent query is to address the core issue ... are there non-overlapping capabilities between "artificial" and "natural" antibodies apart from the speed and health-risk of their development/inoculation. In other words, is "artificial" immunity a better form of immunity in a way that "natural" immunity can never match? If so, seems like a pretty obvious case of "lock in".

Without being an expert, I imagine it isn't a trivial question to answer, as the evolutionary capabilities of a pathogen are a key factor, and well, we're still wrestling with predicting protein folding.
Not really, the cartel just wants you to believe that. There just needs to be a limit on the max volume that the OTC devices can put out. The situation is similar to headphones.

What we need is compression and equalization. Now. They can work on the fancy AI stuff later.
I'm responding to the earlier claim that UPI can be used in Singapore (or anywhere outside India), which is really not the case.
rust is amazing! crypto is evil! upvotes please!
Only if the listing is still on there! =) I really do wonder how large of a problem it is that people leave listings up after selling something in order for them to default to needing that sort of a response.
Yes, just like on Android you will need to write Java or Kotlin, and the NDK only exposes game development APIs.

Objective-C is done, see WWDC 2022.
It does answer the question. Evolution is the result of mutations propagating through reproduction. The more copies of a virus replicating, the higher chances of mutation causing a more deleterious and/or virulent variant of the virus. As the number of viral copies and replications approaches zero, the chances of a worse strain of the virus spreading also approaches zero. Vaccines reduce viral load and spread, thus reducing the chances of mutation and spread of worse variants.

An example of this happening is the Spanish flu, which was a mutation of the common flu that was widespread and uncontrolled with vaccines at the time.
true but I would hope the libs use the event. (one onclick is still allowed in combination)

This approach seems the funniest: https://jsfiddle.net/eu60Lwv9/
If you find a good niche, you can remote work 3 days a week on a developer salary and still make more than many professions would full time. It takes deliberate effort to setup but it's very achievable.

That leaves you with 4 days a week to work on your own projects.
I have a "collection" in my bullet journal for it, but I don't maintain it too much. Occasionally when I'm done in a book I take a glance at it and see if something strikes my fancy but I also quite often just pick something up on a whim. I won't fret if the list is lost either.
A chance trash-day encounter reveals a 170-year institutional history
> And then singing becomes an activity reserved for people who are "good at it"

I wonder how recent a phenomenon this is. I would imagine that all throughout pre-history everyone singing along was much more normal than everyone sitting quietly and watching one person sing.
The person you're replying to was speaking informally. Informally, they're correct: tankies are a tiny minority.

That's not even accounting for the fact that many of them are trolls, teenagers who bumbled across some old manifestos and think they're the most amazing thing ever, Russian/Chinese trying to shit-stir, or conservatives false-flagging to have a boogieman to point a finger at.

Tankies are not part of any important political dialog or decision-making. They are irrelevant.
I left my AirPods in a Hertz rental car at the Atlanta airport. I registered them on the lost & found website and using the same tech as an AirTag, I watched them sit at the rental car terminal for weeks. Once (after*) the 30 day lost & found period expired, they went to one nearby house and then to a second nearby house. The second looked abandoned on Google street view. I had blocked them with Apple’s “Find My” app and reported them missing, so anyone trying to connect would see they were reported missing and also see my contact info. I even sent an email to a person at the first house, found with some Internet searching, and offered a reward. Over the weeks, the AirPods were being charged. Eventually they went off the “radar” and I had to replace them.

If anyone had cared, it’s possible those houses were full of other “lost” items from airport travelers.
Running Rust on Logic Gates
Not all, the people giving talks are just people who happen to be interested and curious.

This idea that only the best of the best are able to be curious and learn the nature of the tools they use at a very deep level is misguided and furthermore promotes a kind of anti-intellectualism.

It's also a large part of why I think many developers get burned out, imagine working in a culture with other engineers where people are kind of pressured to only do boring work, stick to boring features, only write code in a very narrow manner that satisfies the lowest common denominator using the same old boilerplate over and over again and keep doing that for a decade or longer versus an engineering culture that values people being inquisitive, breaking out of their comfort zone, writing interesting libraries that abstract out common patterns and eliminates painful repetition, and who appreciate the inherent complexity of challenging problems instead of treating it like some arcane voodoo that only the select few can understand.

It makes me so damn glad I run my own company.
A term like fuel poverty should immediately set off BS alarm. And sure enough:

> fuel poverty, traditionally defined as when energy costs exceed 10% of a household’s net income

"Two-thirds of UK families could be spending more than 10% of their income on fuel by January"

Yawn.
Not while you are literally voting with your dollars to preserve that status quo.
Canadian police… Only there to arrest the productive citizens.
That doesn't explain why it looks like complete garbage compared to 12 year old games on an 18 year old psp that cost less.
> This is a "actively exploited" zero day bug which means there would be specific applications written to exploit this bug. Which application(s) did that? Who specifically crafted their application to exploit the OS X kernel?

It said Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited. Not aware it was. And possibly any WebKit application can be exploited and used to exploit the kernel.
Oh yeah I'm happy with my bargain. I'm also curious to see if the author has found a way to make a living out of this. If for other reason that to live the dream vicariously.
Good for the author!

Find a thing that works for you, make it work for you and the people around you, win!
Keep in mind cities like sf and SD pay a million plus for an apartment not a house.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/ktla.com/news/california/its-in...
There's nothing inherently attention seeking about singing - I'd guess that most people who sing only do so when they're alone because they don't feel they're "good enough" to sing publicly.
From the article:

The researchers have applied for patents on both the antibodies and the mouse model used to produce them. They hope to see their work developed commercially.

... followed by

This work was supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-021989), the National institutes of Health (NIAID Consortia for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development UM1-AI144371, P01 AI158571, Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award GM130386, Harvard Virology Program training grant T32 AI07245), Massachusetts Consortium on Pathogen Readiness (MassCPR) SARS-CoV-2 Variants Award, Emergent Ventures fast grant, FDA (MCMi grant #OCET 2021-1565 and Perinatal Health Center of Excellence project grant #GCBER005), the Danish Technical University and SANA, and IONIS.

[sarcasm]
Let me guess, $50,000 per dose MRNA vaccine that makes you immune to COVID, thanks for the grants suckers. [/sarcasm]

This is something that really annoys me (obviously) and I think it would make a lot of sense if "any patents arising from research done with monies given by <x> will confer on <x> a lifetime perpetual non-exclusive right to use and re-license said patent on what ever terms they deem acceptable."

It won't happen of course, but it should in my opinion.
It can and does happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_pandemic#Influenza_p...
Where do you propose that Apple move their Texas plant then?

(The US, like China, also runs concentration camps. As far as I can tell there is no country on Earth that uniformly preserves human rights.)
I've had a lot of good work arise from these kind of companies. They fail on a critical project and call in the fixers.
>At least in terms of the cartoonish graphics, it seems to me like a case of "fast, cheap, good, pick two".

This is a good point. You would think Facebook would choose "fast, good" not "fast, cheap"
Just in my non-expert head - a live vaccine is using the virus as it already exists to confer immunity - not trying to code against a ton of hypothetical variants which could select for more radical variants
Met them at the German Accelerator pitch day in Palo Alto, a few years back!
I have no kids and cannot reflect on the fear/hope part.
Life is too complex to be predicted in general, we choose our own path alone.
All that can attest to is that in my darkest moments, painting has given me a shelter and hope. When I paint, I completely loose sense of time. Actually, after some hiccups to this day I use an alarm to limit my sessions.:)
I’m still stunned at how deeply we’ve compromised Russian intelligence. Not only in calling the invasion, but we’ve helped plan devastating Ukrainian counter offensives.
Have you considered the idea that it might just not be for you? There are plenty of workflows that don't require proprietary software, and adding proprietary software breaks a lot of the point of Guix, along with throwing more work onto the backs of maintainers.

You wouldn't expect a bunch of people giving away a vegetarian cookbook to respond super well to, "This is all fine and great and all, but how can I adapt this recipe to grilled dog?"

Especially not after saying their project was pointless since you couldn't easily use it to shish kebab your cat.
Because the WinDev team sabotaged, the effort, instead of doing an Android or ChromeOS with everyone roaming into the same managed direction, they made sure they pretty Windows APIs would win..

So since Vista all new APIs follow Longhorn ideas, while using COM, followed by Windows Runtime, with the caveat that tooling is just as bad as before .NET was invented, but hey they are happy fellows on their little turf.
AFAICT, NixOS has no equivalent to the type https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/operating_002dsyste... , which makes it clear what an OS contains, and allows you to query the OS.

Instead, NixOS has many options, whose only structure is that they form a tree. When trying to understand a host, it's unclear how to begin to analyze this tree: no option is at a higher level of abstraction than any other, or if it is, it's difficult to infer that.

Arguably I could just look at my host's config, and that will tell me what this host does, but it doesn't. It actually describes my how machine differs from the default NixOS machine. (How do I learn what a default NixOS machine do? Query for all services "enabled" option is set to true?)

With Guix, I follow the code: how is this host's OS "services" field populated.
There's also a limit on how quickly you can reply to a new comment. The reply link is missing at first, but you can get it on the comment's page by clicking the timestamp.
Keep in mind that this behavior will be a significant outlier in ISP analytics - they will notice you eventually, just like they’ll notice 10 seemingly synchronized Huawei modems connecting to (and disconnecting from) the same base station.

That’s all to say - be careful using this for any nefarious activity. It’s not inconspicuous.
Good old Miracle Worker formula. Take your original estimate and double it. =)
Important fact about the waterfall model, that no-one ever talks about:

The authors thought it was important to actually do it twice [0].
Of course, nobody in the big corporate/government world wanted to pay a second time for work that has already be done, so most of the projects failed and continue to fail.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model#Royce's_final_...
Years ago we had a friend who lived on our couch and played Second Life all day (we used to tease him that he didn't have a First Life.) One thing I saw that astonished me was that someone had written a tool that could create mirror images of a model (reverse one axis.) They were charging people per-use to create flipped duplicates of models they already had. (It doesn't need to be said but I can't help it: this is a function that would be a drop-down menu item in e.g. Blender!) I tried to explain him about artificial scarcity and Turing's Universal Machine, but he acted as though I was the one who didn't get it. (He's right, I don't.)
That's what I don't get: why is there still API "innovation" going on for printing?

Especially for a bog-standard black-and-white laser, there's nothing that needs to be done now that couldn't be done with PostScript or PCL circa 1995. (Yeah, there's a bazillion stupid ideas for mobile-device connectivity and wireless setup, but those are tangential to "here is an IP address and port, feed it PostScript and pages come out") I could see a case for a minor "reverse channel" extension to allow for feature detection and probing consumable supplies, but that's something that should have been a documented, industry-standard API, and could be optional.

I assume it represents two factors:

1. They believe there's enough "value add" in the software (enforcing accounts or consumable purchases) to carry its weight on the books.
2. The hardware is so phenomenally bad that they're relying on mountains of model-specific firmware and driver glue to make it even remotely resemble a functional printer.

I suppose we missed our chance at the USB cutover-- we seemed to get a unified standard for HID and mass storage, but nobody wrangled the printer and scanner people.
IMHO, that's a shallow read of nuanced debates.
Ah, that isn't how a live vaccine works though. They get attenuated (aka damaged/killed/broken) or similar but not the same viruses (aka cowpox used to be a live vaccine for smallpox), then introduced. The body reacts to the not-really-functional virus, but it isn't the same as if it was an actual infection.

It still triggers the immune system, but mutations in any of the major receptors or the like will cause it to be less effective too.
Demand based outages are likely to be transient.

We sized our batteries and solar (and fireplace) to get us through multi-week outages in winter (PG&E really sucks around here...)

The AC drains the batteries overnight, so we wouldn't really need the charge between now and dawn anyway.

Since we sized the batteries for winter emergencies, after selling all but reserve capacity, we'd still have enough left over to power the electronics and plumbing all night.
The trickiest thing with this is what qualifies as "best". Most people might have an idea in their heads but that idea might not translate into the search itself so unfortunately have no way of knowing. Personally, I would be interested in a search engine that surfaces meaningful comparisons
Black Girls Code founder Kimberly Bryant has been fired by her board
Epson EcoTank printers work well.
Memorizing (quotes, numbers, names, etc) can be fun.

Word association/shiritori-type games.

Poetry/rhyming/rap.

Math/logic puzzles.

Storytelling/daydreaming.
So, from the article:

> Once the virus has bound to ACE2, it must complete a final step: fusing its outer membrane with the membrane of our cells. This throws the door open to infection. Using a novel live-cell imaging platform, Alex Kreutzberger, HMS instructor in pediatrics at Boston Children’s, and Tomas Kirchhausen, professor of cell biology in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS and professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s, showed that SP1-77 blocks this step.

> “SP1-77 binds the spike protein at a site that so far has not been mutated in any variant, and it neutralizes these variants by a novel mechanism,” noted Kirchhausen. “These properties may contribute to its broad and potent activity.”

Questions:

* If mutations at this site are possible, how would this be an evolutionary deadens in a way that the current evolutionary dynamics of the virus are not?

* Surely a lack of mutations at this site, on their face, imply only that there is no evolutionary pressure on the site and its phenotypes, and, that mutations at this site are as viable as anywhere else?

* Or, is it possible that the lack of mutations (presuming that this is very accurate) indicates an evolutionary pressure to maintain functionality that is sensitive to failure due to even minor mutations or deviations in functionality?
Its a good start, best of luck!
GNU/Linux developers.
I think it would make a lot of sense if "any patents arising from research done with monies given by <x> will confer on <x> a lifetime perpetual non-exclusive right to use and re-license said patent on what ever terms they deem acceptable."

If this were implemented, wouldn't it just be the case that no one would take your money?
They can, they just usually don't, as more dangerous viruses kill their host before they can spread as far...
> There doesn't seem to be much fanfare about it

I think there's two sides. The people who aren't familiar with Emacs will ask why should I care about this, and the people who are familiar with Emacs will most likely already know of the power that Emacs can bring and when faced with eshell for the first time just think "of course Emacs can do that, it's Emacs after all"
I’ve wondered about this for a few years so this is extremely gratifying to read. I’ll have to go in deeper later to really understand the implications of each parasite, but my main takeaway is that my intuition here was way off. I expected insects to pose far fewer risks from parasites to humans.

I wouldn’t have taken a chance based on that assumption, and cooking bugs seems like it would eliminate most of these pathogens, but still. I figured it would be safer.

I’d need to read a lot more to draw some kind of comparison between insects and animal agriculture (both seem to carry plenty of baggage), but it’s great to see research like this so it’s possible to begin doing so.