skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We knew at the beginning of 2020 that the mortality rate was below 1%, we new it wasn't a new black death.

And yet hospitals and ICUs were still packed. No one remember when Italy first got hit and the military had to be called in to remove bodybags/coffins?

* https://nationalpost.com/news/world/covid-19-italy-videos-sh...

* https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/04/coronavirus-unimag...

Even one year later morgues needed refrigerated trailers:

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/bodies-stored-trailer-...

* https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-request...
The key segment that tends to soak up extra cash is housing/rent, and I'm not sure you'd see the economy of scale theory play out there. If anything I could see this just far increasing the wealth disparity. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
>"Did you buy clevo (clio?) parts and expect it to be compatible with what they shipped you?"

NO. the OEM for the first sets of S76 laptops were a spec buy from S76 to Clio?Clivo? - taiwanese laptop mfr who makes spec built kit....

The problem was that S76 wanted strong guts, but a lower price point to lure Linux Savvy buyer... and the machines they had built, while the guts were strong - the casing was weak and the build quality poor... (this is why Apple makes their machines out of Aluminum rather than plastic. Which is great one many levels, but there are also cons with using aluminum in anything...)

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>"What do I recommend"

Currently on a flagship HP Omen Gaming machine - but still this exhibits hardware problems - this machine is ~$3,000 and I am on my third one with the previous two having mainboard failures of different causes...

But HPE Executive support is probably the best computer support I have received barring COMPAQ (whom HPE acquired in the late '90s... - COMPAQ support was legendary)

so - I am still paying for awesome guts - but even these Omen laptops still have a shitty case design...

They have a top aluminum panel for the KB - but the under panel is a flimsy plastic BS - and they still use undersized screws which are prone to fall out...

But the mainboard design is pretty bad ass.

Dual SSD slots - good venting (even though the machine has problems on any sof surface (like a blanket or a bed) because the venting is bottom fans venting air up, but when stiffled by a blanket/bed/pillow - it makes the machine overheat...

And W11 is not help in that area - power mgmt in W11 is atrocious from a subjective perspective - but if you want powerful gut and dont care about the above - then an HP Omen gaming machine with great graphics and proc and an AI capable GPU (although I havent used that much yet) is bad ass - couple that with USB powered external monitors and you have a three-screen awesome machine that is light and fits in any backpack.

but the legacy of apple is really the aluminum chassis...

But strong guts are more important to me for compute/$
In Denmark it’s because we still have diesel trains from the 80-90ies because their replacements didn’t work. (Don’t ask).

I’m not sure the electrics they plan on implementing will have the same issue.
There isn't much evidence apart from Musk's statements that they were getting the service for free.

Third parties were definitely paying for terminals and services.
Your jobs page only has developer advocate role open, and the link just leads back to the top of the jobs page.
People like to put api keys in their repos and it’s hard to make them grasp why they shouldn’t. I guess some lessons have to be learned the hard way.
As an aside, it remains funny to me how much effort organizations put into fighting NAT in 2023 instead of effort to just use ipv6.

Of course then there is the embarrassment of azure ipv6 so it's perhaps somewhat forgivable:)
Ubi is just marketing jargon at this point for targeted cash welfare payments

Even that link isn't a universal basic income test. It's just welfare payments, which have been around for a century at this point.
Thanks for sharing - I didn't know about OpenNIC. It looks like an alternative to ICANN where the key distinguishing trait is that TLDs and domain names are awarded with a landrush model (whoever claims it first owns it.) If it gains popularity, I wonder how it will avoid squatting and after-market (i.e., after-registration) trading.
Of course bypassing the UI means that normal development flows (like force rebasing, or futzing with the CI setup) now are the same set of commands as malicious exfiltration of source code.

It also breaks GitHub's normal protection against accidentally creating public forks of private repos (and the feature where it auto-deletes your private forks when you change jobs).

There are probably other ways in which disabling private forks undermines your organization's security, but those are pretty obvious.
Didn’t all the problems occur when COVID income supplements were canceled, and the private sector response to reduced demand was to raise prices to maintain profits?
>More people with more money to spend means manufacturing volume goes up, so economies of scale go up, so the prices go down.

That property doesn't hold for housing, which makes up the largest chunk of a person's "necessities" spending.
Yes. Horrible physics experience in high school led me to back off from a science / engineering career. Y2K opened a door back up. I was finally able to learn calculus through Coursera, which let me leverage what I knew how to do (programming) to really figure things out. It’s never too late!
Does this affect teddit.net or does that circumvent the API like nitter does with twitter?
BiRDmobile?
> Musk was unhappy that people were paying retail price when he could be charging a government-special super-premium.

How do you know this?
A Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days
How do you make friends and find community on Mastodon?
The way I do it:

Go to https://joinmastodon.org/servers or https://instances.social/ and find one or more instances you want to join. Use the same account name (but not password, obviously) for all of them. Think of instances as subreddits, but each subreddit is on its own separate server.

You can manage those identities though a third party app or just a folder of browser bookmarks.

If you're already on Twitter, you can find anyone on your follow list who is also on Mastodon and follow them. You'll wind up with a json file you'll need to upload for each account. It's easy to join or leave instances so there's nothing to worry about.

The better way would be to manage your own identity server but i'm not there yet.
Because they're paying for it? If society is paying for your housing you need to follow societies rules. Giving addicts free housing isn't humane. It's enabling their addiction.
> Most of the issues mentioned in the post

...are directly attributed to the cited GitHub incidents. I only scanned the article once but I saw no FUD in it.
Probably quite a lot.

Ny guess is that rents rise since landlords know everyone has an extra cash infusion now. Until it settles out merchants will pick over this until it is eaten up.

Was part of sales in gov subsidized market and the gov grant was a big part of figuring price. That is to say "inflating" the price for the customer.

Just human nature. UBI will be the same.
It wasn’t monetary supply to individuals, it was an unusually lower price of debt. This is not what we’re talking about here. Moreover, it’s lower cost of debt/money paired with a black swan one of a kind pandemic shock event.
For how long? If it’s not dependable and life long, it will skew the results as well
Adapting Long-Page Designs for Better Scanning
How the heck did we figure this stuff out? Honest question.
What are you talking about? You do realize you're replying to a thread on the Pentagon giving SpaceX funding, right? Not to mention SpaceX already had pre-existing contracts with the DoD and even has a defense contractor arm dubbed StarShield. Musk only got pushback because he went on a childish tirade (an increasing habit of his) on Twitter and then started pushing opposition narratives.
"people won't quit their job over a temporary UBI trial"
People get PHD's in designing programming languages / compilers.

GPT models are at least 5/10 years out from critiquing the choices those "very smart" people make.

Even when they do, we'll need to critique their critiques - I wouldn't worry about learning any language now :)
I guess that's the good think about getting older (I'm 46) - I need larger text than I did 20 years ago, so that issue isn't one I deal with. Still, at standard OS sizes I can't detect pixelation, even when I compare my 32 inch display next to the laptops I have (16" MBP, 13" MBA)
UBI is orthogonal to increasing money supply, it's a single item in the budget among all others.
I'm not sure I understand your point. There's a lot of reasons why people with ADHD might experience those problems, but it has little to do with the disorder itself.
First, sorry for the possible derail.

I think even children know that Ukraine is going to pay for all this. Likely through the nose. There's a good chance it will be worth it though, considering the alternative.

I am only saying this because the whole series of news about this starlink not getting paid thing is such an obvious charade. A PR operation. It makes me sad adults are falling for it.
This makes sense in the context of ya can't hire a fraction of a person. That is, a manager has a need or sees one approaching so they hire. But it takes time for that person to reach full capacity (in response to growth). On average the new hires will be at 50%.

If the company is large enough and the anticipation of grow high enough there will always be more head count than there is actual work for, and it could be significant.

The point is, hiring in anticipation of growth isn't an expense. It's an investment, in the future. Now if your forecast chanfes and you are anticipating the future isn't so bright then that investment is an expense and it likely needs to he cut.

It's not that these people shouldn't have been hired in the first place. It's that you can't hire a fraction of a person, and then the forecast changes.
53 million people are over 18 in the UK, so an unconditional £1,600 a month paid by the State to everyone would cost a staggering £85 billion a month.

UBI as an unconditional, liveable, income paid to everyone is not a realistic option unless or until we get to a fully post-work society in which all people no longer work, which is Sci-Fi at the moment.

It's much more realistic to organise the welfare state so that benefits kick in and guarantee that someone's income will not fall below a minimum, which more or less already exists in many European countries. That's a guaranteed basic income but only paid by the State when someone's income falls below it, e.g. because of unemployment.
>More people with more money to spend means manufacturing volume goes up, so economies of scale go up, so the prices go down.

Might work for buying cheaper gadgets.

Doesn't work for any cost that really matters, like rent, healthcare, education, utilities, and so on.
In college, I had two particular roommates who both had exemplary academic records in STEM / CS fields on paper, yet embodied two different extremes. I think of them often while pondering my own tortured academic path.

The first was among the most brilliant people I've ever met. Sure, this person was a full-ride honor student with straight As all around, but they never found the challenge they needed, even when sitting in on grad-level classes for fun. They hardly ever studied, spent most of their time playing video games, exclusively took classes in their areas of interest, and transferred to another school when those classes ran out. Repeat for at least three colleges, taking over a decade to finally cave in and fulfill their undergrad requirements. Then after school, their career never really took off.

The second was, to put it politely, not the sharpest tool in the shed. They studied furiously to master material that seemed trivial, and whenever I tried to discuss advanced topics with them, they were completely lost. But they worked hard, harder than anyone else I knew, to maintain a perfect GPA. Went on to have a very successful career.

I suppose I bring them up to point out that even academic success doesn't paint a full picture.

My own academic performance in college was wildly inconsistent. Started off with scholarships, Dean's list, etc., then plunged into failures and academic warnings (barely avoided probation). I recovered, hit Dean's list again, and then back into failure mode. Then another last string of As during my senior-level courses brought me back into a low 3.x GPA at graduation. Regardless of the recoveries, damage was done, costing me intern opportunities that might have helped out a bit when graduating into a recession.

Depending on my mood, I could place the blame for my failures on a lot of things. A few different medical conditions ultimately requiring surgeries and months of prescribed opiates. Lack of parental support. Depression preceding my downturns. Undiagnosed (at the time) ADHD. But in retrospect, I also could have been smarter in how I dealt with all those things instead of embracing the self-destructive aspects.
Wild.

The workers seem to be wearing the amount of PPE that I'd want if I was just walking along downwind, but nowhere near the amount I'd want if I was working in the thick of things 8 hours a day. I wonder what their lung disease rates are like.
size or disparate number of distinct dbs?
"It is what it is" isn't a tautology. It's a condensed way of saying that "it is what is seems to be, and nothing more or less; in particular, it is not something else we might wish it to be."
Same, now that they fixed it and it's no longer reset to "for you" every time the "following" tab works wonders for me.
I don't trust The Guardian, and it has a paywall. Here's a BBC piece :

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-65775159

It's about the Galleri Test, which looks good enough to be useful. It's a DNA fragment analysis of a blood sample with lots of false negatives, but few false positives. This study was of people already suspected to have cancer, but the test helped determine what kind and where it was. cool
Let's call it "right speech". That covers both "facts" and "important opinions".
Isn’t the practice of charging different rates for the same product to different customers fairly well established. Examples being hotel government rates, software that is free for personal use but carries a hefty licensing fee if used in a commercial or government setting, or business class cable internet?

Using government and commercial customers to subsidize the less profitable consumer market is a fairly well established precedent in several industries at this point.
Lots of law practices and courts run on “ticklers”.

One of my Customers still uses an MS-DOS based “tickler” app from the mid-80s. I’ve kept the app running w/ DOSBox because they love it so much. They have a ton of procedures setup around the application— it’s effectively “tooling” for their business.

I’ve look at replacing the application in the past, however their efficiency of the text-based interface would be difficult to beat and rewriting procedures would be a time sink.

A text-based export from the DOS app and import into Outlook via a script “integrated” it with their shared Exchange calendars back in the early 2000’s. Microsoft’s commitment to compatibility has kept that rolling into Office 365. It works ridiculously well for what it is.
It’s Jacobin. If you’re unfamiliar, their wiki page has more insight into their history and goals.
Thanks, I was mentally ignoring the distance thinking it was not a big factor.

Being close to the sun (in angles from our viewpoint) makes sense, since the sky would start getting light when it was visible.
D-Day Psyop (2014)
The way forward then seems to be personalized therapy for each case. There have been some limited trials with CRISPR that look promising, but mainstream adoption is still likely years away.
Weird black holes may hold secrets of the early universe
Ah, I love birds. Story time that's somewhat sequitur to this.

When I moved to Oregon I moved just North of a 600+ acre nature reserve. My property has numerous 40+ ft tall trees and plenty 10-20+ ft trees. The closest body of water is a large river and few people have ponds in my neighborhood. One of the goals I had was keeping plants that are favorable to the soil first and local ecology second (come to find out there's not much of a difference there). Much of the gardens pre-existed my presence here, so I expanded them with geraniums. I started composting and fertilizing the soil. I controlled for weeds using aggressive, non-invasive ground cover that include pollinator friendly blooms and cover.

I figured, if you build it they will come, and they very well did. The bird population around my neighborhood boomed this spring. There are two feeding frenzies I've observed at morning and in the afternoon. Birds will line the trees and some of my hanging steel lines used for lights. I was able to verify every single bird species was represented at least once in our backyard within a one week time period.

Then, the ecosystem of my neighborhood started to whiplash. Rats boomed as they fed on the habits of bushtits and finches throwing seed on the ground and easy access to feeders. I modified the feeders so that rats could not shimmy up them. Eastern Grey Squirrels were already present in my back yard, which are invasive, and more showed up. I started to build some traps to be able to move them. Then, one of the birds I wasn't tracking showed up. Two hawks made a nest and began policing the boom in rats, local cats minorly brought down the bird population. The Eastern Grey's were wiped out by something and native squirrels nested the tree closest to my house. My hypothesis is that they were chased out by some larger Robins; the native species of squirrels we have are much more shy and less predatory to birds than Eastern Grey's. It was a stunning series of events that occurred over about a two week period. Things have normalized and settled down quite a bit but I was truly astonished how minor changes and thoughtful additions could impact the small, medium, and bird of prey populations in such a small locality.

Next I plan on adding a bat house or two to build up the local bat population to police bugs in my yard and I'm planning a water feature in the form of a small solar powered fountain. What I've learned, or rather had reinforced, is that by making a place that is friendly to these creatures I achieved my soil health goal. The increased soil health brought in big worms, the birds aerated my lawn for me, my ground cover and grass took off as a result, and now much of the ecosystem does the work of maintaining plant and soil health for me.

Point being, what's being stated in this article can be undone if you make minor changes that make it more safe and happy for birds, even in a city. That and making a place for birds also has knock on effects for soil, bugs, and plants. They have a huge role in our ecosystem.
To add to that list; it could also be an emotional response. I sometimes find myself procrastinating if the task doesn't align with my emotional state.
I'm always surprised that there are always people in hn liking software patents.

But sure have your opinion but at least try to bring your issue actoss
If app sandboxes were enforced (and better) then a lot of this could be forgiven.

Though, either way, I really don't like third parties being able to package and maintain a vendor's commercial binaries on Flathub (IntelliJ, Zoom, apparently also Edge).
Single budget item vs many items is an irrelevant distinction, if the size of the single item, or the distribution (everybody), and intended use (to people for buying stuff) disproportionally affects the average-person's money supply and thus the market.
The Ukraine thing has shown the only social media mind virus worse than politics is apparently war. People feel the need to blindly support it online like a sports team, with all the lack of nuance and mandatory public cheerleading that comes with it. So anyone not also a superfan is labelled the enemy.

All that really matters is what is actually happening on the ground, and Starlink has and continues to be the most important foreign technology Ukraine has been given. Even more so than HIMARS and Patriot.
There are many valid reasons to not use IPv6, it would make an interesting HN article.
You can move, it brings your followers and details, but I think it looses your post history.

I just picked one from my geographic region, all good!
Again, you don't need HTTP for that either. The GP's proposal achieves exactly the same thing.

IPC (networks, FIFO, pipes or whatever) decoupled services solve problems more on the ops side, from binary compatibility to resource segregation. They do very little on the dev side.
I've treated facebook as a write-only medium for several years, and probably 50% of my posts there to my relatively small network (< 100) have been split between news articles about facebook management/algorithms/etc being harmful, and droll triteness. I feel my propagation suffers as a result.

A decade ago I experimented with dual-posting to FB and ... whatever that Ruby-based alternative was, that Zuck famously invested in, but to which I have zero memory of the name right now. A friend described it at the time as 'shouting into the void'. I still thought it was worthwhile to duplicate posts manually -- automatic federation was obviously never going to happen, so it was an ethical duty to ease others into the new world.

I think we were perhaps a decade too early. I'm on mastodon now, of course, although only as a consumer. And I somehow missed the myspace epoch entirely. So witnessing in real-time the implosion of twitter is quite the delight.
You're right, I went on a news article full of misconceptions. Thank you for pointing it out.
We probably should, as their track record both for predictions and for succesful policy suggestions is horrendous...
I've worked with Peter.

Ages ago, archeologists would join their country's diplomatic service for the chance to be paid to travel and live in far corners and dig. Peter joined the Foreign Service to bird, for much the same reason. Not much of a carbon footprint to hop in a car and visit neighboring countries. It's what we all did, to see the sights. But Peter did it to see birds.

A very, very nice man. I worked with him for over a year before I was told his status in the birding community, and I didn't hear it from Peter - he didn't talk about birds in the office: hardly anyone that was not his close friend knew he was an obsessive.

But again, to your point. The government ferried us around the world and dropped us off in interesting places where we lived for generally, about 3 years and then moved on. He took advantage of that and I would imagine his footprint is about the same as anyone who takes a car to see the neighboring sights on a weekend.
And this is now good or bad or?
I'm not looking for an academic view of the world. I'm looking for reality-based, and that reality is...housing eats up a high percentage of income. What's to stop landlords from doing what they do now and pricing what the market will bear?

Yes, it's such a simple question. I'm not the one missing anything.
I feel like you might benefit from taking a step back and rereading the conversation while assuming good faith. No one is attacking you or your ideas. No benefit of the doubt is necessary, only the realisation that we’re all people having a polite exchange of views and being respectful of one another.

It pains me that you seemingly misinterpreted intentions to such a large and negative degree.

I genuinely wish you a relaxed Sunday and an uneventful week.
AI meds, archive down, NVDA up, LLM wars, MS Dev, Chrome goes thicc and no cast
Considering this is the first reporting we're getting that the DOD even paid for it I'm guessing he doesn't and it's just the usual speculation.