skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you’re “completely lost” because you believed false information early on and cling to it. You are willfully pretending as though Covid-19 was anything more than a particularly contagious flu. Only 7 million died to Covid-19, compared to the 50-100 million of the 1918 Spanish Flu, a number exacerbated by government payouts for false reporting and willfully infecting those who are at-risk for all respiratory diseases.

As someone who had knowledge of Covid-19 before the mainstream AND got sick from it before it was widely reported, (they were still denying it was in the US at this time), I knew that it wasn’t anything major for the majority of the population. Yet the government and corporations used this as an excuse to force us inside for no logical reason. Masks assist the spread, yet we were told the opposite[0]. Vaccines were first said to “prevent”[1], and then they moved the wording to being “less likely to spread”[2]. Social distancing only prolonged the pandemic and put more at risk, as the only way to reasonably mitigate a non-deadly and contagious disease for which we have no real vaccine against is to create herd immunity, just like we do with the flu every single year. Yet the government used social media to continue to spread the misinformation that you crave, creating propaganda and draconian rules in order to worsen the long-term impacts.

[0] - https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/02/health/surgeon-general-corona...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfL2sespLnY

[2] - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/covid-19-vaccination-...
What’s wrong with Safari in this regard? (except that one needs an Apple device to use it)
There is no such thing as absolutes in social policy. Every situation has an edge case, a grey area. Something will always come up where you will have to balance an interpretation of a rule.

The US has the most extreme version of freedom of speech of any country in the world. There are quite a few versions that are perfectly reasonable and implemented successfully without sliding down a slippery slope into a "ministry of truth".

So the slippery slope is a fallacy in this case.

The issue of sugary drinks is a false dichotomy. Nobody gets sick and dies from drinking a coke. They get sick and die from drinking tons of it all the time. If you want to draw a line for what kind of speech puts people in imminent danger, sugary drinks are definitively not over that line, while spreading a potentially lethal disease is clearly over that line.

> So I feel like the harm caused by trying to filter social media messages by the government is greater than any potential benefit.

What evidence are you basing that on? In the past the government granted licenses to broadcast networks on TV, and had strict requirements on the kinds of things they could say on air. Did we fall into a tyrannical dystopia as a result? Did something worse than hundreds of thousands of people dying happen?
A minute? It’s eternity in my thumb managed universe.
Bluetooth and AAA batteries also are industry standard and user replaceable. The 2nd gen Apple Wireless keyboard had a brilliant design to accomodate them (https://tech-rachat.com/1509-large_default/clavier-apple-mag...), and 15 years later you can still see them in the wild, working like day one.
As a tech weirdo I still think PPTs are the best way to convey concepts. You can mix bullet points with images and video and have everything be progressively revealed exactly when you explain it. I can‘t even think of an alternative to this other than adhoc whiteboard drawings which can‘t match PPTs on any axis except if you‘re just (collaboratively) developing an idea/concept
Is it a rights violation? When you sign up for Global Entry it's pretty clear that criminal history will disqualify you. That's kind of the entire point of the program (pre-clearance to validate a low risk).

The fact that they just repeat the same background check you do when you apply, doesn't seem out of place.
Dispute that taxes in US are lower. Sales tax is lower than VAT. That's true. But income tax is about the same or higher in the US, in my experience.
In corporate and academic America diversity unofficially means not majority white. Further, you're not supposed to acknowledge any sort of ingroup bias of any nonwhite racial group
Introducing this nearly alwats means that if the company has a bad year, the company only pays out a small fraction of the money to the employees that it would in a good year.

The problem is that many employees want the best of the two worlds: a huge bonus in good years and a rather high guaranteed salary.
Having the DAC in the headset or in another box attached to the headset by a short cable shouldn’t influence the sound quality so much thanks to the recent high quality Bluetooth audio codecs.
> Some things just don't need to be wireless.

Headsets are the one area I disagree on. :)

Not having to deal with a cord is huge. I've gotten tangled in them so many times and have almost pulled laptops off tables when getting up and walking away. (ADHD means I forever forget there's a cord attached to my head.)

Granted, I'm using Apple AirPods with Apple devices... which makes the wireless experience far better than average.
The one time I'll discover a wireless keyboard is out of battery is when I want to use it.

That's the only time this is going to happen to me, and everytime it happens I'll be sitting centimetres away from grid-supplied electricity powering the thing I want to use.
I was mildly in the Time camp for whatever reason although they were pretty much made from the same mold and hired from the same schools.

But, leaving aside the state of journalism generally, the days of a lot of us getting our information from weekly or monthly magazines--and maybe the evening network news sometimes--went out a long time ago. I never subscribed to a daily newspaper because I didn't actually live in the city.
it has awoken from its slumber
It's certainly better than complaining about, ahem, "What's wrong with that ad which seeks to hire Whites"
I don't use wireless keyboards either. You want your keyboard to be 100% reliable, especially at times you're trying to get into the UEFI bios or something right when the computer is first booting.

And while I have a pair of bluetooth earbuds, I only have one use-case for them: the few hours I spend once a week cleaning the house. At my desk, I use wired (sounds better!) and on airplanes I use wired (they don't fall out if I fall asleep and get lost). I know people that blow a couple hundred buck several times/year on lost AirPods Pro!
So far, thinking about paid ads.
There's past evidence of that. Some link the 2003 Columbia disaster to a slide-based presentation format with insufficient/unclear information.

https://mcdreeamiemusings.com/blog/2019/4/13/gsux1h6bnt8lqjd...
Yes: using Uber obviously involves a relationship between you and Uber, and you agree to that when you open the app.

What’s different here is that car manufacturers are claiming that, say, sitting in that Uber gives them the right to record your audio and sell it to advertisers. That’s illegal in many places such as the EU or states with two-party consent laws, and it’s unlikely that courts would accept it elsewhere without some kind of informed consent.
Does fine tuning count? If so there isn't a model for the input I'm working with that I know of
My keyboard takes two AAA batteries. They need replacing maybe once a year. A keyboard is a large device, space is not at a premium.
aren't we already quite tracked already?
And they also largely do _do_ these calculations, so they can threaten you with legal liability if you're too far off their calculated value.
Cheaper labor held in line by the hope of citizenship to displace current workers.
Except if one of those gets left and the battery starts leaking, it gets stuck...
Where are the concrete ones? I want to build a Lego house I can live in. (Non sarcasm)
The difference in my experience comes from the data-set. If you have an unusual and proprietary dataset, then off-the-shelf models are only a starting point.
We are exploring local wholesale suppliers... google maps, surprisingly, gives good results if you know the cities to source from.
They fired visa holders too [0]

The article makes it sound like they are replacing Americans with low paid workers, which is absolutely false.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-layoffs-hit-h1b-visa-worke...
Yocto is fine and very powerful. I work with it daily, producing a "just enough os". It's amazing to produce a full OS with fully traceable sources, versions and licensing of everything, even CVE patch tracking.

If you work long enough in embedded Linux you will encounter it for sure.

I would advise against starting with yocto for a beginner. It is very complex, most tasks look more like weird magical incantations than actual code. It will discourage many, as things will feel completely incomprehensible for months.

You kind of have to know the problems it solves to appreciate it.

In another comment I pointed to OpenWRT and Raspbian. They have real world devices they target, you can git clone, build and flash real devices to get you started and see real results faster. Their build systems do not have all the complexity of layers and are easier to follow.
I think I'm out of touch then. I thought US had high cost of living everywhere and that people would struggle financially unless they made about $100k per year. At least that's the impression I got while reading salary discussions here.

Is this only true in big cities? Is this true at all?
> This isn't a case where people thought the wrong things and it made them vote wrong. It caused them to spread diseases to other people and kill them.

The government was pushing an entirely incorrect assessment of how Covid spread.

They shut down domain experts who correctly asserted that Covid was fully airborne.

> The evidence that Covid-19 spreads through the air has been there since early in the pandemic - in a Seattle choir, a Chinese restaurant, an Arkansas prison. And “Covid is Airborne” scientists have from around the globe have been pleading with authorities to tell the world, holding symposiums and writing editorial after editorial.

They wrote an open letter in June of 2020 signed by hundreds of fellow scientists appealing to “national and international bodies to recognize the potential for airborne spread” of COVID-19. They have shown that 85% of viral load is in the air. They have explicitly laid out how respiratory viruses hitchhike on aerosols to penetrate the lungs and infect people.

And yet despite all this, and even as the Delta wave - as contagious as (the known-to-be-airborne) chickenpox - rages, there has been no clear guidance from the most prominent public health authorities that Covid is indeed airborne, in plain language that regular people and businesses can use to modify their own behavior and prevent airborne transmission.

https://theair.substack.com/p/why-covid-is-airborne-history

It took two years for those in charge to accept the truth about how Covid spreads.

> Two years of COVID: The battle to accept airborne transmission

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2022/3/11/two-years-of-co...

> Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air. That mistake and the prolonged process of correcting it sowed confusion and raises questions about what will happen in the next pandemic.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00925-7
Vendoring is the correct answer. I maintained a webfont service for a couple years, and stopped when I determined there wasn’t any overwhelming technical complexity preventing vendoring….just serve fonts like any other asset. No need to introduce a third party service.
I think a lot of people don't realize just how strict Global Entry is.

You're supposed to declare all food items that you bring into the US for inspection, whether it's permitted or not.

Flyertalk.com has plenty of people posting about forgetting a small food item in their luggage, USCBP finds it and their Global Entry is cancelled before they get home.
I really like Spalding Gray's monologue in that about the breakdown of the work/social distinction.
The first experiment to produce oxygen on another planet has come to an end
The experiment kicked off more than two years ago, a few months after the rover landed on Mars. Since then, MOXIE has generated 122 grams of oxygen, equal to what a small dog breathes in 10 hours, according to NASA. The instrument works by converting some of Mars’ plentiful carbon dioxide into oxygen.
I've tried wireless and for me it didn't stick.

I never need my keyboard more than 1m away from my monitor anyway, so the upside is limited.

And I had a succession of mysterious, intermittent, difficult to diagnose problems. OK, so I think I'm getting lag and dropped keystrokes. Is it RF interference on a crowded 2.4GHz band? Is plugging the dongle into the back of my PC's metal case just too challenging? Are the batteries low? Is everything fine, and I was just miskeying my password? Oh, for some reason the problem's gone away... for a few hours.

Switching back to my wired keyboard made the problems disappear.
>The scientific consensus is that countries that took a much more proactive, aggressive approach were far more successful in preventing people from dying

This isn't the consensus at all; the data shows that overwhelmingly lockdowns etc. had no positive effect on overall mortality or even a slightly net negative one. That's why New York had a higher fatality rate than Florida even though Florida had an older (and hence more vulnerable) population. They also had a devastating effect on childhood education/development outcomes.
I’ve often wished for this!

ICYMI, next best option is plugging your iPhone into MacBook via Lightning cable so the tethering connection doesn't drop and your iPhone stays charged.
Apple released iOS 15.7.8 in July (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213842)

It runs on the iPhone SE, which went on sale in March 2016.
Non-blocking I/O is quite mature on Java, and it shows. Unfortunately Java is still a rabid devourer of memory. Its RAM consumption tends to be the biggest con whenever evaluating the pros of using Java. Sometimes it's worth it. More and more often it's not anymore.
I bought a new Kinesis Advantage 360 with wireless because I wanted ZMK.

I freakin HATE it.
Well, I'm blind and when working from home, wireless keyboards allow for leaving the laptop aside and taking whatever position on the sofa I find the most comfortable at the moment. Not applicable for everyone, ofc.

On the other hand, accessibility sound has very bad latency with all wireless headsets that I've tried so far.
But why questions related to elites like Musk and Bezos are getting flagged ?
That is really very interesting, Thank you so much for sharing!
Yeah, I just use AirPods these days. I don't like using a big set of headphones and I found that, on a Mac, just using a good mic and speakers usually works fine but every now and then there's echo so it's easier for everyone concerned to use the AirPods.
“Gratuitous” is a critical word in that guideline (“gratuitous” is not, itself, gratuitous); if removing the number substantiallly changes the connotation (or, a fortiori, denotation, but that's not an issue here) then the number isn't gratuitous.
When your car crashes and it calls for help do you really want to sit through "this call may be recorded for quality assurance" and other disclaimers?

If Mozilla really wanted to be helpful they could suggest legal terms to cover the manufacturer for features people want, such as crash reporting or locating stolen vehicles - except I suspect that Mozilla would feel obligated to issue a scathing review of Mozilla's suggested privacy policy were they to do so.
Nice they have that. Just to point out though, OP does add historical materials (vs. Lego's seems to be just current uses) as well as some details like who supplies it.
Maybe the people they fired were bad?
The primary advantage for me is that it alleviates port congestion.

Even when using a dock, I often found myself running out of available ports. Switching two devices to Bluetooth made a notable difference (even if it causes the occasional annoyance).
Shouldnt, but audio is suprisingly hard to get right.
Your comment is a bit jumbled: it’s definitely a red flag. Are you saying that it’s not a real requirement but something the dealer misunderstood or is making up?
I've thought about this too.

Even with some miracle 'spread this powder in your backyard to remove your years-worth of carbon footprint' magic material that keeps the CO2 levels steady... humanity is poisoning almost everything else - just not at a 'kill our selves in 100 years' rate.
Amiga cane decades after C. It was only due to a geographic quirk that people were still using BCPL at that time. They could have used C (for years) but chose not to.
Not sure about keyboards, but Logitech mx3 mouse is great and only needs to be charged like once a month after using it nearly all day every day. Also super ergonomic and works on any surface
Running over 20 top-notch cybersecurity tools with API
that's a false equivalency.

When your passport is confiscated, you get arrested at the airport.

When you are tired of your H1B job, you can just leave. The fact that you lose your position in the queue for a potential PR is irrelevant.
Higher congestion where I live means irritable drivers, drivers blocking intersections after being caught by red lights, etc.

You can have slow speed limits and low congestion.
bluetooth codec support is an entire can of worms and you just end up falling back most of the time. The latency of most codecs is also terrible.
It has to be the first one or these companies will never change.
There are some examples of evolution happening much faster than you'd think. The traditional view was that it took tens of thousands of years for a species to change, but there have been some with notable changes in only a few generations.

All that needs to happen is 1) there exists some (breeding) individual who contains the mutations, and 2) the selection pressure is strong enough.
I also received several of these emails over the last few days, but I closed my Facebook account years ago.

Fortunately they include a feedback mechanism for this situation:

If you didn't request a new password, [let us know](https://www.facebook.com/login/recover/cancel/…).
I've never seen it in a theater, but I used to really enjoy putting the movie on at home (with a good sound system) and playing along with it. I'm thinking about getting myself a copy of the re-release and real big suit to go with it.
How to Get the Millennium Falcon in Starfield – Ship Build Guide
It's noteworthy, because it took me 5-10 clicks to find the git repo, so I linked the license.
Bluesnooze is a must on a macbook as it disconnects bt when you close your laptop. (yes it is lame to need 3rd party sw to address apple’s terrible bluetooth issues).
> So it’s not the same UI.

Of course the UI is different but the HTML, CSS, JavaScript engine is the same, made by Apple. The engine on your PC is made by Google. Then your iPhone could be faster than your PC for several reasons, but I won't even start getting into that.
> Fresh of the boat immigrants are not entitled to welfare in Europe

If you mean healthcare then employed residents (what H1B is) are
Can it melt down into macrosize plastic?
Business background: The unit of the hotel industry is the "roomnight". Globally, let's assume an average of 100 hotels per city and 10,000 cities and 100 rooms per hotel. While any of those numbers could be argued to be off by an order of magnitude they aren't so far from the upper bound reality as a central booking platform. So you are only booking a maximum of 100M roomnights per day, or 4.1M roomnights per hour, or 70K roomnights per minute, or 1200 roomnights per second. The SQLite FAQ states that it can do 50,000 or more inserts per second on an average computer. https://www.sqlite.org/faq.html#q19 Since 50K/1.2K = 41, we could say roughly 41x100M roominghts per day could be handled on such an average system. So 4.1 billion roomights per day, at which point we are booking over half of the entire global population of humans, every night. Hand-waving generalities aside, I think we can conclude there is no technical problem. Largely, namespacing guarantees uniqueness without the need for a shared ledger to facilitate greater parallelism.

Business-wise, if you are worried about contention, the locking is achieved within hotel reservation systems at two levels. One level is the channel, and another level is the hotel itself. The hotel itself holds the ultimate record of note with respect to forward room allocations, re-allocation powers, deferment and cancellation powers, etc. They are the arbiter of truth. However, because hassling staff or systems at the hotel are not always optimal distribution solutions, large channels such as major booking sites will often be hard or soft-allocated groups of rooms in bulk. They are then able to provide their own confident sub-assignment of these rooms before communicating the ultimate guest details to the hotel. Conceptually, this functions similarly to exchange-based trades in crypto, broker-based book allocations in the conventional financial services world, and so on.

The ultimate client-facing business process is generally handled with a soft booking at agreed rates, and then a hard confirmation of the receipt and agreement to booking by the hotel receiving the notification of such from the reservation channel. Different hotels offer different interfaces for this, but not so long ago a huge amount was still done by fax. It wouldn't surprise me if a great deal are still done manually by humans using email. Larger operations use APIs, but all fall back to each hotel's reservations department who have the power to issue contracts, change rates, and override agreements. A web-booking consumer would typically pay and receive a confirmation of payment immediately, and for hotels not offering real time reservation confirmation APIs receive a deferred confirmation via email.

FWIW IIRC booking.com was one of the higher-vis perl holdouts globally, at least 10 years ago.

Source: Around 2007-2009 I developed from scratch a hotel reservation system operating in six human languages which grew to over 3,000 partner hotels. This is not so big these days but at the time was the same size as multiple NASDAQ listed operations.
> but tangibly, coherently, most compilers deal with most UB in a sane way.

It depends. In some cases, really, no they do not. Compilers have been caught deleting security checks when they noticed that the only way to reach the error case was to trigger UB… and since "UB doesn't exist", the error case is considered dead, and the whole test is deleted. Sometimes this leads to remote code execution vulnerabilities, that if exploited could actually result in your hard drive being encrypted, or a keylogger being installed.

UB is really, really scary.
Has Google given up on hiring the best engineers? I remember a time when the interview process was very tough (and erred on the side of caution) but they paid top money / benefits.
Where in the car? Unplug /sever the antennas.
Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35742606 (336 comments, including from jgrahamc)
I think that FAANG companies are indeed more somewhat generous than the norm. It's just easier to find the details of severance packages for big companies than mid-sized/small, because they're much more reported on.

However, I think you're going WAY too far in the other direction to suggest that "no severance" or "only two weeks of severance" is closer to true than not. I've seen a lot of mid-sized companies give 30 days of severance.
Best wireless keyboard I ever owned is the Logitech solar keyboard. It goes out of stock constantly. It doesn't need direct sunlight at all to keep its charge either. And no perceivable latency (I am quite sensitive to that sort of thing). It lasted me about 5 years before it stopped taking a charge.