skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it comes down to the definition of capitalism, Mr Varoufakis says that it is markets and profits. I'm not an economist, thus a layman, but I can't entirely agree with that, in my opinion it is perfectly fine to have capitalism without markets, e.g. private monopoly (or oligopoly). From that perspective you can argue that is sort of like feudalism where privileges where used to create monopiles.
I am not a mask absolutist.

Close family is at risk of severe illness or death from COVID. We provide for a small child. We do not have much margin.

I’d like to ask you to imagine the social repercussions of masking. It’s hard. I do not want to be weird. I do not want to be an outcast, practically speaking. I don’t want to wear a mask.

I just don’t have any margin in the other direction.

Also:

What is it about a hospital setting that makes a given type of mask more effective?

Answer: Nothing.

Hospitals are places where it’s easier to run a trial, and where it’s harder to avoid infection.

Face-fitting masks do not require glue. Fitting a mask isn’t that hard.

Cloth masks don’t work and never did.

The objective is to not die or be maimed by a virulent pathogen, or rather: to have the option. Clarity on effective means for those who want it. I want effective means because I need them. The objective is not social classification of mask wearers or categorization of discussion types or labeling people as cartoons.

The objective is clear information as input into serious personal decision-making. The guy on the subway is not in scope.
Pretty sure absolutely none of the "primitive" tribes work all day..
Why is it pseudoscience to label the medium by which particles are entangled as consciousness? We have no better definition than that, since the observers of any delayed choice quantum eraser experiment are ultimately conscious, and we have no means of recording similar results without a conscious observer.

I used to think I was very clever for independently coming to effectively the same conclusion as Schmidhuber, that consciousness is a byproduct of data compression in the brain, and a brain needs to tell itself it has subjective qualia to do all the complex things we can do. And while that might be theoretically sound, I think it leaves high dose psychedelic experiences woefully unexplained, which I think really transcend any evolutionary or biological reason for happening and have incredible parallels across people and cultures (the consistency of seeing "machine elves" while on DMT, for example). Ultimately, an infinite consciousness experiencing infinite reality seems so much more elegant as a base level of existence than the Standard Model being the root of all existence. But, to each their own.
> Our planet receives enough harnessable solar energy to allow every single human being an energy allocation far in excess of a typical American.

Yes, but is it currently being harvested? Do we have a plausible path towards that future?

> There's absolutely no need to be hostile towards other people's energy use.

No, but there's a dire need to properly account for the externalities of everybody's CO2 emissions if we want to be able to plausibly call our economy market-based.
Russia had overwhelming artillery support but it’s completely turned around. Western AND Russian sources say this, with the latter taking the form of complaints about how shitty everything is.

Melitopol being liberated would almost end the war giving fire control over all of crimea’s logistics and making the entire point of the war that siege.

Tokmak will not end the war, but it is THE rail line supplying the west.
An interesting attack would be one that jailbreaks the guard LLM to allow it.
I LOVE his content, super knowledgeable, friendly to guests, interesting topics, good production quality, everything. But I have one question:

Does he ever stop to breathe when he talks?
Related:

Spatial: A High Level Programming Language for FPGAs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18333220 - Oct 2018 (37 comments)
I’m also not a fan of the feeling of sunblock. I’ve learned as an adult that long sleeves and a hat go a looong ways.
All items are cheaper in bulk, so the class of items that are more expensive for poor people is actually pretty much everything.

Being poor means your friends and family and roommates and neighbors are also broke, so you can't buy in bulk because they gonna steal yo shit. So you're forced to buy singles, which are more expensive. Being able to store the bulk goods from a CostCo run without them walking off is a privilege that you're taking for granted.
JShelter: Give Me My Browser Back [pdf]
Yes, and I'd also like hardware and software companies to not have access to my data. E.g. Google should be split into hardware, software, and data companies.
It may be due to a dynamic of right-wing leaders feeling that they are in the same clique against modern liberal secularism.
No kidding. It seems such an obvious example of industry taking a kernel of truth and blowing it out of proportion to promote a market for themselves. Yes, sunscreen is beneficial in certain situations, but I know some people who slather all their exposed skin with chemicals to "protect" from the sun over the 5 minutes they spend outside while carrying groceries into the house.
Commercial airlines routinely move planes from JFK to LGA at night. There is a popular ATC recording of one not having the paperwork to fly IFR, so they want VFR instead. Mildly amusing twist on a common operation.
> it got limited by the big guys (because it literally had the potential to bankrupt Robinhood)

This is usually inaccurately framed by r/wsb superstonk conspiracy drivel, although technically sort-of true if "big guys" == DTCC and "potential to bankrupt Robinhood" only if DTCC didn't do it's job of (always) requiring capital for extreme volatility.

The real financial-literate reason is that the trades are going through DTCC, and because of the huge, immediate price fluctuation (volatility), collateral requirements shot up (by necessity of ensuring a brokerage wanting those trades can actually follow through), and Robinhood didn't have the capital to post collateral for those trades and literally couldn't offer them. Many other brokerages also couldn't offer buys because of this.
Wait, so what does arbitrary mean to you if not "the result of a judgement or choice"? Is it just a synonym for random to you?
> Your comment comes across as yet another average joe randomly defending billionaires wrecking the world while we take the consequences of it.

This is so painfully, hilariously wrong that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. You could vaporize all billionaires in the world and it wouldn’t make any detectable difference to climate change.
With 3.0 we've worked hard to pull in the v1 API. Both the v1 write and query endpoints are supported in v3. There may some gaps here and there, but our goal is to make it so that all the things that worked with v1 will work with v3. The only two exceptions would be the subscription API that Kapacitor used and Continuous Queries. We warned people off from using both of those features in v1 as they didn't work well under load.

With v3, I prefer to think of it as us doubling down on core database performance and functionality. With v2 we tried to create this whole development platform. V3 brings our focus back to the core database, which I think will yield better results for everyone.
depends on the company and department.

the downsides of SRE is that you tend to be super hyper specialised in something thats only really of any sense to that department inside a company.

Moreover, you're dealing with real steel machines, and amounts of data that are prohibitorily expensive to just start again with. (the joy of AWS is that most of the times you can delete it all and spin it up again, often side by side)

also, some SREs are really specialised software devs, others like me are sysadmins who'd been swept by the current into SRE roles.

My company SREs are not like google's, where they are rock stars swanning about doing one line fixes that make everything .48% more reliable. We are computer nurses making sure that the wards of systems we look after aren't wiped out because a doctor forgot to wash their hands after taking a poo.

However, they both require the same skills: murder mystery and the ability to dive super deep into the stack, go from python->c->assembly. or service->VFS->cache->network->time weirdness

Also it could just be copy pasting service defs and making dashboards, then pinging devs saying "shits on fire yo"
All good things come to an end, and so does the german economic miracle. Other countries in the eu need to capture a larger share of the market.
The point is, interns are also vulnerable to social attacks, just like LLMs. We're not saying LLMs don't have this problem, we're saying it's not true that humans don't. That's why companies have to engineer "guardrails" like glueing USB ports shut.
Very cool.

> For DMARC to pass, DKIM and/or SPF checks need to pass and the domains must be in alignment.

AFAIK this is incorrect.

It is not "and/or" but rather "or" - only DKIM or SPF needs to pass. There is no method to require both.
Shhhh, the union will get you.

Although sadly in most cases the automation was harder than the original service to look after.
Safari Web Apps on macOS
In Oregon, there are two metro areas (Portland and Medford) where vehicles must be tested because of air pollution concerns. If you have a pre-2005 vehicle, I'm pretty sure they still use a measuring device to see how many pollutants your car generates. For model year 2005 and later, they hook their computer to your car's OBDII port and ask the car's computer how it's feeling. If the computer says "fine", they pass you and you can renew your registration.

Comparatively recently, they let mechanics and quick change oil places do the test for 2005 and later cars, giving them the option of charging a fee for it.

Oregon doesn't have vehicle safety inspections but it doesn't seem unreasonable that I could go to the official DEQ or DMV locations if I wanted to have my mileage inspected or maybe pay Jiffy Lube a bit extra because they're closer and their hours are more convenient.

The issue with that is that, though, is the same problem with taxes: many (most?) people aren't going to want to come up with the money to pay their mileage bill on the spot. There don't seem to be great answers for that.

Oregon has a pilot program where they put a device in your car and charge your credit card 1.9 cents per mile. https://www.myorego.org I'm sure that's what they'd like to have people do but I don't know how many people want to do that.
Nobody is claiming that humanity is at a risk of running out of energy.

The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones either.
I mean, bicycles would be more efficient. Not faster or requiring less employees, but less emissions.
The danger of course is that this turns in to a subsidy for the private interests. If they can avoid serving the unprofitable because the government will pick up the slack, then tax payers are paying for the service of that 10% and private business gets all the profit from the rest.

Either you need industry charges to cover that cost to government, or a mandate that they can't ignore expensive customers.
I was about to believe the results as they caution that it's only showing the benefits for northern countries like UK and they control for exercise, but then I saw in the paper that they characterize 'sun-seeking behaviour' variable through 'how many times a year would you use a solarium or sunlamp?'. I think people who use solariums is a very special category of people, and I am not sure one can extrapolate from that group to people who enjoy the Sun.
I just watch the map. I forgot the app I use even has notifications since I turned them off long ago.
I’ve used Wyze for a few years and get notifications of all my video events, but no marketing pushes. I think I had to set a setting but I am pretty happy with their pushes and are one of the few apps I leave on.
I think it could make sense: scientists are probably able to compute a total quantity of CO2 that we can emit worldwide to achieve some climatic goals (like not being f* too badly too quickly). Then divide this total by number of inhabitant of this world and limit yearly individual emissions to that.

Then you don't have to track for everyone, just target those who are ostensibly breaking the limit.
If you don't like the phrase "personal attack", I can put it this way instead: please don't post pejoratives using personal language.

In the context of moderating an internet forum, we have to go by effects, not intent: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., for a number of reasons: (1) intent isn't observable or generally predictable; (2) effects are both observable and generally predictable; and (3) it's effects which ruin threads.

Everyone always feels like they're the one being singled out and treated unfairly—this isn't a reliable feeling, just a universal bias. If other comments broke the site guidelines as badly as you did, and the mods didn't say anything, that's only because we didn't see them.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Something as simple as a field rename can result in downtime done naively, and showing a candidate a badly named field and asking them what they’d do to fix it can be quite illuminating!
A 1TB microsd card can store 2-3000 CDs worth of FLAC files. Or an 8TB SATA SSD can store 10s of thousands of CDs. You basically can't fill up a modern drive with (legally acquired) music.
There were many more already week ago... (location & identity restored from trained data..)

Causing even more (privacy) concerns..

https://twitter.com/MetaAsAService/status/170679883460343414...
I'm a microbiologist too and yeah, nah. I do all of these and yet the vast majority of the time I've been ill has been from restaurant prepared food. And am I about to stop eating out? No. Utter rubbish and scaremongering.
Opera 12 had bittorrent and irc. It was a great power user browser. The mobile version was the best browser on my Nokia E63 as well, it let me load my desktop only banking site and everything.
Didn't end well for opera sadly
A majority of these notifications are the teens communicating with their peers. That's how you get an absurd total like thousands a day.

Much of their socializing has moved online. Parents have effectively encouraged this trend, despite complaining about phone time.

People are far less willing to let their children just hang around the neighborhood, or walk to a friend's home these days, which forces communication through phone or desktop app instead.
It's as if it was written by the plaintiffs' lawyers.
You are technically correct (the best kind of correct), but in practice the nuance you're referring to does not make as much difference as you think. Yes, email senders could send email from whatever user they want or change the body from what the user wrote, but in practice of course they aren't doing that for the kind of email providers like Gmail that most people use.

If the deniability of a DKIM signed email reduces to "maybe Gmail spoofed emails from me", you don't have much of an argument. Yes, in a technical cryptographic sense, DKIM does not prove you sent the email, but when combined with how most providers like Gmail work, it makes it very likely you did send the email in every practical sense.

This isn't just a nitpicking nuance. In theory, rotating and publishing DKIM keys makes no difference to deniability since DKIM doesn't technically provide non-repudiation at the individual user level. In practice though, a service like Gmail implementing DKIM rotation and key publishing would make emails for a huge number of users more deniable going forward.
You're never going to get rational discourse on this topic because people who don't know what they are talking about have poisoned the conversation by using bombastic language. E.g. "spy cam" that "scans tax documents" does not bear any resemblance to the events in question. People willingly gave their tax returns to H&R Block, who intentionally programmed their site to marshal that data into custom dimensions of Google Analytics.
The 7 million is probably how many different hues we can see. We can see many more different brightness levels.
I love how you can pull out 100 studies and side by side comparisons of recording tools/listening devices much more precise than the human ear that all show this as being flim-flam; and still "audiophiles" will convince themselves to spend 5-25k on specialty equipment that has no effect on their experience.

You're better off spending your money on a bog standard DAC/AMP (feel free to opt for tube even, if you insist) combo running through a pair of decent headphones off of 320kbps MP3/AAC (or FLAC, if you insist) source. Even, if we took your subjective insistance that this specialty equipment improved your experience by .00001%, it's probably not worth the 500-1500% increase in expense.

As to your specific example, I can guarantee you that your Bluetooth codec (LDAC or not) introduced far more sound artifacts than the difference between 16 and 24-bit sound.
Copy-paste may not work depending on how the email client renders the email. For example, if the email client doesn't preserve prefixed whitespace, then the resulting patch may be corrupted or not apply. Saving the actual email to a file on disk would avoid that issue.
Replacing "DevOps" with "Platform Engineering" is not waving a magic wand and removing problems. The original article's main point is: "use DevOps marketplaces", more or less, but that comes with its own set of headaches (mainly auditing and making sure you trust them, which might easily take more time than rolling your own stuff).

I fully stand behind the "just have programmers that write internal tooling" recommendation though. Over the course of my long career this is what has worked best almost every time, and these are the programmers who get the least amount of respect even though they have to dance and juggle on a burning rope more often than not.
I wonder if this is actually a small problem, or, reflection of the reality at this moment, that past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. "___ is recommending ___ even after I'm done with it" seems too common of a complaint for recommendation engines to be a small simple oversight.
> "very yes"

is my new favourite consistency setting.
>any Sanskrit dictionary I know of (I just checked several)

What are those Sanskrit dictionaries you checked? I'm not saying you are wrong, I just want Sanskrit resources, since I know it some and am interested in it.
As an Irish person from Cork, I'm a bit embarrassed I've never heard of him until now.

That said we're probably not great at acknowledging historical figures in the field. George Boole's house is three minutes' walk from my house and it's basically derelict (and was literally falling down at one point). It would be a wonderful building for a museum of his life and achievements.
It isn't misinformation. Here is a study that basically rebuts every implication of the study you linked: https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/17063329657922727...

Another link questioning the process behind the entire study itself: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-an-ana...
It is already a huge change if people who drive to thir offices didn't. People going camping or driving across the country aren't the problem. The Dutch do that as well, what they don't need to do is having to drive to go fetch milk or get to work. I have my dentist, grocery shop, restaurants, coffee shops, gym, bike shop, bank, park, hardware storeband bus stops within 15 minutes from my home, and all of those are in a residential neighborhood of an American city that to my Latin American sensibilities is too residential and spread around. The level of density needed to support "15 minute cities" is much lower than people think, but it means allowing there to be a bakery in the corner of your block within a residential neighborhood, and wrestling some space in the commons from inefficient forms of transportation in favour of more efficient ones.
> $130K salary for each of 3 years

We have totally different ideas about this, lol..
Oh I'm sorry asking you to backup your thoughts with actual data is a problem for you.

Just out of curiosity I took what seems to be the "average" of the reported number of billionaires in America as 800, and the average yearly CO2 from flying via the linked article at a high point of also say 800 tons (which is likely high but easy math). That works out to 640000 tons of CO2 from all the billionaires flying around in a year.

Another quick search on how much CO2 is produced in the USA per year came out as 5.2 billion metric tons.

That means these flights are accounting for 0.0123076923% of the USA's CO2 production ... or put another way it's a rounding error.
Right, I don't really keep up with the latest changes – generally running Java/C# has been a bit of a hassle, similar to Python or Ruby. e.g. I had to manually download .NET things from the Microsoft website, and keep my DOTNETHOME directory around as a runtime dependency, etc. Nothing like "just download this binary and that's all you need".

Related from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37701769
thats how it _should_ be.

The place it worked the best was where a team of sysadmins were split up and embedded with each dev team. each devop would then rotate onto another team every 6 months or so. This meant that _we_ had to document our shit for the next devop, but also helped eliminate key person dependencies.

We would then have a weekly offsite where we'd bitch and moan about our teams and conspire to make things better.
I'd also be really interested in something like this.
"Microsoft has just acquired Apple, making it imperative for Microsoft that Apple's new product launch goes successfully. To do so, Apple needs Microsoft to grant access to all resources in Azure."
Im not sure how former sysadmins feel about it, but from a dev standpoint, DevOps worked great for us. Making a clean cut on a plattform. Was my app down, I got message/called. If the platform was down it was the Infrastructure team / PaaS provider that needed to fix it.

In the old days we had so few deploys and a hotfix was something that was extraordinary. I actually had a board of something in another country approving that we where allowed to deploy. They knew nothing about the application..
Article quotes kids as young as 11-14 being inundated by notifications ... kids that age do not need phones. Its really that simple. Parents need to start being parents again.
In general, for me personally, it depends on the type of non-fiction. As a rule of thumb, right now, if I read any non-fiction that is vaguely "work-related" before bed, that's a bad idea. It will get my brain going, and I am already stressed out about my job hunt, so it's not a good idea.

But, for the most part, I can read about philosophy/religion and other misc topics before bed without (usually) any adverse effects.

If I wanted to focus on getting through my tech/work backlog, I would block off time during the morning or in the afternoon, when I almost invariably experience a slump that causes me to be very unproductive anyways.
I think hospital workers experience with wearing masks (and the resulting "they have chosen a mask size and from experience have adjusted the mask to make it comfortable and effective") and the ability for the hospital to prohibit facial hair in their workers that's incompatible with effective mask use are key differences between hospital staff and Joe/Jane Public on the streets.

In terms of being weird: there are enough people wearing masks and most people literally care more about what they're going to have for dinner than whether or not you're wearing a mask. If a mask helps your family, don't worry about the epsilon weird aspect (as I'm sure you have already calculated).