skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Australia had a manhunt over 3 teenagers who escaped the quarantine camp which made international news.

Thanks, I didn't hear about that.

> Over what is essentially a flu, which we knew from the data at the time.

Maybe 1000 people had prior exposure to a SARS clade coranavirus. And if you think they are essentially the same you certainly haven't been reading the news and analysis that I have.

E.g. https://www.webmd.com/covid/news/20230217/covid-versus-flu-w...

> Kills as much, and the same people, what gives?

In the US, over the last 30 years approximately the same number of people have died "with" COVID as have died "with" the flu. COVID's only been around 1/10th the time.

> I also remember CNN not touching the lab-leak "because Trump" and with a straight face they claim it's his fault they're not doing their jobs and getting to the truth.

Yes, CNN is biased up the wazoo. But at that point it rationally didn't matter the cause, but nipping this in the bud the best we could. The cause, and even lists of potential causes, are important to prevent future patient zeroes. And given all of the crap that's happened with wildlife to human transmission in the past (SARS 1, MERS, metapneumovirus, bird flu, swine flu, mpox, hemorrhagic viruses) there are other important avenues of transmission to deal with in addition to safe laboratory and sample collection practices.

> I remember press conferences telling vaccinated people not to hug their unvaccinated loved ones. Why not when it's 100%, 95%, 90%, kind of%, maybe% effective?

Injected vaccination (getting a shot into your muscle) was only really going to help with duration of symptoms (potentially shutting COVID down when it's just the sniffles, if you're lucky). It's much worse at preventing transmission than mucosal vaccination is. If you want to protect others, wear a mask. If you want to protect yourself, a quality mask is better, but a vaccine is okay.

> and there's a reason it just disappeared almost overnight.

Yeah, I was really pissed when the California government dropped both masking and social distancing at the same time, just in time for Delta to hit, once the first vaccines had been out for ~ 3 months.

I'm also pissed at the wishy-washyness of talking heads when asked whether masks are recommended again around the holiday season. Well fitting and well used masks are superior to vaccination. If you're willing to use them, then use them! If you're only willing to use them when someone else says it's a good idea...I just really don't get it.
That's what happens now and I'm totally fine with it. If I get an equipment or appliance delivery (not that often), it's almost surely moved most of the distance on a 48'+ trailer at some point, then cross-docked once or twice, then delivered to my house on a smaller liftgate truck, since I don't have a loading dock at my residence.
Can you elaborate on how and why?
Wikipedia entries are some of my favorite HN front page entries because it’s always a mystery to me as to which ones pop up and which don’t (I’ve submitted a few that didn’t make it). Try archive.is to bypass paywalled articles.
If they were able to get your keys to push a commit or sneak code into your branch we are waaaaay past the territory where a signed commit can be trusted.
Intel has an amazing track record with acquisitions -- almost none of them work out. Even the tiny fraction of actually good companies they acquired, the Intel culture is one of really toxic politics and it's very hard for acquired people to succeed.

I wish Pat well and I think he might be the only who could save the company if it's not already too late.

Sourced: worked with many ex-Intel people.

POSTSCRIPT: I have seen from the inside (not at Intel) how a politically motivated acquisition failed so utter spectacularly due to that same internal power struggle. I think there are some deeply flawed incentives in corporate America.
Energex remotely cuts power to 170k air conditioners six times in a month
https://www.antennaweb.org is another resource for this without the popup ads interrupting scrolling though the page.
So I tried the exact same test on a last gen Intel Macbook Pro. Same thing. 20 to 40% app CPU usage not including WindowServer.
Putting cursorOpacityAnimates: false "fixes" it, seemingly similar to this:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pull/104335

This is more of an eyebrow raising signal to me. This is not quality congruent with a multibillion dollar company backing. If the cupertino widgets are in this sorry of a state they probably should be marked as such.

But perhaps someone more invested in the ecosystem may want to submit that pull request. It seems like low hanging fruit.
Here in Sweden there are (since last year) no longer any banks that will cash a foreign check, no matter which country of origin, currency or bank. There used to be one that still did it at a quite steep fee, which became relevant for expats trying to cash their covid stimulus checks a couple of years ago, but now there are none. It's just a huge yarn of fraud and manual processing, it's not worth it.

Domestic checks barely exist either, the only way you'll ever see one is if the government owes you money for some reason but you haven't told them what your bank account number is.
Fred Smith on the Birth of FedEx
I don't think Apple wants you to use Mac apps. They want developers to make Vision Pro apps. That's why the Mac integration is the minimum they could get away with.
I agree. This is a beautiful summary of the logic I used
It’s the opposite actually. Very Rich people consume far less than average in proportion to their wealth and income.

When you look at what people actually consume, the US at least looks very egalitarian.
Because there are branches everywhere in the US making access easy whether you’re in New York or Montana.

There’s no other department of the federal government with that coverage.

They also are quasi financial already as you can get a USPS money order.
I think h1b itself is limited to 5 after which you have to leave for a year unless you already filed green card application. At least that was the case back in the day
Supply & Demand - it's the law!
Yes, these kind of "paint the street" solutions give pedestrians a false sense of safety. Sure most cars pay attention but that actually makes things more dangerous as you start to let your guard down when walking and think of that painted bulb as safe.

Then you nearly get clipped by a driver that simply ignores or is oblivious to the painted bulb.

If you really care about pedestrian safety, give pedestrians the entire intersection. All red so pedestrians can confirm cars are stopped, then they proceed across or diagonally through the intersection. Aka the pedestrian scramble. It's quite rare in the US.
> I'm the only dev working on a sizeable application. I have all the resources I need and zero distractions.

This would be a dream come true for me. Any advice on how to find such a job? Did you purposely look for it or did the stars just align and you dropped into an awesome situation?

My manager and my bikeshedding coworkers are driving me insane.
My main resolution for 2024 is to figure out my side project/SaaS boilerplate. Boilerplates are opinionated, and my opinions are so out of whack that I can't use any other folks' opinionated boilerplate. The challenge is the opinion part of boilerplates and the last "S" of SaaS, which stands for service.

I can't spend more than $5 a month, and I don't want to use anything other than Python. I think in Python and it provides the absolute frictionless path to bring my ideas to life. I wish I had the same feeling about JavaScript, and that would have certainly made my life easier. But this is a compromise I am happy to accept as part of my identity.

The stack I am thinking of right now includes:

- Firebase: I chose this because Stripe integration, real-time database, Firebase functions, documentation and Firebase authentication.

- Vue/Nuxt + BootstrapVue: This is for basic front-end stuff.

- VM/VPS: This will be used to host the operational logic.

- Python: This is the core operation. Firestore operations and management will have the real database in PostgreSQL/SQLite to reduce calls to Firestore.

- FastAPI: This will be used for communicating with Firebase via API. User calls will be relayed via Firebase to FastAPI. It may be slower, but it will make my life a bit easier.

- NGINX: Plan is to have one FastAPI project per project. I think NGINX is going to be helpful here. Also, I would like to do some firewall configuration.

I still have a lot to figure out. One thing I am trying to determine is if I really need Firebase here because I already have a backend there.

I want to build an API-first system and Unix philosophy-inspired systems where multiple API services or Python modules do one thing only and are linked to each other. The goal is to create common operation Python modules, so I can quickly develop POCs by combining boilerplates with parameters and write the core logic in the minimum amount of Python code. The whole plan is to keep trying different approaches until I find one that works.
I have two windows open - one for this conversation and one for the chatter about the cultural decay at Boeing that has killed maybe ~350 people in the Boeing 747 MAX accidents.

There is a fascinating look here into how groups of people handle risk assessment and mitigation. This article isn't even complaining about a lack of mitigation, the complaint here is local communities attempting to mitigate these hazards is illegal. The gap in responses is as wide as it is lopsided.

As soon as it is taxpayer funded and people are directly involved in eating the costs for making things safer, previously high standards drop to ankle level.
By that logic, "one language" is actually apt for an app like this, a la 1Password. I.e. one way to interpret is: the service democratizes access to languages so much that one language is all you need to start learning, or all languages are as accessible and as easy to learn as a single language.
Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in open letter
Can you explain the UX. Is it just one click to go to the latest wayback machine version of the site or something like that? (it was on my 'to do' list to either find or make an extension that does this, so kagi could be quite useful to me also)
Many more requirements. I said commercial conversions in some areas need to permanently render useless a portion of floor area for statute compliance.

https://youtu.be/s2ZUQWojevo
I think you'd look at the average income, not median. I'm seeing $63k/yr which is $3.3M over 52 years. I'm seeing average retirement age as 64 and first job around 17 (47 years). Maybe I'd get closer if I added post retirement jobs (e: oh and social security payments, pension payouts) which seem common.
https://archive.is/20240130165200/https://www.newscientist.c...
Totally agree. It’s a superpower to be able to reject the zeitgeist and do something against the grain. What’s weird is that there are “acceptable against the grain” directions (e.g. founding a startup in a risky space) and unacceptable directions, like working blue collar jobs/trades/etc.
The fact that it is distracting for drivers is the point. Making the street appear dangerous to drivers is the positive outcome. In the specific case of the Oakland bike lanes and associated junk in KONO and Temescal, all objective indications of safety are better.

"""OakDOT found that the protected lanes caused cars to slow down, addressing the most critical factor in surviving collisions. The speed of the fastest cars went down to about 24 mph, while the pace of most other vehicles went down to 17 mph. Collisions between bicyclists and cars also fell by 40% in the first year the protected lanes were in place. The number of pedestrians on Telegraph Avenue also went up 103%, and the number of bicyclists using the street nearly doubled."""
I'm not, you're misreading what I said.
What an effing clown. Just stop tweeting for 2 minutes and maybe you won’t embarrass yourself so often.
SAFe won't go away soon... https://overbring.com/blog/2023-04-27-safe-agile-souffle/
Yep. People forget that the original iphone that could only run built-in apps really was a failure; it was only when they opened up the app store that it exploded (perhaps aided by this Cartmanland marketing strategy).
Sadly, being a current stock owner doesn't mean you were along for the rocket ride. Plenty of people bought in for over $250 (high was ~$293) and lost 20% of their value (current is ~$190).

If you lost 20% of your investment, you might have a different view on the CEO devaluing it another 9%
Patrick does not mention that a primary reason even the "banked" use check cashing services is that deposited funds are trivially legible for the purposes of attaching court judgements, particularly child support. Cash is far more difficult to trace.
I definitely did not use AT&T :) (in fact I didn’t even use my iPhone in the US)
I guess you haven't traveled much. Post offices in other countries also provide fundamental banking services. Right now, one can get money orders from USPS.
It's fairly common for postal systems to provide basic banking services: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system
I'm fairly certain I'm not mistaken. The MSRP may be the same, sure. Some games, however, are routinely cheaper on sale on EGS than they are on Steam. "Alan Wake 2" in particular has been cheaper on EGS and came with "Alan Wake Remastered". EGS has been giving away free games since its inception. They have issued coupons with pretty large discounts ($15 or 33% off) that can be used on just about any game, effectively reducing the price below what Steam is selling games for.
The USPS is a government agency that already has physical branches in almost every community in the US, which would make it an extremely accessible bank for the 4.5% or so of households who currently don't have a bank.

It could also be pressure on American banks to treat their customers better, since the USPS is not burdened with a responsibility to generate dividends for shareholders.

The USPS is also not directly funded by taxes (though it is indirectly subsidized via it's tax status and sole right of access to mailboxes), and with the waning popularity of letter mail, would become more self sufficient in the long term if it branched out into other services

Other countries also combine banking and postal branches for similar reasons, like Japan (although it is in the process of being privatized).
This is oversimplified and actually underplays how serious the issue is.

These companies didn’t fail because of myopic financial engineers. The ones focused on quarter to quarter tend to bomb the company relatively quickly and do get flushed out.

These companies failed because of long term financial visionaries. These are the worst because they are thinking about how the company can capture markets at all costs, diversify into all adjacent markets, etc. They are a hard cancer to purge because on the surface they don’t sacrifice stuff for the current quarter. They sacrifice laser focus for broad but shallow approaches to all kinds of things.

“Sure, we’ll build a fab here. And we’ll also do enterprise NICs… And also storage… and also virtualization… and also AI… and also acquire some startups in these fields that might have something interesting…”

The company becomes big listless monster coasting on way too many bets spread out all over the place. There is no core engineering mission or clear boundary between what is the business and what isn’t.

Intel is far from “myopic”. If it was something as obvious as a next quarter driven CEO, the board would have made a change immediately.
Most Americans on hackernews have never been outside of the US? That strikes me as a near impossibility. Evidence?
I had precisely this, 25 years ago - I came back from a few months abroad to find a pile of letters from my new bank, NatWest, and nearly £1,000 of fees from them for a cheque that I hadn’t written that had bounced, as I had left the account empty, having just opened it.

As I was a broke student with few options, I ended up having to default on it, which did wonders for my credit rating for a good long while.
One of my least favorite antipatterns in my area is a crosswalk with a bunch of signs around it that flash constantly, regardless of pedestrian presence or input. They flash in a slightly different pattern if you push the button. Alert fatigue, anyone? Most drivers just blow through it.

As a distance runner who spends a lot of time on the roads, I'm increasingly convinced that signs, speed limits, flashing lights and other flavor of the month gizmos are totally ineffective excuses for not doing what actually needs to be done to improve pedestrian/cyclist safety, which is changing the built environment to a) reduce maximum possible vehicle speed by changing the physical structure of the road and b) providing robustly physically separated infrastructure, extending even to tunnels/overpasses, for non-vehicle traffic. I trust concrete way more than I trust laws.
Absolutely, but for webapps, is there any other options using dart?
For the record, dart is one of my favorite languages. I'm just a bit sad that it is more or less tied to flutter (not by design, just because it's the main usage it gets)
But that's cultural change, no? I'm trying to get an idea of what "modernity" means in the sense you mean.
If anyone is curious, UPS had 536,000 employees in 2022.
Bing Cache still exists btw. But it's indeed sad google is killing it...
And an additional point is that one of my work places requires 2FA and doesn't allow yubikeys, or an emailed or SMS code. So I'm forced to use an app for it.
Welding looks easy. I've tried it many times, it's really hard. There's a very small line between not fusing the metal and burning a big hole in the work.

Welding is very rare in aircraft because of the difficulty in verifying a correct weld.