jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This. ACPI seems to ensure that platforms have to depend on lowest-common-denominator buggy firmware that is only tested against Windows, all while trying to say there's any benefit at all to allowing laptop manufacturers to hide/abstract away hardware involved in power and fan control from the operating system.
Yes, reputational damage - see other comments below - if HN cannot understand the plan neither will the general public
A Ponzi scheme is different than an economy where there's regulatory capture due to industrial complexes; creating a Ponzi scheme that's immutable, decentralized, and global doesn't make it a better replacement - Elon Musk recently tweeted: "Bitcoin is almost as bs as fiat money"
We had people with "long healthy lives" for millennia already, they were just the exception and not the norm. They were still human. A monk in the Middle Ages would live well into their seventies and eighties without wishing to find ways to live forever. A more contemporary example would be to talk about all the "natural life" followers or those closer to the temperance movement: equally interested in long healthy lives, but dismissive of the idea that "augmentations" or "enhancements" are something necessary or even desirable.

So to me, this is still "human", they still want a long, healthy life, but their means to it is by via negativa: instead of adding things to your body hoping to increase the quality of life, they would avoid the things that are consider harmful.

Contrast that with "transhumanism", whose idea is to be able to control the environment and elements of nature to the point where they can shape everything to their liking, even if it means adding whatever it takes to their bodies. If that's not some sign of trying to outmake our own Maker, what is?
That app doesn’t appear either as a paid ad, or in the search results for the word “Monkey” on the iOS App Store. I’m not sure it even has an iOS version.

It’s not clear how that app is connected with what the OP is describing.

The OP has added the name of a Chinese company, but I can’t see what Apps it is behind.

The app you listed is described as being developed by 5 teens from LA. Perhaps that is the OP’s app?
if only there were some good flows for attaching sound input / outputs & input devices over wifi

there are some technical means. one could use usb-ip[1] to bridge peripherals, for example. but few rise to the status of "flows", good well paved paths.

[1] http://usbip.sourceforge.net/
> Real options improve expected outcomes!

And sometimes they don't.

The biggest problem with ALL of these advocates for the "non-trial protocols" is that they want to violate the protocol but nobody wants to put the processes in place to keep an eye out for if something goes wrong.

Read that again: None of the "first doses first" are considering that they might be wrong. And, correspondingly, they have no signals or systems to watch for that.

Okay, this is one thing that ALL the trials did that you want to short circuit. And that's not cool.

For example, what happens if the single dose effects allow a subgroup of people to carry the virus asymptomatically? Oops. You created an immune variant that will evolve to evade all the vaccines as well as lots of spreaders who don't know it.

The human body is stupidly unique and you can get really weird effects. This is why we have trials.

Derek Lowe (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/) pointed this out earlier: "first doses first" vs "cache for second doses" has no medical justification--but you're going to have to make a choice anyway. And it's a shitty choice to have to make.

But that's okay. Such is life, you sometimes go with what you have and not what you want--just don't cloak it as a medical decision because you aren't backed by the data. And you have to understand that you might be wrong and you have to have something in place to watch for that.
This criticism of “a quest for perfect RCTs” makes me chuckle. There are so many shit trials out there that sponsors do their best to torture desired results out of its kind of embarrassing.

Instead of saying “prudence has real costs” it would be more accurate to say “having reliable information take time”
I can see a reason to abandon BLE. Bluetooth is generally
a bit problematic maybe due to is complexity. but “Bluetooth low energy” is perfect for what it is (a super slow short range wireless communication implementation).
> Doesn't it just require you to express the interface you're already using and expecting to use?

Intuitively, yes. However there is actually the Curry-Howard correspondence that states: A type is a theorem, a value with that type is a proof that the theorem is true.

In that sense static typing always has you prove something, but when going from dynamic to static typing it's not the proof that is the problem – you already have that. The problem is figuring out what you're proving or how to express that property in the language of the types.
> Sound blaster (8 bit sound card) and VGA (only 256 colors at once at low resolution, and no sprites)

The color depth of the OCS and VGA are not directly comparable. OCS and ECS allowed 32 out of 4096 colors at once. To reach the full 4096 you needed to use HAM, which while impressive, was not as flexible and required careful image design. VGA allowed 256 out of 262 144, to get something similar in the Amiga you needed AGA.
Ah, I get it.

Right now I just run commands remotely by prefixing ssh (actually I have aliases for the commonly connected machines). So it's
ls
for local list and
ssh remote ls
for remote's ls (actually I type
remote-name ls
).

So things like $! or ^ work as expected since they operate normally, but some quoting is indeed required (e.g. I usually want a pipeline to run entirely, or mostly, remotely).

But as each invocation invokes a fresh shell the remote connection is stateless. It would be nice if the shell could track things like
remote cd
and prefix subsequent commands with `cd`. This is hard to get right; there are so many ways to cd or pushd/popd (especially in `()` sub shells or with !:xx kinds of shortcuts) that they are hard to find. Emacs shell tries to keep a shell buffer's cwd in sync with the shell's but easily gets out of sync.

I have used the tramp interface and it's OK.

I wonder how useful this would really be; I typically run a bunch of things remotely and then have the result pipe back into a local executable. Thus anything that ran the pipeline remotely by default would need some quotology to differentiate the two, which exists now.
> Part of the idea behind letting the semiconductor industry decline is that it frees up capital and human resources to work on higher ROI stuff.

Yeah. That’s a very good point, something I haven’t really thought of. I think we could also invest more in semiconductor design, both in making more sophisticated designs and in making semiconductor design accessible to more people (both of which are already happening). I’m talking about “design” in contrast to manufacturing/process concerns. If the process changes slow down a bit, I wonder if we can get ASICs with lower NRE.
"Alternatively it could be an app that has a menu bar with say File/Send Command that you click and something pops up, but that seems silly."

Bingo! It just sits in the menubar so you can run things, and the hotkey is there for you to do anything you want with. Set it to pop open a window and attach, announce "your task is complete", or whatever. Simple, boring, silly, etc. Just for those times when a terminal window would get in your way because you're working on something else. That being said, there are plenty of interesting features that could be added to make the idea more compelling.

Edit: my noprocrast is about to kick in and I think I'll honor it... so thanks for taking a look, hope I didn't waste anyone's time.
> By that definition nobody creates technology since all they're doing is iterating on work done by other people.

So learn about science. Einstein wasn't "iterating" when he created the special and general theories of relativity -- these theories were very far afield from the physics of the day, and entirely original.

Charles Darwin wasn't "iterating" when be began to think about the fact that Galapagos finches from different islands had different beak sizes and shapes, and what that might mean.

Galileo wasn't "iterating" when he saw those four little stars that seemed to follow Jupiter around in the sky, and what they might teach us about Jupiter, and about earth.

Michelson and Morley tested the ether theory in their eponymous experiment, and their test failed. At the time, no one understood why. Decades later, Einstein explained why and replaced the prior theory without any help.

> Having a vision of some kind of technology and then driving a team towards that goal is, undeniably, "creating technology".

You just tried to equate a bus driver with a scientist.

Steve Wozniak created technology, Steve Jobs sold it to people. Please learn the difference between creators and promoters -- Wozniak didn't need Jobs to create a computer, but Jobs needed Wozniak (and many other similar people over the years, many of whom I knew personally) in order to have something to promote.
It is barely alluded to in the article but the reason this is significant is that humans are the only animals that can make fire and cook their food. This may change the evolutionary timeline.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human
I was under the impression that Ruby people prefer their gems over distros packaging those same things. Judging by the stance a lot of rubists took against Debian and Ubuntu, it would be a safe bet to say that a distro you describe cannot really exist.
I don't understand your hard-lined conclusion when the paper that the blog post references can't reach a conclusion either.

The blog post also reaches a semi-hard lined conclusion yet still leaves room for additional work as it should.

Problems with the study:

- Not everyone the participants are interacting with also have a mask (Blog post references this with "protects you, not me")

- The result is "Although the difference observed was not statistically significant, the 95% CIs are compatible with a 46% reduction to a 23% increase in infection."

- "The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use."

My point is "Masks are in effective" can't be concluded from this. It failed to show a reduction of 50%, sure, but what about 25% at a higher CI? Was it literally 0% at 5 sigma? Clearly more work needs to be done to show 0% at any meaningful CI.

If you don't believe in masks fine, don't go see other people - it's way more effective anyway.
Are there q-drops around this? I've been out of that loop.
Cities and universities serve very different populations. A university typically has four groups it serves: students, faculty, administration, and staff. Each of these groups tend to have only small variations in needs within their group. If you can design for the needs of these four groups, you're doing well. A city on the other hand may have hundreds or even thousands of different groups of differing conflicting needs. Even a smallish city with a population of 20,000 is going to have more complexity than a large university with 40,000 students plus several thousand in the other three groups.
I have done 1000 IU for a few months with no impact on chronic insomnia.
You can find the mpd stream and the subtitle in network tab.

For me:
youtube-dl.exe -f bestvideo+bestaudio "https://vod-dash-ww-live.akamaized.net/usp/auth/vod/piff_abr..."

And the subtitle(EBU-TT-D format):
https://vod-sub-ww-live.bbcfmt.s.llnwi.net/iplayer/subtitles...

Vlc can play it with the sub.
So would the bootloader also include a rudimentary GPU driver to, for example, display the Apple logo, the boot device selection screen, the internet recovery UI and so on? One would think that they would've provided a simple framebuffer interface in the hardware for this kind of use case.

(I'm more of a software kind of guy, I might be entirely wrong here tho)
Honestly wouldn't expect much from government systems that are built by whichever contractor has the best connections and lowest price rather than best code.
They needed to go to these lighthouses multiple times a year even with RTG’s, presumably to change bulbs etc. Truly remote areas without people don’t need lighthouses. In that context operate generator N for X hours then swap to generator N + 1 and repeat as needed.

The more modern solution for even more remote areas is fuel cells which can last significantly longer between inspections.
Yeah, is like most of HN should be kids, because, FFS, it's a PS2, not a Nintendo from the 80's.

They are so used to badly implemented software in Electron requiring humoungous CPU and RAM requeriments that basic performing tools it's mind blowing to them.

Heck, any Pentium2 on par of a PS2's CPU or better could play DivX videos under MPlayer under Linux/NetBSD with ease.
420p, ok, but video.
The plural of Lego is Lego bricks. Never shall legos be spoken. Grr :)

I appreciate the submarine however.
> If I look at the suggestions that would help people with ADHD, then I see suggestions that would help lots of people.

This is why we always emphasize that accessibility is for everyone, not just people with disabilities. The primary difference is that those with formal disabilities spend a much greater percentage of their time hurt by inaccessibility.

The modern workplace isn't very human-friendly, but neurotypical people can and do work around the problems, so businesses don't adjust. Focusing on ADHD gives businesses a concrete example of people they'd like to retain who truly can't be productive in the current environment, so it's more likely to trigger actual change.
Being in charge of large budgets is better for CEOs and CTOs than being in charge of small budgets. It makes you look more impressive so they go for it like lemmings over the cliff, sometimes taking entire companies with them.
Gun.io is pretty good, IMO. I'd stay away from odesk and elance.
That's true, but in the case of NFTs, the whole concept is rooted in highly financialised digital capitalism. This isn't businesses jumping on the bandwagon, the business bandwagon is itself the trend.
I have a question about this article published in The Lancet:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS2213-2...

Looking at the drug cocktail that the patient received, this seems to be pretty heavy artillery:

- methylprednisolone

- moxifloxacin

- lopinavir plus ritonavir

- interferon

- meropenem

Holy shit, is this a recommended medication for severe Covid-19 cases?
I totally agree. Additionally in times of crisis or recession coal price may also drop as all industry related materials.
I was really wondering if any of the FAANGs reached out to help websites like https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/, which while not that fancy cannot really be static 100%, as they update the virus numbers almost by the minute. They used to have some DB connections problems a couple of days ago and I think I also saw some 503 responses, but thankfully things have stabilised for them since then.
Arguments about HN getting more political / getting ruined by politics go back almost as far as HN itself:

2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=278434
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243561

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1542380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320152

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157485

Sound familiar? Those are just the first few I found. In those arguments, pg was in favor of
keeping politicized stories if they were intellectually
interesting and not just about politics:

2008:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=243614

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=196756

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94861

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2403775

We've kept the original rule that a political story on HN needs to have something intellectually interesting, but we've also tightened it. For example, when a thread turns into a political flamewar, we moderate it more than pg used to. There were many past submissions that neither users nor moderators would allow today, like these from ten years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=94840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=208518

Just look at those threads! (Edit: also interesting how the item IDs more than doubled in the first half of 2008.)
Chris Olah always does such interesting work of really teasing apart ML abstractions and thinking about them in new ways. One of the best ML researchers in my book!
No, the most obvious answer is that they went there to destroy high value targets to weaken Ukraine militarily, making it far easier to do what they want to do in the Donbass/Crimean land bridge area. Now rather than having to deal with the Ukrainian air force, tank units, air defense etc. those obstacles are mostly gone.
Not surprising, since the entire telecommunications industry continues to work hand in hand with all the alphabet agencies to gobble up as much data on everyone that they can. Laws and rights to the government are but mere suggestions.
Maybe I haven't seen 'modern' suburban streets, because all the suburbs I know have 4 way stops
All us old geezers are good at being conveniently deaf.

And at turning off the aids, if the old bat starts chattering excessively.
I hope he will be contributing to the performance space as much as he's been at Netflix. His books and blogs have helped many including me better understand the whole stack.
Neat, iRacing on HN is a collision of worlds for me. Outside of software, I'm a huge racing fan and spend a fair bit of time on iRacing (mostly oval). I've been wanting to build something related but haven't come up with any ideas that I love yet.

Cool to see I'm not the only one!
I'll throw my "Learn Elixir by building 5 games" book into the ring:

https://alchemist.camp/little-potions

It's still in pre-release (and discounted to $15) but but the reception has been good so far. I don't have a testimonial page for it yet or much marketing behind it, but but you can find comments on it on Twitter and some of my YT videos.
But then in the Event section, there's a timezone ID and some talk about local time of the calendar. Maybe the other sections are behind :(

https://convier.me/docs/latest/event-component
I am not upset about it at all - I think you are projecting that. I don't use it and it doesn't affect me. I was just presenting the alternative mechanism of using the established communication method of email for notification of events since an email account is requested for most things (tax returns, bank account, most accounts).
In South America practically no one has even heard of Signal. The only known alternative to Whatsapp, which dominates society at all levels, is Telegram. I'm seeing a very minor move to it and it's based on the assumption that it's more secure than Whatsapp. Just did an experiment and downloaded Signal, and while I expected a low list of adopters, out of my 1k+ contact list, literally only one person was on the app.

I feel most startups sleep hard on the massive market they're missing by skipping on SA so much.
I'd say dealing with an employer through HR without a union is as stupid as representing yourself because "lawyers are crooks" and then getting advice from the opponent's council.

My comments refer to documented evidence that HR will participate in criminal acts against you and any incentive they were given can be indistinguishable from their legal bonuses.
Thanks to pfizer to take affective medicine to open the world
Well thank you for being so gracious about it :-)

As I tend to suffer from the same problem, let me offer a bit of advice that I have encountered: the difference between coming across as knowledgeable and know-it-all is the motives you ascribe to those who do not agree with you.

For example in this case, the tone in this case is "people don't put enough wait on references" with the implication of "because they don't realise how important this is! the fools! here let me enlighten you". A better way to address it is to imagine (even though I grant you, I am sure the former explanation is probably more likely) that people don't put enough wait on references for some legitimate-in-their-minds reason; for example, because they don't believe a stranger can be trusted over their own experience with the candidate. What would you say to that person?

In other words, it is best to go for the anti-straw man - imagine your opinion piece is in dialogue with the most reasonable person possible that could disagree with you.

By the way, since I am inflicting my opinion upon you, I also find that asking people what the worst mistake they have made is not a very productive question. And I can imagine receiving a reference request from somebody who was asking me that question for one of my crew - I'd probably get rather protective of them and not answer as candidly as I would with a more open question.

However my world is light years from VP circles, perhaps things are different up there :-)
Someday, I'd like to see a network of people with long, flat, driveways or big stretches of free street parking right out front, and WiFi, so I could pay someone $5-$15/day to park my RV in front of their house and use their bandwidth and optionally plug in to their power and fresh water. That'd be really cool.

It seems like the places I really want to visit often feature a significant lack of RV parks, and also often prohibit overnight street parking.
The vetting would have to be really good, though, due to the big ratio of potential liability to potential income. The potential upside is one or two month's rent, but the potential downside is a renter who throws a big party and trashes the place. That's one reason I've never sublet my place when I've been gone--- the $800 or whatever that I'd get for a month absence isn't worth the risk of ending up holding a $10k damages bill. So I'd only sublease through a service like that if either I was sure the service's vetting was perfect, or the service was willing to insure against any damage done by their renters.
Funny you should mention the original post, because he makes a very good yet obvious point:

> If 'Free Software' is to succeed as 'Free software' it needs to produce superior product and out compete

It was wrong of him to trot out total app count, because it's a meaningless number, but there's no question that the iPhone has attracted a huge amount of developer interest. This has resulted in a large library of very well-designed and compelling software across all categories, and has allowed independent developers to reach more users than they ever could have dreamed.

Much of this developer traction can be attributed to Apple's management of the App Store, but this kind of exciting software development was happening before the App Store, when developers did it just for fun and had to reverse-engineer the APIs. If you weren't there in 2007, you have no idea how exciting it was.

It says a lot about what can happen when you deliver a compelling piece of hardware running a sophisticated platform. Of course, the reply addressed none of it, and succeeds only in demonstrating a complete lack of understanding about consumer software development in 2010.
Hi Grogers- Let me give a shot at paraphrasing what you just said. Essentially the data packets on your phone have routing info that requires data packets to route back to AT&Ts core network rather than going directly to the internet. For it to occur otherwise, the femtocell would have to change the routing and that would be expensive and impractical. Is that accurate? If so I'm going to update the post with that.