skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I think about my first-person experience, it's something that happens in the present instant. The awareness of a distant and recent past may simply be a result of memory stimuli being presented by the brain to the consciousness at the present instant.

In this model, if I went under anesthesia and the King Particle got knocked out of its orbit and got replaced by another, the new consciousness would believe it was a continuation of the earlier one, because it would receive the same stimuli that its predecessor would have, and part of that stimuli was evolved to elicit a sensation for the continuity of self.

What this gets at is, is consciousness stateless? Is its experience a pure function of what is fed into it, or is it stateful?
This actually isn’t entirely true. You’re operating under the “energy in-energy out” theory of weight loss, but human regulation of body fat is more complicated than that.

Specifically, we store energy in adipose tissue in the form of body fat after a meal (think of it like storing data on disk) and then when we are low on energy we burn that fat (load that data “in-memory”). However, a lot regulates when we burn fat. Blood sugar and insulin levels signal to the body not to burn fat and those come directly from carbohydrates. Additionally, carbohydrates are the initial energy source that is turned to fat. So with no carbs all your body knows how to do is burn fat for energy, and no additional intake of carbs means that there is no excess energy to store as fat to begin with. So, actually, even with a 5000 calorie diet you might see some weight loss... because your body has literally nothing (no carbs) to store as fat.

However, keto and low carb diets do have the benefit of the fact that they are entirely sustainable (unless you’re really addicted to bread) so I agree in that way they are behavioral :P
W3C has SecondScreen WG looking at similar open solution [1]

[1] https://www.w3.org/2014/secondscreen/
having high ACE2 is not something that you need to worry about as you only need enough to get the virus in you.

- having "high" ACE2 could actually be a benefit if it turns out that you retain proper ACE2 functionality after infection and through the course of the physiological challenge of the virus.
How China is using AI and big data to combat coronavirus outbreak
How do the speakers go obsolete? And in most cars the radio itself can be easily removed.
Run an America full of talking animals in Democratic Socialism Simulator
Keeping read-only archives of the retired bug tracker seems like the right thing to do - even if that had to be done with an external archiving tool (top hit on google: https://www.petekeen.net/archiving-websites-with-wget)
> If we'd chosen some other definition of multiplication, a lot of the "intuitive" properties of multiplication that hold over the natural numbers (such as the distributivity of multiplication over addition and subtraction) would no longer be true over the integers.

This is backward reasoning. The chosen definition of multiplication is not to keep things "intuitive". If you start with the field axioms, the chosen definition of multiplication is pretty much dictated by the axioms. If you choose another definition of multiplication, you would end with contradictions like 1 = 0 and such nonsense! And mathematicians abhor contradictions!

"Product of additive inverses of two elements is equal to the product of the two elements" is dictated by the field axioms in all fields.
Same here. I even did my research, but in retrospect it turns out a lot of their TrustPilot reviews are obvious fakes. I'm now trying to return it but I'm being ignored by customer service. Time to get a chargeback I guess. Any other avenues to get a refund?

What a bunch of charlatans. It must be pretty heartbreaking working for a company like this.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.molekule.com

Edit: btw, the offgassing is bad enough that I wouldn't use this anywhere where people breathe the air. Who knows what this weird offgassing contains. Who ever heard of an air filter that does offgassing?
>"Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate"

> Does that have to do with Microsoft Teams? The description talks about "Office 365."

This part seems fairly clear to me. Teams is a product inside of the Office 365 family of products. So that certification would be for someone that wants to be an administrator for Teams.

That being said, I do agree with some of your points: like "Administrator Associate" is a bit confusing. Administrators are typically farther along than associates I would think. Office 365 is for the productivity apps (including Teams), and then Microsoft 365 is for Win 10 + Office 365 + Security things... could get confusing quick.
modulation means in this case means dynamically increase or decrease in order to stay on a curve
If they're making fun of braggadocious tweets which turned out to be wrong in the long run I sort of get it, but just VCs being vocally proud of their successful investments is not exactly anything to mock. They put their money where their mouth is, and came out ahead. It's good to hear stories of success and failure both.
A twitter account RT with emoji, people block it because it has no value, and it's called news?

Don't get me wrong, I find it funny. The current trend of humble brag is a good topic to laugh about.

But do you want an entire article about this? Do you want that to be on HN front page?

There are thousands of such joke accounts. Are we going to post about them all?
They're just gotos an authority told us we can use
Don't mean to hijack, but I'm definitely curious.

Since you're the CTO of Cloudflare, and you posted the OP; Why did you replace the word 'Chose', in the linked title, with the word 'abandoned' here?

That comes across as real click-baity.
Please don't do the degree-wars thing on HN. It's a tedious flamewar topic that just goes around in circles (of hell).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On being adaptable in the software world
FDA Drug Shortages
I think that's his point - you can already reduce JPEG size a bit by using fancier libraries, but even huge sites like Imgur apparently don't bother.
when Molekule claims they can eliminate airborne viruses they are!
Well, to be fair, the transition between the hackers and the bureaucrats was greased by abusive MBAs.

EU data privacy legislation wouldn't have been seen as necessary if companies weren't exploiting their user base unethically. The fight to keep the Internet open to everyone should have been an easy one for the "hackers" to win... but the other side had help.
*sometimes and not always

State, for example, doesn't leak. You never worry about the fact that it's a function `s -> (s, a)` and it gets optimized away like nuts.
Ex-SpaceXer’s software engineering principles
I'm interested in trying it. In the past I used a system based on Debian's Live Build (https://github.com/gumstix/live-build) and I was wondering how it differs, but I'm just now noticing even this suggests using Yocto instead.
> I'm not sure when this trend of putting blue lights on devices meant to be put in a bedroom started, or when it will end

Running them so obnoxiously bright as well. I once bought a USB plug I could almost read by, it was ridiculous.
I've used Joe quite a bit, and all I can say is that it's a great idea that solves a noticeable problem: troubleshoot your queries.

It may not look like is a hard challenge: but the reality is that most troubleshoot them in production, which means that:

a) you need access to production, when you shouldn't;
b) you run queries in production, potentially affecting -sometimes noticeably- production workloads.

Joe provisions a database clone using ZFS snapshot (I believe LVM support was added recently) and gives you a full copy of the database for you, with real data. You can test the queries, explain plans, create indexes to test if you need. And when you are done, it goes away. With a Slack interface, so you don't need to bother with connection, provisioning, credentials and decommissioning.

Give it a try, it is a very good tool!
maybe it's a wave between avatarial representations of other before us
Writing bigger programs I struggled to understand what I wrote without comments on every line describing the stack. One could use more variables to make it easier to understand, but in the old days that would also make it less efficient. I would frequently have to reverse engineer my code.

Interestingly, object oriented PostScript would tend to help make your code seem more like prefix code, because it would be like more like "object method argument ... send" rather than "... arg arg function".
Parody is ok, blocking parody noise is ok too, sensational articles like this are ok too.
Ah yes, "it doesn't filter out your dust particules because you're not properly dusting your particules!"
Yes, we're going to post about them all.
Mostly it’s boring. I love watching pie in the face accounts, but this one isn’t interesting unless you really know the VC world well.
But don't pretend they're important to you when you can't provide a solution after almost two years.
I was guessing you might come through and give us an awesome and thorough exposition on the parallel universe that might have been. Thanks!

I still wish anything had the features of NeWS. I wish people could currently be able to feel freedom, power, expressiveness of such environments, where you could change the look and behavior of anything on your screen with a couple of lines typed in a REPL.

Even though the browser has been creeping every day towards it, it seems impossible to escape the constriction of it's haphazard evolution. Browsers have all the hard parts of a NeWS server already worked out inside them (but in C/C++ code), but even if you could magically transform it, it seems it would still be horribly constrained by many other layers of cruft.
It's funny how this treatment is very bad because they're adults but it's pretty similar to how normal people treat children everywhere. Perhaps it's bad because adults are less malleable so they suffer more from being forced out of their natural ways while children are still learning how to behave so they tolerate going to school, learning languages, being politically indoctrinated, being forbidden from performing seances or voodoo revenge rituals, and being coerced by threats of social exclusion for failing to do the proper behaviors.
have a look here ;

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22458302
Dependency Injection in .NET Core
This is a decent intuitive explanation.

If you want an absolutely rigorous proof, you can view this Metamath proof: http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mulge0.html ; this has more far more steps, but is totally rigorous. It particular, its only axioms are those of classical logic and ZFC set theory (not even numbers are presumed, the system first proves "numbers exist and have these properties").
Can someone with experience in this domain chip in with how to interpret this information?

What I am getting at is that this might look bad, yet those of us without expertise and daily exposure to this segment have no idea what this might look like on average under normal circumstances.

In other words, this list might not accurately reflect causation by the COVID-19 event.

I STRONGLY URGE anyone looking at this link without the appropriate background not to reach any conclusions until someone with the appropriate credentials puts this data into context.
Tesla spent $70 million on marketing in 2018.

https://ir.tesla.com/node/19496/html

"Marketing, promotional and advertising costs are expensed as incurred and are included as an element of selling, general and administrative expense in the consolidated statement of operations. We incurred marketing, promotional and advertising costs of $70.0 million, $66.5 million and $48.0 million in the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively."
Can you please give me a pointer on these researches?

Also its not clear to me: do blood pressure mediacations in general upregulate the expression of ACE-2, or is it possible that they downregulate it? (Not lisonopril or losartan)
I wondered that myself. They'd need a succession plan. But high concentrations of certain metals are toxic to many other plants. So maybe the nickel harvesting plants are a first step to preparing the soil for another crop. Only this step allows the farmers to at least partially recover some of their investment in the cleaning step.
The Tulsa Remote Worker Experiment
Even a box fan and 2 Merv-13 furnace filters glued to it in a V-shape will perform FAR better than 99% of non-HEPA consumer purifiers out there, for a fraction of the price.
Main problems and challenges of machine learning
Bold move by Microsoft. I get that the cloud is more lucrative, but I feel like this is a bit premature. Plenty of businesses aren't ready to switch to the cloud and it seems like MS and others want to push this illusion of "everybody is doing it and you should too".
Discussed yesterday:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22453541
Really? I find other media players so much easier to use. I hate having to use my phone to control the player; I can't look at my phone for things and control the media at the same time. Switching back to whatever app I was using often find I have lost the connection, and it takes a good number of seconds to re-connect and gain control.

I also find it really hard to fast forward and rewind... I never get the responsiveness that I get on my XBOX, and I can't rewind and fast forward with nearly the precision, either.
One of the most popular blood pressure medications, Lisinopril, is an ACE inhibitor. A lot of people worldwide (including myself) take it daily. Its mechanism of action is to prevent the conversion of ACE to ACE2.
look here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22458302
Video encoding comes to mind.
But if the site owners are so incompetent that they can't ensure this baseline for its US users, it shouldn't be shared here, right?
How do you know you could benefit from or should get an air purifier (one that works I guess, not Molekule's)?

They're not ultra expensive but they're not super cheap either, and it feels a bit like a first world problem.
Free trade is maximally effective. Maximal effectiveness usually entails moral compromises. In real life we usually take a more balanced approach towards people: you forgive your girlfriend for having a little too much in the bum, and she forgives you for not being Tyson Fury. But when it comes to big money, greed and faraway countries/abstract masses of citizens, being uncompromising and exploitative comes easier.

Any sort of regulation of slave labor/human rights/ecology in China will inevitably reduce overall efficiency and make everything more expensive. That's the only way to make things fairer, but only until some other country makes a more efficient bid and offers up its citizens as low-wage slaves.
That's a very fair critique. I have this discussion often with colleagues.

But I can't help but feel like it's cheating a little bit. Because you can call anything rational (including irrationality) in hindsight, provided you simply expand what you deem to be rational post-facto.

For example, increasing price to increase demand would seem irrational and receive a lot of push back in most companies. If you pull it off and it actually works, people can claim it was rational all along.

(This has been my experience with mathematics vs. psychology too. In psychology, people always claim what you say is obvious even though it isn't. Probably because the problems can be stated in plain English. In math, it's the opposite. People find everything incredibly difficult, even though it's super obvious. Probably because mathematical symbols are a little intimidating at first.)

But I get your point of view and I agree. Maybe some day we'll have enough data, or the right kind of models such that we can pretty much always know what the right thing to do is with absolute certainty.
Writing a Web Crawler in Rust
advocate for policies that will return manufacturing to domestic factories
An industry dedicated to making foods crispy
I kinda like this. Makes me aware of cool stuff I can source directly at better quality
Those are important issues and people who care about them work on them and come to committee meetings. There is less consensus on the concurrency and networking side which I also find frustrating but as I’m not pushing those balls forward I can’t complain. I do think at least that the direction they’re moving in is a fruitful one.

The standard can move quickly: consider formatted output which lingered unchanged with a broken model but was rapidly reformed when someone with a good model and implementation was encouraged to come forward. Admittedly a smaller topic than concurrency or networking!
Making fun of big brags is funny, but I prefer ones that have a narrative and maybe a lesson, like with Our Incredible Journey or the story of this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065
This account is _sublime_.
I can't bring myself to read those tweets till the end. I'm not a native English speaker though, is it me or them?
I think you're correct, so I apologize.
Complaining about them being useless and bringing down the signal/noise ratio is ok too, then, I guess.

But jokes aside, this is why we have sites like HN. To avoid the noise.
You mean a refusal to break ABI?
No More Spy Pixels
I would argue humans are like this too, biologically speaking.
Orca, with Devine Lu Linvega
The Noninevitability of Life
They're still coming very close to saying misleading things on their website:

(Source: https://molekule.com/technology )

> "Developed over two decades by research scientists, PECO is an innovative technology that utilizes free radicals—the same radicals used to destroy cancer cells—to break down pollutants at a molecular level, including VOCs, bacteria, mold, viruses, and allergens. By using nanotechnology, PECO is able to destroy pollutants 1000 times smaller than what traditional HEPA technology was designed to trap."

Basically they may be using "PECO" filters, but there's no guarantee a little fan in a cylinder blowing though a PECO filter in the corner of your room will actually significantly clean the air. And they hint that it cures cancer!
you can do both depending on the med and there are different mechanisms of action.

Also :

any sort of EXPERIMENTATION should be done in a clinical setting with qualified professionals,

this discussion is about scientific research and is not even close to being acceptable for clinical trials.

blood pressure medication is normally prescribed with physician monitoring the patient for desirable or undesirable effect
That's fascinating. Thanks for the video.
Do you _really_ want to compare the size on disk and [default] memory requirements of, say, HotSpot to the Dart AOT runtime?
The good caused by global free trade far outweighs this small issue. If you don't like globalization, find a strong reason, not a random exception to the norm of win-win.
Neat idea. Might also have toggles for displaying "how much CO2 you could displace if you donated it to carbon off-set causes." or "how much of a life could you save if you donated it to meleria prevention" (3k a life?)

(I'm not your target audience because I struggle to buy stuff even when its cheap and I'm flush with money hah)
Consumer Reports also ended up with "avoid" rating for Molekule. Most of their reviews are behind the paywall, but they did publish a blog post and gave the company a platform to object

https://www.consumerreports.org/air-purifiers/molekule-air-p...

They still ended up including Molekule in their list of 3 worst https://www.consumerreports.org/air-purifiers/best-air-purif...
Did... This hit a nerve?
NASA images show coronavirus shutdown has cleared China pollution
I had success a couple of years ago patching the Chrome binary to put my own CA Chromecast roots in there and then broadcasting my software device over mdns [0]. At that time the newer protocol wasn't implemented in Chrome yet so the furthest I got was appearing in the device list. But now it is implemented [1], so maybe I should revisit.

Of course this isn't a general solution since it requires patching the binary instead of having some other way to use custom keys (they compile them into Chrome today, and of course other devices are even more closed).

0 - https://github.com/thibauts/node-castv2/issues/2#issuecommen...
1 - https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=809249
Agreed! I got into AWK not because I thought I needed AWK, but because I'd heard "The AWK Programming Language" was a great book ... and sure enough, it was. Like TCPL and TGoPL, all of which share Kernighan as an author, a couple of chapters in you already know most of the language, and the rest of the book is more and more complex examples with clear but dense explanations.

After reading the first few chapters of "The AWK Programming Languages", I was inspired to write an AWK interpreter in Go: https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/
While perhaps not worthy of a post on Hacker News, I do see the humor in this account, highlighting the humble brags of the VC world. I think what’s important or funny is that normally these people simply humble brag and then have their flock immediately praise them for all of their good deeds and fortune. An account suddenly calls them out, and they immediately find the “block” button.
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If you can find a library copy, The NeWS Book (e.g. https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-news-book/james-gosling...) might also be of interest for a static view, but I don't know how much was actually implemented, and I'm away from my copy.

I haven't had a chance to look at the videos for old time's sake, and they may make the point: a big part of it, as a developer experimenting with things, was the mode-less Smalltalk-like environment which allowed you to modify the system on the fly. (I don't know how much like, since I never used Smalltalk.)

Edit: "Scott McNealy ate my window system" :-(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22454016
> “Seriously people — STOP BUYING MASKS!” the surgeon general, Jerome M. Adams, said in a tweet on Saturday morning. “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”

So do they help prevent catching coronavirus or don't they?
Does anyone have experience seeking funding from games publishers? How similar/different is it from VC fundraising?
Wasn’t this guy fined for “practicing engineering without a license” or something similar?
The Seething Boardroom Drama That Poisoned HQ Trivia
Yes and in addition I also pay with my data. I didn't simply donate my data. I expect the company to use my data and my money to improve the service. Even with money, the company is not obligated to improve service just because you pay.

If they stop improving, I'll stop paying them as well as stop giving them my data.
I'm both bullish and bearish on cloud gaming, if that makes sense. I have Stadia, and the tech is really nice, but as pointed out, there are no games. Further, you have to buy/rebuy all your games just for Stadia, which may not exist soon(ish).

Then there's Geforce Now. Their system is simply awesome, with similar tech but two key advantages. First, you can use any controller, which is a big win. But biggest of all, most of the games are just via Steam. So buy it once, play on PC or ShieldTV, your choice. This was, as it turns out, too good to be true. In the last month, at least two huge publishers pulled out, essentially disabling the ability to play a purchased Steam game via Geforce Now. Now their fate is looking questionable as well.

One month ago, I would have said Geforce Now is absolutely the way to go. Today, I'd tell anyone curious just to wait and see what happens this year.