skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> It's reasonable to spitball a 50-100x increased risk [of ADEM].

>> Normally, one in 5.5 million UK residents tests positive for ADEM each year

If those statements are accurate, the new spitballed risk of ADEM would only be 1 in 55,000.

That's not going to lead to measurable population level cognitive deficit.

Nor should it change our perception of how dangerous COVID is, compared to a roughly 1 in 200 risk of death.

>>> It's probably much higher because of the well documented clotting disregulation and the spectrum of mild to lethal strokes, and the structural damage strokes cause beyond that.

Perhaps, but that's just speculation. Where is the evidence?
The one you found is the most ambiguous, since there's no background in the (cleverly) cropped testimonial photo, but Google Images turned up pictures for every single testimonial[0,1,2,3]. The timestamps from these websites go severy years back, as well.
[0] https://www.stclairdentist.com.au/smile-makeover/
[1] https://www.dmdentalgroup.com/articles/professional-teeth-wh...
[2] https://helpingminds.org.au/new-geraldton/
[3] https://reductress.com/post/the-best-haircuts-for-what-youve...
C++ was originally a precompiler that generated C code. So it is definitely possible.

Generally:

- an object is a struct

- a method is a function taking a struct (the object) as an argument

- inheritance is done by having a struct that has its parent as the first element

- polymorphism is donc by implementing the vtable manually, these are function pointers

- constructors are functions returning an object (so, a struct)

It is inconvenient but possible. OO is a concept that is not dependent on the language, though some languages make it easier than others.
Updated for java 14.0.1: "Let's compare our fastest-of-6 no warmup measurements against the fastest-of-25 (or 55 or 175) with warmup JMH SampleTime p(0.0000) measurements"

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
All of my "worst" softwares that I use daily have alternatives that are equally as bad if not worse IMO or will be a huge pain to switch to, so I still "love" them by comparison.

Lastpass + Authy - main frustration is helping wife use them - her usage is less frequent so she needs help each time. Also they don't sync reliably so adding new accounts can be painful.

Anything that starts automatically on boot by default, slow to launch, or has a separate "installer/updater" that is constantly annoying me (looking at you Adobe everything)

Alexa - only listens to me; doesn't cutoff quickly enough when someone tries to issue a new/improved command or dismiss a response

So many posts on here about X not working on Y system where Y is not a money maker for X. Yes, you are an afterthought.
Try mutt. Classic, simple, scriptable, it's got everything you could ever want!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client)

Depends on your definition of 'desktop', of course ;)
> Modern programs are 100 times slower, but they definitely aren't 100 times more functional.

My IntelliJ IDE is easily 100 times more functional than early text editors.

As for slower: Any relative comparisons are still missing the point. It’s not a relative question. It’s an absolute question: Is this fast enough?

Let’s be honest, none of us are sitting around waiting for our complex IDEs to render characters on the screen. No one really cares if it’s 1ms or 30ms or even 200ms.

Likewise, I don’t care if it takes 100ms or 10s to open the IDE because I’m not quitting it and re-launching it all day. I launch it, leave it open, and that’s that.

People like to glorify the good old days when apps were supposedly faster to launch, but they forget the convenience of simply leaving apps open with our oodles of RAM and letting our computers rely on suspend/wake. The longest delays in my workflow are getting my laptop out of the bag and typing in the password, or maybe downloading things from the internet.

Terminal latency or app launch time just don’t even register on the list of delays during my day.
For the final one, I'd like to see a comparison showing how many elements can be set for a linked list in one second.
The highest bidder will only bid high if those ads work for their business.

Therefore, Google has a direct incentive to make their ads work better for advertisers.
VSCode, an Electron app, is my favorite application of all time. It starts up quickly and is incredibly responsive in use.

It's easy to customize, there are loads of community extensions, and it's free. When abstractions allow software to have a flourishing community like that, to me its worth the cost.
Sound treatment uses acoustic panels to make a room with a flat frequency response and minimal reverb. They damp the room's natural resonant peaks and reflections.

Sound isolation keeps sound from getting into and out of the room. It's a separate problem, and you can only solve it with mass and physical separation - e.g. building a room inside a room with massive walls and rubber isolation for the floor.

If you do it properly you have to pay a consultant to design a solution for you, because it's so easy to get it wrong.
On mobile it doesn't tell you what platforms it runs on and clicking download immediately starts fetching a .exe

So I guess it's Windows only?
Can't you install panels on top of the walls?
The Yoneda lemma in the category of matrices [video]
Says who? And why should i believe/trust that?
One of the worst apps I use regularly has to be Google Play Music. The UI is horrible enough, but it also randomly deletes tracks from my library - including my own tracks that I recorded under my own name. And sometimes the tracks will show up again randomly. The worst is when tracks don't show up in my Songs list, but if I put it on shuffle, these tracks will start playing.

I don't know what's the status now, but Spotify India had too small a library when it was first launched. Otherwise I would have made the switch
You can also think about two layers infra: have large big-data storage, have simple logic of extraction of aggregated/filtered data from it, and do complex work on your large box within single process.
I do all my dev work in AWS or a Linux box in another room (where it can be as noisy as it likes). macOS is just a nice terminal environment with desktop luxuries and half decent integration with iPhone and iPad.
I think that's an oversimplification. The varna dharma system was no in place universally, as all over the world, humans are still human and subject to corruption.
Spotify URL's might be useful to add as a feature for input options...
I doubt that's the issue here. The problem is that there are a lot of quacks in the space who don't know what they're doing, as well actual competent engineers where the design they're trying to perfect is a dead end.

Extreme skepticism is generally wise - this engine just turned out to be the rare exception.
Are You Right for the Keto Diet
I have a problem with people down voting things that they disagree with and up voting things they agree with. I had always assumed that voting was for "quality of post" and not for agreement.

I see this same scenario played out in many forums where a very good, high quality comment is made which quotes what "someone" said and subsequently heavily down voted because of the person that said it. In other words, the message is quashed because of the person that said it, and not because of the message itself... this is a sad testament to online dialogue.
oh man and the recommandations are so bad
Some of the major problems: 10% of my CPU and ~1GB memory by simply launching the application on linux. Absolutely ridiculous. Can't remove passwords from my personal meetings, controls are sluggish as hell, like I'll click to either turn on or off my camera and have to wait for 3-4 seconds for it to actually do anything. Multiple smaller problems piled on the side as well.

People love to shit on Skype but even the web version of Skype behaves better than zoom for me. Google meet, Skype, meet.jit.si - I take any of those over zoom.
I need Windows and macOS support, so it'll be Intel for me. I'm working on a Hackintosh right now, so hopefully either x86 is supported for a while, or we can get ARM-based Hackintoshes before the deprecation of x86 macOS.
> spent some money on a noise cancelling headphone
Which one? I also facing a noise issue with some people that move closer, and getting crazy...
Handing over a site with user data requires a lot of trust in the new owner. If they were not vetted and turn out anot good stewards of the data (e.g. end up hacked with all the databases leaked, even if not actively malicious), some of the moral culpability lies with original owners.

User data is toxic. It's your responsibility to make sure it gets disposed of properly when winding down a failed venture.
A really good typist runs around 100 words per minute. 30 millisceonds of delay vs 2 is enough that the terminal won't keep up with the person working on it. And these are TERMINALS, other software has gotten much worse in typing latency.
Show HN: CodeBERT is available in as a Docker image
If the two speakers were any closer to each other than say 80 feet or 25m (which is roughly how far sound travels in 0.1 second), I wouldn't expect you to have heard the effect I'm describing. There would have to be enough distance between the "source" and the "canceller" to throw off the timing.
Meanwhile I find VSCode to be a slow resource hog. I can only assume your simply so used to terrible applications that your standards have slipped.
Re: GRUB: Have you looked at rEFInd, assuming you can use UEFI? http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind has a screenshot and docs, although you may also wish to refer to your distro's docs (e.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/REFInd)
You can, but you may not get the results you're looking for.

APRS is a line-of sight signal. In a balloon, you might be heard by transmitters 200 miles or so away. On a boat, I'd expect that range to drop to 50 or less. So if you're out at sea, it's unlikely you'd be heard when you're much outside the view of land.

WSPR has a very long range, but the density of information transmitted is very low. Each transmissison takes about 2 minutes and the tx rate is around 5 baud (not 5kb...5 baud!). The protocol was developed to test the range of ham radio antennae and it doesn't give you much more than the transmission voltage and the 'maidenhead' coordinates (which will give your location within a roughly 80 mile box depending on your latitude).

If that rough estimate of your position is good enough, WSPR may be useful to you for tracking a boat. Some balloon trackers also transmit a secondary signal under a different callsign with some more advanced telemetry information, such as altitude, speed, more granular position within a 2 or 3 mile box.

Also, you'll need an antenna of some length. My balloons transmit on the 20m bands, which means it has a 17 foot antenna both above and below the tracker constituting a half dipole (it's 36 gauge magnet wire so weights almost nothing. If your boats are big enough to cross oceans, you can likely mount them in a way where you'd be heard.
I haven't personally tried this on Linux, but on macOS at least, the feature to take calls in the browser is hidden behind a bunch of dark patterns.

Take a look at step 2 here: https://it.umn.edu/services-technologies/how-tos/zoom-join-t...
On chrome iPhone it downloaded a dmg for me, so it seems to do its best to autodetect. Kinda cool for their minimalist vibe, but can cause confusion if it messes up. If the project owner sees this, it’d be nice if “try it” revealed the platform downloads and on mobile didn’t attempt to download anything.
I never said that it was not useful or that it was not better than any of the competitor solutions.

Just that it was bad. It can be quite bad in itself and totally better than every other solution.
They actually have technical term for it and it's called fast fashion. This is a summarize take on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGF3ObOBbac
50% of clinical trials of medicines we use today have never been published(2016)
Add in the facelift changes from 'Hacker News Enhancement Suite' and I'd be all about it. I wonder what happens if I use both...

Actually it works fine. Not sure what the spinning icon on the main page is all about.

edit: you can turn that off.
I think I've found my new HN setup :D

It does some weird things to the popup for user profile info, but I don't think that'll be an issue.
This just isn't true. We have a bunch of teams, all on Jira, and none of the inter-team coordination happens via Jira, mostly because One Size Fits Nobody. We're not using much that's Jira-specific for the intra-team stuff either.
Also try Apple Music.
I've still havent't figure it out how to open an email in a new tab with just a single click when inside GMail. It. used to be possible, of course, like all HTML links (by clicking the middle button on my mouse, for example), but since 3 or 4 years (at least) that feature disappeared. I'm still upset about it and that is why I consider GMail "the worst" piece of software I use everyday (it's also because I don't use that much "different" pieces of software).
Emacs has all those properties except fast startup and it's like 40 years old. Added layers of abstraction aren't to thank here.
Wish there was free competitor
What really gave birth to BR games was the invention of the "eye of the storm" mechanic. From a technical perspective BR could have been implemented as a mod for Operation Flashpoint as early as 2001 (not coincidentally the genre has its roots in OFP's spiritual successor, ARMA). What was missing was a way to keep the pace of game from fizzling out as the player count dwindled. The blue circle in PUBG was a brilliantly simple and effective solution. It's one of those things that looks blindly obvious in hindsight and makes you wonder how it took so long for someone to think of it.
Many password managers would erase your clipboard content after you pasted your copied password once. Clipboard managers that retain history of your copied text are also useful, though I don't personally use them. Those are the only acceptable use of unrestricted read/write clipboard access in my opinion.
> Nvidia GeForce Experience

My god what a bad experience... to update my graphics driver I am first forced to log-in which would be bad enough but then also solve two captchas and then for some reason these frequent driver updates are multiple gigabytes in size. I have no idea what the hell they are doing.
Yes. Nearly everything on top of the BEAM.

Oracle Cloud seems honestly to go in the right direction. And it pains me to say it.

Hnoeycomb is a great tool built in a way that make sense.

Gitless is a good progress over git.

There are lot of examples. This is a thread about the worst things though.
Like many others, we were also forced to use it at work, hard to pick the worse part of Teams but a big one is how slow it is from the time I click the "reply" link until I can actually type a message. So many times I click, start typing and then I notice it missed about 4 to 5 letters, and I don't even consider myself fast at typing.
Oh, and how you upload a file/image, need to wait until it is fully uploaded but after that you still need to click the "Send" button to actually post the file.
It's definitely an enterprise kind of app, one that makes sure you take forever to do anything.
Package managers do not magically solve the problem of malicious programs, just as their big brothers, app stores, don't.

Of course you fully ignored the main point, which is that Linux protection features are completely out of sync with the needs of a modern single user desktop, being ballast instead of a benefit.

In response you seem to enter panic mode. Your last line even denies me reasoning, as if I can't have an argument unless an alternative exists.

So I guess you are exactly sensitive in the way I explained, presumptuously assuming Linux/Unix is the only true OS, employing the best minds, the winner. And more wishful and dangerous thinking like that.

The fact is Linux doesn't care about the user unless he is the sysadmin. Linux is the sysadmin wet dream. But you know what? People hate the sysadmin, and don't want to be one. They do not buy the gospel, and ultimately that is because Linux is an ideal not of this time and age. Linux is a castle, not a house, not a place to live in.

What a shocker the museum line must be.
I think it’s also lack of manual and automated testing. Few weeks ago one of the updates just broke the iOS companion app. (For everyone).

I had to rollback to my latest daily snapshot and didn’t update until they fixed it, which took around a week.
It is really, really hard to do better than a whiteboard with some cards on it.
ThinkGeek used to sell them, but that's not much help since I just discovered that TG no longer exists...
I understand it. That change nothing to the fact it is a shit UX, that does not help you to learn it and have relatively bad errors messages.
Are you talking pre 1980’s as early? Because IntelliJ vs EMACS is hardly a 100x improvement.
Since my last comment about Europeans not having the same grit that Americans do got flagged.. let me try again.

I think this is a case study in grit, or rather the lack thereof. There's no reason to get emotional about it.

There's a reason that 99/100 popular web platforms launch out of the US. We know how to make money. We have the grit to do it. Europeans have demonstrated that they don't have what it takes. If you have millions of users and can't figure out how to monetize them, you deserve to fail.
Not OP but nothing prevents you to configure Syncthing with a VPS.
Learning about babashka (bb), a minimalist Clojure for building CLI tools
Having been in a similar spot - user data and reputation. If you spent a bunch of years building a site, you really want to trust someone to not exploit the site by spamming users and so on.

Even if the site is sold, your reputation will still suffer if the new owner has a data leak or starts selling user data.

Also, a bunch of people will say that they want to take over the site, but finding someone that you think is competent enough to maintain it is really difficult. In my case, I tried two different people and both of them made some really bad decisions regarding the design during the trial period.
This puzzles me. Why don't they just recompile the projects to ARM and go with fat binaries? Stop emulating things. It wastes power. Plus the compiler toolchain already exists.
Cool! I did not know that, but it makes sense, as ring buffers were developed specifically to handoff between thread/clock contexts.

I haven't played that low in the dirt for many years. I suspect it's a very different world from the one I once knew.

I'm grateful for the abstraction. Low-level comms stuff is pretty damn hairy.
Outlook for Mac.

The menu options are a mix of redundant 'possibilities' from where you find things, 'icons' that don't seem to be obvious in what they represent, the GAL is broken (w/ Office 360 cloud), the Outlook connectivity becomes disabled when I disconnect from VPN and I have to click on "Send/Receive" under I think "Tools" once to re-enable it, the list goes on.

Over 15 years ago a senior dev I worked with walked up to our (Sys Admin) communal bookshelf, and noticed a book called Outlook Annoyances. He remarked, "Hm. That looks like it's way too short of a book", something I've found hilarious to think about ever since.
A demo would be nice on the website ... Sort like a before and after kinda of thing
I think you’ve misinterpreted these results. The delays don’t mean that the terminal will start missing keys or won’t keep up with the operator.

Humans don’t type on a tight feedback loop of waiting for characters to pop up on the screen, obviously.

We also need to keep the big picture in mind. If you’re using a 60Hz monitor, it’s only going to update every 17ms anyway. Add buffering and even pixel transition latency to the equation and the end-to-end latencies are even higher.

You’re not going to notice the difference between a terminal editor with 20ms of latency and one with 15ms of latency.
> If they were not vetted and turn out anot good stewards of the data (e.g. end up hacked with all the databases leaked, even if not actively malicious), some of the moral culpability lies with original owners.

I appreciate your point, but I'm struck by the impression that this never results in consequences.
I'm not OP, but I'm sure he's talking Sony, I did a similar boycott (rootkit on Sony music CD's), but recently bought WH-1000XM3 and the NC is phenomenal, battery life is very good; very comfortable and lightweight; not sure I could sleep with them on though.
I tried briefly to put all my music in Google play (years ago, now) and had a similar experience.

It was terrible, and I felt like I couldn't find certain tracks very easily. I wasn't sure if this was accidental, or not. Do you know why tracks are deleted from your library?
Don't forget Outlook randomly crashing due to the Teams "add-in" failing, and Teams thoughtfully reinstalling and re-enabling add-in whenever it gets updated.
> And nearly 56,000 of them re-registered within the same county, according to the AJC/APM Reports analysis. If their registrations hadn’t been canceled, they would have been able to vote without having to re-register.

> More than half, almost 30,000 Georgia voters, re-registered too late to participate in the close 2018 election for Georgia governor. It’s impossible to know how many of them attempted to vote, but those who tried wouldn’t have had their ballots counted.

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/many...

> Long lines and malfunctioning voting machines marred statewide primary elections in Georgia, renewing attention on voting rights there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/us/politics/atlanta-votin...

> Hourslong waits, problems with new voting machines and a lack of available ballots plagued voters in majority minority counties in Georgia on Tuesday — conditions the secretary of state called "unacceptable" and vowed to investigate.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/georgia-secre...

> In the 2014 midterms, only 33 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot—setting the record for the lowest turnout in any national election of any advanced democracy (except Andorra) since 1945.

> In 25 states, employers are not required to give their employees paid leave to vote; in 19 states, employers are not required to let their employees leave work to vote.

https://www.countable.us/articles/12558-americans-get-day-vo...
I’m going to go out in a limb and say Sony XM3s, since the comment says something about a root kit, which I always associate with Sony. I have the XM3s and they are pretty darn good.
When I read this type of thing, I try my best to look for some basis to decide if it's fortune-cookie-nonsense or great advice.

It's obvious to me that a person can care too much about being/seeming right. But can a person also care too little about it? What is the exact right amount, and how do you know?
Zoom can be browser only, it just uses dark patterns to lure you to install the client.
The link to join by web appears when all others fail...
This is not much better.
It's really unclear who they could mean. A few of the people in the History of Robotics Wikipedia article[0] didn't have PhDs[1], but seemingly all of them had some higher education. Maybe they are referring to someone who wrote fiction about the idea of robots before robotics really existed: Karel Čapek (who came up with the word "robot") had a PhD though[2]. Perhaps it refers to L. Frank Baum, as he appears to have had no higher education[3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_robots

[1] See William Grey Walter for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Grey_Walter

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_%C4%8Capek

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Frank_Baum#Childhood_and_ea...
> By far the worst IDE I've ever used.

xcode is a total pain, but i would have to say eclipse takes the cake imo...