skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have COPD or other serious lung issues, don't get just one HEPA filter. These machines are rated to filter the air in an area that's certain number of square feet, based on how many CFM of air they move. Get at least enough of them that your whole living space is covered, and deploy them throughout the entire dwelling. You may want more individual machines so you can run them on a lower fan setting, which produces less noise. Assuming availability of outlets, you can also go for a larger number of smaller machines, each with a lower CFM rating, which should also reduce the noise level somewhat.

I personally use Winix machines. I don't think it matters much in terms of efficacy which brand you use, so, consider the cost of replacement filters here. The machines I bought were around $200 each, and worth every penny, IMHO.

My machines are both made for environments with pets, so they have a pre-filter to catch large things like dog fur, and they also have an activated carbon filter to pull odors out of the air. The carbon filter is quite effective. Unfortunately, I was able to test this first-hand, by observing that I could no longer smell dog poop after about 10 minutes of the machine running in the room said poop was in.

I wouldn't worry about silly features like accompanying smartphone apps, or any kind of "ion technology." IMO, that stuff is mostly marketing fluff, and just adds complexity to what should basically be a small fan with a filtered intake.

I've found my machines to be very effective in cleaning the air inside my apartment. I've been lucky enough so far to not have any issues from the Bay Area smoke, despite having asthma and allergies. I credit that to my HEPA filter machines, as well as wearing an N95 mask outside whenever the AQI is too high.

As an aside, I once put one of my machines (each rated for around 300 sq. ft., IIRC) inside my bathroom, which is no more than about 30 sq. ft., for a while. Eventually, the air in there smelled so clean, it literally took me back to the days when I used to regularly work in a class 1,000 (ISO 3) electronics clean room. "Class 1,000" means the air inside is supposed to contain no more than 10^3 particle >= 0.1 µm in diameter per m^3 of air. Once you've smelled the air inside a decently high level clean room, you'll recognize it when you come across it again. It smells like a glorious whole lot of nothing, which makes my allergies happy. :-). For reference, ordinary, unfiltered, not-apparently-dusty air typically has about 10^6 particles >=0.1 µm per m^3.
Cannot and will not are two different things.
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Blister packs are commonly used in the US as well - especially for OTC or brand name products. They aren't commonly used by pharmacist/chemists by default. But all the big chain pharmacies now offer blister-pack services to large multi-pill regimens - usually at no additional cost. For example, CVS calls this SimpleDose.
> moment.js: Mutable. Thank you, next.

A petty, thoughtless dismissal that reflects more on the one saying it than the library.
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We run the same code on the web server crowd mesh simulator to catch edge cases, and then on the iPhone. Open Source: https://github.com/m4rr/burevestnik
This is correct. Without the brute-forcing nature of finding a solution for a block, it becomes trivial to game. There may be a hybrid approach to it (PoS), but they haven't proven themselves yet in a large scale.
If you read “Tripping over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer”[0], the fundamentals of this are discussed quite extensively. Highly recommended for anyone interested in both fasting and cancer.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164
There's a US site as well: https://www.simplifiedbuilding.com/
It's real sad that the title of this was changed from "How the hell is Google so Fast?"
It's because default MacOS configuration is artificial systemwide bold(ing?) of all fonts. So developers create a lighter font than needed and then on MacOS it mostly ok (disregarding the fact that it is not a native bold font but processed one) but on other OSes it is this light grey mess.
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No good examples, but I want to start one of these myself. The hard part is finding team members who are in sync w/ the concept, though I consider it more like a unified worker-coop-style agency. Than a 'guild'.

if you need a partner hit me up : patrickwcurl - gmail. I'm a laravel / vue / inertia / livewire / alpinejs dev mostly.
You can always patch the kernel to try out your ideas.

But really, the kernel is not where the innovation potential is. The way it works is really more or less decided by the way the hardware works. That's why the only real "novel" idea in the kernel space is microkernels, which date back decades.

Worth noting that the microkernel revolution kind of happened on Android, which is a re-think-computing-from-scratch kind of project. The drivers are all moved to userspace in Android, using their own IPC mechanism. The Linux kernel is left with less to do.
The D compiler is now completely open source. It was always source available, but Walter wrote the backend when he was at a different company and he was able to use it but because of copyright it couldn't be open sourced as per se.

Symantec signed off on it a few years ago, it's been Boost licensed ever since.
This colorful language is also used by artists to describe their own works. e.g. the artists description of the Tilted Arc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilted_Arc):

"The viewer becomes aware of himself and of his movement through the plaza. As he moves, the sculpture changes. Contraction and expansion of the sculpture result from the viewer's movement. Step by step, the perception not only of the sculpture but of the entire environment changes."

The only thing the "viewers" were aware of was the fact that a large rusty slab of scrap metal had blocked free movement and become an eye sore. Art is a strange thing. Not every vision or idea will be apparent to the observer.

Though I do agree that this kind of language comes off as condescending, as if the author has some form of superior artistic analysis and introspect. It's almost as if they are on the same level as conspiracy theorists, proud of the fact that they "understand" some arcane idea or fact that doesn't exist or isn't true.
Yes, and you're welcome.
Those "computer" classes, like the majority of US classes, target the least capable students. You gotta start them somewhere.

Long ago I was trained with MS Works, a extinct product that I sometimes miss.
Yeah, this seems to be par for the field. Java 11 is what you should be targetting now. We're in the middle of the 8 to 11 migration as well.

I got the impression (but please correct me if I'm wrong) that only this year most major libraries got all the kinks worked out for Java 11. In particular, when using them together.

Guice is one that only recently got the nasty (but relatively harmless) warning you get when using it with Java 11 under control.

Java 17 is the next long term support release, so most of us working on longer lived code bases will probably skip all the releases in between. It doesn't seem worth the effort, because if the Java 9 and 10 experience is anything to go by, you will be hunting down issues with Maven plugins, transitive dependencies, and libraries holding back for now all day.
>recover potentially millions for the foundation.

You really believe a guy setting up a superficial fork in his basement has "millions" to pay out in damages?
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I don’t think it’s hard to vote with our wallets at all.

We just can’t expect to get what Apple built.

If we want an alternative, someone has to build it.

I think Apple’s platform is great. The problem is the lack of an open alternative.

No amount of intervention can possibly force Apple to produce an open alternative.

All it will do is pick a few winners from already well funded competitors.

The costs will be borne by both developers, and consumers, and the bar to ever having an open alternative will be raised impossibly high.

What we need is for the community to actually invest in a platform that as a baseline solves the problems Apple is solving in terms of creating a trusted platform, but is actually open.

Frankly, it’s not Apple’s fault we don’t have this. Google is responsible.

Lack of openness was a serious concern right from the beginning of the iPhone’s lifecycle.

Google claimed Android would be open, and at the time people had faith in them to actually deliver on this.

I know plenty of people who chose to buy Android phones on the basis that they were supporting an open system, from within and without the tech community.

Google completely betrayed this promise, as illustrated by your results.
This.

My biggest mistake once was falling for that pressure, and then I left soon again. It's a big red flag, or offeres that are only valid a few days...
My secondary school used Free Software exclusively.

In 1996.

That meant Debian on desktops (in classrooms, 486s with boot floppies and 10MB LAN mounting root over NFS and then XDMCP'ing over to a bigger X server; in the offices and computer labs, Pentiums with local installations, still sharing /home over NFS).

StarOffice was used for everything. We learned Perl in Grade 9 and had our own ~username websites. I ran a LambdaMOO.

I didn't realize how extraordinary this was until I visited a school with locked-down Windows NT 4.0 workstations and began to understand how amazing of a perk I had by having a computer teacher who pushed for this, against the wishes of more conventional teachers who wanted the safe option.

FVWM95 was a godsend in this regard - we could fool some people into thinking they were just on a weird variety of Windows.

I credit my career to this choice and wish I could find the teacher to thank him, but he has a John Smith tier name making him impossible to track down.
Extremism itself is a vacuous term and normative. Anyone calling for the end of segregation, the end of aparthiad or for gay marriage was once "extremist". So yes it is perfectly A-OK for actual extremists operating under a bare minimium of discretion.
Thank-you for the question. Most of heavy lifting is in the actual compiler itself and in the vtables/trait interface feature. Although the cpp implementation now differs most, we never claimed to be a hard fork of Zig.
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The Apple ][ series had a similar "feature". At the standard BASIC prompt, pushing right-arrow would advance the cursor over the character displayed to the right (whether or not it was part of the current "line" you had typed so far), and – crucially – add it to the internal command buffer.

On its own, this is a useless quirk, but you could also push Escape (I think) to temporarily disable this behavior, permitting the arrow keys to freely reposition the cursor on screen until you hit Escape again.

So if you wanted to "edit" a line, you would list it out to the console, press Escape, move the cursor up to the start of the line, press Escape again, move the cursor right over the stuff you wanted, press Escape again, move the cursor somewhere else, press Escape again, type whatever it was you wanted to insert, press Escape again, move the cursor back to where you left off copying, press Escape again, move the cursor right over the remainder of the line, and press Return.

And then Beagle Bros came out with GPLE and ushered us into the modern era of proper line editing. What a comparative luxury that was.
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> a title which means so little in the first place
That sounds interesting but I'm not sure I understand what this means in practice. In particular I don't get this at all:

>In light of the consequences of Mozilla depending so much on corporate sponsorships, it almost seems weird to me that we need to clarify why we'd like to walk a different path.

I think Mozilla's funding is very unhealthy for Firefox in particular because it's a web browser and there can be a clear conflict of interest, especially when a lot of the money effectively comes from advertisers. What I want from a browser and what Google wants from a browser probably differs significantly. I want good privacy and control, Google wants me to see ads and build a profile.

But how does that translate to Zig, the programing language? For instance as far as Rust is concerned I'd argue that more corporate involvement is actually a good thing, it means that the language is here to stay. I may be naive but I don't really see the failure mode here. What I want from a programing language and what Google/Amazon/Netflix/Samsung want from a programing language probably has a lot of overlap.
Sort of. Some political scientists are certainly more likely to estimate the impact of their policy suggestions than physicsts, mostly because physicists rarely make policy suggestions. But I don't think they try to survey all political science questions and systematically compare them along some measure of impact. I expect the hypothetically disagreement between Dafoe and a random political scientist is based on a disagreement outside the expertise (the importance and long-term impact of AI in general). Likewise, physicists wouldn't tell you much about the impact of their work because it hinges on things (e.g., econ) outside their expertise.
Isn't pay for IP model used by companies to avoid paying tax? I wonder if Nvidia is going to be forced to absorbe Arm in its entirety to avoid tax issues?
From what I heard the translations actually came from customers who read the comic in English and then wanted it to be available in their language.
Oh, I wrote my share of scripts in Perl and parsed logs too (I remember when analytics was all about parsing access logs).
But I wouldn't think to organize survey like that. I'd put this in DB. _Crafting_ site to utilize this is so simple though. Much easier then adding table to DBMS for sure.
That just hasn't been my experience with Twitter or YouTube. (I don't use Facebook or other things.) I agree that would be very annoying if it happened to me, but for some reason it just doesn't seem to. I probably watch so many videos that it's just picked up my preferences well.

I do want to see what other videos are watched by large numbers of people who've watched things I've already watched. That's how I discover new and interesting things. I've found tons of great content that way, and pretty much no clickbaity or LCD / popular crap seeps in (maybe once every few months, but the "Not interested" immediately takes care of it). I don't know how common my experience is.
Stallman himself has said he approves of GPL/Commercial dual licensing.

It's a good way to support a project - companies don't like the GPL but they also want to spend money on support.
I agree, however it is worth noting that I don't think many maintainers consider the explicit value of copyleft these days.

I think BSD/MIT is more popular because it is simple and "less hassle", which is true but also makes it so that it is less of a hassle to be actively hostile to the project.
I meant to go into a little more detail about that, got sidetracked. Part of it was cost/ease of obtaining. Part of it was COVID delays, but it took months to get the extrusion. Part of it is that it's an extra step; I had to build the extrusion frame and then build the panels and tongue them to fit the extrusion. As opposed to just putting together a simple cabinet and top. And if I damage it, it may involve significant disassembly to replace.

I kind of wanted to use it for stiffness and straightness, but in retrospect adding T track to wooden carcasses probably would have been a better option. Especially as 20 profile isn't the same size as typical T-track and associated tooling. It is stiff and strong and straight though.
Wikileaks unquestionably has a bias towards English speaking nations. That is why their leaks primarily are about America.

If your criticism is that they didn't build a strong enough international team, remember that Assange spent most of their history unable to leave the Ecuadorian embassy. Those years treated as an enemy also likely led to him sympathizing with countries that aren't calling for his head. That isn't why they don't publish Russian leaks though.
Aren't you worried about Apple killing ObjC down the line?
They're a little hard to come by right now.
I'm experimenting with a toy language and I wanted to introduce generic syntax with angle brackets. I recall the golang team saying that it could lead to unbounded lookahead. Is there a parsing approach that mitigates that?
How does this let fish past? Dolphins and whales use bubble corrals as a fishing technique specifically because fish don't like crossing it. I believe it's also being tested as an alternative to shark nets. Presumably this would be a more intense bubble wall, which I would expect to seriously impede the free movement of marine species.

Maybe if it were suspended near the surface of the river so fish could swim under it. That probably wouldn't let much plastic through, as this would only really be effective on floating plastics anyway.
saying we can’t know much about neanderthal spiritual life is probably correct, but poster went on to claim nothing can be learned from history which is the sort of obviously nonsense viewpoint people adopt when the lessons of history don’t agree with what they want to be true, currently
Musically (which became TikTok) launched shortly after Vine.
> Drake equation, which remains a chain of expected value multiplications, which is a bad way to combine probability distributions.

Perhaps the paper wants to say that the problem with the Drake equation is intrinsic to multiplying expected probability, but what they're really doing is laundering their great filter assumptions upwards in the Bayesian hierarchy (ie. into their prior distribution hyperparameters and choice of distribution)

ie. they are still using expected values, they're just using them

This discovery would totally undermine the thesis of this paper. Here's the paper:

> While the analysis above required us to make our own judgment calls about how to represent the state of scientific uncertainty for each of these parameters, our qualitative result is robust to many of these assumptions and can be driven by our claimed uncertainty in f_l alone

This is much less impressive than it sounds. What this means is that if we could verify there is alien life on Venus that independently evolved, then the prior they have for f_l is massively off and their claimed uncertainty is way off. Using a log-uniform + the lowest estimate for f_l they can find in the literature already explains most of their results, not the mere process of multiplying expected probabilities.

> So, you're right, finding life on Venus reduces some uncertainty with $f_l$ and pushes some of the probability mass down the Drake equation, which remains a chain of expected value multiplications, which is a bad way to combine probability distributions.

The only reason they get such a low result is because they push a lot of the probability mass of $f_l$ super super super super far to the left. By their model, the probability that $f_l$ is less than 0.0001 is something like 42%... if we discovered independently evolved life on venus that would shift extremely far to the right and change their results completely.
They already do in this one. I will admit it would give the rich more of an edge.
I believe the FSF only use their legal resources to defend software whose copyright has been assigned to them.

https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2014/spring/copyright-assignmen...
The fact that NKLA remains as high as it does really is proof of a "post-fact" world, as a sibling commenter put it.

Take a look at Twitter, and it's pretty sad IMO to see some of the "I still believe in you Trevor!!" type responses, completely devoid of any logic looking at the actual facts. It's like these kind of cults are everywhere now.

And my take on the stock price remaining as high as it is is that there are a relatively small number of cultish-believers (maybe 5-20%, I really don't know beyond that it's a small minority), and then everyone else pretty much knows this stock is a fraud and is eventually going to 0, but is just trying to time it so that someone else is holding the bag. Very similar to how Hertz spiked after they filed for bankruptcy: pretty much everyone knew they were going to 0, it was just a bet on who could time it best.
Yah it came across to me as pretty one sided. I'd love to hear a balanced take on the subject and hear both sides of the story. Hotels abandoned traditional keys long ago. I don't get why security cameras are such a menace too. They don't prevent crimes but I'd sure love to know they were around if ever I was assaulted and they increased the odds of landing a conviction to get that criminal off the streets.
I get that Microsoft is a huge company but the inconsistency in quality is something I find quite comical.

To pile on to the Windows control panel for a minute: If you open the start menu and search updates, you bring up the settings menu for updates. Likewise for network settings or any other section of the control panel successor.

But if you open network settings from the start menu while you already have updates open, the updates window is replaced by the network settings.

Maybe they are working towards renaming the OS "Window".
Management is part of the social sciences, and there there was a big shift away from the quantitative methods (e.g. measuring productivity) towards qualitative methods, where one can better understand why managers are now saying that the productivity fell. And what is behind those reasons.
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I'm not opposed to paying for services I really need, but so far I've found nothing I couldn't do without.

Presumably your ad blocker doesn’t prevent sites that display ads from loading at all. How then do you make the calculation about doing without?

Otherwise, if you use websites that are solely ad-supported, then you are neither paying for the service nor doing without.
Role clarity issues during an interview feels like going on a date with someone who doesn't know if they want to be in a relationship, or would rather adopt a parakeet.

They don't understand why they are talking to you, "but maybe you can, I don't know, maybe do something of value here, but we don't know what that is. So here's a bunch of money. FIX US".

It's usually a sign of lack of vision by leadership in the company, so they are grasping at straws.

If you want to kill your morale, look for roles like this. They are great.
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It stayed without new release several years, and was still the best I could find on windows
Hi, right now Zig is still a bit wild. If you don't feel like looking into a language that is still moving at this speed (if you read the changelogs for the last few releases you'll see what I'm talking about), then you might want to wait a little.

Zig 0.7.0 is scheduled to be released soon and the main effort is being spent on porting the current C++ compiler to a self-hosted version. Once that's done, we'll be in a much better position to provide better stability for features.

During the last fundraiser we announced the intention of launching a Zig Stability Program once the self-hosted compiler is done, so that we can guarantee that any bug found in features that we decide to support are going to be prioritized appropriately. To be clear, this is a bug stability program, not an API stability one: we'll still redesign things from one version to the next if necessary.

In terms of timelines, we hope to have the self-hosted compiler replace the current one in version 0.8.0, indicatively 6 months from now.

If you want to help speed the development up:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig to contribute

https://github.com/sponsors/ziglang (or email us at donations@ziglang.org) to donate